Genealogy and History
Personal : Dr. J. J. Ross has returned to the city. Mr. Mack, of St. Louis, left the city yesterday for Helena and points south. We find this item of news in the St. Louis Republican: “Governor Augustus Hill Garland, of Arkansas, is a native of Tipton county, Tennessee. His mother removed to Arkansas when…
Services for Dura Hensley Glass of Covington will be on Thursday at 10 a.m. in the chapel of Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home Inc. with Dr. Mickey Carpenter officiating. Burial will be in R. H. Munford Cemetery in Covington. Mrs. Glass, the widow of Floyd R. Glass, died in Covington Care Center of heart failure. A native…
Mr. James Glass a venerable citizen of the Garland community, died at the home of his son, Mr. David Glass, Monday morning, following a lingering illness. He was a lifelong member of the Methodist church, an active layman and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. At the time of his death he was…
John Henry Glass: Died at his home in Garland at 1:10 Sunday morning following a three-day illness. He was 78 years old. Mr. Glass spent all of his life at Garland and was a farmer until he retired. A member of the Garland Methodist Church he had served as trustee and a steward in the…
Mrs. Mollie Glass, 80, died at her home at Garland Wednesday morning at 12:18 a.m. after an illness of 10 days. The funeral was held at the Garland Methodist church the same afternoon at 4 o’clock, the services being conducted by Rev. W. I. Drake, pastor of the Covington (Methodist) circuit, assisted by Rev. S.B….
Mrs. Bessie A. Garland died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton in Covington after a long illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Canaan MB Church, where she was a member, with burial in Townsend Cemetery. Barlow Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Garland, the widow of William Garland, leaves two daughters, Mrs. Reaver Barlow…
Evelyn Claire Garland, 39, of Knoxville, formerly of Covington, attorney for the general counsel of the Tennessee Valley Authority, died Thursday near here. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church with burial in Henderson (Tenn.) City Cemetery. Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home has charge. A graduate of Lambuth College in Jackson she…
Mr. Albert Glass, a well known citizen of Garland, died last Friday after several months of ill health. He suffered mostly from a tumor in the head and underwent an unsuccessful operation for its removal. Mr. Glass was 32 years of age and a prosperous young farmer with many friends who esteemed him highly. His…
Lifelong Citizen Answers Call – Died October 30,1921 David Lauderdale Glass 86 years of age died at 5 o’clock Sunday morning at his home in Garland, following an illness of only a few days, resulting from a stroke of paralysis. He had been in feeble health for several months, but was very active and alert…
Mrs. Hattie Hopkins, of the Garland community, died Friday of tuberculosis. Her remains were interred in the Walton graveyard Saturday, Rev. T. Riley Davis conducting the service at the grave. Mrs. Hopkins leaves a husband to mourn her death. [The Covington Leader, Covington, Tenn., Thursday, August 16, 1917]