MARY ELIZABETH (BURKS) NEWMAN
Mrs. Mary E. Newman, 83, who was born and reared near the battlefield of Shiloh Church in southwestern Tennessee and could remember those two days in 1862 when Albert Sidney Johnston's Confederates fought Ulysses Simpson Grant, died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. L. Pickard, 506 S. Beacon.
Mrs. Newman, then 5-year-old Mary Burks, saw her father, John W. Burks, go off to fight on that Sunday morning of April 2 and recalled how news of the first day's apparent victory spread over the countryside, only to give way to the sad news of General Johnston's death at nightfall and the subsequent retreat to Corinth, Mississippi the following day.
She lived in her native section of Tennessee for 37 years, but in 1894 moved with her husband to Waxahachie where they farmed until 1920. That year they came to Dallas and Mrs. Newman died four years later.
Until little more than a year ago, Mrs. Newman had remained quite active, attending the Centenary Methodist Church at Second and Peabody and joining in church work.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. C. B. Bilton and Mrs. Pickard both of Dallas; a son, J. W. Newman of Fort Worth; four grandchildren; and two brothers, J. E. Burks and R. E. Burks of Corsicana.
Funeral services will be at 4 p. m. Saturday in the chapel of the Ed C. Smith & Bro. Funeral Home, with burial in Grove Hill Cemetery.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
12-14-1940
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: parents, J. W. Burks and Louise (Tucker) Burks.
Mrs. Mary E. Newman, 83, who was born and reared near the battlefield of Shiloh Church in southwestern Tennessee and could remember those two days in 1862 when Albert Sidney Johnston's Confederates fought Ulysses Simpson Grant, died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. L. Pickard, 506 S. Beacon.
Mrs. Newman, then 5-year-old Mary Burks, saw her father, John W. Burks, go off to fight on that Sunday morning of April 2 and recalled how news of the first day's apparent victory spread over the countryside, only to give way to the sad news of General Johnston's death at nightfall and the subsequent retreat to Corinth, Mississippi the following day.
She lived in her native section of Tennessee for 37 years, but in 1894 moved with her husband to Waxahachie where they farmed until 1920. That year they came to Dallas and Mrs. Newman died four years later.
Until little more than a year ago, Mrs. Newman had remained quite active, attending the Centenary Methodist Church at Second and Peabody and joining in church work.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. C. B. Bilton and Mrs. Pickard both of Dallas; a son, J. W. Newman of Fort Worth; four grandchildren; and two brothers, J. E. Burks and R. E. Burks of Corsicana.
Funeral services will be at 4 p. m. Saturday in the chapel of the Ed C. Smith & Bro. Funeral Home, with burial in Grove Hill Cemetery.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
12-14-1940
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: parents, J. W. Burks and Louise (Tucker) Burks.
MARY ELIZABETH (BURKS) NEWMAN
Mrs. Mary E. Newman, 83, who was born and reared near the battlefield of Shiloh Church in southwestern Tennessee and could remember those two days in 1862 when Albert Sidney Johnston's Confederates fought Ulysses Simpson Grant, died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. L. Pickard, 506 S. Beacon.
Mrs. Newman, then 5-year-old Mary Burks, saw her father, John W. Burks, go off to fight on that Sunday morning of April 2 and recalled how news of the first day's apparent victory spread over the countryside, only to give way to the sad news of General Johnston's death at nightfall and the subsequent retreat to Corinth, Mississippi the following day.
She lived in her native section of Tennessee for 37 years, but in 1894 moved with her husband to Waxahachie where they farmed until 1920. That year they came to Dallas and Mrs. Newman died four years later.
Until little more than a year ago, Mrs. Newman had remained quite active, attending the Centenary Methodist Church at Second and Peabody and joining in church work.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. C. B. Bilton and Mrs. Pickard both of Dallas; a son, J. W. Newman of Fort Worth; four grandchildren; and two brothers, J. E. Burks and R. E. Burks of Corsicana.
Funeral services will be at 4 p. m. Saturday in the chapel of the Ed C. Smith & Bro. Funeral Home, with burial in Grove Hill Cemetery.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
12-14-1940
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: parents, J. W. Burks and Louise (Tucker) Burks.
Mrs. Mary E. Newman, 83, who was born and reared near the battlefield of Shiloh Church in southwestern Tennessee and could remember those two days in 1862 when Albert Sidney Johnston's Confederates fought Ulysses Simpson Grant, died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. L. Pickard, 506 S. Beacon.
Mrs. Newman, then 5-year-old Mary Burks, saw her father, John W. Burks, go off to fight on that Sunday morning of April 2 and recalled how news of the first day's apparent victory spread over the countryside, only to give way to the sad news of General Johnston's death at nightfall and the subsequent retreat to Corinth, Mississippi the following day.
She lived in her native section of Tennessee for 37 years, but in 1894 moved with her husband to Waxahachie where they farmed until 1920. That year they came to Dallas and Mrs. Newman died four years later.
Until little more than a year ago, Mrs. Newman had remained quite active, attending the Centenary Methodist Church at Second and Peabody and joining in church work.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. C. B. Bilton and Mrs. Pickard both of Dallas; a son, J. W. Newman of Fort Worth; four grandchildren; and two brothers, J. E. Burks and R. E. Burks of Corsicana.
Funeral services will be at 4 p. m. Saturday in the chapel of the Ed C. Smith & Bro. Funeral Home, with burial in Grove Hill Cemetery.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
12-14-1940
Dallas, Texas
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D. cert: parents, J. W. Burks and Louise (Tucker) Burks.
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