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10/29/13

LEATH, Thomas – (d. 1928)

Obituary: Thomas Leath
(by Eld. Calvin Gregory)

Thomas Leath, for many years a citizen of the Dry Fork section, a few miles northwest of Pleasant Shade, died a few days ago at the home of his daughter, near Bethpage, from infirmities incident to old age. He was eighty years of age and had made his home in Sumner county for the past few years. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Bobbie Mince; one brother, James I. Leath; and two sisters, Mrs. Dan Norman, and Miss Mary Susan Leath, all of Lafayette. He was an uncle of John W. Leath and Mrs. John Patterson of Pleasant Shade. The remains were brought back to the Dry Fork section for interment in the Billie Cothron cemetery. Funeral services were conducted by the undertaker, Ras Stinson.

Source: Carthage Courier – Carthage, TN – Thursday February 9, 1928 – Page 1

Submitted By: Bill Patterson, email is: BplusM@aol.com

09/17/13

DOZIEE, Flossie Fuqua – (d. 1955)

Mrs. Flossie Fuqua Dozier, aged nearly 48 years, died suddenly at her home in Lafayette about one o’clock Monday afternoon. She suffered a heart attack nearly three months ago and spent some time in the local hospital. She had been apparently doing nicely until a short time before the end came unexpectedly on Monday. Her husband, who is a young Baptist minister and also a merchant at Brattontown, was away from home on business when Mrs. Dozier passed away. She leaves, in addition to her husband, two sons, Otis and Jack T. Dozier, residing in their father’s home; three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Faye Able, who resides with her soldier husband stationed at present in Alaska; Mrs. Della Mae Jenkins, of Lafayette; and Mrs. Wanda Lee Stinson of Haysville this county; three grandchildren, three brothers, Fred Fuqua, of Detroit; Otto Fuqua, of Indianapolis; and Carney Fuqua, of Tompkinsville, Ky., and one sister, Mrs. Rosa Edens, of Lafayette.

Funeral services were conducted at Brattontown Baptist church at 11 o’clock Wednesday morning by Elders N.C. Fuqua and M.R. Drury, followed with interment in Drury cemetery. The deceased was a good woman and was an excellent member of Brattontown Baptist church. She was a native of Robertson county but had lived most of her life near Lafayette. She was the daughter of the late Rickman and Samantha Reid Fuqua.

Source: Gallatin Examiner, 20 October 1955

Submitted by:  Shelta R. Shrum