Spalding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ransome, John C. February 17, 1902
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Macon Weekly Telegraph, February 19, 1902

Maj. John C. Ransom

Griffin, Ga., Feb. 18. - Last night at 8:15 o'clock Maj. John C. Ransome, one 
of the oldest and best known citizens of Griffin, breathed his last from 
congestion of the stomach. He has been in ill health for some time and has 
only been kept alive by the most careful nursing, as he was in his 65th year. 

Maj. Ransom was a Confederate soldier and in 1864 was purchasing agent of the 
Confederate government and was stationed at Matmoras, Texas, which position he 
held until the end of the war, being the only accredited agent of that 
government. After the war he returned to Griffin and for two years he was in 
business with Mr. Thomas Nall of this city under the firm name of Ransome and 
Nall, and upon the dissolution of that firm went to Atlanta where he was with 
the firm of Langston & Crane for a period of about twenty years, after which 
he returned to Griffin, and during his residence here he has been repeatedly 
honored by judicial positions until his failing health incapacitated him from 
active work. 

Maj. Ransome was one of those characters that are seldom met with now for the 
reason that he was of the old South, pre-eminently a son, and his high 
classical education made him a welcome visitor and guest around boards where 
learning and wit were passports. He was brilliant - all that knew him will 
attest that, and his keen perceptions of the situations of the day have always 
been appreciated. 

He was a brother-in-law of ex-Governor James S. Boynton, and leaves only two 
children - Mrs. Tomas J. Jones of this city and Miss Kate Ransome of Atlanta. 
The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at 10:30 from the house.

Additional Comments:

John C. Ransom/Ransome was married to Lucy M. Loyall. Lucy was a sister of 
Mary Frances Loyall who was the first wife of James Stoddard Boynton, a 
Governor of Georgia.


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