6,852 research outputs found
Laura Riding Jackson papers
No full textLaura Riding Jackson (1901-1991) was an American poet, critic, and editor. She was closely associated with the Fugitive group, a cluster of American Southern writers centered at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, which included John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. She had a long partnership with Robert Graves; together they co-founded the Seizin Press, published several volumes of poetry, and co-edited the literary journal Epilogue. Jackson is generally acknowledged to have influenced the work of Graves, the New Zealand filmmaker Len Lye, and the writers James Reeves, Norman Cameron, T. S. Matthews, Jacob Bronowski, and W. H. Auden. The collection consists of correspondence between Jackson and Robert Nye, a British author, editor, and playwright, as well as manuscripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, and photographs. Subjects discussed include writers and writings, Martin Seymour-Smith, Robert Graves, and Nye
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire
No full text'BERKELEY CASTLE. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Drawn in Lithotint by F. W. Hulme. Published by Chapman & Hall, London, March 1st.. 1846. From a Sketch by J. G. Jackson.
Stone Castle
No full textA black and white photograph of an unknown stone castle structure in an unknown location
Lamar Mutual Life and Pythian Castle, Jackson, Mississippi
No full textThis postcard is a color illustration of the Lamar Mutual Life and Pythian Castle buildings in Jackson, Mississippi. The Pythian Castle of the Knights of Pythias is on the left and the Lamar Mutual Life building is on the right. A storefront named the Crescent is on the left of the castle. The Crescent and the Pythian castle are stone structures, the castle being the tallest. The Crescent has it\u27s name on an awning at the front entrance and the castle has a flag hanging from the second story window. the Lamar Mutual Life building is a two story structure with a four white columns across the front and their name engraved across the front. A crowd of people in early twentieth century clothing are gathered on the sidewalk in front of the row of buildings. The title of the card is printed along the top of the image. The back of the postcard is addressed to Miss Lutie Marks in Greenville, Mississippi. The card is postmarked Jackson, Miss., February 16, 1911 and a green, one cent Benjamin Franklin postage stamp is placed in the upper right corner. An inscription is written sideways on the left half of the card. [see transcription]https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-lampton-images-ms-capitol/1097/thumbnail.jp
Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records
No full textThe Maynard Jackson mayoral administrative records are extensive and consist of materials spanning the years 1968 to 1994. Within this digital collection are photographs, general correspondence, Mayoral campaign materials, and printed and published materials and correspondence related to the Atlanta Child Murders. The Atlanta Child Murders subseries in the Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records chronicles the time period between 1979-1981 when multiple young black children and adults were murdered in the city of Atlanta. The murders garnered national news coverage and caused panic across the country. The records in this digital collection reflect the response to the tragedy that were both created, collected and sent to the Atlanta Mayor's office during Maynard Jackson's second mayoral term.
At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at [email protected]
Journeys Through Jackson 2017 Vol.27 No.02
No full textJourneys Through Jackson is the official journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. The journal began as a monthly publication in July 1991, was published bimonthly from 1994 to 2003, and continues today as a quarterly publication. The journal issues in this digital collection are presented as annual compilations.Journeys
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The Official Journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc.
Vol. XXVII, No. II Spring/ Summer 2017
JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC.
2017 Officers
Presiden ................................................................................................................... Lynn Hotaling
Vice Presidents ............................................................... Norma Bryson Clayton, George Frizzell
Secretary ................................................................................................................. Deborah Blazer
Treasurer ..................................................................................................... Teresa Deitz Manring
Librarian...................................................................................................................... Marie Clark
Office Manager ......................................................................................................... Carol Bryson
Web Master, Computer Technician .................................................................... Jason N. Gregory
Chair, Publications (Editor) ........................................................................... Sanji Talley Watson
Journeys Through Jackson is the official publication of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. Members and non-members are invited to submit genealogical materials for publication, with the understanding that the editor reserves the right to edit these materials for genealogical content, clarity, or taste. The Society assumes no responsibility for errors of fact that may be contained in submissions, and except where noted, the opinions expressed are not those of the editor or of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. The Society accepts no advertising for this publication except for notices from other non-profit groups.
From the Editor
Don’t forget that every second Thursday of the month, the Society offers great programs on a wide variety of topics. As always, they are open to the public and are free. Pass the word regarding our programs.
Always remember that our Society is as good as its members. If you have any pictures, stories or tidbits of information that you would like to share with everyone, please feel free to send it to the Society for publication in Journeys.
REMEMBER
The Rebel Cruise – In
Sunday October 1, 2017
1 – 4 pm
Sav-Mor Parking Lot
Sylva, NC
T-Shirts – Music – Food Trucks – 50/50 Raffle
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents .............................................................................................................49
JCGS Photo Album.................................................................................................... 50-54
Dr. John R. Brinkley ................................................................................................. 55-64
1880 Jackson County Census Records ..................................................................... 65-68
Descendants of William Solomon Parker, Sr .......................................................... 69-72
Jackson County Genealogical Society Scholarship Winners ................................. 73-76
Descendants of John Thomas Tatham ..................................................................... 77-80
1944 Jackson County Death Certificates ................................................................. 81-83
The Oldest House in Jackson County ............................................................................84
Outline Descendant Report for Frederick (Baumgarten) Bumgarner. ................ 85-88
Gunter-Gooch From Jackson County to Idaho and Utah ..................................... 89-90
Denton Higdon Photo Album .................................................................................... 91-94
Index ............................................................................................................................ 95-96
The address for JCGS is now:
Jackson County Genealogical Society
Post Office Box 480
Sylva, NC 28779
In the Fall 2016 Issue of JTJ, we made a mistake in the transcription of one of the articles. We are human and all articles are edited for clarity, legibility, proper formatting. Here is the corrected paragraph that should be on page 185 in the Fall 2016 issue.
“We have known her all her life until the removal of herself and husband to Tennessee and that we firmly state that she is a woman of good character never having known of or heard of anything whatever derogatory to her character for virtue, charity, honesty, and sobriety and we further state that her father and family for a great many years were close neighbors only residing a short distance from us. Given under our hands this 19th day of August A. D. 1870.”
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JCGS Photo Album
The pictures shown here was given to the Society by JCGS member, Bonnie Barker. Above left is a picture of John Robert Mills, taken at the old home place on Moses Creek. Above is Mitchell Melton, Pernell Griggs, and John Robert Mills taken at the Melton home in Little Canada. The photograph on the left is of John Robert Mills and Finley Mills. Recent research on this family reminded us that we had these pictures in the Bonnie Barker Collection. Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017
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JCGS Photo Album
The photo above is of John Robert and Flora Arrington Mills family; included in this photo is Zeb Mills, Findly Mills, Mariah Etta Mills, Nellie Ann Mills, Ferry Mills and Winnie Mills. The photo on the bottom is also John Robert and Flora Arrington Mills family. With them in this photo are Nina Arrington, Ferry Mills, Mariah Mills, Nell Mills. These two photos were also part of the Bonnie Barker Collection located in the JCGS Library. Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017
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JCGS Photo Album
Recently, there was a discussion in the JCGS office as to if the gentlemen in these two pictures are the same man. The photo to the top is a known photo of William Hamilton Bryson, (11 Nov 1832 – 18 Sep 1875), he was the son of William Holmes Bryson and Magdalene Cunningham. If anyone can identify the gentleman to the left, please let the society know his identity. Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017
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JCGS Photo Album
In the JSGC Library, we have been very fortunate to have been given numerous old photographs. On the next two pages are some of the photographs that are unidentified. If you happen to know who any of these people are, please contact the office and let us know their identity.
