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JERRY JEROME RATHBONE:
Birth: 3 DEC 1934.
Death: 10 NOV 1994
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Note: SOURCE OLD FAMILY RECORDSOCCUPATION FARMER BURIED FINES CREEK MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETARYDAVID NEWELL RATHBONE WAS BORN TO WILLIAM (PINK) RATHBONE AND CARRIE HILL RATHBONE IN THE SHELTON LAUREL COMMUNITY OF FINES CREEK HAYWOOD CO N. C. AS A YOUNG MAN HE WORKED IN THE REDMAN MINES .THE RAILROAD AT---------------BLANK AND CHAMPION PAPER IN CANTON WHERE HE MET AND MARRIED THE FORMER GEORGIA GENEVA RATHBONE . THEY LIVED AT AT MARTENS CREEK (FINES CREEK) WHERE JERRY J DAVID AND VIRGINIA WERE BORN . VIRGINIA WAS THREE MONTHS OLD WHEN HE PURCHASED A FARM(ABOUT 80 ACRES ) FROM DANIEL SMITH. HE LATER BOUGHT THE ADJOINING FARM FROM ERVIN SUTTON (ABOUT 20 ACRES) AND HE AND THE BOYS AND GENEVA FARMED. NEWELL WAS BORN WAS BORN ON THIS FARM LOCATED ON HWY. 209 IN THE COVE SECTION OF FINES CREEK. HEHELPED FARM WHILE GROWING UPTHEY RAISED TOBACCO . DAVID ALWAYS GAVE HIS CHILDREN A PATCH OF TOBACCO TO RAISE AND WHEN IT WAS SOLD THEY ALWAYS GOT THE MONEY.. THERE WAS ALSO AND ORCHARD AND DAVID AND THE BOYS WOULD PEDDLE THE APPLES. TO BOARDINGHOUSES IN WAYNESVILLE. . IT WAS NOT UNTILL 1957 OR 1958 WHEN J DAVID RETURNED FROM THE ARMY THEY PURCHASED A TRACTOR. THEIR HORSES NAMES WERE BETTY AND WHEELER. 1N 1965 DAVE GOT SICK AND GAVE UP FARMING. HE LIVED ON THE FARM UNTILL HIS WIFE DIEDIN 1971. J DAVID BOUGHT A HOUSE IN CLYDE N. C. AND HE LIVED WITH HIM VISITING FROM TIME TO TIME WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND SON IN NEW PORT NEWS VA. HE DIED IN 1972
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