Individual Details

Death

Name: Mary A Tillery; [Mary A Morney]; Rhumatic fever
Birth Date: 21 Sep 1856; Place: Kingston, Tennessee
Residence: Arlington, Texas
Death Date: 12 Aug 1936; Place: Arlington, Tarrant, Texas, USA
Father: F B Morney, born Tennessee
Mother: Elizabeth Marton, born Tennessee
Informant Mrs Walter Leverett of Arlington
Burial Arlington 13 Aug 19365

Birth: Sep. 21, 1856, Kingston, Roane County, Tennessee
Death: Aug. 12, 1936, Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas
She was first married to Patrick G. Dalton
She was second married to John Tillery.
She was married a third time to a Mayes; her son Roy by that marriage went by Tillery.
She was born in Roane County, TN in 1856, daughter of Andrew and Eva A. Marney.
MRS. A. M. TILLERY, ARLINGTON PIONEER DIES WEDNESDAY
Mrs. Mary A. Tillery, 79, a resident of Arlington for 65 years, passed away Wednesday afternoon at her home on East Abram Street after an illness of several months. Mrs. Tillery moved here from Kingston, Tenn., at the age of fourteen. The trip was made in a covered wagon attended with many hardships, but to these pioneers seeking a home in a new country, they lost sight of the trials and deprivations in their vision of better things at the journeys end.
Their first stopping place was North of Arlington on the Dalton farm. Here Mrs. Tillery grew to young womanhood, making a home for her father and brothers and trying to take the place of her mother who died just before they left Tennessee. She became the wife of Patrick Dalton August 18th, 1872 and after his death was married to John L. Tillery in 1885.
She was the mother of five children and soon after Mr. Tillery's death moved to Arlington to the home on East Abram Street, where she lived continuously until the time of her death.
Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Walter Leverett, Arlington, Mrs. M. G. Kennedy and Mrs. R. Metcalfe of Dallas, two sons, Lewis E. Tillery and Roy Tillery of Arlington, one step daughter, Mrs. L. D. Hahn and four step sons, Jim Dalton, Arlington, Tom Dalton, Mexia, R. L. Tillery, Ft. Worth and Asker Tillery, Bakersfield, Calif., four grandchildren and one brother, E. B. Marney of Arlington.