Mary Margaret Smith (1900-1978)

Mary Margaret Smith was born on 9 November 1900. She died on 6 September 1978 in Quitman, Clarke, Mississippi. She is buried in Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery in Quitman, Clarke, Mississippi.

Mary Margaret Smith's headstone

 

The Clarke County Tribune, 15 Sept 1978 
   Services for Mrs. Mary Margaret Taylor, 77, were held Friday at 2 p.m. in Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. The Rev. Wilbur Hall and the Rev. Ralph Smith officiated. Interment was in the church cemetery under direction of Wright Funeral Home.
   Mrs. Taylor died Wednesday in the Archusa Convalescent Center.
   Survivors include a son, A.F. "Tip" Taylor, Quitman; five daughters, Mrs. Katherine Felts, Stonewall, Mrs. Alice Evans, Mrs. Margaret Colston, and Mrs. Billie Ruth McDonald, all of Quitman, and Mrs. Tina Dempsey, Nashville, Tenn.; five sisters, Mrs. Beatrice Durfee, Pontiac, Mich., Mrs. Eunice Mallett, Mrs. Carie Nelson, Mrs. Hattie Lamey and Mrs. Pearl Tillman, all of Bayou La Batre, Ala.; 22 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.

SPOUSE
William Cleveland Taylor

CHILDREN
Alice Ida Taylor
Anthony I. Taylor
Hal Taylor
Alex Fortner Taylor
Margaret Eloise Taylor
Carrie Taylor
Ruth Virginia Taylor
infant daughter Taylor

SOURCES

• 1930 census, Quitman, Clarke, Mississippi

• 1940 census, Beat 1, Clarke, Mississippi

• The Clarke County Tribune, 15 Sept 1978