1. | Helen Lucille Parton was born 15 Oct 1925, Sevier County, Tennessee. 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]
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