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.

• Creator
  • Jackson County Genealogical Society (N.C.)
• Format
  • Newsletters
  • Periodicals
• Type
  • Text
• Date
  • Date original: 1999-04
  • Date digitized: 2017-07-10
• Extent
  • Dimension: 11" x 8.5"
  • Pages: 36 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • Bible records
  • Cemeteries
  • Death certificates
  • Jackson County (N.C.) -- Genealogy
  • Registers of births, etc. -- North Carolina -- Jackson County
  • Voting registers -- North Carolina -- Jackson County
• Location
  • Jackson County (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Source Collection
  • Jackson County Genealogical Society
• Identifier
  • HL_JTJ_1999_09-03-04
• Repository
  • Jackson County Genealogical Society

c J o u r n e y s T h r o u g h J a c k s o n T h e O f f i c i a l J o u r n a l o f t h e J a c k s o n C o u n t y G e n e a l o g i c a l S o c i e t y , I n c. | Vol. I X , N o . 3 - 4 M a r c h - A p r i l 1 9 99 JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. 1999 Officers President BickL. Frizzell Vice Presidents Betty P. Foti Sharon B. Carnes Secretary Marilyn G. Morton Treasurer David C. Frizzell librarian Dorris D. Beck Office Manager Ruth C. Shuler Computer Coordinator Kirk E. Stephens 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 mat 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 rMy be coutamed fa submissions, arri except VAKC Mtrf^ not those of the editor or of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. The Society accepts no advertising for this publication except for notices for other non-profit groups. From the Editor Spring...and time to plow the garden and clean up everything. But don't dare get too involved in your spring cleaning and throw away any genealogy. You might need it sometime, and if you don't, then your Society surely will. As we enter this time of renewal, may we all renew our commitment to JCGS. The Society always need your input Speaking of input, investigate in this issue the 1998 activities of our JCGS members. They range from one-line responses, like Clement Pless, to the infectious excitement of Betty Wagner as she describes her serious beginnings in genealogy. All, as usual, are interesting and fun. Also in this issue, read Anne Goodwin's third and final article in response to the Hooper equity suit, see more of Shawna Hall's Owens, and make sure to see Ruth Shuler's beautiful tribute to Irene McClure. All of this reading is easily as worthy of your time as those flower bulbs and fishing poles, don't you agree? Happy hunting to all JCGS members. V i s i t u s a t o u r w e b s i t e : h t t p : / / w w w . m a i n . n c . u s / j c g s / ^y y Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Irene Bryson McClure 35 Query. 35 JCGS Photo Album .. 36-37 JCGS Library Acquisitions................... 38 Mountains Climbed and Rivers Crossed...Journeys of JCGS Members 39-47 Taking Genealogy Too Seriously.............................................. ........................................... 48 Expanded Theory-About the Hoopers...................................................... ........................49-52 1936 Jackson County Death Certificates of Persons Born Prior to 1900............. 53-57 JCGS Treasurer's Report for 1998.. . .... .. 58 The Owen Descendancy of Shawna Green Hall.................. . ............ .................59-62 I r a Mitchell Watson Lineage Charts......................................... ....................................63-66 Index..................................«...............................rt....................................................................67-68 Irene Bryson McClure With the passing of Irene Bryson McClure on Sunday, March 14,1999, the Jackson County Genealogical Society has lost one of its charter members', one who was a life member of the Society. Irene attended meetings often in the Society's earlier years, but poor health had prevented her being with us recently. She was, however, always willing to share her knowledge of her family's genealogy with anyone who asked, and she made valuable contributions to Jackson County Heritage, Volume 1 and Journeys Through Jackson. For several members of the Society, Irene first became known to us as one of our teachers. Her many years of teaching in the Jackson County school system touched hundreds of lives. She'was the teacher who introduced me to typing, and she led as I foUowed gingerly along the path of Gregg shorthand with its symbols and squiggles. Her influence played a major role as I sought the direction of my life's work; every time I saw her after choosing the secretarial field, she offered encouragement and inspiration. In later years she became a well-loved friend. But Irene had, unknowingly, been an earlier example for me. As a first - grader whose family had just moved to Sylva, I remember seeing Irene come down the street from what was then called Rhodes Cove to the corner beside our house where she awaited her ride to the college in Cullowhee. She was there every school day through the years as she worked toward her teaching degree, and our parents held her up as a model of perseverance and determination. They admired her dedication to her education and taught us to strive for that same goal. I'm not sure I ever told her about mat; I wish I had. To her husband, her children and grandchildren, to her sister Frances Hyatt who is also one of the Society's life members, and to the rest of her family, we offer our deepest sympathy and our condolences. She will be missed. Ruth Shuler Query Bill Hooper of Auburn, WA fWhooper699@aol.com') has information On Hooper, Coward, Brown, and Parker. He seeks dates for Nettie Lovedahl, whose first husband was Baxter R. Hooper. Her father was Lawrence Jiles Lovedahl and her mother was Martha Jane Smith. Nettie remarried to a Wike, but Bill does not know her pertinent dates. 35 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m WK ^ Shared by faithful JCGS member Shawna Green Hall, this photograph shows the John Bishop Owen family of the Canada community of Jackson County and neighboring communities in Transylvania County. Anyone who can identify any of these folks is encouraged to do so, either to the editor or Shawna. KJ JCGS member Lester Hamilton asks the identity of this gentleman, wonders if it is Canada resident David Shelton. JCGS member Carol Broom responds to the earlier Hamilton picture (in the Jan.-Feb. issue of JTJ) by identifying the man as Luther Owen, the woman to his right as Mary "Polly" Queen, who married William Lewis Dewey Broom. Thanks, Carol! Ky 36 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 Ky J C G S P h o t o A l b u m JCGS member Lloyd Cowan shares this photograph with us. It shows the students of the East Fork one-teacher school about 1908. Lloyd identifies the persons as follows: The teacher is Sadie Stillwell, who married George Sutton. In the second row are Delia Hall, Minnie Buchanan, Laura Cowan, Essie Buchanan, Mamie Buchanan, Ida Beck. Standing in the back are Berlin Buchanan, Elvin Cowan, Memphis Buchanan, and Sterlin Deitz. In the back of the third row are Charlie Buchanan, Garland Buchanan in the center, Kim Beck, Tom Brogden, Roystan Cowan, Cassius Monteith. The boys with collars are Oliver and Henry Cowan. The person to the far right is Amanda Jane Bradley. -_sftfe;»sriS*SiiW-»*i!(',,j ;S2J*i ,ji •' jsais&i,«i«<ft' ' : £ k l The picture at the left is shared by JCGS member Mack Sutton, who identifies the persons as Lewis Burton (Ting) Sutton, his wife Lucinda Parton Sutton, and sons Henry, Fred, and James. 37 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 J C G S L i b r a r y A c q u i s i t i o n s CaO No. Author Title Donor 929.3 745.5 929.3 975.6 929.2 929.2 975.6 970.1 929.3 929.3 929.3 975.6 929.3 929.3 929.3 Medford, Robert Morgan, Lucy Riddle, Merrell Jenkins Wood, Lawrence E. Wood, Lawrence E. Blackmun, Ora Middleton, T. Walter Allen, Carol Allen, Carol Allen, Carol Williams, Max R., ed. Woolley, James E. Medford, Robert Medford, Robert The Suttons of Haywood County, NC and Related Lines Gift from the Hills: Miss Lucy Morgan's Story of her Unique Penland School Swain County, NC Delayed Birth Records The Cashiers Area: Yesterday, Today, and Forever Young, Stewart, Montgomery, Phillips, and Related Families Young and Montgomery Families of the South Western North Carolina: Its Mountains and Its People to 1880 Qualla: Home of the Middle Cherokee Settlement Cherokee County, NC Estates Records 1843- 1940 Haywood County, NC Estates Records 1809- 1942 Macon County, NC Estates Records 1833-1920 The History of Jackson County Buncombe County, NC Index to Deeds, 1783- 1850 The Families of Haywood County, Based on the 1870 Census Records The Families of Haywood County, Based on the 1880 Census Records Mack Sutton Elise Terrell Merrell Riddle Bill Crawford Mrs. Edward Potts Mrs. Edward Potts Sharon Carries Walter Middleton Dorris Beck Dorris Beck Dorris Beck Sue Kilby Fouts Sue Kilby Fouts Sue Kilby Fouts Sue Kilby Fouts • I t e m s f o r S a l e b y J C G S The Cemeteries of Jackson County, North Carolina Jackson County Superior Court Docket Book 1866 -1896 Medford...Famdies of Haywood and Jackson (1850 census) Journeys Through Jackson 1991 Yearbook of Issues Journeys Through Jackson 1992,1993,1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,1998 Yearbooks of Issues (specify yearfs]) $38.50ppd ($35.00 locally) $17.50ppd ($15.00 locally) $25.00ppd($23.50 locally) $12.00ppd($10.00 locally) $17.50ppd($15.00 locally) (each volume) Individual issues of JTJ are no longer available The Society is compiling a waiting list for a reprint of Jackson County Heritage, Vol. 1 KJ KJ 38 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 M o u n t a i n s C l i m b e d a n d R i v e r s C r o s s e d . . . J o u r n e y s o f O u r M e m b e r s i n 1 9 9 8 [Ed. As in the past two years, we feature in this issue our JCGS members and their genealogical accomplishments in the past year. Not everyone found mat elusive ancestor, but many of our members had much to boast of, and we are pleased to share these "journeys" with everyone. Since our new members did not have the opportunity to respond to our annual questionnaire, mis space will alio spotlight their names and families of interest, if that information was provided.] New Member... JimmieB. Abernathy (PO Box 99 Mohawk, TN 37810) researches Allen, Bryson, Davis, Farmer, Fisher, and Gillon. " Not a lot (accomplished), but thanks to some very nice distant cousin genealogists, "new bits of information have been added. Alabama counties are all publishing heritage books, and I have been quite busy writing family histories for three counties that my husband's ancestors lived in." Trudy Adams...Birmingham, AL New Members...Linda and Roger Aiken (287 Genesis Trail Sylva, NC 28779) researching Aiken, Carnes, Frady, Buchanan " My biggest accomplishment in 1998 was buying a computer so I could do my research at home." Lynn Allen...Sylva " Located "William Roderick Moss ("Grandpa") in 1998, and documenting in book for progeny in 1999...Located the family back to 1625 in Lancashire, England...Still searching for grandmother who refused to go on the Trail of Tears.. .Challenged and thrilling beyond belief.. .helped and loved by persons I haven't met.. .The Cemetery Book is a great help.. .Almost all documented! You CAN go home again.. .What a life after retirement.. .Write a book!" Louise Moss Ansley.. .Winchester, TN " Completed data entry into Ancestral Quest program (4 yrs. In the rnaking).. .Established contact, via Internet, with several more people researching my family lines, which in turn extended one of those lines back several generations. ..Began an extensive cataloguing system for old family photos including rnalring copies and scanning.. .Shared my material on many of my lines with dozens of others via e-mail and snail mail.. .Did extensive research for several people with New England lines at the library where I volunteer.. .Volunteered ca. 300 hours at Godfrey Memorial Library, a genealogical library in Middletown, CT...Reorganized and catalogued my home genealogy library, including journals from 15 societies, surname and locality files, cd-roms, books, etc,, a project I would never have started had I known what a long-term ordeal it would become...found several more wonderful skeletons hanging from the family tree—Began initial research on my husband" German and Italian.family lines."" Linda Brooks Banwarth...Higganum, CT " The highlight of 1998 was having the opportunity to visit Sylva, meet Larry, Rick, Ruth, and Roy. Larry and Rick were kind enough to drive us around to the different cemeteries in the area.. .enjoyed seeing firsthand the gravesites of some of my Bryson ancestors.. .Ruth and Roy had us in their home for dinner, along with daughter Kim and sister Jean.. .a very enjoyable 39 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 time.. .1 am still searching for Lafayette Columbus Bryson's demise, what happened to him, when exactly, and where! Betty Davis Barnard.. .Groveland, FL " I feel that my greatest accomplishment was cataloging the book collection for the Society library...I had a visit from Sara and Lewis Poor of Woodstock, GA...Sara descends from George Washington Dills, a brother of my grandfather Marcus Lafayette (Fate) Dills. We took them to Keener Cemetery to see the grave of Sara's great uncle, Columbus (Lum) Washington Dills, and they took us to his old homeplace. Lewis and Sara also gave me pictures of G.W. Dills and members of that family.. .1 have done considerable work on the Beck family. We also had a visit by Carolyn Blixseth, a distant relative of my husband.. .Our good friend Mack Sutton went with Sam and me to Huskey Cemetery near Smokemont where some relatives of Sam's are buried." Dorris Dills Beck... Sylva " Received lots of wonderful and helpful information from new friends and newfound cousins by phone calls and letters.. .lots of information on the Messer family.. .wrote an article on my Wykle (Wikle) ancestors for the Macon County Heritage Book n.. .had some confirmation on my McWhorter great-grandmother... without the help of so many, I could not have accomplished what I have. Thank you cousins and friends for sharing." Barbara Dills Bishop.. .Chehalis, WA " I found my John William Davis, b. 1861 Jackson County NC (parents Benjamin P. Davis and Mary Hooper) in Indian Territory in Oklahoma in the 1900 census. The census stated his children, Nettie Lou, b. 1888; B.P., b. 1889; Don Douglas, b. 1892; and John William,b. 1898, all born in North Carolina. (I am still hoping to find where.) Through a death certificate of Don Douglas, my grandfather, the name of his mother is Dellia Dee or Die, also born in NC.. John William Davis is not in the 1880 NC, Jackson County census, at least with his surviving mother i , Mary and his brother Samuel and sister Nancy, so I need to do more looking. Oral tradition says he married three times (to sisters) and the 1900 OK census seems to prove that, at least the number. His last wife was Laura Staton, also born in NC, but I haven't located her family either. In July of 1998 a cousin telephoned me and gave me some information on the John W. Davis, b. 1800, whom I am researching. He said he was in contact with Helen Davis Cooper, another cousin, and that he has been researching land documents. The "W" stands for Whitfield, and he was married to a Sarah Jane. Since I am fairly new to the hunt and I have searched only census records, I am hoping he will send more new information." Sandra Davis Blanton.. .Corralitos, CA New member ...J. Robert Brooks (1521 East Cope Creek Rd. Sylva, NC 28779) researches Brooks, Cole, Monteith " My research was put on hold for several months due to major surgeries late last summer, but I have fully recovered and I am now trying to make up for lost time. I have always been told to work on one family at a time, but I haven't been able to hold myself to that rule. I had so little material to start with, and do not want my children and their families to be left in the same predicament. I have been able to trace my Doane family back seven more generations from 1809 to 1590. The family arrived in Plymouth MA about 1630. I finally went through several very old small leather wallets from the Brown family, bulging with little folded pieces of paper. What I found made me think of the article mat appeared some time ago in JTJ titled "The Turpin Box." This, however, contained more of the Civil War papers of Walter E. Brown, plus a handwritten note which stated 'Lick Creek April 17/63 To all whom it may consura J.H. Mathis of Co. G/62 Rgt NC Troops & E A Brown to accompany him from Midway to the Hospitle at Greenvill Tenn will pass unmolested. A D Hooper Capt' I found a handful of tiny folded' Notes payable 40 Ky Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 to E.A. Brown.' Also a paper marked 'Not transferable' and 'Confidential' stating 'This accords the right to Mr. Or Mrs. W.EI Brown to make and use the Laundry and Toilet Magic in his or her own family only' followed by the recipe for the same, with a flourshing signature that I cannot decipher. This was dated 1891. There were property tax receipts from Caney Fork paid by Walter E. Brown from 1866 to 1912, and John Candler Brown Sr. in Caney Fork from 1904 to 1952, Sylva from 1927 to 1952, and Canada Township from 1933-1940. A receipt to 'Watty' (Walter E . ) Brown from J.K.S. Case, MD, East Laporte, NC Nov. 1,1888, and many more. I also have an account book that belonged to David Brown, father of Walter E. and Ezekial A. Brown with dates ranging from 1804,1812, to an entry made by W.E. Brown in 1864. It is very difficult to read, and I need to spend a lot more time trying to transcribe some of this fascinating material.. .1 have found the JCGS website most interesting, and was pleased to see Ezekial A. Brown's Civil War diary included. Many thanks to all of you. Jean Atchley Graham Brown...Englewood, CO " I visited the genealogy library in Fort Wayne, IN, and was favorably impressed with the facility. While there, I secured the names of my husband's 6th great-grandfather's family. I was also able to advance my Briscoe research in aiimited way. I have updated my computer system, which should offer more opportunity for Internet search.. .E-mail capacity has-allowed me to begin communication with a branch of Manley's Monteith family which should soon give me access to a more complete family tree fox-Hiram Monteith descendants." Jean Crawford Brown.. .Macon, GA " Found the JCGS which has greatly facilitated my research.. .thanks to JCGS, I found Shawna's web page, which is providing a great deal of helpful information.. .From JTJ I found the maiden name of a great-great-grandmother, which has opened a new line of research.. .Returned a token handful of soil from a great-great grandfather's grave at a federal Civil War prison and spread it over the family cemetery in Jackson County.. .1 felt like I was bringing him home to be with some of his family." Lewis S. Buchanan, Sr... .Alexandria, VA New Member...Lynda Brown Buchanan (1305 Ben Cook Rd. Sylva, NC 28779) researches > Cowan, McConneU New Member.. .Joyce Burkett (814 Eagles Chase Dr. Lawrenceville, NJ 08648) researches Bryson, Lxradermilk, Irons, Turner^ Ingram, Hughey " Visited several cemeteries in Jackson, Swain, and Haywood Counties, and located both marked and unmarked graves of relatives. ..Also, I've discovered a cousin in Washington state who is doing research on one branch of our family tree in Haywood and Jackson Counties. Hope to accomplish more in 1999." Lavine G. Callicott.. .Suitland, MD " Obtained copies of family pictures." Cance Carnes.. .Dillsboro New Member...Lorisa Cheney (412 Oakgrove Dr. FayetteviUe, NC 28314) " No research, but continued to enter research data on Family Tree Maker." Grant & Phyllis Cochran.. .Lopez Island, WA " 1 attempted to work, diligently for the Society, and I continue to derive great satisfaction from editing JTJ. I wrote a smaU introduction for our Cemetery Book, and have been very pleased with the book's success. I was privileged to go to the Fort Wayne Ubrary with my sisters in July, and while there, I was able to share vicariously in their success, although my ambition to further 41 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 Norman family lines continues to be frustrated. I was greatly pleased to make the personal acquaintance of Betty Davis Barnard and Elizabeth Moss Wilson and by so doing, watch the Henderson Bryson family become ever more manifest and increasingly complex. I visited some KJ of the usual Ubraries and archival repositories, and sent (and answered) seemingly three million queries on the Internet. At Kirk's request, I wrote a short article on Jackson County migration patterns for our website. The single most satisfying genealogical occurrence of 1998 for me was to write a short one-page opinion piece on Hooper research for JTJ and to see the response it created. My conclusions were wrong, but the dialogue'created by that one page strikes at the very core of what we are doing.. .searching for the truth." Larry Crawford.. .Sylva New Member...Debra L. Dotson (353 North Pino Rd. MocksviUe, NC 27028) researches Sutton, Fisher, Moody, Leatherwood, Hyatt, AUen, Farmer, Burns, Walker, GiUon " My genealogical activities are limited these days as more of my time is spent in taking care of my mother who will be 90 this June. We didn't make it back to NC last summer, but hope to this year. However, I did receive a couple of new contacts during the latter part of the year that are quite promising, and we are continuing to exchange data on the Ensley and Conner lines. My database remains a Uttle under 10,000." George Harry Ensley, J r . . . .Lakeland, FL " I have kept aU the JTJ and read them from front to back.. .have picked up a lot of things