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Journeys Through Jackson 2000 Vol.10 No.09-10

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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.
  • K. J o u r n e ys Ky T h r o u g h J a c k s o n o T h e O f f i c i a l J o u r n a l of 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 , Inc. V o l . X , No. 9 - 10 S e p t e m b e r - O c t o b e r 2 0 00 JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. -K 2000 Officers u President Rick L. 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 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 mat may be contained in submissions, and except where noted, the opinions expressed are not those of the editor or of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. The Society accepts no advertising for mis publication except for notices for other non-profit groups. From the Editor On Friday August 4, JCGS was host to the officers of the North CaroUna Genealogical Society with a meal at the Jarrett House, foUowed by homemade desserts at the Society office. We were glad to meet these "" fine folks and have them with us, and we aU enjoyed the good food and the friendliness and helpful attitudes -— of the officers and directors. At the October meeting, JCGS voted to join the North Carolina Society with a 2001 membership. The big buzz around the Society office this month has been the display of the Barker CoUection, a gift (from Mrs. Hazel Barker of Asheville) that more than doubled the holdings of our Society library. In this most beautiful and most reflective time of the year, open these pages and reflect on the usual generosity of our Society members. Lew Buchanan, Bill Crawford, Mack Sutton, Shawna Hall, Traci Clark, Rick Frizzell, Tim Barker, Ruth Shuler, Bill Bishop, Lloyd Cowan, and Dorris Beck all had a hand in this issue in one way or another. So find a good mountain apple, and read some good genealogy and history And don't work outside too much; we don't want to send along Mrs. Cowan's remedy for a sprained ankle! 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 i i . n c . u s / j c g s/ y Journeys Through Jackson, September - October 2000 Ky T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Ky Society Award Winners for 2000 137 JCGS Photo Album 138 - 140 The Beck Brothers of the Thomas Legion 141 - 1 4 6 JCGSLibrary Acquisitions....................................................................................................... 146 1945 Jackson County Death Certificates 147 - 150 Mountain Grove Cemetery .............................................................................................. 151 - 154 Mrs. Cowan's Home Remedies................................................................................................. 154 The Descendants of David Mathis.................................................................................... 155 - 160 Some Macon County Records Prior to Jackson's Formation........................................ 161 - 164 A Profile of the Oconalufty Valley -v 165 - 168 Items for Sale by JCGS ,...-. 168 Index ..v.....„........ 169-170 D o r r i s B e c k a n d D a v i d F r i z z e l l A r e H o n o r e d b y t h e S o c i e t y This year the Jackson County Genealogical Society honored two of its hardest - working members by recognizing their accomplishments and service with the Society's two endowed awards. Dorris Dills Beck was the 2000 recipient of the Robert Lee and Drucilla Holden Award For Distinguished Service to Genealogy, and David Frizzell received the inaugural Daniel Deitz Award for Service to the Society. i , Dorris Beck has served the Society since, its inception in a multitude of ways. She has held numerous offices and chairmanships, and she currently serves as the librarian. Dorris was also very instrumental in the success of the first Heritage Book, and she served as the co-chairman of the second volume. Dorris and her husband Sam live in Sylva, where they are active in First Baptist Church. They are the parents of two daughters, and they enjoy two grandchildren as well. David Frizzell has always been our "money man." Since the origins of the Society, David has held the office of Treasurer, and has faithfully .managed our accounts and kept our taxation status straight Because of his dedication, the Society has always enjoyed a sound financial foundation. David and his wife, the former Sheila Painter, live in die Fairview section, and are active in Lovedale Baptist Church. They are the parents of one daughter, and have one grandson. O 137 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m KJ *"^6£**" *-fc"i- TANMraV fftl-VA. MAffTM CAROLlHi J Above, a postcard shot of the Tannery in Sylva. Shared with us by Wimpy Hyatt. Below, an East Fork contingent about 1910, consisting of John Beck, Roystan Cowan, and Tom Brogden on the front, and Ennis Buchanan, Kimsey Beck, and Coley Cowan at the back. Photo provided by Dorris Beck, with identifications by Lloyd Cowan. \J y 138 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m J K, A very gratifying page for your editor. JCGS member Eugene McGinnis sent along the picture at the left above, showing Marcus LaFayette and Elizabeth Ward Blanton. The picture below is one of Mark and their children at Lizzie's death in 1937, also sent by Gene. Below, front: Maggie Henderson, Vilanta Buchanan, Dock Blanton, Jess Blanton, Roy Blanton,; back, Mark Blanton, Taylor Blanton, Ella Shuler, Sarah Shuler, and Fannie Gibson. First cousins to the editor's grandmother on the Blanton side, they were second cousins on the Parris side. The family resemblance among the women to those of the WUl Blanton family is remarkable. Above right: Alfred Washington Parris, maternal uncle of Lizzie Blanton. Photo submitted by JCGS members James and Ruby Parris of Eldora, Iowa. James is a great - grandson of Alfred Washington. K. 139 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m Ky Photographs on this page are submitted by JCGS member Bill Bishop. At above left, Daniel Franklin and Neal Bishop. Photo taken sometime late 19-teens. Daniel died in 1919. Frank Edgar O'Neal Bishop, his son's formal name, died in March of 1942 while driving a snowplow for the DOT. Above right, the Sonny Sam Hooper family: front, Bethie, Elizabeth Coggins Hooper, Zack; rear, Richard, Sonny Sam, Bertie, Corsey. Below, an early 20's shot of the Phillips reunion on Cane Creek. Bill says that the "tall one in the back" is Glenn Hughes. y 140 Ky Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 T h e B e c k B r o t h e r s o f t h e T h o m a s L e g i o n i n t h e 1 8 6 4 S h e n a n d o a h V a l l e y C a m p a i g n [Ed. JCGS member Lewis S. ("Lew") Buchanan shares more of his Civil War interest and his research with us. We are pleased to pass along his latest article.] On 19 July 1862, four brothers from Jackson County, North Carolina, joined Company F of the Infantry Regiment of the Thomas Legion. Their enlistment was for three years or the length of the war. The brothers were William Albert Beck, age 32, John Alvertes Beck, age-28, Stephen "Steve" Jackson Beck, age 26, and Samuel Carson "Carty" Beck, age 23. All four were married: William to Rachel Narcissus Elders, John to Margaret Galbreath, Stephen to Eliza Lamira Dawson and Samuel to Nancy White. Ky The brothers were the sons of Samuel Beck (1806-1893) and Cynthia White (1807-1873). Samuel and Cynthia Beck had three other children: Charity Matilda Beck (b. 1831), Sarah Jane Beck(b\ 1841), and Cynthia Elizabeth Beck (b. 1847). Undoubtedly, the brothers felt a great deal of security having their siblings in the same military unit. Too, the nature of the Thomas Legion must have been of some comfort to them, since it was conceived as an independent force of mountaineers and Indians who would protect the mountain regions of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. It was called a Legion because it was comprised of all three of the major elements of a military force: infantry, artillery, and cavalry. It was also unique because it combined native American pompanies. along with companies of non-Indian mountain men. The Thomas Legion never functioned as its founder, and, namesake, ColoneL William Holland Thomas, had conceived it. Both its artillery and cavalry were placed on detached service -with other units. Also, restrictions barring the use'of the Indian companies outside the-mountain region were placed on Colonel Thomas. Indeed, from its formation in 1862, the Thomas Legion spent most of its time in Eastern Tennessee guarding railroads, salt mines, and military supplies. However, as the winter of 1863-64 gave way-to spring, changing circumstances were, about to thrust the Beck brothers and the Thomas Legion into some of the most significant battles of the war. In May 1864, the Thomas Legion was scheduled .to be reassigned from Eastern Tennessee to Western North Carolina. However, the order directing this movement was not given to the Thomas Legion. Rather, the order was held up so that the Legion could be moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, \vhich was being threatened by Union Major General David Hunter and his army of some 16,000 troops. At the end of May, 1864, the Thomas Legion left East Tennessee by railroad as part of the army of General William E. "Grumble" Jones, who had assumed command of the Confederate forces in Eastern Tennessee during the first week of May. They arrived at Lynchburg, Virginia, about 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday! June 1864.- On 3 June, the Thomas Legion was brigaded with the 45th Virginia Battalion under the command of Colonel William H. Browne. Within days, Colonel Browne was killed at the battle of Piedmont. Subsequentiy, command of the Brigade was- given to Colonel Thomas Smith, senior officer of the 36* Virginia regiment 141 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 On 5 June 1864, the Thomas Legion was engaged in the losing battle at Piedmont, Virginia. It was the largest engagement thus far in the war for the Legion which, prior to j Piedmont, had faced opposing forces of several regiments or fewer. The Legion performed with courage and daring during the battle in which 13 of the Thomas Legion were killed, 21 were wounded, and-42 were taken prisoner. Almost 20 percent of the Thomas Legion were casualties or prisoners as a result of the battle. The 13 companies of the Thomas Legion numbered about 300 duty-able men following Piedmont. Had the Confederate side won at Piedmont, the Legion would probably have been permitted to return to Western North Carolina. The loss of the battle meant that the Thomas Legion would remain in the Shenandoah Valley until General Hunter was defeated. As it turned out, they stayed through the summer and fall of 1864. Hunter attacked Lynchburg on 18 June, but was repulsed. The Thomas Legion was part of the force that pursued Hunter's army as it retreated toward Lewisburg, West Virginia. After driving Hunter from the Shenandoah valley, General Early's army began the long, hard marches that took it through Winchester, Virginia, into Maryland, and to the shadows of the Union capitol. The Thomas Legion, now in Echol's Division, Breckenridge's Corps, was not engaged in the battle of Monocacy on 9 July 1864, but was assigned as a rear guard at Frederick, Maryland, several miles from the Monocacy battlefield. However, the Thomas Legion was in the vanguard as Early's army approached Fort Stevens, in what was then the outskirts of Washington. Fort Stevens was one of a ring of more than 60 forts that surrounded and defended me city of Washington. Early won the batde of Monocacy, but it had cost him a day's march. By the time he ^j faced Fort Stevens, it bristied with men and arms that had been rushed to the site from Grant's army near Richmond. Abraham Lincoln visited the fort while it was under fire from the Confederate army that lay before it. While the Confederate army was menacing Washington at Fort Stevens, General Early specifically asked that a company of