Georgia Mae Bingham
1906 - 1989 (82 years)-
Name Georgia Mae Bingham Birth 11 May 1906 Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, United States Gender Female Death 7 Apr 1989 Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, United States Burial Crab Orchard Cemetery, Oakdale, Morgan, Tennessee, United States Person ID I14871 Main Tree Last Modified 4 Feb 2018
Family Harvey Estil Byrge, b. 23 Aug 1905, Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States d. 1 Nov 1966, Tennessee, United States (Age 61 years) Children 1. Eldon Daniel Byrge, b. 11 Dec 1927, Tennessee, United States d. 22 Feb 2012, Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States (Age 84 years) [Birth] 2. Cecil Raymond Byrge, b. 1 Mar 1930, Tennessee, United States d. 20 Sep 1995, Roane, Tennessee, United States (Age 65 years) [Birth] Last Modified 13 Apr 2019 Family ID F5361 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Oakdale TN - Services will be tonight for Georgia Mae Bingham Byrge, who served as jailer and deputy sheriff of Morgan County during the 1930's. Byrge, 82, died Friday at her Morgan County home in Oakdale. She was known to many as "Mrs Pete". HeHer husband, H E "Pistol Pete" Byrge, was sheriff of Morgan County for 19 years. Georgia Byrge served as interim sheriff for two months when he became ill. She once said she could track down outlaws who eluded her husband and make arrests without a gun. A son; Cecil Byrge, was sheriff of Morgan County for eight years. Services will be tonight at 8:30 at Schubert Funeral chapel in Wartburg. [The Knoxville News Sentinel - April 8, 1989]