OBITUARY: H. E. Thedford, 1866 - Smith Co, TX Submitted by Rick Featherston 10 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************************* H.E. Thedford Funeral Services Are Held Today Tyler Courier-Times - Monday, January 26, 1942 Name: E. E. (Edd) Age: 75 Address: 1420 North Bois d'Arc Died: 8:30 a.m. yesterday (January 25) Died of Heart Attack in the chicken yard. Funeral services: 3:30 p.m. today at Burks-Walker-Daniel Funeral Chapel Officiating: Rev. Porter M. Bailes Burial: Dean Cemetery, 7 miles southwest of Tyler on the Athens highway. Survivors: his wife; five daughters, Mrs. L.R. Shelton, Mrs. B.E. Beaird, and Misses Shirley and Pauline Thedford, all of Tyler, and Mrs. A.A. Briley, Athens; two sons, F.W. Thedford, Hemphill, and D.D. Thedford, Many, La.; two brothers, A.J. Thedford and George Thedford, both of Tyler, and two sisters, Mrs. D.V. Horton and Mrs. Eliza Shelton, both of Tyler. Pallbearers: nephews of Thedford - Ray Thedford, Isaac Shelton, Russell Meek, Bryan McGenney, Monroe Thompson and Lee Neill. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cemetery Records Smith County, Texas, Volume III, Southwest Quarter; East Texas Genealogical Society,1984, p. 145 Dean Cemetery THEDFORD, H. Edward - 1866-1942 - W. of W. THEDFORD, Mollie - 1869-1949 - Woodmen Circle - M.W.T.