-----
End Comes to Mecklenburg Cononer at Home West of City.
-----
Funeral Servics to Be Held at 4 O'clock Today From Late Residence.
-----
After an illness of several months, Zenas A. Hovis, for several years coroner of Mecklenburg county and senior member of the firm of Z.A. Hovis & Son, died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at his home west of the city.
Funeral services will be conducted from the home at 4 o'clock this afternoon by Rev. L.W. Brown, pastor of McGee Presbyterian church. Interment will be in Elmwood cemetery. The following friends of the deceased will act as pall-bearers: E.M. McGee, M.E. Alexander, Q.J. Joyner, J.E. Thomas, W.O. Johnston and P.A. Thomas.
Mr. Hovis was born in Berryhill township, Mecklenburg county, in 1853 and was 66 years of age last Monday. He had been in poor health for some time but not until several days ago did his condition cause alarm.
The deceased was first married to Miss Cora Herron, and to this union were born the following four children who survive him: Dr. Leighton W. Hovis and Frank Hovis, of this city; Mrs. Mack Hipp and Miss Lelia Hovis, of the county. His second wife, who survives him, was Miss Carrie Cathey and the following children survive him from this union: Myrtle, William, Robert and Dorothy Hovis.
Mr. Hovis was well known throughout the county for his earnestness and genial disposition which won him scores of friends wherever he was known. He was a zealous church worker and recognized as a devout Christian. He was for many years an elder in McGee's Presbyterian church.
Charlotte Observer
09.11.1919
-----
End Comes to Mecklenburg Cononer at Home West of City.
-----
Funeral Servics to Be Held at 4 O'clock Today From Late Residence.
-----
After an illness of several months, Zenas A. Hovis, for several years coroner of Mecklenburg county and senior member of the firm of Z.A. Hovis & Son, died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at his home west of the city.
Funeral services will be conducted from the home at 4 o'clock this afternoon by Rev. L.W. Brown, pastor of McGee Presbyterian church. Interment will be in Elmwood cemetery. The following friends of the deceased will act as pall-bearers: E.M. McGee, M.E. Alexander, Q.J. Joyner, J.E. Thomas, W.O. Johnston and P.A. Thomas.
Mr. Hovis was born in Berryhill township, Mecklenburg county, in 1853 and was 66 years of age last Monday. He had been in poor health for some time but not until several days ago did his condition cause alarm.
The deceased was first married to Miss Cora Herron, and to this union were born the following four children who survive him: Dr. Leighton W. Hovis and Frank Hovis, of this city; Mrs. Mack Hipp and Miss Lelia Hovis, of the county. His second wife, who survives him, was Miss Carrie Cathey and the following children survive him from this union: Myrtle, William, Robert and Dorothy Hovis.
Mr. Hovis was well known throughout the county for his earnestness and genial disposition which won him scores of friends wherever he was known. He was a zealous church worker and recognized as a devout Christian. He was for many years an elder in McGee's Presbyterian church.
Charlotte Observer
09.11.1919
Family Members
-
![]()
Dr Leighton Watson Hovis
1879–1956
-
![]()
Isla Maud Hovis
1881–1890
-
![]()
Lela Gertrude Hovis
1884–1973
-
![]()
Mary J Hovis
1886–1907
-
![]()
Frank Hovis
1889–1958
-
![]()
Flora Lee Hovis Hipp
1892–1965
-
![]()
Myrtle Hovis Todd
1903–1968
-
![]()
William Newton "Bub" Hovis
1905–1968
-
![]()
Robert Alexander Hovis
1908–1987
-
Sarah Elizabeth Hovis
1912–1912
-
Zenas Albert Hovis
1913–1916
-
![]()
Dorothy Hovis Payne
1917–1984
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
