Descendants of
David Fleming
thru his son John of
Pulaski County, Georgia
Fifth of eight parts
Generation No. 5
J140. JULIA FLETCHER7 CONEY (James Franklin6, Ezekiel5, Ann D.4 Fleming, John3, David2, John1) was born either on May 6, 1887 or May 6, 1888 in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia. Robert K. Nobles’s book, Orange Hill Cemetery, Hawkinsville, Georgia, 1833-1992, Central Georgia Genealogical Society, Warner Robins, Georgia, p. 55, gives her birth date as May 6, 1888 but her obituary, in The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, March 23, 1944, p. 1, says she was born on May 6, 1887. Julia died on March 19, 1944 in Taylor Memorial Hospital, Hawkinsville; and was buried in the Hawkinsville’s Orange Hill Cemetery. She married Robert Oscar Pate, Jr. on November 22, 1911 at her parents’ home in Hawkinsville. Bob was a son of Robert Oscar Pate and Minnie Estelle Brown. He was born on May 18, 1880, in Hawkinsville. Another source, Historical Collections of the Georgia Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, v. 4, Old Bible Records and Land Lotteries, compiled and edited by Mrs. Lelia Thornton Gentry, State Chairman, 1932, p. 216, gives his birth date as May 13, 1880. Bob died in Hawkinsville, Georgia on August 15, 1963; and was buried at Orange Hill Cemetery in that place. Bob was graduated from Hawkinsville High School in Pulaski County, Georgia.
Marriage of Julia Fletcher Coney and Robert Oscar Pate, Jr.
Excerpts from The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Friday, November 24, 1911, p. 8:
CONEY-PATE
wedding of exceptional beauty and brilliancy was solemnized Wednesday evening at the home of the bride’s parents when Miss Julia Fletcher Coney was united in marriage to Mr. Robert Oscar Pate, Jr. ...
The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. J. F. Coney and is a graduate of Wesleyan college. Dainty, refined and of cordial manners, she is beloved alike by young and old.
Mr. Pate is the eldest son of Mr. R. O. Pate, and is one of Hawkinsville’s most popular young men.
The bridal party accompanied the bride and groom to Cochran where they took the train for points of interest in Florida ...
Notes
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, September 25, 1901, p 13:
R. O. PATE’S SHOPS.
Where Fine Buggies, Wagons
and Harness Are Made.Hawkinsville has long been the manufacturing and supply point for many of the buggies and wagons of Georgia.
Almost the sole credit for Hawkinsville’s pre-eminence in this industry is due to the large establishment of R. O. Pate, where are manufactured buggies, wagons, carriages and harness, beside the carrying on of a large repair business.
This shop and factory is well equipped for its work by a large, well-arranged plant, skilled workmen and capped by a business man of capacity at its head.
Although a very busy man, Mr. Pate gives his personal attention to the buggy factory. He is ably assisted by his son, R. O. Pate, Jr., who is an alumnus of the Georgia School of Technology.
Mr. Pate, the proprietor, is a man of experience in business affairs as well as one of the most public spirited citizens of the city. He is extensively engaged in farming and in saw milling and is president of the Hawkinsville Heading and Stave Company. He took an active interest in the organization of the cotton factory and is a large share holder. Mr. Pate is a member of the Board of Aldermen of the town and is Mayor Pro Tem. He belongs to one of the oldest and most respectable families of this section, being a son of the late lamented Maj. J.H. Pate, and a brother of Messrs. J.H. Pate and R.A. Pate, all of whom are well known.
The mechanical department of the establishment is in charge of Foreman S.A. Ivey, under whose management the work has prospered and grown for years.
Mr. H.F. Rainey has in charge the forges and his experience and skill well qualifies him for the work.
The harness shop has at its head Mr. J.C. Bean, who is an expert in his line. The establishment has the services of Mr. J.H. Wallace, who is known all over the country as a scientific horseshoers.
Excerpt from The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Tuesday, June 19, 1906, p. 3:
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER.
Georgia –– Pulaski County.
o the superior court of said county: The petition of R. O. Pate, Sr., W. H. Davis, R. O. Pate, Jr., G. B. Pate and Marion Turner, all of said state and county, respectively shows:
First, that they desire for themselves, their associates, successors and assigns to be incorporated under the name and style of Hartford Lumber company ...
Fourth ... Petitioners show that said corporation proposes to manufacture lumber of every kind, both rough and dressed, shingles, laths, barrel heads, staves and hoops, sash, doors, blinds, newels, columns and everything generally manufactured by a lumber company. Petitioners further show that they propose to manufacture artificial stone, filing and brick of sand and cement and clay, to buy and sell lime and cement and to run a general store for the purpose of buying and selling merchandise of all kinds and doing a general mercantile business, to run a public gin, to buy and sell cotton, cotton seed and the products thereof.
Fifth, Petitioners desire to buy and sell both real and personal property and to build and maintain tram roads and railroads in connection with its other business.
Sixth, the principal offices of said proposed corporation will be in the town of old Hartford ...
Petitioner’s Attorney’s
Pate & Turner.Georgia –– Pulaski County.
I, J.W. Lancaster, clerk of the superior court of said county, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original now on file in my office. Witness my hand and seal of office, this May 21st, 1906.
J.W. Lancaster
C(lerk), S(uperior) C(ourt)
Obituary of Robert Oscar Pate, Jr.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, August 21, 1963, p. 1:
R. O. (BOB) PATE
TAKEN BY DEATHRobert Oscar (Bob) Pate, 83, widely known Hawkinsville resident, died Thursday night after a long illness.
Mr. Pate was a native of Pulaski County. For many years he was a agricultural broker.
He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Hawkinsville.
Funeral services were held Saturday at Clark Funeral Home Chapel, the Rev. A. Ray Adams officiating. Burial was in Orange Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Pate is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Ben H. Porter, Hawkinsville, Mrs. Leon Lanier, Atlanta, and Mrs. James Baldau, Lewiston, N. Y.; a son, Frank C. Pate, Tampa; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Pate Carey, New York City, and 12 grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Franklin Lee, Bailey Heard, Sam Pettey, Graham Coley, Roger Lawson, Andrew Hill, D. T. Clark and C. L. Coney.
Obituary of Julia Fletcher Coney
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Thursday, March 23, 1944, p. 1:
FUNERAL OF MRS. R. O. PATE IS HELD
Member of Prominent
Family Passes After
Long Illness
Mrs. Pate was before her marriage Miss Julia Coney. She was born in Hawkinsville, May 6, 1887, the daughter of the late Franklin Coney and Mrs. Lee Wimberly Coney.
She graduated from the Hawkinsville High School in 1903 with honor and entered Wesleyan College, graduating from that institution with the class of 1907.
She was married to R. O. Pate, member of one of Hawkinsville’s oldest and most prominent families, on November 22, 1911.
Mrs. Pate was a member of the Methodist church and lived a beautiful and useful Christian life, loved and admired by all. She was a loyal member of the W.S.C.S. of the Methodist Church and served officially in the society for a number of years. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was active in all social, civic and religious affairs of the city.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at four o’clock from the residence on McCormick Ave., with Rev. J. E. Barnhill assisted by Rev. E. B. Collins officiating followed by interment at Orange Hill Cemetery.
Besides her husband, she is survived by one son, Frank C. Pate, of Tampa, Fla., three daughters, Mrs. James Baldau, of Temple, Texas, Misses Mary Ann and Caryn Pate, of Hawkinsville; three brothers, E. W. Coney, of Savannah, Frank and Charlton Coney of Hawkinsville; two sisters, Mrs. Duncan H. Brown, of Augusta and Mrs. Earl W. McMurria, of Atlanta; stepmother, Mrs. Mary Lou Coney, of Hawkinsville; one aunt, Mrs. Charlton Adams, Sr. of Macon; one grandchild, Claudia Everett Pate, of Tampa, Fla.
Pallbearers were John Pate, of Atlanta, C. B. Adams, A. L. Adams, W. N. Pate, Need J. Goode, H. S. Fountain, D. P. McGriff and R. F. Watson.
Clark Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Issue:
J299––– i.––– (Unnamed)8 Pate, born February 20, 1913; died February 20, 1913; and was buried in the Orange Hill Cemetery, Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia.
J300––– ii.––– Robert Oscar Pate III was born on April 14, 1914; died on June 17, 1916 near Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia; and was buried in Orange Hill Cemetery, Hawkinsville.
Obituary of Robert Oscar Pate III
, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, June 21, 1916, p. 1:The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News
DEATH OF A LITTLE BOY.
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Pate, Jr. sympathize with them in the death of their little three-year-old son, Robert, which occurred Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock at their home three miles southwest of Hawkinsville after an illness of about three weeks. The funeral was held from their home Sunday morning at 9 o’clock and the remains were brought to the city and interred in Orange Hill cemetery, Rev. T. H. Thomson, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating.
J301––– iii.––– Frank Coney Pate was born on September 22, 1915, according to Historical Collections of the Georgia Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, v. 4, Old Bible Records and Land Lotteries, compiled and edited by Mrs. Lelia Thornton Gentry, State Chairman, published in 1932, p. 217; died in February of 1987, possibly in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida. Frank married Caroline Lowe in September of 1939. He was a graduate of Hawkinsville High School, Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia, and of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. They had a daughter, Claudia Everett Pate, who was born in July of 1943.
J302––– iv.––– Julia Coney Pate, of whom below, born December 26, 1921.
J303––– v.––– Mary Ann Pate, of whom below, born August 14, 1924 in Pulaski County, Georgia; died June 9, 1990 in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia.
J304––– vi.––– Caryn Estelle Pate, of whom below, born October 8, 1927.
J141. LUCY ELIZABETH7 CONEY (James Franklin6, Ezekiel5, Ann D.4 Fleming, John3, David2, John1) was born on December 29, 1889 in Pulaski County, Georgia; died January 30, 1977 in Warrenton, Warren County, Georgia; and was buried in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia at the Orange Hill Cemetery. Lucy was married to Duncan Hancock Brown on May 2, 1916 in Pulaski County, Georgia. He was a son of Robert Duncan Brown and Adelia T. (Ada) Anderson, and was born on February 11, 1889 in Hawkinsville, Georgia; died on September 9, 1939 in Warrenton, Georgia; and was buried in Orange Hill Cemetery, Hawkinsville.
Marriage of Lucy Elizabeth Coney and Duncan Hancock Brown
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, May 3, 1916, p. 8:
CONEY-BROWN
The bride wore a tailored suit of navy blue, with large black hat and corsage of pink roses.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Coney and is admired by a large circle of friends.
Mr. Brown is a very prominent young business man and is well known in the business and social world.
