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Journeys Through Jackson 2013 Vol.23 No.01

Author: Jackson County Genealogical Society (N.C.);
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Publication date: 01/01/2013
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93.50 (shipped to your homo.or office!) TOTAL BOOKS TO BE SHIPPED TOTAL BOOKS TO BE PICKED UP .TOTAL ENCLOSED D E A D L I N E : M a r c h 1 5 , 2 0 13 Name Address City. State/Zip_i_ SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO: Jackson Co., Heritage -:1992 Vol. 1 reprint Jackson Co. Genealogical Society. PO.Box2108 Cullowhee, NC 28723-2108 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2013 \ y F o r m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n c o n t a c t : ; T h e J a c k s o n Co. G e n e a l o g i c a l S o c i e t y | 828-631-2646 o r 1 K e n o r K a r e n N i c h o l s o n . ; 828-586-2590 < A n n o u n c i n g t h e R e p r i n t i n g of T h e H e r i t a g e o f J a c k s o n C o u n t y , N C V o l . O n e - 1 9 9 2 i For f u r t h e r d e t a i l s c o n t a c t: I T h e J a c k s o n C o . G e n e a l o g i c a l Society \ l Kenny and Karen Nicholson 828-586-2590 j [email protected] ! Tim Osment 828-273-761? 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Expenses •• Advertisements' Dues/Memberships other societies • -., Insurance , Library Purchases - Cowan Fund Miscellaneous- copier contract Miscellaneous-Purchases for Resale - Miscellaneous-Awards •. . Office Supplies.. . Postofflce Box Rent Postage i/ Prepaid postage . Printing/Copylng/Reproducing Program Presentation/Meals . . Fund Raiser. Office Rent, Storage Unit Sales Tax Paid- Utilities-Telephone , Internet: DnetWebsite.Domain. A Total Expenses -• . ." ; ., . Net Income -..'.', •" v •• • •' . '•' Ending Balance- . Certificates of Deposit Prepaid postage • permit 22 Total Cash Assets YTD 9,269.20 4,079.93 224.25 133.79 826.01 10,333.00 200.00 4.80 825.00 2,180.00 750.00 160.25 318.47 (18.10) 20,017.40 29,288.60 ; ..•-'• - 100,00 140.00 604.00 9343 282.51 217.50 463.11 557.23 100.00 298.63 468.17 4,090.82 ; 50.00 1,626.48 4,536.00 ! 243.96 ; 733.58 392.87 14,896429 : \ ;• 5,121.11 . " >•. 14,390.31 2,214.60 31.09 16,638.00 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2013 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. V_^ 10 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2013 ^ ^ 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 11 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2013 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 12 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2013 / 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

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Journeys Through Jackson 2002 Vol.12 No.11-12

Author: Jackson County Genealogical Society (N.C.)
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Publication date: 10/07/2017
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Journeys 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.» Ky J o u r n e y s T h r o u g h ^ 3 S J 2 E S P > S J a c k s o n Ky QB W Ky T h e O f f i c i a l J o u r n a l o f 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. V o l . X I I , N o . 11 - 12 N o v e m b e r - D e c e m b e r 2002 JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. 2002 Officers President Dorris D. Beck Vice President L. Roy Shuler Secretary Lynn Allen Treasurer David C. Frizzell Librarian Dorris D. Beck Office Manager Peggy Q. Mason Computer Coordinator Deanne G. Roles Chair, Publications (Editor) R. Larry Crawford 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 for other non-profit groups. From the Editor We finish this year in the Jackson County Genealogical Society with a wide range of feelings and emotions. In this past year alone, we have said goodbye in these pages to an unusually high number of our friends in the Society, and we never do so without the ambivalence of loss and hope for a rewarding eternity. For all of those families who have had their Uves touched in this way, we again offer our sympathy. In another respect, we have had the most successful year in the history of our Society. When Tommy Sutton, James Massingale, Thomas Kryssbek, and Paul Lindsay paid membership dues late in the year, they pushed us over another membership record. We thank you gentlemen, one and all. Another wonderful gift came to the Society from JCGS member Hazel Barker, and with its impetus, the Society voted to purchase a new microfilm machine. We now have a very fine reader at the office, and a number of donated rolls of film. The Society plans to purchase more rolls in the future, so that we may have yet another resource for the good of our membership. We don't live in a perfect world, nor is our group a perfect microcosm. But we will take what we have and be grateful for the opportunity to preserve more of the history of Jackson County's families. We have some of the most interesting meetings held in Western North Carolina, and those meetings are always well-attended. Philosophically, we have a healthy abhorrence of both sloth and snobbery, and we work diligently to ensure their continued absence. May all of you have the happiest holiday ever, and may all of you renew your membership. V i s i t u s a t o u r W e b s i t e : h t t p : / / w w w . j c n c g s . c o m/ y y y Journeys Through Jackson November - December 2002 T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Expressions of Sympathy 171 JCGS Photo Album i 172 - 1 7 4 The Family of Silas a n d Eva Brooks Buchanan 175 - 1 7 9 JCGS L i b r a r y Acquisitions 180 The Descendants of A b r a h am Enloe .-. 181 - 182 First Families of Old Buncombe 183 - 1 8 5 Mystery Photos 186 The Fullbright Ancestry of Danny Jones 187 - 1 9 0 Ochre Hill C h u r c h Books 191 - 1 9 2 JCGS Membership for 2002 .-. 193-200 Where J C G S Members Live t ...; 201 Happy Holidays : ! 202 Index 203-204 In Memory We dedicate this issue of Journeys Through Jackson to the memory of JCGS member Dave Broom of Vader, Washington. We offer our sympathy to his wife Carol, also a JCGS member, and to all of the members of the Broom family. We also offer our sincere sympathy to JCGS member Christine Cole Proctor on the recent loss of her husband Troy. Our neighbors, friends, and cousins in Swain County lost a good one in Troy. Heaven's gain. Ky 171 Journeys Through Jackson November - December 2002 J C G S P h o t o A l b um y KJ We are always glad when JCGS member Carl Sutton makes a trip through Jackson County, because he has a talent for finding (and sharing) old photographs in his family. On this page, Benjamin Evans Buchanan and his first family. In the front row are Victoria Nancy, age 7; Benjamin, holding Octa; Maude B., age 4. In the back are James Nathaniel, age 15; the wife and mother, Josepha Lucille Elmore Buchanan; Emma E., age 17; William Elmer, age 11; and Enley E., age 8.[Ed. This photograph would have been taken in 1899, since Emma (Mrs. Arthur Allen) was born in 1882, and Octa (Mrs. Bedford Ensley) was born in 1898.] y 172 Journeys Through Jackson November - December 2002 J C G S P h o t o A l b um Carl also shares with us this picture of Benjamin -Evans Buchanan, this time with part of his second family in the yard of the farm house. In the front are Mary Alethia (1910-1988), Buchanan, Wade Hampton (1911-1988), second wife Carolina Buena Vista Isabelle Thompson (1880-1955), William Roosevelt (1912-1999), and Missouri Ellener (1908-1988). The taller girl in the back is Carrie, a daughter from the first family, 1901-1988. She would become Carrie Buchanan Ward. Benjamin Evans Buchanan and his second wife had eight children. C 173 Journeys Through Jackson November - December 2002 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m KJ y Now here is one for members to study around that winter fire. Carl Sutton relates that the man third from the right is Leroy Sutton (1891 - 1974), son of William Allen Sutton. Carl would like to know the identities of any of the other men, as well as the location and the type of business pictured here. We can see what appear to be bolts of cloth, grips, other luggage on the top, an umbrella, possibly shoeboxes. Was this a general mercantile business with dry goods. Help, members? y 174 Journeys Through Jackson November - December 20,02 T h e F a m i l y o f S i l a s a n d E v a B r o o k s B u c h a n a n [Ed. The following is submitted by JCGS member (and President) Dorris Dills Beck. Dorris emphasizes that she welcomes corrections and additions to this work.] i T h e F a m i l y o f S i l a s a n d E v a B r o o k s B u c h a n a n i n C e n s u s R e c o r ds 1850 Census, Macon County, NC Charles S. Buchanan 24 fanner b. Macon Co. Minerva Buchanan 21 b. Macon Co. Silas Buchanan 1 b. Macon Co. Note: According to the family Bible, Margaret Buchanan was bom 1 Nov 1850 and died 28 Dec 1851, and therefore does not appear on airy census. 1850 Census, Haywood County, NC 1860 Census, Jackson County, NC I860 Census, Jackson County, NC Ky Simpson H. Brooks 25 farmer Margaret Brooks 17 C(harles) S. Buchanan 34 fanner M(inerva) Buchanan 29 S(ilas) Buchanan 10 L(ucy) A(nn) Buchanan 8 M(artha) C(aroline) Buchanan 5 L(eander) Buchanan 4 M(ary) J(ane) Buchanan 2 W(illiam) D Buchanan 4 months S(impson) H. Brooks 35 farmer M(argaret) E(lizabeth) Brooks 27 E(va) E. Brooks ' 9 W(illiam) T. Brooks 6 J(ohn) W. Brooks 4 Charles Buchanan 44 farmer b. NC Minerva Buchanan 40 Silas Buchanan 21 Lucy A.. Buchanan 18 Martha C. Buchanan 16 Leander Buchanan 14 Mary J. Buchanan 12 William Buchanan ' 10 Sarah Buchanan 8 John J. Buchanan 5 Columbus Buchanan 3 Elender (Laura E.) 1 Note: Although Silas and Eva E. Brooks were married 24 Dec 1868, he still appears in this census with his family; however, Silas and Eva are both listed in this census in the household of his aunt and uncle Isaac and Martha (Buchanan) Mason, with whom he had lived through part of his childhood. 1870 Census, Jackson County, NC 175 Journeys Through Jackson November - December 2002 1870 Census, Jackson County, NC 1880 Census, Jackson County, NC Isaac Mason Martha Mason Silas Buchanan Eve Buchanan Silas Buchanan Eva Buchanan Martha F(lorence) Buchanan William C. Buchanan Sarah C(ordelia) Buchanan Laura L(ouetta) Buchanan Thomas J(udson) Buchanan 52 49 21 20 31 29 9 8 6 4 2 farmer keeping house farm laborer keeping house farm laborer y 1900 Census, Jackson County, NC Silas Buchanan (b. April 1848) 51 fanner Eve E. Buchanan (b. Nov 1846) 49 Martha F(lorence) (b. Jul 1870) 29 Tolvin E(stes) (b. Jul 1879) 20 James H(arley) (b. Mar 18 82) 18 Magnolia E(lizabeth) (Apr '85) 15 Dora E. (b. Jul 1887) 12 Silas N(elson) (b. Dec 1889) 10 Hattie B.(b. Oct 1892) 8 Freddy Lee (b. Jun 1895) 4 ArthurN.(b.Aprl895) 5 Note: Arthur was the son of Martha Florence and a grandson of Silas and Eva. Sources: United States Federal Census for Haywood County, North Carolina 1850; for Macon County, North Carolina, 1850; for Jackson County, North Carolina, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900; Buchanan Family Bible; Heritage of Jackson County, Vol. II. KJ D e s c e n d a n t s o f S i l a s B u c h a n a n a n d E v a B r o o k s B u c h a n an Silas Buchanan (2 Apr 1849-4 Oct 1905) was a son of Rev. Charles S. Buchanan (4 Feb 1826 - 31 May 1911) and Minerva Green Buchanan (17 Jun 1829 - 3 Nov 1909). His paternal grandparents were William Ramsey Buchanan (ca 1793 - 1870) and Margaret Stiles (B. 1800). His maternal grandparents were Silas Green and Lucena (Lucy) Sutton) Green. Silas married 24 Dec 1868 Eva E. Brooks (6 Nov 1850 - 17 Jul 1925), daughter of Simpson H. Brooks (15 Dec 1824 - 24 May 1893) and Margaret Elizabeth Panis (18 May 1833 - 27 Oct 1919). Her maternal grandparents were William Coleman Parris and Rhoda Cunningham. Silas Buchanan and Eva, Charles S. Buchanan and Minerva, and Simpson and Margaret Brooks are all buried in Old Savannah Baptist Church Cemetery. Children and Grandchildren of Silas and Eva Brooks Buchanan are the following: Martha Florence Buchanan (18 Jun 1870-20 Feb 1928) bur. Old Savannah (no marker) Arthur N. Buchanan (8 Apr 1894 - 14 Dec 1924) bur. Old Savannah (no marker) y 176 Journeys Through Jackson November - December 2002 Roy Buchanan ' V^/ Bob Buchanan (5 Sep 1907 - 24 Aug 1958) bur. Old Savannah (no marker) William C. Buchanan (1 Jul 1872 - 12 Jan 1935) m. 6 Sep 1891 Arie (Earie) Barker (daughter of Alfred and Ann Barker of Swain County). W.C. is buried at Old Savannah Leila Buchanan (16 Jun 1892, Alarka,. Swain Co.) i James Ellis Buchanan (Nov. 1893) Doshia E. Buchanan (b. Nov. 1895) ' Walter Buchanan (31 Jul 1897 - 27 Nov 1944) (born Alarka, bur.Swain Memorial Park) Bertha Buchanan (9 Mar 1899, Alarka) Silas A. Buchanan (11 Jun 1901, Alarka) Maggie Buchanan (2 Feb 1903, Swain County) Orpha Buchanan (27 Feb 1912 - 7 Sep 1927) buried Old Savannah- Bert Buchanan Lassie Buchanan Etta Buchanan Artie Buchanan Sarah Cordelia Buchanan (22 Mar 1874- 19 Nov 1936)'m. 27 Aug 1892-Robert Wesley Green (23 Sep 1875 - 24 Feb. 1954) Buried Old Savannah ' Ollie Vesta Green (4 Jun 1893 - 15*JuM920) (bur. Old Sava)inah) m. 9 Aug 1914 Jesse Grady Dills Laura BeUe Green (8 Dec 1894-21 Feb 1978) m. Jack Wykle (19 Feb 1895 - 23 Feb 1979) Both buried Old Savannah ' Prudence Kathryn Green (14 Oct 1896 - 14 Nov 1896) (Buried Old Savannah, no * j marker) ^ Lorenie Matilda Green (8 Sep 1897 - 11 Dec 1963) m. Kelse Jason McMahan (5 Mar 1895-2 Aug 1974) (Both buried Watauga Baptist Church Cemetery, Macon County) Martha AHetha (Mattie) Green (8 Jan 1900 - 22 Apr 1987) m. 23 Jun 1918 #1 Gaither Morgan; m. 2 Jan 1932 #2 Frank Trantham (2 Sep 1 9 0 8 - 1 9 May 1980), son of Estes and Iva Lee Buchanan Trantham. Mattie and Frank are buried at-Old Savannah. Thaddeus Austin Green (2 Aug 1 9 0 2 - 6 Dec 1973) m. 10 Sep 1922 Beulah Elba Cagle (25 May 1 9 0 5 - 6 Sep 1976) daughter of Burder" and Mattie Sutton Cagle. Austin and Beulah are buried at Old Savannah. I Gracie Ellen Green (10 Nov 1 9 0 4 - 3 Apr 1994) m. 26 Feb 1921 Jesse Grady Dills (1 Aug 1891 - 29 Aug 1945) (his'm. #2) , son of Marcus Lafayette and Lydia Caroline Sutton Dills. Gracie and Jesse are buried at Cullowhee Baptist Church Cemetery. Mary Magdalene Green (26 Mar 1907 - 28 Mar 1907) Buried Old Savannah, no marker Dorothy Evelyn Green (27 May 1 9 0 8 - 9 Oct 1990) m. John Nicholson ( 1 9 0 8 - 5 Apr 2000) son of John Allan and Tina Walker Nicholson. Dorothy and John are buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Gastonia, NC. Fannie Lovonia Green (5 Sep 1910) - 19 Feb 1995) m. 7Mar 1931 Otis Steve Byrd (25 Aug 1911 - 26 Apr 1985) son of George Lee and Elizabeth Johnson Byrd. Lovonia and Otis are buried at Harlem Memorial Cemetery, Harlem, GA. Silas Homer Washington Green (22 Feb 1913 - 29 Jun 1979) m. Kathleen Bryson (28 Jun 1917 - 25 Dec 2000), daughter of John Franklin and Delia Mae Stevens Bryson. Homer and Kathleen are buried at Fairview Memorial Gardens, Sylva, >JC. Annie Rozelle Green (20 Apr 1915-28 Jun 1978) m. Joseph Hobert Chambers (9 Jan 1906 - 22 Apr 1971). Both are buried at Crawford Memorial Gardens, Clyde, NC. L ^ Otho Wesley Green (11 Jul 1918 - 18 Oct 1922) Buried Old Savannah 177 Journeys Through Jackson November - December 2002 Laura Louetta Buchanan (10 Aug 1 8 7 5 - 2 Aug 1951) m. Clingman Lewis Green (28 Nov 1867 - 1 Jan 1959). Both are buried in Greens Creek Cemetery. Grover Cleveland Green (13 Jan 1893 - 10 Dec 1994) m. #1 Daisy Buchanan. Grover died at age 101, buried in Fort Bliss National Cemetery, El Paso, TX. Dewey Benjamin Green (3 Oct 1898 - 13 Aug 1973) m. Gracie Trantham (5 Mar 1910 - 14 Jan 1994) daughter of Estes and Iva Lee Buchanan Trantham. Dewey and Gracie are buried in Greens Creek Cemetery. Wiley Ray Green (23 Oct 1900-21 Feb 1987) never married. Buried Greens Creek Cemetery. David E. Green (22 Mar 1902-7 Feb 1958) Buried Greens Creek Cemetery. Eva Green (25 Jul 1904 - 31 Aug 1972) m. Lloyd David Keener (20 Jan 1890 - ) Both are buried in Lovedale Baptist Church Cemetery. Lula Green (1906 - 1983) m. Theodore R. Brooks (1904 - 1986), son of Varn Brooks. Lula and Theodore are buried in Pine Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. Mary Ethel Green (7 Dec 1908 - 12 Apr 1985) m. Gus P. Cochran (16 Apr 1895 - 5 Jul 1979). Both are buried in Greens Creek Cemetery. Lucy Green (22 Feb 1910 - ) m. Spurgeon Buchanan (9 Jun 1909 - 22 Oct 1977), son of Valley Buchanan. Spurgeon is buried in Greens Creek Cemetery. Leoma Green (26 Jan 1912 - 20 Mar 1986) never married. Buried Greens Creek Cemetery. Ferry Green (7 Jun 1918 - ) m. 15 Jul 1954 Inez Brooks Octie Green (30 Aug 1921 - ) m. B. Holmes Allison (18 Jan 1 9 1 2 - 2 2 Aug 1979) Buried Greens Creek Cemetery. Lenore Green (d. 28 Apr 1943) m. Nell Trantham. Lenore is buried in Greens Creek Cemetery. Lennie Green Thomas Judson Buchanan (3 Dec 1877 - 30 Jan 1961) m. #1 Ada Barker, daughter of Alfred and Ann Barker of Swain County. M #2 (Jul 1913) Florence Dills (17 Feb 1884 - 30 Nov 1962), daughter of William W. and Anna Rogers Dills. Jud and Florence are buried at Old Savannah. Fannie Buchanan (d. 19 Sep 1989, Canton, NC) m. Herbert Reynolds Lizzie Buchanan m. Weaver Nations Coy Lee Buchanan (4 Feb 1903 - 1 Feb 1978) Died in Virginia Edith Irene Buchanan (21 Sep 1914-4 Mar 1996) m. 10 Mar 1935 Jesse Elbert Carnes (24 Jul 1913-16 Jan 1999) son of Cance Davis and Lottie Ellen Gibson Carnes. Edith and Elbert are buried in Franklin (Long Branch) Cemetery. Winnie Eloise Buchanan (26 Nov 1916-15 Dec 1916 Johnny Buchanan (born and died 30 Dec 1917) Nora Birdell Buchanan (6 Jun 1919 - ) m. Edd Cope (10 Sep 1907 - 18 Jun 1995) Buried Old Savannah Gertrude Ethel Buchanan (13 Jan 1925 - ) m. 22 Sep 1946 Joseph Russell Lambert (27 Nov 1925 - 17 Nov 1949) Buried Bethel Cemetery, Cherokee. Tolvin Estes Buchanan (16 Jul 1879 - 1918) m. Lydia Hutchins (9 May 1887-31 Dec 1938), daughter of Franklin Pierce and Mary Tabor Hutchins. Dora Elvira Buchanan (4 May 1904 - ) m. William Newt Shuler Robert Leroy Buchanan (11 Nov 1906 - ) m. #1 Joann McGee; m. #2 Sarah Baker Fred G. Buchanan (19 Mar 1908 - ) m. #1 Winnie McGee; m. #2 Lodella Haynes Buenia Vesta Buchanan (16 Mar 1912 - ) m. Clyde Chambers Essie Nervina Buchanan (22 Dec 1914 - ) m. Hoyt Scarborough 178 KJ Ky y Journeys Through Jackson November - December 2002 Norman Estes Buchanan (22 Mar 1916 - 1 Jan 1966) m. Rpby Estella Davis (30 Mar W 1911 - ) James Harley Buchanan (27 Mar 1882-5 Mar 1943) m. #1(20 Sep 1903) Mary Trantham (d. 15 Aug 1921) No children. M. #2 Elba Brooks (27 Aug 1906 - 14 Feb 2002) Floyd Ray Buchanan (16. Jul 1925-2 Oct 1944) George Buchanan (6 Apr 1927 - ) m. 12 Jun 1953 Hazel Harkins (27 Sep 1931 - ) Sarah Azilee Buchanan (1 Jul 1929 - )-m. Ralph Henry Buchanan (10 Dec 1921 - 1 Jul 2002), son of Verlon and Laura Cloer Buchanan. Ralph is' buried in Georgia Memorial Park. . Elizabeth Magalene Buchanan (Maggie) (4 Sep 1933 - ) m. James Roy Cabe (3 Jan 1933 - 28 Dec 1976), son of Lyndon and Hattie Rickman Cabe. Roy is buried at Old Savannah. » Mary Carolyn Buchanan (4 Aug 1935 - ) m. Henry Clarence Moore (28 Jul 1928 - ), son of Claude and Dorothy Beasley Moore. Annie Dee Buchanan (5 Mar 1938 - ) m. Lester Conley Waldroop, Jr. (29 Apr 1930 - 2 Sep 1989) i Roberta Buchanan (-14 Apr 1942 - ) m. Ted Eugene Crawford (29 Jul 1939 - ) , son of James Alvin and Olive Stewart Crawford I Magnolia Elizabeth Buchanan (13 Apr11885 -^ 8 Apr 1973) m. Lee C. Estes (14 Mar 1878 - 20 Aug 1965) No children. Both are-buried at Old Savannah. Dora E. Buchanan (16 Jul 1 8 8 8 - 7 Jun 1941) m. James Arthur Allman (17 Mar 1884 - 23 Feb 1976), son of Polk and Elizabeth Stillwell Allman. Dora and Arthur are buried in Stillwell L . Cemetery. W William Polk'Allman (1909 - 8, Jan, 1987) m. Maude .Roland (d. 28 Nov 1995), daughter of William G. and Maggie Hall Roland Silas Nelson Buchanan (6 Dec 1 8 8 9 - 9 May 1955) m. 3 Jul 1913 Sallie Anna Sutton (13 Mar 1889 - 20 Oct 1980). Both are buried at Old Savannah. Edith Buchanan (2 Jul 1914 - ) m. 19-Mar 1934 Perry Hall (9 Apr 1910 - 4 Jan 1993), son of Sharm and Estella Childers Hall-. Perry is buried at Old Savannah. Eva Cordelia Buchanan ( 2 May 1917-22 May 1917) Clifford Weaver (Bill) Buchanan (6>Dec 1918 - 6 Jul 1961) m. Edith Cabe (24 Feb 1924 - ) , daughter of Candler T. and Pearl Hall Cabe. Bill is buried at Old Savannah. James Ralph Buchanan (22 Mar 1921-20 Feb 1988) never married. Willa Mae Buchanan (22 Jan 1923 - ) m. Claude Grover Green (22 Feb 1922 - 8 Mar 1987), son of Walter and Mattie Bell Green. Silas Vester Buchanan {27 Dec 1924 - ) lives Crescent City, CA. Ida Mae Buchanan (18 Sep 1927- 22 Dec 1999) m. #lk Jerry Mooney; m.#2'Edsel Quinn Hattie B. Buchanan (1 Oct 1892 - 29 Mar 1980),m. 19 Nov 1919 Hershel J. Hall (7 Dec 1888 - 10 Jul 1971) Both are buried ait Old Savannah. Charlie Craton Hall (bom and died 12 Dec 1921) Lessie Mae Hall (15 Aug 1925)m. Don Franks (1925 - 1984) Buried Old Savannah Bessie Lee Hall (9 Nov ,1928 - ) ^ ^ / (continued on page 182) 179 Journeys Through Jackson November - December 2002 J C G S L i b r a r y A c q u i s i t i o n s Call No. Author Title Donor 027.5 309.17 973.7 929.2 027.5 F 027.5 929.2 929.1 975.6 929.2 362.8 363.2 929.3 973.7 641.5 973.7 929.2 929.3 974.8 974.8 929.2 929.2 920 Cook, D. Louise Watts, Jim Lindsey, David Sherman, Robert M. U.S. NARA Von Rdsenburg, F.B. Colket, Meredith B. Stevens, Mildred Kerstens, Elizabeth Wike, Monte and Noma Johnson, Richard S. Tillman, Norma M. Davis, Burke Lunsford, William T. Clift, G. Glenn Eshleman, H. Frank Richards, H.M.M. Wykle, William B. Peters, E. Ann H. Hooper, Ben W. Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Atlanta Historical Society Generations: Your Family in Modern American History Americans in Conflict: The Civil War and Reconstruction Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Microfilm Resources for Research The Ring-Tailed Panther Guide to Genealogical Records in the National Archives All of Me From AtoZ 1995-96 APG Directory of Professional Genealogists The Heritage of Catawba County, Volume 1,1986 The Wike Family: Descendants of Jacob M. Weik of North Carolina Find Anyone Fast How to Find Almost Anyone, Anywhere Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790 The Civil War: Strange and Fascinating Facts Allen Family Recipes from the Descendants of D. Hubbard and Emily Allen The Photographic History of the Civil War The Lunsford Story Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865 Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania German in the Revolutionary War The History and Genealogy of the Wykle Family and Related Families Keeping Up With the Joneses The Unwanted Boy: The Autobiography of Governor Ben W. Hooper Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Purchase Monte, Noma Wike Betty Foti Betty Foti Purchase Purchase Dorris Beck Anonymous Jane Nardy Purchase Ann H. Peters Purchase Ky Ky Ky 180 Journeys Through Jackson Noyember - December 2002 ^ T h e D e s c e n d a n t s o f A b r a h a m E n l o e [Ed. We conclude in this issue with the Enloe work of JCGS member PJeggy Queen Mason.] 43. L u c i u s ARTHUR5 ENLOE (WILLIAM ASAPH (ACE/*, BENJAMIN MATTISON3, ABRAHAM2, ANTHONY1) was born 1876. He married PAULINE DEWEESE. Child of Lucius ENLOE and PAULINE DEWEESE is: i. GLENN ROBERT6 ENLOE, b. December 20,1911. 44. HERBERT C.5 ENLOE (WILLIAM ASAPH (ACE)*, BENJAMIN MATTISON3, ABRAHAM2, ANTHONY1) was born 1892. He married ANNE COCHRAN. She was bom 1895. Child of HERBERT ENLOE and ANNIE COCHRAN is: i. JUDSON HAMOND6 ENLOE, b. February 25,1927. i 45. GERTRUDE5 DILLS (ALICE MINERVA* ENLOE, WESLEY MATTHEW3, ABRAHAM2, ANTHONY*) was b om July 08, 1885, and died November 27, 1948. She married ERNEST LYNDON MCKEE August 19, 1913. He was born September 11, 1871, and died October 06, 1952. , Notes for GERTRUDE DILLS: Gertrude Dills McKee was a pioneer woman in North Carolina politics, being the first woman ever elected to the North Carolina Sena

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Journeys Through Jackson 2012 Vol.22 No.03

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Journeys 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.y y J o u r n e y s T h r o u g h J a c k s o n as i@7J w T h e Official J o u r n a l 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 Society, Inc. C V o l . X X I I , No. S u m m e r 2 0 12 JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC ^j 2012 Officers President Kenneth E. Nicholson Vice Presidents B.B. Cantrell, William L. Crawford Secretary Karen C Nicholson Treasurer E. Lawrence Morton Librarian Dorris D. Beck Office Manager Ruth C. Shuler WebMaster. Deanne G. Roles Computer Technician Jason N. Gregory Chair, Publications (Editor) Robert L. Crawford Journeys Through Jackson is the official publication of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. Members and non-members arc 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 Rosalind Rowlson Behrc.Sue Clement Bolick...Edith Jamison Cabe...Joy Cagle...Don Casada.. .Joyce Cooper.. .Shirley Denton Ensley.. .Sandra Fergus.. .Brad Gimmestad.. .Vicki Greene.. .Karen Grooman...Eucella P. Hamilton...Judy Harbour...Fern Parris Hensley...Tommy Jenkins...R.A. & JoAnn Luker.. .William A. McEntire Jr.. ..Michael J. McLain.. .Celia Hooper Miles.. .Frances Fisher Moore.. .Leslie A. Morgan...Kristi Nicholson...Charlie Norris...Donald Reece...Betty Raby Rowland...Lee & Tracy Terry...Tracy J. Whitaker...Shirley Ann Wilkey...Jim & Faye Wood...Leeunah Vance Woods. Why are these names so important? We know that each individual above is important to his or her family and friends; we also realize the intrinsic worth (thus importance) of every human being. Above and beyond all that, these persons listed above either chose to become members of this fine organization, or their membership was a result of extraordinary generosity which they shared with JCGS. The names above are FBRST-TIME MEMBERS. We acknowledge them proudly. Find a big old glass of iced tea so sweet that it's probably sinful, and sit down with the efforts of your fellow JCGS members. Enjoy the pictures submitted by Frankie Jean Shelton Stewart, Annette Moore Shelton, Nelma Jean Bryson, Jean Hooper Scott, and Billie Monteith Bryson. Our lead article by Don Casada and Wendy Meyers is extraordinary; Sanji Talley Watson's interview with Mrs. Chastain just gets better and better; peruse the maps shared by Jason Gregory and Richard Hotaling; Deanne Gibson Roles shares a Civil War document written by a man who coinciden tally shows up in Jean Scott's submission of her Grandmother Rachel's memoirs; Frances Fisher Moore shared wonderful materials on a Fisher family whom we have never spotlighted before; see the next installment of Betty Queen Monteith's work, which caused Bill Crawford to remark, "These people are kin to everybody in the world!"...and of course the usual official records, along with Dorris Dills Beck's faithful submission of our library acquisitions. Happy reading and happy hunting. J •Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 L , T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Announcements a n d Expressions of Sympathy 97 JCGS Photo Album 98-102 Bumgarner Home Place Visit, P a r t 1 103 - 1 0 8 Interview With Mrs. J a n e Chastain, P a r t 2 109 - 1 1 2 Jason Gregory a n d R i c h a r d Hotaling Share Old Maps 113 - 1 1 6 1925 J a c k s o n County Death Certificates 117 - 1 1 9 A Civil W a r Reminiscence 120 Thomas G. F i s h e r Family 121 - 1 2 6 The Story of My Life...Rachel Mazelle Green Hensley 127 - 1 3 0 Descendants of Thomas F r a n k l i n 131 - 1 3 4 1880 Jackson County Census 135 - 1 3 8 One T h i n g a n d Another 139 - 1 4 1 JCGS L i b r a r y Acquisitions 142 Index 143-144 I n M e m o r y T. W a l t e r M i d d l e t on We dedicate this issue to the memory of JCGS member Walter Middleton. Walter hardly needed any more words said about him, because when one is a bona fide war hero and a published author many times over, the- accolades have always been present. What some persons might have forgotten was that Walter was also a minister. One day we were talking with him about the future, and he remarked, "I took care of that a long time ago." That one simple statement speaks volumes about this man, who was minister, historian, and friend. Our lives were better because of him. Interesting note from JCGS member Thomas Gross in Maryland. He says that our picture at the bottom of Page 52 in the Spring issue is a familiar sight to him because he grew up in southern California. It was taken on Catalina Island, a place he had visited many times. Next question for those who like music trivia: Who sang "26 Miles" and when? We say The Four Preps in 1956. The connection should be obvious to those who remember popular music before its metamorphosis in 1963. Although we were able to do so personally, we again offer our sympathy to JCGS member Betty Cope Andrews in the recent loss of her mother. 97 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m U We might as well start off our Photo Album section this time with a classic. Above, the Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School Class of 1912. Some of the persons in the picture are Burder Long, Commodore Tilley, and Robert Shelton. Picture submitted cooperatively by JCGS members Annette Moore Shelton and Frankie Jean Shelton Stewart. Below, in the same collection, a World War I picture of Felix Shelton, one of the sons of William M. Shelton and his wife Belle Rogers. He served in the 30th Division. yj yj 98 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m L , Also submitted by Annette and F r a n k i e Jean, t h e photograph above shows S.P.C. Shelton a n d his second wife R u a h Wike. We consulted Monte W i k e ' s massive book about the Wikes to learn that this couple m a r r i e d in 1868 (Shelton lost his first wife 7 J u n 1868), had six children, and moved to Brown County, Texas. S.P.C. (Samuel Pierson Carson) Shelton (13 Apr 1833 - 1917) m. (2) R u a h Wike (15 Nov 1837 - 1906), daughter of Andrew Wike and M a r i a h Fullbright. Both are buried in Zephyr Cemetery, Brown County Texas. The couple above h a d six children: Robert Nixon Shelton (20 J u l 1869 J a c k s o n Co. - 1 1 Sep 1946 Brown Co. TX) F r a n k Andrew Shelton (16 J a n 1871 J a c k s o n Co. d. prob. TX) Wolford R. "Wood" Shelton (7 F e b 1872 Jackson Co. - 22 Oct 1949 Brown Co. TX) H a t t i e Shelton (16 J a n 1874 Jackson Co. - Feb 1974 Brown Co. TX) Minnie Shelton (4 M a r 1876 Jackson Co. - 1 5 Dec 1886 Brown Co. TX) Miranda Shelton (Jul 1880 Jackson Co.) We can deduce from the above dates of t h e children t h a t t h e family moved to Texas in t h e 1880's. Source: Wike, Monte and Noma, The Wike Family, Descendants of Jacob M. Weik of North Carolina', Lubbock, TX, 2002: pp. 242 - 244. y 99 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m yj Above are three siblings in the Battle family from the Qualla - Shoal Creek area. These are Dave Battle, Sallie Battle Raby, and James Battle. From the JCGS book Cemeteries of Jackson County, David K. Battle (2 May 1874 - 20 Jan 1952), Sarah J . Raby (1879 - 1965), and James E. Battle (3 Oct 1876 - 21 Apr 1967); all are buried at Thomas Memorial Cemetery. Picture submitted by JCGS member Nelma Bryson. Below, George Hensley and Edward Hensley, sons of Robert and Edith Gunter Hensley. Picture submitted by Jean Hooper Scott, with identifications by F r a n k Brooks. Jean's mother Gypsy Hensley Hooper was a first cousin of these men, both of whom we believe are still living. v_> y y 100 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m i y ^ Above, another example of the negatives donated to us and centering around the Wood family of Canada's Grays Ridge community. This dude could be a Wood, or an acquaintance of a Wood, or maybe there is another explanation. Some of us believe that this picture is staged! We know next to nothing about the American West. What is evident is that this picture was not taken in Jackson County. Colorado? Utah? Bill Crawford says that the man has been leading the black horse and that the black horse was not exactly willing to be led. 101 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m y j §BP:*A"B- • ^>> The pictures above are shared with us by JCGS member Billie Monteith Bryson. At the top left, Candas Mariah Stillwell, wife of David Reed Ashe, shown on the right. They are buried at Davis Cemetery at Almond. They are Billie's grandparents. In the bottom photograph, Amos and Nancy Stiles Ashe, parents of David Reed Ashe. V_> 102 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 y< A V i s i t t o t h e F o r m e r H o m e p l a c e of E p h r a i m a n d N a n c y B l a n t o n B u m g a r n e r , P a r t 1 Don Casada and Wendy Meyers [Ed. We requested this article from JCGS member Don Canada because we believe that this'is vitally important We will use Don's and Wendy's own words in this first of two articles.] An Overview of Our Project Anyone venturing out for a stroll on many of the trails of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park knowingly or unknowingly ventures through areas in which people lived, loved, raised families, and buried their dead. As two avid hikers who are also great lovers of antiquity, we have engaged in an exhaustive project to preserve the rapidly fading history of the individuals and families that populated many of the sections of Swain County which now lie inside the boundaries of the national park. To create as complete and well-rounded a portrait of life in this time as possible, we rely on a number of sources such as topographic and land acquisition maps, deeds, census and vital records, school records, old newspapers, photographs and written and oral -histories. However, the most objective method we employ is to hike to and document these settlers' home sites. We observe and make note of all evidence of the human presence such as chimneys, foundation remains, detritus, non-native vegetation, excavations and anything else notable about .the site. Coupled with what we are able to locate in other sources, we are often able to-"paint a picture," no matter how small, of the family unit and their home environment. We have written this article to share an example of this fascinating work, especially as it relates to an extended family long in evidence in Jackson County: the Bumgarners. In this article, Don Casada provides the "feet on the 'ground" narrative from the home site search, and Wendy Meyers provides the historical background and biographical sketches. Background for the Day's Hike One of the small feeder streams to Deep Creek, located approximately 2.5 miles from the present gate near the Deep Creek campground, is named Bumgarner Branch. It is so named in honor of the first known white family to settle on the branch, Ephraim and Nancy Bumgarner. Ephraim was born ca. 1817 in what was then Haywood County, a member of a large family of Bumgarners living in the area.1'3 He married Nancy Blanton 2 Mar 1850, and they went on to have five children; brief biographical sketches are included at the end of this article.4 Sometime after 1860, Ephraim and Nancy moved their family to this branch, faraway from their extended families, and established a new life for themselves.2 On March 6, 2012,1 (Don) set out on a beautiful late winter morning'With the intent of making my way to their home place, with a secondary goal'of locating and following, as best I could, the old Pullback trail which went from Bumgarner Branch over the ridge and down to the famous Bryson place, then to return by the Deep Creek trail. One might conclude, from an examination of a 1931 topographic map5, that reaching the old home place of Ephraim and Nancy Bumgarner would be a relatively easy trek of around three and a half miles; that assumption is actually far from correct. Come walk (and crawl) along with me to see the beautiful territory and broad range of society that existed on pre-1930 Deep Creek. •The Deep Creek Trail - from Junevwhank parking area to Hammer Branch For reference purposes, a section of the Ref. 1 map is shown as Figure 1. Our starting point is the parking area at the mouth of Juneywhank Branch. Distances listed in parentheses in Figure 1 and noted below are referenced to that beginning. 103 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 When I was a boy, a man with Bryson family roots in Jackson County, Ranger Bill Rolen and his family (wife Lola, sons Ron and Billy) lived in the former Morris home located at the mouth of \J Juneywhank Branch (Fig. 2). The place where Bill stands in the photo is now the paved parking area from which the day began. At just over one- quarter mile, one of the most easily accessible but also loveliest waterfalls in the Park (Fig. 3), adorns the opposite side of the creek, with water cascading down Toms Branch in a graceful stair step fashion. One-half mile from the start, the first of three bridges on Deep Creek spans the stream just below a popular pair of swimming holes. Beyond the bridge, a mild ascent begins. Another tenth of a mile further along, shortly after completing the climb out, an attentive eye may note an old wagon road above the trail on the right. The wagon road led around the side of the hill to Indian Creek. In the same area, a dam owned by the town of Bryson City once pooled the waters of Deep Creek and used the accumulated hydraulic energy to power a turbine-generator which provided power for the town. The waters impounded by the dam backed up to a short ways above the mouth of Indian Creek, which the Deep Creek Trail crosses at 0.8 miles. Indian Creek was significantly more populated than was Deep Creek above their junction, in spite of the fact that its drainage area is but one-fourth that of upper Deep Creek. Families with the surnames Blanton, Cathey, Harrzog, Kitchens, Laney, Queen, Randall, Read, Shuler, Stiles and Wiggins lived on Indian Creek. Joining them were Bumgarner descendants of Nancy and Ephraim, some of whom lived one-quarter mile up Georges Branch, a feeder that runs into Indian Creek about three miles from the confluence with Deep Creek.2*6-' Just around the bend, a second bridge over Deep Creek is crossed at 0.9 miles. Hammer Branch, which joins Deep Creek just below the bridge, was once home to the Moses Wiggins family (which lived about three-fourths of a mile up the branch).10 The area also provided a retreat location for a i J northern couple of considerable wealth and prestige, Marion and Ethelberta Pyne Russell Eppley. Mrs. Eppley was descended from a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a general who served under George Washington. Marion Eppley was a PhD chemist (Princeton, 1919) who had a stellar military and business career, and left private foundations and charitable organizations that continue to provide support for scientific research today2. Their 1930 home at Beacon Rock in Newport, Rhode Island, included four live-in servants3. Both are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.11 The Eppleys formed what must have been an exceptionally intriguing relationship with a mountain character named Sam Hunnicutt, whose family, by oral tradition, lived at the mouth of Hammer Branch. Census records confirm that the family lived in this area in 1910 and 1920, but we have not established their exact residence.7'8 Hunnicutt wrote the book Twenty Years Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains, a series of tales about individual hunting and fishing outings. It was initially released in 1926 and republished in 1951, but had been out of print and in short supply for decades until his granddaughter, Virginia Hunnicutt Zakroski, released an edited version in 2011. The style may be a bit rough around the edges, but it affords an excellent sense of the times, people, and the wealth of knowledge and ability required to get around in these mountains. Continuing on the Deep Creek Trail - Hammer Branch to Bumgarner Branch Turning to the north and leaving the mouth of Hammer Branch, the trail takes a northeasterly course, paralleling that of the stream. In the next half mile, there were two homes above the road to the west, on property owned by Edd Cline and Will Jenkins.10'12 At about 13 miles, one reaches the lower end of an area that has long been known as "The Jenkins Fields." This was once a half-mile long stretch of bottomland fields, owned and cultivated by the Jenkins family. Today, the fields where tall stalks of corn and the vines of watermelons and pumpkins once held sway have been replaced by a recovering forest. "" 104 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 Vui«-i4.i *.'•• Pulfeaclc^ i l ' ' /^ Trail' Ephrsum, Martcy •. fiumgarrtB'r place- TofhsBranch'- * • Falls' (o:i3) . ; . ^ Figure 1. Topographic map section and a few points of interest The numbers in parentheses are distances from the trailhead at the Deep Creek parking area. 105 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 Figure 2. Bill Rolen standing in what is now the parking area at the mouth of Juneywhank Branch. The ranger home in which he, bis wife Lola Caldwell Rolen, and sons Ron and Bill, Jr. lived was owned by the Morris family before being taken by the Park. Photo courtesy of William T. Rolen, Jr. \ J ~* T"i I "•""TiTK <V3l • ^ V Figure 3. Toms Branch Falls. Toms Branch is reportedly named for Thomas Wiggins, who once ran a mill along Deep Creek a short ways below tbe falls. y y 106 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 At 1.8 miles, the final bridge over Deep Creek is reached. On the left, just before crossing the bridge, a path leads steeply up the ridge to a cemetery with a handful of graves marked by simple field stones without names inscribed. The orientation is northeast to southwest, which is consistent with the long-held understanding that this was an Indian cemetery. Although there was a bridge at the time the land was taken for the Park, there is visual evidence suggesting that the area just below the bridge had been used as a ford in earlier days. Across the bridge and just beyond the Deep Creek Loop Trail connector sat the Jenkins home (Figs. 4,5). Park Service photographs ascribe the home to Will Jenkins, although the land the upon which the home sat belonged to his father, George Washington Jenkins, whose property spanned both sides of Deep Creek from the lower end of Jenkins Fields to above the bridge. Will owned property immediately down the creek from his father, and this property also spanned both sides of Deep Creek.10'12 The modern day trail/road continues on the east bank of Deep Creek, first wandering from the creek before swinging back to its banks. An older road climbed the side of the ridge behind the Jenkins place, leaving the more level ground north of the home available for cultivation. Throughout the Smokies, evidence of older roads that hewed more to the hills than the flat sections give evidence of settlers intent on making the best use of available ground. At 2.2 miles into our walk, we reach a place known as the Turnaround (Fig. 6). It is aptly named, being a wide circular loop that if followed, turns one around and routes him back down the creek. At the upper end of the Turnaround, the wide road diminishes to a backcountry trail - albeit one that was used for wagon travel in days past - and begins an ascent as it continues on upstream. Shortly above the Turnaround, the old wagon road that went behind the Jenkins place reconnects. After a short climb, the trail levels and in wintertime, offers fleeting glimpses of Beaugard Ridge and Coburn Knob. After traveling a short distance further, we reach Bumgarner Branch at 2.6 miles. Nearby below the trail is the Bumgarner Branch campsite, by far the most easily reached backcountry campsite in the Deep Creek area. Figure 4. Jenkins home, viewed from the northwest (from approximately the current-day Deep Creek Trail, perhaps fifty yards past the bridge). Photo 10331, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Sugarla'nds archives. C 107 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 yj Figure 5. Jenkins home, viewed from the east (from approximately the current-day Deep Creek Loop Trail). Note that the chimney on this end of the house has been partially dismantled. A stove pipe penetrates the wall. It is likely that the kitchen was on this end of the house. Photo 10332, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Sugarlands archives. yJ Figure 6. Deep Creek Turnaround in 1936. Photo 11819, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Sugarlands archives. V_> 108 Journeys Through Jackson Summer 2012 L - C I n t e r v i e w w i t h M r s . J a n e C h a s t a i n . . . P a r t 2 [Ed. We continue in this issue with the work of JCGS member Sanji Talley Watson.] We lived with Don's father, James Robert Chastain in the house Don's mother Sarah, was one of Absalom's daughters. She had died by the time I moved in. He (Absalom Woodring) had built the house out of hemlock logs, the bottom where there is fields now was full of big hemlocks. He built this house after an earthquake came and tore up his first house, it tore the chimney down. He was gone about a month looking for a sawmill, and he came back with one. He made th

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Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol.29 No.01

