Thos. Sumners
is Dead
Another of the
friends of our boyhood has joined the silent majority. Tom Sumners died at
Jackson, Mississippi last Monday (16 Sep
1912) from the effects of malarial fever.
Funeral
services were held at the General Baptist church, of which he was a member,
Thursday morning Rev. Edwards officiating. The remains were interred in the Odd
Fellows cemetery.
Thomas was the
son of the late Joseph Sumners and was born on the farm about a mile south-east
of this place and now occupied by E.D. Emerson, January 1853.
He was married
to Miss Maude Matthews March 23, 1877.
About sixteen
years ago he took up his residence in Evansville and later went to Jackson,
Mississippi to assist his son Welsey, who was in
business there and who is now quite ill with malarial fever.
He is survived
by the wife, four sons, and two daughters, all of whom are grown and one
brother, Oscar of this place. Thus, “one by one we will cross the river”.
Courtesy of Jerry Sumners