Immediately after the ceremony the couple left for Atlanta. On their return they will be at home to their friends in Dublin, where they will reside in the future.
Obituaries of Duncan Hancock Brown
The Warrenton Clipper, Warrenton, Georgia, Friday, September 15, 1939:
MR. D. H. BROWN DIED HERE SATURDAY
He was 50 years old and came to Warrenton from Hawkinsville in 1925 and entered the automobile business here as an officer in the Warren County Motor Co. During his residence here, he was prominent in advancing all public interests and had served as city councilman and took an active interest in all civic affairs. He was a Baptist and while his health permitted took part in the activities of the church and of the Kiwanis club. Mr. Brown was possessed of a friendly disposition and made hundreds of friends in this section who were saddened at his passing away.
Duncan Brown’s uncle, James Pope Brown, was at one time Treasurer of the state of Georgia, a member of and chairman of the state railroad commission, and a candidate for governor in 1911.
Funeral services were conducted at the home here Monday morning Rev. R. C. Brown and Rev. W. C. Budd, Baptist and Methodist pastors officiating.
Following the services here the remains were carried to Hawkinsville where final services were held conducted by Rev. E. B. Collins of that city. Many relatives and friends from Hawkinsville and other cities came to Warrenton for the funeral and a large number of Warrenton friends attended the final services and burial in Orange Hill Cemetery in Hawkinsville Monday afternoon.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Lucy Coney Brown; a daughter Miss Frances Brown; two sons, Mr. Lee W. Brown, of Warrenton and Mr. D. H. Brown, Jr. of Aiken, S. C.; his father, Mr. R. D. Brown; a sister, Mrs. Brady Hogg, of Hawkinsville; three brothers, Messrs. R. D. Brown, Jr. of Hawkinsville, Frank Brown, of Seminole, Okla., and Pope Brown, of Memphis, Tenn.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, September 14, 1939, p. 8:
FORMER RESIDENT LAID TO REST HERE
Duncan H. Brown, For Some
Years of Warrenton, PassesFinal services were held here Monday for Duncan Hancock Brown, 50, former resident of this city, who died at his home at Warrenton after an extended illness.
ROBERT DUNCAN BROWN,
Father of
Duncan Hancock BrownExcerpts from The History of Pulaski County, Georgia, 1808 - 1935, The Hawkinsville Chapter, Daughters of The American Revolution, Walter W. Brown Publishing Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1935, p. 320:
Robert Duncan Brown was born February 16, 1861, and first went to school in Perry, Georgia, later attending Governor Northern’s Preparatory School at Kirkwood, Georgia. He graduated from Mercer University in 1880, and while there was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
He came home to farm at the old home place, “Browndale,” and later moved to Hawkinsville, where he was postmaster for a good many years. He is a Democrat, having served as a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee, a Mason, and a faithful member of the First Baptist Church, where he was a teacher, assistant superintendent and superintendent and secretary of the Sunday school. He also was clerk of the church and clerk of the Baptist Association, and deacon.
He was married to Miss Ada Anderson, of Hawkinsville, Georgia, on April 25, 1888... (s)he was a devoted wife and mother, always faithful to her Lord, and a great lover of flowers and folks ...
Mr. Brown was born in Hawkinsville and spent his early life here. He was the son of R. D. Brown and the late Mrs. Ada Anderson Brown. He was the grandson of Capt. Ruel Anderson, of Confederate fame. In 1912, he married Miss Lucy Coney, of this city. Fifteen years ago he moved to Warrenton, where he became engaged in the automobile business. He was a member of the Baptist Church, City Council and Kiwanis Club.
Services were held from the residence at Warrenton, with final rites and burial in Orange Hill Cemetery in Hawkinsville, the Rev. E. B. Collins officiating.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Duncan H. and Lee Wimberly Brown; one daughter, Miss Frances Brown; his father, R. D. Brown, Hawkinsville; one sister, Mrs. Bradley Hogg, Hawkinsville; three brothers, R. D., Jr., Frank and Pope Brown.
Attendants at the funeral included Mrs. Annie Laurie Rivers, Mr. Alton Davis, Mr. John Ricketson, Mr. Ed Kitchens, Mr. J. W. Whiteley, all of Warrenton, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. Alex Nipper, Greensboro, Ga.; Mrs. R. L. Cater, Perry, Ga.; Mrs. R. O. Pate, Atlanta; Mr. Tom Cater, Perry; Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Miss Jen Anderson, Mrs. Eva Adams, Mrs. Warren Timmerman, Macon; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown, Fitzgerald; Mr. E. H. Conner, Unadilla, Ga.; Mr. E. W. Coney, Macon; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Todd, Mrs. W. T. Pilcher, Mrs. Emmie English, Mr. Bill Porter, all of Warrenton.
Active pallbearers were Dr. A. W. Davis, Dwight McConnell, John Ricketson, Alex Nipper, E. D. Hopson, and Dougherty Ricketson.
Honorary pallbearers were R. F. Fowler, Jim Todd, Hugh Cason, W. T. Pilcher, Morgan Thompson, D. F. Jones, R. O. Pate, S. A. Way at Warrenton.
Active pallbearers at Hawkinsville were: R. O. Pate, D. F. Jones, Morgan Thompson, Alex Nipper, E. W. Coney and S. A. Way.
Obituary of Lucy Elizabeth Coney
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, February 2, 1977, p. 15:
MRS. DUNCAN H. BROWN
Mrs. Duncan H. Brown, 87, of Warrenton, Georgia, formerly of Hawkinsville, died Sunday.
Funeral services were held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday in the chapel of M. W. Callaway Funeral Home, Warrenton, with interment in Orange Hill Cemetery at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Mrs. Brown was a native of Pulaski County, a member of the United Methodist Church of Warrenton, and a resident of Warrenton for some 50 years.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Alton W. Davis, Warrenton; one brother, Charlton L. Coney, Hawkinsville; several grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
M. W. Callaway Funeral Home of Warrenton was in charge of arrangements.
Issue:
J305––– i.––– Duncan Hancock8 Brown, Jr., of whom below, born November 30, 1916 in Pulaski County, Georgia; died April 9, 1974 in Thomason, McDuffie County, Georgia.
J306––– ii.––– Frances Brown, of whom below, born about 1918 in Pulaski County, Georgia; died June 16, 1999 in Warrenton, Warren County, Georgia.
J307––– iii.––– Lee Wimberly Brown, of whom below, born April 25, 1919 in Pulaski County, Georgia; died August 13, 1966 in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia.
J152. MARIE7 ADAMS (Eva Riley6 Coney, Ezekiel5, Ann D.4 Fleming, John3, David2, John1) was born on October 31, 1891 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia; died May 29, 1968 at her home at 331 College Street, Macon, Georgia; and was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Macon. She was the wife of Jesse Warren Timmerman, Jr., who was born on January 16, 1885 in Webster County, Georgia, son of Jesse Warren Timmerman and Emma Woodard; died February 10, 1964 in Houston County, Georgia; and was also buried at Macon’s Riverside Cemetery. They were married in Macon, Georgia.
Obituary of Marie Adams
The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Thursday, May 30, 1968, p. 6:
MRS. TIMMERMAN SERVICES FRIDAY
Mrs. Jesse Warren Timmerman, 76, died yesterday at her residence, 331 College St. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the Mulberry Street Methodist Church. The Rev. A. W. Ray will officiate and burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery. Pallbearers will be William Geeslin, Jr., Warren Geeslin, John R. Adams, William A. Johnson, William E. Mathews and Hubert Sullins.
Mrs. Timmerman, the former Miss Marie Adams, was a lifelong resident of Macon. She was a graduate of Wesleyan College and a member of the Mulberry Street Methodist Church, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Charles H. Fairbanks of Washington, D.C. and Mrs. William F. Geeslin of Gainesville, Fla.; one sister, Mrs. Persons Heath of Macon; two brothers, Charlton B. Adams and Adiel L. Adams, both of Hawkinsville.
The family request that flowers be omitted but those who wish may contribute to the Bibb County Heart Fund.
Hart’s Mortuary is in charge.
Obituaries of Jesse Warren Timmerman, Jr.
The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Tuesday, February 11, 1964, p. 1:
J. W. TIMMERMAN, 79, DIES; MERCER TRUSTEE
J. Warren Timmerman, 79, former chairman of the board of trustees of Mercer University, died yesterday while visiting a farm in Houston County.
Dr. Dan Callahan, Houston County physician, attributed death to a heart attack.
uneral plans will be announced by Hart’s Mortuary.
Mr. Timmerman, of 781 College St., was associated with Mutual of New York Life Insurance Co. for the past 35 years and was a former district manager. He had resided here 60 years.
Mr. Timmerman was born Jan. 16, 1885 in Webster County, the son of the late J. W. and Emma Woodard Timmerman. He attended public schools at Plains and studied for three years at Mercer University where he was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
In 1915, he entered the wholesale grocery business and later the field of life insurance.
Mercer University awarded him the Algernon Sullivan Citizenship Award in 1961.
He was a member of the Macon Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce and Red Cross and a past chairman, past Sunday School superintendent and a life deacon of the First Baptist Church.
During his career with Mutual of New York, he qualified 29 times for annual company sales honors and won the insurance industry’s National Quality Award 15 times.
He was a member and past president of the Macon Life Underwriters Association and a life member and past chairman of the Georgia Leaders Round Table Association.
Survivors include his widow, the former Marie Adams; two daughters, Mrs. Charles H. Fairbanks, Gainesville, Fla. and Mrs. William F. Geeslin of Bradenton, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. M. E. Davidson, Columbia, S.C., and Mrs. Rees Andrews of Plains; and five grandchildren.
The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Wednesday, February 12, 1964, p. 2:
TIMMERMAN LAST RITES SLATED TODAY
Funeral services for J. W. Timmerman, 79, a former chairman of the board of trustees of Mercer University, who died Monday while visiting a Houston County farm, will be held at noon today in the chapel of Hart’s Mortuary.
Pallbearers will include William T. Haygood, Dr. Thomas J. Holmes, Morgan Arden, James B. Ezell, George Hadaway, L. M. Soloman, Jr., Dr. Henry Tift and Fred Hill.
Forming an honorary escort will be Dr. Ernest Corn, Baldwin Martin, Dr. J. D. Applewhite, Thurston Futch, John McKay, Dr. Rufus Harris, Dr. Frampton Farmer, Dr. J. C. Anderson, C. Baxter Jones, Dana Adams, Guyton Abney, Ed Burke, Nelson Mallary, Fred Carson and members of the Board of Trustees of Mercer University, the Board of Deacons of First Baptist Church and members of the Edwin S. Davis Bible Class and Rotary Club.
