Mrs. Cleopatra Avery Lewis
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The Crockett Times
Alamo, Tenn.
Thursday, April 24, 1947

Mrs. Cleopatra Lewis

Services were held Thursday at Center Baptist Church for Mrs. Cleopatra A. Lewis, widow of R. B. Lewis of the Oak Grove community, who died at her home Tuesday night. Dr. S. R. Woodson officiated. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. She was 75.

Mrs. Lewis was born and reared in Crockett County, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Drew Avery. She had lived in the Oak Grove near Humboldt for more than 40 years. She was a member of the Center Baptist Church.

She leaves five daughters, Miss Flora Lewis, Miss Auva Lewis, Miss Cary Lewis and Mrs. Homer D. Barrix, all of Humboldt, and Mrs. W. W. Woodward of Fruitland, Tenn.; a son, O. B. Lewis of Humboldt; two sisters, Mrs. Bedford Wright and Mrs. Milton Watson, both of Crockett Mills, Tenn., and a brother, Luther Avery of Cape Girardeau, Mo.


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