Oscar TAYLOR
Posted by Norma Dunten <jfdunten@wt.net> on Thu, 18 May 2000
Surname: TAYLOR, CROSSLIN
DAILY NEW JOURNAL - MURPHEESBORO RUTHERFORD TN APR 24,1934
Oscar TAYLOR, 74, IS DEATH VICTIM. EAGLEVILLE NATIVE DIES IN HOSPITAL;
EXTENSIVE TRAVELER
Funeral services were held Sunday for Oscar TAYLOR, 74, who died at
the Rutherford hospital Saturday afternoon at four o'clock following an
illness of several weeks.
The son of the late Ben and Minerva Elam TAYLOR, Mr. Taylor was a native
of this county, born and reared near Eagleville. During his life he had
traveled extensively over the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. He is survived
by a son and daugther, who live in Texas and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral was preached by the Rev. R.C. CROSSLIN. Burial was in the
Taylor cemetery under the direction of Woodfin-Moore.
Great-nephews of the deceased served as pallbearers.
Charles Ready
Posted by Margaret J. Johnson <johnson.mjordan@att.net> on Fri, 21
Apr 2000
Surname: Ready
Obituary taken from the Murfreesboro News, dated August 1, 1859
Died at his residence in Rutherford County, 3rd Inst., Charles Ready,
Sr. Esq. The deceased was born in Salsbury, in the State of Maryland, on
the 1st of April, 1770, and was in the 90th year of his age, when he died.
His father having died at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, his
widowed mother removed with him and an older brother to North Carolina
where with limited means she raised her two sons to manhood. Shortly after
the subject of this notice attained his majority,he married and settled
in Edgefield District, SC. From there he removed in 1797 to Sumner County,
Tennessee and in 1802 he removed to his late residence in Rutherford County.
At the establishment of Rutherford County in 1803, he was appointed one
of the Justices of the Peace, and presided at the first County Court held
in Rutherford County. He was one of the Commissioners who located the town
of Murfreesboro in 1812.
In his early life he became a member of the Presbyterian Church and
continued his membership till his death. For many years he acted as an
elder in the Church and when death came he was "ready to be offered up."
He was energetic and industrious and even in his old age. He was kind
to his family and neighbors. Frank in his associations with his fellows,
prudent in the discharge of every obligation whatever, that rested upon
him, and strictly honest with himself as well as with others. Proof of
his punctuality and honesty is found in the fact no man eever brought a
suit against him in any court whatever. His friends and acquaintances esteemed
him highly in life. They will not forget him now that he is dead.
He leaves a numerous progeny who are scattered over the Southern and
Western States. They will lament his departure but they will cherish his
memory with pride and pleasure.
Sarah H. Wendel Obituary
Posted by Margaret Nolan Nichol <MNNichol@aol.com> on Wed, 15 Mar
2000
Surname: Wendel
Obituary Of Sarah H. Wendel
In the death of Mrs. Sarah H. Wendel, which took place at the residence
of her husband, Mr. David Wendel, on Friday, the 17th, inst., the society
of Murfreesboro has lost one of its brightest ornaments. This amiable lady
lived for a little more than twenty one years in the midst of us, and during
this time, it may be said, the poor had not a better friend, or piety and
virtue a more exemplary patron. Her whole life was one continued exercise
of charity. She lived to do good--her greatest happiness was to assuage
the grief, and minister to the enjoyment of others--she was one of the
least selfish, and one of the gentlest and mildest of human beings, yet
when principle was concerned, she was capable of the exercise of highest
firmness. Naturally of ardent and strong feelings she brought them under
subjection to her sound understanding, and the mild spirit of that religion
which she professed and adored by a life of active benevolence. In her
family, in the church, in the house of the poor and afflicted, and in the
social circle, she was equally an example, and, in all, conspicuous for
the sweetness of her temper, her conscientiousness, sympathy, kindness,
zeal and piety. Although she loved the society of friends, her chief delight
seemed to be in the houses of morning where her benevolent heart, and charitable
hand always diffused the balm of consolation. Truly she was a burning and
shining light . Long will her loss be felt by the poor and the sick, the
mourner and the afflicted. She is gone to her reward. She died before she
was old, being only a few months over fifty years of age, but not until
she was mature in her virtue and usefulness. Death had no terrors for her--she
met it not only with composure and resignation, but with triumph and rejoicing.
