Angus James “A. J.” Conoly: online research dossier

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Research completed: 17 August 2026

Conclusion

A. J. Conoly was Angus James Conoly, born in Robeson County, North Carolina, in February 1864. He was a son of George Burder Conoly and Flora C. Currie Conoly and an older brother of Hector McLean Conoly. He came into the Foster, Georgia, naval-stores business in 1891, served ten years as sheriff of Brooks County, and then returned to the timber and naval-stores trade. Although his work repeatedly took him to Florida, his family home remained in Quitman.

He married Debro K. Walker in Brooks County on 5 June 1895. An original will made by her paternal uncle and guardian expands her name to Deborah Kesiah Walker; contemporary records show that she ordinarily used Debro. Her father, Isham A. Walker, was a brother of the elder Fleming B. Walker, making Debro a first cousin of Fleming Bates Walker (about 1860–1934), the Barney merchant. Their children were Samuel Stillwell “Sam” Conoly and Flora Agnes Conoly, later Mrs. Charles Henry Crandon. Angus died in Jacksonville during the night of 27–28 October 1925. Sam found him dead in a hotel room early on the 28th. His body was returned to Quitman and buried at Oak Hill Cemetery.

The identity chain is verified. The remaining death-date issue is whether the event should be recorded as 27 October, when some contemporary reports say he died, or 28 October, when he was found and the cemetery memorial dates the death. His exact birth day also rests on derivative cemetery evidence; the 1900 census independently supports February 1864.

Identity controls and name variants

The following records describe one man:

• Angus J. Conoly, age 16, son of George B. and Flora C. Conoly in the 1880 Lumber Bridge census;
• A. J. Conley/Conoly, brother and co-investor of H. McLean Conoly at Foster in 1891;
• Brooks County sheriff A. J. Conoly at Quitman from 1895 through 1904;
• Angus J. Conoly, husband of Debro and father of Samuel and Agnes/Flora in the 1900, 1910, and 1920 Quitman censuses;
• Angus James Conoly, father of Flora Agnes in her 1919 engagement announcement;
• former sheriff and Florida naval-stores operator A. J. Conoly in the 1925 death reports.

The sources use "Conoly", "Conley", "Condley", and occasional OCR forms such as "Conloly". The family's regular spelling was Conoly. The 1919 announcement explicitly establishes the full name Angus James Conoly.

An Ancestry suggestion for five-year-old James Q. Conoly in the 1870 Lumber Bridge census is a false match. That child was in a different Black household headed by Newby and Hannah Conoly. It does not belong to Angus's record chain.

Parents, siblings, and North Carolina origin

The 1880 census places Angus, age 16, in George B. and Flora C. Conoly's household at Lumber Bridge, Robeson County. His siblings in the home included Hector McL., Jane E., Mary B., Hattie C., Flora C., and William G.; Jane Currie was identified as George's mother-in-law. Ancestry records 19805080 and 14916057; NARA T9 roll 979, ED 180, p. 520C.

A 1915 family-reunion report independently names former Brooks County sheriff A. J. Conoly of Quitman, McLean Conoly of Florida, and W. G. Conoly of Waycross as George's sons. It says George and Flora had married on 20 March 1862 and raised nine children. Charlotte Observer, 28 August 1915, Newspapers.com image 616186734.

George's original North Carolina death certificate expands his name to George Burder Conoly, gives his birth at Lumber Bridge and death at Red Springs on 24 July 1923, and names James Conoly and Mary Currie as his parents. Ancestry record 323425, image S123_155-1235.

The broader Conoly kinship has been investigated separately. Original records verify George as a son of James Conoly, but no inspected original record proves that George's grandfather James and William Conoly were brothers and sons of Daniel Conoly. That older connection remains unresolved by original records and should not be presented as settled genealogy.

Foster and the naval-stores partnership, 1891–1894

The earliest secure connection between Angus and Foster is the 14 November 1891 correction in the Valdosta Times. It says McNeil & Rozier sold brothers A. J. and H. McLean Conley a collective one-half interest in the Foster naval-stores business, while J. T. McNeill retained one-fourth. Newspapers.com image 889756841; the initial report is image 889756744.

This was a sale of a business interest. The notice does not convey land, identify the brothers' individual percentages, or establish that either brother owned Land Lot 227.

