My great-great-aunt Esther died of cancer at the hospital in Fort Smith (she had been admitted for an appendectomy when the cancer was discovered). My great-grandparents, Mack and Mahala (Jackson) Bunch, who were her sister and brother-in-law, lacked the money to transport her body to Coalfield, Tennessee, for burial in the Davis Cemetery beside her husband, Millard, so she was buried in the Oakland Cemetery. Her middle name is inscribed as "Ester" on her headstone (a probable oversight), but she spelled it as "Esther." The day of death on her Hardwicke Funeral Home record is April 27 (it's listed as April 25 on her headstone, another probable oversight).
My great-great-aunt Esther died of cancer at the hospital in Fort Smith (she had been admitted for an appendectomy when the cancer was discovered). My great-grandparents, Mack and Mahala (Jackson) Bunch, who were her sister and brother-in-law, lacked the money to transport her body to Coalfield, Tennessee, for burial in the Davis Cemetery beside her husband, Millard, so she was buried in the Oakland Cemetery. Her middle name is inscribed as "Ester" on her headstone (a probable oversight), but she spelled it as "Esther." The day of death on her Hardwicke Funeral Home record is April 27 (it's listed as April 25 on her headstone, another probable oversight).
