UPSON COUNTY  GA  OBITS Judge B. L. Tisinger

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DETAILS OF JUDGE TISINGER'S DEATH

  The following account of the death
and funeral of Judge BEN TISINGER 
which was announced in last week's 
Times is taken from the Oklahoma City Times July 7:

  Funeral services for B. L. Tisinger, 
widely known state jurist,  who was stricken,
while pleading a case in Federal  District Court
at Guthrie Monday, were held Wed. afternoon 
4 o'clock at St. Luke's Methodist church Rev. 
Forney Hutchinson will have charge.

   Judge Tisinger was a former member
of the state supreme court, a former assistant
United States district Attorney, and in addition
to holding other minor public offices was mayor
of magnum, where he first practiced law in the State.

  Appearing as counsel for five Shawnee Nat'l
bankers, he was preparing to argue a demurrer
before Judge Cotteral when he suddenly became 
ill.  Court attaches took him to the Court chambers
where he died before medical aid arrived. Death
was due to Heart Disease, it was said.

   Judge Tisinger was born in Talbot Co. GA. 
January 21, 1866, and was graduated from Ga. 
University in June, 1885. He practiced law in 
Thomaston, Ga., before coming to Oklahoma and 
was a member at different times of both houses
of the Ga. legislature. He came to Oklahoma in 1908. 

  He was appointed to the supreme court February 25, 
1918, by Governor Williams to fill out the unexpired
term of Justice Charles M. Thacker, which position 
he filled until his successor was elected. In 1920, he 
was appointed as assistant to Herbert L. Peck, then
the United States district attorney, serving until the 
close of Peck's term. Recently he was associated 
with R. A. Billups in the practice of law here in 
Upson Co.

  He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, South, Masons, Elks, and Kappa Alpha, 
national college fraternity.  He is survived by his 
Widow, Mrs. Mary Powell Tisinger, and a daughter,
Miss Mary Ann Tisinger, both of Oklahoma City.
A sister Mrs. Leola Andrews, lives in Thomaston Ga. 
Judge P. T. Clay, of the Eighteenth Oklahoma
district is a cousin.