Eldridge Willieboy Keeton (1914 - 1934)

Born 8 Mar 1914 in Wayne, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Died 20 Jan 1934 at age 19 in Wayne, Tennessee, United States

Biography

Eldridge Keeton died young.

The son of Henry Keeton and his first wife, Maud (Hollis) Keeton, Eldridge Keeton was born in Wayne County, Tennessee in 1916.^{[citation needed]} His mother passed away in 1919 and his father remarried. In 1930, Eldridge lived with his family in Wayne County's District 7, where his father farmed.^[1] Eldridge died of measles and meningitis when he was 19 years old, and still in high school.^[2] He is buried with his mother and siblings, at Bethlehem Cemetery in rural Wayne County, Tennessee.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP75-44B : accessed 30 May 2022), Eldrige Keeton in household of Henry Keeton, District 7, Wayne, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 8, sheet 11A, line 46, family 213, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2284; FHL microfilm 2,342,018.
2. ↑ "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSF6-CNL : 23 February 2021), Eldrege Willieboy Keeton, 20 Jan 1934; Death, Collinwood, Wayne, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGVY-B747 : 1 August 2020), Eldridge Willieboy Keeton, Burial, , Wayne, Tennessee, United States of America, Bethlehem Cemetery. Find A Grave: Memorial #183574204