GIBSON COUNTY TN - OBITUARIES - W.Y. Williamson 1919

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OBITUARY OF W. Y. WILLIAMSON 

BORN 1834 - DIED 1919



He was grandfather Horton's first cousin, and was known as "Cousin Billy."



PIONEER CITIZEN DIES



W. Y. Williamson died early yesterday morning of pneumonia. He was 85 years old.

He was the oldest resident of the town living here when Milan was a farm owned

by his father.



For a number of years he was station agent for the L. and N. Railroad. He was a

brave and fearless confederate soldier enlisting in 1861 and being in Gen. Frank

Cheatham's division army of Middle Tennessee throughout Georgia until the

surrender in 1865. He was an Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias. He was a life

long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and is survived by a wife

and daughter, Mrs. Emma Blanks of Trezevant; five sons, Elden, Robert of

Nashville, George, Lunnie and Ben Williamson of Memphis. One sister, Mrs. W. P.

Ragsdale of Milan. Funeral services were held today by his pastor, Rev. W.S.

Pickens, assisted by the other pastors of Milan. Interment followed in Oakwood

Cemetery.