Mr. Timmerman was a native of Webster County and has resided in Macon for 60 years. He served for 35 years as Macon district manager and agent for Mutual of New York Life Insurance Co., during which time he qualified 29 times for the annual company sales honors and won the insurance industry’s National Quality Award 15 times.
He was a member of the Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce and was past chairman of the Macon Red Cross Chapter.
Survivors include his widow, the former Marie Adams; two daughters, Mrs. Charles H. Fairbanks, Gainesville, Fla. and Mrs. William F. Geeslin, Bradenton, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. M. E. Davidson, Columbia, S.C. and Mrs. Rees Andrews of Plains; and five grandchildren.
Issue:
J308––– i.––– Evelyn8 Timmerman was born July 29, 1918; died on September 18, 1989; and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Macon, Georgia. She married Charles H. Fairbanks in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. He was born on June 3, 1913; died on July 17, 1984; and is also buried at Riverside, Macon.
J309––– ii.––– Mary Elizabeth Timmerman married William Fleming Geeslin on May 18, 1946 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. He was born on June 19, 1919 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia; died on November 2, 1995 in Longboat Key, Florida. They had three children: (a) William Fleming Geeslin, Jr.; (b) John Warren Geeslin; and (c) Christopher Lee Geeslin.
Notes
http://www.jenforum.org/geeslin/messages/96.html by Christopher Lee Geeslin <geeslin@webtv.com>, June 8, 2000, in reply to a message entitled “More Georgia Geeslin Roots” by William Cary Geeslin <wcgeeslin@mindspring.com>:
“Dear William,
My great grandfather was William Fleming Geeslin from Macon, Georgia, who was a conductor on the Central of Georgia railroad. My grandfather William Fleming married a Wynn, and they had Louise, Mildred and my father William Fleming who married Mary Timmerman and had William Fleming, John Warren and myself, Christopher Lee. My oldest brother has a son William Fleming.”
Marriage of
Mary Elizabeth Timmerman
and William Fleming GeeslinExcerpt from The Macon Telegraph and News, Macon, Georgia, Sunday, May 12, 1946, p. 14:
TIMMERMAN-GEESLIN
RITES ARE PLANNED
FOR SATURDAYPlans are announced today for the marriage of Miss Mary Timmerman and William Fleming Geeslin of New York City, formerly of Macon, which is to be solemnized at 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon, May 18, at the home of Miss Timmerman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Warren Timmerman, at 657 College Street ...
Excerpts from The Macon Telegraph and News, Macon, Georgia, Sunday, May 19, 1946, p. 15:
MISS TIMMERMAN MARRIES
WILLIAM FLEMING GEESLINIn the room in which her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Warren Timmerman, were married, Miss Mary Elizabeth Timmerman became the bride of William Fleming Geeslin of New York, formerly of Macon, at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The ceremony took place in one of the double parlors of the Timmerman home at 657 College Street, the home of Mrs. Timmerman’s parents, Mrs. C. B. Adams and the late Mr. Adams.
Dr. Silas Johnson, pastor of Mulberry Street Methodist Church, performed the ceremony, and Herbert Herrington, pianist, played the wedding music.
Miss Timmerman was given in marriage by her father and had as her only attendant her sister, Mrs. Charles Fairbanks of St. Simons Island, the former Miss Evelyn Timmerman, who was also married in the same room. An aunt of yesterday’s bride, Mrs. Persons Heath of Washington, D.C., was also married there.
Mr. Geeslin had as his best man his brother-in-law, D. W. Brosnan of Cincinnati, Ohio, formerly of Macon, and ushers were Charlton Adams of Augusta, cousin of the bride, and Charles Lines of Vidalia, brother-in-law of the groom ...
The bride wore the wedding gown worn by her sister, Mrs. Fairbanks ...
Late in the afternoon the couple left for a wedding trip and after two weeks will go to New York City to live, the groom being stationed there with the FBI ...
Obituary of
William Fleming GeeslinThe Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Saturday, November 4, 1995, p. E-8:
WILLIAM F. GEESLIN
LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. –– Services for William F. Geeslin will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Christ Episcopal Church, Macon. Geeslin died Thursday. He was born in Macon. He was a graduate of Mercer University and was a former reporter for The Macon Telegraph. He joined the FBI in 1942 and later became an account executive for Young and Rubicam public relations and advertising firm in New York. He was an advertising and public relations special representative for Southern Railway System in Washington. He was active in the Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western Railway merger in 1982 and served as vice president of public relations until his retirement in 1984. After retiring, he was a member of a public relations consulting group and was a freelance writer.
Survivors include his wife, Mary T. Geeslin; sons, William F. Geeslin, Jr. of Sterling, Va., John W. Geeslin of Miami and the Rev. Christopher Geeslin of Fredrick, Md.; sister, Mildred G. Lines of Bradenton, Fla.; and six grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to St. Andrews-on-the Mount, Route 2, Box 453, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. 25425 or the All Angels-by-the-Sea, 563 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, Fla. 34228. Snow’s Memorial Chapel, Cherry Street, has charge of arrangements.
J154. CHARLTON BERRIEN7 ADAMS, JR. (Eva Riley6 Coney, Ezekiel5, Ann D.4 Fleming, John3, David2, John1) was born August 22, 1897 in Bibb County, Georgia; died September 27, 1993 in Pulaski County, Georgia; and was buried in Orange Hill Cemetery, Hawkinsville, Georgia. He was a founding member of the Hawkinsville Rotary Club, which was chartered on March 1, 1939. Charlton married first Caroline Everett Ross on March 22, 1922, in Pulaski County, Georgia, daughter of John Peterson Ross and Claudia Everett. She was born January 17, 1900; died on March 4, 1969 in Taylor Memorial Hospital, Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia; and was Orange Hill Cemetery, Hawkinsville, Georgia. He married second? Sara ? on July 10, 1970 in Pulaski County, Georgia, according to Georgia Marriage License Number 048582, issued in Pulaski County, Georgia, for the marriage of Charlton B. Adams (age 72) and Sara K. McCallum (age 60). Was there a third? marriage to a “Kathryn M.,” who is identified as his wife and named as a survivor in his obituary in The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Tuesday, September 28, 1993, p. C-5, which appears below, or is this the same as Sara K(athryn?) McCallum?
Marriage of Charlton Berrien Adams, Jr. and Caroline Everett Ross
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, April 12, 1922, p. 8:
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Adams, a recent bride and groom of Macon, have taken up their residence here and are making their home with Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Lawson. Our people gladly welcome these new citizens to our community.
Notes
Excerpts from The History of Pulaski and Bleckley Counties, Georgia, 1808-1956, v. 1, Hawkinsville Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1957, J.W. Burke Company, Macon, Georgia, p. 417:
CHARLTON BERRIEN ADAMS AND ADIEL LEVIN ADAMS
Charlton Berrien Adams, Junior, born August 22, 1897, and Adiel Levin Adams, born August 25, 1902, are sons of Eva Coney Adams and the late Charlton B. Adams of Macon, formerly of Hawkinsville. They were educated in the Macon Public Schools and Emory University, both being members of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Adiel was graduated with an A.B. degree from Mercer University.
On March 22, 1922 Charlton, Junior, married Caroline Ross, born January 17, 1900, of Macon, daughter of Claudia Everett and John Peterson Ross, solicitor general of the Bibb Circuit. Caroline attended Wesleyan Academy, Macon, and Ward-Belmont College, Nashville, Tennessee. She was a member of the Mary Hammond Washington Chapter D.A.R. in Macon. Charlton and Caroline moved to Hawkinsville soon after their marriage.
Charlton B. Adams III was born January 13, 1923. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, receiving degrees of Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering and also Bachelor of Architecture. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Having had polio at the age of ten, he was unable to serve in the armed forces.
John Ross Adams, born October 30, 1930, attended Emory Junior College, Oxford, and the University of Georgia, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. His education was interrupted by serving four years in the United States Navy. He was a quartermaster, second class, on the U.S.S. Hollister, in the Korean theater of operations, and later on the U.S.S. Juneau in the Atlantic Fleet. He is now a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...
... Since moving to Hawkinsville, Adiel and Charlton, Junior, have served on the Official Board of the Methodist Church, the Hawkinsville City Board of Education, and were charter members of the Hawkinsville Rotary Club, Charlton having previously belonged to the Macon Rotary Club. Charlton is serving on the Welfare Board and the Taylor Hospital Board of Trustees. They own and operate Adams Brothers Company, an International Harvester dealership. They also have large farming interests in the county.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Thursday, August 5, 1937, p. 1:
ADAMS BROTHERS IN BUSINESS HERE
Operating Warehouse,
Cotton Business
and Fire InsuranceAdams Brothers is the name of the new firm which commenced business in Hawkinsville this week. It is composed of Charlton B. Adams, of this city, and Adiel L. Adams, formerly of Macon.
The company will conduct a cotton business, operate the Farmers Union Warehouse and handle fire insurance.
Mr. Charlton B. Adams operated the Farmers Union Warehouse last year. He, before entering the cotton business here, had extensive farming interest in the county. He is one (of) the county’s best known citizens.
Mr. Adiel L. Adams comes here from the Bibb Manufacturing Company, where he was cashier. He was with the company 14 years, going with it after being graduated from Mercer University in 1923. He has resided in Macon all of his life, except for two years off at school.
Interesting is the fact that approximately 53 years ago, Mr. C. B. Adams and Mr. A. L. Adams were partners in Hawkinsville. They were the father and uncle of the two members of the new firm. They conducted a wholesale grocery business here before going to Macon, where for a number of years, they were in business together.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Thursday, August 5, 1937, p. 1:
RAMBLING ABOUT TOWN
Yesterday we dropped by to see Charlton Adams at the Farmer Union Warehouse. There we met his brother, Adiel, who lived in Macon practically all his life, but who is now coming to Hawkinsville to make his home. He, like Mr. C. B. Adams, is a man of much personality and we predict he will make a success here. Interesting, too, is the fact that he and his brother, bearing the same names as their father and uncle respectively, are entering business together as Adams Brothers. About 53 years ago Messrs. C. B. and A. L. Adams were in business here together. Now the sons of Mr. C. B. Adams again put the name of Adams Brothers before the business world.
Obituary of Chalton Berrien Adams, Jr.
The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Tuesday, September 28, 1993, p. C-5:
CHARLTON B. ADAMS
HAWKINSVILLE –– Charlton B. Adams, 96, died Monday. Born in Bibb County, he attended Emory University and was a member of Phi Delta Theta. He was a member and steward of First United Methodist Church. He was a retired farm equipment dealer and a charter member of Hawkinsville Rotary Club. He was the first chairman of the Pulaski County Department of Family and Children Services, was a former member and president of R. J. Taylor Memorial Hospital board and a former member of Hawkinsville school board.
