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THOMAS
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LAGRANGE, Dec. 12.—Thomas J. Foster, aged 71, a well known citizen of La Fayette, and a Confederate veteran, died Wednesday night. Death was due to neuralgia of the heart. Funeral services were held at the home Friday morning. Interment followed at the LaFayette cemetery. Mr. Foster was a lieutenant of Co. K, Thirty-ninth Georgia Infantry, He is survived by his wife and five children—three sons and two daughters, Arthur, Walter and Lawrence Foster, Misses Pauline and Lena Foster. He also leaves four sisters, Mrs. John Too and Mrs. Julia Rutherford, of Texas, Mrs. C. C. Bryant, of Center Post, and Mrs. W. A. Martin, of LaFayette. December 13, 1914 Macon Telegraph EARNEST L. ANDERSON. LAGRANGE, Dec. 12.—Earnest L. Anderson died at his homo near "West Point "Wednesday night at 6 o'clock. Some time during Tuesday night he was stricken with apoplexy and death resulted in less than twenty-four hours afterward. He is survived by a wife, one sister, Mrs. J. S. Yates, of Rock Mills, Ala., and one brother, Charles W. Anderson, of West Point. He was a prominent member of the Masons, Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World. The funeral was held at the Baptist church at West Point Fridcw morning. Interment was at Pinewood cemetery with Masonic honors. December 13, 1914 Macon Telegraph SENATOR BENJAMIN H. HILL: Senator Benjamin H. Hill died yesterday morning at his home in Atlanta, Georgia, after a long and painful illness of many months duration. He was born in Jasper County, Georgia, September 14, 1823 and received a classical education, graduating at the University of Georgia in 1844 with the highest honors of his class. Like most of the younger generation of southerners aspiring to political honors he studied law and upon his admission to the bar in 1845 he began the practice of law at La Grange, in his native state. Mr. Hill first entered political life in 1851, when he was elected a member of the state house of representatives. In 1855 he ran for congress as the American candidate, being defeated by N.N. Warner, democrat, and in 1857 he again suffered defeat on the same ticket for governor, receiving 46,889 votes against 57,681 for J.E. Bacon, democrat. Mr. Hill, in 1856, was a presidential elector on the Fillmore and Donelson ticket, and on the Bell and Everett ticket in 1860. He filled a term of service as a state senator from 1859 to 1860, and was a delegate to the secession convention in 1861. Up to the time secession was irrevocably resolved on Mr. Hill was a strong advocate of the union and fought earnestly against any disruption of the states. When the die was cast he threw his fortune with those of his state. He was a delegate from Georgia to the confederate provisional congress, and was subsequently a senator to the confederate congress. At the close of the war Mr. Hill was arrested and confined with a number of other political prisoners at Ft. Lafayette. For several years after the close of the rebellion Mr. Hill took no active part in politics, but at the close of the reconstruction period he stood for an election to congress and became a member of the Forty-fourth House of Representatives. Here he soon attained a distinction as an able debater and a brilliant speaker, especially where questions impeaching the cause of the south were brought under discussion. While he failed to take rank with the most distinguished of the old southern congressmen, his tongue was ever ready to meet an antagonist. His national reputation was acquired in the contest in 1875 with James G. Blaine, in which the Maine champion received his distinction as the plumed knight, and vanquished in a running debate of two days his southern opponent. During the stormy session of the Forty-fifth congress Mr. Hill did good service by his conservative course on the electoral fight. He resigned his seat in March 1877, upon his election as United States senator, which office of representative trust he held at the time of his death. Senator Hill was a man of culture, refinement and large practical experience. With the exception of Alexander H. Stephens he was generally placed at the head of the southern congressional delegations, and more than any one man was considered as the special champion of southern interests. A little less than two years ago a cancerous affection of the mouth first made its appearance, and for six months his death has only been a matter of time. The great sympathy which his affliction has created for the sufferer throughout the country will undoubtedly manifest itself more strongly now that death has removed him from the scene of his public labors. Source: The Daily Bee: Omaha, Thursday, August 17, 1882 Transcribed by: Melody Beery WEST POINT, October 11.—Mr. Benjamin Johnson, an old and highly respected citizen of West Point, died suddenly last night of heart disease. He was subject to frequent and distressing attacks and his friends were prepared to hear of his death at any moment. He lived possessing the confidence and respect of all who knew him and died full of years and at peace with the world. (10/12/1882 Atlanta Constitution transcribed by JRice) Judge B. H. Cameron, a native of Clark county, but for forty-four years a most prominent and highly esteemed citizen of Troup county, died near LaGrange, last Monday, aged 71 years. Macon Weekly Telegraph, 2 July 1872 Submitted by Brenda Wiesner LaGrange Woman Is Killed In Runaway Two Other Young Women Were Seriously Injured by Accident LeGrange, Ga, May 29 – In a runaway here Sunday, Miss Lida Daniel was killed, and her sister, Miss Lola Daniel, and Miss Mary Jim Morgan, seriously injured. The horse is said to have become frightened. The young women were unable to control the animal and the buggy was overturned on Whiteville st. Miss Lida Daniel met instant death, her neck being broken by the fall. It is expected that the other two young women will recover. The Atlanta Georgian and News – Atlanta, Georgia – Monday, May 29, 1911 [Transcribed as written by D. Donlon] Mrs. Dolly B. McCrary Short funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Dolly R. McCrary, the wife of J. A. McCrary, of LaGrange, who died at a private sanitarium in this city, were held at 7:30 o’clock Monday morning at Greenberg, Bond and Bloomfield’s chapel, and the remains were sent to LaGrange, Ga., for interment. The Atlanta Georgian and News – Atlanta, Georgia – Monday, July 11, 1910 [Transcribed as written by D. Donlon]
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