Heard County GaArchives Obituaries.....Orr, William James August 11, 1926 ************************************************ 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 [Teal] Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 July 14, 2006, 2:25 am "The Roanoke Leader" Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, August 11, 1926 DEATH OF MR. W.J. ORR AT FAIRFAX ON WEDNESDAY Last Wednesday afternoon, occurred the death of Mr. W.J. Orr at the home of his daughter Mrs. Thos. J. Smith in Fairfax. He had been ill one week. Mr. Orr was 78 years of age. He ws born in Georgia but spent the greater part of his life in east Alabama. He at one time resided in Roanoke. The deceased was a good man and a member of the Baptist church. A wide circle of friends will learn with sadness of his death. A wife, four sons and two daughters survive. One of the sons is Mr. W.T. Orr, popular letter carrier of Roanoke, Route 5. ---- IN MEMORY OF W.J. ORR At the home of his youngest daughter Mrs. Thomas J. Smith of Fairfax, Ala., at 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, August 11, 1926, surrounded by his helpmeet, his living children except one, grandchildren and other relatives, the gentle, brave spirit of Mr. William James Orr peacefully left the aged, very tired and worn body to enter the realms of eternal rest. The oldest son of Timothy and Mary (Betterton) Orr, born at Liberty Hill, Georgia on April 5, 1848, the deceased was in his 79th year. Brought in early childhood to Hickory Flat, Chambers county, Ala., where the family settled for a few years, and in early manhood moved to old Louina, Randolph county, Ala., where for many years was engaged with his father in wagon and buggy making and general mechanical work, in later life taking up farming as an avocation. He married Temperance Stewart in July 1873, and to this union was born seven children, all living to be grown; two daughters four sons and their mother surviving him. Living in the same vicinity more than forty years of very industrious and tireless trait, of more than ordinary common sense, possessing a fine philosophy of life and an irrepressible sense of humor, being an assiduous reader and student of current events, with high ideals on moral, economic and political questions; with a quiet, unassuming personality, he was universally honored and respected by the old and young generation of neighbors. In early life he identified himself with the Missionary Baptist church, continuing an active and consecrated member to the end. In the intimate relations of private life, where character transcends environment, in the role of husband, father, bread winner, advisor, confidant and friend, incessantly applying himself to the strenuous task of rearing a large family, providing the necessities of life by honest toil during an economically depressed period, by daily precept and example instiling in his children principles that redound to good citizenship and filial devotion that afforded much consolation in the declining years. Viewing in retrospection, from the vantage of the inner circle, the sterm vicissitudes that beset this long life effort, where discouragements were met with fight and fortitude, always self sacrificing, devoted, kind and true as husband and father, the unassuming exemplar of the "golden rule" in neighborly relations, with an abiding faith, hope, charity and humility in religion, we reverently accredit as just meed the heroic shrine of our memory. A son - - - LOCAL News Mr. Sydney Orr of Homer, Louisiana was called to Fairfax last Wednesday by the death of his father Mr. W.J. Orr. He is spending this week with relatives in this section. Additional Comments: According to a 1839 map, Libery Hill is in Heard Co., Georgia. The next mentions of Liberty Hill are Spalding, Pike, Lamar 1855 - Spalding, 1863 - Spalding, 1855 - Pike, 1864 - Pike, 1865 - Pike, 1883 - Pike, 1885b - Pike, 1899 - Pike, 1999 - Lamar (Source - Carl Vinson Institute of Government University of Georgia -- http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/placenamesindex.htm ) * 1850 Census - District 41, Heard Co., Georgia; pg. 166 Timothy Orr abt 1814 Georgia Mary Orr abt 1814 Georgia Elizabeth C Orr abt 1841   Martha J Orr abt 1844   Wm J Orr abt 1848 * Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 Name: W. J. Orr Death Date: Aug 1926 Death County: Chambers Volume: 42 Roll: 2 Page #: 20636 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/heard/obits/o/orr4841gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb