Macon Daily Telegraph, Georgia
26 August 1912
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
T. HOMER GIBSON
The funeral of T. Homer Gibson, who died at his home in Skipperton Saturday night at 11:55 o'clock, occurred yesterday afternoon. The funeral was held at the Elam church at Skipperton and Rev. Edward Tidwell was the officiating minister. The burial was in the cemetery of the church, where the services were held.
Mr. Gibson died at the age of 23 years, and leaves besides a widow and child, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gibson, of Skipperton, and two brothers.
24 September 2010
23 September 2010
Deaths and Funerals: Mrs. R. H. Powell (1917)
Macon Daily Telegraph, Georgia
17 September 1917
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
MRS. R. H. POWELL
BLAKELY, Sept 16 -- Mrs. R. H. Powell died at the home of her son, former Court of Appeals Judge Arthur G. Powell, in Atlanta, at 6 o'clock Saturday. She was in her 52d year. She leaves three other sons, Prof. R. H. Powell, of the South Georgia Normal School, and H. P. Powell, of
Valdosta, Wade H. Powell, of Nevada, and one daughter, Mrs. J. D. James, of Blakely. Her remains were brought to Blakely for interment at 8 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
17 September 1917
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
MRS. R. H. POWELL
BLAKELY, Sept 16 -- Mrs. R. H. Powell died at the home of her son, former Court of Appeals Judge Arthur G. Powell, in Atlanta, at 6 o'clock Saturday. She was in her 52d year. She leaves three other sons, Prof. R. H. Powell, of the South Georgia Normal School, and H. P. Powell, of
Valdosta, Wade H. Powell, of Nevada, and one daughter, Mrs. J. D. James, of Blakely. Her remains were brought to Blakely for interment at 8 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
22 September 2010
Deaths and Funerals: Byron Caldwell (1917)
Macon Daily Telegraph, Georgia
17 September 1917
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
BYRON CALDWELL
FITZGERALD, Sept 16 -- Byron Caldwell, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Farley Caldwell, died Thursday after an illness of ten days. The funeral service was conducted this afternoon, Rev. S. J. Baker and Rev. L. A. Hill officiating. Interment was at the city cemetery.
17 September 1917
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS
BYRON CALDWELL
FITZGERALD, Sept 16 -- Byron Caldwell, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Farley Caldwell, died Thursday after an illness of ten days. The funeral service was conducted this afternoon, Rev. S. J. Baker and Rev. L. A. Hill officiating. Interment was at the city cemetery.
21 September 2010
Funeral Services Slated Wednesday for F. K. Buckalew (1951)
22 May 1951
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Funeral Services Slated Wednesday For F. K. Buckalew
Funeral services for Frederick K. Buckalew of Goldsboro, N.C., a former resident of Dallas, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Sparkman - Brand Funeral Chapel, 2115 Ross.
Dr. T. O. Perrin will officiate, and burial will be in Blooming Grove, Navarro County.
Buckalew died Friday at his home in Goldsboro, where he had lived for two years. He had been employed by the Linde Air Products Company for thirty-three years, and had worked in plants in Dallas, Fort Worth, Amarillo, New Orleans, La; St. Louis, Mo; and Chicago, Ill. He was a superintendent of the Goldsboro plant.
He lived in Dallas for about ten years, leaving here about 1930.
He was born in Blooming Grove, and was the son of Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Buckalew. His father was a practicing physician in Texas for forty years.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and the Masons.
Survivors are his wife; 3 sons,...two daughters,...two sisters, Mrs. M. E. Holtzheuser and Mrs. William P. Fulton of Dallas; a brother, Seaborn J. Buckalew of Dallas, and three grandchildren.
05 September 2010
Track Collapses, Engineer Killed (1912)
[First posted at the Southern Graves blog.]
Thomas T. Buckalew was laid to rest at Evergreen Cemetery in Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia. At one end of his ledger marker is a tall draped obelisk. At the other end is a government issued military tombstone. This is the story of his death, as told in the 22 April 1912 edition of the Macon Telegraph:
"TRACK COLLAPSES, ENGINEER KILLED.
Pinned Between Engine and Tender, Body Still Hangs.
ON A, B. & A TRESTLE.
Track Washed by Rains -- No Passengers Injured.
FIREMAN IS BADLY HURT.
Train Only Going Four Miles and Hour on Six-Mile Schedule When Trestle Gives Way -- Engineer T. T. Buckalew, Whose Home Was in Fitzgerald, Had Reputation for Caution.
FITZGERALD, April 21 -- Engineer T. T. Buckalew was killed and his fireman, Henry Hardy, seriously injured this morning at 11:15 o'clock when the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic passenger train, due here from Thomasville at 11:35 a.m., was wrecked on a narrow trestle eighteen miles from Fitzgerald. The wreck occurred near the Hanson station. The foundation of the trestle had been washed away by continuous rains. All the track collapsed as the engine rolled upon it.
The faithful engineer's first thought was of his passengers, and the next instant after applying the emergency brake the engine went down, pinning the engineer's body between the tender and the engine. The baggage coach was also pulled into the washout, but the passenger cars remained undisturbed, none of the passengers being injured.
News of the wreck was phoned here from Mystic, eight miles from the scene of the disaster, and a relief train was immediately sent out. The passengers were transferred to the relief train and brought to Fitzgerald, but it was impossible to extricate the body of the engineer from the debris. Only the lower limbs could be seen suspended between the engine and the tender and the supposition is that the upper part of the body is burned and scalded beyond recognition.
