MAJORS, Marshall Daniel
THE LAUDERDALE COUNTY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY APRIL 1, 1932
A FORMER CITIZEN DIES AT AGE OF 86–Marshall Daniel MAJORS was born December 10, 1845 in Webster County, Ga., moved to Lauderdale County in 1870, and settled near Fulton. Before leaving Georgia, he married Miss Pope MILNER, who died soon after coming to Tennessee, leaving one son, Lucian L. MAJORS, now living in Flint, Mich. Later Mr. MAJORS married Miss Ida LANDRUM, a niece of his first wife, and they moved to the town of Fulton where he was associated with the large mercantile firm of A. Lea & Co., for a number of years. He then moved to Ripley, living at “Grasmere, ” his country home north of the city, where he specialized in raising berries and dairying. The second Mrs. MAJORS died in 1895, but the children surviving this union; Herbert, Dan, Jack, Ida, Tom, & Henry (together with their cousins, Milton & Myra BACON) spent their happy childhood with Mrs. Minnie Bacon ESTES, whose love for them was as sacred and dear as that for her own children. In 1898 Mr. MAJORS sold “Grasmere” and moved to Ashdown, Ark., making his home with his son, Herbert, who died in 1917. After the death of this son, he moved back to Ripley and two years later married Mrs. Ella Bacon ALEXANDER, who survives him, and with whom he spent the evening of his life in Citronelle, Ala., a winter resort near Mobile. The body of Mr. MAJORS arrived Friday morning in Memphis, where it was met by local undertakers and brought to Ripley. Funeral services were held in the afternoon at 2:30 at the Baptist church, conducted by Dr. O. Olin GREEN, pastor. The pallbearers were his grandsons; Joseph M. TUCKER, Jr., Landrum TUCKER, Marshall MAJORS, Barbee MAJORS, and William MAJORS. (another obit from Citronelle, Ala. Call., March 24, 1924, was in this issue also)