The Foster columns then trace the reorganized concern:

• 2 July 1892: Thomas A. Rozier was identified with Rozier, Conoly & Company; clipping 193407281.
• 16 July 1892: Rozier Conoly & Company continued producing naval stores despite low prices; clipping 193407600.
• 24 December 1892: Rozier, Conoly Bros. & Company prepared for another campaign; image 889761322, clipping 193407422.
• 3 June 1893: Rozier Conoly & Company was “doing a good business”; image 889763942, clipping 193407548.
• 24 March 1894: the Conoly brothers' poultry operation appeared alongside the opening gum season; clipping 193408136.

The same columns add smaller but useful details. Angus traveled to North Carolina in August 1892 with a horse named Dexter McLean and prepared game-fowl yards in October 1893. Sister Katy spent part of 1893 at Foster with Angus and McLean. These reports show that the brothers lived in and helped operate the settlement rather than acting only as absentee investors.

Assessment: Angus's Foster role is verified through at least March 1894. His exact withdrawal date, individual share, and any personal ownership of Foster land remain unresolved.

Brooks County sheriff, 1894–1904

Newspapers report Angus's nomination and election as Brooks County sheriff in 1894, renomination in 1896 and 1898, and continuous service for ten years. The key images are 969458858, 852590238, 889832237, 852586032, 889836688, and 969456365.

The sheriff reports show the ordinary and sometimes violent work of the office: interstate requisitions, prisoner transfers, rewards, long-running fugitive searches, and armed arrests. These items are valuable for career chronology, but they reflect the newspapers' accounts and period language. Where an article reports a confession, resistance, or justification for force, that should not be treated as an independently adjudicated legal finding unless a court record confirms it.

The 1900 census identifies Angus as the Brooks County sheriff in Quitman. He lived with wife Debro K., son Samuel S., daughter Agnes W., and mother-in-law Agnes O. Walker. It gives his birth as February 1864 and the marriage year as about 1895. Ancestry record 52867399; NARA T623 roll 181, ED 6, p. 18.

A year-end 1904 report says he retired voluntarily after ten continuous years to return to the turpentine business. It praises his vigilance and says deputy J. H. Mashburn succeeded him. Valdosta Times, Newspapers.com image 889653575. This fixes the office span more precisely than the earlier statement that he had left before February 1904: he remained sheriff through the close of 1904.

Angus also published the weekly Sheriffs' and Marshals' Record, begun about 1899 to circulate information about wanted people. The Georgia law-officers' association elected him second vice president in 1900 and made the paper its official organ; by 1902 he was first vice president and was described as its editor. Images 969466374, 879552201, 852354027, and 853119414.

One criminal allegation has a located outcome. A Lowndes County grand jury indicted Angus and several Valdosta men in 1901 over games played for cigars. He was tried on 6 February 1903 and acquitted; the follow-up says the testimony was “altogether favorable” to him. Images 889667952 and 889694165.

The political record also requires plain treatment. An 1898 report says Angus returned to North Carolina to help “free his old state from negro domination” and had been asked by his father to send a Winchester rifle amid feared election trouble. Image 889767402. A 1901 profile associated him with the special-train expedition to Wilmington during the 1898 violence, but that trip is strong probable, not independently verified by a passenger list or second contemporary source. Image 76879499.

Marriage, household, and children

The Brooks County marriage record indexes "A J Condley" and Debro K. Walker as marrying on 5 June 1895. The name spelling is variant, but spouse, county, and later household records identify the couple securely. Ancestry record 125773, image 40951_294517-00023.

Two original Brooks County wills resolve Debro's expanded name and Walker kinship. John W. Walker's will calls her “my ward Deborah Kesiah Walker, daughter of the late Isham A. Walker deceased.” Joseph F. Walker's will names Fleming B. Walker as his brother and also refers to “my brothers John W. and Isham A. Walker.” The 1880 census identifies the younger Fleming B. Walker as the elder Fleming's son. Debro and Fleming Bates Walker of Barney were therefore first cousins, and the elder Fleming was her paternal uncle005782587_00074`; census record 40730106.

In 1910 the family rented 404 Johnson Street in Quitman. Angus, age 46, was an employer operating a lumber mill. The household was Debora, Samuel S., Flora A., and Agnes Walker. Ancestry record 3197464, image 31111_4327473-00344; NARA T624 roll 174, ED 17, sheet 17A.

By 1920 the family owned 611 Lafayette Street free of mortgage. Angus worked for wages as a representative of a naval-stores company. Debro, Sam, and Agnes Walker remained in the household; Flora had married and moved to Miami. Ancestry record 7316548, image 4295805-00288; NARA T625 roll 237, ED 39, sheet 6A.

