Heard County GaArchives Obituaries.....Almon, Wyatt Uriah February 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 April 7, 2005, 11:54 pm The Cleburne News, Feb. 25, 1915 NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, February 25, 1915 MR. WYATT U. ALMON DIES SUDDENLY, SATURDAY; Was Heflin's Oldest Resident and Pioneer of The Town Last Saturday morning the people of Heflin were shocked and made sad by the report that Mr. W. U. Almon had dropped dead at his home on Oxford street. Mr. Almon had gone to the barn to hitch his horse to the buggy to go to the train to meet his daughter, Mrs. Yeatman, who was expected to arrive from Anniston. He had caught the horse and hitched it to a post preparatory to currying it, and when Mrs. Almon found him, he had the curry crub in his hand. Mr. Almon had answered the summons, his spirit had flown to the further shore and his body had fallen to the ground without a struggle. Mr. Wyatt Uriah Almon was born at Franklin, Heard County, Georgia on April 4, 1846, and therefore would have been 69 years of age April 4th next. He grew to manhood in Heard County. On June 9, 1874 Mr. Almon was married to Miss Mary Longmire at Decatur, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Almon located to Ashland, Clay County, where he taught school. After teaching for a number of years in Clay county, Mr. and Mrs. Almon came to Cleburne County and located here in 1883 and became pioneers of the town, and Mr. Almon was at the time of his death the oldest resident of the town except Mrs. Almon. Mr. Almon taught here in the early days of the town and it was largely through his influence that a good school house was erected, thus insuring for the future a good school for the town and community. In fact he had always been identified with any and all movements which had been for the upbuilding of the community and county. Mr. Almon was in the mercantile business here for six or eight years during the eighties. From 1890 to 1892 he represented Cleburne county in the House of Representatives at Montgomery. To Mr. and Mrs. Almon were born six children, four sons and two daughters, four of whom are living, one having died in infancy and one after reaching maturity. One son, Willie, lives in Birmingham and the other, Spurgeon, resides in Ashville, N.C. The two daughters are Mrs. John L. Yeatman residing in Anniston and Mrs. L. Cooper residing in Tuscaloosa. Mr. Almon was a member of the Missionary Baptist church and a licensed minister of that denomination, having been ordained in 1873 and had served churches but gave the greater part of his life to teaching as he regarded that field the one in which to accomplish the most and especially for the young people. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. G.B. Boman on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the M.E. Church, South, to a large audience, and the burial services were conducted by the Masons in their most beautiful and impressive way, Mr. Almon having been a worthy and valued member of the Masonic fraternity. To the life companion and widow, the children and all to whom bereavement has come, we extend sympathy in this hour of sadness. ---- CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank neighbors and friends for the many acts of kindness and the sympathy and help they so willingly gave during the sad hours that have come to us because of the death of husband and father. May the blessing of the father above be abundantly theirs. Mrs. W. U. Almon and children ______ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/heard/obits/a/almon2336gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb