MULLINS - Ernest H. Meggs, 69, died Wednesday morning in a Conway hospital following an illness of two weeks.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. from Meares Funeral Chapel. The Rev. W. Fleetwood Baker will officiate, burial will be in Cedardale Cemetery.
Mr. Meggs was a life-long resident of Marion County. He was employed by the Us Post Office Dept. for more than 40 years and was assistant postmaster at the time of his retirement in 1955. Since that time he has been bookkeeper for Nyes Drug Company. He was a member of the Macedonia Methodist Church.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Eva Lane Meggs of Mullins; two brothers, Frank L. Meggs of Jacksonville, Fla. and P. J. Stoll Meggs of Dovesville; four sisters, Mrs. Clara Allen and Miss Mamie Meggs, both of Marion, Mrs. A. R. Nicholson of Mullins and Miss Ethel Meggs of Atlanta, Ga.; his son Ernest Lee Meggs presently serving in the US Army at Fort Knox, and 3 grandchildren.
Published in the Morning News, May 26, 1960
MULLINS - Ernest H. Meggs, 69, died Wednesday morning in a Conway hospital following an illness of two weeks.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. from Meares Funeral Chapel. The Rev. W. Fleetwood Baker will officiate, burial will be in Cedardale Cemetery.
Mr. Meggs was a life-long resident of Marion County. He was employed by the Us Post Office Dept. for more than 40 years and was assistant postmaster at the time of his retirement in 1955. Since that time he has been bookkeeper for Nyes Drug Company. He was a member of the Macedonia Methodist Church.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Eva Lane Meggs of Mullins; two brothers, Frank L. Meggs of Jacksonville, Fla. and P. J. Stoll Meggs of Dovesville; four sisters, Mrs. Clara Allen and Miss Mamie Meggs, both of Marion, Mrs. A. R. Nicholson of Mullins and Miss Ethel Meggs of Atlanta, Ga.; his son Ernest Lee Meggs presently serving in the US Army at Fort Knox, and 3 grandchildren.
Published in the Morning News, May 26, 1960
Family Members
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Edith Othello Meggs Hodges
1876–1943
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Mary Elizabeth "Mamie" Meggs
1877–1963
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Nancy Emma Meggs Tart
1880–1914
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Rev John Stoll Meggs
1881–1964
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Samuel Hill Meggs
1883–1910
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Minnie Alice Meggs McLellan
1885–1928
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Clara Meta Meggs Allen
1887–1979
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Eliza Jane Meggs Nicholson
1889–1972
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William Leroy Meggs
1893–1965
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Jennie Ethel Meggs
1895–1973
