• Creator
  • Richardson, George
  • Easterby, Sam
• Format
  • Transcripts
  • Interviews
• Type
  • Text
• Extent
  • Dimension: 11" 8.5"
  • Pages: 31 pages
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Identifier
  • GSMNP_Cata-Richardson_Woody_1973_03_13

INTERVIEW with JONATHAN WOODY Waynesville Country Club Waynesville, North Carolina March 13, 1973 George Richardson and Sam Easterby Interviewers C ~ 0 C Q s .s c J 1-e. fa f> e . B CJ + h S ' deY_ LIBRARY GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS ~..:l.w."":::::._., .. NATIONAL PAC,&{ No part of this manuscript may be quoted for publication except by written permission of the Superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Material one interviewer. Material block indented (10 spaces) is that of the other interviewer. Note: The interviewers' voices are so similar that it was difficult to distinguish one from the other. It is hoped that their remarks have been separated at least. This has been taken off on a Wollensak 3M 6020 player. The index counter number /000/ in the body of the text indicates an omission because it was not understood. The index counter number (000) in the margin is a reference point. This has been transcribed verbatim et literatim as nearly as possible. There has been no editing whatsoever. Attempt has been made to preserve the speakers' expressions as faithfully as possible (including the "uhs" and "ahs" etc.). In a number of instances there was doubling between the interviewer and the interviewed, md between interviewer and interviewer. It is believed, however, that enough of the remarks was separated to give the meaning. :),1 w~ Sam Easterby tell us one about how you learned how to swim. Yes. What was that one? Well. Know what made me do. They was a big flat pool, and it was quite some distance from the road. And. We'd go there young fellows and strip off stark naked. Don't-- Girls didn't swim even with bathing suits in those days. There were no bathing suits. And. One of the boys would get on the, this mare~ and, bareback, and they'd get-- and, you'd catch hold of her tail, long tail you know. And you'd hold that, and going ·rh e11 upstream you'd hit this and that and then after a while, why. New another boy 'd do the same thing. The it 'd come your turn, you'd get up and hit this and then finally, you see the, the Australian crawl was not known in those days you know. Only way you could swim was this way. Uh huh. And. I immediately learned how to swim. Do you have to do one hand and grab the tail and do the other hand? Yeah. And then finally uh turn loose and on Sunday we'd go down there. And. Thep after you, two We' c) finally y-et! get or three lessons w~'J to where y~- And sometimes it wasn't deep enough, oh was about, wasn't quite as deep,· about as deep as these tables. Uh huh. About three feet deep, three or four feet. Yeah. I'd say three feet deep. '(: feet deep. ·.-:. . •. Would you get dragged across the rocks sometimes? No it was a nice smooth pool. -rhcJ 1s sovnerhiVlCj ' Oh yes. Yh-fttih. Had to tle quite a horse to let, let somebody its tail like that. Well. Good old gentle mare you know. And, you might be interested in the time, at the strawberry patch. I'd-- It was Sunday and we'd been to, Sunday school. And. Coming back why they-- my brother and sister older than I was, made a date uh, told some others, two or three other children that they were going up to the strawberry patch. I said, 11Well I want to go." Said, "No you're too little. 11 And I drug along behind, and, at the last ford, why, up above Sugar Creek Now let's see, where, where is Sugar Creek? It turns off at the last ford going up to the old homeplace. Goes up through there. Father owned a lot of land up there. And. They went across the footlog and out of sight. And it-- had a heavy rain that day. And the creek was up pretty much. So. I went on by, and went on up in there in strawberry patch picking strawberries. And. They got home says, "Where's little John? 11 "Well he's coming on in a few minutes." So I didn't show up. Well. Father got on a horse and old brothers then went downstream, and everything else and got all the neighbors and they hunted 'n' hunted, l~ttle Jonathan 1 s drowned. So they couldn't find me and, so, at last resort they took up Sugar Creek. And asked there that was a renter if he'd seen me. He says, 11Yes he about two hours ago. 11 They just kept on going, told 'em about patch. They· came up there. And whole crowd of them did. strawberries half to death about you. ~, Yes. Did tell you about my father going bear hunting? Well. .