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Journeys Through Jackson 2020 Vol.30 No.01

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  • Journeys Through Jackson is the official journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. The journal began as a monthly publication in July 1991, was published bimonthly from 1994 to 2003, and continues today as a quarterly publication. The journal issues in this digital collection are presented as annual compilations.
  • Sw Journeys Through Jackson /^^^"CINDFn 1851^^^ The Official Journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. Vol. XXX, No. I 2020 Winter JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. 2019 Officers Office Manager IT Secretary., Treasurer. Librarian President Vice Presidents Kenneth Nicholson Norma Bryson Clayton, Jean Hooper Scott Lynn Hotaling Michael Clayton George Frizzell Mary Buchanan Smith Kirk Stephens 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 Genealogic^ Society. The Society accepts no advertising for this publication except for notices from other non-profit groups. Spring time is on the way. Be sure to make plans to come into the office and library to check out all of the new things we have. Consider coming into the office as a volunteer. Helping someone find out about their ancestors and their "roots" is a rewarding endeavor. You can come in either a half day or for a full day. From the Editor Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 JCGS Photo Album 2-6 Ada Estella Greene Blanton 7-12 1880 Jackson County Census Records 13-16 Changes to JCGS Constitution 17-20 Children of Thomas Lee Clayton and Ethel Dora Hooper 21-23 JCGS 2020 Programs 24 Descendants of William Solomon Parker, Sr 25-28 Outline Descendant Report for Frederick (Baumgarten) Bumgarner 29-32 1953 & 1954 Jackson County Death Certificates 33-35 Information 36 List of Men Ordered to Report - WWI 37-40 This is My Life 41-46 Index 47-48 Condolences JCGS extends our heartfelt prayers and condolences to: Member Dorothy Luker Henry on the passing of her sister, Eoma Luker Henry Member Annette Shelton on the passing of her husband, Carl Roger Shelton. Member Peggy Wike and Member Dorris Dills Beck on the passing of their mother and sister respectfully, Marie Smith. 1 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 JCGS Photo Album Bill Crawford is continuing to be recognized as a Jackson County icon Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow, who happens to be a great genealogist and history legend in these parts. Riiw/v-'.j-r • Sylva Christmas Parade &^m44 2019 Sponsored by the M25n Street Sy I va Association 2 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 JCGS Photo Album From Norma Bryson Clayton: Ginger Fullbright shared this photo of the Ochre Hill Singing School. My Aunt Nell Bryson had written down the names of the singers in the photo and her eldest daughter, Barbara Freeman, shared that information with me. My paternal grandfather is Thomas Clingman Bryson, fourth from the left on the back row. Several children of William Riley Blanton seated in the front row are in the photo: Charlie Blanton, Hester Blanton Norman, Berry Blanton (who married my Daddy's sister, Emaline], Erastus Blanton and Houston Blanton (who married my Daddy's sister Bessie]. FRONT Row L>R William Blanton; Reese Crawford, Charlie Blanton, Shat Crawford, Harley Shuler, Fate Shuler, Sinia Dean (Mrs. Dave Dean), unknown, Etta (Mrs. Dave Norman], Mrs. Reece Crawford. SECOND Row L>R Hester Blanton (Mrs. Ed Norman], Dave Dean, Bessie Shuler (Mrs. Ras Blanton] Otta Ball (Mrs. Avery Bryson], Jack Hoyle, Ed Norman, Berry Blanton, Emaline Bryson Blanton (Mrs. Berry Blanton], unknown, unknown, Nora Hoyle, Unknown. THIRD Row L>R Ras (Erastus) Blanton, Rachel Shuler, Sam Crawford, Thomas Clingman Bryson, Posey Blanton, Dave Norman, Avery Crawford, Houston Blanton, Cary Henry. Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 JCGS Photo Album From Martha Jones Roane: Double Springs School 1942 Row 1 Betty Coggins (Leonard); Charlie Pierce, Carol Jean, Rozella Coggins Row 2 Herman Stewart, Redell Coggins, Nora Mae Pierce, Neely Ammons, Ludie Coggins Row 3 Carl Coggins, Cora Ammons, Raymond Hooper, Cecil Coggins, Mary Lee Calvin Coggins Row 4 Pauline Coggins, Lilly Ammons, Hazel Coggins, Garland Stewart, Hayes Coggins Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 JCGS Photo Album Above left: Rev. Corsey Hooper and his friend, Emmaline Bishop. She was a school teacher. Above right: Caroline "Lina" Coggins, wife of John Bee Coggins, and her sister, Hattie Elizabeth Coggins( 1900-1908) Both daughters of Mark and Ten Coggins Pictures brought in by Elizabeth Wilson. Left:Is JCGS member Gene Brown's Grandmother, Emma Cope Morgan. 5 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 JCGS Photo Album Picture on left: Dessie Shook Brown, Julia Brown Shook, Delia Mae Shook Luker. Bottom left: Grover Hutson Brown Bottom Right: J. D. "Bud" Brown and Hulda Caroline Brown Journeys Through Jacksor\ Winter 2020 Ada Estella Greene Blanton This life story was submitted by JCGS member, Mary Buchanan Smith. This story was written by my grandmother Ada Estella Greene Blanton (1914-1988). She was the daughter of George Taylor Zackery Greene (1877-1965) and Racheal Martha Ann Wilson (1882-1957). George was the son of Marietta Jane Green. He was her fourth illegitimate child. There were two possible fathers, Andrew Wadklns of Swain County or Thomas Parrlsh. DNA gives matches to the Parrish family, but none to the Wadklns family. ADA'S STORY, AS WRITTEN BY HER: Most of this is from memory but part is what Mother told me. The part about my birth is as mama told me for of course I don't remember that far back. I was bom on a cold frosty morning, Sept. 16, 1914 on Young Cane Creek in Union County, GA. The nearest town was Blairsville, GA. A Dr. Rogers delivered me. The other four children (1 brother, 3 sister) went to a Mrs. John Watson's home and spent the night. They ail had the whooping cough when I was bom but if I ever had it mother didn't know it. She kept the other children away from me for a while for she was afraid, I would catch the whooping cough and she didn't want me to catch it while I was a baby. But after I was two years old, she took me places where children had the whooping cough because back then people had the idea that if a child had childhood diseases when they were young, the diseases didn't hurt them as bad as when they got older. While we lived in Georgia, we had ducks and chickens and Junvemia carried me down to the duck pond one morning to feed the ducks and chickens and they started quacking and squawking and making a terrible racket and it scared me and I started crying. Juvemia scolded me and I think I slapped her in the face and she pinched me on the thigh, because mama was standing in the door and would have seen her if she had slapped me. Of course, I cried louder and mama said to bring me back to the house. Juvemia set me down and Rhoda picked me up and carried me to the house. Juvemia denied pinching me and mama must have believed her. I remember Mama helping a family named "Bird" move from one place to another. The mother of the family was an invalid so she had to ride on a bed on a wagon and mama set me up beside her. Every time we pasted a flower of any kind in bloom, I would say "there is another Blossom, Mrs. Bird". Mama said Mrs. Bird was amused and enjoyed having me ride with her. To think about it now, I probably helped keep her mind off a very uncomfortable ride. (I always loved flowers of any kind). When I was between two- and three-years old mama got Edna and me a new pair of shoes. The reason I remember it so well, is because 1 was so jealous. My shoes were plain dull black button shoes, but Edna's had shiny black patent leather on the toes and around the back of the heel. Mama couldn't get my size in the patent trim, but I couldn't understand that. While we lived in Georgia, we had a fireplace and one day mama was outside or somewhere and we children was by the fire, 1 held to the post of a