Date of birth: 29 Dec 1910
Date of death: 23 Jan 1966

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Burial Information

Section 04 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0229-14
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: US NAVAL RESERVE (Mississippi) - Asst. Gunnery Officer
Rank: LT - LIEUTENANT
War/Campaign: WORLD WAR II - USS Gillespie in Pacific Theater

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Notes

Birth: 29 Dec 1910 - Lexington, Holmes Co., MS
Death: 23 Jan 1966 - Memphis, Shelby Co., TN

Burial: 27 Jan 1966

Obituary
W. J. Eggleston Buried Tuesday In Odd Fellows
Funeral services for William Joseph Eggleston, plantation owner, gin company president and stock broker, of Shelby were held Tuesday afternoon at the Episcopal Church in Clarksdale. Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington.

Mr. Eggleston, 55, died Sunday at Baptist Hospital in Memphis.

A native of Lexington, he attended University of Mississippi and was graduated from Rice Institute at Houston, Texas. He was an assistant gunnery officer of the USS Gillespie in the Pacific during World War II, and earned six battle Stars.

After the war, he operated Mayfair, the family plantation, and Merry Acres, his own plantation.

He was a communicant of St. George's Episcopal Church in Clarksdale.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ann May Eggleston; a son, William J. Eggleston, Jr., of Memphis; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Flagler of Oxford, and Miss Cathy Eggleston of Mayfair Plantation; his mother, Mrs. S. A. Eggleston and a sister, Mrs. Sara Baine, both of Tchula.

The Holmes County Herald – Page 12
Lexington, MS
January 27, 1966

Military Inscription
Mississippi
Lieut US Naval Reserve
World War II

Family Relations of William Joseph Eggleston, Sr.
Parents:
Sarah Bryan Eggleston
Stephen Archer Eggleston

Military Notes
Obituary states... He was an assistant gunnery officer of the USS Gillespie in the Pacific during World War II, and earned six battle Stars.

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