The Macon Telegraph
Bibb County, Georgia
13 September 1905
CHIEF JUSTICE SIMMONS DEAD; INTERMENT AT ROSE HILL TODAY
After Long Illness Death Came Yesterday
SERVICES AT CEMETERY
Judge Simmons Had Been Resident of Macon from 1866 Until Recent Years, When Duties of Office called Him to Atlanta -- Macon Bar Association Will Attend Funeral in Body.
Thomas J. Simmons, for eleven years chief justice of the supreme court of Georgia, died at 5 o'clock yesterday morning at his home, 470 Peachtree street, Atlanta, Ga. He had been ill a year, and during the past three weeks his condition had become so serious that his death was not unexpected...continue reading
