SHORES
(ON HILL) CEMETERY, (On Hill above
old Phillips-Shores Mill site) GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE
Husband
LUCURS, Robert Neal 10 Jan 1887 20 Jul 1961, (h/o Mary Olga Lucurs; (s/o
William E. and Nancy Doggett Lucurs)
Obituary:
Funeral services for Robert Neal Lucas, 74, retired Giles County farmer,
were held at 2 o�clock Saturday afternoon at Shores Church of Christ, with
the burial in the
church cemetery. Mr. Lucas died Thursday afternoon, July 20, at his home in
Pulaski, after a brief illness. Born January 10, 1887, in Lawrence County,
he was
the son of the late William E. Lucas and Nancy Doggett Lucas. Mr. Lucas is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Tipper Lucas; one son, Erskine Miles Lucas,
Shores,
three daughters, Mrs. Velma Powell, Oak Grove, Mrs. Clemmy Raymond,
Cornersville, and Mrs. Stella Defor, Pulaski; twenty grandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren;
three sisters, Mrs. Ada Cates, Choate Creek, Mrs. Lillie Fox, Goodsprings,
and Mrs. Martha Lee, Huntsille, Ala.; and two half-sisters, Mrs. Lila
Campbell, and Mrs. Bertha Harwell, Texas. Bennett-May Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements.
wife
LUCURS, Mary Olga Tipper 5 Jul 1886 8 Oct 1982, (w/o Robert Neal Lucurs;
(d/o George Washington and Nancy Louisa Tabitha Norwood Tipper)
Obituary:
Mrs. Mary Olga Lucurs, 96, of Rt. 2, Pulaski, died Friday, October 8, 1982,
at Giles County Hospital. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Sun., Oct. 10
at Carr
& Erwin Chapel with burial in the Shores Cemetery, the Rev. Mack Pinkelton
officiating. Mrs. Lucurs was the daughter of the late George Washington and
Nannie L.
Norwood Tipper, and widow of the late Robert Neal Lucurs. She is survived by
a son, Erskine Lucurs, Pulaski; three daughters, Mrs. Clemmie Liles,
Pulaski, Mrs.
Velma Powell, Prospect, and Mrs. Stella Defoe, Fairhope, Alabama; 20
grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and 14 great-great-grandchildren.
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. Obit. Sent in
by Sue Davis years ago.