26 November 2011

Final Services Held for Coleman Brantley (1924)

The Atlanta Constitution (Georgia)
23 May 1924
(*Viewed online via Ancestry's Historical Newspaper Collections)

FINAL SERVICES HELD FOR COLEMAN BRANTLEY
Funeral services for Coleman Brantley, former Atlantan, who died suddenly Wednesday at Anniston, Ala., were held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Baptist church at Forsyth, Ga. Interment was in the family burying ground in Forsyth.

Mr. Brantley, who was 41 years old, was born in Macon, moving to Florida when a small boy, and later coming to Atlanta. While here, he was a traveling salesman for Shredded Wheat company until entering the hotel business several years ago. He accepted a position with the Alabama hotel at Anniston, and went there three weeks before his death.

He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Harry Haynes, Mrs. Jesse Wilson, and Miss Holt Brantley, and four brothers, Burden Brantley, of Atlanta, J. E., C. W. and R. A. Brantley.

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