Her full name is Elizabeth Izora Abernathy b. Apr 12, 1861 in Giles, TN; d/o John Calvin & Mary C. Tarpley Abernathy
died Jul 24, 1959 in Giles, TN.
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EVANS, Izora Abernathy The Pulaski Citizen 29 Jul 1959
Mrs. James A. Evans, 98, Giles County resident most of a long and useful life, died Friday morning, July 24, at the home of her son, Sam F. Evans in Decatur, Ala., where she had made her home for twenty-five years. She after a period of declining health for three years.
Funeral rites were held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the residence in Decatur with the burial in Lynnwood Cemetery at Lynnville, Tenn.
Born April 12, 1861, the first day of the War Between The States, in the Pleasant Valley Community of Giles County, she was the former Miss Izora Abernathy, the daughter of the late John C. Abernathy and Mary Catherine Tarpely Abernathy. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Her husband, James A. Evans, died twelve years ago last November.
Mrs. Evans, in addition to the son in Decatur, is survived by another son, Allen Evans, Jackson, Tenn.; four daughters, Mrs. Annie Ruth Young, Huntsville, Ala., Mrs. Bert Bledsoe, Petersburg, Mrs. Mahlon Smith, Decatur, Ala., and Mrs. James Owen, Gainesville, Va.; seventeen grandchildren, thirty-five great-grandchildren and ten great-great-grandchildren. A niece, Mrs. F. F. Medlar lives in Pulaski.
Her full name is Elizabeth Izora Abernathy b. Apr 12, 1861 in Giles, TN; d/o John Calvin & Mary C. Tarpley Abernathy
died Jul 24, 1959 in Giles, TN.
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EVANS, Izora Abernathy The Pulaski Citizen 29 Jul 1959
Mrs. James A. Evans, 98, Giles County resident most of a long and useful life, died Friday morning, July 24, at the home of her son, Sam F. Evans in Decatur, Ala., where she had made her home for twenty-five years. She after a period of declining health for three years.
Funeral rites were held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the residence in Decatur with the burial in Lynnwood Cemetery at Lynnville, Tenn.
Born April 12, 1861, the first day of the War Between The States, in the Pleasant Valley Community of Giles County, she was the former Miss Izora Abernathy, the daughter of the late John C. Abernathy and Mary Catherine Tarpely Abernathy. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Her husband, James A. Evans, died twelve years ago last November.
Mrs. Evans, in addition to the son in Decatur, is survived by another son, Allen Evans, Jackson, Tenn.; four daughters, Mrs. Annie Ruth Young, Huntsville, Ala., Mrs. Bert Bledsoe, Petersburg, Mrs. Mahlon Smith, Decatur, Ala., and Mrs. James Owen, Gainesville, Va.; seventeen grandchildren, thirty-five great-grandchildren and ten great-great-grandchildren. A niece, Mrs. F. F. Medlar lives in Pulaski.
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"E.IZORA EVANS"
"1861 - 1959"
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shares stone with JAMES A. EVANS
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