Telitha Ann Frizzell Jakes(28 Mar 1858- 18 May 1920)--52 Ancestors

My great grandmother, Telitha Ann Frizzell Jakes was the daughter of David Frizzell and Rebecca "Beckie" Manley Frizzell. My grandmother, Pearl Jakes Cooke, used to tell us about her Mother being the youngest child and how when her parents were expecting her they were getting all sorts of suggestions for names. The story(and I don't know how true it was) went on to say that there were so many suggestions they had a long name that they almost named her to include everyone but instead decided on Telitha Ann Frizzell. She went by the name Annie. A short and simple name, especially compared to "Edy Addy Annabelle Narcissa Fannie Yell" Frizzell. Annie's mother died when she was around the age of 4. Her father remarried and passed on about 8 years later. Annie married my great grandfather, James Jakes in Rutherford County Tennessee September 1st of 1880. I've not found Annie in the 1880 census but I did find James Jakes boarding near Annie's widowed step-mother.

Annie and James had 5 daughters and 3 sons which they raised during the earlier years in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. I stopped there once on my way back home to Alabama. It was beautiful and made me feel close to that side of the family. I've always been curious about what she looked like. I've seen photos of all my other great grandparents that I never got to meet but not of Annie. One of Annie's daughters, Lula Jakes Gibson, named her only daughter after her Mom, naming her Telitha Aline Gibson.

 When her brother James Reubin Frizzell passed, he left her some property which she and her husband James sold a few years later to Abe Eaton. I found the deed for it in the Bedford Co TN records. She died May 18th of 1920 from complications of pneumonia. For whatever reason, her tombstone in the Willow Mount Cemetery has the year of death as 1919 but I am fairly certain that her death certificate which I have a copy of is more likely to be correct.

Sources:  
"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD8F-3H6 : 29 May 2021), Talitha Frizzell in entry for David W Frizzell, 1870.

"Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNXC-4MQ : 4 December 2014), James Jakes and Annie Frizzell, 01 Sep 1880; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 129, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSZ5-Q9K : accessed 24 January 2022), F A Jakes in household of Jas Jakes, Civil District 5 (excl. Bell Buckle town), Bedford, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 5, sheet 12B, family 222, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,558.

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGX2-HKC : accessed 24 January 2022), L Annie Jakes in household of Jim Jakes, Bell Buckle, Bedford, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 6, sheet 6A, family 109, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1490; FHL microfilm 1,375,503.

"United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN5S-CXC : 3 February 2021), Annie Jakes in entry for Jim Jakes, 1920.

"Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSXN-YB5 : 1 March 2021), Annie Jakes, 18 May 1920; Death, Bedford, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLL-4CG7 : 7 July 2020), Annie Jakes, 1920; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.