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Dewey Emery Charles Dewey Emery Charles was born June 7, 1904 in Jefferson Co., Alabama, the son of Thomas Sherman & Edith Lavicie (White) Charles. He died Mar. 11, 1973 in West Point, Clay Co., Miss. and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, in West Point, Miss.. He married Wilma Louisa Hardiman Apr. 5, 1922 in Lawrence Co., Tenn. Wilma was born July 31, 1904 in Pulaski, Giles Co., Tenn., the daughter of William Robert "Bob"& Fannie Bruce (Britton) Hardiman. She died July 2, 1993 at her home in Cedar Bluff, Clay Co., Miss., and is buried next to Dewey at Greenwood Cemetery. My grandparents moved from Tenn. to Bear Creek, Marion Co., Alabama abt. 1926. and abt. 1943 they moved to Cedar Bluff, Clay Co., Miss.. Dewey was a sharecropper and a fine carpenter. He was also very good at growing things. He could graft fruit trees and had lots of fruit and pecan trees on his place near Cedar Bluff, Miss. He and his father praticed medicine, but wasn't a doctor. His grandfather Henry F. Charles was a doctor for many years in Tallapoosa, Georgia. and many people used to speak of Dr. Charles years ago. Dewey
and Wilma had nine children; Lillian Iola born June 7, 1923;
died July 1923. Willa Mae born July 31, 1924; died June 18, 1998
in Jackson, Madison Co., Tenn. She married Grady Dwight Davis
and William Osie Stafford. Maycel Gene born Dec. 8, 1925; died
Nov. 26, 1960 in West Point, Miss. She married Denver Zane Myers.
Odis Emery born Apr. 25, 1927; died Mar. 4, 2001. He never married.
Gladys Lorine (my mother) was born July 16, 1929 in Bear Creek,
Marion Co., Alabama. She married my father William G. Latham
Sr. Lecil Edward was born May 8, 1934. He married Lildeth Beatrice
Kelly. Vernell Nell was born Jan. 20, 1935. She married James
Ralph Hall. Hazel Gwendolyn was born Feb. 12, 1938. She married
Allen Alton Stringfellow. Jimmy Wayne was born Sept. 16, 1939.
He married Martha House and Katherine Fulgham. Many of Dewey
& Wilmas grandchildren still live today in West Point and
in the Cedar Bluff area of Clay Co., Miss. |
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