Thanks jann for all you do for us. -- Glenda ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Glenda S. Nothnagle Share what you know and learn what you do not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jann woodard wrote: > Drew Advance Feb. 1, 1927: > > Mrs. Lucy Kimbell Pye, aged 86, mother of E. L. and R. > P. Pye, prominent in El Dorado business life for many > years, died at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the > home of her daughter, Mrs. Myrtis Preston East Block > street. Mrs. Pye had been ill for several weeks, her > condition gradually growing worse during the last few > days. Funeral services will be held late today or > Wednesday morning at Beulah, Drew county, near Mrs. > Pye's old home. The body will leave here on the Rock > Island 7 o'clock train. The services will be in > charge of the Rev. C. D. Wood, pastor of the Baptist > church at Monticello. Mrs. Pye had lived in El Dorado > eight years, having come here from her old home in > Drew County. On Mother's Day last year she was ______ > the oldest mother in El Dorado among a list of eight > whose names were presented to The News in accord with > a custom established four years ago. Mrs. Pye was > born in Walton county, Georgia, on September 23, 1840, > the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Kimbell. At 19 she > was married to Edward Pye and they moved to Drew > county in 1861. They settled a homestead near Lacey, > where the family lived until about 30 years ago with > the exception of the years of the Civil War, when Mrs. > Pye returned to Georgia. After peace was declared she > and her husband returned to Arkansas. Mrs. Pye could > recall vividly many events of the Civil War, her > father's farm in Georgia being in the line of > Sherman's march to the sea. Besides the two sons and > one daughter here, Mrs. Pye is survived by another > son, Will Pye, of Monticello; two other daughters, > Mrs. Mattie Stagg, of Warren, and Mrs. E. E. Higgason, > of Monticello; 18 grandchildren, 26 > great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. > > > The above is from the El Dorado Daily News of Tuesday. > The body arrived in Monticello Tuesday morning and > burial was at Beulah cemetery Tuesday afternoon.