Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-01-08
G. e. o. MITCHELL is NO MORE.
Passed Away Suddenly ut His Home
in Westminster Sunday.
(Tugaloo Tribune, 7th.)


A mantle of sorrow and grief was
spread over Westminster Sunday
when the announcement was made
that G. E. o. Mitchell, one of our
towns honored and most highly es-
teemed citizens, was dead. He be-
came alarmingly i'll about o'clock
and medical aid was summoned, mes
sengers being sent in haste for Drs.
Walker, Strickland and Mitchell, but
before the doctors arrived MIR. Nit
chell had passed away Death was
due to heart failure. Mr. Mitchell
suffered the pain of two broken ribs
on Christmas Eve, and as he had slept
on his left side so long it is thought
that his heart became effected from
pressure. Mr.. Mitchell accidentally
fell on the morning of December "a
and suffered internal injuries. He
was improving rapidly and sat up
some for several days last week. On
Sunday he received several callers
and chatted pleasantly and told his
friends he expected to be on the
streets Monday. The announcement
Of his death, therefore, few hours
later was great shock to everybody.
Funeral services were conducted at
his late residence this afternoon at 2
O'Clock by Rev. ]. j. Payseur, the
new pastor Of the Baptist church, and
Rev. L. D. Mitchell, pastor of Cone
ross church, in the presence of a
large Concourse of SorrOwing rela,
tiVeS and friends. At the conclusion
Of the services his body was taken to
the cemetery Of the First Baptist
church for intermelit, the bodies Of
his parents and one child being bur-
led there.
Mr.. Mitchell was born in Abbeville
county, but moved with his parents
to Anderson when a boy. He moved
from Anderson to Oconee 81 years
ago and lived in and near Westmin-
ster, where he had been engaged in
farming and merchandising. He was
a man Of industry and integrity and
accumulated handsome property in
Westminster and the county.
Being too young to enlist in the
service of his country at the begin
ming of the Civil War, Mr.. Mitchell
experienced only about one year of
the hardships Of tented life in the
sixties.
Mr.. Mitchell was a member Of the
Baptist church for almost fifty years,
having united with the Neal Creek
church, near Anderson, under the
pastorate of the late Robert King, a
noted Baptist minister Of that sec
ton, SO years ago. He was one Of
the charter members of the New
Westminster Baptist church, organ
lied in the eighties. He was elected
member Of the board of deacons at
the organization of this church, and
ever manifested deep interest in
church matters and spiritual affairs.
For nearly twenty years he was the
faithful and devoted superintendent
Of the Sunday school.
Mr.. Mitchell was in his 65th year,
having been born May 1, 1S48. He
was twice married His first wife
was Miss Fannie Geer, Of Anderson,
and t. CHS union one son, Eugene
Mitchell, was bonn. His second wife
was Miss Mary Holc0mbe OF Oco-
nee, who, with Ave sons Bort H., w.
W., Glenn, Bcwley and .. l., and
three daughters, Maggie, Effie and
Mary Mitchell, survive. He leaves
two brothers and two sisters, DR..
Burt Mitchell, Westminster; Jesse
F. Mitchell, OF Bolton; Mrs. Lizzie
Freeman, Westminster, and Mrs. c..
e. Tribble, Of Oakway.