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| 1 | 389479 HENRY SUTTON AUDREY FAYE HENRY | Family F42704
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| 2 | 50423 HENRY NMN SUTTON DEBBIE KATHRYN WILSON | Family F18406
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| 4 | --------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1974, p 53. Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 63, 113. "Joab and Anna (McMahan) Rolen Family", Bonita McMahan Rough, March 1995, p 28. "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 325. | Rolen, Martha Ann E. (I2165)
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| 5 | ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 21. "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 117. "Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 81, 276. "Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 155, 169. | Cole, Trula Gladys (I856)
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| 6 | ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 44. "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 107, 110-111. "Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 89. "Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 85. | Trentham, William R. "Will" (I2287)
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| 7 | ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 212. | Blalock, William Shirl (I32994)
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| 8 | ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 76. | Kear, Joel (I31039)
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| 9 | ---------- Reference: Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 34, 35. "The Townsend Heritage", Kathy Townsend, 1984, p 69. "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 262. | McMahan, George McKinley (I36765)
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| 10 | THE FOLLOWING IS A WORD FOR WORD COPY FROM SIX CLOSE TYPE WRITTEN PAGES, FADED AND HARD TO READ. THERE IS NO DATE INDICATING WHEN THE ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN , BUT IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN IN THE MID-1970'S. MELVIN OTHO RIDENOUR-JULY 1990 ------------------------------------------------- CERTAIN RIDENOURS OF EASTERN TENNESSEE BY LEON DENNY MOSES FORWARD MY MOTHER WAS LOUISA RIDENER (MRS. CALVIN MARTIN) MOSES, OF WHITLEY CO. KENTUCKY. SHE WAS BORN IN 1866. HER FATHER, WILLIAM HAMILTON RIDENER (RIDENOUR), BORN 1827, WAS SON OF WILLIAM RIDENOUR (RIDENHOUR), OF CAMPBELL CO. TENN. BORN 1800-1801. WILLIAM WAS ALMOST CERTAINLY SON OF MARTIN RIDENHOUR, OF CAMPBELL CO., PROBABLY BORN IN HAMBURG, GERMANY, 1770-1780. MOST OF THE INFORMATION FOR THIS HISTORY WAS TOLD BY MY MOTHER, SOMETIMES IN HER EXACT WORDS PUT IN QUOTATION MARKS. OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY & THE U.S. CENSUS HAVE BEEN DRAWN UPON OCCASIONALLY, & DULY ACKNOWLEDGED. STRANGE ENOUGH, THERE ARE FEW CONTRADICTIONS AMONG MY SOURCES. ABOUT 175 YEARS AGO, APPARENTLY A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN WAS LIVING IN HAMBURG, GERMANY. HE WAS IN LOVE WITH A YOUNG FRAULIEN, BUT THEY COULD NOT MARRY IN GERMANY. MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE FIRST COUSINS, BUT I THINK MY MOTHER SAID IT WAS BECAUSE SHE WAS TO YOUNG. THEY ELOPED TO NEW YORK TO GET MARRIED. THE YOUNG GERMAN'S NAME WAS POSSIBLY REIDENHAUER( PRONOUNCED REEDEN-HOWER). WE MUST NOT TAKE THIS GUESS TOO SERIOUSLY, FOR I ONCE MET A MAN FROM HAMBURG WHOSE NAME WAS ALREADY RIDENAUR (PRONOUNCED LIKE THE TENNESSEE RIDENOUR). ANYWAY, IN AMERICA, THE NAME BECAME RIDENHOUR, RIDENHOWER, RIDENER, ETC. THEN MY GRANDFATHER WAS A RIDENER, WHEREAS HIS FATHER, HIS BROTHERS, & MOST OF HIS OTHER RELATIVES WERE RIDENOURS. RIDENOURS CAN BE MET IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY; MOST OF THEM HAIL FROM PENNSYLVANIA, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA & TENNESSEE BUT VERY FEW CAN TRACE FARTHER BACK THAN THEIR GRANDFATHERS. WE ARE PRIMARILY INTERESTED IN THOSE RIDENOURS WHO LIVED IN CAMPBELL CO. TENN., ABOUT 25 CROWFLIGHT MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF KNOXVILLE & EIGHT OR TEN MILES SOUTHEAST OF JACKSBORO, THE COUNTY SEAT, WHERE VALUABLE RECORDS MIGHT BE FOUND BY GENEALOGISTS. CENSUS REPORTS SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE FAMILY HISTORY BUT THEY DO NOT TELL US HOW LONG IT TOOK OUR FAMILY TO REACH TENN. ALL CIRCUMSTANCES INDICATE THAT THE ORIGINAL GERMAN COUPLE WENT THERE A YEAR OR TWO AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE, & THAT WILLIAM RIDENOUR, MY GRANDFATHER'S FATHER , WAS THEIR SON. ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF 1850, HE WAS BORN IN LATE 1800 OR EARLY 1801, WHILE HIS MOTHER WAS STILL UNDER 20--THAT IS IF OUR GUESS HOLDS GOOD. GRANDMOTHER RIDENER (B.1828) TOLD MY MOTHER THAT MY GRANDFATHER'S GRAND-PARENTS SPOKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WHEN QUARRLING, TALKING SECRETS IN THE PRESENCE OF CHILDREN, ETC. SHE DID NOT SAY GERMAN, BUT WE CAN GUESS IT. WE ALL KNOW THAT SOME CHILDREN OF GERMAN-AMERICAN SOMETIMES SPEAK SOME GERMAN, WHILE GRANDCHILDREN OF GERMANS PRACTICALLY NEVER SPEAK IT. THIS IS A FURTHER INDICATION THAT BOTH OF THE OLD FOLKS WERE BORN IN THE OLD COUNTRY. THE CENSUS OF1830 SAYS THAT MARTIN RIDENHOUR (PROBABLY PRONOUNCED RIDENHOWER) WAS LIVING IN CAMPBELL CO. TENN. HE WAS 50-59; HIS WIFE 40-49. THEY HAD 5 BOYS UNDER 20, & A DAUGHTER 10-14. I BELIEVE SHE MARRIED A GRANT. IF SHE SEEMS TOO YOUNG TO BE THE GRANDMOTHER OF BILL GRANT, REMEMBER THAT BILL'S SON HARRISON WAS UNDER 16 & HIS WIFE UNDER 15 WHEN THEIR FIRST CHILD WAS BORN. NEXT TO MARTIN (LIKE A SON) WAS WILLIAM RIDENHOUR, 20-29, WITH A WIFE 20-29. THEY HAD 4 BOYS UNDER 10, A GIRL 5-9, & ANOTHER GIRL TO OLD TO BE THEIR DAUGHTER. PRIOR TO 1850 THE NAMES OF FAMILY MEMBERS WERE NOT GIVEN & WE DO NOT KNOW WHETHER THEY WERE WIVES, CHILDREN, HIRED HANDS, ETC. IT HURTS GENEALOGY. IN 1840 WILLIAM RIDENOUR APPEARS, STILL IN CAMPBELL CO. HE IS NOW 30-39, & SO IS HIS WIFE. THEY NOW HAVE 6 BOYS UNDER 20 & A NEW GIRL UNDER 5. THE GIRL "TO OLD TO BE THEIR DAUGHTER" IN 1830 HAS DROPPED OUT. AS A GUESS, SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN HIS WIFE'S SISTER, MAIDEN NAME GRANT. THE GIRL OF 1830 IS NOW 15-19, JUST THE RIGHT AGE TO MARRY JOHN. BUT THAT WILL COME LATER IN THE HISTORY. IN 1840 MARTIN RIDENHOUR DOES NOT APPEAR, BUT A JEREMIAH DOES. & HIS WIFE ARE BOTH 20-29. THEY HAVE THE SAME CHILDREN THAT MARTIN HAD IN 1830--EACH OF THEM 10 YEARS OLDER--PLUS A GIRL UNDER 5, & A WOMAN 50-59, WHO WAS THE AGE THAT MARTIN'S WIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN. WE CAN ASSUME, THEREFORE, THAT MARTIN HAD DIED IN THE 1830'S, & THAT JEREMIAH, ALMOST CERTAINLY HIS SON, HAD MOVED IN AS HEAD OF MARTIN'S HOUSEHOLD, INCLUDING HIS WIDOW. I THINK I HAVE HEARD OF MY GRANDFATHER'S UNCLE JEREMIAH, BROTHER OF WILLIAM. I AM RATHER SURE THAT JEREMIAH WAS FATHER OF OLIVER RIDENOUR, WHO VISITED US ABOUT 1908, & DISAPPEARED FOREVER ON HIS WAY HOME. HE WAS AROUND MY MOTHER'S AGE, BUT WAS NOT HER FIRST COUSIN. THREE OTHER CAMPBELL COUNTY RIDENOURS THAT YEAR ARE JOHN, A.T. & WILLIAM C. OF COURSE WILLIAM C. WOULD NOT BE A BROTHER TO WILLIAM, BUT I THINK I HAVE HEARD OF MY GRANDFATHER'S UNCLE JOHN. (YES, MEMORY CAN & DOES PLAY TRICKS ON US.) BUT I KNOW THAT WILLIAM HAD A SISTER WHO MARRIED A GRANT, & A BROTHER WHO WAS FATHER OF KIZZIE RIDENOUR. KIZZIE WAS THE PRONUNCIATION; THE SPELLING MAY HAVE BEEN KEZIA, LIKE THE DAUGHTER OF JOB IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. SOME DAY I HOPE TO LOOK UP JEREMIAH IN THE 1850 CENSUS TO SEE WHETHER HE HAD A DAUGHTER NAMED KIZZIE, ALSO WHETHER THE ELDER WOMAN IN HIS 1840 HOUSEHOLD (IF STILL LIVING) HAD A NAME WHICH WOULD RING THE BELL IN MY MEMORY. AND IF SHE WAS BORN IN GERMANY, IT WOULD PROVE BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT THAT MARTIN RIDENHOUR WAS INDEED THE YOUNG GERMAN FROM HAMBURG & CONSEQUENTLY MY GERMAN SPEAKING GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER. CENSUS REPORTS SHOW OTHER RIDENOURS IN OTHER COUNTIES, BUT I STILL BELIEVE THAT MARTIN RIDENOUR WAS FATHER OF WILLIAM RIDENHOUR, WHO BECAME WILLIAM RIDENOUR. HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN AKIN TO THOSE OTHER RIDENOURS, BUT I HAVE NO PROOF. CERTAINLY THE EVIDENCE IS NOT AS STRONG AS IT IS THAT WILLIAM WAS SON OF MARTIN. AFTER ALL, WE DO NOT KNOW THAT OUR GERMAN ANCESTOR (MARTIN ?) WAS THE ONLY RIDENOUR, OR THE FIRST WHO CAME OVER TO THE U.S. MAYBE THOSE OTHER RIDENOURS BECAME THE ANCESTORS OF THOSE "OTHER RIDENERS" IN THE WEST END OF WHITLEY ( NOW McCREARY CO., KENTUCKY, WHO WERE "NO KIN TO US" WHEN I WAS A BOY. ABOUT 60 YEARS AGO MY MOTHER'S BROTHER, DANIEL BERRY RIDENER, DID CLAIM KIN WITH THEM WHILE HE WAS RUNNING FOR COUNTY OFFICE. HE WAS PROMPTLY ACCUSED OF SOLICITING VOTES UNDER FALSE PRETNESES! ( YES, HE WASN'T ELECTED.) OLD WILLIAM RIDENOUR'S SON WILLIAM H., MY MOTHERS FATHER, CHANGED HIS NAME TO RIDENER SOON AFTER MOVING TO WHITLEY CO. KENTUCKY, ABOUT 1855, AT AGE ABOUT 28. OLD WILLIAM HAD 8 SONS & 2 DAUGHTERS. ALL OF THE BOYS & THE YOUNGER GIRL SHOW UP IN THE 1850 CENSUS. SHE LATER MARRIED OLIVER MYNATT, ALMOST CERTAINLY SON OF THOMAS MYNATT, & BECAME THE MOTHER OF DONAD MYNATT. DONALD MARRIED MY MOTHER'S YOUNGEST SISTER, REBECCA DELILAH RIDENER, & THEY HAD A LARGE FAMILY. ONE SON CARROLL (CARL) NEWTON MYNATT, SWAPPED LETTERS TILL1967. IF I AM NOT SADLY MISTAKEN, THE OLDER DAUGHTER WAS NAMED MARY (& CALLED "POLLY" AS USUAL) & MARRIED JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH, OF CAMPBELL CO. THIS IS INDICATED BY THE FACT THAT 50 ODD YEARS AGO MY SISTER WAS SWAPPING LETTERS WITH "RIDENER KINFOLK" NAMED HOLLINGSWORTH, WHO LIVED IN THE OLD RIDENOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. I AM ALL BUT SURE THAT THEY WERE DESCENDENTS OF JOHN & POLLY HOLLINGSWORTH. IT IS FURTHER INDICATED BY WHAT MY MOTHER USED TO CALL " AN OLD RIDENER STORY" . AROUND 1850, APPARENTLY, THE GOLD FEVER HAD SPREAD FROM CALIFORNIA TO EAST TENN., & JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH CAUGHT IT. POLLY WOULD NOT LET HIM TO GO TO THE GOLD FIELDS. ONE DAY SHE SENT HIM TO DRIVE THE GEESE HOME SO SHE COULD PICK THEIR FEATHERS OFF. HE DIDN'T COME BACK. THEY HUNTED THE FIELDS & FISHED THE STREAMS BUT COULDN'T FIND JOHN'S BODY. POLLY KEPT ON LIVING AT THE SAME PLACE. THREE OR FOUR YEARS LATER, SHE WAS WORKING AT SOMETHING ON THE PORCH. A FLOCK OF GEESE ENTERED THE YARD, DRIVEN BY A MAN WHO CALLED OUT, " HERE'S YOUR GEESE, POLLY!" WELL, POLLY & JOHN LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER, & I THINK SOMEWHAT RICHER ON ACCOUNT OF HIS ADVENTURES IN THE GOLD FIELDS. (NOTE: A FEW YEARS AGO I READ A STORY MUCH LIKE THIS. COULD LIGHTNING HAVE STRUCK TWICE) NOW, I CAN'T SAY POSITIVELY THAT MARY "POLLY: HOLLINGSWORTH WAS THE DAUGHTER OF OLD WILLIAM RIDENOUR, BUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME I CAN'T FIGURE THE STORY OR THE KINSHIP OUT IN ANY OTHER WAY. I BELIEVE I'M RIGHT, BUT I'M FRESH OUT OF MARRIAGE RECORDS, ETC., TO BACK ME UP. DOCUMENTS WOULD BE MOST WELCOME. OLD WILLIAM RIDENOUR LIVED WHERE POWELL RIVER RUNS INTO THE CLINCH; HE OWNED THE FARM BETWEEN THE RIVERS AT THIS POINT. IT IS VALUED AT $1000 IN 1850; WHEN MOST EAST TENN. FARMS RAN $100 TO $300. MY MOTHER NEVER SAID THAT THE POWELL RUNS INTO THE CLINCH; YOU SEE, HER GRANDMOTHER CROLEY WAS ELISABETH POWELL OF POWELL RIVER VALLEY! THE PLACE IS A SHORT DISTANCE ABOVE NORRIS DAM & MOST OF IT IS NOW COVERED BY WATER. 