The children are independently identified in the 1925 death reports:

• Samuel Stillwell “Sam” Conoly, born about 1896, remained in Quitman and later administered both the Georgia and Florida estate proceedings.
• Flora Agnes Conoly, born in 1898–99, married Charles Henry Crandon on 3 April 1919 and lived in Miami. Her engagement announcement names her parents as Mr. and Mrs. Angus James Conoly. Miami News, 17 March 1919, image 298374716.

Angus's original will, signed on 22 April 1920, names Debro as his wife and Sam Conoly and Agnes Conoly Crandon as his son and daughter. That original record independently settles the two-child relationship and confirms that the daughter indexed as Agnes W. in 1900 and Flora A. in 1910 was Flora Agnes Crandon. Ancestry record 1661542, image 005782588_00221, printed p. 139. The 1910 census also says Debro had borne two children and both were living.

Bankruptcy and civil liability

The federal court adjudicated Angus bankrupt on 4 February 1904. A later notice says he sought discharge both individually and as a member of Rozier, Conoly & Co., direct legal-notice evidence that he personally belonged to the Foster firm. Valdosta Times, images 889681348 and 889682415.

Ed Waxelbaum, surviving partner of S. Waxelbaum & Son, opposed discharge over an unsatisfied 1895 judgment for slightly more than $225 on a homestead-waiver note. Judge Emory Speer referred the matter to the bankruptcy referee for testimony rather than deciding it at that hearing. The searched newspapers did not reveal the referee's report or final discharge order. Macon News, 30 June 1904, image 823398535. The record proves bankruptcy and a contested discharge; it does not prove misconduct or the eventual result.

A separate 1912 case involved Angus as one of the sureties on guardian I. W. Hopson's bond. A Brooks County verdict was entered for $6,028 plus interest, and the report said each bondsman was liable for the whole amount. This was surety liability, not a land acquisition. Valdosta Daily Times, 11 May 1912, image 889655311.

Lumber, turpentine, and Florida land

Angus never wholly left the timber/naval-stores economy. A November 1898 report calls a Dasher-area operation “Conoly's still” (image 889767402). The 1910 census calls him a lumber-mill operator and employer. The 1920 census calls him a naval-stores-company representative.

After leaving the sheriff's office he resumed field operations in Florida. In September 1906 he was working about thirty miles below Perry when he narrowly escaped drowning in the Steinhatchee River (image 889688737).

The General Land Office issued him ten distinct Taylor County patents from 1905 through 1908. Nine fully described patents total 1,360 nominal acres; the 1905 patent FL1080__.033, document 19064, identifies township 8 south, range 9 east, section 20 but the inspected index omits the aliquot and acreage. The remaining accessions are AGS-0293-148 (160 acres), AGS-0293-150 (160), MW-0546-464 (160), MW-0546-476 (120), MW-0546-481 (160), MW-0546-496 (120), MW-0547-043 (160), MW-0547-047 (160), and 6907 (160). The complete tract table and representative BLM links are.

These patents prove federal conveyances, not continuous possession or Foster ownership. A later transaction shows the scale of the Florida operation: in September 1913 Angus, Fuller Groover, and J. R. Davis sold 11,500 acres of Taylor County land and pine timber to Producers Naval Stores Company for $85,000, reserving the cypress. The newspaper gives no parcel descriptions or allocation among the three sellers. Valdosta Daily Times, 20 September 1913, image 889662085.

The firm Groover, Conoly & Spain operated a still and convict stockade about twenty-eight miles south of Perry by 1909. Contemporary reports describe two violent escape episodes, including an armed siege after a convict broke into Angus's residence. Images 75704685, 1272299279, 1258098178, and 326430022. These reports place Angus's operation inside Florida's convict-labor system; they do not justify assigning him acts the articles attribute to guards or law officers.

By 1916 he represented Consolidated Naval Stores Company. Ocala Evening Star, image 339448571. That fits the 1920 census description of a salaried naval-stores representative and a Jacksonville directory listing him as a salesman at the Everett Hotel while his family home remained in Quitman.

The records do not support a simple permanent migration. A 1908 Robeson County social item still called him “of Quitman,” and both the 1910 and 1920 censuses place his household there. His work took him into Florida; Quitman remained the family base.

Final accident, death, and burial

In early August 1925 Angus suffered a chest injury and fractured knee in an automobile collision south of Quitman. Reports say headlights from an approaching car blinded him and he struck another car. He was treated first at Madison and then at a Valdosta hospital. Valdosta Daily Times, 6 August, image 889453343; Macon News, 7 August, image 823579805; Atlanta Constitution, 9 August, image 397869830.

