Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Melville Hanna, J.C.  McAllister and Grover C. Norwood Miscellaneous Regarding deaths of:   February 17 1922
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Misc. Regarding deaths of Melville Hanna, J.C.  McAllister and Grover C. Norwood




Daily Times Enterprise
  February 17, 1922

       Hanna Estate Pays
               Big Sum To State

  Atlanta, Feb 17 - Attorney for
the estate of H. Melville Hanna of
Thomas county,  to-day made pay-
ment to the state of Georgia $28,
559.64 inheritance taxes under the
laws of this state.
   Returns of this amount less the
fee to the ordinary and tax collector
of Thomas county, were made to-day
to the controller general accompanied
by a net check of $27,963.75.
     Appraisal was made on the estate
last July, but at that time there was
a difference of opinion as to whether 
or not the intangible values were
subject to inheritance tax in this
state, representatives of this state
taking the position that they are.
The matter was carried over for
some months and finally attorneys
for the Hanna estate accepted the
state's position and have now included 
the intangibles. 
   Last summer Special Agent J. F.
Roberts, after working on the ques-
tion of citizenship involved, effected
a settlement for ad valorem taxes on
the invisible values of the Hanna
properties amounting to $65,000 as
the  state's share in addition to which
a large amount was collected for
Thomas county.
   This was but one of the several
large property holding in that county
on which the special investigator has
been working and it is learned, there 
is still involved the matter of unpaid
and unreturned ad valorem taxes on
the properties of Mrs. Kate Ireland,
daughter of Neil Hanna, and her two
children, to each whom the late Mr.
Hanna turned over large holdings
when he made a division of his pro-
perties and for which he created a
trusteeship.
   Still another side of the same es-
tate involves the properties of Mrs.
Coburn Haskell, another daughter of
Mr. Hanna, who with her four chil-
dren, also shared equally with her
children, in the matter of the Hanna
division.  Mr. Haskell also is said to
be possessed  of  particularly large
holdings of invisible property values,
accumulated from investments made
out of the proceeds of some several
hundred  dollars  a  day  royalties
over a period of about twenty years
on a certain golf ball he developed, 
these latter properties are in dispute at 
this time on the claim for ad valorem 
taxes.

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KILLING IN COLQUITT COUNTY
 
   Moultrie, Ga., Feb 17 - J. C. Mc Al-
lister  was  shot  and  killed  last  night 
by   W.  S. Simpson   in   front  of  the 
Simpson home at Simpson Crossing,
18   miles  east  of  Moultrie.  The men
had  quarreled  late  in  the  day.
    McAllister,  armed  with  a  rifle  is
said  to  have  gone  to  Simpson's  home
to  renew  the  trouble.   Both  men  are
widely  known.

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              IN MEMORY OF 
          GROVER CLEVELAND NORWOOD
     
    WHEREAS,  On the third day of 
January, 1922, Sovereign Grover Cleve-
land  Norwood  was  suddenly  taken 
from  our  midst,  while  in  the  full  
vigor of  manhood  by  the  Supreme Com-
mander  of  the  Universe,  and
     WHEREAS,  His death has removed
from  among  us  one  whom  we  had
learned to love and admire from his
youth, because of his manly and up-
right qualities, and for his genial
friendship and trustworthiness, and
     WHEREAS, In the passing Sov-
erign  Norwood,  Tourist  City  Camp,
Woodmen of the World, has lost one
of its most beloved and honored mem-
bers, and a good and true friend to
all Woodmen and one who was at all
times ready and willing to give a  
helping hand to those in need of 
life's comforts, and gladly would he
have shared their  burdens, there
     BE IT RESLOVED, That in the loss
of Soverign Norwood, we have in a
spirit of humility given him to the  
care of the one great Command to that 
Greatest of all so we commend him; and
     RESOLVED  FUTHER,  To extend to 
the  bereaved family of the deceased 
brother and Soverign, heartfelt sympathy, 
assuring that their loss is also ours.

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