Macon County GaArchives Obituaries.....J.J. Childres December 3 1923
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The Butler Herald, December 6, 1923
The Butler Herald
Thursday, December 6, 1923
Page One

Prominent Macon Co. Citizen Died Monday

In the death of Hon. J.J. Childres, of Garden Valley, Macon County, which 
occurred at Plains Hospital Monday night, following an operation for 
appendicitis Macon County has lost one of its most prominent citizens.  Mr. 
Childres, for the past several years has held the office of County Commissioner 
of Macon County, and on account of his good, business judgment, his liberality 
and reasonableness in his views, he won and maintained the confidence of the 
members of the board, and he admiration of his constituency.  He was a model 
citizen, kind and generous to the poor, a neighbor with responsiveness in his 
heart to a neighbor’s needs and wants.  His place will be hard to fill in the 
office which he held and in the community in which he lived – loved by all who 
had the pleasure of his acquaintance.  His remains were interred with Masonic 
Honors by the Montezuma lodge, of which he was a member.  The funeral service 
was conducted by his life-long friend, Rev. J.T. Adams.  Many tributes of love 
and esteem were manifested by the large floral offerings, which were beautiful 
and symbolical.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Josephine Whatley Childres, and four sons: 
Ernest, Roy, Earl and Edmond Childres; three brothers: Messrs. Lee and Robert 
Childres of Taylor and Benjamin Childres, of Talbot County and three sisters: 
Mrs. Carry Awtry, of Atlanta, Mrs. Lizzie Wilder, of Crawford County, and Miss 
Nancy Childres of Macon County.  He was also closely related to many prominent 
citizens of Taylor and Macon Counties.


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