Dodge County GaArchives Obituaries.....Pierce, Henry Alexander September 14, 1952
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Cochran Journal 18 Sep 1952 FP
                       Services Are Held For H. A. Pierce
 Funeral services for H. A. Pierce, 65, who died suddenly Sunday night at his 
home in Empire were held Wednesday afternoon at the Empire Baptist Church. 
Burial was in the Bowers Cemetery. Elder D. Homer Yarn, Elder Peter J. Ricks, 
Elder Ed Yarn, Elder J. B. Parker, Elder A. M. Bates, and Rev. Hinson Purser 
officiated.
 Mr. Pierce was born in Pulaski County the son of the late W. H. and Mary 
Frances McPhail Pierce. He had lived in Empire most of his life where he 
engaged in the mercantile business. He was Justice of the Peace and was an 
Elder in the Church of the Later Day Saints and a member of the Woodmen of the 
World.
 Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Cherry Phillips Pierce; four sons, H. C. 
Pierce of Macon, Major George B. Pierce with the Us Army in Japan, H. O. Pierce 
of Empire, and M. A. Pierce of Helena; three daughters, Mrs. Roy Ross of 
Empire, Mrs. Omar Lancaster of Hawkinsville, and Mrs. Ernest Ramage of Collins; 
one brother, John J. Pierce of Palatka, Fla.; five sisters, Mrs. T. B. Haynes 
of Nahunta, Mrs. Maggie Howell of Griffin, Mrs. Walter Edge of Melbourne, Fla., 
Mrs. Freeman Brown of Dudley, and Miss Inez Pierce of Macon.
 Honorary pallbearers wer: R. T. Ragan, David Stokes, W. H. Griffin, J. T. 
Edmondson, G. B. Hill, Luther Horne, Oliver Purser, A. P. Scarborough, J. W. 
Fountain Sr., D. B. Fountain, R. L. Fordham, Samson Parker, Reno Fordham, 
George Bowman Jr., Dewey Mullis, Hardy Hall, Lawton Hall, Pete Perkins, and 
Lowell Bates.
 Active pallbearers were: Charles Wilson, Bernice Perkins, Tullie Holland, 
Lawton Fountain, Aaron Perkine, and Rufus L. Fountain.
 Fisher Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Additional Comments:
Henry was born 7 Feb 1887 in Dexter, Laurens County, Ga. and died 14 Sep 1952.

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