Melissa Jane (Morley)

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"The Tomahawk," Wednesday, January 4, 1956 [published at a later date]
Mrs. Melissa Jane Morley, 83, died Wednesday, Feb. 22, in the St. Elizabeth Hospital, Elizabethton, after a brief illness. She was a member of Bethel Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, Judge L. B. Morley; three sons, Clyde and Dwight Morley of Mountain City, and Fuller Morley of Middletown, Pa.; five daughters, Mrs. Retta Hart of Elizabethton, Mrs. Evelyn Plantz of Middletown, Pa., Anna Ruth Morley, Mrs. Mildred Shoun, and Minnie Gordon, all of Mountain City; four sisters, Mrs. Lillie Matherly of Elizabethton, Mrs. Mollie Waugh of Mountain City, Mrs. Lennie Smith and Mrs. Winnie Grindstaff, both of Butler; a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be held Saturday, Feb. 25, at 2 p.m., in the home of Rev. Herman Cobb, Elizabethton, and Rev. Truett Cox, Barberville, W.Va., will officiate.
Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery, Mountain City. Gentry Funeral Home in charge.

Melissa married Lafayette Butler "L. B." Morley about 1893 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. Lafayette (son of William Alexander Morley and Elizabeth J. Blevins) was born about 1870 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 20 Apr 1958 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, , Johnson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]