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Jones County Georgia Obituaries:
1810 - 1849

September 19, 1810
Georgia Journal
  DIED, in Jones county, on the 15th instant, at a very advanced age,Col. John Jones, A Revolutionary Patriot of sterling merit.



September 23, 1812
Georgia Journal
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DIED, on Sunday the 13th inst, at Clinton, Jones county, in the 32d year of is age, WILLIAM D. BUNKLEY, of a violent attack of the Fever, which he bore with unshaken fortitude,


February 28, 1816
Georgia Journal
 DIED at his residence in Jones county on the 7th instant. Capt. Thomas Raines, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. In Capt. Raines we have lost another venerable Hero of seventy-six. He was indeed a patriot, a man who distinquieshed himself in our memorable struggle for freedom. and one of the very few, who after enjoying through a series of years of peaceful prosperity, the just rewards of their revolutionary labors, have witnessed the honorable conclusion of  a second conflict with Great Britian. - He has left an affectionate wife, several children and many respectable relatives to lament their irreparable loss.

May 1, 1816
Georgia Journal
  Departed this life on Wednesday, 17th ult. at his residence in Jones county, the Rev'd ISHAM REESE, in the 60th year of his age. He had professed, and no doubt, enjoyed religion 52 years, had faithfully preached the Gospel in the Methodist order for about 40 years, through all which time his example has been as a light to influence to virtue and holiness. His last affliction, which continued for about eight months, be bore with Christian submission and fortitude, was never heard to murmur or complain, but (as hour holy religion inspires) meekly sunk into the will of his God, and his spirit returned to its long sought rest. To his disconsolate widow and children, the loss is irreparable, but his eternal gain.
 

September 18, 1816
Georgia Journal
  Died, in Jones County, on the 10th istantMrs. Mary Stubbs, consort of Mr. James Stubbs, aged sixty one; for a number of years she was a member of the Baptist Church.



March 31, 1818
Georgia Journal
~excerpt~    Departed this life, on the 21st of February last, at the residence of Mrs. Lavinia Hawkins, in Jones county, Miss Georgia A. Hawkins, the eldest daughter of the late Col. Benjamin Hawkins.

May 19, 1818
Georgia Journal
Died in Clinton, on the 7th inst, Dr. Marshall Durrett, in the 31st year of his age, after suffering a long & painful illness, which he bore with philosophic patience and fortitude. The Doctor was a native of Albemarle county, Virginia, and for a number of years a resident of Georgia, He has left a disconsolate widow, an affectionate brother & a numerous circle of acquaintances by whom he was greatly esteemed and respected.

September 15, 1818
The Reflector
DIED, on the night of the 8th inst. Mrs. Joanna Lamar, aged 24 years consort of Jeremiah Lamar, of Jones county. She has left two cildren, one an infant 11 days old, and a disconsolate husband, together with a number of relatives, who are feelingly alive to the emotions of sorrow for her untimely exit. She was a loving and affectionate wife - a fond and indulgent mother. As a friend her virtues shone with distingquished lustre. To her purity and innocence she added an inexhaustible fund of sensibility.
To those who knew her not, no words can paint,
And those who knew her, know all words are faint.



November 19, 1822
Connecticut Courant
Died. At Clinton, (Ga.) Miss Abby Ely, daughter of the Rev. Zebulon Ely, of Lebanon, Conn.

December 28, 1822
Independant Chronicle and Boston Patriot
DIED. On the 28th ult. at the house of Col. Moses Fort, in Marion, Georgia, Miss Harriot Cushing, preceptress in the Twiggs County Academy, and recently from the town of Chesterfield, Mass. of which she was a native. She died after a severe illness of four weeks, aged 23. During a residence of eleven months in Marion, her amiable, virtuous and accomplished deportment had secured to her the friendship and esteem of all who knew her.



October 14, 1823
American Mercury
  Died, At Fortville, Jones county, on the 10th ult. in the 33d year of his age, Dr. Orray Ticknor, a native of Connecticut.