from them that other members have sent in.. .1 can relate to a lot of them." Regenia Pannell Fisher Sylva New Member...Karen Galloway (614 S. Stafford St. Arlington, VA 22204) " Through your printing of Shawna Green HaU's work on the descendants of John Owen Sr., I have been able to verify my ancestry on my mother's side seven generations!" Amy Ammons Garza... Whittier New Member...Joan Gillett (PO Box 916 Bryson City, NC 28713) researches Carson, Crawford, Henson, Oxner, WarUck, Huffman, Brown, Fortner " PubUshed temporary web pages on several Jackson Co. Hoopers...wrote 5 articles (3 pubUshed in 1998,2 await publishing) on families of interest.. .Contributed material for 4 genealogy journals,„discovered cousins from 2 new lineages in spouse's family and helped them track their families back to 1775.. .became a member of a local family history committee to improve quantity and quality of available local research.. .pubUshed permanent website with transcription of a Jackson County Equity case (see http://homepagesjootsweb.com/-4ioops/)" Anne C. Goodwin angje@mtwest.net (home address withheld by request) " I was host for the Dotson's 10th annual family reunion at CarroUton, IL in June 1998. Each reunion is a surprise. Cousins from all over the USA attend. Some of the cousins haven't visited in this area for 30-40+ years, and each family has a family story to share about our ancestors. Last year, a first cousin from Alabama told me this story about our grandfather Daniel O. Dotson (1876-1954). Grandpa was noted for for running the fastest in foot races and throwing a rock the farthest of anyone in the hills of Missouri. He could also kill a turkey on the run by throwing a rock and hitting it in the head. Some of the stories are hard to beUeve, and I won't repeat most of them because I want to protect my own safety. Ha. Yes, they made their own whiskey and consumed i t " Jean Dotson Green.. .CarroUton, rL New Member...Naomi Hooper Green ( 233 E. Harvard Ave. Anchorage, AK 99501) 42 Ky Ky Journeys Through Jackson M a r c h - A p r i l 1999 " Gwendolyn Day-Broom sent an internet message pushing back our knowledge of the Broom / line by one generation (Martha Broom, Lewy Broom, Richard Mealus Broom, WiUiam Lewis ^ ^ Dewey Broom, AUen Clifton Broom, MeUus Broom.) and establishing his European country of origin." Thomas J. Gross.. .Frederick, MD New Member... Sharon B. HaU ( 4 Heath Rd. Merrimac, MA 01860) researches Mills, Miller, MitcheU, EUiott, Dyer, Bryson " My main research tool remains the Internet. I've met several new cousins this year and discovered a branch of the family that I knew nothing about. I'm going to have to buy a new computer because I 'm running out of space for-aU my names! The JCGS has been most useful.. .hats off to Kirk Stephens." Shawna HaU ... Waterford, MI t " I have about 75 pages going back to about 1800 and about 700 pictures and still looking." Lester Hamilton .. .Madisonville, TN " It was my good fortune to meet a helpful employee of the. Spartanburg SC Ubrary when I visited there. She gave me a list of many people researching the same families I am: specificaUy Bishop, Berry, and Gilbert I wrote letters to about 24 people, nearly all of whom repUed. As a result I was able to Ust the ancestors of my 3rd great-grandmother PermeUa Ann Gilbert back 5 more generations to England in the early 1600's and have many facts about several of them. Michael Gilbert Jr. (b. 7 Feb 1642, d. 20 Oct 1691) was a headmaster at Leeds School in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. So my family, was in education way back then. (I am a retired teacher.) Michael and his father Michael Sr. were curates. I also got much information on the Bishops and some on the Berrys. I acquired a letter written by my great-great grandfather just before he died in the Civil i . War which you pubUshed for me. (John Belton Bishop) I also now have a photograph of bis widow Mariah Louisa Berry Bishop when she was an old lady. I have been to the Boiling Springs Baptist Church in Boiling Springs, SC twice to peruse their oldestminutes (1700's- 1800's.) My Gilbert and Bishop ancestors were founding members and WiUiam Coffee Berry (who is buried in CuUowhee) preached there at least once. I've traced my Avery County relatives back two more generations with the help of the Toe River Heritage Book, Vol. U. I attended the Bishop family reunion in CuUowhee again. There are no more hospitable people anywhere. From cousin Carlula Bryson I have obtained my great-grandfather Hurriah Brown's pension appUcation papers." Lois Sullins Heun.. .MiU Spring, NC New Member...HalHooper (15602 N. Forker Rd. Spokane, WA 99217) researches Hooper New Member...Ernestine Jones (PO Box 249 Darrington, WA 98241) New Member...Peggy R. Lambert (117 Adams Crk. Rd. Cherokee, NC 28719) " I started doing genealogy in April of 1998. Thanks to the interested genealogy buffs in WNC, I was able to establish linesas far back as 1720." Kathryn M. Leavins .. .Crestview, FL " I started my research in June of 1998 and thanks to the articles on the Monteith family by Betty Cope Andrews, I was able to go back several generations. The Death Certificates of Persons Bom Before 1900 enabled me to find the parents of several great-grandparents and the exact dates of their Uves. GenealogicaUy speaking, this year was great. Thanks to JCGS, its contributors, Marty Grant's web page and Shawna Hall's web page, I have traced my ancestors £ _ on att sides back several generations. Thank you so much." Gladys Watson Lee...Cocoa, FL 43 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 " Last year I traced my grandmother's Baker family back to Israel Boone, Daniel Boone's older brother. I also traced the DUlard branch of the family back 3 more generations. I spent 3 or 4 wonderful days in Salt Lake doing research. I hope to go again in 1999." Sandra Vinson Lucas San Diego, CA " Mostly did 'fill-in' work on my lines this year. Wrote to genealogy pen pals. Helped Dr. Joseph Keever of Oregon with 2nd and 3rd great-grandparents. Still working through The Cemeteries of Jackson County and extracting info from Journeys Through Jackson. Thanks JCGS for another good year." Betty Keever Luedtke Gresham, OR " We were the first visitors to your new office, and the books were just being shelved. However, we did find cemetery locations for many of our Ash relatives. We plan to return next year." Fern and Howard Mason.. .Orlando, FL " Unfortunately we didn't accompUsh much family research, though we did get to go to the Massingale family reunion. We were happy to see photos of ancestors. Most of our research has been on home-building this year-we look forward to next year when we can get back to what we " love doing-genealogy." Tim and Sandy Massingale.. .Tuckasegee New Member...Monica Holden Maynard (POBox85 Coinjock, NC 27923-0085) researches Bryson, Coggins, Holden, Leopard, Norton, Owens, Taylor " Enlistment and pension records for Nathan and Mary Middleton.. .state archives in Raleigh. ..additional research in north Georgia, Cornelia and Clarksville." Gene Middleton Sylva " After turning over every rock in Jackson County, I finally turned over the right one and found my paternal great-grandparents, thanks to JCGS members." Lloyd Mills.. .Winston-Salem, NC " Because of such a busy year, I haven't accompUshed a lot except coUect a lot of odds and ends. I am looking forward to 1999 and getting back to genealogy!" Betty Q. Monteith ...Shelby, NC " While attending one of the meetings, Dorris Beck informed me that a book Ocona Lufta Baptist, Pioneer Church of the Smokies, was pubUshed a few years ago. I knew nothing about it. It contained several family pictures of my dad's family from Smokemont Dorris made copies of the pictures for me, and I found the book at the ranger station in Gatlinburg. The cemetery book has also been very helpful to our famUy this year." Maurice and Mary EUen Moody.. .Sylva " I visited several cemeteries and older family relatives. I have many facts but Uttle organization." Ella Mae Morris...CuUowhee "We did research at the ACPL in Fort Wayne, IN; the McCling coUection in Knoxville; and the Calhoun County PubUc Library in Anniston, AL. WE attended three Griffin reunions, with first cousins in Arkansas, with third cousins in Asheville, and with fourth cousins at the Griffin Baptist Church near Pickens, SC. Larry joined the Strother Society." Larry and Marilyn Morton ... CuUowhee New Member...Sandra C. Murray (940 Ridgecliff Dr. Florence, AL 35634) K^> KJ KJ 44 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 "Added an additional 4000 names to the family website and database - total of 7757 i ^ individuals.. .answered 80% of queries sent for information correctly: thanks to aU for their ^ ^ help." Ronald Howard Nations...El Paso, TX " Finished and pubUshed new book - Along the River: People and Places.. .assisted a PhD student in research on WNC.. .advised an MA student in refurbishing Gunter Cabin Museum at Fontana Village.. .assisted a professor at USC in book on mountain dialects.. .began updating my SherriU genealogy." Duane OUver .. .Hazelwood, NC * "Discovered JCGS." Clement Pless J r . . . .MooresviUe, NC " Worked on refining information regarding the descendants of David Coleman Jones and Ernest Theodocia Woodard, my maternal grandparents. Also continue to search for Bolling/Bolin link to known descendants of Pocohontas." E. Ann Hampton Peters .. .New Carlisle, OH " Since I started only this time last year, 1998 was a great year. I made the most progress on my mother's lines - Grizzard, Avent, Gray, Morris. Sadly, my mother didn't know the names of her grandparents. With luck we've gone back several generations in 1998. Discovered new material on Phillips/Farris line, but still unable to go back beyond Daniel PhiUips and Ruthie Farris of - Jackson County, NC." H. Wesley PhiUips .. .Greer, SC New Member...Geraldine P. Queen (757 Canada Rd. Tuckasegee, NC 28783) researches Brown, Queen, Dawson, Alexander, Nicholson, Painter, Davenport ^ / New Member...O. Eugene Queen (2127 Marion Dr. Lexington, NC 27292) researches Queen " I pubUshed the delayed birth records for Swain County, NC. The book contains a complete listing - 5137 records - which provides information on many people who were born before 1913 as weU as some records of people born later for whom a birth certificate had not been filed. The earliest birth date for a child was 1'868; the earliest year of birth for a parent was 1812. Also, I have continued research on my lines, with particular emphasis on my Jonas Jenkins line. I am compiling information on the Jenkins family with the intent of publishing a book in the next few years. I have found the Internet to be very helpful with this project" MerreU Jenkins Riddle Asheville, NC " Biography of WA. 'BUI' Henson, my grandfather. He was one of the first trustees of Western, known as the 'Noble Nine.' Pictures for the Jackson County Justice Center of WA. Henson, sheriff of Jackson County for six years, county commissioner chairman 1 year." Willa Mae Scroggs ...Sylva and Kissimmee, FL New Member...Michael D. Shay (111 Valencia Dr. JacksonviUe, NC 28546-7355) " I was able to expand my knowledge of families I am researching by pubUcation of the 1870 census. Also by pubUcation of voter's Usts and delayed birth certificates." -John N. Shelton Summerville, SC " Answered letters from GA on Nolands and FuUbrights; sent information on families. Letters from Vkginia; on Parkers from Stanley, NC; on Hoyles from California; on Shooks from Virginia \ ^ and Washington state; on Plotts from SC, GA, and VA; and on Rhineharts from Washington state. Received information on Shooks, Rhineharts, FuUbrights, Plotts, Parkers. Found, 45 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 exchanged info and pictures with formerly unknown cousins from GA, SC, and WA. Many discussions and exchange of info about Haywood County census records with Bobby Medford, and in the process of supplying him with my family genealogy for 8 generations." Mary *Ky Rhinehart Shook... Balsam "During 19981 ran the genealogy of the Beasley family. I added about 600 birth certificates and 300 death certificates to my files. I also worked on the Wykle families of Jackson and Macon counties." Charles Robert Shuler .. .Clyde, NC New Member.. .David Shuler (519 Maclor Forest Circle Franklin, NC) New Member.. .Kimberly Shuler (94 Bo Cove Rd. CuUowhee, NC 28723) " Information on the Daniel Stewart Cockerham family has been located in several places. I have done some work on the MUls family lines. Also I have gone on-line and have met several new cousins. My personal research has been subordinate this year to the demands of the JCGS office. Having our own space has fulfilled several goals of the Society, and it has been my pleasure to be closely involved in the operation of the office." Ruth C. Shuler .. .CuUowhee " When I first added my e-maU address to my letterhead, the response directed me to a website with information about my third great grandfather Evans. I hadn't known his first name. The site had data on his wife, their chUdren, and the chUdren's spouses. Otherwise, it was a quiet year." DaleH. Smathers ...Encinitas, CA " I was able to find more information on my husband's Stiles family from Jackson County. Using some of that info, I made contact with relatives in Washington whose parents (Mary Palestine Stiles and Columbus Monroe Henry) left North Carolina in the mid 1910's and settled in that state. It was wonderful chatting with these new-found cousins!" Barbara L. Stanford Chesapeake, VA New Member...Carl H. Stewart (3295 YeUow Mt. Rd. CuUowhee, NC 28723) " I was able to assist a Mr. Paul Baker in California in locating a Wykle connection in Jackson County, who could teU him about Narvle Wykle he had been researching." Ocie Stinnett Horse Shoe, NC "Added some information to the foUowing families: Jamison, Speed, WUson, and TerreU. ..visited some cemeteries in Rabun Co. GA and photographed headstones there.. .entered information in the software program 'FamUy Tree Maker'.. .located and visited with family members I had not known existed and shared information with them.. .located the grave of my great-grandfather who was a Confederate soldier and who is buried in Macon County.. .submitted two articles to the Macon County Historical Society for pubUcation in their history." Etise Monteith TerreU Sylva New Members...Bob and Doris Thweatt (1300 Norwich Rd. Jacksonville, FL) Research interests are Moody, Geisler New Member...Marie Treadway (60 CaldweU St. Sylva, NC 28779) researches PoweU, Mathis, Webster K^ Ky 46 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 " I started trying to trace my parents' families in March or April of 1998. The only things I knew about my family when I started were my grandparents' names, no dates, no places, just counties in WNC. I started questioning my mother (who is 88), but could not get any real answers from her. I then started in on my sister, as to what she remembered from when we lived in Almond, NC. Next, I UteraUy took over my daughter-in-law's computer and was on it every spare moment that I had. I was not having any luck finding anything. I was feeling guilty about monopolizing the computer and finaUy went out and bought one, aU for the sake of genealogy. To make a long story short, aU of a sudden I received an answer to a query I had placed. I was so excited, you would have thought I had just won the lottery! WeU, it was just a short time until I had received what I consider an avalanche of information. I am so very thankful to all the wonderful people on the web who are so willing to share information. I was able to trace my famUy back to my gr. Gr. Grandparents on my Parker side as weU as my McDonald side. There are still a lot of gaps in there, but every so often I find out a Uttle bit more. I have found cousins in the states of Washington, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and of course beautiful North Carolina. My Parker side tied in with my McDonald side, not only with my parents,'but also way back when my great-great aunt Leona Blythe married Jonathan Parker. My great-grandparents were Solomon H. Parker and Lydia (Liddie) Hoey. I descend through their son WiUiam C. (Caldwell or CordeU) Parker and Rosa Pearson Parker, to my mother Annie Mae Parker McDonald. Solomon and Lydia were both 30 years of age when they got married and they had about 13 children. It is a good possibility that Lydia had some children prior to her marriage to Solomon. I am still trying to find information on my grandfather's siblings. Hopefully, this coming year my daughter, son-in-law, and I will be visiting WNC. I hope to show her those beautiful mountains and get in a lot of genealogy research whUe I am there!" Betty J . Wagner .. .CampbeU, CA " My ancestors came from Whittier, NC. My CivU War ancestor, James Wharey TerreU, was a captain with Thomas' Legion. He was stationed in Straw Plains, TN, and wrote a letter about a particular bridge. My husband and I were able to locate the bridge and see the did 'posts.' We are currently searching for a house he stayed in during the war. Also, we have a Teague reunion in Whittier every year and in 1999, we wiU celebrate our 10th annual!" Jennifer W. Williams PoweU, TN " I joined the Jackson County Genealogical Society. I discovered Shawna HaU's website." Janet Moffitt Wirtz .. .Issaquah, WA " With clues given to me by feUow JCGS member Kirk Stephens and others, I was able to find 3 generations of EUiotts, tracing them from Jackson and Haywood counties to Rutherford County and on to Virginia. I also found 2 more generations of the Brooks line in Rutherford County, and discovered many new cousins." Earl Wood .. .Canton, NC New Member;..Helen Wood (PO Box 186 Balsam, NC 28707) researches MUler, Norris, Woodard, Wood 47 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 T a k i n g G e n e a l o g y T o o S e r i o u s ly KJ KJ [Ed. Lately, several of these lists have shown up in publications and on the web, saying something to the effect that "You know you are taking genealogy too seriously if..." and then continuing with a mixture of humorous situations and downright ridiculous scenarios. Since your editor would have to plead guilty to some of the actual ones listed, we offer the following original additions, with tongue firmly in cheek.] You are taking it too seriously, folks, if... You won't aUow a telemarketer to hang up until you know the names of her grandparents. You tried to take a vacation to New England, but never got there because you stopped at every cemetery in Virginia and Pennsylvania. You gave out horehound sticks, bb bats, and blank lineage charts at Halloween. You are willing to endure the boors, the bores, the loudmouths and the self-righteous, not to mention the snobs, just to find out the married names of Aunt TiUie's daughters by her third husband, the ones who moved to Prince Rupert, one of whom has the FamUy Bible. You were in Greensboro with tickets to the ACC Tournament, but decided to give them up because the State Archives is not very far away. You have placed a message on your answering machine to have the caller leave his or her name and lineage through great-great grandparents at the tone. You consider that most of your best friends have been dead for two hundred years. You can't think of your last party as a success, because your spouse teUs you, to your horror, that not everyone enjoys conversations that begin with, "According to the 1870 census..." You consider it time weU-spent to memorize the index on FamUy Tree Maker disks. You are chronically late for work because the person who Uves three time zones away has all the information you need, and is willing to share, at 2 a.m. You have been arrested for inciting a riot because pandemonium ensued when you announced the truth about the 4th great-grandfather at the fanuly reunion. You stay at the worst hotel in Charleston, West Virginia because in your eagerness to get started, you forgot to make reservations, and the miner safety teams from seven states are aU in town, along with two country music shows and three conventions. You have mental images of, and carry on conversations with, persons who were deceased long before the camera was invented. You drove 300 miles for a one-hour lecture because the speaker was discussing someone who was possibly a neighbor of your sixth great-grandfather in the Palatinate. You got so excited over a discovery that you hugged the disagreeable old witch sitting across the ^_j table, and she hugged back, even though you were complete strangers. 