Ada Tracy Timms Obituary, Johnson County, TX =============================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. =============================================================================== Submitted by Virginia M. Finley OBIT - Ada Tracy Timms Cleburne, Feb. 26, 1934 MRS. TIMMS, 82, IS BURIED AT CLEBURNE Funeral Services for Mrs. Walter Timms, 82, who died at her home Sunday after an illness of several months, were held at the church of the Holy Comforter Monday. Rev. Claude Canterbury officiated. Burial was in the Cleburne Cemetery. Pallbearers were S.D. Heyward, V.A. Gerstenkorn, B.C. Munday, J. Joiner, Walter Mudge and Vestal Wright. Mrs. Timms was Miss Ada Tracy before here marriage to Walter Timms, a Cleburne Jeweler, on April 13, 1880. Theirs was the first wedding in the Episcopal Church where last rites for her were held Monday. She was a native of Delphi, N.Y., where she was born April 10, 1852. While still a girl, she moved to Independence, Iowa, with her sister, now Mrs. William Hill, and taught in rural schools of that state until the family moved in April 1877, to Cleburne, where she resided continuously for nearly 58 years. Before her marriage she conducted the private Caddo Street Select School, where she taught many of the boys and girls of early Cleburne. Survivors are her husband; a daughter, Mrs. C.J. Stevenson; a grandson, Walter Finley, and three great-granddaughters, Misses Evelyn, Rosemary and Virginia Finley; three nephews, Dr. L.E. Dickson, Gen. Tracy Dickson and Fred Dickson and four nieces, Mrs. R.A. Thompson, Dallas; Mrs. H.H. Teaff, Mrs. Comer Hays, and Mrs. Frances D. Abernathy, Cleburne.