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Oscar Shrum Dies From Heart Attack
Oscar Shrum, aged 72 years, a retired farmer of the Green Grove section of this county, died unexpectedly Saturday night at nine fifteen o’clock. Death was attributed to a heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. patty Johnson Shrum; one sister Mrs. Holt Duncan; two half-sisters, Mrs. Louis Brooks and Mrs. Sadie Mae Cox all of the Willard section of Trousdale county; and numerous more distant relatives.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at one o’clock at the Shrum home by Elder F.W. Lambert, followed with burial in the Bennett Cemetery, near Green Grove. The deceased was a member and a deacon of Fairview Baptist church. He was a native of the Willard section, the son of James Franklin and Dora Kerley Shrum. He was a descendant of Peter Shrum, who came to the Dry Fork section, about five miles southeast of Lafayette, in the early part of the past century. So far as we have been able to learn all members of the Shrum family in this part of Middle Tennessee are descended from the Peter Shrum just mentioned. There is a field located just above Beech Bottom Baptist church, once owned by Peter Shrum, which is still called the "Peter Field."
Source: Macon County Times, 18 October 1956
Submitted by: Shelta R. Shrum
My E-mail is: shrum1@mwsi.net