Tennessee, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909
JIMMY E. KEY, 59, of Memphis, carpenter, died of cancer Tuesday at Sycamore View Nursing Home. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Big Creek cemetery. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel has charge. Mr. Key, the husband of Kay Rider Key, also leaves two sons, Phillip Rainer Key of Wynne, Ark., and Jimmy E. Key Jr. of Jensen Beach, Fla.; his mother, Bertha O. Key of Memphis; two sisters, Peggy Burch of Memphis and Claudia Chumley of Hugo, Okla.; three brothers, Russell Key of Hugo, James Key of Cincinnati and Lonnie Key of St. Louis, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
ANNIE MARTIN, 67, of Memphis, died of cancer Tuesday at her home. Services will be at noon Saturday at New Stinson Community Church in Rossville, Tenn., with burial in Charity Gardens cemetery. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She leaves a daughter, Gloria Key, and her mother, Kattie Taylor, both of Memphis; a brother, Eddie Shields of Selmer, Tenn., a grandchild and two great-grandchildren.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
CALVIN MOORE JR., 29, of Memphis, welder for Luellen Manufacturing Co., died Tuesday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis of stab wounds. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Moore, the husband of Charlotte J. Moore, also leaves two daughters, Amber Farrow and Aryel S. Moore; a son, Aaron Farrow; his mother, Lavon Zella Moore, and his father and stepmother, Calvin Moore and Jean M. Moore, all of Memphis; 10 sisters, Lavon Zella Moore, Gwendolyn R. Moore, Cantrece Y. Dogan, Shundolyn D. Moore, Lakeyia Moore, Vanity Moore, April Moore and Jean Moore, all of Memphis, and Brandi T. Gonzalez and Tavaria Moore, both of St. Louis, and a grandmother, Lillie B. Moore of Memphis.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
CAROLYN JAMES QUEKEMEYER, 90, of Wesley Highland Manor, died there Tuesday of cancer. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Memphis Memory Gardens. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel has charge. Mrs. Quekemeyer, the widow of Frederick H. Quekemeyer, leaves a stepdaughter, Pauline Quekemeyer Short of Memphis; a sister, June Haire of Longwood, Fla., three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
A. Q. ROBERTS, 85, of Covington, Tenn., retired truck driver for Wooten Transports, died of heart failure Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton in Covington. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home in Covington with burial in Covington Memorial Gardens. He was a member of First Assembly of God and Senior Citizens Club. Mr. Roberts, the widower of Irene Roberts, leaves a daughter, Virginia Ruth Leitschuh of Union City, Tenn.; two sons, Quincy Roberts of Covington and Dr. Donald Roberts of Berryville, Ark.; a sister, Doris Foster of Gary, Ind., four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
JEFFERY LYNN SCOTT, 35, of Memphis, died of heart failure Sunday in Memphis. Graveside services were Wednesday at Memphis Memory Gardens. Family Funeral Care had charge. Mr. Scott, the husband of Cynthia Scott of Chattanooga, also leaves a daughter, Sherell Scott, and two sons, Chris Scott and Tracy Scott, all of Chattanooga; his mother and stepfather, Judy and Herb Taylor, and his father, Jackie R. Scott, all of Memphis; a brother, Greg Scott of Cordova, and a grandmother, Mable Scott of Memphis.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
ARGUSTIA SIMS, 76, of Memphis, housekeeper and domestic worker, died of heart failure Friday at St. Joseph Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Promiseland Missionary Baptist Church in Millington, where she was a member, with burial in St. Mark cemetery in Wilkinsville, Tenn. Jefferson Mortuary in Millington has charge. Mrs. Sims, the widow of J. C. Sims, leaves two daughters, Martha Thompson and Barbara Adams, both of Memphis; three sons, Williams Sims and Calvin Sims, both of Flint, Mich., and James Guyton of Millington; a sister, Martha Ewell, and a brother, O. D. Clay, both of Benton Harbor, Mich., 26 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
REV. JAMES HUBBARD STOKES, 77, of Seymour, Tenn., formerly of Memphis, retired minister and teacher, died of cancer Wednesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Knoxville. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church of Knoxville, where he was a Sunday School teacher, with burial in Shiloh cemetery in Sevierville, Tenn. Berry Funeral Home in Knoxville has charge. He was a graduate of Union University in Jackson, Tenn., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was a retired teacher at Harrison Chilhowee Baptist Academy, a member and past president of Sevier County Retired Teachers Association and Sevier County AARP. He was former pastor at East Park Baptist Church and Winchester Baptist Church, both in Memphis. Rev. Stokes, the husband of Annie Kate Stokes for 51 years, also leaves two sons, James David Stokes of Sevierville and Dwight Edwin Stokes of Kodak, Tenn.; a brother, Carleton Frazier Stokes of Memphis, four grandsons and a great-grandson. The family requests that any memorials be sent to First Baptist Church of Knoxville Memorial Fund.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
REBECCA JANE SERATT WATSON, 62, of Covington, Tenn., homemaker, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton in Covington. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Dyersburg (Tenn.) Funeral Home with burial in Sorrell's Chapel cemetery. She was a Baptist. Mrs. Watson, the wife of Buster Watson, also leaves a daughter, Mindy Cromwell, and two sons, Martin Lewis Watson and John David Watson, all of Covington; her mother, Estelle Seratt of Dyersburg; a brother, Jerry L. Seratt of Newbern, Tenn., and three grandchildren.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
ROBERT L. WELLS, 71, of 3307 Alta, retired from the Postal Service, died of heart failure Tuesday at Methodist Hospital South. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. He was a member of St. Andrew AME Church and an Army veteran. Mr. Wells, the husband of Lillie Wells, also leaves four daughters, Mary L. Muse, Audra Amis, Brenda Miller and Bobby Anderson, and two sons, Joe Nelson and Robert Wells III, all of Memphis, 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
[Dated June 24, 1998]
