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Crosby County History Book, page 438
Children of Jewel and Carl:
- J.C. Pierce
- James Raymond Pierce
- Quill Pierce
- Lula Mae Pierce Parker Johnson
- Katie Pierce Davis
- Donald Pierce
- Dick Pierce
- David Pierce
PIERCE, Julius Jewell* 9/11/1900 8/3/1947 Born: Texas Father: Quill PIERCE Mother: Elizabeth APPLEGATE (Blue Ridge,Missouri) Religion: Bapt. Survivors: wife, 2 dau, 5 sons, mother. He was the sheriff of Crosby County. Source: Adams Funeral Home Transcribed by Bettye OdomBRANTLEY, Carl Clemmie 2/4/1903 6/29/1988 Born: Hill County,Tx. Father: Dood BRANTLEY Mother: Hattie LAND Survivors: 5 sons, 2 dau., 2 sis, 25 gc, 40 ggc, 6 gg gc. Source: Adams Funeral Home Transcribed by Bettye Odom
Services Set Today
Funeral services for Mr. Pierce will be conducted at 10 o'clock this morning at the Mt. Blanco Baptist church about 15 miles north of Crosbyton, with Rev. E.J. Keith of Odessa, former pastor there, officiating. King Funeral home of Crosbyton is in charge of arrangements.Survivors include the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Billie Parker and Miss Katy Pearl Pierce, of Crosbyton; six sons, J.C., Raymond, Quill, Donald, Dick and David, all living in Crosbyton or vicinity; his father, four brothers and three sisters.
Mr. Pierce was born in Hill county, but had lived in Crosby county nearly all his life.
Pallbearers will be Truman Barnett, Weldon McClure, Leland Caddell, Joe Jackson, L.E. Haynes and Lewis Benton.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, August 1947
Submitted by Donald Pierce
CROSBYTON (Special) - Services for Carl Pierce, 85, of Lubbock will be at 10 a.m. Friday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. David Hartman, pastor of Lubbock´s Emmanuel Baptist Church officiating.The Rev. Wayne R. Williams, pastor of Lubbock´s Parkway Baptist Church, will assist.
Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home.
She died at 9:40 a.m. Wednesday in Lubbock´s Methodist Hospital after a lengthy illness.
She was born in Hill County and moved from Blum to West Texas in 1928. She married Julius Pierce on June 27, 1920, in Covington. He died on Aug. 2, 1947. She was a homemaker and a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church´s Ruth Sunday School Class.
Survivors include five sons, J.C., Quill, Donald and Dick, all of Lubbock, and David of Burleson; two daughters, Lula Mae Johnson of Lubbock and Katie Davis of Crosbyton; two sisters, Doris Zibold of Fort Worth and Willie Pierce of Floydada; 25 grandchildren; 40 great grandchildren; and six great great grandchildren.
Grandsons will be pallbearers.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, June 30, 1988
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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