80 YEARS AGO THERE WAS A NEARBY VILLAGE CALLED FORKVALE. WILLIAM MARRIED ELIZABETH GRANT. HER BROTHER MARRIED WILLIAM'S SISTER, & THEIR SON WAS FATHER OF BILL GRANT, WHO MARRIED MY MOTHER'S OLDEST SISTER, EMMALINE RIDENER. HE TOLD ME THAT THE EARLIEST GRANTS HE KNEW ABOUT WERE 3 BROTHERS, JOHN, JAMES & JESSE. I AM 99% SURE THAT HE SAID JAMES WAS THE ONE WHO MARRIED WILLIAM RIDENOUR'S SISTER. ANYWAY, UNCLE BILL'S FATHER & WILLIAM HAMILTON RIDENER WERE DOUBLE COUSINS. IN MY BOYHOOD WE USED TO SAY THAT UNCLE BILL & AUNT EMMALINE WERE FIRST COUSINS BECAUSE THEIR FATHERS WERE DOUBLE COUSINS. (BUT PERHAPS THE NAMES JAMES & JOHN SHOULD BE REVERSED.) HE WAS A FEW YEARS YOUNGER THAN AUNT EMMALINE (BORN1849); THE 1860 & 1870 CENSUS MIGHT TELL HIS FATHER'S NAME. THE GRANTS & RIDENOURS DISAGREED ON THEIR RELATION TO GENERAL (PRESIDENT) U.S. GRANT, (THEY CALLED HIM ULYSSUS.) HIS ANCESTORS LIVED IN CONNECTICUT; ELIZABETH GRANT RIDENOUR WAS BORN IN CONN. HIS GRANDFATHER, GREAT-GRANDFATHER & GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER WERE NAMED NOAH; A BRANCH OF HER FAMILY WAS NAMED NOAH. HIS FATHER WAS JESSE; SHE HAD A BROTHER JESSE. IF THE SAME JESSE, THEN GRANT WAS FIRST COUSIN TO WILLIAM RIDENOUR'S CHILDREN. ONE OF GRANT'S GREAT-GRANDFATHERS & HIS YOUNG SON WERE KILLED BY INDIANS. NOW, SOMEWHERE IN OUR ANCESTRAL LINE IS THE NAME STRAWN; WHICH MY MOTHER'S OLDER SISTER MRS. MARY ANN THOMAS SAID WAS STRONG. SO HERE IS THE STORY " BETSY STRAWN & THE INDIANS" AT A CERTAIN TIME & PLACE, OUR EVER-SO-GREAT-GRANDFATHER & HIS YOUNG SON WERE WORKING IN THE CORNFIELD NEAR THE CABIN. BETSY, HIS WIFE, SAW A BUNCH OF INDIANS SWOOP DOWN & KILL & SCALP THEM. SHE GRABBED HER BABY SON & CLIMBED UP INTO THE LOFT MADE OF LOOSE SPLIT BOARDS, LEAVING A KEG OF WHISKEY SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR. SHE GAVE HER BABY THE BREAST, THEN PUT HER FINGERS GENTLY ON HIS THROAT SO SHE COULD CHOKE HIM TO DEATH IF HE STARTED MAKING A NOISE. THE INDIANS RUSHED IN, SAW THE KEG OF WHISKEY, & IMMEDIATELY STARTED DRINKING. OUR BABY ANCESTOR SAVED HIS LIFE BY GOOD BEHAVIOR. THE INDIANS SOON PASSED OUT ON THE FLOOR, DEAD DRUNK. THEN BETSY CLIMBED DOWN OUT OF THE LOFT, CARRIED THE BABY OUT TO THE EDGE OF THE YARD, WENT BACK IN & TOSSED A BURNING CHUNK OF WOOD FROM THE FIREPLACE ONTO THE BED, WENT OUT, BARRED THE DOOR, PICKED UP THE BABY, & STRUCK OFF TOWARD THE NEAREST WHITE SETTLEMENT. SHE SAID LATER THAT SHE "NEVER HEARD SUCH SCREAMS IN ALL HER LIFE AS THOSE BURNING INDIANS UTTERED." IF THIS STORY SOUNDS TOO AWFUL, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT INFANT NATIONS HAVE SELDOM BEEN RAISED ENTIRELY ON "THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS." GRANT'S FATHER, JESSE, WAS A TANNER & DEALER IN HIDES & LEATHER. BIOGRAPHERS TELL US THAT GRANT WOULDN'T LET HIM HAVE THE SKINS OF ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED FOR THE ARMY. NEVERTHELESS, THE FAMILY STORY IS THAT HE DID HELP MY GRANDFATHER GET A GOOD JOB AS A CARPENTER AT SOME SORT OF MILITARY CONSTRUCTION. I DON'T KNOW WHERE. WAGES WERE VERY HIGH & OLD BILLY RIDENER WORKED LONG, HARD & WELL. BESIDES, HE WAS MARRIED TO A CROLEY & CROLEYS KNOW HOW TO EARN 4 & SAVE 5. HE WAS NEVER AGAIN REGARDED AS A POOR MAN. WITH A GLEAM IN THE EYE, HE ONCE SHOWED MY FATHER HIS OLD JACKPLANE. I HAVE HEARD OTHER STORIES ABOUT GRANT'S SOLICITUDE FOR MY GRANDFATHER, BUT IN MY OPINION THEY ARE SPURIOUS & NOT WORTHY OF A PLACE IN OUR HISTORY. MY MOTHER SAID THERE WERE LETTERS BETWEEN THE GENERAL & HIS TENN. RELATIVES. AUNT MARY ANN THOMAS SAID THAT GRANT'S WIFE, JULIA, WROTE TO MY GRANDFATHER ABOUT A SORE AT THE ROOT OF GRANT'S TONGUE. WE KNOW HE DIED OF THROAT CANCER IN 1885. SHE SAID THE LETTER WAS IN THE HANDS OF SOME SORT OF COUSIN NAMED ULYSSES STEPHENS. I MET HIM ONCE, OVER 60 YEARS AGO; IF LIVING, HE IS NOW IN HIS 90'S. ( ALL THIS IS MORE BELIEVABLE BECAUSE MY MOTHER & AUNT MARY ANN WERE NOT STUDENTS OF HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY). YES, I BELIEVE WE ARE AKIN TO U.S. GRANT, BUT I HESITATE TO GUESS HOW CLOSE. I AM INCLINED TO BELIEVE, THOUGH, THAT HIS FATHER JESSE WAS BROTHER TO ELIZABETH GRANT RIDENOUR, WHICH WOULD MAKE HIM FIRST COUSIN TO HER SONS, ALEX, WILLIAM H., HENRY, HARVE, ETC. WE MUST ADMIT THAT THERE COULD HAVE BEEN OTHER JESSE GRANTS IN THOSE DAYS, FOR JESSE WAS A MIGHTY POPULAR NAME 175 YEARS AGO. THE JESSES OUTNUMBERED THE DAVIDS BY 2 TO 1. IN 1850, JAMES H. GRANT, ABOUT 40, LIVED NEAR THE WILLIAM RIDENOUR ( I FAILED TO TAKE CAREFUL NOTES). IN HIS HOUSE LIVED CYNTHIA GRANT, 66, BORN CONN.; ALSO ABIGAIL GRANT, 60, BORN MASS. THE CENSUS DIDN'T SAY MRS. OR MISS. I CAN'T HELP FEELING THAT THIS JAMES H. WAS WILLIAM RIDENOUR'S BROTHER-IN-LAW. THE GRANDFATHER OF UNCLE BILL GRANT & HIS YOUNGER BROTHER JESSE, BOTH OF WHOM LIVED LATER IN WHITLEY CO. MOREOVER I BELIEVE THAT CYNTHIA GRANT WAS MOTHER OF JAMES & ELIZABETH GRANT, & THEREFORE MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER. (CYNTHIA WAS ABOUT 15 YEARS OLDER THAN ELIZABETH). AUNT MARY ANN THOMAS SAID THERE WAS AN EVANS IN OUR ANCESTRAL LINE. I FORGET WHERE, BUT I SUSPECT IT IS ON THE CROLEY SIDE. I KNOW THAT THE POWELLS WERE ON THAT SIDE. I ONLY LOOKED INTO THE CENSUS OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOR WM. POWELL, I FOUND ABOUT 16 OF THEM, PLUS 6 OR 8 OTHER WILLIAMS WHO HAD MIDDLE INITIALS. NOW THAT'S WHAT I'D CALL A GENEALOGICAL BRICK WALL! TODAY, ABOUT 120 YEARS LATER, VERY FEW PEOPLE KNOW HOW WILLIAM & ELISABETH GRANT RIDENOUR DIED. WELL, ON ONE HOT SUMMER DAY, IN OR SOON AFTER 1850, THEY WERE STACKING FLAX IN THE FIELD. WILLIAM'S NIECE, KIZZIE RIDENOUR, WAS HELPING THEM. STACKING FLAX WAS "THE HOTTEST JOB A FARMER HAD TO DO;" SO ALL THREE BECAME VERY HOT & THIRSTY, & CALLED ONE OF THE BOYS ( UNCLE DAN,I THINK ) TO FETCH SOME WATER. IN " AN OLD-FASHIONED COFFEE POT WITH A SPOUT OUT ON THE SIDE", HE BROUGHT THEM " HALF A GALLON OR THREE QUARTS" OF VERY COLD SPRING WATER FROM A SPRING AT THE FOOT OF A BIG CLIFF. ALL THREE DRANK VERY HEARTILY, & IN A FEW MINUTES BECAME VERY SICK. THEY SENT FOR THE DOCTOR-- I PRESUME IN JACKSBORO 8 TO 10 MILES AWAY. ALL THREE OF THEM DIED, EITHER THAT DAY OR WITHIN A FEW DAYS. THE DOCTOR SAID " THEY WERE SO HOT & THE WATER SO COLD THAT IT CHILLED THE BLOOD AROUND THEIR HEARTS. " I DESCRIBED THE CASE TO MY SON, DR LYDON DENNY MOSES. HE COULD NOT BE 100% SURE, OF COURSE, BUT HE DID VENTURE AS ONE DIAGNOSIS " HEART ATTACK FROM SUDDEN CHILL CAUSING SUDDEN CONSTRICTION OF ARTERIES IN THE UPPER HALF OF THE BODY." WILLIAM & ELIZABETH " WERE BURIED SIDE BY SIDE, & KIZZIE AT THEIR FEET." THEIR GREAT-GREAT-GRANDAUGHTER, EVA THEZIEHLKE, TOLD ME RECENTLY THAT ALL THREE HAVE BEEN MOVED & REBURIED IN La FOLLETTE, TENN. ( WHICH IS 6 OR 8 MILES ABOVE JACKSBORO, AS I REMEMBER.) HOW MANY RIDENOUR & GRANT GRAVES ARE UNDER WATER NO ONE KNOWS, OR EVER WILL. WILLIAM RIDENOUR & HIS FAMILY APPEAR IN THE 1850 CENSUS OF CAMPBELL CO. 49, B0RN TENN., FARM WORTH $1000, WIFE-ELIZABETH,51, BORN CONN.( WE KNOW HER NAME WAS ELIZABETH GRANT). THEIR CHILDREN, ALL BORN IN TENN.; ALEXANDER S., 19; HENRY L.,17; DANIEL, 15; CHARLES W., 13; ELIZABETH A.,11; PATTON H., 7; HARVEY G., 5. LISTED NEXT TO WILLIAM ARE WILLIAM H. RIDENOUR, 23; JANE,22; & MARTHA E. 8 MONTHS. COURSE, THESE WERE WILLIAM HAMILTON RIDENER, JANE CROLEY RIDENER, & MARTHA EMMALINE, MARRIED BILL GRANT. NEXT TO WILLIAM H. ARE GEORGE E. RIDENOUR, 29; SARAH, 23; & 3 LITTLE GIRLS, NAMED CYNTHIA, EMILY J., & ELIZABERTH. SINCE THESE 2 RIDENOUR SONS DID NOT OWN LAND, WE ASSUME THAT THEY WERE TENANTS ON LAND BELONGING TO THEIR FATHER WILLIAM. THESE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF OLD WILLIAM THAT I EVER HEARD OF, EXCEPT ( PROBABLY) MARY ( CALLED POLLY), WHOM I HAVE ALREADY GIVE IN MARRIAGE TO JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH, ESQ. I BELIEVE THAT SHE WAS YOUNGER THAN GEORGE & OLDER THAN WILLIAM H. BESIDES, THE 1840 CENSUS LISTS A BOY 15-19 & A BOY 10-14 ( MY GRANDFATHER). ALL THE CHILDREN HAVE MIDDLE INITIALS. APPARENTLY THE PARENTS HAD NO MIDDLE NAMES. WHEN I LOOKED AT THIS LIST FOR THE FIRST TIME, I REMEMBERED ALL THE NAMES EXCEPT PATTON. MAYBE HE WAS TO YOUNG TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION ON MY GRANDPARENTS BEFORE THEY MOVED TO KENTUCKY ABOUT 1855. A FEW MINUTES LATER, THOUGH, I THOUGHT I REMEMBERED HIM; BUT THAT JUST MIGHT HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED BY 2 SONS BELONGING TO AN AUNT--PAT & DAN. ( NOW LAUGH) MY COUSIN , JOHN N. THOMAS, TOLD ME ABOUT VISITING CAMPBELL AROUND 1910 (?). HE SAW UNCLE HENRY & 2 BROTHERS, I SUPPOSE UNCLE HARVE & UNCLE ALEX. IN THE EARLY 1880'S MY MOTHER'S FIRST COUSIN, RUSS RIDENOUR, THE SON OF WHOM I KNOWNOT, MOVED TO WHITLEY CO., CHANGED HIS NAME TO RIDENER, & MARRIED MY FATHER'S COUSIN LOUISE MOSES. MY FATHER USED TO SAY HE GOT EVEN WITH RUSS BY MARRYING RUSS'S COUSIN LOUISA RIDENER! I ALSO HAVE AN 1884 TINTYPE OF MY MOTHER WITH THE WIFE OF ANOTHER RIDENER COUSIN WHOSE NAME HAS SLIPPED. UNCLE ELIC'S DAUGHTER EMMA MARRIED MY COUSIN JOHN N. THOMAS. THESE THREE & MY GRANDFATHER ARE THE ONLY FOUR THAT I EVER HEARD OF MOVING FROM TENN. TO KENTUCKY. KENTUCKY & TENN. ARE ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME SIZE, & IN 1860 HAD ALMOST THE SAME POPULATION. WHEN WE MAKE ADJUSTMENTS FOR POPULATION, THE CIVIL WAR(1861-1865) WAS BLOODIER THAN ALLOUT OTHER WARS PUT TOGETHER--INCLUDING THE REVOLUTION & VIET NAM (1775-1972.) WELL, IN THE CIVIL WAR, KENTUCKY WAS A BORDER STATE NORTH, WHILE TENN. WAS A BORDER STATE SOUTH. IN ROUND NUMBERS, EACH GAVE 140,--- SOLDIERS TO THAT WAR. KENTUCKY GAVE 105,000 TO THE UNION SIDE & 35,000 TO THE CONFEDERATE SIDE. TENN. GAVE 100,000 TO THE CONFEDERATE SIDE & 40,000 TO THE UNION SIDE. FOUR OF THESE UNION SOLDIERS WERE SONS OF WILLIAM & ELIZABETH RIDENOUR. NOW LET ME INTRODUCE MY GREAT-UNCLES & GREAT-AUNTS, THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM & ELIZABETH. GEORGE E. RIDENOUR WAS IN THE UNION ARMY. AFTER THE WAR HE MOVED TO CHILLICOTHE, PEORIA CO., ILL, (PRONOUNCED EEL-A-NOISE). WHILE MY MOTHER WAS A GIRL. PROBABLY IN THE MIDDLE TO LATE 1870'S, HE MADE TRIPS BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY. THE L & N RR DIDN'T GET TO WHITLEY CO. TILL 1884. ANYHOW, UNCLE GEORGE CAME IN TWO WAGONS. HE LOADED THEM UP WITH CURIOS FROM THE HILL COUNTRY--PINE KNOTS, PECULEAR ROCKS, STRANGE GROWTHS OF TREES, MOSS, EXOTIC FERNS, SHRUBS, ETC. IN ILLINOIS HE POLISHED & TENDED THEM IN HIS SHOP; THEN HE SOLD THEM TO THE "NATIVES" AS DECORATIONS & ORNAMENTS. APPARENTLY HE MADE A NEAT SUM ON THE DEAL. MY MOTHER & THE FAMILY SWAPPED A FEW LETTERS FOR AWHILE. AT A SCOTTISH RITE MEETING A FEW YEARS AGO, I MET A RIDENOUR FROM THAT AREA, BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW WHO HIS GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS. HIS OLDER SISTER HAS BEEN INTRODUCED AS PROBABLY MARY (POLLY) HOLLINGSWORTH THE GRANDMOTHER OF "RIDENER KINFOLKS" WHOM MY SISTER CORRESPONDED WITH AROUND & SOON AFTER WORLD WAR I. WILLIAM HAMILTON RIDENOUR, MY GRANDFATHER, WHO MOVED TO KENTUCKY & BECAME A RIDENER, WILL BE DISCUSSED AT GREATER LENGTH IN THE 2ND CHAPTER OF THIS HISTORY. ALEXANDER S. BECAME THE FATHER OF EMMA ( MRS JOHN NEWTON) THOMAS, OF WHITLEY CO. I BELIEVE HE LIVED & DIED IN CAMPBELL CO. HENRY L. SERVED IN THE UNION ARMY, & AFTER THE WAR REMAINED IN CAMPBELL CO.. WILL TELL MORE ABOUT HIM IN THE SKETCH OF UNCLE HARVE. DANIEL H. IS ONLY A NAME WHICH I HAVE HEARD--"UNCLE DAN." CHARLES W. SERVED IN THE UNION ARMY. AFTER THE WAR HE "WENT WEST." ALONG ABOUT 1882 OR 1883 A MAN FROM MONTANA CAME THROUGH & SPENT A NIGHT OR 2 AT MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE. HE SAID HE KNEW UNCLE CHARLES VERY WELL. HE SAID UNCLE CHARLES WAS " ONE OF THE RICHEST MEN IN MONTANA," BUT I DONT REMEMBER WHAT HE DID FOR A LIVING. HE SAID ALSO THAT UNCLE CHARLES WAS NOT MARRIED. HE SAID THAT UNCLE CHARLES WAS "THE SPITTIN' IMAGE" OF MY MOTHER AT THE TIME. ( THIS WAS SAYING HE WAS MIGHTY GOOD LOOKING!) WELL, SHE GOT UNCLE CHARLES'S ADDRESS, & THEY WROTE A FEW LETTERS BACK & FORTH; THEN NO FURTHER NEWS. SHE SOMETIMES DAY DREAMED THAT HE WOULD REMEMBER HER IN HIS WILL. ELIZABETH A. MARRIED OLIVER MYNATT. SHE HAS BEEN SKETCHED ALREADY. PATTON H. AS I HAVE SAID, IS ONLY A NAME IN THE 1850 CENSUS OF CAMPBELL CO. HARVEY G. THE YOUNGEST CHILD, IS DUE A LONG SKETCH. WHEN HIS PARENTS DIED, HE WAS ONLY FIVE OR A LITTLE OLDER, & HIS RAISING WAS COMPLETED BY HIS BROTHER HENRY, WHO WAS 12 YEARS OLDER THAN HARVE & MAYBE MARRIED ALREADY. UNCLE HENRY'S WIFE HAD A DAUGHTER BY A PREVIOUS MARRIAGE; I THINK HER NAME WAS LUCINDA. THE TWO CHILDREN GREW UP TOGETHER. ONE DAY, I PRESUME AFTER THE WAR, UNCLE HARVE SAID " WE'RE A-GOIN' DOWN TO HAM GRANT'S TO GIT MARRIED." THE "OLD FOLKS" LAUGHED & THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD JOKE, BUT WHEN THE "YOUNG ONES" CAME BACK MARRIED, UNCLE HENRY & HIS WIFE "NEARLY HAD A FIT." OF COURSE THE BRIDE & GROOM WERE NO KIN AT ALL, BUT IT SEEMED LIKE A MARRIAGE BETWEEN BROTHER & SISTER. I THINK HE OUTLIVED HER; AT ANY RATE HE DIED ABOUT 1925. WHEN THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT, UNCLE HARVE WAS 16. SOONER OR LATER HE ENLISTED IN THE UNION ARMY. I KNOW NOTHING OF HIS MILITARY LIFE EXCEPT THAT HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER BY THE CONFEDERATES & PUT IN A PLACE THAT LOOKS A GREAT DEAL LIKE ANDERSONVILLE PRISON. MY MOTHER NEVER MENTIONED THAT TERRIBLE PLACE, PROBABLY BECAUSE SHE NEVER HEARD OF IT. HE WAS STARVED & HIS FEET WERE FROSTBITTEN. AT THE END OF THE WAR HE WAS TURNED OUT TO LIVE OR DIE, IN SOME WAY UNCLE HENRY HEARD WHERE HE WAS, SO HE RODE "DAY & NIGHT" TO RESCUE HIM. IF THE TRIP WERE FROM CAMPBELL CO. TO ANDERSONVILLE, GEORGIA, THAT WOULD MEAN OVER 300 MILES EACH WAY, PLUS MANY MORE MILES TO ALLOW FOR CROOKED ROADES, OUT-OF-THE-WAY FORDS, ETC. SO I DOUBT THAT IT WAS ANDERSONVILLE PRISON. ( ANDERSONVILLE, A DOZEN MILES SOUTHWEST OF OGLETHORPE, HAD 263 PEOPLE IN 1960). UNCLE HENRY FOUND UNCLE HARVE CRAWLING ALONG THE ROAD, EATING CORN PICKED OUT OF MANURE. HE BUNDLED THE POOR FELLOW UP, PUT HIM ON THE HORSE, & TOOK HIM TO A MEAL. WHEN UNCLE HARVE STARTED TO EAT, HE SAID, "NOW, HENRY, I DON'T WANT TO KILL MYSELF. WHEN YOU THINK I'VE HAD ENOUGH, TELL ME TO STOP." UNCLE HENRY ALWAYS SAID THE "HARDEST WORDS HE EVER HAD TO SPEAK" WERE "HARVE, I GUESS YOU'D BETTER STOP NOW & WAIT AWHILE." WELL, ANDERSONVILLE OR NO, UNCLE HENRY GOT HIM HOME, WHERE, AS WE HAVE SEEN HE MARRIED UNCLE HENRY'S STEPDAUGHTER & LIVED AT THE FORKS OF CLINCH & POWELL. FOR MANY YEARS, IF NOT ALWAYS, IN THE WINTER TIME HE HAD TO WEAR MOCCASINS MADE OF GROUNDHOG SKINS WITH THE FUR ON THE INSIDE TO WARM & PROTECT HIS FORMERLY FROSTBITTEN FEET. NATURALLY, HE WAS VERY BITTER TOWARD ALL CONFEDERATE VETERANS, BUT OF COURSE HE KNEW THAT UNION PRISONERS WERE NOT THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WERE GOING COLD & HUNGRY IN THE SOUTH AT END OF THAT TERRIBLE & TRAGIC LOST WAR. IN THE SUMMER OF 1921, WHILE I WAS WORKING AT THE COAL MINES TO PAY PART OF MY EXPENSES IN THE 2nd YEAR OF COLLEGE, MY MOTHER VISITED HER UNCLE HARVE FOR ABOUT 3 WEEKS. SINCE I WAS WORKING OVERTIME, NIGH ONTO 65 HOURS A WEEK, I WAS TO TIRED TO DISCUSS OR REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT RELATIVES SHE HAD SEEN ON HER VISIT. UNCLE HARVE DIED 3 OR 4 YEARS LATER (c. 1925) ABOUT 60 YEARS AFTER UNCLE HENRY SAVED HIS LIFE. I AM A STRONG BELIEVER IN PROBABILITY & CIRCUMSTANCES. IN THIS SKETCH, THEREFORE, I HAVE TOLD NOTHING THAT DIDN'T RING TRUE. IN SOME PLACES, NOTES & COMMENTS WERE VERY APPROPRIATE. MOST OF THE INFORMATION CAME FROM MY MOTHER LOUISA RIDENER MOSES. IN PLACES HER EXACT WORDS HAVE STUCK IN MY MIND. THESE I HAVE PUT INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS. | Ridenour, Louisa (I69302)
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| 11 | GROOM BRIDE CNTY DATE VOL/PAGE LIC HANCK, FREDRICK BENSING, ANNE MARION 05/28/1867 D/ 45 1438 Henry Geis, JP Marion County Courthouse P.O. Box 637 Salem, IL 62881 | Family F151
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| 12 | "Thus it appears John was born in New Castle, Del. probably married there. His children were partly born in Delaware and partly in Orange Co. NC. He lived in Orange Co. from about 1763 to after 1779. He was in Surry Co. NC in 1782, in Rowan Co., NC in 1788-89, in Wilkes Co., NC in 1793, was in Greenville Co., SC in 1800,in Buncombe Co. NC (Transylvania now) in 1810 and died there after 1810." ---------- Reference: Timothy Welch Stinnett GEDCOM, August 1995. "The Brackin Family in the Southeastern United States", Henry B. Brackin, Jr., MD. | Bracken, John (I52133)
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| 13 | "Big Willie" Walker was originally from N. C.. He settled in the Smoky Mtns. and married Nancy Ceylor. While married to Nancy he also had three common law wives. One of them was Mary "Moll" Stinnett (daughter of Benjamin Stinnett and sister of John Bunyan Stinnett) -When William "Big Willie" Walker died an article appeared in the newspaper stating that he had had "50" children. -oral family history | Walker, William Marion "Big Willie" (I31964)
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| 14 | James Stokely was born in Newport, Tennessee in 1913. He attended both the University of Tennessee and Princeton University. With his wife, Wilma Dykeman, he wrote several books. He was the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many of which focused on issues of civil rights in the South. In addition, he owned and managed Stokely Apple Orchard in Newport, TN (1940-53) and in Asheville, NC (1944-53). He died in 1977. | Stokely, James Rorex Jr. (I91699)
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| 15 | Wilma Dykeman was born in Asheville, NC in 1920. Although she attended school in the North, she returned to the South, marrying James Stokely in 1940. Throughout her life, she has been a teacher, historian, reporter and author. Her 1955 book, The French Broad, started her career as historian. In 1981, she was named State Historian. Some of her other works have centered around civil rights (i.e. Neither Black Nor White, written in 1957 with her husband). She has also written several novels, including The Tall Woman (1962), The Far Family (1966) and Return the Innocent Earth (1973). She currently resides in Newport, Tennessee. Wilma Dykeman has lived all her life near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Born in Asheville, she was the only child of a mother whose people had lived in the North Carolina mountains since the eighteenth century. She traces her interest in writing to the stories her parents read aloud to her when she was a child. By the time she was in elementary school, she was making up her own stories, plays, and poems. After graduating from high school and Biltmore Junior College in Asheville, the author went to Northwestern University for a bachelor's degree in speech. The summer after graduation, she met and married James R. Stokely, Jr., of Newport, Tennessee, a poet and nonfiction writer. The Stokelys, who maintained homes in both Asheville and Newport, collaborated on several books, including Neither Black Nor White (1957), a personal view of integration in the South; Seeds of Southern Change (1976), about race relations; and Prophet of Plenty (1966), a biography of Will W. Alexander, a Southern leader who worked for racial peace and justice. They also shared interests in book collecting and