Folks in Morgan County who have passed the milestone of 100 years.
According to the 2000 Census there where 3 people over the age of the age
of 100 living in Morgan County, TN
BLAKE, ALMA F.
Long time Pine Orchard Community-Oakdale area resident, celebrated her 100th birthday on March 26, 2007. She is the daughter of the late Walter T. and Minnie Farmer Blake.
[From the Morgan County News-4/11/2007]
HEMBREE, MAUDE ESTES
According to this week's Morgan County News, (7-27-2005) Maude Hembree celebrated her 100th birthday on July 28th, 2005.
Maude was born in Coalfield July 28, 1905, the daughter of George and Annie Estes. Her siblings are a sister Reba and two brothers, Lawrence and Wiley. She married Elmer Holmes "Dock" Hembree in 1929.
(Will post a photo of Ms. Hembree, if a family member would like to submit one)
COPELIN, BRO. JOHN ROBERT, age 100, passed away Sunday morning, February 13, 2005 at his home in the Mossy Grove Community. He was a member and past pastor of the Mossy Grove Primitive Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret Kohl Copelin, daughter; Virginia Copelin Marks, infant son; John Robert Copelin, Jr., brothers; Ray, Fred, Earl and Glen Copelin, Sisters; Marie Blank and Mildred Lueschen. Surviving; Daughters; Ruth Yetsko, of Harriman, Tn., Mary Sanders and husband, Lewis, of Clearwater, Fla., Anna Marie Annis, of Greeneville, Tn.
Martha Schrik, of Greeneville, Tn., Sharon Petersen, of Knoxville, Tn.
Kristine Hankins, of Knoxville, Tn. 20 grand children, 30 great grand children and 2 great great grand children. Brother; Roy Copelin, Nampa, Id. Sisters; Mabel Irene Keehn, of Merrillville, Ind., Nettie Mae Adcock, of Loretto, Tn.
Frances Gimbel, of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Funeral services will be Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005, 11 A.M. Schubert Funeral Home Chapel, Wartburg. With Bro. Troy Thomas and Bro. Jimmy Barber officiating. Interment will be in the Mossy Grove Primitive Baptist Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 5 to 8 P.M. at the Schubert Funeral Home, Wartburg. [Schubert Funeral Home]
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Miss Mollie Olmstead
13 Oct. 1899, 15 April 2005
daughter of Ben Garrett and Lauria (Laura) Byrd.
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Laura Byrd is the daughter of
Capt. John Henry Byrd and Mary Elizabeth LavenderCapt. John Henry Byrd is the son of Vardeman Bird and Elizabeth DuncanThe above family helped to settle Morgan Co. TN.
*OLMSTEAD, MOLLIE GARRETT, 105, Sunbright, went to be with the Lord April 15, 2005 in the Lifecare Center of Morgan County. She was born October 13, 1899. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother and was of the Baptist faith.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother, Ben and Laura Garrett; husband, Carl Olmstead; five sons, Reed, Roy, Carl, Wayne, Hiram (Hi) and Jack Olmstead; three daughters, Marie Haynes, Loreen Robbins and Minnie Cochran.
She is survived by three daughters, Iva Mayton of Harriman, Edith Olmstead and Willadeen Wright of Huntsville, Ala.; 26 grandchildren and a host of great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren and great-great-great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends. She will forever be loved by family, friends and all who knew her.
The family received friends Sunday evening, April 17, 2005 from 5 to 8 p.m. in Schubert Funeral Home in Sunbright. Funeral services followed with Rev. Mark Booth officiating. A graveside service was held Monday at 11 a.m. in Mount Hope Cemetery, Deer Lodge. Grandsons and great-grandsons served as pallbearers. [Roane County News]
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Miss Laura Byrge Bunch
daughter of Henry Byrge and Charolotte West
104 yrs. old in 2005
bn. 10 Mar 1901
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BUNCH, LAURA, 105, of Coalfield, died Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, at her home. Born March 19, 1901, in Devonia, she lived there the first years of her marriage before relocating to Michigan, where she gave birth to her fourth child. Following auto manufacturing plant layoffs, the family moved back to Devonia, and her husband resumed employment in the area deep mines. When recalled, the family again moved to Michigan, where she gave birth to her 10th child. The employment cycle and move from Devonia to Michigan continued a couple more times before the family finally settled back in Devonia. After the death of her husband, she enjoyed visiting her children in St. Louis, Toledo, Ohio, and Detroit. Her primary residence over the last three decades has been in Oliver Springs. She was a homemaker and a member of the Church of God of Mountain Assembly, Oliver Springs. In addition to her husband, Walter Bunch, she was preceded in death by daughter, Esther Byrge; sons, Norman Bunch and Reafus Bunch; parents, Henry Byrge and Charlotte West Byrge; great-granddaughter, Laura Cook; brothers, Harvey Byrge, Charlie Byrge and Burley Byrge; half-brothers, John Quincy Reynolds, Jim Reynolds, Will Reynolds, William Riley Byrge, Henry Miller Byrge and John Elmer Byrge; and half-sisters, Nancy Reynolds Byrge, Emily Seiber, Rosemary Reynolds Lively, Celie Byrge Craig and Mandy Byrge Bunch. Survivors include sons and daughters-in-law, Cledith and Nicey Bunch of Devonia and Carlos and Peggy Bunch of Kingston; daughters and sons-in-law, Effie Ward of Oliver Springs, Stella Kennedy of Lake City, Margaret and Don Leach of Oak Ridge and Freida and Castle Bunch of Coalfield; 37 grandchildren; 67 great-grandchildren; 43 great-great-grandchildren; and one great-great-great-grandchild. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, in Sharp Funeral Home, Oliver Springs. Funeral service will follow in the chapel, with the Rev. Wesley DuPuy and Teresa Noe officiating. Graveside service and burial will be at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, at Phillips Cemetery, Devonia. [Roane County News]
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Contact for Laura is her granddaughter, Theresa Noe at noetb@ixpres.com
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Laura Byrge Bunch of Coalfield will celebrate her 104th Birthday on March
19th. She is the wife of the late Walter Bunch of Devonia. They were married in 1917 until his death in August 1965. They had ten children and raised nine
of them into adulthood. She has two late sons. Norman Bunch of Detroit,
Michigan, passed away on May 2, 1978. Reafus Bunch of the Stephens Community in Morgan County passed away just last month on February 27, 2005. Her picture being used is of a red rose bouquet given to her by her son Reafus and his precious wife Omer on last year's birthday celebration. We wanted to use this picture in honor of them. Reafus is greatly missed by his family. She moved to Detroit when Walter found work in the automotive plant with their three young children (Effie, Esther, and Stella). Then when layoffs came, the family moved back to Tennessee where Walter worked in the coal mines of Devonia. The pattern repeated itself and their 4th child (Norman) and their 10th child (Freida) were born in Detroit. All their other children were born in the beautiful Tennessee mountains.
