Journeys Through Jackson is the official journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. The journal began as a monthly publication in July 1991, was published bimonthly from 1994 to 2003, and continues today as a quarterly publication. The journal issues in this digital collection are presented as annual compilations.

• Creator
  • Jackson County Genealogical Society (N.C.)
• Format
  • Newsletters
  • Periodicals
• Type
  • Text
• Date
  • Date original: 2008
  • Date digitized: 2017-07-10
• Extent
  • Dimension: 11" x 8.5"
  • Pages: 52 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • Bible records
  • Cemeteries
  • Death certificates
  • Jackson County (N.C.) -- Genealogy
  • Registers of births, etc. -- North Carolina -- Jackson County
  • Voting registers -- North Carolina -- Jackson County
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
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  • Western Carolina University
• Source Collection
  • Jackson County Genealogical Society
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  • HL_JTJ_2008_18-02
• Repository
  • Jackson County Genealogical Society

c ^ J o u r n e y s - T h r o u g h J a c k s o n T h e Official 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 , Ing. Vol. X V I I I , No. II S p r i n g 2 0 08 C JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. 2008 Officers -^ President James E. Monteith Vice Presidents Robert Blackwell, B.B. Cantrell Secretary Marilyn G. Morton Treasurer E. Lawrence Morton Librarian Dorris D. Beck Office Manager Ruth C. Shuler Computer Coordinator. Deanne G. Roles Chair, Publications (Editor) R. Larry Crawford Journeys Through Jackson is the official publication of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. Members and non-members are invited to submit genealogical materials for publication, with the understanding that the editor reserves the right to edit these materials for genealogical content, clarity, or taste. The Society assumes no responsibility for errors of fact that may be contained in submissions, 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 this publication except for notices for other non-profit groups. From the Editor Spring is here, and with it the predictability of unpredictable weather, but lots of folks are planting their gardens and trying to do whatever small things in their power to fight rising prices and the outrageous greed that we see constantly at the gas pump. Not much we can do, as long as we stay in love with the ..-^ automobile. We are trying to relate that little sermon to genealogy; possibly the best reasoning is that we are ^J no longer as able just to hop in the vehicle and take off to do the kinds of research we like to do. Many thanks to the Society members who worked so hard to present "Birdell." Many thanks also to so many of you who were unable to be at the performance, but who sent contributions to the Society anyway. Without being crass, we will just say that as a fundraiser, the evening was a success. In this issue, find the usual mix of pure genealogy, official records, "old stuff," and - especially this time - lots of great old pictures. Thanks, of course, to everyone who contributed... this time, fourteen souls had something to do with this publication. As we say on the last page, see why this is so much fun? 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 . j c n c g s . c o m / U Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s Expression of Sympathy 49 "Birdell" 49 JCGS Photo Album 50 - 54 1890 Union Veterans 55-58 David Norton Letters 59-62 J a n ' s Exploration, Continued 63 - 6 6 Making A Long Story...Longer 67 - 70 1981 a n d 1982 Jackson County Death Certificates 71 - 74 Descendants of Johannes Risch 75 - 78 1830 Haywood County Census - Jackson County Area 79 - 81 JCGS L i b r a r y Acquisitions 82 Photographs in the Willa Mae Scroggs Collection 83 - 88 John and F e r r i b y Queen 89 - 92 A Mystery Solved 93 And F u r t h e r m o r e 94 Index 95-96 In Sympathy We offer our sincere sympathy to JCGS members Gene Middleton and Marie Treadway, both of whom have lost brothers since our last issue. "Birdell" The Society sponsored Gary Garden's play "Birdell," a dramatic monologue, on April 12 at the Webster United Methodist Church. We had a full house to hear the story of a woman whose life was forever altered by the construction of Fontana Dam. Although this is a fictionalized story, many audience members could identify first hand with the trauma of families forced to leave their homes. By turns humorous, poignant, earthy, or reverent, the performance was not only outstanding entertainment, it gave yet another opportunity for local folks to enjoy the work of one of our own in Gary Carden. The actress who performed the title role is Bobbie Curtis of Lenoir. Mrs. Curtis also has personal knowledge of uprooted families, since her own people were displaced by Lake James. One of the nice touches of the evening: when JCGS President James Monteith, in introductory remarks, stated to the audience that he is "a proud descendant of families displaced by the dam." Amen. RLC 49 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m KJ ^J 50 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m On the preceding page is a real jewel of a photograph. Shared with us by JCGS member Ken Nicholson, it shows a whole bunch of Caney Fork folks related to the Nicholson family. Ken identifies those pictured as the following: Children on the front row: Ellis Wiggins, John Nicholson, Fred, Argil Stephens, Weldon, Bertha Nicholson, Winnie, Agatha Stephens Seated in the second row: R.A. Nicholson, Elizabeth Nicholson Seated in the next row with children standing to the right: Ransom Wiggins, Lucy Wiggins, Marion Nicholson, Tommy Nicholson, Naomi Wiggins, Bertie Wiggins, Varina Stephens, Don Stephens, Lula Wilson, Polly Wood, Hazel Wood, Raymond Nicholson, Blaine Nicholson, Cyrus Nicholson, McClure Stephens, Burder Nicholson, and Howell Stephens Standing on the back row: Hute Stephens, Eular Stephens, Early Wood, Glen Wood, Will Nicholson, Elmer Nicholson, Lizzie Nicholson, Hut Nicholson, Lola Nicholson, Ruth Nicholson, Parthene Nicholson, Harry Nicholson, Ellen Nicholson, Lucy Nicholson, Julia Ann [Ed. We always notice when an older photograph shows some of the people looking at least moderately happy. So many of the pictures taken in another day are not j u s t serious, but they appear to show people who ate sawdust and nails for breakfast. Some of the children here are obviously amused, and a few of these adults look pleasant enough.] [Ed. Can readers stand one more sermon? We can remember reading some sort of supposed analysis of mountain people in which the author was surprised at the assistance given by the males in helping to look after small children. In this picture, it is obvious that the fathers are indeed helping. We can never remember when the men in our families were anything less than affectionate fathers or grandfathers, and we never fail to react when we perceive that someone "not from here" has the arrogance (and ignorance) to think that our people are somehow inferior to others. Contemptible hogwash.] 51 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m \ J We are pleased to focus on twins on these two pages. Above, the Elias David Franklin family about 1914. Shared with us by JCGS member Christine Cole Proctor, the woman in the picture above was Christine's great - aunt. Elias David Franklin (4 Nov 1869 - 28 Aug 1933) married Nancy Virginia Hoyle (28 Sep 1874 - 17 Nov 1930). Nancy Virginia Hoyle was one of the daughters of Jacob and Sarah Blanton Hoyle. Six of their seven children are shown in this picture. The older boy in the back would be either Elias Raymond Franklin or Ransom Lee Franklin, the older girl beside him Nettie Viola. The little girl standing to the left would be Hazel Dezeree, the little girl on the right Mona (possibly Monnie). Franklin is holding a twin, either Carl David or Carrie Virginia (born 25 Oct 1912), and "Jennie" is holding the other twin. A few years ago, a grandson in this family was a member of JCGS, and as we remember, he was Carl David's son. Some of this family eventually lived in Candor, North Carolina. The parents above are buried in Dillard Cemetery in Sylva. v_y KJ 52 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m C Now for even more fun. The woman pictured above was the twin sister of the woman on the preceding page. She was Sarah Tennessee Hoyle Shook, Also shared with us by Christine Cole Proctor, this picture would have been made about 1908. The oldest daughter in this family would have died before this picture was made, but we believe the following to be accurate identities of those in the picture. The little boy in front would be Wiliam Harley Shook, the little girl Virginia Mae Shook. Standing on the left would be Minda, followed by Lee Roy, then the father David Parris Shook (15 Oct 1869 - 6 Feb 1955), the mother "Tennie" Hoyle Shook (28 Sep 1874 - 1954), and daughter Margaret. Son Clyde was not yet born. Mae married Herman Hardy Monteith, and their youngest son would be one of our best friends growing up. David and Sarah Tennessee are buried at Lauada, as are several of their children. 53 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 J C G S P h o t o A l b u m KJ '^J Above, the Lewis and Rebecca Watson Oxner family. The children were Henry, Florence, Annie, and Delsie. Rebecca was the daughter of Newton and Sarah ("Sallie") Ann Phillips. Of the children pictured above, Henry Oxner married Mattie Sellers; Florence Oxner married Andy Vinson; Annie Oxner married Rufus Watson; Delsie Oxner married Rob Nicholson. Most of this family would later be buried at Cullowhee Baptist Church. Photo shared with JCGS by William Watson of the Wayehutta community, son of Rufus and Annie Oxner Watson. [Ed. We have always known people by this last name. Is the name an Anglicization of the German "Achsner"? The pronunciation would be identical.] V_7 54 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 W e s t e r n N o r t h C a r o l i n a U n i o n V e t e r a n s . . . t h e S p e c i a l S c h e d u l e o f t h e 1 8 9 0 C e n s u s [Ed. Most of the 1890 Federal Census was destroyed by fire, but one very valuable document that survived for some states was a special schedule of Union veterans of the War Between the States. Following are names and some other information from the North Carolina return. We would caution the reader that the second line of the pages has been the victim of folding or some such, and it is many times impossible to read. The other information given is sometimes sketchy, not to mention illegible. Abstracted by Larry Crawford from pages copied from the microfilm in Washington Library, Macon, Georgia, 23 Feb, 2008.] J a c k s o n C o u n ty Town of Sylva Daniel C. Reynolds, Private, Co. E, 7th Tennessee Infantry, enlisted 15 Nov 1864, discharged 27 Jul 1865, Post Office: Sylva Canada Township Andrew J. Owen, Private Co. D, 3rd N.C. (Mounted Infantry?), enlisted 13 Aug 1864, discharged 1865 (served 10 mos.), Post Office: Wolf Mountain Elijah W. Fortener (sic), Private Co. D, 9th Term. Cavalry, enlisted 15 Sep 1863, discharged 14 Sep 1865, incurred disability 15 May 1865, Post Office: Cathey David H. Mathis, Private Co. D, 9th Tenn. Cavalry, enlisted 25 May 1864, discharged 11 Sep 1865, incurred disability Aug 1865, Post office: Wolf Mountain Rudison H. Crawford, Private Co. E, 1st Tenn. Artillery, enlisted 1 Apr 1864, discharged 1 Aug L , 1865, incurred disability Jun 1864, Post office: Horneyhead John H. Mathis, Private Co. D, 9th Tenn. Cavalry, enlisted 25 May 1864, discharged 11 Sep 1865, incurred disability Dec 1864, Jan 1865, and Aug 1865, Post office: Fidelity [Ed. At the bottom of this census sheet is a note: "To Superintendent of Census, Washington D.C. Sir the above five old soldiers that is in township that was Realy soldiers there is one or two more who claims that distinction but can not give Co. or Regt. And I couldn't do any thing for them I tried to ascertain facts but could not succeed." Am Very Truly John H. Mathis, Enumerator] Hamburg Township William McCall, Private Co. D, 9th Tenn. Cavalry, enlisted 1863, discharged 1865 (served 1 yr., 10 mos.), incurred rupture and injury of eyes, Post Office: Hamburg [Ed. See Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2004 for excerpts from this man's pension file.] Smith? (page torn), Private Co. D, 3rd US Volunteers, enlisted Oct 1864, discharged Dec 1866, Incurred piles, rumatism (sic), Post Office: Hamburg Henry H. Hooper, Private Co. D, 9th Tenn. Cavalry, enlisted 9 Mar 1864, discharged 11 Sep 1865, incurred deafness and rumatism (sic), Post Office: Hamburg Caney F o r k Township William D. Former, Private, Co. H, 11* Tenn. Cavalry, enlisted 1863, discharged 1864, now deaf in one ear, Post Office: Cowarts Cashiers Township ^ Alfred M. Hooper, Private Co. D, 9th Tenn. Cavalry, enlisted 1 Jun 1864, discharged 11 Sep 1865, incurred gunshot while on recruiting service, Post Office: Cashiers 55 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 Hanabald W. Headen [Ed. We believe this to be the correct name], incurred kidney disease, Post Office: Cashiers v j William Hooper, Private, Co. D, 9th Tenn. Cavalry, enlisted 7 Sep 1863, discharged 11 Sep ^ 1865, Post Office: Cashiers Dillsboro Township Aaron Cunningham, Private Co. E, 2nd Tenn. Cavalry, Post Office: Dillsboro [Ed. A note on this page reads, "Mr. Cunningham has his discharge in the hands of some person who is looking after a pension, and doesn't seem to know when he went in or out of service - says he served about two years and was discharged after the war at Nashville Tenn."] Scotts Creek Township James Henry, Private , Tenn. Artillery, enlisted Apr 1864, discharged Aug 1865, Post Office: Scotts Creek "Henry could not give the days of the month he joined or was discharged." Martha Crawford, widow of Robert P. Crawford, Private Co. D, 9th Tenn. Cavalry, Post Office: Scotts Creek " Mrs. Crawford could not give date of enlistment or discharge." Cullowhee Township William H. Keller, Private, Co. J, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry, enlisted 