SCHLEY COUNTY, GA - OBITS Thomas Edward Gresham Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Gresham judo53@chartermi.net Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm The Ellaville Sun Friday, October 24, 1947. LAST TRIBUTE PAID THURSDAY TO T.E. GRESHAM Final tribute was paid Thomas Edward Gresham, 52, a native of Schley County, and World War I veteran, at funeral services held at the home of his sister, Mrs. David Dicker (Wicker?), at Putnam, Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. The Rev. L.M. Spivey officiating and burial was in Ellaville cemetery. Mr. Gresham died at 7:15 p.m. Sunday in Veterans Hospital, Wadsworth, Kansas. He was the son of Mr. W.R. Gresham, of Putnam, and the late Mrs. Atta Lissa Stevens Gresham. Surviving are his father, two sons; T.E., Jr., Columbus, and J.S., Gadsden, Ala., one grandchild; three sisters, Mrs. David Wicker, Putnam; Mrs. T.H. Eason and Mrs. R.L. Thomas, both of Atlanta. Pallbearers were: Ernest Stevens, R.P. Stevens, O.W. Miller, E.T. Harbuck, E.D. Hart and Billy Snider. (Note: the grandchild mentioned here as survivor was Thomas Neal Gresham, s/o J.S. Gresham and Leona O'Neal Gresham)