The Proeger Family · Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents and their siblings
Marian Chenault
Daughter of Charles Coker Chenault · born 1898
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Person · Marian Chenault
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Marian Chenault
ConfirmedDaughter of Charles Coker Chenault · born 1898
- Died
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- Parents
- Charles Coker Chenault
- Sources
- 3
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Marian Chenault · Sources
Citations
Sources cited on this card
3 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.
- S3861900 U.S. Federal Census — C. C. Chenault household, Civil District 1, Sumner Co., Tennessee (ED 109, sheet 6-B, line 51). Ancestry record 61297225. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed C. C. Chenault, head, born December 1858, 41, married 7 years, farmer owning his farm free of mortgage; both parents born Kentucky; wife Mordalite (born February 1873, mother of 3, 3 living) and children Neil, Mildred and Marian. His brother M. W. (Milton) Chenault farms four dwellings down the sheet. Also Ancestry record 61297253 (the same page, filed under Milton). Mordalite is the census taker's spelling of Maudante.
- 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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