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Tragic train wreck victim Willie Gardiner laid to rest
The body of Willie Gardiner arrived after the E. and W. wreck near Humble on December 13. He was laid in state at home near Shelbyville before funeral rites at Todds Spring Baptist church and burial in McWilliam cemetery. Gardiner, a Mason and Mosaic, left a wife and many friends. funeral attendees included Miss Annie Lee Hearne and Miss Eliza McCary.
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Willie Gardiner
Humble
Shelbyville
Todds Spring Baptist Church
McWilliam
Gardiner
Annie Lee Hearne
Carroll School
Eliza McCary
Jas. Hicks
Todds
Dorothy Fisher
V. Griggs
Mauline Osby
A. G. Greer
T. A. Amos
Diboll
Texas
J. Henderson
Russell Foman
P. R. Taylor
L. T. Boggus
Leonard Kennedy
Nacogdoches High School
Jacob Kennedy
Ruth White
Jeanes
Cherokee County
A. Snow
Mary Snow
T. B. Robinson
Tyler
Bro
W. B. Lattimore
Earl Pye
Palestine
Finnie Smith
J. A. Smith
Kerens
Bro. J. Bradford
Rusk High School
J. H. Polk
Hattie Stevens
Elenor Stevens
J. M. Pye
Hannah Franklin
M. BE. Boggus
Isiah Penson
Tom Banks
Geo. Bradford
the Express
District Court
Rusk
Major Smith
Lucy Lattimore
Lizzie Bradley
Susan Hall
Leola Chandler
Annie Alexander
Misa Annie Bell Smith
Little Floy Boggus
Samuel Robinson
Onear Thompson
L. T. Bogeus
Browns Barbershop
Mineral Wells
Beulah Roberts
Nacogdoches
A. M. BE
Cleburne
Bennie Gales
Crrancana
Feela Hadley
Union
First Baptist Church
Shepperd
Seguin
Gainesville
B. J. Brown
National Baptist Convention
Sadie Blackman
Louisville
James Edward Thomas
St. James, M. B
Bertie Kentz
Pearl Glenn
FE. Burkhalter
Zion Hill First
Williams
E. T. Academy
Stewart
Thrillkill
Tennessee
John T. Ratecliffe
Houston
C. Hightower
Sam Davis
W. Claude St
Corsicana
Lewis Burns
The
Vine Baptist Church
Tyler Hi
St. James, M. &. Church