Jones County GaArchives Obituaries.....Buckhalter, Michael 1860 ************************************************ 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: Virginia Crilley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000642 May 30, 2009, 8:31 pm Weekly Georgia Telegraph Weekly Georgia Telegraph, Jan. 24, 1860 -- page 2 Death of a Centennarian Michael Buckhalter died in Jones County on the 16th instant in the hundredth year of his age-- having been born in 1760 in Virginia. He moved to Georgia in early life and has lived in Jones, since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. He was hale and hearty up to the last year of his life -- a staunch democrat--and lived and died out of debt to the printer as well as his fellow men in general. He was active, industrious and frugal in his habits --distinguished for nothing so much as the simple straight-forwardness and integrity of his character. For generations he was in the habit of bringing the earliest and finest peaches to the Clinton market, and when he could not obtain his own price, his invariable custom was to call his friends around the wagon to eat them. "Come up, boys and eat my peaches for I can't get my price for them". File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/jones/obits/b/buckhalt9444gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb