Sarah Elizabeth Samples

1896 - 1970  (74 years)

• Name	Sarah Elizabeth Samples
  Born	1 Jan 1896	Newport, Cocke, Tennessee
  Gender	Female
  Died	14 Dec 1970	Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee
  Buried	Roseberry Cemetery, Mascot, Knox, Tennessee
  Person ID	I11352	Brownlow
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2025

  
  

  Family 1	Archey Goforth,   b. Aug 1893, Newport, Cocke, Tennessee ,   d. 3 Aug 1914, Newport, Cocke, Tennessee  (Age 21 years)
  Married	9 Jul 1911	Cocke, Tennessee
  Documents		Archey Goforth death certificate
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2025
  Family ID	F3813	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	James S Suttles,   b. 9 Mar 1896, Cocke, Tennessee ,   d. 20 Jun 1971, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee  (Age 75 years)
  Married	3 Apr 1915	Cocke, Tennessee
  Divorced	1919	Cocke, Tennessee
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2025
  Family ID	F3812	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Grover Leroy Carter,   b. 4 Sep 1895, Hickory Flat, Benton, Mississippi ,   d. 29 Oct 1967, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee  (Age 72 years)
  Married	2 Jun 1920	Spartanburg, South Carolina
  	Sarah Samples is shown living in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with the family of her son Lon Goforth, following her divorce from Jim Suttles. There she met Grover and they married June 1920, and thereafter lived in Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee until 1922.
  Divorced	About 1922	Cocke, Tennessee
  	According to a family source, when daughter Vina was 9 months old, Grover Carter ran off on Sarah. He doesn't show up in any records again until the 1927 marriage to Thursie Emery in Cleveland, Ohio
  Children	+ 1. Vina Lee Carter,   b. 9 Apr 1921, Newport, Cocke, Tennessee ,   d. 19 Jan 1998, Maynardville, Union, Tennessee  (Age 76 years)  [Birth]   2. Carter,   b. 11 Apr 1921, Newport, Cocke, Tennessee ,   d. 11 Apr 1921, Newport, Cocke, Tennessee  (Age 0 years)  [Birth]
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2025
  Family ID	F3807	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 4	Henry R. Gibson Webb,   b. 12 Feb 1898, Dandridge, Jefferson, Tennessee ,   d. 26 Sep 1938, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee  (Age 40 years)
  Married	14 Dec 1923	Cocke, Tennessee
  	Gibson and Sarah split following the death of son J.D. Webb, then married again on 6 March 1925. Marriage lasted until Gibson's death
  Divorced	1924	Cocke, Tennessee
  	Remarried in 1925
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2025
  Family ID	F3811	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 5	John Everet Shores,   b. 15 Jun 1885, John Sevier, Knox, Tennessee ,   d. 28 Apr 1972, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee  (Age 86 years)
  Married	About 1940	Knox, Tennessee
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2025
  Family ID	F3814	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Sarah Samples and Grover Carter Marriage Certificate, reprinted 20 June 1946
  		Henry R. Gibson Webb attacked, Knoxville News Sentinel
  		Henry R. Gibson Webb death, Knoxville News Sentinel
  		James S Suttles and Sarah (Samples) Goforth marriage
  		Dolores Webb attacked by rooster
  		Carter, death certificate, 11 April 1921 Record of stillborn infant girl Carter to Grover L. Carter and Sarah Samples