sharpshooters be formed in the Thomas Legion. This was done, and the troops were placed in Company ¥-, where the Beck brothers served, under the command of Lieutenant Robert T. Conley. Thereafter, Company F was also known as Conley's Sharpshooters. Faced with a well-entrenched superior force, General Early decided to return his army to Virginia rather than to sacrifice it in a bloody and brutal attack on Fort Stevens, and the city of Washington, that his small army could not win. During the night of 12 July, Early's army began withdrawing from in front of Fort Stevens and crossed the Potomac River into Virginia at White's Ford just above Leesburg, Virginia. The Thomas Legion crossed the river early on 14 July. After crossing, Early rested his troops for several days, then moved toward Winchester, Virginia, crossing the Shenandoah River on 17 July. During the crossing, Union cavalry appeared at the rear of the Confederate army. On 18 July, Conley's Sharpshooters of the Thomas Legion were engaged in a rear guard action at the Snicker's ferry crossing of the Shenandoah. It was probably here that John Alvertes Beck, second oldest of the'Beck-brothers, was fatally wounded, since his recorded date of death is 19 ^j July 1864. As was the practice throughout the war, the dead were usually buried on the field of 142 Ky Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 combat near where they fell. So it was with John Alvertes .Beck. His surviving brothers undoubtedly shared their grief as they moved on with the rest of Early's army to Winchester. The following week the Thomas Legion helped Early's army win a decisive battle at Kemstown, Virginia, driving the Federal forces, back through Martinsburg, West Virginia, and into Maryland. Following this, the Thomas Legion and Early's army enjoyed a period of rest. While the Confederates rested, a new-iUnion general, Philip Sheridan, was assigned to lead a 40,000 man army with the specific gdal of driving the Confederate forces from the Shenandoah Valley. On 19 September 1864, General Sheridan attacked the Confederate forces in and around Winchester. Sheridan and his superior forces won a resounding victory in the battle called both "Third Winchester" or "Opequon," driving the rebel forces from the city. Early regrouped his army at Fisher's Hill, some 20 miles south of Winchester. The battle was costly for the Thomas Legion which lost 75 men, killed, wounded, or captured. It was especially costly to the Beck family because William Albert Beck, the oldest of the brothers, was wounded in the lower leg. William's military record at the National Archives is not clear on the matter, but he was probably captured on the battlefield that day, since, he would not have been able to flee with die other retreating troops because of his wound. The record is clear about the date of his wound and that he was admitted to the United States Army Depot Hospital in Winchester where his lower leg was amputated on 4 October 1864. The surgeon, Dr. Lawson, noted that the wound had developed gangrene and that William was suffering from pyemia. Pyemia is a diseased state in which pyogenic bacteria are circulating in the -blood, characterized by the development of abscesses in various organs. * There is some disagreement about the date, of William's death. Family Bible records give that date as 6 October 1864, while the, national Archives record shows the date of death as 26 October. The battie of Third Winchester cost the Thomas Legion one-third of the command. A few days after that battle, General Sheridan attacked Early's troops at Fisher's Hill and drove them southward. Following Fisher's Hill, the Federal army was camped at Cedar Creek where on 19 October, General Early made a daybreak attack that would have completely routed the Federal army had the hungry Confederate troops not stopped to eat the morning meals they found cooking in the Union camp from which the Rebels had driven the Federal troops. General Early failed to follow up on his army's initial success. By mid-afternoon, General Sheridan had rallied his troops for a counterattack that drove the Confederates from the battlefield. v After their rout at Cedar Creek, efforts by Confederate forces to control the Shenandoah Valley were over. So -was the Thomas Legion as an effective fighting force in the Valley. Fewer than 60 of the 390 men who, five months before, had come into the Shenandoah VaUey with the Thomas Legion, reported for duty at New Market, Virginia. * On 17> November 1864, the t order returning the Thomas Legion to Western North Carolina was issued and the remnants of the Legion started homeward. Sadly, two of the Beck brothers remained buried in the earth of the Shenandoah Valley, along with many of their friends and comrades. - < .143 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 The Thomas Legion moved by rail through Bristol, Virginia, to Jonesborough, Tennessee. On 2 December 1864, the legion crossed the mountains into Western North Carolina , and about 5 December, it set up camp at Alexander, about 10 miles north of Asheville. On 26 December, the three non-Indian parts of the Legion were reunited at Warm Springs, North Carolina, while the Indian companies remained independent under the command of Colonel Thomas. Through the darly months of 1865, the Thomas Legion served in Western North Carolina, along with the remnants of the 62nd and 64th NC Infantry regiments. These units were substantially reduced in size since most of their members had been captured at the Cumberland Gap on 9 September 1863. The duties of the Thomas Legion and these Regiments were to guard the mountain passes, resist incursions by Union raiding parties, deter renegade bands of deserters from both the Confederate and Union armies, deter bands of Union sympathizers and recruit replacements for their units. However, by Spring, 1865, everyone knew that the South had lost the war and that fighting on was a useless exercise. There were frequent desertions from the Legion and other Confederate units in the mountains. Among those soldiers remaining with their units, discipline was bad and growing worse. Often at all levels of command, orders were ignored or disobeyed. Still, the Thomas Legion struggled valiantiy on. Notably, Conley's Sharpshooters were engaged in a number of skirmishes with Union forces raiding into the mountains and would be involved in the final action of the Civil War in North Carolina. By the end of April, 1865, word had reached the mountains of Lee's 9 April 1865 surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, and Johnston's 26 April 1865 surrender at ^ Greensboro, North Carolina. By this time, Union forces controlled Asheville. About 5 May, i Colonel William C. Bartlett of the Second North Carolina Union cavalry was ordered into the mountains west of Asheville "to prevent any [guerilla] bands from congregating in the mountain fastness and becoming troublesome." On 6 May, Bartlett and his troops entered Waynesville unopposed. When Colonel Thomas learned of the Federal troops in Waynesville, he moved his troops, which included the Indian companies and Conley's Sharpshooters, from their positions guarding the gaps leading to Tennessee and converged them oh die town. While attempting to circle, the city, Conley's Sharpshooters ran into the camp of the Union troops and a brief skirmish was fought in which one Union soldier was killed. This was probably the last Union soldier killed in battle east of the Mississippi River. No further combat occurred. By 7 May, General James G.- Martin, Commander of die Confederate forces in Western North Carolina, was in Waynesville negotiating terms for the surrender of his forces. On 9 May, one month after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, the terms were agreed upon and die Confederate troops at Waynesville stacked their arms and went home. The war was over for the Thomas Legion and for the Beck brothers. The war was over and the survivors, including Stephen and Carson Beck, returned home, but their thoughts, surely, were with their brothers and their other comrades who would never return home. But others were also thinking of the Confederate dead. By the time the war ended in the Spring of 1865, the need for a war cemetery was clearly evident to the citizens of Winchester, j Virginia. Some 3,000 Confederate soldiers lay buried within a 15-mile radius of the city, many in 144 Ky Ky Ky Journeys" Through Jackson September- - . October.2000 hastily dug, often poorly marked graves. Of these 3,000, about 1,400 had died in hospitals in and around the city and lay buried in the city's Episcopal Cemetery. One of these was William Beck. While the need for a war cemetery was clear, the war-devastated economy of Winchester would not permit its citizens, entirely at their own expense, to undertake development of such a war cemetery, nor reburial of the dead. Therefore, an organization of women of the city made an appeal to all people of the South for funds to support purchase of land for the cemetery and for reburial of the Confederate dead from the surrounding battie sites. The appeal brought in $14,000. Land was quickly purchased, and collection hegan of bodies for reburial. The new five-acre Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, named in honor of Confederate Lt. General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall'' Japkson, was located adjacent to the Mount Hebron Cemetery, which had been founded by the city in during 1844. The new cemetery was dedicated on 6 June 1866. Within 12 months after starting the project, 2,494 Confederate dead were reburied, including the 1,400 from the Episcopal Cemetery and 829 unknown dead. All the states of the Confederacy are represented among the dead in the Cemetery as are the states of Maryland and Kentucky, which provided troops to the Confederate Army even though the states themselves remained a part of the Union. Initially, wooden headboards were, used'to mark the graves; but sometime after 1886, these were replaced with marble slab headstones. Each state has a separate section honoring its dead. The Norjh Carolina section contains 450 graves. A separate section of the cemetery is "dedicated to the 829 Confederate dead who are known only to God. Their graves are marked'by a 49-foot tall monument with the inscription "Who They Were, None Know, What They Did; All Know." Both William and John Beck .were reburied in the Stonewall Cemetery, probably during 1866. John's grave number in the North Carolina section is 59. Ironically, William was mistakenly reburied in the Georgia section. His grave number is 250. The reason for this mistake is not known. While the fates of WiUiam Albert Becksand John Alvertes Beck are weU documented, the circumstances of the surviving brothers, Stephejl Jackson Beck and Samuel Carson Beck, during the Shenandoah VaUey campaign, are not specificaUy known. It is reasonable to assume that they served with their brothers in the Virginia campaign and.that they returned to Western North Carolina after the war, where they Uved the remainder of their Uves. However, that interpretation mayjbe an over-simpUfication of their experience. For example, Stephen Jackson Beck's fourth child,,a daughter Clarinda Alice Beck, was born in April 1865. This suggests that Stephen-was at home,, at least for a short while, during the period around July 1864.. Why was he at home during the period that the Thomas Legion and his brothers were involved in hard fighting in Virginia1?" "One possible reason "may have been that he had been seriously Ul or had received wounds in Virginia and had returned home to Western North Carolina on medical leave to recuperate. 145 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 Sources: National Archives - Confederate Military Service Index M - 270, Roll 567 A Roster of Confederate Soldiers Buried in Stonewall Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia, published by the Turner Ashley Chapter No. 54, United Daughters of the Confederacy. Crow, Vemon H. Storm in the Mountains: Thomas' Confederate Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers. Cherokee, NC, 1982. Press of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. Clark, Walter (Editor). Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-'65. Goldsboro, 1901. Nash Brothers Printers. Written July 2000 by Lewis S. Buchanan, Sr. KJ J C G S L i b r a r y A c q u i s i t i o n s CaU No. 929.2 929.2 929.2 929.2 975.6 975:6 813.54 970.1 929.2 912 Author Middleton, Lucy Middleton, Lucy Middleton, Lucy Arthur, John Preston Warren, Harold Ray, Clyde H. Stein, R. Conrad Wood, Lawrence E. Thorhdale, William Title Shadows of the Past: the Middleton and Related Families The Watson Family and the Related Ashe Family The Shook Family and the Related Families of Hooper and Middleton The Golden Family Western North Carolina, A History from 1730 to 1913 "A Right Good People" Across the Dark River: the Odyssey of the 56th Infantry in the American Civil War The Story of the Trail of Tears Mountain Memories Map Guide to U.S. Federal Censuses: North Carolina 1790 -1920 Donor Bill Crawford Bill Crawford BiU Crawford Bill Crawford Elise Terrell Dorris Beck Dorris Beck Dorris Beck Dorris Beck KJ Ky 146 Journeys Through Jackson September ? October 2000 C Ky 1 9 4 5 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 p r t o 1 9 0 0 [Key to reading the following: Name of deceased; spouse, if-given; date of birth; place of birth; date of death; township; father's name; father's place of birth; mother's name; mother's place of birth; informant; informant's address; cemetery. Names of the deceased are listed alphabetically in the 194S book. Abstracted October 2000 in the Jackson County Register of Deeds Office by Larry Crawford.] Ashe, Artie; w/o Charlie; 25 Sep 1873; Barker's CrSek; 13 Mar; Barker's Creek; Henry MesSer; NC; Katie Sutton; NC; not given; not given; Barker's Creek Ashe, John Vance; h/o EUen Bumgarner; 7 Nov 1869; Sylva; 23 Sep; Sylva; Marian Ashe; Jackson Co.; Samantha Styles; Jackson Co.; Mrs.';John Ashe; Sylva; Keener Blanton, James R.; h/o Cora Parris; 11 Jan 1899; Jackson Co.; 5 Oct; Scotts Creek; J. Monroe Blanton; Jackson Co.; BeUe Farley; Jackson Co.; Mrs. Roy Blanton; Sylva; Addie Brown, Falba;.w/o AUen; 9 Jan 1857; NC; 6 Jun| not given; Jimmie? Coward; Cowarts; TUda PhiUips; Cowarts; Alonzo Brown; Tuckasegee; Shook Brown, Nila Fonncie; h/o Fannie A.; 17 Mar 1891; Boone; 15 Apr 1942; DUlsboro; WUUam Brown; Watauga Co.; Martha E. Harris; Watauga Co.; Mrs. Ralph DiUs; DUlsboro; Parris Brown, Ransom BL; h/o Cannie Glazener; 3 Sep "J. 857;Jackson Co.; 1 Mar*, Cashiers; MUton Brown; Jackson Co.; Margaret Potts; Macon Co.; Cannie Brown; Cashiers; Highlands Brown, Ruben Harrison; h/o Loretta; age 72; Jackson Co.; 17 Sep; Canada; Jack Brown; Jackson Co.; Annie Wood; Jackson Co.; Corsey Brown; Tuckasegee; not given Brown, WUUam Robert; 8 May 1873; Jackson Co.; 1 Jul; Webster; Ervin Brown; Jackson Co.; Ibbie Higdon; Macon Co.; County Home; Webster; Brown (Caney Fork) Bumgarner, Margaret Safronia; w/o Estes; 4 ilan'1875; 20 Nov; Sylva; Joseph Clark; Macon Co.; EUzabeth Stiwinter; Macon Co.; Estes Bumgarner; Sylva; Lovedale Cagle, Julia Ann Setzer; w/o Lucius; 31 Aug 1885; Maggie, Haywood Co.; 2 Apr; QuaUa; Amos Setzer; Maggie; Sarah Lowe; Lutle Rock AR; Lucius Cagle; Whittier; not given CarroU, WiUiam Madison; h/o BeU; 28 Oct 1874; Erastus; 9 Jun; Hamburg; James CarroU; Macon Co.; Madline Morrison; Cullowhee; BUI CarroU; Norton; Evitt Clayton, PoUy CogdUl; wid/o WUUam A.; 13 Feb 1852; Jackson Co.; 17 Nov; Sylva; Jack CogdUl; not given; Dixie Honeycutt; not given; D.D. CogdUl; Sylva; Addie Coggins, Lou Tennie; wid/o Mark; age 77,1,7-,KTC; 17 Oct; Mountain; Daniel Moody; NC; Nancy Slayton; NC; Lindsey Coggins; ErastusJ'Double Springs Cook, George Washington; h/o Lavada; age 72,2,29; Sylva; 29 Jan; Barker's Creek; Bert Cook; Jackson Co.; Margaret WMtmire; Transylvania Co.; Lee Cook; Whittier; Bumgarner Cope, Andrew Wesley; h/o PoUy Ridley; 15 Oct 1875; Jackson Co.; 6 Jan;-Sylva; Andrew Cope; Jackson Co.; Rebecca Raybe; Macon Co.; Mrs. A.W. Cope; Sylva; Zion HiU Cope, George Harem; h/o Lela Rogers; 28 Sep 1875; Jackson Co.; 1 Oct; Webster; WUliam Cope; Jackson Co.; Rebecca Buchanan; Jackson Co.; not given; not given; Old Field Cowan, Amanda Jane; wid; 13 Nov 1857; Sandy Mush; 28 Sep; Savannah; Isaac Bradley; Yancey Co.; Jermia McMahan; Yancey Co.; Bennie Settlemyre; Greens Creek; East Fork Cowan, Charlotte Victoria; age 81,3,25; Webster; 4 Nov; Webster; Joseph W. Cowan; Webster; Sarah Allman; Webster; MUdred Cowan; Webster, StiUweU Cox, Thomas Augustus; h/o Cora Davis; age 81,6,5; GreenviUe, SC; 24 Feb; CuUowhee; i . Thomas Macon Cox; Sassafras Neck, MD; Hannah JuUa Skinner; Burlington, VT; T.A. Cox, Jr.; ^ ^ AshevUle; St. David's 147 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 Crawford, John Lee; wid; 28 Jun 1868; Cullowhee; 23 Sep; Cullowhee; Joe Crawford; Addie; Mary Ensley; Addie; Merritt E. Hooper; CuUowhee; CuUowhee Cunningham, Esther Sawyer; wid/o JohnT.; 11 Oct 1876; Almond; 18 Sep; Sylva; Thos. P. Sawyer; Judson; Margaret StiUweU; Jackson Co.; Bertha Cunningham; Sylva; Keener Cunningham, William Alonzo; h/o LUly; age 62,6,11; DiUsboro; 21 Dec; Sylva; George Cunningham; DUlsboro; Samantha Hensley; Yancey Co.; BeUe Hensley; Sylva; Locust Field Curtis, Henry OHver; wid; 3 Jun 1874; Rabun Co. GA; 1 Nov; Sylva; W.A. Curtis; Cherokee Co.; Mary R. Butier; GranvUle Co.; J.E. Buckner; Sylva; Keener Davis, Amanda; wid; 27 Mar 1869; Swain Co.; 28 Sep; Scotts Creek; Bert Shular; Swain Co.; Martha Boyd; Macon Co.; Adam Painter; Sylva;.Addie Davis, Thomas;-1871; Haywood Co.; 23 Nov; Webster; Scoot Davis; Haywood Co.; not given; not given; Dean Davis; DUlsboro; Wesley Chapel DiUs, Jessie Grady; h/o Gracie; 1 Aug 1891; DUlsboro; 29 Aug; CuUowhee; Lafayette DUls; DUlsboro; CaUie Sutton;. DUlsboro; Mrs. Jessie DUls; CuUowhee; CuUowhee DUls, John Ramsey; h/o Octa Fowler; age 72,9,6; DUlsboro; 12 Apr; DUlsboro; LeonidusTJUls; not given; Caroline Sutton; not given; Ralph DUls; DUlsboro; Parris DiUs, Laura Lucinda; wid; age 77,7,28; SpeedweU; 1 Feb; Sylva; WUUam WUson; SC; Margaret Ann Mashburn; Macon Co.; Mrs. R.U. Sutton; Sylva; DUls Fowler, Mary Magdalene; w/o Jim; 2 Sep 1892; DUlsboro; 6 Jun; DUlsboro; Jim Robinson; DiUsboro; SaUie Franklin; Haywood Co.; Elsie Wilkie; DUlsboro; Franklin (Long Branch) FuUer, Fred Coleman; wid; 12 Apr 1891; Swain Co.; 25 Feb; Scotts Creek; John M. FuUer; Swain Co.; Clara Guffey; Swain Co.; Mrs. Fred Hyatt; Bryson City; Round Hill GaUoway, Andrew EUas; h/o Anna?; age 77,8,26; Canada; 24 Mar; Canada; Josiah A. Galloway; not given; Elizabeth Shelton; not given; M.J. GaUoway; Wolf Mountain; Wolf Creek George, Dawson; h/o Mary; 14 Jun 1860; Cherokee; 14 Feb; QuaUa; Shan George; Cherokee; Nancy Bigwitch; Cherokee; SaUie George; Whittier; Family (Cherokee) Gunter, Josephene Messer; w/o T.B.; 22 Oct 1858; Barker's Creek; 25 Nov; Barker's Creek; Henry Messer; DUlsboro; Kata Sutton; DiUsboro; Mrs. Loyd Green; Whittier; Moody Hammond, Ada Virginia; 5 Oct 1886; AL; 10 Dec; Sylva; W.R. Hammond; AL; Bettie Bamett; AL; Ann Hammond; CuUowhee; Miner HUJ, TN Higdon, Christopher Columbus; wid; 19 Aug 1857; Webster; 25 Sep; Savannah; Mack Higdon; Caney Fork; Bets Ann Buchanan; Webster; Mack Higdon; Sylva; East Fork Hurst, Fred; wid; 1 Aug 1877; Macon Co.; 23 Jul; DUlsboro; George Hurst; Macon Co.; Angeline Dalton; Macon Co.; Oscar Hurst; DiUsboro; Cowee Jackson, Amanda Aveline; wid/o James Thomas Wike; 5 Mar 1858; East LaPorte; 28 Jul; River; John Wike; East LaPorte; Margaret Monteith; Webster; Albert Jackson; East LaPorte; Caney Fork Johnson, Lon Adams; w/o WUUam E.; 8 Nov 1882; not given; 17 Dec; Scotts Creek; Lum Adams; White Co. GA; not given; not given; not given; not given; Buff Creek Jones, Donna Melvin; wid; 17 May 1877; Sylva; 3 Aug; Webster; Van Brooks; Jackson Co.; Matilda Henry; Jackson Co.; Ernest Jones; Sylva; Addie Jordan, Bertha Josephene; 26 Nov 1896; Graham Co.; 25 May; QuaUa; Joseph M. Jordan; Buncombe Co.; Rurie Wakefield; Graham Co.; Mrs. KeUy Hyatt; Whittier; SherriU KJ Ky y 148 c Ky Ky Journeys Through Jackson September - October 20Q0 Long, John Bryson; wid; 13 Jan 1851; CuUowhee; 1 Nov; CuUowhee; Michael Long; not given; Betty Cathey; not given; John Long; CuUowhee; CuUowhee Lowe, Dora Bridges; w/o Arthur; 30 Jun 1890; Jackson Co.; 1 Oct; Cullowhee; .WUliam Bridges; NC; Hattie Norris; NC; J.B. Bridges; RobbinsvUle; CuUowhee Messer, James Vance; h/o Lizzie; 25 Jun 1868; Whittier; 8 Oct; Barker's Creek; Henry Messer; Dillsboro; Katie Sutton; DUlsboro; Frank Gunter; Whittier; Barker's Creek Miller, Hattie Jones; wid/o Chartie; 27 Mar 1874; Jackson Co.;23 Sep; Sylva; Dick Jones; Jackson Co.; Sarah Jones; Jackson Co.; CharUe MiUer; Sylva; Nations Monteith, R.E.L.; vvid; 8 Apr 1869; Swain Co.; 14 Jan; Sylva; Samuel Monteith; Jackson Co.; SaUie McClure; Swain Co.; Thelma Ashe; Sylva; Lovedale Monteith, Andrew Jackson; wid; 6 Oct 1862; NC; 13 May; Hamburg; John Monteith; NC; Barbara Wike; NC; Elzie Monteith; GlenvUle; Hamburg" Moore, Vass Harrison; h/o Maxine; 15 Mar 18£5;-Piedmont SC; 13 Sep;,Hamburg;,Thomas Moore; SC; Caroline Sherman; SC; Kenneth Moore; GlenvUle; GlenvUle MuU, Ruben Harrison; age 76; Haywood Col; 13-Nov 1944; River; Sam H.,MuU; NC; Adelaine Medford; NC; Lassie MuU; East LaPorte; GreerisHUl McDoweU, Thomas Sevier; 26 Nov 1876; Webster; 17 Feb; Sylva; AUenJMcDowell; SC; Rachel Allison; SC; Jess McDowell; not given; CuUowhee McGinnis, Hattie Driver; wid; 1 Jul 1893; Commerce, GA; 24 Jan; Sylva; WUUam Driver; Athens, GA; Nancy Holbrooks; Athens, GA; S.T. McGinnis; Sylva; Keener - Nicholson, George Hobart; h/o Mae; 13 Mar 1896; Cowarts; 14 Jul; Sylva; G.W. Nicholson; SC; M.C. Hooper; Cowarts; Mae Nicholson; Cdwarts;.Cowarts OUver, Sadie Fisher; wid; 11 Sep 1883; Sylva; 5 Sep; Cullowhee; Lafayette Fisher; Jackson Co.; Emaline Queen; Jackson Co.; Mrs. Leon Sutton; Sylva; Keener Owen, Cannie Elizabeth; w/o James Elbert; 6 May 1887; Wolf Mountain; 28 Dec; Canada; Andrew GaUoway; Jackson Co.; Mary Caroline Owens; Jackson Co.; Garland Owen; Wolf Mountain; Wolf Creek Oxner, WUUam HamUton; h/o Laura BeUe; 22 Jan 1861; Haywood Co.; 24 Sep; Qualla; Henry Oxner; SC; EUzabeth Gragg; Caldwell Co.; Ruf Oxner; Whittier; Thomas Painter, WUUam RusseU; h/o Lizzie Nicholson; 1872; Jackson Co.; 27 Apr; Sylva; Elbert Painter; Jackson Co.; MoUie Bryson; Jackson Co.; E. J. Bumgarner; Sylva; Lovedale Pangle, Katherine Sutton; w/o Lee; 22 Mar 1869; DUlsboro; 31 Dec; DUlsboro; WUliam Sutton; Jackson Co.; Margaret Sutton; Swain Co.; Tom Keever; DUlsboro; Locust Field Pierson, Martha Caroline; wid/o Mack; 20 Jan 1858; not given; 9 Jan; Hamburg; Allen Potts; not given; Susan Wade; not given; P.L. Henson; Norton; Norton Presley, James Andrew; h/o Pink; 24 Jan" 1868; not given; 14 Oct; SpeedweU; FidUle Pressley; NC; Sarrah Johnson; NC; Bowers Presley; SpeedweU; Hooper-SpeedweU Queen, Anzel; 4 May 1891; Cowarts; 4 Nov; Sylva; Jasper L. Queen; Cowarts; Mary Ann Fortner; Argura; Louise Goddie; Canton; Cowarts Queen, Texan Harris; wid; age 77,5; Haywood Co.; 10 May; Scotts Creek; Tom Love; Haywood Co.; Fannie Harris; Haywood Co.; McKinley Queen; Gastonia; Queen (North Fork) Rose, WiUiam; wid; 31 Aug 1892; Swain Co.; 24 May; QuaUa; Albert Rose; Graham Co.; Florence Sneed; Graham Co.; Wayne Rose; Cherokee; FamUy (Cherokee) 149 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 Shuler, Mary Brown; wid/o Leander; Aug 1848; Jackson Co.; 31 Oct; Sylva; Brown; not given; not given; not given; Walter Bumgarner; Sylva; Shuler Sims, Stacey Leopard; wid; 30 Jul 1872; Gilmer Co. GA; 11 Jul; Hamburg; Francis Sims; Gilmer, GA; Evelyn Head; Gilmer, GA; Clarence Owen; GlenviUe; GlenvUle Springer, Loucenia; wid/o WUUam; 24 Feb 1865; Stanly Co.; 24 May; QuaUa; Freer; not given; not given; not given; Ada Wiggins; Whittier; Qualla Stewart, Jacob Theodore; wid/o Palestine; 17 Mar 1865; NC; 2 Apr; Mountain; WiUiam Stewart; NC; Nancy CarroU; NC; Ethel Coggins; Erastus; Pine Creek Thompson, Nancy Ensley; w/o Cole; 18 Mar 1890; Sylva; 16 Nov; Sylva; Joseph Ensley; Jackson Co.; Jane Farmer; Jackson Co.; TaUtha Thompson; Washington D.C.; Old Field Watkins, Flora Jane; wid/o John; 31 Mar 1856; Cashiers; 17 Oct;, DUlsboro; Mordici Zachary; Cashiers; Elvira Keener; -Whittier; Mrs. Cole Cannon; DUlsboro; Parris Webb, John; h/o Tabitha Bennett; 15 Jun 1873; not given; 12 Sep; CuUowhee; Jim Webb; not given; not given; not given; Arthur Webb; Speedwell; Hooper White, Roderick Theodore; wid; 12 Jun 1882; Cashiers; 22 May; Cashiers; WUUam White; Jackson Co.; Arvinia Pearson; Jackson Co.; Tom White; Cashiers; Zachary WUks, Ada Lou; 1 Jan 1875; Sylva; 18 Jan; Scotts Creek; SUas Wilks; Jackson Co.; Mary Wilks; NC; Mae WUks; Sylva; Old Field Wilson, Ernest Lucius Sr.; h/o Annie Buchanan; 18 Jan 1879; Webster; 30 Jan; Sylva; Richard WUson; Jackson Co.; Hicks Allison; Jackson Co.; AUie Huff; Sylva; Keener Zachary, Bessie Hazel; w/o Neal; 1 Dec 1889; Highlands; 23 Oct; Cashiers; not given; not given; Mary Pearson; Norton; Neal Zachary; Cashiers; Zachary KJ Ky 150 Journeys Through Jackson September -October 2000 O M o u n t a i n G r o v e C e m e t e r y [Ed. Since our cemetery book does not include any cemeteries outside the political boundaries of Jackson County, it by necessity does not include those burial sites that are very close to the county lines but which are technically in Macon, Haywood, Transylvania, or Swain counties. Persons with Jackson County connections are buried in those cemeteries, so we will make an effort to include some of these places in JTJ. Mountain Grove Cemetery is located in Macon County, just over the gap on the Ellijay side from Tilley Creek. Data collected 3 June 2000 by BUI Crawford and MackSntton.] '*" Ky Ky Row# 1 1 1>- — • 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 -2 2 2 2 2 2 3 . 