Spalding-Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Samuel W. Mangham  January 5 1888
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net December 12, 2002, 3:56 pm

The Griffin Daily News. Griffin Georgia, Saturday Morning, January 7, 1888

Business Suspended!
To Pay Tribute To A Distinguished Deceased Citizen.
The Remains of Col. S.W. Mangham Laid to Rest With Most Eloquent Tributes.

It is easy for a minister or a newspaper writer to pay tribute to a deserving 
citizen after his death. It seems to be their peculiar function, and often it is

left with them alone to bestow the respect that is due.

But when all the business houses of the city in which he lived close up for 
three or four hours in the business part of the day, while his remains are laid 
to rest, it means that what the minister and the paper say is felt by the whole 
community, and is a tribute which is seldom bestowed.

Such is the tribute, unknown almost in the history of the city, which was paid 
yesterday to the late S.W. Mangham, and it was the most noteworthy feature in 
connection with his honored funeral.

The Odd Fellows, the Masons, the survivors of the old Griffin Light Guards and 
the smart new Greys, with their brilliant uniforms, to all of which 
organizations he belonged, turned out in the procession. He also belonged to the

Knight of Honor, the Legion of Honor and the Methodist Church, and the latter 
numerous organization, as well as the citizens in general, filled the church to 
overflowing. There were people from different parts of the county also, and it 
would be wrong to specify any body as paying respect to the distinguished 
citizen now no more, any more than the rest of the community.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. T.R. Kendall, Colonel Mangham's 
former pastor, assisted by Revs. Bradley, Daniel and McKay as well as the Masons

and Odd Fellows, and although three o'clock was the hour named it was dark 
before they were concluded at the grave. The church was beautifully decorated 
with lilies and different designs emblematic of the positions the deceased had 
held, with a design of the "gates ajar."

The old Light Guards have prepared resolutions and the Odd Fellows appointed a 
committee, which will be printed in a subsequent issue.

(Transcribed 12/11/01 Lynn Cunningham)

Note:
At Oak Hill Cemetery, Spalding County, Georgia:
Mangham, Samuel W., b. 21 Sept 1830, d. 5 Jan 1888
Mangham, Pope Reeves, Consort of S.W. Mangham, d. 1 Aug 1857
Mangham, Hattie L., Wife of Samuel W. Mangham, d. 28 Sept 1893
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~~~~~~~~~~~~following notes added by Dana Mangham danamangham@hotmail.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A photograph of Colonel Samuel Watson Mangham's grave is on my website at 

http://members.tripod.com/dmangham/id35_col__samuel_watson_mangham.htm

   Just below that picture is a picture of his brother Tom's grave, at Rose 
Hill Cemetery in Macon, Ga. Sam commanded Company B, "The Griffin Light 
Guard, of the 5th Georgia Volunteers in the Civil War, and was elected 
regimental commander in early 1862. He resigned after his infant son died; 
one of his last official acts was to swear in a new batch of recruits from 
Upson County, which included his cousin's son (my g-g-grandfather), John 
Willis Mangham. Later, Sam re-entered service as lieutenant colonel, 6th 
Georgia (State Guard), and thereafter in the 22nd Heavy Artillery at 
Savannah. In early 1865, he was discharged from the Army to accept a 
captain's commission in the reserves (probably the Georgia militia).
   His brother, Thomas Woodward Mangham, served in the 2nd Georgia 
Battalion, and later accepted a commission in the 30th Georgia Volunteers. 
At Chickamauga, a Minie ball almost ruined his hip joint--driving a 
pocketknife deep into the wound--and Tom eventually retired to the Invalid 
Corps.
   John Willis Mangham served in the Upson Guards for the remainder of the 
war. One company of that name remained in the 5th Georgia; John was one of 
many from that unit who formed a separate company, using the same name, that 
transferred into the newly-established 2nd Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters 
in the summer of 1862.
   John's grave, and several other Pike County Manghams' graves, may be seen 
at the same Web location given above.