Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Means, Sr., James Morris January 2, 1933
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Died Monday Night in Hospital at Opelika, Ala.
     Third Victim of Automobile Head-On Collision Which Occurred Between 
Auburn and Opelika, Ala., December 27.
     Mr. J. M. Means, Sr., 65 years of age, died Monday evening at 5:45 
o'clock in a hospital at Opelika, Ala., from injuries sustined when his car 
and the car of Mr. Lewis Armistead, of Decatur, Ga., met head-on on the 
Opelika and Auburn, Ala., highway.  Mrs. J. M. Means and Mr. Armistead were 
also victims of the accident while Mrs. Lucy Howell and two children received 
minor injuries.
     Mr. Means suffered a broken arm, as well as seven broken ribs and an 
injury to his lung.
     Mr. Means was Zebulon's and Pike County's leading citizen.  He was born 
and reared near Meansville--this town being named for his father--and since 
early young manhood had been a leading spirit in the development of Pike 
county.  He was known as a man with a splendid understanding of economic 
conditions and was relied upon by the people of the county for advise on 
practically every subject.
     At the time of his death he was president of the Zebulon Ginning & 
Fertilizer Co., a director in the Bank of Zebulon, held large farming 
interests throughout the county and was more or less interested in other 
enterprises of the county.
     Besides being one of the county's best known civic leaders he was a 
gentleman of sterling character and a devout Christian, being a member of the 
Zebulon Methodist church, President of the Men's Bible Class and of him it can 
truly be said "he lived the doctrine he preached."
     Before establishing the Zebulon Ginning & Fertilizer Co., Mr. Means was 
one of Pike county's leading merchants, operating one of the largest 
mercantile establishments in the county for years.  Retiring from the 
mercantile business sometime in the early 1920's he took over the ginnery 
management and establishe dthe Fertilizer factory.
     Funeral services for Mr. Means were held Wednesday afternoon at two 
o'clock from the Zebulon Methodist church.  Rev. G. C. Burtz, the pastor, in 
charge.  Interment occurred in the churchyard with R. F. Strickland Co. in 
charge.
     Mr. Means is survived by three sons, J. M. Means, Jr., and Howard Means, 
of Zebulon, and H. S. Means, of Atlanta; two daughters, Mrs. Lucy Howell, of 
Zebulon and Mrs. Howard Marsden, of Flushing Long Island, N. Y.

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