{"id":578,"date":"2013-09-19T05:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T05:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/?p=578"},"modified":"2013-09-15T05:16:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T05:16:26","slug":"bess-byron-d-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/bess-byron-d-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"BESS, Byron &#8211; (d. 1952)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Byron, Bess, 81, Farmer, Political Leader, Passes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Byron Bess,<\/strong> 81, retired farmer and veteran Warren county political leader, died at his home in the 11th district, near Centertown. Services were Tuesday morning at 9:30 o&#8217;clock at the Oak Grove Baptist Church. <strong>Rev. W.J. Thompson<\/strong>, Baptist minister, officiated and burial was in the Oak Grove cemetery. <strong>Mr. Bess<\/strong> native of Warren county, was born near Irving College October 7, 1870. He was a son of <strong>I.P. Bess<\/strong> and <strong>Balzora Dearing Bess<\/strong> and he was married in 1898 to <strong>Miss Mattie Davenport,<\/strong> also of Warren county. She died five years ago. <strong>Mr. Bess<\/strong> moved with his family from the Irving College section to the 11th district when he was 16 years of age and had resided there since. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For a number of years <strong>Mr. Bess<\/strong> was active in the political life of Warren county and although never a candidate for public office, he was at one time a member of the county school board. He was a member of the Baptist Church. <strong>Mr. Bess<\/strong> is survived by <strong>Benton Bess<\/strong>, Indianapolis, Ind., <strong>George, Harry, Clark<\/strong> and <strong>James Bess,<\/strong> Centertown; two daughters, <strong>Mrs. T.L. Hillis<\/strong>, Centertown, and <strong>Mrs. W.W. Smartt,<\/strong> Murfreesboro; two sisters, <strong>Mrs. Mary Cates<\/strong> and <strong>Mrs. W. M. Arledge,<\/strong> Centertown; a half-brother, <strong>John Bess,<\/strong> McMinnville; a half-sister, <strong>Mrs. Cora Clark<\/strong>, Ohio. Also six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Arrangements by High Funeral Home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Southern Standard, McMinnville, TN. Fri, 18 Jan 1952, p. 1.<br \/>\n[Contributor:\u00a0 Maxine Reggio, 2000]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron, Bess, 81, Farmer, Political Leader, Passes Byron Bess, 81, retired farmer and veteran Warren county political leader, died at his home in the 11th district, near Centertown. Services were Tuesday morning at 9:30 o&#8217;clock at the Oak Grove Baptist <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/bess-byron-d-1952\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[323,247,322,269,55,321,235,249,320],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-arledge","tag-bess","tag-cates","tag-clark","tag-davenport","tag-dearing","tag-hillis","tag-smartt","tag-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}