Sam Ella(Cashion)Pillow was the daughter of Marticia Ann "Martish" (Shelton) Cashion Shelton [buried at the Fogg Cemetery in Giles Co., Tenn.] & her first husband, Samuel C. Cashion, born 1826 VA, who died in the Civil War and is buried in a mass grave of Confederate dead at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana]. After her father died in the Civil War, Sam Ella's mother married and divorced William T. "Bill" Shelton. Martish & Bill had three children: Edward, Ada, and Walter Cleveland Shelton. Bill remarried to Palina Ward Walls.
Sam Ella (Cashion) Pillow was the paternal granddaughter of Samuel & Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Cashion and the maternal granddaughter of Jesse & Malinda (Pillow) Shelton.
On May 23, 1878 Sam Ella Cashion married William Thomas "Tom" Pillow in Giles Co., Tenn. They had nine children -- seven girls and two boys.
After son, Charlie Milton/"Sam Cashion" Pillow's wife, Clara Bell (Inglett) Pillow, died on her 32nd birthday, Sam Ella helped rear their six young children, her grandchildren: Lois Melton, Ruby Mae "Shorty", Mary Bernice "Dot", Charles M., Jewell Dell "Sue", and John Edward "Dimps". Another child was stillborn August 25, 1926.
According to descendents, Sam Ella was a petite woman with a kind heart and much determination.
Pulaski Citizen Newspaper Obituary
MRS. SAM ELLA PILLOW
[Funeral services for Mrs. Sam Ella Pillow, 81, who died Sunday evening at her home on South Fourth Street, following a brief illness, were held at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Bennett May Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. A. R. Hogan, pastor of the Trinity Charge. Burial took place in the Moriah Cemetery.
Mrs. Pillow had been a member of the Methodist Church since young womanhood. Mrs. Pillow is survived by six daughters and two sons, Mrs. Geo. Dodson, Mrs. Bill Martin, Mrs. May Brown, Mrs. Joe Tidwell, Mrs. Ira Inglett and Miss Eva Pillow and Sam and Roy Pillow and several grandchildren.]
Sam Ella (Cashion) Pillow was the paternal granddaughter of Samuel & Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Cashion and the maternal granddaughter of Jesse & Malinda (Pillow) Shelton.
On May 23, 1878 Sam Ella Cashion married William Thomas "Tom" Pillow in Giles Co., Tenn. They had nine children -- seven girls and two boys.
After son, Charlie Milton/"Sam Cashion" Pillow's wife, Clara Bell (Inglett) Pillow, died on her 32nd birthday, Sam Ella helped rear their six young children, her grandchildren: Lois Melton, Ruby Mae "Shorty", Mary Bernice "Dot", Charles M., Jewell Dell "Sue", and John Edward "Dimps". Another child was stillborn August 25, 1926.
According to descendents, Sam Ella was a petite woman with a kind heart and much determination.
Pulaski Citizen Newspaper Obituary
MRS. SAM ELLA PILLOW
[Funeral services for Mrs. Sam Ella Pillow, 81, who died Sunday evening at her home on South Fourth Street, following a brief illness, were held at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Bennett May Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. A. R. Hogan, pastor of the Trinity Charge. Burial took place in the Moriah Cemetery.
Mrs. Pillow had been a member of the Methodist Church since young womanhood. Mrs. Pillow is survived by six daughters and two sons, Mrs. Geo. Dodson, Mrs. Bill Martin, Mrs. May Brown, Mrs. Joe Tidwell, Mrs. Ira Inglett and Miss Eva Pillow and Sam and Roy Pillow and several grandchildren.]
Sam Ella(Cashion)Pillow was the daughter of Marticia Ann "Martish" (Shelton) Cashion Shelton [buried at the Fogg Cemetery in Giles Co., Tenn.] & her first husband, Samuel C. Cashion, born 1826 VA, who died in the Civil War and is buried in a mass grave of Confederate dead at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana]. After her father died in the Civil War, Sam Ella's mother married and divorced William T. "Bill" Shelton. Martish & Bill had three children: Edward, Ada, and Walter Cleveland Shelton. Bill remarried to Palina Ward Walls.
Sam Ella (Cashion) Pillow was the paternal granddaughter of Samuel & Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Cashion and the maternal granddaughter of Jesse & Malinda (Pillow) Shelton.
On May 23, 1878 Sam Ella Cashion married William Thomas "Tom" Pillow in Giles Co., Tenn. They had nine children -- seven girls and two boys.
After son, Charlie Milton/"Sam Cashion" Pillow's wife, Clara Bell (Inglett) Pillow, died on her 32nd birthday, Sam Ella helped rear their six young children, her grandchildren: Lois Melton, Ruby Mae "Shorty", Mary Bernice "Dot", Charles M., Jewell Dell "Sue", and John Edward "Dimps". Another child was stillborn August 25, 1926.
According to descendents, Sam Ella was a petite woman with a kind heart and much determination.
Pulaski Citizen Newspaper Obituary
MRS. SAM ELLA PILLOW
[Funeral services for Mrs. Sam Ella Pillow, 81, who died Sunday evening at her home on South Fourth Street, following a brief illness, were held at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Bennett May Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. A. R. Hogan, pastor of the Trinity Charge. Burial took place in the Moriah Cemetery.
Mrs. Pillow had been a member of the Methodist Church since young womanhood. Mrs. Pillow is survived by six daughters and two sons, Mrs. Geo. Dodson, Mrs. Bill Martin, Mrs. May Brown, Mrs. Joe Tidwell, Mrs. Ira Inglett and Miss Eva Pillow and Sam and Roy Pillow and several grandchildren.]
Sam Ella (Cashion) Pillow was the paternal granddaughter of Samuel & Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Cashion and the maternal granddaughter of Jesse & Malinda (Pillow) Shelton.
On May 23, 1878 Sam Ella Cashion married William Thomas "Tom" Pillow in Giles Co., Tenn. They had nine children -- seven girls and two boys.
After son, Charlie Milton/"Sam Cashion" Pillow's wife, Clara Bell (Inglett) Pillow, died on her 32nd birthday, Sam Ella helped rear their six young children, her grandchildren: Lois Melton, Ruby Mae "Shorty", Mary Bernice "Dot", Charles M., Jewell Dell "Sue", and John Edward "Dimps". Another child was stillborn August 25, 1926.
According to descendents, Sam Ella was a petite woman with a kind heart and much determination.
Pulaski Citizen Newspaper Obituary
MRS. SAM ELLA PILLOW
[Funeral services for Mrs. Sam Ella Pillow, 81, who died Sunday evening at her home on South Fourth Street, following a brief illness, were held at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Bennett May Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. A. R. Hogan, pastor of the Trinity Charge. Burial took place in the Moriah Cemetery.
Mrs. Pillow had been a member of the Methodist Church since young womanhood. Mrs. Pillow is survived by six daughters and two sons, Mrs. Geo. Dodson, Mrs. Bill Martin, Mrs. May Brown, Mrs. Joe Tidwell, Mrs. Ira Inglett and Miss Eva Pillow and Sam and Roy Pillow and several grandchildren.]
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