John Lindsey Childress married Phronia Florence Toby(?). Phronia died around 1913.

*Ben Harrison Childress
*David Cooper Childress married Rena Johnson
*Ulyses S. Grant Childress married Retha Hudson—8 children
*Franklin Joseph Childress married Mattie Brown (daughter of Calvin Brown)
*Billy Parker married Martha Faulkner—one daughter

John Childress raised his family of eight here—worked at Bon Jellico, left in 1940 for 25 years, and returned two years before he died.

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