TITLE:  John Julian Abbott

SOURCE:  The Keowee Courier

SUBMITTED BY:  Susan Brock-Booker

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Jun 2003

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ABBOTT, John Julian 
(1904-1954) Keowee Courier, John Julian Abbott, 49, manager of the 
Ware Shoals Department Store, and a well known business and civic 
leader, died at Self Memorial hospital in Greenwood Monday morning. 
He had been seriously ill about one week. Mr. Abbott was also manager 
of the Triton Department Store, operated by Riegel Textile Corporation 
in Trion, Ga. He was chairman of the Ware Shoals District 51, Board of
Trustees. He was a member of the Ware Shoals Baptist Church, the 
Masonic Lodge, also a member and former president of the Lions Club. 
Mr. Abbott was born December 21, 1904 in Walhalla, a son of Mrs. 
Nannie Farmer Abbott and the late Glenn Davis Abbott. He graduated for 
Walhalla High school, attended the Atlanta Dental College, and later 
became a pharmacist. He had been in Ware Shoals for 28 years. Surviving
are his widow, Mrs. Beulah Stone Abbott of Ware Shoals; his mother; 
four brothers, W. B. Abbott of Sumter, Frank Abbott of Walhalla, G. F.
(Red) Abbott of Central and Jack M. Abbott of Greenville; two sisters, 
Mrs. Louis K. Harper of Walhalla, and Mrs. H. B. Wells, III of Newberry. 
Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Ware Shoals Baptist Church,
conducted by the Rev. James R. Bruce and the Rev. Fred Hedgepath. 
Burial was in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Contributed by: Susan 
Brock-Booker, sbrockbooker@aol.com



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