July 14, 1932
The Greenville Advocate
"W. F. Sirmon Dies Wednesday Night"
W. F. Sirmon died at his home ten miles west of Greenville on the Camden Highway
at eleven o'clock last Wednesday night. Mr. Sirmon had been in ill health for the
past several years; but during recent months his strength had failed fast.
Mr. Sirmon, known as "Dump" to his friends, was one of the best known citizens
of Butler county. Every since he became of voting age he had been keenly interested
in politics and had held political office. For several terms he was a member of the
Court of County Commissioners, and for a number of years had been a member of the
Butler County Jury Commission.
He had a very wide circle of friends and was known as a man who would stand by his
friends through any emergency. He was generous and friendly, a great lover of sports,
and for many years was known as one of the best hunters and fishermen in the county.
Mr. Sirmon was born 65 years ago in the same house in which he died. He married,
47 years ago, Miss Fanny Vickery, who survives him. Also surviving are six children:
Willie, Owen, Ira, Ina, Zellie and Pearl, and several grandchildren.
Funeral services were held from the home last Thursday afternoon by J. E. Northcutt,
pastor of the First Methodist Church of Greenville. Dr. Northcutt, a native of the
western part of Butler County was known to Mr. Sirmon as a boy, and had been welcomed
back to Butler by him when sent here by the Alabama Conference. Interment was in the
Pine Flat cemetery, where a great crowd of citizens had gathered from all parts of the
county to pay their last tribute to this prominent figure in the Butler County civic
life.-- The Greenville Advocate.
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