Rogers W. Barnes

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Rogers W. Barnes

Birth
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Death
14 Feb 1941 (aged 59)
Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA
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Youngest son of Parents: Samuel Robert Barnes & James Rebecca "Jennie" Redmon. Roger was born and lived in Davidson County, TN, until he married Mattie Lee Thomas in 1904. They began married life in a rented house just north of Cedar Grove Cemetery on Glendale Ave. in Athens, Tennessee, where their only daughter, Sarah Jane Barnes, was born in 1911. In the fall of 1919, he moved the family to Chattanooga, TN, where took a job as a streetcar conductor and later a carpenter for the Chattanooga Railway and Locomotive Corp. They lived in the 600 block of 4th Ave. while he built the family home at 306 Tunnel Blvd with only a little help from family and friends. Rogers died in Athens, Tennessee, while visiting a sick relative on February 14, 1941.
Youngest son of Parents: Samuel Robert Barnes & James Rebecca "Jennie" Redmon. Roger was born and lived in Davidson County, TN, until he married Mattie Lee Thomas in 1904. They began married life in a rented house just north of Cedar Grove Cemetery on Glendale Ave. in Athens, Tennessee, where their only daughter, Sarah Jane Barnes, was born in 1911. In the fall of 1919, he moved the family to Chattanooga, TN, where took a job as a streetcar conductor and later a carpenter for the Chattanooga Railway and Locomotive Corp. They lived in the 600 block of 4th Ave. while he built the family home at 306 Tunnel Blvd with only a little help from family and friends. Rogers died in Athens, Tennessee, while visiting a sick relative on February 14, 1941.

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