Funeral Services For J. Wesley Williams Held Last Friday 

     Funeral services for J. Wesley Williams, 92. Long-time office holder in Carroll County, were held at 2:30 p.m. last Friday at  First Methodist Church with burial in  McLemoresville Cemetery.

     Active pallbearers were E. E. Ward, Ed Burton Ward, James McLemore, B. D. Wright, W. Poe Maddox and J. E. Jones.

     Honorary pallbearers were J. W. Hickman, E. H. Harrell, Charlie Fields, Dr. R. A. Douglass, Porter Sanders and J. H. Goodrum.

     Mr. Williams had served about 40 years in the offices of county court clerk, clerk and master, county judge , and mayor.  In 1931, he saved valuable records from being destroyed when the courthouse burned.

     He issued the first automobile license in  Carroll County.

     He was a past president of the Tennessee Association of County Clerks and a member of the Tennessee Republican Executive Committee.

     Mr. Williams taught in the schools of Henderson and Carroll counties before beginning his political career.  He was a former trustee and Sunday School teacher at First Methodist Church and was a Mason.

     He leaves his widow,  Mrs. Erin Miller Williams:  a daughter, Mrs.  Orval  Stites, of Donna, Texas: a son J. Wesley Williams Jr, of Memphis: two brothers, Eugene Williams and Sam C. Williams both of Jackson and a sister, Mrs. Sam Watson of Morris Chapel.

     He is also survived by three grandchildren, H. Frank Boyce Miles, Wesley Boyce and Mrs. Eugene Edwards, all of Donna, Tx.

     Dilday Funeral Home of Huntingdon had charge of arrangements.

       Among those from out -of -town called here by the death and attending the funeral of J. Wesley Williams were:

     Mr. And Mrs. Fred Sellers, Mr. And Mrs. Martin Roberts, Mr. And Mrs. Howard Douglas, Mr. And Mrs. Walter Cunningham, Mr. And Mrs. Willard Fesmire, and Mr. And Mrs. Edgar Rhodes, all of Lexington.

     Mrs. And Mrs. Roy Alger, Mr. Swat kScarbrough, Mr. And Mrs. James Williams, Ralph Stobb, Jewel Cross, and Mrs. J. D. Crawford, all of  McKenzie.

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J. Wesley Williams

Huntingdon - Services for J. Wesley Williams, 70, were today at First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Dossie Wheatley officiating.  Burial was in McLemoresville Cemetery.

   Mr. Williams, a retired state Human Services Department employee, died Wednesday night at Baptist Memorial Hospital after a long illness.

   A Huntingdon native, he was a World War II Army veteran and a Mason for 49 years.  He belonged to the American Legion and was a Methodist.  He retired in 1977.

   Surviving are his wife, Mary Williams; several nieces and nephews.