Edd Tatum Obituary



The Crockett Times
Alamo, Tennessee
Thursday, April 1, 1948
Vol. 16 No. 5

Services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. at Salem Presbyterian Church for Edd Tatum, son of the late John C. and Jennie Tatum, with Rev. George McIlwain officiating.

Mr. Tatum, who was 62, died of a heart attack Friday evening while enroute to a Memphis hospital. He was born and reared in Crockett County, spending most of his life near Gadsden, until he moved to Memphis several years ago from there he moved to Tipton County where he was engaged in farming at the time of his death.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Edd Tatum, and three children, Mrs. Clayton Brower, Mr. Edwin Tatum, both of Memphis and Miss Foy Tatum of Mason, Tenn.; three brothers, Emmett, Connie and Russell Tatum.

Pallbearers: Claude L. Tatum, Harold Tatum, Puckett Kee, John Jackson, John McCoy, J. C. Tatum. Jones Funeral Home of Stanton in charge.


Contributed by Jean Cox Holden


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