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Cornelius, Alfred and Maggie Brown Family
Children: George H., James L., Willard, John S., Mary, Edward B., Charles
Cecil
Alfred
Cornelius and Maggie Brown, daughter of George and Susan (Susie) Brown,
were married
in 1917. Three of their children, George H.,
James L., and Willard
were born before the family moved to Bon Jellico. John S. was born in Bon and
died at an early age. Mary, the only daughter, was born in Bon and delivered
by Dr. Stonecipher.
Alfred worked as a miner at Bon Jellico. Mary Cornelius Smith,
his daughter, remembered, “…Willard and I would wait for him to
come home along the road across the tracks. He would stop at the commissary
and bring us a
piece of stick candy.” Another of Mary’s Bon memories was an incident
that occurred when she was only four or five years old. Her brother Jim was
attending
school in Williamsburg and walked there each day. One day Mary decided to go
too and got as far as her Aunt Mary Fritts house who saw her and asked her
where she thought she was going. Mary said that she was going to school like
Jim did,
and her Aunt Mary “…cut a switch and dusted my behind all the way
home.”
Mary Cornelius Smith was actively involved in the Bon Jellico
Homecomings; she managed the dinner arrangement, site preparation and cleanup
for several
years.
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