straight wooden chair and was swinging around and back around and back. Juvemia told me to quit before I fell in the fire. I told her 1 wouldn't, but the next thing I knew, they were picking me up out of the fire. It's a good thing the fire wasn't blazing big or I would have been bumed bad. It had bumed dowTi till there was just coals. Both my knees were bumed and I had several big blisters. If the fire had been blazing big, my clothing would probably have caught fire. One evening after the sun went down mama got a needle and set down with me, in the door, to let the water out of my blisters. The needle had a thread in it and I thought she was going to sew on my knees so I screamed and screamed. It took her awhile to convince me that it wouldn't hurt. (But I wasn't totally convinced} She put talcum powder and sweet oil on my blisters to dry them up. When 1 was a baby, I didn't have a cradle or a crib. Mama had a wooden box she put a pillow and quilt in and she would put me in the box to take my nap. She placed the box in the comer beside the fire place where I would stay warm. One Christmas Mama took us five kids on the train from Blairsville, Georgia to Waynesville, NC to visit her only brother and sister-in-law. Not being used to the fast motion of the train and the coal smoke three of us got sick and vomited. The conductor was selling little glass toys filled with little colored candy balls. Mama bought the other 4 children one each, but I was so sick I wouldn't pay any attention to any of them. She started to get me a little dog but I was so sick I wouldn't look at it. Later she wished she had, after I got better for the other children wouldn't let me play with theirs. I remember my brother got a glass ship and Junvemia got a glass lantern. I don't remember what Edna and Rhoda got. While we were at Uncle Willie's they put up a Christmas tree in the dining room. The parents always waited till all the children was asleep then decorated the tree and put the toys on or under it. But before we went to bed my brother, Arthur and cousin Ed called us into the dining room and said they had the Christmas tree Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 decorated. When we went into the dining room they had put every bag of seed beans and other seeds Aunt Florence had saved on the tree. (The boys thought it a good joke.) Back then everybody saved their own seeds to plant and sometimes they divided with a neighbor. The next morning the Christmas tree had tinsel and real wax candles on it. By the time I was three Papa got a letter from the old man who raised him and wanted him to come back to Swain County, North Carolina and take care of him till he died. He was sick then. He said he would give Papa half of the 360-acre farm he had. So, Papa let the place in Georgia he was buying go back, and he moved us all to Swain County, NC. Two miles west of Bryson City. The little house we moved into first was three small rooms and no porches. We had a wood heater instead of a fireplace like we had in Georgia. (This would be about 1917.) After we moved in a black tom cat moved in too, like he belonged there. He had big yellow eyes and first I was afraid of him. While Moma was cooking supper by an oil lamp, 1 would climb up in a chair and peep under the table at the big black cat. To me his yellow eyes looked enormous. He was so gentle I soon got used to him. Edna and I would take him in a dark room and rub his fur the wrong way to see his fur give off sparks. Our brother showed us that trick. He also made willow whistles for us, and elder pop guns that we used dog wood berries in for ammunition when we pushed the ram rad in the pop gun quick. The berries made a loud pop as they flew out. We didn't have many toys. No country children did, Aey had to invent or make things for their own amusement. My brother cut down a hickory tree and sawed out four rounds about two inches thick and made a wooden wheel wagon. He fixed it so he could put his feet on the front axle and turn it to the right or left, whichever way he wanted to go. I think he taught me my right from my left when he taught me to ride down a little hill on that homemade wagon. The old man that raised Papa got worse, and Papa moved us up into the house with him and the old woman that kept house for him. Papa wanted to be there close to care for the old man day and night. His condition got gradually worse and Mama told Papa he better has him to make out a deed for his part of the land, but Papa hated to worry the old man and him ill. So, the old man died without making a deed or a will. (Later research show he did have a will) The two children got the land. When the old man's son (Andrew) came home from California he told Papa he would give him half of his part, which would have been 90 acres. Andrew's sister got half of the place, 180 acres. (The "old man" would have been Andrew Watkins). I was between three and four years old when the old man died, but I can remember how his daughter turned around and picked up his pants as soon as the last breath left him and started going through his pockets. None of us liked her or her two snooty daughters or her rascal of a husband. We lived on that place six years and mama and papa both worked hard. They raised a lot of wheat, com, rye, oats, sorghum cane, beans, field peas, potatoes, (Irish and sweet), pumpkins and garden vegetables. Mama usually had a couple of rows of broom com to make her won brooms. Before 1923 country people made or raised most of the things they needed. Papa also raised some cattle and hogs. They would kill two hogs in the fall and maybe another in the spring. Mama made sausage and liver mush and she made souse meat out of the hogshead. (Some people call it scrapple). She ground the meat on the sausage mill with the fine disk, while some people just chop or pinch the meat up in small pieces and they used the ears, but mama never did, for they were mostly gristle anyway. When mama rendered lard she made very good cracklings and short bread. One spring Papa had cleaned off a patch of ground and plowed it and got it ready to plant. When we went to the field to work, we all went. That day Papa was laying off the furrows to plant, my brother had the other horse and plow and was covering. Mama was dropping the com, one of the girls was dropping com field beans in one end of the field and one field peas in the other end of the field. Mama gave me a small bucket with a lot of pumpkin seed in it and told me to drop them in every other row in about every third hill. My brother came by and said "let me show you how to plant those seed." He showed me alright and I planted them like he showed me. I sowed them in the row of course he covered them before Mama saw them. But when they came up they had to do a lot of thinning when they hoed com. But Mama said they raised more pumpkins that year than they ever did in one patch. After that Mama would have me or papa to plant the pumpkins. She said they did better for us. My brother had a fnend named Lester Branton and they got wooden tops one Christmas. The kind you spin with a cord. They leamed to spin those tops so well they could get them up on the cord and they would spin along the cord. They called "Walking the Cord". Our cow had a beautifiil red bull calf and my brother claimed it. He would bring it to the house which delighted us children. While it was a tiny calf he would get down on his knees and hands and butt his head against its head. It was flm when it was a tiny calf But as it got older it became unmly, so it was finally put in the pasture with the other cattle with a yoke around its neck to keep it from crawling through the fence. There was a big branch below the house where Papa took the horses to get water and sometimes, he bathed them. Wagons went through the branch but there was a log across the branch for people to walk across. Sometimes if we walked quietly, we could see a big bull frog sitting on the log. Someone told us that if you whipped a full frog with a switch it would cry like a baby. So, one day Edna and I caught the frog and we got a switch each and we whipped it. It cried alright but it didn't sound like a baby to me. But we probably did by the time Mama got through with us, for of course our oldest sister told on us. But we had to find out if that was tme. 8 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 In the fall after the leaves fell my sisters and I would take burlap bags and go to the woods and rake up a big pile of leaves and fill the bags to bed the stables. Sometimes neighbor children would go with us and we would have a baptizing in the leaves. We had a lot of fun even while working. Sometimes we would climb a bush and get hold of the top and swing down. Once I climbed up in a white oak and tried to swing down, but it would not bend easy so there, I hung too high to jump down. So, Rhoda had to help me down. Sometimes we would find a wild grape vine and have a grape vine swing. When we made playhouses, we went to the woods and gathered sheet moss and made beds out of it. We gathered partridge peas and pretended they were green beans for our dolls. We made mud pies and cakes. I would get violets and daisies and decorate my cakes and once we found some white clay and I used it for icing on my mud cakes. One day a little neighbor girl and her mother came for a visit while the other children were in school. We were playing out beside and house and I had an old blue and white enamel coffee pot that leaked. I took a stick and beat on the coffee pot, like beating a drum and sung a song. The neighbor girl Hazel said I didn't do it right, so she took the stick and showed me how to beat on the coffee pot and sing. We argued about it, each of us was sure we did it right. If any grown up had been watching I'm sure they would have thought we were hilarious. We were only about five years old and didn't know a thing about music. One Sunday the Brenton's invited us over to their house. We went they had got some ice and they made homemade vanilla ice cream. It was really delicious and a real treat for we didn't get ice cream often. Mama made sweet bread or gingerbread with homemade molasses and when she did we children gathered around the table to watch here, and sometimes sample the dough. When Christmas came, she let me cut out tiny cookies with her thimble. She would make a cake with white icing and decorate it with little red cinnamon candies. She would make one with thin layers and spiced applesauce between the layers. Papa always wanted a black walnut cake. So, Mama would bake one for him and if she could find enough hickory nuts she would make a hickory nut cake because she liked them. Years later she would usually make a seven-layer high chocolate cake with boiled icing, which was almost like fudge. She would bake a coconut cake with seven thin layers. They were really yummy. She made the best fined pies with dried apples that anyone could ever hope to taste. When I was five or five and one half, my brother ask mama to let me go to school with him one day. At first mama said no, but he kept begging, so she finally got me ready and let me go with him. The other children had gone when we started but he took my hand and we ran and caught up with them before they got to the schoolhouse. It was a one room country school where they taught from the primer through the 5th grade. I set with my brother on a homemade seat and the seat in fi-ont of us had a long desk on the back of it where we put our books. One of my brothers' friends sat in fi-ont of us and his little brother with him. I think that's the reason my brother wanted me to go to school with him. Mama thought that one day would be enough for me but no I had to go the rest of the year. I learned my ABC's, went through the primer, was ready for the 1 st grade the next year. Our teacher was an old maid and crabbed as they get and she certainly didn't spare the rod if one of the students sassed her. I liked the little boy that sat in fi-ont of me and when our brothers went to class, he would slip back to my seat or I up to his and we would whisper. He had dark hair and black eyes. After school was out, they moved. The next June my brother got sick, in one short week he died. It seemed to change the whole family. But mama most of all, she never got over losing he only son. It seems like part of her life just sent out of her. My brother had a little black and white spotted dog and for days after he was buried the little dog searched the fields for him and would howl. Finally, some low-down scum killed the little dog. We got another one a long time afterwards, that was white and tan. It didn't live to be grown, someone shot it and put it on the railroad track to make us think it had got run over. But the train didn't mangle it so bad that we couldn't tell it had been shot. Some folks in that neighborhood was bad to steal and they didn't want a dog barking to give them away. One night someone (or two) raided our chickens. They left one's head under the bam shed, it surely squawked and they wrung its neck, but they carried off several. Papa got a lock and mama started locking up the chickens at night. They also put locks on the granary, com crib and another building I suppose it could be called a store house. When papa wasn't working the horses, he would put them in what we called the meadow. He and mama got to noticing that the horses looked like they were tired and sweaty in the momings and they could see the print of a saddle on them. They decided that bootleggers were riding them at night, so they started locking them up in the bam. There was three houses and a one room log cabin on the place besides the house we lived in. The old man's housekeeper moved into the little house we moved out of and an old crippled man and his family lived in one. It was really two big log cabins with a chimney between them. Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 (Pictured to the left; Ada Greene Blanton family: Joan, Bumette Blanton, Ada and Lois.) Mr. Laws had the other house rented. They had a girl named Elva and two little boys, Roy and Woodrow. Elva was bout Edna's age and between Edna and me. An old man Brindle and his wife rented the little log cabin for a while. I think he had worked around mines. Anyway, he knew a lot about minerals. One night they had prayer meeting at our house and mama went outside to get some fresh water and while she was at the edge of the yard little blue lights appeared from nowhere and danced all around her feet and there was a swishing sound like when you switch a switch through the air real fast. She went back to the porch and they followed then went back to the edge of the yard and disappeared. She wasn't frightened but puzzled. The one-day mama and Rhoda and Edna were below the orchard picking blackberries and Rhoda noticed something that looked like white smoke but about the size of a bath towel floating between a small mulberry tree and a large white oak. She told mama to look and they said it made about three trips between the mulberry and oak and then vanished at the foot of the oak. There was a branch below there that people gold had been found in years before. Mama told Mr. Brendle about seeing that and the little blue lights. He said it was probably gas off some kind of mineral. He said that if they had seen that smoke like abject in the berry patch at nigh it would have looked like a light. There were all kinds of spook tales told about that place. Mama and Papa figured someone was trying to scare us bad enough to make us move away, so they didn't pay any attention to the wild tales that was told. One was that one night a mule came with a big ball of fire in his mouth and stuck his head in through the kitchen window. Mama said that was ridiculous, that anyone with any sense at all knew that a mule wouldn't hold fire in its mouth. Another wild tale was that a man once lived there and they had lost a baby. But every time the man went to the spring to get a bucket of water at night when he got back even with a big stump up on the bank his bucket would be empty and he could hear a baby cry at the stump. There was other tales told but I