Life History

Notes

• Etta was first married to James beasley.  Th3ey divorced sometime before 1934, when she married Jeff Clarence Brinkley.  Copy of the marriage license courtesy of Elsie Ward Jones, granddaughter of Etta Adline Scott Beasley Brinkley, via Marion Mixon
  
  Texas Marriage Record
  Fisher County #613
  J C Brinkley and Mrs Etta Beasley
  Married 3 Mar 1934 Fisher County, Texas
  by Carl C Wilson, County Judge
  License 3 Mar 1934 Roby, Fisher County, Texas
  
  1940 Federal Census, Jones County, Texas, 3 April, Precinct 1, District 127-2, page 2A, Hse #23, Rents
  Brinkley, Jeffries C Head M W 50 Married Grade 4 b Tennessee Rural Jones Texas in 1935 Farmer Laborer [b abt 1890]
  Brinkley, Etta Wife F W 55 Married Grade 6 b Texas  Both parents born in Alabama  Rural Jones Texas in 1935 [b abt 1885]
  Scott, Sarah Mother-in-law F W 80 Grade 4 b Alabama Rural Jones Texas in 1935 [b abt 1860]
  
  U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
  Jeffie Clarence Brinkley
  Residence Anson, Jones County, Texas
  Birth 28 Nov 1889 Ellis County, Texas
  Wife Etta Brinkley, Rt 1, Anson
  Employer R I Foster, Anson, Jones, Texas
  Signed J C Brinkley
  
  At some point Jeff and Etta divorced.  He later moved to California, where some time later he ramarried.  He died in Los Angeles in 1964.  Etta was with her daughter when she died in Abilene, Taylor, County, in 1972.
  
  U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
  Etta Brinkley
  Born 24 Oct 1884
  Died Jun 1972
  Last Residence Abilene, Taylor, Texas 79603
  SSN 463-52-3111 issued Texas (1951)
  
  Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
  Etta Adaline Brinkley [Etta Adaline Scott]
  Widow, Birth 24 Oct 1884 Texas
  Residence Anson, Jones, Texas
  Had been resident in Abilene 6 weeks before death
  Father P M Scott
  Mother Sarah F Clay
  Informant Arden Beasley [daughter]
  Age at Death 87
  Death 4 Jun 1972 Shady Oaks Lodge, Abilene, Taylor, Texas
  Cause of Death Cerebro-vascular accident, causing instant death, was dead on arrival - B J Estes MD
  Burial 5 June 1972, Mt Hope Cemetery, Anson, Jones, Texas by Lawrence Funeral Home
  Filed 12 June 1972, Filed State 23 June 1972
  
  Note that her name is spelled differently on her grave than on her death certificate.
  
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  Etta Adline Scott Brinkley
  Birth Oct. 24, 1884 Anson, Jones County, Texas
  Death Jun. 4, 1972 Abilene, Taylor County, Texas
  
  Etta Adline Scott was the daughter of Peter Magness (P.M.) Scott and Sarah Francis (Clay) Scott. Her grandparents were Stephen A. Scott and Margaret Ann (Davis) Scott. Her parents and grandparents were Jones County pioneers and are buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.
  
  Etta married James Luther Beasley in 1901 and they were the parents of eight children. She was later married to Jeff C. Brinkley.
  
  Spouse James Luther Beasley (1884 - 1951)
  
  Children:
  Tula Tyrene Beasley Black (1902 - 1997)
  Arden Leon Beasley (1904 - 1982)
  Veria Beasley (1906 - 1907)
  Gertrude Lorene Beasley Ward (1907 - 1995)
  J. L. Beasley (1918 - 2010)
  
  Burial Mount Hope Cemetery, Anson, Jones County, Texas
  
  Created by Elsie Ward Jones Dec 09, 2010
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #62748303, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62748303
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  I see that James Beasley died in 1951.  But Etta Adline was married to Jeff Brinkley before 1940, when she was reported as his wife in the 1940 census in Ellis County,  This means that she and James divorced sometime before1940.  It is odd htat the well-commented memorial on Find a Grave does not mention that.

Sources

• 1. 1940 Federal Census, Jones County, Texas
  • 3 April, Precinct 1, District 127-2, page 2A, Hse #23, Rents
• 2. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
• 3. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
• 6. Texas Marriage License
• 7. California, Death Index, 1940-1997