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Obituaries


LIVE WIRE FATAL TO GEORGIA MAN
Burned to Death Working on Line Near Bainbridge
Attapulgus Ga. Dec 27
Claude Gibson a power company employe, died early today in a Bainbridge hospital of burns received when he and two fellow workers came in contact with a power Iine on which they were working near here.
The three men were working four miles south of here late yesterday on a power line running to Quincy. Fla. Gibson's clothing was set afire by the current and the other man also received severe burns. Sawyer and Patterson were reported in serious condition at a hospital at Bainbridge.
Date: 1929-12-28; Paper: Augusta Chronicle

Adam Hinds, an old citizen of  Bainbridge, died very suddenly on Wednesday last.
Date: 1870-06-14;  Paper: Macon Weekly Telegraph

Jenkins County Rites For Johnnie Lewis, 3
Millen, Ga,. Sept. 17.—Johnnie Lewis, 3, son of Sgt. and Mrs. Ernest  R. Lewis of Bainbridge died this morning in Bainbridge after an illness of a few days.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Lews Baptist Church in
Jenkins county with the Rev. Rollie Rhyner officiating. Interment will be in the Lewis cemetery.
Besides his parents, the little boy is survived by one brother. Robert Wayne Lewis of Bainbridge and his paternal grand-mother. Mrs. D. M. Lewis of Garfield.
Date: 1948-09-18;  Paper: Augusta Chronicle

KENNEDY-Entered into rest, at a local infirmary Sept. 16. 1948. Mrs. Elizabeth Hallahan Kennedy, wife of the late Mr John D. Kennedy. Funeral services will be conducted from Sacred Heart church this (Saturday) morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. Father Florence Sullivan. S. J. officiating,
Interment. Magnolia cemetery. Please omit flowers. Piatt's Funeral home.

MR THORNTON DIES IN BAINBRIDGE, GA.
Mr. J. R. Thornton, one most popular citizens of Bainbridge. Ga. died recently.  He was prominent in several of the leading lodges, and an ardent worker and a loyal friend.
Date: 1919-09-13;  Paper: Savannah Tribune

ISAAC  S,  A FRAZIER
BAINBRIDGE.  Ga, March 6
Isaac S. A. Frazier, ?3, Civil War veteran who died Feb. 28, in the home for Confederate Veterans at Jacksonville, was buried In Oak City Cemetery here Sunday afternoon. Mr Frazier was born in Mecklenburg. S. C. March 4, 1841, enlisted in Company A, Eleventh North Carolina Infantry In March,  1862,  and  was  wounded In Franklin, Va,, In the same year. He recovered and served throughout the war.
Mr, Frazier is survived by two sons, William Frazier, of Savannah, and Joseph Frazier, of Bainbridge,
Funeral services were held in the home of his son, conducted by Rev. Ward, of the Preebyterian Church, and Rev. Mr. Foster, of the Methodist Church.
Date: 1923-03-07; Paper: Macon Telegraph

Death Notice, Southern Christian Advocate 25 Sep 1856
Mrs. Esther Harris, age 82, died on Sept. 13 in Bainbridge, GA.  She was born in Carlisle, PA in 1774 and moved to Abbeville District, SC when her father removed there when she was 10 years old.  She had been a Presbyterian.  She moved to Georgia in 1828, a year after the death of her husband, and joined the Methodist Church as there was no Presbyterian church nearby.  It appears that she died of a stroke.
Contributed by Thelma Dodson of New Mexico.





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