ZETTA GERTRUDE BENNETT
Zetta Gertrude Bennett, 285? Lawrence av., beloved mother of William and Helen
Bennett. Interment at Hartsville, Tenn., Oct. 14, 1921.
Source: Chicago Daily Tribune, 14 Oct 1921 - transcribed by, AJ
ALLEN CARUTHERS
Allen Caruthers, founder and president of the Oklahoma Society of New York
and for many years a lawyer with offices at 19 West Forty-sixth Street, died yesterday of bronchial pneumonia in
St. Clare's Hospital, 415 West Fifty-first Street. He was 74 years old.
In his youth in Logan, Okla., Mr. Caruthers was the attorney who prosecuted the Dalton Gang. He was born in Hartsville,
Tenn., and was admitted to the bar in 1886. Eleven years later Mr. Caruthers came to New York and had practiced
until his recent illness, specializing in appeals.
He leaves a widow, Mrs. Loretta Caruthers, and three sons, Clarence, William and Allen, all of this city; three
brothers, Judge John Caruthers of the Oklahoma Superior Court at Okmilgee, Abraham Caruthers of Nashville, Tenn.,
and William Caruthers, an attorney of Ontario, Calif.
Source: New York Times, 25 Jan 1941 - transcribed by, AJ
SUSAN ELLENOR DUFFY
DIED, In Hartsville, on the 27th ultimo, at the age of three years and four
months, Susan Ellenor Duffy, eldest daughter of Col. Francis and Pamela Duffy. In the death of this interesting
and promising child, in the early blight of a tender flower, paternal affection has received an infliction which
commands the highest sympathies of humanity.
Source: National Banner and Nashville Whig (15 June 1836) - transcribed
by, Marla Zwakman
MARION CORBETT ERWIN
Mexico City, Oct. 8 - Rear Admiral Marion Corbett Erwin, U. S. N., retired,
died at Cuernavaca Tuesday while visiting friends. His age was 60. He was traveling with his wife, Mrs. Helen Beatrice
Erwin, and his son, Corbett.
Admiral Erwin was born at Hartsville, Tenn. After studying at the Cincinnati Business College he entered the Navy
as an apprentice seaman in 1910. In 1914 he went to the Navy Electric School for a year's study, and in 1917 he
was commissioned. He advanced through the grades, and in 1934 was graduated from the Naval War College. Promoted
to rear admiral in 1946, he retired the same year.
He saw service in Turkish waters, 1911 and 1912; in World War I with the North Sea forces, and in World War II
in Africa, the Solomons, Guam, Iwo and Japan. He won two Bronze Stars and many other decorations.
Source: New York Times, 9 Oct 1953 - transcribed by, AJ
ANDREW C. WELCH
Washington, February 4. - Andrew C. Welch, the senior reporter of debats in
the house of representatives, died in this city late today of pneumonia. He had been ill only since last Monday
night. Mr. Welch, whose home was at Hartsville, Tenn., had been on duty in the house for twenty-six years, and
was the dean of the stenographic corps. He was 66 years of age. A wife survives him. Mr. Welch learned shorthand
in Newcastle, England, as a boy. He moved to this country in 1873.
Source: The Atlanta Constitution, 5 Feb 1911 - transcribed by, AJ