· ·'!· The-- I told you about burning up the schoolhouse? Yeah. Well my father went, and Jack Williamson, he was a renter lived on the place and a good hunter too. And. They 'd heard there were some bears on the Trail Ridge that's out on where they ranged their cattle on the divide between Haywood and Swain and Down here at Jonathan Creek? Huh? Down near Jonathan Creek in that area? No no. Uh. Head of uh The head of Cataloochee? No. No. It's-- You go up, you'd go-- It's up at the head of Big Beech Ridge which is a branch of Indian Creek, and on the divide between Haywood and Swain. Well they went, heard they was some bears over there and they took their bear dogs. Everybody had bear dogs in those days, 'cause. the-were a lot of bear then in the park, what is now the park. And. They treed these bears. And they, and they were in the ground. An .~· .. about four cubs. And. They went on up there and b~~iking ba'~ld~~g ·" at::> em and. Uh: Williamson. Was it Jack !. . . : .•, was two of them. ''' Which one did I mention? Anyway it was the hill there on bear came out. grabbed it by the ears. And. "f , -·r• .1 , .:.. . Said that they-'- I've got a recording ';of that ': ~p at 1th~ \ouse, the one that fellow (Doubled) Joseph Hall? w.IJ lQyYZs"n Yeah. Said that, uh, the bear, said, said, it, Jack /076/ it'd shot the old bear, the mother bear she came out of the hole why it'd have blocked the hole ~nd got all of 'em. Said she just tore 'im all to pieces, and, said he didn't have a thing on but his, his galuses and his shoes. (Laughing) Now what, what were galuses? Well that's uh suspenders. Huh. Well it did get to him didn't it. Yeah. That's, the old, that's what they were called in those days. Galuses. Galuses, yeah. Hmm. You've heard the word haven't you'! No I've never heard that. That's what they called suspenders. I think it's ~pelled g-a-1-u-s-e-s. Galuses. Galuses. ,,, That 1 s a 'good word Oh. Infronansya. See they were Scotch Irish people. And Let's see now, didn't,didn't your, was it your granddaddy that came over from Hot Springs or Spring Creek over in Madison County? Yeah. Was it Spring Creek or Hot Springs, do you remember? Spring Creek. Spring Creek. The' 's a Woody cem•etery on Spring Creek. And Andy \-loody, passed away some time ago ~ lived over there. That was uh, was that your, let's see, your grandfather's brother? No. No. It's my father's nephew. I think it was. Anyway we're related. What uh, I noticed that, uh, now you all went .to the Methodist Church down tn Big Cataloochee? Yeah. Ylol-tr e. /-), t>lf"f" \)JQJ I ~eaFd tAroush a lot of-- Like, let's see was it-- Ah Colonel Woody, MaJor l.Joody Yeah. He was buried up at the Little Cataloochee Baptist cemeLery up there. ;r; .. lived: ' up;; there . ~';~., .,~;· · , ·:~~,. . ,'i{:t£;>: ,.·7. ·<ii:~~Ltr:;·e:';,,;,~1:'> tt,e;.~~j,>.,< . was · TY~e, Tyne Woody's nephew, and my . father's nephew. St~,je·, see 's'teve, was it Uncle Steve was buried up there too? No. He is buried here in Waynesville. See, was there uh Little Steve Woody Little Steve? Yeah. Steven Jack Woody Yeah. Was thatliis name? Yeah. Steven Jack Woody. Now why would they-- Did you all have a family plot over near the-- Have what'! A cemetery, family cemetery over near your horneplace? No. My mother's brother, uh, you know \'Jhere the Palmer house is which used to be the warden's house? Uh huh. right up on the side of that hill. Yeah that's where we went. Yeah. ,,_ 1 Caldwell. Is that the Caldwell uh No. Palmer Palmer cemetery. They called it "graveyard." Graveyard. In those days. And the-- Old man Messer made coffins in those days. Where~ did he just make 'em from wood cut around there? Well. He'd get the wood from, had a few sawmills you know. Uh huh. They were water driven. Yeah. Huh. Oh. Do you have that picture of the-- We have a picture of the uh old Nellie post office. Remember where that was? Picture. And there's