Newton-Warren County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bird, John R. January 16, 1919 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Thompson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002524 April 6, 2005, 8:48 am The Covington News, January 23, 1919 MR. J. R. BIRD PASSES AT HOME NEAR OXFORD Was The Last Surviving Member But One of The "Young Guards" of Civil War Fame Oxford, Ga., Jan. 21. - The last member but one of the "Young Guards" of Newton County, National Guardsmen of 1861, John R. Bird, 83 years of age, died at his home two miles from Oxford Thursday morning and was buried Friday afternoon at Dover. Mr. Bird went through the Civil War as a member of Company H, 3d Georgia Regiment. He was at Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, the Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Bloody Angles, Petersburg, Appomattox, coming out at the end of the war without ever having received a wound, although he was in the thickest of the fighting at all the places mentioned. Mr. Bird is survived by the following sons and daughters: W. Summerfield Bird, Davis, Okla., mechanic in the oil fields; J. Tom Bird, postmaster, Oxford, Ga.; Homer Bird, Camak, Ga., with the Georgia Railroad; Robert Bird, farmer, Newton County; Mrs. Evie Teagle and Blanch Bell, of Buckhead; Mrs. Maud Parks, of Louisville, two brothers and one sister also survive, W. M. Bird, of Oxford, and Scott Bird, of Logansville, and Mrs. W. A. Ellington, of Oxford. Additional Comments: Two of Mr. Bird's surviving daughters lived in Buckhead. I don't know which Buckhead this obit is speaking of, since there are three in Georgia. Buckhead---Chatham Buckhead---Fulton Buckhead---Morgan File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/obits/b/bird6872ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb