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.

Wednesday's Child: Mary Nevins Gatlin

Mary Nevins Gatlin was born on 30 May 1895 in Nashville, Tennessee. She was the daughter of my 2nd-great-grandfather's brother Clarence Bateman Gatlin and Ella Lee. She was named after her paternal grandmother, my 3rd-great-grandmother Mary Nevins.

Nashville, Tennessee city birth records, May 30-31, 1895. Ancestry.com. Tennessee, City Birth Records, 1881-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: City Birth Records. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives.

Mary died on 13 April 1900, a month and a half before her fifth birthday.

Nashville American, 14 April 1900, page 2

Nashville American, 17 April 1900, page 3

Clarence's brother-in-law John Bailey came from Bowling Green, Kentucky for the funeral. His wife, Clarence's sister Lillie May (Gatlin) Bailey, and their daughter Mary Elizabeth Bailey probably came with him.

Nashville American, 19 April 1900, page 3

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.