Mary Jane Clark Friddle, Pulaski Co., AR

Submitted by Susan Elaine Waldrep DuPlessis <Wiltonians@aol.com>
Date: 18 Aug 2001
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The Greenville News, Greenville, SC, Saturday, May 4, 1935Mrs. Mary Clarke 
Friddle Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Clarke Friddle, affectionately known 
to hosts of friends in Greenville as "Granny Friddle" will be held this 
afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Welcome Baptist church of which she was a 
devoted member. The services will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev. M.M. 
McCuen, and the body will be laid to rest in the adjoining cemetery.Serving 
as pallbearers will be W.A. Burns, F.D. Holliday, W.W. Whitmire, W.R. Brown, 
R.D. Cothran and J.T. McAdams.The members of the deacon's board of the Welcome 
church will serve as the honorary escort.Mrs. Friddle has been in declining 
health for some months, but was seriously ill for only a few days, and the 
news of her death will cause widespread sorrow among the many friends of the 
family. She was reared in North Carolina, and just prior to locating near 
Greenville 30 years ago,made her home in Pickens county for a number of years. 
She was in her 84th year, and her death occurred early yesterday morning at 
the home ofher son, W.B. Friddle.Mrs. Friddle is survived by the following 
sons and daughters: W.B. Friddle, of Gantt Station; J.D. Friddle, J.M. Friddle 
and E.N. Friddle, all of Greenville County; Mrs. W.S. Edens, of Easley and 
Mrs. E.E. Burgess of Dacusville.She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. 
Lucy Ann Bradshaw of Arkansas; by 37 grandchildren; 53 great-grandchildren 
and three great-great-grandchildren. Pending the hour of the service, the 
body is at the residence of Mr. [word(s) obscured] Friddle, near Gantt 
Station.

[FROM: Susan Elaine Waldrep DuPlessis, great-great-granddaughter of Mary Jane 
Clark Friddle (1851-1935)][NOTE: Two of Mary Jane Clark Friddle's grandchildren 
say that she was born in Arkansas, probably near Little Rock (Pulaski County). 
However, Mormon records suggest she may have been born in Columbia County, Ga.]