Having trouble with our email and receiving and sending but coming back undelivered. so am resending. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee and Billie Jones" <tjones@camden.net> To: "SCGREENWOOD" <SCGREENW@rootsweb.com>; "SCEDGEFIELD" <SCEDGEFI@rootsweb.com>; "SCABBEVILLE" <SCABBEVI@rootsweb.com>; <SCGREENV-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: "H.C. Ouzts" <hc@ouzts.net> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 8:31 PM Subject: Obit of Martha Dean Sayers, b. 1907, Greenwood co, SC. > The following was published in the obit central: SAYERS, Martha (DEAN); > 99; Greenwood SC>Winston-Salem NC; Salisbury P; 2006-12-11; wrabb > > Her age calculated to birthdate ca 1907. I just happened to have a Martha > Dean b. ca 1907 in my file, and wondered how to find the obit and see if > she was the same one. > > Thanks to Connie McNeill who found this obit for me, Published in the > Salisbury Post on 12/11/2006. She is a link to my Dean line.... turns out > she is my 3rd cousin twice removed and my 4th cousin once removed. > > Martha Dean Sayers > WINSTON-SALEM - Martha Dean Sayers, 99, died Sunday Dec. 10, 2006, at > the Triad United Methodist Home in Winston-Salem where she had been a > resident for many years. Mrs. Sayers was born April 14, 1907, in > Greenwood, S.Carolina, the daughter of Arthur Robert Dean and Carrie Leila > Parkman. She was a long-time resident of Gastonia, where she was an active > member of First United Methodist Church and a leader in its nursery. She > was preceded in death by her husband, William Floyd Sayers. > Mrs. Sayers is survived by her two sons and their spouses, to whom she > devoted her life: Dr. William F. and Elizabeth H. Sayers of Winston-Salem > and Mr. Donald D. and Carol L. Sayers of Salisbury; four grandchildren, W. > Scott Sayers and Bryan H. Sayers and his wife Julie of Winston-Salem; > Kelly Dean Sayers of Charlotte, and Holly Sayers Hartzog and her husband > Chip of Raleigh; four greatgrandchildren, Katelyn B. and Julia S. Strand > of Dublin, Ohio and Elizabeth H. and Margaret M. Hartzog of Raleigh; one > sister, Margaret Dean Wood of Fountain Inn, S.C. and numerous nieces and > nephews. > Service: A graveside service will be held at Cannon Memorial Park in > Fountain Inn, S.C. at 2 p.m. Thursday. Memorials: In lieu of flowers > memorials may be made to the Triad United Methodist Home, 1240 Arbor Road, > Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27104. Salem Funeral Service, > Winston-Salem, NorthCarolina and Fletchers Funeral Service, Fountain Inn, > South Carolina are in charge of arrangements. Published in the Salisbury > Post on 12/11/2006. > > If anyone has any information on her sister Margaret, I would love to hear > about her. I do not have her in the family thru the 1920 census, and I do > not have access electronically to the 1930 census. > > Billie Jones > Camden, SC > > > >