Individual Details
Essie May Rhudy
(17 Jan 1896 - 18 Aug 1975)
Mrs. Collins Interred at Plantersville
Mrs. Essie Deaton Collins, 79, was dead on arrival Monday, Aug. 18, at 11:30 am at Houston Hospital. She was a retired housewife and resided at Houlka.
Funeral services were conducted at Union Methodist Church near Nettleton at 2 pm on Aug 19, with the Rev. George Brewton officiating. Interment was in Union Cemetery at Plantersville. Houston Funeral Home was in charge.
Mrs. Collins was born in Lee County Jan. 17, 1896, the daughter of Jim Rudhy and Mary Lee Porter Rudhy. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church.
She is survived by four sons, Buford Deaton of Tupelo, Leroy and Millard Deaton, both of Houston, and Raymond Deaton of Houlka; five daughters, Mrs. Jeannie Mae Cox of Hughes, Ark., Mrs. Winnie Mae Cox of Memphis, Mrs. Ruth Frisby of Jones, La., Mrs. Mary Lee Lyles of Houston, and Mrs. Inez Brasfield of Murray City, Tn.
Aso surviving is one brother, Carlos Rudhy of Nettleton and four sisters, Mrs. Ethel Edwards and Mrs. Jimmie Edwards, both of Nettleton and Mrs. Vera McCormick and Mrs. Lora Lou McCastkle, both of Plantersville.
Forty-seven grandchildren also survive.
Printed in the Times Post, Houston, Mississippi, dated August 21, 1975.
(The middle name May comes from a family tree suggested my Ancestry ThruLines.)
Mrs. Essie Deaton Collins, 79, was dead on arrival Monday, Aug. 18, at 11:30 am at Houston Hospital. She was a retired housewife and resided at Houlka.
Funeral services were conducted at Union Methodist Church near Nettleton at 2 pm on Aug 19, with the Rev. George Brewton officiating. Interment was in Union Cemetery at Plantersville. Houston Funeral Home was in charge.
Mrs. Collins was born in Lee County Jan. 17, 1896, the daughter of Jim Rudhy and Mary Lee Porter Rudhy. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church.
She is survived by four sons, Buford Deaton of Tupelo, Leroy and Millard Deaton, both of Houston, and Raymond Deaton of Houlka; five daughters, Mrs. Jeannie Mae Cox of Hughes, Ark., Mrs. Winnie Mae Cox of Memphis, Mrs. Ruth Frisby of Jones, La., Mrs. Mary Lee Lyles of Houston, and Mrs. Inez Brasfield of Murray City, Tn.
Aso surviving is one brother, Carlos Rudhy of Nettleton and four sisters, Mrs. Ethel Edwards and Mrs. Jimmie Edwards, both of Nettleton and Mrs. Vera McCormick and Mrs. Lora Lou McCastkle, both of Plantersville.
Forty-seven grandchildren also survive.
Printed in the Times Post, Houston, Mississippi, dated August 21, 1975.
(The middle name May comes from a family tree suggested my Ancestry ThruLines.)
Events
| Birth | 17 Jan 1896 | Lee County, Mississippi | |||
| Census (family)-shared | 30 Jun 1900 | (James Henry Rhudy and Mary Lee Porter) Rockdale, Milam County, Texas |  |  | |
| Census (family)-shared | 9 May 1910 | (James Henry Rhudy and Mary Lee Porter) Calhoun County, Mississippi | | | |
| Death | 18 Aug 1975 | Houston, Chickasaw County, Mississippi | |||
| Burial | 19 Aug 1975 | Union Methodist Church Cemetery, Plantersville, Lee County, Mississippi | |
Families
| Spouse | Phillip McNeal "Mack" Deaton (1890 - 1964) |
| Child | Annie Ruth Deaton (1925 - 1994) |
| Father | James Henry Rhudy (1872 - 1963) |
| Mother | Mary Lee Porter (1873 - 1952) |
| Sibling | George Carlos Rhudy (1894 - 1982) |
| Sibling | Clifton Thomas Rhudy (1898 - 1969) |
| Sibling | Roy M. Rhudy (1900 - ) |
| Sibling | Ethel Rhudy (1902 - 1985) |
| Sibling | Mary Zera Zelea Rhudy (1907 - 1961) |
| Sibling | Vera V. Rhudy (1910 - 1984) |
| Sibling | Laura L. Rhudy (1912 - 2009) |
| Sibling | Jimmie Leona Rhudy (1915 - 2000) |
Notes
Census (family)-shared
James Rhudy Husband M 26 MississippiMary L Rhudy Wife F 24 Mississippi
Carliss Rhudy Son M 6 Mississippi
Essie Rhudy Daughter F 4 Mississippi
Clifton Rhudy Son M 2 Mississippi
Roy Rhudy Son M 4/12 Texas
Census (family)-shared
James H Rhudy Husband M 36 Mississippi - Farmer, general farmMary L Rhudy Wife F 35 Mississippi
Geo C Rhudy Son M 15 Mississippi - Laborer, general farm
Essie Rhudy Daughter F 14 Mississippi
Clifton Rhudy Son M 12 Mississippi - Laborer, general farm
Ray M Rhudy Son M 10 Mississippi - Laborer, general farm
Ethel Rhudy Daughter F 7 Mississippi
Jera Rhudy Daughter F 4 Mississippi
Vera V Rhudy Daughter F 3/12 Mississippi
Mary Mortin mother-in-law F 65 Mississippi (divorced)
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