Georgia:  Oglethorpe County:  Obituary of John W. Colquitt
8 November 1934

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Oglethorpe Echo Thursday, November 8, 1934
Good Citizen Departs

Mr. John W. Colquitt, aged seventy four years, breathed his last 
         
At his home near Clouds Creek church Friday night last and his remains
Were interred in the church cemetery at Sandy Cross Saturday  afternoon,
       
Rev. L. B. Jones, of Athens, conducting the funeral services.  Mr. Colquitt 
was a native of Alabama but came to this county fifty five years ago and has 
since benn one of our most study citizens.  
He leaves a widow, three daughters and four sons to mourn for a good husband 
and father.  Mr. Colquitt ever evinced keen interest in the affairs of the 
county and was quite active in church work, he 
being a member of Clouds Creek Baptist church.  By his death his immediate 
Community loses a valuable resident and the county a good citizen. 

( Compilers note ) John W. Colquitt had two daughters and four sons, but had 
raised his niece; his wife’s sister’s had died when her daughter , Gussie 
Esco was very young. My father and his brothers and sisters considered Gussie 
their sister and was very much loved by them.