Death Certificate
of
Earnest McCartney
Submitted by Adam D. McCartney

STATE OF TENNESSEE

Bureau of Vital Statistics

CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

1.     Place of Death: Gibson County, Civil District 15

2.     Full Name: Earnest McCartney

3.     Sex:  Male

4.     Color or Race: White

5.     Marital Status: Single

6.     Date of Birth: (left blank)

7.     Age:  5 years

8.     Occupation: Farming (which would have meant he didn’t attend school)

9.     Birthplace: Tennessee

10.  Name of Father: Johnie McCartney

11.  Birthplace of Father: Tennessee

12.  Name of Mother: Etter Yates

13.  Birthplace of Mother: Tennessee

14.  Informant: Billie Knott, Milan, Tennessee

15.  Filed: Jan. 13, 1914 by J. H. Browning, Registrar

16.  Date of Death: 1-13-1914

17.  I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from Dec. 5, 1913 to Jan. 12, 1914 and that I last saw him alive on Jan. 12, 1914, and that death occurred on the date stated above at 6 a.m. The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: Tubercular Peritonitis.  Signed, J. H. Wellesley, M.D., Jan. 15, 1914, Cades, Tenn.

18.  Length of Residence: (Left blank)

19.  Place of burial: Poplar Springs on Jan. 14, 1914

20.  Undertaker: G. L. Bodkin, Milan

(Note: Robert Ernest McCartney was the second son of my great-great grandparents, John Elijah and Etta Yates McCartney. Their first son, Roy Lee McCartney, had been born in 1906 and died in 1909.  Ernest died in 1914. Their last two children, Dennis Ira McCartney and Fred Howard McCartney, were born in 1912 and 1918 respectively. They both survived to adulthood. Ernest and Roy were laid to rest at Poplar Springs Cemetery near the graves of their paternal grandparents, John W. McCartney and Susan H. Greer McCartney.  John E. and Etta later decided to be buried at Belew’s Chapel Cemetery near Bradford.)