Bell County KyArchives Obituaries.....Cawood, Mattie Lee Byrd July 11, 1974 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Pat Akers Lacy eplacy@worldnet.att.net November 10, 2006, 11:11 am Middlesboro Daily News, Bell County, Kentucky - 16 July 1974 MATTIE LEE BYRD CAWOOD--- Mrs. Mattie Lee Byrd Cawood, age 78, of Bellwood Road, Middlesboro, passed away Thursday, July 11, 1974, in the Claiborne County (Tennessee) Hospital. She was born March 13, 1896, in Hancock County, Tennessee, the daughter of the late William Campbell Byrd and Sarah "Sally" Borman Byrd. She was married to John Cawood, Sr., on September 7, 1914, and would have been married 60 years in September. A longtime resident of Middlesboro, Mrs. Cawood was a member of the Binghamtown Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by three children, Claude, Eldora and Randolph. Survivors include her husband, John Cawood, Sr., of Middlesboro; one son, John Cawood, Jr., of Middlesboro; one daughter, Mae Bundren of Pleasant Hill, Missouri; two sisters, Mary Ely of Middlesboro and Jenny Leedy of Trenton, Michigan; one brother, Doyle Byrd of Middlesboro; nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM, Sunday, at the Binghamtown Baptist Church, with the Rev. W. B. Bingham officiating. Music will be by Jimmy Jackson, accompanied by Barbara Taylor. Burial will be in the Middlesboro Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7:00 until 9:00 PM, Saturday, at the Cawood Funeral Home. Cawood Funeral Home was in charge. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/bell/obits/c/cawood3438gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/