"In Memoriam

John A. Strange died at his home in Summerville at 6 p.m., Oct. 15, 1923, after an illness of nearly a year. He was born near South Carolina Camp Ground, Chattooga county, on Dec. 8, 1862, his parents being the late Amos Alexander Strange and wife, who was Miss Ann Knowles, a daughter of the late Judge John B. Knowles, of the same community. He was married July 17, 1890 to Miss Octavia E. Rivers, who survives him.
Except for a few months, spent many years ago in Texas, John had passed his entire life in Chattooga county, and more than twenty years at Summerville, where first with Mr. G. J. Cochran, under the firm name of Strange and Cochran Hardware Company, and afterwards with Mr. B. H. Edmonson, under the style of Strange and Edmonson, he was for a number of years engaged in the grocery and hardware trade. As the date of his birth indicates, he was born during the progress of the great struggle between the United States and the Confederate States of America, and he received his training from, and had imprinted upon his character, most indellibly, the steadfast virtues and the now almost obsolete traditions of the generations which carried on that struggle, and those virtues and traditions with him were for every day use in business as well as social interaction. John's enemies were people who did not know him, and his friends were all the others, and most especially the children, from whose bright eyes, a good and tender heart like his, can never be concealed, try as one may to hide it.
His last days were made as pleasant for him as his friends and neighbors, the good people of Summerville, and the faithful nursing of his wife and sister could make it.
Funeral services were held at his residence, the Rev. H. L. Byrd, pastor of the M. E. Church officiating, and his body rests in the Summerville cemetery."
C. D. RIVERS (from the "Summerville News"--1923)