3. 3 (Consider Row 1 as to the right of the gate near the church.) Name R.L. Adams -AUen Adams Lydia Fox Adams Mary C. Abernathy Roy Adams Margaret Fox W.J. Fox Jane Stewman Fox James T. Jefferson Passmore LUlie Lorena H. Passmore Nancy Passmore Ertzberger Ida E. Palmer Ned A. Haskett Theodore R. Gregory W.T. Gregory Myrah A. Parker Gregory John W. Gregory Elvie Jane Corn Joseph L. Gregory . E.S. Blackburn H.J. Gregory M.C. Gregory Haskett Infant Haskett Infant Gertrude Haskett Little BUI Blackburn John Calvin Blackburn Matilda Moore Blackburn Irvin Adams Virginia Adams Sarah Hasseltine Passmore Nathaniel Haywood Passmore Harrison M. Buchanan DOB 2 Oct 1922 13 Aug 1882 28 Nov 1880 Age&'mos. <27 May 1916 17 May 1870 4 Jul 1844 1848. 22 Nov 1888 13 May 1898 9 May 1886 24 Jan 1924 25 May 1951 15 Aug 1905 18 Mar 1855 1 Mar 1861 11 May 1894 16 Mar 1909 21 Apr 1923 29 Sep 1838 25 Sep 1829 28 Mar 1834 1892" 1893 20 Jan 1904 Jan-1882 11 May 1851 1 Sep' 1856 12 Apr4891 1867' 1861. 1858' 9 Sep 1913 DOD 21 Apr 1923 • 14 Apr 1955 20 Aug 1953. 8 Dec 1897 12 Jul 1998 29 Jan 1908 7 Feb 1920 1940 14 Apr 1969 27 Jan 2000 15 Sep 1976 14 Mar 1996 8 Aug 1986 24 Jun 1941 22 Sep 1937 11 Nov 1949 15 Jul 1930 13 Mar 2000 15 Jul 1924 5 Oct 1924 28 Aug 1913 1 Aug 1917 1892 1893 21 Oct 1908 Jul 1883 20 Jun 1887 14 May 1900 1911 1902 1914 1944 28 Oct 1913 Remarks S/o AUen, Lydia Adams D/o John Abernathy Pvt. U.S. Army, . w w n W/o T.L. Fox m. 24 Feb 1917 m. 24 Feb 1917 . , S/oA.C.,M.A. Jiaskett S/o A.C., M.A. Haskett D/o Andy, PoUy Ann Haskett - * " - 151 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Hattie Buchanan Boyd A. Buchanan Christene Gregory Infant Gregory Dee V. Bryson Mary Ann Bryson Luther H. Bryson Edith Fox WendeU Howard Fox Glenn Buchanan J. Dan Buchanan Minnie G. Buchanan Dewey H. Haskett Elsie Evelyn Haskett Johnnie 0 . Haskett Laura B. Haskett John B. Haskett Laura H. Haskett Nancy Jane Haskett W.H. Haskett W.M. Haskett Bannister Adams Kizzie Wilkes Adams Clara Evitt Adams WUUam McKinley Adams Mary A. LoudermiUc WUUams VA. WUUams MJ. Wiltiams B.E. WUUams PoUy WUUams Minnie Haskett WUUams Andrew C. Haskett Mary B. Haskett Alice M. Blackburn Elmer James Taylor Leonard Taylor Harold Taylor James Edly Taylor .Annie E. Young Taylor L.J. Young F.B. Young Luther A. Young Georgie H. Young Macie G. Fox 1 Apr 1922 15 Jul 1924 27 Feb 1921 19 Apr 1924 24 Nov 1876 10 May 1876 22 May 1903 31 Jan 1928 30 Mar 1928 19 Apr 1886 4 Nov 1897 28 Jun 1950 20 Jun 1955 1 Aug 1949 1865 1866 17 Oct 1838 5 Dec 1835 31 Dec 1862 8 Oct 1832 6 Nov 1872 7 Oct 1834 20 May 1900 12 May 1865 14 Apr 1848 3 Mar 1884 10 Apr 1817 May 1815 23 Aug 1897 1872 1875 1904 9 Sep 1913 10 May 1923 27 Jan 1931 28 Jun 1890 1 May 1895 19 Dec 1865 23 Jun 1873 14 Oct 1908 24 Jul 1906 20 Sep 1915 1 Apr 1922 10 Aug 1924 1 Mar 1921 19 Apr 1924 4 Mar 1954 4 Oct 1956 1 Dec 1972 31 Jan 1928 17 Jul 1954 3 May 1930 11 Dec 1933 28 Aug 1983 2 Oct 1972 27 Jun 1955 27 Sep 1951 1933 1929 5 May 1918 16 Mar 1908 30 May 1900 10 Apr 1910 10 Apr 1948 9 Dec 1892 25 Jun 1988 25 Apr 1918 5 Sep 1893 8 Nov 1885 Aug 1885 Aug 1877 19 Sep 1920 1950 1966 1909 4 Sep 1991 4 OcM923 20 Feb 1931 9 May 1980 14 Feb 1982 2 Dec 1925 31 Aug 1947 16 May '74 25 May '71 9 Mar 1943 D/o B.H., M.M. Gregory D/o B.H., M.M. Gregory W/o W.H. Haskett U.S. Army WW H W/oVirgieA. Williams W/o Caleb WUUams D/oM/MJ.P. Blackburn W/o WJB. Fox KJ \ y 152 Journeys Through Jackson September r- October 2000 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 ' 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 •7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 John C. Fox Elisha M. Fox Milhe B. Fox- , . Frank Clifton Fox Homer Elisha Fox CharUe Ross Adams Annie Dorthy Adams Nancy Parker J.W. Parker John Thomas Buchanan Daisy Owens Buchanan Elbert L. R. Buchanan James L. Buchanan AlexBuchanan Ruby B. Buchanan Leo Taylor J. Garfield Adams John Andrew Taylor Jessie Z. Taylor Laura J. Taylor Fred Taylor Fannie Keener PhiUipB.WiUiams Mary L. WUUams EUa Mae Keener Eva Williams'DiUard Levi C. Haskett Jr. Marion Adams Sarah A. Adams Thurman Lee Rankin Joseph C. Haskett Mary J. Haskett SteUa WUUams Haskett Alma Haskett Elders Jacob M. WUUams Carrie A. WUUams Frank J. WUUams Maude A. WUUams Ray A. WUUams LoUta H. WUUams Howard Frank DUls Iva Lucetta Blackburn DUls Fred DUls Lavona M. DUls ElmaH-DUls - ' A. Lee DUls 24 Sepil921 15 SerJ,1875 22 Dec 1883 16 Dec' 1919 18 Sep 1904 27 Apr 1921 18 Aug 1917 3 Nov 1830 7 Sep" 1852 18 Feb 1882 27 Jan 1892 3 Jun 1896 3 Feb 1899 18 Dec 1924 . 15 Nov 1925 26 Dec 1919 16 Jun 1901 13 Feb 1887 8 Oc'tl854 29 Defc 1856 28 Sep 1898 9 Octf1896 185"? 1863' 30 Atik 1918 28 Mar 1892 28 Aug 1929 16 Sep 1850 4Jaftl861 6 Oct 1931 1860* 1861 1891 1921 23 Aug 1858 15 Aug 1861 21 Apr 1903 2 Jul 1907 11 Feb 1936 1 Nov 1937 1889' 27 Apr 1899 19 Sep 1901 3 Aug 1911 4 Jan 1868 30 Dec 1876 4 Dec 1869 3 May 1945 26 Sep 1947 18 Sep 1954 16 Sep 1985 2 Oct 1986 1922 1917 20 Sep 1901 9 Nov 1938 26 Apr 1931 29 Nov 1937 3 Feb 1917 2 Jan 1914 18 Dec 1924 18 Feb 1926 14 Mar 1920 24 Jul 1980 16 Jan 1978 4 Feb 1931 23 Oct 1939 9Jul 1976 9 Feb 1927 1942 1937 3 Aug 1944 16 Jan 1967 22Jan 1930 2 Jan 1939 21 May 1931 24 Nov 1931 1934 1940 1924 1947 24 Feb 1943 23 Jan 1951 8 Dec 1985 3 Aug 1989 K 24 Oct 1994 1970 3 Nov 1976 22 Dec 1997 23 Nov 1986 26 Aug 1952 3 Jun 1963 15 Feb 1961 * Pvt US Army WW II D/o Frankie SUvers S/o Alex, Lydia Taylor - Married 1881 Married 1881 Md. 23 Jun 1918 Md. 23 Jun 1918 153 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 9 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 John Michael Howard Fred A. Fox Anna BeUe Fox Nelina Brooke Corbin Victoria Grace Corbin Claude N.Holland. Britta Lee Holland Warren G. Cochran Arbutus Y. Cochran 23 Jan 1961 19 Sep 1906 10 Dec 1916 1999 1999 10 Dec 1917 9 Aug 1921 18 Jul 1922 2 Dec 1925 3 Feb 1983 27 Feb 2000 19 Mar 1999 1999 1999 9 Oct 1989 14 Jul 1998 Cpl. US Army, Korea Md. 3 Aug 1946 M r s . C o w a n ' s H o m e R e m e d i e s KJ [Ed. Our thanks to JCGS member Lloyd Cowan, who passes along this list of his mother's home remedies. Mrs. Delia Hall Cowan provided this list in 1989.] Problem or Condition Cold or flu Blood tonic Stomach tonic Stings Stings Kidneys Tonic for babies Stomach Flu Tea for babies Stomach Itch/Scabies Head Uce Stomach tonic Eye Medicine Bronchitis Groin kernel BoU or Abscess Headache Cuts Itch Sore Throat Burns Sores Stomach laxative Abscess poultice Cuts Sprained ankle or wrist Remedy Boneset tea Mayapple WUd Cherry Bark LobeUa Tobacco juice Lady slipper root Ground Ivy YeUowroot Spicewood Tea (hot) Catnip Peppermint leaf Poke root Larkspur YeUow dock Dandelion Onion Poultice Chimney soot Fat meat Mustard leaf poultice Salt and Kerosene oU Sulphur and lard Sweet Ginger tea White of egg Pine resin White walnut bark (boUed) Running Briar leaf Sugar and turpentine Hot cow manure \ J y 154 Journeys Through Jackson -September - October 2000 C Ky Ky T h e D e s c e n d a n t s o f D a v i d M a t h i s . [Ed. We continue in this issue with the Mathis descendancy of JCGS member Shawna Green Hall. Shawna reminds us that this compilation is not foolproof, and for corrections, write to her at 4889 Clintonway Dr. Waterford, MI 48328 or e-mail her at shahall@concentric.net.] 54. SPURGEON NEWTON4 MATHIS (SAMUEL HUTSON3, THOMAS J.2, DAWD1) was bom Sep 10, 1910 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone), and died Jul 28, 1984 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: death records of Jackson Co., N.C, headstone, buried Shook Cemetery,'Jackson Co., NC, headstone, buried Shook Cemetery, Jackson Co., NC). He married LETTIE MAE HOOPER. She was bom Mar 13,1917 (Source: headstone), and died Mar 20,1987 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Shook Cemetery, Jackson Co., NC). Children of SPURGEON MATHIS and LETTIE HOOPER are:; i. FRANK? MATHIS, b. Jul 21,1933, Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone); d. Jan 22, 1943, JackSon Co., N.C. (Source? headstone, buried Shook Cemetery, Jackson Co., NC). 116. ii. L V. MATHIS, b. May 24,1936. iii. SHIRLEY WILLENE MATHIS, b.' Jan 13,1944, Jackson Co., NC (Source: birth records of Jackson Co., NC). 55. SADIE4 MATHIS (SAMUEL HUTSON3, THOMAS J.2, DAVID*) was born Dec 25, 1912 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, Holly Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Henderson Co., N.C), and died Mar 27, 1981 in Henderson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone). She married LESTER C MATHIS Oct 10,1934 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: marriage records of Jackson Co., NC), son of WESTON MATHIS and MARTHA OWEN. He was bom May 3,1900 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: Brederbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: 28 Mar 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.10090.28, birth records of Jackson co., N.C), and died Nov 29,1976 in Henderson Co., N.C. (Source: Brederbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: 28 Mar 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.10090.28). Children of SADIE MATHIS and LESTER MATHIS are: 117. i. CORNELIUS5 MATHIS, d. 1994, Henderson Co., NC. ii. BENNIE BRYSON MATHIS, b. Jan.4j.1944, Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: Headstone, delayed birth records of Jackson Co., N.C); d. Feb 3,1944. Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: Headstone, buried Woodring Cemetery, Jackson Co., NC). 118. iii. REBECCA SUE MATHIS, b. Feb 15,''1937, jackson Co., NC; d. Sep 23,1994,. Henderson Co., NC 56. COLUMBUS4 MATHIS (SAMUEL HUTSON31, THOMAS J.2,.DAVID*) was bom 1916 (Source: 1920 census of Jackson Co., NC). Children of COLUMBUS MATHIS are: i. DELMA6 MATHIS, m. ? CLONTZ. ii. NELSON MATHIS. iii. MARVIN D. MATHIS. 