Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....PETERSON, ROBERT EMMETT January 1936
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SOUTHWEST GEORGIAN, JAN 9 1936
MR. R.E. PETERSON, ONE OF FT. GAINES MOST HIGHLY RESPECTED CITIZENS, PASSED 
AWAY SUDDENLY SUNDAY AFTERNOON FROM HEART ATTACK.  FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD 
TUESDAY MORNING WITH REV S.W. SAWYER PASTOR OF THE METHODIST CHURCH 
OFFICIATING.  INTERNMENT WAS IN NEW PARK CEMETERY.
THE DEATH OF MR. PETERSON CAME AS A GREAT SHOCK TO THE CITY WHERE HE SPENT 
ALLT HE YEARS OF HIS LIFE, UNASSUMING NOBILITY, THOUGH HIS HEALTH HAD NOT BEEN 
ROBUST THERE HAD BEEN NO WARNING OF THE APPROACHING END WHEN HE ASKED ON 
SUNDAY AFTERNOON TO BE LEFT AT HIS HOME WHILE HIS WIFE AND MR. AND MRS. 
PUCKETT MOTORED TO COLUMBIA ALA TO VISIT MRS. PETERSONS SISTER WHO WAS ILL.
WHEN THEY RETURNED ABOUT 5:30 THEY FOUND HIM AT THE WOOD PILE BESIDE A LITTLE 
BUNCH OF KINDLING WHICH HE HAD GATHERED TOGETHER FOR THE EVENING FIRE.  HE WAS 
BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN DEAD FOR SOME TIME.
DURING THE AFTERNOON HE HAD WALKED TO THE CHATTAHOOCHEE BRIDGE TO VIEW THE 
RIVER WHICH WAS THEN REACHING FLOOD TIDE AND HAD SPENT SOME TIME WITH HIS 
BROTHER MR. M.E. PETERSON.  WHILE HE HAD CONFESSED TO THE LATTER THAT HE HAD 
EXPERIENCED SEVERAL BAD ATTACKS OF VERTIGO HE EXPRESSED NO REAL CONCERN AND 
REFUSED HIS BROTHER’S OFFER TO ACCOMPANY HIM HOME.  
DEATH OVERTOOK HIM AT THE TASK HE LOVED BEST, DEVOTED SERVICE TO HIS FAMILY.
ROBERT EMMETT PETERSON WAS BORN AT FORT GAINES SEPT 4 1860 AND WAS THE SECOND 
SON OF THE LATE ROBERT R. AND AMANDA HENDERSON PETERSON.  HE WAS A DIRECT 
DESCENDENT OF “LIGHT HORSE HARRY” LEE OF VIRGINIA AND COUSIN TO PINKNEY 
MENDERSON, FIRST GOVERNOR OF TEXAS.
HE WAS CASHIER OF THE BANK OF FORT GAINES PRIOR TO THE OPENING FO THE FIRST 
NATIONAL BANK HERE BUT TRANSFERRED TO THE LATTER INSTITUTION UPON ITS 
ORGANIZATION IN NOV 1901, SERVING IT AS CASHIER UNTIL HEALTH FORCED HIS 
RETIREMENT.
MR PETERSON WAS REVERED NOT ONLY IN METHODIST CIRCLES WHERE AS SECRETARY AND 
TREASURER OF THE BOARD OF STEWARDS HE HAD GIVEN MANY YEARS OF SERVICE BUT IN 
THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.  
ON DEC 4 1889 HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE WITH MISS SARA PEARL THOMAS OF 
LAWRENCEVILLE ALABAMA WHO SURVIVES HIM.  SEVERAL CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THE 
UNJION, ONLY ONE OF WHOM, MRS. FLOYD E PUCKETT SURVIVES.
HE LEAVES ALSO ONE GRANDCHILD, FLOYD EMMETT PUCKETT AND TWO BROTHERS J EUGENE 
PETRSON AND  MAGBY E PETERSON BOTH OF THIS CITY.



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