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Leona <I>Trisdale</I> Asberry

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Leona Trisdale Asberry

Birth
Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee, USA
Death
19 May 1950 (aged 67–68)
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Leona (Trisdale) Asberry was born in 1882 in Gainesboro, Tennessee, the daughter of Marlin Trisdale and Ann (Stockton) Trisdale. Raised and educated in Gainesboro, she moved to Davidson County about 1910.

She was married 1st to -- -- , and she was married 2nd about 1909 to John Wesley Asberry (ca 1891-1962).

A member of Bell's Bend Church of Christ and living on Antioch Pike off Rural Route 4 in rural Nashville, Leona was 68 years old, a widow and diabetic when she went into a diabetic coma and died on May 19, 1950 in a Nashville nursing home at 802 Monroe Street.

Survivors included daughters Mrs Robert Collins of Hermitage, Tennessee and Mrs Willie Jones of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, sons Albert Asberry of Hermitage and Cordell Asberry, Cecil Asberry and John Lee Asberry of Nashville, several half-sisters and brothers and eleven grandchildren.

Funeral Services were held on May 21st at Cosmopolitan Funeral Home, and burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, Nashville.

Much of the above is from her Death Certificate, with John Lee Asberry of Antioch Pike as the informant. Additional info is from her published obituary in Nashville Banner on May 20, 1950.

Known children of Leona and her 1st husband:
~ (child) Trisdale died before 1910 census
~ Jace Trisdale (ca 1908- ) listed as an Asberry in the 1920 census
[1910 census = 2 children; 1 living]

Known children of Leona and John:
~ Albert Asberry (12 Mar 1911- ) married Mary Lorena Sims
~ M Cordell Asberry (5 Jun 1913-Sep 1970 )
~ Marvin Corbit Asberry (5 Jun 1913-1944) died in WW II & buried in 1948
~ John Lee Asberry (24 Mar 1915-9 Jan 1994) married Lillian Barnes
~ Hallie Roberta Asberry (ca 1919-1 Nov 2010) married Henderson Collins
~ Willie Marie Asberry (4 Jun 1920-4 Sep 2000) married James Harrison Jones
~ Cecil Briant Asberry (9 Jun 1924-Mar 1984) married Agnes Barnes
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Leona (Trisdale) Asberry was born in 1882 in Gainesboro, Tennessee, the daughter of Marlin Trisdale and Ann (Stockton) Trisdale. Raised and educated in Gainesboro, she moved to Davidson County about 1910.

She was married 1st to -- -- , and she was married 2nd about 1909 to John Wesley Asberry (ca 1891-1962).

A member of Bell's Bend Church of Christ and living on Antioch Pike off Rural Route 4 in rural Nashville, Leona was 68 years old, a widow and diabetic when she went into a diabetic coma and died on May 19, 1950 in a Nashville nursing home at 802 Monroe Street.

Survivors included daughters Mrs Robert Collins of Hermitage, Tennessee and Mrs Willie Jones of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, sons Albert Asberry of Hermitage and Cordell Asberry, Cecil Asberry and John Lee Asberry of Nashville, several half-sisters and brothers and eleven grandchildren.

Funeral Services were held on May 21st at Cosmopolitan Funeral Home, and burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, Nashville.

Much of the above is from her Death Certificate, with John Lee Asberry of Antioch Pike as the informant. Additional info is from her published obituary in Nashville Banner on May 20, 1950.

Known children of Leona and her 1st husband:
~ (child) Trisdale died before 1910 census
~ Jace Trisdale (ca 1908- ) listed as an Asberry in the 1920 census
[1910 census = 2 children; 1 living]

Known children of Leona and John:
~ Albert Asberry (12 Mar 1911- ) married Mary Lorena Sims
~ M Cordell Asberry (5 Jun 1913-Sep 1970 )
~ Marvin Corbit Asberry (5 Jun 1913-1944) died in WW II & buried in 1948
~ John Lee Asberry (24 Mar 1915-9 Jan 1994) married Lillian Barnes
~ Hallie Roberta Asberry (ca 1919-1 Nov 2010) married Henderson Collins
~ Willie Marie Asberry (4 Jun 1920-4 Sep 2000) married James Harrison Jones
~ Cecil Briant Asberry (9 Jun 1924-Mar 1984) married Agnes Barnes


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  • Created by: Syd Gardner
  • Added: May 3, 2021
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226404084/leona-asberry: accessed ), memorial page for Leona Trisdale Asberry (1882–19 May 1950), Find a Grave Memorial ID 226404084, citing Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Syd Gardner (contributor 47902230).