Irving Ashford’s Rites Set Today<\/b><\/p>\n
Funeral services for Irving R. Ashford<\/strong>, retired Mississippi planter and resident of McMinnville for several years, will be conducted this Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the chapel of High Funeral Home. Rev. C.B. Smith<\/strong>, pastor of First Methodist Church, will officiate and burial will be in Riverside cemetery.\u00a0 Mr. Ashford<\/strong>, 75, died unexpectedly at Medical Clinic Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, after suffering a stroke at his home on North Spring street a short while earlier.\u00a0 A native of Giles county, Mr. Ashford<\/strong> was born August 7, 1877. He was a son of P.C. Ashford<\/strong> and Lucinda Tinnon Ashford<\/strong> and he was married to Miss Agnes Kelly<\/strong>. She survives. In the early forties Mr. and Mrs. Ashford<\/strong> came to McMinnville to make their home with his sister, Mrs. Lula McGregor<\/strong>, and during World War II he was employed in defense industries at Tullahoma and Oak Ridge. Previous to his residence here, Mr. Ashford<\/strong> had lived at Shaw, Miss., where he operated a large plantation. His wife and sister are the only survivors. High Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.<\/p>\n Irving Ashford’s Rites Set Today Funeral services for Irving R. Ashford, retired Mississippi planter and resident of McMinnville for several years, will be conducted this Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the chapel of High Funeral Home. Rev. C.B. Smith, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[105,107,108,15,106],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-ashford","tag-kelly","tag-mcgregor","tag-smith","tag-tinnon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[Contributor:\u00a0 Maxine Reggio, 2000]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"