James Beersheba Jared (1886 - 1965)

Born 22 Apr 1886 in Putnam, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Myrtle (Jones) Jared — married 9 Aug 1908 in Putnam, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 16 Sep 1965 at age 79 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States

Biography

This profile is part of the Gerard Name Study.

James Beersheba Jared was born on April 22, 1886 in Putnam, Tennessee, United States, son of William James Jared (1840–1919) and Elizabeth Frances Huddleston (1845–1925).

James (22) married Mary Myrtle Jones (16) (born on August 14, 1891 in Tennessee; daughter of David Little Jones and Lucy (Montgomery) Jones) on August 9, 1908 in Putnam. Their children were:

• Mina Opal Jared (1911–2010)
• David Frank Jared (1912–1954)

James died on September 16, 1965 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, aged 79.

Research

Nashville, TN Insane Asylum Blaze, Aug 1863

AN INSANE ASYLUM ON FIRE.

EIGHT OF THE INMATES OF A TENNESSEE INSTITUTION BURNED TO DEATH.

Nashville, Tenn., March 14. — This morning the Central Insane Asylum, situated seven miles from this city, is almost a mass of ruins, and beneath it are the charred bodies of half a dozen of the unfortunate inmates. At 10:15 last night Watchman FITZHUGH discovered an ugly tongue of flame breaking through the roof of the western main wing of the building. How it caught none could learn, but it reached from the ground through the second and third stories, and cut off the few rooms that were behind it. In a moment the alarm was given, and the 400 inmates of the institution were thrown into wild commotion. There were twenty-eight men in the wing when the fire caught, and twenty of them were quickly removed to the main hall, the other eight being left to their fate behind the impassable wall of flames. The city was telephoned to for aid, but Chief CARREL of the Fire Department could not be found, and his subordinates refused to move without instructions. Finally, after two hours delay, the Chief was found, ahd he, with two engines, left for the scene of the disaster. In the meantime the west wing had collapsed, the fire had spread, and the inmates made frantic by their danger, were beginning to break from the guard and scatter like frightened animals over the surrounding country. The fire engines arrived on the scene at 2:15, and in a few moments a stream of water was playing on the main building. Previously, the inmates of the asylum, the servants, and the guards had rendered fire service with buckets and succeeded in holding the fire in check to some extent. The doomed inmates were in the west wing. They were all males and white.

The New York Times New York 1863-08-17 From www3.gendisasters.com

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Acknowledgments

This profile was created through the import of Adams,Fowler,Roulston,Twilla_2011-03-09.ged on 10 March 2011.