Helen Lucille Parton

Notes:

Attended Pittman Center School.

Married in Sevierville Baptist Church by Rev. W. J. Beasley.

Helen walked from the home site (2-3 miles) Copeland Creek to Pittman Center to school. Later they rode in a horse drawn wagon driven by Penson Whaley. She raised and sold beans and tobacco, kept the farm going and three kids in school. She cut and sold pulpwood, swinging a saw and axe along side her dad.

She acted as a 4-H Club leader while her kids were in school. Helen worked in Gatlinburg as a maid, cashier and dining room manager. Helen is known throughout the community as a hard worker and by her three children as the best mom in the world.
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Reference:
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 305, 309.

Helen married Mitchell Phillips 9 Sep 1944, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee. Mitchell (son of Spencer "Spence" Phillips and Rachel Hembree) was born 14 Jan 1924, Haywood County, North Carolina; died 22 Mar 1977, Cosby, Cocke County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

1. Mitchell "Butch" Phillips, Jr. was born 4 Oct 1945, San Francisco, California.
2. Carolyn Patricia Phillips was born 18 May 1947, Cosby, Cocke County, Tennessee.
3. Max Leroy Phillips was born 16 Jan 1950, Cosby, Cocke County, Tennessee.

Notes:

Michael was a hard worker. He farmed and cooked in logging camps. Later he cooked in the CCC camp at Greenbriar, Tennessee. After he and Lonnie divorced he raised their two kids. Later he lived with his son on Cosby, Tennessee.

Jo Ann Schimmel lists birth as 18 May 1886.
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Reference:
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 168.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 304, 305.
Jo Ann Schimmel, SchimmelJo@aol.com, 16 April 2000.

Albert married Lina Isabell "Lonnie" McCarter 3 Jun 1922, Sevier County, Tennessee; divorced Yes, date unknown. Lina (daughter of Moses Ephraim Earl "Ephraim E." McCarter and Julia Ann Morgan) was born 15 Jun 1908, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 5 Mar 1989; was buried Rector Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1910, District 2, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1920, District 2, Sevier County, Tennessee

Notes:

Lonnie was called "Granny Williams". She was a character and could tell some tall tales. She loved to fish in Douglas Lake and drove an old truck. She also loved her grand kids and took them on many fishing trips. Granny Williams gardened and had a rummage sale from her house where she lived until her death on Cosby from a heart attack.
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Reference:
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 168.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 304, 305.

Other Events:

• Census: 1880, Emerts Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee

Notes:

Lived on Copeland Creek, Tennessee. Had many twins.

Killed by a train.
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Reference:
Lyn Bordeau, Face5pence@aol.com, 9 December 2000.
Jo Ann Schimmel, SchimmelJo@aol.com, 16 April 2000.

Phillip married Margaret E. Teague 7 Jul 1883. Margaret (daughter of Michael Teague and Mary "Polly" Ridings) was born 13 Jan 1863, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 12 Jul 1949; was buried Rector Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Also Known As: Vance
• Census: 1870, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1880, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1920, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1930, District 17, Sevier County, Tennessee

Notes:

Promised a lifetime stay on her 600 acre homestead by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She was a petite red head. She raised her large family and kept house until she died.

Surname also listed as Vance.

The following is from a letter written in October 1997 and in the possession of Jay S. Webb, a Parton descendant. "Granny Margaret told me several times (when I was small and in later years) that during the war between the north and the south, there was a young soldier who come from New Jersey who was separated from his unit. Her mother hid him under the house when rebel scouts came looking for him or when neighbors came visiting. You could not trust many people in those times. This went on for months until the young man had a chance to make it back to his own lines. His name was MICHAEL TEAGUE. The couple fell in love, the results of was that Mary "Pop" became pregnant with Granny Margaret. In time the young man left and went back to his own army. Several years later his father and sister came to granny's mother on Copeland Creek, Sevier County and asked her to let Margaret go home with them. They promised the best of schooling, a good home with the best of food and clothing, with lots of love. They were very well off, but granny Mary said she would raise her daughter herself." The letter is signed 'Helen Lucille Parton Phillips' Helen, a great-grandaughter of Mary "Pop", was borm October 15, 1925 and is doing just fine in Cocke County, TN.
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Reference:
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 304.
Jo Ann Schimmel, SchimmelJo@aol.com, 16 April 2000.
Lyn Bordeau, Face5pence@aol.com, 4 June 2000, 9 December 2000.

Other Events:

• Census: 1910, District 2, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1920, District 2, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1930, District 2, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1940, District 9, Anderson County, Tennessee

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 41.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 48.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 86, 89.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 71.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 165, 168.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 304.

Moses married Julia Ann Morgan 15 Nov 1905, Sevier County, Tennessee. Julia (daughter of John Morgan and Martha Bales) was born 1889, Tennessee; died 7 Sep 1929, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 8 Sep 1929, Tudor Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1910, District 2, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1920, District 2, Sevier County, Tennessee

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 41.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 86.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 165, 168.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 304.

Other Events:

• Also Known As: Albert Huston
• Census: 1880, Harlan County, Kentucky
• Census: 1900, District 2, Harlan County, Kentucky
• Census: 1910, Yocum Creek, Harlan County, Kentucky

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 40.
Jo Ann Schimmel, SchimmelJo@aol.com, 16 April 2000.

Albert married Sarah L. Evans 28 Jan 1858. Sarah (daughter of Rev. Richard Evans and K Catherine Emert) was born 3 Jan 1840, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1880, Emerts Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 40.

Notes:

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Reference:
Lyn Bordeau, Face5pence@aol.com, 4 June 2000.

Michael married Mary "Polly" Ridings NOT MARRIED. Mary (daughter of William "Willis" Ridings) was born 1838/1840, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Listed in 1850 Cocke County, Tennessee Census with parents as Polly.

Single in 1894.

Known as Aunt Pop.
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Reference:
"Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 88, 89.
Lyn Bordeau, Face5pence@aol.com, 4 June 2000.

Other Events:

• AFN: BQLK-9L

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 16, 41.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 79.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 80, 86.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 64.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 164, 165.
"In the Shadow of the Smokies", Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 573.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 10.

Thomas married Marriah Reagan 22 Aug 1861, Sevier County, Tennessee. Marriah (daughter of Daniel Wesley Reagan and Nancy Ogle) was born 7 Apr 1842, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 9 Feb 1923, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 2DDT-CL

Notes:

Marriah was reared by her stepmother, Sarah Whaley Reagan. Sarah made her home with Thomas and Marriah after Daniel Wesley Reagan died. Their son, Eli, preserved the records of the Daniel Reagan family by making copies of the Bible record for other members of the family. The Bible was later lost in a fire at his home.

Marriah and Thomas died within a week of each other.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 16, 41.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 79.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 80, 86.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 64.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 164, 165.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 10.

John — Martha Bales. Martha was born Tennessee. [Group Sheet]