can't remember them. We never did see anything that we couldn't figure out what it was or the cause. Like the little blue lights. One of our neighbors (Mrs. Ball) saw a blue light appear by her porch and went toward a nearby apple tree, she followed it trying to step on it but it stayed a distance ahead of here then vanished at the foot of the apple tree. In the pasture was a mountain and on the top of the mountain someone had dug a hole 90 feet deep years before and had found a little gold. I think a fence was kept around the hole to keep cattle from falling in it. Everybody called it Pit Mountain. One-night cinders from the train set fire to the dry grass along the railroad and the fire spread and burned nearly to the top of Pit Mountain before Mama and Poppa could put it out. We children had to stay at the house, alone while they were fighting fire. I was really scared, after getting burned when I was little, I was afraid one of them or both might get burned. Poppa kept the bull calf my brother claimed for a stock, Brute, as they called him. One day early we saw Mrs. Balls mother going toward town. She was getting pretty old but still able to walk to her granddaughters. After the old lady had been gone for some time the bull got out and headed down the road. Mama sent Edna and me to the let the bars down to the pasture and she and Juvemia and Rhoda took an iron bar each and went to hunt the bull. They were afraid he would meet the old lady and probably butt her down and hurt her. She was too old to climb a tree or run fast. Edna and 1 let the bars down then climbed up in a stooping apple tree that was partly hollow. We stayed and stayed but they didn't come back so we climbed down and went through the potato patch and down by the spring to the house. They finally came back driving the bull. When they got to the orchard the bull started butting the apple tree we had been in and pawing and bellowing. Mama was glad we had gone to the house. She said if we had been in the tree our weight might have caused it to fall when the bull was butting it. She gave him a whack across the nose with the iron bar she had and he shook his head and went into the pasture. Mama was strong then and she didn't let 10 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 anything bluff her. She went to the field when papa did and worked as long as he did. When they quit in the evening, he fed the horses and watered them. Then he cut enough wood to get breakfast, the he set and rested. Mama had to milk two or three cows and feed them and the chickens, then get supper, chum, feed the hogs, help wash the dishes. We children carried in the wood and carried water from the spring. If the milk wasn't clabbered enough at night to chum, Mama would chum before breakfast. I can remember being woke up by the sound of the chum and the coffee grinder. While she chumed Papa would grind coffee. It didn't take her long to get a meal. She was fast with her work, but papa was slow as molasses in the wintertime. Unfortunately, I took after Papa. (Picture upper left: Bumette and Ada about the time they got married. Upper right; Ada Greene Blanton.) Mama raised a lot of chickens then, she would set several old hens and she would keep the best pullets for layers, and she would sell the others and the roosters to a hotel in Bryson City. She would also sell the hotel fresh butter, eggs, rhubarb, blackberries and beans. That's the way she bought our shoes and clothes. Blackberries sold for ten cents and fifteen cents a gallon back then. But you could buy as much or more for a dime then, as you can for a dollar now. Mama loved flowers and always had flower beds. Papa would tease here and ask her how she cooked certain flowers. But he would help her dig up the beds and put chicken house fertilizer in them for he loved pretty flowers too. So, it is no wonder that I had a love for pretty flowers. But roses have always been my favorite. I was always picking Mama's roses when they started blooming. They looked so lovely and smelled so good. I remember three kinds that I loved to pick one was a rose pink with a medium size bloom that only bloomed once in the early summer but had a lovely old rose fragrance. Another was a darker colored rose with lots of smaller petals and some petals was white or white stripes on the rosy red petals. No two blooms were alike, so everybody called it, the "seven sisters rose". The other was a small running rose with small blooms in clusters. When the buds were opening out, they were a delicate pink, but after they opened, they were almost white. But when they were just opening, I thought they were the prettiest little flowers I'd ever seen. I was always pulling them and having bouquets in my playhouse. As I said before, children made a lot of things for their own amusement. Edna and I had whole family of cob (Com cob) dolls. When Mama shucked roasting ears we would have her save the com silk, and we put it in the sun to dry, then after it dried we used a big headed roofing nail and nailed it to the end of a smooth white com cob. Then we 11 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 gave them different hair styles and tied a rag around them for a dress. They didn't have arms and legs. Heck! They didn't need them anyway, for we had to do all the moving them and talking for them. We made eyes and mouths with a pencil or our crayons. If we made a mess of one, we got another cob. Papa raised a lot of com back then. Edna and I had little china dolls and sometimes celluloid (something like plastic) dolls. We would make a little pond in the spring branch and baptize our dolls. Of course, we mimicked some preacher and said " I baptize ye in the name of the father and the son and the holy ghost. Amen" and we would souse the doll under the water. We often got our dress tails wet so we got in the sun and let them dry before we went to the house and mama saw them. One day we had visitors when Rhoda was about 9 or 10 (before she had been told anything about the facts of life) our old rooster was felling really cocky that day and was chasing some hens. Rhoda thought he was fighting the hens, so she got out and started throwing rocks at the rooster and saying thing about him fighting and hurting the hens. 1 think Junvemia got out and stopped her and afterwards Mama had to explain a few things to her. Before my brother died. Papa tended a ten-acre field just past the cemetery. The field was almost square and nearly level. Papa planted com in it one year and maybe wheat the next. One day when they had been plowing and hoeing the com for the first time, when they quit for dinner my brother helped Rhoda upon his horse and then started to jump up behind her to ride to the bam. He happened to hit the horse in the flank with his foot and it scared the horse and he jumped and started running. Rhoda was thrown off the horses back, but she held on to the hamess and the horse ran across the 10-acre field with her, but her weight pulling the hamess sideways checked the horse till he stopped. Mama was scared speechless. She was afraid Rhoda would tum loose and the horse would trample her to death. But Papa jumped on the other horse and tried to catch up with them but his horse wasn't as scared so he didn't ran as fast. When he got to them the horse had stopped at the edge of the field under some shady oaks and Rhoda was standing there holding him by the bridal. She wasn't hurt at all just shook up a little (but quite proud of the experience, I think she considered herself quite a heroine) Before the grass grew much in the pasture in the spring, we had to graze the cows in some of the fields before they were plowed. Sometimes Edna and I had that chore while Junvemia and Rhoda helped Mama with other things. The cows had long chains on them, but we had to see that they didn't stray away fi-om the field. We plaited bull rushes and entertained ourselves the best we could. Sometimes Edna wanted to play like she was a golden-haired princess and me the little beggar girl. She wanted me to put dried weed on my head and act pitiful and come to her