48 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 Expanded T h e o r y A b o u t t h e H o o p e r s 1 Previously, parts 1 and 2 of this series identified the Margaret Hooper who was an heir of the Revolutionary War soldier Absolem Hooper. She was Margaret Hooper Hooper BeU, and had married first a John Hooper who Uved in Tennessee. The Equity Court case, which gave rise to the questions about Margaret's identity, raises further questions about the heirs of Absolem Hooper. Minutes of the .case give two lists, with the first identifying the plaintiffs and defendants in the Equity fight: The Bill of Complaint of Enos Hooper, James Hooper, William Most and wife Elizabeth, Abram Pickelsimer & wife Elenor, Benjamin Chastain and wife Nancy, Absolem Hooper, Mary Brown, John Hooper and wife Margaret, Milton Brown and wife Kisiah, and Jonathan, William, Andrew, Caroline, Sarah, and Mary Hooper children of Andrew Hooper, complainants against William Hooper of the County of Jackson and Isaac Hooper of the State of Georgia defendants. The second list specificaUy names the lineal heirs: ...the said Absolam left your complainants Enos Hooper, James Hooper, Elizabeth Most, Elenor Pickelsimer, Nancy Chastain, Absolam Hooper, Mary Brown, Margaret Hooper, Kisiah Brown and Jonathan, William, Andrew, Caroline, Sarah, & Mary Hooper, children of Andrew Hooper, a son of the said Absolam Hooper, and the defendants William & Isaac Hooper his only children and heirs at law and entitled by law to hold the real estate of the said Absolam by discent [sic] as tenants in common. Part 3 Are there reasonable explanations for the strange inclusions and exclusions to the list of heirs of Absolem Hooper? The court minutes show that Enos Hooper was aUowed to act on behalf of aU the com­plainants in the case, and that WiUiam Hooper responded on his own behalf and for Isaac Hooper. Since Enos was the active participant bringing the case, he likely was the chief instigator of the action. The other heirs may have concurred with his efforts, but seem not to have suppUed much information to him. For example, this court case identifies Enos Hooper's sister as Elizabeth MOST winle census records consistently use the surname Moss. More complex issues are the 1 Copyright 1998,1999 by Anne C. Goodwin. Anne is a Hooper descendant and owner of A C Goodwin's Family Source Compass, a genealogical-publishing enterprise (httpyAvww.mtwestnet/angie/uidexJitml). Correspondence or corrections may be emailed to <angie@mtwest_net>. Evidence which provides the basis for Anne's ponderings has been provided by several researchers. Hal Hooper, Ron Hooper, and Mary Crocker provided significant contributions of factual material regarding the Hoopers. 49 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 exclusion of John Hooper of Jackson County, inclusion of the deceased Eleanor Hooper Pickle­simer, and omission of Andrew Hooper's youngest son. Did the attorneys and the county clerk introduce these problems through sloppiness? Or are there other ways to explain these puzzles? I beheve there are logical reasons for each of the apparent discrepancies. Problem: As was shown in Part 1, a son of John Hooper (b. 15 Mar 1783, Georgia) claimed that Absolem Hooper was father to John. The grandson making that claim clearly had knowledge of family stories about the Revolutionary War soldier. John apparently Uved within Absolem Hooper's 1800 household in South Carolina and from 1820 remained in the same area, now Jackson County, where Absolem Uved. So why did John faU to participate? For that matter, why is John not included in the list of children born to Sarah Salers and Absolem Hooper in the Revolutionary War federal pension file? Possible solutions: The simplest explanation for John's parentage is that he was the eldest child of Absolem, but bad a mother other than Sarah Salers Hooper. Soldier Absolem Hooper Uved in Georgia immediately after the war and married Sarah Salers there, sometime between 1783 and 1787? Testimony obtained for Sarah Salers Hooper's pension application included several mentions of her chUdren. The testimony was necessary to prove the fact of her marriage. Thus, if Absolem had fathered chUdren by another woman, Sarah had no need to mention that situation. In truth, any mention of such offspring would have hindered her case rather titan helped it. As discussed earUer in Part 1, Sarah Salers Hooper declared that she "had twelve chUdren by her aforesaid husband." Other testimony by WUUam Hooper, wherein he identified his older brothers and sisters, specified "the said Absalom & Sarah Hooper had ten chUdren who were born prior to" his own birth. The wording makes clear that the list of children is specific to those bom to Sarah Salers Hooper. In contrast, the biographies (also cited in Part 1) of Lemuel Hooper all mention Absolem Hooper as the paternal grandfather, but make no statement about the paternal grandmother. These clues supply at least two potential explanations for why the Equity case omits John: a. John Hooper was an iUegitimate child of Absolem Hooper and thus not eligible for inheritance through an intestate estate, or b. John Hooper was child of a prior marriage and settlement of his inheritance from his mother (her dower rights) and from Absolem had been made by prior arrangement. Problem: Eleanor Hooper Picklesimer predeceased her father. Several of her chUdren kept versions of family Bible records. They agree that she died on 21 September 1825.3 Furthermore, Haywood County marriage bonds show that Abraham Picklesimer remarried to Mourning Barnes on 10 September 1828. Abraham and Eleanor had at least eight chUdren, seven of whom were alive when the Equity case was filed. AU had obtained their majority and had married several KJ 2 Dates given by Sarah Salers Hooper in her testimony for a widow's pension vary, as her attorney acknowledged in a letter to the pension bureau. 3 Personal correspondence from Neoma Jorgensen, 1129 West 1250 South, St George, UT 84770. KJ^ 50 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 years before the death of their grandfather. Thus, those children, and not Eleanor's remarried widower, would be the expected lineal heirs from Absolem Hooper. Possible solutions: Perhaps an earUer Haywood County estate proceeding for decedent Eleanor Hooper Picklesimer had named Abraham Picklesimer guardian in perpetuity for Eleanor's then-minor heirs. Such a ruling could have made Abraham Picklesimer a legal participant in the 1853/1854 Jackson County ease. A simpler explanation might be that Picklesimer lived nearby (at least in 1850) at Tuckasegee, while his grown chUdren had dispersed over Buncombe, Haywood, and Macon Counties of North Carolina and into Union and Rabun Counties in Georgia. Enos Hooper, who apparently suppUed most of the information for the complainants, probably was uncertain of aU their names and residences. Naming Abraham Picklesimer, as the husband who would be vested in the interests of Eleanor Hooper Picklesimer, would have been much easier than listing aU the chUdren of Eleanor. Problems: The complaint identifies only Jonathan, WUUam, Andrew, Caroline, Sarah, and Mary Hooper as heirs of Andrew Hooper, deceased son of Absolem Hooper, Sf. Andrew Hooper had died in Union County, Georgia in March 1849,4 not long after his father's death in 1845. Two of Andrew's daughters (Caroline and Sarah) were married women by the end of 1843. They and their husbands were Uving in Union County, Georgia near Enos Hooper in 1850. However, the case names these two daughters of Andrew Hooper by their maiden names, ignoring the claims by their husbands in right of the wives. Only Mary, youngest chUd of Andrew Hooper and his wife Dicey, was yet single. But there seems to be another heir. The Union County records show a marriage for Andrew Hooper to Mary CantraU on 2 July 1847. In 1850, a Mary Hooper appears three households from Absalom Hooper (Jr.) in Union County, and shares many of the same neighbors of Andrew Hooper of the 1840 census. Her four daughters bom 1846 or earUer (before the Hooper marriage), and a son John Hooper, age 1, are within Mary Hooper's household. Several Hooper researchers identify this young boy as John Harley Hooper, son of Andrew Hooper and Mary CantraU Hooper. John Harley Hooper was bom either 13 October 1849 or 9 March 18486 and died in 1912. He was buried next to Andrew Hooper. According to one researcher, the two "minor chUdren, Mary 4 See the Bounty Land Warrant file based on Andrew Hooper's War of 1812 service. Month, year, and place of Andrew's death are from testimony by George W. Gillespie, a neighbor, on 2 May 1857. In the same affidavit, Gillespie stated that Andrew's wife Dicie had died in 1847. Andrew's tombstone in Enotah Cemetery, Towns County, Georgia gives years 1792-1849 and lists his service in Captain McClure's Company, North Carolina militia, War of 1812. 5 Although the court minutes refer to Absolem Hooper's death in December 1844, records in the federal pension file for Sarah Salers Hooper date the death to 9 December 1845. The widow first testified to the 1845 date on 14 February 1846, very shortly after the death of her husband. She repeated that date in testimony on 6 February 1851. Jonathan Coward, in pension testimony on 6 October 1848, referred to "the said Absolem's death in 1845." Because these statements were made closer to the actual date of the event, they are more likely to provide the accurate testimony. 6 The October date is from Jerry Taylor's article about Andrew Hooper in Taylor, Jerry A., editor, 1983, Hearthstones of Home • Foundations Of Towns County, Georgia [Volume rj: no publisher, Young Harris [GA], p. 114. The March 1848 date is listed on Harley Hooper's tombstone (which is adjacent to his firmer Andrew's tombstone), as recorded in Brooke, Ted O., 1996, Towns County, Georgia Cemeteries: [the author, 2055 Foster Drive] Cumming [GA 30130- 3549], p. 36. John (age 11) appears on the 1860 census (Towns County) within his uncle Absolem Hooper, Jr.'s home. 51 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 MahaUa7 and John H. Hooper, received Bounty Land Warrant (BLWt) No. 49494 issued June 30, 1857 for his [Andrew's] service in the War of 1812."8 If this researcher is correct about the joint , award of the warrant, then there can be no doubt that John Harley Hooper was a legal heir to bis ^-^ father. Possible solutions: As with the Picklesimer heirs, naming Andrew Hooper's daughters by their maiden names may have been done for simpUcity. Unlike the Picklesimers, there was no surviving parent to represent the interests of each heir. The youngest daughter of Andrew Hooper was Mary, who appears to be the female bom between 1830 and 1835 on Andrew's 1840 Usting in Union County, Georgia. Papers within the BLWt appUcation made on her behalf show that Enos Hooper was made guardian of his niece in November 1852. The BLWt testimony suggests Mary was bom about 1837. Enos Hooper may have wanted the interests of his ward identified separately from those of her siblings. Thus, he would have listed these heirs individuaUy. The reason for the omission of John Harley Hooper is far harder to determine. The strongest argument would be that John Harley was deemed ineUgible to be an heir because he was bom several years after the death of Absolem Hooper. The attorneys may have felt that North Carolina statutes restricted disputes over inheritance to those who were aUve at the time of the creation of the estate. Much weaker would be the argument that Enos Hooper, the chief Utigant, somehow was unaware of John Harley's existence. In 1850, Enos Uved just eight households distant from John Harley Hooper's residence in Union County, Georgia. Or perhaps John Harley Hooper was not a legal heir to Andrew Hooper at all. Some slight evidence supports this contention.9 KJ 7 This combined name probably is a confusion of Mary CantraU Hooper's youngest daughter - shown as Mahala, aged 4 on the 1850 census - with Mary, the youngest daughter of Dicey Hooper. 8 Jerry Taylor, ibid. 9 The BLWt file contains an affidavit made by Enos Hooper on 18 Oct 1855. He claimed "that he is the Lawful Gardian of Mary Hooper aged 18 years the on/y miner heir of Andrew Hooper decease who wasaprivat..." Later in the same document, he repeats the claim in describing his motives, "for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be Entitled to as Gardan for Mary Hooper the ono* miner heir of Andrew Hooper Deceased ..." Enos Hooper's meaning, however, more likely was that Mary was the only remaining minor heir of parents Andrew and Dicey. Another BLWt affidavit, made in May of 1857 by former neighbors of Andrew Hooper, specified that Mary Hooper was "the youngest and only minor child of said Dicey Hooper and Andrew Hooper.'' In this testimony, the neighbors were silent about the possibility of heirs by another wife. [Italics added, spelling as in the original document.] 52 Journeys Through Jackson March-April 1999 1 9 3 6 J a c k s o n C o u n t y D e a t h C e r t i f i c a t e s o f P e r s o n s B o r n P r i o r t o 1 9 0 0 C [Key to reading the following: Name of deceased; spouse, if married; date of birth; place of birth; 1936 date of death; father's name; father's place of birth; mother's name; mother's place of birth; informant; informant's address; cemetery or place of burial. An asterisk * marks known errors in the certificate. Note that the 1936 certificates are placed ia the book with townships in reverse alphabetical order. Abstracted February 1999 by Larry Crawford in the Jackson County Register of Deeds Office.] Webster Thompson, Ennis; h/o Betha Hooper; 10 Jul 1881; Jackson Co.; 6 Feb; John Thompson; Albemarle, Stanly Co.; Eliza Stiles; Jackson Co.; Mrs. Ennis Thompson; Greens Creek; Savannah FrizzeU, Harriet EUen; wid/o W.D.; age 78,10,1; Haywood Co.; 11 Jun; A J . Long; Haywood Co.; Jemimah Cathey; Haywood Co.; W.D. FrizzeU; Webster; Webster StiUweU, Posey Jackson; h/o Sarah; 25 Apr 1848; Jackson Co.; 3 Jul; Ephraim StiUweU; Webster; Jane Beck; Swain Co.; A.R. StiUweU; Webster; StiUweU Beck, DeUa Mae; w/o Dee; 17 Jul 1898; Webster; 13 Aug; Tyler Buchanan; Webster; MoUie Jane StiUweU; Webster; Dee Beck; Webster; Webster Moss, John M.; wid/o Nacifie Moody; 1 Dec 1863; Jackson Co.; 27 Aug; MUton Moss; Jackson Co.; Margaret Wilson; Jackson Co.; Frank Bryson; Glenville; GlenviUe Self, Octavia Elenor; wid/o WUUam; 25 Sep 1861; Webster; 3 Dec; Joseph W. Cowan; Webster; Sarah Allman; Webster; R.O. Self; Raleigh; StiUweU Sylva Fox, Nellie; w/o D.H.; May 1865; GA; 6 Mar; WUUam Burrell; GA; Mary Anne Barnes; NC; D.H. Fox; Sylva; Sylva Ensley, Josie; w/o Tolvin; Oct 1885; NC; 20 Mar; James Middleton; NC; Nettie Ashe; NC; Tolvin Ensley; Sylva; Tuckasegee Wykle, William Henry; age 62,8,0; Macon Co.; 15 Apr; Henry Wilson; Jackson Co.; Rebecca Wykle; Macon Co.; Mrs. W. H. Wykle; Sylva; Sylva Colman, Lela; w/o L.C.; age 38,2,19; Sylva; 14 Apr; Mack Whittenburg; Catawba Co.; Margaret Bryson; Sylva; L.C. Coleman; Sylva; Sylva Painter, Delia; w/o W.L.; 17 Oct 1857; Macon Co.; 25 Apr; Columbus Dalton; NC; PoUy Raby; Macon Co.; Otto Painter; Sylva; Macon Co. Hyatt, Rosa; wid/o F. Taylor; 11 Apr 1858; Buncombe Co.; 11 Jun; John Young; Buncombe Co.; Hannah Garren; Buncombe Co.; David Hyatt; WaynesvUle; WaynesvUle Ashe, Lafayette; h/o Harriet; age 73,8,19; NC; 22 Jun; Marion Ashe; NC; Samantha Styles; NC; Elsie Ashe; Sylva; Ashe Sumner, Zebulon Vance; 29 Sep 1859; McDoweU Co.; 11 Aug; Sam Sumner; not given; not given; not given; Floyd Sumner; Sylva; Andrews, NC Stanley, Carrey; h/o Margaret; 1873; NC; 8 Aug; Nash Stanley; NC; PoUy Redmond; NC; Margaret Stanley; Sylva; Wesley Chapel Morgan, Phillip Jetherow; h/o Jane Green; 16 Feb 1866; McDoweU Co.; 14 6ct; Jason Morgan; McDoweU Co.; Margaret Briggs; McDoweU Co.; CharUe N. Morgan; Sylva; Loyedale Bumgarner, Frances; wid/o Wm; 1860; NC; 30 Dec; Dolph Bumgarner; NC; Cynda HarreU; NC; Joe Bumgamer; Sylva; Love Chapel Rogers, John William; 6 Jun 1891; Webster; 7 Jan; George Baxter Rogers; Buncombe Co.; Roxie StiUweU; Webster; Bonnie Rogers; Sylva; Webster McDonald, Robert; h/o Mary Austin; 1891; Macon Co.; 14 Feb; Enoch Penland; Macon Co.; Stacy McDonald; Macon Co.; John Austin; Sylva; Parris Hyatt, William Seborn; h/o Laura Hasletine Mehaffey; 22 Oct 1855; Waynesville; 28 Apr; Robert Lafayette Hyatt; NG; Margaret Louise Mahaffey; WaynesvUle; Ed HyattfWhittier; Hyatt 53 KJ Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 Sylva Smith, Daisy; w/o John; 1883; WalhaUa, SC; 11 May; Sam WiUiams; SC; Mary WUUams; SC; Roy Smith; Sylva; DiUsboro Moore, MUdred Luva; 18 Feb 1897; HayesviUe, Clay Co.; 21 May; Sidney Martin; HayesviUe; . Hooper; Haywood Co.; W.T. Moore; Andrews; Andrews, NC Gibson, James Earls; h/o Bertie King; 4 Apr 1873; Bryson City; 20 Mar; S.B. Gibson; Macon Co.; Sarah Jane Earls; Rutherfordton, NC; R ^ . Gibson; Bryson City; Swain Co. Golz, Frederick August; h/o Anna Holden; 10 Jan 1893; BrazU, IN; 15 Jul; Valentine Golz; Germany; Mary Norkus; Germany; Mrs. FA. Golz; Richmond, IN; Richmond, IN Broom, Jeff; wid/o Mamie Cline; 26 Mar 1895; Wolf Mtn; 8 Jul; Andy Broom; not given; not given; not given; Frank Owens; Wolf Mtn; Wolf Mountain Bennett Holman H.; h/o Beulah Clayton; 5 May 1866; Jackson Co.; 16 Jul; John Bennett; Haywood Co.; Lucinda Graham; not given; Ross Bennett; Sylva; SpeedweU Buchanan, Samuel Ulacius; h/o Mary Collins; 14 Mar 1869; Jackson Co.; 2 Sep; WUbum Buchanan; Jackson Co.; Jane Beck; Jackson Co.; TUer Buchanan; Webster; Webster Hooper, William W.; h/o Arsula; 26 Jun 1898; Jackson Co.; 19 Sep; Oscar L. Hooper; Jackson Co.; June Bradley; Jackson Co.; Zeb. L. Hooper; Hazelwood; Tuckasegee Watson, George Ervin; h/o Cross Parker; 29 Apr 1893; Lancaster Co., SC; 10 Oct; Robert Watson; not given; Maggie McCorde; not given; Cross Parker Watson; Marble; Marble Wike, Eddie; 3 Nov 1891; Conley's Creek; 10 Sep; nothing else given except informant D.C. Wike; Whittier; Wilmot Scotts Creek Mathis, Sarah Elvira; wid/o Tom; age 71,9; NC; 3 Feb; John MUler; NC; Martha MUls*; NC; John D. Mathis; Sylva; Addie Savannah Stillwell, Mary Mag; age 77,7,14; Webster; 14 Feb; W. Hamilton Bryson; CuUowhee; Agnes Wilson; Jackson Co.; Robert Cabe; Greens Creek; StiUweU Jones, Gibson; h/o Mae; age 70,6,4; NC; 14 Apr; CharUe Jones; NC; Nancy Kirkland; NC; A.A.. McMahan; Gay; Zion HiU Bishop, John; wid/o PoUy; age 82,6,3; Jackson Co.; 2 Jun; John Bishop; NC; Louisa Berry; NC; A.C. Wilson; Gay; CuUowhee Bishop, Hugh; wid/o Jenel Early ?; age 87,4,14; Jackson Co.; 3 Jul; John Bishop; NC; Louisa Berry; NC; A.C. WUson; Gay; Zion HU1 Higdon, Annie; wid/o Dave; age 58,7,14; Jackson Co.; 23 Jul; John Franks; NC; SaUie Franks; NC; Jim Johnson; Gay; Zion HU1 Cabe, Alora; w/o Robert; age 57,8,9; Jackson Co.; 27 Jul; John Frady; NC; Amanda Messer; NC; F.S. Deitz; Greens Creek; East Fork River Hooper, Hillman Pery; wid/o Carrie Littleton; 1857; Tuckasegee; 12 Jan; WUUam Hooper; Tuckasegee; Susan Slaton; Tuckasegee; Guy Hooper; GreenviUe, SC; Easley, SC Smith, John Hamilton; h/o Francis Wood; age 79,7,6; Rabun Co., GA; 16 Feb; Thomas Smith; Rabun Co., GA; Elizabeth Page; Rabun Co., GA; W.H. Smith; Tuckasegee; Tuckasegee Price, Pleasant Napoleon; 27 Jun 1871; Jackson Co.; 27 Feb; Archibald Price; GA; PoUy Ann Parker; Jackson Co.; W.H. Smith; Tuckasegee; Tuckasegee Ashe, Ramsey; 1897; NC; 24 Feb; Cole Ashe; GA; Martha Broom; NC; S.M. Parker Sr.; Tuckasegee; Tuckasegee Cope, Andrew Clingman; wid/o EmUy Victoria Bryson; age 69,8,19; NC;20 Mar; WUUam ^J Cope; Sylva; Amanda Buchanan; Savannah; Earl Deitz; East LaPorte; Beta 54 Ky Journeys Through Jackson March-April 1999 River C Wike, Florence; w/o Lee; age 65,9,21; Newton, NC; 10 Apr; George Fincannon; Alexander, NC; Catherine Wike; Newton, NC; T.L. Wike; East LaPorte; Wike Adams, Joshua; wid/o Jenny McKinney;1861; SpeedweU; 19 May; B.A. Adams; SpeedweU; Endia Evert; Norton; WUl Adams; Tuckasegee; Shook Moody, Emma Jane; w/o John T.; 1 Nov 1859; NC; 15 Sep; Andrew Wike; NC; Mariah FuUbright; NC; Thomas Jerry Moody; Sylva; East LaPorte Middleton, Nathan; 28 Mar 1882; Tuckasegee; 28 Nov; David Middleton; Tuckasegee; Mariah Chastain; Cowarts; T.F. Middleton; Tuckasegee; Middleton Jones, Lou; w/o Lee; 6 Apr 1876; Macon Co.; 9 Dec; nothing else given except informant Floyd Jones; Tuckasegee; Cook QuaUa Childers, Robert; r9 Jun 1865; Jackson Co.; 30 Jan; Nimrod Clulders; Jackson; Rebecca Queen; Jackson; James Blankenship; Whittier; Union Hill Snyder, Nora Bumgarner; w/o Clark; 18 Oct 1890; Jackson Co.; 6 Feb; Joseph Bumgarner; Jackson; Fannie Farley; Jackson; Clark Snyder; Whittier; Worley Barker, J.N.; age 52; Jackson Co.; 3 Jan; John Barker; Webster; Frances AUen; Webster; not given; not given; Andrews, NC Jordan, Minnie; w/oBaely; 30 Aug 1875; Leicester, Buncombe Co.; 15 Sep; John Hughes; Madison Co.; Lucinda Hawkins; Leicester; Bax HoweU; Whittier; SherriU Bradley, James H.; h/o DoUie Raby; 10 Oct 1873; Barker's Creek; 26 Sep; John Bradley; not given; Nancy Nations; not given; Thad Bradley; Whittier; Wilmot Oosoure, Sam; h/o Susie; 16 Sep 1859; Cherokee; 14 Sep; nothing else given except informant Goliath George; Cherokee; Painttown ^ Green, Thad Jr.;h/o Stella; 3 Nov 1898; Judson, Swain Co.; 1 Sep; Thad Green; Jackson; JuUa Patterson; GA; JuUa Green; Judson; Almond Ward, Mary; wid/o Elias B.; 24 Apr 1852; VaUey River, Swain Co.*; 25 Oct; PhiUip Bradley; not given; Margrette McCassU; not given; KeUy Ward; Whittier; Ward Long, SaUie Bigwitch; w/o Joseph; 24 Apr 1876; Cherokee; 8 Apr 1935; Wesley Crowe; NC; Elsie Thompson; Cherokee; Roy Bradley; Cherokee; Soco Mountain Watson, Bulah; w/o Louie; age 38,8,16; Jackson Co.; 2 Feb; Roufas Stewart; Jackson Co.; Vadie Henry;-Macon Co.; Jim Watson; not given; Erastus Coggins, Garfield; h/o Ethel; age 45,1; Jackson Co.; 23 Mar; Marcus Coggins; Jackson Co.; Lutennie Moody; Jackson Co.; Ethel Coggins; Erastus; Double Springs Hamburg Fox, John B.; h/o Jane; 1ft Jul 1872; NC; 19 Nov 1935; nothing else given except informant Claude Rogers; Norton; Evitt McGuire, Samuel Logan; wid/o MarceUa; 2 Oct 1852; White Pine, TN; 9 Mar; Patrick McGuire; TN;SaUie Alexander; TN; Wayne P. McGuire; Sylva; Norton Leopard, John Morgan; h/o Stacy; 19 Dec 1863; SC; 12 Aug; Tommy Leopard; SC; Betty Nichols; SC; Stacy Leopard; GlenviUe; GlenviUe Hooper, Sarah Irene; wid/o Henry M ; 20 Jan 1843; Jackson Co.; 8 Nov; John Wike; NC; Malinda Moss;<NC; H.H. Hooper; Big Ridge; Big Ridge Young, Alfred Anderson; age 43; not given; bur. 12 Oct 1935; nothing else given except informant Richard Young; Glenville 55 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 a Greens Creek Brooks, Sarah Melvinia; w/o Tom; 18 Feb 1852; NC; 20 Apr; Lee Greene; NC; Agnes " . Quilliams; NC; not given; not given; Savannah ^-"^ Greene, Sarah C ; w/o R.W.; 22 Mar 1874; Greens Creek; 19 Nov; Silas Buchanan; NC; Sarah C. Buchanan; NC; R.W. Greene; Greens Creek; Old Savannah Cagle, Mrs. John W.; 19 Mar 1866; Greens Creek; 9 Dec; Jamison HaU; NC; MUey Reeves; NC; David Cagle; Greens Creek; Old Savannah Dillsboro Sutton, Laura Boorina; w/o John C ; age 56,11,0; BushneU, Swain Co.; 20 Feb; Frank Fowler; GlenviUe; Mary Jackson; East LaPorte; John C. Sutton; DiUsboro; DiUsboro Hensley, Mrs. G.L.; age 60,6; DiUsboro; 29 Feb; Geo Cunningham; Yancey