MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GA - OBITS William Ward Ensimger Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: John Mallory Land retrofit@flash.net Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm William W. ENSMINGER William Ward ENSMINGER, 67, of Rt. 1, Box 475, Fortson, died Saturday at St. Francis Hospital. Graveside funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Riverdale Cemetery. Mr. ENSMINGER was born April 17, 1903, in Winter Park, Fla., son of the late Fred & Annie (BENNETT) ENSMINGER. He was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and was a retired draftsman for Lummus Cotton Gin Co. and Lummus Industries, where he worked for 24 years. He had lived in Columbus for the past 33 years. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Bernice (APPLEBEE) ENSMINGER of Fortson; a step-son, Walter WRIGHT of Columbus; two daughters, Mrs. Frieda CARTER and Mrs. Beverly Ann MOBLEY of Columbus; two brothers, Ross E. ENSMINGER of Carlinville, Ill., and John H. ENSMINGER of Birmingham, Ala.; eight grandchildren and a great- grandchild." NOTES: The preceding obituary probably appeared in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer newspaper. It was enclosed with a letter to my family from my grandmother, Mattie Lee (MALLORY) LAND, postmarked 14 JAN 1971. In the letter, she remarked, "I am sending you all the clipping of Mr. ENSMINGER's death. You all left Friday - he had a sick spell and they put him in the hospital Sat. A.M., and he died about 7 o'clock Sat. P.M. He was buried Monday [in a] graveside funeral, and it rained the whole time of the funeral real hard." He was called Bill ENSMINGER, and my dad, Ernest LAND, recalls that he was a mechanical engineer for the Lummus Cotton Gin Co. He was very tall and rather gangly, but clearly a very intelligent person. His wife had been previously married to a WRIGHT, and as Dad remembers it, both Walter and Ann were step-children. Ann's husband was Raymond MOBLEY of the MOBLEY family who lived off the Whitesville Road south of the Double Churches Road. Raymond had a nephew named Mike MOBLEY. Bill's mother-in-law, Mrs. APPLEBEE, lived with them when Dad knew them. They lived very far out the Whitesville Road, perhaps even in Harris County, and lived way, way back in the woods. When we were small, Dad used to tell my brother and me that when he was growing up there were in the community ENSMINGERS, ENSLINGERS, and ENFINGERS, which we found highly amusing.