begging. If I wanted to be the princess, she said "whoever heard a princess that didn't have golden hair". My hair was darker than hers. If I didn't play the way she wanted she wouldn't play with me. She had always treated me as if she was superior. When I was about five a family moved out of a house beyond the cemetery and Mama and I went over there looking around after they had gone. I saw a little black and white pill box on the mantle and asked her to hand it to me because I wasn't tall enough to reach it. She looked in it to see if any pills was still in it before giving me the box. But instead of pills there was a lovely little necklace, a thin gold chain and a pendant with a blue set it. It was indeed a lovely little necklace and I considered it mine, I found it. But I wasn't allowed to touch it. It was also my oldest sisters birthstone and she persuaded Mama to let her wear it to Sunday school one day. I tried to get Mama to keep it in her trank till I got big enough to wear it. But, NO, she always listened to my oldest sister. That one time was the only time she wore it, for she lost it that day. Secretly I was glad she lost it for they wouldn't let me touch it. It seemed like Edna and I couldn't have much we could call our own, really our own. What the older ones wanted of ours they usually took. Mama bought Junvemia and Rhoda a trank each and they could lock their thing up. But Edna and I didn't even have anything bigger than a shoe box to keep our keepsakes in and Junvemia was always going through what little we had. Some of our thing disappeared and I'm quite sure she bumed them. Before I started school and sometimes after I was always catching one of Mama's little fuzzy new biddies. I would take them to the house and feed them com bread b till their little craw stuck out like a full busted old woman. One day I had one on the front porch and I lay down with my face real close to the biddie. It ate its crambs then started looking in my eyes, tuming its head from one side then the other. Then suddenly, it pecked me in the eye. It surely thought the pupil of my eye was a bug. I caught them and played with them afterwards, but that's the last time one got close to my eyes. Mama didn't seem to mind just so I didn't hurt them and took them back to the mother when I got tired of their company. 12 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 1880 Jackson County Census Records ED; We continue in this issue with the Caney Fork Township or District 109. Abstracted in 2019 by Sanji Talley Watson. The records were abstracted as written. Enumerator had problems with reporting the number of the houses and families. Some entries were unreadable. To read: dwelling number; house number; name; age; race; relation to head of household; job; person bom; father bom; mother bom. 97-98 Fox, Mary Ann 36 W - Mother - Keeping house NC NC NC James 10 W - Son - Works on farm (4 n Baxter 5 W-Son (( (( Thomas 3 W-Son U U Ammons, Athelina 56 W - Mother «« «( 98-99 Hues, Joel H. 29 W - Farmer NC SC SC Margaret J. 25 W - Mother - Keeping house NC NC NC Mary C. 10 W - Daughter (( (t i t Samantha E. 2 W - Daughter (( (t (4 David E. 2/12 W-Son 44 44 44 99-100 Hues, Jesse R. 24 W - Carpenter NC NC NC Amelia B. 24 W - Mother - Keeping house 44 44 44 Colvesta 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Margaret J. 1 W - Daughter 44 44 44 100-101 Parker, Anderson J. 29 W - Farmer NC NC NC Clarinda 26 W - Mother - Keeping house 44 44 44 Lula 5 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Oscar A. 4 W-Son 44 44 44 John L. 2 W-Son 44 44 44 Cornelia 4/12 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Brown, Laura 20 W - Sister in law - At home 44 44 44 Callie 2 W-Niece 44 44 44 101-102 Philips, Andrew J. 48 W - Farmer NC SC VA Margaret E. 38 W - Mother - House keeping NC NC NC Sallie E. 15 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Wm. H. 13 13 W - Son -Works on the farm 44 44 44 John L. 11 W - Son - Works on the farm 44 44 44 Ailsey C. 9 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Allen 7 W-Son 44 44 44 James M. 6 W-Son 44 44 44 Joseph H. 4 W-Son 44 44 44 Ci Jerome 2/12 W-Son 44 44 44 102-103 Smith, John H. 25 W - Farmer GA GA GA Frances 27 W - Mother - House keeping NC NC NC James T. 1 W-Son NC GA NC Rigdon, Elizabeth 16 W - Servant - Works on farm NC NC NC Smith, Elizabeth A. 59 W - Mother - At home GA GA GA 103-104 Mehaffey, James W. 27 W - Farmer NC NC NC Mary Jane 24 W - Mother - House Keeping NC VA NC Robert 6 W-Son NC NC NC Adalla S. 3 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Samantha E. 9/12 W - Daughter 44 44 44 104-105 Wood, Jerry C. 26 W - Farmer NC NC NC Mary Jane 17 W - Wife 44 44 44 Cook, James 21 W - Nephew - At home 44 44 44 Wood, Thaddeus D. 23 W - Brother - Works on farm 44 44 44 Lueza 22 W - Sister - Keeping house 44 44 44 13 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Martha J. 2 W - Boarder " 105-106 Wood, James B. 60 W - Farmer NCTNNC Ellender 65 W - Mother - Keeping house NC NC NC Margaret E. 18 W - Daughter - At home NCTNNC 106-107 Parker, Wm. J. 33 W - Farmer NC NC NC Jane 28 W - Mother - Keeping house i t Samantha I. 11 W - Daughter - At home U M (( Alise 9 W ~ Daughter U Avnell ? 7 W - Daughter «4 (« i t Erastus S. 4 W-Son i4 (( (« Andrew T. 2 W-Son " 107-108 Parker, Pleasant M. 50 W - Farmer NC NC NC Rachel 47 W - Mother - House keeping NCSC SC Haseltine 24 W - Daughter - At home NC NC NC Wm. M. 17 W - Son - Works on farm (t H (i Daniel L. 15 W - Son - Works on farm (( «« (( Thomas H. 11 W - Son - Works on farm (( 44 44 Samii F. 8 W-Son 44 44 44 Rosali 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Columbus B. 1 W-Son 44 44 44 David M. 21 W - Nephew - Works on farm 44 44 44 108-109 Wood, Daniel H. 39 W - Farmer NC NC NC Isabel A. 35 W - Mother - House keeping 44 44 44 Rufus C. 12 W - Son - Works on farm 44 44 44 Nancy E. 9 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Hylon (?) B. 7 W-Son 44 44 44 Joseph H. 2 W-Son 44 44 44 I^e next section is of the Canada Township. It was enumerated by Jas. R. Frizell. 1-1 Crawford, Rudile 32 W - Farmer NC NC NC Samantha 31 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Arta J. 13 W - Daughter - Ast. Keeping house 44 44 44 Zachary 11 W - Works on farm 44 44 Hamilton 9 W-Son 44 44 44 Isabella 7 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Mary A. 5 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Josafen 3 W - Daughter 44 44 44 James W. 1 W-Son 44 44 44 2-2 Parker, Alford W. 49 W - Farmer NC NC NC Francis 41 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 George W. 17 W - Son - Farmer Lab. 44 44 44 John A. 14 W - Son - Farmer Lab 44 44 44 Malinda 12 W - Daughter - Keeping house 44 44 44 William 10 W-Son 44 44 44 Laura M. 7 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Arretta 5 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Allace R. 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Hobalton 1 W-Son 44 44 44 3-3 Wood, Henry 37 W - Farmer NC NC NC Souanna J. 33 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Hester J. 