Max Barry Phillips

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"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 310.

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Reference:
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 305, 309.

Max — Susan Charlene Young. Susan (daughter of Sanford Raymond Young and Emma Kate Sheffey) was born 17 Sep 1950. [Group Sheet]

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"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 310.

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Attended Pittman Center School and transferred to Cosby High when his family lost their second land to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mitchell played a mean game of basketball, similar to those played by his youngest son Max.

Mitchell served as a Gunners Mate 3rd Class and was Captain of his gun mound. He was joined in San Francisco, California during World War II, by his wife, Helen. In 1947 they moved back to Cosby, Tennessee where they built a house next door to his parents.

Jobs were scarce and times were hard. He chose to go North to find work rather than make moonshine, another alternative during those lean days. He worked in Willmington, Delaware and for Ford Motor Company in Cleveland, Ohio. He lost his left hand in a construction accident in 1966. He was a South Paw who had to
learn to use his right hand. After the accident he went to college at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. As time passed he went to work for Firestone Corporation in Newport, Tennessee as a security guard. He went into the factory working his way up until 1977 at the time of his death, he was a shift foreman for Firestone.
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Reference:
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 305, 309.

Mitchell married Helen Lucille Parton 9 Sep 1944, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee. Helen (daughter of Albert Michael "Mike" Parton and Lina Isabell "Lonnie" McCarter) was born 15 Oct 1925, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

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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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"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 305, 309.

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"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 310.

Sanford married Emma Kate Sheffey 11 Jan 1931. Emma (daughter of Robert E. Sheffey and Nannie Acton) was born 8 Aug 1913, Cocke County, Tennessee; died 1 Jun 2006, Cocke County Baptist Convalescent Center; was buried 3 Jun 2006, Cotheran Cemetery. [Group Sheet]

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"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 310.

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Reference:
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 305.

Spencer — Rachel Hembree. Rachel (daughter of Hembree and Mary "Dall" Sutton) was born 30 Nov 1894; died 20 Feb 1966. [Group Sheet]

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"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 305.

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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

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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.

Markus — Lucy A. Sartin. Lucy (daughter of Calvin Decab Sartin and Amanda "Mandy" Sexton) was born 12 Jun 1866, North Carolina; died 16 Feb 1909. [Group Sheet]

Robert — Nannie Acton. Nannie died Bef 1 Jun 2006. [Group Sheet]