apple growing. Stokely died in 1977. Wilma Dykeman's first writings were radio scripts and short stories, which she followed with articles for Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, Reader's Digest, and other periodicals. In all, she has published more than sixteen books. The French Broad (1955), one of the famous "Rivers of America" series, was completed in a year but represents a lifetime of observation and note-taking. It recounts the history, legend, biography (such as the chapter on Thomas Wolfe), sociology, and economics of a mountain region that draws its life and ways from this stream and its tributaries. The book entertainingly relates a dozen or so memorable stories usually omitted from standard histories, such as the search for Professor Elisha Mitchell's body on the mountain that bears his name, the cutting of the Swannanoa tunnel, and the coming of the Vanderbilts to western North Carolina. Her critically acclaimed novels especially reflect her understanding of people in the North Carolina mountains. The Tall Woman (1966), which, like all of her books, has gone through numerous printings, tells of a determined mother's fight for education and justice in the years after the Civil War. The Far Family (1966) picks up several generations later and shows how long-lasting her efforts were. Return the Innocent Earth (1973) is loosely based on the fact that her husband belonged to the farming family that established the mammoth Stokely canning company. The book fictionally depicts the internecine contention between family members who want to remain true to the soil and those who are contemptuous of everything except the money generated by the canning company. Look to This Day (1969) is a book about her own life and convictions. In 1976 came Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. The writer has also collaborated with her two sons on two books. Dykeman's many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 1985 North Carolina Award for Literature. She has held the honorary title of Tennessee State Historian since 1981. A popular lecturer, she has taught a spring course for many years at the University of Tennessee. Sally Buckner relates in her anthology Our Words, Our Ways that: "Ms. Dykeman urges students to learn to listen and look at the world with keen eyes and ears, then apply themselves diligently. She also draws a keen distinction between aptitude and attitude. 'The talent comes from developing the aptitude,' she has said. 'The writer comes from developing the attitude.'" Excerpt from The French Broad (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1955; now published by Wakestone Books) The French Broad is a river and a watershed and a way of life where day-before-yesterday and day-after-tomorrow exist in odd and fascinating harmony. Beneath the deepest waters impounded by Douglas Dam lies buried the largest untouched Indian mound of the French Broad country. Our most ancient relic of man and our most recent trophy of his scientific skill rest practically side by side. There is the same coexistence of past and present within the people. It helps explain how they may be at once so maddening and so charming, wrong about so many things and yet fundamentally right so often. This living past and present is my story of the French Broad. I should like to think that by some unmerited but longed-for magic I have spoken for a few of the anonymous dead along its banks and up its mountains. For the Negro baby drowned in the river when its mother tried to swim from slavery and bring it into freedom. For the sheriff who was shot in the back from a laurel-thicket ambush as he picked his way along a fog-blanketed early-morning trail. For the minister in a windowless log church who made foot washing a symbolic ceremony of humbleness and brotherhood. For the old taletellers around country stores and the urbane newcomers who seek but have not found as yet. For these and for the river itself, mountains, lowlands, woods, gullies, springs and ponds and brooks I should like to speak, to quicken understanding. For the French Broad is above all a live country. The Cherokees said, “We have set our names upon your waters and you cannot wash them out.” They were right - the Nolichucky and the Swannanoa and the Estatoe - but they might also have said, for all of us, “We have lived our lives along your rivers and you cannot wash the memory of us out.” Excerpt from The Tall Woman (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1955; now published by Wakestone Books) [After the Civil War, Mark McQueen goes West, seeking a better life for his wife, Lydia, and their family.] Lydia was down by her spring the last day of January, dipping out any leaves that might have blown into the water since the last storm. When Dr. Hornsby rode into the yard she did not recognize him until he dismounted and was striding toward her. “And what are you doing this bleak day on this godforsaken mountain?” he asked, the gloom of his words belied in part by his hearty smile. “I’m cleaning my spring.” “And pray tell me, Lydia McQueen, how do you clean a spring? Do you wash the water?” “Don’t be making fun of me! There” - she pointed with the hoe - “look under the ledge where the roots of those poplar trees hold fast, and tell me if you ever set eyes on a bolder, finer spring. Or a cleaner one?” He went and looked. The natural bowl of water, surrounded on three sides and overhead by a ledge of rock and a tangled web of roots and earth stood clear and cold as glass. Here were beds of moss and galax and a dozen wild blackberry stalks. Someone had worked here lovingly and well. “I never set eyes on a bolder, finer spring,” he repeated. “Or a cleaner one.” Then abruptly he snapped the leaf off a galax plant with an angry flick of his switch. “Sometime I wish I could bear you word of something good. Now I have bad news.” She clutched the hoe. “What?” “Ham Nelson will fight you on getting your school for Thickety Creek.” She waited for him to go on. “Was that your news?” He nodded and she threw back her head and laughed. Why the news might have been of Mark, out West. “But I thought it meant so much to you,” Dr. Hornsby said stiffly. “I misjudged - “ “Oh no! A school means everything to me. It’s just Ham Nelson that doesn’t mean anything.” The doctor looked at her. “Nelson’s a powerful man,” he said. “The power of a rock. But there’s something stronger than rock. You see that ledge over my spring? I’ve seen it cracked by the stem of a little vine that had to come up to sunlight through it. There’s nothing strong enough to stop for long the strength of growing things. And children are stouter than any vines.” They walked back down the path. He smiled at her. “I’m glad to have seen your fine spring of water,” he said. “I’m glad to have seen you.” Excerpt from Return the Innocent Earth (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1955; now published by Wakestone Books) At the airport I rented a car and in the falling part of the afternoon, as old Cebo used to say, I came out to the fields where a canning empire was born. The gigantic bean pickers were just moving off the acres with the massive tread of dinosaurs. Here my boyhood boots pulled against the suck of mud; now my British walkers have jetted across continents of space and time. Down these dusty rows I once dragged battered crates and baskets; now my Gucci briefcase waits on the seat of the car at the edge of the field. Faces and voices surround me. How is it that we come to knowledge of ourselves and those strangers masquerading as lovers, parents, children, friends, adversaries? Names and roles assigned in pompous singleness but which in fact are fluid, overlapping, and several. By so-called facts: dates and places, figures, events, a neat record of births and deaths, marriages and mergers, reports in newspapers and journals which the mothers, aunts, cousins accumulate in fat, neat scrapbooks where the paste crumbles and yellows, the paper turns brittle and brown as dead leaves, and gray mildew finally whiskers the untouched crevices and spine of bindings. By unwitting fragments: a word, a glance, a breath, telling nothing but revealing all, buried in some convolution of the brain until it surfaces at an unexpected moment to slice through accepted myth with a laser beam of reality. By legend: gradual, constant, unconscious flow of family stories, anecdotes, reverences, judgments, communicating more by single turn of phrase, lift of eyebrow, tone of voice, than pages of words can suggest. All these sucked into us with milk and water, fed to us as surely as bread. Finally we “know” - not what happened so much as what someone, or several, believe or wish had happened. That is the legend we receive and transmit of something that happened somewhere and sometime to someone - one person at the beginning, a different person in the remembering. Books Appalachian Mountains. [With Dykeman Stokely; photography by Clyde H. Smith.] Portland, Ore.: Graphic Arts Center, 1980. The Border States: Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia. [With James Stokely.] New York: Time-Life Books, 1968. Explorations. Newport, Tenn.: Wakestone Books, 1984. The Far Family. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966. The French Broad. New York: Rinehart, 1955. Highland Home: The People of the Great Smokies. [With Jim Stokely.] Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1978. Look to This Day. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968. Neither Black nor White. [With James Stokely.] New York: Rinehart, 1957. Prophet of Plenty: The First Ninety Years of W.D. Weatherford. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1966. Return the Innocent Earth. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1973. Seeds of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander. [With James Stokely.] Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. The Tall Woman. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1962. Tennessee, a Bicentennial History. New York: Norton, 1975. Tennessee Woman: An Infinite Variety. Newport, Tenn.: Wakestone Books, 1993. Tennessee Women, Past and Present. Memphis: Tennessee Committee for the Humanities, 1977. Too Many People, Too Little Love: Edna Rankin McKinnon: Pioneer for Birth Control. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974. Ms. Dykeman has also been a frequent contributor to periodicals. Additional information on Ms. Dykeman can be found in: Gage, Jim. "The 'Poetics of Space' in Wilma Dykeman's The Tall Woman." In The Poetics of Appalachian Space, edited by Parks Lanier, Jr., 67-80. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Gantt, Patricia M. "Appalachia in Context: Wilma Dykeman's Search for the Souths." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992. _____. "Wilma Dykeman's Tall Women: Challenging the Stereotypes." Iron Mountain Review 5, no. 1 (1989): 14-16, 21-25. Jones, Oliver K. "Social Criticism in the Works of Wilma Dykeman." Iron Mountain Review 5, no. 1 (1989): 26-32. _____. "Social Criticism in the Works of Wilma Dykeman, with a Primary and Secondary Bibliography of Her Work." M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989. _____. "A Wilma Dykeman Bibliography." In Iron Mountain Review 5, no. 1 (1989): 33-36. Larson, Ron. "The Appalachian Personality." [Interviews with Wilma Dykeman and Harry M. Caudill.] Appalachian Heritage 11 (Winter 1983). Miller, Danny. "A MELUS Interview: Wilma Dykeman." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 9 (Winter 1982): 45-59. "Tributes to Wilma Dykeman." Pembroke Magazine 25 (1992): 117-129. "Wilma Dykeman Issue." Iron Mountain Review 5 (Spring 1989). | Dykeman, Wilma (I91751)
