Heard-Carroll County GaArchives Obituaries.....BAUGHN, Essie Melinda (Nixon) January 5, 2002
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"Times-Georgian"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

Vo. 131, No. 7
Tuesday, January 8, 2002

Essie Baughn

Essie Melinda Nixon Baughn, 92, of 205 County Road 45, Ranburne, Ala. [Cleburne 
Co.], died Jan. 5, 2002 at her residence, following an extended illness.

Mrs. Baughn was born July 14, 1909, in Heard County, [Ga.], daughter of the 
late Samuel M. D. and Elizabeth Wilson Nixon.  She was a member of Union Hill 
Baptist Church and a life long resident of this area.  She was the wife of the 
late William Claudie Baughn to whom she was married 72 years.

Besides her parents and husband she was preceded in death by brothers, Johnson 
Nixon, Jacob Richard Nixon, Willie Bee Nixon, George Franklin Nixon and three 
brothers who died as infants; sisters, Harriet Elizabeth Nixon Gravitt, Annie 
Zora Nixon Wiggins and Gracy Fanny Mae Nixon Tittle.

Survivors include sons, Fred Baughn, Glenn Baughn and Howard Baughn, all of 
Ranburne; daughters Annie Jo Baughn Bradford of Clearwater, Fla., and Shirley 
Baughn Shiver of Kennesaw; eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and 
three great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held today, Jan. 8 at 2 p.m. Ala. time at Union Hill 
Baptist Church in Cleburne County with Rev. Gerald Rogers, Rev. Hugh Weathers, 
and Rev. Lee Hollis officiating.  The body will lie in state at the church one 
hour prior to the service.  Interment will follow in Union Hill Church cemetery.

Rainwater-West Funeral Home, Bowdon.


Additional Comments:
This obituary was part of a collection that belonged to Mr. Samuel L. Weaver-
Nixon, Grandfather of Mrs. Bowen.

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