Early County  Georgia Obits Mr & Mrs. A. D. Cleveland
	
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A. D. Cleveland City Police Officer, Dies

Arthur D. Cleveland, well-known and highly-esteemed
citizen of Blakely and member of the city police
force, died in a local hospital Saturday afternoon.


Mr. Cleveland although a native of Miller County, had
resided in Early County nearly all his life.  He was
born October 9, 1908, hence was 47 years of age. He
engaged in farming for many years, but for the past
year and a half has been a member of the city police
force.  He was a member of the White Pond Free Will
Baptist Church.


Funeral services for Mr. Cleveland were held in the
Blakely Free Will Baptist Church Monday afternoon at
3:30 o'clock, with the Reverend W. F. McDuffie and the
Reverend LeRoy Curtis officiating.  Interment was in
the Blakely cemetery, with nephews of the deceased
serving as active pall-bearers and the following
comprising an honorary escort: G. H. Owen, Joseph
Jones, Marcine Ezell, Dallas Lisenby, Joe N.
Livingston, Carl Gilbert, Emory McDuffie, L. B. Jones,
C. C. Swann and M. L. Simmons.  Manry-Minter Funeral
Home was in charge of arrangements.


Surviving Mr. Cleveland are his wife, Mrs. Minnie E.
Cleveland; four children, Hansford, Jinks, and Warren
Cleveland, all of Blakely, and Ralph Cleveland of
Albany; three sisters, Mrs. Fred Middleton of Blakely,
Mrs. Grover Bryan of Morgan, Ga., and Mrs. Elton Tabb
of Colquitt, Ga.


Source:  Early County News Volume 97, No. 32 Blakely,
Georgia, Thursday Morning, March 22, 1956, Front Page
left corner.

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================= Minnie Lee Enfinger Cleveland


Minnie Lee Enfinger Cleveland, 88, of Blakely, died
Thursday, January 3, 1994, at Early Memorial Nursing
Home in Blakely.


A resident of Early County most of her life, Mrs.
Cleveland was born September 9, 1905 in Graceville,
Florida, to the late Nealy Enfinger.  She was a
homemaker and a member of First Freewill Baptist
Church.  She was married to the late Arthur D.
Cleveland.


Funeral services were held Saturday, February 5, 1994,
11:00 a. m., at the Chapel of Manry-Jordan-Hodges
Funeral Home with Reverend W. F. McDuffie, Reverend
Joe Buttgen, and Reverend Roger Russell officiating.
Interment followed at the Blakely Cemetery with Craig
Cleveland, Eric Cleveland, Jay Cleveland, Ricky
Cleveland, Art Cleveland, Brett Cleveland, William
Cleveland, and Robert Cleveland serving as
pallbearers.  Manry-Jordan-Hodges Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.


Mrs. Cleveland is survived by three sons, Hansford
Cleveland and Warren Cleveland, both of Blakely, and
Jinks Cleveland of Tallahassee, Fl; fourteen
grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren, and one great-
great-grandchild.


Source:  Early County Newspaper, Blakely, Early Co.,
GA January 1994.


Minnie Lee Enfinger was the daughter of the late
William Cornelius Enfinger and Lonie E. Loyless. 

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