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Henry Tutwiler Meriwether

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Henry Tutwiler Meriwether

Birth
Death
23 May 1972 (aged 93)
Burial
Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee), 23 May 1972, Tuesday

Meriwether

Henry Tutwiler Meriwether, 93, died at his residence, Route 2, Sango, following an extended illness. He was a retired school teacher and farmer.

Memorial services will be conducted at 5 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church by the Rev. William Jenkins, the Rev. O. L. Culler, and the Rev. Gordon Meadows.

The body has been donated to the Vanderbilt School of Medicine for the education of future physicians. In lieu of other remembrances, the family has requested any expressions of sympathy be directed to the American Cancer Society, in care of Northern Bank of Tennessee.

Mr. Meriwether was a native of Montgomery Vo., born Jan. 3, 1879. He was educated in Clarksville public schools and Southwestern University at Clarksville, and studied at the University of Chicago, Vanderbilt, and the University of Tennessee. He taught school 17 years and retired from teaching in 1913. He had been a farmer in the Peacher Mill Community until the late 1960's. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church.

In 1918, he married Clyde Whitmire, who survives.

Also surviving are two sons, H.T. Meriwether Jr., South Plainfield, N.J., and Col. W. A. Meriwether (M.D.), Ft. Lewis, Wash., and 10 grandchildren: a brother, Nicholas Meriwether, Townsend, Tenn., and a sister, Mrs. Lucy Paterson, Trenton, Ky.
The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee), 23 May 1972, Tuesday

Meriwether

Henry Tutwiler Meriwether, 93, died at his residence, Route 2, Sango, following an extended illness. He was a retired school teacher and farmer.

Memorial services will be conducted at 5 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church by the Rev. William Jenkins, the Rev. O. L. Culler, and the Rev. Gordon Meadows.

The body has been donated to the Vanderbilt School of Medicine for the education of future physicians. In lieu of other remembrances, the family has requested any expressions of sympathy be directed to the American Cancer Society, in care of Northern Bank of Tennessee.

Mr. Meriwether was a native of Montgomery Vo., born Jan. 3, 1879. He was educated in Clarksville public schools and Southwestern University at Clarksville, and studied at the University of Chicago, Vanderbilt, and the University of Tennessee. He taught school 17 years and retired from teaching in 1913. He had been a farmer in the Peacher Mill Community until the late 1960's. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church.

In 1918, he married Clyde Whitmire, who survives.

Also surviving are two sons, H.T. Meriwether Jr., South Plainfield, N.J., and Col. W. A. Meriwether (M.D.), Ft. Lewis, Wash., and 10 grandchildren: a brother, Nicholas Meriwether, Townsend, Tenn., and a sister, Mrs. Lucy Paterson, Trenton, Ky.


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