Hall-Fulton-Richmond County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wilkes, Georgia ( Brewster) January 15, 1913
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"The Constitution"
Atlanta, Fulton Co., Georgia

Sunday, January 26, 1913

Mrs. Sam W. Wilkes Buried in Gainesville

Gainesville, Ga., January 25 (Special) The body of Mrs. Georgia Brewster 
Wilkes, who died Thursday [Jan 15], was brought to Gainesville Friday over the 
Gainesville Midland railroad and was interred at Alta Vista cemetery.  The 
services at the grave were conducted by Rev. F. D. Cantrell, of St. Paul 
Methodist church, in the presence of friends and relatives of the deceased, who 
met the body upon arrival here.

Mrs. Georgia Brewster Wilkes was born in Gainesville and moved to Atlanta when 
a young girl.  She married Colonel Sam W. Wilkes, of the Georgia railroad, in 
Atlanta twenty-five years ago.  One child, Miss Marjorie Wilkes, survives the 
union.

Mrs. Wilkes was a granddaughter of the late Dr. Richard Banks, the eminent 
oculist of this state, whose professional achievements go to make up the 
history of his profession in the state in which he lived. Mrs. Wilkes was the 
daughter of Captain Walter S. Brewster and Susan Banks Brewster.   Captain 
Brewster volunteered in Gainesville for the civil war and went out with the 
Twenty-fourth Georgia regiment.  He was wounded by the same shell that wounded 
General T. R. R. Cobb, on whose staff he was serving.  Both died from their 
wounds.

Mrs. Wilkes was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of the 
Daughters of the Confederacy, and a cherished member of the history class, 
composed of twenty of the brightest women in Atlanta.  She was a graduate of 
Wesleyan college, and was a cousin of Major Archibald Butt, of the Titanic 
disaster.

Additional Comments:

Per earlier obituary in "The Constution" issue of Thursday, January 16, 1913 , 
she died at a sanitarium in Augusta, Georgia.

Married Samuel W. Wilkes on April 18, 1887


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