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• Tommy Jarrell's Legacy

  Tommy Jarrell's Legacy
  

• Tommy Jarrell (1901 - 1985)

  Tommy Jarrell (1901 - 1985) by Wilma J. Hiatt
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell. Thomas Jefferson Jarrell "Tommy", born 3-1-1901, died 1-28-1985, musician, born in the Round Peak Community of Surry County, son of Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "Ben" and Susan Letisha Amburn Jarrell "Susie", Tommy ended his formal education when he left the seventh grade of the Ivy Green School near Round Peak, he bought his own fiddle with ten dollars he had borrowed, Tommy's father Ben was also a musician, Tommy married his wife "Nina" Frances Lowe Jarrell on 12-27-1923, Nina was born , she died 2-13-1967, children of Tommy and Nina: Ardena Jarrell Moncus "Dena" born 2-1925, Clarence "Wayne Jarrell born 2-8-1927, Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "B.F." or "Benny" born 9-19-1933, Tommy worked for the North Carolina Highway Department for 41 years from 1925-1966
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell. Thomas Jefferson Jarrell "Tommy", born 3-1-1901, died 1-28-1985, musician, born in the Round Peak Community of Surry County, son of Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "Ben" and Susan Letisha Amburn Jarrell "Susie", Tommy ended his formal education when he left the seventh grade of the Ivy Green School near Round Peak, he bought his own fiddle with ten dollars he had borrowed, Tommy's father Ben was also a musician, Tommy married his wife "Nina" Frances Lowe Jarrell on 12-27-1923, Nina was born , she died 2-13-1967, children of Tommy and Nina: Ardena Jarrell Moncus "Dena" born 2-1925, Clarence "Wayne Jarrell born 2-8-1927, Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "B.F." or "Benny" born 9-19-1933, Tommy worked for the North Carolina Highway Department for 41 years from 1925-1966
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell. Thomas Jefferson Jarrell "Tommy", born 3-1-1901, died 1-28-1985, musician, born in the Round Peak Community of Surry County, son of Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "Ben" and Susan Letisha Amburn Jarrell "Susie", Tommy ended his formal education when he left the seventh grade of the Ivy Green School near Round Peak, he bought his own fiddle with ten dollars he had borrowed, Tommy's father Ben was also a musician, Tommy married his wife "Nina" Frances Lowe Jarrell on 12-27-1923, Nina was born , she died 2-13-1967, children of Tommy and Nina: Ardena Jarrell Moncus "Dena" born 2-1925, Clarence "Wayne Jarrell born 2-8-1927, Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "B.F." or "Benny" born 9-19-1933, Tommy worked for the North Carolina Highway Department for 41 years from 1925-1966
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell. Thomas Jefferson Jarrell "Tommy", born 3-1-1901, died 1-28-1985, musician, born in the Round Peak Community of Surry County, son of Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "Ben" and Susan Letisha Amburn Jarrell "Susie", Tommy ended his formal education when he left the seventh grade of the Ivy Green School near Round Peak, he bought his own fiddle with ten dollars he had borrowed, Tommy's father Ben was also a musician, Tommy married his wife "Nina" Frances Lowe Jarrell on 12-27-1923, Nina was born , she died 2-13-1967, children of Tommy and Nina: Ardena Jarrell Moncus "Dena" born 2-1925, Clarence "Wayne Jarrell born 2-8-1927, Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "B.F." or "Benny" born 9-19-1933, Tommy worked for the North Carolina Highway Department for 41 years from 1925-1966
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell. Thomas Jefferson Jarrell "Tommy", born 3-1-1901, died 1-28-1985, musician, born in the Round Peak Community of Surry County, son of Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "Ben" and Susan Letisha Amburn Jarrell "Susie", Tommy ended his formal education when he left the seventh grade of the Ivy Green School near Round Peak, he bought his own fiddle with ten dollars he had borrowed, Tommy's father Ben was also a musician, Tommy married his wife "Nina" Frances Lowe Jarrell on 12-27-1923, Nina was born , she died 2-13-1967, children of Tommy and Nina: Ardena Jarrell Moncus "Dena" born 2-1925, Clarence "Wayne Jarrell born 2-8-1927, Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "B.F." or "Benny" born 9-19-1933, Tommy worked for the North Carolina Highway Department for 41 years from 1925-1966
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell. Thomas Jefferson Jarrell "Tommy", born 3-1-1901, died 1-28-1985, musician, born in the Round Peak Community of Surry County, son of Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "Ben" and Susan Letisha Amburn Jarrell "Susie", Tommy ended his formal education when he left the seventh grade of the Ivy Green School near Round Peak, he bought his own fiddle with ten dollars he had borrowed, Tommy's father Ben was also a musician, Tommy married his wife "Nina" Frances Lowe Jarrell on 12-27-1923, Nina was born , she died 2-13-1967, children of Tommy and Nina: Ardena Jarrell Moncus "Dena" born 2-1925, Clarence "Wayne Jarrell born 2-8-1927, Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "B.F." or "Benny" born 9-19-1933, Tommy worked for the North Carolina Highway Department for 41 years from 1925-1966
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell. Thomas Jefferson Jarrell "Tommy", born 3-1-1901, died 1-28-1985, musician, born in the Round Peak Community of Surry County, son of Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "Ben" and Susan Letisha Amburn Jarrell "Susie", Tommy ended his formal education when he left the seventh grade of the Ivy Green School near Round Peak, he bought his own fiddle with ten dollars he had borrowed, Tommy's father Ben was also a musician, Tommy married his wife "Nina" Frances Lowe Jarrell on 12-27-1923, Nina was born , she died 2-13-1967, children of Tommy and Nina: Ardena Jarrell Moncus "Dena" born 2-1925, Clarence "Wayne Jarrell born 2-8-1927, Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "B.F." or "Benny" born 9-19-1933, Tommy worked for the North Carolina Highway Department for 41 years from 1925-1966
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell. Thomas Jefferson Jarrell "Tommy", born 3-1-1901, died 1-28-1985, musician, born in the Round Peak Community of Surry County, son of Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "Ben" and Susan Letisha Amburn Jarrell "Susie", Tommy ended his formal education when he left the seventh grade of the Ivy Green School near Round Peak, he bought his own fiddle with ten dollars he had borrowed, Tommy's father Ben was also a musician, Tommy married his wife "Nina" Frances Lowe Jarrell on 12-27-1923, Nina was born , she died 2-13-1967, children of Tommy and Nina: Ardena Jarrell Moncus "Dena" born 2-1925, Clarence "Wayne Jarrell born 2-8-1927, Benjamin Franklin Jarrell "B.F." or "Benny" born 9-19-1933, Tommy worked for the North Carolina Highway Department for 41 years from 1925-1966
  