6 Mar 1865, discharged 17 Jul 1865, incurred deafness and heart disease in line of duty, Post Office: Cullowhee [Name illegible...Gibbs? Hobbs?], possibly 188th New York Infantry, discharged Jun 1865, incurred rheumatism (sic), enjury (sic) to back, chronic diareah (sic), Post Office: Fall Cliff S w a i n C o u n ty [Ed. The enumerators in Swain County mistakenly recorded all of the Confederates they could find, as well as Union veterans. We omit the Confederates here, even though they make interesting reading also.] Charleston Township Benjamin B. Lake(?), Captain, Co. B, 8th Ohio, enlisted 10 Apr 1861, discharged 22 Feb 1864, Post Office: Bryson City David Watkins, Private, Co. B. , enlisted Jul 1863, Post Office: Bryson City Sarah A. Birchfield, widow of Robert L.D. Birchfield, Captain, gun shot in leg, widow draws a pension, Post Office: Bryson City Woodfin (?) K. McLean, Private, Co. B, 2nd NC , enlisted 1 Apr 1864, discharged 16 Aug 1865, Post Office: Bryson City James H. Hyde, lsl Lieutenant, Co. D, 1st Tenn. Artillery, enlisted 1 Nov 1861, discharged 20 Jul 1865, "rist became s t i f , Post Office: Bryson City Nancy C , widow of William B. Garrett, Private, Kirk's Regiment, Post Office: Bryson City Robert L. Fox, Private, Co. B, 2nd NC Regt, enlisted 25 Sep 1863, discharged 14 Aug 1865, Post Office: Bryson City Nancy E.H. Hyde, widow of Aesoph E. Hyde, Private, enlisted 1862, discharged 1865, lost hearing, cause of death, Post Office: Bryson City John Mathews, Private, Co. A, Bryan's(?) Regiment, enlisted Jul 1864, Post Office: Bryson City James M. Seay, Private, Co. I, 3rd NC Infantry, enlisted 8 Feb 1865, discharged 8 Aug 1865, breast complaint, Post Office: Bryson City 56 \ J \ J Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 Jacob H. Crowe (Crane?) [possibly a New York regiment], enlisted 27 Jan 1862, discharged 1865 (served 3 yrs., 11 mos., 2 days), "lost hearing in left ear," Post Office: Bryson City Lorance(?) Frisby, Private, Co. B, 2nd NC, enlisted Jan 1863, discharged 16 Aug 1865, Post Office: Bryson City Zachariah Henderson, Private, Co. H, 2nd NC Mounted Infantry, enlisted 1 Oct 1863, discharged 6 Aug 1865, horse fell on left leg, Post Office: Bryson City William R. Bradshaw, Private, Co. A, 9th Tenn. Infantry, enlisted 1 Apr 1865, discharged 1865, "not mustered into service", Post Office: Bryson City James B. Waters, [gives only that he was a US Soldier and that his Post Office was Charleston Township. Jermiah Jenkins (same as Waters above) Malissie Franklin (same as Waters, except Widow) Oconalufty Township John Gibson ? (illegible), Private Co. G, 3rd NC Infantry, enlisted 11 Jun 1864, discharged 5 Aug 1865, "is not injured," Post Office: Whittier Nancy, widow of Thomas Ootagiway, Private, Co. G, 3rd NC Infantry, enlisted 15 Nov 1864, discharged 8 Aug 1865, "is not injured," Post Office: Whittier Oostinager Ootagiway, Private, Co. G, 3"1 NC Infantry, enlisted 11 Jun 1864, discharged 8 Aug 1865, "is not injured," Post Office: Cherokee Tom Kannotte, Private, Co. G, 3rd NC Infantry, enlisted 11 Jun 1864, discharged 8 Aug 1865, "he is now dead," Post Office: Cherokee Nancy Brown, widow of Ben Brown, Private Co. G, 3rd NC Infantry, enlisted 11 Jun 1864, discharged 8 Aug 1865, "he is still living," (??), Post Office: Cherokee David Porterage, Private, Co. G, 3rd NC Infantry, enlisted 11 Jun 1864, discharged 8 Aug 1865, "not able to support himself," Post Office: Cherokee Nancy Walk, widow of John Walk, Private, Co. G, 3rd NC Infantry, enlisted 11 Jun 1864, discharged 8 Aug 1865, "not injured," Post Office: Cherokee John Swayney (?) Sgt, Co. C, 3rd Tenn. Infantry, enlisted 26 Jul 1864, discharged 30 Nov 1865, "piles contracted in service," Post Office: Cherokee Stephen [last name possibly Johnson], Private Co. G, 3rd NC Infantry, enlisted 11 Jun 1864, discharged 8 Aug 1865, "crippled," Post Office: not given James Walkingstick, Private [nothing else given except Oconalufty] Annie Cayb, widow, same as Walkingstick above Forney's Creek Township James Morison Crisp, Private, , enlisted 1 Nov 1863, discharged 1 May 1865, remarks illegible, Post Office: Medlin Adam Wilson, Private, 3rd Tenn. Cavalry, enlisted 1862, discharged 1865, "chronic rheumatism contracted in prison," "This man has a discharge." Post Office: Medlin Green B. Payne, Private, Co. C, 3rd Tenn. Infantry, enlisted 18 Sep 1864, discharged 1865, "in the winter of 1864 & 1865, bronchitis and kidney disease," Post Office: Fairfax William J. Powell, Private, Co. B, 6,h Tenn. Infantry, enlisted 8 Nov 1862, discharged 15 Nov 1865, "pulmonary consumption, honorably discharged," Post Office: Fairfax Elizabeth Crisp [nothing else given except Forney's Creek] William H. Penland, Private, Co. E, 8th Tenn. Enlisted 23 Jul 1863, discharged Nov 1864, "Rheumatism, shot in hand, no discharge," Post Office: Bushnell Jeremiah Jenkins, Private, Co. K, 8th , enlisted Jun 1864, discharged 1865, "rupture incurred 1865, discharge burned," Post Office: Bryson City William Nichols, Private, Co. A, enlisted 1864, "no discharge," Post Office: Bushnell James Proctor, Private, enlisted 1864, Post Office: Fairfax 57 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 William P. Crisp, Private, Co. L, 3?™rd Tenn. Cavalry, enlisted 30 Mar 1864, discharged 3 Aug 1865, "bronchitis, discharge honorable," Post Office: Dorsey Rylent(?) W. Stewart, enlisted Sep 1863, "asthmas, dimness of sight, no discharge," Post Office: Medlin John Gibson, Private, Co. F, 3rd Tenn. Mounted Infantry, [illegible note] Post Office: Forney's Creek Thomas J. McCIure, Private, Co. C, 3rd Tenn. Mounted Infantry, enlisted 26 Jul 1864, discharged 30 Nov 1864, (disability incurred 22 years ago, "remains uncurd,' Post Office: Forney's Creek Jasper N. Anthony, Private, Co. C, 3rd Tenn. Mounted Infantry, enlisted 2 Jul 1864, discharged 30 Nov 1864, (disability incurred) "12 years ago, palpitation heart," Post Office: Forney's Creek Nancy A., widow of William M. Anthony, Corp., Co. C, 3rd Tenn. Mounted Infantry, 20 Aug 1862, discharged 25 Apr 1865, "disability dyspepsy incurred 22 years ago," Post Office: Bushnell Nantahala Township Nathan Sawyer, Private, Co. C, 3rd Tenn. Mounted Infantry, enlisted 26 Jul 1864, discharged 30 Nov 1864, Post Office: Judson [Name illegible] Tenn. Cavalry, enlisted 1864, discharged 1865, "discharge in Washington," Post Office: Nantahala Widow of John D. Street, Sgt., Co. E, 3rd NC Infantry, "discharge in Washington," Post Office: Nantahala Alfred Tetherow, 3rd Tenn. Mounted Infantry, enlisted 1864, discharged 1864, "Came home sick, without discharge or pay," Post Office: Nantahala Samuel Massey(?), Private, Co. K, 10th Mich. Cav., enlisted 4 Sep 1863, discharged (served 2 years and 5 mos.), "Shot in leg, side, and stomach, recruiting office, East Tennessee (location of discharge papers?), Post Office: Nantahala Josiah A. Cathey, Private, Co. C, 5th Tenn. Mounted Infantry, enlisted 5 Aug 1864, discharged 16 Jul 1865, asthma, Post Office: Judson Elizabeth Bearmeat, widow of Daniel Bearmeat, Private, Co. D, 10th Tenn. Cav., enlisted 5 Aug 1864, discharged 16 Jul 1865, post office not given Nancy Mumblehead, widow of Mose Mumblehead, Private, 10th Tenn. Cavalry, "died in war," Post Office: Nantahala Okwataga Arneach, Private, Co. D, 3rd NC Mounted Infantry, enlisted 15 Nov 1864, discharged 8 Aug 1865, "lost," [discharge papers?], Post Office: Nantahala John Brown, Private, Co. D, 3 North Carolina Mounted Infantry, enlisted 15 Nov 1864, discharged 8 Aug 1865, "lost," Post Office: Nantahala Thomas Otter, Private, Co. D, 3rd NC Mounted Infantry, enlisted 15 Nov 1864, discharged 8 Aug 1865, no post office given Noah J. Howard, Sgt., Co. G, 3rd Tenn. Mounted Infantry, enlisted 1 Jul 1864, discharged 30 Nov 1864, no post office given [Ed. This concludes the returns for Jackson and Swain Counties. We will continue this series in future issues.] v j v J ^J 58 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 C i v i l W a r L e t t e r s o f D a v i d N o r t o n [Ed. The following letters were transcribed by JCGS member Mary Katherine Sherrill Lowder, who shares them with the Society. Mary Katherine also was kind enough to pass along her explanatory notes concerning her research as she transcribed the letters. We believe you will find both to be highly interesting.] Camp Near Weldon, N.C. Aug. 23th 1863 My Own Dear Wife, With the greatest of pleasure I again drop you a short note Mary it has been such a short time since I have wrote you that I can not have much news to write. My health is improving I am about well but I feel some what on the dull order today from the fact that I was on guard dewty last Knight my bed was the ground my pillow a small black gum log though I rested fine I feel very much like I was at home since I have got back to camp. You ast me to write you if Gen Ransom arrested me or punished me in any shape he has not yet. I don't suppose he will. There has but 3 other officers of the Regt. Come in as yet and had I got my orders I would been at home this good Sabbath day. I had orders to remain at home until the 26th Inst. I wish I had got my orders. I will send you some money by Mr. Hooper. I will inform you the amt. before I close. I will say no more this evening. Monday 24. Inst. Monday morning has come we have been out on drill. Now I will say a fiew more words. Had I got my orders I would been at home this morning with you in place of being in Camp. I hope this will find you all in good health. And doing well. Mary I will now go on to state to you what the Camps put me in mind of. More like a camp meeting than any army of men. We have two sermons every day if not more. I have heard one good sermon this good Sabbath morning and expect to hear another this evening we have a Presbyterian preacher 14 has joined the church on professed religion and some 50 mourners seeking religion. We have a big revival in the Regt. I hope they will hold out faithful and reform for it is badly needed in our Regt. I heard this morning that Fort Sumpter was all tore to peaces, but I do not know true it is we hear so much that is false. I hope it is not true. There is no talk of any fighting around this place at present though the Yanks may make one of their raids soon we have some warm weather here at this time. I think I sweat at least one quart a day. The air are not like it is in Hamburg. I would much rather be in good old Hamburg. Sitting faceing the gentle zephyrs but I am very well satisfied Camp life suits me better than to be out in the mountains I will say no more to day I will write you some tomorrow continue my letter.... Mary Katherine (hereinafter MKSL) writes: The heading of this letter designates David Norton's location to be in northeastern NC near the VA border. On July 20,1863, part of this brigade was ordered to Weldon NC in Halifax County to protect the vital railroad bridge at that place from raiding Federal cavalrymen. That fall and winter the 25°' regiment was stationed at Garysburg in western Northampton County (approximately three miles from Weldon), from which place it made several excursions to check the advances of the enemy on the coast ofNC, but did not see much hard service until the spring of 1864. The abbreviation Inst, after a number means that day of the present month. 59 v ^ Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 Atlanta Ga. 28 Feb. 1864 Dear Brother This Sabbath morning I will drop you a short note but I have not got any thing good to write. I am rather sick this morning, me and Lovedoll was on a spree last night he has just left me and went back to his tent he is station here in town attending to Jeffs horses, he belong to Capt. Delaigle department he tells me that he don't expect to stay hear long and I saw James Branon he was wounded in the hand and was going home on furlow. I was glad to hear from you and to hear from home for I had not heard for some time you seem to think I don't write to you not home, nary word I write some times I have no other time only on a Sunday. I work day and night. I but all most have to do for board are so hi I pay one hundred dollars per month for board and my wages arnt but a bout 130.00 dollars per month I make more on a night than I do on a day I ant like you get to lay in camp and do nothing and write anytime. I have not got much time to write but I will write to you as often as I can but I hardly ever have anything to write. I am sorry to hear of the boys a running away so many of them, my head ache so bad I will try to write next Sunday a gain nothing more this morning but I will say this I am better satisfied now that I have got a nice place to work and I can work off my trobls. the end F. Norton MKSL: According to records, Fuller Norton enlisted in the same company as his brother David. As a private he was reported absent on detail as a shoemaker during much of his service. Shoes in great numbers were needed for the soldiers. To meet the heavy demands in the shortest time possible, shoe factories were built and manufacturers had to install new machines (just invented in 1858) in their plants. Unverified supposition is that Fuller was in Atlanta working in a shoe factory. He was accounted for, on the roster, through February of 1865. Plymouth N.C. Apr 24th 1864 Thank God, I have been spared to go through another bloody Battle safe and sound not touched so I ought to be thankful. On the 14* we left Weldon On last Sunday we came within 3 miles of this place met up with the enemy picket which was one week ago today we engaged them on Monday morning Fought them at long range all day and knight All day Tuesday and tuesday night heavy cannonading and Picket fighting. On Wednesday morning the 20th at daylight we made the charge on them taken all their forts which Nos. 8 I believe As good forts as ever built. We charged through a swamp the mud about half thigh deep the swamp was XA mile long Our Regt. Lost 28 in killed and wounded only 3 killed dead on the field Several died since we only had 2 wounded in our company N.J. Adams slight in the leg William R. Grant fatal in the left shoulder 6 inches of the bone taken out. Ransom's Brigade lost four hundred in killed & wounded of that number there was 54 killed dead. Our Brigade done the most of the work Our regt taken one fort by then two other Brigades engaged namely Hoke's & Kempers though our Brigade charged the Town. The Yankees did not loose so many killed as we did but I think there is fully as many wounded for I was through all the Hospitals yesterday and I think there was as many Yankees as our men. We taken the whole of their prisoners what was not killed and wounded The prisoners numbered three thousand, there was the longest column of Yanks I ever looked at in my life they was good \. ) 60 V ^ Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 looking men. Gen. Wessells was the yankee gen who was in comd he was a good looking man. We captured the whole of them and all they had which is one of the greatest Victorys that we ever gained to the sise of it I tell you it was a rich town. MKSL: April 17th through the 20* the 25th Regiment participated in the assault and capture of Plymouth, NC. Ransom's Brigade moved from the vicinity of Weldon on the 14th, then moved to Tarboro to take part in General Robert F. Hoke's attack on the Roanoke River town. Union troops had strongly fortified the town, which was the key to holding Albemarle Sound Early in 1863, upstream from Plymouth, the Confederate navy started building an iron clad ram named the "Albemarle." A ram is a ship that sinks other ships by running into them and making a big hole in their sides. The plan was for the "Albemarle" to steam downstream & sink the Union ships defending Plymouth while the army attacked the Union troops. In April, 1864, the "Albemarle" started downstream although it was not completed Soldiers wounded: Newton J. Adams, private from Jackson County, was later captured at or near Fort Stedman, VA, March 25,1865. Confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, until released on June 22,1865, after taking the Oath of Allegiance. William R Grant, private from Jackson County, was subsequently retired to the Invalid Corps. Petersburg Va Aug. 25* 64 My own wife, I again take pleasure to write you in answer yours (of 18th) which give me much pleasure to hear from you and hear that you was well. I have not had a letter from you till today for 3 weeks. I am tolerable well. I hope you all are well. I am sorrow to hear that you have so bad a chance to go anywhere. I would be glad if I could be with you. I think I could make it convenient for you to go almost any place you would wish to go if it was necessary for you to go. I hope you will get to go up home soon is there no accommodation in your neighbors, you say the Election is over I am beaten I have not heard how much but there is some other way for me to get off yet I hope but I do not know how, it is as I wrote you in my last letter I mean to come home if the good Lord will spare my life. You need not entreat me to come so much for it is my full intention to come the first opportunity. Sure enough Bill & Dick is gone to the yanks, pitty but they could have gone up in front of Petersburg on 30* July, we could have sent them to their loving home. I believe I have answered your short but interesting letter. I wish I could get such a one ever three days, though you would please me much better if you would give me letters of more length. I am sorrow to tell you that James Slatton died on yesterday 24* this Inst, of his wound I did not think he would die though he was mortally wounded, nothing Strang has occurred since I last wrote you mortar shelling and sharp shooting is just as common to us as the dogs barking and the chickens cackling is to you all, we do not pay any attention to it, though we loose men daily. I must tell you that our ditches are very filthy since it has rained so much these trenches are filthy than any hog lot you ever saw in your life and smell worse sour the sink. I tell you it is but moderate living I can not put up with it much longer. I never you know yourself have been in favor of this cruel war, and the longer the worse, you need not entreat me to come home anymore for I am coming as soon as I get an opportunity. I would love to see you and the children. Give my respects to your mother and family. Excuse bad writing, your loving husband. Dave 61 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 MKSL: This letter was written following two recent battles David Norton's brigade participated in. First was the "Crater," where Ransom's Brigade tost fourteen men, had sixty wounded and reported eight missing. The one day battle occurred on July 30th, the date v^ mentioned in the letter. The Yankees took over a month to dig a tunnel and lay four tons of powder under the Confederate lines. The mine exploded at 4:45 a.tn. "With a muffled roar...as from the eruption of a volcano." This happened just to the right of Ransom's Brigade. The explosion created a crater 170 long feet long, 60 to 80 feet wide, and 30 feet deep; at least 278 Confederates were killed or wounded; nine companies of the 19th and 22nd S.C. were blown into the air. The Confederates launched a counterattack and cleared the crater of Federal troops. The assault had cost the Federals 3,768 out of 20,708 engaged According to records, James E. Slatton, private from Jackson County, was hospitalized at Petersburg, Virginia on August 21, 1964, with a gunshot wound of the right leg. Died on August 24,1864, just as David relayed In the same old Ditches near Petersburg VA Deer. 2nd 1864 My own Dear Wife, With great pleasure I will aggain drop you a note after eating a hearty dinner. I am in the best of health and getting as fat as an old stag. I hope this will find you all in good health. I have not heard from you for two weeks. I wish I could get a letter from you. I begin to want to hear the news if you have any. I must brag to you a little about how well I have been living since I have got my box. I cooked a big dinner day before yesterday and invited Col. Rutledge, Maj. Love, Capts. Freeman and Young up to take dinner with me. they accordingly done so, We taken a few drinks of brandy we then proceeded to take our dinner which was the best dinner that had been eat in these ditches, of course they thanked me very kindly, in the mean time Gen. ransom came along the lines I presented to him one of the finest apples you sent me. He thanked me very much. Since that time I have been eating of the best ever. I am a thousand times oblige to you for the box and hope I will be able to pay you for the same in the future. I am sorrow to tell you that we had one man killed and two wounded in our Regt yesterday. J.P. Slatton was one he reced a slight wound in the arm done by a peace of a shell I did not see him though they told me it was of a dangerous wound I was very sorrow, he was my only mate He done our cooking, though I can cook as good an any Lady in the Confederate states! We have had some of the most beautiful weather for the time of the year I ever saw in my life. We are looking for some Army movement since we have had so much pretty weather but I hope not Mary I mean to send up an application for a furlough this evening though I doubt about getting. So you need not look for me I have no idea of getting it. Look for me when you see me coming and not before. Kiss those little children for me. I am your husband. Dave MKSL: Jeptha P. Slatton, a private from Jackson County, was reported present or accounted for until November - December 1864, when he was reported absent wounded David supplied information the official rosters left out. [Ed. Most of these letters were written by David Norton home to his wife, Mary Holden Norton. David survived the war and became a businessman in Highlands.] 62 v_> Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 J a n ' s E x p l o r a t i o n , C o n t i n u e d [Ed. In our last issue, we published some materials found in an old box owned by JCGS member Jan Crawford. We continue with mat exploration here.] ttir. fo>, ' ¥ r j L J k l . ? ^ m £ ^ 6 j . 1882^ < £5y in to $rrij(g, That I have this day received of the SMITH AMERICAN ORGAN CpM-TPANir, under terms Wo* stated, one $l^^J-$**l*&^**<s Style^j£V_^^ . '^o-~^£L^^2?L».^_^.-valuS<l a t | . v ! S ^ 4.3?-™°" which, the above <$ate, I have'paid <} G<?r"£.UXp d*b**~& ?,/&?(*Dollars, and, ' <K. ^itjmise to pay said Smith Ainetiian. (Organ Company/'or onfer^lhc remaaiinriddeer, with interest from date at-eigin.per cent,. iminnr»irirfrnnaiunnjni,i.,W il|l * 4*S>£JLJ&4?s *i r" * ' * ""^S * ^f - * ~-*i »* * * * j • paiij, <n-flqMytettt^^/.2r''3i>fjLftlfc. j«-^*"i- ">Mi, )H)rflitf-i'finlityi ia 'iilvimrr^' Ssfofcj&^iuua 1je forwarded *t^iny risk and eipVrfee, ^^^tal^on^tfrdef, Rcffiatertsd letter, Express; :orDraft, flr** '{he Smith "Arpericafc Organ Company, Atlanta, JGa. * ^*9*^*w, TMt*wSt^ MS^IS a^l WensJnS, I^iS mSiSl ^MtiKSi^XitlMJP^S w!tvSn*n^ *S*•i IWOIL.S KT5K 9 IMCtin •MWHlllWl•la MMMAMMllSSMaMHM U KJITUJIYJ JJA MAMtRKEmlACKAcilVKlAianKAK pr JUprpjuXp)I jiS _ ,._.,_„._ _ ,...._..,„._ ,„ „ -w_ *!»••*•y*•ff IT.m atoAtraMwrMadi rti^tt^ltiii wpmu Ut^muom. TUhn. «mio.fWttiyten.^rft Vwwwn uu». 'um MpjM,.. ttaUrwnu»n m«*ii» O Hvax sUdaMtoaimrdum«& ,rt d«iaj«rt«i..inin.> „v3i>uWilb« »UM 14fiIn>»OtiM I« t (L.S.) , ) Residing atJ!^K§O^Ci£_._^fc^i. m~"~i~...."... I..'i~,~'u7,"'"~"z:":r~| LJf—. JUr.*******. ^ • . ^ f ^ r , _ Item #9...A Sale Contract; George Washington Crawford had purchased a Smith American Organ in 1882. This musical instrument cost $100, and he had paid twenty-five, with the rest at 6% for a year. Notice that his residence was Scotts Creek, Jackson County, NC. This instrument is still in the Crawford family. Item #10...Citizen Road Construction "Ordered by the Bd of Commissioners that Thos M Henson be appointed overseer to make a new Road from the turn pike near Rachal Sutton to the forks of Scotts Creek above A.W. Gunter. Commanding Willen (William) & Estes Henson CA Bryson SH Bryson Wilson Ensley AJ Morrow R Crawford Geo Snider William & Victor & Gor Hoyles Robt Ensley PJ Crawford Edmon Thompson JR Crawford Birton Jones WR Crawford JW Blanton RP Crawford William Estes and said Henson shall make said Road by the first day of March 1871 this December 9* 1870 RL Watson Ch Bd Commissioners [Ed. This is not an unusual document, but it surely is a valuable one for persons interested in the Willets area of Scotts Creek. Road construction and maintenance were the responsibilities of the male citizenry of a community. We can pretty much isolate this one. "Near Rachal Sutton" would most likely have been close to Sutton Creek (which has been named something else by those people who have moved here and need to tell us what our place names should be, but that's 63 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 another sermon), and "the forks of Scotts Creek" is an easy one. Think about where Dark Ridge Creek meets with Scotts Creek, and you have it. The names are of persons who lived near Willets. Descendants of the Crawford, Henson, Sutton, Gunter, and Snyder men mentioned here still live on these lands today. William Estes's family made their home on Deep Creek, Robert Ensley moved to Towns County, Georgia, and we are not sure if any Hoyle descendants still live in the Sugar Loaf area. J.W. Blanton was Jeremiah, who is buried in a small cemetery at the east end of the Willets straight, and Wilson Ensley eventually lived on Cope Creek, which appears to be a little bit west and south of the area in question here.] W Item #11...Business with the railroad Richmond & Danville Railroad, W. H. C. DIVISION. AsherMe.ff.C, .7- ' *~ 188 ST fouehtr in your fa vor for S ' :. on luxouni of £r 7 •&<Le^c* JL~ °5*TT~5... ?r.Z. "JUT.- A«.« been made up by me and forwarded. to the General Superintendent of this Company, and made payable nt . °>1 ZS. Payment may be expected about 2£fL_2h 'O——-' ;. Kichindn<i'&-'Oan\alle' Railroad,",; •f-.^ovcifi-r in jroptr fa-tor fofjf/is^&ljzf^ \ akacqp'ttBt of—ft •• :~•r•?•r•r- ' • ,("• :••':•'."•{ :••• • : baa been made up by me and forwarded' to;$hci&airil'Superintendent of'ihia"1 Company, *$<Tmade payable atL^L 7:'.-* .ft •*l '••' Payment may be txpectedaboat E.40.Z. fc>p«ri.l.AdaAt ^J [Ed. Above, separate transactions. To the left, payment to be made (in the amount of $1.50) for one deceased porcine possession. It had been killed April 27, 1888. The voucher doesn't indicate whether the hog was killed on the tracks by the train, or whether some railroad workers decided they needed some barbecue that day. To the right, a voucher for $126.95 for crossties, payable 29 Feb 1890 and the next thirty days.] Item #12...Example of another business transaction Cherokee NC Dec. 12 1884 Mr Bud Barker Sir v_y 64 c Journeys through Jackson Spring 2008 » . ttr„K.ra ~ — - * , - - j - - £ * £ £ £ £ £ ; r u s . ^ four b o . * * . Smith » • * • " )">»r o r d e r !° ^ T S l t 7 r f ™ n c « I yon some money on some money I loaned you at Ashes Yours & c James Blythe [ W e — w h y t o £ ^ ^ ^ ^ Item #13...A shopping list L. C. BALL. o. a. COWARD. Douol)t of KCUUM 1H-B—f- • ENSEAL MEEGHANDISE AND GGUNTRY P R O D U C E * ^ - A_ C^L-^T^LT^-^^ 7 «.if sxnlanatorv The purchaser, Thad G. Bryson, was [ E d . The items and pnees a b o v e ^ e l f ^ - J n ^ T ^ p ^ rf ^ B r y s on buying these for his wife, Hannah Ensley uryson. 