Forget Me Not: Betty Jane Pierce, 2000 MS

Betty Jane Pierce

17 July 1937 MS - 15 May 2000 MS

My first cousin, once removed

Photograph from Find A Grave

Memorial #101806357

Betty Jane Pierce, 62, of Tylertown, died May 15, 2000, at Forest General Hospital in Hattiesburg. Visitation is 10 am Wednesday at Capps Funeral Home in Tylertown until services there at 2 pm. The Revs. Albert Pendarves and Tony Davis will officiate. Burial will be in Tylertown Cemetery. Miss Pierce was born July 17, 1937, in Walthall County. She was the daughter of Arlie Wesley Pierce and Lyda Merle Brown Pierce. She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother, Curtis Pierce. Survivors include two brothers, Malcom B. Pierce of Mobile, Ala., and E. J. Pierce of Tylertown; two sisters, Iris Brock of Mobile and Wesley Lessinger of Metaire, La.; and a host of nieces and nephews.

Source: Betty J. Pierce (McComb, MS: Enterprise-Journal, 16 May 2000) 12; digital image, Newspapers.com: accessed Feb. 2018.

Forget Me Not: Arlie Wesley Pierce

Arlie Wesley Pierce

27 January 1898 MS - 7 March 1993 MS

Son of Eddie Wesley Pierce & Alice Lenoir Brock

Arlie was the husband of Lyda Mearl Brown, my great aunt. Lyda was the mother of the children named in this obituary. Lyda died in 1979. She is not mentioned in this obituary but it does reveal that he had a second wife. 

Arlie W. Pierce

Tylertown. Arlie Wesley Pierce, 96, of Tylertown, died March 7, 1993 at Seventh Ward General Hospital in Hammond, La. Services were 1 pm today in Hartman-Hughes Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. A. J. Lovas and the Rev. Carl Case officiated. Burial was in Tylertown Cemetery. Mr. Pierce was born Jan. 27, 1897 in Old Pike County. He was the son of Eddie Wesley Pierce and Alice Lenoir Brock Pierce. He was a farmer. He is survived by his wife, Lexie Mae Thompson Pierce of Kentwood, La.; two sons, E. J. Pierce of Tylertown and Malcolm Pierce of Mobile, Ala.; three daughters, Iris Brock of Chickasaw, Ala., Wesley Leissinger of Metairie, La., and Betty Jane Pierce of Tylertown; one sister, WIlda Smith of Tylertown, eight grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren and four great- great grandchildren.

Source: Arlie Wesley Pierce (McComb, MS: Enterprise-Journal, 9 Mar 1993) 12; digital image, Newspapers.com: Accessed February 2018.

Photograph from FindAGrave

Memorial #101806348

Cattle Theft, 1968 MS

This interesting bit of news turned up in a recent search for my family on Newspapers.com.

Arlie Pierce was the husband of my great aunt, Lyda Mearl Brown. 
They had a farm in Waltham County, MS. I wonder if the stolen calves were returned.

Thaniel Hill, alias Bud Hill, who pleaded guilty to an indictment of grand larceny by cattle theft, was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary and three years probation. Dist. Atty. Joe Pigott said Hill admitted guilt in stealing three calves from Arlie Pierce on Jan. 9, 1968.

Source: Other Cases (McComb, MS: Enterprise-Journal, 16 Feb 1968) 3; digital image, Newspapers.com: accessed March 2018.

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Arlie Pierce

1898 MS - 1993 LA

son of Ed & Alice Pierce

husband of Lyda Mearl Brown, my grand aunt

I welcome more information about Arlie Pierce.

March Family Birthdays, March 1 - 15

Is your birthday coming soon? Maybe you share your special day with someone in our family who came before. Look below and see. Happy Birthday!

1 March    

1776    Anna Margaretha RITTER
1807    Jesse BRUMFIELD
1885    Julia MULLANE was born in Tipperary, Ireland, daughter of Daniel MULLANE & Brigid ENGLISH. She married Timothy HORGAN in 1916. She died in 1918.

