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- Ray Sweatland, Richland, Dies
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the Taylor Funeral Home for Ray Sweatland, 60, who died at his home in Richland after an illness of about six months. Rev. Wesley Baker, pastor of the Richland Methodist Church and Rev. James N. Pauley, of the Pulaski Methodist Church, officiated. Burial was in the Westdale Cemetery.
Mr. Sweatland was born April 1, 1894, the son of Charles and Mary Sweet Sweatland in Camden. He spent his early life there and was educated in the Camden schools. In 1917 he was married, to Miss Lillian Green in Westdale. He and his wife came to Pulaski to live 24 years ago and the past three
years they had lived in Richland.
Mr. Sweatland was employed by the New York Central Railroad for 40 years as maintenance foreman. A veteran of the first World War, he was a member of the Richland Methodist Church and a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Maintenance Employees.
He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Mrs. David Bailey of Pulaski and Mrs. Charles Wilcox of Sandy Creek; two sons, Ray of Watertown and Robert of Richland; two brothers, Ernest of Williamstown and Ivan of Camden; and five grandchildren
source: the pulaski democrat, july 29, 1954
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