From: KyArchives [Archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 7:46 AM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Bertram.Samuel.Adkins.1871.Whitley.BIOS Samuel Adkins Bertram 1871 - UNKN Whitley County KyArchives Biography Author: History of Fentress County, Tennessee, Albert R. Hogue History of Fentress County, Tennessee, Albert R. Hogue. SAMUEL ADKINS BERTRAM. Sam A. Bertram was born in 1871. He is son of Elza and Mary Jane Bertram. Attended the Albany H. S. Has farmed. Began teaching about twenty years ago and has followed it as a profession and is now Principal of Sun Bright School, and is a very successful teacher. He taught for several years in this county and should have been kept there. Lack of appreciation of the services of good teachers and low wages have lost Fentress County many of her best teachers. He is a Royal Arch Mason. He married Electa Hancock in 1895. Bertrams are of Teutonic origin with a mixture of French and Irish. William Bertram, his great-grandfather, lived originally in Bradley County, but moved to Sunny Brook, Ky., in 1815. Submitted by: Kelly Courtney-Blizzard http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000022 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/