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"The Roanoke Leader" -- Roanoke, Randolph Co., Ala. :

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, February 7, 1923

LOCAL News

Mr. Robert Davis of Tennille, Ga., returned home Sunday after coming to attend 
the funeral of the husband of his sister, Mrs. J.A. Jeffers.
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on earlier pages in the same issue:

A GOOD CITIZEN IS TAKEN AWAY WHEN DEATH ENDS ACTIVE CAREER OF MR. J.A. JEFFERS

When James Albert Jeffers died, Roanoke loast one of its most beloved and 
useful citizens. The nature of his long illness, which sent him to a rest 
sanitorium in Madison, Tennessee, was such that the fatal termination was not 
surprising, but nothing could mitigate the sense of loss that came with the 
news of his death to well nigh every heart in Roanoke.

The end came to him there while in perfect peace with God and man, fully 
conscious of the issues of life and death before him, but this knowledge had 
no terrors for him. He seemed to sense the transition that awaited him "on the 
margin of the river" and spoke words of hope and faith to his devoted wife and 
older children who waited anxiously at his bedside.

Shortly after noon on Thursday the message was received that told us that Mr. 
Jeffers would be among us no more. Here through the more than thirty-one years 
that he had been agent of the Central of Georgia Railway, he has been a 
familiar figure and active worker in church and civic affairs, and the friends 
of everybody. This latter statement was demonstrated in the many ways in which 
the esteem for him and his bereaved family found expression, in the calls made 
at the residence where the remains rested from the afternoon of Friday till 
Saturday; in the abundance of flowers that surrounded the bier; in the 
telegrams and letters received and in the large congregation that filled the 
Baptist church where the funeral was held, a cold rainy, Saturday afternoon. 
Among the mourners, which included all ages and classes, was a large 
contingent of the colored people.

Mr. Jeffers with his wife, departed much thought and prayer to the rearing of 
their large family of fourteen children, all of whom were gathered in the old 
home upon this sad occasion.
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IN APPRECIATON OF MR. JAMES ALBERT JEFFERS

In the presence of the unwelcome Messenger of Death that has taken from our 
ranks one of our most faithful workers, wisest counselors and beloved members 
in the person of Mr. James Albert Jeffers, we pause to pay a feeble token of 
our respect.

As one of the directors of the Roanoke Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Jeffers went 
the full length of his strength in service and loyalty to this body and to the 
interests of the community which it represents.  Now that he has been called 
to rest from his labors we hereby pay sincere and loving tribute to his 
memory, and record the loss which his death entails upon us all, personally 
and collectively.

As we remember the admirable traits exhibited in the life and character of the 
deceased comrade, his charity, his devotion, his zeal and his overflowing 
kindness to his fellow men, we are moved to emulate his virtues and to 
enshrine his memory to our hearts. If all should live as he did, what a 
wonderful town and commonwealth we would have.

In recording upon the minutes of this organization this inadquate expression 
of our loss, at the same time we would extend our cordial sympathy to those 
more sorely bereft, his wife and children, and in furtherance of this fact we 
instruct the secretary to forward them a copy of this appreciation and also to 
provide for its publication in The Roanoke Leader.

W.F. Danielly
S.H. Tatum
O.H. Stevenson

Unanimously adopted by the Roanoke Chamber of Commerce at its regular meeting 
for February 1923.
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