Tombstone Tuesday

JOHN T. LIGON, FORMER NEBO RESIDENT DIES  

  Funeral services for John Thomas Ligon, 89, former Nebo merchant, tobacconist and farmer, who died at 11:50 am. Saturday in his home in Detroit of infirmities incident to age, will be conducted at 2 pm Tuesday at the Nebo Christian Church.  The Rev. H. B. Self, Henshaw will officiate.  Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Madisonville.

   Before Mr. Ligon moved to Detroit twenty two years ago he had operated a general store at Nebo for thirty years.

   The body arrived in Madisonville at 9:25 pm. Sunday and will be at Harris Funeral Home, 134 North Main, until the funeral.

   Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Georgia Eudaley Ligon; a daughter, Miss Ruby Ligon, 433 East Arch, who was the only child born of Mr. Ligon's first marriage, his first wife being Miss Minnie Osburn; six children by Mr. Ligon's second marriage, James D., Thomas D., Robert G., and Kenneth M. Ligon, all of Detroit; Mrs. John Mahan, Washington, D.C., and Mrs. William F. O'Bryan, Detroit; fourteen grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. John Bosquitt, Madisonville, rfd. 2.
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DEATH NOTICES (Detroit Free Press) LIGON - John T., June 2, at residence, 167 W. Hollywood; husband of Georgia; father of Ruby, James, Thomas, Robert and Kenneth Ligon, Mrs. John Mahan and Mrs. William F. O'Brien.v Funeral from Harris Funeral Home, Madisonville, Ky., Tuesday, 2 p.m.  For further information call TO 8-4798.

Tombstone Tuesday - James D. Ligon

                                                                      James Ligon

James D. Ligon, 77, former owner of Hamill Mfg, died last Thursday at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak.

  His funeral Sunday was one of the largest ever in Almont.

  Hamill, which had 4 plants in the Thumb area, manufactured automotive parts. He retired about 8 years ago.  Since then, he and his wife, Mary, who survives him, divided their time between Ocala, Florida and their home in Almont.

  He was a member of Almont F & A.M. No. 51, a life member of RAM and a member of Knights Templar in Romeo.  He had been a prime mover in founding the Almont-Romeo Community Hospital.  In Ocala he was a member of the 1st Christian Church.

  He was born Sept. 5, 1902, In Nebo Kentucky, son of John & Georgia Ligon.

  Mr. Ligon leaves three sons, James Thomas of Almont, Robert Morris of Scotsdale, Arizona, and Richard Glenn of Delmar, California;  2 daughters, Patricia Ann Sexton and Mary Jean Campbell both of Almont; a brother, Robert Glen of Jacksonville, Florida; two sisters, Mrs. Lilly O'Bryan of Detroit and Mrs. John Mahan of Nashville, Tenn., 19 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

  Services were held Sunday in the First Congregational Church in Almont with the Rev. Larry Rieck officiating.  Burial was in West Berlin Cemetery.  Arrangements were by Muir Bros Funeral Home in Almont.

Tombstone Tuesday - J. T. Ligon (1951)

JOHN T. LIGON, FORMER NEBO RESIDENT DIES

   Funeral services for John Thomas Ligon, 89, former Nebo merchant, tobacconist and farmer, who died at 11:50 am. Saturday im his home in Detroit of infirmities incident to age, will be conducted at 2 pm Tuesday at the Nebo Christian Church.  The Rev. H. B. Self, Henshaw will officiate.  Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Madisonville.

   Before Mr. Ligon moved to Detroit twenty two years ago he had operated a general store at Nebo for thirty years.

   The body arrived in Madisonville at 9:25 pm. Sunday and will be at Harris Funeral Home, 134 North Main, until the funeral.

   Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Georgia Eudaley Ligon; a daughter, Miss Ruby Ligon, 433 East Arch, who was the only child born of Mr. Ligon's first marriage, his first wife being Miss Minnie Osburn; six children by Mr. Ligon's second marriage, James D., Thomas D., Robert G., and Kenneth M. Ligon, all of Detroit; Mrs. John Mahan, Washington, D.C., and Mrs. William F. O'Bryan, Detroit; fourteen grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. John Bosquitt, Madisonville, rfd. 2.

**Madisonville Messenger,  date unknown