Person:George Palmer (7)

Obituary of George Washington Palmer as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 13 Aug 1909. Camilla, Georgia. Mitchell County lost a good citizen and one of her most substantial farmers last Friday evening, when Mr. George Palmer answered the call which comes to every man sooner or later, and passed out of this life after a long career of usefulness and honor among a people who knew him well and esteemed him highly. Mr. Palmer, who was 56 years of age, was stricken about three weeks ago with acute indigestion which left him in such a weakened condition as to invite the recurrence of an old liver complaint, from which he had been a sufferer for many years. As soon as the second trouble took hold of him it was seen by those who watched by his bedside that he was a doomed man, nevertheless a fight for his life was immediately instituted which combined the skill of physicians from Camilla, Sale City, and Albany. His constitution, however, was not sufficient to withstand the disease and he gradually grew weaker until Friday evening about 6 o'clock he lapsed into a state of coma and died at ten 'clock. Mr. Palmer was born and raised in the eastern part of this county and lived there until his death. He was a well-to-do farmer who had prospered as a result of hard work and good business judgement, his relatives with others being invariably characterized by the utmost fairness and honesty. His habits of life were simple and unobtrusive and in keeping with the plain man he was. Besides a host of friends and kinspeople, he leaves a widow and nine children: Messrs J. L.; T. E.; and George W. Palmer and Mrs. M. J. Akridge, Mrs. B. C. Williams and Misses Viola, Ella, Mary, and Vinie Palmer. Four brothers, Messrs. Chars. P.; H. P.; Sam P.; and S. E. Palmer and two sisters, Mrs. J. J. Griner, of this county, and Mrs. Doc Griner, of Colquitt, survive him. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. H. N. Burnett, at the grave in Mt. Zion Cemetery last Saturday afternoon at four o'clock in the presence of a large number of sorrowing relatives and friends, to whom the Enterprise extends deepest sympathy.