Peery, Bettye Jean
Bettye Jean Peery was born May 29, 1929, in Centerville, Tennessee, the second daughter of Adley Leftic and Lillian May Tarkington Peery. Her family moved to Short Branch in Hickman County to her grandparents’ farm after her father died suddenly in 1935. There she enjoyed the love of a caring mother and a wonderful grandmother and living in the county…