Individual Details

World War I Draft Registration
5 Jun 1917
Bruce Jasper Lawrence Denney was living in War Eagle, AR, age 30, born 28 May 1887 in Alabam, Arkansas. He was a farmer and had a wife and child to support. He claimed exemption to support his family and noted that he had a cataract, opaque. He was tall and slender with dark brown hair and eyes.

1920 Census. Star Hill, Lincoln Town, Washington Co AR, Hh 22
Bruce J. Denney, 32, b. AR. father b. AR, mother b. MO. Bookkeeper, Hardware Store
Eva. wife, 29, b. Kansas, parents b. England, Music Teacher
Mary E., dau, age 4 years, 7 months
Emma L., dau, age 1 year, 1 month

1930 Census. Star Hill Twp, Lincoln Town, Washington Co AR, Hh 83
Bruce J. L. Denney, age 40, Manager, Hardware Store
Eva, wife, 38, Teaches music at home
Mary E., dau, 14
LaVone E., dau, 11
Bruce B., son, 7
Eva J., dau, 5
Richard A., son, age 1 year, 11 months


1940 Census. Fayetteville, Washington Co, AR, ED 72-24, Sheet 8A, Hh 159.
Bruce Denney, renting on N. Highland Ave. He was 52, b. Arkansas - they had been living in a rural area in 1935. He was a salesman in a department store.
Eva, his wife, gave the data to the enumerator. She was 50, born in Kansas. She was a music teacher - private classes.
Lavone E., daughter was 21 and was working as a Waitress at a coffee shop
Bruce B., son, was 17, a dancing teacher.
Eva J., daughter, 15. [I was a flower girl in her wedding in 1946.]

The Madison County Record, Huntsville, AR, 9 Apr 1987, Thursday, p.14
Bruce Denney
Bruce Jasper Lawrence Denney, 99, of Fayettievle died April 2, 1987 at a Springdale nursing home. He was born May 28, 1887, in Huntsville, the son of Allison and Emma Frost Denney. He was a retired owner and operator of Denney's Hardware Store in Lincoln and former manager of Washington County Hardware Store. He was former mayor of Lincoln, past president of the Lincoln School Board, past seperintendent of Sunday School Classes at the First Presbyterian Church and a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Fayetteville. He was the widower of Eva Batten Denney, who died Feb 13, 1980.
Survivors include one son, Bruce B. Denney of Fayetteville; two daughters, LaVonne Comstock of Springdale and Eva Jo Browne of Dallas; one sister, Amy Hawkins of Westville, Okla., two brothers, Weimer Denney of Miami and Woodrow Denney of Cheyenne, Wyo.; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Services were Saturday April 4, at Moore's Chapel of Fatteyville with the Rev. David Matthew officiating. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery.

Birth	28 May 1887	Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama
Marriage	19 Oct 1912	Eva Batten
Death	2 Apr 1987	Washington County, Arkansas

Spouse	Eva Batten (1890 - 1980)
Child	Mary Elizabeth Denney (1915 - 1971)
Child	Emma LaVonne Denney (1919 - 1994)
Child	Bruce Batten Denney (1922 - 2014)
Child	Eva Jo Denney (1924 - 1997)
Child	Richard Alison Denney (1928 - 1939)