Obituary: Samuel G. FitzSimons of Jacksonville, Florida (post-service notice)
Book 2, Page 238 ·1950–1970
Transcription
S. G. FITZSIMONS
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Samuel G. FitzSimons, 57, of 524 W. 66th St., Jacksonville, died Friday morning in a local hospital.
Funeral services were held today in Chapel of Hardage and Sons Northside Funeral Home, 34th and Main Streets.
Mr. FitzSimons was born in Charleston and had lived in Jacksonville for nine years, moving here from Moncks Corner, S. C. He was a member of Holy Cross Episcopal Church.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Mary H. FitzSimons; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Anne McLean and Miss Grace FitzSimons, both of Jacksonville; one son, Samuel G. FitzSimons Jr. of Pine Bluff, Ark.; two sisters, Mrs. Donald Alston of John’s Island and Mrs. J. P. Walker of Jacksonville; a grandchild; and several nieces and nephews.
AI Notes
A clipped newspaper obituary headed “S. G. FITZSIMONS,” reporting the death of Samuel G. FitzSimons, age 57, of Jacksonville, Florida — a brother of the compiler Amy FitzSimons (Mrs. J. P. Walker). This version of the notice reports that “Funeral services were held today,” indicating it ran the day of or immediately after the service; a companion clipping on page 240 carries the earlier pre-service announcement (“Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday”). The two clippings appear to be from different editions of the same paper. The newspaper uses the spelling “FitzSimons” in the body text and “FITZSIMONS” in the all-caps headline.
The surviving “Mrs. J. P. Walker of Jacksonville” is the compiler Amy FitzSimons Walker — Samuel G. FitzSimons was her younger brother. The third sibling, “Mrs. Donald Alston of John’s Island,” is their sister Mary Annie FitzSimons, who would later remarry as Mrs. John Sosnowski of Charleston (see the compiler’s own obituary, page 246). Samuel’s life arc — Charleston birth, Moncks Corner middle years, Jacksonville last decade — mirrors the broader 20th-century drift of Charleston FitzSimons descendants southward toward Florida, the same migration that brought the compiler herself to Jacksonville by the early 1930s.