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Dyersburg State Gazette, Friday Afternoon, January 28, 1949 Mrs. Sally Pulley Dies This Morning Mrs. Sally PULLEY died at her home in the Tylersville community this morning. Mrs. PULLEY, who was sixty-nine years old, had been in ill health for some time, but her death was unexpected. She is survived by her husband, Lee PULLEY; two daughters, Mrs. Bill BRYANT of Finley, and Mrs. D.L. MASSEY of Boothspoint; two sons, John HAWKINS of RoEllen and Sam HAWKINS of Finley; and four brothers, Tom DIXON of Nauvoo, W. DIXON and Bill DIXON of Cottonwood Point, Mo; and C.F. DIXON of LeFlore, Ok. Funeral services will be held at ten o'clock Saturday morning at the Methodist Church in Tylersville, of which Mrs. Pulley was a member. Reverend J.T. Barrett will officate and burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, with J.W. Curry and Son in charge.
My great-grandmother's full name was Sallie Brady Dixon Hawkins Pulley. Mr. Lee was her second husband. She grew up in Decatur Co, TN, daughter of Wallace Dixon, a farmer and confederate soldier, who was the son of Wallace Dixon, the first ironmaster in West Tennessee. |