My mother was raised on the banks of Mossy Creek in Jefferson City...area called Jaybird Hill...Dad’s family was from the Qualla reservation in Cherokee, NC...(I’m a half-breed *GRIN*) Have you looked at the history of Cades Cove during the War Between the States??? It is fascinating...
I don’t know much about Cade’s Cove. My mother lived in Elkmont when she was a child and her father worked for the Little River Lumber Company in the 1920s. I asked her once about Cades Cove and she said that she never went there until after the Park was created. Her mother and father were born in Alpha community, near Morristown