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Margrette 9/12 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Hoxit, Warren 15 W - Servant 44 44 44 14 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 4-4 Wike, John Jr. 31 W - Farmer NC NC NC Laura E. 23 W - Wife - Keeping house H (4 44 Julia A. 6 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Thos. A. 4 W-Son 44 44 Kansas F. 2 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Norman 7/12 W-Son 44 44 44 Hooper, Jemima 25 W - Sister in law - Keeping house 44 44 44 Barrow, William 12 W ~ Servant 44 44 44 5-5 Philips, George 46 W - Fanner NC NC NC Margrett 36 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 John W. 13 W - Farmer lab 44 Ellen 11 W - Daughter - Ast. Keeping house 44 44 44 George W. 9 W - Son 44 44 44 Mariah V. 6 W - Daughter 44 44 44 William 4 W-Son 44 44 44 Lee W. 2 W-Son 44 44 44 6-6 Brackins, John 42 W - Farmer NC SC NC Mary 28 W - Wife - Keeping house NC NC NC Dillard 9 W-Son 44 44 44 Caroline 7 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Emaline 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Rachel 2 W - Daughter 44 44 44 7-7 Shelton, David 62 W - Farmer NC NC NC Drucill 58 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Emaline 34 W - Daughter - Keeping house 44 44 44 John 11 W - Grandson - Work on farm 44 44 44 Nella 9 W - Granddaughter 44 44 44 Donell, Robert 11 W - Grandson - Works on farm 44 44 44 8-8 Galaway, Clifford 24 W - Farmer NC NC SC Louesy 32 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Clifford 14 W - Son - Farmer Lab NC NC NC Rufus M. 12 W - Son - Works on farm 44 44 44 Phillip E. 9 W-Son 44 44 44 William L. 7 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Samantha 5 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Safony T. 3 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Julia L. 2 W - Daughter 44 44 44 James B. 7/12 W-Son 44 44 44 9-9 Shelton, Vance 22 W -Farmer NC NC NC Nancy J. 18 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 9-10 Shelton, John 36 W - Working on farm GA NC GA Ibbie F. 38 W - Wife - Keeping house NC NC NC Loucinda 16 W - Daughter - Keeping house 44 44 44 David W. 13 W - Son - Farmer Lab. 44 44 44 William 7 W-Son 44 44 44 Lidda S. 6 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Nancy K. 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 10-11 Shook, James 23 W - Farmer NC NC NC Nellie C. 29 W - Wife - Keeping house David W. 5 W-Son 44 44 44 Mary E. 2 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Willard D. 8/12 W-Son 44 44 44 11-12 Queen, Ascue C. 20 W - Farmer NC NC NC 15 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Darcus 22 W - Wife - Keeping house (( (( (4 Mary J. 6/12 W - Daughter i i 12-13 Shook, Joseph 21 W - Farmer NC NC Martha 21 W - Wife - Keeping house TX NC TX James W. 4 W-Son NC NC GA Nancy J. 1 W - Daughter NC NC NC 13-14 Shook, George W. 48 W-Farmer NC NC NC Nancy 48 W - Wife - Keeping house " " " 14-15 Galaway, Alford 29 W - Farmer NC NC NC Mary A. 29 W - Wife - Keeping house " " " Parker, Sarah 13 W - Servant i« (( i t 15-16 Galaway, Josiah A. 51 W - Teacher NC NC NC Elizabeth 50 W - Wife - Keeping house U (( (4 Lyddie E. 18 W - Daughter - Keeping house Andrew E. 12 W - Son - Work on farm 44 44 44 Shelton, Lyddie 90 W - Mother-in-law SC SC 16-17 Galaway, Carson 27 W - Farmer NC NC NC Angeline 25 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Rhoda 2 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Samuel 9/12 W - Son 44 17-18 Galaway, Thomas 17 W-Farmer NC NC NC Mary 17 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 18-19 Galaway, William 22 W - Working on farm NC NC NC Sarah 22 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 19-20 Owen, Thomas 21 W -Farmer NC NC NC Thaney C. 22 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Carney R. 1 W - Daughter 44 44 44 20-21 Owen, Jackson 50 W - Fanner NC NC NC Mary A. 48 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Isaac 19 W - Son - Farmer Lab. 44 4( 44 William 17 W - Son - Farmer Lab. 44 44 44 James 14 W - Son - Farmer Lab. 44 44 44 Caroline 10 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Adaline 8 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Martha 5 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Dillard 3 W-Son 44 44 44 21-22 Owen, George W. 31 W - Farmer NC NC NC Mary E. 29 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 William 12 W - Son - Working on farm 44 44 44 Roda C. 10 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Sarah W. 5 W - Daughter 44 44 (4 Martha 3 W - Daughter 44 44 (4 EligaJ. 11/12 W-Son 44 44 44 22-23 Parker, Pleasant 72 W - Farmer NC NC NC Rebecca 67 W - Wife - Keeping house (4 44 44 Long, Violet 40 W - Daughter - Keeping house 44 44 44 Parker, Mary C. 15 W - Granddaughter - Keeping house " Parker, Mary M. 7 W - Granddaughter 44 44 44 23-24 Wood, Andrew 64 W - Farmer NCTNSC Jane W. 60 W - Wife - Keeping house NC NC NC Martha 18 W - Daughter - Keeping house 44 44 44 Henderson, Jane 93 W - Mother-in-law 44 44 44 16 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Changes to JCGS Constitution Recently, the JCGS Board conducted a review and revision of the Society's Constitution and By-Laws. The primary objective was to clarify the roles of the society officers and to create an editorial board to help provide content for Journeys Through Jackson. Additionally, some outdated language was revised and annual dues were increased, for the first time since 1991, by $5 per year. Constitution of the Jackson County Genealogical Society ARTICLE I — NAME The name of this society shall be the Jackson County Genealogical Society. ARTICLE II — PURPOSE This Society shall be organized exclusively for educational purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The specific purposes of the Society shall be: A. To bring together those people interested in genealogy, especially but not limited to, Jackson County, North Carolina families; B. To discover, research, and exchange material related to Jackson County genealogy; C. To provide for the preservation of such materials and for its accessibility, as far as may be feasible; D. To publish this material, according to the specifications set forth in the Bylaws. ARTICLE III — MEMBERSHIP Membership shall be of three classes: A. Individual members — any person interested in the purposes of the Society shall be eligible. B. Family memberships — persons of the same immediate household. C. Life members — individuals only ARTICLE IV — ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Society shall be held during December of each year. ARTICLE V — OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Section I. The officers shall be a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, an office manager, a librarian, and a computer technician, who shadl be elected for a term of one year to correspond to the calendar year. Section II. The officers shall constitute the board of directors, with the immediate past president as an ex-officio member. Section III. An editorial board shall provide direction, process control, and content for Journeys Through Jackson, the official publication of the Society. 17 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Section IV. No part of the net earnings of the organization shall inure to the benefit of its members, directors, officers or other persons except that the organization shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the exempt purposes of the organization. ARTICLE VI — ELECTION OF OFFICERS Section I. All officers shall be elected by a plurality of votes at the annual meeting. Section II. Nominations shall be submitted at the November meeting from a nominating committee appointed by the president at the October meeting. Section III. Officers shall be installed at the annual meeting. Section IV. At the resignation or incapacity of any officer, the Board of Directors shall elect a new officer to fill the vacancy until the term of office has expired. ARTICLE VII — AMENDMENT The constitution may be amended at any meeting by a two-thirds majority of those voting, provided that notice has been given in writing at the previous meeting. ARTICLE VIII — DISSOLUTION In the event that the Jackson County Genealogical Society ceases to function as a viable organization, the assets of the Society shall be used to meet any obligations previously contracted by the Society. Any remaining assets shall be donated to the Jackson County Public Library. Please remember that the membership fees have changed Individual Membership $25.00 Family Membership $30.00 18 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Bylaws of the Constitution of the Jackson County Genealogical Society ARTICLE I — MEMBERSHIP AND DUES Section I. Any person who applies for membership and who tenders the necessary dues shall thereby be a member. Section II. Annual dues for individual members shall be $25. Section III. Annual dues for family membership shall be $30. Section IV. Dues for life members shall be determined by the age at application: Age Amount 1 6 - 2 9 $ 350 3 0 - 3 9 $ 300 4 0 - 4 9 $ 250 5 0 - 5 9 $ 200 6 0 - 