Survivors: wife, Kathryn M. Adams of Hawkinsville; children, John R. Adams of Macon, and Mrs. Leon Newman of Thomaston; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services: 3 p.m. today in Hawkinsville First United Methodist Church. Burial: Orange Hill Cemetery. Drs. Glen Martin and Marcus Tripp will officiate. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Hawkinsville First United Methodist or to the donor’s favorite charity. Clark Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Obituary of Caroline Everett Ross
The Macon News, Macon, Georgia, Wednesday, March 5, 1969, p. 19:
MRS. CHARLTON ADAMS
HAWKINSVILLE –– Funeral services for Mrs. Charlton B. Adams, who died Tuesday night in Taylor Memorial Hospital after a long illness, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the First Methodist Church of Hawkinsville.
Mrs. Adams was born in Macon, daughter of the late Claudia Everett and John T. Ross. She had lived in Hawkinsville since her marriage in 1922. She was a member of the First Methodist Church of Hawkinsville, a member of the Women’s Society of Christian Service, a former member of the Macon Town Committee of Colonial Dames and a former member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Survivors include her husband, Charlton B. Adams, Sr.; two sons, Charlton B. Adams, Jr. of Hawkinsville and John R. Adams of Macon; two grandchildren, Ross Adams and Charles Adams, both of Macon; one sister, Mrs. Claudia R. Lowe of Tampa, Fla.
The family requests that flowers be omitted. Clark Funeral Home of Hawkinsville has charge.
The Macon News, Macon, Georgia, Thursday, March 6, 1969, p. 20:
MRS. CHARLTON ADAMS
Funeral services for Mrs. Charlton B. Adams of Hawkinsville, the former Miss Carolyn Ross of Macon, were held at 2 p.m. today in First Methodist Church in Hawkinsville. Mrs. Adams died Tuesday night in a Hawkinsville hospital after a long illness.
The Rev. James W. Chester officiated with burial in Orange Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Adams was born in Macon, but had lived in Hawkinsville since her marriage in 1922. She was a member of Hawkinsville First Methodist Church and its Women’s Society of Christian Service and a former member of the Macon Town Committee of the Colonial Dames and Daughters of the American Revolution.
She is survived by her husband, Charlton B. Adams; two sons, Charlton B. Adams, Jr. of Hawkinsville and John R. Adams of Macon; two grandsons, Ross and Charles Adams of Macon; and a sister, Mrs. Claudia R. Lowe of Tampa, Fla.
Issue:
Of Charlton Berrien Adams, Jr. and Caroline Everett
Ross
J310––– i.––– Charlton Berrien8 Adams III, born January 13, 1923 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia; died September 9, 1974 at his home on Rawls Street, Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia; and was buried in Orange Hill Cemetery, Hawkinsville, Georgia.
Biographical Notes on Charlton Berrien Adams III
According to The History of Pulaski and Bleckley Counties, Georgia, 1808-1956, v. 1, Hawkinsville Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1957, J.W. Burke Company, Macon, Georgia, p. 417:
“Charlton B. Adams III, was born January 13, 1923. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, receiving degrees of Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering and also Bachelor of Architecture. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Having had polio at the age of ten, he was unable to serve in the armed forces.”
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Thursday, July 8, 1937, p. 5:
“Mr. Charlton Adams, Jr., returned this week from Warm Springs and is spending ten days with his parents after which he will return to Atlanta for treatment at Piedmont hospital.”
Obituary of Charlton Berrien Adams III
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, September 11, 1974, p. 16:
DEATH TAKES MR. ADAMS
Charlton Berrien Adams III, 51, of Rawls Street, Hawkinsville, died Monday morning at his residence.
Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Clark Funeral Home with the Rev. R. E. Dorsey officiating. Burial in Orange Hill Cemetery followed.
Mr. Adams was born in Macon and lived most of his life in Hawkinsville. He was a member of the Hawkinsville First United Methodist Church where he served as a member of the Administrative Board. He was a graduate of Georgia Tech and a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. An architect, Mr. Adams was employed by Robert and Co. of Atlanta, and was later a teacher and vocational director at Hawkinsville High School.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlton B. Adams, Jr., one brother, John Ross Adams of Macon, and three nephews, Ross, Chuck and Michael Adams of Macon.
Pallbearers were Hugh Lawson, Lamkin Smith, I. S. Duggan, Ben Porter, Warren Alexander and Bobby Gentry.
J311––– ii.––– John Ross Adams, of whom below, born in 1930.
J155. ADIEL LEVIN7 ADAMS (Eva Riley6 Coney, Ezekiel5, Ann D.4 Fleming, John3, David2, John1) was born August 25, 1902 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia; died January 6, 1983 in Taylor Memorial Hospital, Hawkinsville, Georgia; and was buried in the Orange Hill Cemetery in Hawkinsville. He married Lucile Harris Little on October 12, 1938 in Fort Valley, Peach County, Georgia, daughter of Forester Bailey Little and Lucile Harris. She was born on March 19, 1912 in Putnam County, Georgia; died on June 28, 1973 in Hawkinsville, Georgia; and also was buried in Orange Hill Cemetery.
Marriage of Adiel Levin Adams and Lucile Harris Little
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Thursday, September 8, 1938, p. 5:
Mr. and Mrs. Forrester Bailey Little, of Fort Valley, announce the engagement of their daughter, Lucile Harris, to Adiel L. Adams, of Hawkinsville, formerly of Macon, the marriage to be solemnized in October.
Excerpt from The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Thursday, October 20, 1938, p. 7:
MISS LUCILE LITTLE MARRIED MR. ADIEL L. ADAMS
IN BEAUTIFUL CEREMONY AT FORT VALLEY
According to History of Pulaski and Bleckley Counties, Georgia, 1808-1956, v. 1, Hawkinsville Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1957, J.W. Burke Company, Macon, Georgia, p. 418:
Adiel Levin Adams ... “moved to Hawkinsville in 1937 and a year later married Lucile Harris Little, daughter of Lucile Harris and Forester Bailey Little, Senior, of Fort Valley. Lucile’s brother, Forester Bailey Little, Junior, served three years in the Pacific during World War II. She attended Fort Valley Public Schools and was graduated from G. S. C. W. and also attended Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee.”
Miss Lucile Harris Little, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forrester Bailey Little of Fort Valley, became the bride of Adiel Levin Adams of Hawkinsville in a home ceremony Wednesday afternoon at four o’clock ...
Mrs. Clyde C. Smith, of Brunswick, sister of the bride, was pianist and gave a program of nuptial music ...
Mrs. J. Frank Coney of Hawkinsville sang “O Promise Me” before the ceremony and the Lohengrin Bridal chorus was used for the entrance of the bridal pair ... the Rev. J. Alton Davis, Methodist minister of Hawkinsville, pronounced the nuptial ...
The bride is a graduate of Georgia State College for Women and attended the Peabody School at Nashville, Tenn. She taught in Lyons before going to Hawkinsville where she was a teacher in the public schools. Her mother was the former Miss Lucile Harris of Fort Valley. Her father is one of the leading planters of this section.
The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Eva Coney Adams and the late Charlton Berrien Adams. He is a graduate of Mercer University and studied at Emory University before going to Mercer. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and at present is associated in business with the Adams Brothers warehouse in Hawkinsville.
The couple will reside in Hawkinsville.
Notes
Excerpts from The History of Pulaski and Bleckley Counties, Georgia, 1808-1956, v. 1, Hawkinsville Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1957, J.W. Burke Company, Macon, Georgia, p. 417:
CHARLTON BERRIEN ADAMS AND ADIEL LEVIN ADAMS
Charlton Berrien Adams, Junior, born August 22, 1897, and Adiel Levin Adams, born August 25, 1902, are sons of Eva Coney Adams and the late Charlton B. Adams of Macon, formerly of Hawkinsville. They were educated in the Macon Public Schools and Emory University, both being members of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Adiel was graduated with an A.B. degree from Mercer University ...
... Adiel moved to Hawkinsville in 1937 and a year later married Lucile Little, daughter of Lucile Harris and Forester Bailey Little, Senior, of Fort Valley. Lucile’s brother, Forester Bailey Little, Junior, served three years in the Pacific during World War II. She attended Fort Valley Public Schools and was graduated from G.S.C.W. and also attended Peabody College.
Adiel Levin Adams, Junior, born September 9, 1939, and Lucile Little Adams, born July 16, 1944, are both students at the Hawkinsville Public Schools.
Since moving to Hawkinsville, Adiel and Charlton, Junior, have served on the Official Board of the Methodist Church, the Hawkinsville City Board of Education, and were charter members of the Hawkinsville Rotary Club, Charlton having previously belonged to the Macon Rotary Club. Charlton is serving on the Welfare Board and the Taylor Hospital Board of Trustees. They own and operate Adams Brothers Company, an International Harvester dealership. They also have large farming interests in the county.
Excerpt from The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Thursday, August 4, 1938, p. 1:
COTTON SEASON OPENS AS FIRST BALE IS RECEIVED
Local Gin Handles
The Influx
Of Fleecy StapleColored Farmer Near
Finleyson Brings It
In ––– Weight Is 485
Despite frequent rains this season, which have discouraged the farmers, the initial bale came in practically on time and local ginners feel confident more will follow in rapid order. The season’s total, however, will be even less than last week’s forecast in the opinion of A. L. Adams, local warehouseman.
Mr. Adams, whose firm Adams Brothers, operates the Farmers Mutual Warehouse, and who is making repairs on his building, raising the roof and reconditioning it so as to give more storage space, said yesterday he didn’t believe the number of bales would reach three-quarters total of 1937 ...
Obituary of Lucile Harris Little
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, July 4, 1973, p. 1:
MRS. ADAMS DIES HERE
Mrs. Lucile Little Adams, 61, of Pine Level Drive, Hawkinsville, died at her residence Thursday.
Mrs. Adams, a native of Putnam County, was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Hawkinsville, a member of the U.M.W., a member of the Chancel Choir, Sunday School teacher of the Lucile Adams Sunday School Class and a retired teacher of Hawkinsville High and the Pulaski County school system.
She is survived by her husband, Adiel L. Adams, Hawkinsville; one son, A. L. Adams, Jr., Augusta; one daughter, Mrs. W. Ed Mathews, Knoxville, Tenn.; two sisters, Mrs. Clyde C. Smith, Brunswick, and Mrs. R. J. Hodges, Andersonville; one brother, F. B. Little, Fort Valley, and two grandchildren.
Pallbearers were John Adams, Hugh Lawson, Collins Sullivan, Sam Scarboro, Forrester Hodges and Robert Hodges.
