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From "A History of the Coalfield Area" by W.B. Lyles - - Another family was Solomons, who came from Virginia. They had a son by the name of William Riley Solomon. He was in his early twenties the winter they came through in 1855. They stayed until the weather was good enough, so they could go west. During their stay, he fell in love with a girl by the name of Julie Hicks. He decided to remain here with the Hicks family. They got married in early 1856. Their children were as foollows: Nancy, John, Lucinda, James, Margaret, Martha, and George. There is little known as about Mary and Nancy Solomon. Undoubtedly, they must have died in their infancy. John Solomon, who was born in 1858, died in the same place he was born in 1956 at the age of 98. He did not have any schooling, but he did know how to work. He was a hard worker. His line of work was farming and working in the log woods. He was a gardener and made the last one when he was 97 years old.
Not long after John was born, they had another daughter. When she was a year old, the Civil War started. The father, William Riley Solomon,had to go to war. He was a bugler during the Civil War. A few months after he left, Riley Solomon's wife had another daughter born in 1862. Her name was Lucinda, and she was the one who later was my (W.B.Lyles) grandmother. Her grandfather was the Cherokee Indian, Joseph Hicks.
After the war was over and William Riley Solomon got back home, a son was born, James. Two years later the daughter, Margaret, was born. Then, in the early 1870's, Martha was born. She had a terrible handicap - a very bad hairlip. It was verery difficult for her to eat. I can today remember her in her old age. It was very hard for me to understand the words she said. She never married, but when she was about 20, she had a son by the name of George. Everyone said that a boy by ththe name of Liles was his father, and he went by the name of George Liles. George grew up to be a big man - 6 feet, 6 inches, about 245 pounds. He left Tennessee and never did come back. The story is told that he went to Texas and married. It is said that he died in the state of Texas and was buried there. When Martha was in her 80's she died. She did not have an income. She stayed with people, working to earn her board - she did this all her life.
In 1880, Riley and Julie Solomon had their last child. George was born. He lived to be 94 and died in 1976 in Oakdale, Tennessee. All of these people earned their living by hard work. About 93% were listed as farmers. Some worked in the mines and log woods cutting timber.

1860 MORGAN COUNTY CENSUS, DISTRICT 1 (page 14)
SOLOMON, Wm27MWFarmerTenn
Juda26FWDomesticTenn
Mary6MWTenn
Nancy4FWTenn
John1MWTenn

1880 MORGAN COUNTY CENSUS, DISTRICT 1
SOLOMON, Wm. Riley46MWFarmerTN
Judah46FWKeepHouTN
John W.20MWFarmWorTN
James A.15MWFarmTN
Margret E.14FWHousWoTN
Marthy An12FWTN
Louiza5FWTN
MOORE, Jackson17MWFarmTN

William married Judah Hicks in 1856. Judah (daughter of Joseph Hicks and Nancy Hicks) was born about 1833; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lucinda married John Henry Liles on 3 Jun 1879. John (son of John Henry Liles, Sr. and Mary Jane Davis) was born on 27 Feb 1860; died on 4 Apr 1937. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Lyles. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Susan Langley. Susan (daughter of Andrew Jackson Langley and Mary B Reynolds) was born on 14 Jul 1881; died on 6 Jan 1936; was buried in Chesley Jackson Cemetery, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1910 MORGAN COUNTY TENNESSEE DISTRICT 1 CENSUS
LILES, HenryHead24TNCoal Miner
EthelWife20
ViolaDau05
GracieDau03
GertieDau3/12

October 12, 1916, clipping from a newspaper:
Henry LILES suffered the loss of his house by fire a few days since.The fire was accidental.

