General Washington Bruce (1870 - 1928)

Born 11 Sep 1870 in Campbell County, Tennessee

Husband of Josephine Lillian (Smith) Bruce — married 9 Aug 1893 in Knox County, Tennessee

Descendants

Died 15 Dec 1928 at age 58 in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

Censuses

1900^{[1] [2]}

Josie has had 4 children/4 living

General is living as a "RR Laborer"

1910 - Civil District 6, Knox^{[3] [4]}

Julia (Josie) has had 8 children/8 living

1920 - Knoxville Ward 19^{[5] [6]}

Marriage

Marriage Record^[7]

Cosigned by John Bruce

According to the 1900 census, General and Josie's daughter, Ora was born in May 1894, 7 months after their wedding. Hmm . . .

Death

Obituary^[8]

Funeral services for General W Bruce, 58, locomotive engineer, on the Southern railway, who committed suicide by firing a bullet into his brain, will be conducted from the home, 627 Johnson Avenue at 1 p.m. today, Coster lodge, IOOF, will have charge of this service. Services will be conducted by the Rev. A Cox at 2:30 p.m. at Bishop's cemetery at Heiskell Station. Mr. Bruce had been an engineer on this Southern railway for 12 years. He returned from a regular trip to Chattanooga a few hours before he ended his life. Homicide Chief, T W Day, investigated the death. He was informed that Mr. and Mrs. Bruce had been in bed in a front room at their home. He got up and partly dressed as Mrs. Bruce believed, to leave the house. He went to the dresser drawer and got his pistol. She heard the report of the pistol shot and a moment later found her husband dying from a wound in the head. Bruce had been cautioned by railway officials about running his engine too fast and recently had not been running fast enough to make his schedule. This caused officials to call upon him to speed up.

Knoxville Journal & Tribune, Sun, 16 Dec 1928

Death Record^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSD7-L9R : accessed 19 August 2015), General Bruce, Civil Districts 6, 20, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing sheet 9A, family 164, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,582.
2. ↑ http://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&indiv=try&h=60733856
3. ↑ http://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&indiv=try&h=27279754
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGNP-CCT : accessed 19 August 2015), General W Bruce, Civil District 6, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 115, sheet 4A, family 68, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,521.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNG2-2PN : accessed 20 August 2015), Floyd Bruce in household of George W Bruce, Knoxville Ward 19, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing sheet 18A, family 347, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,750.
6. ↑ http://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1920usfedcen&indiv=try&h=99934259
7. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZWP-8LJ : accessed 19 August 2015), General Bruce and Josie Smith, 1893.
8. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bruce&GSiman=1&GScid=9332&GRid=34002961&
9. ↑ "Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSVZ-LYN : accessed 20 August 2015), G. W. Bruce, 15 Dec 1928; citing Bishop'S Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, cn 29261, State Library and Archives, Nashville; FHL microfilm 1,876,746.

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