"SAD DEATH OF MRS. GEORGE B. ABNEY. // Mrs. George B. ABNEY, aged 50 years, died at her residence, No. 1723 Third avenue yesterday afternoon after an illness of complications of about one year's duration. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Sadie SHERIDAN, and three grand-children, whom she has had the care of since their infancy. The [grand]children are: Leo, Armaline and Katie BAZEMORE. She was a consecrated Christian, beloved mother and a kind and gentle neighbor. // The funeral will take place from the house this afternoon at three o'clock and will be conducted by Rev. H. C. HURLEY [pastor of the Rose Hill Methodist Church]. The interment will be in Linwood cemetery." [Columbus (GA) Enquirer-Sun newspaper, Sunday, 05 FEB 1905, p. 4. The funeral recap, appearing in the issue of Tuesday, 07 FEB 1905, names the following who acted as pallbearers: Messrs. G. W. FORD, J. A. WILLIAMS, W. B. TURNER, S. H. TICE, W. W. LOCKHEART and A. H. CARSON.]
Original burial entry in the sexton's ledger book shows Mrs. Georgia B. ABNEY, born in Columbus, Georgia, died aged 50 years of unknown cause; buried 05 FEB 1905 in Lot in Old Cemetery. Residence 1723 Third Avenue. The sexton was Jesse Alexander BEARD.
1860 federal census of Militia District 1186, served by the Mountain Hill Post Office, Dwelling #623 / Household #623: B. H. YOUNG, male, 30 AL, chair maker, real estate valued at $0, personal estate valued at $200. Amanda (YOUNG), female, 25 GA. Georgia (YOUNG) female, 7 GA.
1900 federal census of Militia District 772 (Nances District / Land District 8), Muscogee County, Georgia, Dwelling #63 / Household #63: P______ BAZEMORE (male, 28, born Dec. 1871 GA GA GA), married 5 years, laborer for Electric Light Company; wife Minnie E. BAZEMORE (28, born Jan. 1872 GA AL GA), married 5 years, had borne 2 children, both still living); Leo N. BAZEMORE (male, 4, born Aug. 1895 GA GA GA); Saide BAZEMORE (2, born Aug 1897 GA GA GA); mother-in-law Georgia ABNEY (47, born Aug. 1852 GA FL GA), married 29 years, had born 7 children, 2 of whom were still living); and boarder Ophelia DOSS (36, born May 1860 GA GA GA), single, weaver in a cotton mill.
Daughter (per the Sexton's online cemetery database): Saddie E. RUSSELL, female, born 17 OCT 1875, daughter of George L. ABNEY, died 07 APR 1947, aged 71 years, Columbus, Georgia, of complete right hemiplegia; buried by undertaker [David A.] STRIFFLER in Riverdale Cemetery, Section 7, Lot 48.
"SAD DEATH OF MRS. GEORGE B. ABNEY. // Mrs. George B. ABNEY, aged 50 years, died at her residence, No. 1723 Third avenue yesterday afternoon after an illness of complications of about one year's duration. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Sadie SHERIDAN, and three grand-children, whom she has had the care of since their infancy. The [grand]children are: Leo, Armaline and Katie BAZEMORE. She was a consecrated Christian, beloved mother and a kind and gentle neighbor. // The funeral will take place from the house this afternoon at three o'clock and will be conducted by Rev. H. C. HURLEY [pastor of the Rose Hill Methodist Church]. The interment will be in Linwood cemetery." [Columbus (GA) Enquirer-Sun newspaper, Sunday, 05 FEB 1905, p. 4. The funeral recap, appearing in the issue of Tuesday, 07 FEB 1905, names the following who acted as pallbearers: Messrs. G. W. FORD, J. A. WILLIAMS, W. B. TURNER, S. H. TICE, W. W. LOCKHEART and A. H. CARSON.]
Original burial entry in the sexton's ledger book shows Mrs. Georgia B. ABNEY, born in Columbus, Georgia, died aged 50 years of unknown cause; buried 05 FEB 1905 in Lot in Old Cemetery. Residence 1723 Third Avenue. The sexton was Jesse Alexander BEARD.
1860 federal census of Militia District 1186, served by the Mountain Hill Post Office, Dwelling #623 / Household #623: B. H. YOUNG, male, 30 AL, chair maker, real estate valued at $0, personal estate valued at $200. Amanda (YOUNG), female, 25 GA. Georgia (YOUNG) female, 7 GA.
1900 federal census of Militia District 772 (Nances District / Land District 8), Muscogee County, Georgia, Dwelling #63 / Household #63: P______ BAZEMORE (male, 28, born Dec. 1871 GA GA GA), married 5 years, laborer for Electric Light Company; wife Minnie E. BAZEMORE (28, born Jan. 1872 GA AL GA), married 5 years, had borne 2 children, both still living); Leo N. BAZEMORE (male, 4, born Aug. 1895 GA GA GA); Saide BAZEMORE (2, born Aug 1897 GA GA GA); mother-in-law Georgia ABNEY (47, born Aug. 1852 GA FL GA), married 29 years, had born 7 children, 2 of whom were still living); and boarder Ophelia DOSS (36, born May 1860 GA GA GA), single, weaver in a cotton mill.
Daughter (per the Sexton's online cemetery database): Saddie E. RUSSELL, female, born 17 OCT 1875, daughter of George L. ABNEY, died 07 APR 1947, aged 71 years, Columbus, Georgia, of complete right hemiplegia; buried by undertaker [David A.] STRIFFLER in Riverdale Cemetery, Section 7, Lot 48.
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