Obituary:ANDERSON COUNTY NEWS OF JUNE 23,1927
Mrs. Annie T. Gillis dies in Lexinton Tuesday morning at 10 A.M.:Funeral services at Hebron Church Wednesday Morning.
Mrs.Annie Thompson Gillis, age 37 years, died at a hospital in Lexington Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.The remains were brought to the Gordon undertaking establishment, in this city, and prepared for burial. The body was then removed to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Thompson in the Hebron neighborhood.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at Hebron Presbyterian Church by Rev.William McKay, pastor. Burial was in the Hebron Cemetery. The deceased was a member of the Hebron Presbyterian Church.
Besides her mother and father the deceased is survived by two daughters, Misses Lucile Gillis and Margaret Gillis, both of Harrodsburg: three sisters, Miss Sallie Thompson and Miss Nell Thompson, of the county, and Mrs. Leo McCoy, of Salvisa: two brothers, J.K.Thompson of St.Paul, Minn. and C.G. Thompson of Mandan, North Dakota.
Pall bearers at the funeral Wednesday included W.D. Hawthorne, Louis McMurry, Horace Thacker, George Gillis, Leo McCoy and Jim Hutchison.
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iron clad jacket binds me tight.
wings can't move,
no flitter, no flight.
loosened garment, I struggle free.
gossamer wings beat with joy,
as upward, homeward, I go to be.
PATIENT #13882 Eastern State Hospital,Lexington, Kentucky
10:00 A.M. 06/21/1927
The date of her death, inscribed as 1929 on the stone, is not correct, it should be 1927. Perhaps, the stone was set-up a number of years after her death, and my grandfather, James, misspoke when purchasing the new memorial.
Mrs. Annie T. Gillis dies in Lexinton Tuesday morning at 10 A.M.:Funeral services at Hebron Church Wednesday Morning.
Mrs.Annie Thompson Gillis, age 37 years, died at a hospital in Lexington Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.The remains were brought to the Gordon undertaking establishment, in this city, and prepared for burial. The body was then removed to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Thompson in the Hebron neighborhood.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at Hebron Presbyterian Church by Rev.William McKay, pastor. Burial was in the Hebron Cemetery. The deceased was a member of the Hebron Presbyterian Church.
Besides her mother and father the deceased is survived by two daughters, Misses Lucile Gillis and Margaret Gillis, both of Harrodsburg: three sisters, Miss Sallie Thompson and Miss Nell Thompson, of the county, and Mrs. Leo McCoy, of Salvisa: two brothers, J.K.Thompson of St.Paul, Minn. and C.G. Thompson of Mandan, North Dakota.
Pall bearers at the funeral Wednesday included W.D. Hawthorne, Louis McMurry, Horace Thacker, George Gillis, Leo McCoy and Jim Hutchison.
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iron clad jacket binds me tight.
wings can't move,
no flitter, no flight.
loosened garment, I struggle free.
gossamer wings beat with joy,
as upward, homeward, I go to be.
PATIENT #13882 Eastern State Hospital,Lexington, Kentucky
10:00 A.M. 06/21/1927
The date of her death, inscribed as 1929 on the stone, is not correct, it should be 1927. Perhaps, the stone was set-up a number of years after her death, and my grandfather, James, misspoke when purchasing the new memorial.
Obituary:ANDERSON COUNTY NEWS OF JUNE 23,1927
Mrs. Annie T. Gillis dies in Lexinton Tuesday morning at 10 A.M.:Funeral services at Hebron Church Wednesday Morning.
Mrs.Annie Thompson Gillis, age 37 years, died at a hospital in Lexington Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.The remains were brought to the Gordon undertaking establishment, in this city, and prepared for burial. The body was then removed to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Thompson in the Hebron neighborhood.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at Hebron Presbyterian Church by Rev.William McKay, pastor. Burial was in the Hebron Cemetery. The deceased was a member of the Hebron Presbyterian Church.
Besides her mother and father the deceased is survived by two daughters, Misses Lucile Gillis and Margaret Gillis, both of Harrodsburg: three sisters, Miss Sallie Thompson and Miss Nell Thompson, of the county, and Mrs. Leo McCoy, of Salvisa: two brothers, J.K.Thompson of St.Paul, Minn. and C.G. Thompson of Mandan, North Dakota.
Pall bearers at the funeral Wednesday included W.D. Hawthorne, Louis McMurry, Horace Thacker, George Gillis, Leo McCoy and Jim Hutchison.
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iron clad jacket binds me tight.
wings can't move,
no flitter, no flight.
loosened garment, I struggle free.
gossamer wings beat with joy,
as upward, homeward, I go to be.
PATIENT #13882 Eastern State Hospital,Lexington, Kentucky
10:00 A.M. 06/21/1927
The date of her death, inscribed as 1929 on the stone, is not correct, it should be 1927. Perhaps, the stone was set-up a number of years after her death, and my grandfather, James, misspoke when purchasing the new memorial.
Mrs. Annie T. Gillis dies in Lexinton Tuesday morning at 10 A.M.:Funeral services at Hebron Church Wednesday Morning.
Mrs.Annie Thompson Gillis, age 37 years, died at a hospital in Lexington Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.The remains were brought to the Gordon undertaking establishment, in this city, and prepared for burial. The body was then removed to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Thompson in the Hebron neighborhood.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at Hebron Presbyterian Church by Rev.William McKay, pastor. Burial was in the Hebron Cemetery. The deceased was a member of the Hebron Presbyterian Church.
Besides her mother and father the deceased is survived by two daughters, Misses Lucile Gillis and Margaret Gillis, both of Harrodsburg: three sisters, Miss Sallie Thompson and Miss Nell Thompson, of the county, and Mrs. Leo McCoy, of Salvisa: two brothers, J.K.Thompson of St.Paul, Minn. and C.G. Thompson of Mandan, North Dakota.
Pall bearers at the funeral Wednesday included W.D. Hawthorne, Louis McMurry, Horace Thacker, George Gillis, Leo McCoy and Jim Hutchison.
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iron clad jacket binds me tight.
wings can't move,
no flitter, no flight.
loosened garment, I struggle free.
gossamer wings beat with joy,
as upward, homeward, I go to be.
PATIENT #13882 Eastern State Hospital,Lexington, Kentucky
10:00 A.M. 06/21/1927
The date of her death, inscribed as 1929 on the stone, is not correct, it should be 1927. Perhaps, the stone was set-up a number of years after her death, and my grandfather, James, misspoke when purchasing the new memorial.
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The bushes next to the grave stone were planted by my great grandfather, Annie's husband James Gillis. (As told to me (Scott Lewis) by my father, Rodney Lewis.)
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