Gerald Porterfield: Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest

Generation: 1

1. Gerald Porterfield (son of Roman Amon Porterfield and Eleanor Yvonne Shepard).

Generation: 2

Roman Amon Porterfield was born 19 Mar 1932 (son of Porterfield); died 18 Oct 2005; was buried 22 Oct 2005, Hampton Veterans Memorial Gardens.

Roman married Eleanor Yvonne Shepard Abt 1957. Eleanor (daughter of Bervil C. Shepard and Sarah Ruth Maples) was born 21 Feb 1937; died 18 Jun 2002; was buried 21 Jun 2002, Hampton Veterans Memorial Gardens. [Group Sheet]

Eleanor Yvonne Shepard was born 21 Feb 1937 (daughter of Bervil C. Shepard and Sarah Ruth Maples); died 18 Jun 2002; was buried 21 Jun 2002, Hampton Veterans Memorial Gardens.

Children:

Generation: 3

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Porterfield
Children:

2. Roman Amon Porterfield was born 19 Mar 1932; died 18 Oct 2005; was buried 22 Oct 2005, Hampton Veterans Memorial Gardens.

Mary Ellen Porterfield

Bervil C. Shepard was born 1 Oct 1915, Tennessee (son of Marion Arthur Shepherd and Etta O. Miller); died 10 Feb 1988, Knox County, Tennessee.

Bervil — Sarah Ruth Maples. Sarah (daughter of Nathaniel Redmond Maples and Lousia Jane "Ida" Cogdill) was born 14 Sep 1920, Tennessee; died 26 May 2011, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; was buried 28 May 2011, Highland South Memorial Park Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Sarah Ruth Maples was born 14 Sep 1920, Tennessee (daughter of Nathaniel Redmond Maples and Lousia Jane "Ida" Cogdill); died 26 May 2011, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; was buried 28 May 2011, Highland South Memorial Park Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.

Children:

3. Eleanor Yvonne Shepard was born 21 Feb 1937; died 18 Jun 2002; was buried 21 Jun 2002, Hampton Veterans Memorial Gardens.
Gerald Cleo Shepard was born 29 Jan 1939, Tennessee; died 21 Feb 1939, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; was buried 22 Feb 1939, Valley Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
Carol Shepard
Judy Shepard

Generation: 4

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Marion Arthur Shepherd was born 14 May 1888, Tennessee (son of George Pleasant Shepherd and Phynethy Elenora "Ellen" Ownby); died 1 Oct 1931; was buried Howard View Baptist Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 122.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 86.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 338.

Marion — Etta O. Miller. Etta (daughter of William Thomas Miller and Elizabeth Fowler) was born Jul 1893, Tennessee; died 3 Nov 1957, Knox County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

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Etta O. Miller was born Jul 1893, Tennessee (daughter of William Thomas Miller and Elizabeth Fowler); died 3 Nov 1957, Knox County, Tennessee.

Other Events:

Census: 1900, District 12, Cocke County, Tennessee

Children:

Lawrence B. Shepard was born Abt 1915, Tennessee.
6. Bervil C. Shepard was born 1 Oct 1915, Tennessee; died 10 Feb 1988, Knox County, Tennessee.
Homer Shepard was born Abt 1920, Tennessee.
Lizzie M. Shepherd was born Tennessee.
Ada B. Shepherd was born Abt 1925, Tennessee.
Bunie L. Shepherd was born Abt 1927, Tennessee.

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Nathaniel Redmond Maples was born 1 May 1860, Sevier County, Tennessee (son of James Madison Maples and Nancy Adeline King); died 6 May 1946, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; was buried 8 May 1946, Valley Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 199, 200, 237, 253.
Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 204.

Nathaniel married Lousia Jane "Ida" Cogdill 13 May 1909, Sevier County, Tennessee. Lousia (daughter of James Tipton Cogdill and Sarah E. Dodgen) was born Jan 1894, Tennessee; died 9 Mar 1958, Knox County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

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Lousia Jane "Ida" Cogdill was born Jan 1894, Tennessee (daughter of James Tipton Cogdill and Sarah E. Dodgen); died 9 Mar 1958, Knox County, Tennessee.

Children:

Flora Maples was born Abt 1910, Tennessee; died INFANT.
James Purman "J. P." "Perm" Maples was born Abt 1912, Tennessee; died 26 Mar 2011, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; was buried 2 Apr 2011, Highland South Memorial Park Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
Jonathan Clifford "Cliff" Maples was born 11 Dec 1912, Tennessee; died 31 Oct 2007; was buried 3 Nov 2007, Highland South Memorial Park Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
Marshall Tipton "Tip" Maples was born 16 Nov 1914, Tennessee; died 20 Nov 1981, Knox County, Tennessee.
Clyde Maples was born 26 Feb 1916, Tennessee; died 30 Jul 2008; was buried Highland South Memorial Park Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
Lillie Celia "Lil" Maples was born Abt 1918, Tennessee; died 18 Mar 2010, Parkwest Medical Center; was buried 21 Mar 2010, Highland West Memorial Park.
7. Sarah Ruth Maples was born 14 Sep 1920, Tennessee; died 26 May 2011, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; was buried 28 May 2011, Highland South Memorial Park Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
Hattie Maples was born 21 Feb 1922, Tennessee; died 25 May 2000, Seymour, Tennessee; was buried 28 May 2000, Highland South Memorial Park Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
Alice Maples was born 29 Dec 1929; died 28 Jan 2008; was buried 31 Jan 2008, Highland South Memorial Park Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
Paul "Tom" Maples died Bef 25 May 2000.
Albert N. "Demp" Maples was born 21 Aug 1931; died 10 Mar 2006; was buried 12 Mar 2006, Valley Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.