He is listed in the Hannah's Gap Church Records by Exp. Apr 4, 1896.
He was a farmer.
Birth-Children Certificate of Death, TN Vital Statistics
MARRIAGE-Copy of certificate from Marshall Co., TN in possession of Sherry S. Finchum
4 Feb 1910, Marshall Co., TN Old 4th Civil District Deed from W. H. Sorrels for $2000 with $475 in cash for 82 acres that which was purchased and held by mortgage from R. L. McDaniel for $4000. He will assume this mortgage also.
Family members called them "Uncle Johnny and Aunt Ella".
She is listed in the Hannah's Gap Church Records as Ella SORRELLS by exp. Oct 10, 1896.
Copy of Obituary. She died at 86 years. 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
"I remember her. I called her Granny. She was sick in bed and lived with Granddaddy and Grandmother for several years. Her hair was snow white."(Sherry Sorrells FINCHUM)
10. George Lee REDD
The Family Bible lists all children.
He is listed in the Hannah's Gap Church Records by exp. Oct 10, 1896.
Photos in possession of Sherry S. Finchum
He was a bee keeper. Anytime there was a swarm in the community, folks would call him to come get a swarm. He never wore a net. They would not sting him.
He was a county commissioner for Lincoln Co., TN. He also served on the board for the Lincoln Co., TN hospital.
"When I was a little girl, we would go to visit 'Momma' and 'Poppa' as we called them at their house in Petersburg. I remember that it was a big house surrounded by a rock fence. There were French doors and hardwood floors. It was very pretty. When they first married they lived in the house in the hollar in PoGrab. I have a bedroom suite that Poppa and Momma had when they first started housekeeping." (Sherry S. Finchum)
Joined Hannah's Gap Baptist Church May 1905 by Experience and Baptism.
He played the banjo and harmonica.
"In 1903, John and Nancy Ingle, with their 7 children moved to Mango, TN where for 17 years he worked in the coal mines. In 1920 he bought a hotel in Middlesboro, KY and ran it for a year. In 1921 he bought a small farm in Little Valley, ten miles from Tazewell. Here they lived until 1937. He then mortgage the farm to pay a son out of trouble. They lived in New Tazewell after leaving the farm. In January 1939 they went to visit Link in Cardinal, KY. There John suffered a heart attack and died. Nancy moved from one of her children's homes to another, then died in April 1941 at George's home in New Tazewell. They were both members of the Zion Hill Baptist Church in Sevierville." (From a paper written by their great-granddaughter, Jan Manning)
"We went to visit them in KY. John said that he couldn't take me down in the mines. Miners thought it was bad luck to take a woman into the mines." (Emma Deane)
He worked in the mines. He was injured and never received any insurance for the injuries.
They finally settled in Tazewell, TN. They built a log home there. This cabin burned about 1943.
He had black hair and blue eyes. He wore a moustache. He was about 6 feet tall and weighed about 175-180 as a young man. He greyed at an early age. Another DOB June 16 1867.
Curt Baker, a grandson-in-law, remembers that John was visiting his son, Link in KY and that he was sleeping with one of his grandsons. John told him a joke, and then said, "We need to go to sleep." He died in his sleep that night.
The family Bible of John Ingle Sr. is in the possession of Sherry S. Finchum.
His death is recorded in the Obituaries of the Claiborne Press 1938 Microfilm in State Archives Nashville, TN Copy in possession of Sherry S. Finchum
No death certificate on file in Lawrence Co., KY where he died.
Cemetery Marker-Liberty Cemetery in New Tazewell, TN Personal visit photograph of stone in possession of Sherry S. Finchum
Marriage License State of TN, 1988; #110 Sevier County (copy in possession of Sherry S. Finchum)
1900 U.S. Census, Sevier Co, TN Microfilm State Archives, Nashville, TN (copy in possession of Sherry S. Finchum)
1920 Census: Klondike, Harlan Co., KY. Fred is only child still at home. Zora and Razy FRADY living with them in the boarding house.