Clark Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Obituary of Adiel Levin Adams
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, January 12, 1983, p. 13:
ADIEL ADAMS
Adiel Levin Adams, 80, of Pine Level Drive in Hawkinsville died Thursday at Taylor Memorial Hospital in Hawkinsville.
Services were held at 3 p.m., Friday at First United Methodist Church of Hawkinsville with Dr. Tom Watson officiating.
nterment was in Orange Hill Cemetery in Hawkinsville.
A native of Macon, he was a member of First United Methodist Church of Hawkinsville, chairman of the Board of Trustees of First United Methodist Church, member of Town Creek Country Club, a charter member of the Hawkinsville Rotary Club, former member of the Hawkinsville Board of Education, retired warehouseman, farm implement dealer and farmer.
He is survived by one son, Adiel L. Adams, Jr., of Augusta; one daughter, Lucile Adams Mathews of Knoxville, Tenn.; three grandchildren, Forester Bailey Adams and Franklin Field Adams, both of Augusta, and William Edgar Mathews III of Knoxville, Tenn.; one nephew, John R. Adams of Macon; and five nieces, Evelyn Fairbanks of Gainesville, Fla., Mary Geeslin of Norfolk, Va., Ann Dodson of Greer, S. C., Emily Smith of Columbia, S.C. and Eva Sullins of Griffin.
Issue:
J312––– i.––– Adiel Levin8 Adams, Jr., of whom below, born in 1939.
J313––– ii.––– Lucile Little Adams, of whom below, born in 1944.
J156. CHARLES RANDOLPH7 CONEY (William Crawford6, Jeremiah5, Ann D.4 Fleming, John3, David2, John1) was born December 23, 1870 in Brenham, Washington County, Texas, died November 4, 1956 in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas; and was buried in Cleburne Cemetery, Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas. He married Stella Harmon on April 27, 1892. She was born in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas on April 24, 1873; and died in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas on June 12, 1945. According to Of A People and A Creek, compiled by Raymond Elliott and Mildred Padon, published in 1979, he was in the grocery business with David R. Myres, his uncle. Later he owned a confectionery in Cleburne and a bakery in Weatherford and Abilene.
Obituary of Charles Randolph Coney
The Cleburne Times-Review, Cleburne, Texas, Monday, November 5, 1956, p. 8:
C. R. CONEY, 85, resident of Weatherford for 18 years, died there Monday (Sunday?) and funeral services will be conducted there at 2 p. m. Interment will be in Cleburne cemetery after graveside services at 4 p.m. Dillon funeral home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Coney was a former resident of Georges Creek and Cleburne, having moved to Cleburne from Brenham when he was three years old. He moved to Weatherford in 1928, and was a member of First Christian church.
Surviving him are three sons, Mason and Harold Coney of Weatherford, and Harmon Coney of Stockholm, Sweden; (a daughter) Mrs. Ruby Lareau, Weatherford; a sister, Mrs. H. C. Stoffers, Abilene.
Obituary of Stella Harmon
The Cleburne Times-Review, Cleburne, Texas, Tuesday, June 12, 1945, p. 1:
RITES TO BE HELD HERE WEDNESDAY FOR MRS. CONEY
Mrs. Stella Coney, 72, former resident of Cleburne, died this morning at her home in Weatherford. A native of Cleburne, she made her home here until about 20 years ago.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Anglin Street Presbyterian Church with Rev. Carter McKemy of Cleburne officiating. Burial will be in the Cleburne cemetery with Dillon’s Funeral Home in charge of the local arrangements. The body will be at the church an hour before the service.
Survivors include her husband, C. R. Coney, Weatherford; three sons, Mason C. Coney, Weatherford; Harmon Coney, Bombay, Indiana; and Harold Coney, Hawaii; a daughter, Mrs. La Rue, Vernon; a brother, Basil Harmon, Ranger; and a sister, Mrs. J. A. Sanderlin, Cleburne.
Issue:
J314––– i.––– Mason Cleveland8 Coney, born June 5, 1894 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas. According to Of A People and A Creek, compiled by Raymond Elliott and Mildred Padon, 1979, he was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and a “landscape architect in Houston, mainly with the River Oaks Corp., developing some of the finest subdivisions in the country.” He died in December 9, 1981 in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas and was buried in the Cleburne Cemetery, Cleburne, Texas.
Obituary of
Mason Cleveland ConeyThe Cleburne Times-Review, Cleburne, Texas, Thursday, December 10, 1981, p. A-2:
MASON C. CONEY
WEATHERDORD –– Funeral services for Mason Cleveland Coney of Weatherford will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at the Cotton-Bratton Funeral Home in Weatherford.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. at the Cleburne Memorial Cemetery.
Coney was born June 5, 1894 and was a native of Cleburne. He had lived in Weatherford for 44 years.
He was a veteran of WW I and was wounded in the Argonne Forest Battle in France two days before the armistice in 1918.
Coney was a graduate of the University of California with a degree in landscape architecture.
He was associated with the development of River Oaks in Houston as the landscape architect.
Coney served for many years on the Texas Park Board.
He is survived by two brothers, Harold and Harmon Coney, both of Weatherford; and a sister, Ruby LaReau of Texas.
J315––– ii.––– Harmon Crawford Coney was born July 12, 1897 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas. According to Of A People and A Creek, he served with the United States State Department in Washington, D. C., during World War I, and “went to Paris with President Woodrow Wilson.” He was a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and later spent 30 years with an international oil company overseas. He died in April 17, 1985 in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas and was buried in Cleburne Cemetery, Cleburne, Texas.
Obituary of
Harmon Crawford ConeyThe Cleburne Times-Review, Cleburne, Texas, Friday, April 19, 1985, p. 2:
HARMON CONEY
WEATHERFORD –– Graveside funeral services for Harmon Coney, of 197 N. Alamo St., Weatherford, will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Cleburne Memorial Cemetery.
Coney died Wednesday in Weatherford. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie R. Coney, and he had lived in Cleburne for many years.
He was a graduate of George Washington University School of Foreign Affairs and served with the U.S. State Department during WW I. He traveled to Paris with President Wilson and his Peace Commission as a code clerk. He also spent 30 years with an international oil company assigned to various overseas countries.
He is survived by a brother, Harold Coney of Weatherford, and a sister, Ruby Lareau of Vernon.
Cotton Bratton Funeral Chapel in Weatherford has charge of arrangements.
J316––– iv.––– Charles Randolph Coney, Jr. was born in Cleburne, Texas on May 16, 1899; died there on August 12, 1920; and was buried in Cleburne Cemetery, Cleburne, Texas.
Obituaries of
Charles Randolph Coney, Jr.The Cleburne Morning Review, Cleburne, Texas, Tuesday, August 3, 1920, p. 1:
RANDOLPH CONEY AGAIN
IN SERIOUS CONDITIONA specialist was called from Fort Worth Monday to consult with local physicians concerning the condition of Randolph Coney, who is reported to be in a serious condition.
Mr. Coney was recently submitted to two operations for abscess behind the eye, and for a time he seemed to improve, but a few days ago the affection began to progress toward the back of the head. It was reported yesterday that meningitis had set up.
Mr. Coney’s friends would be greatly pleased to hear more encouraging news concerning his condition.
The Cleburne Morning Review, Cleburne, Texas, Wednesday, August 4, 1920, p. 1:
RANDOLPH CONEY IN
A SERIOUS CONDITION;
M. CONEY ARRIVES HOMERandolph Coney was in a serious condition at a late hour last night. A phone message from the parental home brought the information that his recovery was problematical. Everything possible is being done to restore, and his many friends are wishing for a turn for the better in his condition.
Mason Coney, a brother of the patient, arrived from California Tuesday, where he is attending the University of California by direction of the United States Government. He was greatly shocked to learn of Randolph’s serious condition. He had heard of the early operation, but did not know of the serious turn in his condition.
The Cleburne Morning Review, Cleburne, Texas, Thursday, August 5, 1920, p. 1:
RANDOLPH CONEY WAS IN
SERIOUS CONDITION AT
EARLY HOUR THIS A.M.Randolph Coney was in a serious condition last night. Relatives have been notified of his condition by wire, which also includes a cable to his brother in Europe.
While the patient is thought to be holding his own, it is not known what minute there will be a turn for the worse. He is having the very best of attention and if science and hard work can save him, he will soon be restored.
At 1 o’clock this morning it was said that he was resting quietly under opiates. He is battling strongly for life and it is hoped the victory will be in favor of science, good treatment and the patient’s will power.
The Cleburne Morning Review, Cleburne, Texas, Thursday, August 12, 1920, p. 1:
RANDOLPH CONEY
VERY LOW; NOT EXPECTED
TO LIVE; DOCTORS CONSULTThe phone service at the C. R. Coney residence, 309 North Granbury street, was discontinued Wednesday on account of the serious illness of Randolph Coney. He has had a backset and has been growing worse for the past several days and the local and out-of-town doctors held a consultation over his case yesterday. At one o’clock this morning one of the attending physicians stated that the patient was barely alive and the end was expected at any time, unless there was a rally in his condition.
Young Coney was operated on for the removal of pus bank of the eyes, and this was followed by another operation. After that he seemed to show rapid improvement. But for the past several days, he has been on the decline.
Harmon Coney, of the American Embassy at Paris, France, is expected to arrive in New York on Aug. 22nd. He is on the way home to attend a family reunion. Of course, should his brother Randolph pass away, he would be greatly shocked on reaching New York to get a message bearing this sad intelligence.
The Cleburne Morning Review, Cleburne, Texas, Friday, August 13, 1920, p. 1:
RANDOLPH CONEY
PASSES AWAY,
FUNERAL THIS A.M.Randolph Coney, 21 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Coney, 309 North Granbury street, after battling for several days between life and death, yielded up his spirit at 9:10 Thursday morning. His death brought a general expression of regret throughout the city that he should be sent off, just as he had entered the threshold of young manhood, with bright prospects for a successful life.
The funeral will take place from the family residence at 10 o’clock this morning, and the funeral service will be conducted by Rev. George N. Thomas, pastor of the Anglin Street Presbyterian church. Following is a list of the active pallbearers:
Robert Harris, William Ramsey, Robert Joplin, Tom Johnson, Homer Wicker, Talmage Peyton. Honorary pallbearers: J. A. Coursey, J. C. Blakeney, Emmett Brown, James Kilpatrick, W. F. McCandless, Judge O. O. Chrisman, J. E. Bratcher, A. A. Shipley.
Chas. Randolph Coney, Jr. was born May 16, 1899 and united with the Presbyterian church in 1913 and was active in the church and Sunday school work. He graduated from the Cleburne High in 1918 and took training at Austin in the S.A.T.C. until the armistice was signed. He accepted employment with the Texas Power & Light Company of this city and later accepted a place under County Clerk Coursey as deputy county clerk and was holding the place at the time of his death. For a man of his age he mastered the duties of the county clerk’s office very quickly and was of great assistance to those who had business transactions with the office.
