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Journeys Through Jackson 1996 Vol.06 No.05-06

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  • Journeys Through Jackson is the official journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. The journal began as a monthly publication in July 1991, was published bimonthly from 1994 to 2003, and continues today as a quarterly publication. The journal issues in this digital collection are presented as annual compilations.
  • c J o u r n e y s T h r o u g h s - x ^ 3 ^ ^ o \ J a c k s on L , : s - a s g s f c r / Vr ^> .S^^^ O» «^rNy ^DuEEDD i1°8J?l 1^ » » ^ » t V c The Official Journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. Vol. VI, No. 5-6 May-June, 1996 JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. 1996 Officers President Brian T. McMahan Vice Presidents Barbara W. Dooley Rick L. Frizzell Secretary Dorris D. Beck Treasurer David C Frizzell Chair, Publications R. Larry Crawford Journeys Through Jackson is the official publication of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. Members and non-members are invited to submit genealogical materials for publication, with the understanding that the editor reserves the right to edit these materials for genealogical content, clarity, or taste. The Society assumes no responsibility for errors of fact that may be contained in submissions, nor are the opinions expressed those of the editor or of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. President's Message Hello! We have had some of the most unusual weather this year. It seems as though we have gone from winter to summer overnight We have skipped spring this year. It really hurts when there is snow on Monday and 70 degrees on Friday. I guess we don't have much authority over nature. With the arrival of the summer months comes a time for various activities. The long days of summer will allow for extended activities and even more hectic schedules. However, we will somehow find time to do that genealogical research that holds a dear place in each of our hearts. Things seem to be moving along at a very steady pace. Rick Frizzell and Barbara Dooley have put together some very interesting programs for our society. Be sure to watch your calendar and don't miss the meeting. Attendance is important. There is some question on the location of future meetings. Watch the Sylva Herald for information on locations. Also be reminded that the Holden Award deadline is not too far off. Continue to send in those applications. We have several members in our society who are ill and unable to attend our meetings. Take time to remember them and pray for a speedy recovery. A little love and encouragement can go a long way when someone is under the weather. I would like to express a warm welcome to all of our new members. We have had several people join our society this year. It is always encouraging to check the mail and see a new membership application. I would like to thank all those who do so much for our society. Good luck to all in your research. Brian McMahan From the Editor One of the more interesting genealogical trips I've taken in the last year or so came about during the week before Easter when Rick Frizzell, Charlie Foti, and I visited the East Tennessee Historical Association (the McCIung'Collection) in Knoxville. None of us had been there before, so we were all duly impressed. Housed in a fine old building in downtown Knoxville, the McClung collection occupies the top floor. The reading and research room has shelf space for Tennessee county volumes, Heritage books from several states, and census indices. A small room adjoining the reading room has microfilm machines. Behind the reading room, a hallway leads to a room of open stacks where one can find an amazing number of volumes. These concentrate on various states, counties within those states, family histories, series material, and an outstanding collection of periodicals pertaining to history and genealogy. With staff assistance, one can also use vertical files. "Like most archival and research centers, the house rules here are strict. But justifiably so, since our hobby seems to bring out the worst in some people, and I understand that theft is a problem in all large library collections. Hours are ordinary business hours, but of special interest to us in this area is the fact that the library is open on Saturday. Allow a couple of hours of driving time from Jackson County, and go to visit this fine collection, especially if you have roots or branches in Tennessee. ^J ^J ^J ^ Journeys Through Jackaon, May-JUne*, 1996 Tab'le of Conterita Queries and Information 55 Franklin Pierce was no. Mystery 56 Campground Cemetery Census . . . . .>* ." / . v 57-60 Thomas Ossie Dills •. 1 i.~ . . ..- 61-62 Confederate Statue is Restored ' < 62 Jackson* County Death Certificates for 1926 ,63-67 Mathis Letters • . . ' • 68--70 A Schoolteacher's Contract 70 Mary Frizzell Buchanan >..:.... 71-72 Sutton Cemetery, Swain County, and Joseph Sutton family . .• . t 73 Lineage Chart/ ShaWna Green Hall' 74 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *„;,* QUERIES Elizabeth Barton Route 2, Box 294, BreVard NC 28712 (ph.. 704-883-9506) seeks information on the children born to Eleanor McCall born ca. 1816, married Henson Marvin Cook, born ca. 1815. Eleanor was d/o Samuel McCall- (b.1769) and wife Eleanor Ellison(b.1780), who moved from present Transylvania County before 1840, and lived at Horse Cove 'under Whiteside Mountain in Macon Co. Will share info on children who remained in Buncombe (now Transylvania), but also needs info on their son Johnson McCall. ^•^ ***************************************r* *****.* ******************************** c IN M E M O R Y OF JCGS M E M B ER E V A P H I L L I P S E N S L EY A p r i l 18, 1895 - May 11,. 