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Submitted: 4/13/15 • Approved: 4/13/15 • Last Updated: 5/5/15 • R1069454-G1069453-S3
20 Jun 1896 - 21 Jan 1936
Daughter of William Eugene Williams (1850 - 1912)
and Eddie Chambliss Mallory Williams (1857 - 1941)
Wife of John Williams Gatling (1887 - 1931)
Children:
John Williams Gatling (1919 - 1942)
Siblings:
Eugene Williams (1882 - 1939)
Hortense Williams Parker (1889 1950)
Robin Williams (1893 - 1948)
Bessie Mae Williams Gatling (1895 - 1936)
Russell Williams (1896 - 1944
*Obituary
Funeral Services for Mrs.John Gatling Will Be Held 2 p.m. Thursday: Mrs.Bessie Mae Williams Gatling passed away at the Hendricks and Laws Sanitorium in El Paso, Texas, at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. After a long period of ill health, Mrs.Gatling was confined to her bed for a week or more before leaving for El Paso, to which point she was taken two weeks ago. After examination it was deemed necessary that she be taken immediately to Texas for treatment, therefore the trip was made by airplane. Doctors in El Paso differed in their diagnosis over that as pronounced in Memphis, and at the time the exact cause of her death is not definitely known. A great tragedy came into Mrs.Gatling's life in the loss of her husband, who came to his death by drowning on the 19th of December, 1931. and was buried on New Year's day, 1932. The exact manner in which Mr.Gatling met his death has never been determined, and the uncertainity of this, with its attendant sorrow, has been a source of grief through the years which Mrs.Gatling was never able to overcome. Mrs.Gatling was the daughter of Mrs.E.C.Williams and the late Sheriff, William Eugene Williams, one of a family of fifteen children. Born here, her entire life was spent here, she having been a person who loved home and familiar surroundings, and so did not care for travel to other parts. She passed her 40th birthday on Monday of this week. In October, 1916, Mrs.Gatling was united in marriage to John Gatling, and to this union two sons were born, John and William, both of whom survive. The body will be met in Wynne at five o'clock by the W.E.Stevens Funeral Service, being accompanied from El Paso by Miss Leff Winship, of St.Louis, a sister. The body will be taken to the residence of Mrs.Gatling's mother, Mrs.E.C.Williams, to be later moved to the First Methodist Church where services will be held at two o'clock, Thursday afternoon, by Rev.R.S.Hayden, pastor and Rev.H.E.Bullock, rector of the Episcopal Church. Burial will be in City Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be:Bert Mallory, Ned Mallory, Tom Buford, Lindsay Bridgeforth, James Gilliam, Tom Gatling. Surviving Mrs.Gatling are two sons, John and Bill; her mother, Mrs.E.C.Williams; six brothers, Eugene and Russell of this city; Edwin Williams of Hobart, Okla.; W,Williams of Chicago; Robin of Dallas and Mallory of Little Rock; five sisters: Mrs.Lef Winship, of St.Louis; Mrs.M.Atkins, Mrs.George E.Parker, Mrs.Tom Gatling and Mrs.M.Payne of this city.
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Record #: 1069454