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Alice McKnight Fleming McEwen
16 Nov 1883 – 11 Mar 1980
| Birth | 16 Nov 1883 |
| Death | 11 Mar 1980 |
| Cemetery | Rose Hill Cemetery Columbia , Maury County , Tennessee , USA |
| Added by | Marilyn Whittemore Adams on 02 Mar 2011 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11857926 |
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M Mrs. William T. McEwen Mrs. Alice McKnight Fleming McEwen, 96, long-time resident of South Main Street, died early this morning at Graymere Nursing Home following an extended illness. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 10 a.m. at Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home with Rev. Terry Ailor, minister of the First Baptist Church in Mt. Pleasant officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. A descendant of pioneer Maury County settlers from North Carolina, she was the daughter of the late Confederate Veteran William Overton Fleming and the late Mary Jane Hollingsworth Fleming. She was the widow of William Theodoric McEwen, who had been associated with the phone company for more than 45 years at the time of his death in 1940. Prior to her marriage to Mr. McEwen, she was employed as an operator for the phone company as one of the first group of women in that company. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Clariss M. (Mary Alice) Cook, Columbia, Mrs. James (Margaret) Buchanan, Tigerville, S.C., Mrs. Clarence F. (Marian) Alexander Jr., Mt. Pleasant; two sons, Thomas Overton McEwen, Columbia, James Everly McEwen, Birmingham, Mich., (a third son, William Erwin McEwen, was fatally injured in an automobile accident in July 1937); nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. Active pallbearers will be her grandsons and grandsons-in-law, C.F. Alexander III, William Daniel Alexander, James Richard McEwen, Stephen Erwin McEwen, Thomas Alfred McEwen, William Miles Cook, LTC C.M. Cook Jr., James Milan, Earl Pettus, Leon Morrow and Ellis Hamlett. Mrs. McEwen's nephews will serve as honorary pallbearers. Columbia Daily Herald, Tues., March 11, 1980. contributed by Judy B. Forgos 10/6/2010
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- Margaret Fleming Gilbreth 1869–1955
- Georgia Ann Fleming Benderman 1871–1948
- Mary Winnie Fleming McKissick 1873–1938
- William Owen Fleming 1874–1942
- Joseph Benton Fleming 1877–1946
- Eva Fleming Richardson 1880–1918
- Willie Annie Fleming Stockard 1886–1970
- Harrison Ward Fleming 1888–1950
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- Mary Alice McEwen Cook 1908–1984
- William E McEwen 1911–1937
- SSGT Thomas Overton McEwen 1913–1991
- James Everly McEwen 1916–1988
- Margaret Eloise McEwen Buchanan 1920–2004
- Marian Elizabeth McEwen Alexander 1920–2015
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