SHORES
(ON HILL) CEMETERY, (On Hill above
old Phillips-Shores Mill site) GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE
LOCKE, Samuel Rollin 16 Aug 1883 9 Jun 1977, (h/o Bertha Mae Jones Locke;
s/o George and Mary Elizabeth Harwell Locke)
Obituary:
Funeral services for Samuel Rollin Locke, 93, of Goodsprings who died
Thursday, June 9 in Crockett General Hospital, Lawrenceburg were conducted
Friday at 3:00
p.m. at Carr and Erwin Chapel by Church of Christ minister Gary Adair.
Burial followed in Shores Cemetery. Mr. Locke was a retired farmer and
Tennessee
native. His parents were the late George and Mary Elizabeth Harwell Locke.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Fount Webb of Lewisburg, Mrs. Bernice
Cates
of Minor Hill, Mrs. Ruth Banner of Pulaski, Mrs. Grady Glover and Mrs.
Louise Johnson, both of Goodsprings; a son George Locke of Pulaski; a
sister, Mrs.
Canvess Glover of Leoma; 16 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren, and 5
great-great-grandchildren.
wife
LOCKE, Bertha M., 9 Jul 1893 - 4 Apr 1962.(w/o Samuel Rollin Locke; d/o
Steve and Magdalene "Maggie" Hester Jones)
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.