From Days Gone By March 2,1923

 March 2, 1923.

    Saturday and Saturday night was a bad time for the negro Burnett family who live on the William Oliver place on account of the meanderings of one. Modie Taylor, colored, who also lives around there when he's not on the county gang.

    Taylor made it hot for the whole layout of Burnett's, driving the old woman up the road with a shotgun and abusing her badly. He wasn't satisfied with that and he sets in wait along the road about dark for the boy, Arthur Burnett. Arthur worked with Mr. Tarbutton. Modie gets in ambush and lies in wait with a single barrelled shotgun. As Arthur comes along Modie shoots filling the boy's front from waist up with small shot and knocking out a couple of teeth. The doctor says if it hadn't been for Arthur's thickly clad body it could have been real serious but Arthur will get well.

    Modie seemed to be working his way back in the gang. He hit for high parts but was seen by several people and the county and three baliffs went in search for him on Monday. But Modie decided he rather surrender and while they were tracking him he walked calmly into Sheriff Davis' office unarmed, leaving the gun at his brothers.

    Robbers made an unsuccessful attempt to rob the Scott Banking Co. just before rain set in Monday night. The parties drove up and made a quick entrance through broken windows, then pulled the shades and placed a type writer on it so they would not be detected. Scott like other small towns at this hour are asleep. The robbers had nothing to stop them until they had broken the knob to the vault door and left it still fastened hard. They left in such dismay they didn't even stop to take the $10 left in tbe cash drawer. Banking was at a stanstill till they could get in the vault. The rain came in time the robbers could not be tracked out of town with no clue who it was, where they came from or where they went.

    Will Cuyler, a colored laborer with Rowland Lumber Co. was severly wounded while working around the dry kiln at the lumber plant. The large weights that control the door were hoisted at the time and in some manner one fell, crushing down on Will's head and fractured his skull. Also badly wounding his right hip. Mr. Arthur Rowland rushed him to Dr. Claxton in Dublin. His escape was a narrow one but he is believed to recover.

    Mr. W. T. Kitchens of Wrightsville was appointed county policeman. He will serve papers and act as an arresting officer. It is rumored Mr. W. R. "Bill" Smith will run for sheriff. Mr. J. D. Johnson has moved to Clearwater, S. C.

    Rev. J. C. Griner with some members of his congregation had a thrilling experience at Arline. When assembling they began to build a fire in the stove. It started right off an the pastor began the service when he discovered the house on fire around the stove. Quick work got it put out. Mr. & Nrs. C. T. Swinson had a daughter on Feb. 25th. Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Tompkins daughter, Lulline, is engaged to Mr. Claude Lewis Hodges.

    The Redjackets won two games beating Louisville 18 to 4, then went to Wrens and beat them 26 to 21. The Bearcats beat Adrian Athletic Quint 39 to 31.

    Frank Flanders just laid the foundation for Mr. Nat Bray's new store near his home in the country. Alice Lake in "The Golden Gift" is at the Dixie.

    Bearing down tremendously hard on the flagrant lawlessness now going on in our county, Rev. Brown during his revival at Brown Memorial pulled down the bars and flayed the workshops of Satan in all their accursed features. He never missed a word but went after gambling, liquor drinking, dancing, picture shows and public bathing pools with his gloves off. He applied the remedy in each and declared that in order to be faithful he could not nor would not change the label on the bottle.

From Days Gone By Feb. 23, 1923

 February 23, 1923.

    The body of the boy found dead in a Laurens Co. field a few weeks ago was identified as Remus Cooper of Soperton, son of Mrs. Emily Cooper. She had missed him since Jan. 18th where he was suppose to be enroute to Ft. Benning from Dublin. It was first thought the boy was from Johnson Co. Mrs. Cooper went to Dublin and identified the man's clothes.

    Cooper went from Dublin with several others to Ft. Benning for enlistment but on account of being 5 lbs under weight he was not sworn in and his enlistment was held up a few days. During that time he walked away without notice and acted like he did because he thought if found he would be arrested. He seemed dilerious an refused help getting to the point he fell from exposure and flu-pneumonia. The last time he was seen he walked by a negro woman's house who asked what he wanted, he replied only his mother. Laurens Co. health officer refused to allow his body dug up until lawful conditions were met. She wanted her boy back in Soperton.

