Meriwether-Fulton-Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Joseph Boyd McCrary October 28 1961
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Atlanta Newspaper, 29 October 1961
                                     J. B. McCrary, Water, Sewer Engineer, Dies

    Joseph Boyd McCrary, whose companies planned or built more than two thirds 
of the municipal water, light and sewer systems in Georgia and many miles of 
electric wiring in the Southeastern states died Saturday at his home at 30 
Cherokee Road, N.W.
    Mr. McCrary, who had been in failing health for two years, was 92 years 
old. But he retained his position as president of the J. B. McCrary Co., Inc., 
and J. B. McCrary Engineering Corp., both of which he founded.
    Surviving are his widow, a nephew, Alva Pinkston McCrary, vice president of 
both the McCrary companies, and two nieces, Mrs. Luther Hill Randall, Atlanta, 
and 
Mrs. Robert F. Davis of Decatur.
    Funeral services will be held Monday at 1 pm at Spring Hill. The Rev. Dr. 
Monroe Swilley will officiate. Burial will be in the old Baptist Cemetery, 
Monroe, Georgia.
    Mr. McCrary was a pioneer in the development of waterworks, sewerage, 
electrification and street and highway improvement in Georgia and surrounding 
states. Among his first professional activities was the design and development 
of an $18,000.00 water-works installation in Monticello, Florida in the early 
1890’s. His organizations have since carried out thousands of public 
improvements involving millions of dollars.
    Associates point out that 155 of Georgia’s 159 counties have public 
improvements engineered by the McCrary companies, as do hundreds of public and 
private entities in nearby states and as far away as Jackson, Michigan and El 
Paso, Texas. The McCrary Company was incorporated in 1910, the J. B. McCrary 
Engineering Corp. in 1917.
    Mr. McCrary was born in Meriwether County 18 May 1869, son of John Matthew 
and Mary Boyd McCrary. His father served in the Confederate Army.
    The future engineer attended schools in Haralson and Senoia before entering 
Emory College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, an 
affiliation he maintained throughout his life. In 1888, he entered Georgia Tech 
and received the degree of bachelor of science in mechanical engineering in the 
class of 1891 at the second graduation exercises of the then new school.
    On June 14, 1906 he was married to Mary Neel Walker, daughter of Bellington 
Sanders and Alice Mitchell Walker of Monroe. Both have been widely active in 
church and welfare work in Atlanta. Mr. McCrary was a member of the Piedmont 
Driving Club, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and the American Society of 
Professional Engineers. He was a member of the Senoia Methodist Church.

Atlanta, Georgia, Sunday, 29 October 1961


Additional Comments:
From G3Grandniece Helena-Suzanne Shreve:Meriwether County Surnames: McCrary, 
Pinkston, Boyd, Williams, Chatfield and many others. Would be more than happy 
to share information I have.

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