Date of Paper November 14, 1939
Services Held For C.R. Tirey, Ellis Pioneer

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Baptist Church in Maypearl, Ellis County, for C.R. Tirey, 87, who moved to Ellis County fifty-nine years ago in a covered wagon from Indiana.
He often told friends that when he crossed the Trinity River at Dallas, there were a few houses standing on the Oak Cliff side.
Mr. Tirey was born in 1852 in Lawrence County, Indiana. He settled on a farm in Ellis County fifty-six years ago and died at the old homestead Sunday morning.
He was a Mason and a Baptist. Services were conducted Monday afternoon by the Rev. E.R. Patterson of Midlothian. Burial was in the Maypearl Cemetery.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J.R. Porter, Maypearl; Mrs. H.L. Price and Mrs. O.D. White, both of Wichita Falls; six sons, the Rev. E. Homer Tirey, Teague; Frank Tirey and Jacob Tirey, Waco; Henry Tirey, Dallas; Grover Tirey, Muskogee, Okla; and Shelby Tirey, Maypearl.
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Name: Ceswell R. Tirey
Death date: 12 Nov 1939
Death place: Maypearl, Ellis, Texas
Gender: Male
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 87 years 1 month 15 days
Estimated birth year:
Birth date: 27 Sep 1852
Birth place: Mitchell, Indiana
Marital status: Widowed
Spouse name: Laura A. Tirey
Father name: Thomas Henry Tirey
Father birth place: North Carolina
Mother name:
Mother birth place:
Occupation: Retired Farmer
Residence: Maypearl, Texas
Cemetery name: Maypearl Cemetery
Burial place:
Burial date: 13 Nov 1939
Additional relatives: X
Film number: 2118306
Digital GS number: 4030444
Image number: 3348
Reference number: cn50251
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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From the Family Data collection:

Name: Caswell R Tirey
Spouse: Laura Alice Hummer
Parents: Thomas Tirey, Mary Susan Burton
Birth Place: Lawrence, Mitchell, IN
Birth Date: 27 Sep 1852
Marriage Date: 1871
Death Date: 12 Nov 1939