George Cagle
George Cagle was born on 6 May 1870 at Newport, Tennessee. Newport is the seat of Cocke County, on the Pigeon River just west of the North Carolina line. His parents were Bill Cagle and Merinda Ball. He had a brother, Robert, and two sisters, Rhoda and Lydia, who both married men named Hall. Robert and Lydia spent their lives at Slabtown, a settlement on Big Creek near Del Rio in Cocke County.
George married Mary Alice McGaha. Both were Tennesseans. For most of his life the family moved back and forth across the state line between Cocke County and the mountain farms of Haywood County, North Carolina.
In 1910 George, 38, and Mary were living in Fines Creek township, in the mountains of northwest Haywood County near the Tennessee line. Their children at home that year were Nancy, Jackson, Meranda, who was five, Algia, Willie, Lidia J. and Allen. Meranda, later written Miranda, carried the name of George's mother.
By 1920 the family was back in Tennessee, in the first civil district of Cocke County. George was now written George H. Cagle. Marandy was 14, and Homer and Flint had joined the household.
Within two years Miranda had married Charles Wright Fuller of South Carolina and gone down to the cotton mill country of Gaston County, North Carolina. Two of her brothers, Allen and Jack, also left the mountains in time, Allen for Union, South Carolina, and Jack for Newport News, Virginia.
George and Mary came home to Haywood County. Their eldest daughter, Myrtle, married first a Stokely and then Jim Payne, and lived near them on Fines Creek. In 1940 they were in Clyde township with their sons Homer and Ray, and in April 1950 they were back in Fines Creek with Ray. A month earlier, on Saturday 11 March 1950, Myrtle had died at her home in the Fines Creek section after a long illness, aged 48. She was buried from Belmont Baptist Church, where George would be buried eight years later.
George Cagle died at his home on Waynesville RFD 3 on the morning of Wednesday, 1 January 1958, after a long illness. He was 87 and a retired farmer. He was buried on 3 January in the cemetery of Belmont Baptist Church at Fines Creek, a fenced hillside under the evergreens that is also called the Robert Newton Rogers Cemetery. Mary Alice was buried there in 1971. Mary Alice survived him, with five sons, three daughters, his brother Robert and his two sisters.
Sources
If George Cagle is in your family, start your own tree.
Cite: Heirology, "George Cagle (1870-1958)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/george-cagle-1870-1958-98c798.