Mr. Buckalew was 67 years of age and had been with the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic for ten years. He was one of the most valued engineers in the employ of the road. He was very cautious, and at the time of the wreck that cost him his life was making only four miles and hour on a six-mile schedule. He was a highly esteemed resident of Fitzgerald and is survived by a widow and seven children. The debris will be cleared away and the engineer's body removed as soon as the wrecking crew arrives from Vienna."
I indeed hope Some day we'll understand.
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| T. T. Buckalew b. June 1, 1847 d. Apr 21, 1912 Some day we'll understand. |
"TRACK COLLAPSES, ENGINEER KILLED.
Pinned Between Engine and Tender, Body Still Hangs.
ON A, B. & A TRESTLE.
Track Washed by Rains -- No Passengers Injured.
FIREMAN IS BADLY HURT.
Train Only Going Four Miles and Hour on Six-Mile Schedule When Trestle Gives Way -- Engineer T. T. Buckalew, Whose Home Was in Fitzgerald, Had Reputation for Caution.
FITZGERALD, April 21 -- Engineer T. T. Buckalew was killed and his fireman, Henry Hardy, seriously injured this morning at 11:15 o'clock when the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic passenger train, due here from Thomasville at 11:35 a.m., was wrecked on a narrow trestle eighteen miles from Fitzgerald. The wreck occurred near the Hanson station. The foundation of the trestle had been washed away by continuous rains. All the track collapsed as the engine rolled upon it.
The faithful engineer's first thought was of his passengers, and the next instant after applying the emergency brake the engine went down, pinning the engineer's body between the tender and the engine. The baggage coach was also pulled into the washout, but the passenger cars remained undisturbed, none of the passengers being injured.
News of the wreck was phoned here from Mystic, eight miles from the scene of the disaster, and a relief train was immediately sent out. The passengers were transferred to the relief train and brought to Fitzgerald, but it was impossible to extricate the body of the engineer from the debris. Only the lower limbs could be seen suspended between the engine and the tender and the supposition is that the upper part of the body is burned and scalded beyond recognition.
Mr. Buckalew was 67 years of age and had been with the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic for ten years. He was one of the most valued engineers in the employ of the road. He was very cautious, and at the time of the wreck that cost him his life was making only four miles and hour on a six-mile schedule. He was a highly esteemed resident of Fitzgerald and is survived by a widow and seven children. The debris will be cleared away and the engineer's body removed as soon as the wrecking crew arrives from Vienna."
04 September 2010
The Obituary Record: Martin Simeon Davis (1896)
[First posted at the Southern Graves blog.]
Inter Ocean, Illinois
28 October 1896
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THE OBITUARY RECORD
Martin Simeon Davis
Martin Simeon Davis, well known in the hat and fur trade of Chicago, died at 2 o'clock yesterday at his residence, No. 2803 Michigan avenue, in his fifty-eighth year, after an illness of nearly three years. He had been a man of unusual size and noted for his great physical strength, but gradually wasted away until his death. Mr. Davis was the son of Moses Davis of Niles, Mich., and with his father built all the water work on the Michigan Central Railroad through the swamps between Niles and Chicago when that road was first laid into this city. Moses Davis, his father, was a first cousin of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, and the deceased visited at the home of Jefferson Davis in the South just before the death of the latter.
Martin Simeon Davis was a pioneer in the early days of Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois, living frequently among the Indian tribes then abounding in these states, and although of Southern extraction, his father having moved to Niles from Virginia, was a strong Union man. He was a friend of Abraham Lincoln, having lived for some time at Salem and other towns in Sangamon county, Lincoln's old home, and he had many reminiscences of Lincoln.
He leaves a wife and two daughters, Miss Winnie Davis and Mrs. John Irving Pearce, Jr., of the Sherman House. His wife is a daughter of old Dr. Coover, now deceased, of Goshen, Ind., who was known for fifty years all over Northern Indiana. Mr. Davis spent many years in Niles, Mich., and in Goshen, Ind., and was for a long time the leading manufacturer of furs and hats in Toledo, Ohio, moving thence to Chicago ten years ago. He was the originator of the so-called "Mackinaw" straw hat, which was made from the grasses in the Northern Michigan lakes and braided by the Indians. His death was not unexpected. Arrangements for the funeral are deferred until word can be had from his brother and other relatives.
[A subsequent article states the remains were taken to Goshen, Indiana for interment.]
Inter Ocean, Illinois
28 October 1896
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THE OBITUARY RECORD
Martin Simeon Davis
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He leaves a wife and two daughters, Miss Winnie Davis and Mrs. John Irving Pearce, Jr., of the Sherman House. His wife is a daughter of old Dr. Coover, now deceased, of Goshen, Ind., who was known for fifty years all over Northern Indiana. Mr. Davis spent many years in Niles, Mich., and in Goshen, Ind., and was for a long time the leading manufacturer of furs and hats in Toledo, Ohio, moving thence to Chicago ten years ago. He was the originator of the so-called "Mackinaw" straw hat, which was made from the grasses in the Northern Michigan lakes and braided by the Indians. His death was not unexpected. Arrangements for the funeral are deferred until word can be had from his brother and other relatives.
[A subsequent article states the remains were taken to Goshen, Indiana for interment.]
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