Haywood County NcArchives Biographies.....Dempsey, Jack 
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Author: Charlotte Observer - May 8, 1919

Jack Dempsey Born in N.C. - World's Champion Boxer is Native Tar Heel - Was 
Born at Cove Creek, 20 Miles from Asheville - Was Champ as Boy

Asheville, Aug. 4 - Jack Dempsey, champion heavyweight boxer, was born in 
Haywood County, about 20 miles from Asheville, according to information 
discovered by The Waynesville Mountaineer, a weekly newspaper of that county.

Jack Dempsey was born on Cove Creek and he moved away from North Carolina 
after he lived here several years, going to Colorado with his parents. There 
are two aunts of the famous boxer living in Waynesville today, Miss Ella 
Dempsey and Mrs. James Brook.

James Evans, who lives in Cove Creek, near the place where Jack was born, 
states that he played with the little fellow and used to dance him on his 
knee. Residents of the section in which Dempsey first lived, state that he is 
to be remembered as an unusual fighter even in his very young days. It is said 
that the children of the neighborhood, although much older and larger than 
little Jack, were afraid of him, and that the champion held sway in fighting 
circles.


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