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- [S78] Atchley Funeral Home Records, Volume I, 1930-1954, Larry D. Fox, (Smoky Mountain Historical Society), 25 Feb 1935.
Mrs. Martha Jane Shular obituary
- [S118] History of early Sevier County Doctors , Beulah Linn, (www.sevierlibrary.org/genealogy/doc/doc.htm).
Dr. R.J. Ingle, son of William and Jane Gossett Ingle, was born July 6,1875 in the tenth district of Sevier County. He attended school at Harrison Chilhowee Academy and taught school at Gist's and Boyds Creek before attending Knoxville Medical College. He graduated in 1906.
His first office was located on the second floor of the old Cameron- Ingle building on Main Bend. Street. Later he moved to an office his son had built on Main Street.
fiddle Dr. Ingle rode horse back or in a buggy during his early practice. When cars became avail to able, he would drive as far as he could in his car and then be met by someone with horses a to take him the rest of the way. When he went on long calls to Emert's or Cades Cove, or if the patient was really sick or having a baby, he would spend the night. His wife was always on figs in the look-out for bed bugs. the His price for delivering a baby was$5.00, but often he wasn't paid. Once he was on Market Street when he met a man and his son who were selling watermelons. Dr. Ingle said, "You three never did pay me for delivering that boy" - so the man gave him a watermelon.
Mrs. Mrs. Ingle was a good nurse, although not trained, and in cases when extra help was ;Mrs. needed she would go with her husband .Dr. Ingle taught a Sunday School class at the Presbyterian Church for many years. In 1895, Dr. Ingle married Lela King, daughter of James E. and Melissa Anderson King.
They had five children: Cora Ingle Walker; Rex Henry Ingle; Ralph William Ingle; Theodore led at Ingle (dy); Dr. Ronald J. Ingle. After Mrs. Ingle's death in 1947, Dr. Ingle married Jeanette McCammon. He died August 25, 1966 and is buried at Shiloh.
Information from Cora Ingle Walker
- [S101] 1880 Census, Cusicks Cross Roads, Sevier County, Tennessee, 441D.
- [S106] The Mountain Press, 1 Nov 2014.
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CARROLL MCMAHAN
Elders of First Presbyterian Church of Sevierville in 1956. From left, front row: Pastor Jason Harbert, Roy Cox. Back row: Orton Duggan, Willard Ward, Gean Isenberg, Paul Robertson, Sam King, Horace McNelly, Dr. Riley J. Ingle.
From 1914 to 1917, members of the First Presbyterian Church of Sevierville held services in the upstairs of this building on Bruce Street. The facility was fondly called the Upper Room. In 1929, Bon Hicks opened Cash Hardware downstairs.
The First Presbyterian Church of Sevierville, completed in 1917, as it appeared in 1955.
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The First Presbyterian Church of Sevierville was established Nov. 7, 1914. The organizational meeting was held in the First Baptist Church with 75 inquirers present. The First Presbyterian Church traces its beginning to May 14, 1911, when the Rev. John H. Wright, a Sunday School missionary with the National Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church, met with prospective members in the home of M.C. and Jane Hatcher Carr, four miles south of Sevierville on Ridge Road.
A Sunday school was organized, and a small mission chapel was built on property donated by Mr. and Mrs. Carr and financed by the Board of Missions. To honor his wife Rose, Rev. Wright named the mission Roseville. Later, two other mission schools were established: Baldwin at McCookville in 1913 and Higgins at the Ashley Robertson Farm in 1919. In April 1913, a petition was sent to Union Presbytery requesting the organization of a Presbyterian church.
Dr. W.R. Dawson, Dr. Robert Gammon and Elder M.B. Barrows came to Sevierville to conduct the organizational meeting. Along with Presbyterians who moved to Sevierville from adjoining counties, members of the three chapels discussed doctrines and policies of the denomination. At the suggestion of the Presbytery and with consent of Roseville, the name was changed from Roseville Presbyterian to First Presbyterian Church of Sevierville.
The first worship services were held in an upstairs room of the Old Nancy Academy Building on Bruce Street. Originally the Odd Fellows Lodge, the rickety old wooden building was used for Sunday school every Sunday afternoon and worship services twice a month.
Within two years, the congregation purchased property on the southeast corner of Belle Ave and Cherry Street. In the fall of 1916, the Board of Trustees ratified a contract for construction of a church. King and Rhoden Construction Company built the handsome brick building designed by R.F. Graf & Sons. A noted Knoxville architect, R.F. Graf also designed Miller's Building on Gay Street, St. John's Lutheran Church on Broadway and the Sterchi Building on Gay Street, as well as Thaw Hall and Carnegie Hall on the campus of Maryville College.