He was stricken with a severe headache several weeks ago and continued to grow worse until he was operated on twice and recovered sufficiently to permit of his coming to the city and casting his ballot on July 24th, but after this date, he seemed not to do so well and three or four days ago began to grow worse. On Thursday morning this paper printed an item to the effect that practically all hope of his recovery had been abandoned and that the end would shortly come, unless there was a rally in his condition very soon.
The rally did not come. His spirit was passed out quietly at 9:10 Thursday morning, while surrounded by friends and loved ones.
In the death of Randolph Coney, the city has been deprived of a very valuable young man, a citizen whose ability and integrity gave promise of bringing honor to himself as well as his place of residence. It will be with universal regret that his friends learn of his death but they, with the relatives, may take consolation in the fact that God in his wisdom has purpose back of all his actions, and his removal from earthly activities of this young man presages grander duties “in the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
Randolph leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Coney, and three brothers, Mason, Harmon and Harold, and a sister, Ruby. Mason, who is attending the University of California at Berkeley, reached home a few days ago. Harmon, who has been with the American Embassy in Paris, is now en route home and will reach New York Aug. 22.
Since the beginning of the war, the family has been separated and for some time had been planning a family reunion and now it will be with saddened hearts that the members of the family and the number of near relatives meet.
The Review joins the many friends of the young man in extending sympathy to the parents and other relatives during this hour of sorrow.
Relatives To Be Here
A number of relatives have already arrived or will arrive this morning to attend the funeral. Among those who will attend the funeral will be as follows:
William E. Myres, a cousin, Fort Worth; H. C. Stoffers, an uncle, Graham; Bazle Harmon, an uncle, Ranger; Mrs. Curry, a cousin, Midlothian; Mrs. Pat Wilson, a cousin, Waxahachie; Mrs. Joe Witherspoon, a cousin, Midlothian; Mrs. Jake Sewell, a cousin, Midlothian; and several others to arrive this morning.
J317––– iii.––– Ruby Eugenia Coney, of whom below, born October 30, 1903 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas.
J318––– v.––– Basil Coney, born June 28, 1908 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas; died July 12, 1909.
J319––– vi.––– Hubert Harold Coney, of whom below, was born on July 28, 1910 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas.
J164. PERRY C.7 CONEY (Samuel Whitsett6, Charles5, Ann D.4 Fleming, John3, David2, John1) married Sallie May Wheeler, daughter of John J. Wheeler.
Issue:
J320––– i.––– Lydia8 Coney.
J180. D. EUGENE7 SCARBOROUGH (Mary Louise6 Fleming, David Green5, Duncan Lemmon4, John3, David2, John1) was born February 6, 1906 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia; died June 13, 1951 in Fruitland Park, near Leesburg, in Lake County, Florida. He married Ella May ?.
Obituary of D. Eugene Scarborough
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, June 27, 1951, p. 6:
FORMER PULASKIAN KILLED IN BOAT WRECK IN FLORIDA
By Emma Caldwell
D. E. (Gene) Scarborough, of Fruitland Park, Fla., formerly of Pulaski County, son of Mrs. Dave Scarborough of this city, met death, Wednesday afternoon, June 13, when the boat in which he was sitting was struck by another boat.
Scarborough and a friend were seated in a boat in front of the beach of Yacht Basin, in the Venetian Gardens at Fruitland Park, near Leesburg, Fla. Charles Sawyer, 14, driver of the other boat with his mother seated in the prow, was reportedly coming at full speed across the water, looking in another direction, not seeing the parked boats until they struck.
Mrs. Sawyer was thrown 20 feet before striking the water. Scarborough’s companion, seeing the oncoming boat, dove into the water.
The speeding boat struck Scarborough, knocking him into the water. He sustained a broken pelvis, head injuries and was immediately carried to a hospital, where he died the following day. The crash occurred June 13, at five o’clock. His mother, Mrs. Dave Scarborough, of Hawkinsville, was visiting him at the time.
Scarborough was a member of a well known Pulaski county family. He was born in Macon, Feb. 6, 1906, the son of the late Dave Scarborough and Mrs. Mary Lou Fleming Scarborough, of Hawkinsville and Pulaski county. He spent most of his life in the Pulaski High district of this county. For more than twenty years, he had resided in Florida.
At the time of his death, he was associated with the Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company.
Funeral services were held Friday afternoon, June 15 at the Community Methodist church, at Fruitland Park, with interment at the city cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ella May Scarborough, one daughter, Miss Joyce Scarborough, and one son, David Scarborough, all of Fruitland Park; mother, Mrs. Dave Scarborough of Hawkinsville; two brothers, John Scarborough of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Ted Scarborough of Hawkinsville.
Those from Hawkinsville who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Scarborough and family, Mrs. Paul Scarborough, Mrs. Frank Scarborough, Mrs. Wilbur Slade, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Scarborough.
Issue:
J321––– i.––– Joyce8 Scarborough.
J322––– ii.––– David Scarborough.
J183. JAMES THOMAS7 FLEMING, JR. (James Thomas6,
David Green5, Duncan Lemmon4, John3, David2, John1)
–– my grandfather –– was born on March 29, 1903 in Albany,
Dougherty County, 
Georgia;
died on January 6, 1970 in St Patrick’s Hospital, Jacksonville, Duval County,
Florida, when I was not quite seven years old; and was buried in Oakview Cemetery, in
Albany, Georgia. Tom was a graduate of Atlanta’s Boys High, and a 1927 graduate
of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
According to my father, Walter Saunders Fleming, my grandfather’s family was
planning to buy a textile mill, which led him to study textiles at Georgia Tech.
However, the Depression delayed (permanently) the family’s plan. While at
Tech, Tom also played football.
Because of diabetes and a liver problem (possibly caused by malaria contracted as a child), doctors told him to move to either Arizona or Florida. Because his wife’s brother was already living in Jacksonville, Florida, they moved there.
Tom married Ruby Alleen Hart on January 31, 1929 at the home of her mother, in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia.
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Ruby was a graduate of The University of Georgia, in Athens, Georgia, and was for many years an elementary school teacher in Jacksonville. She was a daughter of John Samuel Hart and Annie Rebecca Johnson, of Warren County, Georgia, and granddaughter of Absalom Hart and Malissa Juvernia Johnson, and of Columbus Fountain Johnson and Mary Elizabeth Thompson.
Ruby was born on March 5, 1905 near Warrenton, Warren County, Georgia; died on March 27, 1992 in Metropolis, Massac County, Illinois; and was buried in the cemetery of the Johnson Methodist Church, outside of Warrenton.
Obituaries of James Thomas Fleming, Jr.
The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Florida, Wednesday, January 7, 1970, p. B-24:
FLEMING –– James Thomas Fleming, Jr., 66, of 1330 Hollywood Ave., died Tuesday after a long illness. Mr. Fleming was born in Albany, Ga., and had resided in Jacksonville for the past 25 years, moving here from Miami. He was a member of the Avondale Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ruby H. Fleming, Jacksonville; a son, Walter S. Fleming, of Atlanta; and two grandchildren. The body will be forwarded to Albany, Ga. for services and interment. Local arrangements by Hardage and Sons Riverside Funeral Home, 517 Park St.
The Albany Herald, Albany, Georgia, Wednesday, January 7, 1970, p. C-5:
J. T. FLEMING, JR. FUNERAL THURSDAY
ames Thomas Fleming, Jr., 66, of Jacksonville, Fla., died Tuesday afternoon in St. Patrick’s Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla. He had been a resident of Jacksonville for the past 25 years and was a retired draftsman.
Mr. Fleming was born March 29, 1903, in Albany, and was the son of the late James Thomas and Josie Beall Jones Fleming.
He was a graduate of Georgia Tech and was a member of the Avondale Baptist Church in Jacksonville.
Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Ruby Hart Fleming of Milledgeville; a son, Walter S. Fleming, of Atlanta; and two grandchildren, Joe and Carol Fleming of Atlanta.
The funeral will be held Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at the graveside in Oakview Cemetery with the Rev. Perry F. Webb, Jr., pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating.
The family will be at the home of Mrs. W. A. Newsome, 705 Park Place.
Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.
The family asked that in lieu of flowers contributions be made to charity.
The Albany Herald, Albany, Georgia, Thursday, January 8, 1970, p. B-9:
FLEMING RITES IN CITY TODAY
Mr. Fleming, 66, of 1330 Hollywood Ave., Jacksonville, Fla., died Tuesday morning in Jacksonville following a brief illness.
A native Albanian, Mr. Fleming had been a resident of Jacksonville for the past 25 years and was a retired draftsman. He was a member of the Avondale Baptist Church of Jacksonville.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ruby Hart Fleming of Jacksonville; a son, Walter S. Fleming of Atlanta; two grandchildren.
Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.
Issue:
J323––– i.––– Walter Saunders8 Fleming, only child, of whom below, born in 1935 in Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia.
J184. CAROLYN7 FLEMING (Anthony Pate6, David Green5, Duncan Lemmon4, John3, David2, John1). The story of her marriage in The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, October 18, 1922, p. 8 calls her “Carolyn Staten Fleming.” She was born October 30, 1903 in Moultrie, Colquitt County, Georgia; died April 25, 1991 in Monroe County, Georgia; and was buried on April 30, 1991 in Long Pond Cemetery, Montgomery County, Georgia. Carolyn married John Richard Staley on October 7, 1922 in the Dempsey Hotel, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.
Marriage of Carolyn (Staten?) Fleming and John Richard Staley
, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Wednesday, October 18, 1922, p. 8:The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News
FLEMING-STALEY
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Fleming, of Hawkinsville, Ga., announce the marriage of their daughter, Carolyn Staten to Mr. John Richard Staley, of St. Louis, Mo., and Jacksonville, Fla., at the Dempsey Hotel, Macon, Ga., Saturday, October 7.
Reverend Father Wilkinson, of St. Joseph Cathedral, officiated. The bride’s mother was the only attendant.
Miss Fleming has a host of friends who will be delightfully surprised to learn of this event. – Macon Telegraph.
Obituary of Carolyn (Staten) Fleming
The Monroe County Reporter, Forsyth, Georgia, Wednesday, May 1, 1991, p. 2:
MRS. STALEY
Mrs. John Richard Staley, 87, of Forsyth, died April 25.
A Colquitt County native, Mrs. Staley was the daughter of the late Anthony Pate Fleming and Carolyn Johnson Fleming, of Hawkinsville, and the widow of John Richard Staley. She was the former Carolyn Fleming.
