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Excerpt from "A History of the Coalfield Area" by W. B. Lyles - - -HisIndian name was unknown, but he was born in 1797 in western NorthCarolina. He made his way into what is known today as FentressCounty, Tennessee. There he met a family by the name of John Hicks.They were very good to him and took him in and fed him. He was nearlystarved to death. He stayed with them for several weeks, and theytook care of him.
In the John Hicks family, there was only one daughter by the name ofNancy..... As the Indian's health improved, and was back to normal,he began to notice Nancy, and she began to notice him. So theydecided to get married, when they did, Nancy did not change her nameas most girls do. The Indian changed his name to the name of JosephHicks. The reason he did this was that he did not want the governmentto know where he was - neither did he want the Indian nation to knowwhere he was.
So Joseph and Nancy left Fentress County and moved to what we knowtoday to Morgan County, Tennessee about three miles northwest ofCoalfield. At this time, Coalfield was known as or called Reo. Theyobtained a piece of ground that we know today as Solomon Hollow. Theybuilt a log house and started a family.

1850 Morgan County Census:
--20--33--154--1--Hicks--Joseph------53--m--*--farmer--$150.00--NC--*--*--*--*--*
--20--34--154--2--Hicks--Nancy------59--f--*--*--*--NC--*--*--*--*--*
--20--35--154--3--Hicks--Mary------30--f--*--*--*--TN--*--*--*--*--*
--20--36--154--4--Hicks--Judah------16--f--*--*--*--TN--*--*--*--*--*

1860 Morgan County Census, Dist 1
Hicks--Joseph------63--m----farmer----NC
Hicks--Nancy-------66--f-----housekeeper--NC

Family/Spouse: Nancy Hicks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Catherine Goddard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1870 MORGAN COUNTY CENSUS
ALLEN, Mary 49 F W Farmer Tenn
Mary 13 F W Tenn
George 11 M W Tenn
Mary 60 F W HK VA
Elizabeth F W VA

1880 MORGAN COUNTY CENSUS, Page 4
ALLEN, Mary W F 48 Wid Farmer Tenn
George W M 21 S FW Tenn
Mary L. W F 72 ML HW Virginia
Elizabeth W F 66 ML HW Virginia
MOORE, Elizabeth J. W F 26 Dau HW Tenn
James M. W F 9 Gson Tenn

Mary married James W. Allen on 3 May 1853. James was born in 1823; died in 1864 in Andersonville Confederate Prison, Andersonville, Sumter, Georgia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Judah married William Wriley Solomon in 1856. William was born about 1832; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth married Major Lindsey Liles on 30 Apr 1896. Major (son of Rebecca Liles, son of Abner Hester and Rebecca Liles) was born on 23 Aug 1836; died on 19 May 1911; was buried in Jackson-Lyles Cemetery, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary Fountain Allen was the daughter of James W. Allen and Mary Hicks.Mary Hicks was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Hicks. Joseph was afull-blooded Cherokee Indian. His Indian name is unknown, but he leftthe Indian Nation and was taken in by the Hicks family. He changedhis name to to Joseph Hicks, and married Nancy Hicks to disguisehimself from the Indian Nation and the U.S. Government........source:W.B. Lyles "A History of the Coalfield Area"

Mary married Joseph Miller Jones in 1876 in Morgan, Tennessee, United States. Joseph (son of Samuel H. Jones and Sarah Stonecipher) was born in Aug 1855 in Morgan, Tennessee, United States; died in 1934 in Morgan, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Union Cemetery, Wartburg, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1920 MORGAN COUNTY CENSUS, PAGE 49
ALLEN, George W. Head M W 61 TN Farmer
Nancy E. Wife F W 64 TN
John W. Son M W 30 TN Coal Mines

George married Nancy Emily Justice in 1883. Nancy (daughter of John Justus and Nancy D. Butler) was born in 1857; died in 1921; was buried in Union Cemetery, Wartburg, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [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: J. Pointer Barger. J. (son of Zachariah Taylor Barger and Elizabeth Sullins) was born on 15 Nov 1879; died on 16 Jul 1958; was buried in Union Cemetery, Wartburg, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1930 Roane County Census, Dist 2, Roane St.
JONES, Oliver P.HeadMW45Butcher; Meat Market
Jennie L.WifeFW41
Mildred L.DauFW18

Family/Spouse: Jane Jernigan. Jane was born about 1888; died on 27 May 1976. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: James Walter Woods. James (son of William Wesley Woods and Sarah Jane Justice) was born on 27 Apr 1885 in Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, United States; died on 31 Mar 1962 in Tennessee, United States; was buried in Union Cemetery, Wartburg, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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HOLSTON, MRS. CHARLOTTE E., 86, of 828 Faurot, died.at 6:30 p.m.Saturday in her home. Born Feb. 18,1885, in Oliver Springs, Tern, shewas the daughter of Miller and Mary Allin Jones. Her husband, WilliamHolston, preceded her in death. Mrs. Holstoton was a retiredWestinghouse Electric Corp, employee. Surviving are a brother, FrankJones of Coalfield, Tenn.; and two sisters, Miss Grace Jones of 828Faurot and Miss Mary Etta Jones of Knoxville, Tenn. Services will beat 1 p.m Tuesday at Chiles and Sons-Laman West Wayne Street Chapel,Revs. Virgil Applegate and Samuel Thomas officiating. Burial will beat 11 a.m. Thursday in Union Baptist Cemetery, Union, Tenn. Friendsmay call at the funeral home after noon today. Source: Lima News,Lima, Ohio, February 14, 1972. (Cemetery Book shows Union BaptistCemetery is in the Joyner Community of Morgan County)

Family/Spouse: William Holston. William was born on 10 Apr 1885; died on 4 Feb 1919; was buried in Union Cemetery, Wartburg, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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Family/Spouse: Aubrey Faye Summer. Aubrey (daughter of Dr. Richard Summer and Manda Caroline "Callie" Liles) was born on 21 Oct 1901; died on 26 May 1994 in Morgan, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Union Cemetery, Wartburg, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George Allen II died as a child.

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1920 Morgan County Census, Dist 2, page 51
ALLEN, Sam Head M W 37 Miner
Marmy Wife F W 21
Jesse Son M W 3

Family/Spouse: Murmie Patterson. Murmie was born about 1898; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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TN PVT CO F 105 Engs WWI

ALLEN, JOHN W., 76, died 12/26/1963 in the Veterans Hospital inOteen, N.C. He was a veteran of WWI. Survivors: brohters, Sam J. andJames R. Allen; sisters, Mrs. W.E. Duncan and Mrs. Henric Aycock. Mr.Allen was never married. [Morgan County News dated 1/2/1964]

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1920 MORGAN COUNTY CENSUS
ALLEN, Jim Head M W 25 Farmer
Bonnie Wife F W 21
Charles G. Son M W 1-11/12

Family/Spouse: Bonnie Lee Butler. Bonnie (daughter of Charles Jackson Butler and Matilda Holder) was born on 28 Oct 1898 in Morgan, Tennessee, United States; died on 29 Apr 1997 in Morgan, Tennessee, United States; was buried in 1997 in Union Cemetery, Wartburg, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: An Aycock. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: William Ernest Duncan. William (son of Samuel H. Duncan and Rachel R. Kelly) was born on 1 Oct 1892; died on 7 Dec 1976. [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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