Travel Tuesday: Annie Gatlin and Ida (Gatlin) Andrews' Trip to Bowling Green, Kentucky

Nashville American, 22 August 1909, page 14

On 20 August 1909, my first cousin three times removed Annie Lee Gatlin and her aunt, my 2nd-great-grandfather's sister Ida Lee (Gatlin) Andrews, left Nashville and went to Bowling Green, Kentucky. They spent two weeks there. They were probably visiting my 2nd-great-grandfather's sister Lillie May (Gatlin) Bailey and her daughter Mary Elizabeth Bailey. Although Lillie and Mary were living in Nashville in 1910, they had lived in Bowling Green at least from 1899-1903, and they had returned to Bowling Green by 1912.

Sunday's Obituary: Ida Lee (Gatlin) Andrews

Nashville Tennesseean and Nashville American, 13 October 1916, page 13

MRS. IDA LEE ANDREWS.

   Mrs. Ida Lee Andrews died at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Bomar, 305 Eighteenth avenue, north, Thursday afternoon at 12:40 o'clock. She was the widow of Sam Andrews and mother of Perry Lee Andrews, who survive her. A complete funeral notice will be announced later.

Nashville Tennesseean and Nashville American, 14 October 1916, page 9

MRS. IDA LEE ANDREWS.

   The funeral services for Mrs. Ida Lee Andrews who died at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Bowman [Bomar], 305 Eighteenth avenue, north, will be held from the residence this morning at 9:30 o'clock, with services at the West End Methodist church at 10 o'clock by Rev. W. T. Haggard. The interment will take place at Mt. Olivet.
   The following are the pallbearers: W. I. Lightfoot, Joseph Cliff, Joe Kerrigan, Dr. W. H. Bailey, Samuel Hagle, Lyle Andrews, R. L. Hamilton, Arthur Hamby.

Ida Lee Gatlin was the daughter of my 3rd-great-grandparents William Dow Gatlin and Mary Nevins. She was born in August 1864 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. She married William Samuel Andrews on 15 February 1881. Their son Perry Lee Andrews was born on 2 January 1883. Ida died in Nashville on 12 October 1916. She was buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery on 14 October 1916.

Wednesday's Child: Mary Elizabeth Bailey

Mary Elizabeth Bailey death certificate. No. 16059, 15 June 1912. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.

Mary Elizabeth Bailey was the only child of my great-great-grandfather's sister Lillie (or Lilly) May Gatlin and her first husband John B. Bailey. Mary Elizabeth was born on 27 February 1899 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. After her father died in 1903, she and her mother moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and lived with her mother's sister Ida Lee (Gatlin) Andrews, Ida's husband William Samuel Andrews, and their son Perry Lee Andrews. After Lillie married Charles L. Goodrum in Davidson County, Tennessee on 6 December 1910, the family moved back to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where Mary Elizabeth died of tuberculosis on 15 June 1912. She was thirteen years old.