Lonnie Saunders Austin
1885 - 1950 (65 years)-
Name Lonnie Saunders Austin [1] Birth 15 Sep 1885 Scotts Hill, Decatur, Tennessee, USA 
[2] Gender Male Death 14 Oct 1950 [1] Burial Y [3] Person ID I123 1794 BARLOW-GAWF/GOFF (US-NC-WAK / US-TN-HEN) I-FTA50669 Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
Family Carrie Eleanor Goff, b. May 1889, Tennessee d. 1972 (Age 82 years)
Marriage 8 Jun 1908 Scotts Hill, Decatur, Tennessee, USA Children 1. Lorraine Austin 2. Dorothy Austin 3. Kathleen Austin Family ID F75 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Apr 2025
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Notes - His ancestry is on p. 340 of The History of Scotts Hill, TN by Gordon H. Turner, Sr.
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BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY TENNESSEE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1796-1969 (Preliminary
No. 12) HENDERSON COUNTY
http://www.tngenweb.org/records/henderson/bios/tgabios.htm (12/2009 also at http://genealogytrails.com/tenn/henderson/bioassembly.html)
Austin, Lon Saunders (1885-1950)
HOUSE, 69th, 70th, 71st, 73rd, 74th, and 75th General Assemblies, 1935-41, 1943-49; representing Henderson and Madison counties; Democrat. Born at Scotts Hill, Henderson County, Sept. 15, 1885; son of Jones Alvin and Winnie (Scott) Austin. Attended schools at Scotts Hill and at Sardis, Henderson County; later attended a cotton school at Memphis, Shelby County. Married at Scotts Hill, June 8, 1908, to Carrie Goff, native of Saltillo, Hardin County, daughter of Albert Lewis and Elizabeth (Faning) Goff; three daughters--Lorraine, Dorothy, and Cathleen. Taught school in early years in Perry County and in Mississippi; became a cotton merchant at Lexington, Henderson County. Sometime member county court; served a short while as safety director for West Tennessee, with headquarters at Memphis. Member Methodist Episcopal Church; Free and Accepted Masons. Died at Lexington Oct. 14, 1950; buried in Lexington Cemetery.
Sources: Information supplied by wife, Mrs. Lon S. Austin and by daughter, Mrs. John W. Hinson, both of Lexington; Lexington Progress, July 6, 1928; Aug. 9, 1935; Dec. 20, 1935; Jan. 6, 1939; May 30, 1941;
Mar. 9, 1945; Oct. 6, 1950; Tenn. Vital Statistics, Death Certificate 22402.
Crossing the Dark River; Henderson County, Tennessee, Obituaries; 1827-1950, p. 544
AUSTIN, Lon Sanders (The Lexington Progress, Oct 6, 1950) Services for Lon Sanders AUSTIN were scheduled for Thursday Afternoon from Pafford Funeral Home with the Rev. O. C. Wrather conducting with burial in Lexington Cemetery. Mr. AUSTIN, who was 65, died at his home on Huntingdon Street shortly before noon Wednesday. Mr. AUSTIN was a member of the Methodist Church and a Mason. He served six terms as Floterial Representative and was author of the Local Option Law. Mr. AUSTIN is credited with passage of several worthwhile local bills. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carrie AUSTIN; three daughters, Miss Dorothy AUSTIN, Mrs. Cathleen DAVIES and Mrs. Lorraine HINSON; three brothers, Walter AUSTIN, Franklin, Tennessee, Clint AUSTIN, Scotts Hill, and Herman AUSTIN, Lexington; and two sisters, Miss Jewel AUSTIN, Lexington, and Mrs. Louise McPEAKE, Union City; and his step-mother, Mrs. Ella AUSTIN.
- His ancestry is on p. 340 of The History of Scotts Hill, TN by Gordon H. Turner, Sr.
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