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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1920
Page
6
Bedside visits surround Sam Harris as he lies ill with family named Bud Harris and Della Jordan. Several gatherings occur with neighbors and kin including Dyer Blair Carter and Jordan households. Delco light plans and a request for printed envelopes close this social column.
Mr and Mrs Paul Todd are very sick with flu. Nellie Perry and family have the flu. Nellie Perry's mother and sister are ill. Miss Zilla McCain and Miss Inez Chance visited Miss Pearl Spence. M O McCalmon moves store and mill to Center Point to unite business. Mrs R W West stayed with Mrs M B E Spence. Mrs Spence not well. Annie McBurnett sick but improving. Will Perry and family visited a sick mother and sister. Mr and Mrs E F Henry spent the night with Henrys. Mrs Jim Driver quite sick this week.
In memory, Davis Phillips died February 16 1920 at age 67 leaving nine children and many relatives. A Rocky Branch Missionary Baptist Church member his funeral was by Reverends Parrish and Bonner at Rocky Branch, with family mourning a father now gone to a peaceful heavenly home.
The obituary notes the January 8 1920 passing of Reverend F B McClung born October 25 1851 married to Budie Whitehead on October 22 1876, father of seven. It lauds his Baptist ministry started November 16 1894 at Bethel, lifelong service, and includes memorial resolutions praising his character and leadership. It also mentions the death of a spouse and the surviving Taylor family and others. Memorial minutes prescribe publication in the county paper.
On February 24 the Death Angel claimed our mother Mrs W A Taylor after influenza and pneumonia She joined the M E Church at twelve and lived a Christian life Now she rests from sorrow in a home of peace and joy awaiting the pearly gates Our family mourns but finds comfort in faith and memory of her gentle life
Mrs Laura Boatright spent the weekend with her brother Ephriam Wilson. The family, including Mrs Savannah Douglas and children, and Mrs Pearl Long of Oak Mountain, faced illness from flu. Mary Ruth Douglas suffered a severe burn, J L Douglas’s family visited Horsley, and Will Latimer is sick. Lizzie Bishop is improving. Legal blanks and male bills offered by The Bree Press.
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