Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Harper, Marion S. April 5, 1940
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, April 12, 1940  No. 41
MR. HARPER, SCHLEY NATIVE IS DEAD AT 78
Marion S. Harper, 78, a native Schley Countian who achieved outstanding 
success in the cotton oil industry, died last Friday at Daytona Beach, Fla., 
where he had lived for the past three years.  Born in Ebenezer community, he 
spent his boyhood in Schley county before moving to Americus.  He attended a 
business college in New York, returned to Americus and became a book-keeper 
for the Sheffield Hardware Company.  Later he joined the Kentucky Refining 
Company, becoming general manager.  With R.L. McMath he organized the Americus 
Oil Company, then his own oil organization, of which he was president for more 
than a quarter of a century.  He sold out his interest in the Marion Harper 
Oil Company in 1936 because of ill health.  He was then a veteran of more 
years' experience in the cotton oil business than any other man in America.  
During his career he was president of the Cotton Seed Crushers' Association of 
Georgia.  He was a member of the Piedmont Driving Club and the Capital  City 
Club.  Funeral services were held at Spring Hill chapel in Atlanta Monday 
afternoon, with the Rev Dr. Lester Rumble officiating.  Burial was in West 
View cemetery.  Prominent Georgians from all walks of life formed a large 
honorary escort.  Active pallbearers were Hollis Lanier, Albany; Charles 
Lanier and Charles Crisp, Americus; Edwin Peeples, James Dunlap, Edgar Dunlap 
and Frank Harrold, Jr., all of Americus.  Survivors include his widow, the 
former Miss Anne Lyle, of Americus; a nephew, Ross Harper of Philadelphia, and 
several nieces.


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