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Tennessee State Route 50 passes through the southern part of Centerville, leading northwest 17 miles (27 km) to Interstate 40 (via exit 148) near Only and southeast 30 miles (48 km) to Columbia. The town limits extend north 5 miles (8 km) from the town center along SR 100 to the formerly unincorporated community of Fairfield, where State Route ...
R.S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home has operated continuously in downtown Memphis, Tennessee since 1914. The home has held services for many prominent African-Americans, including Benjamin Hooks and Martin Luther King Jr. The Lewis family was known for its civic leadership.
Rob Bironas (1978–2014), professional football player/Placekicker for the Tennessee Titans; Otis Blackwell (1931–2002), Songwriters Hall of Fame member; H. Leo Boles (1874–1946), president of Lipscomb University. [4] Owen Bradley (1915–1998), record producer, Country Music Hall of Fame member, Academy Award nominee
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King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
One of the 12 stereographic views of Andrew Johnson's funeral taken by L.W. Keen, photographer of Jonesboro Tenn., shows the crowd climbing the hill to Johnson's burial site (Tennessee State Library and Archives, item 42274) Andrew Johnson's daughter Martha Johnson Patterson willed on September 2, 1898, that the land become a park.
The autopsy was completed at around 11:00 p.m., and at 11:15 p.m. King's body arrived at the R.S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home. The assassins' bullet, as well as the subsequent autopsy, had caused significant damage to King's neck and face, and both Robert Jr. and Clarence labored through the night embalming, grooming and preparing King's body ...
Lewie Ford (1889-1931) started the family funeral business and became allied with E.H. Crump, an influential white politician in Memphis and the state in the early 20th century. Newton Jackson Ford (1914–1986) was an undertaker and businessman, and his wife Vera (Davis) Ford (1915–1994), were prominent members of the African-American community.