1996 ************************* ********************************************,******** 55 FRANKLIN PIERCE WAS NO MYSTERY (a reminiscence by Larry Crawford) My sisters and I were reared in a home where (thank the Lord) there was no television set until I was in high school. We certainly did not miss it I credit its absence with helping us to grow up with a sense of history and assuredly with a sense of family. What did we do in those long hours without Ed Sullivan or The Hit Parade or The Real McCoys or Robert Montgomery Presents? These seemed to be shows of high quality, and we enjoyed them when we were guests in other homes, but we did not need a flickering box to entertain us or to pass the time. Now this is not a story of how hard our lives were, or how hard we had to work, or of any other imagined deprivations. If we implied such stories, they wouldn't be true. Each of us had a few little chores to do, and my fingers still bear the evidence of my expertise with chopping kindling, but by and large our jobs were to study, then read, then listen to other people talk. After the homework was finished, all five Crawfords might be sitting somewhere in the house, with book, paper, or magazine in hand. I treasure the foresight of our parents, who provided us with the WORLD BOOK. I also treasure, to this day, the places in those books where I see grimy smudges from preschool fingers. Regrettably, we didn't smudge the pages found in any aspect of natural science, and none of the three of us would hold any pretensions in mathematics. But all of that history and geography! It fit exactly into our experience. I remember another old book around the house. In its pages were portraits of American presidents up through Harry Truman, who some persons would undoubtedly say was the last important one anyway. We simply committed those gentlemen to memory, just as we did the states and capitals, and all of those other wonders found in the encyclopedia. So even though only historians and his alma mater at Bowdoin consider Franklin Pierce important enough to remember, he was no mystery to us. He belonged in the fourteenth slot, only two after Zachary Taylor, whose middle name as we all know was Ashe, which as a small lad I mispronounced with predictable results, humor or chagrin, depending on the sensitivities of the listener. For entertainment, all we had to do was go upstairs. Here we found our maternal grandmother, holding forth as only she could do, with opinions about everything, and especially scathing commentary on the Republican party. This might not have been so unusual, or nearly so funny, but Grandma's oldest living sister resided there too. Both were widowed by 1949, both would live until 1960, and after those two facts, one would find little agreement between these two old ladies. They were two of Will and Depina (Ensley) Blanton's daughters, and they had lost their oldest sister Alice when Aunt Cumi was a young woman and Grandma was just a girl. Their only other sister (they had eight living brothers at the time) was Aunt Mariah Shuler (pronounced, for the uninitiated, "Muhrahr"), who holds her own place in the Addie Community's history, and who might have been the funniest woman who ever lived in Jackson County. But Grandma and Aunt Cumi, while not in Aunt Mariah's class with one-liners, could surely enliven an evening. To say that Grandma was a Democrat was understating the case. She nearly went into cardiac arrest when she learned that she had a nephew named Lincoln. (Later, she would love Lincoln Shuler just like everyone else in the area did.) But imagine the possibilities for argument when Cumi moved in...she had been married to John Gilead Hooper, of course one of the Jackson County Republican Hoopers, and Aunt Cumi's loyalties were firmly in the corner of her late husband's political persuasion. The Civil War was fought constantly. The American presidency was always a heated topic. The most interesting (and the most humorous) part to us was that the principals being argued were typically Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and of course Herbert Hoover. (In retrospect, I have to admit that those men were more interesting than Eisenhower's golf game, but at the time we considered the arguments dated, obsolete, and hilarious.) In calmer moments, my Grandma read to me, before I learned that wonderful skill. And while I owned many children's books, she considered them tomfoolery, and so she read what she was interested in, which was history and geography. She would wish aloud that she could see Mount Baker, and that she could visit her brothers in Washington state. (My parents took her and Aunt Cumi there in the summer of 1951.) There is a final small irony to this reminiscence: in the fall of 1960, Dad finally bought a television set Grandma, nearly constantly bedridden since Cumi's death in February, spied John F. Kennedy on that machine and demanded an absentee ballot, her first vote since 1932. She passed away Christmas morning. 56 v _ y CAMPGROUND CEMETERY ^ Campground Cemetery, one of northern Jackson County's oldest cemeteries, is located on U.S. 441 between Gateway and Cherokee, just north of the LDS church. A large memorial to William H. Thomas is at the cemetery entrance. Between 85 and .100 graves are marked only with fieldstohes or are otherwise unidentifiable. Cemetery census taken April 15, 1996 by Mack Sutton and Larry Crawford. Battle, John B. (s/o G.F.,M.A.) 21 Aug 1880 29 Dec 1895 Battle, Russell 5 May 1895 8 Aug 1898 Bridges, Wm. G.~ 9 Oct 1850 21 Oct 1905 Bridges, Dexter S. (s/o W.G., H.L.) 27 Apr 1884 14 Apr 1905 Beck, Stephanie Dawn b.fc d. 10 May 1976 Bridgexnan, Adrian Sneed b.& d. 7 Sept 1974 Bell, Myron C. 5 Oct 1924 Brown, Richard Dean Smitley 17 Dec 1964 29 Dec 1991 Bell, June L. 17 May 1926 Cathey, John C. 27 Sept 1846 18 Sept 1902 ^ Bird, Rev. J.W. 27 Sept 1824 29 Feb 1904 , Sophia Jones 6 Feb 1830 31 Dec 1919 Bird, Nellie E. (d/o C.A., S.E.) 27 Sept 1880 11 Aug 1895 Bradley, Bessie (Boss) 23 May 1899 12 Sept 1978 Bradley, Harry L. 9 May 1925 13 Oct 1986 USN Bradley, Joseph Keith 25 Dec 1946 6 Sept 1967 Vietnam Bradley, Walter B. 1882 1972 , Lizzie Q. 1892 1948 -> ' ' , Joseph 10 Aug 1890 2 Aug 1963 , Callie Mae 5 Mar 1894 26 Apr 1960 Cathey, William K. 7 Oct 1833 Aug 1889 Church, Addie Helen 14 Dec 1922 Clement, Walter Mack 13 Nov 1893 7 Sept 1939 , Flora V. Parker 13 Mar 1896 30 May 1956 , Walter M. Jr. 30 Dec 1926 23 Jul 1944 , Bruce 30 Oct 1918 , Eula B. 21 Sept 1914 27 Nov 1973 Clement, twins, of James F.,Juanita b.& d. 3 May 1941 Conley, Jesse 1830 1863 Conley, James L. 1783 1871 , Mary Sherrill 1786 1862 < w Bradley, Thurman T. 22 Dec 1911 4 Aug 1973 Bradley, Martha S. 29 Aug 1917 18 Jan 1987 Conner, Amanda B. (d/o Edward F., MAry E.) 1 Apr 1852 27 Jul 1899 57 Cooper, W.C. d. 19 Sept 1895 age 89,1,27 , Cynthia Conley (w/o W.C, d/o James L.) 6 Oct 1810 10 Dec 1874 Cooper, Minnie Lou (d/o S.W., J.E.) I Mar 1883 22 Jul 1884 , Samuel Jackson (s/o L.W., L.B.) 18 Jul 1903 16 Jan 1904 , Laura Belle (w/o. L.W.) 20 May 1875 12 Jan 1904 , R. Leberne (s/o W., L.B.) 27 Mar 1891 11 Mar 1892 Crowe, Sevier 17 Sep 1914 26 Dec 1986 USN , Nettie S. II Jul 1913 Fisher, Ben C. 4 Jan 1899 21 Jul 1970 , Emma C. 16 Feb 1903 13 Oct 1991 Fisher, A. Thurman 30 May 1889 2 Nov 1970 , Frankie C. 3 Oct 1896 10 May 1990 Gibbs, Elizabeth (w/o H.F.) 10 Jan 1830 29 Dec 1915 Graham, Mary E. d. 1862 Hardin, Romas H. 26 Oct 1905 10 May 1987 , Eleanor C. 3 Feb 1915 Hayes, Sallie 4 Jul 1801 17 Dec 1887 KJ Enloe, Sarah (w/o Scroop) d. 13 Sep 1857, age 55 , Scroop 25 Oct 1798 8 May 1885 Enloe, W.H. 25 Oct 1843 21 Oct 1900 , Edgar 14 Oct 1873 5 Sep 1896 , Mary Etta (d/o Asaph, Clarinda) 31 Aug 1870 7 Nov 1892 Headrick, Jackson d. 9 Oct 1866 Hester, John G. 30 Nov 1902 4 June 1975 , Anne E. 30 Apr 1907 9 MAy 1981 Hicks, field stone; given name possibly Leonard Hoggatt, Irene P. 24 Feb 1908 31 JAn 1990 ^J Enloe, Corp. Sevier S. (Co. F., 69th NC, CSA) 19 Apr 1843 27 Sep 1930 , Ellen (w/o S.S.) 30 Sep 1853 24 Dec 1890 Hyde, Pendleton F. Co. F. Thomas Legion CSA Ingle, Nancy Jane Franklin 28 Dec 1845 24 Aug 1898 Fisher, B.C. 2 6 Feb 1855 9 Nov 1925 , M.A. (w/o B.C.) 21 MAr 1855 6 Nov 1915 , W.J. (s/o B.C., M.A.) 25 Dec 1883 9 Nov 1903 , Haynes L. (s/o B.C.) 27 Feb 1877 8 May 1883 Fisher, Bartlett Harold Jr. (s/o Harold, Pauline) 13 Mar 1954 14 May 1955 Jones, N.E. 23 Sep 1837 8 Apr 1883 Keener, Alcy Jane 15 Apr 1836 18 JAn 1875 , Rev. Ulrich 1801 1856 , Sarah Duckett 1808 1904 v _ y 58 < w Keener, Garl L. (s/o Jno.S., H.A.) 20 Aug 1875 2 Jun 1880 , John S. 7 Aug 1830 26 Jun 1880 King, Hazel Bradley 25 Sep 1914 27 Nov 1990 , Frederick Lee (Tom) 18 Nov 1918 30 Nov 1985 r Lambert, Wm. Jack 10 Feb 1920 10 Oct 1984 , Selma M. 9 Mar 1925 14 Oct 1981 Luff, Eugene H. 1926 1984 USN WWII McLaughlin, W.A. 20 Oct 1847 15 Feb 1934 , M.L. (w/o W.A.) 21 Feb 1854 15 Nov 1887 , Louisa (w/o Willis) 6 Oct 1815 23 Feb 1900 Martin, John E. 6 Jan 1863 20 Apr 1901 , Mary E. 30 Aug 1872 30 May 1963 Martin, Olvin Harold 13 Jan 1895 25 Feb 1919 , John Hershal 15 Jul 1925 16 Jul 1925 , Troy E. 6 Nov 1898 25 Dec 1990 , Bessie A. 8 Mar 1905 2 Jun 1980 Mathis, George 14 Jul 1894 13 May 1964 WWI Miller, S.H. 1 Apr 1831 1 May 1882 , Margaret I. 20 Aug 1836 26 Jun 1886 Miller, Wesley Vance 8 Sep 1859 4 Sep 1921 , Mary W. 25 Mar 1857 5 Sep 1921 ^ McLaughlin, George W. (s/o R.L., T.A.M.) <• 20 Oct 1888 6 Jan 1890 , Cyrus E. (s/o R.L., T.A.M.) 19 Jun 1897 23 Jul 1898 Miller, Stephen Hubert 4 Apr 1903 19 Aug 1981 Moody, Arthur DeWitt (s/o Z.V., M.E.) 21 Oct 1898 1 Dec 1898 McLaughlin, Mary E. (w/o B.E.) 7 Jun 1886 20 Apr 1908 Martin, Wm. Carrol 1848 1932 , Eliza Gibbs 1854 1941 , James A. (s/o W.C.) 10 Dec 1878 21 Sep 1895 •j Martin, Grady (s/o Grady, Lois) 22 Sep 1932 23 Sep 1932 Martin, Oaswell W. 16 Aug 1858 12 Jun 1900 , Nancy Edmonia (w/o Os.W.) 24 Aug 1872 9 Feb 1945 Morton, Sinclair F. (Slim) 18 Jul 1916 17 Jul 1985 , Annie .Faye 28 Jan 1923 31 Jul 1989 Parker, James 1820 1888 Parker, James Marion 13 Jan 1871 15 Jan 1959 , Mary -Candis 12 Jan 1877 25 Jun 1955 Parks, J.F. 6 Sep 1816 .26 Sep 1861 Parks, Thomas A. 28 Dec 1858 10 JAn 1947 , Juliaette B. 6 MAr 1863 29 Jun 1904 59 Queen, G. Bascome I May 1892 30 Aug 1971 , Mary F. 4 Jan 1899 20 Mar 1981 Randolph, May K. (d/o M.N., M.M.) 6 May 1900 29 Jan 1906 , Jamas H. (s/o M.N., M.M.) 9 Nov 1895 6 Feb 1906 Rogers, P.L. 15 Jan 1853 24 Oct 1901 , L.V. 18 Jan 1853 15 Feb 1912 Rogers, Palestine Gibson (w/o C.H.) II Jul 1877 3 Jul 1899 Rogers, Fred , Dixie (no dates) Sneed, Helen D. 19 Aug 1941 23 Jun 1992 Snyder, Dave 1877 5 Mar 1901 , Edna (d/o Dave, Minnie) 1899 1902 Steward, John M. 17 Feb 1917 23 Apr 1992 , Clara N. 17 Mar 1920 Terrell, Ann Eliza Keener 1834 1870 Thomas, William H. 16 Dec 1858 10 May 1898 , Jimmie age 7 , Samuel R. age 2,6 , Comal C. age 14 , Elmina J. (w/o W.H.) d. 15 Jul 1896 age 39 V_y Saunooke, CB. 8 Apr 1909 8 May 1976 , Evelyn C 22 Feb 1915 4 Nov 1984 Sauter, G. Frank 8 Jun 1907 11 Jul 1955 , Roberta S. 28 Apr 1910 10 Mar 1983 Thomasson, W.Wayne "Pete" 27 May 1923 6 Mar 1994 WWII US ARMY , Dona A. Thomasson, Adam Carl 21 Feb 1921 , Zbeuria Lambert 16 Feb 1913 7 May 1993 K J Schneider, Robert M. 8 Dec 1923 10 Feb 1995 USN Warner, Ruth Bradley 9 Apr 1918 28 Dec 1979 Shaw, Jasper N. 16 Dec 1832 27 Oct 1885 , Elizabeth (w/o J.N.) 28 Apr 1830 30 Jun 1885 Sizemore, Kathrine Bryan Whitsitt 17 Feb 1902 12 Apr 1993 Smith, Clifford W. 12 Apr 1914 14 Apr 1970 , Kate B. 30 Sep 1916 11 Mar 1992 , inf. s/o William C. 27 Mar 1937 27 Apr 1940 Watts, Richard 26 Apr 1826 26 Jan 1892 , Virlinsha 27 Aug 1827 17 Nov 1895 , J.M. 28 Jul 1868 15 Aug 1869 , infant son 1 Feb 1863 , Verginia 30 Jun 1859 18 Mar 1897 Smith, Patsy Bradley 16 Apr 1946 24 Oct 1988 ^J 60 ^ c * w THOMAS OSSZE DILLS Thonuuav Ossie Dills was born on February. 20, 1878, .near Webster. His father was Phillip Leonidas Dills (11/6/1850 - 4/27/1880), son of -Phillip and Mary (Polly) Buchanan Dills. His mother .was Lydia Caroline (Callie) Sutton (2/14/1859 - 9/19/1897), daughter of William and Cynthia Martin Sutton. Ossie1 s great-grandparents were Bartlett Dills, Sr., and Susannah Henson Dills and John Buchanan, Jr., and Rebecca Ramsey Buchanan. ' When Ossie Was just over two years of age-, on April 27, 1880, his father was killed. According to a story told by a family member, Leonidas was plowing on a hillside on Pounding Mill Branch on the south side of the Tuckaseigee River where the Dills farm was located. As he plowed, the plow struck a rock and bounced back causing mortal internal injuries. In addition to Ossie, there were two other boys: John Ramsey (Jay) born June 6, 1873, and Andrew J., born in 1874. On July 12, 1885, Ossie's mother, Callie, married Marcus Lafayette (Fate) Dills, who was a brother to her first husband, Leonidas, and Fate became stepfather to the three boys. Fate and Callie had three children: Allen Thurman (3/31/1886 - 11/10/1947); Annie (Tallent) (12/16/1888 - 12/14/1973); and Jesse Grady Dills (8/1/1891 - 8/29/1945). The 1880 census for the Webster township .of Jackson County has the following entry: Phillip L. Dills 29 (a line drawn through his name since he was probably already dead before the census was taken) Lidda C 27 Andrew J. 6 John R. 5 Thomas A. (Ossier) 2 Wm. Rogers 3 0 (farm labor) Marcus L. Dills 33 farmer The 1900 census for the Dillsboro township of Jackson County shows: Dills, Marcus L. 59 born Nov. 1840 Allen T. (son) 14 born Mar. 1886 Anna (dtr.) 11 born Dec. 1888 Jesse G. (son) 8 born Aug. 1891 Phillip (father) 92 born (Jan.) 1808 Thomas A. (stepson) 22 born Feb. 1878 (Ossie) Most of this family remained in Jackson County; however, Ossie followed the lumber industry into Carter County, Tennessee, where he met and married Anna Belle Lacey. They followed the lumber camps through Tennessee and on into Mississippi. Ossie was a saw filer, filing the huge saws in the sawmills, an occupation which was very important to the lumber business. Ossie and Annie Belle, who were called T. O. and Belle, made Memphis their permanent home. They had three children: Flora Mae, Juanita, and J. M. Juanita died at the age of 19 in a yellow fever epidemic. J. M., a radio-television repairman, married twice and has two sons and one daughter. J. M. (born Feb. 7, 1909) died July 27, 1969, of a heart attack while on a fishing trip in Mississippi. 