Mary Jane Clark Friddle, Pulaski Co., AR Submitted by Susan Elaine Waldrep DuPlessis Date: 18 Aug 2001 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permissionto the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ The Greenville News, Greenville, SC, Saturday, May 4, 1935Mrs. Mary Clarke Friddle Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Clarke Friddle, affectionately known to hosts of friends in Greenville as "Granny Friddle" will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Welcome Baptist church of which she was a devoted member. The services will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev. M.M. McCuen, and the body will be laid to rest in the adjoining cemetery.Serving as pallbearers will be W.A. Burns, F.D. Holliday, W.W. Whitmire, W.R. Brown, R.D. Cothran and J.T. McAdams.The members of the deacon's board of the Welcome church will serve as the honorary escort.Mrs. Friddle has been in declining health for some months, but was seriously ill for only a few days, and the news of her death will cause widespread sorrow among the many friends of the family. She was reared in North Carolina, and just prior to locating near Greenville 30 years ago,made her home in Pickens county for a number of years. She was in her 84th year, and her death occurred early yesterday morning at the home ofher son, W.B. Friddle.Mrs. Friddle is survived by the following sons and daughters: W.B. Friddle, of Gantt Station; J.D. Friddle, J.M. Friddle and E.N. Friddle, all of Greenville County; Mrs. W.S. Edens, of Easley and Mrs. E.E. Burgess of Dacusville.She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Lucy Ann Bradshaw of Arkansas; by 37 grandchildren; 53 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Pending the hour of the service, the body is at the residence of Mr. [word(s) obscured] Friddle, near Gantt Station. [FROM: Susan Elaine Waldrep DuPlessis, great-great-granddaughter of Mary Jane Clark Friddle (1851-1935)][NOTE: Two of Mary Jane Clark Friddle's grandchildren say that she was born in Arkansas, probably near Little Rock (Pulaski County). However, Mormon records suggest she may have been born in Columbia County, Ga.]