11 or0prietors of the store... we Crawford, Jan's (and Bill's and F™J'») » « ^ S . ^ d O s t r R C o w a r d . . . names which take them to be Lucius Coleman Hall, ^ j ^ ^ ^ S . We wonder where in Sylva S S S - ^ « ^ P — the actual incorporation of the town?] 65 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 Item # 14...A barter trip to South Carolina Q R B E N T I L L B ». j. mrivia/ KJ o. UIVU. ,^fc "3F . \ s z-<r. ^ i »c 7 £ £ * J- [Ed. This one is priceless. Do all of our members know that our mountain people carried produce and stock down the mountain to upstate South Carolina, and swapped it for goods that were simply unavailable up here? We believe that the first item is yarn...if so, what size would a "bunch" be, and why was it so expensive? One bunch of it was more costly than the tea kettle priced here. G.W. Crawford, we presume, either had a sweet tooth or was taking candy to his wife and children. And what is the item just under the bag of salt?] ^J Item #15...A letter to R.P. Crawford (Outside page) Robert Crawford Scots Creek Haywood Co NC North Carolina Haywood County Georgia Union County this the 16th day of August 1852 Dear cousin i take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well at this time hoping that these few lines may find you all enjoying the same and I want you to write to me how you all are doing and i want you to come and see me and i am coming out to see you and i want to know how crops is in that section of country and as far as i know crops is very good here and every (?) that I can hear of crops is very good And father and mother is cuming out in about two weeks and I expect that I will be out ther in abou three or four months I am going to school now and when it is out I am Coming out I have went to 4 schools and have ciphered through the arithmetic & and have started through again and I stand head all the time and all the family is well I have like have furgot them Notice now and be sure to send me a leter Matison Long hand write Bonard Nathan Long his hand write ^ 66 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 M a k i n g A L o n g S t o r y . . . L o n g e r [Ed. This article is the editor's own work. It refers to the last letter on the preceding page.] The very nature of this hobby (or pastime, or avocation, or obsession, whatever one's degree of involvement) means that one always wishes to expand the knowledge about one's family. When that expansion includes a whole new family made up in part of people who have always been in one's acquaintance, then so much the better. On the preceding page, see the letter from "Matison" Long to his "cousin," Robert Crawford. This letter was in the box of materials now in the possession of J a n Crawford, but originally belonging to William R. Crawford, Jan's 2nd great - grandfather and the editor's 3rd great - grandfather. The fact that this letter was here raised two questions: Who was Matison Long, and how was he a cousin to the Crawfords? Since the letter was written in 1852 from Union County, Georgia, the logical next step was to check the 1850 Union County, Georgia census. Here we found the following: Barnard Long Sarah Elizabeth Nathan Madison George Lavada Elbert 50 40 18 15 14 10 5 1 NC NC NC NC NC NC NC GA In the next house was the following family: James Long Mira Mary Jane 25 22 2 3/12 NC NC GA GA Since the Sarah in the first family above could not be Olive Hemphill Crawford's sister (she was too old), then we immediately speculated that Sarah Long was a Crawford before her marriage and a sister to William R. Crawford. One of our blank spaces on our census charts for the family of Samuel and Mary Crawford was for a daughter born between 1805 and 1810. So what should we do next? We had been talking about all of this to sister Ruth Shuler as it unfolded, so Ruth went to the plethora of information found on Ancestry.com and found one person whose family tree reached back, sure enough, to a "Sallie Crawford." We also found some information in the Heritage volume for Rabun County, Georgia, and in the cemetery book for Union County, Georgia. The Crawford name would be substantiated by her son Nathan's death certificate, which Ruth found online. How strong is our proof here? What we have in the way of evidence is the handwriting of Madison Long in 1852 to his "cousin," Robert Crawford. Robert P. (we believe the middle name to be Patton) Crawford was the oldest son of William and Olive, and was about the same age as Madison Long. Nathan Long's death certificate gave his mother's maiden name as "Crawford." We believe that these are proof enough that Sarah, or "Sallie," as she was undoubtedly called, was one of the daughters of Samuel and Mary (probably Briscoe) Crawford. 67 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 Now the story got even more interesting. We (Ruth and I) took a November day trip to Union and Fannin Counties, Georgia, to add what pieces we could to our fledgling project. Without boring everyone by every little detail, except to say that the weather that day was ^—' miserably cold and windy, we can summarize our genealogical findings from that trip and subsequent efforts. Sarah Crawford married a man named Bonner (not Barnard) Long. This marriage would have occurred sometime in the mid - 1820's. It's possible that this was a second marriage for him, because in the 1830 census, there is already 1 male 0-5, 1 male 5-10, and 1 male 20-30. The females listed are 1 0-5 and 1 20-30. Sarah must have been about 22 years old by 1830. It is certainly possible that the 5-10 male is her son (James?), but we have found no other documentation as yet. The daughter already in the household in 1830 we also cannot explain, although there is a "Nancy" Long (living in another Union County household in 1850) of a reasonable age to be a daughter to Bonner and Sarah. What we believe to be more likely is that the 1830 census was taken so late that James was already seven years old or so, and daughter Elizabeth had already been born, and maybe even Nathan. By 1860, Bonner and Sarah were back in Jackson County with the three youngest children: B. Long S. M. S.L. A.N. 63 52 20 12 11 The sons James and Nathan had their own families in Fannin County, Georgia by this v—^ time, and the son Madison had married Violet A. Parker 14 Jun (or Jan) 1860 here in Jackson County. By 1870, G.M. Long (George Marion) had become the second husband of Elizabeth Hooper Long (she was first married to Mitchell Long, and as Hooper genealogist Naomi Hooper Green listened to us talk about this, she said that Mitchell was called "Mink.") They were living on Caney Fork. Also in 1870, the Long daughter Lavada was the wife of Madison Matthews, and they lived in the Scotts Creek township with two daughters. Elbert N. also lived in the Scotts Creek township, as did the parents. The families, therefore, come down this way: James R. Long (born ca. 1825 to Bonner and Sarah) married Margaret Elmira Edmonson. (The Edmonson family has a story in the Fannin County, Georgia, Heritage book.) Their family consisted of eleven children whom we can name with approximate birth years: Mary (1848), Amanda Jane (1850), Columbus Newton (1854), Andrew J. (1856), John Robert (Jul 1858), Frances M. (1861), Susan (1864), Madison B. (1865), James G. (1866), George W. (1868), and Martha (1871). Columbus Newton's family lived eventually in Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma. Andrew also lived there, while brother Madison was in the 1900 census of Jackson County, Arkansas, his mother with him. 68 c Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 Nathan Bonner Long (born 28 Mar 1833 to Bonner and Sarah) first married Susan Edmonson, a sister of the wife of his brother James. Nathan died 6 Mar 1920, and is buried in the church cemetery of Philadelphia Church in Union County, Georgia. He and Susan had at least nine children: Mary (1858), Sarah (1859), Haseltine (1861), Canzada (1866), Nathan Seymour (23 Sep 1 8 7 0 - 9 Jan 1899), Alice (1872), Vandora (1875), Victoria (1875), and Stella (1879). This family continued to live in Georgia, but Nathan's grandson Brittain lived here in Jackson County for a time, and was married to Selma Crawford, coincidentally a descendant of Robert P. Crawford. Brittain's step-grandmother, Susan Justice Long, died here in Jackson County 25 May 1939, and is buried in Addie Cemetery. The third son of Bonner and Sarah Crawford Long was Samuel Madison Long. He was the author of the letter that served as the catalyst for this project. He married Violet Parker in Jackson County, and they had the following children: Sarah Rebecca (1 Oct 1860 - 13 Oct 1940) married Henry Bryson Wood Nancy Jane (1862 - 1939) married David Vance Shelton Madison Long never saw his daughters grow up. He was killed at Fredricksburg 13 Dec 1862. There are some few sources on the Internet that give pertinent data about this man and his family. (Jordan's North Carolina Troops also gives his Civil War facts.) His daughters raised large families in the Canada section of Jackson County, and we believe that this is where their mother's people lived. Sarah Rebecca is buried in Wood Cemetery in Canada township, and Nancy Jane is at Rock Bridge. It is in this family that we have known descendants (including J.C. Brown, the Lawson Melton family, and the Harry and Gerald Worth Owen families) who we did not realize are our kinfolks. Next of the Long children was George Marion Long, born about 1840, married 21 Oct 1865 Elizabeth Hooper Long, who had previously been married to Mitchell Long, with whom she had four children. Marion and Elizabeth would then have six children of their own. Marion and Elizabeth are buried in Hooper Cemetery on Caney Fork. Their children: Nathan M. Long (10 Apr 1866 - 17 Dec 1913) m. Lela M. Watson Dora M. Long (23 Apr 1868 - 25 Dec 1950) m. William Coward Harvey B. Long (20 Jun 1870 - 20 Mar 1947) m. Louvina Morris James Elbert Long (4 Mar 1872 - 24 Aug 1960) m. Hester Lauretta Wood Nancy Angeline Long (1 Apr 1875 - 16 Dec 1979) m. William N. Middleton Pilgrim Long (9 May 1876 - 23 May 1952) did not marry. In our last issue, we published a picture that included James Elbert's son Russell, and we know Woodrow Tolley's daughters, whose grandmother was Harvey Benjamin's daughter. Other JCGS members know large numbers of George Marion Long descendants. Since we have not as yet been able to find a marriage for Elizabeth Long, the older daughter of Bonner and Sarah, we can give genealogy for only one of the girls. Sarah Lavada Long was the first wife of Madison William Mathews, a marriage that would have taken place sometime in the 1860's. They were the parents of a large family as follows: (surname Mathews, sometimes shown as Mathis): Julia A. (1868), Sarah Modenia 1869), Magdeline (Jan. 1873), Marietta (1875), Texas C. (1877), Elbert (1879), Hattie (1881), John H. (May 1883), and Dora (Apr 1887). The daughter Texas above married Adolphus Watson, and lived in Madison County, Georgia, in 1910, and in Anderson, South Carolina later. The daughter Hattie above married Virgil Logan Moore and raised a large family in Rabun County, Georgia. We were 69 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 pleased to meet Hattie's granddaughter, great - granddaughter, and great - great granddaughter in a serendipitous encounter 19 Nov 2007 in a cemetery in the Warwoman section of Rabun County. Two of Hattie's daughters married into the large Speed family of this area, and we were looking for their graves, when we met these ladies placing Christmas flowers at the graves. We enjoyed a nice chat with new cousins. Youngest of the children of Bonner and Sarah was Elbert N. Long. Besides being enumerated in the 1870 census, an Elbert was also named in an 1867 paternity suit by an E. Crawford, and we presume this is the same person. We do not have any records of Elbert later, but there is documentation in Jackson County court records of an alias capias situation, which basically means that he left the area under another name. This Long story can become much longer still as new evidence comes to light. Some of the questions we would like to answer are these: 01) Did Bonner and Sarah die in Jackson County, and if so, where are they buried? 02) Was the 1830 census very late, or were there more children than we can name? 03) In the 1830 census, Bonner Long and William Carson were listed as next door. If our Crawford theory is correct, these men were married to sisters. 04) Did James Long die in the Fannin County, Georgia area? 05) Do others in JCGS know members of this family, and what light can you shed on them? 06) In our Coggins story from a year ago, Madison William Matthews figured prominently into the narrative because of his second marriage. Are there Coggins descendants who can further enlighten us about the Sarah Lavada children? 07) Where did the Brittain Long family go after leaving Jackson County? Do some of the Grady Crawford family know? (They would have been first cousins.) 08) Although we doubt seriously that a picture would exist of Samuel Madison Long, is there possibly a picture of his widow, Violet Parker Long? 09) In the 1880 census, M.W. and Sarah Lavada were living in the Oconalufty section of Swain County. Did she die there? Surely it is not just coincidence that M.W. Matthews married second to a woman from the Wilson Creek - Cullowhee Mountain section. How was he connected to the large Mathis family there? 