Family/Spouse: Ethel Phillips. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Laura married Dave Brown in 1902. Dave was born about 1883; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Excerpt from "A History of the Coalfield Area" by W.B. Lyles - - -Millard Lyles, the youngest son of John and Lucinda Lyles, was bornMay 22, 1886. He grew up at the old home place in the head of SolomonHollow. While he was a small boy, they haad a hard time feeding thefamily during the depression of 1893 and 1894. He was the only onethat got to go to school. He went to the 3rd grade. After he gotinto his teens, his father bought a farm about four miles away. Therehe built a larger home, and there he remained to help support thefamily. His father had an accident that made him blind. One of themishaps of life - when John was going up a mountain path, a limb flewback and hit him in the eye. It put it out. John was an avid hunter,trapper, and fur trader. After losing the sight of one eye, he baganbagging fur for other trappers in the area. He lost his other eyeputting barrel staves together. A metal piece flew off and hit him inthe other eye, making him totally blind.
Millard grew up with very little education. He would work forneighbors to earn spending money. On one account, he would help digsweet potatoes for Uncle Clint Liles for 35 cents a day, previouslymentioned. As he grew older he began courting the girls in theneighborhood. The story is told that he courted a girl named LizeWilliams in Petros in 1911 and 1912. She had a son by him named LoganWilliams.
On September 19, 1911, Millard met a new girl named Virgie Frye. Shewas visiting her sister who was giving birth to a child. They datedoff and on for until January 26, 1913. This was the date they gotmarried - that Saturday morning about 10:30 a.m. by Pleas Adcock, whowas Justice of the Peace at the time. Millard was 26 years old andVirgie was 19 that previous April 4.
So they started their lives together about 8 months after the sinkingof the ship, the Titanic - the ship that was built as the buildersboasted could not be sunk, but it went down on its maiden voyage fromEngland to the United States. 1509 people perished.
Millard and Virgie's first child was born in 1914, a boy. He lived 12days and died. This was very disappointing to both Millard and Virgieas they loved children. Again, in 1916, another child was born. Thiswas a girl and she was born dead. This one was the last because thecondition of Virgie's health was such that she was never again able tobear children. As the years went by, they wanted to a chld so badly,they started looking for a child they could adopt. At the Knoxvilleorphanage, the children would come up and climb and their laps andask, "Would you please take us home with you?" But somehow they feltthey were being led by the Holy Spirit and turned these children down.This took place in the fall of 1921.
Up to this time, Millard had been working in the coal mines and made agood living for the two of them. They were always going places andhaving a good time. They were a happy-go-lucky couple. Millardworked in the Coalfield Coal Company mines. They had come to thisarea not too long after the Civil War because coal was being minedhere in a big way. The name was changed again at this time - first itwas called Reo; then, in the 1840's it was changed to Ruffner'sSwitch; now it was changed to Coalfield. There was a railroad builtfrom Harriman through Coalfield into Petros. It was finished in 1905.At one time, there were eight trains a day, two of them were passengertrains.
Above the mines on the mountains, there was a place near the top, alarge level place, they called "Horse Tie." The reason it was calledthat was because during the Civil War, soldiers from both sides wouldcome through and take what they wanted fd from the farmers. The farmerswould take their animals to this level spot on the mountain and tietheir cows, mules, and horses to keep them safe. Not too far was themain top of the mountain, at a high peak, was a place called the"Signal Pole." That was where the signals were sent. They had smokesignals for different signs so the people would know what to do.
On one occasion when Millard and his brother Henry were working onLittle Brushy Mountain in the mines, they started coming down andgoing toward home. Henry was in front walking down the mountain.They heard a shot down at the foot. In about 2 or 3 seconds, a bullethit Millard in the forehead and knocked him down. Almost by the timehe got up, a large bump appeared. That was the closest he came togetting killed.
One morning when Millard went to work there at the Coalfield mines inthe fall of 1922. A man came up to Millard by the name of CharlieBagwell. All of the men knew everyone they worked with in the mines.Millard and Virgie had been to Knoxvillle looking for a baby and allknew it. Charlie Bagwell said to Millard, "Say Millard, I heard youand your wife are looking for a baby to raise." Millard said, "Yes,we have." Charlie then said, "My oldest daughter, Florie, has got ababy boy down there at my son's house in the Camp that she wants togive away. My son's name is Harve and his wife Alvana Bagwell. Tellyour wife about it." So Millard said he would. The next morning, thevery first thing, Charlie came up to Millard and said, "Well, did youtell your wife?" Millard replied, "No, I forgot to, but I will besure and tell her tonight."
That night he did tell Virgie, his wife. She told Millard that shewould go check on the baby the next day. This was in April 1922. Thenext morning she did go. It was a cool day, not too cold. She foundthe house where Harve and Alvana lived. She knocked at the door, andthey invited her in. The baby was sitting in a large cardboard box,back from the grate where they had a fire for heat. Most all of theworkers a the mines lived in the Camp in houses near the mines. Theyall had fireplaces to build fires in the winter for heat.
Virgie took the baby in her lap and she warmed herself. She statedlater, "I never have been so sorry for a child as I was for this babyboy I was holding. He was undernourished, and he was very sick." Shetold Alvana that she must be going. Alvana said, "Well, aren't yougoing to take the baby?"
Virgie said she would go home and talk it over with her husband. Whenshe got to the door, just ready to close it, she took one more lookback at the box where the baby was. He was looking at her with hishand stretched toward her. Virgie broke at this point and told Alvanato get his clothes and she would take him. Alvana got a bag, putthree diapers, a cap, and two dresses in it, and handed it to Virgie.That's all the clothes the baby had - not even a blanket.
Virgie held the baby very close under her coat. She got down to DaveBrown's house. Dave's wife was Millard's sister; they lived aboutone-half mile away. There they loaned her a quilt to put around thechild until she got home.
That evening, when Millard got home, he opened the door, came in, andsaw the boy. He wept for a long time. He told Virgie, "You get thesewing machine out. Tomorrow night when I come home, I will bringenough material so that you will be busy sseveral days making clothesfor that child." Two days later, Virgie and her sister, Sarah Brock,(who had heard of the news), came over, stayed all day, and madeclothes for the baby. Dr. H. E. Hecker was called to doctor the baby.There were three doctors that looked after the baby for the nextseveral months. After a few weeks, he started to improve. However,there was nothing that would stay on his stomach. The doctors werepuzzled as to what to do. Finally, Dr. Sinheth said to Virgie, "I amgoing to suggest, after much though, that you take a cup of rice, boilit for four hours, and give him the broth from it." So she did justthat. She was willing to try anything, and that started improving ofhis health. Virgie changed seeveral diapers for several days filledwith inflammation, which had lined his intestines. When Virgie hadleft the Harve Bagwell home with the baby, she asked Alvana what hadshe been feeding the baby, Alvana replied, "We have been giving himpinto bean soup."
So with the coming of spring, the baby's health improved greatly. AsVirgie commented later, "By giving him a bath every day, by taking alittle dirt at a time, I finally got him clean after two weeks. Butdue to the lack of proper food, nourishment, and care, the boy wouldtake sick in the least change of weather." For the next eightwinters, he had pneumonia fever. Because he was sick so much at anearly age, he got a slow start in school. But he did start school inAugust 1927 at Coalfield Elementary School. His first teacher wasLizzie Jackson, whom he liked so very much. It was a greatdisappointment for him when the teacher died in childbirth beforeschool was out in March 1928.
The school year of 1928-1929, the boy was in the first grade of schooland Thelma Whalen was the teacher. There were some boys in that roomthat were 10 and 11 years old. With another winter and pneumoniaagain, the boy still managed to pass the second grade.
I am sure you know by now, dear reader, that this baby boy was noneother than William Blount Lyles. That was the name I was going by,but by the court of the land, my name was Corum for I was not legallyadopted until February 1942 at the Wartburg Court House, there at thecounty court.

