Judye Ruth Stinnett

Notes:

Judye graduated from Canton High School and went on to Western Carolina
University and graduated with a degree in Education.

She and her husband made their home in Eden, North Carolina where she taught
school in 1995.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Judye married Glenn Delane Fuqua 28 Aug 1958, Walhalla, South Carolina. Glenn was born 25 Feb 1932, , Rockingham, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

1. Julia Kay Fuqua was born 13 Sep 1960, Waynesville, North Carolina.
2. Terry Stinnett Fuqua was born 8 Jun 1967, Eden, North Carolina.

Notes:

Clyde was a fine Baptist Christian man and was very knowledgeable, concerning
the Bible. He was employed at Champion Papers and worked there for fifty years.
Clyde was a sportsman and enjoyed hunting and fishing and he and Edna camped
and fished quite often. He was a fly fisherman and was very adept at tying his
own flies. He died of Cancer and is buried in Crawford Memorial Cemetery.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Clyde married Mary Edna Queen 25 Nov 1929, South Carolina. Mary (daughter of Tom M. Queen and Annie Jones) was born 10 Jun 1910, Haywood County, North Carolina; died 13 Nov 1985, Canton, North Carolina; was buried Clyde, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Occupation: Housewife
Died of Cancer and was buried in Crawford Memorial Cemetery.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Notes:

Richard's parents were divorced when he was very small and he was raised for the
most part by his grandmother, Elmina, and aunt, Sarah on the Stinnett farm in
Sevier County, Tennessee. When Dickey, as he was called, was about sixteen
years old he and a friend moved to Hartford, Tennessee and found work on the
farm of Allen Joe McGaha, who operated a mill and a tannery along with farming.
After about three years, Dickey married Allen Joe's daughter Katie. He was
nineteen and she was sixteen at the time. He soon found work at the Swift
Company in Hartford, Tennessee.

Richard and Katie moved to Texas after the death of their fourth child in 1895.
They traveled in a covered wagon and down the Mississippi in a flat bottomed
boat. They went to the home of his uncle Ben, to pick cotton and possibly work
on the railroad. Their first son to live, George Mack, was born in Ennis, Texas
in 1896. Katie and George Mack returned to Hartford, traveling in the caboose
of a train and Dickey followed after the crops were harvested that year.

Dickey and Katie then moved their family to Hazelwood, North Carolina where
Dickey worked as a tanner. In 1906, when Champion moved into the area he got a
job as carpenter for them. He went with a crew to Savannah, Georgia and was
getting ready to move his family there when he died of malaria.

His body was moved back to Hartford and buried beside his children in the
Redmond-Valentine Cemetery.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Richard married Katie McGaha 20 Jul 1889, Hartford, Cocke County, Tennessee. Katie (daughter of Allen Joe McGaha and Jane Rose) was born 3 Jan 1873, Cocke County, Tennessee; died 13 Jan 1946, Canton, North Carolina; was buried , Haywood, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Occupation: Housewife
Religion: Baptist

Lived with daughter Viola's family in later years.

Buried Patton Cemetery.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Notes:

On Tom's death certificate it gives his father's name as Jasper Queen and
in the obiturary for his sister it says his name is Jeff Queen.

Thomas Queen and Annie Jones received their marriage license on 9 September
1902 and were married on 21 September 1902. They were married by J. W. Wood DD
and the witnesses were A.B. Medford, Jean Hendrix and Gather McClure (Haywood
County Marriage Record Index. Page 38)

Tom was a lumberman and he ran a logging operation and a store in the Sunburst
section of Haywood County. The area is now known as lake logan. He was killed
in a train wreck there while taking groceries to one of the logging camps. He
is buried in Locust Field Cemetery.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Tom married Annie Jones 20 Sep 1902, Waynesville, North Carolina. Annie (daughter of E. A. Jones and Ruth Watson) was born 6 Sep 1883, , Jackson, North Carolina; died 21 Nov 1971, Canton, North Carolina; was buried Clyde, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Housewife died of a stroke was buried in Bon-A-Venture Cemetery.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Notes:

Johu's known first marriage ended in divorce in March of 1871.

However, the census of 1860 shows a John Stinnett and wife, Sarah, living in an area of Cocke County, Tennessee which is near the Stinnett homeplace in Sevier County, Tennessee. The age is right to be Jahu, (Jahu written in longhand is easily mistaken for John). Jahu was not listed in the census of 1860 as living in the Alexander Stinnett household. Also, this John does not appear in the any subsequent census. Jahu was about twenty-seven years old in 1860 and when you consider the number of times he was married later in life it is not unreasonable to believe that he would have been married at least once by 1860.

Jahu served in Capt. J.P. Lynch's Battery of the Tennessee Light Artillery at Vicksburg, Mississippi until its surrender in 1863. He was at a point about six tenths of a mile East of Fort Hill which was the uppermost point of the Confederate defense line around the city. There is a plaque indicating this there. (It doesn't mention Jahu but it does mention Capt. Lynch.) After the surrender, Jahu was kept in the Marine Hospital at Vicksburg from July 4 until July 17, on one occasion, he refused to sign the parole but he did sign it on July 17. He returned to Sevier County and never entered the war again. He applied for a pension from the state of Tennessee in 1903 but was turned down because his name was mistaken for John.

Lydia Hurst, Jahu's third wife, was a daughter of William Breeding. She was first married to Arch Nunn who was from Kentucky. He returned there and she was to follow him after a certain time. When she got there she could not find him and after a time she returned to Tennessee. Later, after getting a divorce from Nunn she married Sevier Hurst. She had one child by Arch Nunn, named Tolbert and one by Sevier Hurst named Lewis.

Sevier Hurst must have died before the 1870 census. It was said that Tolbert looked like an Indian and was a great hunter and was a good shot with his "hog rifle."Jahu also looked like an Indian and was a good hunter and good shot with his "hog rifle too. Tolbert and Jahu were good friends and were in contests with each other about hunting and shooting for many years. In August of 1902
In August of 1902 Jahu filed a complaint through the Sevier County Courts against R.H. Stinnett and wife, Anna. It states that he had given them a deed for a tract of land in Sevier County, Tennessee on the condition that they would take care care of him for the remainder of his life. If they failed to do so the title of the land would revert back to him. He said that they had lived with and cared for him for a time and then they had moved to Cocke County leaving him with his son James and they had been gone for five years. He wanted the title of the land returned to him but the Court ruled against him. Jahu was Jahu was living with Arrie when he died. The complaint refered to an R. H. Stinnett and wife, Anna. The R.H. must have come about by the person writing the complaint for him thinking Jahu's pronouncing "Arrie" sounding as if he was saying R. H. Jahu could not write. The records of the New Salem Baptist Church.

The records of the New Salem Baptist Church show that Jahu was excluded from fellowship of the church in 1893 for joining the U. B. Church. He had previously been excluded in 1868 on the charges of intoxication and refusing to answer the call of the Lord. He was invited to attend the next meeting to defend himself. Jahu denied himself this opportunity. In 1972 he presented a letter for membership in the church which was rejected, no reason given.

Jahu is buried in the Fox Cemetery (sometimes called Oak Grove) Cemetery on Spicewood Flats Road near Del Rio Tennessee.

Most of the information on Jahu was compiled by Wilbur Bradley from census and church records also from interviews with people who knew him such as his aunt Cora Hopkins Stinnett who was born in 1878.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Jahu married Jane McMahan 6 Oct 1867, Sevier County, Tennessee; divorced Yes, date unknown. Jane was born Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Other Events:

• Census: 1930, District 11, Cocke County, Tennessee

Notes:

The Death Certificate gives the following information:
Full Name Allen McGaha
Sex Male Color White Martial status Married
Date of Birth 1844 Date of Death March 10,1937 Age 93
Birthplace Tenn. Trade Farmer
Father's Name Billie McGaha Father's Birthplace Tenn.
Mother's Maiden Name Katie Waters Mother's Birthplace Tenn.
Informant Ben McGaha Informant's Address Hartford, TN
Burial Hartford, TN Date March 11, 1937
Undertaker Brown Funeral Home Newport, TN
Filed 4/10/37

Timothy Welch Stinnet was told by his Uncle Charlie that Allen's mother was
Katie Waddell. Some information he got from Charline McGaha also gives her name
as Nancy Catherine Waddel but she didn't remember who gave the information to
her. The Death Certificate gives it as Katie Waters. The informant was Ben
McGaha who may have been one of Allen's sons.

Allen McGaha's gravestone in Johnson Cemetery, which is legible, states: Allen
J. McGaha 1846-1937. The year of birth conflicts with the date on the Death
Certificate.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Allen — Jane Rose. Jane was born Abt 1867, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Notes:

Farmer
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

Jeptha married Lucinda Bracken 1880, , Jackson. Lucinda (daughter of Thomas Bracken and Elizabeth Kitchen) was born 1846, , Transylvania, North Carolina; died 29 Sep 1917, Canada, Jackson, North Carolina; was buried , Jackson, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Lucinda and Jeptha lived in the Caney Fork section of Jackson County, North
Carolina. She died of paralisis and was buried in Sols Creek Baptist Church
Cemetery.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.
"The Brackin Family in the Southeastern United States", Henry B. Brackin, Jr.,
MD.

Notes:

Buried in Bumgarner Cemetery.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.

E. — Ruth Watson. Ruth (daughter of Elias Watson and Sarah Phillips) was born 25 Dec 1848; died 10 Nov 1941, , Jackson, North Carolina; was buried , Jackson, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Buried in Bumgarner Cemetery.
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Reference:
Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995.