(08/22/2019) A Roane County man born in the Bear Fork wilderness has died, one of 16 children born in a log cabin in the Calhoun backwoods. 76-year-old Virgil Kyer of Reedy is being laid to rest in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery. The life and times of the Kyer-Marks family was written for the Hur Herald in 2015. See   HUR HERALD'S BEAR FORK TALES: WILDERNESS WOMAN RETURNS CELEBRATING 86TH BIRTHDAY - Ruby Born In Two Room Cabin, Sixteen Siblings

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