57. ETHEL IVALEE4 OWEN (DOVEY E» MATHIS, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was bom Mar 31, 1885 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source; census, article on Owen family, headstone, Jackson Owen Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C), and died Dec 5,1953 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone). She married WILLIAM LEE OWEN, son of JOHN OWEN and FREELOVE PAGE. He was bom 1881 in Jackson Co., NC (Source: census, article on Owen Family, headstone), and died 1924 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Wood Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C.). !' Children of ETHEL OWEN and WILLIAM OWEN are: j. FLORENCE5 OWEN, b. Feb 25,1905, Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone); d. Jun 18, 1950, Transylvania Co:, N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Macedonia Church Cemetery, 155 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 Transylvania Co., NC); m. WILEY W. OWEN; b. Mar 9,1894, Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source: headstone); d. Feb 23,1977, Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Macedonia Church Cemetery, Transylvania Co., NC). . ii. LEROYOWEN, b. Nov 18,1906, Jackson Co., N.C; d. May 1907, Jackson Co., N.C. ^ iii. WILLIAM HOWARD OWEN, b. Jul 4,1908, Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, Jackson Owen Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C); d. May 19,1985, Jackson Co., N.C XSource: headstone); m. ETTA B. PHILLIPS; b. Apr 27,1909, Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone, Jackson Owen Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C); d. Dec 1,1995, Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone), iv. OLLIE V. OWEN, b. Sep 16,1910, Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, Jackson Owen Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C); d. Dec 10,1977, Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone); m. ULYSSES HUMPHRIES. 119. v. HOMERT. OWEN, b. Feb 12,1913, Jackson Co., N.C; d. Sep 22,1991. vi. LULA B. OWEN, b. Jun 19,1914, Jackson Co., N.C; m. LEROY OWEN. 120. vii. LOREN EVANS OWEN, b. Feb 10,1918, Jackson Co., N.C; d. Sep 13,1961, Jackson Co., N .C 121. viii. JAMES VAUGHN OWEN, b. Nov 3,1922, Jackson Co., N.C; d. Mar 22,1990, Jackson Co., N .C 58. ARLETTIE4 OWEN (DOVEY E.3 MATHIS, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was born Nov 1897 (Source: article on Owen family, 1900 census of Jackson Co., N.C.). She married LOUIE MCCALL He was bom Mar 30,1894 in Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source: headstone), and died Oct 30, 1979 in Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Macedonia Church Cemetery, Transylvania Co., N.C). Children of ARLETTIE OWEN and LOUIE MCCALL are: i. TRACY RICHMOND5 MCCALL. ii. LEONARD M. MCCALL. iii. QURTIS MCCALL. iv. GRADY MCCALL. v. BURLEY MCCALL. • vi. JUNIOR MCCALL. ,. v* >^ vii. GLADYS MCCALL. 59. JESSE4 OWEN (DOMEY E.3 MATHIS, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was bom Jul 17, 1907 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: census, article on Owen family, headstone, Jackson Owen Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C), and died Dec 19,1980 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone). He-married SELMA ELSIE HARRIS, daughter of MARVIN HARRIS and ALSESTA REECE. She was bom Nov 16,1913 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, Jackson Owen Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C), and died Feb 14,1992 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone). Children of JESSE OWEN and SELMA HARRIS are: CARMEL6 OWEN, b. Dec 17,1935, Jackson Co., N.C. CHARLES OWEN, b. Nov 2,1937, Jackson Co., N .C MARVIN OWEN, b. May 12,1940. HAROLD OWEN, b. Jul 22,1942, Jackson Co., N .C WANDA OWEN, b. Oct 28,1944. PHILLIP BRISKO OWEN, b. May 2 6 , 1 9 4 7. DENNIS OWEN. DANIEL OWEN, b. Apr 2,1956. 60. HATTIE M.4 MATHIS (WESTON ULYSSES3, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was bom May 28.1894 in Jackson Co.. N.C. (Source: headstone), and died Oct 1, 1976 in Brevard, Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Rock Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). She married WILLIAM HESTER PHILLIPS, son of JOHN PHILLIPS and ARTIE CRAWFORD. He was bom Feb 11, 1891 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone), and died Jun 12,1967 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Rock Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). Children of HATTIE MATHIS and WILLIAM PHILLIPS are: i. KERMIT6 PHILLIPS. ii. OTELIA PHILLIPS, b. 1916, Jackson Co., N . C ; m. JAMES MITCHELL RIGDON. *y iii. DENIA PHIUIPS, b. 1918, Jackson Co., N . C ; m. GEORGE RAY NICHOLSON. iv. JAMES PHILLIPS, b. 1920, Jackson Co., N.C; d. 1986, Jackson Co., N.C. v. MARY JANE PHILLIPS, b. 1922, Jackson Co., N . C 156 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. VIII. Ky Ky Ky Journeys Through Jackson Septeinber - October 2000 vi. ObELL PHILLIPS, b. 1923, Jackson Co.. N.C; m. MARY LOUISE MCCALL. vii. LOBELIA PHILLIPS, b. 1925, Jackson Co., N . C ; m. HEYWARD M. SHELTON. viii. OLLIE BIRDELL PHILLIPS, b. f927, Jackson Co., N.C; m. EARL GARREN. ix. DEALOS PHILLIPS, b. 1930, Jackson Co., N . C ; m. DOVIE BIRDELL JONES. x. EDITH PHILLIPS, b. 1932. Jackson Co.. N . C xi. CAUIE KATHLEEN PHILLIPS, b. 1935, Jackson Co., N . C xii. JUANITA PHILLIPS, b. 1937, Jackson Co., N .C xiii. JAKE L PHILLIPS, b. 1942, Jackson Co., N.C; d. Oct 17,1995, Jackson Co., N.C; m. ALICE FRANKLIN. 61. LESTER C4 MATHIS (WESTON ULYSSES3, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was bom May 3, 1900 in Jackson Co., N.C (Source: Brederbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: 28 Mar 1997, Interna! Ref. #1.112.4.10090.28, birth records of Jackson co.', N.C), and died Nov 29,1976 inWenderson Co., N.C. (Source: Bnsderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: 28 Mar 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.10090.28). He married SADIE MATHIS Oct 10. 1934 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: marriage records of Jackson Co., NC), daughter of SAMUEL MATHIS and MARY BURRELL. She was bom Dec 25, 1912 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, Holly Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Henderson Co., N.C), and died Mar 27,1981 in Henderson Ca, N.C. (Source: headstone). Children are listed above under (55) Sadie Mathis. 62. ANZEL V.4 MATHIS (WESTON ULYSSES3, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was born Feb 6, 1905 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, cenus, birth records of Jackson Co.. N.C), and died Aug 11, 1990 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, census (Sols Creek), death records of Jackson Co., N.C). He married MARY E. MELTON, daughter of WESLEY MELTON and LUCRESIA<3UEEN. She was bom Apr 6,1909 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, Sols Creek), and died Jul 8,1990 in Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone, Sols Creek). Children of ANZEL MATHIS and MARY MELTON are: i. WILLIAM5 MATHIS, d. Dec 23,1928, Jackson Co., N.C-(Source:death records of Jackson-Co., N.C). ii. L H. MATHIS,.b. Apr 22,1945 (Sourer; birth records of Jackson Co., N.C). iii. J. B. MATHIS, b. Mar 15,1947 (Source; birth records of Jackson Co., N.C). iv. HERMAN TOLWIN MATHIS, b. Apr 17,1949, Jackson Co., N.C (Source: birth records of Jackson Co.. N.C). 63. LEORA4 MATHIS (WESTON ULYSSES3, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was bom May 15, 1906 in Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone, census,), and died Mar 30,4988 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, census (buried Sols Creek)). She married MILAS M. MULL. He-was born Aug 11, 1892 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone), and died Dec 27, 1974 in Jackson Co., N.C, (Source: headstone, (Buried Sols Creek)). Child of LEORA MATHIS and MILAS MULL is: i. EVLON J.5 MULL, b: Feb 3,1927, Jackson Co., NC (Source: headstone); d. Mar 9.1927, Jackson Co., NC (Source: headstone, buried Sols Creek Cemetery, Jackson Co., NC). 64. JETER ROSWELL4 MATHIS (MERRtTT ROWAN3, JOHN HAMILTON2', DAVID*) was bom Sep 1896 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: birth records of Jackson Co., N.C),-and fiied 1987 in Port St. Lucie, Fla. (Source: family information). He married GRACE EVELYN WEEKS Sep 23, 1923. She died Sep 5,1981 in Kendall, Florida (Source: buried Woodlawn South Cemetery, South Miami, Fla..). •» Children of JETER MATHIS and GRACE WEEKS are: i. ROSWELL CORNELL6 MATHIS. ii. FREDRICK CARRINGTON MATHIS.- 129. iii. CHARLES EVANS MATTHEWS. 65. DELLA BEATRICE4 MATHIS (MERRITT ROWAN3, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was born Jan 27, 1909 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: birth records of Jackson Co.', N.C), and died Apr 24, 1989 (Source: Info from direct descendant Patty Kratz Gemart, Yank62@aol.com.). She married AMBROSE L FORTNER. He was bom Dec 29,1907 (Source: Info from direct descendant Patty Kratz Gerhart, Yank62@aol.com.), and died Sep 21,1972 (Source: Info from-direct descendant Patty Kratz Gerhart, Yank62@aol.com.). Children of DELLA MATHIS and AMBROSE FORTNER ate! 157 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 130. i. NORMA LEA5 FORTNER, b. Jul 3 , 1 9 2 9. ii. DOROTHY JEAN FORTNER, b. Oct 29,1930 (Source: Info from direct descendant Patty Kratz Gerhart, Yank62@aol.com.). iii. JANELL EARLEEN FORTNER, b. Feb 25,1932 (Source: Info from direct descendant Patty j Kratz Gerhart, Yank62@aol.com.). ^^ 66. OREN EUGENE4 MATHIS (MERRITT ROWAN3, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID1) was bom Jun 11. 1911 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: census), and died Jun 15, 1993 in Transylvania Co., NC (Source: family bible of Merritt Rowan Matthews.). Child of OREN EUGENE MATHIS is: i. OREN5 MATHIS. 67. JAMES NEWMAN4 MATHIS (MERRITT ROWAN3, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was born Jun 24, 1916 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: Information from direct descendant Jennifer Matthews Nickel, jnickel@siue.edu), and died Jul 1993 in Iowa (Source: family bible of Merritt Rowan Matthews.). He married LUCILE GARA SWIFT Dec 25, 1941 in Ottummwa, Iowa. She was bom May 2,1921 in Iowa (Source: family bible of Merritt Rowan Matthews.). Children of JAMES MATHIS and LUCILE SWIFT are: i. PETER5 MATHIS. ii. JENNIFER SUZANNE MATHIS, b. Sep 13,1950, Iowa (Source: info from person). 68. THADEOUS DUFF4 MATHEWS (JOHN HARUN3, JOHN HAMILTON2 MATHIS, DAVID*) was bom Dec 7, 1897 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: census, article, headstone)', and died Jul 7,1984 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: census, article, death records of Jackson Co., N.C, headstone, buried Cathey Cemetery, Jackson Co., NC). He married ELMA OTELIA MATHIS Jul 30,1920 in Kentucky, daughter of RUTHERFORD MATHIS and RACHAEL PHILLIPS. She was bom Sep 24, 1905 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: census, article, headstone), and died Apr 14,1991 in Washington (Source: census, article, headstone, buried Cathey Cemetery, Jackson Co., NC). Children of THADEOUS MATHEWS and ELMA MATHIS are: 131. i. GARRETT ED5 MATHEWS, b. Jul 19,1923, Jackson Co, N .C ii. NEWLON GORDON MATHEWS, b. Oct 26,1925, North Carolina (Source: article, birth \J records of Jackson Co., NC); m. NADINE MOSTETEER, May 17,1974, Jackson Co., NC (Source: marriage records of Jackson Co., NC). iii. MAZIE MATHEWS, b. Jun 16,1929, North Carolina (Source: article), iv. ELDON B. MATHEWS, b. Mar 1,1932, Jackson Co., NC (Source: headstone); d. Mar 30, 1933, Jackson Co., N.C (Source: death records of Jackson Co., N.C, headstone, buried Cathey Cemetery, Jackson Co., NC). v. DOMOTEEN MATHEWS, b. Feb 25,1935, North Carolina (Source: birth records of Jackson Co.. N.C). vi. LYDIA MATHEWS, b. May 30,1937, Washington (Source: article); m. UYLESS R. MATHIS, Sep 14,1952, Jackson Co., N.C; b. Jul 1,1926, North Carolina (Source: article), vii. ADNEY HARLIN MATHEWS, b. Jul 7,1939, Jackson Co., NC (Source: article, headstone); d. Mar 13,1940, Jackson Go., N.C. (Source: article, death records of Jackson Co., N.C, headstone, buried Cathey Cemetery, Jackson Co., NC). viii. CLINTON MATHEWS, b. Feb 20,1941, North Carolina (Source: article), be. GROVER MATHEWS, b. Jun 21,1944 (Source: article). 