ALICE COLVIN
1980 1956
Mrs. Alice Colvin, 86, died at 6:00 a.m. Saturday, December 15
1956, at Collista at the home of her son, Manford Colvin, with
whom she was making her home. She had been ill for the past
several years.
The daughter of the late Tom and Jane Conley Fairchild, she was
born in this county March 30 1870. She was a member of the United
Baptist Church.
Surviving besides her son are, three other sons, Earl of Beaver,
Ohio; Tom of Wakefield, Ohio; and Jeff of Oil Springs; six
daughters, Myrtle Blanton, McDowell; Mollie Hitchcock, Stockdale,
Ohio; Sarah Bailey, Beaver, Ohio; Sis Bailey, Jackson, Ohio; May
Blanton, Martha; and Maxie Cantrell, Mindfork. She also leaves one
brother, Henry Fairchild, Low Gap; and three sisters, Mrs. Sarah
Blanton, of this city; Mrs. Mary McCarty, West Liberty; and Mrs.
Edd Blanton, Low Gap.
Funeral services were conducted at 10:00 a.m. December, 17, at the
home of her son, Manford with Adron Davis as the officiating
minister. Music was by the Tom's Creek Quartet.
Burial was in the family cemetery at Low Gap under the direction
of the Paintsville Funeral Home.
PAINTSVILLE HERALD
DEC.19 1956
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