Co.; McMahan; Dillsboro; G.L. Hensley; DiUsboro; DiUsboro Hensley, Ellis Henry; 12 Jul 1899; DiUsboro; 30 May; Issac Hensley; NC; IsabeU Cunningham; NC; Willie Hipps; DiUsboro; Locust Field Robinson, James Oscar; 2 Jan 1895; DiUsboro; 18 Jun; J.H. Robinson; DiUsboro; Sarah Franklin; Haywood Co.; Ed Robinson; DiUsboro; Franklin (Long Branch) MitcheU, Champ Davis; age 73; Haywood Co.; 28 Jun; Gus MitcheU; NC; Carolyn Ingram; not given; Alma MitcheU; DiUsboro; DiUsboro Snyder, Laura Sinday; w/o Theodore; 26 Dec 1890; Macon Co.; 27 Sep; Julius Jacobs; Macon Co.; Rachel Cunningham; Macon Co.; Theodore Snyder; DiUsboro; DiUsboro Whitmire, Robert Browning; h/o Anna; Jan 1852; Cross Anchor, SC; 7 Nov; Hal Wmtmire; SC; not given; not given; John Norman; Sylva; Parris CuUowhee Hooper, Ida; w/o Gabriel; 1871; NC; bur 7 Jan; George Rogers; NC; Chloe Barnes; NC; ^y Theodore Lakey; Cullowhee; Cullowhee Morrison, Riley; wid/o Florence; age 65,3,4; CuUowhee; 2 Feb; George Morrison; CuUowhee; Mary McCarter, TN; Nina Watson; SpeedweU; SpeedweU Hooper, Nellie Smith; w/o Lee; age 58,11,12; East LaPorte; 12 Mar; CuUowhee; Lewis J. Smith; WaynesvUle; Clara Coward; Caney Fork; Lee Hooper; SpeedweU; CuUowhee Love, Louise; wid/o Thomas; 1851; Haywood Co.; bur 5 May; Gipson; NC; not given; not given; WUl Rogers; CuUowhee; WaynesvUle Lackey, William; h/o Maggie Fisher; age 38; Pigeon River, NC; bur. 4 Aug 1935; WUUam Lackey; WaynesvUle; Lela Fisher; Clayton, GA; Lela Lackey; not given; CuUowhee Bryson, Belle Pressley Styles; w/o Hugh R.; age 66,1,4; Cullowhee; 21 Jul; Clingman Pressley; SpeedweU; Matilda Mathis; Tuckasegee; Hugh R. Bryson; not given; CuUowhee Long, Launa; w/o John C ; 23 May 1896; GlenviUe; 25 Aug; Wesley Henson; GlenviUe; Hattie Collins; GlenviUe; J.C. Long; CuUowhee; CuUowhee Davis, Lena Kemp; wid/o Thomas; age 76,10,12; Brevard; 12 Feb; Henry Kemp; SC; not given; not given; Jeff Lackey; CuUowhee; Colored Cem.-CuUowhee (Mount Zion?) Coward, Martha Lou Norton; wid/o David; age 82,10,3; Cashiers VaUey; 29 Sep; WUUam Norton; Cashiers VaUey; Susan Zachary; Cashiers VaUey; Mrs. C.R. Bird; Guilford CoUege; CuUowhee Hooper, Gabriel; wid/o Ida; age 84; not given; 27 Oct; nothing else given except informant JJEL Painter; CuUowhee; CuUowhee Brvson, Rachel Magdaline; w/o John F.; age 67,5,24; WUlets; 4 Nov; Emanuel Shuler; NC; Eliza Hice; not given; Robert Bryson; CuUowhee; Cullowhee Oxner, Lewis Henry; h/o Rebecca; age 71,4,11; WaynesvUle; 29 Sep; Henry Oxner; WaynesvUle; not given; not given; Henry Oxner, Jr.; CuUowhee; CuUowhee 56 Journeys Through Jackson M a r c h - A p r i l 1999 CuUowhee Bryson, John Franklin; h/o Rachel Magdaline; 7 Sep 1851; CuUowhee; 5 Nov; MUton M. Bryson; CuUowhee; Ann Duncan; McDoweU Co.; R.M. Bryson; CuUowhee; not given Brown, Caroline Louisa; wid/o Albert; age 83,7,21; Liberty, SC; 17 Nov; John Coats; SC; Anna Sanders; SC; R.V. Brown; CuUowhee; Caney Fork Lowery, Wilson; h/o Mary; 1863; Pickens, SC; 22 Nov; Antony Lowery; not given; not given; Mary Lowery; CuUowhee; CuUowhee Cashiers Stoddard, Virginia Tryon; age 54,5,26; Watertown, CT; 12 Aug; James Stoddard; New London, CT; Alice Kent; Brooklyn, NY; James K. Stoddard; Cashiers; Cashiers Caney Fork Mathews, Mary Ann; age 84,7; Qualla; 31 Jan; John Dawson; McDoweU Co.; Conley Rabom; McDoweU Co.; John Dawson; Cowarts; Johns Creek Fortner, WiUiam Dread; wid/o Mary Ann; 6 Jun 1840; Jackson Co.; 7 May; BUly Fortner; not given; RusseU; not given; Sarrah Queen; Cowarts; Johns Creek Mathews, Real*; 15 May 1874; CuUowhee; 30 Jul; Levy Mathews; GA; Ibby Bryson; CuUowhee; Jim Shuler; Cowarts; Balsam Grove Phillips, Callie; w/o Houston; age 69,7; Cowarts; 20 Nov; Thomas Hooper; Cowarts; Elizabeth Shelton; CuUowhee; Will Hooper; Cowarts; Brasstown Canada Brown, Lee; h/o Mary; age 56,8,20; Jackson Co.; 14 Jun; John Brown; Wolf Mountain; Roda Brown; Wolf Mountain; Thad Brown; Wolf Mountain; Woodring Mathis, Rachel M.; w/o Hayes; age 53,7,3; Argura; 14 Jun; Wesley PhiUips; TN; Marget Ashe; Webster; Duff Mathis; Argura; Cathey Davis, Clara; 24 Jan 1849; Lenoir Co.; 22 Sep; John Joyner; Lenoir Co.; Sarah Joyner; Lenoir Co.; Harry L. Nettles; AshevUle; StPauls Kearley, Silas; age 77,6,26; Madison Co.; 27 Oct; not given; not given; Elizabeth Kearley; Madison Co.; Mac Nicholson; Wolf Mountain; Canada Barker's Creek Raby, Henry; age 68,9,17; Jackson Co.; 21 Jan; Dimpsey Raby; NC; (Ulegible) Raby; NC; J.J. Raby; Whittier, Wilmot Nation, Jhon; age 56; NC; 8 Feb; Ace Nation; NC; Plastine Nation *; NC; Thorn Jones; JWhittier; Nations Dills, Ann; age 87,11,25; Jackson Co.; 12 Mar; Dennis Rogers; Jackson Co.; Poley Rogers; Jackson Co.; Frank Ward; Whittier; Sylva Davis, EmUy; age 72; NC; 28 Mar; Ab Davis; NC; Diadema DiUs; NC; Jud Robinson; DiUsboro; Franklin; (Long Branch) Dills, Prudie; age 81; SC; 17 Jun; Dennis Rogers; SC; Poley Rogers; SC; Jim Pangle; Whittier, Locust Field Davis, Pink; age 75; Madison Co.; 10 Jul; AUen Davis; Madison Co.; Annie Sexton; Madison Co.; Frank Ward; Whittier; Barker's Creek Jones, Fate; age 73,11,18; Jackson Co.; 20 Oct; Chariie Jones; Jackson Co.; Sarah Jones; Jackson Co.; Roy Nation; Whittier; Nations Creek 57 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 J C G S T r e a s u r er Cash in Bank 1/01/1998 Revenues: Cemetery Book Sales Census Book Sales Docket Book Sales Donations-Contributions Heritage Book Sales Interest Earaed-Checking Account Newsletter Reprints Membership Dues - Family Membership Dues - Individual Membership Dues - Life Miscellaneous Income Prepaid Postage - Cemetery Book Prepaid Postage - Docket Book Prepaid Postage - Heritage Book Sales Tax Payable Total Revenues Expenses: Advertising Bank Charges Cemetery Books Printed Computer Software Electricity Charges Insurance (Property/Liability) Miscellaneous Expense Newsletter Printing Office Furniture Office Rental Office Supplies General & Admin. Expenses Petty Cash Expenditures Post Office Box Rental Postage - Docket Book Postage Expense Postage - Heritage Book Postage - Journeys newsletter Program/Presentation/Trip Fees Promotional Banner Sales Tax - Cemetery Book Sales Tax - Census Book Sales tax - Docket Book Sales tax - Heritage Book Total Expenses Net Earnings (Addition to Cash in Bank) Cash Balance 12/31/1998 ' s R e p o r t f o r 1 9 9 8 $14,436.16 $7,027.26 151.90 254.70 107.50 2, 840.09 256.64 337.50 650.00 2,640.00 600.00 400.00 208.00 22.50 114.15 616.70 $16,226.94 51.60 23.00 5,370.00 384.86 638.17 300.00 285.96 1,637.07 297.14 2,000.00 127.42 50.00 1,298.00 36.00 10.46 6.40 . 39.69 516.01 80.00 85.25 390.58 5.20 10.81 171.78 $13,815.40 2,411.54 $16,847.70 Ky KJ (Submitted by David FrizzeU, Treasurer) KJ 58 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 T h e D e s c e n d a n t s o f J o h n O w e n , S r . By Shawna Green HaU [Ed. We continue in this issue with the Owen descendancy. Once again, we remind readers that JCGS member Shawna Hall says that this account is not foolproof. Nevertheless, we see much of genealogical interest and value here.] 67. ALVIN* HOXIT (JAMES ESTES*, EVELINE* OWEN, ANDREW JACKSON*, JOHN*, JOHN*; was born 1909 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone), and died Feb 1968 in Henderson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Holly Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Henderson Co., N.C). He married RACHEL E.. Children of Alvin Hoxit and Rachel E. are: i. PAULINE7 Hoxrr. ii. RUTH HOXIT. HI. CATHERINE-HOXIT. iv. GLEN Hoxrr. j V. ROY HOXTT. b. 1941. j vi. THOMAS Hoxrr. I vii. RALPH HOXIT. ' viii. TROY HOXIT. I 68. AUTHOR V.« HOXIT {JAMES ESTES*, EVELINE* OWEN, ANDREW JACKSON*, JOHN*, JOHN'J.was born 1913. t He married CARRIE ANDERS-Children of Author Hoxit and Carrie Anders are: i. MYRTLE7.HOXIT. I C H. HARRY JOHN Hoxrr. i m. PAUL Hoxrr. iv. DENNIS Hoxrr. v. DEVEDA HOXIT. 69. PEARL* HARRIS (NORA LUCINDA* OWEN, WILLIAM BAXTER*, WILLIAM BAXTER?, JOHN*, JOHN*) was born Dec 23, 1929 in Jackson Co., N.C. She married JAMES VAUGHN OWEN Sep 4, 1949 in Jackson Co., N.C, son of William Owen and Ethel Owen. Children of Pearl Harris and James Owen are: i. UVERN'OWEN, b. Sep 20, 1950. ii. WILLIAM LEE OWEN, b. Oct 23.1953. Hi. REBECCA JEAN OWEN, b. Aug 7, 1956, Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, Jackson Owen Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C); d. Nov 11, 1956, Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone), iv. BARBARA OWEN, b. May 10, 1958. 88. v. JAMES MACK OWEN, b. Jan 15, 1960, Jackson Co., N.C. vl. JOHN HARLANDOWEN, b. May 26,1961. vii. ANTHONYVAU6HN OWEN. b. Sep 29, 1967. 70. PAUL* GALLOWAY (WARTSEL MCDONALD*, JANE PERNETTA* OWEN, JESSE ROLAND*, JOHN*, JOHN*). He married GRACE BRYSON, daughter of Samuel Bryson and Susie Hooper. Children of Paul Galloway and Grace Bryson are: i. SAMUEL7 GALLOWAY. ii. UNDA GALLOWAY. 59 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 71. TERRY* GALLOWAY (WARTSEL MCDONALD*, JANEPERNETTA* OWEN, JESSEROLAND*, JOHN*, JOHN*). He married ZEPHIA PARKER- Ky Children of Terry Galloway and Zephia Parker are: i. CONLEY7 GALLOWAY, ii. RANDY GALLOWAY. Hi. JACK GALLOWAY. 72. LOJAUN* GALLOWAY (WARTSEL MCDONALD*, JANE PERNETTA4 OWEN, JESSEROLAND*, JOHN*, JOHN*). She married MARION COOPER. Children of Lojaun Galloway and Marion Cooper are: I. SANDRA7 COOPER. ii. JANET COOPER. 73. FAYE* GALLOWAY (WARTSEL MCDONALD*, JANE PERNETTA* OWEN, JESSEROLAND*. JOHN*, JOHN*). She married THOMAS HOOPER. • Child of Faye Galloway and Thomas Hooper is: I. JEFFREY7 HOOPER. 74. MYRTLE* GALLOWAY (SAMUEL ROSCOE*, JANE PERNETTA* OWEN, JESSEROLAND*, JOHN*, JOHN*) was born Jul 14, 1912 in Transylvania Co., N.C, and died Oct 29, 1935 in Transylvania Co., N.C. She married JAMES WILKE HoXTT, son of Harley Hoxit and Margaret H.. Children of Myrtle Galloway and James Hoxit are: i. DOROTHY MARIE7 Hoxrr, d. Jul 9, 1938, Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Rock Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). ii. MARY LOUISE HOXIT. iii. JAMES W. Hoxrr. 75. MYRTLE* OWEN (ANDREW LUTHER*, ALFRED HENRY*, JOHNB.*, JOHN*, JOHN*). She married HALL WATSON, son of W. Watson and Mary Wood. Child of Myrtle Owen and Hall Watson is: I. CLAUDETTE7WATSON. 76. RUBY* OWEN (ANDREW LUTHER*, ALFRED HENRY*, JOHNB.*, JOHN*, JOHN*). She married COLE LEE. Children of Ruby Owen and Cole Lee are: i. OWEN7 LEE ii. JUNE LEE 77. ELLA MAE* OWEN (ANDREW LUTHER*, ALFRED HENRY*, JOHNB.*, JOHN*, JOHN*) was born Jan 9 . 1 8 92 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: personal knowledge, headstone), and died Apr 7, 1992 in Brevard, N.C. (Source: personal knowledge, headstone). She married (1) WALTER HARRISON MATHIS Dec 27, 1912 In Jackson Co., North Carolina (Source: Personal knowledge, marriage register of Jackson Ca, N.C), son of John Mathis and Sarah Cathey. Ky KJ 60 Ky KJ 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. I. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 Children of Ella Owen and Walter Mathis are: HAZEL BURDINE7 MATTHEWS, b. Oct 6, 1913, Jackson Co., North Carolina. WiLMA BURDELL MATTHEWS, b. Apr 4, 1916. Jackson Co., North Carolina. OLIVE ELOISE MATTHEWS, b. Mar 16, 1921, Jackson Co., North Carolina; d. Apr 15, 1997, Brevard,-N.C. GAZELLAWYSE MATTHEWS, b. Apr 7, 1924, Jackson Co., North Carolina. APPLESS WALTON MATTHEWS, b. Dec 20, 1927, North Carolina. OPALESTELLAMATTHEWS, b. Jun 20, 1931, Jackson Co., N.C; d. Jul 30, 1997, Pickens Ca, S.C. FRANKLIN ELMO MATTHEWS, b. Jul 27, 1934, Jackson Co., North Carolina. WANDA KATE MATTHEWS, b. Dec 3, 1938, Jackson Co., North Carolina. Child of Ella Owen is: 97. ix. ANNIE GLENDOLA7 MATTHEWS, b. Nov 14, 1918, Jackson Co., North Carolina. 78. ANDREW VESS* OWEN (ANDREW LUTHER*, ALFRED HENRY*, JOHNB.*, JOHN*, JOHN*) was born Jun 25, 1895 in Jackson Co., N.C (Source: birth records of Jackson Co., N.C), and died Jun 29,.1981 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Wolf Creek Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). He married VIOLET MAY SHELTON-Children of Andrew Owen and Violet Shelton are: i. ALMA7 OWEN. H. ARNOLD OWEN, iii. HELENOWEN. fv. OBERAOWEN. v. HARRY OWEN. vi. THOMAS OWEN. vii. ANDREW OWEN-viii. GERALD OWEN. 79. BETTIE* OWEN (ANDREWLUTHER*, ALFRED HENRY*, JOHNB.*, JOHN*, JOHN*) was bom Oct 2 4 , 1 8 9 7 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: Headstone, Pisgah Gardens Cemetery, N.C), and died Jul 21, 1971 in Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source: same). She married BERLIN R. OWEN. Children of Bettie Owen and Berlin Owen are: i. EDWARD ENGLISH7 OWEN. b. Jun 30,1920, N.C (Source: Headstone, E.D. Owen Cemetery, N.C); d. Nov 6, 1921, Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source: same), ii. ANDREW LUTHER OWEN, b. Nov 6, 1922, Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source:- Headstone, Pisgah Gardens Cemetery, N.C); d. Jun 21, 1980, Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source: same), iii. BERLIN RAY OWEN, b. Jul 24, 1928, N.C. (Source: Headstone, E.D. Owen Cemetery, N.C); d. Aug 21, 1928, Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source: same). 80. ESTELLA«OwEN (ANDREW LUTHER*, ALFRED HENRY*, JOHNB*. JOHN*. JOHN*) was born Apr 1, 1900 In Jackson Co., N.C (Source: birth records of Jackson Ca, N.C). She married CLEVELAND NICHOLSON. Child of Estella Owen and Cleveland Nicholson Is: i. ULLIAN7 NICHOLSON. 81. ONIA*OWEN (ANDREW LUTHER*, ALFRED HENRY*, JOHNB.*, JOHN*, JOHN*) was born Jan 7, 1902 in Jackson Co., N.C, and died Nov 1, 1979 in Jackson Co., N.C (R.B.). She married MITCHELL SHELTON. Children of Onia Owen and Mitchell Shelton are: i. HEYWARD7 SHELTON. IL REBA SHELTON. 61 Journeys Through Jackson March-April 1999 82. ALLIE*OWEN (ANDREW LUTHER*, ALFRED HENRY*, JOHNB.*, JOHN*, JOHN*) was born Jun 19, 1910 in Jackson Co.. N.C. (Source: birth records of Jackson Co., N.C), and died In State of Washington. /' Children of Allie Owen are: i. CONRAD7, ii. DOROTHY. 83. PANSY* OWEN (ANDREW LUTHER*, ALFRED HENRY*, JOHNB.*, JOHN*. JOHN*) was born Aug 1 , 1 9 1 3 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: birth records of Jackson Co., N.C). She married ? PARKER-Children of Pansy Owen and ? Parker are: i. WADE7 PARKER. Ii. WAYNE PARKER. iii. JORETTA PARKER. 84. VESSIE* HOXTT (DAVIS*, EVELINE* OWEN, ANDREW JACKSON*, JOHN*, JOHN*) was born Nov 24. 1905 in Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone), and died Mar 1983 in Pickens Co., S.C. (Source: headstone, buried Wolf Mountain Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). He married OLLIE MAE-Child of Vessie Hoxit and Ollie Mae is: i. CARVEL7 Hoxrr. 85. JAMES WILKE* Hoxrr (HARLEY VICTOR*, EVELINE* OWEN, ANDREW JACKSON*, JOHN*, JOHN*) was born Sep 9, 1913 in Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone), and died Sep 16, 1982 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Jackson Owen Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). He married MYRTLE GALLOWAY, daughter of Samuel Galloway and Laura Owen. Children of James Hoxit and Myrtle Galloway are: i. DOROTHY MARIE7 HoXIT, d. Jul 9, 1938, Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Rock ( Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). —' ii. MARY LOUISE HOXIT. HI. JAMES W. Hoxrr. 86. CLARENCE w.* OWEN (ELIJAH*, WILLIAM JACKSON*, ANDREW JACKSON*, JOHN*, JOHN*) was born in Jackson Co., North Carolina. He married WANDA KATE MATTHEWS in North Carolina, daughter of Walter Mathis and Ella Owen. Children of Clarence Owen and Wanda Matthews are: 98. i. DEBORAH7 OWEN, b. Brevard, N.C. 99. ii. TODD OWEN. 87. JAMES VAUGHN* OWEN (ETHEL IVALEE*, JAMES MILFORD*. ANDREW JACKSON*. JOHN*. JOHN*; was born Nov 3, 1922 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, Jackson Owen Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C), and died Mar 22, 1990 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone). He married PEARL HARRIS Sep 4, 1949 in Jackson Co., N.C, daughter of John Harris and Nora Owen. Children of James Owen and Pearl Harris are: i. LAVERN7 OWEN, b. Sep 20, 1950. ii. WILLIAM LEE OWEN, b. Oct 23,1953. iii. REBECCA JEAN OWEN. b. Aug 7, 1956, Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, Jackson Owen Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C); d. Nov 11, 1956, Jackson Co., N.C'(Source: headstone). iv. BARBARA OWEN. b. May 10, 1958. 88. v. JAMES MACK OWEN, b. Jan 15, 1960, Jackson Co., N.C. vi. JOHN HARLAND OWEN, b. May 26, 1961. VII. ANTHONY VAUGHN OWEN, b. Sep 29, 1967. ( \ 62 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 K c ^ ^ 1 •a 3 | st m S V ~ WS ~ n i l M**"< OS ' • c a §8" s. s S3 jj n - « os r-i l l •• O<Sr\ O0S0 £.3 E H 63 Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 sy i CI «4> i 1 S £ «•« 0f0 <so3^ m oo V 2 l J """•a ' f l 00 00 1 = 1 "5 .o E 2SS ! —00 E5 SI-'B • 8 3 * frf- «J ?°Soo i l l * * ? &..D I s - t§5s8" S | o P •o Ji E J5 5 as? 1 1 1 fi -0 ji 2 OS w — 8~ -O.s O •S* .00 § rrss —— 8 * 2 8LvO°° 8" - « 2 >. 1 8 2 2 -d x> ^ 64 f Journeys Through Jackson March - April 1999 u I i l i l t «T» a E" 00 ! * 2 3* ••ox E fe OS fa-o is I 65 Ancestors of Ira Mitchell Watson (4 of 5) Ancestors of Ira Mitchell Watson (5 of 5) 8 Adam Watson d: Aft. June 09,1841 b: Abt 1764 m: Aft. June 25, 1788 Moses Elexander Watson d: 1860-1865 b: Febmaty 10,1809 m: Abt 1827 Moses Leander Watson I d: January 05,1934 b: May 03,1851 I m: March 09,1870 I Katherine "Caty" Hughes d: Bef. December 17, 1851 b: Abt. 1767 Abraham Plcldesbner d: June 05,1861 b: January 16,1787 m: 1810 Cont p. 1 1 Alei 1 d:A , b:K< 1 m:I L_ Cont p. 2 James RHey Houston d: September 24,1883 b: 1802 lander W. Houston i ligust 1932 ' by 04. 1848 | )ecember26,1871 i < LavmlaAOen d: 1895 b: 1812 Elizabeth Picklesimer b: 1809 Eleanor Hooper d: September 21,1825 b: April 12,1790 3 CO ! I s o 3 S o tr i vO G G G Ky c Journey. s Through Jackson March - April 1999 I n d e x f o r V o l u m e 9 , N o s . 3 ,4 Abemathy 39 Adams 39,55 Aiken 39 Alexander 45,55 AUen 38,39,42,55,66 Allman 53 Ammons 42 Anders 59 Ansley 39 Ash 44 Ashe 53,54,57,65 Austin 53 Avent 45 Baker 44,46 Banwarth39 Barker 55 Barnard 40,42 Barnes 50,53,56 Beasley 46 Beck 37,38,40,44,53,54 Bell 49 Bennett 54 Berry 43,54 Bigwitch55 Bird 56 Bishop 40,43,54 Blackmun38 Blankmship 55 Blanton 40 BIixseth40 Blythe 47 BoIm45 Boiling 45 Bradley 37,54,55 Briggs53 Briscoe 41 Brogden 37 Brooke 51 Brooks 39,40,47,56 Broom 36,43,54 Brown 35,40,41,42,45,49,57 Bryson 35,39,40,41,42,43, 44,53,54,56,57,59 Buchanan 37,39,41,53,54,56 Bumgarner 53,55 Burkett41 Burns 42 Burrell 53 Cabe 54 Cagle 56 Callicott41 CantraU 51,52 Carnes 38,39,41 Carson 42 Case 41 Carney 53,60 Chastain 49,55 Cheney 41 Childers 55 Clayton 54 Cline 54 Coats 57 Cochran 41 Cockerham 46 Coggins 44,55 Cole 40 Collins 54, 56 Colman53 Conner 42 Cooper 40,60 Cope 43,54 Cowan 37,41,53 Coward 35,56 Crawford 38.41,42,53 Crocker 49 Crowe 55 Cunningham 56 Dalton 53 Davenport 45 Davis 39,40,42,56,57 Dawson 45,57 Day 43 Dee 40 Deitz 37,54 Die 40 Dillard 44,65 Dills 40,57 Doane40 Dotson 42 Duncan 57 Dyer 43 Earls 54 Barry 54 Elliott 43,47 Ensley 42,53 Evans 46 Evert 55 Farley 55 Farmer 39,42 Fanis45 Fincannon 55 Fisher 39,42,56 Fortner 42,57 Fouts 38 Fowler 56 Fox 53,55 Frady 39,54 Franklin 56,63,65 Franks 54 FrizzeU 53,58 FuUbright 45,55 M a r c h - A p r i l 1 9 99 GaUoway 42,59,60,62 Garren 53 Garza 42 Geisler 46 George 55 Gibson 54 Gilbert 43 Gillespie 51 GiUett42 GiUon39,42 Gipson56 Golz 54 Goodwin 42,49 Graham 41,54 Grant 43 Gray 45 Green 36,42.55,59 Greene 56 Gregory 64 Griffin 44 Grizzard45 Gross 43 Gunter 45 Hall 36,37.42,43,47,56,59 Hamilton 36,43 HarreU53 Harris 59,62,65 Hawkins 55 Henry 46,55 Hensjey56 Henson 42,45,56 Heun43 Hice56 Higdon 54 Hipps 56 Hoey47 Holden 44,54 Hooper 35,40,42,43,49,50, 51,52,54,55,56,57,59,60,63, 64,66 Houston 63,64,66 Howell 55 Hoxit 59,60,62 Hoyle 45 Huffman 42 Hughes 55,66 Hughey41 Huskey40 Hyatt 42,53 Ingram 41,56 Irons 41 Jackson 56 Jacobs 56,64 Jacobs 64 Jenkins 38,45 Johnson 54 67 Journeys Through Jackson March - Jones 43,45,54,55,57 Jordan 55 Jorgensen 50 Joyner 57 Kearley 57 Keever 44 Kemp 56 Kent 57 Kilby 38 King 54 Kirkland 54 Lackey 56 Lakey 56 Lambert 43 Leatherwood 42 Leavins43 Lee 43,60 Leopard 44,55 Long 53,55.56 Loudermilk41 Love 56 Lovedahl 35 Lowery 57 Lucas 44 Luedtke44 Mahaffey 53 Martin 54 Mason 44 Massingale 44 Mathews 57 Mathis 40,46,54,56,60,61,62 Matthews 61,62 Maynard44 McCarter56 McCassiU55 McClure 35 McConneU 41,65 McCorde54 McDonald 47,53 McGuire 55 McKinney55 McMahan 54,56 McWhorter 40 Medford 38,46 Mehaffey 53 Messer 40,54 Middleton 38,44,53,55 Miller 43,47,54 Mills 43,44,46,54 MitcheU 43,56 Moffitt 47 Monteith 37,40,41,43,44,46 Moody 42,44,46,53,55 Moore 54 Morgan 38,53 Morris 44,45 Morrison 56 Morton 44 Moss 39,42,49,53,55,63,64 Most 49 Murray 44 Nation 57 Nations 45,55 Nettles 57 Nichols 55 Nicholson 45,57,61 Noland 45 Norkus 54 Norman 42,56 Norris 47 Norton 44,56 OUver45 Oosoure55 Owen 36,42,59,60,61,62 Owens 44,54 Oxner 56 Page 54 Painter 45,53,56 Pangle 57 Pannell 42 Parker 35,45,47,54,60,62,64 Parton 37 Patterson 55 Pearson 47 Penland 53 Peters 45 PhUlips45,57 Pickelsimer 49 Picklesimer 50,51,52,66 Pless45 Plott 45 Poor 40 Potts 38 PoweU 46 Pressley 56 Price 54 Queen 36,45,55,57 Quilliams 56 Rabom57 Raby 53,55,57 Redmond 53 Reeves 56 Rhinehart 45,46 Riddle 38,45 Robinson 56,57 Rogers 53,55,56,57 RusseU 57 Salers 50,51 Sanders 57 Scroggs 45 -April 1999 Self53 Setzer63 Sexton 57 Shay 45 Shelton 36,45,57,61 Sherrill 45 Shook 45,46 Shuler 35,46,56,57,65 Slaton 54 Smathers 46 Smith 35,54,56 Snyder 55,56 Speed 46 Stanford 46 Stanley 53 Staton40 Stephens 43,47 Stewart 46,55,63,64 Stiles 46,53,65 StiUweU 37,53, 54 Stinnett 46 Stoddard 57 Styles 53,56 Sullins 43 Sutton 37,38,40,42,56 Taylor 44,51 Teague 47 TerreU 38,46,47 Thomas 47 Thompson 53,55 Thweatt46 Treadway46 Turner 41 Turpin 40 Vinson 44 Wagner 47 Walker 42 Ward 55 Warlick 42 Watson 43,54,55,56,60,63, 64,65.66 Webster 46 Whitmire56 Whittenburg 53 Wike 35,54,55 Wikle 40 Williams 38,47,54 Wilson 42,46,53,54 Wirtz47 Wood 38,47,60 Woodard 45,47 WooUey38 Wykle 40,46,53 Young 53,55 Zachary 56 KJ Ky KJ 68