Pulaski-Lamar County GaArchives Obituaries.....Means, Matthew Singleton August 24, 1923
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Hawkinsville Dispatch
Col. M. S. Means Died Last Friday
Prominent Lawyer and Farmer Dies at His Home on the Dixie Highway.
     Col. M. S. Means, a member of the local bar and also one of the county's 
most prosperous farmers, died at his home five miles north of town on the 
Dixie Highway last Friday morning after an illness of more than a year from a 
complication of kidney disease.
     Col. Means was one of [the] best known lawyers in this section of the 
state, and has been a member of the local bar for a number of years, he also 
practiced in the courts of adjoining counties, as well as the United States 
courts.  Besides being a practical and industrious farmer he was a great 
trader, and those who dealt with him say that he was very keen in all of his 
business transactions.  The funeral services were conducted from his home 
Friday afternoon by Elder J. M. Woodward.  The interment following in Orange 
Hill cemetery.  He leaves a wife, one son and daughter.
     The pallbearers were members of the local bar:  Messrs. H. F. Lawson, W. 
A. Mason, Lawrence Ryan, Marion Turner, D. R. Pearce.  Many beautiful floral 
offerings were in evidence attesting the high esteem in which he was held by 
his friends, one among which was an offering from the local bar association.
     Among the out of town attendants at the funeral were his brothers, F. M. 
Means of Culloden, Ga., J. F. Means of Barnesville, Ga., and Mr. H. H. 
Smallwood and daughter, of Amsterdam, Ga.  Undertakers Clark & Goette were in 
charge of the funeral.

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