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  33. Death Certificate, Frank Wesley Nichols.
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  68. Grave marker: George Jackson Cox and Clarica Loretta N; Wesleys Chapel Cemetery, Jefferson County, Tenn; viewed 23 December 2005 by Jerry Bryan.
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  70. U.S. Federal Census: 1870, Greene County, Tennessee, page 238a, ancestry.com (1870 U.S. Census) viewed on 12 April 2017.
  71. Death Certificate: Cox, George Jackson; Certificate 12609; Jefferson County, Tennessee, 1938.
  72. Social Security Death Index (ancestry.com).
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  75. Obituary, Ralph Porter Slaton.
  76. WWI Draft Registration Cards, Joseph Porter Slaton.
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  84. Obituary, Helen Harrison Johnson.
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  87. Bryan, William Jackson; Bryan's from the 1790's; unpublished manuscript; page 7.
  88. Birth Certificate: Bryan, William Jackson; Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee; 1922.
  89. Birth Verification: Bryan, Lena Maude; Jefferson County, Tennessee; 1923.
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  91. Marriage Record: Knox County, Tennessee, 1946; License 131; Robert Elmer Bryan and Beatrice Ruth Peters.
  92. Marriage Record: Jefferson County, Tennessee, 1921; bound marriage application book page 50; Emmit Bryant and Ruby Cox, ancestry.com (Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002), viewed 20 December 2014.
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  95. Grave marker: Ruby Cox; Wesleys Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Jefferson County, Tennessee; photographed 22 April 2006 by Jerry Bryan.
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  97. Grave marker: Ruby Cox; Wesleys Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Jefferson County, Tennessee; photographed 29 August 2016 by Jerry Bryan.
  98. Stories in Stone, Jefferson County Cemeteries.
  99. Cuyahoga County Marriage Records, Mr. Wyatt M. Nichols and Miss Pearl Cummings.
  100. Tennessee State Marriages, 1765-2002 (ancestry.com), R. W. Nichols to Ida L. McAndrew.
  101. In the Shadow of the Smokies, Smoky Mountain Historical Society., p.141.
  102. Tennessee Death Index 1949-2005, http://register.shelby.tn.us/, Ida Nichols.
  103. Obituary, Nichols, Mrs. Ida M.
  104. Patricia Palmer - WorldConnect.
  105. WWI Draft Registration Cards, John Leonadus Nichols.
  106. Marcel Beaudet - WorldConnect.
  107. Obituary, Wyatt Nichols Sr.
  108. Knox County Marriage Index, Knox County Library Web Site, Ralph Nichols and Elizabeth Lett.
  109. Tennessee Death Index 1949-2005, http://register.shelby.tn.us/, Nichols Ralph.
  110. Ohio Death Records (ancestry.com), Wyatt Nichols.
  111. Social Security Death Index (ancestry.com), Wyatt Nichols.
  112. WWII Draft Registration Cards (ancestry.com), Wyatt McKinley Nichols.
  113. Wyatt M Nichols, Sr., The Nichols Book, Some Early Nichols Families in America, Their Origins and Histories, p.66.
  114. Tennessee State Marriages, 1765-2002 (ancestry.com), Frank W. Nichols and Cora Corbett.
  115. WWI Draft Registration Cards, Frank Wesley Nichols.
  116. Death Certificate, Cora Nichols.
  117. Stories in Stone, Jefferson County Cemeteries, Vol. III, p.529.
  118. dgaudier - WorldConnect.
  119. Social Security Death Index (ancestry.com), Chester Nichols.
  120. Tennessee Death Index 1949-2005, http://register.shelby.tn.us/, Nichols Chester R.
  121. Tennessee State Marriages, 1765-2002 (ancestry.com), Harley Nichols to Reba Schrader.
  122. Tennessee Death Index 1949-2005, http://register.shelby.tn.us/, Nichols Harley T.
  123. Social Security Death Index (ancestry.com), Harley Nichols.
  124. WWI Draft Registration Cards, George Marvin Nichols.