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02/27/14

PIRTLE, Sarah – (d. 1949)

Mrs. Sarah Pirtle Is Paralysis Victim

After having suffered a paralytic stroke some years ago and a second stroke recently, Mrs. Sarah Pirtle, aged 80 years, died at the home of her nephew, O.C. Green in Lafayette about one o’clock Monday afternoon. She had resided until recently in the Williams section where she had made her home for many years. She was the widow of the late John Pirtle. They had no children. She left a half-sister, Mrs. Muncie Cooper, of Aurora, Illinois, and about a dozen nephews and nieces as her only immediate surviving relatives.

Burial was made about noon Wednesday in the family graveyard near Williams, following funeral services conducted by Elder John Carter Holland, from the Williams Church of Christ, of which she had been a member for a number of years. She was a good old woman, and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. She was the daughter of Thomas J. and Nancy Shrum Green, and was born in the Brown’s section of this county.

Source: Macon County Times, Lafayette, Tennessee, Thursday, 23 June 1949

Submitted by:  Shelta R. Shrum

My E-mail is:  shrum1@mwsi.net

02/7/14

PATTERSON, Bessie – (d. 1977)

Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Brandon Patterson, Age 83, of Red Boiling Springs were held Tuesday afternoon at Alexander Funeral Home in Red Boiling Springs by the Rev. Oscar Trainor. Interment was in the Smith Chapel Cemetery. Mrs. Patterson, a native of Macon County, died Sunday morning at Macon County General Hospital. Her parents were the late George Alexander and Clara Dixon Brandon. She was the widow of Wash C. Patterson. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.

She is survived by two sons Roy Patterson of Page, Arizona and Ray Patterson of Slippery Rock, Penn.; 4 daughters Mrs. Agnes Knight of Madison, Mrs. Allie Jordan of Oak Lawn, Ill., Miss Georgia Patterson of Red Boiling Springs and Mrs. Joyce Green; one sister Mrs. Lois McCawley of Madison; 8 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren.
Source: Macon County Times – Lafayette, TN – Thursday July 28, 1977 – Page A-3

Submitted By: Bill Patterson

My E-mail is: BplusM@aol.com

01/19/14

PATTERSON, Wash C. – (d. 1963)

Services For Former Macon Trustee Are Held

Funeral services for Wash C. Patterson, 74, were conducted Saturday at the Smith Chapel Methodist church in Red Boiling Springs by Rev. J. P. Neel, Jr., pastor of Highland Baptist church in Red Boiling Springs. Burial was in the Smith Chapel cemetery. Masonic rites were held by members of the Red Boiling Springs Masonic Lodge. Mr. Patterson died Thursday afternoon in Nashville.

He was a native of Macon county, but for the last twenty years had resided on Canton, Ohio, and Nashville. He was a former trustee of Macon County and a member of the Red Boiling Springs Lodge No. 585, F and AM. Mr. Patterson was the son of the late George W. Patterson and Martha Andrews Patterson. He had ten brothers, three still living, M.L. Patterson, M.P. Patterson and Floyd Patterson, all of Lafayette.

Other survivors include his wife, Bessie Brandon; two sons, Roy F. Patterson, Page, Arizona, and Ray C. Patterson, Franklin, Tenn; four daughters, Mrs. R. W. Knoght, Madison, Mrs. Lawrence Jordon, Chicago, Illinois, Mrs. William B. Green and Miss Georgia C. Patterson of Red Boiling Springs; and eight grandchildren. Phillips-Robinson funeral directors were in charge of arrangements

Source: Macon County Times – Lafayette, TN – Thursday June 13, 1963 – Page 5

Submitted By: Bill Patterson

My E-mail is: BplusM@aol.com