Macon Weekly Telegraph, Georgia
29 January 1908
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
CABANISS
The last sad rites over the remains of the late Mrs. J. W. Cabaniss will be held at the family residence, 224 Georgia avenue, today at 12 o'clock. The services will be conducted by Rev. E. C. Dargan and Rev. T. D. Ellis.
The following gentlemen will act as pall-bearers: Messrs. Emory Speer, A. L. Miller, C. B. Willingham, Sr., A. D. Schofield, Minter Wimberly, George A. Smith, A. T. Small and H. S. Edwards.
Interment will be at Rose Hill cemetery.
FREEMAN
The funeral of Judge Matt R. Freeman will take place from the Mulberry Street Methodist Church this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The exercises will be conducted by Rev. T. D. Ellis and Rev. R. E. Douglas. Mr. George C. Freeman, of Savannah, the only surviving brother of the deceased, will be here to attend the funeral.
The following gentlemen will serve as pall-bearers: Active, A. L. Miller, Elsworth Hall, J. G. Postell, H. C. Robert, G. P. Rankin, Albert Ulman, Robert A. Nesbit, C. M. Wiley. Honorary, John P. Ross, N. E. Harris, A. W. Lane, T. E. Ryals, Fred R. Martin, Frank Chambers, M. Felton Hatcher, George S. Jones.
The burial will be made at Riverside cemetery.
BURNEY
A brief prayer service was held yesterday over the remains of Mrs. Martha L. Burney at teh residence of her daughter, Mrs. Ira B. Todd, 125 Rembert avenue. The following gentlemen acted as pall-bearers: F. C. Benson, Ben Parsons, A. A. Pell, L. W. Gray, R. L. Permenter, Theo Brown.
Accompanied by Rev. W. H. Budd, of this city, the remains will be taken to Monticello today for funeral and interment.
LONG
The funeral of Mr. Edward Long took place from St. Joseph's Catholic Church yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock, Rev. Father Madden officiating. A large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives gathered at both the church and the cemetery to pay a final tribute of respect. Interment was in Rose Hill cemetery.
SMITH
The funeral of Master Robert Lee Smith will take place from the Bethel Church, on the Columbus road, this morning at 10:30 o'clock. The lad died Monday from blood poison as the result of sticking a nail in his foot.
FENTRESS
The remains of Mr. C. F. Fentress, late superintendent of the Atlantic Compress Company of this city, will be shipped tonight to his former home in Bolivar, Tenn. The body will be accompanied by a son and a daughter, Mr. Mangum Fenteress and Miss Sallie Fentress. The other sons of Mr. Fentress have been apprised by telegraph of their father's death, and they are expected to arrive in Bolivar tomorrow in time for the funeral.
BENTON
The sad news of the death of Robert E. Benton will be received with sincere regret by many of his friends throughout the city. He passed away at the residence of his father, Mr. E. J. Benton, on Ross street, last night at 11:50 o'clock. Though only in his nineteenth year, he had been in ill health for two years, and the end was not unexpected.
The funeral services will be held at the family residence, No. 416 Ross street, today at noon and the remains will be interred in Waycross, Ga., on Thursday.
