William Asberry O'Bryant [10/12/1866-05/11/1947]

I went down to the Melrose Cemetery in Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina today along with my parents and found with the help of the owner of Harris Cemetery out where  my great grandmother, Roxie Moss (nee O'Bryant)' brother is buried at.

According to the obituary from Harris Funeral home, William was 80 when he died and it was on a Sunday at 3:36pm. He died while attending a service for a Major R.B. Cheatham, he was sitting on a running board of a car and was dead before assistance could reach him.. He was also a police officer and eventually was a veterinarian surgeon. Surving were his two (2) daughter, Mrs. J.B Shiftlett of Washington, D.C and Mrs. G.B. Rooke of Atlanta, Georgia