Mattie Irene Taylor (1902-1977)

Mattie Irene Taylor was born on 25 September 1902 in Mississippi. She died on 8 November 1977 in Meridian, Lauderdale, Mississippi. She is buried in Antioch Cemetery in Clarke, Mississippi.

Mattie Irene Taylor's headstone

The Clarke County Tribune, 11 Nov 1977

Services for Mrs. Mattie Irene Lewis, 75, Rt. 4, will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in Antioch Baptist Church. The Rev. Leslie Roberts and the Rev. C.D. Middleton will officiate. Interment will be in the church cemetery.
   Mrs. Lewis died Tuesday in Anderson Hospital in Meridian.
   Survivors include three sons, Floyd W. Johnson, Joaquin, Tex.; Lloyd B. Johnson, Aztec, N. Mex., and Howard Lewis, Alva. Fla.; three stepsons, Grady Lewis, Quitman, C.D. Lewis, Enterprise, and J.D. Lewis, Oregon; two daughters, Mrs. Velma McGrew and Mrs. Claudia Gable, both of Quitman; three step-daughters, Mrs. Leona Ivy and Mrs. Adell Anderson, Quitman and Miss Myrtle Grace Lewis, New Orleans; a brother, Clarence Taylor, Meridian; three sisters, Mrs. Lillie Mae Heathcock and Mrs. Rachel Melton, Butler, Ala., and Mrs. Helen White, Sylacauga, Ala; 19 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

PARENTS
Thomas Robert Taylor
Willie Robert Jiles

SPOUSE
? Johnson
Thomas Jackson Lewis

CHILDREN
Floyd W. Johnson
Lloyd B. Johnson
Claudie Lee Johnson
Howard T. Lewis
William Lewis
Velma Irene Lewis

SOURCES

• 1910 census, Quitman, Clarke, Mississippi

• 1920 census, Quitman, Clarke, Mississippi

• 1930 census, Enterprise, Clarke, Mississippi

• 1940 census, Beat 3, Clarke, Mississippi

• The Clarke County Tribune, 11 November 1977

• Find A Grave