1930 Clairborne Co., TN Census. Fred and Edith, age 17 and 16 are living with them.
Her parents died when she was very young and she was raised by her brother Huston.
"She was married at 11 and a mother at 12. She ran a boarding house in a mining area. Her hair and eyes were black. She was kind of on the heavy side, but had a nice figure and beautiful legs. They lived at one time in Coalwood WV, but only a short while. They lived in Logmont. One child is buried in Capito, KY. They adopted a young boy for a while from 1911-1918. They lived in Ralston, KY." Her stone gives her DOB as October 10, 1871. Belle wrote her DOB as Oct. 12 1877.
"Florence was a small, beautiful woman with beautiful legs, brown hair, with a grey streak off the left side, small black eyes. She wore her hair in a bun. She had a lot of spunk and worked all her life."
(Memories from Belle Ingle Sufferidge)The 1900 Sevier County, TN Census lists her year of birth as 1874.
Incorrect given names on Death Certificate of TN in the State Archives Nashville, TN 1939 #7156 Claiborne Co, TN lists father as Wm. Teague and mother as Lillie Dixon (Her grandmother was Elizabeth DICKSON) The informant was George Ingle of New Tazewell, TN (copy in possession of Sherry S. Finchum)
Cemetery Monument; Liberty Cemetery in New Tazewell TN, Personal visit and photograph in the possession of Sherry S. Finchum
1870 TN Census Greene Co Bound Volume and 1880 Census, Sevier Co., Obituary of brother Huston lists Mrs. John INGLE as a sister. Montgomery's Vindicator Issue 12 Jul, 1933. This confirms this family group.
Microfilm McClung Museum Collection Knoxville, TN copies in possession of Sherry S. Finchum
1900 TN Census of Sevier Co. Microfilm at TN State Archives in Nashville, TN copy in possession of Sherry S. Finchum
Marriage License Sevier Co, 1888 #110 copy in possession of Sherry S. Finchum
He was named after a family friend-Berry Williams. Two of this Berry CLARK's sisters married WILLIAMS, the sons of Berry WILLIAMS.
1871 Sevier Co., TN Tax List Clark, W.B. District 10
Clark, W.B. District 10
Clark, W.B. District 10
"Berry Williams CLARK did not marry until he was 40 because his mother told him he had to be the man of the family because his father had died when he was 10. His mother died before he married. B.W. had a store in Bird's Creek. He kept a ledger and had many account that never paid. He also farmed. I never knew Dad to shave himself. Mother always shaved him. He always wore a beard after he got his face caught in the cane mill. He was cleaning the equipment when some boys on a nearby hill threw a rock that hit the horse. The horse started and he got caught in the mill. It caused his mouth to be drawn to one side. Dad always said he wouldn't leave us any money. He knew if he could get us a good education then we could 'make' it, and he did. Even though Mother was much younger, she was the boss!" -(Emma Deane CLARK)"Father, Berry Williams Clark, was born May 5, 1852, in Sevier Co., TN on the the Little Pigeon River, close to where now is know as the Mitchell Bottoms, and near Red Bank Baptist Church, his father John Bitner Clark and his mother Mary James Clark, are both buried on a hill west of where he was born and across the present highway thru the Mitchell Bottoms.
Father was not a very large man, about 5 ft 8 inches in height, and weighed around 150 pounds. He was not a very strong man but had a determined will, and could accomplish most anything that he made up his mind to. When he was only ten years old his father died. This threw a terriffic load on his young and immature years, as the man of the family. With his mother's help and advice he managed the farm, an they made a comfortable living, he in later years buying out the other heirs, and securing title to the farm for himself. He stayed with his mother until she died looking after her and caring for her. After her death he sold the farm and moved to Birds Creek, and opened up a general store during this period living with his brother Solomon. He later purchased a large acreage of land just south of where he had his store, and there built a large and comfortable two story house. He gave up the store and in the year 1892 he married Lillie Belle Paine, daughter of Rev. Smith Furgerson & Mary Emeline McIntire Paine. To his new house he took Mother and there all their children were born and reared, and where both he and Mother lived until their death.
