Delsie Mae Carver^{[1, 2, 3]}

1921 - 2006  (84 years)

• Name	Delsie Mae Carver
  Born	23 Jul 1921	Cosby, Cocke County, Tennessee
  Gender	Female
  Died	18 May 2006	Cosby, Cocke County, Tennessee   [4]
  Buried	22 May 2006	Bryant Cemetery, Cosby, Cocke County, Tennessee   [5]
  Person ID	I75803	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2008

  
  

  Father	Elbert Mitchell Carver,   b. 22 Feb 1888, Cocke County, Tennessee ,   d. 9 Jun 1933  (Age 45 years)
  Mother	Margaret Glennie Proffitt,   b. 23 Sep 1888, Tennessee ,   d. 3 Mar 1981  (Age 92 years)
  Married	18 Apr 1908	Cocke County, Tennessee   [6]
  Family ID	F19968	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	James Earl Bryant,   b. 23 Jul 1920, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee ,   d. 22 Jan 1980, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee  (Age 59 years)
  Married	Abt 1944
  Children	+ 1. Jimmy Bryant + 2. Anne Bryant
  Family ID	F32073	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 23 Jul 1921 - Cosby, Cocke County, Tennessee Died - 18 May 2006 - Cosby, Cocke County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 52. [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 11 Mar 2001. David Headen Carver obituary [S84] E-Mail, Phyllis J. (Francies) Bryant [PhyllisJBryant@zoominternet.net], 14 Sep 2008. [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 18 May 2006. Delsie Carver Bryant, age 84 of Cosby passed away Thursday May 18, 2006 at her home. One of the last surviving residents of the Mountain Rest Community, now the Cosby area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, she was very proud of her family’s mountain heritage. She dearly enjoyed sharing her many memories with family and friends and had become a valued resource of local mountain history. She was an expert on local mountain wildflowers and took many walks and nature hikes, identifying them for friends and family. She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Bryant; parents, Elbert and Glennie Proffitt Carver; brothers, Homer, Casey, Dacus, David, Kyle, and Carl Carver, and sister, Dorothy Carver Whitaker. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jimmy and Judy Bryant; daughter and son-in-law, Anne Bryant and John Kirk Williams of Cosby; grandchildren, Marc and Bill Bryant, of Knoxville, Kathy Bryant Gehl and husband Ron of Holt, Michigan, Lizzie and Brianna Williams of Cosby; great-grandchildren, Gracie and Sydney Gehl; sister, Uvela Baxter of Orlando, Florida; special sister-in-law, Emma Dean Carver of Cosby, and many cousins, nieces and nephews. Her grandchildren affectionately referred to her as "Nen". She was a lifelong member of Liberty Church. She retired after 31 years with the Cocke County School System, having taught at Webb Springs, Caton’s Grove, Bogard, English Creek, Cosby, Hartford and Smoky Mountain Elementary Schools. The family will be receiving friends at Costner-Maloy Funeral Home, Sunday May 21 from 4-8 p.m. Funeral services will be held Monday May 22 at 1 p.m. at Costner-Maloy Funeral Home with burial at Bryant Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be Marc Bryant, Bill Bryant, Ron Gehl, John Kirk Williams, Carl Jay Carver, and Danny Carver. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Liberty Church or Bryant Cemetery. Arrangements by Costner-Maloy Funeral Home. [S114] Cemetery, Freda Raybon [MOTHEROFDOGS@prodigy.net], 27 Aug 1999. Delsie Carver Bryant 07/23/1921 [S58] Marriage Certificate. name: M G Proffitt also known as: suffix: event: Marriage event date: 18 Apr 1908 event place: Cocke, Tennessee, United States gender: Female spouse: E M Carver spouse's also known as: spouse's prefix: spouse's suffix: page: 358