Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Capt. S. Henry Starr March 28 1904
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The Georgia Enterprise, April 1, 1904

DEATH OF CAPTAIN STARR
One of the County's Most Influential Citizens Dead of Heart Disease
  Capt. S. Henry Starr died very suddenly at his home in Starrsville, of 
heart disease, Monday evening at 8 o'clock, March 28th.
  The news of his death spread over the city rapidly and many were
touched with sadness by the announcement.
  Capt. Starr had been in bad health for more than a year and for
several months past, his death was momentarily expected.
  He was one of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of the county.
He was a member of the Primative Baptist church, which institution he
regularly attended until his health failed. He possessed a noble and true
character and was loved, trusted and admired by all classes.
  Capt. Starr was born in Newton county, Aug. 26th, 1838 and received
a collegiate education, graduating from Emory College in the class of  1859.
Among his classmates were Dr.?. ?. Hopkins, Bishop A. G. Haygood and
Dr. ?. W. Heidt. In 1861 he enlisted in Co. H. Capt. A. A. Lee, Third
Georgia regiment, Col. A. R. Wright. He was in the army throughout the
war and saw much arduous service. After the surrender, he returned home
and began farming. Later he went to Texas where he remained for five
years. In 1879 he engaged in the general merchandise business which
has been very prosperous.
  Mr. Starr is survived by a wife, who before marriage was Miss Nannie
Childs, and two children, Mrs. Alice Corley and Mrs. Rena Maude 
Belcher.
  A memorial service was held in the church at Starrsville, Tuesday morning
at 10:30. Remarks were made by his pastor, Rev. J. F. Moss, by his life-long
friend and class mate,  Dr. Heidt, by Rev. R. L. Cook, by E. Heard and by
Col. Middlebrook, all were beautiful fitting and appropriate.

This was in "The Georgia Enterprise", May 13, 1904
In Memory of Capt. Henry Starr
  Again Jefferson-Lamar Camp, United Confederate Veterans, is called to 
lament the death of one of it's members, and to offer a well deserved 
tribute to his memory, for Captain Henry Starr was, in every fact worthy 
of our admiration and affection, and his death servesto accentuate both. 
Would that it had pleased God to prolong his useful life, and continue
his genial presence for many years to come.As to all Confederate memories, 
his pure and manly heart beat in constant union with ours.To all of them 
he was profoundly loyal, never abating his abiding sense of comradeship
with the men in gray, and never, for one moment, recreant, in thought or 
deed, to the cause which, they represented, and for which, they represented 
and for which they were ready and resolute to brave and perils of unequal 
war, a cause as lofty, and as just as that which animated and impelled 
the men of 1776, our forefathers, in their defense of liberty.
  Born and reared in Newton county, of honored Christian parentage, 
inheriting their virtues, and honoring them by his exemplary life, he heard, 
and willingly obeyed the call of his native State to take up arms in her 
defense. At the age of 28, in the full flush and strength of early
manhood, with its high aspirations and pulsing hopes, Henry Starr went out 
with the Young Guard, the first company from this county, to illustrate 
Georgia on the soil of grand old Virginia in that mighty struggle, which 
devastated her territory, and reddened her fields with the blood of the 
brave. His place in the company was that of acting junior second lieutenant.
Upon the subsequent reorganization of his regiment, the 3rd Georgia, he was 
chosen second lieutenant, and as such participated in the seven day 
fighting around Richmond in June 1862, in that series of battles beginning 
with Mechanicsville and ending at Malvern hill, which hurled the Federal 
army away from its investment of that city to shelter and refuge under the 
protecting guns of Yankee gunboats in the James River, 20 miles away from 
the confederate Capitol. Throughout the heat and slaughter of these rapidly 
succeeding fights he was noted for his cool courage, his freedom from 
excitement, his entire self possession, his unwavering steadfastness, 
the very highest qualities of a soldier.
  Not long afterwards, he was promoted to a captaincy, and for his 
admirable fitness, tested and determined by a special examination, he was 
assigned to duty in the ordinance department of Wright's brigade until 
the close of the war between the States, having throughout, the
confidence and applause of his ranking officers.
  Returning to civil life in the county of his birth, he has gone in 
and out among the people, bearing a spotless character, living on 
the plane of exalted citizenship, a disciple of Christ, a devoted husband 
and father, and loving his neighbor as himself.
  Of such men as Henry Starr, States are enriched and made strong. 
Lasting honor to his memory,and heartfelt condolence to his family in 
their bereavment.
J. M. Pace
J. M. Levy     (Committee)
J. C. Flemister




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