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JCGS Photo Album
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Dr. John Brinkley
By Lynn Hotaling and George Frizzell. This article will continue in future editions of JTJ.
Seventy-five years after his death, the man who is likely Jackson County’s most notorious native son is once again in the national spotlight.
Dr. John R. Brinkley, born July 8, 1885, in Beta, was raised alongside the Tuckaseigee River by his aunt, Sally Mingus. He left Sylva penniless but found fame and fortune during the 1920s and 1930s after he hit upon the idea of treating male impotence by transplanting goat glands into humans, performing hundreds of surgeries in hospitals he founded in Milford, Kan., Del Rio, Texas, and Little Rock, Ark. After Kansas authorities stripped him of his medical license in 1930, he built a new hospital in Del Rio, where he also constructed the world’s most powerful radio station across the Rio Grande River in Mexico, out of reach of U.S. regulation. He hosted a program introduced country music luminaries like the Carter family and local talent like Samantha Biddix Bumgarner and Harry Cagle to a national audience.
Brinkley ended his career in bankruptcy court and died a broken man in 1942, but along the way he revolutionized political campaigning by introducing radio advertising, sound trucks and airplane travel during his 1930 write-in attempt to win the Kansas governorship. Though not initially taken seriously as a candidate, Brinkley attracted such huge crowds traveling the state in his airplane that state officials – just three days before the election – changed the voting rules. The only ballots that would count, they said, were ones that read “J.R. Brinkley.” With no time to protest, Brinkley got on the radio and reminded Kansans non-stop that they needed to write “J period R period B-R-I-N-K-L-E-Y,” and that no other spelling would do. When votes were tallied, Brinkley had 183,278, not counting the estimated 30,000 to 50,000 ballots with “Doctor Brinkley” or other variations. His two opponents’ totals were 217,171 and 216,920, which means Brinkley likely would have won had the old standard of voter intent remained in force.
That insight into the 1930 election can be found in a 2008 Brinkley biography, “Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam” by Pope Brock. Since Brock’s book was published, interest in Brinkley has steadily increased. A documentary titled “Nuts!” was screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a special jury award for editing. That film is currently available through iTunes, Vimeo and Amazon’s screening service. A podcast on Brinkley’s exploits, titled “Man of the People” and featuring “Nuts!” director Penny Lane and “Charlatan” author Brock, aired in January of this year, and a film expected to star Robert Downey Jr. is in the works.
While Brock’s book doesn’t include much about Brinkley’s early life, or Jackson County, it does paint a detailed (and typically unflattering) picture of the goat-gland specialist’s activities after he left Western North Carolina. Brinkley himself, however, never forgot his roots and kept in touch with a few people he had known as a boy. Despite investigations into his questionable medical treatments, area newspapers treated Brinkley as a star, and his Jackson County comings and goings were often front-page news in local papers.
That all changed after his fall from grace when he was revealed to be a fraud. Hardly a mention of Brinkley is to be found in local newspapers in the three decades after his death. The Sylva Herald’s landmark 1951 Jackson County Centennial section, filled with stories of local history and luminaries, makes no mention of Brinkley, despite his national prominence and notoriety less than two decades earlier.
Once he came into wealth and power, Brinkley himself created his own markers here, erecting a monument to his beloved Aunt Sally in a sharp curve between East LaPorte and Tuckasegee and having his name spelled out on the rock walls at the entrance to the farm a few hundred yards south that he purchased in 1936 from Claude Wike.
Brinkley hired Will Smith, father of the late Bill Smith (a longtime local educator who won election as a county commissioner and Sylva board member), to manage the property for him. Bill Smith owned a collection of letters Brinkley wrote to his father, sometimes on an almost daily basis, directing day-to-day operations at the farm.
Ray Ashe of East Fork, whose grandmother Amanda Wike Jackson lived next door to Brinkley’s Aunt Sally, remembers visiting the farm as a boy.
“We went there one Sunday,” Ray said. “I remember he was very cordial and showed us everything, including their inner-spring mattresses.”
According to Ray, Brinkley was lonely as a child. He often ate meals at Amanda Jackson’s and turned to Ray’s mother, Annie; her sister, Maggie; and brothers, Walter and Albert; for companionship. He was close to Ray’s Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017
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grandmother, who he called “Aunt Amanda” or “Aunt Mandy,” and corresponded with her; Ray has saved some of the letters and postcards his grandmother received from Brinkley and his wife, Minnie, that were mostly written when Brinkley was at the height of his fame and fortune.
The first, dated Nov. 8, 1936, is in response to a letter Walter had written to tell Brinkley that Aunt Mandy was having trouble with her eyes. Just as he famously did during his radio shows, Brinkley offered advice, telling Aunt Mandy what to purchase at the “drug store in Sylva” to relieve her symptoms. “2-ounces of a ten percent solution of Argyrol and a medicine dropper. Dropping 5 or 10 drops in both eyes, rolling the eyeballs around and letting the medicine under the lids. I have found this to be of great relief to myself and others. The medicine is harmless, it is very black and stings the lids but that is of little consequence. I usually have it put in my eyes three times a day when I have eye strain or eye pain.”
That letter also describes recent weather in Texas (two early frosts) and mentions the banana tree outside Brinkley’s window at his Del Rio mansion.
Brinkley spared no expense on his palatial estate, filling it with tropical plants and animals. In “Charlatan,” Brock writes: “It was the home he created there – a mission-style manor and grounds near the Rio Grande – that had Texas talking: 16 acres of naked self-regard, part Versailles, part Barnum & Bailey.”
The bulk of the correspondence Ray has surrounds a trip to Europe Brinkley took with Minnie and their son, Johnnie Boy, in the summer of 1937. While traveling, Brinkley sent Aunt Mandy at least a dozen postcards as well as three brief notes.
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(The letter on the right, dated April 21, 1937, was sent to Amanda Wike Jackson from Dr. John R. Brinkley. The note on the left \was written July 9, 1937, also by Dr. John R. Brinkley to Amanda Wike Jackson of East LaPorte. All these illustrations, including the postcard pictured above and sent before, are courtesy of Ray Ashe.)
Before the family left the Del Rio estate for their summer-long trip, the Brinkleys threw a big party – one so memorable that Brock describes it in his book, saying that 1,400 guests strolled the grounds while a stunt pilot did barrel-rolls overhead.
“It was the biggest party the doctor ever threw the biggest south Texas could recall. After short speeches and a big feed, the night was crowned by an apocalyptic fireworks display: dogs, cats, ducks, soldiers on horseback appeared in the heavens etched in flame, each greeted with gasps and applause. The last rocket spelled a message that shimmered and flared among the stars: ‘Bon voyage Dr., Mrs. Brinkley and Johnnie,’” Brock writes.
Brinkley wrote to Aunt Mandy before the trip. In an April 21 letter typed on “Brinkley Hospital” letterhead stationery, he tells her how busy he is and that he hopes to leave Texas by May 1. “We (are) up to our neck in work,” Brinkley writes. “I am having to go here and there besides operating every day, 5 operations yesterday, 6 this afternoon, many more are coming in.” After assuring Aunt Mandy that he and his family will call on her while they are in Tuckasegee, Brinkley says he will give a letter Aunt Mandy wrote to him to “Mrs. Brinkley” and that he’s sure Minnie will write Aunt Mandy if “she has time.” The letter is signed, “With lots of love, faithfully yours, J.R. Brinkley, M.D.”
In the promised April 23, 1937, letter to Aunt Mandy, Minnie tells her of their planned trip – they will be in Jackson County May 5 or 6 on their way to New York to catch the Queen Mary – and of the party mentioned above.
“Dr. Brinkley is giving a big garden party to several hundred (near 1,500) Del Rioians on next Sunday as a gesture of ‘good will,’” she writes. “We will be gone from Del Rio four months if our plans carry, so we do not want to be forgotten or not remembered with appreciation for the citizens’ good will.”
Brock’s book provides the reason for the European journey: Dr. Brinkley had been elected president of the Del Rio Rotary Club, and he was to represent the group at the international Rotary convention in Nice.
After leaving Del Rio in their airplane, the Brinkleys visited Aunt Mandy, who gave them some of her home-churned butter. These details are revealed in an undated letter Brinkley sent from the Queen Mary.
“Just to let you know we are all right and having a smooth sea,” Brinkley wrote. “We have the rooms used by former King Edward and his mother when they were on this ship.” Brinkley also told Aunt Mandy “Johnnie enjoyed Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017
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your butter in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.”
The subject of Johnnie and Aunt Mandy’s butter came up again in a postcard bearing a picture of the Notre Dame Cathedral mailed in July from Paris.
“Johnnie Boy says he is homesick for Aunt Amanda’s butter and claims yours is the best butter in the world,” Brinkley said.
On a postcard from Venice, dated June 21, 1937, that also bears a July 3 East LaPorte postmark, Brinkley wrote: “The streets here are water. You travel by boat. Love, J.R. Brinkley.”
He spent his birthday that year in Luxemburg, sending Aunt Mandy a postcard with the queen’s picture and reminding her “Today is my birthday, July 8, 1885.” Brinkley also wrote the next day on stationery from the “Hotel Kaiserhof und Augusta-Viktoria-Bad,” saying he thought she would like it as a souvenir, and adding “‘Bad’ means ‘bath’” and “Yesterday I was 52. Time flies.”
All the letters and cards are addressed simply to Mrs. Amanda (or Mrs. Mandy) Jackson, East LaPorte, North Carolina.
As mentioned above, Brinkley was a topic of interest to local newspapers all during the 1930s, and the following selection of stories reflects that fact. Reports on Brinkley’s activities were often front-page news.
Dr. John R. Brinkley in the Jackson County Journal, 1930 – 1940
(Transcribed by George Frizzell)
These are verbatim transcriptions of articles from the Jackson County Journal, a Sylva (N.C) newspaper, which often featured updates on Dr. John R. Brinkley’s life and exploits. In some cases, typesetting errors, such as in the form of repeated words or phrases, have noted at the end of the respective texts.
SEEK TO REVOKE BRINKLEY LICENSE IN MILFORD, KAN.
Jackson County Journal, May 1, 1930
Dr. John R. Brinkley, native of Jackson county, and famous goat gland specialist is under investigation out in Milford, Kansas, in an effort to revoke his license to practice medicine in the State of Kansas.
The complaint charges Dr. Brinkley with gross immorality and unprofessional conduct for the alleged perpetration of a fraud in obtaining his Kansas certificate in 1916. It also charges that he has pleaded guilty to and been sentenced on three liquor law violations at Junction City, Kansas in 1920, and that he had been placed under a 1,000 peace bond.)
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GO TO BRINKLEY TRIAL
Jackson County Journal, July 17, 1930
V.V. Hooper, Julius Painter and Robert L. Madison are in Milford, Kansas, where they have been summoned to appear in behalf of Dr. John Brinkley, in the trial in progress there, in which it is sought to deprive him of his license to practice medicine, and to stop his radio broadcasting station.
BRINKLEY GOT 185,258 VOTES
Jackson County Journal, November 20, 1930
One of the most amazing election facts in recent years was that Dr. John H. [sic] Brinkley, native of Jackson county, entering the gubernatorial race in Kansas too late to have his name printed on the ballots, received 185,258 votes for governor, to 216,138 for the Democratic candidate and 215,468 for the Republican candidate. And every man and woman who voted for Brinkley wrote his name on the ballot.
The papers of Kansas and the middle west have been busy ever since trying to figure out how Brinkley did it.
He made his chief campaign over his radio station at Milford and it was the counties in that part of the State that voted for Brinkley.
It has the politicians and the papers out that way worried. They can’t fathom it. Even William Allen White, the Emporia sage, has devoted columns of space explaining the Brinkley vote.
Said the Kansas City Star, in beginning several columns o
Journeys Through Jackson 2013 Vol.23 No.01
No full textJourneys Through Jackson is the official journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. The journal began as a monthly publication in July 1991, was published bimonthly from 1994 to 2003, and continues today as a quarterly publication. The journal issues in this digital collection are presented as annual compilations.c
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T h e Official Journal of t h e J a c k s o n C o u n t y G e n e a l o g i c a l S o c i e t y , Inc.
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JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC.
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President Kenneth E. Nicholson
Vice Presidents Timothy Osment, William L. Crawford
Secretary .*. Karen C. Nicholson
Treasurer E. Lawrence Morton
Librarian. DorrisD.Beck
Office Manager Ruth C. Shuler
WebMaster. Deanne G. Roles
Computer Technician Jason N. Gregory
Chair, Publications (Editor) Sanji Talley Watson
Journeys Through Jackson is the official publication of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. Members and non-members are invited to
submit genealogical materials for publication, with the understanding that the editor reserves the right to edit these materials for genealogical
content, clarity, or taste. The Society assumes no responsibility for errors of fact that may be contained in submissions, and except where noted,
the opinions expressed are not those of the editor or of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. The Society accepts no advertising for this
publication except for notices from other non-profit groups.
From the Editor
For 17 years, Journeys Through Jackson has been produced and edited by Robert Larry Crawford.
Through hard work and perseverance, he has taken the journal from its humble beginnings to the award
winning publication that we all receive. He has informed, educated, and at times entertained us with the
information that he has collected, been gifted with, and allowed to use by members and friends of the
society alike. He has dedicated untold hours to ensuring that our journal was as good as he could make it.
He is and will continue to be a valuable resource for the society. As the new Editor, I stand in awe of the
tremendous work and effort that Larry has given the society as Editor. I have no hesitation in saying I
cannot begin to fill his shoes, only hope that I can follow in his footsteps. Thank you, Larry, for all the
work you have done and will continue to do for the society.
Larry and I graduated from Sylva-Webster High School in 1963. Our paths did not cross again until I
became principal at Smoky Mountain High School in 1994. Larry was one of the best teachers that I have
had the opportunity to observe. His history classes were filled with students who were required to take
most of his classes. Although the classes were required, they came to love history and the teacher who
made history come alive. Larry respected his students and they respected him. One of his classes that
drew my attention to his rapport and respect from students was World Religions. Although this class was
not required and was listed as an elective it was always filled with students who knew that Larry would
continue to expect their best and they would respond with their best work.
Larry is very knowledgeable of the families of Jackson county. He is able to tell you about your
cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents, parents and most other relatives that you might have. Larry has for a
number of years been the Editor of Journeys Through Jackson. His knowledge of and research for articles
are impeccable. His work ethic is never ending and his ability to write transcends you into the past as if
you were there.
Larry, I know that "rest" is not in your vocabulary so I know that you will continue to research and
write. As one famous person stated, "Thanks for all the memories that you bring to life for us."
— Kenneth E. Nicholson, President JCGS
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C T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
Announcements and Expression of Sympathy 1
JCGS Photo Album 2 - 6
Prepublication Announcement 7-8
Financial Statement for 2012 9
Scott Foundation Scholarship Announcement 10
Of Mountains, Mountain People, and Mountain Waters That Call
Their Children Home 11 - 14
1927 Jackson County Death Certificates of Persons Born 1900 - 1 9 3 0 15 - 18
James Brown F a m i l y - Who are They? 19 - 24
A New JCGS Member's Ties to Jackson County 25 - 28
Franklin Descendants 29 - 32
A Native Son 33 - 36
Building the Glenville Dam 37 - 39
Continuation of Death Certificates and Library Acquisitions 40
Shepherd Photographs 41 - 46
Index 47-48
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We offer our sincere sympathy to the family of JCGS member, Franlde Jean Shelton Stewart. Our
condolences to members: Naomi Beck Seago, R. O. Wilson, Rachel Brown Phillips, Edith Jamison
Cabe, Jim Wheatley, and Pearl Brown Smith on the passing of their family members.
A good friend to the society, who allowed us to interview her and put her life on paper, passed away on 2
Jan 2013. Mrs. Nancy Jane Shook' Chastain passed away after a long and eventful life. She enjoyed
being independent, having her own garden, canning and making quilts for people in need. She was born
on 23 Oct 1909 to James Marion and Clercy Jane Hooper Shook, She will be missed by many.
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Q u e r y
We received two queries from Mrs. Linda McGuire of Durant, Oklahoma. She is a great-granddaughter of
James and Elizabeth Parker Moore. Hopefully, some of the members may be able to help Mrs. McGuire.
First Inquiry: Would anyone have information about:
Elizabeth J. Parker; b. 25 Aug 1840 in North Carolina, d. 12 Jan 1904, Indian Territory,
Oklahoma. She married James A. Moore; b 5 Apr 1830 in North Carolina, d. 10 Mar 1910. They came
to Indian Territory about 1890. Their daughter, Ella Wike remained in East La Porte. North Carolina.
My grandmother, Lula Caro Wells, lived in Indian Territory.
Second Inquiry: Does anyone know where the Masonic Lodge was located in East La Porte? James A.
Moore, a carpenter, is supposed to have carved the door to this lodge, and I would like a picture of it.
If you can help, contact Mrs. McGuire at: [email protected]
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J C G S P h o t o A l b u m u
S o c i e t y P r e s e n t s A w a r d s a t D e c e m b e r a n n u a l m e e t i n g .
From left to right: B. B. "Bud" Cantrell, James Monteith accepting for Kay Keefer Monteith, Ben H.
Battle, Jr, and Jane Gibson Nardy. Picture used with permission of the Sylva Herald.
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The Jackson County Genealogical Society presented its yearly awards as is customary at the annual
meeting. Three persons - Sue Kilby Fouts, Ben H. Battle, Jr. and Kay Keefer Monteith received the
JCGS Patron Award for their benevolent support of the Society.
The Daniel Washington Deitz Memorial Award was presented to longtime JCGS Vice-President B. B.
"Bud" Cantrell. Bud has served the Society in numerous ways, most notably as one of the program
chairmen, and always with his trademark grin.
Winner of the Robert Lee and Drucilla Holden Award for Distinguished Service to Genealogy was Jane.
Gibson Nardy. A JCGS life member, Jane is the author of several books, many articles (including some
for this publication), and is one of the mainstays of the Cashiers Historical Society. Accepting her award
with her usual wit and grace, Jane gave an anecdotal story that proves the "superiority" of genealogists.
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These Photographs are two of the
many from the estate of our late
member Willa Mae Dills Scroggs.
While we are not sure of the
identities of these persons, the
pictures are interesting examples of
social history relative to style.
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Also from the Scroggs pictures, and speaking of social history, we
don't find it bizarre to add a picture of "Old Sparky," the state's
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This fabulous picture is a likeness of Mrs. Sophia Hipps (1870-1956). She was the mother-in-law of one
of the Dillsboro Hensley family. Picture submitted by JCGS member Jean Hooper Scott.
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This Civil War portrait above is of Stephen H. Miller, who served in the North Carolina 29th. This picture
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S c o t t F o u n d a t i o n S c h o l a r s h i ps ^J
At the JCGS Christmas dinner and awards program in December, President Ken Nicholson
announced the endowment of a scholarship program to be administered by the Society. JCGS members
Jim and Jean Hooper Scott of Tryon provided a generous start-up fund to originate this program. A
Society committee was named and it has since met to establish the scholarship rules and parameters.
Applicants must be students at Smoky Mountain High School, Blue Ridge High School and Early
College, Jackson County Early College, or the Jackson County School of Alternatives. The applicant
must also write an essay related to family or genealogical research. The winners will then report to the
Society within one year.
In the first year, two scholarships valued at $750.00 each are to be awarded. Checks will then be
made to the college or university of the winners.
W o u l d y o u l i k e t o c o n t r i b u t e?
Make checks specifically to the Scott Foundation Scholarship Fund, and send to the Society's post office
address. This gift, of course, is tax deductible.
JCGS member Linda Hughes Collins with her great-grandson, Spencer Fitzgerald, who fished the
winning tickets in the JCGS raffle last October.
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O f M o u n t a i n s , M o u n t a i n P e o p l e , a n d M o u n t a i n W a t e r s
T h a t C a l l T h e i r C h i l d r e n H o m e
[Ed. The following article was written and submitted by JCGS member Don Casada. Its principal subject, Elizabeth Holt, is a
granddaughter of JCGS member Christine Cole Proctor.]
Close on the heels of dog days, on a warm September morning, a shuttle boat carried a gathering of folks
across Fontana Lake. Shortly after leaving the launch area at Cable Branch, the boat passed over the
streambed of what was once a fine mountain river.
From way back in the mountains, hundreds of feeder streams laughed, jumped, played, and sang along
their descending way. Boisterous waters showered diamond sprays of life onto the stream banks where
ramps, sarvis, squirrel corn, bluets and yellow root reaped the blessings of their contagious joy. They
were living, life giving waters.
Trickles became branches, branches became forks, and forks became creeks. The accumulated
collections fed the Oconaluftee, Tuckaseigee, Nantahala and Little Tennessee Rivers, waters eons older
than the Cherokee names which predated the arrival of white men. The Tuckasegee, a man among men
flowing on an east-west course, met the south-to-north flowing lady of the Little Tennessee. It was love
at first sight, and the couple was married near the place that would become the little town of Bushnell.
Tuck, the gentleman, defied human convention and took on the name of his bride. Although they called
themselves the Little Tennessee, it was Tuck's east-west course that they followed from that point on, in
deference to his better judgment. For Tuck, unlike the sweet Little T, drew much of his life blood from
the Great Smoky Mountains which they would skirt along the rest of their way. Of all those who traveled
these mountains, no one knew every holler like Old Tuck.
Now more mature in demeanor than in their earlier rambunctious ways, the two that were now one
inclined to a gentler course, as if on a front porch swing of a Sunday afternoon. But they could still kick
up their heels every now and then. Like all couples, they'd occasionally have their issues, separating to
the left and the right around Calhoun Island near Wayside. Differences resolved, they rejoined hands
downstream, and the family continued to grow along the way.
Damned by progress and dammed by the TVA, laughter and family ties along this section of the Little
Tennessee have been silenced and broken for seven decades. The life-giving energy from North Carolina
Counties of Jackson, Macon (Macon's part includes a charitable donation from Rabun County, Georgia),
Graham and Swain is deadened by the dam, harvested by turbines, and sent by wires without payment
into Tennessee. The formerly vibrant river lies buried beneath 370 feet of stagnant water and silt
accumulation at the point where our boat passed over.
Our destination was Hazel Creek, a place where unhindered waters still flow and echoes of laughter yet
linger, unreachable by the roads of an uncivilized world. There are those who despair the lack of road
access to this land, including some of our little company. A sense of betrayal by the same federal
government - which took the land that many called home - underlies the despair. But were there now a
road to this place, I fear that the song it sings softly in minor mountain key would be lost in the discordant
strife and the noise. That has certainly been the case for Cades Cove, located just across the spine of the.
Smokies, where an armada of automobiles daily assault what was once a place of perspicacious people
imbued with both the spirit and ability to make do.
There are reasons aplenty to go to this place and others like it. I routinely find myself seeking the refuge
of walking and crawling, sometimes tumbling and sliding through these mountains, most often alone.
Whisperings of advice and signs of parental affection — as well as stern admonitions - from these
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mountains (which are indeed our parents) are most readily perceived by the wonderfully lonesome, if .
somewhat prodigal, child. ^—^
But on this day, I was glad to be in the company of some like-minded companions. Though seeking a
place, ours was not a search for solitude. We were intent on congregating, cornmitting, honoring, and
remembering.
Proctor
The particular place on Hazel Creek to which we were headed has been known since the late 1800s as
Proctor. Sometime before 1830, Moses and Patience Proctor settled here and began raising a family.
Their home place was on what is now known as Shehan Branch in Possum Holler. It empties into Hazel
Creek - or directly into the lake itself when it is full - almost four miles from where Hazel Creek once
emptied into the Little Tennessee River.
The Proctors had come over the main spine of the Smokies from Cades Cove. If it was solitude and
elbow room they sought, they found it. Based on the sequence of names in the 1830 Macon County
census (this area is now in Swain County, but Swain wasn't formed until 1871) and knowledge of where
other families located, it was likely well over a half-dozen miles to their closest neighbors. Something
just felt right about this particular place, so they carved out a home and a life for themselves and their
children here. Bradshaws, Cables and others were soon to come to the area, but it remained sparsely
populated for decades.
In 1848, Joseph Brackett composed the Shaker Hymn, "Simple Gifts". Though penned a thousand miles
away near the northeastern end of the Appalachian Mountain range, the words could well have applied to
the lives of Patience, Moses, and their children in the Hazel Creek valley: v /
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'tis the gift to come down where you ought to be.
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
It will be in the valley of love and delight.
Times and seasons pass; lives and circumstances change. The Civil War took away two of their sons,
Moses, Jr. and Mansfield. Moses, Sr. died, perhaps of a broken heart, in 1864. Patience lived to see the
end of the war and the return of two sons and a son-in-law, but according to family tradition described by
Duane Oliver in Remembered Lives, she was never the same. She died in 1870, and is buried beside
Moses on the ridge near their home.
Over time, their children and their children's children drifted to and fro, ranging up the river and across
the mountains back into Tennessee. Ritter Lumber Company arrived and set up a massive operation in
the early 1900s, providing hundreds of jobs - for a time. But by the late 1920s, the raw materials of the
entire Hazel Creek basin had been sawn, kiln dried, cut to dimension, and shipped away to become floors,
furniture, books and toilet paper, so Ritter Lumber closed shop. While there were still several dozen
farnilies who owned land and lived in the area, including some descendants of Moses and Patience, the
vast majority of the Hazel Creek drainage was now owned by land speculators such as Jack Coburn and
George Stikeleather (to whom Ritter had sold its vast holdings). Private fishing waters were established ,
with uninvited natives unwelcome.
Physical connections to vestiges of life as it had once been were completely severed by the construction
of Fontana Dam in the early 1940s. Exercising powers of what might be called pre-eminent domain with
a will, TVA acquired all lands on the north shore of Fontana, removed the people and turned the land over ^ j
to the Department of Interior for inclusion in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is worth
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/ noting here that the entire area along the north shore of the Little Tennessee had been coveted for the Park
^ ^ since the 1920's; in fact, it had been included in the original park outline, drawn in 1926.
hi the course of a century, Hazel Creek witnessed the coming of the first white settlers, an era of slow
increase in families on subsistence farms, followed by a period of rapid industrial and job growth, an
equally rapid loss of resources - an thus industry and its jobs. By the time the 1930 census was taken,
there were but two dozen individuals on the entire north shore who listed saw mill or logging as their
trade, and most of these were well to the east of Hazel Creek.
Just over a decade later, there was to be no more permanent human presence.
And yet .... even now, there is something about this place which seems to want people around, and it
Journeys Through Jackson Table of Contents, 1991-2013
No full textJourneys Through Jackson is the official journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. The journal began as a monthly publication in July 1991, was published bimonthly from 1994 to 2003, and continues today as a quarterly publication. The journal issues in this digital collection are presented as annual compilations.Table of contents
JCGS Interview with James Early Deitz • • • • • • • • • • • • •
1902 Voter Registration for Jackson county . . .
Death Certificate!_of Jackson county Persons Born Prior to 1900
1870 census of Jackson county . • • • • • • • • •
Carson Family Bible • • . • • • • • • • • • • • •
Delayed Birth Certificates of Jackson County Persons Born Prior to 1900
Whiteside Cove Cemetery Census
Blanton Cemetery census • •
John Dills Civil War Letter
Queries . • . . • • . . . . .
JCGS Interview with Jamea Early Deitz
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James Early Deitz was born on East Fork Road, Jackson County, 17 Dec 1899,
to William Thomas and Emory Wilson Deitz. His grandparents were Nathaniel and
Margaret Mirah Buchanan Deitz and Manson and Brunetta Cochran (Cockerham) Wilson.
The Deitz, Buchanan, Wilson, and Cockerham families were pioneer settlers in the
Savannah area of Jackson County.
Early Deitz had thr~e brothers: John Burch, William Richmond, and Samuel
Welch. There were five sisters: Ida D. Buchanan (Mrs. John w.); Lula D.
Buchanan (Mrs. Tolvin); Lillie D. Cabe (Mrs. Jim) 1 Nora Lee D. cowan (Mrs. Thad);
and Alice D. Cowan (Mrs. Cicero). All of these brothers and sisters remained in
the Jackson County area except Nora Lee, who lives in Sedro Woolley, Washington.
Early Deitz married Gladys Beatrice Herring, and they had three children:
James Monroe Deitz, Marian Sluder Hall (Mrs. Harold, Jr.·), and Eunice Deitz
Nicholson (Mrs. Paul B.).
Here are some comments from Early: "Few people attended much school. I
was luckier than many at that time. I went eight years to East Fork School, then
I went to Viewpoint and lacked about a month finishing 9th grade. Then I boarded
and was enrolled at Sylva Collegiate Institute for one semester. I attended East
Fork Baptist Church most of my life.
"Not much cash was available during my early days, but my parents had
several acres of land. The home where I was born waa torn down in later years.
OUr second·home built by my father still stands on East Fork.
"The main transportation was walking. I worked on the farm, blacksmith for
East Fork Mica Mine, and for Marson-Knutson Construction (Glenville Dam site);
Ne..P.,rt News, va., shipyard (carpenter); Camp Davis, Holly Ridge near Wi·lmington
(carpenter); Oak Ridge, TN (carpenter); Utah Construction co. (when railroad was
changed for Fontana Dam) in Almond. I was a state prison guard at Whittier and
finished my years of employment as a carpenter in the sign shop of the N. C.
Dept. of Transportation. I retired at 65. Today, I still garden, make walking
canes and ox yokaa, and read for hobbies.~
Another activity Early enjoys is visiting cemeteries. He has a vast
knowledge of the cemeteries in the Savannah area and was instrumental in placing
a marker for his great-great-grandparents, Richard and Rachel Strain Wilson, at
an old cemetery located just south of East Fork Road.
Interviewed by Daniel w. Deitz (nephew), May 27, 1991.
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• . . -~0. ..~ . ' • t: JOGS Interview witp Mrs. Milmie Lee Harr'is. Arexander
1889 Otiitiiarli!iir iind' Death iMh!:ies • • • .- '· •
1902' Voter'Ragl:'s~ration fo.r''Jackson' county· . ': :
Death Cert:ificiates of Jackson·'county Per~ons Born Prior to 1900
1870 Census of':'Jackson 'County •;. • .·'-. • • . · . • ..
Jackson County Marriage'Regist~r ~853-1873 ..••••
Olivet Cemetery census ! ..-: •• • ·• ·• • ··.f • . • • . . • . • • •
Delayed Birth ··eeri:if.i<:lates 'of Jackso'n County Persons Born Prior to +900
Queries . • • • • • • • ' · ...
Charter Membership List • • . • • • • • • . • • . • • •
JOGS' Inter'17ie>( wi~h Mrs. Minnie Lee Harris ,Alexander
June 6, 1991
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Mrs. Alexander, a cheerful, friendly lady of more than 100 years, was
tickled to have a visitor •. The rqad to her daughter's home was lined with
rhododendron and othe:r;' fl~q;.,~.;; ~+.'1 in full bloom, a,;d she commented that it was
always pretty when the flowers bloomed.
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' ;· '' ••• j r· • Mrs. Alexaqder' was borri ih ~utherford County, date unknown. Her parents
were Columbua··aud Rach~l ~~cr~~g''l '!f~rris; R~s:he1 was the daughter of pickson and
Selena Hawkins sc'ruggs;'"iftef"C6luiUbus died, Rachel and Minnie came to Jackson
County in a covered wagon. Minnie had brothers Richard, Felix, and Marion, and
a sister, Susan, all.of,whom ~tayed in Rutherford county. There may have been
other sibl;irtgs, '!.hoi:'Lan•l;'·~u'i:e', ">tq:chel m~rried Javan Parker, date and place
.... • I'• I • •1 " (il: ~I.; i • • unknown; she di.eq A:prii'"lO·, l92p, ani! is buried at Sol's creek .
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Minnie Harri• married Jut Carey Alexander on August 8, 1910, with the
ceremony performed by Rev. J., ~f. f"'.'~n !lt t,~e home of j1er mother. They ·had four
children: Rachel (10-7-1911); Tolvin Raymond (9-30-1914); Willie Amanda (ll-6-
1919) 1 and Marga.ret ( 9.-14-192~) < •"/A'i.q whom she make.s her home. Rachel married
Allen Hoxit and lives in Transylvania County; Willie married Shirley Mathis and
lives in Syll7a; 'folvin married Z\ll,if: .. ~l.pholson and, af~er .her death, Jo Parker,
and they. live .at Tuc~aGeeg~.t'/ a~~·:¥a7ga,;:~!' married Eldon Mathis and lives in
Little Canada. When aeJ<ed how m~ny "l<~'l~?h~ldren .she h!L~• Mrs. Alexander laughed
heartily and said, "Lots!" There are great-great-great grandchildren, but many
of them live a~':'Y· Jut Carey Alel'~!lder.,si.ied in 1962 and is buried in the Sol's
Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, w~~e th~ ~lexanders have been members for many,
many years.
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Although Mrs. Alexander is .. har~ .• '?,~ ~l'!.'!f~n\1~ s~e has a keen mind and enjoys
life. She laughs frequently and always'has a smile on her face. She remembers
living in a "bo~ed-up hoqBe" and .. ~n~w ..b.l£,w.l.n\l J.n_ .through the cracks in the walls.
Cooking was done on the firep~ce. ,She,~eot to school a little bit, not much,
I _.I.. . .),." because "I didn't want to learn.'' One of her favorite .4ctivities was chasing the
boys around the achoolhouSJe to kiss them, and she-- referred specifically to
sterl.ing Melton, a well-known minist.er in,,.":~q_~so~<Coun~y, wh? wa11 "a little boy"
when she was "a great big girl." ?he .mov.e\i away l!lnd worked 1.n a cotton mill for
• . - -. . . •••• 'J. a while, but carne back and has lived in Canada ever since.
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A King in Every Tree . • . • • • • • • • • • • .
Death Certificates of Jackson County Persons Born Prior to 1900
1902 Voter Registration for Jackson County
Delayed Birth Certificates of Jackson County Persons Born Prior to 1900
1870 Census of Jackson County
East Fork Cemetery Census
Queries . . . .
Pedigree Charts . . • .
A King in Every Family Tree
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Ancestor worship didn't die when Mao Tse-tung purged old China; it still
flourishes in these United States, rampantly in the South, persistently in New
England.
Almost none of us, it sometimes seems, can resist the temptation to swing
occasionally from our family tree or, lacking a suitable one, invent one to match
our aspirations. Either way, we can do so confident that since all of us are the
children of Adam, we all can claim we are nobly descended. And in we can afford
the price of our vanity, we all can find somebody who will sell us a coat of
arms.
Lest modesty deny you your birthright, consider the mathematics of
probability. No matter how low your present social status, the odds are that
somewhere in your background there was a castle and perhaps a King. And lest
your pride swells too greatly, the odds equally favor in your ancestry both
rogues and roues.
To understand the probabilities, begin with the ancestors you know.
Everybody has two parents. Working back from there, even if you aren't certain
of their names, you can count four grandparents, and eight great grandparents.
If you carry your calculations back still farther, the total of ancestors over
a span of say 64 generations would be virtually beyond counting.
If you take one generation as the equivalent of 20 years, 64 generations
would equal 1,280 years. Thus in approximately 13 of the 20 centuries since the
Nativity, we all have inherited some of the nobility and some of the villany of
18,446,744,073,709,551,615 people.
That fantastic figure is cited in reference books as the classic example
of the difficulties of accurately and honestly tracing a family's genealogy.
Large as it is, it has not discouraged either the hundreds of us who every year
retain genealogists to trace ours, nor the thousands of us who, skipping the
genealogists, claim a common heritage with a name that happens to be the same as,
or similar to, our own.
Actually, the same ancestor appears several times in the family trees of
everybody, which reduces the total number of ancestors but still leaves the total
fantastically large.
Actually, too, none of us can know all our ancestors back more than a few
generations. Even in 10 generations, we have had 1,024 ancestors apiece. In
that number there would be as many we would not care to boast of as there would
of those we would proudly acclaim.
So whether you name happens to be Washington or Arnold, or Grant or Lee,
remember before you brag that you carry the genes of traitors as well as
patriots. Think upon that while you reflect upon your heraldry, and consider
that the least of those with whom you deal may, by the odds of genealogy, be
nobler than you.
Carolina Country Reader, Chaney, James (Ed) Moore Publishing co., Durham, 1973.
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JCGS Interview with Margaret Cordelia Hall cowan •
Death certificates of Jackson County Persons Born Prior to 1900
1902 Voter Registration for· Jackson county • ·: • • • •
Delayed Birth Certificates of Jackson County Persons Born Prior to 1900
1870 Census of Jackson County
East Fork cemetery Census
Queries • • • •
Pedigree Charts • • • • •
JCGS Interview with Margaret Cordelia Hall Cowan
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Margaret Cordelia "Delia" Hall wa8 born July 22, 1896, on East Fork of
Savannah, Jackson County, to Loranzie Do"! and Lily Ann Buchanan Hall. Her
grandparents were Joshua Kimsey it.\i'ct 'Ma~qaret Mal.is'l'a Buchanan Hall and ·James
Jasper and Martha Ann Dills Bllchanan:' The' )1&.11, Buchana{l, and Dills families
were all pioneer families in Jackson county.
Delia had three brothers:. Coleman (died as an infant), Norman Edward, and
Hampton Henry; and two sisters, Martna Victor'ia (Cabs) and Danah Lil (Deitz).
Delia 'Ball married Roystan Duffield cowan II, and they had six children:
Frankie Aileen (died as an infant), Bennie Dean (Settlemyre), Bernice (Higdon),
Leo Broughton, Lloyd Wilkes, Roystan Du~field "R.D.• III, and Roger Bryant, Sr.
Here are some c;omments from Delia Hall Cowan: "I was a part of large
families, hardworking and closeknit. Families were large, worked hard, yet
enjoyed life just· being together. We worked. together, suffered together, played
together, and prayed together, but die~ separately, be~ng bu~ied in the same
cemetery, where the graves ware mounded up and with no more than a simple stone
or stick for a markef.
"I married Roystan cowan, a neighbor, at age eighteen. Learning from my
mother (who was the best) I was immediately a good cook and a good seamstress.
cooking three meala a day over an old wood stove, especially in the wintertime,
was ·no easy task. However, it was always well worth it just to see six hungry
children, tired and hungry from work and play, gobble it all up.
"Meals were always great in that we raiaed all our food, other than flour,
lard, sugar, salt, and spices. The country ham, country eggs, fresh butter and
milk was always so good and delicious and wholesome. Healthy food grew healthy
children.
"The horse and buggy, sled, and wagon, were meana of transportation, yet
walking waa the moat common method. Large f~ilies walked together to church.
"The rugged farms and woodlands proyided lots of acreage to farm, garden,
mine, cut timber, ~ange 'livestocK, ~d· pick i~uits and berries. Picking wild
strawberries in the spring, blac~rries in the summer, and gathering the tasty
abundant varieties of apples in the fall were alwaye exciting. Wheat-threshing,
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Samuel McJunkin 1725 - 1808 •••.•......
Death Certificates of Jackson County Persons Born Prior to 1900
1902 Voter Registration for Jackaon county ...
Delayed Birth Certificates of Jackson County Persons Born Prior to 1900
1870 Census of yackson County
East Fork Cemetery Census
Queries . . . .
Pedigree Charts . . . .
Saauel McJunkin 1725 - 1808
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On October 12, 1991, a DAR plaque was placed in Riverside cemetery,
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, honoring Samuel McJunkin, Revolutionary War patriot.
Samuel McJunkin has descendants in Jackson County.
The great-great-granddaughter of Samuel McJunkin was Rosa catherine
McJunkin, who married George Hiram Cope; their eon was William Barton Cope of
Sylva. The following information was provided to ••Journeys Through Jackson'' by
Mrs. John W. Andrawa III, daughter of William Barton and Bonnie Monteith cope.
"Samuel McJunkin married Anne Bogan at Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church,
Wilmington, Delaware on 9 Sap 1754. Samuel, son of Robert McJunkin and Margaret
Caldwell, was born about 1725 at County Tyrone, Ireland. samuel came to America
about 1740. Anne Bogan waa born about 1729 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
daughter of William and Elenore Bogan.
"In 1755, samuel left hie home in Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania due to the
Indian tribes being in a atate of hostility immediately after General Braddock's
defeat in the French and Indian War. With many others, the McJunkin family moved
south arriving at Tinker's creek, four milee from the present site of Union
County court House, South Carolina on 24 Dec 1755. Samuel's sone Major Joseph,
Daniel, and Samuel, Jr. served in the Revolution, another son waa killed in the
Revolution. Samuel and Anne McJunkin had the following other children: John
McJunkin, Jane McJunkin, Margaret (wife of Captain Robert Beatty), Nancy Anne
(wife of Captain Daniel .Comer).
"Samuel was an elder in the Brown's Creek Presbyterian Church for forty
years. Recorda show Samuel McJunkin as soldier #300 in the Cherokee expedition
commencing in October 1759, commanded by Colonel John Chevillette of the South
carolina Militia. He was at the battle of Fort Prince George, s. c. Samuel
furnished provisions to the Frontier Forts at Fort William Henry on the Enoree
River in 1762.
"George III gave samuel a grant for 150 acres in Berkley county, 13 Feb
1768. samuel was a magistrate under the Royal Government. He took a leading
part in the debates preceding the Revolutionary War. During the Revolution,
Samuel aupported the Whigs and was held priaoner by the British during the Battle
of Cowpens. He waa a member of the Legislature that met at Jacksonboro in 1782.
His name can be found on the firat censua of the United State• (1790) in Ninetysix
District, Union County, s. c. The upper district between Broad and Saluda
River elected him to the Fourth (1782) and Seventh (1787-1788) General
Assemblies.
"Anne Bogan McJunkin died during the Revolutionary War near Broad River in
the vicinity of Rev. Or. Joaeph Alexander's home. Anna came to care for her son
Major Joseph McJunkin, took amallpox from him and died 17 Apr 1781 at Whitmire,
York Co., s.c.
