Mitchell County  Georgia Obituaries George Washington Palmer 1909

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Obituary of George Washington Palmer 
as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 13 Aug 1909.  

Camilla, Georgia.  
Mr. George Palmer, East Mitchell, Well known 
and Highly Esteemed Citizen, Dead.  Mitchell County lost a good citizen and one of her 
most substantial farmers last Friday evening, when Mr. George Palmer answered the call 
which comes to every man sooner or later, and passed out of this life after a long career 
of usefulness and honor among a people who knew him well and esteemed him highly.  
Mr. Palmer, who was 56 years of age, was stricken about three weeks ago with acute 
indigestion which left him in such a weakened condition as to invite the recurrence of an 
old liver complaint, from which he had been a sufferer for many years.  As soon as the 
second trouble took hold of him it was seen by those who watched by his bedside that he 
was a doomed man, nevertheless a fight for his life was immediately instituted which 
combined the skill of physicians from Camilla, Sale City, and Albany.  His constitution, 
however, was not sufficient to withstand the disease and he gradually grew weaker until 
Friday evening about 6 o'clock he lapsed into a state of coma and died at ten 'clock.  Mr. 
Palmer was born and raised in the eastern part of this county and lived there until his 
death.  He was a well-to-do farmer who had prospered as a result of hard work and good 
business judgement, his relatives with others being  invariably characterized by the 
utmost fairness and honesty.  His habits of life were simple and unobtrusive and in 
keeping with the plain man he was. Besides a host of friends and kinspeople, he leaves a 
widow and nine children: Messrs J. L.; T. E.; and George W. Palmer and Mrs. M. J. 
Akridge, Mrs. B. C. Williams and Misses Viola, Ella, Mary, and Vinie Palmer.  Four 
brothers, Messrs. Chars. P.; H. P.; Sam P.; and S. E. Palmer and two sisters, Mrs. J. J. 
Griner, of this county, and Mrs. Doc Griner, of Colquitt, survive him.  The funeral 
services were conducted by Rev. H. N. Burnett, at the grave in Mt. Zion Cemetery last 
Saturday afternoon at four o'clock in the presence of a large number of sorrowing 
relatives and friends, to whom the Enterprise extends deepest sympathy.