Family/Spouse: Virgie Frye. Virgie (daughter of Melvin Alexander Frye and Charlotte Hallcox) was born on 5 Apr 1893; died on 2 Aug 1967; was buried in Estes Cemetery, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lize Williams. Lize (daughter of Robert "Bob" Williams and Mary Ann Williams) was born about 1891; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Floyd Langley. Floyd was born on 14 Oct 1905; died on 25 Apr 1977. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Luther H Langley. Luther (son of Andrew Jackson Langley and Mary B Reynolds) was born on 13 Apr 1888; died on 30 Nov 1973; was buried in Chesley Jackson Cemetery, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Richard Bedford. William (son of William Thomas Bedford and Arvena Langley) was born on 14 Aug 1911; died in Jan 1989. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died of gunshot

Family/Spouse: Mable Foster. Mable was born on 17 Apr 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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TN BM2 USNR WWII

Family/Spouse: Bobbie Engerstin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Earl Nichols. Earl was born on 21 Feb 1908; died on 9 Jan 1964; was buried in Estes Cemetery, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gerald Ruffner. Gerald (son of Fred Ruffner and Maggie Ellen) was born on 22 Jun 1904; died on 11 Apr 1978; was buried in Estes Cemetery, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: James Oliver Gouge, Sr.. James (son of William Henry Gouge and Betty Jane Cook) was born on 17 Jun 1904; died on 21 Sep 1972; was buried in Chesley Jackson Cemetery, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Residence 1940 census, Rural, Fentress Co., Tennessee, District 76-1

