OBITUARY OF W.Y. Williamson 
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OBITUARY OF W. Y. WILLIAMSON 
BORN 1834 - DIED 1919

He was grandfather Horton's first cousin, and was known as "Cousin Billy."

PIONEER CITIZEN DIES

W. Y. Williamson died early yesterday morning of pneumonia. He was 85 years old.
He was the oldest resident of the town living here when Milan was a farm owned
by his father.

For a number of years he was station agent for the L. and N. Railroad. He was a
brave and fearless confederate soldier enlisting in 1861 and being in Gen. Frank
Cheatham's division army of Middle Tennessee throughout Georgia until the
surrender in 1865. He was an Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias. He was a life
long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and is survived by a wife
and daughter, Mrs. Emma Blanks of Trezevant; five sons, Elden, Robert of
Nashville, George, Lunnie and Ben Williamson of Memphis. One sister, Mrs. W. P.
Ragsdale of Milan. Funeral services were held today by his pastor, Rev. W.S.
Pickens, assisted by the other pastors of Milan. Interment followed in Oakwood
Cemetery.