Two notices appeared in The Meridian [Mississippi] Star, re the death of James Ronnie Poythress in early June 2002, a resident of the Meridian, Mississippi area. His parents were James Daniel Poythress & Mildred Ruth Dear. His grandparents were James D. Poythress & Ruby Young. His great-grandparents were Algernon E. Poythress& Ellen Belle McKinley. Ronnie was cremated and his family gathered for a private memorial. The Meridian Star has a website & one can locate names in obituaries & other articles through their site, but I don't have the website location right now; one can find it thru Google just using the name of the newspaper. = = = = First from the issue of Saturday, June 8, 2002: James R. Poythress Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for James R. Poythress, 59, of Meridian, who died Thursday, June 6, 2002, in Tucson, Ariz. = = = = = = = Then from the issue of Weds, June 12, 2002: James R. Poythress Truck driver A private family memorial will be held at a later date for James R. Poythress, 59, of Meridian, who died Friday, June 7, 2002, in Tucson, Ariz. Survivors include his wife, Margaret Poythress of Meridian; daughters, Geraldine Parker, Marquerite La Batt and Betty Ann Wilkinson, all of Meridian; grandchildren, Gega Ann Morgan, Breanna Michelle Singleton, Aaron Lee Singleton, Donald Jenkins and Ronnie Jenkins; sisters, Brenda Murth and her husband, Larry, of Houston, Ruby Pope of Conroy, Texas, and Sue Burwell and her husband, Bob, of Cincinnati, Ohio,