Survivors include her children, John Richard Staley, Jr., of Jackson, Miss., and Carolyn S. Dean, of Jacksonville, Fla.; sisters, Mrs. John L. Hoffman, of Forsyth, and Mrs. W. A. Leaptrot, of Pinehurst; seven grandchildren, several great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.
Services were held April 30 in Long Pond Cemetery in Montgomery County. The Rev. Joel Dent officiated. Adams Funeral Home in Dublin had charge of arrangements.
Issue:
J324––– i.––– John Richard8 Staley, Jr.
J325––– ii.––– Carolyn Staley, of whom below.
J185. EVELYN7 FLEMING (Anthony Pate6, David Green5, Duncan Lemmon4, John3, David2, John1) was born on May 23, 1910 in Ashburn, Turner County, Georgia; died on July 4, 2003 in Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia; buried in Orange Hill Cemetery, Hawkinsville, Georgia.
 She married John Leon Hoffman on February 7, 1932 in Houston, Harris
County, Texas, son of Paul Mark Hoffman and Lulu Pearl Maddox. This was his second
marriage.John Leon Hoffman was born on October 6, 1889 in Waverly, Chambers County, Alabama; died January 29, 1982 in Monroe County, Georgia. He was a landscape architect and construction director for Callaway Gardens, a 14,000-acre resort and gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia. According to an e-mail from her son, Peter Hoffman, on September 11, 2001: “Mother wasn’t christened with a middle name. As girls, the four sisters had monogrammed items, and the middle initial became an issue. She and her parents settled on the name Beacham.” (I wonder if instead it could be “Beauchamp,” the maiden name of Evelyn’s maternal grandmother –– JTF.) Cousin Evelyn is one of the researchers of the Fleming family of Pulaski County, Georgia, upon whose earlier work this current genealogy is built. I last saw her on October 20, 2002, at her home in Forsyth, Georgia. She graduated from Hawkinsville High School in 1927.
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EXCURSUS
Carrie Dell (Mayberry) Hoffman was born on January 23, 1891 in Waverly, Alabama; died on March 13, 1989 in Reno, Nevada? |
Notes
From Monroe County, Georgia: A History, by the Monroe County Historical Society, Forsyth, Georgia, 1979, p. 325:
NAPIER-HOFFMAN HOME
On the old Indian Springs trail (now Indian Springs Drive) is a majestic plantation Colonial home with balconied pink front, white columns and floor-length windows. On January 10, 1826, Thomas T. Napier purchased Land Lot 170. Here he built this spacious house on the choice eminence of this and several hundred surrounding acres he owned in adjacent land lots. Two-foot sills are hand-hewn, mortised and tenoned. The original stairways and eight fireplaces are intact.
Among subsequent owners were H. H. Lampkin, Andrew Zellner, Joseph R. Banks, and J. H. Stuart. During the War Between the States it served as a Confederate hospital. Later another Napier owned it for nearly half a century.
When restoring it some forty years ago, present owners Mr. and Mrs. John Leon Hoffman used great care to preserve the original design. Its exquisite simplicity is echoed in heirlooms. Gardens of the period were designed by Mr. Hoffman, as were many beautiful gardens and structures in Forsyth. He studied under the renowned Fredrick Law Olmsted, and was consultant to leading corporate and cultural institutions over the world.
According to the book Cason Callaway of Blue Springs by Paul Schubert, published in 1964 by Mrs. Cason J. Callaway, Blue Springs, Georgia, printed by Foote & Davis, Atlanta, Georgia, p. 133:
Landscape architect John Hoffman, of Forsyth, Georgia, was construction director, with landscape architect Gilmore Clark, of New York, as consultant. A permanent staff was engaged, Fred Galle became Director of Horticulture.
From the Blue Springs nurseries, as time went along, one hundred thousand plants were set out in the new Gardens. Thirty-five hundred white fragrant arborescens azaleas, seven feet tall, were transplanted. Hundreds of late-flowering prunifolia azaleas, descendents of those discoveries Cason had made in the Blue Springs woods twenty years earlier, were moved to new homes on Gardens hillsides. Holly arboretums and magnolia arboretums went in. There were paths lined with hybrid rhododendron and hybrid azalea. There were rose gardens and chrysanthemum gardens. Slopes were planted with banks of myrtle and bay, with ferns and gentians, wild hydrangeas, mountain laurel, lost gordonia and sweet shrub, wild roses, grancy graybeard, crabapple and plum and dogwood and redbud, and with masses of the smaller wildflowers, the violets and trilliums, the trout lilies, the grass-of-Parnassus and dainty bluet ...
Opening day was scheduled for May 21, 1952.
Obituary of John Leon Hoffman
The Monroe County Reporter, Forsyth, Georgia, Wednesday, February 10, 1982, p. 13:
SERVICES FOR MR. HOFFMAN
Private services were held for John Hoffman January 31, 1982.
A pioneer in environmental design, Mr. Hoffman was educated at Auburn and MIT. He continued his study with the renowned Frederick Law Olmstead, and his first work was with Mr. Olmstead on the Biltmore Estate at Asheville. Well known as a metropolitan and regional planner, Mr. Hoffman held credentials as a licensed professional in the areas of civil engineering, architecture and landscape architecture. His projects stretch across the world and include, in the southeast, Callaway Gardens and the city of Hollywood, Florida.
Mr. Hoffman is survived by his wife, two daughters, three sons, and several grandchildren and great grandchildren. A brother, Culver Hoffman, lives in the old place of their great grandfather in Alabama.
Issue:
J326––– i.––– Johnina Leone8 Hoffman, of whom below, born in 1933 in Waverly, Alabama.
J327––– ii.––– Jerry Maddox Hoffman, of whom below.
J328––– iii.––– Peter Fleming Hoffman married Anne van Leeuwen. No children.
J186. MARY WESTER7 FLEMING (Anthony Pate6, David Green5, Duncan Lemmon4, John3, David2, John1) was born January 24, 1916 in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia; died December 16, 1979 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia; and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Cochran, Bleckley County, Georgia. In 1935, Mary graduated from Hawkinsville High School, in Hawkinsville, Georgia. She married William Bush English on June 9, 1935 in Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia. He was a son of William Gilbert English and Minnie Bush, and was born on May 22, 1906 in that part of Pulaski County that was annexted to create Bleckley County, Georgia in 1912; died on July 8, 1970 in Bleckley Memorial Hospital, Cochran, Bleckley County, Georgia; and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Cochran, Georgia.
Marriage of Mary Wester Fleming and William Bush English
The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Thursday, June 13, 1935, p. 5:
MISS FLEMING WED TO MR. ENGLISH
A marriage of much interest to a large number of friends in this section of the state is that of Miss Mary Wester Fleming of this city and Mr. William Bush English of Cochran, which was quietly solemnized Sunday afternoon, June 10th (sic - Sunday would be June 9th), in Dublin. The bride was beautifully gowned in an ensemble suit of blue and brown printed crepe, with hat and accessories of brown.
The bride is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Fleming. She is a graduate of the 1935 class Hawkinsville High School, and is a young lady of charming personality. She is admired by a wide circle of friends. Mr. English is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. English of Cochran. He is well known in this section, and is associated in business with his father, who has extensive farming interests.
Obituary of Mary Wester Fleming
, Cochran, Georgia, Wednesday, December 19, 1979, p. D-8:The Cochran Journal
MRS. W. B. (JACK) ENGLISH
uneral services for Mrs. Mary English, 63, of Cochran, who died
Sunday, December 16, 1979, in a Macon hospital following a short illness, were held at
3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Allen Johnson, Elder
Willie Hatfield and Dr. Clarence Knight officiating. Burial was in the Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Mrs. English, the former Mary Webster (sic) Fleming, was born in Hawkinsville, the daughter of the late Anthony Pate Fleming and Caroline (sic) Johnson Fleming. She was the wife of the late W. B. (Jack) English and has lived in Cochran for the past forty-five years.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, serving on the official board of the church, and was a member of the United Methodist Women. Mrs. English was a retired L. P. N. and was a Pink Lady at the Bleckley County Hospital, a member of the Hawkinsville Chapter DAR, the Cochran Garden Club and the Thirty-Niners Club.
Survivors include three sons: W. B. English, Jr., of New Orleans, La.; Paul English and Clyde English, both of Cochran; a daughter, Mrs. Gerald Smith, of Cochran; three sisters, Mrs. J. R. Staley, of Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Leon Hoffman, of Forsyth; and Mrs. W. A. Leaptrot, of Pinehurst; a sister-in-law, Mrs. I. C. English, of Warner Robins; and thirteen grandchildren.
Active pallbearers were Raj Ambardeker, Jerry Collins, Herbert Cooler, John Giddens, Marion Porter, and Jimmy Padgett.
Fisher Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Obituary of William Bush English
The Cochran Journal, Cochran, Georgia, Thursday, July 16, 1970, p. 10:
W. B. (JACK) ENGLISH
Funeral services for W. B. (Jack) English, 64, of Ann Street in Cochran, who died unexpectedly Wednesday afternoon in the Bleckley Memorial Hospital, were held Friday afternoon at the Cochran United Methodist Church. The services were conducted by Rev. Ted Griner and Rev. Emmett Davis. Burial was in the Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mr. English was born in Bleckley County, the son of the late Will G. and Minnie Bush English and has lived here all of his life. He was a prominent farmer and landowner, member of the Official Board of the Cochran United Methodist Church, the Cochran Rotary Club, the Cochran Masonic Lodge #217, and the Al Shirah Temple of Macon. He was employed by the State Department of Agriculture.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary Flemming (sic) English of Cochran; three sons, William B. English, Jr., U.S. Navy on Groton, Conn., Paul F. English and A. Clyde English, both of Cochran; one daughter, Mrs. Ranz Horne of Conyers; eleven grandchildren.
The active pallbearers were: Cecil Attaway, Jimmy Perry, Ivy Smith, Willett Reeves, Gene Newman, J. D. Coley, Marion Porter, and A. C. Miller.
Members of the Cochran Rotary Club, the Official Board of the Cochran United Methodist Church and the Cochran Masonic Lodge formed an honorary escort.
Fisher Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.
Issue:
J329––– i.––– William Bush8 English, Jr., of whom below, born in 1936 in Bleckley County, Georgia.
J330––– ii.––– Paul Fleming English, of whom below, born in 1937.
J331––– iii.––– Anthony Clyde English, of whom below, born in 1940 in Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia.
J332––– iv.––– Mary Dianne English, of whom below, born in September 23, 1943.
