Matthew Singleton Means newspaper articles and obituary
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Matthew Singleton Means newspaper articles and obituary
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Surnames: Means, Elliott
PULASKI COUNTY, GEORGIA NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, VOLUME IV, 1888-1897 by Tad Evans, 2000
p. 344 Thursday, August 27, 1896
Mrs. Jane Elliott, of Barnesville, is visiting her nephew, Col. M.S. Means. She was accompanied by Col. Means' three children--Addie, Jimmie, and Gertrude---who have been visiting relatives at Barnesville.
PULASKI COUNTY, GEORGIA NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, VOLUME IV, 1888-1897 by Tad Evans, 2000
p. 395 Thursday, November 11, 1897
Col. M.S. Means received the sad news this morning announcing the death of his father at Barnesville, Ga. Mr. Means left today to attend the funeral.
HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH, Wednesday, August 29, 1923, page 1:
Col. M.S. Means Died Last Friday: Prominent Lawyer and Farmer Dies at His Home on the Dixie Highway.
Col. M.S. Means, a member of the local bar, and also one of the county's most prosperous farmers, died at his home five miles north of town on the Dixie Highway last Friday morning after an illness of more than a year from a complication of kidney diseases.
Col. Means was one of the best known lawyers in this section of the state, and has been a member of the local bar for a number of years, he also practiced in the courts of adjoining counties, as well as the United States courts. Besides being a practical and industrious farmer he was a great trader, and those who dealt with him say that he was very keen in all of his buisness transactions. The funeral services were conducted from his home Friday afternoon by Elder J.M. Woodward. The interment following in Orange Hill cemetery. He leaves a wife, one son and daughter.
The pallbearers were members of the local bar: Messrs. H.F. Lawson, W.A. Mason, Lawrence Ryan, Marion Turner, D.R. Pearce. Many beautiful floral offerings were in evidence attesting the high esteem in which he was held by his friends, one among which was an offering from the local bar association.
Among the out of town attendants at the funeral were his brothers, F.M. Means of Colodon [sic], Ga., J.F. [J.T.?] Means of Barnesville, Ga., and Mr. H.H. Smallwood and daughter, of Amsterdam, Ga. Undertakers Clark & Goette were in charge of the funeral.
p. 344 Thursday, August 27, 1896
Mrs. Jane Elliott, of Barnesville, is visiting her nephew, Col. M.S. Means. She was accompanied by Col. Means' three children--Addie, Jimmie, and Gertrude---who have been visiting relatives at Barnesville.
PULASKI COUNTY, GEORGIA NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, VOLUME IV, 1888-1897 by Tad Evans, 2000
p. 395 Thursday, November 11, 1897
Col. M.S. Means received the sad news this morning announcing the death of his father at Barnesville, Ga. Mr. Means left today to attend the funeral.
HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH, Wednesday, August 29, 1923, page 1:
Col. M.S. Means Died Last Friday: Prominent Lawyer and Farmer Dies at His Home on the Dixie Highway.
Col. M.S. Means, a member of the local bar, and also one of the county's most prosperous farmers, died at his home five miles north of town on the Dixie Highway last Friday morning after an illness of more than a year from a complication of kidney diseases.
Col. Means was one of the best known lawyers in this section of the state, and has been a member of the local bar for a number of years, he also practiced in the courts of adjoining counties, as well as the United States courts. Besides being a practical and industrious farmer he was a great trader, and those who dealt with him say that he was very keen in all of his buisness transactions. The funeral services were conducted from his home Friday afternoon by Elder J.M. Woodward. The interment following in Orange Hill cemetery. He leaves a wife, one son and daughter.
The pallbearers were members of the local bar: Messrs. H.F. Lawson, W.A. Mason, Lawrence Ryan, Marion Turner, D.R. Pearce. Many beautiful floral offerings were in evidence attesting the high esteem in which he was held by his friends, one among which was an offering from the local bar association.
Among the out of town attendants at the funeral were his brothers, F.M. Means of Colodon [sic], Ga., J.F. [J.T.?] Means of Barnesville, Ga., and Mr. H.H. Smallwood and daughter, of Amsterdam, Ga. Undertakers Clark & Goette were in charge of the funeral.