Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
DEATHS IN GEORGIA.

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THoMAsTON, Ca, Feb. 9.-Death has
claimed A. ]. King after an illness of one
month. For q years he had Travelled
for the Gate City Coffin company, of At
lanta. He had been county school COM
missioner and member of the board OF
trustees of r. f. Lee institute.
Mr. King was also a Confederate vet
eran. He left Epson county in the Up
son Guards of Thomaston, attached to
the Fifth Georgia regiment, and served
from May II, 1861, to the close of the war.
He was also member of the Embalm-
ers' association. He had been member
of the Thomaston Baptist church since
1866
The deceased leaves wife and seven
children, Mrs. G.. M. Rhodes, of Forsyth;
Mrs ID. /. Woodward, of Culloden; Mrs.
w R. Perdue of Macon; Miss Nellie
King of Thomaston; Messrs. A. b. King,
of Atlanta; ]. T. and A. r. King, Of
Thomaston. He is also survived by four
brothers, Messrs P. C. King, of Thomas
ton; T. B. King, of Dustin, Okla; w. Ri
King, of Sherman, Texas, and M. King
of Waco, Tex.
Mrs. w. T. Thompson, aged Al years,
died at the residence of her brother, MT.
Clifford c. Wing, 421 East Fair street, at
2:30 o'clock on Tuesday morning. her
residence was at 124 Hill street. and at
the time of her death she was on visit
to her brother, having been at his home
for several days.
Mrs. E. wexford who'd, wife of Walter
J. Wood the well-known furniture dealer,
breathed her last at her residence, 4s5
North Boulevard street, on Tuesday
morning at $3.50 o'clock. Mrs. Wood had
been i'll for more than two years, during
which time she had been upborne by re-
markable patience and Christian fortl-
tude.
Mrs. Wood was As years of age. having
been born in 1864 in Culpepper, Va. Her
parents were DR.. James Thomas Crop7
and Eliza Wharton Crop. Her father,
DR.. James Wharton Crop. served during
the civil war as a surgeon on the staff
of Gen. G. c. Wharton. While engaged
in serving the cause of the Confederacy
in this capacity he contracted a disease,
which finally caused his death.
JONESBORO, Ca, Feb. 10-Mr. Joel d.
Lee died at mis- home near here yester-
day. Mr.. Lee was one among the earli-
est settlers in this section Of Georgia,
having resided at his old homestead
two miles north of Jonesboro many
| county.
SAVANNAH, Ca, Feb. 1O.-After clos
ing out his interests in the firm of Mem
| hard Schaul & Co., Mark H. Schaul be-
came suddenly i'll last night and died.
He leaves a brother in Augusta and one
| in Atlanta.
| John Henry Seals, the well-known
| Georgia journalist and founder Of the
Sunny South" passed away at Milledge-
willie on Wednesday morning at the age OF
rs. His remains will be brought to At
! lanta at 4:2O o'clock on Wednesday af-
( ternoon. The funeral services will be con-
Quoted at H. NJ. Patterson e. Sons under
taking parlors on Thursday morning at
10 o'clock The interment will be at Oak
land.
Mr. Seals was born in Warren county.
! Georgia, in 1888, and was educated at
Powelton, his native town, and at Mercer
university at Penheld, from which he
/ graduated with high honors in the clas,
of 1856 Soon after leaving college he pur-
chased the Temperance Banner" pub
lished at Penield, and, moving it to At
lanta gave it the name of the Georgia
Literary and Temperance Crusader"
| He continued publishing this paper sue
cessfully in Atlanta until 1864, doing much
printing for General Bragg'sJ army and
the Richmond postoffice during the war.
He was then admitted to the bar at
Greensboro, where he practiced for sew
eral years, winning great success in the
| legal profession.
DR.. R. j. Trippe, a we'll known physi-
clan, whose home is in Gainesville, Ga,
died at a private sanitarium in Atlanta
on Tuesday afternoon at o'clock, death
resulting from erysipelas.
| BYROMVILLE.-Mr Wesley F. Webb. a
/ prominent citizen OF this place. died here
] Tuesday after long continued illness He Is
| survived by his wife. six sons. Messrs. Charlie
| James and Louie Webb. Of Abel, Ga, and
| Messrs Sol. J.. Vester and Ernest Webb, OF
| this place. and three daughters, Mrs. Mary
| Mobiles Of Midtown. Ca: Mrs. E. Ratford,
I Of Mobile. Ala. and Mrs. L. A. Woodruff
! Of this place.
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