Crossville Chronicle Dorothy Copus Brush "Random Thoughts" ... and she reopened the Coal Creek question with a fascinating slice of Tennessee history. She is a librarian, and in the Fairfield Glade United Methodist library she found a novel, Coal Creek Wars, written by Chris Cawood and published in 1995. Cawood wrote, "Although this is a fiction-enhanced story of real events, I have tried to be as accurate with the actual happenings of the Coal Creek War as possible." The author is an attorney and served in the Tennessee General Assembly for two years. He lives in Kingston and his family roots were established here before Tennessee was a state. A later column will cover the Coal Creek story. Of interest is the heroine, Betsy Boyd Drummond Brimer, a real person who believed in education and women's equality. She was in the first class of women to be accepted at UT in September 1893. Before that, only men had been admitted. She continued in her chosen profession of education for the rest of her life and was the first woman in her neighborhood to register to vote after Women's Suffrage was passed in 1920.