MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GA - OBITS  James M. Crews

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SUDDENLY STRICKEN AT SUPPER TABLE, MR. JAMES C. CREWS IS DEAD

(Title corrected: erroneously identified deceased as Mr. T. C. Crews)

Mr. James M. Crews, aged 78 years, died at the
residence of his son, Mr. T. C. Crews, 1616 First
Avenue, at 7 o'clock Saturday evening. He was in his
usual good health and at the supper table when taken
suddenly ill and he died in a few minutes.

Mr. Crews was a member of the Primitive Baptist church,
and had he lived until Tuesday would have been 79 years
old. He enlisted in an Alabama regiment and afterwards
was transferred to the Second Georgia regiment, serving
in the Confederate army for four years. He was in a
number of important engagements, among which was the
battle of Chickamauga in which he was wounded.

He is survived by his wife and six children as follows:
Mrs. J. F. Smith of Warm Springs, Ga., Mrs. L. H.
Anderson, Shiloh, Ga., Misses Mattie and Hattie Crews,
and Thomas and William Crews of this city. He is also
survived by one brother, Mr. Simon Crews, of Lone Star,
Cherokee county, Texas.

His remains will be carried to Mount Hope church, near
Warm Springs, on the 6:20 a.m. train Monday, where the
funeral and interment will take place, the services to
be conducted by Elder L. B. Caldwell.


From the Columbus Enquirer, January 24, 1910, Columbus, Muscogee Co., Georgia

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SERVICES FOR JAMES M. CREWS
The Columbus Enquirer, Columbus, Ga., January 25, 1910


 MR. JAMES CREWS BURIED MONDAY

Confederate Comrades Assisted in Funeral of The Veteran
The funeral of Mr. James M. Crews, whose sudden death
occurred while at the supper table Saturday night, took
place Monday morning at Mount Hope Church, near Warm
springs, attended by relatives and friends of the
family.

The services were conducted by Elder L. B. Caldwell and
the following were the pallbearers: Messrs. D. D
Madden, H. T. Riddle, J. R. Hobbs, J. C. Scott, J. J.
McRae, and W. A. Poyner.

All of the pallbearers, except Mr. Poyner, are
Confederate veterans, and all of them accompanied the
remains to Warm Springs.