My 1st Great Grandfather
The name of Sircey's father:  Lewis B. Dickens; mother:  Martha LN Shoemake
The name of Sircey's wife: 
Mary Tennessee Overstreet
 
Sircey Curtis  Dickens was a Farmer, Blacksmith, and a Road Construction Worker, and was born November 1875 in Smith Co., TN. He died September 1953 in Wilson Co., TN. He married "Mary Tennessee Overstreet (aka: Molly)" who was born May 1879, and she died August 1946. 
 
Sircey and Molly's children were:

   
  SONS   DAUGHTERS
       
William Curtis
b: 1913, d: 1982
  [Audora - Removed from this tree. She is now proven Not to be a child of Sircey and Molly; she was daughter of John Vance and Ella White]
 
  Robert Haskell
b: 1902, d: 1974
  Julia Todd YOUNG (1) YOUNG (2) DENNIS
b: 1897, d: Jan 1966
       
  Oscar T.
b: 1908, d: 1980
  Readie Essie (1) GRISHAM (2) GIBBS     b: 1900, d: 1966
       
  Henry Braden
b: 1916, d: 1974
  Creola A.  (1) SMITH (2) BATES
b: 1912, d: Jan 1993
       
       
      
 

Sircey and Molly's Headstones (Mt. Zion Methodist Church Cemetery, Sullivan Bend Road, Smith Co., TN). It is my belief that my grandfather "William Curtis Dickens" quarried the stones, and hand made the plaques himself.  

I am not in possession of any pictures of Sircey and Mollie. If you have any, I would appreciate it if you would offer me copies.
 
I know that Sircey worked at various times between 1910 and 1930 as a laborer building roads in both Smith and Trousdale Counties, and this fact is also reflected on page 217 (for 1916) in the book: "Smith County History", first published 1987 by the Smith County Homecoming 86 Heritage Committee [I have a copy in my personal collection, and you can find it at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, and other Libraries across the country]. In the "Miscellaneous Photos" section of the Smith County Website at USGenWeb, the last link in that section titled: "
Jeff Kemp and Smith County Road Workers - 1920's" - it is possible that any one of the unknown fellows in the pictures could be "Sircey Dickens" who would have been in his mid 40's at the time of the pictures.

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