Sentimental Sunday - Three Deaths

Joseph Calhoun Rucker – My great grandfather

25 Jul 1874 - 24 Jan 1933

Matilda Jollett Meadows – My 2X great-grandfather’s niece, daughter of John Wesley Jollett

photo courtesy Jan Hensley
Matilda Jollett Meadows
16 Feb 1859 - 24 Jan 1953
Matilda with her twins 
Mary and Martha and son Charles
about 1905

Ben Shifflett – Husband of Bertha Knight, daughter of Leanna Jollett (sister of my great-grandmother Mary Frances Jollett Davis) and James Mitchell Knight

Ben Shifflett
10 Jun 1890 - 24 Jan 1959
and Bertha Knight Shiffett

Poor Ben died from pneumonia that set in after suffering second and third degree burns when his clothes caught fire while trying to extinguish a brush fire. His wife Bertha died four years later on 31 January 1963.

Wendy

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