2 March    

1827    Josiah BRUMFIELD
1890    Bessie Ella Bella SMITH
 1904    Bertha Flickinger lived her life in Ohio, daughter of Andrew & Emma FLICKINGER. She married Charles Forest MARK in 1923. She wrote a short genealogy of the MARK family.
1914    Cecil Clare FORTENBERRY
1915    Zelda Marie ALFORD
1920    Iris Elizabeth PIERCE

3 March    

 1892    Denny Herbert SMITH was born in Mississippi. He married Mavis Marie BROWN, daughter of Jasper Pascal RBOWN and Rose Ella BRUMFIELD.
1934    Lemuel Jerome FORTENBERRY

4 March    

1861    Willis Monroe FORTENBERRY
1877    Gertrude HAWK was born in Ohio, daughter of William HAWK & Elizabeth RITTER. She married E RAUDEBAUGH.

5 March    

1838    William L. DAVIS
1880    Irene Edith WOLF
 1924    Sylvia Rayleen BROWN was born in Louisiana, daughter of Roy Jesse BROWN and Mary Thelma ELLZEY. She married Jessie Miles HALL in 1942. They had five children.

6 March    

1772    Heinrich FRANTZ
1882    Jesse Lamar SIMMONS
 1920    Mary Alice ALFORD was born in Louisiana, daughter of Dewitt William ALFROD & Ina Lucille BROWN. She married George BENNETT.

7 March    

1847    Michael COYLE
1891    Maryanne COYLE was born in Connecticut, daughter of Patrick COYLE & Margaret BRADY. She married William F CASS.

8 March    

1870    Infant RITTER was born in Ohio, child of Isaac RITTER & Isabell FISHER. Mother & child died in childbirth.
1894    John N. LOBAUGH

9 March    

 1801    Isaac BRUMFIELD was born in South Carolina, son of John BRUMFIELD & Margaret KELLY. Isaac married Elizabeth HOLMES. Their children were: Nathaniel, Jesse, Harrison & Lucy Jane.
1839    Adam WOLF
1839    Anna Maria Catherine WOLF
1894    Napoleon BLADES

10 March    

 1820    Philip RITTER was born in Pennsylvania, son of Johannes RITTER, Jr. & Anna Mariah. Philip married Louisa Ann KOPE. Their children were: Jacob, Henry & Mary.
1838    David Jackson MCCLENDON
1899    Helen Lucille JOLLIFF
1900    Charles Cecil WOLF

11 March    

 1789    Daniel RITTER was born in Pennsylvania, son of Martin RITTER & Anna Margaret STEININGER. He married Lydia KNAUSS in 1812. They had three children.
1849    Hamilton WOLF

12 March    

1856    Benjamin C. FORTENBERRY
1881    Forest Emerson HAWK was born in Ohio, son of William HAWK & Elizabeth RITTER. He married Millicent COX. He’s my first cousin, three times removed.
1892    Spurgeon Ira SMITH
1915    Lemuel Q. FORTENBERRY
1933    Onice Levaughn CUTRER in Alabama
     
13 March    

1828    Samantha E. BROWN
1829    John Shaffer ELLZEY Jr.
1888    Anna Ora Chloe MILLER
 1913    Ruth Grace HURD was born in Michigan, daughter of Roy HURD & Mona D. MORRISON. Ruth married John WORTMAN. Their children were: Brenda, John & Danny.

14 March    

1834    Ann Julina RITTER
1845    Ancil Green SMITH was the son of Jeremiah SMITH & Pernecia SMITH. Ancil died 18 June 1862, at the age of 17. Ancil was killed in the Civil War.
1857    Peter Jonathan MOORE

15 March    

1837    Martin Penn BRUMFIELD was born in Louisiana, the son of Nathaniel BRUMFIELD & Charlotte Temple OTT. He served as a Private and later as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Louisiana Infantry. He died in 1862.
1929    Dana Jacob MARK in Ohio

   

February Family Birthdays, February 1 - 15

Is your birthday coming soon? Maybe you share your special day with someone in our family who came before. Look below and see. Happy Birthday!

