UPSON COUNTY  GA  OBITS  Mr. Wyatt Blasingame

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The Pike County Journal
Zebulon, Pike Co., Friday, August 3, 1894


An Old Landmark Gone


Mr. Wyatt Blasingame of Upson County died at his home last Friday.


He was the father of our efficient clerk, Judge T.J.
Blasingame. The remains were interred at Shiloh church
cemetery on Saturday. Mr. Blasingame was born in South
Carolina May 16, 1806, and moved to Jones county, Ga., in
1822, and from there to Upson county where has lived for
40 years and reared a large family of children, eight of
whom are living now - the youngest being 52 years of age.
He was a deacon in the Primitive Baptist church for years
and was regarded by those who knew him as a model
Christian gentleman. It was rather a strange coincidence
that Mrs. Blasingame, the wife of the deceased should
have been buried on July 25, 1874, and Mr. Blasingame
placed beside her on July 25, 1894 - exactly 20 years
afterwards. The country misses such men, but no one can
doubt that they are immeasurably benefited by the great
reward promised to the faithful.


(Transcribed 9/24/02 Lynn Cunningham)