Grady-Decatur County GaArchives Obituaries.....Powell, J. H. 1913
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, January 10, 1913
Death Of A Good Man
Mr. J. H. Powell, a very prominent citizen of Cyrene, Ga., died in this place 
at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday last.  He had been brought here for medical treatment of a 
malignant cancer from which he had been a great sufferer for years.  But the 
trouble had proceeded too far for remedies to do any good, with a man of his 
advanced age -- seventy-two years.

Mr. Powell was a fine old time southern gentleman, of that class very few 
representatives of which are now left on earth -- more's the pity.  He served 
in the Confederate army during the war of the sixties, a gallant soldier under 
Lee, and was seriously wounded in the battle of Gettysburg.  He was a very 
influential citizen of his section, one of the founders (we are informed) of 
Cyrene Institute, toward which (we hear) he was a liberal contributor, and in 
his death his entire community will suffer a sad loss.

He leaves two sons and seven daughters to mourn their bereavement as well as a 
host of sadly sympathizing friends.  

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