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MESSAGE: (#279) Bevan & McElhiney
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AUTHOR: Caleb G. Teffet
DATE: Sunday, 2 February 2003, at 8:29 p.m.

Madisonville Democrat, (Monroe Co. TN) Wednesday, November 2, 1938:

Local Items of Interest---Many friends over Monroe County and elsewhere will
be sorry to learn that Mr. Charles D. Bevan, former publisher of the Democrat,
died Tuesday night at his home in Cleveland. He had been ill for two or three
days. Burial will be at Dickson, Tenn. Mr. Bevan is survived by his wife; also
by one brother, Harry L. Bevan, of Tullahoma, a sister in Ohio, a niece at
Tullahoma and a nephew, Wayland Bevan, who is general superintendent of the
Purse Printing Company in Chattanooga.

Madisonville Democrat, (Monroe Co. TN) Wednesday, January 9, 1935:

She Gave Her Life For Others---Mrs. Charles D. Bevan, age 58, died at her
home here at 9:30 Thursday morning, January 3, 1935. She was stricken with a
cerebral hemorrhage about 9 oclock Wednesday evening.

Funeral services were held from the Christian Church in Etowah, of which Mrs.
Bevan was a member, at 11 oclock Saturday morning, conducted by Rev. Frank
Custer, pastor, and Rev. Charles E. Jackson, of Rockwood. After the funeral
her remains were taken to the family burying ground in Dickson County for
interment. Biereley Funeral Home had charge of the funeral.

Mrs. Bevan was indeed a friend to the needy and the sick. The hour was never
too dark nor the hovel too squalid for her to minister to the sick. The writer
has known her for more than a quarter of a century, and he knows that her life
was given in the service of others. She never charged anyone for her labors of
love, and whether the need was in the home of the wealthy, or the hut of some
poor, colored person, she rendered the same tender ministrations that marked
her work.

Mrs. Bevan is survived by her husband, Charles D. Bevan, of Madisonville, two
brothers, Scott and John McElhiney, of Dickson County, Tenn. Mrs. Mary
Alexander of Texas, and Mrs. Maggie Vetter of Nashville.

Mr. & Mrs. J.L. Dyer of Madisonville and Mrs. T.H. Delaney of Etowah
accompanied Mr. Bevan to Dickson County for the burial. ---P.A. Gates.

Madisonville Democrat, (Monroe Co. TN) Wednesday, January 16, 1935:

Interesting News From Route Five---And Oh! What a shock it gave me to read in
the Democrat of the death of Mrs. Charles D. Bevan. And all the while since
learning of her death, the words and music of that grand old hymn, Nearer My
God To Thee, has kept ringing in my ears, and I think of those days in
Madisonville, when so many of us were together at old Bolivar Academy, Miss
Bess Meek was our organist and oh! How sweetly she would play the organ while
the choir sang the soul-inspiring words of that song that shall never die,
Nearer My God To Thee.

It is now Sabbath morning, January 13, 1935, and Bess and Mrs. Bevan are
together in that land of abiding love and happy eternal life. And Miss Joe,
somehow I keep thinking that Bess was playing the organ and that the angels
and the saints and all the little children in Heaven, our Savior, too, were
singing Nearer My God To Thee, when Mrs. Bevan entered through the eastern
gate of pearl into that glorious home of the soul.

But how sad is the bereaved heart of Mr. Bevan! I can and do sympathize with
him, for I am left all alone in this world. But someone said to me: Georgia,
you are not alone, for God is with you. And I know that God will never
forsake Mr. Bevan; that He will always be with him, and while a cloud of
darkness may lead through the sunny hours of this life, yet a bright pillar of
fire with glorious, life-giving brightness will lead him through all the dark,
sad, lonely hours that must come to all who pass this way.

Then let thy way appear Steps unto Heaven, All that thou sendest me In mercy
given, Angels to beckon me, Nearer my God to Thee.

And Mr. Bevan, we know that our loved ones who have gone on before are now as
the angels in Heaven, and no fairer, purer hands that only a few days ago were
folded in death---folded to rest from their labors of love and of obedience in
this world, now to rest forever from all toil. God giveth His beloved sleep,
and His rest is glorious. The heart of the one who loved you here and whom
you loved, loves you yet---the hands that were so dear to you, hands as pure
as angels hands now beckon you homeward, guiding your steps Heavenward, and
some bright, glad day Your embraces will be sweet at the dear Saviors
feet---when you and Mrs. Bevan meet to part no more. ---Georgia A. Stakely.

Madisonville Democrat, (Monroe Co. TN) Wednesday, April 17, 1935:

Local Items of Interest---Editor Charles D. Bevan left Saturday morning for a
visit to his nephew, Wayland M. Bevan, and family, In Chattanooga. From there
he went this week to Dickson County, where he will visit for a few days. While
there he will erect a beautiful monument at Mrs. Bevans grave.

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