    Lee Johnson, the colored blacksmith for G. A. Tarbutton, a peaceful, industrious worker for 2 years, fell dead less than 100 yards from his home from apoplexy according to a coroner's jury. Lee had been complaining of being "under the weather", he was advised to go home and headed that way was stricken. He fell on his face, his hat pulled down over his eyes in the middle of the road.

    The 10 year old son of Mr. & Mrs. Milledge Meeks shoots his toe off with a gun while hunting. The whole foot was mangled badly.

    The big chicken sale produced $3,600 actual cash to the many producers. A carload was shipped to Philadelphia. In the hog sale was shipped 266 hogs worth $2,507.23. At least 40 farmers sold hogs.

    The annual school meeting will be April 13th which will include spelling, reading, arithmetic and writing contests. There will be athletic contests also..

    Mr. Ivey R. Tanner shipped off a carload of hogs and cows. Col. W. M. Shurling is operating one of the fastest velvet bean hullers seen in a many day. Mr. DeWitte T. Brinson produces big hogs having just put in his smokehouse one that netted him 526 lbs of meat, the largest here yet.

    Mayor T. V. Kent went on the bench facing a lot of wrong doers for various charges. Several fines were assesed, two for $25 each, a couple for $10 each. Mayor Kent is turning out to be a crime fighter.

    Pvt. Willie J. Mills of Co. A, 8th Inf. now at Ft. Screven, Tybee Island, and just back from Coblenz arrived home on a 21 day furlough to see his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Arnold A. Mills who reside on the old Wright Sumner place. He hasn't been home in 4 years.

    Dr. J. W. Brinson had a very costly and dangerous auto accident 7 miles out of town towards Tennille when his auto skidded into a ditch. All was bruised badly. Roads in the Kite area are being worked on now by Warden Stanley starting near Rehobeth Ch. and work that community. He wants to make a big 30 ft road of the Kite-Wrightsville highway, a part of the Bee-Line and is considered the most important road in the county at this point.

    The first defeat at home this season for the Redjackets when the G. M. C. Quint 34 to 10. Tomorrow at the Kennedy indoor court here the Redjackets take on Cochran A. & M. Quintette.

    Playing at the Dixie Theatre is George Arliss in "The Devil". Also Lester Cuneo in "Lone Hand Wilson", a 5 reel western.

    Medical science takes another step, saving a negro man whose heart had been punctured. The heart was sewn up, and the negro man is well. The operation was performed at Grady in Atlanta.

    Mrs. J. G. Davis died at her home only being ill a few minutes before her death. She was born in Jefferson Co. Dec. 20, 1872 daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ford. A member of Nails Creek Ch for 37 years. She had been almost an invalid for 20 years. She left a husband, three daughters and two sons.

From Days Gone By Feb. 16,1923

 February 16, 1923.

    Has anybody in Johnson Co. lost a son, about 18 or 20 years old, light dark hair, sun burned a right smart and has been gone about 15 days now? This was the question that county policeman J. T. Jackson of Laurens Co. was asking here Tuesday in an effort to gain some tangible info relative to the death of the young man that was found near Dublin some weeks ago lying up in a field.

    Mr. Jackson had a clue that the fellow was John Will Amason, a son of Bill Amason of this city, but upon going to the Amason home was informed they had not lost a boy, that all their son's were at home working. He still had another clue which he was investigating and the results he has not disclosed yet.

    If there is a lost son from Johnson since Jan. 1st the fact has not come to light so far and many questions are being asked all around to see if one is missing. They are anxious to ascertain just who this dead fellow is. He was buried the other day where he was found.

    The Dixie Dept. Store burned to the ground early last Thursday morning Feb. 8th. This was a severe loss to the owners which had been in business for several years. Starting off as Hauger-Hobbs-Davis Co. then Hauger-Davis Co. then The Dixie Dept store. It was a total loss from fire, water and smut. The amount of insurance did not cover the stock. It is not known how the fire started other than a bad stove flue causing it. The fire fighters couldn't save the store but did prevent damage to adjoining stores. The firm members C. D. Hauger, J. Tom Davis and C. H. Moore decided to reopen as soon as possible. The building belonged to Mr. E. A. Lovett and was next door to Dixie Theatre.