The new church building was completed in the spring of 1917 at a cost of $3,992.69. The Ladies Aid Society was instrumental in raising money for the pews. With the exception of about two years in which Sevier County native Dr. Charles Sharp served as full-time pastor, the church depended on preaching by retired ministers, teachers, divinity students of Maryville College, and Dr. Robert Gammon until 1943, when Rev. Robert Houston was installed as pastor.
In 1946, an annex was built at a cost of $7, 500. The new space included four classrooms, a kitchen and a restroom.
A star athlete at Maryville College and chairman of the Sevierville Lion's Club finance committee, Rev. Houston suggested a Thanksgiving Day post-season football game between Sevier County High School and an invited team, complete with a parade and the crowning of a queen, to raise money for community projects. The event would be called the Little Smoky Bowl, a tradition that continued 20 years until TSSAA regulations prohibited invitational post-season bowl games. Rev. Houston served as pastor 11 and a half years before his retirement.
In 1954, the church purchased a parsonage at 501 Belle Ave. for $13,000. In 1955, construction began on eight additional classrooms and new restrooms. The existing classrooms were converted into a fellowship hall and kitchen. The project was completed in 1958.
Reconstruction of the front tower and foyer with new doors and front entrance was completed in 1976, and the new pastor's office, church office, restrooms, and lounge area were completed in 1989. A decade later, an adjoining lot was purchased to use as a parking lot.
Missionaries associated with the church include Leona Johnson, who was sent from North Carolina by the National Mission board in the early 1900s to teach at Juniper School, which preceded Sunset Gap Mission. She married Walter Enloe in 1921 and joined the church in 1926. She served as choir director for many years.
Her son Winton joined the church in 1935. Winton met his future wife, Kitty, at Maryville College, and together they served as missionaries in Japan from 1961 to 1989. After returning from Japan, Winton served as pastor at Clover Hill Presbyterian Church in Maryville and at New Prospect Presbyterian Church in Knoxville.
Dr. Robert A. Broady and his wife Ellen Cox Broady, a registered nurse, served as medical missionaries in China from 1932 to 1937. They spent their first eight months in Peking studying the Chinese language and customs. In 1933, they were assigned to the American Presbyterian Medical Mission in Hunan Province, south central China. Returning to the United States amid the outbreak of World War II, they settled in Sevierville and joined the church in 1938.
Paid for with memorial funds and donations from families and friends, new stained glass windows in the sanctuary were dedicated in 1999. William A. "Bill" May III designed and built the windows, combining fresh and exciting visual images with the enduring traditions of the faith.
The background design for all the windows suggests the Smoky Mountains receding into the distance and meeting the sky in hues of blue and green. The artist intended to create an atmosphere that is worshipful and comforting. The bright, warm colors of the symbols lead the eyes upward, serving as a focus for joyful meditation. The use of imported, mouth-blown glass gives the windows a subtle tonal quality that enhances the simple but sophisticated design.
The First Presbyterian Church of Sevierville is the oldest church building in the city that is still in use. Richard Isenberg has been a member longer than any other. He joined in 1938. Other members for over 60 years include William S. Broady, Nillah Grinstead Cox, Mary George Fox Paine, Jack Delozier and Ada Huskey Isenberg. Carolyn Headrick Broady, Jack B. Henry, and Nancy Hays Henry joined over 50 years ago.
The celebration of this milestone anniversary reminds members and friends of the First Presbyterian Church of Sevierville to look simultaneously forward and backward. The look back at 100 years of the congregation's life gives them courage and hope for the next hundred.
Carroll McMahan is special projects facilitator for the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce and serves as Sevier County historian.
The Upland Chronicles series celebrates the heritage and past of Sevier County. If you have suggestions for future topics, would like to submit a column or have comments, please contact Carroll McMahan at 453-6411 or cmcmahan@scoc.org; or Ron Rader at 604-9161 or ron@ronraderproperties.com.
- [S75] Atchley Funeral Home Records, Volume II, 1955-1973, Larry D. Fox, (Smoky Mountain Historical Society), 25 Aug 1966.
Ingle, Dr Riley Johnson 91 b. 7-6- TN d. 8-25-66 SCH f. William Ingle m. Jane Gossett Shiloh Cem Survivors: wife Jeanette McCammon Grace Ave Sev 2 sons Rex Ralph 1 dau Mrs Cora Walker 5 gc 3 ggc dau-in-law Mrs Pauline Ingle.
- [S34] In the Shadow of the Smokies, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, (1993), 354.
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