GILMER CO., GA -- OBITUARIES -- John Peter Cole II, 1896

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From the Ellijay Courier, Jas. H. Hutchison, Editor
Ellijay, Georgia March 5th 1896:


A GOOD MAN GONE

Uncle Peter Cole Passes Away At His Home Last Friday Morning.

Mr. J.P. Cole of Ratclif, one of Gilmer County's oldest and most 
respected citizens, passed away Friday morning of last week after an 
illness of only a few days.

Mr. Cole was in Ellijay Friday week and the editor remembers having 
a pleasant conversation with him and he seemed in his usual health but 
was taken the next day and died with enlarged prostate glands and 
urine poison after --gering (unreadable) and intense pain on Friday 
morning of last week.

He was 76 years old and had been a life long church member and an 
earnest Christian gentleman, his membership being with the Nine Mile 
Methodist Church.

In his death our county loses one of her best and most influential 
citizens and it is with profound sorrow that we chronicle his sad 
demise.

Mr. Cole was a Mason and was laid to rest by that body with Masonic 
honors at Nine Mile graveyard on Saturday following in the presence 
of a large concourse of relatives and friends. Revs. N.L. Osborne 
and A.M. Johnson conducted the funeral services.

He leaves a wife and several grown children to mourn his death, to 
all of whom the Courier offers condolences.

A committee from the Masonic lodge was appointed to draft suitable 
resolutions upon his death, which resolutions will be published in 
our next issue.


[Notes from Cassandra Robertson Newby, gr-gr-gr grandaughter of John 
Peter Cole II: The Nine Mile Methodist Church later became the 
Mountaintown Baptist Church and Nine Mile graveyard is now 
Mountaintown Cemetery.]