Prominent, Well-Connected Citizen of Clayton County, Georgia (1915)

Macon Daily Telegraph
23 June 1915
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS...

...R. M. LASSETER
RIVERDALE, June 22 -- After an illness of several months, R. M. Lasseter, 73 years old, one of the most prominent citizens of Clayton county, died Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock.

Mr. Lasseter, a Confederate veteran who served with distinguished gallantry throughout the entire civil war in a company of the Tenth Georgia regiment captained by Col. A. J. McBride, of Atlanta, was an uncle of James L. Beavers, chief of Atlanta police, and the father of E. V. Lasseter, deputy marshal of the municipal court of Atlanta.

Mr. Lasseter's funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Pleasant Grove church near Riverdale. Interment will be in the church yard. The pallbearers will be announced later.

Mr. Lasseter is survived by four sons and three daughters, E. V. and W. B. Lasseter, of Atlanta; R. L. Lasseter, of Riverdale, and J. H. Lasseter, of Forest Park; and Mrs. W. O. Camp, of Riverdale; Mrs. Lawson Reed, of Atlanta, and Mrs. R. F. Davis, of Savannah.