Shoemake

Shoemake, Alfred Garfield – Obituary

Funeral services for Alfred Garfield Shoemake of 225 Sixth St. will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Grays West & Co. Pioneer Chapel. He died Wednesday morning at the age of 88 at St. Elizabeth hospital after an extended illness. The Rev. James H. Soden of the Calvary Baptist Church will officiate. Shoemake was born in Monroe, Tenn., the son of George and Mahalia Smith Shoemake. He had his early schooling in Cooekville, Tenn. In 1903 he married Nora Todd Shoemake in Cooekville. He wife predeceased him in 1944. He came to Baker County in 1925 and worked for … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Nannie B. Shoemake

(See Grant and Foreman)-Nannie B., daughter of Joseph and Susan Francis (Foreman) Lynch, was born at Webbers Falls, and in the Female Seminary at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She married Thomas H. Shoemake. Susan Francis, daughter of Johnson and Elizabeth B. (Mann) Foreman, was born August 26, 1847; married May 23, 1866 John Raymond, a native of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He died November 27, 1873. She married December 23, 1874, Joseph Martin Lynch, born February 2, 1839. He was first lieutenant of Company “D”, First Cherokee Mounted Rifles, under Captain James M. Bell and Colonel Stand Watie. He was afterwards first lieutenant … Read more