Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Battle, Cullen Lazurus February 24, 1908
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The Schley County News  Friday, February 29, 1908  
JUDGE BATTLE DEAD After an illness of four months, Judge Cullen
L. Battle, Schley county's oldest and most widely known citizen
passed to the great beyond on last Sunday night.


Judge Battle has been a prominent factor in Schley since the
formation of this county more than fifty years ago, having
served the county nobly and with credit to himself many times
in an official capacity, and always in a most demeanable manner
as a private citizen.


He was the father of 9 children, six of whom are now living.


In spite of the ninety four years that had been so graciously
granted him, he was cheerful, active and useful up to the time
he was taken to his bed.  His service to the Baptist church
which had been for more than sixty years, was indeed one of
true devotion and full activity, ever supporting the
institution both with his purse and by acts of loving deeds.


He was extremely fond of the Masonic Order, having been an
active Mason for more than sixty years.


In deeds of charity and in the watchfulness of his loved ones,
the principles of this great order was largely exemplified in
his daily life.


He was a friend with all whom he met.  His companions were
numbered among the young as well as men of his own age.


His greatest force of character was honesty.  So many times we
have heard him rejoice in the assertion that he had lived
nearly a hundred years old and owed no man.


As an evidence of the high esteem in which the people of this
and surrounding counties held him could only be measured by the
great tribute paid him at the funeral services held at the
Baptist church on last Monday afternoon, it being impossible
for more than half the people to gain entrance to the church.


Rev. O.P. Gilbert, of Americus, in the course of his remarks
paid some very high tributes to the useful life that had ended,
all of which was highly appropriate in view of Judge Battle's
long career.


His body was laid to rest in the Ellaville cemetery with
Masonic Honors.



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