Randolph-Calhoun County AlArchives Obituaries.....Edwards, William Irvin March 1939
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, MARCH 23, 1939

W. I. EDWARDS IS LAID TO FINAL REST

Funeral services were conducted from Cane Creek Primitive Baptist church at 
2 p.m. Sunday for William Irvin Edwards, 63, who died Saturday night in an 
Anniston hospital after an illness of ten days. Elder Ira Patty of Mars Hill 
and Elder Burson of Carrollton, Ga. officiated. Burial was in the church 
cemetery. A prominent farmer of the Newell section of Randolph county, Mr. 
Edwards underwent a major operation several days ago when pneumonia 
developed, living only a few days.

He was a native of Cane Creek in Cleburne county, but moved his family to 
Newell 20 years ago where he had extensive farming interests.

Surviving are the widow and eight sons; J.R. and E.E. Edwards of Bessemer; 
J.S. Edwards of Lineville; H.C., Grady, Hugh, Robert E. and Charles Edwards 
of Newell; and two daughters, Mrs. J.O. Johnson and Mrs. E.E. Shelton of 
Newell; two brothers, John Edwards of Louisville, Miss., and L.J. Edwards of 
Mars Hill; four sisters, Mrs. Virgie Norton and Mrs. Charlie Kennedy of 
Heflin; Mrs. Newman White of Newnan, Ga., and Mrs. Dan McCord of 
Albuquerque, N.M., and his mother Mrs. Rhoda Edwards of Heflin.

Additional Comments:
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 
Name: William I Edwards 
Death Date: Mar 1939 
Death County: Calhoun  
Volume: 10  
Certificate: 4739  
Roll: 3 

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