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Millard Franklin Earwood

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Millard Franklin Earwood

Birth
Morgan County, Alabama, USA
Death
27 Nov 1966 (aged 69)
Alabama, USA
Burial
Morgan County, Alabama, USA GPS-Latitude: 34.3131997, Longitude: -86.5897653
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Millard married Ethel Holmes and they had 5 children.

Millard Franklin Earwood, 69, Arab, Ala. died at Huntsville, Ala., November 27, and was buried at Hebron Cemetery, Joppa, Ala. Funeral services were conducted by Marshall Flowers and Clifford Smith.

Survivors include three sons, Doyle F. Earwood, Michigan Christian College, Rochester, Mich.; Donald R. Earwood, Alabama Christian College, Montgomery, Ala. and Wayne Earwood of Huntsville, Ala.; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Whittaker of Selmer, Tenn., and Mrs. Ann Higgins of Huntsville, Ala.; five brothers, John, Ira, Paul, Amos, and Leldon; five sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Clelland and Mrs. Ethel Humphries, Mrs. Armon Whisenant, Mrs. Orean Anderson, and Mrs. Codean Vest and nineteen grandchildren.

Brother Earwood sold his farm at fifty years of age and entered Freed-Hardeman College after sending five children to Christian schools to better prepare himself for more effective work in the Lords kingdom. Has supported himself by insurance work while helping small rural congregations in Alabama and Tennessee. He served as an elder at Pine Street, Florence and congregations at Huntsville, Ala.

He is the third generation of five generations of Earwoods in restoration movement in Northern Alabama and Tennessee. A number of preachers, Christian school teachers, missionary, elders and deacons have come from his grandfather, John Oliver Earwood, who settled in Northern Alabama from Paulding County, Ga. in 1886. The Lords work always came first with Brother Earwood. --Doyle F. Earwood. Gospel Advocate, December 22, 1966, page 814.

Millard married Ethel Holmes and they had 5 children.

Millard Franklin Earwood, 69, Arab, Ala. died at Huntsville, Ala., November 27, and was buried at Hebron Cemetery, Joppa, Ala. Funeral services were conducted by Marshall Flowers and Clifford Smith.

Survivors include three sons, Doyle F. Earwood, Michigan Christian College, Rochester, Mich.; Donald R. Earwood, Alabama Christian College, Montgomery, Ala. and Wayne Earwood of Huntsville, Ala.; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Whittaker of Selmer, Tenn., and Mrs. Ann Higgins of Huntsville, Ala.; five brothers, John, Ira, Paul, Amos, and Leldon; five sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Clelland and Mrs. Ethel Humphries, Mrs. Armon Whisenant, Mrs. Orean Anderson, and Mrs. Codean Vest and nineteen grandchildren.

Brother Earwood sold his farm at fifty years of age and entered Freed-Hardeman College after sending five children to Christian schools to better prepare himself for more effective work in the Lords kingdom. Has supported himself by insurance work while helping small rural congregations in Alabama and Tennessee. He served as an elder at Pine Street, Florence and congregations at Huntsville, Ala.

He is the third generation of five generations of Earwoods in restoration movement in Northern Alabama and Tennessee. A number of preachers, Christian school teachers, missionary, elders and deacons have come from his grandfather, John Oliver Earwood, who settled in Northern Alabama from Paulding County, Ga. in 1886. The Lords work always came first with Brother Earwood. --Doyle F. Earwood. Gospel Advocate, December 22, 1966, page 814.



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