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Charles married Nancy Belle Potter. Nancy (daughter of Charles Ruffin Potter and Lydia P. Greer) was born about 1891; died about 1979; was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, , Johnson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nancy Belle Dowell, age 87, of 504 S. Church Street, Mountain City, passed away Saturday morning in the Johnson County Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. Mrs. Dowell was a native of Johnson County, a daughter of the late Charlie R. and Lydia Greer Potter. Mrs. Dowell was preceded in death by her husband, Charlie O. Dowell in 1963, and was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Survivors include five daughters, Hazel Dowell and Verta Greer, both of Mountain City; Opal Wood, Wilmington, Delaware; Virginia Ailes, Oxford, Pennsylvania; Eula Dowell, Avondale, Pennsylvania; three sons, Ralph Dowell, New Castle, Delaware; John Dowell, Mountain City; Harold Dowell, West Grove, Pennsylvania; one brother, Charlie Potter, Mountain City; two sisters, Mae Howard, Mountain City; Mrs. Danford Stout, Elizabethton; 31 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday from the Gentry-Percy-Hux Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Dwight Adams officiating. Interment followed in the Sunset Memorial Cemetery. Pallbearers were friends and neighbors.

John married Lydia Stewart on 12 Jul 1890 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. Lydia (daughter of Mary "Polly" Stewart) was born on 4 May 1873 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 8 May 1934 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Charles Ruffin Potter, Sr. was born at Shouns, Tennessee, July 24, 1859 and died December 6, 1944, aged 85 years, 4 months and 12 days. He was married to Lydia Greer December 5, 1879. Mrs. Potter died September 30, 1911. To his union thirteen children were born, of whom eleven survive: Mrs. W. N. Riddle, Shouns, John J. Potter, Charleston, WV; Mrs. Dave Howard, Mountain City; M. W. Potter, Condon, OR; Mrs. Charlie Dowell, Shouns; G. C. Potter, Spokane, WA; Mrs. L. G. Parker, Carbon, WV; Mrs. Robert Stout, Carpenter, OH; S. E. Potter, address unknown; Mrs. Oscar Howard, Mountain City; and Charles R. Potter, Jr., Shouns.
Mr. Potter was married to Miss Danford Mast on April 10, 1912, and is survived by her and the above named eleven children, 44 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Mr. Potter was a member of the Baptist Church for over 40 years. He was a Mason. He was also a public county official for many years, during which time he held the offices of constable, high sheriff, member of the county court, coroner and county road commissioner.
(Johnson County News, Mountain City, TN; Thursday, Dec. 7, 1944, p. 2)

Charles married Lydia P. Greer on 5 Dec 1879 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. Lydia (daughter of Alexander Greer and Nancy Elizabeth Osborne) was born in Mar 1859 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 30 Sep 1911 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Potter Cemetery, , Johnson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]