Richmond County GaArchives Obituaries.....Fooshe, James Dudley January 11, 1940
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Augusta Hearld, Thursday Afternoon, January 11, 1940
MR. J. D. FOOSHE IS DEAD
Noted Confederate Veteran Expires at Age of 95
FUNERAL FRIDAY
from: The Augusta Herald, Thursday Afternoon, January 11, 1940, p. 1

   Mr. James Dudley Fooshe, who gave four years of youth to the Southern 
Confederacy and 75 years of useful life after that to remaking the South, died 
at his home in Gracewood Thursday.  He was 95 years of age.
   The grand old man whose life-span covered such stirring events in the 
history of the nation, succumbed at 8:15 o'clock of troubles that arose when 
contracted a cold that later developed into pneumonia.  His amazing energy, 
conserved by a life that was a model of conduct and habits threw off the 
pneumonia, but his heart finally collapsed after such long years of work.  With 
him as he died were three of his daughters and most of his sons.  One daughter, 
Mrs. W. C. Dunn, Savannah, was unable to come to her father's beside because of 
her own illness.

WAS ONE OF LAST TWO SURVIVING VETERANS
   Mr. Fooshe was one of the two surviving Confederate veterans in Richmond 
County.  The other is Mr. Z. J. Smith.  Funeral services will be conducted at 
the residence in Gracewood Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, the Rev. L. B. 
Jones, the Rev. E. O. Eubanks officiating and burial following in Magnolia 
Cemetery here.  At the grave side, the United States Marine Corps reserves will 
furnish a firing squad and bugler.
   Active pallbearers will be: Roy J. Murrah, W. L. Thompson, George Seago, 
Bright McConnell, J. C. McAuliffe.  Honorary pallbearers: Dr. W. D. Jennings, 
W. A. Watkins, J. T. Talbert, O. C. Coles, Charley Coleman, Lee Etheredge, L. 
L. Rushton, Robert Coffin, R. H. Sams, D. J. O'Conner, Samuel L. Moss, W.  W. 
Whitehead and Dr. R. L. Henry.
   Soldier, author, farmer and philosopher and churchman, Mr. Fooshe had lived 
nearly 40 years in Richmond Co., where his service in peace outstripped even 
the distinguished service he gave to the Confederacy in time of war.

SERVED THROUGHOUT WAR BETWEEN STATES
   He served except for a period when he was home from a wound, throughout the 
War Between the States. At one time he was a prisoner, but escaped.  He was 
wounded in the early days around the Battle of Richmond and was home for some 
time, later returning as an orderly and as a hospital man with Dr. Baruch, the 
South Carolina physician whose son, Bernard, rendered distinguished service to 
the United Stated in the World War.
   Here in Richmond, he took a sand hills plantation near Gracewood and turned 
it into once of the garden spots of the county.  He was an authority and expert 
on bees, planted an [peach] orchard when he was 70 and lived long enough to 
replant it twice more and gather fruit from each successive planting.
   He was a prolific writer of articles that dealt with reminiscences and his 
own philosophy of religion, social conduct and political economy.  At 90, he 
tired of his fine, legible hand writing and decided he would learn (Continued 
on p. 2)

MR. J. D. FOOSHE TAKEN BY DEATH (continued from p. One)
to use a typewriter.  To those who smiled at the idea he retorted: "When a man 
quits doing something new, he is already dead."

REPLANTED ORCHARD AT AGE 93
   The same philosopher led him to replant his orchard at 85 and again at 93.  
He had just begun to gather fruit from the last orchard and took delight in 
telling of it to mock the scoffers.
   He was born in the Methodist Church, saw it divided into North and South, 
and heartily approved the merger that made it one church again. Said he on one 
occasion when the argument was waxing over reuniting: "I fought for the 
Confederacy and lived to see it become greater under the flag of the United 
States.  I want to see our churches exercise the same forbearance that we who 
once fought with bullets instead of doctrines, have exercised."

WAS COMMANDER OF LOCAL CAMP
   Mr. Fooshe joined Camp 435, United Confederate Veterans, when he came to 
Richmond County.  He was its commander for many years, succeeding R. E. 
Broadwater, deceased.  Mr. Smith is sole surviving member who served in the 
Confederate Army.  For years Mr. Fooshe's white beard, [   ?   ], and twinkling 
blue eyes were annual figures in every Confederate celebration.  Not until late 
in life did he require eye glasses to read. Not until nearing 90 did he quit 
walking the long line of the Memorial Day parade to Magnolia Cemetery and ride 
in an automobile.
   At 94, he attended the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Until 
that year, too, he attended the North Georgia Methodist conference at Atlanta.  
He went for many years to the state reunions of Georgia and South Carolina and 
to the annual reunions of the Southern veterans.  Only last year did he decide 
to quit attending these functions.  "When a fellow gets as old as I am," he 
said, "he appreciates more than anything else the solitude of home and the 
quiet friendship of those he sees often."

WAS NATIVE OF GREENWOOD COUNTY
   Mr. Fooshe was born March 29, 1844, in what is now Greenwood Co., SC.  He 
grew up in the famed Coronaca community, where Methodism was making rapid 
strides.  His recollections of the old church there and the school at Cokesbury 
ares an interesting contribution to the life in a virile period of pre war 
Methodism.  The railroad killed these communities and made Greenwood.  The 
county suffered from the post war troubles and although his parents remained 
there until their death, Mr. Fooshe came to Georgia to start life anew while 
approaching 60.  His parents were J. W. Fooshe and Martha Richardson Fooshe, of 
distinguished up-country South Carolinians.
   Here, Mr. Fooshe became active in all phases of county life.  He was in the 
limelight of the fight for prohibition, to improve schools, to improve 
agriculture and to enrich the standards of Southern life.  He believed in good 
roads, good school, and education for all who would take it, and the homely 
virtues of thrift which the hard days after the war had impressed upon him.  
Critical was he of some of the newfangled ways of approaching social and 
economic problems, but never critical of material progress.  The slaughter back 
in 1934 of million of pigs to relieve overproduction was labeled by him "a 
crime in the sight of God."

REBELLED AT PLOWING UP OF COTTON
   Similar outburst of wrath greeted the plowing up of cotton, while many of 
the measures of relief were to him a "sure way to make a nation of loafers 
instead of workers."  His wife died many years ago.  His daughter, Mrs. Ruby 
King, lived with him at Gracewood and a grandson, Jimmie, whom the old soldier 
idolized.
   Surviving are five sons, J. Frank Fooshe, Norfolk, Va.; George W. Fooshe, 
Hollywood, FL; Fuller W. Fooshe, Los Angeles, and M. Y. Fooshe, Augusta; four 
daughters, Mrs. Allen B. King, Lakeland, FL; Mrs. Stanford Stith, Memphis, 
Tenn.; Mrs. W. C. Dunn, Savannah, and Mrs. Ruby King.  There are 12 
grandchildren, including Mrs. W. F. Geer and Mrs. Clifton black, of Augusta, 
and 9 [great] grandchildren.

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