Everett was the son of Stephen Calvin Bailey & Zilpha Jane Griffith and the husband of Pearl Porter. Their children were Everett Prince, Jr., Ralston T., Marian, and Lowell.
Everett's father died when Everett was barely two years old, and his mother struggled to raise her family on a small farm perched on the banks of the Toccoa River. When the Blue Ridge Lake and Dam were built in 1926 the family was forced to relocate, and so Zilpha, Everett, and brother Stanton loaded all their belongings on a wagon pulled by a team of steers and crossed the newly built Kimsey Highway into Polk County, Tennessee where they had purchased a farm just outside the county seat of Benton. Married brothers, Thomas and Arthur and their families also came to Benton at that time. His sisters, Ruth, Loretta and Theodosia had also married and moved away from home. Loretta Long to Alabama, Dosia Miller to West Virginia and Ruth Tarpley to Blue Ridge.
Everett was a farmer, a shape-note singing school teacher, a photographer, poet and writer. When he passed at the age of 95, he left a legacy of family pictures, poems and stories about his family and growing up in the Padena and Wilscot communities of Fannin County.
One of his most poignant and treasured poems, "My Dad" laments the loss of the only known picture of his father to a salesman who took the precious picture, and probably their last 50 cents, with the promise to return with an enlarged framed photograph - he never did.
Everett's father died when Everett was barely two years old, and his mother struggled to raise her family on a small farm perched on the banks of the Toccoa River. When the Blue Ridge Lake and Dam were built in 1926 the family was forced to relocate, and so Zilpha, Everett, and brother Stanton loaded all their belongings on a wagon pulled by a team of steers and crossed the newly built Kimsey Highway into Polk County, Tennessee where they had purchased a farm just outside the county seat of Benton. Married brothers, Thomas and Arthur and their families also came to Benton at that time. His sisters, Ruth, Loretta and Theodosia had also married and moved away from home. Loretta Long to Alabama, Dosia Miller to West Virginia and Ruth Tarpley to Blue Ridge.
Everett was a farmer, a shape-note singing school teacher, a photographer, poet and writer. When he passed at the age of 95, he left a legacy of family pictures, poems and stories about his family and growing up in the Padena and Wilscot communities of Fannin County.
One of his most poignant and treasured poems, "My Dad" laments the loss of the only known picture of his father to a salesman who took the precious picture, and probably their last 50 cents, with the promise to return with an enlarged framed photograph - he never did.
Everett was the son of Stephen Calvin Bailey & Zilpha Jane Griffith and the husband of Pearl Porter. Their children were Everett Prince, Jr., Ralston T., Marian, and Lowell.
Everett's father died when Everett was barely two years old, and his mother struggled to raise her family on a small farm perched on the banks of the Toccoa River. When the Blue Ridge Lake and Dam were built in 1926 the family was forced to relocate, and so Zilpha, Everett, and brother Stanton loaded all their belongings on a wagon pulled by a team of steers and crossed the newly built Kimsey Highway into Polk County, Tennessee where they had purchased a farm just outside the county seat of Benton. Married brothers, Thomas and Arthur and their families also came to Benton at that time. His sisters, Ruth, Loretta and Theodosia had also married and moved away from home. Loretta Long to Alabama, Dosia Miller to West Virginia and Ruth Tarpley to Blue Ridge.
Everett was a farmer, a shape-note singing school teacher, a photographer, poet and writer. When he passed at the age of 95, he left a legacy of family pictures, poems and stories about his family and growing up in the Padena and Wilscot communities of Fannin County.
One of his most poignant and treasured poems, "My Dad" laments the loss of the only known picture of his father to a salesman who took the precious picture, and probably their last 50 cents, with the promise to return with an enlarged framed photograph - he never did.
Everett's father died when Everett was barely two years old, and his mother struggled to raise her family on a small farm perched on the banks of the Toccoa River. When the Blue Ridge Lake and Dam were built in 1926 the family was forced to relocate, and so Zilpha, Everett, and brother Stanton loaded all their belongings on a wagon pulled by a team of steers and crossed the newly built Kimsey Highway into Polk County, Tennessee where they had purchased a farm just outside the county seat of Benton. Married brothers, Thomas and Arthur and their families also came to Benton at that time. His sisters, Ruth, Loretta and Theodosia had also married and moved away from home. Loretta Long to Alabama, Dosia Miller to West Virginia and Ruth Tarpley to Blue Ridge.
Everett was a farmer, a shape-note singing school teacher, a photographer, poet and writer. When he passed at the age of 95, he left a legacy of family pictures, poems and stories about his family and growing up in the Padena and Wilscot communities of Fannin County.
One of his most poignant and treasured poems, "My Dad" laments the loss of the only known picture of his father to a salesman who took the precious picture, and probably their last 50 cents, with the promise to return with an enlarged framed photograph - he never did.
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