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Bethel M (Story) Brewer (1908 - 1924)

Bethel M Brewer formerly Story
Born in Wayne, Tennessee, United Statesmap
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Daughter of and
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Died at age 15 in Iron City, Lawrence, Tennessee, United Statesmap
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Biography

Bethel (Story) Brewer died young.

The daughter of Thomas Story Sr and Seville (Nelson) Story, Bethel was born in Wayne County, where they farmed, in 1909.They farmed on their own account in Civil District 8 of Wayne County.[1][2] She married Willie Cate Brewer (1900-) in Wayne County on December 20, 1923, marrying when she was just 15 years old.[3] She died of pneumonia after a suffering from influenza; she was just 16 years old.[4] She is buried with her family at Bethlehem Cemetery in rural Wayne County.[5]

Research Notes

Her death certificate lists her year of birth as 1909 and her year of death as 1924, but her grave marker is etched with 1908 and 1924.

Sources

  1. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGNJ-RKH : accessed 10 February 2021), Bethel Story in household of T C Story, Civil District 8, Wayne, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 135, sheet 2B, family 33, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1524; FHL microfilm 1,375,537.
  2. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN55-H98 : 3 February 2021), Bethie Story in entry for Thomas C Story, 1920.
  3. ↑ "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN8F-D6C : 4 December 2014), Willie Brewer and Bethel Story, 20 Dec 1923; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 140, Wayne, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
  4. ↑ "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC9-4N2Q : 13 December 2020), Bethel Brewer, 28 Jan 1925; Death, Iron City, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
  5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #21015902




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