Troup County GaArchives Obituaries.....Heard, Martha (Coffin) [Mrs. George] February 26, 1877 ************************************************ 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: Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 July 6, 2007, 4:02 pm "Southern Christian Advocate" Issue of March 27, 1877 Mrs. Martha Heard, whose maiden name was Coffin, widow of George Heard and mother of Rev. Peter A. Heard, and Dr. Henry Heard, died in LaGrange, Ga., February 26, 1877. She was the oldest member of the Church in LaGrange. Old Thomas Stocks, her brother-in-law, had gone but a little while before. G. G. Smith Additional Comments: per Troup County, Georgia On Line Cemetery Index http://www.trouparchives.org/ LaGrange ... Hill View & Hill View Cemetery by F. Clark Johnson (1993). Martha Coffee Heard 9 May 1793 24 Feb 1877 George Heard 8 Aug 1788 10 Aug 1858 Dr. Henry T. Heard 23 Feb 1834 1 Jan 1886 Rev. Peter Abram Heard 11 Jan 1826 22 Feb 1901 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Source Information: Ancestry.com. Southern Christian Advocate Obituaries, 1867-78 [database on- line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1998. Original data: Holcomb, Brent H.. Southern Christian Advocate Death and Obituary Notices, 1867-1878. Columbia, SC, USA: SCMAR, 1993. About Southern Christian Advocate Obituaries, 1867-78 The Southern Christian Advocate was the official publication for the Methodist Conferences in the states of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Many death and obituary notices were included in the publication of this periodical. This database contains only these notices and covers the issues from 1867 to 1878. Information from each notice often includes spouse, parents, and children, where applicable, birth date, death date, and marriage date where available. Also, included in some entries are church information and the person submitting the original notice, often appearing at the end of the entry. Persons wishing copies of a particular notice can contact the South Caroliniana Library, USC, Columbia, SC 29208. Print copies of this work can be obtained by contacting Brent Howard Holcomb, P. O. Box 21766, Columbia, SC 29221 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/troup/obits/h/heard7569gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb