Submitted by Emily O'Neal
Rome News Tribune April 30, 1981
Mrs. Buffington
Mrs. Essie Virginia Green Buffington, 85, Rome Rte. 1, Big Texas Valley Road,
died at 4:45 p.m. Saturday at her residence following an illness of three months.
Mrs. Buffington was born in Floyd County, Feb. 15, 1896, daughter of the late
Henry Jasper and Sarah Elizabeth Tolbert Green. She resided her entire life in Floyd
County and was a member of Antioch Baptist Church. A son, Albert Buffington, died
April 20, 1934, and her husband Abner Cyrenius Buffington, died April 27, 1960.
Survivors are six sons, Clarence Darious (Tim) Buffington, Ruben Abner Buffington,
Claude Rena Buffington and Henry Edward Buffington, all of Rome, Herman Abner
Buffington, Jefferson(GA), and Billy Eugene Buffington, Macon, five sisters, Mrs.
Susie McBurnett, Mrs. Bertha Wilkerson, Mrs. Nellie Fuller, all of Rome and Mrs.
Maggie Flippen, Kennesaw, 22 grandchildren, 33 great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. today at Antioch Baptist Church with the
Revs. Bobby Stephens and Don Spears officiating. Interment was in Sand Springs
Cemetery. Grandsons served as pallbearers.