Meriwether County GaArchives Obituaries.....William T. Revill May 18 1904
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The Talbotton New Era, May 21, 1904

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, May 12, 1904
Page 1

Death Claims Revill

Prominent Georgia Journalist, Legislator and Educator Joins the Silent Majority

Hon. William T. Revill, of Greenville, Ga., representative-elect to the next 
state legislature from Meriwether County, and keeper of public buildings and 
grounds at the capitol, died Monday afternoon at his home in Greenville after 
an illness of four days of pneumonia.

Mr. Revill was one of the best know men in Georgia, and had he lived, would 
very probably have been an active candidate for speaker of the lower house.

For thirty-two consecutive years he had been the owner, publisher and editor of 
The Meriwether Vindicator one of the influential journals of the state and one 
that is everywhere regarded as a model of weekly newspapers.

In ability Mr. Revill was recognized as among the foremost men of his time.  He 
was graduated from Emory College, at Oxford in the same class with Bishop 
Haygood, Dr. J.S. Hopkins and other distinguished men, taking first honor in 
his class.

After graduation he taught school for a considerable period at points in 
Alabama and Georgia, and numbered among his pupils may of the men who 
afterwards took high rank in the councils of the state and nation.  The late 
Governor W.Y. Atkinson, Governor J.M. Terrell and Warner Hill are among those 
who were his pupils.

Mr. Revill had long been identified with public matters, having served in the 
general assembly and having always taken an active part in questions before the 
people.  His memory was a wonderful one, and he could recall at a moments 
notice events in the careers of almost any public man.  He was a prominent 
church member, belonging to the Methodist denomination and was also a Mason.

News of the death of Colonel William Revill was received at the capitol and 
among his many friends in Atlanta with expressions of the most profound regret.

At the capitol particularly did the announcement cause sorrow.  Governor 
Terrell, a lifetime friend of the departed, and in boyhood a pupil of his in 
school, was perhaps the most aggrieved of all, but the sorrow was general 
throughout the building, for Colonel Revill had endeared himself to every 
official of the state.



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