“See,” she exclaimed to her weeping friends, “what religion can do in a
dying hour. Often have I prayed for a death-bed like his, but never had
I a hope that I should enjoy such prospects of heaven.” Not one doubt or
one murmur excaped her lips during her painfull illness, not a cloud cast
for a single moment any gloom over her mind. While she was alive to the
interest of her family, she manifest great fortitude. She had laid up her
treasure in heaven and there her heart was, “Tomorrow,” said she, the day
before her last, “I shall be singing the “song of Immanuel.”
Submitted by: Margaret Nolen Nichol
(The clipping of this obituary is from my files. Sarah Hale Neilson
Wendel died in 1839 making the clipping 160 years old.)
Emma C. Wendel
Posted by Margaret Nolan Nichol <MNNichol@aol.com> on Wed, 15 Mar
2000
Surname: Wendel, James
In Memoriam
Mrs. Emma C. Wendel was born in Brunswick county, Va., March 4, 1833
and died in Murfreesboro, Tenn., July 7th, 1880.
Her father, Allen James, removed from Virginia to Tennessee and settled
near Murfreesboro, when she was but a child. In the year 1851 under the
ministry of Rev. Thomas W. Randall she was soundly converted and joined
the Methodist Episcopal Church South and continued a faithful member of
that communion until death. She was married to Dr. Robert S. Wendel at
Murfreesboro, Nov. 3, 1852, with whom she lived in great happiness for
more than thirty-three years. Ten of her twelve children are living, and
today call her “blessed.” For the last twenty years she was a great sufferer,
but in all her afflictions she ever found the grace of the blessed Saviour
sufficient. She was made a perfect Christian through suffering.
Her personal presence was dignified and refined; her intellect strong,
penetrating and well balanced. She possessed a well stored mind; practical
views of life; a loving and true heart.
Her religious life was marked by a definite conversion, the witness
of the Holy Spirit to her pardon; positive views of religion and Christian
living. A clear, spiritual insight, with a correvt apprehension of scripture,
was a leading characteristic of her highly cultivated mind. She possessed
the beautiful habit of talking to her husband, children and friends of
spiritual things. In the home she sought to model aright the characteristic
of her household.
Mrs. Wendel read the best authors, but the Bible was her daily companion
and when she was no longer able to read that blessed book, her children,
with loving hearts, read it to her. While she admired the writings of Paul,
and dwelt wih the sweetest emotions on the gospel of Jesus, the Psalms
were her delight. The day before her death at her request one of her daughter’s
read to her the 27th and 42nd Psalms, and the 22nd chapter of Revelations.
The afternoon of her last day on earth she frequently quoted the soul stirring
words of Paul to Timothy, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished
my course; I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness.” She had often prayed not to die in the absence
of any of her children, and when the final hour came God in mercy permitted
her husband, children and several friends to be present and witness her
triumphant departure from earth to heaven. She was perfectly rational to
the last moment and talked to within a few minutes of her death.
Rev. Dr. Barbee who for four years was her pastor says, “I would ask
nothing better for her daughters than that the mantle of their mother might
fall upon them. A purer Christian or more perfect lady I have never seen
and never expect to see. I never left her presence but with a sense of
moral elevation and refinement from the interview.”
Her funeral service was conducted by her Pastor, assisted by the Pastor
of the Presbyterian Church, in the presence of a large congregation of
friends and acquaintance who deeply sympathize with Dr. Wendel and his
children in their great bereavement. a noble Christian women, faithful
wife, loving mother, kind neighbor and true friend has gone to her reward.
James A. Orman
Submitted by Margaret Nolen Nichol from a newspaper clipping in her
files.
Janie Ewing Wendel
Posted by Margaret Nolan Nichol <MNNichol@aol.com> on Wed, 15 Mar
2000
Surname: Wendel
In Memoriam
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Born October 12th, 1870, Died September 18th, 1882
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Died in this city, at 8 o’clock in the evening of Monday, September
18th, Janie Ewing Wendel, the only child of Dr. James E. Wendel, in the
13th year of her life. On the afternoon of the 19th, inst., the funeral
services, conducted by Rev. J. S. Arbuthnot were held in the Presbyterian
Church, after which the body was interred beside her mother’s grave in
Evergreen Cemetery. Thus has passed from earth a bright, sweet spirit which
had found a treasured place in many hearts, and which had drawn about it
the tenderest interest and affection of the community.