October 22, 1823
Augusta Chronicle
 Died, in Harrisburg, on the 17th inst. JANE ELIZABETH, daughter of Mr. Jas. Primrose, a most promising and affectionate child, aged four years and three months. The death of this child causes to look back and further record the visitations of the grim tyrant to this afflicted family in a few months - this being the fourth since February last. ELLEN, on the 25th February, at Harrisburg, in her first year.MARY, on the 10th August, in Jones county, in her third year. LYDIA (the twin of Ellen) on the 18th of September, in her second year, in Jones county. Alas! all the anxiety and diligence of the parents, in traveraling the country for health for their little ones could not save them - one was taken before they set out, two while in the back country, and another on their return home. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken to his bosom again. Weep not parents your children are happy.



December 12, 1826
Macon Telegraph
Died. In Jones county, on the 6th October,LAURA DODD, daughter of John L. Blackburn.


April 16, 1827
Southern Recorder
  Departed this life in Jones county, on Friday, the 13th ult. Mrs. ELIZABETH JACKSON, consort of William Jackson, aged thirty years.


June 9, 1828
Macon Telegraph
Died. In Jones county on the 2d instant, Mrs. Priscilla, wife of John King, of an epileptic fit. She was in good health but in a few minutes before her death, and she had only time to say to her husband, to support her, that she was dying. She was a member of the Baptist Church, and has left a large family of children and friends, to lament her untimely death.

July 21, 1828
Macon Telegraph
DIED. In Clinton, on the 17th June Beaulah Adeline; and on the 22d,Harriet Ann - the former aged 3 yrs 5 months and 17 days; the latter 7 years, 3 months and 17 days, only daughters of Benjamin and Eliza M. W. Trapp.



January 3, 1829
Macon Telegraph
Died. At his residence, in Jones county, on the 14th ult. Rev. Benjamin Milner, after a severe illness of several weeks, of a liver complaint. He had been a member of the Baptist church for 27 years, the most of which time a public speaker. He died strong in the faith for which he had contended during a useful life.

March 7, 1829
Macon Telegraph
Died. In Clinton, on Sunday last, Solomon Hoge, Esq. proprietor of the Globe tavern in that village.

May 9, 1829
Macon Telegraph
Died. At his residence in Clinton, Jones county, on the 26th ult. after a painful and protracted illness, which he bore with fortitude and resignation Maj. James Billingslea, and old and respectable inhabitant of that place. He was a kind husband, an affectionate parent and a warm friend. He has left a numerous family and a large circle of friends to mourn their irreparable loss.

October 10, 1829
Macon Telegraph
  Departed this life, on the 6th instant, Mr. John Heath, of Jones county, aged 83 years, and for the last 30 years a pious member of the Methodist Church. A short time before he expired he was a state of delirium, but at the commencement of his attack being asked by a religious friends of his prospect of future happiness, he expressed himself willing to go, that he was done with the world, that he had no doubt of his acceptance with God, and was entirely resigned to the will of his heavenly master. He was a kind and affectionate husband, a good master, an excellent neighbor, and a worthy member of society. Although he has left no children, he has left a widow and a large circle of friends and relatives to mourn their irreparable loss. Thus lived and thus died our worthy brother. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."

October 31, 1829
Macon Telegraph
Died. In Jones county, on the 25th inst. Mr. John Whitesett, in the 21st year of his age, late of Rockingham county, North Carolina.
  The early exit of Mr. Whitesett, is lamented, but a few months have elapsed since he quit his native home, with the tender partner of his bosom, to await his destiny amongst us; nor was it long before the unfriendly clime brought death. He was an uptight and an unassuming man, the affectionate husband, and the fond and doting parent but ere the darling babe could lisp the fond name "father," he expired. Why speak of him? against him, nothing can be said, -be this his eulogy. A few days ago, health illumined his cheek; and strength and energy were his; Now! he lies-and hes without a pulse!-and whre he lies, naught but sordid dust lies there!!"

December 18, 1829
Macon Telegraph
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Died - At her father's, (Sterling W. Smith,) in Jones county, on Saturday morning the 5th inst. after a short illness, Mrs. Mary Ann Bray, wife of Thomas H. Bray, of Marion, Twiggs county, in the 20th year of her age.