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Journeys 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 J o u r n e y s T h r o u g h J a c k s o n L . ' O x y ^ ^ H x<£ QB Wi^m^ - T h e O f f i c i a l J o u r n a l o f 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. V o l . X X I X , No. 2 0 1 9 V o l . 1 L . JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. 2019 Officers President Kenneth Nicholson Vice Presidents Ruth Crawford Shuler, Norma Bryson Clayton Secretary Lynn Hotaling Treasurer Michael Clayton Librarian George Frizzell Office Manager Mary Buchanan Smith Web Master. Lynn Hotaling 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 There are many exciting things happening with the Society. A fund raiser in June, our Annual Picnic in July, and finally plans are being made for an update to the county Cemetery book. Information on how you can help will be forth coming. Summer is just around the corner, so plan on coming in to the office and library and check out all of the new things that we have. M e m b e r s h i p s a r e d u e a t t h e f i r s t o f t h e y e a r. A b a r g a i n f o r j u s t $ 2 0 . M a k e s u r e t o g e t y o u r s i n! G e t a m e m b e r s h i p f o r a f r i e n d o r f a m i l y m e m b e r a s a g i f t. Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 U T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Table of Contents 1 JCGS Photo Album 2-6 WW I Soldiers from Jackson County 7-12 Deanna Gibson Roles 13-14 1949 Jackson County Death Certificates 15-17 Continuation from page 12 17 Announcement #1 18 Descendants of John Thomas Tatham 19-24 1880 Jackson County Census Records 25-28 Outline Descendant Report for Frederick (Baumgarten) Bumgarner 29-32 Library Acquisitions 33-35 Announcement #2 36 Descendants of William Solomon Parker, Sr 37-40 WiU of John "Ten Shilling" Chastain 41-42 Index 47-48 U Our p r a y e r s a n d c o n d o l e n c e s a r e o f f e r e d t o t h e f o l l o w i n g p e o p l e a nd t h e i r f a m i l i e s: JCGS Member - Kirk Stephens on the passing of his mother, Barbara Ann Stephens. JCGS Member - Sue Cypher on the passing of her brother, J. L. Anders. JCGS member - William Bishop on the passing of his son, Bill Bishop L / A w a r d s P r e s e n t e d a t t h e D e c e m b e r M e e t i n g Patron Award — Joy and Lambert Hooper Daniel Washington Deitz Award - Joe Deitz and the Deitz family Robert Lee and Drusilla Holden Award - Charlie Shuler Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 J C G S P h o t o A l b um The following photographs are part of an excellent collection donated to JCGS by Nancy Dutkovich, daughter to Joe Dutkovich and Helen Cowan. We have pulled just a few of the photographs to share. There are many more at the office if you would like to see more of them. <u KJ The photograph to the upper left is Alice Emory Deitz. The photograph above is of Zelphia Emory Wilson Deitz The photograph to the right is of Emory and Bill Tom Deitz. ^ y Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 < w J C G S P h o t o A l b um O O Upper right-hand photograph: Coley Cowan, Alice Deitz, Odessa Deitz. Photograph above: Nova Lee Deitz and Lillie Deitz. The youngsters in the photograph to the left are: Enloe Deitz and Heyward Cowan. Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 J C G S P h o t o A l b um V J Upper left: Early Deitz, Richmond Deitz, Sam Deitz, all brothers. Upper right: Lawrence Deitz, Coley Deitz, Thad Cowan and some fine-looking dogs. To the right: Nelse Deitz and Bill Thomas Deitz O • 'KJ Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 O J C G S P h o t o A l b um < w U The photograph on the top; Front Row: William Thomas Deitz; Alice Deitz; Emory Deitz; Mark Deitz. Standing: Earl Deitz; Nora Lee Deitz; Ossie Buchanan; Lilie Deitz; Richmond Deitz; Lula Buchanan; Tolvin Buchanan; Sam Deitz. The bottom photograph are: Back Row: John Deitz, Bill Tom Deitz; R. N. Deitz; Tom Deitz; Webb Deitz and Sherman Deitz. Front Row: Hoyle Deitz and Alice Deitz. Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 J C G S P h o t o A l b um ^ y y y Thank you to JCGS member Lynn Hotaling for the picture and the caption. The Jackson County Genealogical Society recently presented its 2018 awards. The Daniel Washington Deitz Memorial Award, presented for service to the JCGS, went to Joe Deitz and The Deitz Family, traditional mountain musicians who have frequently volunteered their talent to perform at Society events. The Robert Lee and Drusilla Holden Award, given for service to the study of genealogy, went to Charlie Shuler of Caney Fork, for his" extensive knowledge and documentation of his family history and genealogy and that of other Caney Fork original settlers. The Society's Patron Award went to Lambert and Joy Hooper for their work in documenting and funding the banners that were displayed on Main Street to honor Jackson County veterans who gave their lives in combat. From left are Deitz Family members Joe Deitz, Delores Deitz and Chrystal Deitz; JCGS President Kenny Nicholson; Charlie Shuler; and Lambert Hooper. Not pictured are Deitz Family band members Bill Deitz, Linda Deitz Ledford and Ella Ledford; and Joy Hooper. KJ Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 U W W I S o l d i e r s f r om J a c k s o n C o u n ty O In past issues of JTJ, we shared the draft cards of the eligible men residing in Jackson County. The following is a list of the men that were inducted into the military. To read; Name of man; age; hometown. Transcribed from records held in North Carolina State Archives, The Digital Library, 2019, by Sanji Talley Watson. Whites O Name Adams, Andy Adams, William A. Adams, William Crawford Aiken, Eular Alexander Bowen Alexander, D. V. Alexander, John W. Alexander, Will Alley, Felix Morris Allison, Coleman Birch Allman, Frank Arlington, Lenore Bruce Ashe, Alex Elisha Ashe, James Ashe, James Elisha Ashe, John Emanuel Ashe, Roy Robert Ashe, Thomas Ashe, Thomas Walter Ashe, William Donaldson Baley, Clyde Barnes, Hurshal Barnes, Robert Battle, John Bascombe Bennett, Dock Bentley, Joel Berry, James R. Biddix, William Walter Bigwitch, Charlie Birch, Melvin Sylvester Bishop, Hugh Neal Blakely, Charlie Andrew Blanton, William Ransom Bradbum, Chaple Bradley, Bedford Bradley, Morgan J. Bridges, Richmond Pearson Brooks, Joe Lee Melvin Brown, Claud Brown, Robison Browning, John C. Bryson, Bascom Bryson, Harley McDuff Bryson, Kimsey Bryson, Samuel Richard Buchanan, Clyde Davis Buchanan, Edgar Buchanan, Garland Age 25 21 21 23 25 22 21 25 24 21 22 28 19 25 20 30 21 23 22 27 23 25 28 21' 29 22 28 22 29 21 21 21 22 28 22 25 22 22 21 24 26 28 23 30 21 19 23 21 Hometown Eastlaporte, N. C. Eastlaporte, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Rich Mountain, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Kilgo.N.C. Argura, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Speedwell, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Webster, N. C. Balsam, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Speedwell, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Webster, N. C. Webster, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Webster, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Glenville, N. C. CuIIowhee, N. C. CuIIowhee, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Gay, N. C. Cherokee, N. C. Willetts, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Wilmot, N. C. Cherokee, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Argura, N. C. Argura, N. C. Gay, N. C. Fall Cliff, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Cashiers, N. C Fall Cliff, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 Buchanan, Rufus Buchanan, V. C. Bumgarner, Fred Charles Bumgarner, Lewis Wilburn Bumgarner, Roy Carl Butler, Lacey McDonald Cabe, Frank A. Cabe, Walter C. Cagle, Otho V. Campbell, Andrew Stover Cannon, Lewis Henry Cathey, Benjamin Hamilton Cathey, Humphrey Posey Chastain, William Childers, Carl Christy, Norman Roberts Clayton, Ceyman Cogdill, Edgar S. Coggins, Lloyd Coggins, Rector Coggins, Samuel Edward Cooper, Arnold Cope, Andy L. Cope, Robert Lee Cotter, David Claire Cowan, Coleman Cowan, James Donald Cowan, Thad Coward, Dillard Crawford, George Nelson Crawford, James Avery Crawford, James Wilson Lee Crisp, Lonnie M. Crow, John T. Crow, Robert Crow, Styles T. Cunningham, Samuel Cunningham, Severe Cunningham, W. H. Daves, Nathan Davis, George Deitz, Jake W. Deitz, Richmond Dillard, Benjamin Franklin Dillard, Daniel H. Dills, Cicero Andrew Dills, George N. Dills, Judson Candler Earley, Randolph Elders, Candler Elders, Harley Elders, Joe Ellenburg, Travis Melton Ensley, Oscar Ensley, Reuben Evans, George 23 21 22 20 21 21 22 22 25 21 26 27 21 26 22 27 29 23 22 28 21 24 22 22 21 30 19 21 21 21 23 27 25 26 23 21 22 25 24 21 25 26 22 24 22 21 24 30 26 23 22 25 22 26 22 21 Greens, Creek, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Fall Cliff, N.C. Sylva, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Gay, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Erastus, N. C. Balsam, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Balsam, N. C. Erastus, N. C. Erastus, N. C. Fall Cliff, N.C. Cherokee, N. C. Addie,N. C. Willets,N.C. CuIIowhee, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Sylva, N.C. Greens Creek, N. C. Cowarts, N. C. CuIIowhee, N. C. Addie, N. C. CuIIowhee, N. C. Balsam, N. C. Cashiers, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Cashiers, N. C. Webster, N.C. Wilmot, N.C. Dillsboro, N. C. CuIIowhee, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Webster, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. CuIIowhee, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Greenville, S. C. Sylva, N.C. Wilmot, N. C. Sylva, N. C. KJ W Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 <J O O Evitt, Dock Richmond Extine, Harley Fowler, Jones Fox, Cail Fox, Griffin Fox, Merritt Fox, Will Fox, Zollie Franklin, Elias Raymond Franks, George Franks, John Henry Galloway, Justice B. Gibbs, Charlie Hampton Gibbs, William Asbury Gidney, Landrum Hilliard Green, Allen Green, Coleman Lee Green, Felix Ethel Green, Grover Cleveland Green, Jerry Green, Joseph L. Green, Lenoire Green, William Benjamin Gribble, David C. Guffey, Charles Eugene Gunter, Julius Hall, Jimerson Hall, John Hurshall Hall, Norman Henderson, R. C. Henry, Elsie McKinley Hensley, Baxter Hensley, Isaac Henson, Lawrence Henson, Rufus Benjamin Henson, William Thomas Higdon, Archalous William Higdon, Cornelius W. Hipps, Leonidas Joseph Hooper, Dillard McKinley Hooper, Joe Hooper, Lloyd Hooper, Orie Hooper, Ransom E. Howell, James 0. Hoyle, Dock Hilliard Hyatt, Pearly Asbury Jackson, Walter Henry Jamison, Ernest William Jennings, Sam Jones, Carrie Jones, Elsie Richard Jones, Fred W. Jones, George Washington Jones, Robert Jones, Walter L. 21 21 29 24 27 22 22 21 21 22 21 21 21 24 22 28 26 26 24 25 26 21 21 24 22 26 27 29 26 28 23 21 22 27 21 22 30 30 26 21 27 25 26 28 28 26 21 22 21 24 24 21 22 27 24 21 Bessie, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Norton, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Fall Cliff, N. C. Speedwell, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Gay, N. C. Gay, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Sylva, N.C. Beta, N. C. Sylva, N.C. Whittier, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Greens Creek, N C. Greens Creek, N. C Speedwell, N. C. Gay, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Gay, N.C. Gay, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Cashiers, N. C. Willets, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Addie, N. C. Webster, N.C. CuIIowhee, N. C. Gay, N. C. Gay, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Speedwell, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Eastlaporte, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Willets, N. C. Gay, N.C. Eastlaporte, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Bessie, N C. Wilmot, N.C. Addie, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Gay, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 Keener, Adam Leroy Keener, James Ernest Keener, Rufus Kellar, Charles H. Kellar, William Harry Key, J. Clyde Knight, John Percival Lambert, John Corbett Ledford, William Lewis, John Bryson Littlejohn, Guy Long, Charles Long, John Robert Lusk, Lexton McCall, James McCall, Journey McCall, Lawton McCall, Ray McCall, Walter E. McConnell, Walter Birch McHan, James McKay, Jesse Talmadge McMahan, Baxter McMahan, Elsie McMahan, Kelse McMahan, Lawrence McMahan, Nelson Madison, Monro Boiling Martin, Isaac Martin, Olvin Herald Mashburn, Benjamin Harrison Mashburn, George Mathis, George Ed Mathis, Samuel Huston Medford, Wiley Fincher Melton, Lambert Melton, Michel Melton, Woodford Messer, Hastin Messer, James Messer, James Messer, Joe Messer, Wilburn McKinley Moody, Marion Moore, Ed Moore, Frederick Moore, Tom Monteith, Charley Monteith, Hugh Ednie Monteith, Lawrence Monteith, Lee Monteith, Walter Morgan, John Mull, Milas Nation, Jesse Nations, Claud 22 18 21 21 24 21 18 21 23 22 21 25 24 21 19 24 26 22 22 21 21 25 21 22 22 22 25 19 21 21 25 32 24 21 21 24 25 22 23 22 25 23 21 21 22 18 30 23 20 24 26 27 27 23 22 25 Willets, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Willets, N. C. CuIIowhee, N. C. CuIIowhee, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Balsam, N. C. Cherokee, N. C. Addie, N. C. Webster, N.C. Whittier, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Cashiers, N. C. Cashiers, N. C. Grimshawe, N. C. Cashiers, N. C. Cashiers, N. C. Cashiers, N. C. Webster, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Balsam, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Webster, N.C. Greens Creek, N. C. Beta, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Webster, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Speedwell, N. C. Sylva, N.C. Willets, N. C. Addie, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Argura, N. C. Argura, N. C. Argura, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Whittier, N.C.RFD#1 Erastus, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Webster, N.C. Webster, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Argura, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Wilmot, N. C. u : V_J ! KJ : 10 Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 O c o Nations, Dock Nicholson, Blaine Nicholson, Eugene F. Nicholson, Garfield Norris, Charley Norris, Harley Norton, Lem Norton, Oscar Lee Owen, John Owen, McKinley Pangle, Allen Pangle, James P. Pangle, Lunie Lorano Parker, Albert D. Parker, Felix Eugene Parker, Holmes Parris, Claude Monroe Parris, Fred Leroy Phillips, Dombey Phillips, James Potts, James Hubert Powell, Tillman Pressley, Elliott Cling Pressley, Harley Bowers Price, Charles N. Price, Marion Avery Queen, Dewitt Queen, Jasper Quilliams, Author Raby, Chester Reed, Boyd Reed, Frank Pierce Rhinehart, Frank Tompkins Rhinehart, William Jenkins Rice, Walter E. Robinson, Cecil Edgar Robinson, Eldridge Lebo Robinson, Erastus Robinson, George Robinson, James William Robinson, Judson Robinson, Oscar Robinson, Rufus Robison, Julius Robison, William Oda Rogers, James Rogers, John Ruble Seago, James Lewis Seago, Royal G. Seay, Curtis James Self, George N. Shelton, Mitchell Sherrill, Walter Burke Smith, John Stephens, Charlie Stillwell, Carl Edward 25 21 23 22 23 21 23 27 26 21 28 25 21 26 24 22 21 27 23 21 23 22 21 30 24 22 22 23 22 25 22 28 21 21 23 23 23 30 23 29 21 23 25 26 26 29 26 22 25 21 25 23 30 24 24 19 Wilmot, N. C. Cowarts, N. C. Kilgo, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Cashiers, N. C. Bessie, N C. CuIIowhee, N. C. CuIIowhee, N. C. Wolf Mountain, N. C. Wolf Mountain, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Sylva, N.C. Sylva, N. C. Rich Mountain, N. C. Addie, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Cowarts, N. C. Wolf Mountain, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Speedwell, N. C. Speedwell, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Balsam, N. C. Cowarts, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Gay, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Rich Mountain, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Webster, N. C. Webster, N. C. Cashiers, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Willets, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Sylva, N.C. Speedwell, N. C. Eastlaporte, N. C. Sylva N.C. Webster, N. C. Wolf Mountain, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Wolf Mountain, N. C. Cowarts, N. C. Webster, N.C. 11 Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 Stillwell, Ephraim Posey Stillwell, William Alexander Suttlemyre, Eli Sutton, Austin Sutton, Corbett Sutton, David Sutton, E. Clinton Sutton, George Sutton, Homer Sutton, Raymond Ulysses Sutton, Walter Talent, Dorrence Marcellus Tatham, Will Taylor, Hansel Howell Teague, Perry Jackson Teleski, Jesse Tilley, Charles Osborn Tioneeta, Arneach Tramper, Ammons Turpin, Lyle Jones Varner, Thaddeus Teague Ward, Homer Ward, John Hardy Warren, Lee Warren, Walter Dean Watson, Grover Watson, Louie Watson, Vaughn Bryson Watson, Zebulon Webb, William B. Wike, Frank Witcher Wike, John Marvin Wike, Milas Wikle, Jason Wikle, Pearson Wilkes, John A. Wilky, George R. Williams, John Moore Wilson, Coleman Womack, Homer Wood, Crawford Wood, Demos Wood, Edward Wood, John L. Wood, William B. Woodard, Loranza Woodard, Mat Woodard, Oscar Woodard, Sam Woodring, William Walter Woods, Jerry Manuel Wyatt, Garland Young, Anderson 30 18 22 25 23 21 22 25 24 23 26 24 25 23 19 25 25 24 30 21 21 25 27 31 26 23 21 21 23 25 28 25 26 26 26 31 25 25 29 25 27 21 21 23 24 22 28 24 26 21 28 25 22 Sylva, N. C. Webster, N. C. Wilmot, N.C. Dillsboro, N C. Dillsboro, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Sylva, N.C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Gay, N. C. Speedwell, N. C. Webster, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Speedwell, N. C. Cherokee, N. C. Cherokee, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Wilmot, N. C. Whittier, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Bessie, N. C. Erastus, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Bessie, N. C. Gay, N. C. Sapphire, N. C. Eastlaporte, N. C. Eastlaporte, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Barkers Creek, N. C. Glenville, N. C. Dillsboro, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Wolf Mountain, N. C. Wolf Mountain, N. C. Cowarts, N. C. Cowarts, N. C. Cowarts, N. C. Norton, N. C. Gay, N. C. Gay, N. C. Greens Creek, N. C. Tuckaseigee, N. C. Sylva, N. C. Wilmot, N.C. Glenville, N. C. ^J \ < j : '^y 12 Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 o D e a n n a G i b s o n R o l es On November 9,2018, Jackson County Genealogical Society lost one of our members, Deanna Gibson Roles. What made her stand out is her dedication to the genealogy of the people in Western North Carolina. She volunteered at several Genealogical Societies in Western North Carolina. She was instrumental is forming the First Families of Buncombe. She was the web master for our society and several others. She was always in our office on Fridays volunteering her time and talent to helping others. She will be missed by many. But we do envy her to a certain extent, for now she has found all those missing relatives, broken the brick walls and answered the countless questions. C / Deanne Gibson Roles, 71, of Franklin passed away Friday, November 9,2018. Born in Buncombe County on June 28, 1947, she was the daughter of the late Paul Joseph Gibson and Helen Louise Edwards Gibson. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Janet Gibson Becker of Silver Spring, MD. Deanne graduated from Western Carolina University with a degree in Chemistry and worked as a Chemist for BASF in Enka, NC. She was a member of Sylva-Webster Class of 1965; Macon, Jackson, Swain, Buncombe, and Madison Genealogy Societies; and the North Carolina Genealogy Society (she loved to attend the NC conferences and was a presenter at times). She is survived by her children, Wendy Awald (Stephen) of Hendersonville, Heidi Daniels of Franklin, and Chris Roles (Norma) of Concord, CA; five grandchildren, Caice Roles of New Jersey, Shelton Freeman of Franklin, Sawyer Awald of Hendersonville, Conner Awald of Hendersonville, and Elias Roles of Concord, CA; brother-in-law, Perry Becker of Maryland; and nieces, Lauren Becker and Caroline Becker Silva, both of Maryland. A Memorial Service will be held at 2 pm, Tuesday, November 13 in the Chapel of Macon Funeral Home. Rev. Vic Greene and Rev. Janet Greene will officiate. Burial will be in the Iotla Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at Macon Funeral Home. Condolences can be made to the family at www.maconfuneralhome.com O 13 Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 ^ y v _ J \^> 14 Journeys Through Jackson 2019 Vol. 1 O 1 9 4 9 J a c k s o n C o u n t y D e a t h C e r t i f i c a t e s o f P e r s o n s B o r n 1 9 0 0 - 1 9 4 9 u u [Key to reading the following: Name of deceased; Date of birth; Place of birth; 1949 date of death; Father's name; Father's place of birth; Mother's name; Mother's place of birth; Informant's name; Informant's address; Cemetery. Abstracted by Sanji Talley Watson in the Jackson County Register of Deeds Office 2019.] Barkers Creek Carter, Thomas Lee; 30 May 1923; Jackson Co.; 24 May; Claxton Carter; ng; Nellie Robinson; ng; Mrs. Nellie Carter; Dillsboro; Franklin McAlhaney, Lloyd Franklin; 29 Apr 1904; SC; 2 Apr; H. F. McAlhaney; ng; Lilly Bishop; ng; Mrs. L. F. McAlhaney; Cherokee; (Near Hampton, SC) Canada Ashe, James B.; 11 May 1949; Argura; 11 May; Virgil Ashe; Jackson Co.; Hulda Golden; Jackson Co.; Grover Wilks, MD; Sylva; Tuckaseigee Brown, Bobbie Eugene; 12 Nov

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Journeys 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 Through Jackson 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 Classic Cars, Muscle Cars & Rat Rods Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017 49 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.” Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017 50 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 51 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 52 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 53 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. Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017 54 JCGS Photo Album Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017 55 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 56 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. Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017 57 (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 58 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

1,00 [sic] peace bond in Milford after being charged with threatening to kill another person. The complaint charges him with fraud and deception in proclaiming the benefits of a so-called compound operation. It states that Dr. Brinkley claims to transplant animal or human glands to the patient in performing certain of the operations, and denies that they can be performed in the manner described by Dr. Brinkley. He is also charged with having guaranteed cures in violation of the American Medical Association’s code of ethics. His attorney announced that Dr. Brinkley will resist attempt to revoke his license, and will conduct his defense in an orderly and courageous way. Dr. Brinkley is well known in Jackson county, having been born and reared here, and having begun the practice of medicine in this county a number of years ago. He is said to have made a visit to Jackson county last summer. Dr. Brinkley, it is said, operates a hospital and radio station out in Kansas, and people here have frequently heard radio broadcasts from his station. (Note: R. Alton Lee’s book The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley (2002), pages 40-41, notes that Brinkley’s second wife, Minnie, had been charged with a violation of Kansas prohibition laws. However, Brinkley assumed responsibility for the incident and received a sentence. The other events referenced include accusations of violent behavior or threats on Brinkley’s part, which resulted in one instance of a

1,000 peace bond.) Journeys Through Jackson Spring/Summer 2017 59 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

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Journeys Through Jackson 2018 Vol.28 No.03

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Journeys 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.^ J o u r n e y s T h r o u g h J a c k s o n O as ^ B « 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. Vol. X X V I I I , No. 2 0 1 8 V o l . 3 ^ JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. 2018 Officers President Kenneth Nicholson Vice Presidents Norma Bryson Clayton, Debbie Blazer Secretary Fern Parris Hensley Treasurer Teresa Deitz Manring Librarian George Frizzell Office Manager Carol Bryson WebMaster. Lynn Hotaling 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 Fall is short lived here in the mountains and winter is just around the comer. It is a good time to work on our genealogy. Be sure to come by and check out our library and all of our research materials. Thank you to all of the people who have submitted stories, pictures or information for articles for JTJ. Always remember that our publication is as good as our members. ~j M e r r y C h r i s t m a s H a p p y H o l i d a y s H a p p y N e w Y e a r s M a y y o u r h o l i d a y s b e a l l t h a t y o u h o p e f o r! Journeys Through Jackson 2018 Vol. 3 ^ T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Table of Contents 97 JCGS Photo Album 98-102 One Confederate Soldiers Story 103-110 1948 Jackson County Death Certificates 111-113 December Meeting 114 1880 Jackson County Census Records 115-120 Outline Descendant Report for Frederick (Baumgarten) Bumgarner 121-124 Descendants of William Solomon P a r k e r , Sr 125-128 The Dillards - P a r t One - Georgia Beginnings 129-130 The Dillards - P a r t Two - North Carolina Beginnings 131-132 Descendants of J o h n Thomas T a t h am 133-138 Our 2018 Membership 139-141 Letter from our President 142 Index 143-144 < w Our prayers and condolences a r e offered to t h e following people a n d their families: JCGS Member - Delos Monteith, Jr. JCGS Member - David Bryson JCGS Member - Annette Moore Shelton on the passing of her son, Robert Samuel Shelton. o C h r i s t m a s i s j u s t a r o u n d t h e c o r n e r ! C u t d o w n o n y o u r h o l i d a y s h o p p i n g t h i s y e a r ! G i v e a m e m b e r s h i p t o a f a m i l y m e m b e r o r a f r i e n d as a g i f t t h i s h o l i d a y s e a s o n . R e m e m b e r i t i s a b a r g a i n a t $ 2 0 f o r t h e y e a r . 97 Journeys Through Jackson 2018 Vol. 3 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m \ J v ^ Front row L to R: Peter Pierson, Doc Pierson, Hobert Nicholson, Tom Jamison, Fred Wilson, Leo Wilson, Annie Owens, Beulah Galloway, Frank Wilson, Bertie Burgess, Neil Burgess, unidentified, Pritchard Moore. Second row: Henry Bryson, Hayes Bryson, Flora Wilson, Bessie Alexander, two unidentified, Daisy Bryson, Lizzy Bryson, Varina Bryson, Elvira Morgan, Ford Burgess, Lawton Monteith, Lewis Monteith, unidentified Enloe girl, Linvil Monteith, Alvin Nicholson. Third row: Bessie Picklesimer (teacher), Eula Wilson, Rowena Bryson, Thelma Henderson, Mattie Wilson, Flora Wilson, Maggie McCall, unidentified, Lee Monteith, Oat Bryson, Charlie Monteith, Lawrence Monteith, unidentified, Carlisle Morgan, Sam Wilson, Ernest Pressley. Fourth row: two unidentified, May Galloway, Pansy Henderson, Myrtle Wilson, Mattie Wilson, Alma Jamison, J. B. Galloway, Julia Frazell (teacher), Julia Bryson, Lee Monteith, Dewey Bryson, unidentified, OIlie Bryson. Fifth row: Posy McCall, Mag McCall, Belzie Kenner, Minnie Lusk, Weaver Wilson, Tom Moss, May Jamison, unidentified, Maude Jamison, Effie Bryson, OIlie Bryson, Shed Bryson. Sixth row: Nelson Robinson, Tom Moody, Mamie Galloway, Jack Robinson, Dar Lusk, Emma Lanning, Oscar Monteith, unidentified, Fred Bryson, Junie Monteith, unidentified. Picture has written on it Class of 1906, From the Ruth Ashe collection v J 98 Journeys Through Jackson 2018 Vol. 3 C J C G S P h o t o A l b u m < w ^ This picture is identified as Glenville School, 1945. First row, L to R: Roy Potts, William Passmore, Shelly Lusk, Author Potts, Walter Bumgarner, Phillip Corbin, Loyd Leopard, Riley Watkins, Odell Watson. Second Row: Jackie Snipes, Lou Ellen Mills, Patsy Stiwinter, Sylvia Marlette, Unknown Bryant, Ronnie Stiwinter, Shelba Jean Oats, JoAnn Young. Third row: Mrs. Tritt (teacher), unidentified, unidentified, Jenette Coggins, Bernice Buchanan, Pearl Franks, Peggy Ensley, Juanita Simms, unidentified Conner. 99 Journeys Through Jackson 2018 Vol. 3 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m ^J These two pictures are of Reuben Harrison Stephens (21 Dec 1832-14 Apr 1902) and his wife, Mary C. Brown (19 Jul 1839-17 Dec 1902). He was the son of Stephen Huff (12 Jul 1796 - 12 Mar 1870) and Susan "Sookie" Hooper (1806 - 10 Feb 1892) She was the daughter of John Jackson Brown (1806 - 1885) and his wife, Violet Fortner (1806-1880). v _ y u 100 Journeys Through Jackson 2018 Vol. 3 ^ J C G S P h o t o A l b u m C - The two children to the left were the twins born to Jess Franklin Brown (1 May 1884 - 18 Nov 1960) and Gusila Morgan (13 Sep 1898- 13 Sep 1965). They were both born on 5 Sep 1934. The children were Delos Brown who passed away 26 Nov 2013 and Delia Brown. The picture below is one of the many that the JCGS has that are unidentified. As always, if you know the identity of any of these people, please let us know. O 101 Journeys Through Jackson 2018 Vol. 3 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m K J v J These three pictures are also unidentified. If you know any of these people, please let us know. K J 102 Journeys Through Jackson 2018 Vol. 3 <J O n e C o n f e d e r a t e S o l d i e r s S t o ry C • U Pvt. Asaph Wilson Sherrill and Deep Creek, t h e only Civil W a r Battle fought in J a c k s o n County, NC Asaph "Asa" "Ace" Wilson SherriU's great-great-grandchildren William Loranzo "Bill" Crawford, Frank Moody Crawford, Jr., Ann Davis Melton, Mary Katherine Sherrill Lowder, and Nancy Sherrill Wilson have always been intrigued by their ancestor's Civil War service. During the early winter of 1864, Pvt. Sherrill participated in the only Civil War Battle fought in Jackson County, North Carolina. The event occurred at Deep Creek, approximately ten miles from his Shoal Creek home. Descendants recently retraced the most evident path Sherrill would have taken to the battle site from his residence (Coordinates: N 35° 26' 26.39'' W 83° 19' 51.05"). Guided by Bill, he shared that nearby Thomas Peak would have been the first station of Asaph's journey as it was a mustering ground for the troops.-At the top of the 2,700' peak soldiers could see northeast up the Oconaluftee "Luftee" River or down the Tuckasegee River. Two cannons were placed on the pinnacle to signal when and from which direction enemy forces were approaching. Bill further explained that after joining the troops at Thomas Peak, Asaph would have then trekked toward Union Hill and the Oconaluftee River which comes out at Birdtown. He would have continued on west down the Tuckasegee River to Ela and the final destination of the mouth of Deep Creek. At the time Asaph's age was 45, ten years more than mandatory service age, which meant he volunteered for service in the-Confederate Army with the famed Thomas' Legion. As a Private with Company C, 69th North Carolina Infantry, he was part of an unconventional force comprised of both highlanders and Cherokee" Indians which had been raised by Col. William Holland Thomas, senator, Eastern Cherokee Nation's advocate and only white chief. The legion began as a citizen brigade for the purposes of defending against local raids. The troops that fought under Thomas became increasingly feared by their enemies. A nearly independent force, they were famous for their skill and persistence in tracking escapees and bushwhackers. The legion also became known for a band of Cherokee Indian soldiers who served the Confederacy, not for the cause but of loyalty to Col. Thomas. Thomas wrote, "the enemy have at least been taught that while we hold the Smoky Mountains, western North Carolina and adjacent portions of east Tennessee are hard to subjugate." Because of their reputation, whether deserved or not, Union Brigadier General Samuel D. Sturgis proclaimed that they "had become a terror to the Union people of East Tennessee and the borders of North Carolina from the atrocities they were daily perpetuating." Each day that passed that eventful winter of 1864 intensified Thomas' concern for frequent Federal raids. One of the most notable was to occur on Tuesday, the second day of February. Sturgis had received intelligence that soldiers from Thomas' Legion were camped in Jackson County ten miles west of Quallatown at Deep Creek (locale became part of Swain County when formed in 1871 from Jackson County), which lay in the midst of the fork of the Tuckasegee and the Little Tennessee Rivers. The probable site lays on the flood plain between what is now West Deep Creek Road and Deep Creek. In hopes of freeing the area of Thomas's force once and for all, Sturgis dispatched Major Francis M. Davidson and the 14th Regiment Illinois Cavalry into North Carolina "to Pursue [Thomas'] force and to destroy it." Accompanied by a three-piece artillery section and some forty to fifty Union guides or spies, the Federal cavalry of 600 slipped through the mountain passes on old Indian trails, following the Tuckasegee River. Just before dawn, arrival was on the west bank of Deep Creek just outside Thomas' camp near Charleston (name changed to Bryson City in 1889). The terrain made a cavalry charge out of the question, so Davidson's troopers had to dismount in order to effectively go into combat. He positioned his men around the camp trapping approximately 325 highlanders and Cherokees against the creek. As the sun rose on February 2,1864, Davidson gave the order to attack. Although completely surprised, the highlanders and Cherokees rallied with remarkable discipline. The Union men began firing on them from the hills above the. camp. A Lt. Horace Capron and the advance men attacked the guard positions, killing or wounding many. Other Confederates began falling back toward the creek. It appeared they would be wiped out. However, they had planned for such an event. As had been done previously at Gatlinburg and other places during the war, some men fired and moved while others began their escape. By some means unknown to us today, they had placed rocks or ropes or both to aid their escape. It had to have been difficult because bullets were bombarding the camp and many women and children were present. During this time if soldiers'were camped near their homes family members would often visit. All were caught in a desperate scramble to get across the creek. In what must have been one of the more amazing evacuations in the war, many of the Confederates escaped across the water. Lt. Capron and his Union 103 Journeys Through Jackson 2018 Vol. 3 men were not finished. They pushed the chase and began crossing the creek in pursuit. But the highlanders and Indians were ready for that and a suppressing fire team was already in place on the bluff on the east side of the ' j creek. When Capron and his men assembled on that side and began moving forward, the Confederates were waiting N"—-/^ for them. They opened fire on the advancing Union Cavalry. The battle raged for more than an hour. Lt. Capron was fatally wounded. Union soldiers collected their wounded men and retreated back across the creek. Versions of the battle and its results greatly differ from each side. One eye witness, L.F. Siler, reported to Governor Vance that, "The Indians fought nobly until the ammunition gave out." Davidson, however, filed a different account. Watching the Indians scamper after the skirmish, he must have thought he destroyed their effectiveness. "Less than 50 made their escape," read the Federal report, "the remainder being killed or wounded, so that this nest of Indians may be considered as entirely destroyed, nearly 200 of them having been killed." The Battle of Deep Creek was a sensational affair, for the Northerners thought they wiped out Thomas' Indian companies. Thomas, somewhat amused at the Union accounts, reported his version: "On the 2nd instant (this month) [the Federals]... advanced up the Tennessee and the Tuckasegee to the mouth of Deep Creek where the Indians, under my command, arrested their progress. The enemy lost about 12 killed and wounded, the Indians' ... [lost] five. I am informed that the Northern Papers boast of killing 200." If Davidson's objective was to eliminate Thomas' force, he failed; if he intended to harass the Confederates, he succeeded. According to the North, the Union soldiers had managed to kill 132, capture 54 prisoners (22 Indians and 32 whites) and saw 50 enemies escape. The Confederates claimed they lost only two killed and 18 as prisoners. The most viable calculation is the Federal forces lost two killed and six wounded, while Thomas most likely lost ten killed and 32 captured. The forces were destroyed, which confirmed the general belief of the local inhabitants that Western North Carolina was unprotected. Pvt. Sherrill was taken prisoner at Deep Creek along with thirteen other white rebels and eighteen Indian rebels. The captives were escorted by heavy guard to Knoxville, Tennessee where they were confined. Asaph had to leave behind his wife, Talitha Katherine "Katie", and nine children ranging in ages three through twenty-one to fend for themselves on the family farm amidst the chaos from warring factors. William Allison Sherrill, son of Asaph, was like his father in that age did not deter him from volunteering for the Confederacy (mandatory age for service was 18 through 35). In 1862 when just 14, William enlisted with Thomas' Legion. It is not known if 16 year old William participated at the Battle of Deep Creek. Asaph's muster rolls show he along with other prisoners of Thomas Legion arrived at Knoxville on February 7, 1864. The Cherokee prisoners attracted attention from the locals, and they came from miles around to see the Indian's painted faces and their standard Confederate uniforms personally adorned with added beads, bones and feathers. Typically after days of speech-making, promises, threats and persuasion, prisoners were formed into line and the "oath of allegiance" was offered to them. It was extremely rare for a Confederate to accept. Asaph did not take the oath. According to the "Daily Confederate," a Raleigh newspaper, the Indian rebels were promised their liberty and five thousand dollars in gold if they would bring them the scalp of their leader, Col. William H. Thomas. The Indians agreed to the proposition and they were released. They returned to their native mountains, found Col. Thomas and told him what had transpired. It was also reported that in early March all of the Cherokees and two of the whites from Deep Creek and subsequent raids took the oath. This undermined the Cherokee participation in the Confederate cause. Weeks later, Asaph's muster rolls reveal he was slated to be sent to Camp Chase at Columbus, Ohio. There was not a record of him arriving there, but on February twenty-eighth he was sent to a military prison in Louisville, Kentucky "for exchange." General Ulysses S. Grant would soon make it known he was against the practice. SherriH's last destination was Fort Delaware Union Prison in Delaware. The mode of travel to prison was more than likely via railway and then by steamship into Delaware Bay. One month after capture at Deep Creek, North Carolina, Pvt. Asaph Wilson Sherrill arrived at Fort Delaware Union Prison on Friday March 4, 1864. The prison was located on Pea Patch Island, in the center of Delaware Bay, two and a half miles from the mainland on either side. Asaph would spend the last full year of his life in the prison before him. He set eyes on a granite fortress built in the shape of a pentagon which was traversed by ditches of sea water. Because of overcrowding, Asaph was assigned to one of 54 wooden barracks located outside the fort walls on the northwest side of the island. The common wooden sheds were to accommodate about ten thousand prisoners, but at this juncture of the war, there were about twelve thousand prisoners to be housed. Sherrill walked on plank ways covering the marshy ground to a barrack to be confined in a room 19 by 60 feet where all other North Carolinian prisoners were assigned. There were three tiered bunks on either side with a narrow passage between. He was only allotted one blanket. In the center of the room was one stove, and there was an allowance of one barrow-load of coal per day. ^ y ^J 104 c L , O Journeys Through Jackson 2018 Vol. 3 Asaph had to quickly learn how to survive in living conditions which were publically referred to as wretched. First, he learned not to speak to or approach any of the sentinels. Each day began with roll call. The men were formed in a line, then marched out by a door to a plat of ground, known by prisoners as "Devil's Half Acre," where all remained until the last man of the twelve thousand had passed the doorway and had been accounted for. This generally occupied about two hours even in extreme weather elements. Breakfast was then served in the mess hall, usually around 9:00 a.m. In a long dark room were several rows of long plank tables. Sometimes the food was on a tin plate, other times it was placed directly on the uncovered greasy table. On each table were pieces of bread and meat arranged at intervals of about two feet. Each prisoner took one ration. The bread and meat varied as found in writings of prisoners after the war. All agreed the rations were slight. Assorted breads were described as yellow cornbread three inches long and one inch thick; a small piece of bread made from rye or wheat flour; crackers; three pieces of hard tack; and baker's bread, often stale. Breakfast meat was told to be a very small piece of bacon or beef. Weak coffee served was made from a decoction of logwood and beans. Only two light meals were served daily to Sherrill and others. The dinner fare was served about 3:00 p.m. The food was once again placed in individual servings on the table for the men. The menu was the same as breakfast, a piece of bread and a piece of meat. The meat could have been a small chunk beef which was occasionally all sinew or mostly bone, piece of salt pork or salt beef. Coffee was replaced with corn or bean soup served in a pint tin cup. Once a month inspectors or health commissioners visited the prison, but the officers in charge always knew when they were coming. The mess hall would be clean, beans and meat were in the soup, and a general appearance of good treatment was presented so that a fair report could be made and published. Drinking water was brought from Brandywine Creek about 10 miles away. Many waking hours were consumed with thoughts of food by the starving soldiers. At the end of the day another roll call would be conducted. The prisoners tried to make the lingering hours pass lightly. Occasionally they played games such as cards and checkers or chess. Some formed a debate club and even performed theatrical performances all improvised by themselves. However, the days were over shadowed With suffering and deprivation as well as thoughts of home and freedom. Diseases were the deadliest issue which faced these Civil War prisoners due to impure water, exposure, poor food, and unsanitary conditions. Fort Delaware lost so many prisoners it was dubbed "The Fort Delaware Death Pen." Approximately 2,700 Confederate soldiers died while being held captive. Asaph Wilson Sherrill became a Fort Delaware death statistic. Furthermore, out of 1,184 Confederate soldiers serving from Jackson County, North Carolina, 49 died in Union prisons. Asaph had been diagnosed with dysentery, the greatest single killer of the Civil War. The disease claimed more soldiers than battle wounds. Insufficient medical treatment then became Asaph's worst enemy. He died on March 2/3, 1865. His muster roll records reveal he was buried on the Jersey Shore. Had he survived another month, Asaph would have witnessed the end of the war on April 9, 1865. Sherrill's burial place is now known as Finn's Point National Cemetery located across the Delaware River in New Jersey. A Confederate monument identifies the site, and names of the deceased Confederate prisoners are inscribed on bronze plaques affixed to the base of the monument. Asaph's name and unit appears as "Sherill, A.W. C Thomas' N.C. Legn." A grassy field covers the remains of 2,436 Confederate soldiers who died when they were captive at the fort. Underfoot, there are mass graves, stacked in columns of three or four with men entombed in simple wooden boxes. Graves cannot be individually identified. Charles W. Rivenbark, Fort Delaware Confederate prisoner from New Hanover County, North Carolina who bunked in the same barrack Asaph was assigned upon arri

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Journeys Through Jackson 1997 Vol.07 No.07-08

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Journeys 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 J o u r n e y s T h r o u g h J a c k s o n ^ The Official Journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. Vol. VII, No. 7-8 July-August, 1997 JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. 1997 Officers ^ President WilliamL. Crawford Vice Presidents Barbara W. Dooley ' Rick L. Frizzell Secretary Marilyn G. Morton Treasurer David C. Frizzell Chair, Publications R. Larry Crawford 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 for other nonprofit groups. From the Editor The old saying goes that "Talk is cheap," and if that's true, then excuses must be even cheaper. So no excuses are forthcoming from the editor for the tardiness of this issue, just apologies to the membership. Our JCGS August picnic was fun and well-attended. At that gathering, Barbara Dooley was j presented with the Holden Award. See the story on the first page of this issue. Work on the cemetery book is exceeding all expectations. Bill Crawford and Mack Sutton are leading the way on this project, and we should also acknowledge the able work being accomplished by Sharon Carnes, Sandie Massingale, Harry Bumgarner, Dorris Beck, and Helen Vance, among others. We hope this book will be close to reality by Christmas. Speaking of reality, keep your fingers crossed that the Society will be able to rent space in the Ferguson Building in downtown Sylva. Our lack of a home has been a continuing frustration, but we continue to "make do" with members' storage closets, extra rooms, attics, etc. In this issue, we concentrate almost completely on several 19th century Jackson County families. Read Thomas W. Johnson's research on the Turpins, the first of many chapters from Betty Cope Andrews on her Monteith line; more of Marty Grant's Cathey connections; and a revision of the Suttons from Mack Sutton and Clara Stern. We also offer the 1928 Death Certificates fro Jackson County. As Dog Days slink away into oblivion, may the new fall air invigorate our genealogical spirit. One way that your spirit can be manifest is to consider donating books, notebooks, or just vertical file items to the Society if our office does materialize. Think about it. y Journeys Through Jackson, July-August, 1997 Table of Contents Queries and Information 85 The Thomas W. Johnson Response to the Turpin Box 86-92 ROOTS (Researching 0_ur Origins Together Successfully) 93-94 The Family of Thomas S. Monteith and Sarah Gribble 95-100 1928 Jackson County Death Certificates . - . . ; .. 101-104 The Cathey Ancestry of Marty Grant ..- %...* 105-108 A John Sutton Update by Mack Sutton and Clara Stern 109-114 QUERY New JCGS member Sandra Davis Blanton, 577 Browns Valley Rd Corralitos, CA 95076 relates that she was able to document her Hooper name in N C up to the 1880 census, but is confused about the Davis line. Who was the father of John W. Davis, her ggg grandfather? Why is his wife Sarah in the census and Jane in the Heritage Book? Who were her parents? What happened to Mary A. Hooper Davis, Samuel A. Davis (her son) and Nancy A. Davis (her daughter) after the 1880 census? Needs other info on early Davis name...why the change to Davis fromJDayidson? BARBARA DOOLEY IS HONORED WITH THE HOLDEN AWARD At the August picnic held this year at the WCU picnic grounds, Barbara Dooley was honored with the presentation of the third Robert Lee and Drusilla Holden Award, presented annually as a Distinguished Service Award by the JCGS and endowed by Mary Sherrill Robinson and Nancy Sherrill Wilson. Barbara Dooley is no stranger to those who follow the activities of the Society. She serves currently as Co-Vice President of JCGS, and in that office has been instrumental in bringing many knowledgeable and entertaining speakers our way. Barbara was the editor of the 1860 Census book for Jackson County Historical Association, a major contribution to those studying genealogy in our county. She* h a s traveled internationally to do her research, and'has shared that research with genealogical'societies, Internet contactees, and with the members of our local Society. She is married to James Dooley, retired Vice Chancellor for University Services at WCU, and they are parents of two, grandparents of three. An accomplished pianist, Barbara with her husband James founded the Western Carolina Community Chorus. They are also very active in the Cullowhee Baptist Church. They reside at East LaPorte. 85 DID YOU KNOW? That JCGS members Louise Edwards, Frances Hyatt, Regenia Fisher, and Irene McClure are featured in a book of essays prepared by the Jackson County Extension Homemakers Association in cooperation with the WCU University Writing Center? Entitled Memories from the Hearth and Home:Collected Essays, the softbound book is a collection of reminiscences"from fifteen Jackson County women. Louise Edwards wrote of Professor Robert Lee Madison and his profound influence on her family; Frances Hyatt's essay was centered on her teaching days at Big Cove; Regenia Fisher wrote of "Living in the Country"; and Irene McClure shared her memories of family and education. Congratulations to these outstanding women for their accomplishments. The book is delightful. FURTHERMORE, DID YOU KNOW? ...never to store anything in a basement because of mold? ...never use plastic to store ANYTHING? ...to stay away from PVC notebooks to collect your materials? ...never to laminate ANYTHING? ...to use plain steel shelving, rather than wood, because of acids? ...never to store quilts in plastic bags? ...never to write on the backs of photographs? ...never to use magnetic-page photo albums? ...video tapes have a 7-year life under optimum conditions? ...hair can be kept in Glad bags (PVC free) ...if you won't put it in your mouth, don't put it on a grave stone? (In other words, use water.) . [Ed. The above pearls of wisdom are from our informative June speaker, Billie McNamara, who had dozens of do's and don'ts for genealogists concerning archival preservation.] THE THOMAS W. JOHNSON RESPONSE TO THE TURPIN BOX [Ed. When the "Turpin Box" article ran in JTJ in January-February, it elicited the following letter and documentation on the Turpin family. Our thanks to JCGS member Thomas W. Johnson of Salt Lake City, who gave us permission to print his Turpin notes. On this page are condensed statements from the letter.] "I have been working on this family for some time...My second great-grandmother was Sarah Jane Turpin, daughter of James H. Turpin and Jane "Jenny" Messer...Previously I had proven that James H. Turpin and his brothers Elias and Allen were originally from Franklin Co., GA (I didn't know about William)...I have located William Turpin in Shelby Co., TX in 1850 and 1860... Josiah Nations calling James H. Turpin "uncle" is also interesting...I have enclosed some of my information on the Turpin family...This is not all that I have but deals mainly with James H. Turpin and his three wives." Continued Next Page 86 CHRONOLOGY OF THE JAMES H. TURPIN, SR., FAMILY of Franklin and Rabun Co., Georgia, and Haywood, Macon, and Jackson Co., North Carolina compiled by Thomas Woodrow Johnson 4165 North 700 East Murray, UT 84107 circa 1799 Jane "Jenny" Messer was born circa 1799 to Solomon and Rachel Messer (or Mercer) in Lincoln County, North Carolina. circa 1803 James H. Turpin was born circa 1803 probably to John Turpin and probably in Franklin County, Georgia. 25 November 1812 Nancy Ellison Hughes, daughter of Ralph "Rafe" Hughes and Sarah Elizabeth Turpin, was born probably in Haywood County, North Carolina. Ralph Hughes Family Bible Record. 1825 Poll Tax A James Turpin paid a poll tat in 1825 under Capt. Tabor's district, Franklin County, Georgia. Martha "Walters Acker, Franklin County, Georgia, Tax Digests, Volume 4 — 1825-1829 Taxables (Birmingham, Ala.:.By the Author, 1987), 19. circa 1827 James H. Turpin married Jane Messer probably in Haywood County, North Carolina, but possibly in Tennessee or Georgia. 18 August 1828 John Turpin, son of James H. Turpin and Jane Messer, was bom in Tennessee. 1830 Census Jas. "Tirphr" was listed as head of household in Rabun County, Georgia, including a Rabun Co., Ga. male 0-5 (son John Turpin, b. 1828), male 20-30 (James H. Turpin, b. circa 1803), and a female 30-40 (Jane Messer, b. circa 1799). James's brother Elias "Tirpin" and family were likewise enumerated in Rabun County and his brother Alin Turpin was in Habersham County, Georgia, in 1830. 1830 Cenuss, Rabun Co., Ga., p. 226, FHL film 0007040. 75 February 1835 Elizabeth Moses " no. 12 James H.- Turpin was a vs. 1 defendant in a suit in James Turpin i Defalt 1 Enjury Macon Co., N. C 1. John Shular 5. Jesse Pendergrass 6. Wm H. Brison 2. John Colbert 6. James Trittman 10. Ben Clark 3. James Colbert 7. Michael Water 11. Amos Shephard 4. Andrew Colbert 8. Thomas Tatham 12 Samuel Wikell Who assign the plantiff damage to one penny & costs of suit 6 87 On motion judgment it granted against the securityes for the appeal. Macon Co., N.C, Clerk of Superior Court, County Court Minutes, Dec 1833 - Feb 1836, p. 43, FHL film 0548807. 1840 Census James "Terpine" was listed as the head of household in Haywood County, North Haywood Co., N. C Carolina, which included one male age 0-5 (James H. Turpin, Jr., b. 1837), two males 10-15 (John Turpin, b. 1828, & possibly William Brown/Messer/Turpin, b. 1822), one male 20-30 (name unknown), one male 30-40 (James H. Turpin, Sr.), one female 0-5 (name unknown), three females 5-10 (Margaret Elizabeth Turpin & Sarah Jane Turpin, twins b. 1831, and a daughter whose name is unknown), and one female 30-40 (Jane Messer Turpin). One person was employed in agriculuture, presumably James H. Turpin, Sr. 1840 Census, Haywood Co., N.C, p. 113, FHL film 0018094. Between 1840 and Jane "Jenny" Messer Turpin died sometime after the enumeration of the 1840 census 30 December 1842 but before her husband's obtaining a marriage license to marry Nancy Ellison Hughes on 30 December 1842. yy 19 June 1840 James H. Turpin of Haywood Co., N.C, agreed to sell various property to Thomas & King for one shilling if a debt was not settled with them by the fall of 1841. Know all men by these present that I James H Turpin of the county of Haywood and State of North Carolina for and in consideration of the sum of one shilling to me in hand paid by Thomas & King of the county and state aforesaid the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged therewith fully satisfied have bargained and sold and do by these present bargain and sell and deliver unto the aforesaid Thomas [&] King the following property (viz) one bay mare about 8 years old and one young horse 2 years old the one I bought from Daniel Gibson one cow and calf of a dun color and all my hogs running at Dicks Creek supposed to be about thirty head (with the exception of twelve dollars worth which Jason Sherrill is to have) Also five head of sheep and all my household and kitchen furniture and all my standing crops of com and oats and all my interest that I have in a piece of parcil of land lying and being in county of Haywood situated on Dicks Creek To have and to hold unto the said Thomas and King all the above mentioned property and have delivered the same to them free from any claims from me my heirs and assignes to him their heirs and assignes forever. The conditions of the foregoing obligation is such whereas the said Turpin is indebted to said Thomas and King by one note or bond due 1st day of Jany last for the sum of seventy two dollars and ninety one cents as can be seen by difference to said bond now if the said Turpin shall well and truly discharge and pay said debt on or before the fall of 1841 then this obligation to be null and void or other wise to remain in full power and virtue In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this the 19 day of June 1840. ^y attest: H. P. King (Jurat) State of No[rth] Carolina Haywood County. James H Turpin (seal) Clerks office 22 June A.D. 1840. The deed of mortgage was duly proven in the clerks office by H P King the subscribing witness thereto recorded therefore let it be so granted Certified the 9th July A. D. 1840. W[illia]m Welch Cl[er]k. Haywood Co.. N.C, Deeds E:31-32, FHL film 0463094. u 88 L - 30 December 1842 James H. "Terpin" and Nancey Hughes obtained a marriage licence; the bondsmen were James H. Terpin and Gorg [George] Cooper; the witnesses was Samuel Gibson. Haywood Co., N.C, Original Marriage Bond, NCSA. 6 November 1846 This deed of Mortgage came into my hands the 23rd day of Nov. 1846. B. Turnar James H. Turpin of Registrar] H[aywood] C[ounty] This Indenture made the sixth day of November A. D. Haywood Co.,N.C, one thousand eight hundred and forty six Between James H Turpin of the County of agreed to sell various Haywood and state of North Carolina of the one part and James R. Love of the same property to James R. county and state of the other part witnesseth whereas hereto for about the 15th day of Love for fifty cents if a October 1846 James R Love indorsed a security for said Turpin to William Welch of debt with him was not said county in the sum of thirty dollars ,or there about by note of hand and also stood settled within twelve as security to M. Francis of said county to a note for twelve hundred 74 pounds of months. Bacon which was executed to said Francis about the 16th day of March 1846 on which note there is a credit for 329 lbs of Bacon or thereabout and the said Terpin on his part stands justly indebted to said Love in the sume of seventy dollars for the use of his the Loves stallion horse and the said'James H. Turpin being desirous the said Love and horse him has less as well in the debt for which he is security as his own dues for the horse therefore for and in consideration of the above named debts and allso for the further sum of fifty cents to him the said Turpin in hand paid by the said Love has by these presents sold and does and hath sold to the said James R Love his heirs and assigns one four horse road waggon without a-body four head of horse beasts to wit one bay mare ten-years old one bay. mare three years old and a bay horse eight years old one stud horse an a eight years old and four sets of harness (2 hind and 2 four[)] one cow and calf household and kitchen furniture to have and to hold the above named property to the only proper use of the said James R Love his, heirs and assigns forever It is never the less the true intent and meaning of these presents .that if the said James H Turpin shall well and truly pay or cause to be paid-all the aforesaid debts with the accuring interest so as to have harmless and indemnify the said Love in his habi[...]ties as aforesaid within twelve months from the date of these presents then the obligation and contract to be utterily null and void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue it is further understood and agreed that the property for the time being is to remain in the possession of the said Turpin But if from bad treatment or other causes which the said Love may suffient [?] to permit further trouble on the part of said he the said Love is hereby authorized to take and receive possession of all the property hereby conveyed or any part thereof at his the said Loves own discretion & option In testimony whereof the said James H Terpin has hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal the day and year above written in presence of us Keener James H. Terpin (seal) State of North Carolina, Haywood County, Clerks office November 23rd 1846 The foregoing deed of Mortgage was duly acknowledge before me the date above recorded therefore let the same be registered. Certified by me W. Brown Cl[erk] Haywood Co., N.C, Deeds F: 115-16, FHL film 0463094. December 1847 Minutes of December session 1847. . . . Ordered by court that Robert G A Love be Robert G. A. Love was and he is hereby appointed Guardian to the miner heirs of James H Terpin (viz) John, named gaurdian of James Terpen - Margaret - Sarah - James - and Allen Terpen he filing bond in the sum of H. Turpin's minor Two Thousand Dollars with James-R. Love secretary. children: John, Margaret, r 89 Sarah, James, and Allen. Haywood Co., N.C, Minutes of County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1838-49, p. 562, FHL film vJ 0463090. circa 1849 Margaret Elizabeth Turpin married John E. Fincher probably in Haywood County, North Carolina. The marriage bond does not survive. 9 January 1849 John "Terpin" (signed Turpin) and Almira Jones, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Jones, obtained a marriage license 9 January 1849; the bondsmen were John Terpin and John L. Smith; the witness was R. V. Welch. Haywood Co., N.C, Original Marriage Bond, NCSA. 24 September 1849 Monday Morning September 24th 1849 . . . Gedeon Allman vs James H. Turpin SS. James H. Turpin was Casa [cause of] Defendant sor[...]ened by his bail in discharge of the bond on motion named a defendant in a of Defedent Councel to quash on the Ground That the bond for appearance is Over the suit against Gedeon sum Required by Law = Sounder withdrawn Open for tomorrow Presents J. Keener, Allman. Allen Fischer, J. M. Shook, Esquires. Haywood Co., N.C, Minutes of County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1849-58, p. 35, FHL film 0463090. 26 September 1849 Wednesday Morning September 26th 1849 . . . Gideon Allman vs J. H. Therpin SS. James H. Turpin was motion of defendant councel to quash the proceeding on the grounds of erregularity of named a defendant in a the casa [cause of] bond which motion was sustained by the court whereup the court suit against Gedeon adjudged and decreed that the casa be dismessed and that Defendant have Judgement Allman. The case was against the Plantiff for the cost of suit to be taxed by the clerk. Present Allen Fischer, dismissed. J. R. Love, Wm P. Gilett, Esquires. V ) Haywood Co., N.C, Minutes of County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1849-58, p. 38, FHL film 0463090. James H. Turpin and State vs James Love Jun & James Turpin SS. Defendant co[...]d woodfire to quashe James Love, Jr., were the indictment in this case. named defendants in a suit brought by the State. Haywood Co., N.C, Minutes of County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1849-58, p. 60, FHL film 0463090. 11 February 1850 A Power of Attorney from James H Turpin William Messer [sic] & John Turpin to James H. Turpin, John Saml. W. Gibson was proven in this office By Joseph Keener clk the words & figures Turpin, and William (following to wit) Know all men by these presents that we James H Turpin natural Messer [otherwise Turpin Guardian of the minor heirs of said Turpin & Jane Turpin formerly Jane Mercer to otherwise Brown], gave with Sarah James & Henry Allen Turpin & William Turpin [sic] & John Turpin, all of power of attorney to the County of Haywood & State of North Carolina, have and do by these presents Samuel W. Gibson to nominate & appoint Saml W. Gibson of the said County and state their true and lawful obtain their share of the attomy in fact for them and in their name, to ask for demand and receive of & from estate of Joseph Mercer all and every person in whose hands the distribed share of Jane Turpin wife of James [Messer] of Crittenden H. Turpin formerly Jane Messer who is now dead, and who was the daughter of Co., Ky., due in right of Solomon Messer, in the Estate of Joseph Mercer late of Crittenden County, and State Jane Mercer [Messer], of Kentucky, though now deceased and all money w. specific Articals Which is due the deceased, the daughter of said James H Turpin in right of his said deceased wife or to his said representatives in Solomon Messer. Jane whose soever hands the same may be, The said attomy in fact S. W. Gibson is to take was the deceased wife of & use all lawful means, in our names or otherwise for the recovery thereof Either by James H. Turpin and the Suing out and prosecuting any & all manner of legal process or by compounding or ^—' 90 L . mother of William Messer- [otherwise Turpin otherwise Brown], John Turpin, Sarah Turpin,* James Turpin, and Henry Allen Turpin. arbitrating in his discretion and all proper and necessary acquttances or other sufficent releaces, and discharges, for us and in our names to make seal & deliver and to do all lawful acts and things inwhatsoever concerning the premises as fully and effechially in Every respect as we our selves might or could do were we personally present. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the 11th day of Feb. AD 1850 Attest J. Kenner A true copy certified signed James H Turpin (seal) Wm Messer [sic] (seal) John Turpin (seal) Haywood Co., N.C, Minutes of County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1849-58, p. 73, FHL film 0463090. 75 June 1850 Tuesday morning-June 18th 1850 . . . State vs J. C. Love & James H. Turpin SS Enely James H. Turpin and Armstrong S. W. wet & Prosator call and failed Judgement wise for $40 Issue scisa J. C. Love were named Opinnion of the councel the Defendant Be rebound W

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Journeys Through Jackson 1994 Vol.04 No.09-10

