The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-15
COL. jill, M. CLINCH
Died LAST NIGHT
was EIGHTY ONE YEARS OLD.
RAD AKEN A RESIDENT OF sAvAN-
NAH HALF A CENTURY.

For Many Years Was One of the
Most Successful Rice Plamers on
the Const-WRs Prominent in Phil
nnthropic M0rI-rhirty Years n
Member OF tAe Union Society's
Board of Mans@ers-WEzE Active iu
Everything That Pcrt,Iincd to sa-
vannHh's Best IntereS4S-His Flu
neral VIII Take Place Tomorrow
Afternoon.
Col. John Houston Mcintosh Clinch
died at 7:3O o'clock last night at his
residence, No. eos Ogkthorpe avenue.
west. He had been critically i'll for
several weeks, and his death was not
unexpected.
Few men in Savannah were better
known or more highly esteemed than
Col Clinch. Since he became a resi-
dent of Savannah. f4Hy years ago,
he had beer identified with
the citys best interests. He was
prominent in philanthropic work, in
which he took deep interest. For
more than thirty years he was a mems
Der of the board of managers of the
Union Society, and took an active part
in its affairs.
Until his retirement from business
he was one Of the most successful rice
planters on thu coast. He was pres
ident of The Planters Rice Mill. HIS
Satilla river plantation. known as The
Refuge. has an interesting bit of his
tory. Col. CHnch's grandfather owned
Fort George Island at the mouth Of
the St. Johns river. When, what was
known as the Patriot war broke out
he was forced TO leave Florida and
took his family and slaves to grant
of land in Georgia. where he built
homes and appropriately named the
place The Refuge. 1t was on this
plantation that Col Clinch raised the
largest amount of rice TO the acre
that any plantation has ever grown.
Col. Clnch was born in 1928 in Mo
bile, Ala, where his father Gen. Dun
can Lamont Clinch, L. S. A. was sta
toned. His mother, before her mar
riage, was Eliza Bayard Mcintosh. She
died in 1885 and Gen. Clinch in 1S49.
Col. Clinch received his college ed
ucation at Princeton University and
at the University of North Carolina. At
the death of his father he became the
executor not only of his fathers es-
tate, but of the estate of his grand
father, Mr.. John Houston Mcintosh.
He came to Savannah at the time of
his marriage in 1854. At the outbreak
of the war between the states he en-
listed in the Confederate service and
rose to the rank of brevet colonel, par
ticipating in the defense of Savannah.
Col Clinch was largely interested in
the development of Florida. In 1880
he bought from the other heirs of
his father what is known as the Bay
ard tract on the ST. Johns river and
improved it, and the property at Green
Cove Spring.
In 1854 he married Elizabeth Lewis
Waldburg of Savannah, who died
March 49,. 1908. He leaves a sister,
Mrs. Robert Anderson, and several
nephews and nieces, among them Gov
d. c. Hayward of South Carolina, Mrs.
James Nj. Lawton Miss Maria L. An
derson and Miss S. c. Anderson of
Washington, d. c.; Bayard c. Hey
ward, Gainesville. Ga; John Hous-
ton NJ. Clinch, Rev. NJ. Bayard CInch,
r. Floyd Clnch. George o. Clinch and
Duncan L. Clinch of Chicago; Mrs
Sterrett Tate and Lewis Tate, Sparta,
Ga, and Duncan L. Clinch, Fort Col
Inns, Wyo. Gov Hayward and his
brother were with Col. Clinch when he.
died. Col. Clinch was member of
Christ Church and of the church YES
try.
The funeral will take place at
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon from the
residence on Oglethorpe avenue The
services will be conducted by Rev
Robb White and the interment will
be in Bonaventure. The pallbearers
have not been selected.