From the obit of the Leaf Chronicle, tuesday, May 17, 1983: Ashland City - Services for Sam A. Marable, 94, former Ashland City Mayor, state legislator and retired Cheatham County Chancellor will be at 10 a.m. today at Shearon-Hunt Funeral Home with the Revs. P. H. Yeargin and Fred Hembree officiating. Burial will be in Forest Hills Cemetery. Marable died saturday in Nashville Baptist Hospital after an extended illness. A native of Montgomery County, Marable received his law degree from Cumberland University in 1911, and after briefly working in the late Gov. Austin Peay's Clarksville law office, established a law practice in Ashland City. In 1919 Marable was elected Mayor of Ashland City and was re-elected several times over the following 18 years, spending 10 years in the Mayor's chair altogether. In 1921, he was elected to the The Tennessee House and in 1933 was elected to the Tennessee Senate. In 1936, then- Gov. Hill McAllister appointed Marable to the 6th Division Chancery Bench to serve for the ailing Chancellor J. W. Stout. The following year, Marable was elected in his own right to the Chancery bench. He also served as a special justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court during its session in December 1959. Marable was a veteran of World War I and was past Commander of American Legion Post 40. He was also a member of Ashland City United Methodist Church and past chairman of its board of stewards. He is also former board chairman of the Ashland City Bank and Trust Co., and former president of the Farmers Mercantile Hardware Co. Marable was a member of the Cheatham County and Tennessee Bar Association, as well as a 32nd degree Mason, a Shriner and a member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. He was the son of the late Dr. Samuel and Elizabeth Jackson Marable. Survivors include a daughter, Nancy Marable Balthrop; a brother, R. C. Marable; two sisters, Mabel Baggett and Annis Powers; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, all of Clarksville. Pallbearers will be W. B. Adkisson, Lewis Hearn, Marvin Rainey, Guy Ragan, John Marable, Shelby M. Powers, Russell Balthrop and Kenneth Nicholson. Honorary pallbearers will be active and retired chancellors, judges and attorneys of Sixth chancery Division. In lieu of other rememberances, memorials may be made to the Ashland City United Methodist Church or the American Parkinsons Disease Association.
From the obit of the Leaf Chronicle, tuesday, May 17, 1983: Ashland City - Services for Sam A. Marable, 94, former Ashland City Mayor, state legislator and retired Cheatham County Chancellor will be at 10 a.m. today at Shearon-Hunt Funeral Home with the Revs. P. H. Yeargin and Fred Hembree officiating. Burial will be in Forest Hills Cemetery. Marable died saturday in Nashville Baptist Hospital after an extended illness. A native of Montgomery County, Marable received his law degree from Cumberland University in 1911, and after briefly working in the late Gov. Austin Peay's Clarksville law office, established a law practice in Ashland City. In 1919 Marable was elected Mayor of Ashland City and was re-elected several times over the following 18 years, spending 10 years in the Mayor's chair altogether. In 1921, he was elected to the The Tennessee House and in 1933 was elected to the Tennessee Senate. In 1936, then- Gov. Hill McAllister appointed Marable to the 6th Division Chancery Bench to serve for the ailing Chancellor J. W. Stout. The following year, Marable was elected in his own right to the Chancery bench. He also served as a special justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court during its session in December 1959. Marable was a veteran of World War I and was past Commander of American Legion Post 40. He was also a member of Ashland City United Methodist Church and past chairman of its board of stewards. He is also former board chairman of the Ashland City Bank and Trust Co., and former president of the Farmers Mercantile Hardware Co. Marable was a member of the Cheatham County and Tennessee Bar Association, as well as a 32nd degree Mason, a Shriner and a member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. He was the son of the late Dr. Samuel and Elizabeth Jackson Marable. Survivors include a daughter, Nancy Marable Balthrop; a brother, R. C. Marable; two sisters, Mabel Baggett and Annis Powers; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, all of Clarksville. Pallbearers will be W. B. Adkisson, Lewis Hearn, Marvin Rainey, Guy Ragan, John Marable, Shelby M. Powers, Russell Balthrop and Kenneth Nicholson. Honorary pallbearers will be active and retired chancellors, judges and attorneys of Sixth chancery Division. In lieu of other rememberances, memorials may be made to the Ashland City United Methodist Church or the American Parkinsons Disease Association.
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