Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Baggs, Hilton Burnum October 31, 1959
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"The Camilla Enterprise" dated 5 Nov 1959

Obituary of Hilton Burnum Baggs as written on page 5 of "The Camilla 
Enterprise" dated 5 Nov 1959.  Camilla, Georgia.   
Bringing widespread sorrow to relatives and friends was the death early 
Saturday evening, October 31st, at Mitchell County Hospital in Camilla of 
Hilton Burnum Baggs, age 32, of Hopeful.  He had been in ill health for the 
past several months, his condition gradually worsening until he was carried 
around noon Saturday to the hospital in an unconscious conditon and it was 
known that the end was near.  Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 
the Hopeful Baptist Church, of which he was a member, and officiating was the 
pastor, Rev. C. D. Justice, and Rev. E. R. Cloud.  Interment took place in the 
Hopeful Cemetery with Bramlett Funeral Home of Camilla in charge of 
arrangements.  Active pallbearers were James W. Davis, Joe Bostick, Lamar 
Shirah, Rodney Fitzgerald, Joe Wade, Hubert Sullivan, Neil Shiver and Pat 
Ward.  Forming an honorary escort were C. B. Cox, Jr., E. D. Bostick, C. K. 
Cox, J. T. Thornton, W. J. Sullivan, Lewis Holt, Russell Sullivan, Mack Lodge, 
Curtis Whigham, Hal Carlisle, Charles Mathews, Bobby Kemp, Winston Cross, 
Edward Taylor, Bobby Sharp, Davis Lewis, Nebraska Bostick, Donald Hays, Glenn 
West, Cecil Thomas, J. W. Whitley, John Maples and others.  Mr. Baggs was born 
October 9th, 1927, in Mitchell County, the son of the late Calvin T. Baggs, 
Sr., and Lilly Mae Burnum Baggs.  He spent his entire life here in this 
county.  After graduating from the Hopeful school he served in the Merchant 
Marines during World War II.  He was a farmer and landowner in Hopeful 
section.  On December 22, 1950, he was happily married to the former Miss Betty 
Jo Sullivan.  Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Baggs, Sr.; his 
wife, Mrs. Betty Jo Sullivan Baggs; one son, Robert H. Baggs; two brothers, 
Calvin T. Baggs, Jr. and W. Cecil Baggs, both of Hopeful; and his his 
grandfather, E. L. Burnum, of Climax.



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