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- The Rev. Isaac Wood TALLEY, 88, died Sunday at 10 a.m. at his home on College Street. The Rev. Talley was born March 28, 1853, in the Hoods community in Crittenden county, the son of William Warner and Margaret Sylvania Talley, and lived in that community until two years ago when he moved to Providence. He was married three times, his first marriage being to Margaret Love NEIL. Five children were born to this union, and all of them preceded their father in death. His second wife was Martha Frances IMBODEN. On Nov. 21, 1936, he was married to Sarah Elizabeth WINSTEAD who survives. He became a Christian at an early age, and was baptized into the Shady Grove Baptist church, where he remained a member until the organization of the Tradewater Valley Baptist church, of which he was a charter member. He entered the ministry in his fiftieth year, and was active in the work until about three years ago, when blindness caused him to retire. Survivors are his wife; two brothers, John Talley of Detroit, Mich.; Gardner Talley, Providence RFD; a sister, Mrs. Robert MORSE, Dalton; a granddaughter, Mrs. W.Z. WOODS, Providence; a grandson, Carl Talley, Yucaipa, Calif.; five great grandchildren. Funeral services were held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Second Baptist church, with the Rev. Porter COLE in charge, assisted by the Rev. W.D. OAKLEY. Active pallbearers were Claude MARTIN, Arthur HOPGOOD, Randolph WILLIAMSON, R.L. ERWIN, Tom GIVENS, and Bailey UTLEY. Honorary pallbearers were the Rev. W.E. SIRIA, the Rev. W.T. CRUMBAKER, and the Rev. E.G. SISK. Flower bearers were Margery CUMMINS, Margaret WOOD, Mary Edith SEYMOUR, Merle CATES, Helen Williamson, and Jane COLE. Burial was in Lakeview Cemetery. Providence Journal-Enterprise, Thursday, November 19, 1941.
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