ROSE HILL CEMETERY, COLUMBIA TENNESSEE
BATTS, Jane Hortense, 1909 - 1949. (Orbit, not
date, probably Columbia Herald: " Mrs. Jane Hortense Batts, 40, wife of
Thomas Norman Batts, Jr., died about 3 P.M. Monday at her home at 1022 Woodland
Street after a long illness. Mrs. Batts, daughter of the late William Henry and
Hollie Burton Pigg Fields, was born and reared in Columbia. She was a resident
of Columbia all her life and for 20 years, a teacher in McDowell School. She was
a member of the Methodist Church for 30 years. Survivors are her husband; one
daughter, Mrs. Wallace Journey, Columbia; one sister, Mrs. Grady Cothran,
Amherst, Ohio; one brother, J.C. Fields, Columbia; one half sister, Mrs.
Gertrude Robins, Birmingham; and one grandson Wallace Gray Journed, Columbia.
Funeral service will be held at 5 p.m. today at the First Methodist Church and
will be conducted by the Rev. W.M. Cook, assisted by Elder Leon C. Burns.
Remains will be at the home until time for services..........Interment will be
in the Rose Hill cemetery with Williams Funeral home in charge." )
Obit posted by Linda Batts Howell.
Sent here by MB Richardson, 2009
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