Notes for Thomas Edwin Gresham, Sr. (1985-1947)

17 MEN TO LEAVE FROM MARION CO.

Marion county has been called on to furnish 17 men for military service, and they will be ordered to report next Friday.
...... Marion County Patriot, Vol 43 No. 16, April 12, 1918 Buena Vista, Georgia Friday

If the same ruling that applied to the last call for drafted men applies to this draft, the following young men will be called to report and seven of the white men and ten of the negroes will be sent to Camp Gordon:

White

J.Horace Halley, N E Parker, J A Gill, Carl Rigsby, Alva Duke, H H Miller, T Edwin Rogers, W W Hart, T E Gresham ,

Colored

A B Biggins, Ellis Milner, Ezra Fulse, W H Collins, Anderson Burrow, Floyd Flournoy, Hard Martin, Henry Jones, Julius King, James Moore, Thornton McMurrian, Willis King, Arthur Wright, Munro Harris, Jr, Robert Thomas, Charley Jackson,

Excerpt from a letter dated October 25, 1947 from Mrs. David Wicker to Stella Burleson "Your Uncle Buddy came on morning Seminole (name of train). Your Daddy and Bessie Mae got him about 6:30. He was in a beautiful gray casket draped in a flag. A new dark blue suit, white shirt, blue tie with white dots. He looked so pretty. Was in hospital only 6 days "pneumonia".

.....page 8 of the Leavenworth Times dated October 20, 1947

Death of Veteran

The body of Thomas E. Gresham, a war veteran, who died Sunday night at the Wadsworth hospital, will be removed Tuesday morning from the Davis funeral church to Buena Vista, Ga. for funeral services and interment.

.....The Ellaville Sun Friday, October 24, 1947.

LAST TRIBUTE PAID THURSDAY TO T.E. GRESHAM

Final tribute was paid Thomas Edward Gresham, 52, a native of Schley County, and World War I veteran, at funeral services held at the home of his sister, Mrs. David Dicker (Wicker?), at Putnam, Thursday morning at 11 o'clock.

The Rev. L.M. Spivey officiating and burial was in Ellaville cemetery.

Mr. Gresham died at 7:15 p.m. Sunday in Veterans Hospital, Wadsworth, Kansas.

He was the son of Mr. W.R. Gresham, of Putnam, and the late Mrs. Atta Lissa Stevens Gresham.

Surviving are his father, two sons; T.E., Jr., Columbus, and J.S., Gadsden, Ala., one grandchild; three sisters, Mrs. David Wicker, Putnam; Mrs. T.H. Eason and Mrs. R.L. Thomas, both of Atlanta.

Pallbearers were: Ernest Stevens, R.P. Stevens, O.W. Miller, E.T. Harbuck, E.D. Hart and Billy Snider.