10) Do any of you ever feel the urge to give up? Don't do it. This letter, written in 1852, showed up again in 2007. It filled in another gap in Crawford knowledge, as well as raising such wonderful questions as why a Long son was named "Nathan" (possibly after his great - grandfather Briscoe?), and why one of the sons of Sarah Rebecca Long Wood was named "Crawford." Has genealogical knowledge been forgotten here? Keep the faith. W v J KJ 70 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 1 9 8 1 D e a t h C e r t i f i c a t e s o f J a c k s o n C o u n t y P e r s o n s B o r n P r i o r t o 1 9 0 0 [Ed. Key to reading the following: Name of deceased; spouse; date of birth; place of birth; 1981 date of death; place of death; father's name; mother's name; informant's name; informant's address; cemetery. Abstracted by Larry Crawford in the Jackson County Register of Deeds Office March 2007.] A - E Amnions, Joseph Marion; wid; 1 May 1890; Macon Co.; 5 Sep; Sylva; Melvin Ammons; Kate Clark; Tom Cowan; Sylva; Fairview Brown, Herschel B.; wid; 22 Mar 1890; Jackson Co.; 14 Apr; Sylva; William Brown; Sally Brown; Georgia Brown; Whittier; Locust Field Bryson, Sally Sue; wid; 21 Dec 1899; Jackson Co.; 9 Mar; Cashiers; Thomas Dillard; Susan Fugate; Logan Bryson; Cashiers; Upper Zachary Champlin, Paulene Martha; nm; 22 Feb 1896; Cattarugas NY; 14 Dec; Sylva; J.B.F. Champlin; Georgiana Wright; Hannah Scott; Cullowhee; Shepherd - Hendersonville Chastain, E.M.; wid; age 91; Jackson Co.; 16 Jan; Sylva; Robert Chastain; Sarah Woodring; J.B. Chastain; Tuckasegee; Middleton (Canada) Childers, Wilburn Grady; h/o Lola Styles; 5 May 1891; Swain Co.; 9 Jan; Sylva; H.D. Childers; Sally Keener; James Childers; Whittier; Union Hill Davis, Jerushia Millie; wid; 12 Jul 1895; Madison Co; 8 Apr; Sylva; John R. Stephens; Derona Porche; Chris Davis; Sylva; Love Chapel Ehlers, Florence Ernestine; wid; 19 Dec 1894; Racine WI; 14 Dec; Sylva; Charles N. Pauli; Pauline Kirchner; Ruby Gunther; Franklin; Shepherd - Hendersonville Eyler, Richard Yeo Sr.; wid; age 82; Harrisburg PA; 4 Jan; Sylva; Elijah Edward Eyler; Elizabeth Gilbert; Virginia E. Whittenkind; Cullowhee; Forest Lawn - Pompano Beach FL F - L Fowler, Gertrude Childers; wid; 15 Jul 1899; Jackson Co.; 4 Apr; Sylva; William D. Childers; Sarah Moss; Marie Dillard; Cashiers; Hamburg Greene, Lelia Ann; wid; 16 Oct 1890; Jackson Co.; 17 Apr; Sylva; David Potts; Emma Cagle; Daniel Wyman; Sylva; Fairview Hampton, Ida Victoria; wid; 21 Jul 1891; Jackson Co.; 2 Jan; Sylva; David Coleman Jones; Theodocia Woodard; Ann Peters; New Carlisle OH; Cullowhee Baptist Hawkins, Bessie Mae; wid; 2 Aug 1899; Jackson Co.; 17 Dec; Sylva; John Settlemyre; Ella Raby; Joe Ed Hawkins; Whittier; Wilmot Community Hogsed, George Washington; h/o Maude Moore; 3 Jun 1898; Clay Co.; 13 Oct; Sylva; Julius Hogsed; Omeba Moore; Maude M. Hogsed; Franklin; Woodlawn - Franklin Ingalls, Iva Mae; wid; 19 Aug 1890; Sandwich IL; 19 Aug; Sylva; not given; not given; Martha Boggs; Cullowhee; Restlawn - Port Charlotte FL Keener, George Marion; wid; 10 Nov 1881; Macon Co.; 19 Jan; Sylva; Brownlow Keener; Martha Holland; Betty P. McCall; Franklin; Mt. Moriah - Macon Co. King, Dora Gibson; wid; 10 Jan 1896; Jackson Co.; 19 Jan; Sylva; Columbus Gibson; Belzora Styles; Birdell Brown; Whittier; Dicks Creek Lane, Elsie Schnakle; wid; 19 Sep 1895; Cook Co IL; 27 Jul; Sylva; not given; not given; Gordon J. Lane; Sylva; Shepherd - Hendersonville Lee, Adelaide Artimisla (Artemesia?); 31 Dec 1892; Detroit MI; 26 Dec; Sylva; William Bump; Harriett Peirson; Phyllis E. Lee; Sylva; Parris 71 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 M - Q Morgan, Lucy Calista; nm; 20 Sep 1889; Macon Co.; 3 Jul; Webster; Alfred Morgan; Fannie Ky Siler; Ralph S. Morgan; Sylva; St. John's - Macon Co. Moses, Nora Holland; wid.; 23 Oct 1893; Macon Co.; 14 Aug; Sylva; Lee Holland; Harriett Justice; Athen Moses Jr.; Franklin; Sugar Fork - Macon Co. Mull, Parris Alonzo; wid.; 16 Apr 1899; Haywood Co.; 16 Dec; Sylva; Jerry Mull; Polly Rhinehart; Ernest Mull; Cullowhee; Love (Willets) McCoy, James David; h/o Ella Prince; 27 Jun 1894; Macon Co.; 10 Sep; Sylva; Ed McCoy; Lydia Keener; Ella P. McCoy; Sylva; Fairview Ostrowski, Rose Schupac; 15 Jun 1894; Austria; 4 Dec; Sylva; Demetrius Schupac; Anastasia Kuszhak; Olga Puleo; Whittier; St. Joseph - Albanian NY Owen, Andrew Vess; h/o Violet Shelton; 25 Jun 1894; Jackson Co.; 29 Jun; Sylva; Luther Owen; Rhina Broom; Harry Owen; Longview WA; Wolf Creek Pangle, Fannie; wid.; 13 Jan 1888; Jackson Co.; 20 Jul; Sylva; Dan Sutton; Palestine Green; J.C. Pangle; Robbinsville; Locust Field Parker, Lillie Mae; wid.; 15 Dec 1895; Haywood Co.; 6 Jun; Sylva; John Tritt; Sarah Bird; Ruth B. Queen; Sylva; Fairview Passmore, Elender Vandora; wid.; 12 Sep 1883; Macon Co.; 9 Jan; Sylva; Porter Owenby; Adaline Irvin; Homer Passmore; Topton; Bethel Hill - Macon Co. Pelsey, lone Carner; wid; 13 Mar 1890; NY; 23 Jun; Sylva; William Carner; Josephine Munn; Howard W. Lull; Franklin; Shepherd - Hendersonville Queen, Naomi Hooper; wid.; 18 May 1899; Jackson Co.; 23 Sep; Sylva; Matt Mathis; Tisha Coggins; Howard Hooper; Cullowhee; Double Springs R - S Raby, Fred Bryan; h/o Winnie Arch; 25 Oct 1899; Macon Co.; 18 Jun; Sylva; Josiah Raby; Candice Webb; Esther Seay; Franklin; Drama - Cherokee Rathbone, Charles Mason; h/o Annie McElroy; 25 Feb 1891; Haywood Co.; 26 Jun; Sylva; Robert G. Rathbone; Salley Fish; Annie McElroy Rathbone; Waynesville; Hillcrest - Waynesville Reed, Annie Louise; wid.; 3 Feb 1898; Jackson Co.; 4 Jun; Sylva; Robert Lee Madison; Virginia Richards; Lillian Madison; High Point; St. David's Rice, Cora Skinkle; wid.; 11 Aug 1883; Cook Co. IL; 23 Apr; Sylva; Eugene Skinkle; Cordelia Drake; Richard C. Skinkle; Clearwater Beach FL; Shepherd - Hendersonville Rogers, Earnel Bascombe; nm; 29 May 1889; Jackson Co.; 21 Jan; Sylva; George Rogers; Josephine Gibbs; Hallie Lackey; Cullowhee; AME Zion Rogers, Thomas Webb; h/o Fannie McGee; 21 May 1889; Haywood Co.; 13 May; Sylva; Joseph H. Rogers; Lou Noland; Mildred Martin; Franklin; Crawford Memorial Gardens - Clyde Russomanno, William; h/o Maria Goodson; 14 Oct 1888; South America; 21 May; Sylva; Peter Russamanno; Maria Fernatiz; Maria Goodson Russomanno; Waynesville; Hillcrest - Waynesville Scott, Chester; wid; 24 Feb 1893; NC; 1 Aug; Sylva; J.L. Scott; Lou Martin; David Parker; Sylva; Lakeland Memorial Park - Monroe Seymour, Lillian Spouce; wid.; 27 Dec 1892; Spartanburg SC; 8 Sep; Sylva; not given; not given; SS Dept. - Sylva; Cullowhee Shelton, Emma Jane; wid; 29 Apr 1892; Jackson Co.; 21 Apr; Sylva; John Shelton; Alice Mathis; Irene S. Rogers; Cullowhee; Fairview Simpson, Jamie Arnold; wid; 2 Feb 1896; Pleasant GA; 5 Jun; Sylva; Walter Arnold; Harriett Murphy; James W. Simpson; Webster; Doylestown PA 72 v ^ KJ Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 Sumner, Nannie Tatham; wid; 10 Mar 1896; Cherokee Co.; 10 Mar; Sylva; Jasper Tatham; Ella Moore; Ruth Mason; Franklin; Valley River - Andrews Sumrall, Dovie Elvira; wid; 12 Mar 1896; Jackson Co.; 3 Jan; Sylva; Parker Ward; Nannie Gibson; Inez Goforth; Whittier; Fairview T - W Thomas, Marion Sylvester; h/o Leona McClure; 18 Mar 1888; Macon Co.; 26 May; Sylva; William Thomas; Mary Sanders; Gladys McConnell; Franklin; Black Mountain Baptist - Macon Co. Thompson, Sara Mitchell; wid; 9 Jun 1894; Granville Co.; 25 Sep; Sylva; Alfonso Mitchell; Li la Goode; Elizabeth Maddox; Cullowhee; Manasoto - Bradenton FL Thorn, Harry Alvin; h/o Elizabeth Tredway; 27 Feb 1894; Cook Co IL; 23 May; Sylva; not given; not given; Elizabeth T. Thorn; DelRay Beach FL; Shepherd - Hendersonville Tittle, Bess B.; w/o Fred N. Sr.; 28 Aug 1898; Madock GA; 11 Oct; Sylva; Sam McLendon; Anna Mocksley; Fred Tittle Jr.; Tavernier FL; Nashville City - Nashville GA Trantham, Iva Lee; wid; 7 Feb 1888; GA; 21 Jul; Sylva; Billy Buchanan; Cindy Sisk; Nellie Green; Sylva; Greens Creek Tucker, Hattie Moody; wid; 5 Oct 1879; Graham Co.; 31 Oct; Sylva; Robert Moody; Claretha Caldwell; Mrs. Jimmy Colvard; Sylva; Pine Creek Wilson, Luetta Buchanan; wid; 5 Jun 1890; Jackson Co.; 11 Feb; Sylva; William O. Buchanan; Cordelia Allen; Margaret Henson; Sylva; Keener 1 9 8 2 C e r t i f i c a t es B - E Brown, Betty Lovedahl; wid; 24 Jan 1893; Jackson Co.; 3 May; Sylva; Lawrence Lovedahl; Martha Jane Smith; Roy Brown; Cullowhee; Lower Coward Brown, Connie Ada; wid; 15 Oct 1892; Watauga Co.; 5 Sep; Sylva; Amos Stanbery; Mary Tatum; Ann Dills; Sylva; Parris Brown, Philbert I.; wid; 11 Dec 1885; Jackson Co.; 20 Aug; Sylva; Jack Brown; Sarah Alexander; Johnny Brown; Tuckasegee; Sols Creek Browning, Newton; h/o Emmie Odear; 6 Sep 1894; Jackson Co.; 26 Feb; Sylva; Marion Browning; Sarah Williams; Emmie O. Browning; Sylva; Lovedale Buchanan, Sallie Jane; wid; 29 Mar 1899; Macon Co.; 13 Mar; Cullowhee; William T. Gregory; Myra Parker; Maude Bryson; Cullowhee; Stewart Butters, Maybelle Taylor; wid; 10 Jul 1897; Belleville IL; 10 Feb; Cullowhee; James Taylor; Mary Carr; Ramona Eddy; Cullowhee; Arlington National - Arlington VA Crisp, Bert Octavis; wid; 20 Apr 1892; Graham Co.; 16 Feb; Sylva; Taylor Crisp; Martha Rickman; Paul Crisp; Whittier; Union Hill Crisp, Minnie Henry; wid; 26 Apr 1896; Macon Co.; 27 Apr; Sylva; not given; Lettie Henry; Margaret Holland; Franklin; Sugar Fork - Macon Co. Edwards, John Wesley; wid; 15 Aug 1891; Jackson Co.; 8 Feb; Sylva; Alex G. Edwards; Alpha Speed; Donald W. Edwards; Highlands; Horse Cove - Macon Co. Ellison, Eloise Hayes; wid; 27 Oct 1890; Cobb Co GA; 22 Aug; Sylva; Alfred L. Hayes; Lula Bailey; Frances E. Penn; Otto; St. Petersburg Memorial Park - Pinellas Co. FL Ensley, Ellen; wid; 11 Nov 1899; Jackson Co.; 24 May; Sylva; Monroe Mills; Jane Hooper; Lee Ensley; Sylva; New Hope 73 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 G - L Gaisford, Rita Lynette; wid; 16 Jun 1894; Paducah KY; 4 Mar; Sylva; Allen Harrison; not given; William N. Gaisford; Cashiers; Shepherd - Hendersonville Galloway, Mary Harris; wid; 19 May 1893; Jackson Co.; 14 Oct; Sylva; John Harris; Mary Queen; Florence Hoxit; Tuckasegee; Mt. Moriah - Calvert - Transylvania Co. Gentry, Daniel Marcus Sr.; wid; 24 Jan 1890; Cocke Co. TN; 4 Oct; Sylva; Charlie Gentry; Katherine Holt; Robert Gentry; Sylva; Balsam Hooper, Lloyd Clinton; h/o Gertie Hoyle; 3 Mar 1892; Jackson Co.; 28 Sep; Tuckasegee; E.M. Hooper; Latha Bryson; Gertie Hoyle Hooper; Tuckasegee; Tuckasegee Wesleyan Jennings, Sam Winton; wid; 24 Mar 1892; Macon Co.; 20 Nov; Cullowhee; Charlie Jennings; Mary Home; Charlie Jennings; Cullowhee; Pine Creek Johnson, Ivy Lee; wid; 22 Jun 1895; Macon Co.; 17 Nov; Cullowhee; Ben Webb; Ruth McCall; Herbert Johnson; Cullowhee; Pine Creek Jones, Cora Belle; wid; 4 Jun 1893; Jackson Co.; 25 Sep; Sylva; David Powell; Caroline Browning; Billy Walker; Sylva; Parris Jones, Sota Lusk; wid; 2 Aug 1889; Jackson Co.; 16 Mar; Cashiers; Newton Lusk; Octavia McCall; Evelyn Passmore; Cashiers; New Hope Baptist - Seneca SC Leatherwood, Fannie Burr; w/o Frank; 29 Jan 1896; Swain Co.; 12 Jul; Sylva; Abraham Nichols; Elveria Wiggins; Ann Hooper; Cullowhee; not given - Macon Co. Leedy, Ruth Gillis; wid; 7 Mar 1897; Hancock Co. IL; 3 May; Cashiers; William Gillis; Ida Bell McNeil; Loomis C. Leedy Jr.; Orlando FL; Woodlawn - Orlando FL Lindley, Annie Bell; wid; 14 Mar 1898; Cleveland Co.; 14 Nov; Sylva; Mack Helms; Nancy Cosby; Marie Leatherwood; Bryson City; Coward - Cullowhee M - P \ y KJ Maney, Alonzo Burley; h/o Alice Watkins; 16 May 1899; Clay Co.; 2 Jun; Sylva; John Maney; Nan Hughes; Magalene Walker; Hayesville; Bethlehem - Hayesville Melton, Lambert Pritchard; h/o Lona Kilby; 24 Mar 1893; Jackson Co.; 9 Mar; Sylva; Sylvester Melton; Margaret Mull; Lona K. Melton; Sylva; Fairview Middleton, Minnie Ellen; wid; 27 Aug 1894; Jackson Co.; 26 Jan; Sylva; S.M. Parker; Ellen Woodring; Walter Middleton; Sylva; Middleton (Tuckasegee) Mills, John; h/o Emaline; 19 Apr 1899; Jackson Co.; 25 Mar; Sylva; not given; Francis Mills; Emaline Mills; Sylva; Fairview Morris, James Byron; h/o Hattie Emiline Cogdill; 6 Feb 1892; Emanuel Co. GA; 19 Oct; Sylva; James Byron Morris; Fronic Cooksey; Hattie E. Morris; Sylva; Addie Moss, Sallie Ellen; nm; 27 Sep 1896; Jackson Co.; 8 Jul; Sylva; Albert Moss; Jennie Bryson; Lois Queen; West Asheville; Fairview Murray, Lula G.; wid; 8 Sep 1889; Rabun Co. GA; 14 Apr; Sylva; not given; Josephine Greenwood; Christine Love; Sylva; Old Field Neergaard, Alice Runyan; wid; 20 Sep 1882; Clinton TN; 31 Jul; Dillsboro; John Claiborne Runyan; Cordelia Louise Roberts; Louise Ellis; Dillsboro; Fairview Norris, Cloyd; wid; 8 Nov 1892; Watauga Co.; 6 Jul; Sylva; Jacob Norris; Nancy Ragan; Betty N. Gregory; Wilkesboro; Meat Camp Baptist Church - Watauga Co. Openshaw, Kathleen Elizabeth; wid; 4 Dec 1898; Hampshire Eng.; 31 Aug; Sylva; William Wright; not given; Nagui El-Bayadi; Sylva; Fairview Parris, Zebulon Vance; h/o Nettie Miller; 3 Mar 1898; Jackson Co.; 16 Aug; Sylva; James Parris; Florence Wilson; Nettie M. Parris; Sylva; Addie Penland, Aver; w/o Lee; 30 Sep 1894; Rabun Co. GA; 9 May; Sylva; E.L. Parker; Hester Dickerson; Cloyce Gribble; Hayesville; Old Shooting Creek - Clay Co. (cont 'd, p.82) ^-^ 74 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 C T h e D e s c e n d a n t s o f J o h a n n e s R i s c h 90. 91. 92. 93. ii. iii. iv. v. VI. [Ed. We continue in this issue with the work of JCGS member Betty Cope Andrews.] 88. vii. ESTELLE PERRY RUSH, b. 11 Nov 1870, AL; d. 04 Dec 1964. viii. ANNIE LOU MERIWETHER RUSH, b. 07 Oct 1873; d. 19 Oct 1873, Mobil, AL. ix. LEGRANDEIONE RUSH, b. 31 Oct 1875, PrattviUe, AL; d. 1881. 89. x. JOHN OSGOOD RUSH, b. 17 Jun 1878, Summerfield, AL; d. 14 Feb 1933, Mobil, AL. 51. JAMES GEORGE7 GRAY (ELIZABETH6 RUSH, GEORGE*. CHARLES*. HANS GEORGE3 RISCH. JOHANNES (JOHN)2, JOHANNES*) was born 08 Jul 1811 in SC, and died 06 May 1882 in Macon Co., N. C . He married MARY JATON THOMAS 28 Feb 1836 in Macon Co, NC, daughter of ZEBULON THOMAS and LYDIA RUSH. She was bom 10 Jan 1820 in Iredell Co., NC, and died 08 May 1904 in Macon Co., N. C. Notes for JAMES GEORGE GRAY: Family From Gray Bible and Rush Cemetery. Census:1840, 1850,1860,1870,1880 Children of JAMES GRAY and MARY THOMAS are: ELIZABETH ANN* GRAY, b. 09 Dec 1836, Macon Co., N. C; d. Bef. 1850. JOHN JAVAN GRAY, b. 18 Nov 1839, Macon Co., N. C; d. 23 Oct 1863, CSA prison camp. Military Cem. Wash. DC. LYDIA G. GRAY, b. 03 Aug 1843, Macon Co., N. C; d. 03 Dec 1845. JULIA ANN GRAY, b. 03 Dec 1846, Macon Co., N. C; d. 20 Apr 1923. CATHERINE FRALICK GRAY, b. 24 Apr 1850, Macon Co., N. C; d. 24 Jul 1922, Macon Co., N. C. GEORGE WASHINGTON GRAY, b. 22 Aug 1853, Macon Co., N. C; d. 16 Jul 1912, Macon Co, N. C. 52. WILLIAM CHARLES7 GRAY (ELIZABETH6 RUSH, GEORGE5, CHARLES*. HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHNJ/2, JOHANNES*) was bom 12 Feb 1813 in SC, and died 15 Mar 1860 in Macon Co., N. C . He married SOPHIA E. MCCLURE 07 May 1834 in Macon Co, NC, daughter of WILLIAM MCCLURE and NANCY STRAIN. She was bom Abt. 1810 in Haywood Co., NC, and died Aft. 1880 in Macon Co., NC. Notes for WILLIAM CHARLES GRAY: Blacksmith. Children of WILLIAM GRAY and SOPHIA MCCLURE are: i. WILLIAM* GRAY, m. NANCY STRAIN. ii. ENOS GRAY, b. 1836; d. 16 Oct 1863. iii. NANCY C. GRAY, b. 13 Sep 1838; d. 02 May 1910. 94. iv. ELIZABETH TABITHA GRAY, b. 1840. v. ADALINE A GRAY, b. 1842; d. 1913. vi. ISABELLA REBECCA GRAY, b. Sep 1843. vii. MARY C. GRAY, b. 1847. viii. MARTHA ANN GRAY, b. 25 May 1850; d. 04 Jun 1906. 95. ix. JOHN RUFFINSON PULASKA GRAY, b. 14 Mar 1852; d. 22 May 1934. 53. LEANDER R.7 SELLERS (MARY (POLLY)6 RUSH, GEORGE*, CHARLES*, HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHN/1, JOHANNES1) was born 12 Aug 1828 in Macon Co., N. C, and died 25 Nov 1893 in Etowah, TN. He married ELIZABETH SILER KELLY, daughter of SAMUEL KELLY and MARY HARRY. She was born 1829. Notes for ELIZABETH SILER KELLY: Lived in Macon Co, died in Etowah, TN. Children of LEANDER SELLERS and ELIZABETH KELLY are: 96. i. SARAH ADA' SELLERS, b. 1867; d. 13 May 1954, Macon Co., NC. ii. BESSE SELLERS, b. 1865. iii. MARTHA C. SELLERS, b. 1855. iv. MARYJ. SELLERS, b. 1854. 75 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 54. MARY JATON7 THOMAS (LYDU6RUSH, GEORGE5, CHARLES*. HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHNP-, JOHANNES*) was bom 10 Jan 1820 in Iredell Co., NC, and died 08 May 1904 in Macon Co., N. C She married JAMES GEORGE GRAY 28 Feb 1836 in Macon Co, NC, son of STEPHEN GRAY and ELIZABETH RUSH. He was < J born 08 Jul 1811 in SC, and died 06 May 1882 in Macon Co., N. C. Notes for JAMES GEORGE GRAY: Family From Gray Bible and Rush Cemetery. Census: 1840, 1850,1860,1870,1880 Children are listed above under (51) James George Gray. 55. JOHN A.7 THOMAS (LYDIA6 RUSH, GEORGE5, CHARLES*, HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHN)2, JOHANNES*) was born 20 Jun 1825 in Macon Co., N. C, and died 11 Jun I860 in Macon Co., N. C. He married NANCY DILLARD. She was bom 30 Nov 1830 in GA, and died 12 Nov 1888 in Macon Co., N. C. Notes for JOHN A. THOMAS: 1860 census Macon Co., NC Children of JOHN THOMAS and NANCY DILLARD are: i. CHARLES W.» THOMAS, b. 21 May 1851, Macon Co., N. C; d. 06 Jan 1931; m. REBECCA A; b. 22 Apr 1850; d. 13 May 1921. ii. REBECCA M. THOMAS, b. 1837, Macon Co., N. C. iii. GEORGE N. THOMAS, b. 08 Jun 1853, Macon Co., N. C; d. 31 Aug 1939. i v. SARAH C. THOMAS, b. 1855, Macon Co., N.C. v. LYDIA A THOMAS, b. 1857, Macon Co., N. C; d. 21 Aug 1936, Macon Co., NC. 56. JULIANNA7 THOMAS (LYDIA6 RUSH, GEORGE5, CHARLES*, HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHN)2, JOHANNES*) was bom 22 Mar 1830 in Macon Co., N. C, and died 16 Nov 1903 in Macon Co., N. C She married ALFRED B. ANGEL 17 Dec 1850 in Macon Co, NC, son of WILLIAM ANGEL and MARY YOUNG. He was ^—J bom 02 Nov 1812 in Buncombe Co., NC, and died 10 Mar 1888 in Macon Co., N. C. Notes for ALFRED B. ANGEL: 1860,1870,1880 census Macon Co., NC Children of JULIANNA THOMAS and ALFRED ANGEL are: i. SARAH A« ANGEL, b. 1854, Macon Co., N. C. ii. NAPOLEON B. ANGEL, b. 1856, Macon Co., N. C. iii. CHARLES T. ANGEL, b. 1859, Macon Co, N. C. iv. ZEB B. ANGEL, b. Mar 1863, Macon Co., NC; m. MAGGIE H. ANGEL. 97. v. ANNA L. ANGEL, b. 1867, Macon Co, NC. vi. WILLIAM R ANGEL, b. 1871, Macon Co, NC. vii. VIRGINIA ANGEL, b. 1872. 57. MARY ELIZABETH7 THOMAS (LYDIA6 RUSH, GEORGE5, CHARLES*, HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHN)2, JOHANNES*) was bom Feb 1834 in Macon Co., N. C, and died 19 Jul 1924 in Macon Co., N. C. She married GEORGE NIMRODDR RUSH 25 Dec 1854 in Macon Co, NC by William Allen., son of JOHNATHAN RUSH and ANNA RUSH. He was bom 27 Jul 1824 in Rockingham Co, VA, and died 12 Dec 1897 in Macon Co., N. C. Notes for MARY ELIZABETH THOMAS: Elizabeth had 7 children 5 lived. Napolian J. Rush' death certificate list his mother's maiden name as Gray. George lived with Gray family on 1850 census. 1900 and 1910 census Elizabeth living with daughter Elizabeth B. Garland. See Death Certificates for George and Elizabeth's daughters:Cora Ann Rush Brabson and Mary L. Rush Henson. They list Elizabeth Thomas as mother. Charles W. Thomas 7 Sep 1821-8 Aug 1849, Spouse Eliza A. Smith are buried in Rush Cemetery. Are they related to Elizabeth Thomas Rush. \^/ Elizabeth Thomas Rush applied for letter of Administration 8 Mar 1898, for the will of G. N. Rush. Book 2, 76 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 page 206. Notes for GEORGE NIMROD DR RUSH: Graduate of the University of Nashville School of Medicine. He began practicing in Macon Co. in 1854. Listed as father on Napolian J. Rush Death Cert. Listed in Rush Cemetery near Coweeta. Dr. George N. Rush. See 1850 census, Macon Co., 339B, 367A. 1850 census Tennessee Valley, Macon Co., NC. #331-338 in Wm. C Gray family: George Rush age 30 Physician from VA. This indicates George bom 1820. Tombstone gives 1834. (William C. Gray age 47 died Mar 1850 from pnuemonia on mortality schedule.) William Gray's mother was a Rush, George was a cousin. Rush, George N. to Elizabeth Thomas 12/25/1854, William Allen. 1860 census Smith Bridge, Macon Co, NC. Physician birth place VA George 36, Elizabeth 26, Napolean J. 3, Mary L. 1. 1870 census Smith Bridge, Macon Co, NC #113/117 G. N. Rush 45 VA, Lizzie 35, Mary 11, Napoleon 13, Cora A. 7. A. C. Brabston 28 Physician from TN living in family. 1880 census Smith Bridge, Macon Co, NC: Dr. G. N. Rush 55, Elizabeth 46, Cora A. 17, George M. 5, Elizabeth B. 3. Alexander C. Brabson 38 boarder and House servants Sarah Thomas 64, Elizabeth Holt 49, Hanibal B. Penland 11. See Genealogy Dr. George N. Rush 1824-1897 researched by John Lyle Waldroop. The will of Dr. Rush's father George Risch (Rush), is the oldest on record in Macon County, 23rd day of February, 1827. Alexander Crutchfiels Brabson bom 1839, came to practice medicine under the able supervision of Dr. G. N. Rush in the Coweeta Community of Macon County. He boarded in the Rush home and became a member of the family. He married Dr. Rush's daughter Cora Ann. George Rush's will Bk 2, pg 206, Macon Co, NC. Children are listed above under (36) George Nimrod Dr. Rush. 58. MARTHA A.7 THOMAS (LYDIA6 RUSH, GEORGE5, CHARLES*, HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHN)2, JOHANNES1) was bom 07 Apr 1838 in Macon Co, N. C, and died 18 May 1896 in Macon Co, NC. She married WILLIAM T. ANDERSON 19 May 1864, son of MANSFIELD ANDERSON and HARRIET. He was bom 20 Feb 1823, and died 30 Jun 1884 in Macon Co, NC. Notes for WILLIAM T. ANDERSON: School Teacher on 1860 census 1870 & 1880 census Franklin, Macon Co, NC Children of MARTHA THOMAS and WILLIAM ANDERSON are: i. ZEB M.« ANDERSON, b. 1876, Macon Co, NC. ii. SON ANDERSON, b. 1879, Macon Co, NC. 59. TABITHA7 RUSH (GEORGE6, GEORGE5, CHARLES*. HANS GEORGE3 RISCH. JOHANNES (JOHN)2. JOHANNES1) was bom 15 Mar 1819, and died 09 Dec 1857. She married JOHN SHAWHAN 1839, son of JOSEPH SHAWHAN and SARAH EWALT. He was bora 02 Apr 1811, and died 02 Oct 1862 in Morgan Co., KY. Notes for JOHN SHAWHAN: CSA, Mexican War, Sheriff and KY Legislator. Children of TABITHA RUSH and JOHN SHAWHAN are: i. SARAH JANE' SHAWHAN, b. 25 Jul 1839. ii. MAGGIE SHAWHAN, b. 1844. iii. JOSEPH R SHAWHAN, b. 12 Oct 1844. iv. GEORGE R SHAWHAN, b. 1846; m. MAGGIE REDMAN. v. HELEN SHAWHAN, b. 1848. vi. JOHN SHAWHAN, b. 1850. vii. DANIEL SHAWHAN, b. 1852. viii. ANNA R. SHAWHAN, b. 26 Oct 1855. 77 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 60. HOSEA CAMP7 RUSH (JOHN6, GEORGE5, CHARLES*. HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (Jom/p-, JOHANNES1) was bom Dec 1832 in Floyd Co, GA. He married MATTIE E. ARBOGAST 1865. She was born 1842 in VA. . j Children of HOSEA RUSH and MATTIE ARBOGAST are: i. WILLIE D.» RUSH, b. 1864, Watters, Floyd Co, GA. ii. MATTIE B. RUSH, b. 1869, Watters, Floyd Co, GA. iii. FANNIE V. RUSH, b. 1871, Walters, Floyd Co, GA. iv. SALLE W. RUSH, b. 1874, Watters, Flpyd Co, GA. v. CHARLES H. RUSH, b. 1877, Walters, Floyd Co, GA. vi. MAMIE RUSH, b. Apr 1881, GA. 61. CHARLES WESLEY7 RUSH (JOHN6, GEORGE5, CHARLES*, HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHN)2 JOHANNES1) was bom 1838 in Floyd Co, GA. He married ANNETTE BASCOM. She was bom 1842 in Tuskeegee, Macon Co, GA. Children of CHARLES RUSH and ANNETTE BASCOM are: i. JOHN PREBBLE1 RUSH, b. 05 Jun 1867, Tuskeegee, Macon Co, GA; d. 22 Mar 1952, Rome, Floyd Co, GA;m. LAURA LEE WATTS, lOJun 1892, Floyd Springs, GA; b. 12 Jul 1871; d. 25 Nov 1951, Rome, Floyd Co,GA. ii. HOWARD CAMP RUSH, b. 1869, Watters, Floyd Co, GA. iii. ADDIE M. RUSH, b. 1876, Watters, Floyd Co, GA; m. THOMAS PERRY, iv. GEORGE BASCOM RUSH, b. 1879, Watters, Floyd Co, GA; d. 12 Mar 1957, Baldwin Co, GA. v. MARTHA ENOREE RUSH, b. 13 Dec 1882, Rome, Floyd Co, GA; d. Mar 1947, Rome, Floyd Co, GA. 62. MARY J.7 RUSH (JOHN6, GEORGE5, CHARLES*. HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHN)2, JOHANNES*) was bom 1829. She married ALFRED BuFORD COULTER. Child of MARY RUSH and ALFRED COULTER is: i. JOHN* COULTER. ^_y 63. WILLIAM SLADE7 RUSH (JACOB6, GEORGE5, CHARLES*, HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHN)2. JOHANNES1) was bom 25 Dec 1839 in Lincoln Co, NC, and died 08 Aug 1895 in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, LA. He married (1) ELIZABETH TABAITHA HARTWELL. She was bom 1853 in Eufala, AL, and died 1928. He married (2) ROSA F. BREWER 17 Apr 1872. She was bom 1842, and died 1882. Children of WILLIAM RUSH and ELIZABETH HARTWELL are: i. WILLIE S.« RUSH, b. 1885,1977; m. M. L CARICKER. ii. CARLOS RUSH, b. 1885,1900. iii. WARREN G. RUSH, b. 1887. iv. FRANCES CAROLINE RUSH, b. 1888. v. FLORA AMARILLO RUSH, b. 20 Dec 1889, Atlanta, Cass Co, TX; d. 21 Sep 1984, Ponchatula, Tangipohoa Parish, LA. Children of WILLIAM RUSH and ROSA BREWER are: vi. MAUDE* RUSH, b. 1873. vii. CHARLES COLEMAN RUSH, b. 1880. 64. ANN MAHALA7 RUSH (WILLIAM LOWELL6, GEORGE5, CHARLES*, HANS GEORGE3 RISCH, JOHANNES (JOHN)2, JOHANNES*) was bora 25 Feb 1833 in Spartanburg Co, SC, and died 25 Dec 1903 in Spartanburg Co, SC. She married ISHAM F. BROWN, son of JAMES BROWN and TAMER TURNER. He was bom 01 Aug 1827 in Spartanburg, Co., SC, and died 10 May 1901 in Spartanburg, Co, SC. Children of ANN RUSH and ISHAM BROWN are: i. JAMES WILLIAM* BROWN. II. RUSH BROWN. \I iii. WALTER RALEIGH BROWN. 78 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 ^ c J a c k s o n C o u n t y - A r e a F a m i l i e s i n t h e 1 8 3 0 H a y w o o d C o u n t y C e n s u s [Ed. We continue with this article begun in our last issue. Please remember that this one is guesswork, and we may have included families who never lived in what is now Jackson County, while inadvertently omitting families who did in fact live here. Abstracted by Larry Crawford December 2007 from census microfilm.] We believe the following families to be in the area of present - day Sylva, Beta, and Dillsboro. Delilah Ingram: males: 5-10=2; females under 5=2,40-50=1 Jason Elliott: males: under 5=2, 30-40=1; females: 5-10=2, 30-40=1 James Gribble: males: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 10-15=2, 40-50=1; females: under 5=1, 10-15=2, 40- 50=1 William Harris: males: under 5=1, 5-10=2, 10-15=1,30-40=1; females: under 5=1,30-40=1 Andrew Ensley: males: 10-15=1, 15-20=1,40-50=1; females: 10-15=2, 15-20=1,20-30=1 William Stanfield: males: under 5=2, 20-30=1; females: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 20-30=1 Joseph Jonston: males: under 5=1, 20-30=1; females: under 5=1, 20-30=1 George Cunningham: males: under 5=1, 5-10=2, 20-30=2, 40-50=1; females: 5-10=1, 10-15=2, 15-20=3,40-50=1 David Parris: males: 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 15-20=2, 20-30=1, 60-70=1; females: 5-10=1, 10-15=3, 15-20=1, 20-30=1, 40-50=1 [Ed. This family was delineated extensively in JTJ a few years ago and is a family who lived somewhere a little north of downtown Sylva. The older ones in the family are buried in what came to be known as Keener Cemetery. One of the sons in this family married one of the daughters of Cunningham just above, and two more of the daughters married into the Dills family following.] Bartlett Dills: males: 10-15=1, 15-20=2, 20-30=1, 60-70=1; females: 10-15=1, 15-20=1, 50- 60=1 Peter Dills: males: under 5=1,20-30=1; females: under 5=1,20-30=1 Andrew Parker: males: 15-20=2, 60-70=1; females: 15-20=1,20-30=1, 60-70=1 John Davidson: males: 60-70=1; females: 5-10=1, 50-60=1 (This family has 5 slaves.) Isaac Gipson: males: 20-30=1; females: 20-30=1 Edmund Barker: males: under 5=1, 10-15=1, 15-20=1,20-30=1, 50-60=1; females: 5-10=2, 10- 15=2, 15-20=1, 20-30=1,40-50=1 As we look at other names here, we are almost surely moving north along the river and its tributaries (such as Dicks Creek and Shoal Creek) on the east side, moving into what is now Swain County in such areas as Deep Creek. Jesse Cockerham: males: 20-30=1; females: under 5=1,20-30=1 (This family has 2 slaves.) Amos Farmer: males: under 5=1, 30-40=1; females: under 5=1, 20-30=1 Henry Wilks: males: under 5=1; 15-20=1; females: under 5=1, 10-15=1; 20-30=1 James M. Bates: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 20-30=1; females: under 5=1, 10-15=1, 30-40=1 Wilson Carter: (Not enumerated by gender, this free colored household had 2 persons.) Clover ? Wallis: males: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 50-60=1; females: 10-15=1, 15-20=1, 30- 40=1, 60-70=1 Isaac Sellers: males: under 5=1, 5-10=2, 20-30=1; females: 20-30=1 Edward F. Ferrington: males: 5-10=1, 10-15=2,40-50=1; females 40-50=1 Jeremiah Stillwell: males: 10-15=1; 15-20=3,40-50=1; females: 10-15=1,50-60=1 79 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 George Sherrill: males: 5-10=1, 10-15=1, .15-20=2, 40-50=1; females: under 5=1, 5-10=2, 10- 15=1,40-50=1 John Jinkins: males: under 5=2,20-30=1; females: under 5=1. 20-30=1 Jesse Wright: males: under 5=3, 5-10=1, 10-15=2, 15-20=1, 60-70=1; females: under 5=2, 5- 10=1, 10-15=1, 15-20=1, 30-40=1 Nathan Jinkins: males: 5-10=1, 30-40=1; females: under 5=3, 20-30=1 Alexander Nichols: males: under 5=2,20-30=1; females: under 5=1, 20-30=1 Nathan Hyatt: males: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 15-20=1, 40-50=1; females: under 5=1, 5- 10=1, 10-15=1, 30-40=1,(This family has 6 slaves.) Cornwell Parker: males: under 5=2, 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 30-40=1; females: 5-10=2, 30-40=1 Scroop Enloe: males: under 5=1,20-30=1; females: under 5=1, 20-30=1 James Sellers: males: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 30-40=1; females: 5-10=1, 30-40=1 Nathan Thompson: males: 20-30=1, 60-70=1; females: 15-20=1, 20-30=1, 40-50=1, 60-70=1 John Battle: males: 15-20=1,20-30=1, 50-60=1; females: 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 15-20=1, 50-60=1 Jesse Thompson: males: under 5=1,20-30=1; females: under 5=1, 20-30=1 Daniel Carringer: males: 20-30=2, 50-60=1; females: 15-20=2, 50-60=1 Holoman Battle: males: 15-20=1,20-30=1, 50-60=1, 80-90=1; females: 50-60=1, 80-90=1 Jesse Cornwell: males: 30-40=1, 60-70=1; females: 5-10=2, 10-15=1, 60-70=1, 80-90=1 (2 Free Colored persons are also listed in this household.) John Brown: males: under 5=2, 5-10=1,20-30=1; females: 5-10=2, 20-30=1 Sary Reid: males: under 5=1, 5-10=1; females: under 5=1, 10-15=1, 30-40=1 Fredrick Carter: (This household has 11 Free Colored persons.) Margaret Frady: males: 5-10=3; females: 5-10=1, 10-15=1; 20-30=1 Thos S. Cooper: males: under 5=1,20-30=1; females: 20-30=1 Henry Wikle: males: under 5=1, 5-10=2,40-50=1; females: under 5=2, 10-15=3, 30-40=1 Manos? Morgan: males: 10-15=1, 30-40=1; females: under 5=2, 5-10=1, 10-15=2,30-40=1 John Simmons: males: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 30-40=1; females: 20-30=1 Nancy Farlowe: males: 15-20=1,20-30=1; females: 50-60=1 James Bradshaw: males: 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 15-20=1, 20-30=1, 50-60=1, 70-80=1; females: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 15-20=1,40-50=1 Massey? Campbell: males: 5-10=1, 10-15=1; females: 5-10=1, 40-50=1 George Brock: males: 5-10=2, 30-40=1; females: 10-15=1,15-20=1, 30-40=1 George Brock: males: under 5=2, 10-15=1, 15-20=1, 40-50=1; females: 5-10=2, 10-15=1, 15- 20=2, 20-30=1,40-50=1 (This family has 2 slaves.) George Shuler: males: 5-10=2, 10-15=1, 15-20=2, 50-60=1; females: under 5=2, 10-15=1, 20- 30=1, 30-40=1 Price Adams: males: under 5=1, 30-40=1; females: 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 30-40=1 Robert Dockery: males: under 5=2, 5-10=1, 30-40=1; females: 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 30-40=1 Thomas Dillard: males: under 5=2, 20-30=1; females: 20-30=1 Dorcas Dillard: males: under 5=1, 15-20=2; females: 50-60=1 [Ed. We don't know where these Dillards were living at the time, but some of the other names around them point to Soco or the Shoal Creek area. This Dorcas was born during the decade of the 1770's, and we assume this is the mother of Artemesia (Artie) Dillard Bryson.] John Dillard: males: 30-40=1; females: under 5=1, 5-10=2,20-30=1 George Gunter: males: 5-10=2, 50-60=1, 60-70=1; females: under 5=2, 10-15=2, 15-20=1, 30- 40=1 Ute Sherrill: males: 20-30=1; females: 20-30=1 Watson Battle: males: 20-30=1; females: under 5=2, 5-10=1, 20-30=1 David Elders: males: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 15-20=1, 30-40=1; females: under 5=2, 5- 10=1, 30-40=1 80 \ J U V_y Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 We believe the following families to be in the Oconaluftee River area as one now enters the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Catherine Collins: males: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 20-30=1; females: under 5=1, 10-15=1 15-20=1,40-50=1 John Beck: males: 5-10=1, 15-20=1, 50-60=2; females: 10-15=2, 20-30=1,40-50=1 Jacob Beck: males: 20-30=1; females: under 5=1, 20-30=1 Samuel Beck: males: under 5=1, 20-30=1; females: 20-30=1 John Watson: males: under 5=1, 20-30=1; females: under 5=2, 20-30=1 Samuel Conner: males: under 5=1, 10-15=1, 40-50=1; females: under 5=2, 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 15-20=2,40-50=1 John Hyde: males: under 5=2, 10-15=1, 20-30=1, 30-40=1; females: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 20- 30=1 John Mingus: males: 5-10=1,30-40=1; females: 20-30=1 (This family has 5 slaves.) Abraham Enloe: males: 5-10=1, 10-15=2, 15-20=1, 20-30=2, 60-70=1; females: 10-15=2, 15- 20=1, 50-60=1 (This family has 5 slaves.) Samuel Sherrill: males: 10-15=1, 15-20=1, 20-30=1, 50-60=1; females: 10-15=2, 50-60=1 Ralph Hughes: males: under 5=1, 5-10=2, 10-15=2, 15-20=1, 40-50=1; females: under 5=1, 5- 10=1, 10-15=1, 15-20=1,40-50=1 Jacob Mingus: males: 50-60=1; females: 5-10=1, 70-80=1 Jacob Canot: males: under 5=2, 20-30=1, 30-40=1; females: 5-10=2, 20-30=1 [Ed. We are curious about this one. The named individuals with their families are listed as "free white." Was this not a Cherokee name, or are we just ignorant? We have known fine folks from Cherokee named "Kanott." ] Jacob Stillwell: males: under 5=2, 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 30-40=1; females: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 30- 40=1 Jeremiah Woody: males: under 5=1,40-50=1; females: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 20-30=1 Coleman Murray: males: 40-50=1; females: under 5=1, 10-15=1, 40-50=1 Jacob Mingus: males: under 5=1,30-40=1; females: under 5=1, 5-10=1,20-30=1 Hannah ? Mingus: males: 5-10=3,10-15=2; females: under 5=2, 10-15=1,40-50=1 Ephraim Mingus: males: 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 30-40=1; females: under 5=2, 5-10=1, 10-15=1, 30- 40=1 Samuel Stillwell: males: under 5=1, 5-10=1,30-40=1; females: under 5=1, 10-15=1, 30-40=1 Abraham Mingus: males: under 5=2, 5-10=2, 10-15=1, 50-60=1; females: 10-15=1,20-30=1 Wilson Sherrill: males: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 30-40=1; females: 10-15=1,20-30=1 John Cargile: males: 40-50=1; females: 50-60=1 Martain Bates: males: 15-20=1; females: 20-30=1 George McDowell: males: 50-60=1; females: 50-60=1 Francis Nichols: males: 60-70=1; females: 5-10=1, 60-70=1 James Nichols: males: 20-30=1; females: under 5=1, 20-30=1 Dorcas Felmut: males: 5-10=1, 10-15=2, 70-80=1; females: 40-50=1 [Ed. We have seen a reference before (source?) that placed this family on Soco.] Mathew Jones: males: 10-15=2, 15-20=1, 50-60=1; females: under 5=2, 30-40=1 Jeremiah Nations: males: under 5=2, 5-10=2, 10-15=1, 15-20=1, 20-30=1, 50-60=1; females: under 5=2, 5-10=1, 20-30=1, 40-50=1 [Ed. Patriarch of the large Nations family of Jackson County.] John Carrell? Garrett?: males: under 5=1, 10-15=2, 50-60=1; females: under 5=1, 5-10=1, 30- 40=1,40-50=1 Jonas Jinkins: males: under 5=3, 60-70=1; females: 10-15=1, 30-40=1, 40-50=1, 50-60=1 James Nations: males: under 5=1, 20-30=1; females: under 5=1, 20-30=1 81 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 J C G S L i b r a r y A c q u i s i t i o ns ^y Call No. 92938 929.38 929.1 92938 92938 975.6 Author Taylor, R. J . J r. Brooke, Ted O. Galeener - Moore, Laverne Jones, George F. Ga. Hist. Soc. Mcintosh, Gert Title Index to Probate Records of Colonial Georgia 173-1778 Georgia Cemetery Directory and Bibliography of Georgia Cemetery Reference Sources Collecting Dead Relatives The Germans of Colonial Georgia 1733 -1783 The 1860 Census of Chatham County, Georgia Highlands, North Carolina...A Walk into the Past Donor Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Lonnie, Jennifer Daves Jane Nardy Jane Nardy Death Certificates continued from p. 74 (R - Z) Rector, Laura Renee; wid; 6 Mar 1895; Swain Co.; 10 Oct; Sylva; Henry Franklin; Betsy Ann Jenkins; Lucille Weeks; Andrews; Valleytown - Andrews Robison, Arthur David; wid; 12 May 1895; Swain Co.; 27 Aug; Sylva; Charlie Robison; Sinnia Arrington; Christine McDowell; Cullowhee; Cox - Cullowhee Robinson, Isabelle Brown; wid; 2 Oct 1888; Jackson Co.; 8 Mar; Sylva; David Brown; Mary Ann Davis; Bernice Lanning; Dillsboro; Robinson Sherrill, Maude Wiggins; wid; 4 Jan 1896; Buchanan Co. VA; 28 Feb; Sylva; Moses A. Wiggins; Mary Elizabeth Raines; Jean Mincey; Cullowhee; Swain Memorial Park Sprague, Raymond Benedict; wid; 21 Jun 1899; Cataraugus NY; 11 Dec; Cullowhee; Harry Sprague; Sarah Raymond; Thomas N. Sprague; Cullowhee; Shepherd - Hendersonville Sprecker, Bessie Maude; wid; 27 Feb 1885; Reno KS; 9 Jan; Sylva; George Washington Shore; Emma Viola McCumber; Darlene Rogers; Sylva; Highland - Junction City KS Sutton, Anna Laura; wid; 4 Oct 1899; Jackson Co.; 8 Jun; Sylva; John R. Dills; Laura Wilson; Leah Heinz; Sylva; Keener Tudor, Bertha Burris; wid; 22 Jun 1891; KS; 30 Jan; Sylva; E.P. Burris; Lydia McMannan; Archie Crawford; Sylva; St. David's Updegraff, Clara Louise; wid; 13 Aug 1892; Monroe Co. IA; 4 Dec; Sylva; J.C. Overmyer; Ella Whitfield; Wiley Henson; Cullowhee; Fairview Webster, Emma Cordelia; wid; 16 Oct 1897; Jackson Co.; 6 Aug; Sylva; Jessie Gibson; Frances Messer; Floyd Webster; Rock Hill SC; Dicks Creek Wood, Walter; div; 19 May 1896; Jackson Co.; 20 Dec; Sylva; not given; Pardue Brown; Jim Phillips; Tuckasegee; Rock Bridge Woodard, Annie Ardella; wid; 11 Nov 1892; Jackson Co.; 4 Apr; Sylva; Allen Wilkes; Mary Coggins; Dave Woodard; Cullowhee; Fall Cliff Zachary, Willie Thomas; wid; 18 Oct 1895; Philadelphia TN; 13 Sep; Sylva; W.A. Thomas; Lillie Killian; Lillian Zachary; Sylva; Upper Zachary W KJ 82 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 P h o t o g r a p h s i n t h e W i l l a M a e S c r o g g s C o l l e c t i on [Ed. The late Willa Mae Dills Scroggs was a member of our Society until her passing a few years ago. She had earmarked a box of materials for our Society, and we were naturally delighted by her gift, as well as pleased to begin sorting the materials. In the box we found a number of photographs, some of which are old and very fitting with what we do in this publication. Herewith, find these pictures with our notes.] We might as well start this feature with a picture that is incredibly interesting. On the back we can see (before a tear in the page) "Camp of 1" Brig. 2Bd Div. Havana" with "A. J . Dills" in another place on the picture. A J . ("Jonah") Dills was Willa Mae's father. Did he fight in the Spanish - American War, or did a family member serve in that conflict and send him the picture above? C 83 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 u \ J On the back of this photograph reads "S.C.I." and "A.J. Dills." We are looking, we suppose, at Sylva Collegiate Institute, the Baptist institution that sat on what we have always known as "College Hill." We don't know when this picture was made, but a young AJ. Dills is the 5th person from the right in the third row. We would welcome other identifications. The seated folks must be the faculty, and some of the period poses strike us as affected and comical, not to mention that there is a small tree in the center of the picture. The Institute was an elementary and high school, and what would amount today to a 2 - year college. It trained teachers as well as giving Baptist preachers formal education. The school closed in the 30's, a victim of the Great Depression. \ J 84 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 L , C *_- None of these pictures are identified, but we believe it possible that the child on the right immediately above is Willa Mae herself. Is the top left her mother? 85 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 v_> KJ Above, a very fine family group picture, a smaller copy of which ran in Jackson County Heritage, Volume I. It shows the William Allen Henson family. Henson was married to Rachel Ellen Shuler. Their children were Cora Elizabeth, who married A.J. Dills; Jefferson; Bertie, who married Albert J. McCracken; and Lewis Jasper, who married Adaline Walker. Of the children, only Mrs. Dills, who was Willa Mae's mother, lived a long life. See the aforementioned book, p. 287, for the article on this family. KJ 86 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 C ^ C A.J. Dills was known as an outdoorsman, and the pictures above would seem to bear that out We believe Dills to be sitting nearest the car in the top photo, and we wonder about the physical location of the bottom picture. Readers? 87 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 v_> We are simply going to copy what is written on the back of the above picture. "This is on Umbrella Rock on top of Look Out Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn. Top row, reading from left to right, Helen Cowan, Mary Jackson, Emma Boring, Alice Malcome, Audrey Umbach?, Joe Higdon Bottom row: Harold Jones (assistant coach) The Honorable Will Higdon" Could this be the Piedmont College basketball team? The Higdon girls, cousins to Willa Mae, went to school there. The very fine picture below is captioned "Luther Owen, Tuckaseigee River, Canada." V_> KJ 88 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 J o h n a n d F e r r i b y Q u e e n [Ed. The following article is submitted by JCGS member Michael Ball of Mount Ulla NC.) My name is Michael C. Ball. I was born and raised in Bryson City and now live near Salisbury. I got interested in my family history several years ago and started my research. Like most people who start this long process, I faced the same challenges. I started with my relatives closest to me, and what they knew. My grandmother Cinda Ellen Kilby did not talk very much about her family, so I was pretty much on my own. I did know that her mother was Martha Louise Queen, born in 1881 as the third child of John and Ferriby Queen. Martha later married Tom Kilby in 1903. Ferriby? What an unusual name she had. I have seen it spelled several different ways. In the few records that I have found for her, her name was spelled "Phoebe" , "Feba", "Ferby", "Furibe", and "Ferriby", the one I use most often. Along with her unusual name, she carried with her a bit of mystery. No one seemed to know who her parents were, and for the longest time I didn't know her maiden name nor to whom she was first married. That would change after I took a close look at the 1880 census for John Queen. John and Ferriby were married in Jackson County 20 Apr 1879 at John Queen's. Ferriby's last name was recorded as Leopard. I later discovered that it was Ledford, and I concluded that it was recorded wrong. A close look at the 1880 census for Jackson County answered some questions, household for John and Ferriby Queen were In the William A. (age 7) Ruben (age 6) Lucinda Leadford (age 6 - stepdaughter) The stepdaughter Lucinda Ledford gave me a clue to Ferriby's first marriage. I then searched for a marriage for Lucinda Ledford and found it in Swain County. She married John Patterson Stephenson 30 Apr 1890. In the license her father was named as Will Ledford. I wasn't completely satisfied, so I went out on another tree limb and researched Lucinda and John Stephenson. After Stephenson's death, Mary Lucinda moved with some of her children to Gaston County. Last summer I drove to Gastonia and to the Register of Deeds Office. Lucinda's death record states that her father was James Ledford, born in Ga. and Pheoba Parker, also born in Ga. Now I knew Ferriby's maiden name was Parker. With that information in hand, I started looking for Ferriby in the census reports earlier than 