Saluda-Edgefield County ScArchives Obituaries.....Broadwater, Sr., Asa Guy August 10, 1928
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Newspaper Name Unknown  August 10, 1928

                                               

Ridge Spring, Aug. 10, 1928
After an illness of four months duration, Asa G. Broadwater died at his home 
here at noon today.  While his death was not unexpected it has cast a gloom 
over the entire town and community.  Mr. Broadwater was a member of the well 
known family of that name, who have been honored citizens of Edgefield county 
for a great many years.  Moving with his family in this place about 15 years 
ago, and soon thereafter appointed rural mail carrier on Route 2 at this 
postoffice, which position, he held at the time of his death.
Mr. Brodwater was a man of pleasing disposition, courteous, affable and of 
curtured intellect.  He was widely known and greatly liked by a host of loyal 
friends.  He was 55 years of age and was educated at Wofford College.  
Survivors are his widow, who was before marriage, Miss Mollie Foley of Ohio, 
two sons, Guy Broadwater of Valdosia, Ga and William Broadwater, student of 
Wofford College, and three brothers, A. L. Broadwater and A.B. Broadwater of 
Spartanburg, together with a number of more distant relatives and friends who 
mourn the passing of a true friend.
Funeral services were conducted at the home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by 
the Rev. W. S. Dorset, pastor of Ridge Spring Baptist Church, assisted by the 
Rev. J. K. Walker, pastor of the Methodist Church.  Interment was made in the 
family cemetery at Harmony Church in Edgefield County.
Mr. Broadwater was a loyal and faithful member of Edgefield-Saluda Rural 
Letter Carriers Association and carried insurance in the national organization 
of the R.L.C.  The pall bearers were all rural letter carriers, H. B. 
Septerfelt, J. H. Watson, F. D. Wills, D. E. Simons, J. P. Carson and C. N. 
Simons.
Many beautiful floral designs were placed on the grave by loving friends and 
relatives, attesting esteem
and friendship. 

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