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TWO JOHNSEY OBITUARIES

Submitted by Valeta Marcom

Presented below are obituaries for Mrs. A. L. Johnsey and Autie Lee Johnsey. Both are buried in Lot A-5, Johnsey-Perry, in Riverside Cemetery, Madison County, Tennessee.

JACKSON SUN, September 15, 1943

Mrs. A. L. Johnsey

        Mrs. A. L. Johnsey, 46, died last night at 10:45 o'clock, at the Webb-Williamson hospital where she had been ill for the past two weeks. She was born in Bath Springs, Tenn., but had been a resident of Jackson for the past twenty-four years.
        Mrs. Johnsey was a member of the WBA No. 13, and was affiliated with the Nazarenne church.
        Survivors are her husband, A. L. Johnsey, city, one son, Carl Lee Johnsey, Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga., three daughters, Mrs. Lamar Davis, Miss Pearl Celesse Johnsey and Miss Virginia Ruth Johnsey, all of Jackson; two brothers, Harry Cude, Memphis, Carrol Cude, Jackson; three sisters, Mrs. Lillian Davis, Montezuma, Mrs. Russell Barnes, Jackson, Mrs. Otey Rhodes, Carlyle.
        Remains will be at the family residence until funeral services Thursday afternoon at the Griffin Funeral Chapel, 4 o'clock. The following Ministers will officiate: Rev. W. H. McPherson, Rev. R. C. Goldsmith, and Rev. W. B. Potts. Interment will follow in the Riverside cemetery.
        The following pallbearers are requested to meet at Griffin Funeral Chapel, 3:45 Thursday afternoon: G. T. Smith, J. M. Greathouse, Will Robbins, Pat Foster, W. P. Jones, and N. C. Stewart.

She was named Ruth per her tombstone in Riverside Cemetery. "Nazarene" spelled the way it was in the obituary.

 

JACKSON SUN, Wednesday June 29, 1949

Autie Lee Johnsey

        Funeral services for Autie Lee Johnsey, 79, who died this morning at Fitts-White Clinic after a ten-day illness, will be held Thursday morning at 10:30 at the Griffin Funeral Home with the Rev. V. H. Burnett officiating. Burial will follow at Riverside cemetery.
        Born in Rienzi, Miss. in October, 1873, Mr. Johnsey came to Jackson in 1896. He was an engineer for the old Mobile & Ohio Railroad, retiring in 1941. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trinity Methodist Church.
        He leaves four sons, Autie Lee Johnsey, Jr. and Carl Lee Johnsey, both of Jackson; Raymond Johnsey, Artesia, Miss., and Murlin Johnsey, Ripley; three daughters, Mrs. Lamar Davis, Miss Pearl Johnsey and Miss Virginia Ruth Johnsey, all of Jackson; and one brother, Bert Johnsey, Rienzi, Miss.
        The body will be at Griffin Funeral Home until the hour for services. The following pallbearers are requested to meet there at 10:15 o'clock: Will Robbins, L. E. Foster, Pat Foster, Emmett Manley, P. H. Hubbell and L. A. Moore.


Autie Lee Johnsey's first wife was Etheldred Massy "Ethel May" Perry, born April 22, 1878 in Rienzi, Mississippi to parents Ezekial Massey Perry & Mattie Blackwell Ellis Perry. She married Autie Lee Johnsey on August 1, 1896 in Alcorn County, Mississippi; they divorced in October 1917. Ethel died August 5, 1962 in Jackson, Tennessee at age 84 and was buried in Highland Park Memorial Gardens in Jackson, Tennessee. Ethel and Autie had six children, five boys and one girl.

 

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