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JAMES BLACKSHEAR MITCHELL PASSES AT HOME NEAR HEREIMany Friends Shocked By Unexpected Death of Popular Man In Grady County*Friends throughout this section of the country have learned with the deepest regret and sorrow of the death of Mr. James BJackshear Mitchell last night from heart trouble. He had been ill with a heart affection and high blood pressure for more than two years and had not been able to attend to his usual duties for some time. lie had been j up and around last week however and | death came unexpectedly at. his home“Sugar Hill Plantation” in Grady county, where hc made his home.Tire funeral services have been arranged for Friday morning at eleven o’clock at the Mitchell Burying Ground and Rev. Albert Trulock of Cairo and Reverends Callaway, Cook and White of this city will be asked to assist in i the service. The pallbearers will be Messrs William R. Bennett, Louis Hardeman, James A. Campbell, M. M. Crawford, T. J. Ccsby, Robert Flowers, Richard Mitchell and Frank Mitchell.Mr. Mitchell was born September 16th, 1865 just after the conclusion of the War Between Tire States at the plantation home of the late Colonel Henry Mitchell in what is now’ Grady county. He has lived there continuously except for a short time wiien he was connected with the railroad and spent most of his time in Thomasville. It was while working with the Coast Line that he lost one arm. This however did not seriously impede him in later life, during which time he had actual supervision over farm properties adject to the forming part of Pebble Hill Plantation.He was a descendant of one of the most distinguished and notable families of this section, a true and noble son of a splendid couple. To his dying days»he lived nobry to the traditions of his ;ibeloved parents and became in name jfand in truth a gentleman of the finest j type. He was never married but is sur-'vived by one brother, Mr. Henry Mitchell and two sisters. Mrs. J. J. Black-shear of Thomasville and Mrs. JohnB. Chisholm of Valdosta. There are!%many collateral family relations thru-out this section of Georgia.“Jim” Mitchell, as he was affectionately called by many friends, was a splendid, wholesome, high type of man. He carried with him the symbolism of true manhood, tempered by a gracious, • cordial, friendly spirit that made friends j for him by the hundreds. His charae-; ter was as unimpeachable as the human family can attain and his love and ! fellowship was a bloom of serenest grace ’ I and honesty to all to whom he manifested an interest. Living simply, he maintained the best traditions of his distinguished family and gave generously of his time and talent to those he loved. It is among those of his immediate family connections that he has been extremely devoted and to them the blow of his passing will be felt with the pangs of sorrow that only can come from*'Hearts that have been quickened with the love that asks-no reward but is:* i • * .rj given with the purity of heart and mind r(; that makes it a perfect human at-r. tribute.reaaorl“CP/AdnthisinthreWinthpahrkrexpaakpadnhcroroththththscmofgct.hschiTifotofaD;TiofscheatFIHw;dcIKsubethclTialfommtiiscBtrti'oth;scTnlt;PI*IEnoa3t«
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Thomasville Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Thu, May 03, 1934
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