Coweta County GaArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for JUNE 21st thru JUNE 28th 1907 June 1907 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 November 2, 2004, 11:54 pm The Herald & Advertiser, Coweta Co. GA NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE HERALD & ADVERTISER", Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia for JUNE 21, 1907 thru JUNE 28, 1907 NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, JUNE 21, 1907 IN MEMORIAM OF MRS. FANNIE ROGERS, wife of Mr. Albert Sidney Rogers Mrs. Fannie Rogers, wife of Mr. Albert Sidney Rogers, was born July 4, 1869 and died April 12, 1907, aged 38 years. She has been married sixteen years. She was a consistent member of the Baptist church and leaves to her five children the heritage of a good name "which is rather to be chosen than great riches." She sat up in agonizing prayer all night before the trying ordeal of having an operation performed the next day; said she could trust God to do his will with her. Her aged father, Mr. Redding, made his home with her. She asked her husband to continue to care for him which duty he is nobly performing. She made every preparation to die. Was always glad to attend church when her home cares permitted. She was one of the most unselfish women I ever knew. She was kind to the sick or people in any distress. Many times she ministered to other orphan children and now her own are being kindly treated by others. May her mantle of love and charity fall on her own children and may they follow her as she followed god. Her funeral was preached by Rev. A.A. Tilley which was most comforting to her heartbroken husband and loved ones. She has great confidence in her physician. The last words she uttered werer "pray for me, Dr. Young." A sweet little daughter preceded her to the grave some years ago.. Lizzie Drake _______ IN MEMORY OF MRS. JUDITH LUCKIE Mrs. Judith J. Weaver Luckie was born in Oglethorpe county, GA on January 12, 1823 and it pleased our heavenly father to call her from among us on the 27th day of May 1907. After a long and useful life our friend who always cheerfully and faithfully labored for the good of society and the advancement of the cause of the master, was tried and found true. By the death of this good woman the community has sustained a loss that cannot be estimated in mere words. We tender the bereaved family our heartfelt sympathy for their affliction and earnesly pray that hour heavenly father in his tender mercy will comfort the sorrowing ones and bring solace to their wounded hearts. C. and M. ___ LUTHERVILLE News We regret to report Mr. D.M. Lassetter critically ill at this writing. We hope he may soon rally from his illness. __ TURIN News Mr. E.O. Linch was carried to the State Sanitarium at Milledgeville a short time ago has been brought back home, his case having been pronounced incurable. It was his wish, we understand, as he wanted to die among his loved ones. ___ MADRAS News Mrs. Mary Brown of Birmingham, Ala., is with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Glass and will visit among friends and relatives in the community until Sept 1st. __ After a lengthy stay in Decatur, Texas with Mr. Pink Hayes and family, Mr. Oscar Hayes and his charming sister Miss Lena, returned home last week. Mr. Hayes says he never saw anything that looked like crops until he came through the eastern part of Alabama. ___ We regret to note the illness of Mrs. J.R. Wise and hope she will soon recover. __ Mrs. T.J. Wilson continues quite ill. __ Mr. Bird Book and family were recent visitors at Mr. T.L. Cook's near Possum Trot. __ Mr. Spence Hayes of Newnan visited his brother, Mr. Harrison Hayes on Sunday. __ HANDY News Mrs. T.A. Hutchens died Thursday night at her home near Welcome. She had suffered for several days and despite the skill of physicians and all that loving hands could do her soul was released from its early habitation to seek an eternal rest in the home prepared for it. The remains were brought to Elim for interment on Saturday. The untimely death of this estimable woman is a sad bereavement for her family and we hope that "he who tempers the wind in the shorn lamb" and "marks the sparrows fall" will be merciful to them in their afflictions, extending to them his infinite sympathy. ________ Miss Nellie Elder of Newnan is visiting her sister, Mrs. Kit Grimes. __ Mr. B. Reese is on the sick list at this writing with the fever. __ Cleveland Newman of Heard county was the guest of Bruce Jackson last Sunday. __ Hendrix Crowder and sister Miss Mary visited friends at Franklin a few days ago. __ NEWNAN HOME AFFAIRS Sheriff White of Heard County, died Monday after a week's illness. ___ Miss Etta North of Thornton, Texas is visiting relatives at Sharpsburg. __ Miss Ruby Merck of Gainesville is visiting her sister, Mrs. Rawson Dent. __ Miss Edith Avery of Columbia, S.C. is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Jas. E. Brown. __ Mrs. J.S. Dillard of Lynchburg, VA is visiting her sister, Mrs. D.B. Woodroof. ___ Mrs. E.S. Fielder of Union Springs, Ala., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. R.E. Simms. __ Mrs. P.A. Boozer of Hogansville will spend the week with her father, Mr. S.J. Arnold. __ Mr. Eugene Grace of Charlotte, N.C. will arive Sunday