• photograph of the house on Dan Callaway Road in the Round Peak section of Surry County where Tommy Jarrell was raised until 1919

  photograph of the house on Dan Callaway Road in the Round Peak section of Surry County where Tommy Jarrell was raised until 1919
  

• photograph of Benny Jarrell and Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Benny Jarrell and Tommy Jarrell looking over a copy of Benny's first alum "The Lady of the Lake" released in the 1970s
  

• photograph of musicians, Tommy Jarrell and Chester McMillian

  photograph of musicians, Tommy Jarrell and Chester McMillian
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell, Dix Freeman, Chester McMillian

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell, Dix Freeman, Chester McMillian
  

• photograph of Dix Freeman, Tommy Jarrell, Mike Seeger, Chester McMillian

  photograph of Dix Freeman, Tommy Jarrell, Mike Seeger, Chester McMillian
  

• photograph of Mike Seeger, Alice Gerrard, Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Mike Seeger, Alice Gerrard, Tommy Jarrell
  

• photograph of Oscar Jenkins, Fred Cockerham, Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Oscar Jenkins, Fred Cockerham, Tommy Jarrell
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell and Chester McMillian

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell and Chester McMillian
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell and musicians

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell and musicians
  

• photograph of Tommy Jarrell's 75th birthday party

  photograph of Tommy Jarrell's 75th birthday party
  

• Photograph of Tommy and Nina Jarrell

  Photograph of Tommy and Nina Jarrell
  

• photograph of "Nina" Frances Lowe Jarrell and Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of "Nina" Frances Lowe Jarrell (Tommy's wife) died 2/13/1967 and Tommy Jarrell. They were married on 12/27/1923
  

• photograph of Paul Brown, Tommy Jarrell

  photograph of Paul Brown - news director at radio station WFDD in Winston Salem (N.C.), Tommy Jarrell
  

• photograph of Odell Cockerham, Eva Cockerham, Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham playing in Low Gap (N.C.)

  photograph of Odell Cockerham, Eva Cockerham, Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham playing in Low Gap (N.C.)
  

• photograph of Thomas "Tommy" Jefferson Jarrell and Sadie Scott

  photograph of Thomas "Tommy" Jefferson Jarrell and Sadie Scott