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Note: 1910 United States Federal Census Name: John T Sorrels Age in 1910: 35 Birth Year: 1875 Birthplace: Tennessee Home in 1910: Civil District 5, Marshall, Tennessee Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Head [Self (Head)] Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Sue E Sorrels Father's Birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee John T Sorrels 35 Sue E Sorrels 34 Clyde Sorrels 13 Lizzie M Sorrels 10 Leonard D Sorrels 7 Lillian D Sorrels 7 1920 United States Federal Census Name: J F Sorrells [J T Sorrells] Age: 46 Birth Year: abt 1874 Birthplace: Tennessee Home in 1920: Civil District 5, Marshall, Tennessee Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Head Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Susan E Sorrells Father's Birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee Home owned: Own Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes J F Sorrells 46 Susan E Sorrells 44 Clyde Sorrells 22 Leonard Sorrells 17 Lillion Sorrells 17 Birth of children- Certificates in possession of Sherry S. Finchum He went to work for Uncle Willie helping on the farm when he quit high school. He was a farmer. He went to Yancey, Harlan Co., KY about 1927-1928 (during the depression). Auntie (Laura Ada Sorrells) and Uncle Leonard Cowden were truck farmers in Southeastern KY around Cumberland. They raised groceries to see to the coal miners. Uncle Leonard needed a team of mules, and Leonard Sorrells rode one and took the team for Uncle Leonard to KY. When he got there, he stayed and worked there in the truck farm delivering groceries. He then began to work for the men over the mines and became the store manager of a miner's commissary in Yancey, KY. The miner's paid to visit the commissary through script. "Scripting" was a form of payment by the mining company. The boss signed a note that endorsed their purchase of a fixed amount of goods at the commissary. He mailed Vida an engagement ring back to PoGrab. She accepted, so he came back to PoGrab in 1930 to marry and took Vida went back with him. All 3 children were born in Yancey. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 Name: Miss Vida Redd Spouse: Leonard Sorrells Marriage Date: 14 May 1930 Marriage County: Lincoln In the summer of 1940, he returned to PoGrab and bought the house on 31 Po-Grab/Chestnut Ridge Road. He and Vida lived until about 1986 when Fred moved them to Mosheim, TN. 1940 Harlan Co., KY, Yancey-Magistrate-District 1 taken on 14 Apr 1940 recorded based on 1 Apr 1935 residence. Harold, age 6, 1 year school, George F. -listed as a daughter, age 3, Dorthy, age illegible.Listed as a store manager of the commissary. 1940 United States Federal Census Name: Leonard Sorrells Age: 37 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1903 Gender: Male Race: White Birthplace: Tennessee Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Head Home in 1940: Liggett-Stanfield, Harlan, Kentucky View Map Farm: No Inferred Residence in 1935: Liggett-Stanfield, Harlan, Kentucky Residence in 1935: Same Place Sheet Number: 10A Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 134 Leonard Sorrells 37 Vida Sorrells 34 Harold Sorrells 6 George F Sorrells 3 Dorothy Sorrells (should be 1) "PoGrab is a small farming community located in Lincoln County, TN between Fayetteville, the county seat, Lewisburg (Marshall Co.), Shelbyville (Bedford Co.), and Lynchburg (Moore Co.). Petersburg, in Lincoln County, is the nearest town. Leonard and Vida Sorrells raised their 3 children on the farm in PoGrab. When I was a child, Leonard (my grandfather) was a farmer and he raised tobacco, cattle, hogs, sheep, chickens, and had a few horses. He planted a large garden my grandmother could cook the best country foods imaginable. My grandparents believed in hard work and when we visited, we might help cut thistles in the barn lot, haul manure, gather eggs, and feed the cattle or my favorite job shelling corn in the barn. As children my brothers and cousins and I spent many hours in the creek below the house. Swimming, gather crawdaddies and small fish called slickguts and hornyheads. We loved going grabbling with my daddy and Uncle Harold. My job was usually to carry the burlap sack for the fish. Many an afternoon hour was also spent stringing June bugs and flying them around like a kite. In the evening we caught lightening bugs on the front lwawn, went frog gigging in one of the many nearby ponds, or went coon hunging. Granddaddy was a very spiritual man. I remember seeing him read his Bible every time we visited. He was a deacon at Hannah's Gap Baptist Church in PoGrab, TN. I never saw him angry. He loved his family and especially his grandchildren!! My favorite memories of him are when I climbed into his lap to have him 'scrape' an apple for me, and he would also let me take his knife and clean under his fingernails when he had been working out on the farm." (Sherry Sorrells FINCHUM) He was called "GreatDaddy" by his great-grandchildren. Social Security Death Index ame: Leonard D. Sorrells SSN: 400-07-8853 Last Residence: 37818 Mosheim, Greene, Tennessee, United States of America Born: 10 Nov 1902 Died: 24 Aug 1992 State (Year) SSN issued: Kentucky (Before 1951 ) Death Certificate state of TN Vital Statistics, Copy in possession of Sherry S. Finchum He died after a series of strokes. He was diagnosed with Senile Dementia. Social Security Number: 400-07-8853 He had diabetes that he developed later in life, and controlled with his diet.
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