Allie Maybelle Vise, 19031990 (aged 86 years)

Name
Allie Maybelle /Vise/
Type of name
birth name
Given names
Allie Maybelle
Surname
Vise
Nickname
Pyke
Family with parents
father
mother
elder brother
1897
Birth: September 10, 1897 31 22 Vise Town, Decatur Co. TN
3 years
elder sister
1900
Birth: May 25, 1900 34 25 Vise Town, Decatur Co. TN
4 years
herself
19031990
Birth: November 30, 1903 37 28 Vise Town, Decatur Co. TN
Death: March 14, 1990
Family with Alanson Brown Smith
husband
19011933
Birth: 1901
Death: January 8, 1933
herself
19031990
Birth: November 30, 1903 37 28 Vise Town, Decatur Co. TN
Death: March 14, 1990
Marriage MarriageMay 16, 1926Decaturville, Decatur Co. TN
Family with James Hobart Johnson
husband
19101977
Birth: February 13, 1910 53 34 Tennessee
Death: June 25, 1977
herself
19031990
Birth: November 30, 1903 37 28 Vise Town, Decatur Co. TN
Death: March 14, 1990
Marriage MarriageJune 1, 1941
Note

Allie Maybelle Vise, born November 30, 1903 in Vise Town, Tennessee. She went by a nickname "Pyke" because she was the prettiest girl walking down the pike after her family moved from Vise Town to Decaturville, Tennessee or that is what friends and neighbors claim! "Miss Pyke" went to McFerrin School, Blackstone College in Blackstone, VA and graduated from Wesleyan College in Macon, GA. She taught school in Decaturville School was Principal of Parsons High School and School Librarian until her retirement. She married Alanson Brown Smith May 16,1926 in Decaturville, Tennessee. They had one son, Alanson Brown Smith, Jr. born March 8, 1927. He graduated from U.T. Medical School and has the Alanson Brown Smith Clinic in Meridian, Mississippi. Dr. A. B. married Aletha Virginia Irwin November, 1953, and they have four children, Sharon Virginia, Alanson Brown III, James Darryl and Sidney Eli. "Miss Pyke" married the second time June 1,1941, to James Hobart Johnson after her first husband "Brown" died January 8, 1933. They live in Decaturville, Tennessee. "Miss Pyke" has held many offices in the Methodist Church and won many awards as a distinguished civic worker.

From Lillye Younger, The History of Decatur County Past and Present (Southhaven, MS: Carter Printing Company, 1978).