Word: homefolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, bearing all that was mortal of Joe Byrns back to Tennessee for a second funeral service. Ten minutes behind it in a special train rode President Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary Hull and Postmaster General Farley. In Nashville next day they and 45,000 of Joe Byrns's homefolk paid a last tribute to the only Tennessean to be Speaker of the House since James K. Polk in 1839, laid him to rest in a cemetery eight miles from the grave of another famed Tennessee Democrat, Andrew Jackson...
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