The Diary of Mary Johnson Link Hester (b
The Diary of Mary Johnson Link Hester
(b. 1872 d. 1953)

Part Eighteen - January 1933 - December 1933

January 1933


Will Pond died Jan 2, 1933. Buried the 5th of Jan.
Bud Reeds wife died Jan 4, 1933. Age 54 years.
Mr. Jim Gilbert died Jan 5, 1932. Age 76. Song's Safe in the arms of Jesus, Death is only a dream, In the Garden. God will take care of you. Oh Why not to night. Sung at the grave. Rock of Ages. Text of funeral What shall I do to be saved.
Henry Covington died Jan 5, 1933.
Former President Calvin Coolidge died Jan 5, 1933 age 69 year. Birthday July 4.
Mrs. Bettie Lovell died Jan 4, 1933.
Uncle Bob Evans died Jan 6, 1933.
Lizzie Rainwater moved to Sandersville Tenn, Jan 3, 1933.
Aunt Viola Griffin died Jan 8, 1933. Age 77 years.
Former Governor Benton McMillan died Jan 8, 1933. Age 87 years. His last words was "I'm feeling fine."
Mr. Willis Morris died Jan 11, 1933.
Mrs. Rainwwater died Jan 1933. Age 81 years mother of John and Al Rainwater.
Mr. Dink Gentry died Jan 13, 1933.
Charlie Marlin Jones died Jan 23, 1933. Age 4 months and 5 days.
W. Allison Buntin killed Ramsey Lewis Jan 26, 1933. Buntins age 56. Lewis 36 years.
Beulah Wise Hardaway died Jan 23, 1933.
Mrs. Dora Gass spent the night with us. Jan 24, 1933.
Clarence Duffer and Cora Whitley married Jan 29, 1933.

February 1933


Mrs. E. P. Dickerson died Feb 6, 1933.
Hugh got his little pup Feb 5, 1933. Named him Jack.
A little child of John Pleasant died Feb 7, 1933. Age 2 y.
Elijah Guild died Feb 6, 1933.
The 8th of Feb was the coldest time we have had in a long time. 1933.
Will Groves and Rena Dancer married Feb 5, 1933 (Col).
Uncle Lewis Covington died Feb 21, 1933 (Col).
Mr. Bob Porter died Feb 14, 1933. A Tobacco buyer at Orlinda Tenn.
Claude H. Coble and Ruth Edna Legge married Feb 28, 1933.

March 1933


William Link died March 8, 1933. Age 78. A brother of Henry Link.
Big Walter Wilkerson died March 20, 1933.
James C. Johnson died March 7, 1933, age 77.
Guisippi Zangara died March 20, 1933. Died in the electric chair for killing Cermak shooting at President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Leslie Wiseman and Bessie Riggsbi married March 18, 1933.
John B. Humbritch died March 28, 1933.
Isor Starks and Louise Riggsbi married 1933.
Montris and Rubie Laymon married March 4, 1933.
Jimmie D. Upchurch and _? May Ray married 1933.
Eula Fisher Hesters little baby born March 31, 1933.

April 1933


Erwin Harden died April 10, 1933.
Ann Pitt died April 26, 1933. Live in West Tennessee.

May 1933


Humbritch, Langlors and Johnson's Firm destroyed by fire. May 30, 1933.

June 1933


Ann Batey died June 18, 1933.
Frank Legge died June 19, 1933. Age 57, 5m, 8 days.
A little child of Luther Clubbs died June 17, 1933.
The Wise boy's killed Dock Clark June 1933.

July 1933


I went home with Mrs. Wallmarth June 26 and came home July 2, 1933.
Clara Ruth Rodgers and Spencer Crafton married July 31, 1933.
Leo Rodger house burned down July 4, 1933.
Mrs. Ostoen died July 5, 1933. Age 73.

August 1933


Link reunion Aug 20, 1933.
Nannie Belle Linson's little baby born Aug 2, 1933.
Judge W. L. McKenney died Aug 23, 1933.
Henry Bryant went to the Vanderbilt Hospital Aug 2 and died Aug 7, 1933.
Morgan Suttle died Aug 26, 1933.
We spent the day with Jimmie and Ellen Link Aug 15, 1933.
Carman Briley and Myrtle Cook married Aug 17 (19?), 1933.

September 1933


Born to Edwin Conquest and wife a girl Sept 21, 1933.
Born to Floyd Lambert and wife a girl Sept 20, 1933.
Born to Cleo Link and wife a girl Sept 22, 1933.
Earnest Summers and Omie Walker married Sept 25, 1933.
Died Roger Leon Glover a son of R. L. Glover and Hassie Crafton Glover. Sept 21, 1933. Age 3 years, 10 m, 21 days.
Myrtle B. Johnson came to see us Sept 24, 1933 and went home Sept 30.
George W. Redmon was killed Sept 1933 a Police at Nashville, Tenn.

October 1933


Tom Sawyers died Oct 5, 1933. A brother in law of John Groves.
Mrs. Ida L. Eidson died Oct 5, 1933. Age 69 years.
Alison Buntin died Oct 22, 1933.
Mrs. Jessie Wilkerson's little boy born dead Oct 27, 1933.
Vivian Legge and Walter Allen married Oct 18, 1933.

November 1933


Lula May Greer Miller died Nov 8, 1933.
Nannnie Latimer Polk died Nov 15, 1933. Just 7 weeks difference in her's and her husband's death L. T. Polk.

December 1933


Mrs. Eula Daniel Kirkpatrick died Dec 8, 1933 age 35. A sister to Ethealean Wilkerson.
Mrs. Zelma Brazell Ripy died Dec 12, 1933. Age 57. A sister to Cora Wilkerson.
Bud Harper died Dec 22, 1933. Age 71.
Misses Louise Linson and Agness spent the might with me and Irby Dec 25, 1933.
Miss. Estell Briley spent the day with us Dec 27, 1933.
Franklin Sumers got scalded Dec 25, 1933.
Same Esque died Dec 31, 1933.


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