ASHLEY FUNERAL HELD IN COPIAH
Member of Promient Central Central Mississippi Family Dies
HAZLEHURST, Sept 30. - Funeral Funeral services for D. Cicero Ashley, 37, who died in a Jackson hospital after a brief illness were held. at ten o'clock Wednesday, at the First Baptist church, Rev. George P White, Rev. R. H. Clegg and Rev. H. C. Clark, pastors of local churches, officiating. Interment followed in the family burial plot near Sardis Baptist church, several miles east of Hazlehurst.
Mr. Ashley, a member ot a pioneer eastern Copiah family, long prominent in religious and political affairs, a son of the late DaveG Ashley, was a young Federal Land Bank employee and at the present was serving as a district supervisor with headquarters in Jackson. Cicero, as he was known throughout the county, was educated at Mississippi State college: won his masters degree at Auburn and taught school at Greensburg, Ala, and later did work at Gadsden, Ala., with the' government school there. For a number of years he was county agent for Greene county and came to the local Federal Land bank office from that post, and won rapid promotion.
He married Miss Gladys Adkinson, of Selma, Ala while he taught in that state, and to that union was born five children. He nad a wonderful wonderful gift, of making friends, a sunny temperament and took the hugest pains to accommodate his friends and carry a thing to completion His death is the first of ten children.
Those surviving besides his wife are Walter Ashley, Chicago. Thomas Ashley, Starkville; Hembry Ashley, Georgetown: Mrs. Thelma Litten Gulfport; Mrs. Quintoria Thomas. Silver Creek; Miss Ruby Ashley, Georgetown; Mrs. J. O. Wallace, Sardis: Mrs. Steve Windham, Sardis; and Mrs. venida Stitts, Wesson; five children, David. Emma Jo Mildred, Robert and Gdalys Atkinson.
Pallbearers were members of his Masonic lodge. Sol Sherman, Paul M. Kemp, Graham Hales, Gillis Cato, Frank Oswalt and Luther Watson.
Clarion-Ledger, 01 Oct 1936, Thu, Page 7