--part1_0.471b5789.255e58a3_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There are a couple DeLoach's here so I thought I would forward it to the list. Under Pallbearers is my cousin Virgil DeLoach. There's also a Ben DeLoach. Lisa --part1_0.471b5789.255e58a3_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <owner-tnjohnso-l@seeker.rootsquest.com> Received: from rly-za05.mx.aol.com (rly-za05.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.101]) by air-za05.mail.aol.com (v62.15) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:56:39 -0500 Received: from seeker.rootsquest.com (seeker.rootsquest.com [209.19.155.237]) by rly-za05.mx.aol.com (v63.6) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:56:18 -0500 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by seeker.rootsquest.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA24715 for tnjohnso-l-outgoing; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:57:22 GMT Received: (from daemon@localhost) by seeker.rootsquest.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA24699; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:57:19 GMT From: LindaRHogan@cs.com Received: from csimo01.mx.cs.com(152.163.225.74) via SMTP by rootsquest.com, id smtpda24623; Fri Nov 12 18:57:10 1999 Received: from LindaRHogan@cs.com by csimo01.mx.cs.com (mail_out_v24.4.) id u.0.a7777a4e (4221); Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:55:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <0.a7777a4e.255e10fc@cs.com> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:55:24 EST Subject: TNJOHNSO-L: Dona Green's obit //also newspaper Circuit Court. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) sub 48 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sender: owner-tnjohnso-l@rootsquest.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: tnjohnso-l@rootsquest.com This is my Aunt's Obit...I wonder if anyone has ever hear of Flower Girls at a funeral? There sure are a lot of surnames here that I see in posting on our list. My thanks to Kyle Johnson for getting this obit for me...Of course, I posted it on the "terrific" obit page. Under the obit in the paper there were several "one liners" about Circuit Court. I will post what it said under the obit below. Elizabethton Daily Star, Tuesday June 9, 1942 MRS. DONA GREEN, age 42, died in a local hospital Monday a.m. at 9:30 o'clock after an illness of a few weeks. She was a native of Johnson County, but has made her home in Hampton for the past 15 years. Mrs. Green was a member of the Baptist Church of Rittertown. Survivors are her husband, George Green, three daughters, June Dale, Ireland Gale, Sharon Rose; two sons, George D.J., Gilmore; five sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Eggers of Hampton, Mrs. Ruth Holloway of Knoxville, Mrs. Bonnie Sizemore of Monroe, Michigan, Miss Maude Linkis of Monroe,Michigan, Mrs. Gladys Mayes of Michigan, and three brothers, A. D. Linkis, John M. Linkis, and Wesley Linkis, all of Knoxville, and two sister-in-laws, Mrs. Ruth and Ollie Linkis of Knoxville. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock from the Rittertown Baptist Church with the Rev. George Westmoreland and Rev. Clarence Snodgrass officiating. Burial will be made in the West Cemetery. Active Pallbearerers: Bill West, Left Baker, Starland Odom, Ben DeLoach, Omar Buckles, Ernest Roberts. Flower girls: Josie Baker, Mag Calhoun, Daisy Nave, Louise Oaks, Eva Buckles, Ruth Hughes, Wilma Odom, Myrtle Stevens, Hattie Grindstff, Ida Marshall, Pauline Miller, Nancy Hilton, Pearl Collins, Cleo Stevens, Georgia Harrell, Lois Calhoun, Vivian Bergan, Cathleen Markland, Florence Markland, Celia Stanley, Luther Brumit, May Waycaster, Beulah Roberts. Honorary pallbearers: Harland Oaks, Arthur Stevens, George Balckwell, Joke Nave, Taylor Waycaster, Virgil DeLoach, Will Horton, Harland Horton. The body will be removed from the Roy Hathaway Funeral Home to the home Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock. [PLEASE NOTE: Linkis is the incorrect spelling of the surname, it should be Linkes pronounced Link-us. I noticed there are several misspellings of names. Also I notice Dona's parents were still living at this time and were not mentioned. They were John Hiram Linkes and Sarah Jane Beard/Baird.] Circuit Court: John M. Linkes, arms, felonious assault continued [what a surprize as this is Dona's brother], Warren Joines, possessing whiskey, continued, Joe Gregory, drunk driving, Alias capias: Harrison Guinn, malicious mischief, retired. Pat Bowers, drunk driving, alias capias, K. O. Allen, drunk driving, continued, Ernest McGee, drunk driving, continued, Walter Holley, drunk driving continued by defendent to plead guilty in next term of court, Homer Simerly, et al, gaming, continued, Clyde Hale, et al, operating a gambling house, continued, Roy Poarch, public profanity, public drunkeness, resisting arrest and reckless driving, continued, Hal and Mark Henry, violation Code Section 11136, continued, Cecile Jones, felonious assult, continued. Clarence B. Bowling, violation age of concent, conditional forfeiture: Elvin Bozeman, reckless driving, conditional forfeiture: Anthony E. Souder, violation age of consent, nelle prossed; Massie Ward, felonious assault, nella prossed, conditional forfeiture; William Peters, public drunkness, continued; Ted Lewis, public drunkness, tried and found not guilty, Ralph Nidiffer, public drunkeness, continued. Carl Grinder, hit and run driving, continued, V.J. Boone, drunk driving, continued. Tillman Campbell et al. [can't read any further.] NOTE: REMEMBER Esspecially if one of these are your relatives These are just charges and in the case of my cousin, John M. Linkes, he was found "not guilty" but I thought you might want to know about it and look further as I did, if it was one of the people in your tree. --part1_0.471b5789.255e58a3_boundary--