Mrs. Jesse M. Byrd passed away at her home here Sunday, December 28 at 12 o'clock noon. She suffered a stroke in April of this year and for sometime was treated in the Methodist hospital, Hattiesburg. At intervals during the summer and fall she had other strokes from which she constantly grew weaker until the end came Sunday.
Before her marriage to Mr. Byrd in the winter of 1917, she was Miss Daisy Fay Jordan, primary teacher in the local school, and whose home was near Collins, Miss.
Immediate survivors are her husband, Jesse M. Byrd, who represents Greene county in the lower house of the state legislature, one son Jay Byrd, enlistee in the U. S. Navy, and stationed at Pensacola, Florida; one daughter, Nell Byrd, who was a member of the 1941 graduating class of the Leakesville high school. She was also foster mother ot another little girl, Jimma Byrd, whom she had reared from infancy; six sisters, Mesdames C. E. Bass, Leo Stewart, Sam Flynt and W. T. Koch, all of Poplarville, Miss.; Mrs. Tom Herrington, Patterson, Miss., and Mrs. Effie Mayfield, Mount Olive, Miss. Three brothers, O. C. Jordan, Collins, Wylie Jordan, Mount Olive, and Huey Jordan, Poplarville, and her father, J. B. Jordan, of Collins, Miss.
The funeral was conducted in the Salem community Baptist church, four miles northwest of Collins, with Rev. W. E. Stewart, Baptist pastor of Leakesville in charge. He was assisted by Rev. Rogers, pastor of the Salem church and a life long friend of the deceased.
McKay Funeral Home of Lucedale, Miss., was in charge of the body. Published in the Greene County [MS] Herald, 2 Jan 1942. Extracted by B-24Co-pilotBro.
Mrs. Jesse M. Byrd passed away at her home here Sunday, December 28 at 12 o'clock noon. She suffered a stroke in April of this year and for sometime was treated in the Methodist hospital, Hattiesburg. At intervals during the summer and fall she had other strokes from which she constantly grew weaker until the end came Sunday.
Before her marriage to Mr. Byrd in the winter of 1917, she was Miss Daisy Fay Jordan, primary teacher in the local school, and whose home was near Collins, Miss.
Immediate survivors are her husband, Jesse M. Byrd, who represents Greene county in the lower house of the state legislature, one son Jay Byrd, enlistee in the U. S. Navy, and stationed at Pensacola, Florida; one daughter, Nell Byrd, who was a member of the 1941 graduating class of the Leakesville high school. She was also foster mother ot another little girl, Jimma Byrd, whom she had reared from infancy; six sisters, Mesdames C. E. Bass, Leo Stewart, Sam Flynt and W. T. Koch, all of Poplarville, Miss.; Mrs. Tom Herrington, Patterson, Miss., and Mrs. Effie Mayfield, Mount Olive, Miss. Three brothers, O. C. Jordan, Collins, Wylie Jordan, Mount Olive, and Huey Jordan, Poplarville, and her father, J. B. Jordan, of Collins, Miss.
The funeral was conducted in the Salem community Baptist church, four miles northwest of Collins, with Rev. W. E. Stewart, Baptist pastor of Leakesville in charge. He was assisted by Rev. Rogers, pastor of the Salem church and a life long friend of the deceased.
McKay Funeral Home of Lucedale, Miss., was in charge of the body. Published in the Greene County [MS] Herald, 2 Jan 1942. Extracted by B-24Co-pilotBro.
Family Members
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Girault Jordan
1880–1930
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Oliver Clifton Jordan
1882–1970
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Effie Mae Jordan Mayfield
1884–1943
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Hollye Estelle Jordan Bass
1886–1962
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James Wiley Jordan
1888–1961
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Susan Jordan Herrington
1890–1973
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Margaret Emile Jordan Flynt
1892–1981
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Anna Lee Jordan Stewart
1895–1977
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Dewey Jordan
1897–1930
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Charley Jordan
1899–1901
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Huey Basil Jordan
1900–1957
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Willie Mae Jordan Koch
1904–1982
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