DICKSON, TENNESSEE
Obituary
( 3 Obituaries )
Mrs. Charles D. Bevan
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 o'clock Wednesday evening.
Funeral services were held from the Christian Church in Etowah, of which Mrs. Bevan was a member, at 11
o'clock 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 toDickson 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 angel's hands now beckon you homeward,
guiding your steps Heavenward, and some bright, glad day "Your embraces will be sweet at the dear
Savior's 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. Bevan's grave."This information provided by our friend, Caleb G. Teffeteller