John A. Tolley

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TOLLEY/TOLLY, John A.
“Elizabethton Star,” Tuesday, February 17, 1942
JOHN A. TOLLY
John A. Tolly, age 56, died at his home in Hampton, Tuesday morning at 4:45 after an illness of several months.
Mr. Tolley[sic] was a native of Carter county and an employee of N.A.R. Corp. He was a member of the Freewill Baptist church.
Survivors: wife, Mrs. Rosie Tolley; one daughter, Mrs. Hazel Davis; one son, Clyde Tolley; five grandchildren; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Tolley; one sister, Mrs. Bunie Simerly, all of Hampton; one brother, Steven J. Tolley, Baltimore, Md.
The body will be removed from the Roy Hathaway Funeral Home to the home Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock.
Funeral services will be conducted from the Little Doe Freewill Baptist church Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, with the Rev. George Westmoreland and Allan Cates officiating. Burial will be made in Simerly cemetery.
Active pallbearers: Tom Deloach, Neight Street, Donley Bowers, M. E. Brumit, Brownlow Hughes, Harland Oaks.
Flower bearers: Marie Kemp, Christine Whitehead, Lela Stevens, Lorine Carver, Effie Simerly, Lillian Whitehead, Caline Simerly, Viola Tolley.
Honorary pallbearers: Jim Cates, W. N. Cates, Blevins Rhineheart, Jim Tolley, Carl Carden, S. S. Whitehead, Carmon Whitehead, George Morton, Elisha Collins, J. D. Simerly, David Tolley, Charlie Tolley, Wade Slutter, Hensley Clark.

John married Rosa "Rosie" Kemp about 1908. Rosa was born about 1888. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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TOLLEY, Clyde Howard
“Elizabethton Star,” Wednesday, October 13, 1943
CLYDE TOLLEY
Clyde Howard Tolley, age 29, died at the St. Elizabeth Hospital this morning at 3:45 o'clock.
Tolley, a native of Carter county, was a former employee of the North American Rayon Corporation.
Survivors are his wife, Nell Arwood Tolley; two sons, Mutt and Don; one daughter, Wanda; mother, Mrs. Rosa Tolley; one sister, Mrs. Shields Davis; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Tolley.
Funeral services will be conducted from the Little Doe church on Simerly Creek Friday afternoon at two o'clock with the Rev. John Hall, Rev. Stephen Grigsby and Alan Cates officiating.
Burial will be made in Collins Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Earl Johnson, Charlie Jackson, Dave Tolley, Ed Bass, George Wagner, and Zeke Tolley.
Flowerbearers[sic] will be Evelyn Jones, Virginia Potter, Florine Ellis, Ora Miller, Helen Miller, Winnie Beafield, Mary Waycaster, Florence Rash, Mezela Jones, Leola Jones, Betty Ann Brummitt; Marie Kemp, Fannie Kemp, Coline Simerly, Verlie Street, Maude Potter, Leola Stevens, Iva Lee Banner, Judy Miller, Mary Alice Carden and Georgia Carden.
Honorary pallbearers will be Pete and Gurney Campbell, Ike Roberts, George Morton, Harlan Horton, Oris Malone and Herman Jones.
The body will be removed from the Roy Hathaway Funeral Home to the home at Hampton this afternoon at five o'clock

Clyde married Wilma Nelle Arwood on 13 May 1935 in Bristol, , , Virginia. Wilma (daughter of Francis Arwood and Mary Ellen Arnett) was born about 1912 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mrs. Hazel T. Davis, 99, formerly of Hampton, Tenn., passed away Saturday, June 10, 2017, at Hermitage Health Center, Elizabethton.
A native of Carter County, she was the daughter of the late John and Rosa Kemp Tolley.
Mrs. Davis retired from the Coning Department at North American Rayon Corporation. She was a member of Friendship Baptist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Shields A. Davis; three sons, Terry "Poon" Davis Sr., Wayne Davis Sr. and Kenneth Grindstaff; two grandsons, Wayne Davis Jr. and Terry Davis Jr.; and a brother, Clyde Tolley.
Those left to cherish her memory include a daughter, Betty Maggart, Johnson City; a son, Jim Davis and wife Lisa, Hampton; seven grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; a daughter-in-law, Brenda Davis, Hampton; and a niece, Wanda Hyder, Elizabethton.
A graveside service to honor the life of Mrs. Hazel T. Davis will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 14, at Happy Valley Memorial Park with Rev. Ronnie Campbell officiating.

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]