    The Feb. term of city court convened with Judge Ben Hill Moye. Instead of a two day court it was a two hour court. Charlie Brown, colored, pled guilty in two cases and drew two fines, one for 12 months or $125 and 10 months or $75. He went to the gang. J. W. Page, white, drew a fine of $100 or 12 months as he pled guilty but paid the fine.

    Mr. Charlie Johnson who was stabbed two Saturday nights ago by Morris has improved now after fighting for his life. His home is at the rise of the hill just across the county line 4 miles north of town. 

    A scant 2 hours before he was to have walked the gallows to have his neck broken in penalty for killing his wife and sister-in-law, Seab Johnson, Emanuel Co. negro, was notified he would have 2 more weeks of life while additional evidence is being investigated. Sheriff Coleman received a telegram from Gov. Hardwick to respite him until Feb. 23rd.

    Mr. Henry T. Downs who lives at Carr's Station in the thick of the robbery a week ago when 2 blacks robbed all the stores joined the posse and tells this story:"We were stationed on the highway between Milledgeville and Sparta to watch for the two negroes, the dogs being after them. About 30 min after I was stationed there the two desperados came up Towns Creek to a bridge where Lindsey Gilmore was watching. He held up one of them while doing this the other shot Gilmore. They took his gun and went on up the creek. The dogs took a hot trail from Gilmore on up the swamp about a mile. There were found Gilmore's gun and the stolen gun and the men had seperated. The pursuit led on hot until a short distance away they overtook the mulatto negro and he was killed. He had left the creek and started up a branch. The posse then went back where the trail divided but after several hours couldn't catch him and he was still at-large. Gilmore died. A $100 reward is out for the other man described as 5'6" about 130 lbs an has 2 gold teeth."

    The city council are making a try-out of all-night light service which they started up last week. If you go to bed and are an early riser you will have lights, the light plant running till 7am. Merchants were asked to allow one light burn in the back of their stores serving two purposes, help the night policeman to see through the stores.

    A Johnson Co. boy, Pvt. Willie J. Mills is on the roster of the American doughboys of the 8th infantry who disembarked from the St. Mihiel at Savannah. He is in Co. A with 930 officers an men that left the occupied region at Coblenz, Germany.

    Wrightsville High defeated Empire 56-13 with Blount and Lovett playing best. The girls defeated Irwinton 19-4. The Bearcats were defeated by Glenwood 11-12 then the Redjackets defeated B. P. I. 25-31. Franklin Farnum in "The Fighting Grin" is at the Dixie.

    Mr. James Lewis Pournell died here Feb 12th after a several month illness. He was born Dec. 25th 1852. He was brother to Mr. W. L. Pournell. He was buried at Westview. Mr. George B. Maddox died at his home on Feb. 9th. He been sick for about a year. He was 51 years old, member of Moore's Chapel. Surviving him is his wife, a son, Tiller Maddox, 6 daughters, mrs. C. M. Sheppard, Mrs. C. C. Watts, Mrs. E. O. Hutchinson, Mrs. H. D. Garnto, Misses Nellie and Eddie Lou Maddox. One brother David L. Maddox and sister Mrs. J. W. Page. He was buried at Westview.

From Days Gone By Feb. 9, 1923

 February 9, 1923.

    The Bee Line Highway from Irwinton to Macon is now in the best condition it has ever been since it was an Indian trail. There is much talk about making the Bee Line a state highway running from Macon to Savannah. This road would come thru the center of Wrightsville. This proposal has died on account of the seem to be hopeless task of bridging the Oconee at Ball's Ferry. The people of Wrightsville has taken the project of a bridge by the horns and lobbying heavily to the state for a bridge. Johnson is already working on the Bee Line from Wrightsville to the county line and hopes Washington County will pick up there to the river.

    The People's Filling Station owned by Mr. J. H. Rowland will open for business on Feb. 10th. Mrs. Gordon Clarke, proprietress of the Palace Cafe now has Watkins products. Frank Outlaw has returned to the horse-shoeing business. The Dixie Theatre is now under new management. Playing now is Hoot Gibson in " The Lone Hand", a five reel western.

