Chambers County AlArchives Obituaries.....Slay, Mary Lorena Higgins February 8, 1930
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Newspaper LaFayette Sun
Wife of JW Slay

The LaFayette Sun" - February 19, 1930:

Mrs. Mary R. Slay Died Here Last Night.

Mrs. Mary Rena Slay, aged 68, wife of J. W. Slay, of this city, died last 
night at 9:00 o'clock at her home on Magnolia Street after an illness of 
several days. Her condition was known to be serious and during the past few 
days' ,only little hope by members of the immediate family were entertained 
for her recovery.
The deceased was born and reared in Beat Two and had lived within the 
confines of Chambers county all her life. She was a member of the Mount 
Hickory Primitive Baptist Church and was true to the teachings and tenets of 
her faith. For nine years she had made her home in LaFayette, moving to this 
city from her home in the northern part of the county. She was the daughter 
of the late S. T. Higgins and Mrs. Henrietta Whatley Higgins. She was one of 
nine children, only two of whom survive.
According to announcement of funeral arrangements today Mrs. Slay will be 
buried from the Mount Hickory Church tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock with 
Rev. Reese Prather officiating and interment in the Mount Hickory Cemetery.
Surviving the deceased, besides her husband, J. W. Slay, of this city, are 
six sons: C. W. and Semmie Slay, of Roanoke; B. J. Slay, of this city; B. 
W., Sterling and Kyle Slay, of Birmingham; one brother, J. F. Higgins, of 
this city; one sister, Mrs. V. D. Mitchell, of Opelika, and twenty-one 
grandchildren.
The six sons of the deceased will serve as pallbearers.

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