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MRS. MARY DIXIE LOCK WEATHERS
Weathers - Mrs. Mary Dixie Weathers, age 79, 5316 5th Ave., S., passed away Wednesday p.m. at the residence. Survived by 3 daughters, Mrs. B. G. Brasher, Mrs. J. B. Yarbrough, Miss Bessie Lock, all of Birmingham; 1 son, W. O. Lock, Fulton, Ky.; 1 sister, Mrs. Rachel Butler, Clanton. Funeral services Friday, 10 a.m., from Brown-Service Chapel, the Rev. P. L. Newton officiating. Interment Elemwood Cemetery.
Active pallbearers, Willard Yarbrough, George Yarbrough, Henry Albert Lock, W. O. Lock, Jr., Gilbert Brasher, Curtis Brasher. Brown-Service directing.
Order of interment is dated December 29, 1949. She was interred on December 30, 1949 at 10 am. Lot 168, Block 1, J. B. Yarbrough Family Plot.
[Transcribed and submitted by Lois Anderson obtained from Elemwood Cemetery - newspaper unknown.]
PAUL L. WILLIAMS
Paul L. Williams, 69, of East Liverpool, Ohio, who died Tuesday, was a native of La Grange, Ga., but had lived in Birmingham most of his life. Mr. Williams was a retired electrician and was a member of Wylam Presbyterian Church with burial in Elmwood. Angwin Mortuary directing. Surviving are two sones, Ronald Williams and Donald Williams, both of Eatonton, Ga.; a step-daughter, Mrs. Wesley Montgomery, East Liverpool, Ohio; a step-son, William Ellis, Lake Worth, Fla. and a brother, Oscar Williams, Birmingham.
[Birmingham (AL) News, November 13, 1970, page 36 - Transcribed by C. Anthony]
RHODA MATILDA WILLIAMS
Mrs. Williams - Funeral services were held today at the Wylam Presbyterian Church for Mrs. Rhoda Matilda Williams, 67, of 3016 Ave. E, Ensley, who died Saturday in a local hospital. Burial was in Elmwood Cemetery, Angwin Mortuarty Center directing. A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Mrs. Williams had lived here 60 years. She was a member of Wylam Presbyterian Church. Surviving are her husband, Paul L. Williams; a daughter, Mrs. Wesley Montgomery, East Liverpool, Ohio; a son, William J. Ellis, Maitland, Fla.; and two sisters, Mrs. Edward Day, Sr., Bessemer, and Mrs. Robert McConnakey, San Jose, Calif.
[Birmingham (AL) News, Monday, April 6, 1964 - Transcribed by C. Anthony]REV. W. L. WILSON
Died Yesterday at Leeds-Funeral Services this Afternoon at Huffman.Rev. W. L. Wilson, a local minister at the Methodist church, living at Leeds, at one time the probate judge of Jefferson, and a very prominent man in the county, died yesterday about noon of pneumonia.
The funeral services will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Oak Grove church at Huffman which is a mile or so beyond East Lake.
Mr. Wilson was a native of South Carolina, but came to this county when quite young, and has lived in different portions of it ever since. From 1860 to 1866 he was probate judge of the county, which office he filled with great credit. Several years ago he owned the Alabama Christian Advocate, the official organ of the Methodist church, and has for many years been one of its local preachers. He was 77 years old at the time of his death.
Mr. Wilson was married three times, his last wife surviving him. He was blessed with eleven children, as follows:
J. E. Wilson, Birmingham; P. D. Wilson, Trussville; T. M. Wilson, Calera; F. S. Wilson, Wylam; J. W. and E. D. Wilson, Maxie, Tex.; W. T. Wilson, Elyton; W. B. Wilson, Lampasis, Tex.; Mrs. M. E. Vann, Woodlawn; Mrs. Minerva Gillespie, Leeds; Mrs. Lida Diamond, Leeds.
Including all of his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, this good man left ninety-three descendants.
[Age-Herald (AL), August 19, 1899 - Transcribed by C. Anthony]
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