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The
Quitman
Advertiser
Quitman,
Georgia
August 27, 1909
CLERK
GEO. D. RAYSOR
DEAD.
End Came Quietly Monday Night After
Long Illness---Funeral Tuesday Afternoon.
Mr.
George D. Raysor died at his home in Quitman Monday night about nine
o’clockafter an illness of
several months of a complication of diseases. His death was not
unexpected but none the regretted. Last
winter he was confined to his room for several weeks with an attack of
lagrippe, and while he recovered sufficiently to be up again and be
at his office, he was never well, and it was seen that his decline was
rapid. All that was possible for medical skill to do
was done for him, but of no avail and death only relieved his
sufferings
In
his death
Quitman and Brooks county loses one of the best and most beloved
citizens and public officials, and his family a most devoted husband
and father and
his church a faithful and consecrated member. He was a friend of
everybody
and was a man that no one was heard to say ought against. In his
official capacity as Clerk of the Superior and ex-officio clerk of the
City Court of Quitman and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Quitman Graded School, he served the
public in a faithful and impartial manner, and was one of the best
officers that the county ever had. He was ever pleasant and
always had a kind word for those with whom he came into contact.
George D. Raysor was born in Colleton county,
S. C., in 1843. At the age of three years he removed with his father to
Jefferson county,
Fla., and was reared in that county near Monticello. Early in the war
between the States he volunteered his services and enlisted in Company
G of the Fifth Florida
infantry as a private. His company was ordered to Virginia in 1862 and
he saw service in some of the hardest fought battles occurred
during the war and in each battle he distinguished himself as a soldier
of bravery and courage. He was in the Maryland campaign of the summer
and fall of 1862. He was in the second battle at Manassas, was at
Harpers Ferry when Miles surrendered and
at the battle of Sharpsburg on Sept.17,1862. Though he enlisted as a
private his rise was rapid, being appointed Sargeant-Major directly
after the battle of Sharpsburg and in October
was elected Second-Lieutenant of his company and commanded his company
in the battle of Chancellorsville in December 1862. In the following
year he took part in the battle of Chancellorsville
and Bristol Station. During this year he was promoted to
First-Lieutenant. In 1864 he took part those famous battles at
the Wilderness, Spottsville courthouse, South Ann Arbor, Frayser’s Farm
and around Petersburg and Richmond. During this campaign he was acting
adjutant
of his regiment. During this hard service, all of the time at the front
and in the thickest of battle, he was received only two slight wounds,
one at Sharpsburg
and one at Petersburg. Directly after the close of the war he moved to
Brooks county and engaged in the mercantile business. Later on he
engaged in sawmilling and
farming. In 1898 he was elected to the office of Clerk of the Superior
Court of Brooks county, which office he held
continuously until his death.
On August 6, 1868, Mr. Raysor was married to
Miss Laura Lee of Brooks county. This union were born three children,
who are Mrs. B. F. Kemp, of Macon, and
Mrs. H. F. Lilly and Miss Haskell Raysor, of Quitman. Mrs. Raysor and
three children survive him. The funeral occurred Tuesday afternoon from
the home and was conducted by Rev. W. F. Smith, the interment taking
place in the East End Cemetery. The funeral and interment was attended
by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives, who gathered
to pay
a last tribute to this good man. Out of respect for the deceased, the
court house was draped with mourning, and the
stores and business houses of Quitman closed during the funeral hour.
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