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- "Elizabethton Star," Tuesday, November 3, 1942
AGED CARTER COUNTIAN DIES
W. B. C. Hyder, 80, retired farmer and member of one of Carter county's oldest and most distinguished families died Tuesday night a 7:50 at his home one and a half miles east of Elizabethton on Doe river. He retired from active life several years ago because of ill health.
Mr. Hyder lived all his life in the house in which he died. He took his bride to be to the ancestral home when he married 55 years ago.
A son of the Rev. J. Hampton Hyder, Baptist minister and one of the old circuit riders of East Tennessee, Mr. Hyder was the oldest member of the First Baptist church in Elizabethton, having been a member of that denomination for 60 years.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Belle Hyder; four daughters, Mrs. Carl Roten, Mrs. Ted Howell and Miss Alice Hyder of Elizabethton, and Mrs. C. J. Wine of Wytheville, Va., two sons, J. Hampton Hyder and W. Ray Hyder of Elizabethton; also seven grandchildren. He was also an uncle of Col. Bob Johnson.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2:30 o'clock from the First Baptist church in Elizabethton, with the Rev. V. Floyd Starke in charge assisted by Rev. James Boyd and Rev. Hamp Hopkins. Burial will be made in Happy Valley Memorial Park.
Music will be in charge of Rev. Keith.
The body will lie in state from 1:30 Wednesday until time for the services.
Active pallbearers: Col. Bob Johnson, Willie T. Johnson, Dan Hyder, Fletcher Hyder, Hyder Banner, J. K. Sharp, James L. Hyder, Kelly Sharp.
Flower bearers: Mesdames Clint Smith, Stewart Lewis, Cale Ellis, Lena White, Mary Nell Haynes, Aron Odom, of Johnson City, Hyder Banner, Lela Richardson, Nannie Sharp, J. K. Sharp, Edith Brumit, Haskel Felty, Dub L. Hyder, Miss Pauline Brumit, Mrs. Primus Dees, Johnson County.
Active pallbearers and flower bearers are requ3est to be at the church at 2:00 p.m.
Honorary pallbearers will be the members of the Dashiel Lodge and they will have charge at the grave.
The body will be returned to the home from the Roy Hathaway Funeral Home Tuesday morning at 11:00 o'clock.
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1862 - 1942 (80 years)
