Georgia:  Oglethorpe County:  Obituary of Hopson H. Colquitt
14 August 1903

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	 Mr. Hopson H. Colquitt Obituary

The Oglethorpe Echo, Friday Evening August 14, 1903
Mr. Hop Colquitt Dead

Another of Oglethorpe's Staunches
Citizens is Suddenly Taken

The community was terribly shocked Wednesday morning by the 
announcement of the death at 9:30 o'clock the night before of Mr. 
Hopson H. Colquitt at his home in Grove Creek District.

His death was quite sudden and entirely unexpected.  He had been 
in his usual health Tuesday and had been attending to affairs about his 
farm, and had eaten supper with accustomed relish.  While pleasantly 
conversing with his family he was suddenly taken with a shortness of 
breath and in twenty minutes, and before medical aid could reach him,  
he had breathed his last.

The county claimed no more staunch citizen than was Mr. Colquitt.  
He was born and reared and had lived the entire sixty-eight years of 
his life in the house and home where he died.  He was a man of the very 
strictest integrity and one who commanded the full confidence as well 
as the highest of esteem of all who knew him.  He was known to and 
liked by almost every citizen of the county.

He leaves a wife and two children-a son,  M. C. Colquitt,  who 
lived with him,  and a daughter,  Mrs. Henderson,  of Gillsvile, Ga.-
who in their deep sorrow over being so suddenly bereft of a true and 
devoted husband and father have the sympathies of a large circle of 
friends.

His remains were laid to rest Wednesday evening at the family 
burying ground at his home, the burial services being conducted by Rev. 
M. S. Weaver.

And thus our county is called upon to sustain the loss of another 
of its best and most highly prized citizens.