On the night of 27–28 October, Sam found Angus dead in a Jacksonville hotel room. The reports say Angus had appeared in his usual health the night before and had apparently died only an hour or two before he was found at about 7 a.m. They connect the recent accident to the narrative but do not give a medical cause of death. Atlanta Journal, 28 October, image 970914619; Macon Telegraph, 29 October, images 825991745 and 825991753.

The body was returned to Quitman. A Savannah obituary index records an obituary on 29 October 1925 and gives age 60. Ancestry record 25672. Find a Grave memorial 86611883 gives 6 February 1864–28 October 1925 and Oak Hill Cemetery, but the memorial has no biography and no marker image was independently verified in this pass.

The best current wording is: Angus died overnight 27–28 October 1925 and was found dead early on 28 October. The memorial uses 28 October; some contemporary copy says he died Tuesday night, 27 October.

Probate

Angus signed a will on 22 April 1920 naming Debro, Sam, and Agnes Conoly Crandon. Yet the Brooks County letters issued to Sam on 7 December 1925 expressly say Angus died intestate005782590_00163`, original p. 239. The online records do not explain whether the will was rejected, never offered, revoked, or indexed out of context. That conflict is unresolved and should remain explicit.

Duval County creditor notices began on 2 March 1928, call Angus late of Duval County, and name Sam Conoly as administrator. Florida Times-Union images 1258881088, 1258881538, and 1258881754. Because the Georgia administration began in 1925, the Florida proceeding may have been ancillary administration for Florida assets, but that legal character is unresolved without the Duval case file.

Confidence summary

Search coverage and remaining gaps

Local memory, Foster/McNeill/Rozier reports, saved census and newspaper data, and the prior Conoly kinship files were searched first. Fresh work directly inspected the 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 census chain; Brooks marriage and probate indexes with original-image links; Find a Grave; the Savannah obituary index; General Land Office hits; and Newspapers.com coverage under Angus, A. J., Conoly, Conley, Condley, sheriff, Quitman, Foster, Dasher, Perry, Jacksonville, accident, funeral, probate, lumber, turpentine, and naval-stores combinations.

The most useful remaining online or repository targets are:

1. Angus's Florida death certificate or Jacksonville death register entry.
2. The complete Brooks County administration pages beginning with image 005782590_00163.
3. The Duval County probate case underlying the 1928 creditor notices.
4. Tract-by-tract adjudication and later disposition of every Angus J. Conoly GLO patent.
5. Brooks County deeds and tax digests for his Quitman residence, Dasher interests, and any Foster-area holdings.
6. A photographed Oak Hill marker or sexton's register to settle the calendar death date.
7. The federal bankruptcy file and final discharge order for the 1904 case.
8. The Taylor County deed underlying the 1913 sale to Producers Naval Stores Company.

The general web produced no useful historical evidence beyond the subscription record repositories. No source was treated as exhaustive outside the documented queries and coverage.

