pioneer

Mrs. Caroline Sherrill died a few days since at Covington, aged 82. Mrs. Sherrill was the last of eighty colonists who came from Iredell County, N.C., in 1834, and as the first Presbyterian pioneers to settle in Tipton County established the Mt. Carmel Church. (Herald and Tribune, Jonesboro and Johnson City, Tenn., April 7, 1892)