Schley-Macon County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dykes, Mrs. Fanny English February 28, 1940
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, March 1, 1940  No. 35
FUNERAL FOR MRS. DYKES AT 10 A.M.
Mrs. Fanny Dykes, 86, beloved Ellaville woman, died Wednesday night at 8:20 
o'clock after a lingering illness.  Stricken with paralysis four years ago, 
she had been ill, often critically, since that time.

Funeral services will conducted from the residence this morning (Friday) 10 
o'clock.  Elder S.H. McCorkle will officiate and will be assisted by the Rev. 
Hugh Dozier and the Rev. W.S. Johnson.  Burial will be in Ellaville cemetery.

Born in Macon county, January 2, 1854, she was the daughter of Josephine Edge 
English and William Simpson English.  In 1874, she was married to William 
Warren Dykes of Schley county, a Confederate veteran of the War Between the 
States, who died in 1928.

Mrs. Dykes was known and admired for her consecration to Christian principles 
of living, which inspired her full and unusually long life of service and gave 
her patience for the suffering which filled her last years.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. J.H. Holloway and Miss Fanny Dykes, both of 
Ellaville; two sons, W.W. Dykes, Americus. and C.L. Dykes, Andersonville; one 
sister, Mrs. Anna Mackey, Junction City, Ga.; seven grandchildren, Mrs. 
Georgia B. Perry, Ellaville; J.H. Holloway, Jr., Charlotte, N.C.; W.W. Dykes, 
Jr., New Orleans, La.; George Warren Dykes, Andersonville; Hawkins Dykes, 
Wingate Dykes and Maurice Dykes, all of Americus; six great grandchildren, 
Anne Dykes and William Dykes, III, both of New Orleans; Sara Dykes, Americus; 
Marianne Holloway, Atlanta; Mary Frances Perry and James William Perry, both 
of Ellaville.

Pallbearers will be Hawkins Dykes, Wingate Dykes, George Warren Dykes, Horace 
Lumpkin. M.C. Hill and Heyward Johnson.



Additional Comments:

Her father was William Wallace English, not William
Simpson English as the obituary states.    

1940 was a leap year thus February had 29 days.

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