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  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:   ied 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. 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 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 road 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 Vida went back with him. All 3 children were married in Yancey. 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. "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' and 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 )
Note:   Death Certificate state of TN Vital Statistics, Copy in possession of Sherry S. Finchum He d


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