on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Sam Hill, and remain through chautauqua week. ___ Miss Dena Wisdom of LaGrange is staying with her aunt, Mrs. W.G. Arnold. __ Mrs. Harry Haywood and child of Savannah, arrived Sunday and will be with Mr. and Mrs. John E. Robinson for a month or so. ___ Mr. S.W. Murray and family left Monday for Borden Springs where they have a cottage and will spend much of the summer. ____ Col. W.L. Stallings left Saturday for Oklahoma on a business trip and will not return before the latter part of next week. ___ Misses Annie and Carrie Anderson of West Point, will be with their sister, Mrs. Eugene Askew, during chautauqua week. ___ Mr. J.T. Williams and wife left today for Hot Springs, Ark., where the latter will spend a month or six weeks for the benefit of her health. ___ Mrs. Geo. F. Baltzell and little son who have been with Capt. Baltzell in Cuba since last fall arrived in Newnan to spend the summer. ___ Mr. Jeff P. Morgan, an old and highly respected Confederate soldier living out near Haralson, drew the lot given away by the Senoia Improvement Company last week. The lot could have have fallen to a more deserving person. Senoia Enterprise-Gazette. ____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, June 28, 1907 A PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO A GREAT GEORGIAN by Rev. Geo. C. Smith (from the Macon Telegraph) When I entered the sophmore class at Emory College in 1855, I found among my classmates, Andrew Young John William Allen. He was nearly a year older than myself; was then in his twentieth year; a handsome young fellow, with a rich flowing back beard. He was a member of the same college fraternity and of the same church with me, and like myself, was looking towards the ministry, but unlike myself, had determined even then to go as a missionary to a foreign field. We became very intimate and when after a brief stay in college, I left my class, a correspondence began between us which has been unintermitting for over fifty years. He was born after his father's death and never knew his mother, for she too died six months after her husband. The families from which he had sprung, on both sides, were among the oldest in America, his father's line going back to Thos. Allen in 1635 and his mother's line to the Wootens, who came even before that. His parents were people of considerable means and he was a young fellow of liberal fortune. He was adopted by a sister of his mother, a most excellent woman who had married a planter named Hutchings. He did not know till he was fifteen years old that his surname was Allen for by the people whom he lived he was known as Young Hutchings. Mr. Hutchings moved from Burke county with several of his neighbors to the western part of Georgia when young Allen was a child and settled in Meriwether county and in a most excellent neighborhood. Here the boy grew up until he was old enough to begin classical studies. He was then sent to Rugby School at Brownwood near LaGrange, taught by Dr. Otis Smith. There he met some of his cousins from Burke county and learned that his surname was not Hutchings. It was there we met for the first time. I was a clerk in a book store, a lad of 15, and he was a pupil at Brownwood. He went from Brownwood to a school at Starrsville in Newton County. Here he was converted and joined the Methodist Church, and here he resolved to be a missionary. He had formed a boyish attachment to a beautiful girl in Meriwether County, a Miss Mary Houston, and they had plighted their troth when yet almost children. He went to Oxford and Henry in Virginia and finally to Emory College where he graduated. He was not brilliant but he was studious and persistent and took a high stand in a large class. During the past year at Wesleyan commentcement in Cacon, Dr. Allen, Rev. John W. Simmons and Judge Frank LIttle all from that class of 1858 in Emory Class met at my house in Vinesville for our last reunion. He was highly respected and greatly beloved as a student. When he graduated in the summer of 1858 he dropped two initials from his name and was henceforth known as Young J. Allen. He entered the conference in the winter of 1858. He married as soon as he graduated and was appointed a missionary to China and in 1859 he took shipping on a Chinese merchantman from New York to Shanghai. It was a long voyage by sailing vessel and when he landed at Shanghai with his wife and first child, the prospect of accomplishing any great work was a dreary one. Two of our missionaries were then there, one of whom was to return at once to America. There has come with him a young colleague and the great empire of China lay before them. He went bravely to work to master the language and has been but a year in China when the War between the States began in America. The Southern missionaries were entirely cut off from their resources and for five long years Dr. Allen did not hear a word directly from Georgia. The missionaries of other churches realized the circumstances and offered him work in their field but he would not abandon the Southern church. Then a work was offered him which has told on Chinese civilization as nothing else could have. He was offered a position in an Anglo-Chinese school connected with the Chinese University, then