Phone interview with Mary Cole Harris, recorded by Jerry Bryan 4 Jan 2002.

Mary graduated from Central High School in 1923.

Clyde Cole and Ella Peters Yadon were married at the home of Rev. J.R. Duncan in Marshall, North Carolina.

Family of Clyde Cole

Grandparents
David Sampson Cole, married first Martha Jane Crawford, married second Nancy Isabella Crawford. Thomas Lamar Cole was the daughter of Nancy Isabella Crawford.

Sampson David Cole was a saddle maker. He moved from Virginia either to Jefferson County, Tennessee or to Anderson County, Tennessee. He was Justice of the Peace in Anderson County at one point. He was a founding member of the Washington Church in the Ritta community of Knox County. His granddaughter Mary Cole Harris still attends the church as of January, 2002

parents
Thomas Lamar Cole, born 19 Nov 1866
Martha Bell Webb, born 11 Mar 1877

They lived at the corner of Harrid Road and Washington Pike in Knox County.


brothers and sisters

Loris C. Cole, born 1 Nov 1897
Myrtle Cole, born 13 Feb 1899
Lucille Cole, born 21 Jul 1900
Nell L. (Nellie) Cole, born 28 Feb 1902, married Allen E. Truhn
Anna Laura (Annie) Cole, born 13 Nov 1903, married William Emmitt (Emmitt) Snyder
Mary Cole, born 25 Jun 1905, married Harris.
Magaret Cole, born 4 Nov 1907
Thomas Clyde (Clyde) Cole, born 1 Sep 1909, married Ella Peters Yadon.
Rena Jane Cole, born 24 Apr 1911
Katherine Elizabeth Cole, born 9 Jan 1913, married James Temple Foust
Clarence Allen (Allen) Cole, born 29 May 1916
infant cole born 26 Jul 1919. The infant was stillborn.