Schley-Marion-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....J. Henry Lumpkin September 1905
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The Atlanta Constitution  September 13, 1905

CAREER OF HENRY LUMPKIN
Raised On a Farm, He Achieved a Notable Success

Americus, Ga., September 12--The funeral services of Hon. J. Henry Lumpkin 
were held yesterday.

He was born near Ellaville, Schley county, Georgia, October 3, 1860.  His 
father John T. Lumpkin, of that county; his grandfather Henry Hopson Lumpkin, 
one of seven brothers, all of whom were natives of Oglethorpe county, Georgia.

He was reared on the farm, and the only education he ever had was such as 
could be had in common schools in the country. He worked on the farm until 
about twenty-two years of age, teaching a small school in the county during 
the winter and spring months for two or three years prior to October, 1882.  
He left the farm for Buena Vista, Ga., in the fall of 1882, where he read law 
under the late Judge Edgar M. Butt.  He was admitted to the bar in 1883, and 
practiced law at Buena Vista, in partnership with his former perceptor, until 
January, 1887, at which time he moved to Americus, Ga., where he had since 
resided.

He has never held public office until elected to the legislature in October, 
1904, but had been actively engaged in the practice of law since coming to 
Americus.

On January 11, 1889, he married Miss Georgia Glover, a daughter of G.W. 
Glover, Americus, Ga.  His wife died on May 30, 1905.  He leaves three 
children, two boys and a girl.

 

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