Jefferson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Edgar Jones Stapleton November 22 1961 ************************************************ 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: Brenda King McNair Mcnair1978@msn.com January 7, 2004, 12:53 pm The News and Farmer Jefferson Co., GA, Thursday, November 30, 1961, Front Page Ed J. Stapleton Dies At Stapleton Stapleton, Ga. -- Ed J. Stapleton, Sr. 61, of Stapleton, died unexpectedly Wednesday. Funeral services were conducted Friday at Stapleton Baptist Church at 3:30 p. m. by the Rev. J. E. Cook and the Rev. Gordon Price. Burial was in the Stapleton Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Marie Rivers Stapleton, three sons, Albert F. Stapleton, of Huntsville, Ala., Jack Stapleton of Statum and E. J. Stapleton, Jr. of Stapleton; three brothers, Frank Stapleton of Stapleton, Jim Stapleton of Dublin and Leroy Stapleton of Metter; one sister, Mrs. L. M. Durham of East Point; and seven grandchildren. Mr. Stapleton was a rural mail carrier, farmer, former Jefferson County Commissioner, and a member of the Swainsboro Hunting Club. He was a member of Stapleton Baptist Church. Source: The News and Farmer Jefferson County, Georgia, Thursday, November 30, 1961, Front Page. Additional Comments: Edgar Jones Stapleton born 08 July 1900 and died 22 November 1961, son of Albert Sidney Stapleton and Margaret Brinson Jones. He married Marie Rivers. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb