Taylor County GaArchives Obituaries.....Martin Homer Riley July 3 1911
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The Butler Herald, July 11, 1911
The Butler Herald
Tuesday, July 11, 1911
Page Three

Judge Riley Died Last Monday

Judge Homer Riley, an honored citizen of Taylor County, peacefully passed from 
this earth to the great beyond at the residence of Mr. H.M. Searcy in the 
western part of this county last Monday morning, July 3, 1911, at the advanced 
age of 74 years, and was buried at Carsonville Tuesday afternoon, the funeral 
service held by Rev. M.T. Gaultney.

Judge Riley was a descendant of one of the most prominent families of Taylor 
County, and which were not only prominent in the immediate neighborhood in 
which they lived, on account of their large farming interest, but also in the 
educational interest and social relationship of the community, and also in 
state politics.

Judge Riley was richly endowed in that he had a broad, fertile brain, which had 
the acquisition of a fine education so that he was well equipped for 
citizenship in any walk of life, and which was clearly evinced by his being 
elected to the responsible office of Ordinary of Taylor County to succeed the 
long term held by Judge J.D. Russ.  Judge Riley held this office for six years, 
during which time he and his family were residents of Butler.

When the battle cry for freedom was raised in 1861 by the newborn Confederacy, 
it found a responsive throb in the patriotic heart of Judge Riley, and he 
enlisted in that memorable Company G of the 6th Georgia Regiment where he 
served faithfully and following heroically the Confederate Flag.

When his much loved flag was, by overwhelming numbers, furled for the last 
time, Judge Riley came back to his farm at Carsonville, an overpowered, but not 
a reconstructed man.  And during the long period of time which has intervened 
from those days until the present, the heart of Judge Riley has ever beat in 
responsive accord to the much loved martial air of “Dixie”.

Judge Riley’s health has been failing for quite a while, and his friends saw 
that the time of his departure was near at hand, and at last his body succumbed 
to Brights disease at the time above mentioned.

Peace to the ashes of this brave Confederate soldier.



Additional Comments:
**Note - According to the cemetery listing on the Taylor page, Mr. Riley is 
buried at the Carsonville Cemetery.  His gravestone information is listed below:

RILEY, Martin Homer(Aug 16, 1844 - July 3, 1911)
1st Lieut. 6th GA Inf, (Butler Vanguards) CSA (brother of William Smith Riley)
(husband of Sallie Searcy Riley (Oct 1, 1851 - Oct 27, 1936)



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