August 7, 1830
Federal Union
DIED. At the Indian Spring on the 30th of July last, WILLIAM MOUGHON, of Jones county, in the 27th year of his age. He left a wife and one child, to deplore their irreparable loss, together with numerous friends and connexions. - He was a tender and affectionate husband, and a kind and indulgent master, beloved and respected by his neighbors, and if he ever had an enemy in this world, it was never known.


April 28, 1831
Federal Union
DIED. On the 15th instant, at his residence in Jones county, JAMES A. DELAUNAY, Sen. in the seventieth year of his age. He was a native of France, but emigrated to this country in early life. He has left a numerous circle of relatives and friends to mourn their irreparable loss.

April 30, 1831
Macon Telegraph
DIED. At Clinton, Jones county, on the 17th instant, Uriah Peterson Thweatt, youngest son of the Reverend Thomas Thweatt, aged fifteen months.

June 11, 1831
Macon Telegraph
DIED, In Jones county, on the 22d utl.Major Mathew Marshall.

December 19, 1832
Georgia Telegraph
  DIED in the town of Clinton, on the 29th ulmo, after a severe illness of six days, Mrs. Nancy C. consort of Dr. A. H. Flewellen, in the thirtieth year of her age.



July 31, 1833
Macon Telegraph
DIED. At his residence, near Clinton, Jones county, on Thursday, the 4th instant Mr.Joan Dennis, aged 60 years; he has left to mourn his deat; a fond widow, and a large number or relations and friends. Mr. Dennis was modest and unassuming, and was truly an honest man. - His death is regreted by all of his acquaintances and long should his virutues be remembered by them.


November 5, 1834
Federal Union
  DIED, at his residence, in Jones county, Georgia, on the 29th ultimo, Mr. BENJAMIN REYNOLDS, aged seventy-three years. - Mr. Reynolds was a native of Caroline county, Virginia. At the breaking out of the revolutionary war, he was too young to enter the service. As soon as his age would admit, he together with the patriotic citizens of that part of Virginia, so distinguished in the history of the revolution, took up arms, and entered the service of his country. At the end of the war, he removed into South Carolina into a neighborhood distinguished for their loyalty to the British crown. Mr. Reynolds from his zealous devotion to the cause of liberty, encountered the most violent persecution from his misguided associates. After the purchase of the land, on which Jones county is included, he removed thither, being one of the earliest settlers of Jones county. Mr. Reynolds has been extensively known, and from his disposition the most bland and courteous, and deportment the most urbane, will be remembered, and his loss deeply and sincerely lamented.

March 19, 1835
Macon Telegraph
Died, In Montgomery, Ala. on the 28th ult. Mr. William D. Bunkley, in the 24th year of of his age, a native of Jones County.


September 6, 1836
Southern Recorder
~excerpt. DIED, at her father's residence in Jones county, on Saturday evening, the 27th ult., after a shourt but severe illness, Miss AMANDA BROWN, daughter of Mr. Robin Brown, in the 20th year of her age.



September 5, 1837
Southern Recorder
  DIED, at Clinton, on the 24th August, of billious fever, after an illness of nine days, MATILDA H. only daughter of Robert V. and Elizabeth C. Hardeman, aged 7 years, 10 months and 25 days.

October 9, 1837
Macon Telegraph
Died, In East Macon on Wednesday evening the 4th Inst. Casandra Oliva Hoge, Youngest daughter of the late Solomon Hoge Esq. of Clinton Jones county, aged 8 years, 1 month, and four days.



July 24, 1838
Southern Recorder
  ~excerpt DIED, near Clinton, Jones county, on the 19th of June, Mrs. MARTHA W., consort of Mr. Thomas H. Bray, aged 27 years-leaving two small children and numerous friends to mourn her loss.

October 23, 1838
Sothern Recorder
 DIED, In Clinton, on Saturday, the 13th instant,Charlotte Mary Lowther, infant daughter of T. M. Furlow of this county, aged two months and twenty seven days.



February 26, 1839
Federal Union
  DIED, in Jones County, on the 23d inst, Mr. ISHAM CHOAT, in the 35th year of his age.

