Individual Details

Obituary from Southern Illinoisan, September 10, 1976: Thurman C. Lewis. Funeral services for Thurman C. Lewis, 87, of rural Sesser will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Horse Prairie Baptist Church, near Sesser. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call after 5:30 p.m. today at the Brayfield Funeral Home in Sesser. Mr. Lewis died Thursday afternoon, Sept. 9, 1976, in Miners Hospital in Christopher. He was born May 27, 8189 (1889-JPK) in Franklin County to Edward and Ada Jane Kirkpatrick Lewis. He was married to Verna Graham, October 1, 1911. He was a retired farmer. He was a member of the Horse Prairie Baptist Church. Survivors are his wife, a daughter Aliene Veach of Marion, Ind.; four sons. Darrell and Hari Ray, both of Benton, Leslie of Marion, Ind., and Kenneth of rural Pinckneyville; three brothers, Archie, John and Hosea, all of rural Sesser; two sisters Rella Cockrum of Abilene, Tex., and Delsie Kirkpatrick of Sesser; 19 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.

Birth	27 May 1889	Franklin Co., Illinois
Marriage	1 Oct 1911	Franklin Co., Illinois - Verna Ethel Graham
Death	9 Sep 1976	Christopher, Franklin Co., Illinois
Burial		Horse Prairie Cemetery, Sesser, Franklin Co., Illinois

Spouse	Verna Ethel Graham (1893 - 1992)
Child	Mable Lewis (1912 - 1972)
Child	Everett Lewis (1916 - 1976)
Child	Mary Aileen Lewis (1919 - 2017)
Child	Floyd Darrel Lewis (1922 - 2011)
Child	Farrel B. Lewis (1922 - 1925)
Child	Leslie L. Lewis (1926 - 2013)
Child	Kenneth Lewis (1929 - )
Child	Harl Ray Lewis (1936 - )

Father	Edward L. Lewis (1861 - 1943)
Mother	Ada Jane Kirkpatrick (1867 - 1931)
Sibling	Hosea Harmon Lewis (1887 - 1981)
Sibling	John Bunyan Lewis (1893 - 1980)
Sibling	Rella Lewis (1895 - 1987)
Sibling	Archie Lewis (1898 - 1987)
Sibling	Delsie Elizabeth Lewis (1901 - 1979)