69. WILLIAM ESPERT4 MATHIS (Fl I FN THEODOSIA3, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was born Mar 30, 1893 in North Carolina (Source: Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: 28 Mar 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.10107.98), and died Dec 1982 (Source: Braderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index. U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import 28 Mar 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.10107.98). Child Of WILLIAM ESPERT MATHIS is: i. FLOYD5 MATHIS (Source: family knowledge), m. GAYNELL SHOOK. 70. JOHN ELBERT4 MATHIS (ELLEN THEODOSIA3, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*)yms bom Jan 27, 1895 in North Carolina (Source: information from ggson of J.E. Mathis), and died Jan 1979 (Source; Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: May 26.1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.10086.21). He married (1) MATTIE MAE 158 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 MOSLEY in North Carolina. She was bom Jun 29,1894 (Source: information from ggson of J.E. Mathis), and died Feb 20, 1976. He married (2) BESS JONES. She was born.Pct 12, 1913 in North Carolina. L , Children of JOHN MATHIS and MATTIE MOSLEY are: k 132. i. MAUDE LEE ADELINES MATHIS, b. Aug 13,1914. Pickens Co.. S.C; d. Dec 29,1973, Asheville, N . C *i ii. MINNIE THEODORA MATHIS, b. Aug 13,1914. North Carolina (Source: information from Richard King); d. Aug 2,1930; m. ERNEST CHAPMAN. iii. GROVER CLEVELAND MATHIS, b. Jun 4,1917 (Source: information .from Richard, King); m. BERNICE. iv. EUGENE TERRELL MATHIS, b. Aug 7,1921 (Source: information from Richard King); d. Dec 8,1968; m. LAURA. v. DOSEY CHRISTINE MATHIS, b. Aug 23.1928, North Carolina (Source: information from Richard King); m. BILL GRISE. 71. FLORENCE4 MATHIS (DORA H.3, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was bom'Abt. 1901 (Source: census, family knowledge). She married ? MCKAY. Children of FLORENCE MATHIS and ? MCKAY are: i. ARBUTUS5 MCKAY (Source: family knowledge), ii. EUGENE MCKAY (Source: family knowledge). 72. ELLA LEE4 PHILLIPS (DEBORAH ANN MURCILLA3 MATHIS, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*.) was bom Sep 3, 1901 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: Headstone, delayed birth records of Jackson Co., N.C), and died Jan 29,1957 in Jackson Co., N.C (Source: Headstone, buried Rock Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co.,'N.C.). She married WILLIAM VESS HARRIS. He was bom Dec 12,1901 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: Headstone, delayed birth records of Jackson Co., N.C), and died Jun 30,1973 ffV jackson Co., N.C. (Source: Headstone, buried Rock Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). " Children of ELLA PHILLIPS and WILLIAM HARRIS are: Lj i. CHARLES B.5 HARRIS, b. Sep 16,1927, Jackson Co., N.C; d. Sep 16,1927, Jackson Co.. N.C. (Source: Headstone,.buried Rock Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). 133. ii. JOHN LEE HARRIS, b. Jun 12,1939. Jackson Co., N.C; d. Feb 20,1992, Jackson Co., N .C 73. ELSIE MAE4 BANTHER (MARIAH ALMEDIA3 MATHIS, JOHN HAMILTON2, DAVID*) was born Sep 22. 1900 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone), and died Aug 10, 1989 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Rock Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). She married (1) WILLIAM DAVIS. She married (2) SPURGEON SHOOK, son of DAVID SHOOK and CALLIE SROWN. He was bom Sep 20, 1895 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone), and died Apr 5,1933 in Jackson Co., N.C (Source:- headstone, buried Rock Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C, death records of Jackson Co., NC). Children of ELSIE BANTHER and WILLIAM DAVIS are: i. BOBBY JUNE5 DAVIS. ii. SUE DAVIS. Children of ELSIE BANTHER and SPURGEON SHOOK are: iii. LLOYD5 SHOOK. iv. DALE SHOOK. v. NONA JEAN SHOOK. vi. BIRDALEE SHOOK, b. Jul 20,1918. Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone); d. Aug 22," 1934, Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone, buried Rock Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). vii. JESSIE MAE SHOOK, b. Nov 24,1919, Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone); d. Sep 19,1939, Jackson Co., N.C (Source: headstone,.buried Rock Bridge Cemetery, Jackson Co., N.C). ^ / 74. HAZEL BURDINE4 MATTHEWS (WALTER HARRISON3,-JOHN HAMILTON2 MATHIS, DAVID*) was bom Oct 6, 1913 in Jackson Co., North Carolina. She married RANSOM R. MIDDLETON in Jackson Co., North Carolina, son of ROBERT MIDDLETON and LULA ASHE. He was bom Jun 30, 1901 in North Carolina (Source: headstone)', and died Jan 11,1986 in Jackson Co., NC (Source?Brederbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: 28 Mar 1997, 159 134. 135. 136. 137. 138. i. ii. iii. iv. v. Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 Internal Ref. #1.112.4.19062.173, headstone, buried Middleton Cemetery, Jackson Co., NC). Children of HAZEL MATTHEWS and RANSOM MIDDLETON are: ". BRONA JOY5 MIDDLETON, b. North Carolina. ^y NATALIE MIDDLETON, b. North Carolina. FRIEDA MIDDLETON, b\ North Carolina. WILLENE MIDDLETON, b. Nov 11,1930, Jackson Co., NC. IMOGENE MIDDLETON, b. Nov 11,1930, Jackson Co., North Carolina. 75. WILMA BURDELL4 MATTHEWS (WALTER HARRISON3, JOHN HAMILTON2 MATHIS, DAVID*) was born Apr 4, 1916 in Jackson Co., North Carolina. She married (1) ALLISON MOORE, son of LYNCH MOORE and ETHEL ALLISON. He was'born Jan 1,1916 in Ndrth Carolina, and died Jan 12,1989 in North Carolina (Source: Brederbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: May 26,1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.23304.82). She married (2) PLUMMER L. PAINTER, son of ALBERT PA|NTER and ROSA GALLOWAY. He was bom Apr 8, 1905 in Jackson . Co., N.C.s (Source: birth records of Jackson Co., NC), and died Jul 29,1958 in Jackson Co., N.C. Children of WILMA MATTHEWS and ALLISON MOORE are: i. STEVEN5 MOORE, b. North Carolina. 139. ii. MYRON MOORE, b. North Carolina, iii. TIMOTHY MOORE, b. North Carolina. 140. iv. TAMMY MOORE. 76. OLIVE ELOISE4 MATTHEWS (WALTER HARRISON3, JOHN HAMILTON2 MATHIS, DAVID*) was bom Mar 16, 1921 in Jackson Co., North Carolina, and died Apr 15,1997 in Brevard, N.C. She married (1) JACK GILLESPIE. She married (2) HOWARD MCCALL. He was bom in North Carolina. She married (3) ALBERT FRANK CARDEN in North Carolina, son of SAMUEL CARDEN and AGNES PRUETT. He was bom May 19,1920 in Jackson Co., N.C. (Source: headstone), and died Mar 30,1962 in Transylvania Co., N.C. (Source: headstone, buried Pisgah Memorial Gardens, Transylvania Co., N.C). Child of OLIVE A/IATTHEWS and JACK GILLESPIE is: \y 141. i. MICHAEL HENRY5 GILLESPIE, b. North Carolina. Child of OLIVE MATTHEWS and ALBERT CARDEN is: 142. ii. NANCY ANITA5 CARDEN, b. North Carolina. 77. GAZELLA WYSE4 MATTHEWS (WALTER HARRISON3, JOHN HAMILTON2 MATHIS, DAVID*) was born Apr 7, 1924 in Jackson Co., North Carolina (Source: birth records of Jackson Co., N.C). She married (1) FRED GORDON. He was bom in Mills River, North Carolina. She married (2) JERRY PIERSON. He was bom in Cedar Mt., North Carolina. Child of GAZELLA MATTHEWS and FRED GORDON is: 143. i. LARRY RAY5 GORDON, b. North Carolina. 78. APPLESS WALTON4 MATTHEWS (WALTER HARRISON3, JOHN HAMILTON2 MATHIS, DAVID*) was bom Dec 20, 1926 in Jackson Co., North Carolina (Source: birth records of Jackson Co., N.C). She married THOMAS HAROLD HUBBARD in North Carolina. He was bom in Transylvania Co., North Carolina. Children of APPLESS MATTHEWS and THOMAS HUBBARD are: 144. i. SHARON RAMONA5 HUBBARD, b. Brevard, North Carolina. 145. ii. RICK HUBBARD, b. Brevard, North Carolina. 79. OPAL ESTELLA4 MATTHEWS (WALTER HARRISON3, JOHN HAMILTON2 MATHIS, DAVID*) was bom Jun 20, 1931 in Jackson Co., N.C., and died Jul 30, 1997 in Pickens Co., S.C. She married WILLIAM EVERETTE GREEN Dec 15,1947 in Toccoa, Georgia, son of JOHN GREEN and MATTIE COLLINS. He was bom Apr 21,1925 in Penrose, North Carolina. Children of OPAL MATTHEWS and WILLIAM GREEN are: 146. i. SHAWNA KAYE5 GREEN, b.Jan 17,1951, Brevard, Transylvania County, North Carolina. ^ 147. ii. CATHY ANNE GREEN, b. Dec 1,1956, Pontiac, Michigan. iii. LISA LYNNE GREEN; b. Oct 1958, Pontiac, Michigan; d. Oct 1958, Pontiac, Michigan. 160 Journeys Through JacksOn September - October 2000 ^ 1 M a c o n C o u n t y R e c o r d s P r i o r t o J a c k s o n ' s F o r m a t i o n [Ed. The following represent a few records pertaining to persons who would later be citizens in Jackson County after Jackson became a working government entity in 1853. Records were gathered and abstracted at the North Carolina State Archives by Rick Frizzell and Tim Barker 16 Sep 2000 and by Roth Shuler 1 July 2000.] Principals in Certain Macon County Bastardy Bonds Margaret Hughes... Jason L. Hyatt 10 Aug 183S Elizabeth Jonston...S.W. Hyatt 19 Aug 1836 Mahala Ashe...Levi Wilson ,< 22 Jan 1839 Nancy Chasteen.. . M a r k Burrell, James Ridley 6 May 1840 Catherine Hyde...David Shuler 1 Jun 1840 Adeline Dempsey... Cornelius Cooper 27 Jan 1842 Adeline Dempsey...John Monteith 29 Nov 1842 (Bond pd. by Thomas Monteith) Catherine Davis.. .Jason Hunter 8 Jun 1843 Margaret McCall.. .(Unnamed) 27 Jan 1844 Louisa Peek...William Moss 8 Sep 1851 State of N Carolina Macon County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions , December Term 1833 Know all men by these presents mat we John Cockerham and Wm Tatham do hold ourselves firmly bound unto Johnathan Phillips Esq Chairman of the Court and his successors in office in the sum of two hundred dollars for the payment of which we bind ourselves our heirs executors administrators and assigns — The conditions of the above Obligations are such that if the above bounden John Cockerham will maintain a certain bastard child begotten by sd Cockerham of her so that sd child shall not become a county charge the above becomes void otherwise to remain in full force and effect Witness our hand and seal this 26th day of December 1833 /s/John Cockerham (Seal) /s/Wm Tatham (Seal) /s/John Tatham (Attest) [Ed. The "her" above is Patsy Barker, not mentioned in the bond itself, but inscribed on the outside of the'sheet] * . State of Norm Carolina Macon County Know all men by these presents that we John Willson & Richard Willson are held & firmly bound unto John McDowell Esq\ Chairman of the county court of Macon, his successors in office for the time being in the just & full sum of three hundred dollars to the which payment i , well & truly to be made & done we bind ourselves our heirs assigns or admim'strators firmly by these payments 161 \ J Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 Sealed with our seals & dated this 12 day of June 1838 The conditions of the above obligation is such that whereas Elizabeth Henderson - Single woman of the state and county aforesaid hath lately heretofore been delivered of a child which is a bastard & hath declared on her oath that the above bounden John Willson is the father thereof and which warrant was issued against him the said John Wilson & further proceedings were had in the primises as is directed by law Now if the above bounden John Wilson aforesaid shall from time to time & at all times keep the county of Macon aforesaid free from any expence cost or charges in consequence of the said bastard child for the term of three years from the 12th day of June 1838 at which time the said bastard child will have to the age of three years then this obligation to be void & of none effect else to remain in full force & virtue at law in testimony of which we have hereunto set our hands & seals the day & date above written John Willson Jr. (his mark) Richard Willson of Culawhee (his mark) John Hall Clk. State of North Carolina Macon County Superior Court of Law October Term AD 1832 The jurors for the state upon their oath present that Edmund Barker, Calvin Barker, and Warren Barker all late of said county, on the 8th day of October 1832 with force and arms in \y the county aforesaid an assault did make on the body of Solomon Millsaps did make an assault and the said Solomon Millsaps did then and there wound beat and ill treat against the peace and dignity of the state 1st J. Roberts, (illegible) pro tern State of North Carolina Macon County To any lawful officer for said county to execute and return as the law directs Whereas Solomon