    Dr. M. M. Parks, State Superintendent sent out letters that the 5 year regular school census must be completed by April 30th. The local girls basketball team beat Bartow 15 to 10. They play Irwinton next. Dublin plans to hold a tournament sometime in the near future. In a hard fought game between New Home and Kite resulted in New Home by score of 16 to 8. The boys team, the Redjackets played several games. Cochran beat us 34 to 31. The 12th A & M College won 40 to 21. Then the Redjackets beat Empire 17 to 16. Then on the way home administered a dose to Brewton 40 to 25.

    Two blacks were lynched near the line of Hancock and Baldwin counties today following their shooting of Linsey B. Gilmore, a member of the posse that was pursuing them after robberies they committed during the night. The stores of E. Lowe at Carr's Station was robbed of $60 cash and $150 of dry goods and a shotgun. Track dogs from the state farm traced the fugitives. When the posse neared the negroes they opened fire with the shotgun and Gilmore fell mortally wounded. Several shots were exchanged and one was caught and lynched about 1:30pm. Later at 7 pm the other one was put to death at the Baldwin line near Town Creek 100 yards from the Hancock line. The negroes were not identified but were believed to have been escaped convicts. Later it is claimed there was no lynching,  that they were killed resisting arrest.

    Emanuel County Sheriff Otis Coleman will officiate another hanging Friday of a negro man by the name of Seab Johnson who killed his wife at Swainsboro some time ago. He applied for clemency but was denied by the state prison commission. Unless the Governor intervenes Johnson will draw hemp tomorrow.

    Judge E. W. Carter was 54 years old on the second and enjoyed a big birthday celebration. Annie J. Benson files for divorce from F. L. Benson and Bessie Holt files for divorce from E. L. Holt.

    Mr. James T. Tyus 76, a Confederate veteran and father of Mrs. Q. B. Powell of Kite, died at his daughters home in Jackson, Ga. from pneumonia. He lived at Miliner where he was buried.

    Johnson County's oldest citizen, Mr. Daniel H. Tuttle died at his home near New Home church. His wife and several children survive him. He was twice married and a member of Oaky Grove. He was 93 and was buried at New Home. He was a Confederate veteran.

    Mr. J. W. Alewine of Greenwood, S. C. formally of Wrightsville died Jan. 21st. He was 59 years old. He is survived by his wife and children including Mr. Joseph Alewine of Wrightsville.

    Mr. Charlie Johnson who lives on the Johnson-Washington line who was mortally stabbed Saturday by a man named Morris, son of Elijah Morris will not live according to doctors. He was stabbed in four places 

    T. J. James of Adrian wants to start a campaign on driving to the right; that it was becoming dangerous to drive on the roads on account of not observing this rule.

From Days Gone By Feb. 2, 1923

 Febuary 2, 1923.

    Mrs. R. P. Hicks of the Woman's Club of Wrightsville announced that they are putting forth an effort to start a memorial library in Wrightsville in memory of our boys that fell on Flanders Field. On February 9th the club will have a book shower in the club room over Brinson Drug Store. Everyone is encouraged to come and bring a good book, a book that will help one mentally and morally. Think what a good library will mean to the town. "Readers make Leaders."

    Dublin is planning a big industrial exposition and automobile show the week of March 12th to 17th. Johnson County was extended an invitation to participate.

    Elder W. C. Kicklighter of Vidalia, a primitive Baptist minister of Sardis Church will speak at the Christian Church. The Georgia Primitive Baptist are undertaking a big proposition at Vidalia, the first of its kind in this denomination. They plan to erect at once a home for the aged and an orphanage in connection with the home. Homeless aged people and orphan children will find in this institution a real home.

    Capt. R. M. Stanley's force of road builders are now around Adrian doing a lot of road building in the lower section of the county. They are working towards Meeks and Kite. The mayor of Wrightsville is setting down hard on tigering and drinking. Heavy fines are going to follow. The membership of Brown Memorial has just installed a heating aparatus adding to the buildings comfort.

   Mr. Emory Rowland who has been with the local post office is going to work for L. A. Lovett Ford. Ford has the lowest prices in the history of the company. You can buy a Chasis for $235; Runabout $269; Touring car $298; truck $380; Coupe $530; Sedan $595.

    Reports of petty thefts in town this weekend. Harnesses, robes, other articles in buggies and wagons that are left in the rear of business houses while owners are shopping. Alice Braddy in "Dawn of the East" is playing at the Dixie Theatre.

