The John Childress Family By
Rev. Andy Brown, 1983
John Lindsey Childress
married Phronia Florence Toby(?). Phronia died around 1913.
*Ben Harrison Childress
*David Cooper Childress married Rena Johnson
*Ulyses S. Grant Childress married Retha Hudson—8 children
*Franklin Joseph Childress married Mattie Brown (daughter of Calvin Brown)
*Billy Parker married Martha Faulkner—one daughter
John Childress raised his family of eight here—worked at Bon Jellico,
left in 1940 for 25 years, and returned two years before he died.