Sam Neal Obituary



The Crockett Times
Alamo, Tennessee
Thursday, January 25, 1951
Vol. 18 No. 48

SAM NEAL

Mr. Sam Neal, 76 years old night watchman for the Watson Coal & Ice Co. in Osceola, Ark., for twenty years, died in Baptist Hospital in Memphis January 21 from injuries he received when struck on the head by a prowler at the company plant December 31st.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Herman Allen of Memphis and Miss Margaret Neal of near Maury City, three sisters, Mrs. Mitt Riddick, Mrs. G. W. Robertson and Mrs. J. D. Riddick of Maury City and two brothers, Archie Neal of Nashville and Claud Neal of Memphis.

Services were held Monday at eleven o'clock at the Church of Christ in Maury City with Bro. R. E. Black officiating.

Burial was in Smith Cemetery with Swift Funeral Home of Osceola in charge.

Those from Memphis who attended the funeral were Bro. and Mrs. Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Force, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Neal, Mrs. Lannie Warren, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Allen and Mr. Malcolm Taylor and Mr. Watson of Osceola.


Contributed by Jean Cox Holden


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