Carroll County GaArchives Obituaries.....Robertson, Jesse B. March 30, 1943
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne County, 

Issue of Thursday, APRIL 8, 1943

DEATH OF JESSE B. ROBERTSON

To a wide circle of friends in this community came the sorrowful news of the 
death of one it its well known members, Jesse Bonner Robertson, on March 
30th, in the Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa. Mr. Robertson has, for the 
past seven years, made his home with his daughter Miss Mary Anna "May" 
Robertson, who is Registrar of the University of Alabama.

Born in Carrollton, Georgia on January 22, 1857, Mr. Robertson has lived in 
Heflin for a great part of his adult life. He was 86 years old on January 
22nd of this year and has been in poor health for some years.

Mr. Robertson is survived by two children, Miss Mary Anna Robertson and Paul 
Little Robertson, the latter a resident of Anniston. His wife who died in 
1926, was Lena Lizetta Little, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Bud Little 
of Cleburne county.

Funeral services for Mr. Robertson were held in Tuscaloosa at Jones and 
Speigner Chapel at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 31. Dr. Powhatan James, 
minister of the First Baptist church conducting, assisted by Dr. George Lang 
of the University Faculty. Further services were held at Cedar Creek church 
in Cleburne county at 3:30 that afternoon and interment was in Cedar Creek 
cemetery.

Pallbearers were Roy Meacham, J.A. Harper, Lee Black, Neal Morgan, J.O. 
Tolleson, Shep S. Rowell.

Additional Comments:

Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 
Name: Jesse B Robertson 
Death Date: 30 Mar 1943 
Death County: Tuscaloosa  
Volume: 13  
Certificate: 6167  
Roll: 4  

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