Leflore County, MS
Obituaries
W.T. Bean
W. T. Bean, a lawyer of Greenwood, committed suicide in Vicksburg last Tuesday. He was a relative of Judge
Trimbrell. [Brookhaven Ledger, Brookhaven, MS, December 2, 1880 - Submitted
by Debora Reese]
Joe Lang
Services for Joe Lang, 97, of Greenwood, who died of heart failure Saturday, Aug. 19, 2000, at Greenwood Leflore
Hospital, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at East Percy Street Christian Church. Mr. Lang was a member of East Percy Street
Christian Church. He was a retired farmer. He is survived by one son, Joe Lang Jr. of Indianapolis; one daughter,
Lula Mae Daniel of Greenwood;
one brother, R. A. Lang of Chicago, Ill.; 16 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
The Rev. T. P. Rush will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Hemingway Cemetery in Carroll County. Pallbearers
will be Curtis Wiggins, Robert Wiggins, Jeffery Wiggins, Clarence Wiggins, Mellon Daniel and David Wright. Visitation
will be until 6 today at Sanders & Sanders Funeral Home. [The Greenwood
Commonwealth - August 25, 2000- Transcribed by C. Horton]
William C. Marshall
William Clower Marshall, 98, of Greenwood, died of heart failure this morning, Nov. 17, 2000, at Greenwood Leflore
Hospital.
Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Mr. Marshall was a retired carpenter and electrician. He was a native of Carroll County and lived most of his life
in Greenwood.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Addie Mae Marshall. He is survived by two sisters, Alma Ganong of Greenwood
and Helen Pridgen of Oxford. The Rev. Eddie Roberts will officiate at the service. Wilson & Knight Funeral
Home is in charge of the arrangements. [The Greenwood Commonwealth - November
17, 2000 - Transcribed by Candi H.]
Frank Smith Jr.
Services for Frank "Tee" Smith Jr., 84, of Greenwood, who died of heart failure Monday, Sept. 25, 2000,
at Pemberton Manor Nursing Home, will be at noon Thursday at Century Funeral Home.
Mr. Smith, a retired farmer, also had been self-employed in the mowing business and as a cafe owner.
His farm operation ranged from rental of 2.7 acres off River Road Extended in the Buckeye Community, where he lived,
to working with his family on 25 acres leased at Teoc. In 1976 and 1977, Mr. Smith's efforts in the Buckeye produced
Leflore County's first cotton bale, which was hand picked. However, he told the Commonwealth in 1978 that he would
no longer work the land. "With farming," he told the Commonwealth in 1978, "you can get overextended
and then have to stop anyway." He said, "When you sweat for something for a whole year, should should
make more than $150 or $200. "After plowing the cotton myself, chopping and spraying it, I felt I was just
breaking even. When two items, rent and labor, take up half your profits, it is time to quit. I don't think I'll
go back to farming." Mr. Smith grew up on a farm and attended school in Leflore County in the Moore's Lake
area.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Annie B. Smith. Survivors include two sons, Bobby W. Smith and Claude Gaston,
both of Norfolk, Va.; four stepsons, Tommie L. Wright of Greenwood, Morgan Wright and Morris Wright, both of Des
Moines, Iowa,
and Arthur L. McCary of Fort Worth, Texas; four daughters, Bobbie Jean Smith of Park Forest, Ill., Bobbie A. Dubois
of Winston-Salem, N.C., Claudette Gaston of Omaha, Neb., and Christine Wiley of Greenwood. The Rev. Charles Biles
will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Leflore-Carroll-Montgomery Counties Memorial Gardens. [The Greenwood Commonwealth - October 3, 2000- Transcribed by - Candi H.]
Rosie M. Wade
Services for Rosie M. Wade, 62, of Itta Bena, who died of heart failure Monday, July 3, 2000, at Greenwood Leflore
Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Payne Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Wade was a native of Leflore
County. She graduated from Leflore County Training School. She was a private sitter. She was a member of Payne
Chapel M.B. Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Leon Montegery Wade. She is survived by a daughter, Donna Wade of Itta
Bena; a stepson, Curtis Perkins of Itta Bena; nine sisters, Lizzie Day, Bertha Bush, Virginia Edwards, L.E. Williams,
Willie Neil Swinney, Georgia Shipp, Edna Swinney and Lullea Swinney, all of Itta Bena, and Jonnie Beckworth of
Sidon; and three brothers, Henry Lee Williams and Charlie B. Williams, both of Itta Bena and C.H. Williams of Milwaukee.
The Rev. Eddie Hibbler will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Payne Chapel Church Cemetery. Pallbearers
will be George Edward, Roderick Williams, Arthur L. Beckworth and McKinley Beckworth Jr. Visitation will be Saturday
from 1 to 6 p.m. at Great Southern Funeral Home. [The Greenwood Commonwealth
- July 6, 2000 - Transcribed by - Candi H.]
Louie Leland Walker III
Leflore County farmer dies at 58
Leflore County farmer Louie Leland Walker III died of cancer Tuesday, July 18, 2000, at his home on Highlandale
Plantation, Schlater. Services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at Wilson & Knight Funeral Home.
Mr. Walker lived all of his 58 years at Highlandale, which he farmed along with Pleasantview Plantation. Burial
will in Walker Cemetery on Highlandale. His interests also included baseball and hunting, and he was a member of
Knee Deep Hunting Club.
He spent many years coaching Dixie Youth baseball teams at Itta Bena, and he served as president of the Dixie Youth
baseball association. Mr. Walker graduated from Greenwood High School in 1960 and then went to the University of
Mississippi, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. In 1995, he served as king of the Greenwood Junior
Auxiliary Cotton Ball. He was a member of Schlater Baptist Church. The church's pastor, the Rev. Wilbur Webb, will
officiate at the services.
Mr. Walker is survived by his wife, Nancy E. Walker; his daughter, Martha Carol "Button" Walker of Dallas;
his son, Louie Leland Walker IV of Schlater; his father, Louie Leland Walker Jr. of Schlater; and two sisters,
Betty W. Tomlinson of Marietta, Ga., and Martha W. Perry of Brandon.
Visitation will be from 5 until 7 this evening at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Bob Carpenter, Matt Dale,
Johnny Kearney, Fred Sandifer, Frank Stainback, Charles Purifoy, Tommy Garrott, Fisher Southworth, Johnny Clarke,
Jimmy Cole, Bailey McBee and Buddy Young. [The Greenwood Commonwealth - July
19, 2000- Transcribed by Candi H.]
Wharton Whitmore
Wharton Whitmore, a son of S. H. and Mrs. M. E. Whitmore, died at Greenwood
on the 11th and will buried at the Whitmore burying ground near Brookhaven today. [Brookhaven
Ledger, Brookhaven, MS, Published January 13, 1881 - Submitted by Debora Reese]
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