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| 16 | "A real daugther of the American Revolution". ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 160. | Barrett, Mary (I41747)
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| 17 | "ALLEN, MRS. LEONA FOX - age 73, of Route 8, Sevierville, died Thursday evening, June 18, 1981 at St. Mary's Medical Center. Survivors: husband, Elmer Allen; daughters, Mrs. Richard (Jean) Habourn, Mrs. John (Fay) Sweitzer, both of Virginia; 4 grandchildren; sister, Minnie Fox, Sevierville; brother, Ernest Fox, Maryville. Funeral services 9 p.m. Saturday at Atchley's chapel, Rev, Henry Harlow and Rev. Rocky Clowers officiating. Internment will be Sunday at Burchfield memorial Cemetery. The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. Saturday at ATCHLEY'S, Sevierville." | Fox, Jessie Leona (I108004)
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| 18 | "Allen-Sweitzer" "MR. AND MRS. ELMER ALLEN of Sevierville announce the engagement of their daughter, Wanda Fay, to John Mervin Sweitzer, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sweitzer of Manchester, Pa. The bride-elect is a graduate of Baptist Hospital School of Nursing. She received the B.S. degree in nursing from University of Pennsylvania and is on the faculty of De Paul Hospital School of Nursing, Norfolk, Va. The groom-to-be received the B.S. degree in radio engineering from Tri-State College, Angola, Ind. He is employed in the [clipping ends]." | Family F38955
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| 19 | "As a young child living in the mountains it was hard getting to see a doctor, but we were very lucky to have Dr. Robert Thomas. My mother told me when I was born, Dr. Thomas' wife Eva used to come with him to help deliver babys. We had no money so my mother would give eggs and what ever she had to pay the doctor. Dr. Thomas told my mother if you name this baby girl after his wife Eva its free. The name Jessie comes from my dad's sister." ---------- Reference: Eva Jessie Whaley, Lhm131@aol.com, 31 July 2000. | Whaley, Eva Jessie (I80112)
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| 20 | "Aunt Liddy" was a noted basket weaver, midwife, preacher (could quote the Bible from "kiver to kiver"), undertaker, and a tailor of men's suits. (This included shearing the sheep, carding, spinning, dyeing, and weaving the wool fabric). She tanned leather to make her shoes, hunted game for meat and did all her cooking and baking in her fireplace. She gathered herbs and made medicine for many ailments and went wherever there was sickness and unselfishly helped many, many folks throughout the Smoky Mountain area. She doctored herself when she became seriously ill from a snake bite. She reached into a hens nest and a copperhead bit her. ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 10, 12, 129. "Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 11, 283. "Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 29, 30, 293. | Kear, Lydia "Aunt Liddy" (I5066)
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| 21 | "Baby Barber the Second arrived" Distinguished Eagle Scout Award class of 1933 (http://www.bsa14.org/FactSheetSupport/02-529.html). --------- Reference: Ruth Varney's Diary | Barber, Charles Finch (I167368)
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| 22 | "Barefoot Runyan, Revolutionary soldier, witnessed the will of his neighbor, Marshall Lovelady, in 1792. Barefoot Runyan's land was located between lands belonging to John Moore on the north and John Fryer on the south. The present Old Mill is on the site of a 151 acre grant to Mordecia Lewis; his land joined the land of Isaac Runyan, son of Barefoot, and the land of Richard Fanshire. The plat shows a road to Lewis Mill". [Reunion at the River, Homecoming 1986, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee - September 13, 1986, author Beulah D.Lynn (current Sevier County Historican)]. Isaac as son of Barefoot is believed in error. Barefoot Runyan was granted 168 acres of land on the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River on 27 July 1808 No 332, surveyed 27 Jan 1807. Survey plot shows Mill Creek in plat.Isaac Runyan was granted 151 acres on the Pigeon River on 5 August 1812, No.2544, and surveyed 10 Jan 1807. Survey has with Mullendores line on the North. Isaac's grant was under the Act of Assembly on Nov. 23, 1809. Marie Runyan Wright published book "Descendants of Isaac Barefoot Runyan - Tracking Barefoot Runyan" in 1980. Mrs. Wright in error with photographs as being Barefoot's land. The "old rock chimney" and "dam" over river, are near or on land of Aaron Runyan Sr. just south of Sevierville. Barefoot's land was further south in now Pigeon Forge. Transcript of Marshall Lovelady will dated 10 April 1792 is published in the SMHS Newsletter, Vol XVI, No.2, Winter 1990, page 86. Barefoot Runyan, Joseph Lovelady, and John Mahon were witness. "Barefoot RUNION listed in Colonel Doherty's Regiment of Militia, Territory South of the Ohio, 1793-94" (Ref: SMHS NL 1988, Vol XIV, No 4, page 124). ---------- Reference: Joe Chilton Pedigree Chart, 7 November 1994, p 1. | Runyan, Barefoot (I50482)
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| 23 | "Bee" appears in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 census. ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1974, p 104. "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 10, 13, 129. | Ogle, Isaac B. "Bee" (I3420)
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| 24 | "Buckley-Sweitzer" "VIRGINIA BEACH - Miss Donna Joan Sweitzer and Mr. Kevin Shawn Buckley exchanged vows Saturday at 2 p.m. in Providence Presbyterian Church. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sweitzer. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Buckley. The couple will reside in Virginia Beach." | Family F70607
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| 25 | "Called Robert J. in Aug. Found it was our family but not very interested. Then I wrote a letter, no answer as 24 Aug. They live in Milwaukee. ---------- Reference: "Joshua Raegan", Lula Shelton, 1982. | Reagan, Robert J. (I6547)
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| 26 | "Cold Mountain" fiddle player. | Grooms, George (I249070)
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| 27 | "Descendants of Isaac Barefoot Runyan" & Supplement, by Marie Runyan Wright have Nancy S. died 15 Aug 1883 and married to Ashley Wynn. The Family Bible of Aaron and Abigail Runyan has Nancy Susannah born 12 Nov 1860, and N.S. married on 13 Oct 1881, and Nancy S. Henderson died 15 Aug 1888. Original papers of Aaron Runyan, regarding giving equal amounts to his children, mentions both a N.S. Henderson and a S.A. Henderson. This paper and the Bible record are in agreement. The published Runyan book appears to be in error for Nancy S. married to Ashley Wynn. ---------- Reference: Joe Chilton GEDCOM, 7 November 1994. | Runyan, Nancy Susannah (I50795)
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| 28 | "Fate" served in the Civil War in the early 1860's. ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1974, p 105. "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 21. "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 79, 80, 82, 191. "Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 197. | McCarter, Rev. Lafayette "Fate" (I3466)
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| 29 | "Father of Taunton." ---------- Reference: "Macomber Genealogy", 1908, Everett S. Stackpole, p 12. | Williams, Richard (I10381)
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| 30 | "FEEZEL, CLARENCE (E.C.) - AGE 83, Rt. 8, Sevierville, died at Cocke County Memorial Hospital March 2, 1982. Survivors: son, Everett Feezel, Sevierville; daughters, Mrs. Stanley (Ina) Norris, Chestnut Hill, Mrs. Talmadge (Faye) Hill, Sevierville; grandchildren, Cathy Dorner, New Jersey, Becky Vance, Chestnut Hill, Craig Norris, Chestnut Hill; great-grandchildren, Kristi, Megan and Roby; step-grandchildren, Dale Hill, Patsy Trentham, Jean Tarver; step-great-grandchildren, Crystal, Chris and Terry; brother, James Feezel, Sevierville; sisters, Mrs. Scottie Fox, Mrs. Mae Chapman, Mrs. Eunice Henry, Sevierville, Ruth Fincham, Ohio. Member and Sunday School teacher at Birchfield Memorial Methodist Church. In lieu of flowers, donations go to the Birchfield Memorial Cemetery. Funeral services 2 p.m. Thursday, Birchfield Memorial Methodist Church, Rev. Ricky Clower and R.T. Faulkner officiating. Internment in church cemetery. Family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at RAWLINGS', Sevierville." ---------- Reference: "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 198. | Feezel, Elmer Clarence (I57116)
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| 31 | "FINCHUM, Bertha Thomas - 68, died at her home at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Survivors: husband, Hix Finchum;, two daughters, Mrs. Golda Coleman, Mrs. Hal (Ann) Derrick, Sevierville; four sons, Twain Finchum, Newport, R.C. Finchum, Burnett (Pilk) Finchum, Chucky Finchum, all of Sevierville; six grandchildren, Vicki and Cindy Coleman, Kim Derrick, Terry Finchum, Amy Finchum, Chad Finchum; sister, Mrs. Prince (Neva Finchum). She was a member of Fox United Methodist Church. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday at Burchfield Memorial Methodist Church, Rev. C.Cp. Beasley and Rev. Shelton Clark officiating. Internment in church cemetery. Rawlings, Sevierville, in charge." [The Knoxville Journal, dated Friday, September 7, 1973] | Thomas, Bertha (I129719)
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| 32 | "FOX, MISS LAURA ELLEN - age 86, of Rt. 8, Sevierville, died 8:25 a.m. Friday at St. Mary's Hospital. Survivors: brother, Ernest Fox, of Maryville; sisters, Miss Minnie Fox, Mrs. Willard (Julia) Thomas, and Mrs. Elmer (Leona) Allen. Funeral 3 p.m. Sunday Burchfiel [sic] Memorial United Methodist Church. Inter ent [sic] church cemetery. The family will receive friends 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Atchley's, Sevierville." | Fox, Laura Ellen (I130811)
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| 33 | "FOX, ZELMA MAY - age 84, of Rt. 8, Sevierville, died Jan. 29, 1984. Member of Burchfield Memorial United Methodist Church. Survivors: several nieces and nephews. Funeral service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Burchfield Memorial United Methodist Church, Rev. John Lindy, Rev. Rick Clowers officiating. Burial Fox Cemetery. The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. Monday at Rawlings', Sevierville." | Fox, Zelma May (I131201)
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| 34 | "Francis and Sarah (Craggen) Nurse of Reading, Mass.", The American Genealogist, Barbara Matthews, vol. 69 (April 1994), P 82. | Dawes, Sarah (I65540)
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| 35 | "Francis and Sarah (Craggen) Nurse of Reading, Mass.", The American Genealogist, Barbara Matthews, vol. 69 (April 1994), P 82. | Family F3377
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| 36 | "http://www.cosmos.org/HTML/d0002/g0000040.htm#11235" Living in 1840 in Campbell County, Tennessee. Ancestral File also lists given name as Alex and Eleander. Alexander Ridenour and John Loy were joint owners of some land in 1st Civil Dist. Campbell Co. TN, their heirs, Henderson Loy and George Whiten, 03071865 Common Pleas Court, Campbell Co. TN, petitioned court, 02101865, to sell land. Land sold 02071866 to James H. Phillips, s/o John Phillips-Catherine. Taxes were unpaid for 1862, 1864 and 1865 ---------- Reference: "Anna O Sawyer notes", March 1916, p 5. "One-From-Two letter", 31 July 1992, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 1, 2. "One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 129. | Ridenour, Alexandor T. (I35)
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| 37 | "I wrote to Donald in June - no answer. Called Robert J. in Aug. Found it was our family but not very interested. Then I wrote a letter, no answer on 24 Aug. They live in Milwaukee." ---------- Reference: "Joshua Reagan", Lula Shelton, 1982. "The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 378. | Reagan, Donald C. (I6545)
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| 38 | "In the name of God Amen, I John Ridenour Senior of Campbell County and State of Tennessee, being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say, principally, first of all, I give and bequeath my body to earth to be buried in a christian manner and my soul to God. Secondly I give and bequeath to my son John Ridenour a piece of land lying on Indian Creek below John Sharp's mill containing 20 acres. Thirdly I give and bequeath to my son Martin Ridenour my chestnut sorrel mare, and my cow and all my notes and accounts that I have in my hands now and all my tools and my trunk and one little wheel and one small oven and one check real, three pewter plates and one dish and one bed stead and I ordain my son Martin my executer of my last will and testament. Signed, sealed and pronounced by said ridenour as his last will and testament in the presence of us, Test: George Sharp His Test: Her John R. Ridenour Nancy X Scruggs Mark Mark State of Tennessee) Campbell County ) Court of pleas and quarter sessions 10th January 1828 The execution of the foregoing last will and testament of John Ridenour, deceased, was this day proven in open court in due form of law by George Sharp and Nancy Scruggs, witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded at full length. Test: Jo Hart, Clerk ---------- Reference: "Ancestors Are Forever", 17 September 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 386. "One-From-Two", 20 January 1991, Melvin Otho Ridenour, p 39, 40, 129. Melvin Otho Ridenour Letter, 21 Jan 1995, p 2. | Ridenour, John R. Jr. (I11324)
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| 39 | "James McTeer came from County Down Ireland with a wife and a number of children, the voyage was made in the old sailing vessel, requiring a great length of time. An epidemic broke out on board the ship. He saw one child, then another, and at last his wife's body lowered into the watery grave. His grief was such that the convulsions caused such upheavals of the breast, that the buttons were torn from his silk satin vest." Sometime about 1730 James McTeer left Northern Ireland with a wife and family. On shipboard his children fell ill and died one by one, then his wife succumbed also; so the grief-stricken young man arrived alone in Pennsylvania. This same traditional has been handed down from generation to generation in both Tennessee and Ohio. Though the story is essentially the same in both branches, the number, sex, and names of the children vary, and no one has presumed to suggest a name or identity for this first wife. On 16 Jan. 1746/1747 James McTeer took out a tract of land in East Pennsboro Twp., Lancaster Co., 304 acres 120 perches on Warrant #117; on 8 Nov. 1760 he took out two additional adjoining tracts containing 72.5 and 37.5 acres, which additions were described in the survey as "but thin and ordinary land." At the time of the first survey on 10 Nov 1760, the land was in East Pennsboro Twp., Cumberland Co. and the abutting property owners were Anthony McCue, James McMeen, Peter Leester and Rowlan Chambers. On 13 May 1767 James took out still another 70 acres southeast of the preceding tract and abutting on Yellow Breaches Creek; this land was not surveyed until much later, but is mentioned in James' will as "warrant land." This homestead was successively in East Pennsboro Twp., Lancaster Co., until the formation of Cumberland County in 1750; then in East Pennsboro Twp., Cumberland Co., until 1766, when Allen Township was formed. When Allen Township was divided in 1850 the McTeer land fell in Lower Allen, "on the road from Lisburn to Silver Spring Meeting House." In relatively modern terms the location is between St. Johns Road on the east, Slate Hill on the south, the Upper-Lower Allen Township line on the west, and another range of hills on the north. Identification of exact landmarks within the area has been singularly complicated because the property is now traversed by the Lisburn Road, the Reading Railroad, The Pennsylvania Turnpike, as well as by other local roads coming from New Cumberland on the east and proceeding southward to Fairview Twp., York Co. across Yellow Breaches Creek. Soon after completing his title to the property with a patent dated 11 Nov. 1760, James McTeer built a store house near a large flowing spring, probably at about the point where Lisburn Road crosses Cedar Run. A Cumberland Co. map of the 1860s shows at that time seven houses on what had been the original McTeer grant; owners along the southern border were C. Musselman and John Strong, who had two Dwellings, one at the junction where Lisburn Road came in from the south; then on Lisburn Road going north again after the jog, James Dunlap had two houses; David Hurst was still further north but somewhat west of the roadway; at last an unidentified building was located east against the hill. Records of the Pennsylvania Direct Tax of 1798 for Allen Twp., Cumberland Co., list James McTeer's original house then owned and occupied by his son Samuel McTeer, as a stone dwelling, 16 by 22 feet, one story with four windows containing 48 lights (panes of glass); the accompanying kitchen was shown as an outbuilding 16 by 12 feet with two windows containing 12 lights; and the whole property including two acres of land was valued at $600. When Major Will A. McTeer of Maryville, Tenn., visited the locality a century later this house was still standing and still owned by a McTeer descendant, Mrs. Ellen Saxton. The Major wrote his impressions in a letter from Mechanicsburg, dated 30 July 1898; "We got here last night. A beautiful town of five thousand inhabitants, nestled down in the richest and loveliest little valley I have ever seen. I am just now back from a visit to the old homestead of my great, great grandfather, four miles out. The main part of the old stone house is still standing but very old and dilapidated. The old farm is of the very best. A barn as big as Texas ... filled ... with oats by the six horse load. I drank from the old spring that slaked the thirst of my ancestors." But only a few weeks after this encounter the old place was torn down; so a neighboring farmer could use the stones for the foundation of a milk station. In Mrs. Saxton's words, "It was hard for me to make up my mind to it but thought it best to lay sentiment aside as it was getting unsightly and useless and possibly dangerous." During the French and Indian War James McTeer was a captain in the local militia. He and his lieutenant John Anderson, both of East Pennsboro Twp. were commissioned in 1747-1748 in the Associated Regiment of Lancaster Co. Over the River Susquehanna. By the time of the American Revolution he was well past 70 years and so was not included in any of the militia lists of that time; nor is there any evidence of his providing other specific assistance to the cause of Independance. Yet, since his five sons and three sons-in-law all served with the Pennsylvania