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James K Vardeman Gann

Male 1903 - 1973  (70 years)


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  • Name James K Vardeman Gann  [1, 2
    • Named for James Kimble Vardaman, a populist Mississippi politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Vardaman garnered votes with strong pro-farmer speeches and policy positions, and was perhaps the most flagrantly hostile racist in the history of American public service.
    Nickname Vard 
    Born 29 Sep 1903  Tremont, Itawamba, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    • Death certificate gives the year as 1900
    Gender Male 
    Census 1910  Tremont, Itawamba, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Enumeration District 1-19 
    Residence 1910  Tremont, Itawamba, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    New Aberdeen Rd

    With parents William J and Margaret A (Logan) Gann and four siblings 
    Census 1930  Hamilton, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Occupation 1930  Hamilton, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Farmer, General Farm 
    Residence 1930  Hamilton, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Residence 1935  Precinct 1, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    In the "same house" as in 1940 
    Census 1940  Precinct 1, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Enumeration District 47-3 
    Occupation 1940  Precinct 1, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Employed full-time "farming", he earned $500 in 1939 
    Residence 1940  Precinct 1, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    With wife Emma R ("Zettie"), seven children and a farm hand 
    Social Security Number 417-18-4288  [2
    Died 2 Dec 1973  Hamilton, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 5
    Cause: "Natural Causes" 
    Address:
    "Highway 278 W", at his home 
    Gann, James K Vardaman - death cert - Alabama Death Certificates no. 33416, 1973
    Gann, James K Vardaman - death cert - Alabama Death Certificates no. 33416, 1973
    Buried 5 Dec 1973  Hamilton, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5, 9
    • Hamilton City Cemetery [2]
    James K V Gann Memorial at Find A Grave
    James K V Gann Memorial at Find A Grave
    Created by: Joyce Rye Kasberg
    Record added: Feb 07, 2012
    Find A Grave Memorial# 84629909
    Notes 
    • He attended school through the third grade [8]
    Person ID I179  Wm L Gann Ancestors
    Last Modified 5 Jan 2020 

    Father William Joshua Gann,   b. 13 Jan 1869, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jan 1940 - 1 Apr 1940, Marion Co., Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Margaret Annie Logan,   b. 7 Jun 1873, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jun - 14 Nov 1910  (Age 37 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Married 30 Mar 1892  Lamar Co., Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 11
    • Officiated by W J Kirk, Minister of the Gospel, at his residence [10]
    Marriage License 30 Mar 1892  Lamar Co., Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Issued by W A Young, Judge of Probate 
    Family ID F026  Group Sheet

    Family Emma Rosetta,   b. 11 Dec 1907, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Aug 1981  (Age 73 years) 
    Married Abt 1923  [4, 12
    Family ID F342  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S10090] Marion Co., AL Birth records 1920-1931, Marion County, Alabama Probate Court, (Hamilton, Alabama (1920-1931)), FHL US/CAN Film 1888622 Item 2..
      James K Vardaman was a Mississippi governor and US Senator between 1900 and 1920, known at the time as a populist farmer's advocate, known now as an unbelievable flaming racist.

    2. [S10177] Alabama Statewide Deaths 1908-1974, Alabama Department of Public Health, LDS film 2242025, ref 33416 (Reliability: 3), 5 Jan 2020.

    3. [S34632] Social Security Death Index, U.S. Social Security Administration, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009).

    4. [S10090] Marion Co., AL Birth records 1920-1931, Marion County, Alabama Probate Court, (Hamilton, Alabama (1920-1931)), FHL US/CAN Film 1888622 Item 2..

    5. [S40191] Find a Grave, Jim Tipton, founder, (http://www.findagrave.com), Memorial# 24706889 (Reliability: 1), 14 Mar 2011.

    6. [S40176] 1910 United States Federal Census, United States Department of Commerce, (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1910), fam. 116, p. 7A, ED 1-19, Tremont, Itawamba, Mississippi (Reliability: 2), 01 Mar 2010.

    7. [S40174] 1930 United States Federal Census, United States of America, Bureau of the Census, (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930), fam. 302, p. 16B, ED 47-3, Hamilton, Precinct 1, Marion, Alabama (Reliability: 2), 11 Jan 2010.

    8. [S40214] 1940 United States Federal Census, United States, Bureau of the Census, (National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), fam. 25, p. 2A, ED 47-3, Precinct 1, Marion, Alabama (Reliability: 2), 5 Apr 2012.

    9. [S01875] Cemetery Inscriptions of Marion Co., Alabama, Dorothy Shores Stalcup & William Spann Stalcup, comps., (1979), Vol. 1, p. 162.

    10. [S163] Lamar County, Alabama Marriage Records, 1867-1929, Alabama. Circuit Court (Lamar County) (Main Author), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990), vol. 6, p. 50 (Reliability: 3), 12 Apr 2018.

    11. [S12597] Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006), Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research (Reliability: 3), 03 Nov 2010.

    12. [S40174] 1930 United States Federal Census, United States of America, Bureau of the Census, (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930), fam. 302, p. 16B, ED 47-3, Hamilton, Precinct 1, Marion, Alabama (Reliability: 2), 11 Jan 2010.
      The census shows age at first marriage for all married couples; it indicates Vard and Zetta were married 7 years as of 1930.