T. N. FIGUERS, , 56, Buried In Tennessee - Funeral
services for Thomas Norfleet Figuers, 56, of 4444 Walnut Hill Lane, senior vice-president of Glenn Justice Mortgage
Co., were held here Saturday. Burial was in Clarksville, Tenn. He died here Friday.
A native of Columbia, Tenn., he had lived in Dallas 11 years. He attended Vanderbilt University and was graduated
from Columbia Military Academy and George Washington School of Law. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity
and the Sons of the American Revolution.
Figuers was an attorney with the legal department of the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D. C., before
entering the Army in 1941. He moved to San Angelo in 1946 and founded Figuers Mortgage Corp. and City Savings &
Loan Association there. A past president of the Dallas Mortgage Bankers Association, he was a member of Brook Hollow
Golf Club, Cipango Club, Imperial Club and St. Michael & all Angels Episcopal Church.
Survivors: Wife; a son, Thomas N. Figuers of Houston; mother, Mrs. T. N. Figuers of Columbia, and two brothers,
Sherrell Figuers of Nashville, Tenn., and Horace Figuers of Arlington, Va.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, July 12, 1970 – transcribed by Amanda Jowers
E. I. HARPER - Dead at 80 - E. I. Harper, one of
the oldest citizens and farmers in Montgomery county, died last week. He was nearly 80 years old, and leaves a
wife and eight children.
(Hohenwald Chronicle, Friday, March 17, 1899)- transcribed by Rita Morgan
MRS. JOHN HEARD, wife of the brother of our
townsman, Mr. T. R. Heard, died at her home in Montgomery county, last Wednesday. The remains, in charge of Undertaker
Davis, of this city, were brought to Charlotte, yesterday, and interred in the Cumberland Presbyterian graveyard.
Dickson County Herald, January 14, 1910
L. C. LANGFORD
Inventor of ‘shake’ dies in Tennessee
Nashville, Tenn. – L. C. Langford, 79, who invented the frozen malted milk shake 40 years ago, died Thursday after
a long illness. Langford, a native of Clarksville, Tenn., expanded a sandwich shop in Mason City, Iowa, into a
chain of 129 restaurants before he retired in 1965.
Langford devised the frozen malt in the 1930’s, when he had an ice cream shop in downtown Nashville and another
on the highway to Gallatin, Tenn. Langford was 11 when he started his career as a soda jerk after his mother died.
Through various jobs he saved $500, and borrowed another $500 to open Langford’s Sandwich Shop in Mason City.
He prospered there before selling out and starting again at Minneapolis in 1921. He expanded his sandwich shops
eastward to Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Rochester, N.Y., New York City, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
When Langford retired, his L. C. Langford Co., Inc. merged with Del Monte Foods of San Francisco.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, June 11, 1977 – transcribed by Amanda Jowers
MARY WALTON - DIED, In Montgomery county,
Tenn., Mrs. Mary Walton, consort of Edward S. Walton, Esq.
National Banner and Nashville Whig (6 Mar. 1835) - transcribed by Marla Zwakman
CLARA (BAGGETT) YARBROUGH, , 93, Cunningham,
died Saturday, Dec. 30, 2000, at Clarksville Manor. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at McReynolds-Nave &
Larson Funeral Home with Billy Smith and the Rev. Howard Herndon officiating. Burial will be in Baggetts Chapel
Cemetery. Visitation will be at the funeral home from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday and from 11 a.m. Tuesday until the time
of the service. She was born Dec. 25, 1907, in Montgomery County, daughter of Allen F. Baggett and Lyda Yarbrough
Baggett. She was the widow of Louie Yarbrough. Mrs. Yarbrough was a homemaker and a member of the Locust Grove
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Survivors include a son, Maurice E. Yarbrough, Cunningham a daughter, Colleen Y.
Smith, Clarksville two sisters, Dorothy Qualls and Geneva Outland, both of Cunningham and a grandson. Pallbearers
will be Kerry Smith, Gary Outland, Phillip Baggett, Dave Grimmett, Wade Sensing and Cragon Baggett.
Leaf-Chronicle, The (Clarksville, TN) - December 31, 2000
