Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....PETERSON, AMANDA HENDERSON November 1913
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SOUTHWEST GEORGIAN, NOV 28 1913
DEATH SUNDAY MORNING
MRS. AMANDA PETERSON
ONE OF THE OLDEST LADIES IN THIS COUNTY, MRS. AMANDA C PETERSON WIDOW OF THE 
LATE ROBERT B PETERSON, DIED AT HER HOME IN THE CITY LAST SUNDAY MORNING AT 10 
OCLOCK.  ON NOVEMBER 18 SHE SUFFERED AN ATTACK OF PARALYSIS FROM WHICH SHE 
NEVER RALLIED.  HER DEATH WAS NOT UNEXPECTED.
THE FUNERAL OCCURRED AT 1030 MONDYA MORNING AT THE HOME OF MRS. PETERSON’S 
OLDEST SON J. EUGENE PETERSON.  THE SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED BY REV. W.P. 
BLEVINS, PASTOR OF THE METHODIST CHURCH OF WHICH THE DECEASED LADY HAD BEEN A 
MEMBER FOR MANY EARS.  IMMEDIATELYAFTER THE FUNERAL, THE BODY WAS REMOVED TO 
NEW PARK CEMETERY AND INTERRED IN THE PETERSON LOT.
MRS. PETERSON WAS BORN AT GREENVILLE, ALABAMA ON THE 19TH OF JULY 1838 AND WAS 
A DAUGHTER OF JUDGE HERNDON LEE HENDERSON, A DISTINGUISHED ALABAMIAN.  SHE WAS 
MARRIED AT NEWPORT, FLORIDA IN 1858 TO ROBERT B PETERSON.  SOON AFTERWARD THEY 
CAME TO THIS PLACE, WHICH BECAME THEIR PERMANENT HOME.  THE HUSBAND DIED ABOUT 
30 YEARS AGO.
SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY ARE FOUR SONS J.E., E.L., R.E., AND M.E, 
PETERSON ALL OF THIS CITY, AND A DAUGHTER, MRS. NANNIE WHATLEY OF DOTHAN 
ALABAMA.


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