1 February    

1787    Nancy PERKINS was the second wife of Moses Brown. His first wife, Sarah ROBERTSON, died in 1810 in Georgia. She had four children. She was my 4th great grandmother. Nancy had seven children, 4 daughters and 3 sons.
1861    Euseba Fortenberry REGAN
1884    Clara Estella WOLF
     
2 February    

1805    Christian BROWN
1842    Samuel RITTER
1853    Samuel WOLF

1856    Sarah Euseba Elizabeth ELLZEY
1906    Otera PIERCE
 1915    Francis WEISBERG was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Frank Samuel Weisberg & Florence Gartner. He was my first cousin, once removed.  He was a furniture salesman at one time. Late in life he moved to Florida.

3 February    

1717    Maria Magdalena WOLF
1792    Jacob RITTER
1924    Harold Jay NEE was born in Ohio, the son of Roy Edward Nee and Isabell Esther Mark. He and his wife, Pauline, had four children.  He served in the US Army during World War II.

4 February    

1932    Dick Alvin PARKER was born in Ohio, the son of Ralph Alvin Parker & Nellie Irene Jolliff. Dick and his wife, Bonita, had three children.

5 February    

1810    Sarah BROWN was born in Georgia, daughter of Moses BROWN and Sarah ROBERTSON. She married Gasua Chapman Fortenberry. They had nine children. Sarah died in 1883 in Mississippi.
1890    Harvey Allen RITTER
1899    Nellie Lavinia MESSMORE
1928    Donald Ray BROPHY

6 February    

1886    Edward MESSMORE
1936    Loyal David NOTHSTEIN
1925    James Joseph COYLE was born in Connecticut, son of James Joseph Coyle & Madeline Herbst. He married Barbara Kozlak. They had three children.

7 February   

 1777    Moses BROWN was one of eight children of Edward BROWN. He died 27 February 1838 in Mississippi. He was my 4th great grandfather.
1828    Aderine Mary FAULK
1857    Barbary Ann RITTER
1880    James Benton MARK
1884    Lulu Mabel HAWK

8 February    

1775    Johan Jonas WOLF
1887    Catherine MULLANE was born in Ireland, was one of twelve children of Daniel Mullane and Brigid English. 
1890    Roger T. ELLZEY

9 February 

1819    Margaret BRUMFIELD was born in Louisiana, daughter of Willis BRUMFIELD and Nancy Virginia HOLMES. She married John Seaborn ALFORD, son of Jacob ALFORD and Frances SEABORN.
1920    Virginia Caroline MOORE

10 February  

1891    Infant Girl ALFORD was born in Mississippi, the 12th child of Needham Edwin ALFORD & Mary Luzina Stafford. The baby died on the day she was born.
1905    Homer Grant SHEETS

11 February  

1828    Henrietta C. RITTER
1883    Emaline Floy MOORE was born in Ohio, daughter of Peter Jonathan Moore & Caroline Louise Gruissy. On 14 February 1901 she married Arther Spice.

12 February 

1773    Adam WOLF
1797    Jonas MOYER
1825    Hollis Horton FORTENBERRY
1877    William M. MARK
1896    Earnest T. ELLZEY
1938    Peggy BROWN was the daughter of Hubert Allen BROWN & Freddie SMITH. She married George Alford. She was my father’s first cousin.
      
13 February   

 1840    William Franklin FORTENBERRY was born in Mississippi, son of Gasua Chapman Fortenberry & Sarah Brown.  He married Mariah B. Hall. He was known as ‘Black Frank’.
1852    H. K. FORTENBERRY
1872    Bernard COYLE
1895    Ralph William WOLF

14 February    

1804    George KRICK
1811    Eliza SMITH was born in Mississippi, one of thirteen children of Jeremiah SMITH & Joanna DILLON.  She died 6 April 1837, at the age of 26.
1860    Salena Lena BLADES
1910    Margaret Mary BRADY

15 February    

1839    Jesse A. BRUMFIELD
1879    Lemuel Q. FORTENBERRY
1904    Effie Margaret CARTER was born in Ohio, daughter of Frank CARTER & Sadie MAPES. She married James Everett MARK on 31 December 1924. They had 11 children.
1905    Floy Alma SPICE