SHORES
(ON HILL) CEMETERY, (On Hill above
old Phillips-Shores Mill site) GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE
LOCKE, George Madison 9 Sep 1923 29 Sep 1991, (h/o Mary Frances Wilcoxson
Locke; s/o Samuel Rollin and Bertha Mae Jones Locke)
Obituary:
Mr. George Madison Locke, 68, of Pulaski, died Sunday, Sept. 29, 1992, at
Crockett General Hospital in Lawrenceburg. Funeral services were held
Tuesday,
Oct. 1, at Carr and Erwin Chapel with Bernard Konig and Larry Wilcoxson
officiating. Burial was in Old Shores Cemetery. A native of Tennessee, Mr.
Locke
was the son of the late Sam and Bertha Jones Locke. He was a member of
Shores Church of Christ and retired from the State of Tennessee Highway
Department.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Frances Locke of Pulaski; one son, Danny
Ray Locke of Pulaski; two daughters, Anita James of Pulaski, Sue Johnson o
Corbin,
Ky.; five sisters, Mrs. Grady Glover and Mrs. Bob Johnson, both of
Goodsprings, Mrs. Ruth Banner of Pulaski, Mrs. Bernice Cates of Lexington,
Ala., Mrs. Fount
Webb of Lewisburg; four grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
LOCKE, Mary Frances Wilcoxson 3 Sep 1925, (w/o George Madison Locke; d/o Newt
and Minnie Lou Howard Wilcoxson)
Sources are obviously Giles County Tennessee Cemeteries by the Genealogical
Society 1986, Newspaper abstracts of Giles County Tennessee 1840 - 1899.
Graveyard research by Wayne Austin. Census Records of 1850-1900. Sent in by
Sue Davis years ago