Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hearn, Joe "I Jolly" February 8, 1942
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, February 13, 1942  No. 30
"I JOLLY" HEARN PASSES SUNDAY
Mr. Joe Hearn, lifelong farmer of Concord community who became known over a 
wide section for his constsnt use of "I Jolly" as a by-word, died Sunday 
morning at 8 o'clock at a Butler hospital after an of a month and a long 
period of poor health.  He would have reached his 73rd birthday on March 26.  
A native of Schley county, Mr. Hearn spent his entire life in his home 
community, where his home was a gathering place for neighborhood affairs.  His 
greeting to everyone was "I Jolly" and he rarely uttered a sentence without 
the expression.  His nickname of "I Jolly" was so generously used that many 
acquaintances did not know his real name.  Funeral services were conducted at 
Phillipi church Monday morning at 11 o'clock, with Elder Hassell McCorkle 
(officiating) and with the Rev. Roy J. Bond and the Rev. Charles D. Carter 
assisting.  Burial was in the church cemetery.  Surviving besides his widow 
are two sisters, Mrs. Bell Swearingen, Reynolds, and Mrs. Sophie Lumpkin, 
Shingler.  Pallbearers were T.J. Cook, S.M. Etheredge, Emmett Dillard, James 
H. Hart, S.A. Manning and C.H. Bliss.  Honorary pallbearers were D.R. Murray, 
Joe cheek, B.C. Cheek, J.R. Bridges, G.E. Phillips, H. Willis Hogg, John R. 
Wall, J.T. Murray, Heyward Johnson and C.L. Battle.

CONCORD NEWS
This community was saddened by the death of one of its best-loved citizens, 
Mr. J.M. Hearn.  Friends and relatives join in extending to Mrs. Hearn the 
sincerest sympathy in her bereavement.  Many of the peolple attending the 
funeral services at Phillipi were from a distance.  Among this number were:  
Mrs. Grace Nash of Sylvester; Mr. H.H. Lumpkin, Leary; Mrs. Sumner and son, 
Sumner; Mr. and Mrs. Lord Cartwright and Homer Cartwright, Tifton; Mr. and 
Mrs. Bland Cartwright, Columbus; Mr. and Mrs. Horace Halley, Mr. Charlie 
Herring, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. George Lowe, Buena Vista; Mrs. Sophie Lumpkin, 
Shingler; Mrs. Belle Swearingen, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Swearingen, Mr. and Mrs. Ed 
Swearingen, Reynolds; Mr. and Mrs. Holt, Hawkinsville; Mr. and Mrs. McCorvy, 
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Halley, Butler; Mr. and Mrs. Hamp Wade, Cochran; Mrs. Dan 
Edge, Misses Virginia Murray and Ruth Cook, Macon; Mr. and Mrs. James Hart, 
Mr. and Mrs. S.M. Manning, Ellaville, and many others.



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