FUNERAL PROGRAMS AND OBITUARIES, BLACK DECATUR COUNTIANS

Decatur Co. TN

I want to thank Novella Tole of Milwaukee and Margaret Mallard Beech of Nashville for sharing their collections of funeral programs and obituaries. Names with an asterisk have a photo.

Andres, Lula
Arnold, Bobbie S.

Bailey, Mary Ella
Booty, Samuel
Boyd, Dr. Currie Porter
Brasher, Alberta Allie Pearl*
Brasher, Essie M.
Brasher, Ocie Harold
Brasher, Sidney Barley
Brewer, Josie Sharp
Brewer, Mattie Arlee
Browder, Viola Beatrice
Brown, James A.
Buck, Floyd L.

Casey, George Elsie
Casey, Mabel
Cleary, Eula Mae
Craig, Edna G.
Craig, Mary Irene
Crowder, Anna Bell
Crowder, Guy (Hardin Co.)*
Crowder, Roland (Hardin Co.)*

Dabbs, Bessie Mae
Dabbs, Cecilia Regina
Davenport, Mae T.
Davenport, Thelma J.
Doyal, James Ronald

Fisher, James R.
Fisher, Velora*
Fredericks, Eddie
Funderburk, Charlie
Funderburk, R. L.

Garrett, Hugh Curston

Hardin, Clara Montgomery*
Hardin, Jennetta (Hardin Co.)*
Hardin, Mitchell S.
Hayes, Kerby (Hardin Co.)
Hayes, Kirby (Hardin Co.)
Hayes, Willie (female, Hardin Co.)
Hayes, Willie (male, Hardin Co.)
Hayes, Willie Leetta (Hardin Co.)*
Holt, Bettie Lee Nell
Howard, Clara Bell
Hunt, Willie Mae*

Ivory, Henry DeWayne
Ivory, Michael

Jennings, Chester H.
Jones, Lois Cicero*
Jorden, Sally Tole

Keyes, Gretchen Lorraine*
Kelly, Roland Hayes*
Kindle, Mildred Maude
Kindle, Mildred Scott*
Kizer, Ruth S.

Laster, William
Longstreet, Eddie Wade*
Longstreet, Ida Ray*
Lowery, Cora Mattie (Hardin Co.)*

McClain, Ernest Junior
McElrath, Faustina Aurora*
McElrath, George Odle, Sr.*
McElrath, Jeff
McHaney, Eula
Montgomery, Alonzo M.
Montgomery, Charlie W.
Montgomery, Herbert
Montgomery, R. T.
Moody, Louis G.

Nance, Nora Mae

Parham, Clara (Henderson Co.)
Parham, Steven Terrell (Henderson Co.)*
Pate, McCall
Pettigrew, Azalee
Pettigrew, Brandon Earnest Keith
Pettigrew, George W., Sr.*
Pettigrew, Gillie
Pettigrew, Grady R.
Pettigrew, J. L. "Stinker"
Pettigrew, Mike
Pettigrew, Nellie
Pettigrew, Odessia P.
Pettigrew, Robert V.
Pettigrew, Roy Willard*
Pettigrew, William Dandridge
Phelps, Cecil
Posey, Ila
Posey, William*

Robinson, Bland E.
Robinson, Lucy Arnada Laster

Scott, Argruda
Scott, Charles O.
Scott, Jewel Yarbro Craig Duckett Parham*
Scott, Jim Henry
Scott, Jimmy P.
Scott, Matt
Scott, Nettie (Wayne Co.)
Scott, Roxie C.
Scott, Surenia Ann
Scott, Willie R.
Shelton, Allie
Shelton, Henry
Spain, Makhala Da'Shay
Stanton, Margaret Scott
Stanton, Robert Lee
Stigall, Edgar
Stigall, Edward Fillmore, Sr.*

Tatum, Ruby W.
Taylor, Jessie J.
Taylor, John M.
Thomas, JoAnne Cannon*
Tole, Burmah
Tole, Ernest
Tole, James Logan
Tole, Novella Yarbro*
Tole, Rosie B. Mallard
Toliver, Mary Irene*

Vaughn, Birdie Lorraine
Vaughn, Forrest T.
Vaughn, Gertie Scott

Walker, John
Walker, Pansy Sybylla
Weatherspoon, Nora Jewel
West, Corene*
White, John Earl
Whitfield, Betty Bernice*
Williams, Mary Ree
Wisdom, Georgia Kelly*

Yarbro, Gary Smith
Yarbro, Henrietta
Yarbro, Lessie John
Yarbro, Rupert R.
Yarbro, Willie Bert
Yarbrough, Jerry*
Young, Mary

See the following cemeteries: Decaturville Negro, Moore's Chapel (Jeanette Negro), New Hope, Parsons Negro (called Clay Cemetery in some obituaries), Perryville (entire cemetery; black section not well defined), Union.

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