Janie was a remarkable child. Finely and delicately constituted, her
hold upon life seemed uncertain from the day of her birth, but carefully
tended and nurtured she outlived the dangers incident to earliest childhood,
and grew in strength and attractiveness until unwelcome death, like an
untimely frost, nipped the bud, which in it yet unfolded, perfectness gave
promises of a beautiful womanhood. Though physically frail she had unusual
mental endowments. She had a singular penetration of thought and a power
of reflection beyond her years, and she frequently evinced a rare intuition
which surprised older minds. To the characteristics of a thoroughly sympathetic
nature were added an innocent independence and a charming naiveté
and gravity of manner which never failed to captivate. She regarded the
great world around her as a friendly world, and she had the happy faculty
of making friends of all she met by a sweet insistency and an ingenious
directness of approach. A free-hearted child, entering gleefully into the
sports of childhood, she nevertheless took an almost womanly interest in
children. She was at home to every circle, whether with her playmates or
with older people, and by young and old alike little Janie will be sadly
missed.
Around this young life, fresh and free buoyant and blithesome as it
was, the shadows of misfortune and sorrow strangely played. When Janie
was but an infant, her mother died. In this distressful hour loving hearts
and willing hands were ready to receive and care for the motherless babe.
But in a few short years three of the good and devoted women who in turn
took charge of the child, were stricken down by death. Through these sad
vicissitudes, the father tenderly watched and cherished the little girl,
who loved so well to nestle upon his bosom and who every day grew to be
more and more a part of his life, the joy of the present and the hope of
the future. That joy is now but an undying memory; that hope is but a dream
of the past. Perhaps it is better that she has gone from a rude and changeful
world. It is comforting to know that she has a brighter and happier existence,
but the consolations of religion, precious and priceless as they may be,
cannot remove the sense of a deep-rooted sorrow, nor take from the mind
the burden of an infinite and unutterable regret.
It were needless to say that one who has so often ministered to others
in times of trouble, one who has so often been a stay and helper in hours
of suffering and distress, has now in his day of bereavement the heartfelt
condolence of the community. It were needless to say that this sympathy
is no less profound, if, out of regard for the sacredness of grief which
often checks the utterance, it remain upon many lips unspoken. B.
Submitted by Margaret Nolen Nichol from newspaper clippings in her files.
(Janie Ewing Wendel was the only child of Dr. James Edwy and Jane Ewing
Wendel.)
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David Wendel Obituary
Posted by Margaret Nolan Nichol <MNNichol@aol.com> on Wed, 15 Mar
2000
Surname: Wendel
David Wendel, Obituary
Departed this life at his residence in Murfreesboro on the 8th of the
inst., Mr. David Wendel.
Mr. Wendel was a native of Virginia, but was brought by his mother when
very young to this State, where he was educated, partly, by the late Mr.
Samuel P. Black, the
able and excellent teacher of many of our most useful and distinguished
citizens. He became a merchant from choice, and pursued the business with
reasonable success, but as he devoted his means liberally for the comfort
and education of his children, he died possessed of only moderate wealth.
Mr. Wendel’s health had been declining for a length of time, owing to
which he had been in a great degree lost to society for more than two years.
Soon after the death of Mrs. Wendel, in the summer of ‘38, he felt it to
be his duty in consequence of his increasing infirmities to resign the
office of Post Master which he had long held, and with it he ceased to
take any interest in his business, leading since that time a life of perfect
retirement. His family,
before this period, had remarked that he occasionally articulated his
words with difficulty, as he had not the entire control of his tongue,
and this grew suddenly much worse at the time of his domestic affliction.
It was now evident that he was laboring under a partial palsy,
affecting the tongue and beginning to extend to other parts of the
body. The energies of his mind, for which he had been distinguished among
all his acquaintances, failed with his physical power; and he lived for
many months a melancholy wreck of what he once was. This change in his
character so noted for its decision and fortitude and firmness, was not
more sad than it was surprising to those who knew the strength of his judgment
and the apparent
vigor of his constitution. His system had begun to feel the encroachments
of an invidious disease--his habits had been entirely domestic--he had
sought and had enjoyed no social
pleasures beyond his own family circle, and when death came the desolation
of his dearest hopes in that was a shock to which his brain, already beginning
to give way, was not equal.
