John M. Bennett
Mr. John M. Bennett, one of the oldest citizens of Franklin County, died last Sunday night at his residence near
Hockerville. He was over eighty years of age.
Home Journal, Winchester, Thursday, Oct. 21, 1875, page 3 -- contributed
by, Margaret Kelley
Luvenia Featherston Parks Bennett
We are very sorry to announce the death of a very estimable lady of our town, Mrs. Lou Bennett, wife of Mr. J.K.
Bennett who died yesterday (Sabbath) morning at about 3 o'clock, after a brief illness of typhoid pneumonia. Mrs.
Bennett was the daughter of R.W. Featherston, deceased and was married to Mr. Bennett fr. 1873. She was a devoted
wife, a kind and affectionate mother and stepmother, and a consistent member of the Christian Church. She leaves
a husband, two children and many friends to mourn her loss. Her remains will be interred in the cemetery at this
place. Mrs. Bennett was in the forth-first year of her age.
From Decherd April 15, 1878, Home Journal, Winchester -- contributed
by, Margaret Kelley
Mary Bostick
DIED, In Franklin County, Ten., Miss Mary Bostick, daughter of Maj. J. G. Bostick, aged 17.
National Banner and Nashville Whig (25 July 1834) -- contributed by,
Marla Zwakman
Mrs. Sarah Estell
Mrs. Sarah Estell, 79, mother of the Rev. Ernest C. Estell, pastor of the St. John Baptist Church, died Monday
afternoon in a Decherd, Tenn., hospital. Estell, who lives at 2709 Thomas, will officiate at 2 p.m. Friday funeral
services in the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Decherd. Other survivors are another son, Athal Estell of Decherd,
10 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, March 8, 1955 – transcribed
by Amanda Jowers
Sam Dudley Hart, Sr.
(January 16, 1928 - August 27, 2009)
HART, Sam Dudley, age 81, died Thursday, August 27, 2009, of complications attributed to blood infection while
in hospital at Dekalb Medical, Decatur, GA. Sam was born January 16, 1928 in Winchester, Tennessee to James Derrel
and Nell Givens Hart. He served in the United States Army from April 1946 to retirement on November 1966. His military
service included tours in Italy, Germany, Korea and Vietnam as well as postings at military bases in the US. He
is an alumnus of Columbus State University (Class of ’74). He lived in Georgia since his military retirement
in 1966 in Columbus, Conyers, and Tucker and was involved in professions in sales and manufacturing until retirement
in 1999. In addition to his parents, his brother, Kenneth Hart preceded him in death. He is survived by his sister,
Mary Elizabeth (Dolly) Hill, (Ringold, GA). He is also survived by 3 sons: Sam Hart, Jr., Peter Hart, and David
Hart (all reside in Georgia); 2 daughters,, Alicia Ford (Texas) and Karen Hart (Georgia); and 3 grandchildren:
Addamus Hart (Texas); Caitlin Hart and David Franklin Hart, Jr. (Georgia); and 1 known great-grandchild. Services
for Sam will be conducted Thursday, September 3, 2009 in the manner of family/friends rendezvous at Watson-North
Funeral Home at 11am to be followed by procession and graveside service at Mount Garner Cemetery, Decherd, at 12:00
noon. The family request that donations be given to The Friends of Old Mount Hermon Cemetery Foundation in lieu
of flowers. Procedure/instructions for donations can be found at the web site: http://www.mounthermoncemetery.org.
The Friends of Old Mount Hermon Cemetery is a non-profit foundation established by Sam in 1999 to promote the awareness
and provide for the perpetual care of neglected cemetery located in Bedford, County, Tennessee.
Contributed by cousin & friend Christine Walters
Mrs. P. M. Mayes
Woman Who Rode Wagon Train to Texas From Tennessee Dies
Carrollton, Texas, Feb. 14 – Mrs. P. M. Mayes, 91, who came to Texas sixty-five years ago with her husband
in a wagon train from Tennessee, died at the home of her son, E. P. Mayes, Carrollton.
Mrs. Mayes was born April 22, 1848, in Franklin County, Tenn., and started to Texas in 1875, six years after she
was married. Her husband died in 1930. She often recounted stories of their trip to Texas, including one about
a horse tied to the back of their wagon once saving their lives when the wagon slid into a stream. The horse pulled
it out.
The family settled near Lewisville, living there until thirty-five years ago, when they moved to Carrollton. Later
they returned to Lewisville and then moved to Trinity Mills. Mrs. Mayes had been living with a son since the death
of her husband.
She is survived by three sons, Ed P. Mayes, Charlie Mayes and Walter Mayes, all of Carrollton, and two daughters,
Mrs. Oscar Smith, Carrollton, and Mrs. Will Cunningham, Coppell.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Carrollton Baptist Church. Burial will be in Forest Lawn
Cemetery.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, February 15, 1940 – transcribed
by Amanda Jowers
Colonel Tazewell W. Newman
Colonel Tazewell W. Newman, of Franklin county, died at his residence, near Winchester, on Friday the 2d instant,
after a protracted illness. He was Speaker of the State Senate in 1860-61, and Colonel of the Seventeenth (Confederate)
Tennessee regiment of the late war.
Memphis Daily Avalanche (8 Oct. 1868) -- contributed by, Marla Zwakman
Amanda M. WHITEHERST
May 26, 1859
Amanda M. Whiteherst, third and youngest daughter of Henry and Permelia Whiteherst, born Franklin Co., Tenn., Dec.
31, 1828 and died November 23, 1857; moved with grandmother, Sarah King, uncle and two sisters to Holly Sprs.,
Miss. in January 1840; Jan. 1848 moved with brother-in-law, James S. Thomas, and family to Pontotoc Co., Miss.;
married B. F. Chapman, from Newberry Dist., So. Carolina, December 8, 1850; surviving were husband and two daughters,
aged seven and two years old.
[Source: Death Notices from the Christian Advocate, Nashville, Tennessee 1877-1879 by Jonathan Kennon Thompson
Smith]
