Thomas Presley Dent;99;of 1340 Fayette Ave.;Belle Vernon (Fairhope);died at his home Monday;Oct.7;1968 at 440 a.m. He would have been 100 years old in January. Had Mr.Dent lived he and his wife;Eva; would have celebrtated their 75th wedding anniversary on Dec.26 of this year. He had been an engineer at the Naomi mine of Hilman Coal Co.;having been employed by Hillman until he retired a the age of 77. Mr.Dent was a member of Marion Presbyterian Presbyterain Church in Fairhope and Modern Woodmen of America. Born in Grandville;W.Va.;Jan.23;1869;he was a son of the late Dr.George W.and Caroline Scott Dent. Surviving are his widow;Eva Beeler Dent;two sons;Charles L.of Detroit;Mich.;and Dr.Aland C.of Fayette City;two daughters;Mrs.Virginia Ferguson of Belle Vernon and Mrs. Harold R.(Hester) Humphries of Maple View;nine grandchildren; twenty-three great-grandchildren;and great-great-granddaughter. Mr.Dent was the last survivor in a family of nine. Friends will be received after 7 p.m. Oct.8;at the Shelby D.Ferguson Funeral Home;Belle Vernon. Service there Thursday;Oct.10;at 1:30 p.m. with Dr.S.Arthur Talman;pastor of Belle Vernon’s First Presbyterian Church;officiating. Interment;Belle Vernon Cemetery.