The Faculty and Senior Class
of
Karns High School
Commencement Exercises (1933)
Friday afternoon, April twenty-first
two o'clock
Byington, Tennessee
Class Motto
"We pass for what we are"
Class Colors: Green and
white
Class Flower: White Rose
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Senior Class Roll:
Bryant Asbury
Gilbert Anderson Herbert Acuff Pauline Ammons Dessie Brown Herbert Bryant Esco Callaway John Daniels Anna Mae Dyer |
Blanche Fain
Clarence Floyd Viola Haney Wennie Mae Herron Anna Howell Albert Johnson Paul Jones Clarence Long William Lovelace |
Gladys Mayes Ethel Meredith Ola Nelson I. C. Swafford Juanita Wade Lille Walters Harold Walters Edna Duncan Jose Key |
Diploma of Charles L. Heath Jr.
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Genealogy
Notes
by
Toni Jollay Prevost
"Charles L. Heath Jr., was the son of Dr. Charles L. Heath Sr., & Mary Frances Chance."Dr. Heath practised medicine in Indian Creek in Knox County, Kentucky and later in Knox County, Tennessee in the Powell area."Dr. Heath was the son of James L. Heath and Sarah Priestly. James L. Heath was born in 1835 in Livingston County, New York where he later married Sarah Priestly. He moved to Clinton County, Michigan at the outbreak of the Civil War. He served in the Union Army for the Minnesota Sharp Shooters. In his pension statement he states he moved to Knoxville, Tennessee in the 1880s. His family settling in the Treeville area of Knox County. He and his wife Sarah are buried in Knox County off Blacksferry Road."Dr. Charles Heath and his wife Mary Frances Chance (daughter of William Chance and Eliza Williams of Knox County, Kentucky) both died in Knox County, Tennessee.They are buried at Barbourville, Kentucky."Ralph Freels in the above mentioned commencement later married Virginia Heath sister of Charles Heath Jr. Virginia Heath Freels taught grade school for many years in the Powell area retiring in the nineteen sixties. Ralph Freels' parents were Jesse T. Freels & Nancy E. Copeland of Knox County. Ralph Freels married Virginia Heath sister of Charles Heath Jr. Both men mentioned in the commencement booklet.All of the above mentioned Heath family members are deceased. Charles L. Heath Jr., was my father's step father."