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John Thomas Corbett

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John Thomas Corbett

Birth
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA
Death
15 Aug 1949 (aged 71)
USA
Burial
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 11, Lot 194, adjacent to and accessed from closed macadam road, enter from St. Peter Ave., proceed east to stanchion marking Sec. 11 on left, grave is 8 spaces east of stanchion, north side of road.
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Married Emma Marie Vogel in Memphis. For several years, they operated a saloon near the intersection of 6th Street and Auction Avenue in old north Memphis, in the Irish neighborhood east of the Pinch district. The young couple, together with the first three of their children, lived upstairs above the saloon. Later worked as deputy tax collector for Shelby County, Tennessee, and as a real estate salesman. They moved to property out in the county, first on Spottswood Avenue, and then to the southeast corner of Semmes Street and Carnes Avenue, in a large 2 story plus attic and basement white house at 3047 Carnes. The children were Edna, John, Eugene (who died at age 15), Unnamed Infant Boy (still born), Joseph, William, Robert, and Emma.
Married Emma Marie Vogel in Memphis. For several years, they operated a saloon near the intersection of 6th Street and Auction Avenue in old north Memphis, in the Irish neighborhood east of the Pinch district. The young couple, together with the first three of their children, lived upstairs above the saloon. Later worked as deputy tax collector for Shelby County, Tennessee, and as a real estate salesman. They moved to property out in the county, first on Spottswood Avenue, and then to the southeast corner of Semmes Street and Carnes Avenue, in a large 2 story plus attic and basement white house at 3047 Carnes. The children were Edna, John, Eugene (who died at age 15), Unnamed Infant Boy (still born), Joseph, William, Robert, and Emma.

Gravesite Details

North side of closed macadam road, 8 spaces east of stanchion marking Section 11. The Corbett gravesite is 192 yards due southwest of the Priests' Mound.



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