SHORES
(ON HILL) CEMETERY, (On Hill above
old Phillips-Shores Mill site) GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE
Husband
SMITH, Junus Gifford 19 Apr 1924 13 Jan
1992, (h/o Virginia Marie Smith; s/o Charlie and Sarah Elizabeth Childress
Smith) PFC US Army World War II
Obituary:
Mr. Junus Gifford Smith, 67, of Pulaski, died Monday, Jan. 13, 1992, at
Pulaski Health Care Center. Funeral services were held Wednesday, Jan. 15,
at Carr
and Erwin Chapel with James Prewitt officiating. Burial was in Old Shores
Cemetery. Mr. Smith was a native of Giles County, the son of the late
Charlie and Lizz
Childress Smith and was married to the late Virginia Marie Phillips Smith.
He was a veteran of World War II and retired from Fafnir. Survivors include
one daughter,
Joan Hocker of Santa Fe, Tenn.; three brothers, Solomon Smith of Columbia,
Archie Smith of Pulaski, Cecil Smith of Detroit, Mich.; four sisters, Kay
Shelton
and Sarah Kolwaski, both of Portland, Oregon, Janie Hunt and Polly Thompson,
both of Oklahoma; two grandchildren.
Wife
SMITH, V. Marie 25 Dec 1926 - 15 Jun 1991, (w/o Junus Gifford Smith; d/o
Spencer and Lizzie Jones Phillips)
Obituary:
Mrs. Virginia Marie Smith, 64, of Pulaski, died Saturday, June 15, 1991, at
Maury Regional Hospital in Columbia. Funeral services were held Monday, June
17, at Carr and Erwin Chapel with James Prewitt officiating. Burial was in
Shores Cemetery. A native of Tennessee, Mrs. Smith was the daughter of the
late Spencer
and Lizzie Jones Phillips. Survivors include her husband, Gifford Smith of
Pulaski; one daughter, Joan Smith Hocker of Santa Fe; two brothers, Milas
Phillips of
Columbia, Jimmy Phillips of North Carolina; three sisters, Nina Cole of
North Carolina, Corene Keeter and Dorothy Arnold, both of Lawrenceburg; two
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.