just established, and employed to translate English books into Chinese. .... He had visited his native state a number of times and once entertained the thought of returning here to die, and bought a home in Atlanta; but he could not tear himself away from his adopted land and last summer returned there to work till the end came. Although he was 71 in February, he seemed so vigorous that we had fondly hoped he would reach his forescore; but alas, our hopes were blasted. He was a man of imposing and attractive presence, of the widest culture, of the strongest common sense, of truest piety and most genial spirit. He would not spare himself but worked untiringly and perhaps overworked himself. When we had the reunion last year, my daughter sent for a photographer and had a group picture taken. There was Allen, born in February 1836; Simmons, born in May 1836; Smith, born in December 1836; and Judge Little born in 1838. These formed the group of four old boys who I hope will meet beyond the stars. The loss of this friend of fifty years means to me more than to any man on earth. It is to me irreparable. He kept the faith and exiled as he was from his native shores, he finished the course, working for other men's weal. A few weeks since, I sent him an account of his ancestry here, going back nearly three hundred years, but little dreamed that before it reached him, he would be beyond the skies. Rev. Geo. C. Smith. ________________ DIED - - We are deeply grieved to chronicle the death of Mrs. A.M. Huggins, one of Newnan's most estimable and lovable women, which occurred Wwednesday afternoon at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. W.A. Herring, on College street. She has been ill for several weeks and her death was not unexpected but the event was nevertheless a great shock to her family and friends. She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mrs. W.A. Herring, who have the sumpathies of everyone in their bereavement. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, services conducted by Dr.J.S. Hardaway. ____ TURIN News Sunday night while seated at the supper table, Mr. Linton McCullough was stricken with paralysis which resulted in his death Monday morning at 9 o'clock. He was a good man and a zealous member of the Turin Methodist church. He is survived by his wife and many other relatives are left to mourn his sad and sudden demise. The funeral was held at the Methodist church, after which his remains were laid to rest in Tranquil cemetery with Masonic honors. The widow has our sincere condolence in her grief and loneliness. _____ DIED - - Mr. E.O. Linch, yesterday morning, this worthy man and good citizen answered to the last sad summons and yielded up his spirit to the maker who gave it. Mr. Linch's death did not come as a surprize for he had been in a critical condition for some time. He was a good man, honorable and upright in all his dealings and was highly esteemed by everyone. He was a veteran of the Civil War and made a record for bravery and fidelity to duty that will be cherished as a precious heritage by his children. He was a devoted husband and father and a most companionable neighbor and friend. He is survived by his wife and three children, besides a host of other relatives. The funeral took place from the residence, services being conducted by Rev. E.D. Ellenwood of Atlanta. The interment was made in the Elder burying ground with Masonic honors, his parents and two daughters being buried there. _______ Mr. Wm. Perry and wife of Carrollton attended the funeral of Mr. E.O. Linch, the latter being a sister of the deceased. ____ Mr. J.A. Williams of Abbeville, S.C., was mingling with friends and relatives here a few days ago. ___ MORELAND News Mrs. Martha McClure of Grantville is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J.M. Couch. __ Mrs. Sarah Gable is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Will McGhee. ___ DODSON News DIED - - Mr. Dolphin S. Cox died in Newnan on Monday morning. He was sick but two days. When first taken ill he gave his wife some papers and told her to take care of them, that he was going away and would be here no longer than Monday. He also said to his wife" you need not bother about me, when you get to heaven I will be there." ____ NEWNAN HOME AFFAIRS The late Dolphin S. Cox carried life insurance to the amount of $3000. __ Rev. A.H.S. Bugg of Grantville came down last Saturday to conduct the funeral of Mrs. Jas. Truitt. LaGrange Graphic. ___ The Herald and Advertiser sincerely regrets to chronicle the death of Mr. Dolphin S. Cox, which occurred Monday morning at his home one mile south of the city. Congestion of the bowels caused his death and he was ill but two days. Deceased was 63 years of age and was one of Coweta's most worthy and respected citizens, esteemed by everyone who knew him. He is survived by his wife and four children, the latter being Mrs. R.L. Dukes of this county, Mrs. E.L. Thurman and Mrs. J.B. Cox of Atlanta. The funeral took place Tuesday morning at Macedonia, services being conducted by Rev. F.J. Amis and Rev. F.G. Golden. The interment was made with Masonic honors. ________ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/coweta/newspapers/gnw353newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 16.2 Kb