Individual Details
Gladys Matilda FURR
(12 Oct 1884 - 2 Mar 1943)
Events
| Birth | 12 Oct 1884 | Wesson, Copiah County, MS | |||
| Marriage | 28 Oct 1903 | Copiah County, MS - Lee Beard SMITH |  | ||
| Death | 2 Mar 1943 | Wesson, Copiah County, MS |  | | |
| Burial | Wesson Cemetery, Wesson, Copiah County, MS | |
Families
| Spouse | Lee Beard SMITH (1885 - 1942) |
| Father | John Jefferson FURR (1851 - 1922) |
| Mother | Laura Jane HUDNALL (1861 - 1943) |
| Sibling | William Edgar "Willie" FURR (1880 - 1885) |
| Sibling | Florence Martha FURR (1882 - 1970) |
| Sibling | Jessie Mae FURR (1886 - 1913) |
| Sibling | Mary Maydeline FURR (1889 - 1962) |
| Sibling | Johnnie Myrtle FURR (1891 - 1988) |
| Sibling | Marion Francis "Lamb" FURR (1894 - 1939) |
| Sibling | Jewel Melisa "Judy" FURR (1896 - 1972) |
| Sibling | Sarah R. FURR (1897 - 1897) |
Notes
Death
Funeral services will be held in Wesson today at 2 o’clock for Mrs. Gladys Smith, 58, who died Tuesday at a local hospital in Jackson. Rev. James Fairchild officiated. Mrs. Smith had been a resident of Jackson for the last 15 years but was for a lifetime a member of the Wesson Baptist church. The body will lie in state at Baldwin Funeral home here until 12 o'clock at which time it will be carried to Wesson. She is survived by five sons, Earl L. and Pat Smith, Jackson; Robert L. Lee, U. S. Navy and Sergeant Bill Smith, El Paso, Texas; and Pvt. Ted Smith, Camp, Swift, Texas; one daughter, Miss Gladys Mae Smith, Jackson; two grandchildren; four sisters, Mfrs. Martha Pilgenton, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Mary Smith, Columbia; Mrs. Johnny Leggett, McComb and Mrs. S. Dulaney, Jackson. Pallbearers will be: W. F. Walters, Lamar Fuller, Merman Crawford, Holman, Dewey Swor and J. P. McGraw.Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, March 3, 1943
Endnotes
1. Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979. Database. FamilySearch. https://FamilySearch.org : 26 November 2020.
2. The Clarion Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi.
3. , findagrave.com (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).