Georgia:  Coweta County: Obituary of Mr. I. S. Shropshire 
9 January 1925

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The Newnan Herald, Friday, January 9, 1925

Former Coweta Citizen  Dies in Atlanta 

   Atlanta Georgia, 24th ult.  Mr. I. S. Shropshire well-known Atlanta, dies 
Tuesday at his home 133 Windsor Street, following an illness of more than  
six months. He was 62 years of age.
   Mr. Shropshire had been in the brick and building supply business here for 
more than 30 years, and was the oldest salesman in the city in pint of 
service. He was widely known in business circles, and had many intimate 
friends who regret to learn of his death. 
   Born in Fayette County, Oct 8, 1862, he moved when a young boy to Coweta 
County, where he was reared and educated. For the past 40 years he had made 
Atlanta his home. For some time after his residence here he was a traveling 
salesman for a large Virginia manufacturing concern, with headquarters in 
Atlanta, being later connected with the Carolina Portland Cement Co., with 
which organization he was identified for more that 30 years. He had been 
associated with the B. Mifflin Hood Brick Co., for the past several years. 
   Mr. Shropshire was the son of Sarah Ann and S. J. Shropshire, pioneer 
residents of Coweta County. He married in November 1873, to Miss Cornelia 
Cole, of Newnan, Ga. He was a member of the Trinity Methodist church, and 
until prevented by ill health took an active part in its undertakings.
   He leaves three sons, I. R. Shropshire of Nashville, Tenn., L. I. 
Shropshire, local freight agent of the A. B. & A. Railroad; M. L Shropshire; 
two daughters, Mrs. W. B. Bentley, Miss Frances Shropshire of Atlanta and 
sister Mrs. W. L. Cole, of Senoia Ga.