Taliaferro-Wilkes County GaArchives Obituaries.....Edwards, Jessie B Reynolds January 28, 1948 ************************************************ 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: Terri Saturday http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002583 December 27, 2005, 7:05 pm Advocate Democrat January, 1948 Mrs. Jessie Edwards, 78, one of the county's most beloved citizens passed away at the Washington hospital on Sunday morning, January 25, 1948 at 4 o'clock following an extended illness. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Sandy Cross Baptist Church, conducted by her paster, The Rev. G, C. Steed. Interment was in the church graveyard by the side of her husband Benjamin Lee Edwards who passed away on May 29, 1937. The pallbearers were W. D. Hunter, Ralph Edwards, Horace Johnson, Cecil Hunter, George Fambrough, Samuel Jackson Moore, Glenn Young Edwards, and Carl Watson Stewart. Additional Comments: The Edwards lost all of their infant children: Marcia, Eugene, and one unamed infant all of which are in marked graves in the Powder Creek Cemetery. One son, Garnett Edwards survived this family and lived many years. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/taliaferro/obits/e/edwards3262gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb