Individual Details

Marriage

WEDDING BELLS TO RING. The following invitation has been issued Mr. and Mrs. James Richards will live in marriage their daughter Melne to Dr. John Marvin Furr on the afternoon of Wednesday, the twenty-second of November nineteen hundred and eleven at half after three o'clock First Baptist Church Laurel, Mississippi. The honor of your presence is requested. The bride-to be is a charming and popular young lady, and numbers a wide circle of friends in this city. Dr. Furr finished his medical course at Rush College, Chicago, and after graduating with honors began practicing at his home in Pontotoc, Miss., where he is now located.
The Laurel Chronicle, Laurel, Mississippi, November 10, 1911

Death

LAUREL—Services were held at 10 a.m. today in the chapel of the First Baptist Church for Mrs. Melne Booth,89, of 460 Seventh Ave., who died Wednesday in a local hospital. The Rev. Jom Keats officiated with interment in Hickory Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Booth was the past president of the Laurel Cemetery Association and a member of the YWCA and Argus Club. She was a pioneer member of the First Baptist Church. She is survived by one son, John M. Furr of Hebron Community; four grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Hattiesburg American, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, September 22, 1977