Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Thomason, W. C.  January 8 1918
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, January 11, 1918 
Prominent Grady County Citizen Passes Away

Mr. W. C. Thomason, one of the county's oldest and most highly respected 
citizens, passed away at the home of his son, Mr. J. D. Thomason, four miles 
east of town, last Tuesday morning at 5:30 o'clock.  Mr. Thomason scratched his 
hand while cutting wood about two weeks ago, and in helping skin a calf, a week 
later, the wound became inflamed, blood poison setting in.  The blood poison, 
along with his feeble health and old age, was the cause of his demise.  He had 
been in failing health for several months, yet he was in bed only from last 
Friday until his death.  Mr. Thomason was 79 years of age this month, and was a 
Confederate veteran, having served four years in the war between the states.

He was laid to rest Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock in the Cairo Cemetery, 
the funeral services being conducted at the grave by Dr. J. A. Wynne, pastor of 
the Cairo Baptist church.  A large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends 
attended his funeral.

He is survived by four sons, Messrs. J. D., W. G., Jr., C. M. and M. B. 
Thomason, all of Grady county; four daughters, Mrs. B. C. Woolfolk of Pearce, 
Fla., Mrs. S. A. Dixon and Mrs. T. M. Barwick, both of Meigs; four sisters, 
Mrs. Frank Thornton of Gadsden, Ala., Mrs. Preston Grier of Lafeyette, Ala., 
and Mrs. Davis Long and Miss Lou Thomason of Ellersley, Ga.  We extend 
condolence to the bereaved ones.

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