Verie married Winnie Bowling on 10 Sep 1932 in Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elsie Bunch. Elsie (daughter of Ramsey Bunch and Vinie Patterson) was born about 1919; died on 12 Dec 2004; was buried in Petros Cemetery, Petros, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Otis Windham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: James McFarland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Written from the memories of Thelma "Darlene" Liles Silcox. Dates arefrom the family bible of Thelma Josephine Turner Liles, in herhandwriting)

Herman Winfred Liles Sr. Born November 7, 1918. His birth certificatewas never found. His 1st. grade teacher was still alive when heapplied to retire from the coalmines and helped him to get hissocial security and miner's retirement started. Thaat and his socialsecurity records was all that was ever acquired. He died March 19,1990 and is buried in Pence cemetery, Pence, Indiana. He was the sonof William Thomas "Tom" & Susan Jane Langley Liles. He worked in thecoalmines of TN and about 1955 moved to Indiana and worked at HarrisonSteel Mills in Attica IN. After a lay off at Harrison's he workedfor farmers and for years he ran the grain elevator at Steward, IN. Hewent back to work in the coalmines at Newman IL around the sprring of1971, and retired from the coalmines in mid 1983. Daddy's entiresiblings spell their last name Liles, but we are be related to peoplewith a spelling of Lyles. Not sure how the spelling was changed. Someof the Tennessee cousins say it was when a man had a feud with some ofhis family. Out of resentment he changed the "I" to a "Y". Nobodyseems to know for sure. You need to keep in mind that these were "HillPeople". Most of them had little formal education. My father could notread nor write and his opinion of education was that he had donealright without it so why would anyone else need it. Don'tmisunderstand; he was not an ignorant person by any stretch of theimmigration. He would pick up a stick in the yard and scratch outnumbers in the dirt and he could figure out pretty much anything hewanted to. I believe he went to school part time until about thirdgrade. When he lived in TN he had moonshine still and my brother Ron,who is just five years older than meme, said he could remember goingwith dad once to his still's hiding place. He could witch water anddig roots and herbs that naturalist now find priceless. As kids wenever went to the doctor when we were sick. We were given herbs andhad to drinink some of the worst tasting things that could be boiled up,but we lived through it. Dad loved dogs, hounds mostly, & was verygood shot squirrel hunting with his old shotgun. He played thefiddle and loved country music. He loved the TV show of the sixty "TheBeverly Hillbillies". He could relate to it and had sayings in hisvocabulary similar to Jed Clampet, but compared to dad's family Jedlooked like a Wall Street banker in a designer suite.

Herman married Thelma Josephine Turner on 5 Oct 1940. Thelma was born on 26 Mar 1925 in Ooltewah, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States; died on 30 Jul 1979 in Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Bill Noe. Bill was born on 30 Dec 1911; died on 27 Apr 1988. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Gladys Seeber. Gladys (daughter of Crosley Seeber and Alice Seiber) was born on 22 Jun 1931 in Devonia, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; died on 5 Mar 2003 in Harriman, Roane, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Andersonville, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Lula Lyles. Lula died on 29 Mar 1999. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Lucille Russell. Lucille (daughter of Thomas Albert Russell and Elizabeth Jane Jackson) was born in 1915; died in 1990. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Mary A.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BROWN, TOM CLAY, 59, Petros, died 3/1965. He was the son of D.C. andLaura Liles Brown. Survivors: wife, Eva Norman Brown. Son: D.C.Brown. Daughters, Sadie Harris, Eileen Chase and Jean Pressley. 10grandchildren. Brother, Elmer Brown., Sisters, Myrtle Jones, SadieGaddy, Rebas Hensley, and Vada Bradley. New Petros Cemetery [MorganCounty News, 3/25/1965]

Family/Spouse: Eva Norman. Eva (daughter of Richard Norman and Louisa M. Justice) was born on 25 May 1908; died in 1978; was buried in Petros, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Thelma Dyer. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Logan married Lora Williams on 11 May 1936. Lora was born on 13 Jul 1920; died on 9 Sep 1974; was buried in Petros Cemetery, Petros, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Ellen Lively. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Louis Largent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Vann. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Noe. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Smith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Thomas Bedford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]