Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Towson, Hatton D. September 1919
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Cairo Messenger, October 3, 1919
Rev. H. D. Towson Dies In Local Sanitarium

Rev. Hatton D. Towson, died at the local sanitarium here last Saturday about 
the noon hour after an illness of two weeks.

He was brought here Wednesday of last week by his parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. E. 
Towson and Dr. Lewis, of Camilla.  Saturday morning, the doctors determined to 
operate upon him to remove the trouble, but he survived only a short while 
afterwards.

The death was the saddest and most shocking that has occurred here in several 
months.

He was discharged from the army last January on account of wounds received in 
the Battle of Argonne.  He was a member of the Three Hundred and Twenty-Eighth 
Infantry in the famous Eighty-Second Division.  It is said that from one bullet 
he received five wounds.

The deceased was in his 28th year.  He held the degree of Bachelor of Arts and 
Master of Arts of Emory University, Rhodes Scholarship from Georgia with 
Bachelor of Arts in Theology, Oxford University, Oxford, England.  He had 
enlisted to enter the foreign missionary field.

Since he has received his discharge from the army, he has been pastor of the 
Pelham Circuit of the South Georgia Methodist Conference.

From an educational viewpoint, Rev. Towson was perhaps the best equipped man in 
this section of the country.  He was of a very genial disposition and was 
extremely well liked b the churches he served.  He spent three years of his 
youth here while his father, Rev. W. E. Towson, was pastor of the Cairo 
Methodist church, 1908-11.  Although a boy then, he made friends which have 
lasted.

The remains were carried to Lebanon, Tenn., where he was buried in the family 
grave yard near his grandfather, Gen. Robert Hatten, of the Confederacy, who 
fell at Seven Pines.

He is survived by his father and mother, Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Towson of Camilla, 
one brother, Lambath Towson, Superintendent of Schools at Soperton, one sister, 
Miss Mamie Towson, Missionary.


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