COUNTY TENNESSEE
Bobby Glenn Rich was b 6-23-1940 off the Browning Highway near Huntingdon, son of Willie Leroy 'Bill' and Mary Allie Wilkes Rich.
Bill was a sawyer and partner in the RBR Saw Mill on Highway 70 east of Huntingdon with Ray and Raymond Rich. His father, John Robert 'Pete' Rich came to Carroll County with his mother, Martha Jane, from Middle TN when Pete was a small boy. Pete worked in saw mills, firing the boiler, for George Woods, Will Hurtle, and at B. C. Kilgore in Paris. Pete's sons, Leslie, Tom, and Bill worked with him. Tom was killed in an explosion at the mill in 1933. He is buried in Liberty All Cemetery. Leslie lived in Paris until his death in 1976. A daughter, Eddie Priest (d 1966) wife of John Clyde Byars lived in Huntingdon and is buried in Long Rock Cemetery off Browning Highway. Pete m Harriett Newman. She is buried in a family graveyard on Jackson Highway on the farm Pete owned. She d when Bill was eight.
Bill and Allie m 9-2-1933. Their children: Willie Sue Barker lives in Memphis and has four children; Steve, Denise, Jeff, and Lori. Doris Jean Collins lives in Barren Springs Community and has two children: Renee'
Allen and Daphne Hicks. Harold Landis lives in Ft. Waldon Beach, FL and has two children: Craig and Brian of Savannah. Bobby lived in Huntingdon.
Bill was b 10-31-1909 and d 3-10-1975. He is buried in Liberty All Methodist Church Cemetery on Old Stage Road.
Allie's parents were Franklin and Mary Jane Barrett Wilkes. They were farmers. Allie has two sisters and three brothers who live in Huntingdon.
Bobby joined the Army in 1957 serving in Germany and in France with temporary duty in Laos. He received his discharge on November 4, 1963 and returned to Huntingdon, joining the Huntingdon Unit of TN National Guard. He m the former Doris Ann Horn of Concord Community on July 13, 1963. Their children are Timothy Demetrius and Dedra Ann. He was a truck driver for Moore-Handley, worked at Martin Marietta, and in 1967, bought his own truck and ran coast-to-coast until he was stricken with kidney disease in 1970. He received a kidney transplant in 1971 at the Veterans Hospital in Nashville. He attended Newbern Area Vocational School in 1972. He was a member of the American Legion and a life member of the Disabled American Veterans Posts in Huntingdon. He served as the Exalted Ruler of the BPOE Lodge 2152 in 1976. Bobby died on 2-08-1982 in Nashville and is buried in the Jamison Cemetery on Westport Road. He was a member of the Huntingdon Church of Christ, joining when he was a teenage boy. Submitted by Doris Rich
Contributed by Doris Rich
History of Carroll County
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