    The Redjackets left for Cochran where they played the Cochran High basketball team. They will go to Brewton to play them.

    Contractor John Sutton and Jack Strozier are about to finish the brick department store of Mr. M. J. Claxton. Mr. C. M. Schwalls is making his stores two-story and will have a residence in the upper story. Dirt has been broken on the grounds for the new Ford building by Lovett and Boatright. It is understood that two or three more brick stores will go up. Kite is on a boom. Besides the new brick stores a number of new residences are going up too.

    Mr. Freeman Williams, a highly respected citizen of near Adrian died at his home being sick in bed for two weeks. He leaves a wife, three sons, two daughters. He was 62, a member of Adrian Masonic Lodge, a Confederate veteran and member of Poplar Springs church where he was buried. John Redding Williams is a son.

    Mrs. Sarah Wright Dickens died Jan. 26th at the Dickens House, a popular hostelry they operated for 22 years. She was the wife of Mr. J. T. Dickens and was born Jan. 10th 1852. Her father, Henry Hyman moved to Georgia from Virginia. She was ill only a short while. She was member of Brown Memorial. Her children are Rev. E. C. J. Dickens, Eugene T., W. H., H. E. Dickens, Mrs. Walter Shivers, Mrs. L. H. Darby and Miss Berta Dickens. She was buried at Westview.

    There are said to be from one to four million drug addicts in the United States. The increase in the number of drug users since the introduction of Prohibition is enormous.

From Days Gone Jan. 26, 1923

 January 26, 1923.

    Alvie Price was given a peliminary hearing before a large crowd of spectators. In the assualt with an attempt to murder charge a bond of $1000 was assessed when the hearing ended and a bond of $500 in the other case which was larceny.

    The other case against him happened sometime prior to the two upon which the bonds were assessed and this bond is still over him in addition to the two fixed at Friday's hearing. Judge B. B. Blount appeared for the defendant, the State being represented at the hearing by Judge B. H. Moye. At this time Price was still in jail.

    Mr. E. J. Sumner, one of Johnson's most prosperous, wealthy citizens was able to attend the hearing, his head which still bears the deep signs of the carburetor where the lick was placed is healing up quite well. Mr. Sumner is the prosecutor in the assualt and larceny case.

    The Redjackets, the school team, will go up against Cochran High team in basketball on Friday night. This is one of the best teams in the state. On Feb. 7th, Brewton-Parker comes to play the Redjackets. The Adrian Athletic Club met a bad defeat at the hands of the Bearcats 75 to 21.

    J. B. Paul, Jr. will sing "School Days" at the Dixie Theatre with Freckles Barry in the picture by the same name. Also Gloria Swanson shows off her pretty gowns in "The Great Moment".

    Agent M. E. Crow is in Athens attending a farmers meeting. Wrightsville Hardware Co. has genuine Avery, Oliver, Lynburg, Chattanooga, Gantt, Farmers Friend and Dixie plows. You can come to Lovett's Filling Station and have your cars washed, no waiting, good service every day of the week.

    Mr. James H. McWhorter, Wrightsville's postmaster, was honored by the Georgia State League of Postmasters at Atlanta. Application for parole for Jim Johnson, serving a life sentence for murder, will be made to the Governor and prison Commission.

    We are spending still here in Johnson more money for fertilizers than we are getting from the sale of corn, hay and peas. Last January only seven cars of fertilizer were handled by the W. & T., this January the figures will run up to 107 which shows a heavy cotton acreage likely.

    Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Smith, their daughter, Miss Zelma Smith wed Mr. Marvin Snell the eldest son of Mr. W. N. Snell.

    Mr. D. C. Price killed a large porker which netted him 534 pounds of fine meat and is one of the largest killings of the season.

    The W. & T. Railway Co. was made a defendant in a big suit for damages supposed and alleged to have been sustained by Mr. J. E. Joiner, when the latter boarded their train at Meadows on the 14th of December last year.

    Col. R. P.  Jackson filed the suit for the man and wife in City Court. Col. Chas. S. Claxton is the railroad attorney. Mrs. Della C. Joiner is asking for a judgement of $25,000 against the company, the sum her husband suing for being $15,000. This is one of the largest damage suits filed here in many years.

