Mrs. Ella Hartfield Dies Suddenly
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Bounds Hartfield, age 76, wife of John Hartfield, Route 1, Purvis, were held at the Purvis Cemetery Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock. Rev. June Hartfield, of Gulfport, brother-in-law of Mrs. Hartfield, conducted the funeral service and Rev. Albert Slade and Rev. Alpha Landrum, the latter a nephew of the deceased, conducted the opening and closing prayers. Eastern Star rites were conducted by Lamar Chapter Order of the Eastern Star, of Purvis.
Mrs. Hartfield was born in Neshoba county, but was brought to what was then a part of Marion and Perry counties by her parents, the late John and Elizabeth Mason Bounds, at the early age of two years. She was married to John Hartfield May 7, 1891, Rev. W. M. Holcomb performing the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Hartfield celebrated their 60th anniversary the 7th day of May, 1951.
Mrs. Hartfield had been in ill health for the past two years, but death came almost suddenly, Tuesday morning, of his week, as she had been about the house during the early hours. The body was carried to the home of her grandson, V. L. Johnson in Purvis, where it remained until born to the cemetery for final rites.
Mrs. Hartfield was a past Worthy matron of the local Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, and the last of the original charter members who had retained continuous membership since its institution in 1913, thirty-eight years ago.
Besides her husband, she is survived by three sons, Peter, Of Hattiesburg, Paul of Hazelhurst and Johnny of Crosby; one daughter, Mrs. Candace Johnson of Purvis; three brothers, Wiley Bounds, of Biloxi and John and Ephraim Bounds of Purvis; two sisters, Mrs. Martha Fillingame and Mrs. Sally Breland of Hattiesburg; thirteen grand-children; thirteen great-grand-children and one great, great grand-child.
Four grand-sons, V. L. Johnson, of Purvis, George Garrison of New Augusta, Philip Hartfield, of Natchez and Earl Hartfield of Baton Rouge, La., served as pall bearers; the other two pall bearers being W. R. Hagan and Miller Myatt, of Purvis.
Quigley Funeral Home of Hattiesburg was in charge of arrangements.
The Booster, Purvis, Lamar County, Miss., Friday, October 19, 1951