61 Flora Mae (born Sept. 6, 1909) married William Archie Nail on April 6, 1927. Flora Mae died in childbirth on March 4, 1929. Flora Mae Dills Nail, born March 4, 1929, in the granddaughter of Ossie Dills. She married Harold Hogue, and they live in Germantown, TN. Ossie also has three other grandchildren, the offspring of his son, J. M.: James M. Dills lives in Dallas, TX; Olive Ann Dills, who married Lewis Dunn, lives in Millington, TN; and Thomas Dills lives in Memphis. T. O. was working at a lumber mill in Wilson, Arkansas, when he died on November 18, 1934. Although her grandfather died when she was just five years old, "Flo" remembers him as a "tall, very handsome man who had a way with children. They all loved him. He was always fun to be with, and I adored him," she said. She added: "He never lost his love for the mountains. I can still remember the stories he told about the beauty of the hills and his love for North Carolina." Submitted by Dorris Dills Beck and Flora Hogue CONFEDERATE STATUE IS RESTORED At the Society's meeting May 9, George Frizzell of the Jackson County Historical Association entertained us with a scholarly presentation concerning the Confederate monument in Sylva. Some months ago the Historical Association had contracted with an Ohio firm to restore the statue, and the Confederate was removed from his stone pedestal for cleaning and repairs. On Saturday, May 11, with re-enactors and "war widows" in mourning looking on, the Association restored a clean Confederate to his rightful place overlooking downtown Sylva. ^—J Any time this subject arises, the 1915 pictures of the original unveiling are brought out for perusal. Both the genealogical society and the historical association would be very eager to know any identities of the veterans pictured. 62 u Jackson County Death Certificates for 1926 (Key: Name of deceased; spouse if given; date of birth; place of birth; date of death; father's nanie; father's place of birth; mother's namej mother's place of birth; informant; informant's address; cemetery). Only those persons born .before 1900 are abstracted.) Sylva Township Extine, Mrs. Bill (w/o Bill); 1888; TN; 7 Sep 1926; John W. Cannon; TN; Pickel: TN; Bill Extine; not given; Wesley's Chapel Williams, John Alvin (h/o Martha Samanttta).; 10 .Oct 1847; Macon Co.; 25 Sep 1926; Burdet Williams; NC; Polly Mears; NC; R. Williams; not given; Old Field Allen, Amanda (w/o William)} 5 Apr 1949; Haywood Co.; 14 Sep 1926; William Robinson; Haywood Co.; not given; not given; William Allen; not given; Beta Alley, Zebulon B. (h/o Cara D.); age 63,6,17; Jackson Co.; 6 Jun 1926; John H. Alley; Rutherfordton; Sara Morton; Cashiers; D.D. Alley; Sylva; Cashiers Ridley, Nancy Jane (w/o James Charles-).* age 33,8,15; Jackson Co.; 28 Nov 1926; Bill Jones; NC; Mattie Moore; Macon Co.; Chas. Ridley; Sylva; Keener Bryson, Mrs. L.J.; age 61,1,0; Haywood Co.; 25 Jun 1926; John Bryson; Jackson Co..; Mary Bryson; NC; Harley Bryson; Sylva; Wesley's Chapel Morris, Sarah E.; age 70,6,12; Jackson -Co.; 17 Apr 1926; William Chastain; NC; Elizabeth Coward; NC; John Morris; Sylva; Sylva Smith, Flora (w/o'Grady); age 28; Jackson Co.; 27 Mar 192,6; Reno Garland; Graham Co.; Zenia Sawyer; NC; Grady Smith; not given; Sylva Barnes, G.N. (h/o Josephine); age 71>-9,12; SC; 17 Maye 1926; John Barnes; NC; Eliza Nicholson; SC; E.O. Nicholson; not given; Wesley's Chapel Roberts, Louise; age 67; NC; 30 MAr 1926; Frank. Black; NC; Caroline Jones; NC; John Childers; not given; Sylva Denning, Mayme Everett (w/o C.W.); age 31,2,0; Bryson City; 20 Jun 1926; John H. Everett; TN; Annie Louise Simpson; Anderson, SC; Lillie Everett; not given; Bryson City Stiles, Mary T. (w/o William. Burton); age 50,8,20; Jackson Co.; 3 Jan 1926; Thomas Ensley; NC; Sallie Aiken; Jackson Co.; William B. Styles; not given; Lovedale Buchanan, William Osburn (h/o Cordelia Allen); .25 Oct 1842; Webster; 26 Jan 1926; William Buchanan; Webster; Monteith; Webster; C C Buchanan; not given; Keener Waldroupe, Charlie (h/o Matilda); 1870; NC; 15 Nov 1926; -Ambuss Waldroupe; Macon Co.; Nancy Wilson; NC; Mrs. Charlie Waldroupe; Sylva; Sylva Scotts Creek Township \ ^ Ensley, Mary Ann (w/<3 Jim Bob); age 73,?7,19; NC; 19 Dec 1926; John Parris; N C Hannah Ensley; NC; Kate Green; Addie; -Addie 63 » w Norman, Lizzie (w/o Dave); age 81; Jackson Co.; 21 Jul 1926; Robert Brooks; Haywood; Cinda Blanton; Haywood; Sam Norman; Willetts; Crawford Cope, Bill (h/o Caroline); age 60,11,21; Addie; 13 Jun 1926; Lucius Fisher; NC; Ange ^_y Cope; NC; Lon Cope; not given; Addie Ammons, Dewy (h/o Mary Jane); age 29; Macon Co.; 18 Jul 1926; not given; Macon Co.; Ann Ammons; NC; Frank Ashe; Willetts; Balsam Green, Thomas Franklin (h/o Sally); age 67,0,10; NC; 15 May 1926; Henry Green; NC; Louisa Hogan; TN; Sallie Green; not given; Crawford Bryson, Coleman (h/o Olif Jane); age 79,2; NC; 7 Feb 1926; Coleman A. Bryson; not given; Olif Henson; NC; Carter Bryson; Balsam; Crawford Green, Kannie (w/o D.O.); age 48,9,20; Jackson Co.; 4 Jan 1926; Geo. Crawford; NC; Nancy Morrow; NC; D.O. Green; not given; Crawford Savannah Township Cabe, Victoria; 15 Sep 1894; not given; 1 May 1926; Dowel Hall; Jackson Co.; Dily Buchanan; Jackson Co.; Earnest Cabe; not given; East Fork Johnson, Mary Etta (w/o Alford); 13 Jun 1863; Macon Co.; 23 Jul 1926; Joe Clark; Macon Co.; Betsy Stywinter; Macon Co.; A.C. Wilson; Gay; Zion Kill Collins, William P. (h/b Sis); age 71; Jackson Co.; 10 Apr 1926; Daniel Collins; not given; Zinie Brooks; not