Services Set Friday For Mrs. Gilchrist
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Graves Gilchrist of Courtland will be Friday at 2 p.m. from the home of Mrs. Garth Gilchrist in Courtland with the Rev. R.A. Wailes officiating. Burial will be in Courtland Cemetery with Brown directing.
Mrs. Gilchrist died at 8 a.m. today in Tuscumbia. Remains will be taken to Courtland Friday morning.
She is survived by two nieces and one nephew.
Active pallbearers are to be Yancy Hughes, Daniel Gilchrist, Dave Martin, James Blythe, Frank Coburn and R.E. Simpson. Honorary pallbearers are to be W.H. Hudson, James Gilchrist, W.G. Gilchrist Jr, and W.H. Marsh.
DECATUR DAILY - April 4, 1957
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Martha Ella Graves was born November 27, 1871 at Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Following the death of her husband, Malcolm Frank Gilchrist in 1894, she lived for a while as a widow in the home of her mother-in-law, Martha E. Gilchrist. Malcolm and Mattie did not have children.
By the time of the 1920 census she was a teacher at the exclusive "Castle School", previously "Miss Mason's School", a private girls preparatory school in Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York. She never remarried, and was eventually buried beside her husband in Courtland, Alabama.
(Info provided by Find A Grave contributor Pat Iverson)
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Graves Gilchrist of Courtland will be Friday at 2 p.m. from the home of Mrs. Garth Gilchrist in Courtland with the Rev. R.A. Wailes officiating. Burial will be in Courtland Cemetery with Brown directing.
Mrs. Gilchrist died at 8 a.m. today in Tuscumbia. Remains will be taken to Courtland Friday morning.
She is survived by two nieces and one nephew.
Active pallbearers are to be Yancy Hughes, Daniel Gilchrist, Dave Martin, James Blythe, Frank Coburn and R.E. Simpson. Honorary pallbearers are to be W.H. Hudson, James Gilchrist, W.G. Gilchrist Jr, and W.H. Marsh.
DECATUR DAILY - April 4, 1957
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Martha Ella Graves was born November 27, 1871 at Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Following the death of her husband, Malcolm Frank Gilchrist in 1894, she lived for a while as a widow in the home of her mother-in-law, Martha E. Gilchrist. Malcolm and Mattie did not have children.
By the time of the 1920 census she was a teacher at the exclusive "Castle School", previously "Miss Mason's School", a private girls preparatory school in Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York. She never remarried, and was eventually buried beside her husband in Courtland, Alabama.
(Info provided by Find A Grave contributor Pat Iverson)
Services Set Friday For Mrs. Gilchrist
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Graves Gilchrist of Courtland will be Friday at 2 p.m. from the home of Mrs. Garth Gilchrist in Courtland with the Rev. R.A. Wailes officiating. Burial will be in Courtland Cemetery with Brown directing.
Mrs. Gilchrist died at 8 a.m. today in Tuscumbia. Remains will be taken to Courtland Friday morning.
She is survived by two nieces and one nephew.
Active pallbearers are to be Yancy Hughes, Daniel Gilchrist, Dave Martin, James Blythe, Frank Coburn and R.E. Simpson. Honorary pallbearers are to be W.H. Hudson, James Gilchrist, W.G. Gilchrist Jr, and W.H. Marsh.
DECATUR DAILY - April 4, 1957
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Martha Ella Graves was born November 27, 1871 at Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Following the death of her husband, Malcolm Frank Gilchrist in 1894, she lived for a while as a widow in the home of her mother-in-law, Martha E. Gilchrist. Malcolm and Mattie did not have children.
By the time of the 1920 census she was a teacher at the exclusive "Castle School", previously "Miss Mason's School", a private girls preparatory school in Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York. She never remarried, and was eventually buried beside her husband in Courtland, Alabama.
(Info provided by Find A Grave contributor Pat Iverson)
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Graves Gilchrist of Courtland will be Friday at 2 p.m. from the home of Mrs. Garth Gilchrist in Courtland with the Rev. R.A. Wailes officiating. Burial will be in Courtland Cemetery with Brown directing.
Mrs. Gilchrist died at 8 a.m. today in Tuscumbia. Remains will be taken to Courtland Friday morning.
She is survived by two nieces and one nephew.
Active pallbearers are to be Yancy Hughes, Daniel Gilchrist, Dave Martin, James Blythe, Frank Coburn and R.E. Simpson. Honorary pallbearers are to be W.H. Hudson, James Gilchrist, W.G. Gilchrist Jr, and W.H. Marsh.
DECATUR DAILY - April 4, 1957
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Martha Ella Graves was born November 27, 1871 at Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Following the death of her husband, Malcolm Frank Gilchrist in 1894, she lived for a while as a widow in the home of her mother-in-law, Martha E. Gilchrist. Malcolm and Mattie did not have children.
By the time of the 1920 census she was a teacher at the exclusive "Castle School", previously "Miss Mason's School", a private girls preparatory school in Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York. She never remarried, and was eventually buried beside her husband in Courtland, Alabama.
(Info provided by Find A Grave contributor Pat Iverson)
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