October 5, 1840
Macon Telegraph
DIED. At the residence of his father, in Jones county, on the 5th ult., Mr.James W. Merrett, in the 29th year of his age. The deceased was the unfortunate individual so badly injured at the Convention in Macon, on the 23th August by the falling of a portion of the Speaker's stand. He died of the wounds and bruises received from the fatal accident.

October 6, 1840
Southern Recorder
  DIED, at her father's residence in Jones county, on the 30 of September last, MARTHA B. BOWIN, in the 28th year of her age.

December 29, 1840
Federal Union
  DIED, at his residence in Jones county, on the 18th inst., Mr. BENJAMIN FINNEY, in the 56th year of his age, and for the last twenty-five years a  respectable member of the Baptist Church. He possessed in the last his unshaken confidence in his God. He has left a widow, children, and numerous relatives and friends who deeply deploure his loss.



March 30, 1841
Macon Telegraph
DIED. In Jones county on the 3d inst., A. M. JAMES HENRY, infant son of Nathan and Elizabeth Passmore, aged four months and 21 days.

October 12, 1841
Macon Telegraph
 A young man by the name of JAMES BROACH,  aged about eighteen years, shot in CLinton on the day of the Election, by Steven G. Pierce. We do not understand that any previous difference existed between them, or even anything amounting to a quarrel, on he day. Broach, was shot through the head with a pistol, and died instantly. Pearce was arrested, and has been committed for trial, and is now in Jail in this city. Macon Messenger.

Oct 19, 1841
Macon Telegraph
   ~excerpt~ Departed this life on the 4th inst., in Jones county, in the 75th year of her age,Mrs. FRANCES LAMAR, consort of John Lamar, Senr.



February 15, 1842
Macon Telegraph
DIED. On the 5th inst. Mrs. Sarah W. Stiles, wife of Joseph G. Stiles, Esq. of Jones county, in the 47th year of her age.

April 19, 1842
Macon Telegraph
DIED. In Jones county, on the 9th inst. MrRubin Johnson, age about 35 years.

November 1, 1842
Federal Union.
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Obituary. Another Revolutionary hero has bade us farewell.-
  Died, at his residence in Jones county, on the 18th of October 1842, the venerable citizen and patriot - JOHN LAMAR, Esq. in the 81st year of his age.

November 22, 1842
Federal Union
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DIED, at his residence, on the evening of the 2d inst. Mr. NOAH BUTT, aged sixty-six years two months and twenty-five days, and for thirty-three years a citizen of Jones county, and of the neighborhood in which he died.

December 6, 1842
Federal Union
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Another Patriot of '76 Gone,
  Died, at the residence of Henry Finney, in Jones county, on the 2d November, DANIEL REYNOLDS, in the 81st year of his age, after  an illness of fifteen days,
  Mr. Reynolds was a native of South Carolina, and emigrated to Georgia during the struggle for liberty between the Colonies and Great Britain,-------



July 25, 1843
Macon Telegraph
DIED, In Jones county, on the 1st inst. Mr. H. F. Williams, aged 40 years.

September 26, 1843
Macon Telegraph
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DIED. In Jones county, Sept. 17th, MARY FRANCES, eldest daughter of John Lamar, Esq. of this city, aged five years.

December 12, 1843
Macon Telegraph
DIED, On the 23d of October, Mrs. Sarah Brantly, wife of Mr Benjamin Brantly, of Jones county, aged 54.



February 6, 1844
Federal Union
DIED, near Blountsville, Jones county, on the 25th ult. Mrs. ASENETH S. MILLER, in the 64th year of her age, widow of the late John J. Miller. Mrs. M. was one of the first settlers of Jones county, and for many years a worthy member of the Baptist Church, which together with a large family of children and acquanitances murn her departure, She lived respected and died lamented by all who knew her. Her exist was peaceful and happy, having a full assurance of her acceptance with her God.

May 28, 1844
Federal Union
~excerpt~ Departed this life, in Jones county, on the 4th day of April last, Mrs. SUSAN H. JUHAN,  wife of Mr. Isaac B. Juhan of that county, in the 35th year of her age.

