Taylor-Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Willis, J.P. February 1893
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The Butler Herald, October 17, 1893
The Butler Herald
Tuesday, October 17, 1893
Page Three

A Sad But Mysterious Find

One of the saddest incidents on record took place in Columbus on Tuesday the 
10th inst.  Mr. J.P. Willis, son of Judge D.A.J. Willis, of this county, left 
his father’s home several years ago and engaged in business in Oglethorpe and 
other places.  He was a man who had been well raised and well educated, and at 
one time in life was not only a good businessman but a fine bookkeeper, and did 
well for a while.  He finally went to Columbus when he partook of the habit of 
intoxication.  Failing to get employment and having soon lost all hopes of 
success he sought the charity of the city.  He possessed a determined will and 
would not listen to the earnest entreaties of a father’s love, preferring 
rather the charity of the world.  On a cold winter night in February last he 
secreted himself in one of the back rooms on the third floor of the Webster 
building in Columbus and there it is supposed, froze to death.  He was missing 
from the city at this time why it is supposed he died in February.  The room he 
occupied had never been opened since last winter.  The proprietor of the 
building sent a servant to have the room swept out and opened up, when to his 
astonishment there lay the remains of Mr. Willis.  A coroner’s inquest was held 
over the body which resulted as above stated.  His features were beyond 
recognition, but a deed to a lot of land in this county made to him by his 
father and other papers found in his pocket, proved his identity.  His remains 
were shipped to Howard on Wednesday and interred in the family burying ground, 
near Daviston on Thursday.



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