J187. ANNE PATE7 FLEMING (Anthony Pate6, David Green5, Duncan Lemmon4, John3, David2, John1) was born November 17, 1918 in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia; died on October 6, 2003 in Byromville, Dooly County, Georgia; and was buried in Pinehurst Cemetery, Pinehurst, Dooly County, Georgia. She married William Alonza Leaptrot, Jr. on June 25, 1950 in Bleckley County, Georgia. He was born circa 1915 in Dooly County, Georgia; died September 11, 1990 in Pinehill Nursing Home, Byromville, Dooly County, Georgia; and was buried on September 14, 1990, in Pinehurst Cemetery, Pinehurst, Georgia.
Marriage of Anne Pate Fleming and William Alonza Leaptrot
Excerpt from The Hawkinsville Dispatch and News, Hawkinsville, Georgia, Thursday, June 29, 1950, p. 5:
MISS FLEMING WEDS WILLIAM LEAPTROT, JR.
The ante-bellum theme prevailed throughout the home in decoration and the gowns worn by the bridal party. The colonial stairway was entwined with smilax. Throughout the wide hall and spacious rooms, suggestive of this period, quantities of smilax and magnolias were used in profusion. The high hand-carved mantel held white cathedral candelabra, alternating with clusters of magnolias. At the old-fashioned double doors, Mrs. Needham J. Goode greeted the guests as they arrived.
Before the ceremony a program of nuptial music was presented with Mrs. M. R. Thompson as pianist, and Mrs. Frank Coney soloist, the music including “Angel’s Serenade” and “O Perfect Love.” Descending the road stairway, the bridal party entered the living room which was the scene of the ceremony. The bride preceded by her sister, Mrs. William Bush English, who served as matron of honor, and her niece, Dianne English, as flower girl. The bride entered with her brother, William Bush English, who gave her in marriage. The groom entered with his best man, Asa Charles Daniels, of Pinehurst, and met the bride at the improvised altar in front of the mantel where the ceremony was performed and where brides and grooms have exchanged vows for generations. The Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin was played for the bridal party to enter, and during the ceremony Schubert’s Serenade was played softly. At the close of the ceremony, the hymn, “May the Grace of God Our Father,” was sung ...
Obituary of Anne Pate Fleming
The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Tuesday, October 7, 2003:
ANNE F. LEAPTROT
BYROMVILLE –– Graveside services for Anne F. Leaptrot, age 84, of Byromville, will be 3 p.m. Wednesday, October 8 in the Pinehurst City Cemetery.
Mrs. Leaptrot passed Monday, October 6, 2003 in a Byromville nursing home. A native of Hawkinsville, she was the daughter of the late Anthony Pate Fleming and Carolyn Johnson Fleming.
She was a former ballet and tap dancing instructor, the widow of William A. Leaptrot and was of the Episcopal faith.
Survivors include her daughter, Mary Anne Batchelor (Charles) of Midlothian, VA.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Pinehurst Baptist Church, c/o Betty Maples, P. O. Box 72, Pinehurst, GA 31070 or to Pinehurst United Methodist Church, c/o Jeanelle Dupree, P.O. Box 162, Pinehurst, GA 31070.
The family will greet friends from 1:00 until 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 8 at the funeral home.
Those who wish may sign the online registry atwww.brannen-nesmith.com.
Brannen-NeSmith Funeral Home of Vienna has charge of arrangements.
Obituary of William Alonza Leaptrot, Jr.
The Vienna News Observer, Vienna, Georgia, Thursday, September 20, 1990, p. 7:
MR. LEAPTROT
William Alonza Leaptrot, Jr., 75, of Pinehurst died Tuesday, Sept. 11, 1990, in Pinehill Nursing Home in Byromville. Funeral services were conducted Friday, Sept. 14 from the graveside in Pinehurst City Cemetery with the Rev. Doug Fullington officiating.
A native of Dooly County, Mr. Leaptrot was a lifelong resident. He was a retired farm machinery repairman and an Army veteran of World War II.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Anne Pate Fleming Leaptrot, Pinehurst; one daughter, Mary Anne L. Batchelor, Midlothian, Va.; one brother, Jewett A. Leaptrot, Ocala, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. Bessie L. Tiraboschi, Ocala, Fla. and Mrs. Trudy L. McDonald, Springvale and several nieces and nephews.
Bowen-NeSmith Funeral Home of Vienna had charge of arrangements.
Issue:
J333––– i.––– Mary Anne8 Leaptrot was born in 1952. At the age of 22, on June 15, 1974, she married Charles I. Batchelor in Clarke County, Georgia, also 22 at the time of the marriage. He was born in Atwood, Kansas in 1952.
Biographical Notes on Charles I. Batchelor
The Richmond Times Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, Tuesday, July 20, 1999, p. C-1:
EDITOR WILL PLOW NEW ROW;
MAGAZINE SHUTDOWN SHUTS
CHAPTER IN CAREERBy Greg Edwards
Times-Dispatch Staff Writer“They told me on May 13 they were killing my magazine,” said Charles I. Batchelor, editor and publisher of Cooperative Farmer.
That decision by Southern States Cooperative’s senior management tolled the end of not only the cooperative’s 54-year-old publication but also of Batchelor’s 25-year career with the Richmond-based farm supply cooperative.
Losing the magazine wasn’t quite like losing a child, Batchelor said. “I wouldn’t go that far, but it was like some sort of death.”
Batchelor had spent his entire journalistic career since graduating from the University of Georgia in 1974 at Cooperative Farmer.
“I was no good for more than a few days,” he recalled.
CHARLES I. BATCHELOR
Born: ... 1952, in Atwood, Kan.;
Education: University of Georgia, bachelor’s degree in journalism, 1974;
Job Description: Editor and publisher of Cooperative Farmer Magazine and publisher of other publications of the Southern States Cooperative;
Family: Married for 25 years to the former Mary Anne Leaptrot, a senior systems analyst with Philip Morris;
Pastimes: Snow skiing and auto cross, a type of car racing;
Reads: Nonfiction. Just finished “A Wanderer in the Perfect City” by Lawrence Weschler.
From The Richmond Times Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, Tuesday, July 20, 1999, p. C-1.
Recently, Batchelor has been busy supervising the magazine’s final issue, which will land in farmers’ mailboxes around Aug. 1. He also has been making plans for the future, which include an ongoing relationship with agriculture and with Southern States, but not as an employee.
Cooperative Farmer fell victim to the economics of publishing and the growth and expansion that Southern States –– which was founded in 1923 as the Virginia Seed Service –– has undergone in the past couple of years.
In 1998, the co-op bought the Michigan Livestock Exchange, a marketing business in the Midwest and the farm supply and marketing business of Gold Kist, the nation’s second-largest poultry producer, based in Atlanta. The acquisitions have expanded Southern States’ territory from Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia into Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas.
Southern States faced the problem of how to reach farmers in those new states quickly. It found it could do that for $2.02 per farmer cheaper each year by striking a deal with Progressive Farmer magazine than by expanding the circulation of Cooperative Farmer.
Progressive Farmer is a well-known name, while Southern States means nothing to farmers in Georgia and Alabama, Batchelor said.
The agreement with Progressive Farmer, the South’s leading farm publication, calls for Southern States to sponsor a special eight- or 16-page advertising and informational insert that will run inside the magazine 13 times a year. The first insert will appear in September.
The deal also gives Southern States access to Progressive Farmer’s massive database on farmers throughout the Southeast, which will help the cooperative better target its marketing efforts. “Southern States and Progressive Farmer are going to work together to build a second-to-none agricultural database,” Batchelor said.
Although he will leave the cooperative’s employ, six other members of the magazine’s staff will stay on. Bill Walsh, Cooperative Farmer’s managing editor, will edit the cooperative’s other publications, which are aimed mostly at employees or specialty audiences such as horse owners.
Batchelor has formed a consulting business called Triquest Alliance Inc. He will work with Progressive Farmer to develop editorial content for Southern States’ inserts and hopes to work on agricultural education and other projects.
He traces his interest in journalism to an early fascination with magazines and to a neighbor, John Pennington, who was a writer and columnist for the Atlanta Journal. Pennington was sort of an exotic character who later wrote for National Geographic and drove the first Volkswagen Beetle that Batchelor ever saw.
At the University of Georgia, Batchelor wrote features and fillers for the Cooperative Extension Service in his spare time from his journalism studies. A three-part feature he wrote on the effect of real estate taxes on farmers ran on the front page of the Atlanta Constitution.
When the feature was picked up by a U.S. Department of Agriculture publication, it was accompanied by a note that its author would soon be graduating from the University of Georgia and looking for a job. Several job offers followed, and he accepted one from Southern States in Richmond because it was the farthest from Atlanta.
The first article Batchelor wrote for the cooperative magazine was about wheat. His last issue will include a lot of information about wheat, too.
Wheat, a crop not generally associated with Virginia, was also the subject of Batchelor’s favorite story for the magazine. He wrote it after stumbling across a couple of Virginia Tech professors, Dan Brann and Marc Alley, doing research on new methods of growing wheat on a farm near Tappahannock.
“Wheat before that was pretty much a cover crop in Virginia,” he said. Now it’s a cash crop.
Another favorite story is a feature he wrote about the pest-management work of some University of Kentucky insect specialists. He accompanied the researchers as they raced from farm to farm around the Bluegrass State in a surplus police car equipped with shotgun rack.
For most of his career at Cooperative Farmer, Batchelor was the magazine’s primary writer. He became editor and publisher five years ago upon the retirement of Don Tindall, who had been at the magazine 43 years.
Since taking the editor’s job, Batchelor has been developing the magazine’s advertising and marketing.
Batchelor has overseen the publication’s art direction and its editorial budget. He’s also the “lightning rod” for complaints.
An Alabama strawberry grower recently called to complain about a feature in the May-June issue that showed a potential for sales of up to $70,000 an acre growing strawberries. The grower complained that he didn’t need any competition.
One of the great things about working at the magazine was that Southern States managers left him alone, Batchelor said. He has never had an editorial review board, and Southern States’ senior management, he said, has shown a great deal of trust in him.
Jerry H. Gass, director of corporate communications and government affairs for Southern States and Batchelor’s immediate supervisor, said one of Batchelor’s strengths is that he really wanted what he wrote to be valuable to readers.
“Charles has been a student of agriculture and, in recent years, of the efficiency of publishing,” Gass said. He strengthened Cooperative Farmer’s effectiveness both as a management tool for farmers and as an advertising medium for Southern States, he said.
Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture J. Carlton Courter III described Batchelor as aggressive and willing to take on what were sometimes controversial issues. He would get the full measure of the issue on the table, Courter said.
For the immediate future, Batchelor said he’s interested in seeing what he can do with the Progressive Farmer project.
He’s getting over the loss of the magazine, he said. “But I still have flashbacks about that.”
J188.</