given; F.L. Barron; Gay; Zion Hill Woodard, W.W. (h/o Clercie); age 44,10,5; Jackson Co.; 17 Mar 1926; Phlim Woodard; ^—/ Jackson Co.; Martha Franks; Macon Co.; Tom Jones; Gay; Wasleyanna Trantham, Marrah Almarine (w/o Bart); age 54; Jackson Co.; 6 Apr 1926; John Bradley; Jackson Co.; Sylvaia Hall; Jackson Co.; not given; not given; Old Savannah Sutton, Jerome (h/o Sarrah); 6 May 1851; 11 Feb 1926; not given; not given; CA. Sutton; NC; W.A. Sutton; Gay; Wesleyanna River Township Crisp, Robert Wilson (h/o Hettie); 26 Jan 1894; Andrews; 15 Sep 1926; James Crisp; Andrews; Elizabeth Phillips; Cherokee Co.; James Crisp; not given; Andrews, NC Qualla Township House, Lethia; age 59,6,7; Jackson Co.; 8 Aug 1926; Jackson House; Rutherford Co.; Martha Harris; Jackson Co.; not given; not given; not given Ogle, Elija W.; age 59,10,11; TN; 2 Oct 1926; Sam Ogle; TN; Sarah Reagan; TN; not given; not given; Union Hill Crane, Lula (w/o Anthony); sge 52; Qualla, NC; 27 Jul 1926; B.C. Sherrill; Qualla; Ibie Grant; Macon Co.; J.C. Rhodes; Whittier; Sherrill Raby, John B. (h/o Dialpha Sherrill); 3 May 1839; Whittier; 28 Jan 1926; Dempsey Raby; NC; Nancy Burch; NC; John Settlemyre; Wilmot; Sherrill 64 v _ y Allen, Will (h/o Sallie); 1854; Cherokee;; 18 Sep 1926; not given; NC; not given; NC; Skige Allen; Cherokee; Nick Bottom ^^/ Allen, Sallie* (w/o Will); 1851; Cherokee; 26 May 1926; Jim Pheasant; NC; not given; NC; Skige Allen; Cherokee; Nick Bottom George, Davis (h/o Rosie E. Biddick); Feb 1848; NC; 12 June 19,26; not given; NC; not given; NC; Shon George; Cherokee; Bigwitch Creek Standingdeer, Andy* (h/o Margaret)-;, age 72; NC; 28 Apr 19?6; Standingdeer; NC; not given; NC; Carl Standingdeer; Cherokee; Cherokee i Calhoun, Ollie* (w/o Lawyer) ; 14 Dec 1871; 20 MAy 1926; Jim Catt; NC; Eliza Downing; NC; Lawyer Calhoun; Ravensford; Cherokee Davis, Kate* (w/o Joe); 21 Dec 1852; 11 Apr 1926; George Wilnoty; NC; not given; not given; not given; not given; Big -Cove Sequoyah*; 23 Dec 1842; NC; 10 Apr 1926; nothing else given except burial in Big Cove Smith, Mandy Rodgers* (w/o Henry); 8 Oct 1869; Polk Co. TN; bur. 19 Mar 1926; Arch 'Steward; not given; Kuldah Edison; TN; Russell Smith; Cherokee; Bethel Sololaneeta, Esther (wid/o Bird); ca. 1850; Jackson Co.; 6 Feb 1926; nothing else given except informant John Littlejohn; Cherokee; Jackson Co. O Wilnoty, Loty (wid/o Sedonia); ca. 1842; 12 Jan 1926; nothing else given except informant Nickojack George; Cherokee; Jackson Co. Youngdeer, Lunsih (w/o Jacob); 1853; Jackson Co.; 1 Feb 1926; Alex Johnson; Jackson Co.; Nellie Reed; Jackson Co.; Jacob Youngdeer; Cherokee; Jackson Co. Hamburg Township Monteith, William Witcher (h/o Sarah); age 66,10,22; Webster; 15 Nov, 1926; John Monteith; NC; Barbara Wike; NC; not given; not given; Glenville Manous, Mary Lula (w/o J.A.)j age 40,10,20; Norton; 17 Mar 1926; B. Hedden; Norton; Callie Alexander; not given; S.L. McGuire; not given; Norton Moss, Addie A. (div. James E») ; age 70,8,24; Jackson Co.; 25 May 1926; Hugh Rogers; Buncombe Co.; Vina Parker; Jackson Co.; Minnie Cunningham; not given; Cullowhee Sharp, Dave (h/o Callie); JJO Apr 1874; Haywood Co.; 25 Oct 1926; Ed Sharp; NC; Miller; NC; Callie Sharp; not given; not given Green's Creek Township Buchanan, Rebecca A. (wid/o M.H.); 6 Jan 1862; NC; 31 Jul ,1926; James Sutton; NC; Nancy Quilliams; NC; Tom Buchanan; Greens Creek; Savannah Allison, Martha Jane (wid/o M.B.); 9 Aug 1840; NC; 12 Jun 1926; John Willson; not given; Pollie Backer; MO; Cola. Allison; Greens -Creek; Savannah L j Buchanan, Eva (wid/o Silas); age 74,8,11; NC; 17 Jul 1926; Simson Brooks; NC; Margret Parris; NC; Jas. H. Buchanan; Greens Creek; Savannah 65 Dillsboro Township Hensley, Jerry (h/o Ingabo); 1848; NC; 3 Oct 1926; George Hensley; NC; Sophronia "- Boone; NC; James McMahan; not given; Locust Field \^_y Key, Josephine (w/o John); 19 Sep 1854; Burke Co.; bur. 18 Mar 1926; Columbus Dalton; NC; Mary Raby; NC; Valley Ensley; not given; Franklin Allen, John (h/o Anna); age 64,8,22; Macon Co.; 3 Jan 1926; William Allen; not given; not given; not given; Anna Allen; not given; Parris Jones, Sarah (w/o L.B.); 22 Dec 1857; NC; 28 Aug 1926; Lewis Garrison; NC; Angelina Cope; not given; W.H. Fowler; not given; Parris Cullowhee Township Shelton, William (wid/o Lillie Belle Rogers); age 76; not given; bur. 11 Apr 1926; Sam'l Shelton; NC; Wilson; NC; Edna Shelton; not given; Cullowhee Wilkes, Allen (h/o Mary Coggins); age 76; NC; bur. 30 Apr 1926; Silas Wilkes; NC; nothing else given except burial at Speedwell Wilson, James F. (h/o Alice); age 68; Speedwell; 29 Mar 1926; William Wilson; NC; Mashburn; NC; not given; not given; Speedwell Rogers, Dollie Adaline; 19 Apr 1853; AL; 24 Mar 1926; Robert Rogers; NC; Rebecca Smith; GA; Roberta Rogers; not given; Cullowhee Harris, Lyndon; age 45; Webster; 1 Jan 1926; Murphy Harris; NC; Jones; NC; John Frady; '"' Cullowhee; not given V_y Caney Fork Township Green, John Archibald; age 85,9,8; Hawkins Co., TN; 1 Dec 1926; Daniel Green; VA; Vaughn; TN; R.S. Green; Cowarts; Brown Coward, Julia (w/o Johnathan); 17 Dec 1861; Cowarts; 29 Sep 1926; Eric Lovedahl; Sweden; Margret Watson; Jackson Co.; not given; not given;' Coward Melton, Arleasie (w/o John); 1885; Cowarts; 10 May 1926; W.H. Hooper; Cowarts; Catherine Parker; Cowarts; John Melton; not given; Brasstown Wood, Mary J. (w/o Jerry C); age 63,3,4; Haywood Co.; 13 Jan 1926; Thomas Mehaffey; not given; Sofrona Hawkins; not given; Early Wood; not given; Balsam Grove Canada Township Masengille, Nick; age 57; NC; 27 Jan 1926; .Robert Massengille; SC; not given; NC; Larnce Gibson; not given; Glady Creek Barker's Creek Township Wikle, Mary an; age 64; NC; 29 Oct 1926; William Beasley; NC; Rhoda Williams; NC; A.N. Wikle; Whittier; Barker's Creek ,. - . 66 Sanders, Ben; age 76; Macon Co.; 20 Nov- 1926; Curtis Sanders; NC; not given; not given; Grady Sanders; Whittier; Bumgarner S^/ Sellers, James; 22 May 1866; NC; 13 Mar 1926; Jess Jones; NC; Kathie Sellers; NC; J.R. Messer; Whittier; Ward Jones, Rebecca; 1 Oct 1844; Scotts Creek; 21 Jun 1926; not given; NC; Rebeca Brown; NC; Kellie Bradley; Whittier; Moody NOTES ON T^IB/ABOVE DEATH CERTIFICATES 1) No. Webster certificates are included in this list because all of the 1926 Webster township deaths are in the 1925 book. 2) Those certificates marked with-an asterisk <*) -are actually from the Oconalufty district'of Swain County. Although all.have "Cancel" handwritten ,on them, one wonders what is to be canceled. Should they be, in Swain County, are they where they belong, or did those folks decide to liye a little longer? 3) In the, Scotts -Creek certificates, both Robert .Brooks and Cinda Blanton are shown as born in Haywood County. Both were born in Rutherford. 4) Also in Scotts Creek, the informant for Coleman Bryson gave his own parents instead of the parents of the deceased. V ^ < w 5) In the Green's Creek certificates, Martha Jane Allison's mother is given as Pollia Backer, born Missouri. She was Mary (Polly) Baker, born in Iredell Co., NC. (She lived in Missouri 'for -a while.) , 6) In the one Canada certificate, note that the cemetery listed is "Glady Creek." .Last fall, Mr. Lewis Maasingale tqld me that the Maasingale Cemetery was indeed on Glady Creek. I wonder how many of these cemeteries are being missed. If you know of one that does not seem to be on master lists, we need to find out about it. 67 John H. Mathis Letters (Mrs. Shawna Kaya Green Rail, of Haterford, Michigan, has graciously allowed the Society to print 19th century letters to and from her great-grandfather, John Rarlin Mathis, Sr. These letters were found _^ literally in an old trunk in the attic of J. H. Mathis*s home in the Canada section of Jackson County. The letters are not edited except for clarity of punctuation.) v^ Cathey, North Carolina March 27, 1886 Mr. W. M. Hooper Sir, I wishe to say to you that my Pension Claim is now in the hand of a Special Examiner who is at Asheville NC and I am expecting the Enquiry to commence very soon and as you hav never filed an affidavite in my claim I will likly call on you for one and that you may hav it on your mind I will here give the Particulars on the nature of the Evidence which is filed in my caise and I want it made Solid and so as to hav it to agree with the Testimony already offered I will here State to you: On or about the 20th day of Dec 1864 the Said John H. Mathis Sustained an injury in the Brest from fall of Horse at Seven Mile Foard State of Va while in line of his duty and while Chaising Some Rebels who had charged our Picket Post the said axidente occured.. .and the Said J. H. Mathis Contracted Dirrhora at Cantonment Springs State Tenn the first of Jany 1865 and was Treated for what the Surgeon Brandow called liver Disease & Dirrhora and was Treated for the Same by Brandow at Lowdon Tenn in the month of June 1865...And that the Said J. H. Mathis contracted Rheumatism in the last of July or first of Aug 1865 and was Treated for Same at Sweetwatter Tenn by Surgeon Brandow and that the said J. H. M. was unable to put on his coat for some three or four weeks his Blboe Joints being badly Swolon...and further the Said Mathis Preformed but little duty from the time he was hurte till Discharge Sept 1865...and that I hav ben acquainted with J. H. Mathis from childhood and know him to be Stout healthy and free from disease and that his health Since Discharge during his Return Home from the war and Since hav ben very bad and Still Remains bad in consequence of his old disease __ contracted while in the US Service and that I do not concider him abel to preforme more than 1/4 labor and do believe him the said J. H. Mathis to be fully 3/4 Disabled and that I Served in USA with J. H. Mathis and I hav a Knowledge of his diseases from the foregoing Statements and that I hav no interest in this claim for Pension and that my PO address is Tuckaseigee. W.M.H. Now Mack if you can file me an affidavite in acordince with the foregoing It will correspond with my Evidence allready filed. If you can let me know by David H. Mathis. . .Keep everything a secret and be on your lookout as I do not know when the examiner will come but I hope soon. Then I will trye and let you know Truly yours John H. Mathis Carnesville, Ga December the 9th 1888 Mr. John H. Mathis, Esq. Dear Sir, Yours to hand some time back note with pleasure in reply we ara all able to be up & about but not very stout hope you are all well. John I was glad to hear from a native friend also a Yanka Soldier of the true blue; I am in a suthren State and I have a fine time since the ellection a laufing at the democrats for loseing their votes. Well John times is good hear now & money plenty but it is the very mischief to get hold of any & when I do get one quarter I have to hold it till the eagle squalls on it before I can get any more to put with it, but I am looking forehead to a better day When Harrison takes his seat to rule over the US of America. Well corn is from 50 to 60 cents in SC & Ga. Cotton 8 to 10 cts lbs. Bacon 68 W v _ y < w < ^ < w John H-. Mathis Letters (continued) 11 c: Coffee 5 to 6 lbs to the dollar & whiskey $2 per gallon There are Some- Sickness hear but not many deaths. We have had Some -Sickness in our .family Mother has bin very weekly all faj.1; & I hava not bin Stout my self ; •& Elliot hasant bin able to do any thing scarsely in two *nonths (turn over) John tell Almeda that I have a little, girl .ajt my- house now if she will come over she may rfurse her my-girl's name is Irbna Vandalee (another name illegible) Well John I was Sorry that-you are,not able to pay ine for I am owing a gradeal & will be pushed & perhaps my property be sold (illegible word) my- dets is now due & I have got time perlonged a- few.days on Strength of- you; I have to get up one hundred & 32 dollars by the 15 of March & some of it now. Now John if you can help me any now is the time-. 