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OCCU Owner of Tellico Slate and Iron Company
Charles came from Emgland in 1898.
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OCCU Druggist, Owner of a Drug Store
Dr. Charles Percy Swainson's Obit.Dr. C. P. Swainson, Well Known Tellico Plains Druggist, Died Monday (1967).
Dr. Charles Percy Swainson, who made thousands of friends among the tourist who stopped inhis Tellico Plains drug store while visiting the Cherokee National Forest, died Monday at Lowry-Henshaw Hospital in Sweetwater.
Swainson and his wife had operated the drug store in downtown Tellico Plains since 1932 and it was the place most tourists stopped to seek information and to refresh themselves.
His collection of Indiian artfacts and cherokeee National Forest lore was one of the most complete in the area. He had been the subject of many articles concerning the area which appeared in the Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville newspapers as well as sports publications.
Born in 1904, Percy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Swainson, the elder Swainson, a graduate of Oxford Collage... Came from england in 1898 and purchased the Tellico Manufacting Company consisting of 25,000 acres of land... Much of the land was taken into the Cherokee National forest, and Mansion, a tourist attraction near Tellico Plains stood on the parcel of land...
Swainson graduated from Tellico Plains High School in 1922 ... a member of the school's basket-ball team and a life long Uni. of Tennessee football fan. He was a graduate of Tennessee School of Pharmacy at Memphis.
Swainson suffed a cerebral hemmorhage which resulted in his death on the preceding Thursday.
A member of the Masonic fraternity for 41 years, he had been a member of the Return Committee of the Grand lodge of the State of Tennessee for 20 years. He serve as Secretary of the Unaka Lodge No. 651, F&AM, for 30 years and was a member of the Knoxville Consistory (Scottis Rite) and Kerbela Temple ( Shrine).
A Colonel on the staff of Gov. Buford Ellington, he was a member of the Sons of the Revolution and othert organizations.
Mrs Swainson is the former Lulu Statton, sister of Worth Stratton, an official of the Citizen's Bank and Trust Company of Tellico Plains.
A son Charles N., is a Lt. Col. in the Army and is Station at Washington D. C. There are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Heather West of Tellico Plains and Mrs. Carolyn Lloyd of Rogerville and three grandsons and one granddaughter....
Swainson loved to hunt and fish and was a storehouse of information concerning the Tellico area...
A life long friend Clarence Berry said of Swainson, "He was just tops. He never used bad language, never drank or smoked and was always a gentleman." He was well liked by everyone and we will miss him.
He was preceded in death by an older sister who died young.
the funeral service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Tellico Baptist Church with the Rev. Virgil Talent, the Rev Dennis Jones and Rev. Billchildress officiating. burial will be in the center Presbyterian Cemetery.
Percy was interested in and did a lot of Tipton Research.