This obituary was in the March 23, 1939, Cleveland
Banner, page 3.
Submitted my Nancy Wooten Cross.
Native of Bradley County Dies at Age 84; Rites Friday Afternoon
James Turner Wooten an old and highly respected
citizen of the county died at his home on Johnson Boulevard Wednesday
night from a
complication of diseases resulting from old age.
He was born in Bradley County on Feb. 27, 1855 and had just passed his
eighty-fourth birthday. The deceased, his father and grandfather have
lived
over a period of 182 years. His grandfather, Turner Wooten, was born in
Buckingham
county, Virginia in 1757, and was a soldier in the War of the
Revolution:
his father, Robert Warfield Wooten was born in Jefferson county,
Tennessee
in 1819 and was a soldier in the Mexican war, and the deceased was born
in
1855.
He was married Aug. 30, 1879, to Miss Sallie J. Carson, daughter of
James Carson, a pioneer citizen of the East side of the county. His
wife died
Dec. 27, 1895. He never remarried, but reared his family of seven
children
without a mother's help. His son, Calvin Wooten, died a few years ago.
The
living children are Luke C. Wooten, of Fort Smith, Ark; E. O. and R. E.
Wooten, this city and Mrs. John Ball, Mrs. Winford Hayes of Cleveland
and
Mrs. Mary Clayton of Cohutta, Ga. He is also survived by one brother,
Rev.
J. M. Wooten, and one sister, Mrs. Rhoda M. Davidson, both of this
city.
He has twenty-six grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren.
Funeral is arranged for 1:00 p.m. Friday at Ocoee Presbyterian church
in Polk county. Rev. Chas. H. Taylor, pastor of the Big Springs
Methodist
church officiating.