Sources

1. 1880 U.S. census, Lumber Bridge, Robeson County, North Carolina, Angus J. Conoly in the George B. Conoly household, Ancestry record 19805080; NARA T9, roll 979, ED 180, p. 520C: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6742/records/19805080
2. 1880 U.S. census, same household, Hector M. Conoly entry, Ancestry record 14916057: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6742/records/14916057
3. Conoly family-reunion report, Charlotte Observer, August 28, 1915, Newspapers.com image 616186734: https://www.newspapers.com/image/616186734/
4. North Carolina death certificate, George Burder Conoly, Ancestry record 323425, original image S123_155-1235: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1121/records/323425
5. Initial McNeil & Rozier transaction report, Valdosta Times, November 7, 1891, Newspapers.com image 889756744: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889756744/
6. Corrected McNeil & Rozier transaction report, Valdosta Times, November 14, 1891, Newspapers.com image 889756841: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889756841/
7. Foster report identifying Thomas A. Rozier with Rozier, Conoly & Company, July 2, 1892, Newspapers.com clipping 193407281: https://www.newspapers.com/article/193407281/
8. Foster naval-stores report, July 16, 1892, Newspapers.com clipping 193407600: https://www.newspapers.com/article/193407600/
9. Foster campaign report, Valdosta Times, December 24, 1892, Newspapers.com image 889761322 and clipping 193407422: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889761322/ and https://www.newspapers.com/article/193407422/
10. Foster business and Conoly-family report, Valdosta Times, June 3, 1893, Newspapers.com image 889763942 and clipping 193407548: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889763942/ and https://www.newspapers.com/article/193407548/
11. Foster poultry and gum-season report, March 24, 1894, Newspapers.com clipping 193408136: https://www.newspapers.com/article/193408136/
12. Angus Conoly sheriff-nomination or election report, Newspapers.com image 969458858: https://www.newspapers.com/image/969458858/
13. Angus Conoly sheriff report, Newspapers.com image 852590238: https://www.newspapers.com/image/852590238/
14. Angus Conoly sheriff report, Newspapers.com image 889832237: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889832237/
15. Angus Conoly sheriff report, Newspapers.com image 852586032: https://www.newspapers.com/image/852586032/
16. Angus Conoly sheriff report, Newspapers.com image 889836688: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889836688/
17. Angus Conoly sheriff report, Newspapers.com image 969456365: https://www.newspapers.com/image/969456365/
18. 1900 U.S. census, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, Angus J. Conoly household, Ancestry record 52867399; NARA T623, roll 181, ED 6, p. 18: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7602/records/52867399
19. Report of Angus Conoly's retirement as sheriff, Valdosta Times, late 1904, Newspapers.com image 889653575: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889653575/
20. Sheriffs' and Marshals' Record and Georgia law-officers' association report, Newspapers.com image 969466374: https://www.newspapers.com/image/969466374/
21. Georgia law-officers' association report, Newspapers.com image 879552201: https://www.newspapers.com/image/879552201/
22. Georgia law-officers' association report, Newspapers.com image 852354027: https://www.newspapers.com/image/852354027/
23. Georgia law-officers' association report, Newspapers.com image 853119414: https://www.newspapers.com/image/853119414/
24. Report of the Lowndes County gaming indictment, Newspapers.com image 889667952: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889667952/
25. Report of Angus Conoly's February 6, 1903, acquittal, Newspapers.com image 889694165: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889694165/
26. Report concerning Angus Conoly's 1898 North Carolina trip and the requested Winchester rifle, Newspapers.com image 889767402: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889767402/
27. Profile associating Angus Conoly with the 1898 Wilmington expedition, Newspapers.com image 76879499: https://www.newspapers.com/image/76879499/
28. Brooks County marriage record, A. J. Condley and Debro K. Walker, June 5, 1895, Ancestry record 125773, image 40951_294517-00023: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4766/records/125773
29. Will of John W. Walker, Brooks County, Ancestry record 1660308, image 005782587_00103: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8635/records/1660308
30. Will of Joseph F. Walker, Brooks County, Ancestry record 1660154, image 005782587_00074: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8635/records/1660154
31. 1880 U.S. census, Brooks County, Fleming B. Walker household, Ancestry record 40730106: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6742/records/40730106
32. 1910 U.S. census, Quitman, Angus J. Conoly household, Ancestry record 3197464; NARA T624, roll 174, ED 17, sheet 17A: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7884/records/3197464
33. 1920 U.S. census, Quitman, Angus J. Conoly household, Ancestry record 7316548; NARA T625, roll 237, ED 39, sheet 6A: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6061/records/7316548
34. Flora Agnes Conoly engagement announcement, Miami News, March 17, 1919, Newspapers.com image 298374716: https://www.newspapers.com/image/298374716/
35. Will of Angus J. Conoly, signed April 22, 1920, Ancestry record 1661542, image 005782588_00221, printed p. 139: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8635/records/1661542
