Fulton-Twiggs County GaArchives Obituaries.....Thomas, Reverend A. G. December 14 1903 ************************************************ 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: Eileen B. McAdams http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002655 October 12, 2004, 11:50 pm Atlanta Constitution, December 15, 1903 DEATH OF REV. A. G. THOMAS Was a Minister of the Christian Church for Fifty-two years. Rev. A. G. Thomas, who has been a minister of the Christian church for fifty-two years, died at 7:35 o'clock last night at his residence in West End, 121 Park street, from an attack of nervous prostration. He is survived by his wife, four daughters, Mrs. H. W. Fairbanks and Mrs. J. T. Howard of Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. E. W. Pease, a missionary stationed at Hollmestrand, Norway, and Mrs. H.D. Bolles, of Atlanta, and two sons, Dr. E. B. Thomas and R.A. Thomas, of this city. No funeral arrangements have been made and none will be made until the two daughters in Dallas are heard from. Dr. Thomas began his work in the ministry when he was a boy of 18 years. He was born in Twiggs county, Georgia, in 1833. When the war began he became chaplain of the Seventh Georgia regiment, entering from Atlanta. He was at one time the professor in Latin in a college in Indiana and shortly after the war was professor of physiology in the Oglethorpe Medical college, of Savannah. From the latter city he came to Atlanta, where he has lived for twenty-nine years. He was the pastor of the First Christian church for many years, giving up this position about two years ago. During the past year he has been gradually failing. He was also a practicing physician and was well known for his skill in the line. At the time of his death he was the president of the Eclectic college, of this city, having held this position for the last twenty years. He married Miss Susan Adelaide Reynolds, of Atlanta, in 1857. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/fulton/obits/t/nob241thomas.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb