Elbert County GaArchives Obituaries.....Gunter, John Bynum March 23, 1938
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Tift Co. Newspaper
  Tift Co. Ga. - John B. Gunter Died Suddenly - Stricken While Planting Corn 
and Died in Field. Funeral Thursday Afternoon. John Byron Gunter, eighty-eight 
years old, died suddenly at 11:15 o'clock Wednesday morning, on the George Sea 
place on Route Six, in southwest Tift county. Mr. Gunter was planting corn 
when stricken and died in the field in a few minutes.
  Funeral services will be conducted at Mount Olive Church, in Ben Hill county 
on the Fitzgerald-Ocilla road. Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, the 
funeral party leaving home at two o'clock. Interment will be in Mount Olive 
cemetery. Bowen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
  Mr. Gunter was born in Elbert County, January 20, 1850, a son of the late 
John and Elizabeth Downer Gunter. He was a farmer and moved to Tift from 
Berrien county two years ago and was making his home with his youngest son, 
Brewer J. Gunter.
  Mr. Gunter was married three times and was the father of eighteen children. 
His first wife, Miss Dicie Bell died in 1881. Eight children were born to this 
union, four of whom survive, J. Chester Gunter, Enigma, Route 1; Mrs. R. Ben 
Wheless, Ocilla; Mrs. J.S. Smith, Fitzgerald; Mrs. Mamie Burt, Crawford.
  His second wife, Miss Sallie Maxwell, lived only a short time after 
marriage, and one child born to this union died.
  His third wife, Miss Mary E. Young, who survives, is the mother of nine 
children, six of whom survive; Mrs. F.M. Johnson, Alapaha; J.H. Gunter, Omega; 
Mrs. Janie Bailey, Nashville; Mrs. Lillian McCannon, Crawford; Mrs. W.L. 
Boggs, Point Peter Ga.; B.J. Gunter, Tifton, Route Six. One sister, Mrs. Mary 
E. Sorrows, of Point Peter, also survives.
  The numerous friends of the family throughout this section join in extending 
sympathy to them in their bereavement.

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