| 1. | Sherman Walter Cress was born about 1909 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee; died on 22 Mar 1937 in Johnson County, , , Tennessee. Notes:
"Elizabethton Star," Tuesday, March 23, 1937
JOHNSON COUNTAIN KILLED AS AUTO OVERTURNS ON ROAD
MOUNTAIN CITY – Funeral services were planned here today for Walter Cress, 27, who was killed yesterday morning when the car he was driving overturned, throwing him against a tree, bringing instant death. Paul Shoun and Miss Marjorie Miller, two other occupants of the car, were uninjured in the accident, which occurred on the Mountain City-Trade highway.
After turning over the car rolled down an embankment into a creek. Cress suffered a broken neck and bruises about the head.
He is survived by his wife and one child, Mrs. W. A. Cress, his mother; four brothers, Worley, Claude and Eugene of Mountain City, and Clarence of Greeneville; two sisters, Lucy Cress and Mrs. Ray War.
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Abt 1909 - 1937 (~ 28 years)