Pike County  Georgia Obituaries - Mrs. John (Nancy McGinty) Means 1891
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The Pike County Journal
Zebulon, Ga., Friday, January 30, 1891

Mrs. Nancy Means Dead

Mrs. Nancy Means, wife of John Means, of Meansville died last Sunday
night after an illness of about 10 days of pneumonia. She was nearly 90
years of age at the time of her death.

Mrs. Means was a consistent member of the Ebenezer M.E. church and lived
a true Christian life. Her husband and herself were among the original
members of Fincher's church, this county, moving their church membership
to Ebenezer church directly after the War.

She was a good neighbor and loved by all who knew her and leaves a
husband and several children to mourn her death. One of her sons, Hon.
J.W. Means represented this county in the legislature of 1888-9,
previous to that was a county commissioner for about fifteen years, and
is a man who has proven true to every trust.

Her remains were intered [sp] at Ebenezer cemetery.

A good woman has passed away.

(Transcribed 10/9/02 Lynn Cunningham)

At Ebenezer Church Cemetery (now Lamar County):
John Means, b. 20 June 1812, d. 28 Feb 1896
Nancy Means, b. 15 Feb 1815, d. 25 Jan 1891

Nancy was a McGinty and she and John Means were married in Pike County
in 1833.

From the Lizzie Mitchell Pike History book written in 1932:
"Another pioneer was John Means who came to this section from South
Carolina, and built the pretty old home now occupied by J.W. Holloway, a
mile east of the depot. He was an energetic man of various enterprises.
He had a farm, a woodworks and a blacksmith shop, built old-fashioned
cotton presses over Pike and adjoining counties, engaged in saw-milling
and had a store in which was the post office. After John Means began his
enterprises other families settled around him, making a hamlet which
took the name of Meansville - later "Old Meansville." Judge J.W. Means
was his son and the Willis, Aldridge, Collier, Howard, and Mann families
of Pike and Lamar are lineal descendants."

Lynn