Madison County GaArchives Obituaries.....Collier, L.W. July 1922
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Danielsville Monitor,  28 July 1922
Pg 5, Col. 2 


 MR. L.W. COLLIER IS CLAIMED BY DEATH 


Was Prominent In Religious And Educational Circles In Northeast Georgia.  
Funeral Yesterday.

   L.W. Collier, 82, for twenty-five years a trustee of Gibson-Mercer school 
at Bowman and very prominent in building up religious and educational 
institutions in rural communities, died at his home near here Tuesday 
afternoon at five o'clock.  Death followed an illness of two weeks.

    Mr. Collier was born in Stewart Co. Georgia but had lived in Oglethorpe 
for seventy years.

    He was known as one of the most successful planters of Oglethorpe county.  
He was a deacon in the Baptist Church for forty-seven years and a tireless 
religious worker.

    Mr. Collier is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minta D. Collier.

    Funeral services were conducted from the residence yesterday afternoon at 
3:30, the Rev. John D. Mell officiating.  The following acted as active pall-
bearers:  Messers T.C. Davison, J.D. Powers, E.W. Johnson, Vick Stephens, L.C. 
Chandler and Murray Slaton.  Honorary pall bearers were:  L.F. Edwards, Rev. 
W.M. Coile, L.W. Hendrick, T. Carl Stevens, C.O. Stevens, John Crowley, George 
Howard, C. A. Stevens, Ed Howard, and C.A. Stevens.

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