LOUISE WYATT COLLECTION
Willie Miles Threatt
May 30, 1903 – May
15, 1973
Dover-Willie Miles Threatt, 69, retired
farmer, died Tuesday in a
Nashville hospital after a sudden illness.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at Milligan Funeral
Home by
the Rev. Morris Lee. Burial will be in
Red Top Cemetery. Mr. Threatt was born
in Stewart Co., May 30, 1903, son of the late Miles and Loula Griffin
Threatt. He was a member of the Big Rock
Baptist
Church. Survivors are four sons, Jimmy
and William, Indian Mound; James, Clarksville; Eldridge Threatt,
Memphis; two
daughters, Mrs. Lorene Shepherd, Dover; Mrs. Margie Williams, Big Rock;
a
sister, Mrs. Georgia Smith, Indian Mound; 10 grandchildren; two great
grandchildren. Nephews will serve as
pallbearers.
(Note: Willie
Miles Threatt was a grandson of Martha L. Roper and Matthew James
Threatt. He was a great grandson of Rachel
Atkins and
Charles Roper and a 2nd great grandson of Rev. War soldier
Lewis
Atkins and his wife Rebecca.)