Eva R Pirtle Dickson
submitted by Peggy Rhinerson

1952

Eva R Pirtle Dickson was the daughter of Margaret Louise Stevens Banning and Alberto Lyman Banning, Jr. (b. August 1, 1882). Eva R was named for her grandmother, Eva Ralston Banning.

1902, June 8, Eva R Banning was born in Memphis, Shelby, TN. Margaret Louise Stevens Banning and Alberto Lyman Banning, Jr. divorced.

1907, July 21, Margaret Louise Stevens married Robert Burgher Pirtle in Jonesboro, Craighead, AR. Eva R Banning was legally adopted by Robert Burgher Pirtle and her name was changed to Pirtle. Eva R Pirtle had no siblings.

1910 Census, Memphis, Shelby, TN: James Wharton Stevens (51), Emma Ann Williams Stevens (53), Charles George Stevens (42) (JWS’s brother), Arrabelle Stevens (22), Robert Burgher Pirtle (29), Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle (27), and Eva R Pirtle (7).

They lived on Monroe Avenue.

1920 Census, Chattanooga, Hamilton, TN: Robert Burgher Pirtle (39), Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle (37), Eva R Pirtle (17), Emma Ann Williams Stevens (62), James Wharton Stevens (62). They lived at 807 Dodds Avenue.

Eva R Pirtle graduated Central High School, Chattanooga, TN on May 21, 1920. She was a member of the Christian Church.

1923, March 28, Eva R Pirtle married Charles Russell Dickson (Sr.) in Chattanooga, Hamilton, TN.

1923, Eva R Pirtle worked for Chattanooga Regional Accounting Department of the American Railway Express Co.

1930 Census, Chattanooga, Hamilton, TN: Robert Pirtle (49), Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle (47), Charles Russell Dickson, Sr. (28), Eva R Pirtle Dickson (27), Charles Russell Dickson, Jr. (3), Margaret Nancy Dickson (3/12). They lived at 723 South Germantown Road.

1966, April 2, Eva R Pirtle Dickson died in Bowling Green, KY and is buried in Fairview Cemetery there.

The children of Eva R Pirtle Dickson and Charles Russell Dickson, Sr. were:

Charles “Dick” Russell Dickson, Jr. born June 13, 1926 in Chattanooga, TN and died April 15, 2003 in Nashville, Davidson, TN and is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green, Warren, KY.

Margaret “Peggy Nan” Nancy Dickson born December 22, 1929 in Chattanooga, TN.