BEAR FOLK WILDERNESS MAN HAS DIED - One Of 16 Children Born In Log Cabin

(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.

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