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Great Great Great Grandson of Martha Matilda Minton Smith
File Number: 12727 Registered Number: 101 Place of Death: Dyer Civil District: 4 City: Dyersburg Registration District Number: 231 Primary Registration District No: 2-2304 Name: Mrs Martha Matilda Smith Personal and Statistical Particulars 3. Sex : Female 4. Color or Race: White 5. Marital Status: Married 5a. Spouse: J. T. Smith 6. Date of Birth: Nov 7, 1857 7. Age: 77 years, 6 months, 10 days 8. Occupation: At Home 12. Birthplace: Ala 13. Name of Father: Lewis Minton 14. Birthplace of Father: Ala 15. Maiden Name of Mother: Miss Bowles 16. Birthplace of Mother: S. Carolina 17. Informant: Mr. J. T. Smith, Ewell Ave, Dyersburg, Tenn 18. Burial: Fairview Date: 6/19 1935 19. Undertaker: J. W. Curry & Son, Dyersburg, Tenn. 20. Filed: 6-19, 1935 Mr. G.W. Chambers Medical Certificate of Death 21. Date of Death: 6/17, 1935 22. I hereby Certify, that I attended deceased from 5-7, 1935 to 6-17, 1935 and that I last saw her alive on the June 17, 1935, death is said to have occurred on the date above at 9:12AM. The Cause of death was as follows: Dysentary 24: Was disease or injury ni any way related to occupation of deceased? no (Signed) Geo. B. Brown, M.D. ------------- Martha was the daughter of William Robert Lewis Minton and Clarissa Bowles. She was born at Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale County, Alabama. She married John Thomas Smith in Alabama on March 5, 1876. Her family first appears in the 1900 Dyer County census. |