    The statement is made in some parts of the state that some counties are dispensing with their county agents. Counties that do this will make a serious mistake. If there ever was a time when on the farms, we needed every possible guidance and instruction, it is now. Latter-day demands on the farm call for the employment there of every knowledge which science and experience can impart. The county agents, without exception are young men finely schooled in all the latest instruction bearing on agriculture. They are invaluable on the farms.

    You can't build a town and knock its businesses and people. Let's buy at home, trade at home, spend at home, be happy at home. A good crop of home-raised common sense will assist too.

From Days Gone By Jan. 19, 1923

 January 19, 1923.

    There is a big movement with the stock dealers of the county. Cows, hogs and mules are being shipped in and out in large quantities and the cash sales from this industry is adding large sums of money to the vaults of the banks in the county.

    Powell & Harrison at Kite sold a car of bovines to Ivey R. Tanner. C. T. Bray and J. H. Rowland sold loads to Tanner also. Tanner handled 5 carloads in and out of his stables. Shipped one load to Atlanta, and taking the others to his plantation to feed. The Johnson County L. S. & P. Company and Sanders & Shurling are also buying and selling in abundance. They have cattle now grazing on bean fields which came from Tennessee and will soon market them. Mr. J. E. Linder shipped a carload of mules. This is the first time the industry has moved up since the panic struck the country.

    The Dixie Oil Company of Texas, the largest in the country started drilling at McRae. The Dixie is asking no subscriptions nor favors but is going it on their own resources and backing. Oil talk is in the air right down there and much speculation is rife as to the outcome of the first test well digging. The state at large is awaiting with exceeding anticipations the outcome of their work in Telfair.

    The little city of Kite, now a growing one, is to soon have a big Ford Service Station, which is to be erected by Mr. L. A. Lovett and Mr. Robt. J. Boatright of Kite. The work is to begin immediately. It is to be larger than the Ford station in Wrightsville. It will be built on the lot next to the depot in Kite, fronting the new brick stores now being erected by W. W. Claxton & Co. The owners will carry everything Ford sells and will operate a general repair shop also.

    Mr. W. T. Kitchens has moved his army store next to E. A. W. Johnson's, fronting the Lovett Hotel. Mr. T. L. Drake has occupied the store vacated by Kitchens. It will be a grocery store. The fair stockholders held their annual meeting. Officers were re-elected. They will hold a fair and celebration this fall and are asking for boosting.

    Announcement is made by the attornys in the Alvin Price case charged with an assault on E. J. Sumner will hold a peliminary hearing this week. Judge J. T. Ferguson will preside.

    Mr. Price has been detained in jail since he was arrested near Soperton several days ago by officers here. There are two cases against him in this instance, but this hearing is just for the assault charge. The sheriff says there is another charge against him being out on bond at the time he was arrested. Mr. Price is a son of Mrs. Millie Price. Mr. Sumner has been able to get out the last few days, the wound on his head is still bound-up. A long list of witnesses have been summoned to the hearing.

    Farm work is going on all over the county. The planters are going to their work with a vim this year. Many fields have already been turned over and a lead taken for a big year on the farm. Production of cotton is going to be tried out again.

    Three carloads of hogs sold here at the Co-Op Sale. Mr. C. H. McGee was the successful bidder at $6.80 for No 1s. Mr. Jack Hammock owns what he calls and what is a valuable swine out on his plantation. He says she has given birth to 35 pigs in 13 months all healthy and growing.

    Mr. Lewis P. Claxton files for bankruptcy as does R. R. Frost. Bessie Holt files for divorce from E. L. Holt. Annie J. Benson files for divorce against F. L. Benson. The statement of condition for the Scott Banking Co. Is $58, 271. 49.

    Mr. J. H. Rowland killed a porker that dressed just 580 pounds. Mr. L. A. Attaway killed two that netted 1040 pounds. Mr. William Jackson dressed one at 506 pounds.

    Mr. John A. Douglas, Sr. at Meeks celebrated his 78th birthday. Eight families gathered at Mr. W. R. Spell's home to celebrate birthdays of two family members.

    Mr. Dennis Beasley, a former citizen, died at his home 6 miles east of Soperton from a complication of troubles. He was a brother to Messrs. Johnie and Morgan Beasley. He moved from Johnson 18 years ago. He was 50 years old and left a wife and 10 children. He was buried at Harmony church at Soperton.