OBITUARY


    THOMAS CLEVELAND PRESLEY
1892 - 1943

Submitted by Loy Pressley

From the Sherman Democrat newspaper
Sherman, Grayson County, Texas
August 27, 1943.

Thomas Cleveland Presley

Thomas Cleveland Presley, 51, died Thursday at 7:10 a. m. at his home in Lubbock after an illness of one year.  Interment will be in Lubbock.
   
Mr. Presley was born Feb. 2, 1892, in Georgia, a son of C. W. and Mattie Presley.  He came to Texas as a small child and lived near Dorchester until he was 15 years old when he moved to Lubbock.
   
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Lena Morrow Presley; three sisters, Mrs. M. C. Caudle, Dorchester, Mrs. Lewis Ford, Route 2, and Mrs. Edna Leondis, Los Angeles; two brothers, J. W. Presley of Lubbock and S. D. Presley of Canyon; and several nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Rueben H. Frantz, Mrs. Bertha Cuker, Mrs. J. W. Cargile and Sgt. Bryan Moss, all of Sherman.