Joseph Henry Cole

Joseph Henry was born in 1881 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.¹   Joseph Henry'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., Benjamin Simpson, 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.