Author: Jackson County Genealogical Society (N.C.)
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Journeys 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.J o u r n e y s ' T h r o u g h J a c l ( s o n The OfficialJournalof the Jacfcon County QeneahgicalSociety, Inc. Vol W, 9{p. 9-10 Septem6er-Octo6er, 1994 President's Message I went back to Cullowhee to get a VCR repaired and came away with a whole lot of memories about growing up within a hundred yards of the repair place. When I was a small boy my daddy had a T-model Ford and Bill Ingram had four small lots in Cullowhee facing the highway. Bill wanted that Model-T and my daddy wanted a place to build a house, so it's not surprising that they got together and made a trade—then came the building of a house. This was even before the Depression and the only lumber that was to be had for the price that my daddy could afford was green oak. It did dry after some time, but we had some pretty good cracks to deal with. This was no major problem because we also had newspapers and cull paper from the paper mill in Sylva to fill up the cracks and cover the walls inside. We lived there many years and survived many cold nights. We never even knew that it was hard because it was all that we had at the time. I'm getting away from my story a little, which was to be about that big hole in the side of the hill facing the highway. We grew up with a lot of business coming to Cullowhee; most of the people who came on later never knew of them. First of all we had Moss's Store which was general groceries and feed and connected to that was a dance hall. Then there was a dry goods store with rooms above. Also, a small restaurant in the next building. But then comes the surprise. There were two car dealerships—one was in the two-story brick building, but on the corner next to the river was a Hudson dealership. They had at the time three or four Hudson Terraplanes. The thing I remember about the Hudson was that the floorboard was lower than the bottom of the doors. You would step down to get in and at that time it was different Robert Brown owned one of them and somebody in Dix Gap owned another, but this is still not what I'm writing about One morning about one o'clock somebody was yelling real loud down at the road and we thought it was Alvin Henson, known to us as Chink, and also known to us that he did some celebrating on several occasions. He seemed to be saying that the town was all high, but actually he said the town is on fire. The first four buildings from the edge of our yard were burning by the time we could get out. There was an outside stairway between the cafe and the brick building that was the Chevrolet place, and that opening must have saved the rest of Cullowhee. There was no Are department to help and the Tire just burned out and the walls fell in the right direction. We carried water and threw on our house which was so hot that steam would come off the walls and the window glass broke from the heat It survived the big fire back then but burned down recently after being partially demolished. I'm going to send somebody to pick up that VCR. I could probably write a book with one more visit Our genealogical society is alive and well. We are selling some books all along and the same faithful members attend the meetings. If you are not one of them, we would love to have you back. Set aside the second Thursday nite and mark your calendar. If you grew up in Cullowhee in the twenties and thirties you could possibly tell some good stories. See you on October 13. Archie * * * * * * * * CALENDAR Regular Society Meeting, October 13, 7:00 p.mn Jacksoa Comity Public Library. October 28-19, NCGS Workshop, Raleigh (see flyer at back of this issue). Regular Society Meeting, November 10, 7:00 pan., place to be announced Society Annual Meeting, December 8, 7:00 p-m., place to be announced. Edd Dong Davis, Jackson County's First Sheriff A. M. Bumgarner. I was elected to the office of Sheriff, and so have the distinction of having been the first sheriff of this county. When the business of electing county officers was dispatched, the court moved its sitting to an old log church which stood near the present residence of ex-sheriff W. A. Henson, and there appointed road overseers and patrollers. The organization of the county was completed by drawing the following list of jurors, of whom all are now dead except Thomas Henson and George Bumgarner: Wm. Candler, Bazee Lusk, Aaron Butler, John B. Wilkes, H. T. Galloway, John Davis, Frederick Huffman, George Bumgarner, Hugh Rogers, Albert Hyatt, James Connelly, Absolom Woodring, Silas Green, Ben Williams, Isaac Mason, A. C. Coleman, James Wilson, J. M. Henson, Wm. Henderson, J. J. Hooper, W. R. Buchanan, James Fisher, George Buchanan, John Monteith, Joel S. Conner, Wm. Norton, Josiah Watson, James Kirkland, Amos Ashe, Philip Dills, E. D. Brendle, Abe Hyatt, Ben Harris, A. M. Gocher, arid G. W. Clayton. The following is the list of magistrates who qualified at the organization of the county, all of whom have passed away: Allen Fisher, Wm. R. Crawford, A. M. Bumgarner, Peter King, Jonas B. Sherrill, John Wilson, Jacob Wike, L. C. Hooper, W. H. Higdon, W. R. Buchanan, James McKinney, and John Zachary. I held the office of sheriff for twelve successive years. When my last term expired, I engaged in farming for the three ensuing years and then made the race for clerk of the Superior court, against M. M. Brown, the father of the present incumbent of the office. I was successful in this race and held the office for six years. While still in this office I made the race for representative against G. W. Spake, Dr. J. M. Candler, and Harve London. I was again successful, and served in the legislature of 1874-5 in which-1 voted in favor of the constitutional convention which amended and removed from the county its "carpet bag" features. Some years afterwards I was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners and served in that capacity for six years. In all, thirty years of my life have been spent in office, taking into consideration —years term as justice of the peace my official life beginning in the office of Sheriff when I was twenty-five years old. The first election held for the elections of members of the General Assembly was in 1854, when CoL T. D. Bryson, was elected, having defeated John B. Allison. Bryson was defeated in 1856 by J. R.- Dills by 11 votes. Bryson was re-elected in 1858. In 1860 Col. Jas. R. Love was elected. Joseph Keener succeeded him in 1862. He was succeeded in 1864 by W. A. Enloe. In 1866 T. D. Bryson was again returned to the Legislature. E. M. Painter sncceeded him in 1868. T. D. Bryson was again elected in 1870, and he was succeeded in 1872 by J. N. Bryson. The recollection of the present generation will reach back this far, and I shall not mention the representatives chosen since that time. From the Historic Webster newsletter Edd Doug Davis, known as Doog Davis, became in 1853 the first sheriff of Jackson County. With the exception of the period he lived, while sheriff, in the jail at Webster, he spent his adult life on his large farm located between Webster and Cullowhee. Today this area is called Rolling Green. Sheriff Davis and his wife Nancy Allen, daughter of Nathan Allen of Webster, were the parents of seven sons and two daughters. Mr. Davis, who died at his home August 25, 1911, is buried in the family plot in Webster Cemetery along with his wife, two of his sons, Nathan A. and Joe W., and other members of later generations of Davises. 100 Table of Contents Journeys Through Jackson, September-October, 1994 Edd Doug (Doog) Davis, Jackson County's First Sheriff 99-100 "One Ark Short" 101-104 1870 Jackson County Mortality Schedule 105-106 Nation Family Roots in Jackson County 107-108 Queries 108 A Connected Gathering 109-110 Long Distance Research (A Research Aid) 111-116 Jerry Frady Carlisle Pedigree Chart 117 Charles Williams Pedigree Chart 118 Index 119-121 Announcements 122 * * * * * * * * * * * * EDD DOUG (DOOG) DAVIS, JACKSON COUNTY'S FIRST SHERIFF (The Jackson County Journal of January 29, 1906, carried the following autobiography of the county's first sheriff and has some interesting information about the county's formation. This same article was printed in the Historic Webster newsletter in April, 1974, with some parenthetical, explanatory comments.) The author of this article was born in Buncombe County (now Transylvania) Sept 4, 1827. My father lived where the late George C. Neil lived to the time of his death, on what was then known as Lamb's Creek which was a tributary of French Broad River. Its head waters were near where Davidson's river has its source, with which it ran parallel but being much smaller. It was then known as Ben Davidson's river but of late years the "Ben" has been dropped. There has been a postoffice at this place for more than seventy years. Davidson's River postmaster, Ben Davidson, was my great-grandfather. When I attended school the course embraced reading, writing, and arithmetic My teachers were David Hadden, Benj. D. Gullick, and James Patton. During the winter of 1839-40 I attended a school at an old Presbyterian camp ground, this school being taught by Charles McDowell Paxton, under the same conditions as the other teachers. In the spring of 1840 my father moved to Caney Fork (then Haywood County). I worked on the farm and attended several little schools taught by E. B. Erwin and B. B. Edmonston. My last school days were spent under the instruction of that whole-souled clever young man, J. Newton Bryson, in the year 1857. The old log school house stood near where the store house of Henson Brothers, of Painter (Cullowhee), now stands. (The store house was at the northwest end of bridge.) This now brings us to the time when Jackson County was organized, the statute under which it was done providing that it be organized at the dwelling house of Daniel Bryson. This was done about the 20th or 21st day of March, 1853. His Honor J. W. Ellis (afterward Governor) was holding the spring term of the court and appointed J. Newton Bryson, Clerk of the Superior Court Ellis was Governor when hostilities broke out between the states. President Lincoln called on him to furnish 7500 soldiers to bring the South under subjection, to which Ellis sent an indignant refusal, of course. When the magistrates appointed had qualified, they proceeded to the election of the following County officers: Clerk County Court, J. Keener; Coroner, Charles Bumgarner; Register, J. D. Buchanan; Trustee (now treasurer), 99 (Editor's note: You will recall that we left Leo Cowan and friends seeking direction from a higher source as they struggled to deal with the great flood of August, 1940. Now for the rest of the story.) .ONE ARK SHORT (Continued from July-August issue) I stood there in that raging creek, trying my best to get some of my religious teaching straightened out in a hurry. I remembered Aunt Etta, my junior Sunday School teacher, telling us some Bible stories. Naturally, the first one I thought of was Noah and the Ark in a flood that must have been at least as big as this one, and to hear her tell it, it was probably a lot bigger. However, there did seem to be two big differences in Noah's predicament and ours: we didn't have any wine to celebrate our survival, if we survived, and even if our flood was smaller, we were still up one angry .creek and were one ark-short. The Noah bit didn't seem to apply to our situation. I decided that prayer was the next best hope, so I started with, "AH things bright and beautiful,, all things great arid small..." and knew right off that this would not cut it The only other prayer that came to mind was, "Now I lay .me down to sleep..." which was downright depressing at a time when I needed all the uplifting I could get At this point I decided to go whole hog and ask for divine intervention. There seemed to be precedent for such a request I remembered Aunt Etta telling us about the Israelites' trials in their exodus from bondage in Egypt Aunt Etta could never just say Israelite. She always upped it to a whole host of Israelites. According to her, a whole host of Israelites were high-tailing it out through the desert, leaving bondage and Egypt, seeking the land of milk and honey, and if it took them as long as Aunt Etta said, it was probably buttermilk and honey by the time they got there. The whole host of Israelites that were hot-footing it through the sand were being chased by the mighty Pharaoh's, mighty army, and just at sundown, the Israelites realized they were trapped between the Red Sea before them and Pharaoh's army behind them .and darkness and gloom settling round about them and they should have been sore afraid, but Moses, their leader, knew the Israelites had found favor in the eyes of the Lord. The Israelites practiced a.peculiar kind of pruning that pleased the Lord, so He had a strong wind blow out of the East all night When morning came, the Red Sea had a wall of water on the right and-a wall of water on the left and a dry sandy path between the-walls that allowed the whole host of Israelites to cross without even getting their sneakers wet When Pharaoh's army marched up to the sea and saw the two walls of water, the drill sergeant said, "Ahabah," which being interpreted, means, "Twph, halt and at ease until we can see if the Israelites, whose little Lebanese tennis shoe tracks we see in the sand, are actually going in the direction the tracks are going or were they walking backwards to make ns think they were coming from a place, when in reality they were actually goipg somewhere!" After they decided their late guests had crossed the Sea and even now were entering the wilderness, the little drill sergeant with the big drill voice yelled, "Ten-shun, for hor, hup, trap, ree, or," and marched forth between the water walls. When they were halfway through, the Lord pulled a, Jericho on them,.and Pharaoh's army got drownded. It may have been the situation I was in that made me see Aunt Etta's Bible lesson in an entirely different light to which I had always seen i t Up to this point, I had always thought of the Israelites as the good guys and Pharaoh and his draftees as the heavys. If someone had told me at suppertime that before the rooster crowed I'd be standing in a raging .torrent -up to my ear lobes, pulling for the Egyptians, I'd have said their belfry was in desperate need of an exterminator. Even remembering all the tribulations they had when Moses led them wandering pell-mell through the wilderness of forty years because he didn't have a.road map didn't change my mind. Aunt Etta explained Moses' shortcoming in this matter by telling us that Moses started out as a river man, 101 One Ark Short and as far as she knew, he never owned a car in his life and had no need for road maps. Aunt Etta may not have been a great Bible scholar,'but she was one mean story teller. We were in the same situation that the Egyptians were 3,000 years ago, and I knew that the males of Appalachia in the early 1900's did not practice the peculiar pruning that pleased the Lord, and I knew the Lord knew I knew this. I also knew that if we were ever to be on dry ground again, it was time for us to get our own selves out of this mess or join Pharaoh's army. Bernice was the next to leave the truck. Her left hand interlocked with mine while Ray held her other until she could get in the creek and grab the door handle. When she stepped in the creek, her skirt and slip came up around her waist She released Ray's hand, tucked her slip and skirt to their proper place in the water, then grabbed the door handle. A woman will be a woman come hell or high water. After Bernice got in the creek, I tried to move toward the bank, but the current was too strong, the footing too precarious to go any direction except downstream. We followed Winston's directions until he left the truck, closed the door, and grabbed the door handle. Now we were all in the drink. The truck's headlights were still shining but beneath the water most of the time now. The rain continued hard and steady; the rocks banged, ground, and tumbled around, over, and on our feet The creek kept rising, and the sand and gravel it carried kept stinging our legs and finding its way into our shoes and socks. Misery was shifting into overdrive. We slowly worked our way closer to the bank of the creek. The creek seemed to have taken on a new personality. It was hard to realize that this angry, raging torrent was the same creek I had known all my life. For as long as I could remember, I had gone to sleep with its gentle lullaby singing in my ears. We had fished this stream, waded i t made swimming ponds and learned to swim in it, and now it acted as if we had never known each other. Some of the happiest times of my life were spent on a make-shift hammock swung low over the creek in the Laurel Thicket It was there that I read Little Men, Riding Pete from Powder River, oodles of Zane Grey, and hundreds of Big Little Books. The creek's gentle murmurings even kept me focused enough to wade through a tome called Anthony Adverse, but deep down I always felt the creek owed me on that one. That may have been the reason it was determined that as my hand probed the darkness, it would find nothing more substantial than dark, wet air. I have known the feel of flannel and slippery elm, but I have known nothing that equals the feeling of the first alder bush I caught that night It was a small twig, no bigger than a pencil, but it held until I could get to a larger one. After I got a firm grip on an honest-to-goodness full-grown alder bush, the word went down the chain to Winston. He turned the door handle loose, and slowly they swung downstream and then into the bank where they had the luck and the fun of finding their own alder bush. Five cold, wet scared, grateful people scrambled onto solid land, crossed Grandpa's hog wire fence, then went through his hog lot back to the truck. It still sat in mid-stream, still had headlights shining in the night The lights were the only thing that seemed normal on this night that somehow had gone completely mad. It had already been a long, long night but there was still a lot of night left Winston, Ray, and I got as close as we could get to the truck, bunkered down, and tried to think of some way to save i t The stream kept rising, and it was obvious the truck would soon wash away if something was not done to anchor i t Bennie and Bernice had not discovered how hunkering helps the thinking process, so they stood behind us, and they stood far enough behind us to be sure there was plenty of high ground between them and the creek. They were followers of the fool-me-once school. Winston, being the driver, decided to go to Grandpa's 102 One Ark Short house and get a log chain to tie the truck to a maple tree that stood on the bank. 'The rest of us, being mere passengers, waited until Winston -returned with a log chain and Uncle Hampton with an oil lantern. Uncle Hampton fastened one end of the chain to the tree as Winston took the other and once again entered the creek. All he had to do to save the truck "was to Tasten the chain to the front bumper. He was within five feet of the truck when its rear end swung downstream, with its headlights now shining upstream, leaving Winston in the dark holding a now useless log chain. The rest of ns, being conventional passengers, sat open-mouthed and watched. When' the rear end swung downstream, the truck held that position—but not for long. While the back floated, the front wheels, bearing the weight of the motor, remained in place for some thirty seconds before a surging current picked the truck up and started it on its driverless journey into the night The headlights continued shining as we sat there watching in disbelief: We were in no mood-for and probably were completely unappreciative of the track's spectacular farewell. The creek flowed with swells and troughs as it followed the contour of the land. When the track topped the crest of a swell, its' lights scribed brilliant arcs of light in the night sky, then disappeared as the rear end climbed the crests. We continued to watch our on-again, off-again unexpected luminary as it followed the creek and finally disappeared behind a distant hill. We stood there dumbfounded, each waiting for someone' to say something. Nothing was said. There was nothing to say. Uncle Hampton turned and started back to Grandpa's house. We followed him and his pitiful lantern. The headlights that had kept us attached to a Visible world that we were comfortable in were gone. I looked at that smoky old kerosene lantern making its pathetic attempt to overcome the darkness that would soon swallow * us, and being young and not too far removed from the age of wishing, I wished we could have a great big helping of Mr. Edison's brilliant lights. Some twenty yards from the ford there was a storehouse by the roadside, and just beyond the storehouse was a driveway to Berlin's house. Berlin's family did'not live in the house in the summertime. They lived in another house on the farm and rented this house to a Mrs.' Lewis each summer. Mrs. Lewis, who came from Washington, D. C, found the summers on East Fork to her liking, as did her daughter Marion and the many visitors who came calling. She had a Boston terrier named Skippy that was no visitor. Mrs. Lewis considered Skippy a member of the family and treated him as such. Skippy had his own stool on which he sat and ate his meals with the rest of

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Imagens de Otto Maria Carpeaux: esboço de biografia

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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Florianópolis, 2015.Este esboço de biografia procura citar algumas imagens de Otto Maria Carpeaux: construções biográficas de naturezas múltiplas, elaboradas em contextos, por atores e sob condições igualmente díspares. Está constituído a partir de uma visão crítica da História, o que permite que ?outras imagens?, fragmentárias e não monumentais, também tenham espaço. Em diálogo com o princípio da montagem, este esboço apresenta-se em duas partes. Na primeira, Imagens possíveis, estão citadas as imagens elaboradas em vida e post mortem acerca do austríaco-brasileiro que nasceu em Viena em 1900, se exilou no Brasil em 1939 e morreu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1978. Na segunda, Montagens possíveis, apresentam-se duas possibilidades de exercício biográfico: pela leitura alegórica do documentário O velho e o Novo (Otto Maria Carpeaux), entendido como instrumento de intervenção no contexto ditatorial brasileiro e de uma reelaboração biográfica concernentes às suas experiências europeias; e pelo Caderno de imagens críticas, registro dos encontros em Carpeaux pelo meio de imagens críticas produzidas a partir da cesura do presente.Abstract : This biographical sketch attempts to quote some images of Otto Maria Carpeaux: various types of biographical constructions, carried out in different contexts by disparate authors under conditions just as distinct. It stems from a critical view of history, allowing for ?other images? fragmented and non-monumental ? to share the space.In dialogue with the montage principle, this sketch has two parts. The first, Possible Images, quotes the images produced during and after the life of the Austrian-Brazilian, who was born in Vienna in 1900, went to Brazil in exile in 1939 and died in Rio de Janeiro in 1978. The second part, Possible Montages, presents two possibilities of a biographical exercise: through the allegorical reading of documentary O Velho e o Novo (Otto Maria Carpeaux), understood as an instrument of intervention in the Brazilian dictatorship context and as a biographical retelling of the author?s European experiences; and through my Scrapbook of Critical Images, a record of the encounters in Carpeaux through critical images produced from the caesura of the present

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Can knowledge-intensive teamwork be managed? Examining the roles of HRM systems, leadership, and tacit knowledge.

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Using a sample of 162 R&D teams, we investigated the influence of HRM systems for knowledge-intensive teamwork on external team knowledge acquisition and internal team knowledge sharing. This study also examined the interactive effect of HRM systems and knowledge tacitness and the combined influence of HRM systems and empowering leadership. HRM systems for knowledge-intensive teamwork were positively associated with team knowledge acquisition and team knowledge sharing. Knowledge tacitness moderated the HRM–knowledge acquisition relationship, reducing the influence of HRM systems. Further, empowering leadership appeared to substitute for the effect of HRM systems. Our findings suggest that an integration of strategic HRM and knowledge teamwork literatures will prove useful for advancing our understanding of knowledge-based competition. Furthermore, by investigating HRM systems and leadership behaviors in tandem, we gain new insights about the interplay between these two important aspects of organizational life.Peer reviewe

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