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Roy Claxton Acuff (1903-1992) —
also known as Roy Acuff; "The King of Country
Music" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Maynardville, Union
County, Tenn., September
15, 1903.
Son of Simon E. Neill Acuff and Ida (Carr) Acuff.
Republican. Country
musician; co-founder of Acuff-Rose Publication Company, the first
country music publishing house; appeared in seven Hollywood movies
in the 1940s; owner and operator of Dunbar Cave Hotel
near Nashville; candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1948.
Elected to Country Music Hall of
Fame, 1962.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
23, 1992 (age 89 years, 69
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Thomas Hughlon Akin (1904-1943) —
of Jackson, Madison
County, Tenn.
Born in Trezevant, Carroll
County, Tenn., May 8,
1904.
Son of Luther Adolphus Akin and Caroline Lucinda (Jones) Akin.
Democrat. Linotype operator; lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1937-39.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Jackson, Madison
County, Tenn., August
16, 1943 (age 39 years, 100
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Jackson, Tenn.
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James W. Loop (b. 1900) —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in Morristown, Hamblen
County, Tenn., March 12,
1900.
Son of James Willis Loop and Dora (Noe) Loop.
Democrat. Printer; school
teacher; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Kanawha County, 1947-56,
1965-66, 1969-72; defeated, 1972.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Kappa
Delta Pi.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Mahoney (1869-1952) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.; Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
13, 1869.
Pressman; labor leader;
Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1904; Public Ownership
candidate for Presidential Elector for Minnesota, 1908;
founder and editor, Minnesota Union Advocate newspaper,
1920-32; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1932-34; Farmer-Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1943.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Pythias.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., August
17, 1952 (age 83 years, 217
days).
Interment at Sunset
Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Anthony, Minn.
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James A. Trent (1885-1974) —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Knox
County, Tenn., 1885.
Printing business; mayor
of Knoxville, Tenn., 1930-31.
Died in 1974
(age about
89 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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