The gloom spread over his mind by his bereavement grew deeper with time;
instead of passing away as his friends flattered themselves it would do;
the palsy of his faculties extended and became confirmed, and he expired,
at the time mentioned, almost without a struggle, in the
56th year of his life.
For twenty years Mr. Wendle's office brought him into contact with the
people of Rutherford County, and we doubt whether a man ever surrendered
a trust retaining more universally the confidence and respect of those
who knew him. The fact that he retained the office for so many years, under
a succession of administrations, to some of which he was warmly and openly
opposed, and notwithstanding applications were more than once made for
the place by others on the ground of his hostility, is the best proof of
the fidelity with which he discharged his duties.
In business he was a model of industry, method, neatness and punctuality;
he was of sound, highly cultivated judgment, and his honesty was above
all suspicion. Of manners singularly dignified, he yet had an air of reserve,
almost of sterness which repelled strangers at first, and which prevented
him in the discharge of duty, public and private. He was strictly conscientious,
and was satisfied with the respect which this (?) society, without asking
to
form intimate friendship. He indulged freely with great satisfaction
in rational conversation with cultured men.
He had accumulated an elegant library, and his leisure hours, surrounded
by his family were passed amount his books. Perhaps, in fact, his devotion
to leisure and study are excessive--his mind knew no relaxation in his
waking hours--and his endeavors from the earliest possible
period, and unremittingly, to inspire his children, with his own great
love of books. He had the highest sense of anyone, that the writer of this
notice has known, of the value of time.
He was not satisfied to throw away a moment of it, or to see it wasted
by others, and in his desire to devote it all to the most useful purpose,
he did not allow enough exercise. To his, mainly, may be attributed the
disease which, at an age comparatively early, has wasted one of
the most robust of constitutions, and deprived society of an active
member, and his family of it’s head and stay. With such a taste for reading
it has been mentioned, formed a striking feature of his character, it is
hardly necessary to say that he became a man of varied, accurate, and extensive
knowledge.
Mr. Wendel was a man of rigid morality and uprightness. There is not
a man in the community who has taken more pain, and made greater sacrifices
to suppress ever species of gambling; nor has there lived a man in the
community from whose presence vice has shrunk back more abashed.
Mr. Wendel was a man of intelligent, living piety. His mind was well
imbued with the knowledge of God and of Christianity. Few Christians are
in the habit of reading the Bible with he attention, and care, and frequency
that characterized his perusal of that inspired volume. It is true that
he did not make an open profession of religion, and form a church connexion,
till after the death of his truly pious companion. The spring following
the death,
he was admitted to membership in the Presbyterian church in this place.
But for many years he was a careful reader of the Scriptures, and a regular
attendant on the public means of grace; and his mind had been deeply, and
sometime comfortably, exercised on the subject of religion.
Submitted by: Margaret Nolen Nichol
(This clipping showed it’s age of 159 years, and the remainder of the
Obituary is illegible. David Wendel
died in October, 1840.)
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Mary Lou Clark McGee
Posted by Marsha Banasiewicz <bwhiz@mindspring.com> on Fri, 18 Feb
2000
Surname: Smotherman, McGee, Clark, Lokey, Smith, Williams, Simpson
Because this is a recent obituary and many of the people may still be
living, the survivor information is omitted.
Peoria Journal Star, Peoria, Illinois
June 16, 1994, Page C8
CANTON -- Mary Lou Clark McGee, 71, of 129 S. First Ave., died at 7:15
p.m. Tuesday, June 14, 1994 at Sunset Manor in Canton.
Born April 26, 1923, in Rutherford County, Tenn., to Lawrence and Annie
Smutherman Lokey, she married Leonard Clark in Rutherford County, Tenn.
He preceded her in death. She married Lawrence McGee in Canton. He preceeded
her in death. She was also preceded in death by one brother and one sister.
Surviving are three sons: Private; two daughters: Private; 13 grandchildren;
seven great-grandchildren; four brothers, Private and two sisters, Private.
She was a member of Barfield Baptist Church in Murfreesboro.