Her living children are Effie Ward and Esther Hamby Byrge of Oliver Springs,
Stella Kennedy of Lake City, Cledyth Bunch of Devonia, Carlas Bunch of
Kingston, Margaret Leach of Oak Ridge, and Freida Bunch of Coalfield. She has 37 grandchildren, 65 great grandchildren, 42 great-great grandchildren, and 1 great-great-great granddaughter Jayla of Toledo, Ohio. She is a living mother of six generations of precious children!
She is proud that one of her great grandsons is serving his country as a
United States Marine, PFC Brandon K. Bunch. We pray for him and his fellow
servicemen.
Laura contributes her long life to loving the Lord Jesus Chirst and that she
has always tried to be good to others. She is wished a Happy Birthday by her
friends and family and many more Happy Days to Come!
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ARTIE ELIZABETH POTTER MELTON
age 101, of Clear Creek, died 9/14/1965 in Eagan, TN.Preceded by husband, William Melton. Survivors, son, Ray; daughters, Mrs. Dock Davidson, Mary Brown and Amanda Hall; sister, Mrs. John Howard; 42 grandchildren and 50 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren. Burial in Clear Creek Cemetery. [Morgan County News]
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Artissa Elizabeth Potter was born in February of 1864, daughter of John and Frankie Hamby-Potter. She and husband, William, had 8 children: Andrew Jonce, Gilbert, Charles, Martha, Mary, Ninnie, Amanda and Ray.
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Courtesy of Jill Lazuka
MORGAN'S OLDEST RESIDENT
Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth Goddard, age 103, Morgan County's oldest resident, died at 2:55 p.m. Saturday at the Oak Ridge Hospital. [b 5-6-1863, d 7-30-1966]
Mrs. Goddard, who celebrated her 103rd birthday on May 6, had been ill for only a few days before her death.
She was a native of First District of Morgan County, and had spent all her life there. She and her daughter, Mrs. Theresa Mae Goddard, 82, made their home together near Coalfield.
The mother and her daughter received state-wide publicity in March of this year when they made applications for Medicare.
A charter member of Seventh Day Adventist Church at Coalfield, Mrs. Goddard remained active in the church as long as her health permitted. She suffered a fractured hip in 1961, and had since been confined to her home.
Mrs. Goddard's parents were the late Thomas H. and Mary Langley Davis, and her grandparents, Mrs. and Mrs. John M. Davis and James and Margaret Langley, came to Morgan County in 1818 from Virginia.
Mrs. Goddard attended Walden's Academy at Montgomery, one of the first schools of higher education in Morgan County. Surviving, besides the daughter, are a grandson, Kenneth Scarbrough, and three great-grandchildren, Margaret, Stephen and Joel Scarbrough, all of Coalfield. Her husband, the later Ezra Goddard dies in 1937.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Middle Creek Baptist Church, with the Rev. John Newbern and the Rev. Harold Butler officiatiing. Burial was in the Davis Cemetery at Coalfield, and great nephews served as pallbearers.
Mrs. Goddard is the third Morgan County centerarian to die in the past few months. Late in December of 1965, Mrs. Rebecca Davidson of Lancing, who was Mrs. Goddard's first cousin, died at the age of 104 and only a few weeks ago, another first district resident, Mrs. Nancy Stringfield died at the age of 103.
[Source-Generations-A Publication of the Coalfield Genealogical & Historical Society, Vol. 1, Sept., 2003, Issue #1]
Mrs. Rebecca Davidson, Lancing, died December, 1965, at the age of 104 (need obituary)
Mrs. Nancy Stringfield, died at the age of 103 (need dates, and obituary)
[Note: Need help with dates or even the obituaries of the above two ladies]
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[Notes: b 1-3-1882, daughter of Alfred and Rebecca Dalice Hall]
[Morgan County News]
He was born June 26, 1850 and died April 11, 1951.
He was married to Telithia Caroline Brummitt on Nov. 20, 1871.
His parents were Squire Justice and Serah Russell. Marion and Caroline are buried in the Estes Cemetery here in Coalfield.
*If you know of someone from Morgan County, who is living and is over 100 years of age, or is approaching 100, or has already passed away, and lived to 100 or more years of age, you are welcome to send their photo and some info about them, to be posted here. email
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