Funeral services for Julien Cumming, one of the founders of Battey Machinery Co., who died Thursday morning at his residence, were held at 3 p.m. today at the First Presbyterian Church. Dr. L. R. Scott and the Rev. Forrest Lanier officiated and interment was in the family lot of Myrtle Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Cumming and the late L. D. Yeargan organized in 1901 what is now Battey Machinery Co., one of the oldest business concerns in the county. He was a native of Rome, the son of the late Gen. F. Alfred Cumming and Sarah Davis. His father was the last Confederate general to retire.
Surviving are the widow, the former Miss Georgia Freeman; three sons, Alfred Cumming, of Tulsa, Okla;, Julien B. Cumming, of Montreal, Canada, and Freeman Cumming, of Rome. (Rome New-Tribune, Friday, Jan. 7, 1955)
Funeral services for Julien Cumming, one of the founders of Battey Machinery Co., who died Thursday morning at his residence, were held at 3 p.m. today at the First Presbyterian Church. Dr. L. R. Scott and the Rev. Forrest Lanier officiated and interment was in the family lot of Myrtle Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Cumming and the late L. D. Yeargan organized in 1901 what is now Battey Machinery Co., one of the oldest business concerns in the county. He was a native of Rome, the son of the late Gen. F. Alfred Cumming and Sarah Davis. His father was the last Confederate general to retire.
Surviving are the widow, the former Miss Georgia Freeman; three sons, Alfred Cumming, of Tulsa, Okla;, Julien B. Cumming, of Montreal, Canada, and Freeman Cumming, of Rome. (Rome New-Tribune, Friday, Jan. 7, 1955)
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