Lucy Lyle Schotts was born to blacksmith Jefferson Young Lyle (1836-1923) and Sarah Jane West Lyle (1842-1926) in West Point Mississippi. Her father had a carriage and blacksmith shop in Birmingham 1890 while the family stayed in Mississippi. He then brought his family to Chattanooga and opened a blacksmith shop on Cherry Street downtown Chattanooga in 1893. She loved to tell about walking across the Walnut Street bridge as a girl, carrying all their luggage to their new home in North Chattanooga. Lucy married James Newton Schotts October 12 1922 and they owned Schotts Casket Company. He made caskets and she sewed the liners. They had no children. She was a member of the WCTU and the General A.P. Stewart Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the oldest living member of the Ridgedale United Methodist Church. She spent her last sixteen years in the Asbury Oaks Manor, then died in the Asbury Nursing Home, Maryville Tennessee at the age of 100.
Lucy Lyle Schotts was born to blacksmith Jefferson Young Lyle (1836-1923) and Sarah Jane West Lyle (1842-1926) in West Point Mississippi. Her father had a carriage and blacksmith shop in Birmingham 1890 while the family stayed in Mississippi. He then brought his family to Chattanooga and opened a blacksmith shop on Cherry Street downtown Chattanooga in 1893. She loved to tell about walking across the Walnut Street bridge as a girl, carrying all their luggage to their new home in North Chattanooga. Lucy married James Newton Schotts October 12 1922 and they owned Schotts Casket Company. He made caskets and she sewed the liners. They had no children. She was a member of the WCTU and the General A.P. Stewart Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the oldest living member of the Ridgedale United Methodist Church. She spent her last sixteen years in the Asbury Oaks Manor, then died in the Asbury Nursing Home, Maryville Tennessee at the age of 100.
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