Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Joel Hampton Stevens February 17 1941
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Americus Time Recorder dated February 18, 1941
Hamp Stevens Ellaville, Dies

Prominent Farmer, Businessman

Ellaville, GA  Feb 18  J. H. Stevens, prominent Ellaville banker, 
warehouseman, and large Schley county landowner and farmer, died Monday night 
at 11:40 o'clock.  His death followed an illness of several months.  He was 75 
years old.

Mr. Stevens had served as president of the Bank of Ellaville ever since the 
organization of the bank on September 16, 1910, a period of more than 30 years.

A successful businessman and farmer, Mr. Stevens was president of the Stevens 
Warehouse company, which also sold farming equipment and bought and sold farm 
produce, and was operator of a large peach orchard in Schley County and did 
extensive farming.   Associated in business with Mr. Stevens was his son T. H. 
Stevens.

Mr. Stevens was one of this sections leading citizens.  He was a former mayor 
of Ellaville.  Mr. Stevens was a trustee and steward in the Hopewell Methodist 
church in Schley County.  He moved into Ellaville more than 30 years ago.  Mr. 
Stevens was a trustee of the Schley high school.

A native of Marion county, Mr. Stevens was the son of the late Putnam Stevens 
for whom the Putnam community between Ellaville and Buena Vista was named, and 
Mrs. Josephine Hurt Stevens.  It was in the Putnam community that Mr. Stevens 
was reared.

Mr. Stevens married Miss Helen Sewell of Americus in 1893, two years after he 
had moved from Marion to Schley county.

Surviving Mr. Stevens are his wife: son T. H. Stevens: Four daughters, Mrs. 
Albert Richardson, Mrs. Bud Hayes, Mrs. Harold Ware, and Mrs. Clint Johnson, 
all of Ellaville: and three grandchildren, Helen, T. H. Jr., and Anne Stevens, 
all of Ellaville.  One son Orbie H. Stevens died in 1931.

Funeral Wednesday

The funeral services will be held at the Stevens home Wednesday afternoon at 3 
o'clock.  Rev. Roy J. Bond, pastor of the Ellaville Methodist church, and Rev. 
Hugh Dozier, pastor of the Ellaville Baptist church will officiate.  Interment 
will be in the Ellaville Cemetery.

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