Services will be at Cedar Grove United Methodist Church in rural Murfreesboro,
where visitation will be two hours before services. Burial will be in Whitworth
Cemetery in rural Murfreesboro. Oaks-Hines Funeral Home, Canton is in charge
of the arrangements.
James Ellis Isom
Posted by Kay Cahill <kcahill@mcn.net> on Thu, 13 Jan 2000
Surname: Isom, Eady, Earls, Eudailley, Roark
I found this obituary in some old papers of my grandmother's. I don't
see a connection but thought someone might be interested in it.
"College Grove, Tenn
ISOM--Monday afternoond, Nov. 13, 1961 at his home in the Flat Creek
community, James Ellis Isom, age 60. Survived by wife, mrs. Geneva Eady
Isom; three daughters, Mrs Owen (Lorraine) Parks, Cookeville; Mrs. William
(Carol) Eudailey, Oakland, Calif; Mrs. Ronald (Elaine) Roark, Nashville;
one son, James harvey Isom, College Grove; four sisters, Mrs. J.P. White,
columbia, Mrs. J.P. Dill, Murfreesboro, Mrs. Esker Wray, Nashville, Mrs.
Albert Sandford, College Grove; three brothers, G.C. Isom, Eagleville,
R.D. Isom, Chicago, Bill Isom, Eagleville; two grandchildren, Teresa and
Douglas Parks, Cookeville. Remains at the Lawrence Funeral Home, Chapel
Hill, but will be conveyed to the residence at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Funeral
services will be conducted at the Riggs Crossroads Church of Christ Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock by Ernest Stewart. The following will please serve
as pallbearers: Active: Horace and Marvin White, Elvis Rushing, Herman,
Howard and Billy Gene Isom, Donald Sanford and Bill Redmond. Honorary:
Roy Cooper, Charlie Mefford, Wiley White, Carl Graham, Brownie Manier,
Turley Graham, Sam Lee, Andy Vaughn, Leon Reed, Talmadge Chrisman, Odie
Harris, Dave
Campbell, Glenn Arnold, Dee Johns, Horace Johns, Charlie Tomlin, Dr.
E.L. Williams, Robert Sanford, E.R. Roark, Claude Shelton, Robert Cook,
W.T. Lowe. Interment Eady Cemetery at Holtland. Lawrence Funeral Home,
Chapel Hill in charge of arrangements"
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WILLIAM ANDREW WHITE
Posted by Julia White <Jcorktop1@aol.com> on Sat, 23 Oct 1999
Surname:
William Andrew White- born Oct 23-1961- Pensacola, FL died July 3rd-
1999 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, TN. William was preceeded in death
by his Great Grandparents- John Vallie White and Elizabeth Jarrett White
of Murfreesboro, TN- Burton R. Harper and Mattie Womack Harper of Deveraux,
Hancock County, GA.
Although William and his ancestors had no connection to Maury County,
TN- William was buried July 5-1999 in Culleoka at Friendship Baptist Cemetery.
William's obituary notice appeared in the local Maury County, TN newspaper-
however his parents, sisters, brothers, neices and nephews were not mentioned.
August 29-1999- when his parents and siblings learned of his death- William's
obituary notice was placed in the local Rutherford County, Tennessee papers-
reflecting correct family information.
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Location of Wifes Grandfathers burial site
Posted by James Elgan <jelgan@centerville.net> on Thu, 01 Jun 2000,
in response to Rutherford Co. Ancestors, posted by Sys Admin on Wed, 16
Jun 1999
Surname: Sneed
Sneed- Saturday evening, January 19,1918,at 9:30 o'clock,at his home,
No 2018
Fifteenth Avenue, north, Richard Edgar Sneed, in the 58th year of his
age,
Survived by the following children: his sons, Thomas, R.E. and Eugene
Sneed:
Daughters, Mrs.Lige Robertson and Miss Della Sneed. Prayers will be
said at
his residence, as above, tommorrow (Monday) evening, at 7 pm. by Rev.
Ducan,
after which the remains will be forwarded to Cedar Hill, Tenn. Tuesday
morning, at 7:15 am where funeral sevices and interment will take place.
The following gentlemen will serve as pallbearers: Jesse Helton, John
Garrett, Jesse Statton, Manlove Carney, T. Boyd and R.L. Jones.
Combs & Charlton, directors
