Decatur-Colquitt-Baker County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hattie Pierce Rich January 8 1933
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Post-Searchlight, 1/12/1933, Page 1, Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia

Mrs. E. A. J. Rich Dies Sunday Morning

On Sunday morning January 8, 1933 Mrs. Elijah Andrew Jackson Rich died at the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Bush, in Colquitt, Ga.  When life passed from 
the body of that beloved woman, one of the most successful careers of 
womanhood came to a close.  For eighty-three years her every deed had been 
based upon devotion to her large family and unselfish service to her 
community.  With her late husband who seven years ago preceeded her to the 
grave she succeeded in raising one of the largest families in Southwest 
Georgia.  Their descendants have successfully gone forth into every walk of 
life to wield a great and good influence upon the world about them.  That 
influence is being relayed from a home founded upon the bedrock of Christian 
living and the world is better for their having lived in it.  Born a woman, 
Mrs. Rich attained the highest success as a woman.

'Gandma' Rich came into this life on February 4, 1849 in Milford, Baker 
county, Georgia.  She was Christened Hattie Pearce.  Left an orphan at a 
tender age she was carried on horseback from Milford to Brinson by her uncle, 
a Mr. Bryant, while yet an infant.  From that day until the day of her death 
she lived in Decatur county, even maintaining it as her legal residence after 
she took up her abode with her daughter, at the death of her husband in 1925.  
Shortly after Lee had surrendered at Appamattox, she became the bride of Mr. 
Rich.  To that union were born eight children, six of them survive her.  Mrs. 
W. G. Powell and Emory G. Rich have died.  The living are, Mrs. Jesse T. 
Powell, of Brinson, Mrs. J. W. Bush of Colquitt.  Euzema Rich, Judge Perry D. 
Rich, Thomas E. Rich, and A. J. Rich, all of Bainbridge.  In addition there 
are 34 grandchildren, 47 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild to 
mourn her.

In addition to their own large family, Mr. and Mrs. Rich also reared the 
families of Mr. Tobe Wilson, who was killed in the Civil War, and of Mr. and 
Mrs. Emory G. Rich, who died in the same year.

Besides her duties as a mother and a home-maker, Mrs. Rich's chief interest 
and activity was in the work of the Bethel Baptist Church of this county, of 
which she was a devoted member for sixty-five years.

The funeral services were conducted at the church Monday morning by the Rev. 
H. H. Shell of the First Baptist Church, of Bainbridge, who was assisted by 
the Rev. D. Maurice Smith of West Bainbridge.

Serving as pallbearers were eight grandsons: Lloyd Rich, Lamar Powell, Alee 
Rich, T. E. Rich, Jr., W. G. Rich, Dewey Powell, P. T. Rich and C. C. Rich.  
Interment was in the Rich lot of the cemetery, adjoining the church.

The Bainbridge Bar Association attended the rites in a body.  E. W. Cox 
Funeral Home in charge.

Additional Comments:
This person was my great, great grandmother.

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