Orvan Luster Bess

Male 1888 - 1940  (51 years)


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  • Name Orvan Luster Bess 
    Birth 17 Dec 1888  DeKalb County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 28 Sep 1940  Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Burial 29 Sep 1940  Oakland Baptist Church Cemetery, Whites Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Person ID I33486  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 20 Jul 2017 

    Father William M. Bess,   b. 1848-1849, Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 May 1935, Joelton, Davidson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Tennessee Virginia "Tennie" Webb,   b. 1852, Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1900 (Age 49 years) 
    Marriage 7 Nov 1869  Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Residence (Family) 1880  Warren County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Family ID F12288  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Flora Cornelia Mathews,   b. 1888-1889, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 0___ 1965 (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage Y  [1, 6
    Family ID F12291  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 17 Dec 1888 - DeKalb County, Tennessee Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 28 Sep 1940 - Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 29 Sep 1940 - Oakland Baptist Church Cemetery, Whites Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Proposed Change: Orvan Lester Bess (I33486)
      Tree: The Hennessee Family
      Link: <http://45.55.184.182//getperson.php?personID=I33486&tree=hennessee>

      Description: Orvan Bess' middle name is Luster (not Lester). It's a surname of a friend or relative for whom he was named. I'm not exactly sure who yet, but I do have a Jane Luster from Warren County, TN, in my tree that I think will connect in eventually.

      Orvan's wife was Flora Cornelia Mathews (~1888 - 1965). Her sister Margaret Louise "Lula" Mathews (1884 - 1934) married Orvan's brother Andrew Jackson Bess (1879-1924).

      Flora and Lula were orphaned as adolescents. Their younger half sister, Mary "Willie" Smith, was my great grandmother.

      I do not know who any of these girls' parents were, only that their mother was known as "Maggie Smith" when she died in 1899 in Nashville. All three girls were in and out of the Nashville Protestant Orphans Asylum several times in the 1890s and early 1900s before they each married into the Bess/Arnett family.

      My 2X great grandmother, Samantha Bess Arnett, was the aunt of Orvan Luster Bess and Andrew Jackson Bess, and the mother of George Arnett (my great grandfather) who married Willie Smith.

      Lori Tigert
      loridianne@comcast.net

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    • Click here for a registry of his issue...https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/SPW2-5RM

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  • Sources 
    1. [S45996] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NSH6-SW7.

    2. [S11317] "William B Bess", Cemetery Listing, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=bess&GSfn=william&GSbyrel=all.

    3. [S45992] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F65J-RJP.

    4. [S44617] Warren County Marriage Records 1852-1900, by Fred Clark, 11.

    5. [S11324] "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDWJ-DYW : 15.

    6. [S11316] Lori Tigert, loridianne@comcast.net, submitted this person, event, date or place, Thursday, July 20th, 2017, retrieved,.

    7. [S46060] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/SPW2-5RM.