Member of Prominent Family Dies
Mrs. Tennie AHART of Between the Rivers, Buried Sunday. Funeral and burial
rites were held last Sunday, January 21, for one of the outstanding women
of the community, Mrs Tennie Ahart of Golden Pond. She was the wife of the
late Esq. William Ahart, who served the First Magisterial district with honor
for several terms. Before her marriage, she was Miss Tennie JONES. Death
came to Mrs Ahart at the Ahart home place near Golden Pond, last Saturday,
January 20, after many months of illness and intense pain. She was
born on May 14, 1866 and was united in marriage to Esq. Ahart in 1887. This
couple lived out their pleasant married life in the same community. Between
the River, where they passed away. Mrs Ahart in her early life
united with the noted "Old Cumberland" Baptist Church -- but later brought
her membership to the Baptist church at Golden Pond. Both churches were blessed
by her christian service. The
funeral was conducted by her pastor, Rev. J.J. Jenkins, at her home place,
Sunday, at 2:30 P.M. Interment was made in the family graveyard near the
Ahart home. Her husband having died in 1929 leaves her survived by two sons,
Jasper D. Ahart, and Seldon Ahart, a granddaughter, Evelyn and a grandson,
Edsel Ahart of the U.S. Navy. The pallbearer were: Hoy Jones, Louie
Jones, Noah Jones, Edward Mize, her nephews, and Conley Wallace and Gilbert
Turner.