Thomas Norman Smythe of Decherd, Franklin County, Tennessee United States was born on February 7, 1901 in Jasper, and died at age 71 years old on October 14, 1972. Thomas Smythe was buried in October 1972 at Mount Garner Cemetery in Decherd.
Mary Lear (Adcox) Smythe of Decherd, Franklin County, Tennessee was born on October 9, 1905 in Decherd to Edward William Adcox and Frances Adcox. She had siblings Lelia Gillespie, Warner Adcox, Nell Smythe, Edna Warren, Hubert Adcox, Lucille Clark, Ed Adcox, and Rosella Conn. She married Tom Smythe in 1924 in Franklin County, and they were married until Thomas' death on October 14, 1972. She had a child Thomas Norman Smythe Jr.. Mary Smythe died at age 76 years old in January 1982 in Winchester, Franklin County, and was buried in 1982 at Mount Garner Cemetery in Decherd.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...