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Bettie Jane Cook Gouge, wife of\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>William Henry Gouge of Coalfield,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Tenn. with her triplet sons in 1903.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Only one lived to adulthood, Hugh Jinks Gouge.<\/span><\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n William Henry Gouge and wife Bettie Jane, with son -in-law, Ezra McGlothin, Bessie Gouge McGlothin,Ollie Gouge Sampsel, Saddie Gouge Dill Hall, James Oliver, Robert Elmer, Lewis Arnold, Hugh Jinks. Missing from picture,\u00a0 two of the triplets, Viola Gouge Smith, Harvey Cleveland Gouge and William Henry Gouge Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n \u00a0This is the obituary of my great-grand mother\u00a0<\/span>Bettie Jane Cook Gouge<\/b>. She lived and died in Coalfield, Tennessee and has many decendants in Morgan Co. whom I think will enjoy reading this. It was found packed\u00a0<\/span>away in her sister ( Julia Mann’s ) personal things after her sister died. Julia’s grand-daughter gave it to me.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The funeral of Mrs.Bettie Jane Cook Gouge, who died at her home in Oliver Springs, Sunday, Feb. 7, 1932 at 5p.m. was held Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at the Middle Creek Church, with Rev. Walls of that place and Rev.J.B. Tallant of Harriman, officiating. ~<\/p>\n Courtesy of\u00a0Susan Gouge Daughtery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bettie Jane Cook Gouge, wife of\u00a0\u00a0William Henry Gouge of Coalfield,\u00a0\u00a0Tenn. with her triplet sons in 1903.\u00a0\u00a0Only one lived to adulthood, Hugh Jinks Gouge. ~ William Henry Gouge and wife Bettie Jane, with son -in-law, Ezra McGlothin, Bessie Gouge McGlothin,Ollie Gouge Sampsel, Saddie Gouge Dill Hall, James Oliver, Robert Elmer, Lewis Arnold, Hugh Jinks. Missing from… Continue reading Gouge, William Henry & Betty Jane Cook Gouge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[843,144,14,83,96],"tags":[219,296,1020,497,16,507,196,771,163],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-records","category-family-photos","category-history","category-misc-records","category-obituary","tag-cook","tag-daughtery","tag-dills","tag-gouge","tag-hall","tag-mann","tag-mcglothin","tag-sampsel","tag-smith","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/Gougefamilywithlittledaddy.jpg\")
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\nMrs. Gouge was born July 27, 1870 and was married to W.H. Gouge in 1888. To this union twelve children were born, 3 of whom await her coming in the Great Beyond.\u00a0 Mrs.Gouge professed faith in Christ at the age of 13. She was a loving mother, a true wife and a kind friend. To know her was to love her. She is
\nsurvived by husband W.H. Gouge, six sons, Hugh, James, Elmer, and Lewis of Oliver Springs, Harvey of Kentucky;\u00a0 3 daughters, Mrs.Saddie Dills of Jefferson City, Mrs. Viola Smith of California and Mrs. Bessie McGlothin of Knoxville;\u00a0 3 brothers, L.O. Cook of Chattanooga, Grover Cook of Johnson City and Frank Cook of Harriman, and one sister, Mrs. Julia Mann also of Harriman: 22 grandchildren and one great grand-child. Interment was at the Oliver Springs cemetery.<\/p>\n