MCCOY, LYDIA – (no dates given)

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. LYDIA MCCOY WERE HELD FRIDAY  AFTERNOON AT 3 O’CLOCK FROM THE HOME IN BELCROSS. REV. JOHN LINK OFFICIATED.  ”SOME TIME WE’LL UNDERSTAND,” ASLEEP IN JESUS,” AND ”ABIDEWITH ME.” WERE SUNG BY MRS.T. S. ROBINSON, MRS. RUTH BROWN.MRS.GEORGE UPTON, MRS.R. L. BRAY, MISS SARAH TARKINGTON, AND MRS.FRANK SAWYER. THEY ALSO SANG ;;SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER;”. AT THE GRAVE. FLOWERS GIRLS WERE;MESDAMES TOM GREGORY,WINFRED CREEKMORE, PERCY SANDERLIN,HOWARD BERRY, EARL BARTLETT,MARION WATKINS,TOM WILLIAMS AND F. LAMB. PALLBEARERS WERE ; NELSON WILLIAMS , JOE PERKINS,HENRY BROWN, RAY JACOBS, JOE WILLIAMS, CLYDE MOORE AND BEN MCCOY.  BURIAL WAS MADE IN  THE FAMILY BURYING GROUND.


Contributed by: Linda Mansfield


 

HENRY TARKINGTON CEMETERY

West side of Lamb’s Road, Camden County, .10 mile south of Trafton Road on a hill in the field near woods.

H. A. Tarkington (Henry Alexander Tarkington)
Oct. 30, 1934
June 28, 1918
Kind father of love thou art gone to thy rest

Rebecca Tarkington (daughter of Jerry and Liza Sawyer)
May 5, 1840
Jan. 27, 1918
Having served her generation,
By the will of God she fell asleep.

Wm. H. Tarkington (son of Henry & Rebecca, second son named William Henry)
Born July 6, 1866
Died May 22, 1894

Infant Daughter of (Elsie Dean, daughter of Samuel and Nora Perline Tarkington S. W. & Nora T. McPherson)
McPherson
Oct. 11, 1932
“Suffer little children to come unto me.”

Mary E. Ferebee (daughter of Henry & Rebecca, wife of Greenville Ferebee)
Born May 19, 1863
Died Oct. 30, 1899


Contributed by Christine Ambrose