Spouse links and obituary from suggested correction, November 2013 by Jesse R. Mitchell.
"MATTHEWS, Bedford Leroy. The Pulaski Citizen 13 Jun 1962.
Funeral services for Bedford Leroy Matthews, 96, lifelong resident of the Hopewell Community of Maury County, were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home in Columbia, with the burial in Hopewell Cemetery, south of Columbia. Mr. Matthews died at 2 o'clock Monday morning, June 11, at Maury County Hospital after several years of declining health.
A member of the Methodist Church and a Master Mason, Mr. Matthews was the son of the late W. R. H. Matthews and Fannie Garrett Matthews, members of pioneer Maury County families.
His first wife, Mrs. Emma Pollman Matthews, died November 10, 1922.
Mr. Matthews is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Maggie Cheatham Matthews; and three sons, Bedford Ivan Matthews, Madison, Duncan Matthews, Hopewell Community, Maury County and Major Joe Matthews, Officer of National Guard Battalion, Columbia; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild; and two sisters, Mrs. F. W. Dever, Stiversville, and Mrs. Morgan Elliott, Columbia."
"MATTHEWS, Bedford Leroy. The Pulaski Citizen 13 Jun 1962.
Funeral services for Bedford Leroy Matthews, 96, lifelong resident of the Hopewell Community of Maury County, were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home in Columbia, with the burial in Hopewell Cemetery, south of Columbia. Mr. Matthews died at 2 o'clock Monday morning, June 11, at Maury County Hospital after several years of declining health.
A member of the Methodist Church and a Master Mason, Mr. Matthews was the son of the late W. R. H. Matthews and Fannie Garrett Matthews, members of pioneer Maury County families.
His first wife, Mrs. Emma Pollman Matthews, died November 10, 1922.
Mr. Matthews is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Maggie Cheatham Matthews; and three sons, Bedford Ivan Matthews, Madison, Duncan Matthews, Hopewell Community, Maury County and Major Joe Matthews, Officer of National Guard Battalion, Columbia; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild; and two sisters, Mrs. F. W. Dever, Stiversville, and Mrs. Morgan Elliott, Columbia."
Spouse links and obituary from suggested correction, November 2013 by Jesse R. Mitchell.
"MATTHEWS, Bedford Leroy. The Pulaski Citizen 13 Jun 1962.
Funeral services for Bedford Leroy Matthews, 96, lifelong resident of the Hopewell Community of Maury County, were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home in Columbia, with the burial in Hopewell Cemetery, south of Columbia. Mr. Matthews died at 2 o'clock Monday morning, June 11, at Maury County Hospital after several years of declining health.
A member of the Methodist Church and a Master Mason, Mr. Matthews was the son of the late W. R. H. Matthews and Fannie Garrett Matthews, members of pioneer Maury County families.
His first wife, Mrs. Emma Pollman Matthews, died November 10, 1922.
Mr. Matthews is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Maggie Cheatham Matthews; and three sons, Bedford Ivan Matthews, Madison, Duncan Matthews, Hopewell Community, Maury County and Major Joe Matthews, Officer of National Guard Battalion, Columbia; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild; and two sisters, Mrs. F. W. Dever, Stiversville, and Mrs. Morgan Elliott, Columbia."
"MATTHEWS, Bedford Leroy. The Pulaski Citizen 13 Jun 1962.
Funeral services for Bedford Leroy Matthews, 96, lifelong resident of the Hopewell Community of Maury County, were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home in Columbia, with the burial in Hopewell Cemetery, south of Columbia. Mr. Matthews died at 2 o'clock Monday morning, June 11, at Maury County Hospital after several years of declining health.
A member of the Methodist Church and a Master Mason, Mr. Matthews was the son of the late W. R. H. Matthews and Fannie Garrett Matthews, members of pioneer Maury County families.
His first wife, Mrs. Emma Pollman Matthews, died November 10, 1922.
Mr. Matthews is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Maggie Cheatham Matthews; and three sons, Bedford Ivan Matthews, Madison, Duncan Matthews, Hopewell Community, Maury County and Major Joe Matthews, Officer of National Guard Battalion, Columbia; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild; and two sisters, Mrs. F. W. Dever, Stiversville, and Mrs. Morgan Elliott, Columbia."
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