RESEARCHED BY : TINA EASLEY

tina@grnco.net

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ar/county/greene/

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PARAGOULD DAILY PRESS - JANUARY 22, 1952

ROBERT BATEMAN

ROBERT BATEMAN , ABOUT 36 , DIED AT 1:20 THIS AFTERNOON , AT THE HOME OF HIS MOTHER , MRS. POLLY BATEMAN , 319 E. LAKE STREET OF WHAT WAS DESCRIBED AS A HEART ATTACK. HE WAS REPORTED ILL WHEN HE RETURNED FROM A RABBIT HUNT WITH HIS BROTHER , ERNEST BATEMAN . HE WAS DEAD UPON ARRIVAL AT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL IN A RANDAL L. MITCHELL AMBULANCE .

MR. BATEMAN WAS EMPLOYED BY FLETCHER BROTHERS . HE IS A FORMER ALDERMAN OF THE THIRD WARD. SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE , THREE DAUGHTERS , THREE BROTHERS , ERNEST , JOE AND LEROY ; AND HIS MOTHER.

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PARAGOULD DAILY PRESS - JANUARY 22, 1952

MRS. JAMES HAYS DIES AT MEMPHIS

MRS. JAMES A. HAYS DIED , MONDAY EVENING AT 11;30 IN MEMPHIS . SHE HAS BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS . MRS HAYS , THE FORMER ALICE SALMONS, WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN G. SALMONS AND WAS BORN IN GEORGETOWN , KY. IN 1876 . IN 1905 SHE MARRIED JAMES A. HAYS AND LIVED WITH HER FAMILY IN PARAGOULD UNTIL 1934 WHEN THEY MOVED TO MEMPHIS .

SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND , JAMES A. HAYS AND THREE DAUGHTERS , MRS. E.B. TOWNSBEND (ALICE) , MRS. M.E. JAMISON (GRACE) AND MRS. FRED HICKSON (HESTER) OF PARAGOULD . MRS. HAYS IS ALSO SURVIVED BY THREE GRANDDAUGHTERS , KATE TOWNSBEND AND ALICE ANN TOWNSBEND OF MEMPHIS AND MISS NANCY HICKSON OF PARAGOULD

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE HICKSON HOME , 609 W. GARLAND STREET , WED. AFTERNOON AT 2:30 . NATIONAL FUNERAL HOME OF MEMPHIS WILL BE IN CHARGE .

BURIAL WILL FOLLOW AT LINWOOD CEMETERY

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