Macon County Citizen - Oglethorpe, Ga. February 8, 1929
Funeral services for Mrs. Sam J. English, 40, who died at her residence, a few miles out from Oglethorpe, early Sunday morning, February 3rd, were held at Red Hill Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. M. Woodward of Hawkinsville, who had been Mrs. Englishs' pastor.
Mrs. English, was reared in the community in which she died, had always been a resident of Macon County, although she had been ill for the past few months, her death came as a shock to her relatives and hundreds of friends, as it was not known that her condition for the past few days, was any more critical than it had been for some little time.
Mrs. English, who before her marriage, was Miss Mittie Smith, numbered her friends by her acquaintances, always took a leading part in all work for the betterment of her community and her death has cast a gloom over the entire section of the county in which she had resided from childhood.
Surviving , in addition to her husband and twelve children, are her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Smith; one brother, Mr. J. S. Smith; three sisters, Mrs. Lester Johnson, Mrs. Morgan Williams and Miss Lois Smith, all of Macon County, with the exception of Miss Lois Smith, who resides at Plant City, Fla.
[Note: Mittie Smith English - Born 1889 - Died 2-3-1929 is buried in Red Hill Cemetery beside her husband, Sam Joe English, Sr. [1883 - 1965]
[In the 1920 Macon Co., Ga. census there are 6 children: Mary English 12, Tom M. English 10, Minnie English 8, Katherine English 6, Jasper David 3, & John Uriel 1.
Macon County Citizen - Oglethorpe, Ga. February 8, 1929
Funeral services for Mrs. Sam J. English, 40, who died at her residence, a few miles out from Oglethorpe, early Sunday morning, February 3rd, were held at Red Hill Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. M. Woodward of Hawkinsville, who had been Mrs. Englishs' pastor.
Mrs. English, was reared in the community in which she died, had always been a resident of Macon County, although she had been ill for the past few months, her death came as a shock to her relatives and hundreds of friends, as it was not known that her condition for the past few days, was any more critical than it had been for some little time.
Mrs. English, who before her marriage, was Miss Mittie Smith, numbered her friends by her acquaintances, always took a leading part in all work for the betterment of her community and her death has cast a gloom over the entire section of the county in which she had resided from childhood.
Surviving , in addition to her husband and twelve children, are her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Smith; one brother, Mr. J. S. Smith; three sisters, Mrs. Lester Johnson, Mrs. Morgan Williams and Miss Lois Smith, all of Macon County, with the exception of Miss Lois Smith, who resides at Plant City, Fla.
[Note: Mittie Smith English - Born 1889 - Died 2-3-1929 is buried in Red Hill Cemetery beside her husband, Sam Joe English, Sr. [1883 - 1965]
[In the 1920 Macon Co., Ga. census there are 6 children: Mary English 12, Tom M. English 10, Minnie English 8, Katherine English 6, Jasper David 3, & John Uriel 1.
Family Members
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Mary Bethia English Faulk
1907–1997
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Thomas Matthew English
1909–1984
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Annie Maxie English Melton
1911–1999
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Catherine Jo English Theus
1913–2003
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Jasper David English
1916–1979
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PVT John Uriel English
1918–1981
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Emory English
1920–1993
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Emma English Fullbright
1920–2014
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Bettie Frances English Pierce Charnley
1922–1996
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Sampson Josiah "Sam Joe" English Jr
1924–2021
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S2C Floyd Hammett English
1927–1985
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Howard Grady English
1928–1929
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