Date of birth: 17 Jul 1904
Date of death: 25 Nov 1966

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Burial Information

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Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0190-05
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: US ARMY RESERVE
Rank: MAJ - Major
War/Campaign: WORLD WAR II

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Notes

Birth: 17 Jul 1904
Death: 25 Nov 1966 - Holmes Co., MS
Burial: 26 Nov 1966

Obituary
David Miles Is Killed In Shotgun Accident Funeral services for David Beatty Miles, 62, were held Saturday morning at Southern Funeral Chapel in Lexington. Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Officiating was the Reverend Crawford Ray, pastor of First Methodist Church, of which Mr. Miles was a member. Southern was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Miles, long prominent in business and civic activities, died of gunshot wounds about 8:30 Friday morning. A coroner's jury ruled the death accidental.

It was revealed that Mr. Miles had been working in his yard, was seen to take his shotgun from a pickup truck and lean it against a tree.

Shortly some of his helpers heard a gunshot and saw Mr. Miles fall. The wounds were in the neck.

Mr. Miles had been a member and president of the Board of Trustees of Holmes County Community Hospital. He formerly operated an office for Greenwood Production Credit Association here, and owned and operated a feed, seed and fertilizer store.

He was a veteran of WWII and had been active in reserve affairs.

Survivors include a son, David Miles, Jr., a student at Mississippi State University; a daughter, Miss Frances Elizabeth Miles of Nashville, Tennessee; and a sister, Mrs. Joe Moore of Lexington.

Pallbearers were Wilburn Hooker, Pat Barrett, Buster Read, William R. Ellis, Murrell McRae, John B. Watson, Sr., and Harold Hammett.

Holmes County Herald – Page 1
Lexington, MS
December 1, 1966

Military Inscription Mississippi Major US Army Res World War II

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