Katie Nell (Baty) Bratten (1919 - 2008)

Born 15 Feb 1919 in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States

Wife of Frank Valton Bratten — married 17 Feb 1937 in Liberty, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States

Died 20 May 2008 at age 89 in Coffee County, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

When Katie Nell Baty was born on February 15, 1919, in DeKalb, Tennessee, her father, Anderson B Baty, was 54, and her mother, Effie Evergreen Sandlin, was 28. Katy married Frank Bratten, the boy nextdoor. They had a daughter, Nellie. Katie later married J. B. Owen on 8 Jan 1967, in Old Hickory, Davidson, Tennessee. Katie died on May 20, 2008, in Coffee, Tennessee, at the age of 89, and was buried in Nashville, Tennessee.

Sources

• 1920 United States Federal Census for Katie N Baty, Tennessee, De Kalb, Civil District 12, District 0062 Roll: T625_1737; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 62, Ancestry.com

• 1930 United States Federal Census for Catenelle Baty (Baty Bluff Road, next to the Bratten farm) Tennessee, Dekalb, District 12, District 0014, Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0014; FHL microfilm: 2341978

• 1940 United States Federal Census for Katie Nell Baty Bratten (enumerated together with her daughter, Nellie K Bratten, in the home of her mother, Effie Baty nextdoor to the Batten farm) Tennessee, DeKalb, 21-15 Roll: m-t0627-03887; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 21-15, Ancestry.com

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137328890/katie-nell-owen: accessed 25 September 2020), memorial page for Katie Nell Batey Owen (15 Feb 1919–20 May 2008), Find a Grave Memorial no. 137328890, citing Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA ; Maintained by MN (contributor 46859205) [1]

Notes

Katie Nell Baty Batten Owen passed away on May 20, 2008. She had served her community by taking care of the sick and homeless, and also of families with newborn babies. She worked at DuPont Plant for 13 years, then went on to work at Baptist and Donelson Hospitals, retiring from Donelson Hospital in 1981. She was a member of Temple Baptist Church in Old Hickory. She was preceded into Heaven by her parents, Boss Anderson Baty and Effie Sandlin Baty of Dekalb County; and by her husband of 27 years, Mr. J. B. Owen of Old Hickory, TN; brothers, Dink and Dillard Baty; sister-in-law, Margie Baty of Lebanon, TN; son-in-law, Jim Chaffin of Tullahoma, TN; step son-in-law, Cleo McClellan of Kentucky and Jack Estes of Hermitage, TN. She is survived by one daughter, Nellie, three step-daughters, step son-in-law, one sister and brother-in-law, one sister-in-law, thirteen grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.