Spalding-Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....R Y Beckham September 5 1917 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: dawn hill dawnlfdp@yahoo.com April 9, 2003, 3:43 pm Griffin Daily News and Sun, September 6, 1917 Editor R. Y. Beckham Dies at Dublin Wednesday P. M. Dublin, September 6. - R. Y. Beckham, editor of the Laurens County Citizen, died suddenly here Wednesday afternoon from an acute attack of heart trouble. He had been in ill health for about ten days, but was apparently much improved until just before his death. Mr. Beckham had been connected with newspaper and printing business in Dublin for the greater part of the last seventeen years. He was 37 years of age and leaves a wife and two children; his mother, Mrs. R. Y. Beckham, of Zebulon; a brother and two sisters. He had been editor and manager of the Citizen for nearly two years and previous to that had been advertising manager of the Dublin Courier Herald, which he helped establish. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb