 In 1946 , Hensley married for the third time , but his wife , Inez Hutcheson , left him after less than a year of marriage . After their separation , Hensley began to preach in Chattanooga . During services , he began asserting that he had been miraculously healed after being paralyzed for a year following a coal @-@ mining accident . Kimbrough disputes his claim , noting that there is no one @-@ year gap in the records of Hensley moving or actively ministering . Hensley continued to live in Chattanooga until the early 1950s ; he moved to Athens , Georgia , in the early to mid @-@ 1950s . 
