Noel Willis Grant, son of William Daniel Grant and Samantha Jane Holland Grant

Obituary / Clarkesville, Georgia / Thursday, September 19, 1935 / Funeral Services For Captain Noel Grant Held Here Saturday -- Funeral services were held at four o'clock Saturday afternoon, September 14, for Captain Noel W. Grant, prominent retired United States Naval officer, a former resident of Clarkesville, who died Friday morning at the Mountain View hotel, where he had come several days previously, with his wife from their home near Clayton.  In accord with his wishes the service was simple and lacking in ostentation, being conducted by Rev. J. B. Smith, pastor of the Methodist church and attended by a large gathering of sympathetic friends and relatives of the deceased.  The casket, draped with an American flag in recognition of his service in the navy, was borne by a group of life-long friends to its resting place beside his parents in the old cemetery at Clarkesville.  Church and Son, funeral directors were in charge of arrangements.  Captain Grant was born in Clarkesville in 1878, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William D. Grant, well-known residents of this community.  He spent his boyhood and received his education at Clarkesville, and later attended North Georgia College, at Dahlonega, being an honor student of the latter institution.  He represented Dahlonega in a state-wide oratorical contest in 1902, winning first place over a number of other contestants from leading Georgia colleges and universities.  After his graduation from Dahlonega he received his commission in the United States Navy, in which service he remained for thirty-one years.  During his service he was stationed on several of the lage [sic] vessels of the U.S. Navy, and was assigned to Naval Stations both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.  He was stationed at Charleston, S.C., when he retired from the service in 1934 to his home near Clayton, Ga.  He and Mrs. Grant spent several months here last spring, and have many friends who learn with genuine regret of his passing.  He was a Mason and a member of the Methodist church.  Captain Grant is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rose Grant; by one sister, Mrs. J. C. Hood, of Cornelia; by one brother, Mr. Asa Grant, of Seneca, S.C.; and by a number of nieces and nephews.