a fellow standing on the Doubled That's right down below the church. Yeah. That 1 s just-- Out from Nellie Post Office was the switmning pool. ~ ~~ . ' ,,~,;-- -, That was, that was the-- ' the 'old schools? Here's one of the schools up there. a lot , of pictures here. Here we go. Yeah. That's it. And then here's the church in the background. Yeah. And you know, the, see how they made the "N" in those days? Uh huh. Why did they do that? Well I don't know. See the slope in it? Looks like it's almost turned around. I don't recognize this fellow. I believe that was Tommy Caldwell. Now was he, was he uh with the Park Service or something? No. Looks like he has the tie on or something. He's smoking a pipe. Tommy Caldwell? Yeah. Now that was torn down. Uh. Before the park went in there. Do you know if uh, now if the Methodist Church Now the' was a-- That's another one of the post office isn't it? Uh huh. There's the Methodist Church in the back. \fuat, you were going to say something about office'? On this "N" Uh huh. See they, they were, let's see, Cataloochee, Nellie, and Ola, and Ola was named for the postmaster over there's daughter. And Nellie was the niece of Glenn Palmer's mother. / And she was a little girl and very cute. And they named it that. After her You know what Cataloochee means'? We, we heard it meant, it was an Indian word "Gad-a-lu-sti" that meant "standing tall." Well no. "Fringe of the trees." See when you get to Cove Creek Gap Uh huh. You can look and see all the mountains over there'? And see all those trees standing up. Yeah. Cataloochee. _;; i< -"'~-:.-..;_ Now how, did you all call it "Cataloochee" or "Catalooch'?" ;...,:c ·...,_t. ·".,__.,.,._ .. ~ :·~ "Catalooch. " . . , . put the steeple onit bell /134/ did they do .that before the park came along? ' _,·;_ Well, Big Cataloochee? Uh huh. I believe they did. Uh huh. It doesn't seem like they'd _do all that after the park came along. No. But we heard (Doubled 137) You ought to come over there second Sunday in August. That's Cataloochee reunion day. We used to put it in the paper but so many freeloaders came /138/ So. One time they had nearly 1,400 over there. But they'll have, see they keep a, a warden has a clicker or something and one cf them stands up there and when you go in to the parking lot. Uh huh. And counts them, and they give a report then, and I think they have to do that for the Park Service, see how much it's being used. Uh huh. Huh. Well I bet that's quite a reunion. How's that? I bet that's quite a reunion. " 'sh; ' s with a group called the "Cataloochee Uh in Maggie Valley, Mount Fie Top, Maggie Valley. Yeah. Well. Shers probably had Palmer or Caldwell or, blood in 'er, or-- Upchurch? Cecil B. Upchurch I think is her name, Mrs. Cecil B. Upchurch. I can phone her. Phone and find out. By the way, have you heard of the group called "Cataloochee Descendants" or Yeah. They're trying to do that. Sa:; at ever' reunion we, they read the list of those that have passed away, at the meeting. And I read it out, and then we all stand with bowed heads for about a minute. What were the religious services like up there? They only had 'em once a month. When the circuit riders came in? Yes. What wer~ they like? What was the service itself like? :;,.. !' they baptized everybo~y and did, . th-, oh let 1 s see now, Methodists don't submerge. , ~t" They don't submerge they sprinkle theirs. Was there just a lot of singing and Yes. Used to have, once a year we'd have a singing school. And. A fellow would come over Old Man Hall. And of course they had no music or anything and he'd get up do-si-do and then. Lots of them sing the whole thing through do-si-do a-la-si-do to the singing school. knew the notes and, they'd 1 don 1J. J<.no(J) or .how. And. They'd go · Let's see, what was that, did you all, do you remember harp singing? Harp s inging7 I think that's again I think that's in the Baptist church. Well. They-- Mark Hannah-- He was from Little Cataloochee, former warden. And. He has a-- each reunion he'd come down, when he was a warden you know down below there. And stop. They'd be singing. Have a harp and a fiddle and a banjo and so forth. And would the Suttons /164/ music. You remember the Suttons from up on Yes.· · :;: out and start Ye's. That was hard to learn. Did you ever learn how to clog? A little bit. I can square dance. Clogging's hard. Yeah. It's hard to do. Hard work. Did you all have one of the old organs or anything over in churches? Piano? No. I noticed there is a piano over there in the Methodist church now. Uh. What was that, what was that school like in there? How's that? What was that school like? When you were down there. At the one that Glenn Palmer taught at. Well. It's still standing there. Uh huh. They use it as a riders' camp. Uh. Go in there, and camp and so forth. Did, did he just teach everybody together or did he break little groups? as everybody else? . . . Yes. And you'd have a desk and then. up and they'd sit down in front up towards the blackboard on a bench) I think they had two benches. I mean it just only went to 7th grade • . Where did, where did folks go after that? Did they go out, out towards, well down here towards Waynesville? Who would? The boys after they-- if they wanted to go on after the 7th grade. Yeah. Well I came to Waynesville. MY father owned some houses here in Waynesville. And. It was a 5-months school. That's what.they called pre-school. And. · Then we'd come up here. Mother come and stay with us and, he 1 d bring the food in most of the time·. And went here. And. I've got a picture in my office downtown. And, then finally, it was the lOth grade. And. I was just a little fellow, and only, I think eleven in the class, five boys and six girls. That was down here? Yeah. You remember, let's see, who was, well Glenn Palmer was a teacher up there. Yeah. ' Camp-bell. They call it Campbell. in Maggie near, turn to left up there. Is that uh, did they live in Cataloochee? Were they over there . in Maggie? Alii svn ckh.,i \. Well /189/ live~ over there. So they just came in and Campbell married a girl over there, a Caldwell girl. And so he came in from the outside. How's that? Somebody came in from some place else and married a girl there. Well he was teaching school over there •.. Oh I see. He met her that way. Would they, would you all, did you feel, well it was pretty isolated back in there. Did you feel kind of uh, let's see how do I want to say, indifferent toward outsiders? No. When they came in. No. It was a~pretty fertile valley. ' '• And see that big building, 'and that 1 s the office what they call First National Bank, First Union National Bank. And. It was three stories high. Had big.:..- And I knew how to draw a picture of a train I'd never seen a train. I could picture that. Come in Jim. How you doin'? (From 196 to 200 a conversation between Mr. Woody and another person unrelated to this interview) How's your brother doin'? He's improving some. Good. · I bet he can tell some tales. Yeah. What is he, 92 now? Yeah. Will be in April. What, what's the date? April, I don't-- I'll have to look in the Bible. Old family Bible. I told . I you the story about the man come over to buy a cow didn t I? Oh that woke up and said uh. He came down it was too late closed took about an hour and a half, two hours to go over Bald Gap there? Well. To get up to Little Cataloochee Yeah That's a pretty good trip up there. Yeah. That was just a (Doubled) ·some people take two hours to walk it. Most of the folks, did most of the folks up there have horses and things like that. They didn't have to walk over it? No. They'd ride over. All the landowners had horses. And. Then. We'd let the renter have a mule to go to the mill with or something. And plow his corn. Do you know what a turn of corn means? Yeah. What does that mean? A bushel. One bushel? Yeah. t . . . ' . ·: ~ . Turn of corn. Yeah. ·} To the .mill to be ground. There's some. of the pictures we've got of the mill up . there on ·: ·' Indian Creek. Yeah. That's it. I can't recognize this man here. Must've been winter-time. Got on an overcoat. This was taken in December. That's the old millrace. Not the same mill though, yeah. You remember who built that one? Uh. Jes~.: r04lmer. He was a orother to Fate Palmer. La-Fate. They called it Fate. Now it's La-fay-ette. Where did you get all these pictures? Boy you wouldn't believe how many pictures are up there in that park file. About 15,000 negatives. Huh. That's the old millrace. It was a pretty long one wasn't it? Yeah. See that's looking down the creek. The millrace was next to the hill. And then there was a ford here, and well that's Indian Creek. House and ford. Is this-- was taken very near the old mill, or do you know? I guess that's just below it isn't it • . -r;~H supvtJierJ 1-J.he · --.~- .· · Mt!6-t be the ford going across. · .• .; 't , - ~- . -:" ~: ' ,.~t; ' that's ' whez:~, Jarvis Pc;tlmer~ l~ved. He was . ~ ., ' . , . · ' And. They were first cousins. And. Creek George lived down at':;:the old Palmer place, at where Mark Hannah used to live the warden. Uh huh. And that's the way they identified them. Creek George and Turkey George Turkey George yeah. Who were the two fellows that uh one fought for the Union and one I fought for _the South and they were cousins or brothers. I think it was the Caldwells. Caldwells yeah. Uh. Andy Caldwell. He was a little fellow. His brother Harrison that's a great uncle of mine, uh, was in the Confederacy, but the uh. When the Kirks army came through there, they took Andy Caldwell who was a little boy, he was to tend .ihe horses for 1 em, And, they, wben the -..........._ _ _ war was over, \~RY they released him, and gave him a pen&iOR, the YaAkeal cUd. I think, I meaa .'\ndy Caldwell. I think be got $12 a month or something I believe that's uhat it was. And his brother d~dn't get a dime. And tbey were always jealous of that. "vlhy Aady he deesa' t have te werlt he •a· getting · $12 a month, IJ Wftat WaS ftis erOtfter I 9 ft8ftle'? Harrisoa. They, &i&n • t they live d : t noar oacb gcl.o.i .. . ~ .-: . .. . . - . . . '· :~:; ) Harrison, ' -<1 ~·-~~'- ~·~~ ~ --' ,>~ ~~~~- _ .. ~ -~,.. ~: " -< ~-: - c ~~.-~~ 2n~~ l ~';;~r;~-:}~~?~. : · ·1::'\~ they and gave him a ~ perision, the L I ! Yankees did. ' I 'think, I mea'n Andy Caldwell. ''"' I ' think he got $12 a month or something I believe that's what it was. And his brother didn't get a dime. And they were always jealous of that. "Why Andy he doesn't have to work he's getting $12 a month." What was his brother's name? Harrison. Harrison. They, didn't they live right near each other? - - - - - - ,.- Yeah. Q. ,R. L)YI 111 J'IC( ., ·· Uh. Bet /238/ feud for a while. Yeah. Uh. \Vho .was it Lloyd was telling us about, there were some good moonshine tales from up there. Yeah. But he wouldn't tell us any. You remember any of them? Not particularly. Th' was running a good many. The' was a, branch above my home up there called the Stillhouse Branch. Wonder where that got its name. They-- There is a place up there. If uh. It's where they had a lot of ramps. And I was little boy would go up there and dig ramps. You know what a ramp is'? No. Well that's a wild onion. You know they have a ramp convention here'? No. Yes. A political thing. Every sunnner Yeah. It's the first Sunday in May I believe it is. And all in election Huh. convention They hold it, now down here where uh the American Legion place is, just after you, just before you get to Main Street the' 's, you That's the ramp convention. Yeah. Well a ramp is a, is a A wild onion. A wild onion. I'd say a wild onion. You can smell it for about three days. (Laughing) And you know the cows would get hold of it, and you couldn't drink the milk. They'd, they'd eat the tops you know. It comes out pretty early /249/ That looks like three matches, three match on three. (Laughing) They'd all carry a buckeye over there you know. That's good luck. I carry one all the time. To keep the rheumatism off of you. Have good luc~ if you carry one. My brothers they all do. Huh. (t>oub led 251) I've got one there. Just for luck ' '!~ (~oub led) . . . 'J;.~: never want for carried /252/ Have a buckeye. And. They used to say-- used the expression "You're not worth a buckeye." That was the most worthless thing in the world you know. (Laughing) Instead of saying "not worth a penny,'' "not worth a buckeye." You know they sell buckeyes here at the club in the summertime. Gather 'em up. People still come in and they'd pay a nickel a piece sanetimes they'd buy a dozen. How about that. Were, you all, ~~~j superstitious up there are there a lot of little things that No. No. Don't think so. Told you about the corn shuckins in there didn't I? Ah. Where they , yeah, where they throw 'em over their shoulder and have a race to see who could shuc~ the most. Yeah. Shuck the most yeah. And the little kids would _eQJt. And if you-- Shucked a ~ that red-5reen things why you got to hug Y!ecK the girls the girls /258/ Well what were the kids doing that time. They were, they'd do something with the corn or the shuck that was left 'y never CheW-, lOtS Of I e~· che~ed . t'obaCC00 ~. <J ~~~ tell you the story about the fellow, you know ·took 'a· dip·.