Millsaps of and in the county a four said. [Ed. "aforesaid"] planter hath this day made oath befour me Joel Simonds one of the Justices of the Peace in and for sd county that on the 25th day of this instant Edmon Barker planter and Calvin Barker planter and Warren Barker planter all of tile county of and state a four sd at a beginning of an improvement of George Couch in the county a four sd the said Barkers did initiate (illegible) made an affray where in the person of the said Solomon Millsaps was beaten and abused by them the said Barkers with out any lawful or soffishient provocation given them or either of them by him the sd Solomon Millsaps Thees are thare four to command you in the name of the state to apprehend them the said Edmon Barker Calvin Barker and Warren Barker and them (to be cited?) So that you have them befour some Justice of the Peace for sd county to answer the above charge and to find shurety as well for thare personal appearance at the next Court of Please and Quarter Sessions to be held for v~-' 162 Ky Ky KJ Journeys Through Jackson September — October ,2000 the said county then and thare to answer an inditement to be perfered against them for the said offense and also for thare keeping the peace towardes all the good citizens of the state and a spatial ly [Ed. "especially"] to wards him the said Solomon Millsaps • : -. Here in fail not as you will answer the contrary at your parrel. Given tinder my hand and seal at-office in the county a-four said in t he year of our Lord 1832 and on the 26 day of July /s/ Joel Simonds, J.P. July the 27th 1832 The partys a peared before me and no evidence produced to the reverse of the com plant [Ed. "complaint"] and failed to find shurety there four committed By me Joel Simonds, J.P. : rr *i s • ! State of No Carolina Macon County We Asaph Enlow, Thomas Tatham, James W. Quinn, James Whitaker, James Truitt, (one name illegible), & Ezekiel Dowdle all of the county and state aforesaid are held and firmly bound unto the state of North Carolina in the joint sum-pf fifty dollars to be void on condition that Edmon Barker Calvin Barker and Warren Barker make their personal apearas at our next court to be held for the county of Macon to answer a charge of the state July the 27* 1832 1st Tatham (test) /s/J.W. Quinn Isl Thomas Tatham /s/ James Whitaker Isl James Truitt Isl Asa Enloe Isl Ez Dowdle State of North Carolina To the Sheriff of Macon County, Greeting. .„ You are hereby commanded to summon William Tatham Joseph Stillwell General Ward and Patsy Barker personally to be and appear before the Judges of our Superior Court of Law^at the next Court to be held for the County of Macon a t the Court - House in Franklin on the 2nd Monday in April next; then and there to testify, and the truth to say, in behalf of Edmund Barker in a certain matter of controversy before said Court depending, and then and there to be tried, wherein the State is plaintiff and Edmund Barker is defendant. And this you shall in nowise omit, under the penalty prescribed by law. Witness, Silas McDowell, Clerk of said Court at Office the 2nd Monday after the 4th Monday in September Anno Domini 1832 and in the fifty 7 year of our Independence. Issued the 27 day of December A.D. 1832 Isl Clerk (name illegible) 163 KJ Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 State of North Carolina, Macon County Be it remembered that on the 27th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Solomon Millsaps of and in the county af four sd planter personally came before me Joel Simonds one of the Justices of the Peace for said county and acknowledged him Self to owe to this State the some of fifty pounds to be made and leavyed of his goods (next line illegible) if he the said Solomon Millsaps shall fail in the condition under written Isl Joel Simonds JP The conditions of the above (recognizance?) is such that if the above bounded Solomon Millsaps doth make his (illegible) appearance at the court house in Franklin on the second Monday in September next then and there to give evidence in behalf of the state against Edmon Barker and sons and not depart the court without leave to remain in full force and virtue according to law. [Ed. The above proves that Edmund Barker was the father of Calvin and Warren Barker.] Macon County Apprentice Bonds 3 Sep 1849, William Angel, Chmn., John A. Hooper a male child by the name of D.H. Parker, nine years old "and to instruct or cause to be instructed in the art of farming." Petition of Complaint: To the Hon. D.F. Caldwell, one of the judges of the Superior Court of Law and Equity in and for KJ the state of NC: The petition of Daniel Harrison Parker, by Letty Parker, his mother and next friend, humbly complaining sheweth to your Honor, that he is illegally imprisoned and detained in the custody of John Anzel Hooper, in Macon County and sd. State. Your, petitioner would therefore humbly pray your Honor to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus, to be directed to and served upon the sd. John Anzel Hooper, commanding the same.. .to appear before your Honor at some time and place to be designated by your Honor, and then and there to have the body of the said Daniel,Harrison Parker, and make known the cause of his detention and imprisonment. And may it please your Honor to order and adjudge that your petitioner be released and discharged from the illegal imprisonment and custody of the sd. Hooper, and to grant...such other and further relief as may seem just and proper in the premises... Letty Parker swears that the facts set forth in the foregoing petition are true in substance and fact, as she is advised and Veryly believe, sworn and subscribed before me on this the 13th day of March 1850.7s/ Letty Parker (her mark), William Angel, J.P. [Ed. The writ was issued by Caldwell on the 15th.] I return that I have the body of Daniel Harrison Parker now here before D.T. Caldwell, Judge, this 22 day March 1850. Isl John A. Hooper In the matter of Daniel Harrison Parker now before me, the parties being heard, it is ordered that the said Daniel be remanded to the custody of the said John A. Hooper. March 22,1850 Isl D.T. Caldwell, Judge , 164 Journeys,Through Jackson September - October 2000 U Ky Ky A P r o f i l e o f t h e O c o n a l u f t y V a U e y : S e t t l e m e n t to P r e s e r v a t i o n [Ed. We continue in this issue with the work of Trad Henderson Clark.] Ravensford Community According t o -Park Ranger Tom Robbins, John C. .Arbogast and Associates bought approximately 33,000 acres of'land located on Straight Fork and Raven Fork from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The. company's mill'was located near the community of Ravensford. This community, located near the present park boundary and Big Cove Road, became one of the largest logging towns in the Smoky, Mountains.' At one time the population was close to 2,000 people. In addition to the mill, Ravensford had a commissaryt boarding house, about 40 houses, a church, and a school.55 The lumber company at^Ravensford did not wish to sell its holdings to the government. In August, 1931, condemnation» hearings were held in Buncombe County, North Carolina, where'the lumber company lost its pase and was ordered to sell the land contained within the proposed park site.56 Churches and Schools The rise of the logging industry in the Lufty valley led to a corresponding increase in population, especially in the Ravensford and. Smokemont areas.57 As in most communities of that time, the inhabitants desired a place to (worship and. a place to educate their children. Ocona Lufta Baptist- Church, established in 1826, remained a viable church .until 1936, when its members were forced to move by the purchase of their homes for the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.58 Jarvis Conner, a former valley resident, remembers attending services at the Lufta Baptist Church as a child: ".. .we had Sunday School an' we had preachin'. Onct a month on ever' third Saturday and Sunday, we'd have it two days there you see." 59 A cross- referencing of the 1929 - 1930 Grossman Survey with the 1910 Census and the final church roll showed at least 54 individuals, representing 30 families, who belonged to the Ocona Lufta Baptist Church. Their residences were scattered throughout the valley. According to Marilyn MacDonald Hipps and Helen Gass Thompson, former residents of Ravensford, church services at Ravensford were held in the school building with three different denominations alternating responsibilities for the services.61 / t The'schools within-the Oconalufty Valley were components of the Swain County School System.62 Both Ravensford and Smokemont^as well as several other outlying areas, provided school faculties for their school - age children. Ravensford School, a two - story wooden structure with ah auditorium that boasted a movie projector, housed seven grades.63 Teachers often boarded with nearby families.64 The Smokemont School was a one - .story wooden structure with bird houses beside several .windows.65 "Despite the fact that the Bryson City School could boast of an eight months' term, many schools in the county ran only a few weeks. Jarvis Conner recalled a school term that lasted from the first of August until Christmas; however, many times the school was closed for a couple of) weeks during this, period to allow students to help with the fall harvest. "Th' school'd git-down .so low it wasn't worth while t ' teach a few[;] you see ever'body wanted their kids to stay ' n ' help 'em."?7 165 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 Great Smoky Mountains National Park r j All economic and social aspects of the Lufty valley were severely impacted by President Calvin A. Coolidge's authorization of the formation of a national park in the Great Smoky Mountains. According to Michael Frome and W. Thomas Reeves, the first record of a suggestion for a national park in the Southern Appalachian Mountains was made in an article written by Rev. CD. Smith, a Methodist minister in Franklin, North Carolina. This article was supposedly written in the early 1880's. In 1893, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a resolution that advocated the state's delegation in Congress to seek actively legislation for a national park in the mountains of North-Carolina. In 1899, Dr. Chase P. Ambler organized the Appalachian National Park Association at a meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. This association joined with the Appalachian Mountain Club in Boston, Massachusetts, and submitted memorials to Congress in January, 1900. These memorials stressed the urgent need to protect the forests in the mountains. The 'Weeks Law, passed by Congress in 1911, made possible the formation of national parks in the eastern United States. Between 1911 and 1916, the Forest Service progressed with the plan for a Great Smoky Mountains Park. However, with the entrance of the Unites States into World War I, lumber prices rose and companies that had once been prepared to sell their lands to the government now decided to keep the operations running.68 Despite the setback of World War I, the years of 1922, 1923, and 1924 saw the serious pursuit of a national park somewhere east of the Mississippi River. In December of 1924, the Southern Appalachian "National Park Committee announced the selection of two sites that would be ideal for a national' park, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. While North Carolina and Tennessee sought the publicity and money to purchase lands for a national park in the Smokies, the bill was being .