36. Angus Conoly bankruptcy adjudication notice, Valdosta Times, Newspapers.com image 889681348: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889681348/
37. Angus Conoly bankruptcy-discharge notice naming Rozier, Conoly & Co., Valdosta Times, Newspapers.com image 889682415: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889682415/
38. Contested bankruptcy-discharge report, Macon News, June 30, 1904, Newspapers.com image 823398535: https://www.newspapers.com/image/823398535/
39. Hopson guardian-bond verdict report, Valdosta Daily Times, May 11, 1912, Newspapers.com image 889655311: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889655311/
40. Steinhatchee River accident report, September 1906, Newspapers.com image 889688737: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889688737/
41. General Land Office patent to Angus J. Conoly, accession FL1080__.033, document 19064: https://glorecords.blm.gov/s/advanced-search#/search?q=FL1080__.033&page=1&pageSize=25
42. General Land Office patent to Angus J. Conoly, accession AGS-0293-148: https://glorecords.blm.gov/s/advanced-search#/search?q=AGS-0293-148&page=1&pageSize=25
43. General Land Office patent to Angus J. Conoly, accession AGS-0293-150: https://glorecords.blm.gov/s/advanced-search#/search?q=AGS-0293-150&page=1&pageSize=25
44. General Land Office patent to Angus J. Conoly, accession MW-0546-464: https://glorecords.blm.gov/s/advanced-search#/search?q=MW-0546-464&page=1&pageSize=25
45. General Land Office patent to Angus J. Conoly, accession MW-0546-476: https://glorecords.blm.gov/s/advanced-search#/search?q=MW-0546-476&page=1&pageSize=25
46. General Land Office patent to Angus J. Conoly, accession MW-0546-481: https://glorecords.blm.gov/s/advanced-search#/search?q=MW-0546-481&page=1&pageSize=25
47. General Land Office patent to Angus J. Conoly, accession MW-0546-496: https://glorecords.blm.gov/s/advanced-search#/search?q=MW-0546-496&page=1&pageSize=25
48. General Land Office patent to Angus J. Conoly, accession MW-0547-043: https://glorecords.blm.gov/s/advanced-search#/search?q=MW-0547-043&page=1&pageSize=25
49. General Land Office patent to Angus J. Conoly, accession MW-0547-047: https://glorecords.blm.gov/s/advanced-search#/search?q=MW-0547-047&page=1&pageSize=25
50. General Land Office patent to Angus J. Conoly, accession 6907: https://glorecords.blm.gov/s/advanced-search#/search?q=6907&page=1&pageSize=25
51. Taylor County land-and-timber sale report, Valdosta Daily Times, September 20, 1913, Newspapers.com image 889662085: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889662085/
52. Groover, Conoly & Spain convict-labor report, Newspapers.com image 75704685: https://www.newspapers.com/image/75704685/
53. Groover, Conoly & Spain convict-labor report, Newspapers.com image 1272299279: https://www.newspapers.com/image/1272299279/
54. Groover, Conoly & Spain convict-labor report, Newspapers.com image 1258098178: https://www.newspapers.com/image/1258098178/
55. Groover, Conoly & Spain convict-labor report, Newspapers.com image 326430022: https://www.newspapers.com/image/326430022/
56. Report identifying Angus with Consolidated Naval Stores Company, Ocala Evening Star, Newspapers.com image 339448571: https://www.newspapers.com/image/339448571/
57. Automobile-collision report, Valdosta Daily Times, August 6, 1925, Newspapers.com image 889453343: https://www.newspapers.com/image/889453343/
58. Automobile-collision report, Macon News, August 7, 1925, Newspapers.com image 823579805: https://www.newspapers.com/image/823579805/
59. Automobile-collision report, Atlanta Constitution, August 9, 1925, Newspapers.com image 397869830: https://www.newspapers.com/image/397869830/
60. Angus Conoly death report, Atlanta Journal, October 28, 1925, Newspapers.com image 970914619: https://www.newspapers.com/image/970914619/
61. Angus Conoly death report, Macon Telegraph, October 29, 1925, Newspapers.com image 825991745: https://www.newspapers.com/image/825991745/
62. Continuation of the Macon Telegraph death report, Newspapers.com image 825991753: https://www.newspapers.com/image/825991753/
63. Savannah obituary index entry for Angus Conoly, Ancestry record 25672: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/63147/records/25672
64. Angus James Conoly, Find a Grave memorial 86611883: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86611883/angus-james-conoly
65. Brooks County letters of administration for Angus Conoly, December 7, 1925, Ancestry record 301376, image 005782590_00163, original p. 239: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8635/records/301376
66. Duval County creditor notice, Florida Times-Union, Newspapers.com image 1258881088: https://www.newspapers.com/image/1258881088/
67. Duval County creditor notice, Florida Times-Union, Newspapers.com image 1258881538: https://www.newspapers.com/image/1258881538/
68. Duval County creditor notice, Florida Times-Union, Newspapers.com image 1258881754: https://www.newspapers.com/image/1258881754/
69. Jacksonville city directory, 1920, Angus J. Conoly entry, Ancestry record 672033960: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2469/records/672033960

Citation audit note

The list separates census, probate, marriage, land, directory, and cemetery records from newspaper accounts. Newspaper allegations remain attributed to the reports that published them. The General Land Office entries use accession-specific links in BLM's redesigned search system. BLM does not currently expose stable record-detail permalinks, so the full accession numbers remain part of each citation. Unresolved conflicts, including the death date, bankruptcy discharge, and signed will versus intestate administration, have not been reconciled by assumption.