'Can you get me<np five are ten dollars in money; can you Sell me some corn & fodder if so how much & what at can you let me have some cattle are hogs ara sheep can you let me have some apples are chestnuts are wool are cabage are a horse are a wagon are any thing that I can traid I don't wish to push you but I realy kneed it and if you want to pay me I will make you able if no other way tha boys can come down hear & worke it out with me & I will treat them well I think it would pay them to come & work for me through Jenuary and Febuary as the weather is to cold to work in NC & then they will See enough to well pay them for a month's work & it won't cost them a cent I will go out there 6 they can come back with me (turn over) and when they Start home I will ego with them within, one day's walk of Riley Hooper's; I will give your, two, oldest, boys fifteen dollars a month .which would be 7 and 1/2 dollars each all so I will "board them & have their washing done free I want them to chop a part of the time Now boys consider we're all home people & if you get dissatisfied you can go home any time. John please give "me your earlyest attention let me know about every thing I asked you; John please write to me the day you get this that^ night answer it As I don't know where I Shall bee you may address Wm. Carson Cleveland SC and I will hava it forwarded to me Let me hear from you without fail. Yours truly , Wm. Carson P.S. I expect that I shall be in to SC tomorrow morning mail this goodnight * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Enoree SC March 9, 1890 Mr. John H. Mathis & family Dear brother and friend This butifull Sabath morn afords me the pleasure of writing to you in answers to you of the 26 Feb Was glad to heara from you and that you was all well this Leaves all Well Hope it will find you all well I have nothing to rite that Would interest you more than it seames Like I hava got to the Land of flowers fore the plumb trees is in bloom and baye leave is half growing here Well John I Still git mi mail at Enoree but do not know how Long I will I will Let you know when I change mi address Well I hant Heard any thing from Jessey yet T M Brown Left heare 2 weeks ago & said he Was going to Asheville NC Hant heard from him since he left have you heard from him since he left heare John D B Bryson Waa to Pay for the wagon & do think it is to much for me to have it to pay for again if he don't pay for it when I come home I will Settle it up But he shurley will pay it John if you Want to you can send me the money for the Bees and if not you can keep them until1 I come home and you can return them to me If they Live and has good Luck the honey will Be Worth a right smart As to the mill irons When I come home we will settle on the old acount which is Between us John I Never Would Pay that Cost Because it is 69 John H. Mathis Letters (continvad) is as unjust a thing as it would be to Punish one man for What another man dos It was just for spite to brake you & me up and they was more concerned in it than I —*. thought was when I left home it don some body good here - you know who it was .y How is the folks gitting along up there any how and what is the recimen a doing John I want you to see about the place that A. W. Parker is on and what it can be bought for I want it when I come home Just don't Let anyone Know that I have any notion of it May says tell Silia & Media she wants to see them and play with them She Say to tel them she can start Looms to Weaving and make cloth Hasel Corah say to tel you She is making $12.50 a month Will make more as she Learns more but it cost us so much more to Live heare than it dos at home Every thing to buy rite to me -and give me the newes of Canada you ar about all that rites to me yours as ever James T. Cathey * * * * * * * * * * * * A Schoolteacher's Contract This memorandum of an agreement entered into this 22 day of July 1897 between R. H. Crawford, M. C. Warlick, H. L. Baird, J. H. Mathis, J. N. Wood, Committeemen of District No. 12 White Jackson Co NC and Ida P. Brown, a teacher holding a second grade certificate. Witnesseth: That the Committee aforesaid agree to employ Ida P. Brown as a teacher at a public school at Wolf Creek District White Race of Jackson Co NC and to pay her at the ...of twenty dollars per school month while she is conducting said school. And the said Ida P. Brown agrees faithfully to perform all the duties of a public school teacher in said district and to keep a register according to law and return it to the school committee at the close of the term. It is understood that this contract is made subject to the limitations and conditions of the public school law. The length of the term shall be 4 months but the school shall close when the apportionment is exhausted. In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands the day and date above written. H. L. Baird) R. H. Crawford) M. C. Warlick) Committee John H. Martin) Ida Brown, teacher (Editor's note: Some things never change--look at the salary!) ^J \ _ y 70 < w « w u THE FAMILY OF MARY M. FRIZZELL AND JOSEPH R.j BUCHANAN (The following is the fourth "chapter" in a genealogy project assembled in February 1995 by Larry Crawford. 'The grandchild numbers are relative to Jason and Margaret Gribble Frizzell.) Fourth of the children of Jason and Margaret Frizzell, Mary (Polly) was born about 1832 or 1833. On April 16, 1853, .she married- Joseph R. Buchanan, born July 12, 1827. This family lived on Cane Creek, as indicated by land -records., At least nine children were born to them, but records are sketchy and incomplete. Polly might have died before 1900; Joseph R. lived a long life, and is buried at Hamburg Cemetery after dying June 18, 1917. Their children: Martha' Octavia Buchanan (1857) .(after 1920) Margaret'V. Buchanan (1859) Theodocia Buchanan (1860) Arbeale Cansas Buchanan (1864) m. James Thomas Shular Berinnes S. Buchanan (1865) Emily A. Buchanan (1868) m. Silas McCall Samuel Buchanan (1870) Brusia Buchanan (1873) / Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (187-6) m. Fannie May Coward Grandchild #28...Martha Octavia Buchanan Martha Octavia Buchanan was born about 1857, was still living at Hamburg in her daughter's home in 1920, but would die and is buried at the state hospital. She was never married, but did bear two children by James Pruett. Her children: Myra Buchanan (1877) m. John B. Bryson Stella D. Buchanan (1879) m. John Bradley Stella is buried beside her grandfather at Hamburg. n Grandchild #29...Margaret V. Buchanan This daughter was still at home in 1880, about 21 years old. I know nothing else about her. Grandchild #30.. .Theodocia Buchanan >. The exact same story as Margaret V., except that she was at home in 1870, not in 1880, born about 1860. Grandchild #31...Arbeale Cansas Buchanan Shuler Fourth of the children of Joseph and Polly was Cansas, who was born October 5, 1864. On January 31, 1884, she married James Thomas Shuler, born July 18, 1864. They lived at the head of Cane Creek, where, they had six children. My mother remembered Cansas fondly, as she would make her way down Blanton Branch on her mule and stop to visit with the Norman family. Tom Shuler died November 5, 1941, Cansas October 15, 1946. They are buried in the Norman Cemetery at Ochre Hill. Their children apparently moved to South Carolina. Their children: Henry Cleveland Shuler (1884) Sally Shuler (1886) Frances F. or Mas Etta Shuler (1888) Julia Shuler (1892) Thomas Jefferson Shuler (1901) 71 Mollie Shuler (1904) Grandchild #32...Berinnes S. Buchanan .