The Beaver Family

The Jesup Sentinel, July 1934

J. A. Beaver Dies His Home Monday

Funeral Held At Liberty Church Tuesday Afternoon

J. A. Beaver died at his home near Jesup Monday afternoon [July 2] at six o'clock following an illness of only a few days, paralysis being the cause of his death.

The deceased was born in Murray County and had lived to the venerable age of seventy-five and had made his home in Wayne County for the past seventeen years where he was engaged in farming. He was a faithful member of the Baptist church and held his membership at Liberty in Wayne County. He was a deacon thirty-five years, serving his church in his former home in Murray County before coming to Wayne seventeen years ago. He was married at an early age in Murray County and was the father of twenty-two children, thirteen of whom survive him.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock from the Liberty Baptist Church with Rev. P. U. Waters, of Fitzgerald, Ga., and who was a former pastor of Liberty, conducting the services assisted by the pastor, Rev.[& Dr.] W. A. Loviinggood, and Rev. T. R. Stanford, pastor of the First Methodist church of Jesup. Interment followed in the church cemetery.

Mr. Beaver is survived by his wife and thirteen children: four daughters, Mrs. Lilie Baker, Mrs. Mattie Nichols, Mrs. Annie Johns[on] and Mrs. Myrtle Madray, all of Jesup; nine brothers [sons]: T. T. Beaver of Etowah, Tenn; Jim and Joe Beaver of Thomasville; C. A., Ben , Norman, and Randolph Beaver of Jesup; E. O. Beaver of Tampa, Fla.; and Samuel Beaver; two sisters, Mrs. Mattie Randal of Chattanooga, Tenn., Mrs. Florida Ranky of Alabama.

Wayne Funeral Home of this City were the undertakers in charge of arrangements.