6 9 $ 150 7 0 - 7 9 $ 100 Over 79 $ 50 Section V. Institutional dues shall be $20 annually. Section VI. Dues shall be paid in advance, and any member in arrears six months after payment is due shall be dropped from membership ARTICLE II — SCHEDULE AND QUORUM FOR MEETINGS Section I. Regular meetings of the Society shall be held monthly. Section II. Special meetings may be called by the president. Section III. The Board of Directors shall meet monthly. Section IV. The members present at a regularly scheduled monthly meeting shall constitute a quorum. ARTICLE III — DUTIES OF OFFICERS Section I. The president shall have supervision of the activities of the Society, shall preside at all meetings, shall provide an annual report of the Society's activities, and shall make all committee appointments. The president, with the treasurer, shall be empowered to sign official documents on behalf of the Society. Section II. The vice-presidents shall share the responsibility of serving as program chairs, fundraising chairs, and organizing the annual meeting. Additionally, the vice- 19 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 presidents shall assume the duties of the president in the absence of the president and shall present an annual report. Section III. The secretary shall keep the minutes of the meetings of the Society and the Board of Directors, shall write press releases for programs and special events, and shall manage the Society's social media. Section IV. The treasurer shall be responsible for the collection and safekeeping of society funds, shall keep adequate financial records, shall co-sign with the president all checks payable from the Society, and shall present an annual report. Section V. The office manager shall coordinate the working hours of the Society headquarters, shall recruit, coordinate and train volunteers to staff the office, shall manage office supplies and materials, shall reconcile written receipts and monies, shall deposit the Society's funds in the designated bank, shall maintain the membership list, and shall present an annual report. Section VI. The librarian shall access and catalogue the library materials of the Society, shall maintain the permanent genealogical possessions of the Society according to a recognized standard of libraiy science — the standard to be at the discretion of the librarian — and shall present to the chair of the Editorial Board a bimonthly list of libraiy acquisitions to be published in the Society publication. Section VII. The computer technician shedl maintain the computer resources of the Society, shall decide the appropriate technology acquisitions of the Society, and shall assist the Secretary with managing Internet resources and social media. Section VIII. The Board of Directors shall have the power to decide questions of policy that for any reason cannot be acted upon by the Society at large, and shall conduct business with a quorum of four officers. ARTICLE IV — COMMITTEES Section I. The president, in consultation with the Board of Directors, shall appoint members of a standing Editorial Board, including the board Chair, the editor of Journeys Through Jackson, and as many additional members as deemed necessary. The Editorial Board shall be responsible for the content, oversight, and production of all Society publications. Section II. The Society shall have ad hoc committees at the discretion of the Board of Directors. Section III. The president shall appoint members and chairs of the ad hoc committees. ARTICLE V — PARLIAMENTARY AUTHORITY Meetings shall be conducted according to procedures of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised. ARTICLE VI — AMENDMENT These bylaws may be amended by the same procedure to amend the constitution of the Society 20 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Children of Thomas Lee Clayton and Ethel Dona Hooper and the Mills Home Orphanage This article was written by Max Clayton and given to JCGS by member, Mike Clayton Thomas Lee Clayton (25 May 1876 - 01 Feb 1925) was the son of George Perry Clayton and Mary Timonexia Hooper. He married Ethel Dona Hooper (23 Dec 1886 - 02 Jul 1927) on 21 Dec 1902. She was the daughter of Joseph Chester Hooper and Sarah Jane Brooks. Their home was in the Beta community just SE of Old Field Cemetery. Both died young...Thomas Lee was 48 and Ethel Dona was only 40. Thomas Lee died after cruising timber on a cold rainy day in January 1925. His death certificate lists "uremic poisoning following influenza" as his cause of death. This left Ethel Dona, pregnant with her 12th child, to raise the family. She succumbed to cancer two years later in July of 1927. They are both buried in Old Field Cemetery, Jackson County, NC. Their 12 children: David Ray Clayton: 3 Oct 1903 - 16 Apr 1994 Ina Matilda Clayton: 20 Jul 1905 - 25 Jan 1982 June Chester Clayton: 7 Jul 1907 - 29 Mar 1980 George W Clayton: 4 Jul 1909 - 22 Apr 1986 Mary Catherine Clayton: 26 Apr 1911 - 29 May 2016 Sarah Lee Clayton: 17 Jul 1913-5 Nov 2005 Mervin Eloise Clayton: 6 Mar 1915-22 Oct 1957 Helen Ethel Clayton: 21 May 1917 - 21 Sep 2019 Annie Laurie Clayton: 12 Jun 1919 - 9 Apr 2014 James Robert Clayton: 26 Jun 1921 - 22 Apr 2012 Thomas Lyndon Clayton: 11 Jun 1923 - 12 Oct 1978 Max Aubrey Clayton: 12 Jun 1925 - 30 Jun 2008 With the family destitute upon Ethel's death, help was needed to raise the youngest 6 children. Arrangements were made for them to be taken in at the Baptist Children's Home (aka Mills Home orphanage) in Thomasville, NC where they were raised until they graduated high school (11th grade). Mervin spent 6 years there (until 1933) and Max was there for 16 years (until 1943). They would return to Beta each summer for a week; the highlight of their year. Prior to her death Ethel Dona urged Rev. T. F. Dietz, her pastor at Scotts Creek Baptist Church, and family friend Mr. Daniel Bryson to keep the youngest children together. This would prove difficult as the orphanage did not take children as young as Max. As we understand it, Mr. Bryson drove the children over to Thomasville and convinced the orphanage to take Max contrary to their normal policy. Rev. Dietz's name is present on Max's Mills Home entrance paperwork. While he had no memory of life before the orphanage, Max's earliest memory was of "visiting hour" at Mills Home when all the Clayton children there were reunited each Sunday afternoon. Life at the orphanage was tough; however. Max considered it a gift beyond price that he was able to be raised with his siblings. Our family owes a great debt to Rev. Dietz and Mr. Bryson. Max A. Clayton Jr. Franklin, NC Note: a good description of life at Mills Home during the era when the Clayton children were there can be found in Ted Chandler's Tough Mercy^ 21 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Pictures The children of Thomas Lee Clayton and Ethel Dona Hooper Clayton on the occasion of Annie Laurie Clayton's graduation from Mills Home in May 1938. Picture taken in Beta. Mervin is not pictured as she was living in Union SC. From left: Ray, Max, Ina, June, George, Mary, Helen, Jim, Sarah Lee, Annie Laurie, Tom Another picture from the same event. From left: Mary, Ray, Ina, June, Helen, Jim, Sarah Lee, George, Annie Laurie, [kneeling] Tom, Max 22 As always, if you have pictures, family stories, historical information or questions for other people searching your families, feel free to send them in anc we can publish them here in Journeys Through 23 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 JCGS PROGRAMS - 2020 All programs now begin at 6 pm JANUARY 9 FEBRUARY 13 MARCH 12 APRIL 9 MAY 14 JUNE 11 JULY 9 AUGUST 13 SEPTEMBER 10 OCTOBER 8 NOVEMBER12 DECEMBER Navigate Genealogical Websites. - Mary Buchanan Smith, Sanji Watson Jesse and Friends Main Street Then and Now - Lynn Hotaling, Nick Breedlove "Rightfully Ours: Women's Suffrage in Western North Carolina - Pam Meister - Ole Time Singings - Curtis Blanton Absalom Hooper - Jerry Taylor, Jason Edwards Annual Picnic - Savannah - Mary Buchanan Smith, Joe Deitz Deitz Family 1819 Cherokee Lands Survey - Jason Gregory History of St. David's Church - June Smith (?) Quilt Presentation - Pam Meister, Peter Koch TBA Annual Meeting/Christmas Dinner As always, all programs are free and open to the public. So, invite your friends and family to come and join us for all of the interesting programs to come for this year. 24 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Descendants of William Solomon Parker, Sr. ED: If you have any corrections or additions to this article, please feel free to contact us with them. Children of Mary Owen and William McCall are: 276. i. James Robert McCall, b. February 26, 1882; d. December 02, 1984. 