—. Born about 1865, I know nothing else about this daughter. j Grandchild #33...Emily A. Buchanan Emily (or Emma) Buchanan was born to Joseph and Polly on May 22, 1868. On July 1, 1888, she would marry Silas McCall, and would die October 10, 1950. She is buried beside her father at Hamburg Cemetery. Grandchild #34...Samuel Buchanan Born about 1870, this son might be the Samuel Buchanan shown in the Webster township census in 1920. Grandchild #35...Brusia Buchanan Born in May of 1873, this daughter may also have had another vaguely Roman name like Flavia. She was in her father's home in 1900, and was involved in land transactions concerning Cane Creek property in 1907. Grandchild #36...Benjamin Franklin Buchanan Youngest of the children, Ben was born July 14, 1876. He was a • teacher and merchant in both Cullowhee and Glenville before his relatively early death. On February 18, 1900, he married Fannie May Coward, born April 28, 1876. Ben died October 22, 1917, and Fannie May lived until March 24, 1949. They are buried with most of their children at Cullowhee Methodist Cemetery. Their children: Joseph David Buchanan (1900) (1961) Blanche Juanita Buchanan (1902) m. Kelly Frady '' "" Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (1904) m. Vivien Curll V_V Edna Mae Buchanan (1906) m. Hugh Thomas Cotter William Boyd Buchanan (1907) m. Pearl Deitz Annie Glen Buchanan (1908) Geneva Lou Buchanan (1911) (1985) Problems in the Polly Frizzell Buchanan family: 1) The obvious. What happened to all of those children? 2) When did Polly die and where is she buried? 3) Are any of the Shuler children still living? 4) The public insensitivity to mental illness or deficiency can create problems for genealogists. Why? Silence. Any insight on this family would be most welcome. v _ y 72 < w o o SUTTON CEMETERY ELA COMMUNITY SWAIN COUNTY Andrew Jackson Sutton 29 Dec 1869 3 May 1932 Ella T. Sutton 20 Mar 1875 26 Aug 1924 Cooper Lee Sutton 1933 1947 Andrew Jackson Sutton 10 May 1903 3 May 1966 Thelma Davis Sutton 26 Sep 1905 Infant Sutton 15 Jan 1913 Infant Sutton 5 Jun 1915 Bessie M. Sutton Holcombe 22 Nov 1891 1*6 Aug 1916 Mitchell Joe Sutton 9 Oct 1942 29. Nov. 1968 Arthur Joe Sutton -13 Apr 1900 28 Feb 1959 Julia Kimsey Sutton 5 Nov 1905 11 Mar 1958 Joyce Maxina Sutton 10 Nov 1947 3 Oct 1954 James Jackson Sutton 30 Apr 1935 30 Apr 1935 Orillag Cline 13 Nov 1900 ?5 May 1921 Clinton P. Cline 5 Sep 1908 12 Dec 1932 Gordon Lee Crawford 19 Jul 1875 14 Jan 1959 Mary Cooper Crawford 1 Jul 1873 11 Aug 1950 Talmage G. Crawford 17 Aug 1907 13 Feb 1917 Notes on the above: 1) The cemetery census was taken May 1996 by Mack Sutton. 2) Most of this family is from Jackson County. 3) Were the Cooper women sisters? Their husbands A.J. Sutton and-Gordon Lee Crawford were first cousins. 4) Below is a listing of Andrew Jackson Sutton's family. See the March-April 1994 issue of JOURNEYS for his parents' family cemetery located at Ochre Hill in Jackson County. The family of Joseph M. Sutton (27 Jul 1841-13 Apr 1920) and his wife Violet Elizabeth Crawford (2 Feb 1-851-18 Nov 1922) 1) Mary C Sutton (3 Dec 1866-4 Sep 1928) m. Thomas B. Leatherwood. Buried at Valleytown Cemetery in Andrews. 2) Andrew Jackson Sutton (see above) m. Ella T. Cooper 3) Mellie M. Sutton (13 Jan 1871-24 Nov 1942) m. William-A. Clark Buried Sutton Cemetery, Ochre Hill. 4) Sarah Ida Sutton (3 Apr 1874-19 Jan 1914) m. Clingman Mills. Buried Crawford Cemetery at Willets. 5) Robert R. Sutton (9 Nov 1875-19 Nov 1942) m. Emma Henry. Buried Sutton Cemetery, Ochre Hill. '6) M.R. Sutton (19 Jul 1878-1 Apr 1879) Buried Crawford Cemetery. 7) Alice Sutton (Feb 1880) m. Lawrence Allen. Buried? 8) Lucius C Sutton (1883-1950) m. Oma Bryson. Buried Sutton. 9) Allen Sutton (23 Nov 1885-14 Jun 1950? m. Bertha Mae Snyder and Ethel Snyder. Buried Ochre Hill Baptist Church. 10) Daisy Sutton (16 Aug 1888-15-Apr 1920) m. Price Dillard. She is buried at Sutton Cemetery. 11) Lula Sutton <6 Apr 1892-31 Dec 1975) m. Robert J. Clayton. Buried at Addie Cemetery. 73 Ancestors of Shawna (Green) Hall Parents Grandparents Great-Grandparents W 2nd Great-Grandparents Williaa Henry Green b 9 Jun 1853 in Polk Co., N.C. d 27 Nov 1903 in Polk Co., H.C. John Henry Green b 10 Oct 1891 a Polk Co.. N.C. d 1 Jul 1964 in Brevard, N.C. Charlotte Callie Flynn b 21 Jan 1863. d 2 Jan 1892 in Polk Co., N.C. Williaa Everet^e Green b 21 Apr 1925 in Penrose, NC Richard Hack Collins b Apr 1857 in N.C. d 4 Har 1916 in Clarendon, Ark. Hattie Laura Collins b 23 Dec 1894 in Polk Co., N.C. d 2 Feb 1964 in Brevard, N.C. Caldoma Renia Feagan b 29 Jan 1864 in Polk Co., N.C. d 2 Dec 1951 in Polk Co., N.C. Shawna Kaye Green b 17 Jan 1951 in Brevard, NC John Harlin Mathis Sr. b 21 Jan 1842 ;n Haywood Co., N.C. d 28 Nov 1901 in Jackson Co., N.C. Walter Harrison Hathis/Hatthews b 22 Apr 1888 in Jackson Co., N.C. d 4 Jun 1958 in Jackson Co., N.C. Sarah Haseltme Cathey b 19 Oct 1848 -.n Haywood Co., N.C. d 13 Jun 1930 in Jackson Co., N.C. Opal Estella Matthews b 20 Jun 1931 in Jackson CO., N.C. Andrew Luther Owen b Hay 1869 jn Jackson Co., N.C. d Dec 1952 in Jackson Co., N.C. Ella Hae Oven b 9 Jan 1892 ;n Jackson Co., N.C. d 7 Apr 1992 in Brevard, N.C. Vanna Easter prooa b 25 Sep 1872 in Jackson Co., N.C, d 7 Jul 1958 in Jackson Co., N.C. John G. Green b 5 Oct 1826 in N.C. d 22 Har 1903 in N.C. Unknown J. Williaa Collins b 17 Nov 1821 in N.C. d 4 Aug 1917 in Clarendon, Ark. Hartha A. Collins b 10 Oct 1830 In N.C. d 20 Aug 1905 in Clarendon, Ark. George Thonas Feagan b 4 Jul 1834 in Polk Co., N.C. d 17 Jan 1907 in Polk Co., N.C. Elvira Giles b 18 Hay 1829 ;n N.C. v j d 18 Aug 1914 in Polk Co., N-C.^Y David Mathis b ABOUT 1818 in N.C. d Hay 1880 in Towns Co.', Ga. Elizabeth Jones b ABOUT 1822 jn Ala. or N.C? d 2 Jan 1894 in Jackson Co., N.C. Jaaes N. Cathey b 26 Feb 18?5 in Haywood Co., N.C. d Jun 1888 in Jackson Co., N.C. Elizabeth Brown b 11 Aug 1825 in N.C. Henry Alfred Owen b 28 Dec 1846 ;n H.C. d ?6 Dec 1926 in Jackson Co., N.C. Elizabeth Caroline Wood b 1844 in N.C. d 4 Jul 1894 in Jackson Co., N.C. Williaa Lewis Dewey Brooa b 4 Jul 1837 in Scotland ? d 25 Feb 1922 in Jackson Co., N.C. Hary A. (Polly) Parker •KS 74

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