Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Woodruff, George Avery January 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 October 24, 2004, 1:24 pm THE COVINGTON NEWS, JANUARY 19, 1919 PORTERDALE NEWS Porterdale, Ga., Jan. 13th, 1919 The many friends here of Mr. George Avery Woodruff were much grieved to learn of his death at Paris Island, S. C. on Tuesday, after a few days illness with pneumonia following the influenza. Mr. Woodruff was 28 years old and leaves a wife, who was formerly Miss Ada King, of Porterdale, and two sisters, Mrs. Douglas Rumble, of Oxford, and Mrs. J. C. G. Brooks, of Columbus, and four brothers, John of Washington, D. C.; Roy of Bullard, W. A., who is superintendent of the Bibb Mill, Porterdale, and Capt. B. H., who has been on duty in France for several months, but is now in a hospital in New York, suffering with a nervous breakdown, to mourn his death. His body was laid to rest in Salem Camp Ground cemetery. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Lucien Roper. The pallbearers were Sgt. Jno. B. Day, W. J. Piper, Carl Day, Oscar Collum, George Day and Mr. Moore. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/obits/w/ob5684woodruff.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb