Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....LIGHTFOOT, WILLIAM EDWIN October 27, 1896
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FT. GAINES SENTINEL, OCT 30 1896
THE DEATH OF MR. W.E. LIGHTFOOT WHICH OCCURRED AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY LAST 
TUESDAY MORNING BROUGHT DEEP SORROW TO THE HEARTS OF OUR PEOPLE GENERALLY. 
SOMETHING OVER A YEAR AGO, MR. LIGHTFOOT WAS STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS AND 
THOUGH HE AFTERWARD PARTIALLY REGAINED HIS HEALTH AND WAS ABLE TO RESUME HIS 
BUSINESS OCCUPATION HE WAS NEVER ENTIRELY WELL AGAIN.  ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO HE 
WAS AGAIN CONFINED TO HIS BED AND GRADUALLY GREW WORSE UNTIL DEATH RELIEVED 
HIM OF HIS SUFFERING. 
 HE HAS BEEN A PROMINENT  BUSINESSMAN OF FORT GAINES FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS 
HAVING MOVED HERE IN 1886 FROM HENRY COUNTY ALABAMA WHERE HE STILL HAS 
EXTENSIVE FARMING INTERESTS AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.  HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE 
BAPTIST CHURCH OF THIS CITY AND WAS UNIVERSALLY ESTEEMED.
HE WAS IN THE FIFTY-FOURTH  YEAR OF HIS AGE AND LEAVES A WIFE AND FIVE GROWN 
CHILDREN—THREE DAUGHTERS AND TWO SONS.  THEY HAVE THE HEARTFELT SYMPATHY OF 
QUITE A WIDE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS IN THEIR DEEP BEREAVEMENT.
THE REMAINS WERE INTERRED IN THE CEMETERY IN THIS CITY WEDNESDAY MORNING.  THE 
FUNERAL SERVICES TOOK PLACE AT THE FAMILY RESIDENCE, REV. J.H. CORLEY 
OFFICIATING.


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