Southern Graves

Without a struggle, without a sigh. He died in Oklahoma, but the body was brought home to Cartersville, Georgia for burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Tribune-News  (Cartersville, Georgia) 5 April 1923 FITE'S BODY BROUGHT HERE FOR INTERMENT Former Well-Known Citizen, And Son of Distinguished Jurist, Died Suddenly in Muskogee Monday Morning. Funeral services for Augustus W. Fite, Jr., thirty nine years old, were conducted Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock, at the home of his mother, and interment took place immediately afterward at Oak Hill cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. T. R. Kendall, and were attended by a large number of friends of the family and of Mr. Fite's boyhood days. The pall bearers were Messrs. J. M. Smith, J. M. Conyers, T. W. Simpson, John T. Norris, C. H. Griffin, B. L. Vaughan. The local funeral arrangements were in charge of G. M. Jackson & Sons. Died Suddenly. Mr. Fite's death occurred suddenly at Muscogee, Oklahoma, where he had made his h...

He cannot die who truly lives, For virtue hath immortal breath. Bartow Tribune - Cartersville News  (Georgia) 1 January 1920 JUDGE AUGUSTUS W. FITE DIED SUDDENLY IN HIS OFFICE Prominent Citizen of Bartow County for Many Years -- Had Led Vigorous Life and Was Active Until the Moment of His Death Judge A. W. Fite, one of the most prominent citizens of Bartow county, and for twenty years judge of the superior courts of the Cherokee circuit, died suddenly in his office at the court house in Cartersville on the afternoon of Christmas day, aged 67 years. He was born June 15, 1852. Judge Fite had taken dinner at his home and shortly after rising from the table was called to town by a client for a consultation. A little while after seating himself at his desk, and while talking to his client, Mr. Tom McHugh, of Pine Log, he raised his hand to his face and remarked that he was sick. Mr. McHugh asked him if he should send for a doctor, and receiving no reply, acted upon his own impulse and f...