Complied June 12, 2025 - Person Sheet
Complied June 12, 2025 - Person Sheet
BirthMay 1850, Lawrence County, Tennessee
MemoFind-a-Grave Headstone
Death28 Jun 1936, Tippah County, Mississippi Age: 86
MemoFind-a-Grave Headstone
BurialLittle Hole Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Falkner, Tippah, Mississippi
MemoFind-a-Grave
FatherLiles Silas Welch (1813-?1870)
MotherSusannah Pauline Mauldin (1820-1880)
Notes for Solon Olonzo Welch
From Find-a-Grave
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND MOST RESPECTED CITIZENS IN THE COUNTY PASSED AWAY EARLY LAST SUNDAY WHEN ALONZO WELCH, AGE 86, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, VIRGIL WELCH, EAST OF FALKNER. HE HAD BEEN MAKING HIS HOME WITH HIS SON FOR SOME TIME. HIS WIFE HAVING PASSED AWAY SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
THE FUNERAL AND BURIAL WAS AT LITTLE HOPE ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON, REV. WHITE HAD CHARGE OF THE SERVICE, ASSISTED BY REV. W.C. WALLIS. MR. S.S. FINGER OF RIPLEY MADE A BRIEF TALK IN WHICH HE SPOKE HIGHLY OF THE DECEASED. MR. WELCH WAS A SPLENDID CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN, AND HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH FOR NEARLY THREE-FOURTHS OF A CENTURY.
HE IS SURVIVED BY THE FOLLOWING SONS AND DAUGHTERS; VIRGIL WELCH, L.T. WELCH, MRS. JEFF REED, MRS. ALICE HILL, MRS. WILL CHILDERS, ALL OF THIS COUNTY; JOHN WELCH OF MEMPHIS, JIM WELCH AND WALTER WELCH BOTH OF MT. PLEASANT, TX. HE WAS THE GRANDFATHER OF MRS. TOM BRADDOCK OF RIPLEY, AND IS SURVIVED BY A NUMBER OF OTHER GRANDCHILDREN AND RELATIVES.
R.L. NANCE S CO. HAD CHARGE OF THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.
OBIT-SOUTHERN SENTINEL JULY 2. 1936:
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND MOST RESPECTED CITIZENS IN THE COUNTY PASSED AWAY EARLY LAST SUNDAY WHEN ALONZO WELCH, AGE 86, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, VIRGIL WELCH, EAST OF FALKNER. HE HAD BEEN MAKING HIS HOME WITH HIS SON FOR SOME TIME. HIS WIFE HAVING PASSED AWAY SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
THE FUNERAL AND BURIAL WAS AT LITTLE HOPE ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON, REV. WHITE HAD CHARGE OF THE SERVICE, ASSISTED BY REV. W.C. WALLIS. MR. S.S. FINGER OF RIPLEY MADE A BRIEF TALK IN WHICH HE SPOKE HIGHLY OF THE DECEASED. MR. WELCH WAS A SPLENDID CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN, AND HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH FOR NEARLY THREE-FOURTHS OF A CENTURY.
HE IS SURVIVED BY THE FOLLOWING SONS AND DAUGHTERS; VIRGIL WELCH, L.T. WELCH, MRS. JEFF REED, MRS. ALICE HILL, MRS. WILL CHILDERS, ALL OF THIS COUNTY; JOHN WELCH OF MEMPHIS, JIM WELCH AND WALTER WELCH BOTH OF MT. PLEASANT, TX. HE WAS THE GRANDFATHER OF MRS. TOM BRADDOCK OF RIPLEY, AND IS SURVIVED BY A NUMBER OF OTHER GRANDCHILDREN AND RELATIVES.
R.L. NANCE S CO. HAD CHARGE OF THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.
OBIT-SOUTHERN SENTINEL JULY 2. 1936: