Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....DART, Edwin W. December 24, 1958
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The Brunswick News; Wednesday 24 December 1958; pg. 16 cols. 4 & 5 (photo)

JUDGE EDWIN DART, ILL MANY MONTHS, DIES EARLY TODAY

Judge Edwin W. Dart, who served as ordinary of Glynn County for 41 years, 
passed away at his home on Glynn Avenue early this morning after an extended 
illness.

Judge Dart was stricken ill shortly before he retired as ordinary in 1953 and 
since that time he had been confined to his home, and in recent months his 
condition had been serious, therefore his death was not unexpected.

Judge Dart, 78, was born June 20, 1880, only 14 years after the War Between 
the States was over, and two veterans of that war were his first and only 
opponents for the position he held for so many years.

Judge Dart was serving as assistant to his father, the late Judge Horace Dart, 
who was ordinary for 20 years ,when his father died in office and the son 
filled the unexpired term in 1912; he later was elected and served in that 
office until he retired.  IN the election for ordinary to succeed his father, 
Judge Dart received three times as many votes as the combined total of his tow 
opponents.  He never again had opposition for the office.

Member of an old and prominent Glynn County family, Judge Dart was born and 
reared in Glynn County in a home near the “Marshes of Glynn” and he had stuck 
close to the marshes all of his life.

Besides serving so long as ordinary, Judge Dart had been active in other 
capacities.  He served for four years as chairman of the local draft board 
during World War I.

If a correct record was available it undoubtedly would show that as ordinary 
Judge Dart united more couples than any person in Glynn County’s history.  
Many of Brunswick couples now residing here were joined in wedlock by the 
popular official.  It was he who was awakened late one night to perform the 
ceremony in 1946 uniting Hank Greenberg, famous baseball player, and Carol 
Gimble, New York heiress.

Judge Dart had been active in many ways in Brunswick and Glynn County.  He was 
a lifelong member of the First Presbyterian Church and had occupied a number 
of positions of honor and trust.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Kathryn C. Dart; one daughter, Mrs. Clifford 
Peters; and two grandchildren, Ensign John Edwin Peters, U.S. Navy, and Joan 
Harriet Peters.

Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 11 o’clock at the First 
Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Robert L. McBath, Jr., officiating.  The 
body will be placed in the church at 10 o’clock Friday morning.

Active pallbearers will be Bob Dart Brown, John F. Symons, Jr., Edward 
Burford, Robert Dart, Richard W. Peters, William R. Ralston, Hoyt Brown and 
Horace Dart.  Honorary:  member of the Board of Elders and Deacons of the 
First Presbyterian Church, members of the Brunswick Bar Association, members 
of the Glynn Officers Association and members of the Glynn Board of 
Commissioners, both past and present members.  Interment will be in Palmetto 
Cemetery under direction of the Edo Miller & Sons Funeral Home.

Ordinary Wesley Jernigan announced today that his office will be closed Friday 
on account of the death and funeral of Judge Dart.



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