Mattie May (Dalton) Harwood (1888 - 1957)

Born 7 Nov 1888 in Webster County, Mississippi

Ancestors

Died 13 Nov 1957 at age 69 in Houlka, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States

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Biography

Mattie was a daughter of William Dalton and Mary Blaylock. She married Jesse Oscar Harwood. She passed away in 1957.

Times Post

14 November 1957

Rites at Houlka for Mrs. Harwood

Mrs. Mattie Mae Harwood, widow of the late J. O. Harwood of Houlka, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. J. Dendy, with whom she made her home, at 8:30 Wednesday morning, Nov. 13, following a lingering illness. She was 69 years of age.

Services will be conducted from the Houlka Baptist Church Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. W A Robinson, pastor of the Houston Baptist Church and the Rev. Bob Posey, pastor of the Houlka Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery at Houlka with Houston Funeral Home in charge.

Mrs. Harwood was born Nov. 7, 1888 in Webster County, the daughter, of William M. Dalton and Eliza Blalack Dalton. She was a member of the Houston Baptist Church.

She leaves three daughters, Mrs. Dendy of Houston, Mrs. S. E. Drake of DeFunrak Springs, Fla., and Mrs. Travis Cain of Blemont, Miss.; a son, the Rev. Paul Harwood of Ft. Worth, Tex.; three brothers, D. F. Dalton of Alva, Miss., M. C. Dalton, Sr., of Starkville and Joe N. Dalton of Mathiston; two sisters, Mrs. Muldrew Dalton of Mantee, and Mrs. B. G. Eubank of Pontotoc. Ten grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews also survive.^[1]

Find a Grave Memorial of Mattie May Dalton Harwood

HARWOOD / MATTIE MAY DALTON / NOV. 7, 1888 / NOV. 13, 1957 / JESSE OSCAR / NOV. 7 1890 / NOV. 13, 1950 / A LOVING TRIBUTE

Sources

1. ↑ Times Post, Houston, Mississippi; 14 November 1957.

• 1900 U. S. Federal Census. Household of William M. Dalton, enumerated 7 June 1900. Webster County, Mississippi. Series T623, Roll 833, ED 103, page 5A (250A). "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9FD-3X5 : accessed 11 October 2019), Mattie May Dalton in household of William M Dalton, Beat 4, Webster, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 103, sheet 5A, family 70, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,833.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPDV-QC5 : accessed 11 October 2019), Mattie M Dalton in household of William M Dalton, Algoma, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 103, sheet 1A, family 3, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 756; FHL microfilm 1,374,769.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNTC-GCG : accessed 11 October 2019), Mattie M Harwood in household of Jess O Harwood, Beat 5, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States; citing ED 107, sheet 6A, line 11, family 103, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 891; FHL microfilm 1,820,891.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMBF-G4N : accessed 11 October 2019), Mattie M Harwood in household of Jessie O Harwood, Houlka, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 4, sheet 2A, line 49, family 37, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1141; FHL microfilm 2,340,876.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYG9-2Z9 : 27 July 2019), Mattie Mae Harwood in household of Jess O Harwood, Houlka, Beat 2, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 9-5, sheet 8A, line 5, family 172, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2013.