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Marriage: Children:
  1. Leonard "Harold" Sorrells: Birth: 10 Oct 1933 in Yancey, Harlan Co., KY. Death: 26 Mar 1983 in A car accident near Woodruff, Spartanburg, SC

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Sources
1. Title:   Certificate of Death #92-031125
2. Title:   Marriage Record #177

Notes
a. 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
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 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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