Sarah Elizabeth Reese

The Tuscaloosa News - April 1, 1943

Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Mount Zion Baptist Church near Ashcraft Corner for Mrs. S. E. Reese of Gordo, Route One, who died last night after an extended illness. The Rev. Tom McQueen will conduct the services and burial will be made in the church cemetery with Mathis-Jones in charge.

Surviving Mrs. Reese, a life-long resident of Pickens County and a member of the Baptist Church, are two daughters: Mrs. Willie Mae Barks and Mrs. Della McCool of Gordo; and two sons, Robert Lee and Jim Reese also of Gordo.

Children:

Cordelia A. Reese McCool 1880-1958

James Benjamin Reese 1883-1956

John Robert Lee Reese 1886-1966

Oscar B. Reese 1889-1938

Willie Mae Reese Barks 1893-1965