Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-07-20
MERICUs, Ga. JULY 90. 1905.
OBITUARY OF n. n. slNGLErARY
Written BY One Who Esteemed Him
in the Highest.

In the year 1885, Nathan singl atary
and his wife, Cassie, moved from the
county of Telfalr, to the county of Lee,
n)w Schley; bought land and settled
near the site where the village of
Lacrosse now stands. OF this marriage
were born several sons and daughters,
among the number FL. FL. Singletary,
the subject of this sketch.
His fathers resources being limited,
and his home upon the frontier of
civilization, where schools were not
only inferior, but few and far between,
his son 81. Fl. Singletary grew up with
out that mental culture and literary
requirements, which are often con-
sldered SO essential to fnan cial success.
The blue back epeller, McGuffie's
Reader and Smiths arithmetic, very
imperfeclly learned, constituted the
sum and substance OF his literary &C.
complishments.
Bred to agriculture, and endowed
and learned much from the book of
nature, studied plants, their habits,
gtowth and Developments. Studied
the soil, with all of It's ingredient, !;
especially, as related to plaut life,
studied and learned much Of fsrtiiz .re
as related to the growth and develop
ments of different crops upon similar
and dissImilar soils.
In his boyhood, from his father and
his own observation, he learned much
about the nature and proper care of
hogs, cattle, sheep and other stock
kept uron the farm, learned to keep
them for both pleasure and profit
Toe writer has never known any
farmer who could raise so much fertili-
z,r from the same number of stock.
About three months ago the writer
of this article visited Mr.. Singletary,
md while there, was shown some fine
cattle and fine hogs which Judge
Singletery \ title by which he was
b ,st known in his community had
purchased at great expense.
When asked as to the condition of
his oat crop he replied that he had
sown no oats this year; then pointed
to large barn which was filed from
the surplus of last years ost crop. He
then pointed to another large barr
containing his entire corn crop of last
year. A third barn from which hs was
feeding, contained more than a hun
deed bushels of corn grown year be-
fore last.
His laborers, troopers and tenants
were sometimes fed the whole year
from his meat house and granary, from
these aleo much of the wages for labor
was paid. Cotton, to a very large eI.
tent, was his surplus crop. In the
rear of his lot and barn, there is now a
cotton field of forty acres, the yield
from which, as estimated by good
Judges, will be sixty bales.
At the age of twenty Judge Single
targ entered the service of the South
enr Confederacy, and as a faithful
soldier responded to every call of duty
In the year 1855 he was married to
Miss Penelope Easom, a noble woman,
who bore with him the hardships of
the early years of his welded life.
thsyeaf 1865, his father gave him
ffty scres of land, and he bought a
horse and farming utensils.
Thus equipped he began the battle
of life. The first year he ran a one
horse farm, doing the plowIng and
much of the hoeIng. But as the
streamlet, though small in the be
ginning, as 1t advances, swells to the
majestic river, so the financial current
of this genius of nature was destined
TO widen and deepen as the years rolled
on.
About the year 1886 he established
a county store ia connection with his
farm, but later removed this store
10 the little village of Lacrosse three
a ,arters of a mile from his dwelling.
His mercantile interest, however, re-
his chief reliance being his agricultural
interests.
In the early years of his married life
there were born unto his home two
daughters respectively, Lydia and
Oattie. Atgreat sacrifice and expense,
these girls was kept in the best county
schools, until they had finished the
academic course. Then IN the female
college of LAGRANGE till graduated.
HIS Oldest daughter Mrs. Lewis
K,llebrew died in May 1904 leaving five
children; his youngest daughter, Mrs.
Edwin Bell with two children, survives
her father.
Judge SingIetary leaves a widow, q
model of her sex, ever true and devoted
IN him and to his interest. For many
wears having assumed the duties and
responsibility of his mercantile interest,
she toiled from early morning till Of
ten late at ME hit. Her services, second
only to his, contributed much in magl l.
fvino the small pittance, with which he
hogan married life, into the magni
ticent estate of 800 QUO.
H.H. Singletary was born February
Ash 1s4f. During most of his years
after majority in addition to the Gales
az his private affairs he worked in the
, nblic service of his Ecounty or state.