— debated'in Congress. On May 22, 1926, President Coolidge signed the law authorizing the \y establishment of not two, but three parks: the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee; the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia; and the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. It took more than ten years of active work to acquire the necessary legislation and money to survey, appraise, and buy the lands designated for the park.69 According to Carlos Campbell, the author of Birth of a National Park in the Great Smoky Mountains, the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park set a precedent for the establishment of future parks. Of the eighteen parks established before 1924, all were created by setting aside land already owned by the federal government. The area now known as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) was owned by farmers, vacation home owners, and eighteen different timber and pulpwood companies.- The timber and pulpwood companies owned approximately 85 percent of the acreage in question.70 According to A.C. Shaw, Field Secretary for the North Carolina Park Commission, four classes of landowners existed in the Smoky Mountains: (1) operating timber companies, 136,525 acres; (2) lumber companies that had ceased operations, 36,000 acres; (3) land speculators, 69, 579 acres; and (4) miscellaneous small landowners, 75,000 acres.71 In this same report, Shaw stated t h a t " . . .the present land tenure is an exceedingly unfavorable state for public purchase. A Park could not have been laid out in a worse location.." n The asking price of owners willing to sell their lands ranged from seven to fifty dollars per acre. The Forest Service, the government agency authorized to purchase said lands, only offered between three dollars and fifty cents per acre and thirty dollars per acre. Shaw strongly believed that the government prices represented top value for the acreage and should be the maximum paid.73 While it appears that some land owners negotiated with the Forest Service and agreed on a selling price, many others refused to y accept the government's offer. 166 o Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 " An act was ratified in the General Assemblyx>f North Carolina on February 25, 1927, entitled 'An Act to provide for the Acquisition of Parks and Recreational Facilities in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina,' the same being Chapter 48, Public Laws of North Carolina, Session 27." 74 This act was used to authorize the purchase of lands within the proposed park boundaries from individuals and companies who either did not wish to relocate or were unwilling to sell their property for the amount offered. One such case involved several residents as well as a small lumber company located in the Oconalufty valley. On August 27, 1930, the State of North Carolina vs. Frank Marcus, et. al. received a first hearing in Swain County Superior Court. The commissioners appointed by the court reported that, upon appraisal and estimation of damage, an appropriate compensation had been decided on for each tract in question.75 The case of Frank Marcus, et. Al., was again heard on September 18, 1930, in Buncombe County Superior Court. The Court evoked the 1927 Act which allowed the state to condemn land and other property for park purposes. The respondents, including Rufus Beck, James Nations, and W.T. Reagan (found in the aforementioned survey) were awarded the amounts proposed by the Swain County Commissioners in August, 1930.76 This type of proceeding was not unusual; many such cases were litigated, including the condemnation of at least five schools, four of which (Toe String, Ravensford, Smokemont, and Mingus Creek) were located in the Oconalufty valley.77 By August 5, 1931, the Toe String, Ravensford, and Smokemont schools were among several tracts held by the state of North Carolina that were scheduled to be deeded to the federal government.78 On August 11, 1938, the deed for the Ravensford School property was received in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, at park headquarters "...in conformity with the powers and authority conferred upon them [Governor Clyde Hoey and Secretary of State Thad Eure] by Section 22, Chapter 48, Public Laws of North Carolina, Session of 1927..."79 Lumber companies were also subject to condemnation proceedings, as in the case of the Ravensford Lumber Company. This company,ultimately received $633,938.80 for their acreage contained within park boundaries.80 Champion Tibre was also forced to undergo condemnation proceedings. Champion held that the land in question was bought as a reserve timber supply; the spruce and hemlock from this tract were to be used for the manufacture of sulfite pulp at their plant in Canton, North Carolina. They further contended that this plan encompassed not only the acreage owned in North Carolina but'Tennessee as well. Both sections were within park boundaries.81 Champion ultimately lost its case and on September 30, 1931, was awarded two million dollars by the North Carolina Park Cpmmission.82 According to one source, "That's a compromise figure. They waited too long to settle it. If they'd been real smart, I think at one time they could have got about five milhon. They kept fighting the thing until.. .public sentiment began to drift the other way. Instead of being for Champion why they were wanting the park."83 Notes 55. Robbins Introduction, p. 14 56. Letter to Mr. Mark Squires from Washington, D.C., August 5, 1931; Land Acquisition (N.C), Box 1:5. Gsmnp Archives, Sugarlands Visitors Center, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 57. Champion History, pp. 3 - 4 58. Bush,p.ll. 59. Interview with Jarvis Conner, et Al., 11 August 1974, Rosmary Nichols, (transcript), GSMNP Archives, Sugarlands Visitors Center, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. P. 12. 60. Grossman Survey Map 61. Interview with Marilyn MacDonald Hipps, 6 April 1991; Interview with Helen Gass Thompson, 9 April 1991. t 62. Lillian Franklin Thomasson, Swain County: Early History and Educational Development. (Bryson City, NC, 1965) W P-91. 63. Lambert, p. 8; Interview with Louise Edwards, 7 April 1991. 64. Hipps Interview 167 Ky Journey's Through Jackson September - October 2000 65. [Ed. Refers to photograph not included in this printing.] 66. Thomasson, p. 28. 67. Connor Interview, p. 9. t*y 68. Frome, p. 174. 69. Campbell, p. 126; Frome, pp. 183-93. 70. Campbell, p. 12. 71. A.C. Shaw, Field Secretary, "Synopsis of Land Status, North Carolina Section, Smoky Mountains National Park." Land Acquisition (N.C.) Box 1:9, GSMNP Archives, Sugarlands, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, pp.1-2. 72. Shaw, p.6. 73. Shaw, pp. 6-7. 74. "State of North Carolina v. Frank Marcus, et. al." Swain County Superior Court, Condemnation (N.C.) Box 1:11, GSMNP Archives, Sugarlands, Gatlinburg Tennessee, p.2. (Hereafter referred to as Marcus Case.) 75. Marcus Case, pp. 3-7, 76. Report of Judgments of the Court Commissioners Appointed to Buncombe County for the Cases Named, Condemnation (N.C.) Box I: 3, GSMNP Archives, Sugarlands Visitor Center, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, p. 3. (Hereafter referred to as Judgment reports.) 77. Judgment Reports, p. 2. 78. Judgment Reports, p. 1. 79. Ravenford School Deed, GSMNP Archives, Sugarlands Visitors Center, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, p. 1. 80. North Carolina Park Commission Report, p. 9. 81.Champion History, p. 6. 82. Norm Carolina Park Commission, Complete Report submitted to Governor Clyde R. Hoey, December 31,1939, Land Purchases (N.C), GSMNP Archives, Sugarlands Visitors Center, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, p. 24. 83. Interview with J.H. (Hershel) Keener, (no date), W^averJvIcCracken. (Transcript), GSMNP Archives, Sugarlands Visitors Center, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, p. 24. I t e m s f o r S a l e b y J C G S •KJ We have plenty of copies of the cemetery book. $35.00 locally, or $38.50 postpaid. Merrell Jenkins Riddle's books of Delayed Births of Jackson County (Vol. 1) and of Swain County are available from the Society. Each is $21.20 locally, $23.50 postpaid. Rick Frizzell's award-winning Superior Court Docket Book 1866 - 1896 is also still available from the Society. $15.00 locally, $17.50 postpaid. Sorry, but we have sold out of the Medford census books. We continue to compile a waiting list for Volume I of the Heritage Book. Those interested should look for information late this fall. V ^ 168 Journeys Through Jackson September - October 20Q0 O I n d e x f o r J o u r n e y s T h r o u g h J a c k s o n , V o l . X , N o . 9 - 1 0 Ky Abernathy 151 Adams 148,151,152,153 AUison 149,150,160 Allman 147 Ambler 166 Angel 164 Arbogast 165 Arthur 146 Ashe 147,149,161 Bantherl59 Barker 161,162,163,164 Barnett 148 Bartlett 144 Beck 137,138,141,142, 143,144,145,146,167 Bennett 150 Bigwitch 148 Bishop 140 Blackburn 151,152,153 Blanton 139,147 Boyd 148 Bradley 147 Bridges 149 Brogden 138 . Brooks 148 Brown 147,150,159 Browne 141 Bryson 149,152 Buchanan 138,139,141,147, 148,150,151,152,153 Buckner 148 Bumgarner 147,149,150 Burrell 157,161 "Bush 167 Butler 148 Cagle 147 Caldwell 164 Campbell 166,168 Cannon 150 Carden 160 Carroll 147,150 Cathey 149 Chasteen 161 Clark 146,147,165 Clayton 147 Clontz 155 Cochran 154 Cockerham 161 Cogdill 147 Coggins 140,147,150 Collins 160 Conley 142 Conner 165,167,168 Connor 168 Cook 147 Coolidge 166 Cooper 161 Cope 147 Corbin 154 Corn 151 Couch 162 Cowan 138,147,154 Coward 147 Cox 147 Crawford 146,147,148,151, 156 Crow 146 Cunningham' 148 Curtis 148 Dalton 148 Davis 147,148,159,161 Dawson 141 Deitz 137 Dempsey 161 Dillard 153 Dills 137,147,, 148,153 Dowdle 163 Driver 149 Early 142,143 Edwards 167 Elders 141,153 Enlow 163 Ensley 148,150 Ertzberger 15f Farley 147 Farmer 150' Fisher 149 • ' Former 149; 157,158- Fowler 148 Fox 151,152,153,154 Franklin 148,f 157,167 Freer 150 Frizzell 137,161,168 Frome 166,168 Fuller 148 Galbreath 141 Galloway 148,149,160 Garren 157 Gass 165 George 148 Gerhart 157,158 Gibson 139 Gillespie 160 Glazener 147 Goddie 149 Gordon 160 Gragg 149 Green 148,155,160 Gregory 151,152 Grisel59 Guffey 148 Gunter 148,149 Hall 154,155,162 Hammond 148 Harris 147,149,156,159 Haskett 151,152 Head 150 Henderson 139, 162,165 Henry 148 Hensley 148 Henson 149 Higdon 147,148 Hipps 165,167 Hoey 168 Holbrooks 149 Holden 137 Holland 154 Honeycutt 147 Hooper 140,148,149,155, 164 Howard 154 Hubbard 160 Hughes 140,161 Humphries 156 Hunter 141, 142,161 Hurst 148 Hyatt 138,148,161 Hyde 161 Jackson 145,148 Jenkins 168 Johnson 148,149 Jones 141,148,149,157 Jonston 161 Jordan 148 Keener 150,153,168 Keever 149 King 159 Kratz 157,158 Lambert 167 Lawson 143 Lee 144 Leopard 150 Lincoln 142 Long 149 Loudermilk 152 Love 149 Lowe 147,149 . 16£> Journeys Through Jackson September - October 2000 w MacDonald 165,167 Marcus 167,168 Martin 144 Mashburn 148 Mathews 158 Mathis 155,157,158,159 Matthews 158,159,160 McCall 156,157,160,161 McClure 149 McCracken 168 McDoweU 149,161,163 McGinnis 139,149 McKay 159 McMahan 147 Medford 149,168 Melton 157 Messer 147,148,149 Middleton 146,159,160 MiUer 149 Millsaps 162,163,164 Monteith 148,149,161 Moody 147 Moore 149,160 Morrison 147 Mosley 159 Moss 161 Mosteteer 158 Mull 149,157 Nations 167 Nicholson 149,156 Nickel 158 Norris 149 Ohver 149 Owen 149,155,156 Owens 153 Oxner 149 Page 155 Painter 137,148,149,160 Palmer 151 Pangle 149 Parker 151,153,164 Parris 139,147 Passmore 151 Pearson 150 Peek 161 PhiUips 140,156,157,158, 159,161 Pierson 149,160 Potts 147,149 Presley 149 Pruett 160 Queen 149,157 Quinn 163 Rankin 153 Ray 146 Raybe 147 Reagan 167 Reece 156 Reeves 166 Riddle 168 Ridley 147,161 Ridley 161 Robbins 165,167 Roberts 162 Robinson 148 Rogers 147 Rose 149 Sawyer 148 Settlemyre 147 Setzer 147 Shaw 166,168 Shelton 148,157 Sheridan 143 Sherman 149 Shook 158,159 Shular 148 Shuler 139, 150,161 Silvers 153 Simonds 162,163,164 Sims 150 Skinner 147 Slayton 147 Smith 141,166 Sneed 149 Springer 150 Squires 167 Stein 146 Stewart 150 StewmanlSl Stillwell 148,163 Stiwinter 147 Styles 147 Sutton 147,148,149,151 Swift 158 Tatham 161,163 Taylor 152,153 Terrell 146 Thomas 141,144 Thomasson 167,168 Thompson 150,165 Thorndale 146 Truitt 163 Wade 149 Wakefield 148 Ward 139,163 Warren 146 Watkins 150 Webb 150 Weeks 147 Whitaker 163 White 141,150 Wmtmirel47 Wiggins 150 Wike 148,149 Wilkie 148 Wilks 150 WiUiams 152,153 Willson 161,162 Wilson 148,150,161 Wood 146,147 Young 152 Zachary 150 " V Ky 170