troops at various times during the war there can be no doubt where his sympathies were in that conflict. Out of his 400 acres James McTeer provided a farm for each of his four sons who remained in Allen Township. On 8 Dec 1770 "for love and affection" he deeded 100 acres to his son John; on 21 Dec. 1770 he made a similar conveyance to his son William; and by his will he also gave land to sons James and Samuel. Son Robert moved to Fermanaugh Twp., Cumberland Co., soon after his marriage and had already gone on to Tennessee before his father's death. Since he received in the will only a token legacy, it is clear that Robert had in some way received his share at an earlier date, but the nature of that inheritance is now past recovery. The will of James McTeer Sr. of Allen Twp., Cumberland Co., written 2 Aug. 1764, probated 16 March 1785, bequeathed to son James. "the land he now liveth on as it is divided by John Creigh", one half "the warranted land adjoining to be divided according to quantity and quality", also "the meadow that is fenced off for his use"; to daughter Elizabeth Boyd, five shillings; to son Robert McTeer, five shillings; to daughter Alce Caruthers, five shillings; to sons William and John, five shillings each; to daughter Sarah Pauly, five shillings; to granddaughter Elizabeth, daughter of son James, "my chest of drawers"; to son James, "my table". Any remainder after payment of the legacies and expenses from the sale of personal property to be divided between sons James and Samuel McTeer. They to be Executors. Witnesses: Hugh Laird, John Worden. An untotalled inventory of the "Goods and Cattels of James McTeer Sen deceased", made on 26 Feb. 1785 by Hugh Laird and William McMEan, includes only personal property; one horse at 17 pounds; a red cow with a white face at 4 pounds; seven pewter plates at 14 shillings; a case of drawers willed to granddaughter Elizabeth 3 pounds 15 shillings; a table willed to son James, 15 shillings; other furniture, table, chair, dough chest, walnut chest and bedstead totaling 1 pound 2 shillings 6 pennies; two featherbeds, pillows, coverlets and blankets, 15 pounds 5 shillings and 2 pennies total; wearing apparel, 2 pounds 10 shillings; old books, 1 pound 1 shilling 6 pennies; a few tools, flax hackle, pruning chisel and draw knife, 7 shillings 6 pennies; pot rack, tongs, fire shovel, two basins, spice box and frying pan, 16 shillings; a buckskin, 10 shillings; "a pair of specks and tobacco box", 2 shillings 6 pennies. ---------- Reference: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 7, 23-26. | McTeer, James (I6956)
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| 40 | "John Bunyan Stinnett 'Preacher John Stinnett' was an Old Time Preacher. He carried his Bible in a sack around his neck all of the time. When he plowed his fields he read his Bible. He preached at the Wears Valley Primitive Baptist Church & at the Little Greenbrier School -which also served as a church. He also owned the Water Mill (which no longer stands) on the opposite side of the Little River across from Metcalf Bottoms. People from miles around came to have their flour and corn ground. He and his son both owned farms close by on the Little River. This land is now part of the Smoky Mountains National Park." story taken from family book -written by Shirley Isabel Apple Hawk ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 148. "Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 303, 310. "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 26. | Stinnett, John Bunyan (I29122)
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| 41 | "King's Daughter" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Daughters | Burel, Jeanne (I236367)
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| 42 | "King's Daughter" | Benoit, Marie (I236131)
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| 43 | "Kings Daughter" | Lamy, Marie (I236044)
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| 44 | "LAYMAN, THURSIA - 99, died Saturday at the Sevier County Medical Center. She was a member of the Burchfield Methodist Chapel Church. Survivors: nieces and nephews. Funeral 4:00 p.m. Sunday at Burchfield Chapel. Rev. Lowell Parrott officiating. Burial in church cemetery. The body will lie in state from 3:30-4:00 p.m. at the church. BROWN'S, Newport, in charge." "Thursia Layman, 99, Dies" "Miss Thursia Layman, age 99, died August 11, at the Sevier County Medical Center following a lingering illness. She was a member of the Burchfield Methodist Chapel Church. She is survived by several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted from the Burchfield Methodist Chapel Church Sunday at 4:00 p.m. with Rev. Lowell Parrott officiating. Burial in the church cemetery. Jack Wilson, Dean Williams, Willie Chaney, Asas Layman, James Layman, and Wallace Layman as pallbearers. Brown's in charge." "SECTION B -- PAGE 2 TUESDAY APRIL 1, 1975 Five Generations Celebrate Aunt's 95th Five generations of the Lamon family were on hand to help Miss Thursa Lamon celebrate her 95th birthday March 21st at the Sevier County Nursing Home. Present to help in the celebration were little Kristi Dance, her great great great-niece, Mrs. Norris (Becky) Dance, great great-niece, Mrs. Talmadge Hill (Faye) great niece, and Clarence Fatzel, nephew. The birthday cake was a gift from Becky. Miss Lamon, born and raised in the Byrd's Crossroads Community, Sevierville, is the daughter of the late Asa Lamon and Deborah Lewis Lamon. She had five sisters and three brothers, belongs to the Burchfield Memorial Methodist Church, and enjoys cooking, quilting, and housekeeping. Miss Lamon's father was a Union soldier in the Civil War and her "special" friend, a veteran of World War I, was killed in the service." [Photo with article shows all the named persons.] | Layman, Thursa C. (I129793)
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| 45 | "Little Burl" of "Christie" by Catherine Wood Marshall. | Wood, Rev. Burrell Lusha (I85807)
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| 46 | "Lost in the army". He served as a Confederate soldier in a Tennessee regiment. ---------- Reference: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 75. | Mateer, Daniel McKinley (I7664)
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| 47 | "LOWE, BONNIE KATE FINCHUM - AGE 71, OF Rt. 8, Sevierville, passed away Jan. 19, 1983. She was a member of Birchfield Memorial Methodist Church. Survivors: daughter, Linda Lowe, Sevierville; brother, Nash Finchum, Knoxville; sister, Mrs. Leona Smelcher, Dandridge. Funeral service 2 p.m. Friday, Birchfield Memorial Methodist Church, Rev, Rickey Clowers and Rev. John Clark officiating. Burial in the church cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Birchfield Memorial Church or the Diabetes Foundation. The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. Thursday at RAWLINGS." | Finchum, Bonnie Kate (I129801)
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| 48 | "M.P. Runyan appoint Mitchell McCown a citizen of Sevier County, Tennessee my legal representative and attorney in fact - settlement of my fathers estate Aaron Runyan", State of Texas, County of Davis"; Book "M", page 204 ---------- Reference: Joe Chilton GEDCOM, 7 November 1994. | Runyan, Mitchell P. (I50693)
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| 49 | "Martha Ferguson McTeer had many experiences with the Indians. She saw her younger brother scalped and another brother vowed vengeance on the chief, Slim Tom, and in later years killed him." Living in Blount County, Tennessee in 1830. In 1830 Martha McTier aged 50-60 was head of a household in Western District, Bount County; this household included one other female aged 15-20, and two males aged 20-30 and 10-15. ---------- Reference: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 54, 55. | Ferguson, Martha (I7359)
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| 50 | "Mattie" King Crowson, is the source of most of the King information for the family. She was a good friend of the mother of Inez Burns, Blount County Historian, and passed the information on to Mrs. Burns, who told the stories to her daughter Inez. ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 245, 248. Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995. "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 184. | King, Martha Louisa (I33480)
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| 51 | "Mrs. Thursa Abagail Fox" [Handwritten note: 'Buried Friday at 3 o'clock. Died May 30, 1973.'] "Mrs. Thursa Abagail Fox, 84, of Route 8, Sevierville, died Wednesday morning, May 30, at Baptist Hospital in Knoxville. Survivors are three sons, Rex, of White Pine, Austell, Lenoir City, Herman of Sevierville; four daughters, Mrs. Roy (Iva) Wise, Mrs. Clifford (Ruth) McCoig, Mascot, Mrs. Edward (Juanita) Mottern, Mrs. Donald (Estelena) McCoig, Sevierville; 16 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Friday, June 1 at Burchfield Memorial Methodist Church with the Reverend Beasley officiating. Internment was in the church cemetery." | Miller, Thursa Abigail (I90072)
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| 52 | "Never saw the light of day" | Wanner (I635)
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| 53 | "Nurse Genealogy", Henry H. Nurse, 1908. | Hartshom, Martha (I24546)
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| 54 | "Nurse Genealogy", Henry H. Nurse, 1908. | Hartshom, Timothy (I24547)
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| 55 | "Nurse Genealogy", Henry H. Nurse, 1908. | Martha (I24548)
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| 56 | "Nurse Genealogy", Henry H. Nurse, 1908. | Hamden, John (I24550)
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| 57 | "Nurse Genealogy", Henry H. Nurse, 1908. | Suzanah (I24551)
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| 58 | "Nurse Genealogy", Henry H. Nurse, 1908. | Eaton, Mary (I24552)
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| 59 | "Nurse Genealogy", Henry H. Nurse, 1908. | Eaton, Jonathan (I24553)
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| 60 | "Nurse Genealogy", Henry H. Nurse, 1908. | Mary (I24554)
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| 61 | "Old Granny Macomber" died in Taunton 3 April 1775. ---------- Reference: "Macomber Genealogy", 1908, Everett S. Stackpole, p 10, 11, 12. | Mary (I10358)
