Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Richard Gammon December 1900
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(Cedartown Standard, December 27, 1900) 
Mr. Richard Gammon, died Christmas evening at 7 o,clock of neuralgia of the 
heart at his home in Collard Valley about seven miles from Cedartown. He was 
seventy-five years old, and had been a man of robust health all his life. 
Sunday night he was attacked by a violent spell of neuralgia of the stomach, 
the malady spreading to his heart Tuesday night, which hastened the end. His 
death was a surprise to many of his friends, the public generally not learning 
of his illness, until the announcement of his demise. Mr. Gammon was born in 
East Tennessee, and traveled as a drummer for a Cincinnati house when a young 
man. It was on one of his trips that he met Miss Mary Whatley, a granddaughter 
of Gov. Lumpkin, whom he married about thirty years age. The family resided for 
a time in Rome, and afterwards moved to Cedartown where he engaged in the 
clothing business. A disastrous fire drove him out of business in 1881, and Mr. 
Gammon moved to his present home place in Collard Valley where he has resided 
for nineteen. years. Three children came to gladden the home~Mrs. Addie 
Cornelius, Richard, Jr., and Miss Susie Gammon, all of whom with the devoted 
mother and wife, survive him. Mr. Gammon was a clever man, a good citizen, a 
splendid neighbor and a kind father and Husband. He never joined any church, 
but was a man of integrity and honesty. He believed strongly in the gospel of 
honest living and fair dealing, and was scrupulously exact in all his 
transactions and obligations. Funeral services will be held this morning at 10 
o,clock at the home in Collard Valley, conducted by Rev. C. K. Henderson pastor 
of the Cedartown Baptist church, and the remains will be laid to rest in the 
family burying grounds on the old Whatley place near his home. A number of 
relatives and friends from the city will go out to attend the funeral. 
(Cedartown Standard, December 27, 1900) 


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