Greenwood County ScArchives Obituaries.....Buchanan, George Millwee November 12, 1943
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The Index Journal Wed Dec 1, 1943


Many Friends Here United in Tribute to G. M. Buchanan

His old boyhood friends of his native community who survive him,
unite in a tribute of esteem to the late George Millwee Buchanan,
who died from a heart attack after a very short illness at his
home in Greenville on Nov. 12.
Mr. Buchanan was born in the old William R. Buchanan home
a few miles northeast of Greenwood on August 15, 1873 and
was in his seventieth year. The house of his birth is memorable
in that his father lived in it for almst the entire span of his niney-two
years of life. His father was absent from home only for the two
years he served as a Confederate soldier, going out first as a
member of Co. F. Holcombe Legion and after being wounded 
at the Second Battle of Manassas was transferred to Co. C.
6th S. C. Cavalry. The mother of George M. Buchanan was
Miss Eliza Buchanan, the same name of, but not related to her
husband. George Millwee Buchanan was named for his mother's
only brother, the late George W. Buchanan and the late Dr.
W. B. Millwee, long a friend and the physician of the family.
After attending the Greenwood schools, George M. Buchanan
began work here and when quite a young man went to Greenville
as a clerk in the store of J. H. Moran and Bro. Later he went 
with the firm of Mahon and Arnold and about twenty-five years
had been the travelling representative of the American Knitting
Mill, of New York City and the Southern Handkerchief
Manufacturing Co. of Greenville.
He soon won the esteem and respect of his employers and of his
associates in these companies.
Warm and affectionate tributes were paid him by thes and as 
evidences of appreciation of his worth and charachter have been
very comforting to his family and friends here. He was known
to associates as "Mr. Buck" and they all speak of him as a man
of high character and ability. In the territory in which he worked
he was loved and respected by all with whom he had contacts.
Bright and cheerful in disposition and sincerely interested in the
welfare of his friends he was always welcomed and his death
brought grief to all those who knew him. To the very day of his
going away he was on the street greeting with a cheery smile
the friends he met.
Mr. Buchanan was married to Mrs. Frances Charters, of 
Fredericksburg, Va,l and she died May 19, 1942.
Mr. Buchanan was a member of the Presbyterian church 
and atttended the First Presbyterian church, of Greenville.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Sprott, and 
Miss Margartet Buchanan, on niece, Mrs. Sara Sprott
Deadwyler, and one nephew, Wm Berry Sprott Jr., all
of Greenwood. Also one cousin, who was reared in
the Buchanan family home, Mrs. J. D. Nunamker, of
Columbia.
Mr. Buchanan was buried in Springwood cemetery
in Greenville.






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