Burl B. Hackney, eighty, of Clairmont farm on Granny White Pike in Brentwood, died at St. Thomas Hospital on Sunday night of an intestinal ailment.
Funeral services will be at Roesch-Patton funeral home, 1715 Broadway. Jennings Davis, Jr., J. W. Brents, and William Phillips will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn memorial Park. The body is at the funeral home.
Mr. Hackney was born in Greenbrier, TN, the son of Sam and Alice Hackney. He came to Nashville forty-seven years ago. In 1898, Mr. Hackney started work as a “newsie” for the L & N railroad, selling magazines, papers, and candy to passengers on the trains. At the time of his retirement in 1949, he was a conductor for the L & N. A few months before retiring, he was awarded his fifty-year service pin by the railroad.
In 1903, Mr. Hackney married Miss Clara Lucille Nesbitt of Madisonville, KY. Mrs. Hackney died in 1949. Mr. Hackney was a member and an elder of the Otter creek Church of Christ. He also was active in the Railroad Conductors association.
Survivors include two sons, J. Howard Hackney of Nashville and Bill Hackney of Pittsburgh, PA; three daughters, Mrs. Robert Baltz, Jr., of Nashville, Mrs. George W. Reagan of Knoxville, and Mrs. Lawson W. Smith of Whittier, CA; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Oden of Nashville; and fourteen grandchildren.