Mattie Belle Sisk

Birth: Oct. 8, 1876 Fulton Itawamba County Mississippi, USA Death: Nov. 19, 1941 Bragg City Pemiscot County Missouri, USA

The Steele Enterprise, Steele, Missouri Thursday, November 27, 1941

Funeral services were held last Thursday afternoon, November 20, 1941 at the Baptist Church in Denton for Mrs. J. L. DeVaughn, who died November 19. Services were conducted by Rev. J. Seth Compere of Holland and burial was made in Mt. Zion Cemetery. German Undertaking Co. had charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Mattie Belle DeVaughn was born October 8, 1876 and passed from this life November 19, 1941. She had spent her entire life at Pontotoc, Miss., with the exception of this past month, where she resided at Bragg City, Mo. She had been in ill health for the past five years only being confined to her bed the last two weeks. she was united in marriage in 1896 to J. L. DeVaughn, and to this union ten children were born, five of whom have preceded her in death. Mrs. DeVaughn leaves to mourn her passing the husband, two sons, Edgar of Steele, Mo. and Thermon of Covington, Tenn., three daughters, Miss Luna DeVaughn of Bragg City, Mrs. Margie Porter, of Greenville, Miss., and Mrs. Christine Holcomb, of Bragg City, and 13 grandchildren, also one sister, Miss Lillie Sisk of Baldwyn, Miss., and a host of other relatives and friends.

Note: Thge Missouri Death certificates states she was born in Fulton, Mississippi which is in Itawamba County.

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Spouse:

 John Lewis DeVaughn (1876 - 1960)*

Children:

 Edgar DeVaughn (1897 - 1950)*