•on 17 Mar 1808, Samuel sold hia plantation to hie son-in-law Captain
Robert Beatty and started with othera to the Indiana Territory to join his
youngest son John. On the trail he became ill and died at the home of John
Wilkins on Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky on 25 Apr 1808 and was buried
in a roadside grave. This OAR marker is placed in Riverside Chapel,
Hopkinsville, Kentucky to perpetuate hia memory.•
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Table of COntent•
Voluae 2 Ruaber 1, January 1992
Dills Cemetery Cenaua • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • . .
Death Certificate& of Jackson County Persons Born Prior to 1900
Delayed Birth Certificates of Jackson county Peraona Born Prior
1902 Voter Regiatration for Jackaon County
1870 Census of Jackaon county • •
Locust Field cemetery Cenaua
Thompson (Buchanan) Family Bible
1991 Annual Report • • • • • • •
Dilla C..etery canaua
. . . 1 . . . 2
to 1900 3
4
6
8
10
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This small cemetery ia located in Dills Cove in Sylva. Thia cenaua, taken in
June 1991, waa submitted by Dorrie Beck.
Robert Ulyaaee Garrett
Joyce s. Dills Garrett
Robert U. Garratt Jr.
Annie Josephine Garrett
Juanita Kohn Garratt
Theodocia A. Garrett
09/13/1876 - 09/27/1964
04/27/1879 - 08/11/1971
05/05/1900 - 11/05/1966
06/27/1917 - 06/16/1936
10/30/1901 - 02/28/1976
06/09/1905 - 08/18/1984
Allan Bartlett Dilla 06/02/1848 - 07/14/1939
Celinda Joaephine Dills 10/31/1844 - 02/12/1931
Allen Jonah Dilla
Cora Benaon Dills
Margie E. Dills
Hal A. Dilla
John Samuel Higdon
Laura Dilla Higdon
06/03/1881 - 10/15/1961
06/25/1884 - 10/14/1953
12/21/1910 - 05/21/1915
07/09/1909 - 07/18/1909
02/16/1873 - 04/26/1965
05/26/1875 - 06/07/1968
Jamee Earneat Woolley, Sr. 12/08/1918 - 08/30/1991
Theodoaia Dilla Died 10/05/1901 Age 22y, 6m, 15d
Iaola Dilla Thoaa•
Guy B. Thoma•
Infant Thomas
Lois Leslie Bryaon
Thaddeua Clingman Bryson
Cleoma Haaeltine Bryaon
01/04/1873 - 09/28/1952
08/10/1903 - 08/30/1903 [Son of B.W. & Isola]
Diad 05/08/1900 [Son of B.W. and Isola Thomas]
11/11/1899 - 07/31/1901 (Son of T.C. & Tina]
05/17/1869 - 07/28/1965
07/02/1876 - 09/19/1963
05/28/1871 - 11/25/1925
04/17/1901 - 06/17/1921
John s. Forater
Lexoua Dilla Forater
Marjorie Forater 03/14/1921- 01/13/1928 (G-dau of Delzamo Dills Foratar]
Etna Dill• Forater
William Allan Forster
Patricia W[oolley) Burton
02/11/1874 - 01/13/1956
07/11/1909 - 04/03/1961
07/26/1942 - 02/03/1981
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Voluae 2 Number 2, February 1992
JOGS Interview with Ora Ethel coleman • • • . • •
Death Certificates of Jackson County Persons Born
Family Bible of John M. Bryaon • • • •
1902 Voter Registration for Jackaon county
1870 Cenaua of Jackson County
Locust Field Cemetery Census
Queries • • . • • • • • • • •
Prior to 1900
JCGS Interview with ora Ethel COl ... n
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[Interviewer's Note• Miaa Coleman'• 4th great grandfather waa Revolutionary War
soldier John Stiles (l Feb 1757 • 17 Sap 1833). John and hi• wife Sarah (1754-
17 Oct 1818) raised ten children in present day Jackson County. John and sarah
are buried in the Dilla Cemetery in Sylva.
Ora Ethel COleman was born in Cherokee county, NC on 13 Apr 1891 to Gamaliel and
Harriet Elizabeth Stiles Coleman. Her grandparents were Rev. Absalom and Jane
Elizabeth Kilpatrick Coleman and John L. and May Anne Sutton Stiles. Ethel had
nine aiblinga, Vivian Lesley, Bessie, Owen Decatur, Ulysses washington, Willis
Gamaliel, Floria Mayannie, Absalom Winfred, Janie Elizabeth, and William Butler.
Ethel waa raised in the Peraimmon Creek community in an area now part of the
HiwassQe Lake district. Concerning her life, Ethel •aid, wx am the oldaat of ten
children. My father was a farmer, carpenter, deputy sheriff, Justice of the
Peace, and singing leader of the Hiwassee Baptist Church. I went to school, but
I didn't learn much. I did learn to read and write. I began to cook at the age
of seven. I could make the best biscuits you ever ate. I'd like to have some
of my biscuits now."
"My father used to take people across the Hiwassee River on a flatboat. When I
was about 15, a man and hia wife and their two children wanted Pop to take them
across. Well, they got about halfway over, and the man just got up and jumped
in the river. After they got him out, the doctor said he was dead before he hit
the water because there was not a drop of water in hie lungs."
After World War I, several of Ethel's brother• went to Athens, TN, to live and
work. Since hia sons were doing wall in McMinn county, Gamaliel decided to move
the rest of the family to Athena. In November l920, they moved to Athens in four
covered wagona. The wagons traveled on.present•day Highways 64 and 441.
Ethel and her sister Bessie, neither of whom married, lived with their mother and
father until they died in 1956 and 1959, respectively. When Bessie died in 1983,
Ethel went to live at the Athena Life Care, where ahe is today. Ethel could paaa
for a woman 30 yeara her junior. She is in remarkably good health and is seldom
sick. She said, "When I go to bad, I alaap like a baby."
Laat April, on her lOOth birthday, many friends and relative• came to celebrate
her long life, and President Bush aant a congratulatory meaaage. Ethel aang
several of her favorite gospel hymns tor her friends and family.
Interviewed by 5th couain, David Stile• oo 20 Jan 1992.
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Volwae 2 Nuaber 3, March 1992
Jack•on County Sunday School Rally of 1903
1902 Voter Regi•tration for Jackaon county
Delayed Birth Certificates of Jackaon County Persona Born
1870 Cenaua of Jackaon County • • •
Family Bible of w. H. Haaket
Family Bible of Jacob Marion Shuler
Locust Field Cemetery census • • •
Prior to 1900
Jackson County Sunday School
RALLY
AT RIVER HILL CHURCH
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 AND 25, 1903
PROGRAM
SATURDAY
A.M. 10:00 Oponi,ng Exercite
10:10 Address of welcome: T. G. Picklesimer
Re-.poMe: Prof. CharJH E • .EillcJns, Principe', Svtv• Collegjare Institute
10:35 Buaine ..
10:45 Song
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10:50 Addr .. t, wHow to get more ot our young people into Sunday Schoot•; R. F. Jerren. General discussion led
by R. V. Btown
P.M.
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