Troup County GaArchives Obituaries.....Truitt, James G. January 8, 1923
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"The Roanoke Leader" -- Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, January 10, 1923

JAMES G. TRUITT DIES AT HIS LAGRANGE HOME

Mr. James G. Truitt, one of the leading citizens of Troup county and an 
industrial pioneer in that section of the state, died Monday morning at his 
home in LaGrange, according to news received in Atlanta on Monday. His death 
occurred in his seventy-third year, following a few days illness of 
pneumonia.

Mr. Truitt was widely known throughout the south for his industrial and 
agricultural development in Georgia, especially in Troup County. He also 
operated in Atlanta real estate and had hundreds of friends there, who are 
grieved to learn of his passing.

During the latter years of his life he had used his fortune, founded on 
LaGrange business enterprises in philanthropic work and in promoting the 
welfare of the district. When the business depression ran cotton down to its 
lowest level in years, Mr. Truitt backed the cotton farmer. He founded the 
first cotton mill in LaGrange, now a flourishing manufacturing district, 
some thirty years ago. He was born and reared in LaGrange, a son of the late 
Mr. and Mrs. James Monroe Truitt and made his home there practically all of 
his life. He was interested in educational progress of the state and 
contributed large sums of money to local institutions. He recently gave 
$50,000. to LaGrange College. The Atlanta Journal, the 9th.

Additional Comments:
Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 
Name: J. G. Truitt 
Death Date: 08 Jan 1923  
County of Death: Troup  
Certificate: 3468-E  

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