Newspaper Article - 1923
Contributed by Wanda Snyder
THE NEWS-HERALD, Lawrenceville, Monday, June 11, 1923
SOCIETY - NORCROSS
Norcross girls and boys returned from school are as follows:
Misses Elsie Garner, Dixie McDaniel and Rena Davenport, Milledge, G.S.C.W.
Nelle Martin, Gladys Crisler, Ronald Estes and Peyton Hansard, Oglethorpe University
James de Jarnette, Johnnie Reynolds and Carroll McDaniel, Tech high.
John de Jarnette, John McClure, Marshall Dean, Herbert Meadows, Roy Meadows, Gladstone Pirkle, Seldon Cochran, Georgia Tech.
Meredith de Jarnette, the Colorado School of Mines.
Edwin Medlock, Winifred Kent, M. C. Rhodes, and Joe Nesbit, Dahlonega.
Clifford Gulledge, Cleo Carlisle, Major Guthrie, G.M. C.
Jack Cain, Carl Pirkle, and Raleigh Garner, Emory University.
Frank Simpson, Atlanta Law School.
Frank Robertson, Atlanta Business College.
Oliff and Grail Nesbit, Boyd Flowers, Madison A. & M.
Frances Ramey, North Avenue Presbyterian School.
Katherine Yow, Washington Seminary.
The many friends of John McClure throughout the country will be glad to know of his graduation at
Georgia Tech this year. The exercises will be held next Monday at the school. Mr. McClure is the youngest son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. N. McClure and we predict for him a very bright future.
Frank Simpson has returned home after a successful
year as teacher and assistant coach at University School for Boys. The
football and baseball teams won the prep championship. The baseball team set a
prep record for going through the season undefeated, winning fifteen straight
games.
Two graduates, Miss
Rena Davenport, from the Georgia State College for Women, and
Benjamin Franklin Simpson,
from the Atlanta Law School, where sixty-two full fledged disciples of
Blackstone were given diplomas Wednesday night.
Miss Davenport is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Davenport, possessed of a most lovable
disposition, charming manners and rare intellectual ability, qualifications for
a useful life.
Mr. Simpson is a son
of Dr. and Mrs. O. O. Simpson and a nephew of
the late Col. B. F. Simpson, who was a lawyer
of rare ability, serving a term or two in the Georgia legislature and as
solicitor general of the Blue Ridge circuit. Frank was admitted to the bar
Thursday and will start the practice of law in the early fall in Atlanta. May the mantle of the uncle fall
upon the shoulders of the nephew. Go to it, Frank, old boy.
Norcross teachers
elected for next term are:
W. H.
Maxwell, superintendent.
Mrs. W. H.
Maxwell, Mrs. O. O. Simpson Jr., Miss Stella
Douglas ---High School.
Miss Mary
Wooten, seventh grade and librarian.
Miss Daisy
Keown, Lawrenceville, Ga., sixth grade.
Mrs. A. A.
O'Kelley, fifth grade.
Miss Romie
Garrott, Loganville, Ga., fourth grade.
Miss Alice
Webb, Lawrenceville, third grade.
Miss Jewel
Hayes, Eastonollee, second grade.
Miss
Lenoir Summerour, Duluth, first grade.
Notes for Benjamin Franklin Simpson
Contributed by Wanda Snyder
Notes for BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
SIMPSON:
Lived in Rome, Georgia after marriage.
Played football/baseball for
Olgethorpe 1917; for University of Georgia 1918; and for Oglethorpe again in
1920. Played with Bartow in the Florida League in 1921.
Coached University School for Boys and taught classes 1923-4.
Studied law and was solicitor general of Piedmont Circuit from 1936
until his death in 1939. (source p. 172 History of Gwinnett Co. Vol. II 1818 -
1960 by J.C. Flanagan.)
Gwinnett Co. Probate Records:
Petition
Minutes Book T Page 408: B. Frank Simpson d.
10-Nov-1939, no will, wife Vera Simpson
Years
Support YR S Book D Page 161: lived in town of Norcross, NW corner of Peachtree St.
Frank was hearing a court case in
Lawrenceville where one of his friends told him that he should take a break and
go to the doctor - he looked very ill. He went to the doctor and never
returned home - dying of heart trouble. (source: Nesbit, Martha Ruth Simpson)
Admitted to practice law: Atlanta, GA. Fulton County, 1923.
More About BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
SIMPSON:
Burial: Unknown, Norcross Town
Cem, Norcross, Gwinnett Co., GA157
Education 1: 07 Jun 1923, Atlanta Law School158
Education 2: Georgia Military Academy
Military service: 01 Oct 1918,
WWI to Dec , 1918.
Occupation: Lawyer159
More About VERA DAVENPORT:
Burial: Unknown, Norcross Town
Cem, Norcross, Gwinnett Co., GA160
Marriage Notes for BENJAMIN
SIMPSON and VERA DAVENPORT:
Frank and Vera were sweethearts
from an early age. They finally married in Rome, GA because the preacher,
Rev. McKibbon, was a much-loved Methodist minister who moved from Norcross to Rome.
(source: Nesbit, Martha Ruth Simpson)
