Mrs. Mary Harris McKenzie, age 91, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Celeste Balfour, in Lamar last Sunday. The daughter of the Rev. Sherwood and Rebecca Kirby Harris, she was born in Marshall County between Mt. Pleasant and Collierville and was educated at the old Marshall Institute. With the exception of a few years spent in Memphis, she has always lived in Marshall or Benton Counties. Her husband, the late John Winfield McKenzie died in 1907.
The remains were laid to rest in the family lot in Spring Hill Cemetery following funeral services conducted in her late home at Lamar by the Rev. H. W. Ellis of Humboldt. Mrs. McKenzie was a life time member of the Baptist Church.
The survivors, besides Mrs. Balfour, are Misses Kate, Mamie and Nancy McKenzie and Mrs. Mattie Humphreys of Memphis; Mrs. Emma Smith of Grand Junction, and Mrs. Lurline Leigh of Hernando, and four sons, D. S. McKenzie of MEmphis; L. T., J. W. and C. H. McKenzie of Benton County.
Mrs. McKenzie was fourteen years of age when the Civil War began and she could tell many interesting incidents about contact with the Northern soldiers. At one time when three soldiers raided her home, she hid the family money under her voluminous hoopskirts.
Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie at one time lived in Holly Springs in the home which stood where Mrs. C. T. Ames now lives.
The South Reporter Newspaper
November 25, 1937
War Survivor Dies at Lamar Sunday
The remains were laid to rest in the family lot in Spring Hill Cemetery following funeral services conducted in her late home at Lamar by the Rev. H. W. Ellis of Humboldt. Mrs. McKenzie was a life time member of the Baptist Church.
The survivors, besides Mrs. Balfour, are Misses Kate, Mamie and Nancy McKenzie and Mrs. Mattie Humphreys of Memphis; Mrs. Emma Smith of Grand Junction, and Mrs. Lurline Leigh of Hernando, and four sons, D. S. McKenzie of MEmphis; L. T., J. W. and C. H. McKenzie of Benton County.
Mrs. McKenzie was fourteen years of age when the Civil War began and she could tell many interesting incidents about contact with the Northern soldiers. At one time when three soldiers raided her home, she hid the family money under her voluminous hoopskirts.
Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie at one time lived in Holly Springs in the home which stood where Mrs. C. T. Ames now lives.
The South Reporter Newspaper
November 25, 1937
War Survivor Dies at Lamar Sunday
Mrs. Mary Harris McKenzie, age 91, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Celeste Balfour, in Lamar last Sunday. The daughter of the Rev. Sherwood and Rebecca Kirby Harris, she was born in Marshall County between Mt. Pleasant and Collierville and was educated at the old Marshall Institute. With the exception of a few years spent in Memphis, she has always lived in Marshall or Benton Counties. Her husband, the late John Winfield McKenzie died in 1907.
The remains were laid to rest in the family lot in Spring Hill Cemetery following funeral services conducted in her late home at Lamar by the Rev. H. W. Ellis of Humboldt. Mrs. McKenzie was a life time member of the Baptist Church.
The survivors, besides Mrs. Balfour, are Misses Kate, Mamie and Nancy McKenzie and Mrs. Mattie Humphreys of Memphis; Mrs. Emma Smith of Grand Junction, and Mrs. Lurline Leigh of Hernando, and four sons, D. S. McKenzie of MEmphis; L. T., J. W. and C. H. McKenzie of Benton County.
Mrs. McKenzie was fourteen years of age when the Civil War began and she could tell many interesting incidents about contact with the Northern soldiers. At one time when three soldiers raided her home, she hid the family money under her voluminous hoopskirts.
Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie at one time lived in Holly Springs in the home which stood where Mrs. C. T. Ames now lives.
The South Reporter Newspaper
November 25, 1937
War Survivor Dies at Lamar Sunday
The remains were laid to rest in the family lot in Spring Hill Cemetery following funeral services conducted in her late home at Lamar by the Rev. H. W. Ellis of Humboldt. Mrs. McKenzie was a life time member of the Baptist Church.
The survivors, besides Mrs. Balfour, are Misses Kate, Mamie and Nancy McKenzie and Mrs. Mattie Humphreys of Memphis; Mrs. Emma Smith of Grand Junction, and Mrs. Lurline Leigh of Hernando, and four sons, D. S. McKenzie of MEmphis; L. T., J. W. and C. H. McKenzie of Benton County.
Mrs. McKenzie was fourteen years of age when the Civil War began and she could tell many interesting incidents about contact with the Northern soldiers. At one time when three soldiers raided her home, she hid the family money under her voluminous hoopskirts.
Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie at one time lived in Holly Springs in the home which stood where Mrs. C. T. Ames now lives.
The South Reporter Newspaper
November 25, 1937
War Survivor Dies at Lamar Sunday
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