User:Jewelljulie

Charlie Lee Sullivan was my Grandfather. He was a hot-tempered Irishman born near Spencer Tennessee. He was born on June 15, 1904. He had no formal education, but he worked a coal mine in Sequatchie County. He and his sons James and Coy Lee, along with his son-in-law James Kilgore dug coal with their carbite lights from the side of Walden's Ridge with pick and shovels, loaded it onto mining cars pulled by mules. My father Avery Cagle drove the coal truck that carried the coal to the Tennessee River and it was loaded onto barges to be used in Pittsburg, PA to make iron or steel.