Obituaries

 

 

Mrs. Gussie Beene

Gussie Beene, age 75, Graysville, February 15,1960.

 

Husband, Wm.H. Beene, step-sons, Melvin R., Ernest and W. D, Beene of Chattanooga. Step-daughters, Mrs.H.H. Turner, Birmingham, Alabama., Mrs. L.L. Wood, Lakeview, Georgia. Mrs. Oscar Luttrell, Sr., and Mrs. D. A. Newton, both of Chattanooga.

 

Buried Forest Hills, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

 

 

Mrs.. Mamie C. Beene

Mamie C. Beene, age 72, of Jasper, Tennessee.. Member of pioneer Marion Co.unty family. Died in Chattanooga.

 

Funeral Sweden's Cove Baptist Church.

 

Buried in Beene-Raulston Cemetery.

 

Her father, the late G. W. ( Wash.) Coppinger. Brother, Turner E. Coppinger. Son, S. E. (Jack) Beene.

 

Survivors, three sons, S. E. Beene of Jasper. Alvin of Los Angeles, California, and M. C. Beene of Belen New Mexico. Four daufhters, Mrs.Jlhn Cizek, Mrs. Gamble, Mrs. A. G. LeRoy, Mrs. Daniel Conry. Three brothers, T. E., Hugh, Alex Coppinger.

 

Chattanooga Times - January 9, 1957

 

 

Mrs. Addie Beene

Addie Beens, age 55 of Soddy, Tennessee. Son, Franklin Beene, Hamill, Mich.igan, daughter, Mrs. G. T. Burchard, Mrs. Taylor Burchard, Miss Mabel F. Beene, Miss Elizabeth Beene, all of Soddy.

 

Chattanooga.Times, April 29,1956

 

John S. Beene

John S. Beene, age 77, September 24,1960 Apison, Tenessee.  . Retired Hamilton County, Tennessee school teacher. Wife, Jennie Hale Beene, Apison, Son, John, William and James Hale Beene, Chattanooga. Daughter, Mrs. Vane Jones. Brothers, W. V. Beene, Signal Mountain. Jake and Albert Beene, Chattanooga. Three sisters, Emiline Carmichael, Khoxville, Mrs. Rachel Dickerson, and Mrs, Addie Witz, Wilmington, Deleware.

Squire John Poe

Was married to Sarah Beene, daughter of Major William Beene, a Civil War Union Veteran, and early sheriff and tax assessor of Hamilton County, Tennessee.  

 

Mrs. Poe, who survives him, is a lineal descendant of William Bean the first settler of Tennessee.

 

Four years ago they celebrated their golden wedding. They were married Sept. 2§, 1873 and had seven children.

Chattanooga News - December 12, 1927

 

John A. Hart

 

 

Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 15 - John A. Hart, Mayor of Chattanooga and one of the wealthiest men in Tennessee, died this morning at 11 o'clock from a second stroke of paralysis.

 

Mr. Hart had lived in this city for over 20 years, with a prominent and wealthy manufacturer, an officer in various enterprises and ex-president of the Third National bank.

 

He was captain in an Ohio regiment during the war.

 

 

The St. Louis Republic, January 16, 1891, page 2

Transcribed and contributed by:  Peggy Thompson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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