Marion Judson 'Jud' Keith was the son of Martin Lafayette and Catharine 'Katie' (McClure) Keith. The family lived in Whitfield County, Georgia, where Jud met and married Beulah Mae Smith (daughter of William Melvin and Amanda Ophelia (Cartwright) Smith. The couple married on June 28, 1903. Jud and Beulah's first child, Arlena, was born in Georgia. By the time Mildred was born, the family had moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Jud worked as a driver in the laundry trade. (Jud's widowed mother, Katie, lived with them in 1910). At least five more children were born: Marcellous, Melvin, Fannie Mae, Elberta, and Cleo Keith. By 1917, Jud was working as a clerk for Crown Laundry on Market Street. He registered for the World War I draft, listing his wife as next of kin. Jud contracted tuberculosis and entered the Pine Breeze Sanitarium in Chattanooga, where he died on February 4, 1929, months before the stock-market crash that started the Great Depression. The cause of death was diabetes mellitis (complicated by tuberculosis). The death record is incomplete, as institutional death records often are; Marion's parents are listed as unknown (though his wife would have known his parents). Marion Judson Keith was buried February 5th at Chattanooga Memorial Park.
Marion Judson 'Jud' Keith was the son of Martin Lafayette and Catharine 'Katie' (McClure) Keith. The family lived in Whitfield County, Georgia, where Jud met and married Beulah Mae Smith (daughter of William Melvin and Amanda Ophelia (Cartwright) Smith. The couple married on June 28, 1903. Jud and Beulah's first child, Arlena, was born in Georgia. By the time Mildred was born, the family had moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Jud worked as a driver in the laundry trade. (Jud's widowed mother, Katie, lived with them in 1910). At least five more children were born: Marcellous, Melvin, Fannie Mae, Elberta, and Cleo Keith. By 1917, Jud was working as a clerk for Crown Laundry on Market Street. He registered for the World War I draft, listing his wife as next of kin. Jud contracted tuberculosis and entered the Pine Breeze Sanitarium in Chattanooga, where he died on February 4, 1929, months before the stock-market crash that started the Great Depression. The cause of death was diabetes mellitis (complicated by tuberculosis). The death record is incomplete, as institutional death records often are; Marion's parents are listed as unknown (though his wife would have known his parents). Marion Judson Keith was buried February 5th at Chattanooga Memorial Park.
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