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- [S74] Atchley Funeral Home Records, Volume IV, 1987-1999, Larry D. Fox, (Smoky Mountain Historical Society), 9 May 1994.
Dewey William Bryan obituary
- [S23] Atchley Funeral Home, (http://www.atchleyfuneralhome.com/), 1 Feb 2004.
Tilda Leona Cogdill obituary
- [S106] The Mountain Press, 24 Apr 2012.
Fran Troxler: Nothing like Miss Ina's flower garden
by FRAN TROXLER
Each spring as all the beautiful tulips, dogwoods, forsythia, and redbuds start blooming, I always think of Ina Bryan, who lived a wonderful life in Wears Valley and definitely had one of the prettiest flower gardens around.
I enjoyed Ina’s always blooming flowers, as did everyone else who drove up and down Bryan Road. There is a stop sign in front of her house at the intersection with Valley View Road, meant for vehicular traffic, but I tell you, any person in his right mind would have stopped there anyway — stop sign or no stop sign — just so they could enjoy the vibrant colors and orderliness of the Bryans’ yard.
Miss Ina was always working out in the flower or vegetable garden. When I had time I would pull into her driveway and enjoy time with her as she worked. It seemed as if Ina had always been in that one spot; she and the flowers were a natural part of the landscape.
One day I asked her, “Miss Ina, what is it like to have always lived here in Wears Valley?” She quickly answered me, “Oh, honey, I didn’t grow up in the Valley.”
Well, that surprised me. She looked like a Wears Valley native, talked like a Wears Valley native, so in my mind, must have been one.
“No?” I questioned. “You didn’t grow up here?”
“Oh, no,” she replied. “I grew up in Happy Holler.”
Now if anyone knows the roads of Wears Valley, you will know that Happy Hollow Road is a major county road. To reach the Homestead development or The Preserve or Hickory Hollow, you must travel up Happy Hollow Road. To me, Happy Hollow is a part of Wears Valley, but obviously it is not to the people who grew up in the Holler.
What I had not considered in Ina’s answer is the fact that just a few years ago, Happy Hollow and Wears Valley were two separate and distinct communities. Only in the past few years has the Valley area expanded.
Fifty years ago, there were still very few cars here. Travel was still primarily by foot or on horseback. Communities were primarily self-sustaining. And even though two communities may have been only a short distance apart, they were still very separate and distinct, and the residents of each seldom came in daily contact with each other.
Thankfully, a Valley boy and a Holler girl did meet. Young W.B. Bryan of Wears Valley found his lovely young bride Ina back in the woods of Happy Holler. He married her, brought her to live on his family land on Bryan Road in the Valley, and they lived happily ever after there for 45 years in a pretty white house with beautiful flowers blooming all around.
There are still pretty flowers in the yard, but that flower garden has just not been the same without Miss Ina over the past six years.
— Fran Troxler lives and works in Wears Valley. Her column will appear every other week. She is the owner of East Tennessee Realty Group. Email to Fran@EastTnExperts.com.
- [S112] Census, 1940.
Name: Ina May Trentham
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Civil District 11, Sevier, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 1
Marital Status: Single
Race (Original): White
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Daughter
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Birthplace: Tennessee
Birth Year (Estimated): 1939
Last Place of Residence:
District: 78-17
Family Number: 10
Sheet Number and Letter: 1B
Line Number: 43
Affiliate Publication Number: T627
Affiliate Film Number: 3933
Digital Folder Number: 005461375
Image Number: 00079
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Richard Trentham M 38 Tennessee
Wife Anner Trentham F 32 Tennessee
Son N H Trentham M 8 Tennessee
Son Joe Trentham M 6 Tennessee
Son Paul Trentham M 4 Tennessee
Son Ben Trentham M 2 Tennessee
Daughter Ina May Trentham F 1 Tennessee
Son-in-law Claude Cogdill M 22 Tennessee
Daughter Tilda Cogdill F 18 Tennessee
- [S80] Rawlings Funeral Home, (http://www.rawlingsfuneralhome.com/), 29 Jan 2005.
Ina Trentham Bryan
On Saturday, January 29, 2005 Ina Trentham Bryan, 66, began her glorious journey to join her loved ones who are waiting for her. She began her journey at Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee.
On January 24, 1939 Ina was born to the late Richard and Aner Cogdill Trentham in Elkmont, TN. During her life, she devoted her self to providing a loving home to her husband, children, and her Lord by serving as a faithful member of the Valley View Baptist Church.
Besides her parents, Ina’s son, Clifford Lynn Bryan; brothers, Lester, Nip, and Tommy Trentham; sister, Tilda Cogdill are waiting for her to join them in Heaven.
Leaving behind to mourn her passing, but celebrating the love she has shown, is her husband, W.B. Bryan; sons, Willie Bryan and wife Michelle, Burton Bryan and wife Rhonda; grandchildren, Nichole, Brooke, Jessica, Dustin, Rebecca, Zachary, Brittany, Colton, Henry and Hailey; brothers, Paul Trentham and wife Suzie, Ben Trentham, Hubert Trentham, Ollie Trentham and wife Pat, Joe Trentham; sister, Lea Kelly and husband Carl; brother-in-law, Claude Cogdill. Besides the immediate family, Ina will be missed by several nieces, nephews and a host of friends whose lives she has touched.
Service will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at Valley View Baptist Church with Rev. Jeff Hickman and Rev. Bethel Crisp officiating. Interment will follow at Valley View Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-9:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 1 at Rawlings Funeral Home.
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- [S58] Marriage Certificate.
Name: Annie Cogdille (Unknown)
Also Known As:
Suffix:
Event: Marriage
Event Date: 06 Sep 1930
Event Place: Monroe, Tennessee, United States
Gender: Female
Spouse: Richard Trentham
Spouse's Also Known As:
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Page: 184
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