Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....McWilliams, Emma April 11, 1952 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007674 April 27, 2023, 1:42 am Ashland Progress Mrs. R. S. McWilliams passed away at the age of eighty-one at Citizens Hospital, Talladega, Friday, April 11th, having suffered a stroke on April 7th. She was born and reared in Georgia but had lived almost half century in Clay and Talladega counties. The rites were held at Clairmont Springs Church Sunday p. m. at 3 o'clock. Her pastor, B. W. Inzer and Rev. Marlow, of Talladega First Church, officiated. Burial was in adjoining cemetery, Usrey directing. The Miller Quartet furnished the music. The overflow crowd and beautiful flowers attested the esteem and love of friends and relatives many of them from Georgia and other distant spots. Grandsons: Vance, Mack and Frank Danner, Billy Horne, James and Troy McWilliams were active pallbearers. Ernest Miller, W. L. Foster, Frank Wesley, V. Willis, Victor Phillips, Dr. Davis, of Talladega, and W. A., E. S., and Lonnie Horne, E. C. Harris, M. F. Hobbs, and W. A. Powers, of Clairmont, were honorary pallbearers. Flower girls were granddaughters, Jane Doss, Hilda Samuella and Louevelyn Horne, Hope Parks, Carolyn and Emma Lou Wyatt, Lillian Bowman, Gene Williams, Delores and Bonnie McWilliams, Mary Etta Holt, Joyce Miller, Sara Danner, also Ann and Junita Hobbs and Christine Fields. She is survived by six children, R. C. McWilliams, Talladega, Mrs. C. O. Danner, Erin, Mrs. Henry H. Horne, Clairmont, Mrs. E. D. Short, Florence, S. C., Mrs. J. T. Hendrix, Reidsville, N. C., Mrs. Nelia Miller, Talladega. Twenty-nine grandchildren and ton greatgrandchildren. Additional Comments: Death Cert: Name Mary Emma Holcombe McWilliams Sex Female Age 81 Birth Year (Estimated) 1871 Father's Name James W. Holcombe Father's Sex Male Mother's Name Rachel Louise Worthy Mother's Sex Female Event Type Death Event Date 1952 Event Place Talladega, Talladega, Alabama, United States Event Place (Original) Talladega, Talladega, Alabama Source Details cn 8747 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/clay/obits/m/mcwillia5550gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb