Willie Ann Cole

Willie Ann was born in 1868 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.¹   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 1915.¹