In Father's early manhood, he went to a log rolling, which was a great affair in those times. There he injured himself by overlifiting, just how he was not sure, but at the time he bled internally. After that time his health was never very good, and for several years they did not believe that he would survive. But he carefully guarded his health, and watched his food and lived to the age of 86 years. I believe that in the latter years of his life that his health was much improved. Father was always a very active man, he did not believe in idleness, and he practices his belief.
As his father died when he was only ten years old, he did not know too much about the Clark family. They had scattered, some of them went to TX, some to OK, some to AR, some to MO, and in those days it was very difficult to correspond with each other. As the years and the Civil War passed they gradually lost tract of each other. His brother Solomon, moved to Dalton, GA and bought a farm there. His sister Minerva whom married Rufus Shields, followed him there. His sister Emeline whom had married John Williams, moved to Dunn's Creek, near Cosby. His sister Sarrah whom had married Joseph Williams, lived on an adjoining farm to his on Birds Creek, and of course he kept in contact with those. But it was rather his Father's brothers and sisters with whom he lost contact, as in those days there was almost no mail service and transportation was almost nil.
One incident in Father's life as he related it to me, was when he was about 11 years old, he was captured and taken to Longstreet's encampment not far from where they lived. The encampment was in what they called the flat woods near Harrisburg. You can imagine that a small boy of 11 was pretty scared. They kept him overnight and next morning returned him to his mother. They asked him lots of questions, figuring that he might could tell them the whereabouts of some of the men whom were hiding out in that vicinity. They did not harm or threaten him in any way, and after he got over his scare, I think that he rather enjoyed it.
During the Civil War, he and his sisters would take turns holding the stock to keep the soldiers from getting them. They did get one of their mares, but his mother went to Colonel Murphy and he went with her to the encampment and the commanding officer made them line up the horses, and told her to pick her's out. She did, and he returned it to her.
Some of Father's ancestors were very scholary, some could speak several different languages, could read books written in Latin, and wrote a very legible hand-writing in the script of their day.
Father was a very civic-minded man, and he always worked for the betterment of the community, in making it a better place for his children to live. He worked tirelessly to establish Smoky Mountain Academy, and he and Rev. S. F. Paine, were largely responsible for its being a reality. Most of the planning was done at home. Father was one of its founders. He donated all of the lumber which went into its building and the first dormitory. He gave of his time and monetary support until his death. He was one of its first Trustees and always gave it his active support.
Father joined the Zion Grove Baptist Church and was baptized sometime in his late fifties. The exact year I do not know, but I saw him baptized. He was baptised in Birds Creek just above ford now going over to D. E. Brown's . He had always actively supported the church, and when something was going on at the church, Father never missed it, and saw that his children went also.
Father was a great believer in education, and his church, and he tried in every way possible to educate his children, and to see that facilities were available for that purpose.
Father was a very determined man, strictly honest, and thought everyone else should be the same. He lost quite a lot of money in trusting people. Once Father had made up his mind on an issue, he was very hard to change. In fact as far as Father was concerned, that was the way it was or had to be. He demanded and received complete obedience from his children. He was very strict, though gentle, and the rules and regulations he propounded for his childfen had to be adhered to without question, and any deviation there-from called for disciplinary action therefore. Father loved his children and family very much, and was always interested in their well-being. He loved his home, and only left it to attend to necessary business, or his church, always returning as soon as possible. His entire life was, him home and family.
