CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - T.N. Peters, 19 May 2003
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Obituary appeared in the Sunday, May 20, 1939 Elizabethton Star
 
T.N. Peters, 74, died at his home at Carter early Saturday morning after an
illness of several months.  Mr. Peters was very prominent in this section,
having been a member of the county court of 18 years.  He was a member of the
Dashiel Lodge, Masonic Order, of Elizabethton.  Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Martha Peters; three daughters, Mrs. Rosa Peters, Mrs. Nancy Colbaugh, Mrs.
R.D. Grindstaff; three sons, John W. Peters, Robert H. Peters, and W.B. Peters
all of Carter; one sister, Mrs. Martha Garland of Johnson City; four brothers,
Dan, Alfred, Wiley and John Peters of Carter.  forty-two grandchildren and 28
great grandchildren also survive.  Funeral services will be conducted Sunday
afternoon at two o'clock at the Liberty church, with the Rev. C.Y. Elkins in
charge.  Burial will be in the Blevins cemetery.  The Masonic lodge will have
charge of services at the grave.  The body was removed from the Roy Hathaway
funeral home to the home yesterday afternoon.  Active pallbearers and flower
bearers will be nephews and nieces of Mr. Peters.  Honorary pallbearers:  L.W.
Fletcher, W.M. Colbaugh, A.B. Williams, James Pardue, B.C. Davis, Bill Peters,
John R. Hardin, J.R. Eckles, Noah Grindstaff, D.B. Peters, W.B. Buckles, J.R.
Nave, Major C.R. Hathaway, M.R. Hardin, A.P. Hardin, Joh Proffit, Ray Lowe,
B.J. Lewis, C.H. Hyder, E.C. Alexander, J.M. Moreland, Sam Harrell, B.T.
Nidiffer, ?. F. Shankle, Sol Wilson, E.E. ????, John Garland, Dave Williams,
Jim Wilson, H. Gouge, Ed. ?????, C.C. Lewis, Will Ritchie, ???? Ritchie, Jim
Bradley, J.S. ?????, Charlie Collins, Dr. A.D. C?????, Henry Taylor, G.W.
Ensor, ???? ????, H.H. Grindstaff, Nick ?????, Noah Lowe, J.C. Cole, Walter
Cole, Bill Cole, Bill Culbert, Re??? Culbert, Tom Campbell, Frank Garland,
Jake Grindstaff, C.L. Grindstaff, Dr. C.C. Hacker, Dr. W.O. Frost, John
Alford, Elbert Dugger, W.O. Garland, Erne Lewis, Sam Bradley, John Taylor,
D.C. Cole, Will Hardin, R.H. Hardin, Emmitt White, R.B. Peters, Harry Burgie.
 
(There was a large smudge over part of the area that listed the honorary 
pallbearears and made some of the names unreadable)
(T.N. Peters was the son of Reuben B. Peters 1845-1905 and Nancy Oliver 1845-\
1908.  His wife was Martha Frasier 1866-1942.)

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