Bertha Jane Deckard

Bertha Jane was born in 1894 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.¹   Bertha Jane's father was James Wesley Deckard and her mother was Julie Annis Hicks.  Her maternal grandparents were Nathaniel R. Hicks and Jannett Gregg. She had three brothers and two sisters, named Eugene Blake, James Elkins, Hobart Clay, Susan Elizabeth and Mattie Emmaline.  She was the third youngest of the six children.  She died at the age of 87 in 1981.¹