1880. I believe I found Ferriby in the 1870 census for Jackson County. In the household of Wm. R. Hooper of Cashiers Valley there is the following: Wm. R. Hooper (age 25) Mary A. (age 25) F.L. Parker (Female, age 16, domestic servant) Thos Green (Male, age 16, farm hand) I know this isn't a positive match, but what makes me believe even more that F.L. Parker is Ferriby is that I ran across a Web site that listed marriages for Clay County, and there in front of my eyes was what I had been looking for: 89 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 Wm. Ledford, son of Mitchell Ledford and , to Ferabe Hooper, dau. of and , Tusquittee, Feb. 8, 1872. , It is my belief that Wm. R. Hooper and his wife Mary had taken Ferriby in and at some point, she met William Ledford and married him in Clay County. Possibly she used the Hooper name when she married out of gratitude to the Hoopers. Mary Lucinda's death record states that her father was born in Georgia, and in her obituary, it stated that she was a native of Georgia. Clay County borders Georgia. Let us now turn our attention to John Queen and his first wife. Keep in mind that I had traced Ferriby's daughter Mary Lucinda Ledford Stephenson to Gaston County, and with the help of her obituary, I was able to locate some of her descendants still in that county. I wrote to them, and they responded with a letter that gave me more descendants of John and Ferriby Queen. I made contact with these persons, the children of William Thomas Queen, next to the youngest of the children of John and Ferriby. In these conversations, I learned that William Thomas had a brother or h a l f - brother who lived in Rutherford County. His name was Reuben Queen. What a great lead that turned out to be. I researched his name on Ancestry.com and came up with a death date. I also learned that his full name was Reuben Marion Queen. I contacted the Register of Deeds Office in Rutherford County and requested a photocopy of the death record. The anticipation was almost unbearable, but it did arrive and it did give me John Queen's first wife, the mother of William A. and Reuben, the two boys living with John and Ferriby in the 1880 census. Their mother's name was Emiline Parker. More research will need to be done to determine whether Emeline Parker and Ferriby Parker were related, yet another mystery. Note: Reuben Marion Queen was married to Florence Hooper. v—^ Children born to John Queen and Emiline Parker: William A. Queen Reuben Marion Queen Children born to John Queen and Ferriby Parker: Lavica Queen J. Riley Queen Martha Louise Queen (my great - grandmother) Zane Queen Betty Jane Queen William Thomas Queen General Marion Queen It is my belief that John Queen named two of his sons (Reuben Marion and General Marion) after the Revolutionary War General Francis Marion, a well - respected leader given the name "The Swamp Fox" by the British. Can't you just see, as I can, a young John Queen sitting in front of the fire listening to his father Americus tell stories about how his relatives fought the English? V ^ 90 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 [Ed. We can't say for sure whether any of the local Queens were under the command of Francis Marion, but we do know that Samuel Queen, Mike Ball's fifth great - grandfather, was a Revolutionary War veteran.] [Ed. Although the following was not a part of Michael's article per se, in another correspondence he had mentioned that Reuben Marion Queen and Florence Hooper were the parents of four children, among them William Roscoe Queen, bora in 1914. One of the children of William Roscoe Queen is Clemmie Alton Queen, born in 1940, and is of course a well - known Jackson County businessman and minister. Michael and Clemmie have talked, and Clemmie shared with Michael the Samuel Queen information that was compiled by Chris Queen some years ago, and which has been so helpful in tracing the genealogy of the Caney Fork and Canada Queens.] Above, John Queen (son of Americus) and his second wife Ferriby Parker Queen. His first wife was Emiline Parker, her first husband was Will Ledford. ^ 91 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 u KJ Above, more of this Queen family. In the picture to the left, the woman is Martha Louise Queen, born in 1881 to John and Ferriby Queen. She married Thomas Newton Kilby. These are some of her children: Dan and Jane are standing in the back, and in the front are Maebelle, Lonnie in Martha's lap, and Bonnie. Michael states that his grandmother is not in this picture. The photograph to the right shows William Thomas Queen, son of John and Ferriby. He married Minnie Etta Ledford from Alarka. He died in 1938. He was the father of nine children, fire girls and four boys. All of the girls and one of the boys are still living in Gastonia. They provided Michael with these pictures. [Ed. Michael Ball has also shared with us copies of the obituaries of Mary Lucinda Ledford Stevenson and Vicie Queen Caldwell, as well as the death certificates of Reuben Marion Queen and Florence Hooper Queen. We encourage him to keep on working - his methods are excellent - and to solve the mystery of Ferriby Parker's parents. Lucinda Queen, sister of Americus, married W.T. Parker in 1839 in Haywood County. Will this family turn out to be important in this mystery? And wasn't the Hooper family where F.L. Parker lived in 1880 one of the Larkin Hooper sons? Are the families somehow related?] KJ 92 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 A M y s t e r y S o l v ed We ran this picture as a Mystery Photo from JCGS member Lavine Green Callicott in our Winter 2008 issue. What an outstanding response we received. JCGS member Barbara Dills Bishop of Winlock, Washington writes, "I have the same picture hanging on my wall at home; it is of my maternal great - grandparents John B. Wykle and Mary Ann (Polly) Beasley Wykle. This picture was taken around 1892. John Wykle is holding Pierce, Mary Ann, older lady possibly the mother of Mary Ann; back row is Jason Wykle, an unknown girl, James Wykle, William Wykle (my grandfather), and Poley Wykle. Man in the back unknown, but could be some of Mary Ann's family. I would welcome any information on this family." [Ed. Many thanks to Barbara Dills Bishop! She also sent along a family group sheet on this Wykle family, which we will publish later. After the time of this picture, Maebelle (1893), Jack (1896), Mollie (1896), Lucy (1899), Ivalee (1901), Dessie (1904), and Tisha (1906) would be born to this family.] 93 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 A n d F u r t h e r m o r e . . . KJ <J We also printed this picture in the Winter 2008 issue of JTJ. We received a nice letter with corrections/clarifications from JCGS member Barbara Shelton Smith of Arden. The caption should read " The men in back are Warren Francis Moody, William Raleigh Moody, and John Thomas Moody. The women in front are Mary Lou Leopard Moody, Josephine Leopard Moody, Emily Jane Wike Moody, with Nancy A. Slatton Moody seated in front." [Ed. We had confused the first two couples in our earlier issue.] Barbara also says that the first couple (Warren Francis Moody and his wife Mary Lou Leopard) are the ancestors of the funeral - home Moodys of Sylva, Bryson City, and Brevard. The center couple (William Raleigh Moody and his wife Josephine Leopard) are Barbara's grandparents, along with being the ancestors of many other persons in Jackson County. The couple on the right (John Thomas Moody and his wife Emily Wike) are the ancestors of Buddy Clark and others. Also, Josephine Leopard and Mary Lou Leopard were sisters, daughters of Thomas N. Leopard and Elizabeth Nichols. [Ed. Many thanks to Barbara Shelton Smith. Small wonder why our job as editor is so much fun.] Kj 94 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 Achsner 54 Adams 60,61, 80 Alexander 73 Allen 73,76,77 Ammons 71 Anderson 77 Andrews 75 Angel 76 Anthony 58 Arch 72 Ameach 58 Arnold 72 Arrington 82 Arrogast 78 Bailey 73 Ball 89,91,92 Barker 64, 79 Bascom 78 Bates 79,81 Battle 80 Bearmeat 58 Beasley 93 Beck 81 Birchfield 56 Bird 72 Bishop 93 Blanton 52,63,64 Blythe 65 Boggs71 Boring 88 Brabson 76,77 Bradshaw 57, 80 Branon 60 Brewer 78 Briscoe 67, 70 Brock 80 Brooke 82 Broom 72 Brown 57, 58, 69, 73,78, 80,82 Browning 73 Bryson 63, 65, 71, 74 Buchanan 73 Bump 71 Burris 82 Butters 73 Cagle71 Caldwell 73, 92 Callicott 93 Campbell 80 Canot81 Carden 49 Cargile 81 Caricker 78 Carner 72 Carr73 I n d e x f o r JTJ, V o l u m e X V I I I , N o . 71, 73, Carre!181 Carringer 80 Carson 70 Carter 72, 79, 80 Cathey 58 Cayb57 Champlin 71 Chastain 71 Childers 71 Clark 71, 94 Cockerham 79 Cogdill 74 Coggins 70, 72,82 Cole 52, 53 Collins 81 Colvard 73 Conner 81 Cooksey 74 Cooper 80 Cope 75 Cornwell 80 Cosby 74 Coulter 78 Cowan 71, 88 Coward 65,69 Crane 57 Crawford 55, 56, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 79, 82 Crisp 57, 58,73 Crow 65 Crowe 57 Crutchfiels 77 Cunningham 56,79 Curtis 49 Daves 82 Davidson 79 Davis 71, 82 Delaigle 60 Dickerson 74 Dillard 71,76, 80 Dills 73, 79, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 93 Dockery 80 Drake 72 Eddy 73 Edmonson 68, 69 Edwards 73 Ehlers71 El-Bayadi 74 Elders 80 Elliott 79 Ellis 74 Ellison 73 Enloe 80, 81 Ensley 63, 64, 65, 73, 79 Estes 63,64 Ewalt 77 Eyler 71 Farlowe 80 Fanner 79 Felmut81 Fernatiz 72 Ferrington 79 Fish 72 Fortener 55 Fortner 55 Fowler 71 Fox 56 Frady 80 Franklin 52, 57, 82 Freeman 62 Frisby 57 Fugate 71 Gaisford 74 Galeener - Moore 82 Galloway 74 Garland 76 Garrett 56, 81 Gentry 74 Gibbs 56, 72 Gibson 57, 58, 71, 73, 82 Gilbert 71 Gillis 74 Gipson 79 Goforth 73 Goode 73 Goodson 72 Grant 60, 61 Gray 75, 76,77 Green 68, 72, 73, 89, 93 Greene 71 Greenwood 74 Gregory 73, 74 Gribble 79 Gunter 63, 64, 80 Gunther71 Hall 65 Hampton 71 Harris 74,79 Harrison 74 Harry 75 Hartwell 78 Hawkins 71 Hayes 73 Headen 56 Helms 74 Hemphill 67 Henderson 57 Henry 56, 73 I I Henson 63, 64, 73, 76, 82, 86 Higdon 88 Hobbs 56 Hogsed 71 Hoke 60,61 Holden 62 Holland 71, 72, 73 Holt 74, 77 Hooper 55, 56, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 89, 90, 91, 92 Home 74 Howard 58 Hoxit 74 Hoyle 52, 53, 64, 74 Hughes 74, 81 Hyatt 80 Hyde 56,81 Ingalls71 Ingram 79 Irvin 72 Jackson 88 Jenkins 57, 82 Jennings 74 Jinkins 80, 81 Johnson 57, 74 Jones 63, 71, 74, 82, 88 Jonston 79 Jordan 69 Justice 69, 72 Kannotte 57 Keener 71, 72 Keller 56 Kelly 75 Kemper 60 Kilby 74, 89,92 Killian 82 King 71 Kirchner 71 Kuszhak 72 Lackey 72 Lake 56 Lane 71 Lanning 82 Leatherwood 74 Ledford 89,90,91, 92 Lee 71 Leedy 74 Leopard 89,94 Lindley 74 Long 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 95 Journeys Through Jackson Spring 2008 Love 62, 74 Lovedahl 73 Lovedoll 60 Lowder 59 Lull 72 Lusk 74 Maddox 73 Madison 72 Malcome 88 Maney 74 Martin 72 Mason 73 Massey 58 Mathews 56 Mathis 55, 69, 70, 72 Matthews 68, 69,70 McCall 55, 71,74 McClure 58, 75 McConnell 73 McCoy 72 McCracken 86 McCumber 82 McDowell 81, 82 McElroy 72 McGee 72 Mcintosh 82 McLean 56 McLendon 73 McMannan 82 McNeil 74 Melton 69,74 Middleton 49,69, 74 Miller 74 Mills 73, 74 Mincey 82 Mingus 81 Mitchell 73 Mocksley 73 Monteith 49, 53 Moody 73,94 Moore 69, 71,73 Morgan 72, 80 Morris 69, 74 Morrow 63 Moses 72 Moss 71,74 Mull 72, 74 Mumblehead 58 Munn72 Murphy 72 Murray 74, 81 Nardy 82 Nations 71 Neergaard 74 Nichols 57, 74, 80, 94 Nicholson 51, 54 Noland 72 Norris 74 Norton 59,60,62 Odear73 Ootagiway 57 Openshaw 74 Ostrowski 72 Otter 58 Overmyer 82 Owen 55, 69, 72, 88 Owenby 72 Oxner 54 Pangle 72 Parker 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 79, 80, 89, 90, 91,92 Parris 74, 79 Passmore 72, 74 Pauli 71 Payne 57 Peirson71 Pelsey 72 Penland 57, 74 Perm 73 Perry 78 Peters 71 Phillips 54,82 Porche 71 Pottersage 57 Potts 71 Powell 57 Prince 72 Proctor 52, 53, 57 Puleo 72 Queen 72, 74, 89, 90, 91,92 Raby 71,72 Ragan74 Raines 82 Ransom 59, 60, 61, 62 Rathbone 72 Raymond 82 Rector 82 Redman 77 Reed 72 Reid 80 Reynolds 55 Rhinehart 72 Rice 72 Richards 72 Risch 75, 76, 77, 78 Roberts 74 Robinson 82 Robison 82 Rogers 72, 82 Runyan 74 Rush 75,76,77, 78 Russomanno 72 Rutledge 62 Sanders 73 Sawyer 58 Schnakle71 Schupac 72 Scott 71,72 Scroggs 83 Seay 56, 72 Sellers 54,75, 79, 80 Settlemyre 71 Seymour 72 Shawhan 77 Shelton 69, 72, 94 Sherrill 59, 80, 81,82 Shook 53 Shore 82 Shuler 67, 80,86 Siler 72 Simmons 80 Simpson 72 Sisk 73 Skinkle 72 Slatton 61, 62, 94 Smith 55, 65, 73, 76, 94 Snider 63 Snyder 64 Speed 70, 73 Sprague 82 Sprecker 82 Stanbery 73 Stanfield 79 Stephens 51, 71 Stephenson 89, 90 Stevenson 92 Stewart 58 Stillwell 79, 81 Strain 74 Street 58 Styles 71 Sumner 73 Sumrall 73 Sutton 63, 64, 72, 82 Swayney 57 Tatham 73 Tatum 73 Taylor 73, 82 Tetherow 58 Thomas 73, 75, 76, 77,82 Thompson 63,73, 80 Thorn 73 Tittle 73 Tolley 69 Trantham 73 Treadway 49 Tredway 73 Tritt 72 Tucker 73 Tudor 82 Turner 78 Umbach 88 Updegraff82 Vinson 54 Waldroop 77 Walk 57 Walker 74, 86 Walkingstick 57 Wallis 79 Ward 73 Waters 57 Watkins 56, 74 Watson 54, 63,69,81 Watts 78 Webb 72,74 Webster 82 Weeks 82 Wessells 61 Whitfield 82 Whittenkind 71 Wiggins 51,74, 82 Wike 94 Wikle 80 Wilkes 82 Wilks 79 Wilkson 74 Williams 73 Wilson 51, 57, 73, 82 Wood 51, 69, 70,82 Woodard 71, 82 Woodring71,74 Woody 81 Wright 71, 74, 80 Wykle 93 Wyman 71 Young 62, 76 Zachary 82 u KJ w 96 v ^ M E M B E R S H I P Membership in the Jackson County Genealogical Society is open to all individuals who apply and pay dues. Membership is based on the calendar year and dues are paid in advance. Members joining late in the year will receive back issues of the society's journal for that year. c Annual dues are $20 fox individuals and $25 for family memberships. Individual lifetime memberships are available based on age: 16-29 $350 60-69 $150 30-39 300 70-79 100 40-49 250 80+ 50 50-59 200 New Renewal A P P L I C A T I O N F O R M E M B E R S H IP Life Amount Paid c Name Address City Phone E - mail address State Zip Code Families or Areas of Interest Make check payable to JCGS, Inc., and mail to: P. O. Box 2108, Cullowhee NC 28723 •^y JCGS, Inc. P.O. B o x 2 1 08 C u l l o w h e e , N C 2 8 7 23 h t t p : / / w w w . j c n c g s . c o m / (Offices at 42 Asheville Highway, Suite 2, Sylva) (Telephone 828 - 631 - 2646) r * .