Sunday's Obituary - Bertha Bynum Odom

Hattiesburg American - 2/25/1970

Bertha Rebecca Bynum Odom was the daughter of James Benjamin "Ben" Bynum and Annie Jane Sumrall.  She was a sister to my maternal grandfather, John Buel Bynum.

Sunday's Obituary - Bertha Bynum Odom

Hattiesburg American - 2/25/1970

Bertha Rebecca Bynum Odom was the daughter of James Benjamin Bynum and Annie Jane Sumrall.  She was also a sister to my maternal grandfather, John Buel Bynum.

Sunday's Obituary - Minnie Frances Bynum Sumrall

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Mrs. Alfred Sumrall

Mrs. Minnie Frances Sumrall, resident of RFD 2, Sumrall, for 37 years, died unexpectedly at 5 a.m. today at her home.  She was 55 years old.

The body will remain at the family residence until time for services.  Funeral arrangements are incomplete.  Hulett Funeral Home is in charge.

Services will be held at Military Baptist Church with Rev. Gerald Aultman, paster, officiating.  Burial will be in Military Cemetery.

Mrs. Sumrall is survided by her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Vivian Gandy, Jackson, and Mrs. Marjorie Drennan, Sumrall, five sons, A. C., H. B., Coy P. and Robert R. Sumrall, all of Sumrall, and  Alfred A. Sumrall, Hermiston, Ore, five sisters including Mrs. D. C. Odom, Mrs. Waldo Ford and Mrs. Dewey Robinson, Baton Rouge and Mrs. Bessie McQueen, Hattiesburg, four bothers, John Bynum, Prentiss, Howard Bynum, Jackson and Gordon and Terrell, Sumralll, and 20 grandchildren.

Minnie Frances Bynum Sumrall was the daughter of James Benjamin Bynum and Annie Jane Sumrall.  She was my maternal grand aunt.

Tombstone Tuesday - Bertha Rebecca Bynum

Bertha Rebecca Bynum

Born on May 14, 1904

Daughter of

James Benjamin Bynum and Annie Jane Sumrall

Sister to 

John Buel, Minnie Frances, Narvel Houston, Thomas Terrell, Robert Earl, Annie Roberta "Bertie", Bessie Lee Anna, Nancy Arella, Daniel Gordon, Howard Ben, Margaret Evelyn and Mary Lois Bynum

Wife of

Daniel Columbus Odom

Mother to

Ruth Kathryn, James Ray, Infant Daughter and Margaret JoAnn Odom

Died on February 28, 1970

Buried in Greenoaks Memorial Park

Baker, Louisiana

Tombstone photograph was taken by FindAGrave member, Diane.

Bynum Family Wins Star Brand Shoe Contest

Hattiesburg American

In 1929 the London Dry Goods Company in Hattiesburg, Mississippi was giving away pairs of Star Brand shoes on what appears to be a weekly basis.

The winner for the week of February 19 was the Ben Bynum family of Sumrall, Mississippi.

Ben and Annie Sumrall Bynum were my paternal great grandparents.  John, the oldest of their thirteen children, was my grandfather.

Their other children were Minnie Frances [Sumrall], Narvel Houston, Thomas Terrell, Robert Earl, Bertha Rebecca [Odom], Annie Roberta "Bertie" [Nichols Alphin Bobinger], Bessie Lee Anna [McQueen], Nancy Arella [Ford], Daniel Gordon, Howard Ben, Margaret Evelyn, and Mary Lois [Robinson].

By 1929, the only children living at home were Arella, Gordon, Ben, Margaret and Mary Lois.

I wonder who got the free pair of shoes?