At Pleasant Cemetery there stands a Woodmen of the World monument marking the grave of a young man who died September 4, 1909 just a few weeks shy of his 13th birthday.
Ernest Troy Fountain, born October 10, 1896, was a grandson of Molcy Knight and Ansel Parrish, and son of Richmond Fountain and Mollie Parrish.
His father, Richmond Fountain was a farmer in the Connell Mill District, Georgia Militia District 1329. Some time before 1910 Richard Fountain acquired a farm there, on the Lois & Rays Mill Road, where he engaged in general farming.
Apparently, the Fountains were bringing in a cotton crop that season. The afternoon of Friday, September 3, 1909 found Richmond and his son, Troy, at a ginnery at Lois, GA when a tragic accident occurred.
The Tifton Gazette reported: “Valdosta, Ga., Sept. 4. – The 12 year old son of Richmond Fountain, of Lois, Ga., was severely injured yesterday afternoon by being caught in a revolving shaft at a ginnery at that place.”
Ernest Troy Fountain died the following day, and was laid to rest at Pleasant Cemetery.
His mother, Mollie Parrish, died four years later, on November 27, 1913 and was buried at his side at Pleasant Cemetery. His father later owned a grocery store in Ray City and had a home on the Ray City-Valdosta road.
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