Calhoun County AlArchives Obituaries.....Mellon, Robert Edward  December 23, 1943
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The Anniston Star, Anniston, Alabama - December 24, 1943
Source: The Anniston Star, Anniston, Alabama
Date: December 24, 1943

ED MELLON'S DEATH STRIKES SUDDENLY

Dies While Eating Dinner With Wife At Gainesville

Ed Mellon, prominent Calhoun County farmer and member of one of the county 's 
best known families, died suddenly Thursday night while he was eating d inner 
at a restaurant in Gainesville, GA.  He and Mrs. Mellon were en rou te to 
Clover S.C., to visit her relatives and they stopped in Gainesville to eat.  
It was understood that a heart attack caused his sudden death.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the 
Oxford Presbyterian Church of which Mr. Mellon was a member.  Dr. E. B. 
Robinson will officiate.

Mr. Mellon served the unexpired term of his deceased brother, Foster, on the 
Calhoun County Jury Commission, the term expiring last year.

Surviving are the widow, one brother, Sam Mellon of Oxford and three siste rs, 
Mrs. J. T.  Brittain of Oneonta, Miss Betty Mellon and Mrs. Nell Mellon 
Hubbard of Oxford.

Active pallbearers will be A. W. Heifner, Lewis Downing, Dave McKay, 
H. T. Stanford, Robert Lamar and Elf Moore.  Honorary pallbearers will be Sam 
Hallman, John Bailey, Dr. T. B. Howle, Dr. B. F. Caffey, Arthur Sharp, Raymond 
Marsh, Dawson Haynes, Newman Cryer, Ernest Wilson, B. S. Russell, W. A. Orr 
and Jim Cryer.

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