Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Walter Hugh Drane April 4 1905
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The Talbotton New Era, April 6, 1905

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, April 6, 1905
Page 7

Death of Dr. W.H. Drane

Last Tuesday evening Dr. W.H. Drane died at his home in Batesville 
(Mississippi), after an illness that had lasted a long time.  For more than a 
year his health had been so feeble that he hardly ever came out on the street. 
Tuesday afternoon he went to his room to take a nap, as usual.  He stayed 
inside a long time and members of the family, who looked in to see how he was 
getting on, saw him apparently asleep.  About five o’clock someone went inside 
the room and touched him, when it was discovered that he had peacefully died.

Walter Hugh Drane was born January 8, 1832 in Columbia County, Georgia.  He was 
raised in Talbot County, Georgia, and graduated at the University Medical 
School of New York in 1854.  He came back to his native state, practiced 
medicine until the civil war.  When the struggle was over he returned to 
peaceable pursuits, and in 1866 moved to Panola County, Miss.  

Among those who attended his funeral was an old Negro woman, Fannie Parker, 
ninety years old, who nursed him in infancy.  Aunt Fannie was born in Georgia, 
was faithful attendant of Dr. Drane in his infancy came to Panola County with 
him in 1866, and was with those who saw him laid to final rest.  He was popular 
with all the colored people who had dealings with him. - Batesville, Miss. 
(Panola)


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