The Proeger Family · Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents and their siblings
Eugenia Chenault
Daughter of Charles Coker Chenault · born about 1902
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Person · Eugenia Chenault
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Eugenia Chenault
ConfirmedDaughter of Charles Coker Chenault · born about 1902
- Died
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- Charles Coker Chenault
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Eugenia Chenault · Sources
Citations
Sources cited on this card
4 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.
- S3871910 U.S. Federal Census — C. C. Chenault household, Civil District No. 1, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 131, sheet 4-B, line 69). Ancestry record 27544610. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed C. C. Chenault, 52, farmer and employer, owning his farm free; married 16 years; parents born Kentucky; wife Mordante, 36, mother of 5 children, 4 living; children Neil, Mildred L., Marion and Eugenia. Next door, his brother William Chenault, 56, with his wife Lydia and nine children.
- S3891930 U.S. Federal Census — Charles C. Chenault household, 1st Civil District, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 83-1, sheet 6A, lines 46–49). Ancestry record 66186681. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Charles C. Chenault, 71, farmer owning his farm, first married at 34, born Tennessee of Kentucky-born parents; wife Mordante, 56, first married at 21; daughter Eugena Kelly, 27, and granddaughter Carnelia; enumerated 11 April 1930. First married at 34 fits his marriage of 15 November 1893.
- S1641Obituary of Charles C. Chenault — Daily News-Journal, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 20 March 1936, p. 1; notice of his death, 19 March 1936, p. 1. Read from the newspaper text (OCR); the page images are not yet read by eye. “The son of David and Louisa Quisenberry Chenault”; aged 77; his wife was “Mordaunt Bradley, who died June 24, 1935”; his home was “Glenvale”; he died at 3:20 p.m. after a stroke. “One brother, William Chenault, Sweeney, Texas.” The daughters are not named by their given names.
- S16471940 United States Federal Census — three households: Byrn (Murfreesboro, Tennessee), Heaton (Leland, Mississippi) and Hitchcock (Sumner County, Tennessee). Ancestry collection 2442, records 38170475, 122665573 and 35327598. Read from the index; the sheets are not yet read by eye. Roy Byrn, 49, born Tennessee, with his wife Mildred, 44, at Murfreesboro. Dean Heaton, 42, born Mississippi, farmer on Deer Creek, Leland, Washington County, with his wife Marion, 41; the index also files him as “Dean Hebron”. W. Howard Hitchcock, 53, born Tennessee, on the New Pike, Sumner County, with his wife “Eugeme” (also indexed Eugenie), 38, born Tennessee. No wife’s maiden name is given.
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