Hallo. Dank vielen lieben Forschern hier habe ich den "Nachruf" eines Gesuchten erhalten.
Leider ist dies alles auf Englisch und nunja, mein Englisch ist nicht das beste.
Es ist nur sehr viel wie ich finde und ich bezweifele das sich jemand das alles antun möchte,
aber ich hoffe.
ZitatAlles anzeigenThe following is taken from a "History of South Carolina."
With
the death of George Frederick Tolly at Anderson, January 1, 1910, that
city lost one of its oldest residents, and one who had played many
useful roles in its upbuilding and progress. Mr. Tolly was a man of
first rate ability, strong and resourceful in business affairs, upright
and the soul of honesty in all that concerned his relations with the
public, and he fully earned and merited every measure of respect and
esteem paid him.
He was born in Prussia, Germany, November 4,
1835, and in 1850, at the age of fifteen, came to America with his
father, John Tolly. They located at Baltimore, where the son soon began
an apprenticeship at the. cabinet maker's trade. Six years later he came
to South Carolina, and after a brief sojourn in Greenville located at
Anderson, where he made his home for more than half a century. In 1858
he opened a shop as a cabinet maker, and was busily engaged in the
service represented in such a shop until the opening of the war. He at
once volunteered, enlisting in April, 1861, in Company B, of the Fourth
South Carolina Regiment. He served one year, the term of his enlistment,
and then entered Company C, of the Palmetto Regiment of Sharpshooters.
With that noted command he remained until taken prisoner in battle, and
spent more than a year in the Federal prison at Rock Island, Illinois.
He was wounded in the battle of Frazer's Farm, though not seriously
injured.
With the same courage he had faced the hardships and
dangers of a soldier's life he resumed his career after the war, meeting
and overcoming many difficulties in a time of abject poverty for all
the South. In addition to cabinet making he took up what was then
considered the closely affiliated trade of undertaking, and also became a
dealer in ready made furniture. In 1890 his son George M. Tolly was
admitted to partnership, and since then the title of this business house
has been G.F. Tolly & Son. It is one of the oldest firms of its
kind in South Carolina, and the title of the organization continued not
only because the old name is an asset in itself, but as an appropriate
memorial to the founder and upbuilder of the business. It is engaged
both in a retail and wholesale furniture business, and its undertaking
department has for years been one of the most perfect organizations of
its kind. Its large volume of business was achieved through the original
policy of the late Mr. Tolly in insisting upon quality as the supreme
test of all the merchandise handled. George M. Tolly is now head of the
concern, and is one of Anderson's most prominent and progressive
business men.
The late George F. Tolly served three consecutive
terms as intendant at Anderson, and after Anderson was incorporated as a
city he served seventeen years as mayor. This public service was
rendered not without much sacrifice on his part, both to his business
and to the pleasures of his home life. In that as in every other
relation of his life he was faithful, dignified and efficient. He was a
stanch democrat, and for many years served as ruling elder of the First
Presbyterian Church at Anderson. He was also a Mason.
May 24,
1859, he married Miss Mary Jane George, daughter of Ezekiel George of
Anderson County, and of an old and highly respected family in that
section of the state. Mrs. Tolly, who was born in Anderson County
December 30, 1838, has passed her eightieth birthday. She and her
husband had the following children: Elizabeth, who is the wife of W.M.
Wilcox, and lives at Elberton, Georgia; George M.; William F. and
Clarence E., both associated with the G.F. Tolly & Son furniture and
undertaking business. George M. Tolly, the responsible head of the
business since his father's death, married Miss Jessie McGee June 15,
1886. Their only child is Mrs. W.J. Muldrow, of Anderson.
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Ich bin dankbar für jede Hilfe 
Es grüßt,
Maik