<-~~ ~~~ff, ·~·ome' snuff? Nv}) · ,, ~ uh Well my father and two brothers had gone to work the road. ' My father was the overseer. And. He would warn them they called warn telling about church now, we're going to work the road such and such a date. And if you took a mule, why that counted one day's work. Had to work six days a year. And. I think, I don't know whether 18 or 21 and then 'til you were 65 I believe or something like that. And. They'd all gone off to work the road. And Major Woody was staying with us he was partly crippled. Major didn't like-- he liked to hunt and fish. So. We would pick up the loose rocks that the hay rake had gotten up in the big meadow above the Some af' house, that used to be a big great big meadow up there. And k«n the fence, you can see the fence rails I guess going up above there. And. He, Major was always afraid of horses and mules. So I was a little fellow and I'd go along and drive the sled and get enough of 'em take them out and dump 'em on the creek bank. Put 'em where they was going to build a rock fence but they were so-- Major, we were going down /21/ said "You ought to take some snuff." He put up in here. I took some just for ' it didn't know any difference )I think Major was just _£,~ ~~ i~ g -};. ~ -::. ~ :i So • . "fi ·, d get· up on this sled you know to drive ".the ~J les}',.:: ;·: .. ~ ·"·) : ' a little steep place like that. 75) I bet that didn't taste very What· was the uh what were some of the meals like that they fixed over there? Ch they Besides eating snuff Meal? Uh huh. The biggest meal was breakfast; And eat big breakfast. What was, what would you usually have? Well. See there were no bacon like you call it now. And they'd probably have ham. And. Apples. And then they'd grind corn and called it mush. Ah that's delicious. Fried mush. Yeah. It's sorta like grits, only much finer. Uh huh. I love that. That was served /279/ Yeah. And did a lot of people, did you have a lot of eggs '? Oh yes. Oh yeah. And turkeys too. Sometimes a turkey would go wild. whe~e. There was lot of wild turkeys in the woods and that's ~ Turkey George got his name. Shootin~ all the turkeys. · Yeah. . . :4;~·-·_:··'-. . And they was a woman over there ;·:t>"a ·williamson ,_.~ ' .~~~-;{~k:~ ~. ~ . -~ - was out on the Ledge Bald. That's the divide where they 1 .. I I j i I ~ 84) l i j . between Haywood and Swain. It was just a bald mountain, good pasture. And. She heard some turkeys. And. She went alon5 like, easy, got behind this log. And the old gobbler raised his head up, and she grabbed him. And they had turkey that night. They had turkey. END ~~ Dies At· 84 '., ::~£: .. . . . . ...... . ...... •_} WAYNE~VILLE . - Jonatl@_n :: :~q~ Woody 84. of Country Clu~ . ~:tv.e .. Waynesville, .retired banker, ·-civt~ : al)e ; church leader, di~d Wednes~ay ' 10 : a Haywood County hospital follo~1ng ~r~:r: tended illness. , •. : ' •· 1 • • A native of Haywood Count~. ~o~. retired in 1961 after 20 years:· 0!: ~F;t~t,~ banking in Waynesville. He was exe~~ft~~ . vice president of the_ Waynesville off!~~~ · · ; 'First Union Na ttonal Bank at: -~i ·-' · - .... " 'l.,..'"'b reti~<.;~:~~~l~ after retirem_en·~. -~·:w~tty . became president of the Natwnal 8:a~rc-~ Sarasota. Fla., and chairman of the ·boa~~ of the Gulf Gate National Ba~k ~ c~n Sarasota. He returned to Waynesvtl!e··lll 1965 and with associates bougM ih~ Waynesville Country Club, wht~h - ~~ operated until it was sold m 197~. • <·· ·. Born in Cataloochee, he attend~d Cullowhee Normal Industrial School and : . the University of South Carolma •~n .Cot!Jut bia where he graduated in 1918" :He:':~ . manager of the USC footb~ll te~Ql--~ . c<Jptain of the Army ROTC. He" ~~ .. , .. j v~t,er<J,JlJ~tWorld., War. I. • ·· "' -"r"-~ · ·;,;: 1::; .Woody was former maqagttr:~~ · : t;.Tanalac Co. in Atlanta and was aJ~I'ITit~ . pre~ident of the Atlant.q Junior C~~ . of Commerce. . .. · .;. \< •..., i •· · In 1!146. Woody organazed ~e • .f~~ '' State Bank of Hazelwood and beca¢-:. g) l president A year later, ~e Plli'<:lta,Sij i control of toe Transylvctma -~~'* · li~ ! Trust Co. of Brevard and wa~· Q,~ . I ·president of that institutio~. •. ·;: ~~~} . The First lln10n NatiOnal 13anlt!'lll' Waynesville · merged with .the jl'iiil$. t Nation<~l Bank of Asheville in 19~·~-. i t few months after the rncrgj!r, W~f~ ~ one of the individuals who foiJndN:~ ;' f<'irst Union National Bank . of --NO$ 1 Carolina. He was executive vice}lr~4Ut ,; and director of First Uni0,1,1 Ballk,:4t~; \carolina with supervision of t~.e ~eft? ; ville. Canton. Brevard and Jiende~'!¥J~.: offices. He was a former presw~at,;O£~;, North Carolina Banker~ 1\ss~~UfllfUSi• (was a director of the Charlott.e 8r~W: .. _ . ' '~" · 'f"' . y~ - --' . the Federal Reserve Bank. .:' :~' :"'·-?~~ :.: He was instrumental in Daycqll~~·< '·and Wellco Shoe Co. coming to, 'Ha,Y¥.!8pll;. County. In his civic contributions, ~e WN . an active supporter of the Haywood Cot!n,r.: 'tvLibrary. 4-H clubs, toe lnternatio~.lij f<:xch<~nge and promoted toe OIJ! of. s~ ; farm tours for Haywood farm peopl¢. ~i , Woody was one of the originatpis q£ · the Haywood Industrial Develo.JilJent Commission. He was a rnembe~ ~f th4! Waynesville First United Met4Qo\st Church where he served as chairman·~~ the board of stewards for many years. !fe , was former president of the W!!ynes"ville ' Rotary Club, former chairman of tl!e board of Haywood County Library, fo.nner trustee of · Brevard College, ·formerly chairman of the Western Caroli~a U.n!y:~, -Turn To Page Se~eJt . '\', . . _., - .. , ' . _,.,._ ... -... ~ ' --~ · ..., .,.,. ' :.; ...t-~•-i;_ .. -. ... ~ Woody Dies -Conti'lued From Page One · "' \~ · ., sjty trustee.s and a recipient of the WCU Distinguished Al~m.,·'~ award. !fe was the son of the late Stephen L. and Mary Pal~&r \ . WOOdy. ' · : . · · · ' In his later years, Woody maintained ·a small office at t,l)e l First. Union Nat10nal Bank in Waynesville where he was direcwr Ji. ementus. , , - ' Surviving are his Wife, Anne Foote Woody; a son, Stepbe~ t. -~ ' Woody of Ashe~ille; a daughter, Mrs. Roger Soltis (If ~a,. · . ville; anq five grandchildren. , · . 1 & -.. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the Way~yjMe l First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Kelley Jonea .wiUof, l ficiate. Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery. · .. · , ; ;:; · : The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Tbursc~tty at l Garrett Funeral Home, where the body will remain until pJac,d · in the church 30. minutes before the services. · urr, ·d1 The family . requests t~~LJlo't~f.l.!.Re. omitted.~ ~-- - -- <_ ;_,·_, __;.- ,-:·_~;. .:._;:,:.,, .. _ ·.; ' . . ·- -

This 71-page manuscript is titled “Interview with Jonathan Woody.” The 1973 interview recalls life in Cataloochee. The history was collected as part of the Cataloochee History Project that collected photographs, stories, and oral histories about families who lived in the Cataloochee Valley. Today’s Cataloochee Valley is within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While, in general, the Great Smoky Mountains region was sparsely populated, the Cataloochee Valley remained an exception. By 1900, the population of Cataloochee had grown to 1,000 residents living in hundreds of log and frame homes.

• Creator
  • Richardson, George
  • Easterby, Sam
• Contributor
  • Woody, Jonathan, 1896-1981
• Format
  • Transcripts
  • Interviews
• Type
  • Text
• Date
  • Date original: 1973-02-27; 1973-03-13
  • Date digitized: 2015-09-22
• Extent
  • Dimension: 11" x 8.5"
  • Pages: 71 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • Cemeteries
  • Dwellings
  • Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) -- Social life and customs
  • Schools -- North Carolina -- Haywood County
• Location
  • Haywood County (N.C.)
  • Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Source Collection
  • Cataloochee History Project
• Identifier
  • GSMNP_Cata-Richardson_Woody_1973
• Repository
  • Great Smoky Mountains National Park