Father, although his health was not very good, was always active, and was, up to the time of his terminal illness, his willpower often carrying him through any task that he chose to perform. Late in the fall of 1937, Father, one cold rainy day, left the house to see about the division of the crops of one of the Tennants. Mother tried to keep him from going, but he went anyway. He got wet and chilled from which he took pneumonia. Although he recovered from the pneumonia itself, he did not recover from the effects of it. On the morning of June 15th, 1938, holding my hand he passed quietly, and peacefully away. I had not only lost a father, but a dear friend and counselor as well. Father was gone from us at the age of 86, and the family circle was broken. He was laid to rest in the New Zion's Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, beside his daughter Mary. The Clarks and the Paines having some years previously signed an agreement with the Trustees of Smoky Mountain Academy not to use the Paine-Clark Cemtery for future burial purposes." (Newton Berry Clark)
I have a tin-type picture of him. (Sherry S. Finchum)
Madison County, N.C. 1880 census lists Lilly Payne in the household of Smith F. "Pain" Payne along with Ambrose, Isaac Newton, Charles M. and Mary V. Payne. She was shown as (8) eight years old.
"She only took 1 car ride in her life. It was to the doctor, and it made her so sick she said she would never ride again." (Emma Deane Clark)
"She moved to Sevier County, TN with her parents when she was a young girl. Her ancestors, were of Dutch Hollander, Swiss and Irish origins.
Mother was about 5 feet 7 inches in height, weighed between 125 and 135 pounds, had long silky dark hair, fair complexion, which remained smooth until her death, and brown eyes. Mother liked to have her hair combed and many was the time when I was a young boy have I stood on a chair combing it for her liking to feel the softness of it. She was a strong woman, both physically and in will power. She was seldom ill, and I cannot recall a time until the weight of years began to tell on her that she was ever ill. She was troubled all her life with motion sickness, but that was about the only thing that seemed to bother Mother.
Mother loved beauty. She loved flowers of which she had a profusion and would work for hours in them. She always had lovely flowers, even in her last years she still worked with her flowers.
Mother was always busy, very energetic, she could not tolerate any kind of uncleanliness, neither in her house, clothing or her children, and every spring she moved everything from its place in the house and gave a general cleaning to the house, furniture, and everything. She was an excellent cook, and always prepared good food for her children or company as well. She insisted on cleanliness in her kitchen, in the utensils she used, and in the preparation of the food. When a meal was over no matter how rushed, Mother always cleaned the refuse from the table, washed the dishes and the silverware, the utensils, and saw that her kitchen was clean before she left it. She tolerated no accumulation of dirty dishes.
Mother loved her home and her children, with a love unsurpassed. Her thoughts were ever of her children, and if one of the children would call and required attention, she could go for days without sleep or rest. She seemed to have a tireless amount of energy. Her children always came first, their cares, and their comfort and well being.
Mother's children could always go to her, with their troubles, their hurts and problems, and always be sure of sympathy and understanding.
She made her children's clothes and bought one of the first Singer sewing machines to come to Sevier County. I have often known her after working in the garden or field all day, to spin and card far into the night, in order that her children might have proper clothing, which she always kept clean and neat.
Mother had a wonderful sense of humor and liked to tease. She also had a nice voice for singing and liked to gather the children around her and sing. Mother joined the Baptist church sometime in her early girlhood and later transferred her letter to the Zion's Grove Baptist Church, of which she remained a member until her death.
Mother, was a very profuse reader, she read all kinds of books. The Bible, novels, romance, fiction, detective, all kinds of books seemed to interest her. I have often waked up far into the night and saw a light in Mother's room-she would be reading. She had a wonderul retentive memory. I have asked her long after she had read a book what the book was about and she could quote word for word almost everything about the book.
After father died, Mother began to be bothered with high blood pressure, and her health began to fail. She was fairly healthy on the whole, still looked after her garden and her flowers, but her health began to gradually decline. In November of 1951, she went to the Baptist Hospital in Knoxville, TN and the doctor's having discovered that she had colon cancer, operated on her. She was operated on by a specialist from the Mayo Clinic. She went to the operating room cheerful, thinking that they could relieve and help her. The doctors reported to her children that there was no hope, that her cancer was the fast-acting type and that there was nothing else that they could do, but make her comfortable the few remaining days that she had to live. Mother recovered from the shock of the operation, and wanted to leave the hospital. She went to Deane's with 24 hour nursing care, and died May 1952." (Newton B. Clark)
I have 2 photographs of her. (Sherry S. Finchum)