Mitchell County  Georgia Obituaries Hiram L. Gantt 1935

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Obituary of Hiram L. Gantt 
as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 1 Mar 1935.  


Camilla, Georgia.  Mr. Hiram Gantt, widely known and beloved citizen of the 
county and member of one of Mitchell's old pioneer families, died at the home of his 
daughter, Mrs. Henry C. Poitevint, in the Mt. Zion community, Monday, 25 February 
1935, at 5:30 AM.  Feeble with infirmities of old age, Mr. Gantt, who led a very active 
life, had not been able to get about much for the past year or so.  He was taken ill Friday 
night and Sunday morning passed into a state of coma, then twenty-four hours later into 
his last sleep.  There was a feeling of genuine sorrow and regret when news of Mr. 
Gantt's death was learned by friends throughout the county.  Funeral services were held 
Tuesday, 26 February 1935, morning at 10:00 AM at Mr. Zion Baptist church, conducted 
by Rev S. O. Thomas.  A large assemblage of relatives and friends filled the church.  
Comforting funeral hymns were sung by the choir.  After the church service the body was 
laid to rest in the cemetery near the church.  Pallbearers were Messrs. L. B. Frierson, 
Wallace Curles, Simp Holton, Sam Willingham, Y. Luckey and J. N. Eubanks.  Mr. J. R. 
Bramlett of Camilla Hardware and Implement Co. Was in charge of the funeral.  Mr. 
Gantt was in his eightieth year of age.  He was born in this county and lived the greater 
part of his life on the old family home place in Mt. Zion community.  For a number of 
years during the eighties and early nineties he carried the mail from Camilla to Newton, 
making the trip with horse and buggy through any kind of weather.  After retiring from 
service as mail carrier he continued his farming operations.  Mr. Gantt was a hard 
working man, built according to the fine, staunch type of pioneer.  Kind, genial and 
accommodating, he met life with a cheer smile and found pleasure in service for others.  
He was happily married in 1881 to Miss Angeline Hart, with whom he lived for fifty-two 
years before her death in May, 1933 severed the tie.  Mr. Gantt had accepted the 
Christian faith and united with the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, of which he was a loyal 
member at the time of his death.  Mr. Gantt is survived by one son, S. O. Gantt, of 
Mitchell county, and two daughters, Mrs. Walter West of Albany, and Mrs. Henry C. 
Poitevint of Mt. Zion community.  He leaves also a sister, Mrs. Amanda High of Carbur, 
Fla., and two brothers, Mr. John Gantt and Mr. Andrew Gantt, both of Texas.  There are a 
number of Grandchildren, and a large number of near relatives.  Sincere sympathy of a 
host of friends throughout the county is extended to the bereaved family in their loss.