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Ernest Baber Franklin

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Ernest Baber Franklin

Birth
Sumner County, Tennessee, USA
Death
11 Mar 1946 (aged 43)
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Ernest Baber Franklin was born on November 21, 1902 in Sumner County, Tennessee, the son of Ernest Franklin (1855–1931) and Georgia (Brown) Franklin (1861–1927).

He was married to Bettie Orr (ca 1905–1986).

Treasurer of the wholesale grocer Robert Orr & Company and living on Due West Lane in Madison, Ernest was 43 years old and married when he deliberately poisoned himself at work on March 11, 1946 and died of acute arsenic poisoning at Vanderbilt Hospital where he had been for four hours. Burial was two days later in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville.


Much of the above is from his Death Certificate, with Robert Orr III of Nashville Trust Building as the informant.
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Ernest Baber Franklin was born on November 21, 1902 in Sumner County, Tennessee, the son of Ernest Franklin (1855–1931) and Georgia (Brown) Franklin (1861–1927).

He was married to Bettie Orr (ca 1905–1986).

Treasurer of the wholesale grocer Robert Orr & Company and living on Due West Lane in Madison, Ernest was 43 years old and married when he deliberately poisoned himself at work on March 11, 1946 and died of acute arsenic poisoning at Vanderbilt Hospital where he had been for four hours. Burial was two days later in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville.


Much of the above is from his Death Certificate, with Robert Orr III of Nashville Trust Building as the informant.


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