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| 62 | "Only child of Adeline Burgess nee Peart", receipted on 1 October 1890 for her mother's share of her grandfather's estate. ---------- Reference: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 66. | Burgess, Oleata (I7615)
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| 63 | "Only lived a short period". ---------- Reference: Tommy H. Clabough, THClabough@aol.com, 6 June 1999. | Clabough (I67808)
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| 64 | "Raised a boy of Italian descent, who was abandoned by his parents when the bartyes mines at Fluetown closed." | Blanchard, William "Bill" (I74861)
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| 65 | "SAMS, OPAL E. - age 63 of 2001 Glenwood Avenue, Knoxville, passed away Tuesday at Ft. Sanders Hospital. Survivors: Brother, Garfield Allen of Knoxville; sister-in-law, Maude Allen of Knoxville; several nieces and nephews. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, Miller Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Fred McGill officiating. Interment Zion's Chapel Cemetery. MILLER FUNERAL HOME, Maryville, in charge." | Allen, Opal Edith (I107914)
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| 66 | "Stright" Dan spelled his name Kaler, he and Eleanor were married by Fredrick Emmett. Blount Co Tn Blount Co Tn 1860 Census 1870 Census Daniel 25 (1835) Daniel 36 (1834) Ellen 26 (1834) Ellen 37 (1833) Buried in Burns Cemetery. ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 260. Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995. | Caylor, Daniel "Straight Dan" (I33781)
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| 67 | "Thanks for package, when it arrived Agnes could not enjoy it because she was so ill. My husband is sick in bed too but is getting better. You can imagine what work it is to take care of 2 sick people. Your package made us so happy we gave Marie half of the package. Hope you are in good health." 8 Sept 1947 My dear good Aunt Maude, Today I am sorry to write bad news. My dear Mother passed away. She was sick 5 weeks. At the end she could hardly see - had several operations and dropsy and her liver gave out. She had no appetite so she lost all her energy. It was very hard to see her so and not be able to help her. She suffered so much and we could give her no relief. It was hard to watch her those last hours our beloved mother. You probably understand. We were so close to each other and so much love for each other - we had lived together so long. Our mother had so much love for us all and she always wanted to help everyone she could. I was today at her grave again - she is in the family mausoleum where her husband is. She is better off now and no longer suffers. How often she said during the war "I wonder if George is still living" and her thoughts for him were in the past from her youth. They were both musical. When she heard violin concerto on radio she could name them all and said "George played that". She was mentally alert even at her advanced age. She always had the right answer. She was so happy over your lovely package although she was unable to eat any of the food. She wanted so much to write to you. I have found it hard to write to you about her. I am very busy - too much work, Agnes always helped me until she could no longer do so. Thank God things are better now with my husband - he feels much better - needs a lot of rest and no work and good care. I have a big garden which makes a lot of work. Now the crop is in and it takes a lot of work to can all the vegetables. It is such a help for the whole year. I always spent so much time in the garden which I neglected when Agnes and my husband were ill. I got an old man to help in the garden and now I can accomplish more. We also have some livestock which needs care. Potatoes are very small because of lack of rain. Laundry, darning, cooking and care of house keep me so busy I have no time to be lonesome. Please excuse poor writing I write in so little time. Even with hard work I can hardly make things go as they should. My responsibility is double what it was. We make everything count I do not waste anything. We are having hard times. The mean Russians will not wait long - we cannot see what this winter will bring. Very little food and wood - it will be a catastrophe. Our factory is closed and work was less and less so it closed. Life is not a small problem anymore. It must be better with you, thank God. How is all your family? Hope all are healthy and happy. How is the small child (Robert M. Beckwith) - how old? Uncle George wrote about him and his music. It runs in the family. Now dear Aunt Maude, do not be angry with me because it took me so long to write. I would be very happy to hear how you're getting along. Very best to you, Edith ---------- Reference: Last letters to Maude von Beschwitz. | Toennies, Edith (I7205)
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| 68 | "The Conqueror" Duke Of Normandy William I | William I, "The Conqueror" Duke (I19458)
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| 69 | "The Prophet of the Smokies". ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 80, 82-83. "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 107. "Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 211, 293. "Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 114, 204. | Trentham, Levi (I1432)
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| 70 | "Tryfling" John and Amy were married by S. Adams. ---------- Reference: Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995. | Abbott, John Wiley "Tryfling" (I53032)
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| 71 | "Vina" Brickey's name was Sarah M. on the marriage certificate, she and James R. Rosson were married by George Snider, JP. Donald B. Reagan lists given name as Lavina. ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 260. Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995. | Brickey, Melvina "Vina" (I33779)
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| 72 | ("old" St. Thom.) ---------- Reference: Jim Havron, jimhavron@home.com, 9 March 2001. | Havron, James Tyre Jr. (I89152)
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| 73 | (December 14, 1920 - September 29, 2006) U.S. Veteran Keller, Fern, age 85 of Maryville, passed away Friday September 29, 2006 at Blount Memorial Hospital. He was a retiree of Alcoa Aluminum Co. and a WWII veteran of the US Army. Preceded in death by parents; Will and Mary Jane Keller, brothers; Frank, Roy , Homer and Willie Keller, sisters; Ocey Lambert, Jessie Lambert, Grace Webb, Laura Keller and Rosie Blair, and step great granddaughter; Amanda Satterfield. Survivors, wife of 51 years; Bernice Tindell Keller, daughter and son in law; Ann and Don Garner, brother and sister in law; Earl and Marie Keller, sister; Minnie Grindstaff, step grandchildren; Donna (Doug) Satterfield, Belva (Mike) Hill, Lisa Garland, Doug Garner, seven step great grandchildren. Funeral service 4:00 PM Monday October, 2, 2006 at Miller Funeral Home Magnolia Chapel, Rev. Clifton Hearon officiating, interment to follow at Maple Grove Cemetery (Carpenters Grade Rd. Maryville). Special thanks to all the nurses on 4 north at Blount Memorial Hospital, and a host of wonderful doctors. Family will receive friends from 3:00 to 4:00 PM Monday at Miller Funeral Home, Maryville. www.millerfuneralhome.org | Keller, Fern (I266758)
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| 74 | (Dietrich) Thierry "The Monk", Bastard Of Holy Roman Empire | Holy Roman Empir, (Dietrich) Thierry "The Monk" (I19901)
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| 75 | (Suzanne) Rosala Princess Of Italy, Countess of Flanders | Italy, (Suzanne) Rosala Princess [Countess] (I18775)
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| 76 | (Valtrude) Valdrade Queen Of Lorraine | Lorraine, (Valtrude) Valdrade Queen (I20594)
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| 77 | , Of Saco, York, Maine | Randall, Priscilla (I236101)
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| 78 | --------- Reference: "Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 121, 188. "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 218. | Clabough, Henry (I24821)
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| 79 | --------- Reference: "Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 84. "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 218, 250. "Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 184, 188, 230. | Lamons, George W. (I25174)
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| 80 | --------- Reference: "In the Shadow of the Smokies", Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 443. Kate (Shields) Maples | King, Boyd (I64063)
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| 81 | --------- Reference: "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 23, 378. | Wear, Colonel Samuel (I56931)
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| 82 | --------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 121. "Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 68. | Williams, Mable (I35686)
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| 83 | --------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 99, 155. | Ogle, Lee Madison (I31362)
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| 84 | --------- Reference: "The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 275. | Layman, Martha Carrie (I42922)
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| 85 | --------- Reference: Elsie Wollaston, elbruijn@interchg.ubc.ca, 20 August 1998. | Wollaston, Richard (I66334)
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| 86 | --------- Reference: Elsie Wollaston, elbruijn@interchg.ubc.ca, 20 August 1998. | Hazard, Hanna (I66335)
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| 87 | --------- Reference: James Shults GEDCOM, Jamesshults@worldnet.att.net, July 1996. | Shults, Claudius Walter (I64321)
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| 96 | --------- Reference: Kate (Shields) Maples | Manis, Lillie Francis (I64058)
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