August 20, 1844
Southern Recorder
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DIED, in Jones county, near Blountsville, on the 7th of August, 1844. of Scarlet Fever, JOHN THOMAS, youngest son of
Cary and Leah Davidson, aged 3 years, 6 months, and 13 days.

September 17, 1844
Georgia Telegraph
  ~excerpt~ Departed this life on the 1st inst. at his residence in Jones county, Mr. George Broach, in the 60th year of his age. In the death of this old gentleman society has lost a useful member, and a large circle of acquaintances a valued friend. Mr. Broack was born in Person county, N. C., on the 17th July, 1784, whence he removed to Rockinham, and subsequently emigrated to this State, settling in Jones county, where he has resided for the last 16 years.
  He has left behind a window and six children, to mourn a loss that nothing can repaty them for....

November 19, 1844
Federal Union
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DIED - In Jones county, on the 29th of October, in the 80th year of his age, BENJAMIN BRANTLEY, Esq.
  Mr. Brantley was a native of North Carolina, but removed to this State, in the year 1800 and settled in Hancock county, where he resided until 1835, when he removed to Jones County, where he died.



November 9, 1847
Federal Union
   ~excerpt~ Departed this life at the house of Thomas Hunt, Esq., in Jones county, on Sunday the 24th of October last his eldest son, Wm. M. Hunt, in the twenty-second year of his age.

December 3, 1847
Southern Recorder
DIED, In Jones County, on the 29th ult. Mr. JOHN BLOW, aged 77. Mr. Blow was an old and valuable citizen, long a useful official member of the Methodist Church, and died in peace, much respected and regretted by a large circle of attached kindred and acquaintances. K.



February 6, 1849
Southern Recorder
  Departed this life on Tusday the 2d ultimo, at the residence of Jacob Lindsay, in Jones county, his son JESSE LINDSAY, of Tallapoosa county, Alabama, aged 30 years, 5 months, and 7 days.
   Although seriously indisposed with a severe cold, he left home with his wife and infant son, to spend the Christmas holydays with their parents in Jones and Jasper counties. His illness increased on the road, and when he reached his fathers, he had to be carried into the house, where he lingered until released from his sufferings by death leaving a large circle of friends and relatives to mourn their loss.

On Sunday morning the 7th ultimo, at the house of the late Mrs. Cabiness, of Jones county, where he had resided upwards of thirty years, Mr. DAVID WARE. For strict morality, honest integrity, and worth of private character, the deceased had no superiors and but few equals. It is believed that he had not an enemy in the world.

June 5, 1849
Federal Union
  Departed this life at his residence in Jones County on Thursday morning the 24th ult. in the 67 year of his age Mr. HENRY FINNEY.
  Mr. Finney had been the subject of affliction for the last four years, of Palsy, which he submitted to with much fortitude and resignation.
  He was not a member of any christian church yet he possessed and practiced all the virtues of a christian's life.
  His death has left a vacuum in his family that cannot be filled, and to his stricken and disconsolate wife the partner of his joys and sorrows that loss is irreparable.

July 3, 1849
Macon Telegraph
DIED. In Jones county, on the 25th ult. after an illness of about four weeks JOHN HENRY, son of David P. and Mary Ann Carson, aged six years, five months and six days.

July 3, 1849
Federal Union
DIED - On the 26th June, at Blountsville, Jones county (the place of his family residence,) Major FRANCIS TUFTS, in the 70th year of his age. He was born and raised in the State of Massachusetts, moved to Savannah, Geo. when a young man, and moved from there to this county some 25 years ago, and resided here until his death.  He left a wife and seven children to lament their irreparrable loss . - Maj. Tufts was a kind and affectionate husband, a tender parent, an indulgent master-an honest and correct man, much respected, and his death will long be regreted by all who knew him.

August 28, 1849
Macon Telegraph
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DIED. In the town of Clinton, Jones county, on the 18th inst. JAMES GRAY, Esq., in the 61st year of his age. For many years a representative of Jones county in the State Legislature, and long a member of the Inferior Court, which last station he held at the time of his decease.
 

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