Benjamin Simpson Cole

Benjamin Simpson was born in 1877 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.¹   Benjamin Simpson's father was Fairman Preston Cole and his mother was Margaret Ann McClellan.  His paternal grandparents were Joseph S. Cole and Rachel Wassom; his maternal grandparents were Samuel A. McClellan and Mary Ann. He had seven brothers and two sisters, named Campbell A., Charles S., Samuel P., Hugh H., Joseph Henry, Walter H., James William, Willie Ann and Mary E. Alice. He had a half-brother and two half-sisters, named George, Angie Lee and Susan.  He died at the age of 79 in 1956.¹