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Note for: Norrine (Toots) Sessions, 28 JUL 1928 - 30 MAY 2001
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Individual Note: GUYTON -- Norene Sessions Nease, 72, died May 30 at Effingham Hospital.
The Brunswick native was a retired store manager and florist. She was a member of Marlow United Methodist Church.
SURVIVORS: her husband, Roy Nease of Guyton; a son and two daughters-in-law, Norman and Marcie Nease of Guyton and Lenora Nease of Colorado; two sisters, Barbara Dudney of Griffin Lake and Patricia Helmey of Savannah; a brother, Rollie Sessions of Port Wentworth; five grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
VISITATION: 5-8 p.m. today at Thomas C. Strickland & Sons Funeral Home, Effingham Chapel.
SERVICE: 11 a.m. Friday at Thomas C. Strickland & Sons Funeral Home, Effingham Chapel, burial in Marlow Cemetery.
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Note for: Patricia Sessions, 29 MAR 1932 - 3 MAY 2002
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Individual Note: Patricia Sessions Helmey
Patricia Sessions Helmey, 70, died Thursday, May 2 at Candler Hospital. A life long resident of Savannah, she was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer on Wilmington Island, and was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur Lee Helmey. Survivors: daughters, Deidra Jeffcoat of Savannah and Dale E. Cunningham of Atlanta; sons, Arthur Lee Helmey, Jr. and Gary W. Helmey both of Effingham County; brother, Rollie H. Sessions, Jr. of Pt. Wentworth; sister, Barbara Dudney of Springfield; grandchildren, Erin Turner of Effingham County, Shaun Helmey of Atlanta, Stacey Pockatt of Atlanta, Joshua, Jessica and Jaime Cunningham, all of Atlanta and Lindsey and Austin Jeffcoat both of Savannah; great-granddaughter, Courtney Pockatt of Atlanta and several nieces and nephews. Visitation: 7:00-9:00 p. m. Friday, May 3 at Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors, Islands Chapel. Funeral: 11:00 a. m. Saturday at Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors, Islands Chapel with Pastor Paul W. Baumgartner and Pastor Clarence Stucke officiating. Pallbearers: Shaun Helmey, Joshua Cunningham, Charles Turner, Rollie Sessions, Marion Orrel and Neal Whitfield. Burial: Forest Lawn Memory Gardens. Remembrances: Georgia Chapter of the Alzheimer Association for the Savannah Area, 1825 Century Blvd., Suite 10, Atlanta, Georgia 30305. Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors Islands Chapel
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Note for: Napoleon Bonaparte Clark, DEC 1855 - 1938
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Burial: Date: 1938
Place: Temple - Kingsland, GA
Individual Note: 1920 census says he was a house carpenter, rented the house in which he lived, his mother was born in Georgia, and his father's birthplace was "foreign."
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Note for: Mary Angeline (Molly) Smith, JAN 1855 - 13 DEC 1934
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Burial: Date: 1934
Place: Temple - Kingsland, GA
Individual Note: I have heard her middle name as Elizabeth and Melinda and her birthplace as Homerville and Manor, both in Georgia.
The Southeast Georgian
Thursday, December 20, 1934
Mrs. Mollie Clark Buried At Temple
Mrs. Mollie Clark, 79, wife of N. B. Clark died at her home near here
Thursday morning, (Death December 13, 1934}, and was buried at Temple
cemetery Friday afternoon.
Besides her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Sessions and
Mrs. Allen of Brunswick, one son , Clyde of Miami, Fla.
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Note for: John Brewster Clark, 1877 - 25 JUL 1917
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Event: Mt. Zion Church Cemetery
Type: Buried
Place: Off Colerain Road,Camden County, GA.
Note: Zion / Mt. Zion
Colerain Road west of Hwy. 17, north onto Zion
Road (CR109?). At end of the dirt road. This road
is no longer marked, but it’s just west of the
Zion (Power) Sub Station.
Individual Note: He was a wheelwright and blacksmith.
"John B. Clark Shot Down by Herbert F. Sheffield.
A dispute over the Sheffield estate which resulted in bad blood between some of the interested parties and lead to the swearing out of a half dozen peace warrants by the heirs against John B. Clark a short while ago, culminated Monday in a bloody tragedy . Mr. Clark being shot twice by his brother-in-law Mr. Herbert Sheffield. Dr. Thigpen took John B. Clark to Jacksonville, Florida for treatment, where he later died from his wounds..."
[Source: Southeast Georgian, dated: Friday July 27 1917]
It is said that John Brewster Clark was killed by his bother-in-law. He was cutting wood on property that belonged to Herbert Forsythe Sheffield, who had told him before he would shoot him if he caught him cutting on his property again when he caught John at it again, john pulled a gun and Herbert shot him. When John fell,he dropped his gun in the water. Herbert was arrested and charged with murder. He claimed self-defense, After several searches of the water the gun was found. Herbert was acquitted. The Baptist church he attended did not agree with the jury and expelled him for 20 years.