Willie Ann Cole
Willie Ann was born in 1868 in
Sullivan County, Tennessee. Willie Ann's father was
Fairman Preston Cole and her mother was
Margaret Ann McClellan. Her paternal grandparents were
Joseph S. Cole and
Rachel Wassom; her maternal grandparents were
Samuel A. McClellan and
Mary Ann. She had eight brothers and a sister, named
Campbell A.,
Charles S.,
Samuel P.,
Hugh H.,
Benjamin Simpson,
Joseph Henry,
Walter H.,
James William and
Mary E. Alice. She had a half-brother and two half-sisters, named
George,
Angie Lee and
Susan. She died at the age of 47 in 1915.