McATEER CEMETERY, Hobo Shaw Rd., MARSHALL COUNTY TENNESSEE

MORPHIS, Margaret Esther McCoy, Feb 10, 1869 - Jan 1, 1942

Margaret Esther McCoy Morphis

Mrs. John Morphis, 72, died New Years Eve at 2:15 o'clock in the Gereral Hospital in Nashville, following an operation of appendicitis, though she had been in ill health for years.
The remains were brought to Bill & McGaugh Funeral Home that night at 9 o'clock, and funeral services were conducted at 11:oo o'clock on Friday at the Funeral Home, by the Rev.
Lloyd T. Householder, pastor. Burial was in the McAteer cemetery.
Mrs. Morphis was a person of sweet disposition and lovable character and in her passing we sustain a genuine loss and will miss her. Her death has caused much sadness. She was
a member of the Baptist Church for several years.
Her survivors include: Three sons, Vernoy and Charles Morphis of Nashville, Jacob Morphis of Culleoka; two daughters, Mrs. George Connell, of Nashville, and Mrs. Herbert Shelby,
of Madison, Tennessee, four sisters, Mrs. John Fowler and Mrs. Solomon Wade of Cornersville; Mrs. Sandy Rainey of Lewisburg, and Mrs. Mattie Burlin, of Nashville; two brothers,
Francis McCoy, of Red Oak,
and George McCoy of Cornersville; several grandchildren.