277. ii. Harley McCall, b. November 11, 1891, North Carolina; d. August 10, 1943, Transylvania County, North Carolina. 278. iii. Loonie McCall, b. August 04, 1895, Transylvania County North Carolina; d. May 05, 1970, Transylvania County North Carolina. 279. iv. Charlotte Lottie McCall, b. May 24, 1876, North Carolina; d. June 29, 1970, Transylvania County North Carolina. 280. V. Sarah Elizabeth McCall, b. March 30, 1879; d. August 13, 1954, Transylvania County, North Carolina. 281. vi. Mary Polly McCall, b. September 23, 1884; d. 1972. vii. William Elbert McCall, b. April 23, 1887; d. July 13, 1969; m. Susan Jane Owen; b. August 18, 1894; d. October 15, 1968. viii. Charlie Bowers McCall, b. June 23, 1888; d. September 23, 1972. ix. Fred McCall, b. Febmary 18, 1893; d. December 12, 1979, Jackson County, North Carolina. X. Frank McCall, b. Febmary 18, 1893; d. September 28, 1976, Jackson County, North Carolina. 124. William Baxter Jr Owen was bom March 08, 1858 in Jackson County, North Carolina, and died October 14, 1917 in Jackson County, North Carolina. He married Mary Lucinda Wood December 05, 1880 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. She was bom January 24, 1863 in Jackson County, North Carolina, and died April 22, 1924 in Jackson County, North Carolina. Children of William Owen and Mary Wood are: 282. i. Margaret Malina Owen, b. January 05, 1883, Jackson County, North Carolina; d. September 14, 1954, Jackson County, North Carolina. ii. W. Wiley Owen, b. April 13, 1884, Jackson County, North Carolina; d. July 26, 1941, Jackson County, North Carolina. iii. James Elbert Owen, b. May 08, 1891, Jackson County, North Carolina; d. April 14, 1961, Jackson County, North Carolina; m. Cannie Elizabeth Galloway; b. May 1887. 125. Alfred Sherman Owen was bom August 26, 1865 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and died January 22, 1939 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. He married Jeanette Leona Lance August 27, 1885 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. She was bom October 26, 1862 and died February 09, 1953. Children of Alfred Owen and Jeanette Lance are: 283. i. CannieOwen, b. May 24, 1904; d. August 05, 1986. ii. Susan Jane Owen, b. August 18, 1894; d. October 15,1968; m. William Elbert McCall; b. April 23, 1887; d. July 13, 1969. 126. Elvira Pernette Owen was bom September 26, 1867 in North Carolina and died July 10, 1933 in Transylvania County North Carolina. She married Rufus Elbert McCall October 04, 1889. He was bom October 07, 1859 and died November 06, 1936. Child of Elvira Owen and Ruflis McCall is: i. Rufus Richard McCall, b. March 13, 1899; m. CALLIE MCCALL; b. 1904; d. July 25, 1982. 127. Elizabeth Jane Owen was bom February 13, 1846 and died April 12, 1884. She married William Jackson Owen, son of James Owen and Elizabeth Parker. He was bom May 24,1841 in North Carolina and died November 01, 1889. Notes for William Jackson Owen: 25 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Upper Bell Creek, Hiawasee, Georgia Children are listed above under (72) William Jackson Owen. 128. Lucretia Jane Penetta Owen was bom March 03, 1848 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and died May 29, 1935 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. She married Clifrord Galloway June 08, 1864 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, son of Augustus Galloway and Elizabeth Owen. He was bom September 14, 1845, and died September 15, 1915 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. Children are listed above under (118) Clifford Galloway. 129. Samuel Columbus Owen was bom January 28, 1852 and died April 02, 1911. He married Sabina Dill 1875, daughter of Elijah Dill and Nancy Reid. She was bom January 01,1852, and died December 12,1938 in Los Angeles, Califomia. Child of Samuel Owen and Sabina Dill is; i. Grace M.Owen, b. 1888, North Carolina; m. Charles Bennett; d. February 28, 1952. 130. Mary Malinda Owen was bom March 01,1860 and died October 16,1930. She married Aaron Pinkney Cash, son of James Cash and Jane Gardner. He was bom April 30, 1855 and died January 01,1911. Children of Mary Owen and Aaron Cash are: 284. i. Pearl Iva Cash, b. Febraary 13, 1890, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. December 10, 1935, Transylvania County, North Carolina. ii. Lewis Elijah Cash, b. September 1892; d. 1973; m. Cora Alexander; b. 1895; d. 1990. iii. Jesse Christopher Cash, b. February 08, 1895, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. June 17, 1951, Transylvania County, North Carolina; m. Bessie Christine Hinkle; b. March 28,1908; d. April 01, 1987, Transylvania County, North Carolina. iv. Mary Estella Cash, b. June 15, 1897, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. April 19, 1919; m. Claude Freeman Reid; b. October 05, 1889. v. Gracie Delia Cash, b. August 1899, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. April 13, 1993, Greenville, South Carolina; m. Walter Hinkle; b. October 10, 1890; d. May 29, 1969. vi. Thomas Freeman Cash, b. October 28, 1887; d. December 24, 1953; m. Julia Neighbors; b. April 12, 1894; d. June 21, 1956. vii. William Roland Cash, b. June 12, 1884, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. March 08, 1903, Transylvania County, North Carolina. viii. Janie Charlotte Cash, b. Febraary 21, 1882, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. November 09, 1962, Transylvania County, North Carolina; m. Charlie Washington Hendrson; b. November 07, 1873, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. October 12, 1976, Transylvania County, North Carolina. ix. Juda Elminia Cash, b. January 27,1880, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. October 25, 1943, Transylvania County, North Carolina; m. Charles Coleman Hall; b. May 15, 1873, Macon County, North Carolina; d. December 09, 1958, Transylvania County, North Carolina. X. S. G. Cash, b. March 07, 1878, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. October 09, 1882, Transylvania County, North Carolina. 131. Mary Ellen Owen was bom December 29, 1849 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and died 1892 in Transylvania County North Carolina. She married George Washington Owen December 30, 1866 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, son of William Owen and Sarah Whitmire. He was bom October 11, 1846 in North Carolina and died June 13, 1927 in Transylvania County North Carolina. Children are listed above under (121) George Washington Owen. 132. Alfred Henry Owen as bom December 28, 1844 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and died December 26, 1926 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. He married (1) Sarah Elizabeth Banther, daughter of George Banther and Mary Nanney. She was bom January 18,1864 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and died March 26 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 09, 1941 in Jackson County, North Carolina. He married (2) Elizabeth Caroline Wood December 18, 1866 in Jackson County, North Carolina, daughter of Andrew Wood and Jane Henderson. She was bom 1844, and died August 05, 1894 in Jackson County, North Carolina. Children of Alfred Owen and Sarah Banther are: i. Infant Owen. ii. Lambert Clayton Owen. iii. Mary Mlinda Owen. iv. John Harrison Owen. V. James Henry Owen, b. December 15, 1891, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. February 18, 1918, Transylvania County, North Carolina. vi. Nancy Elmira Owen. vii. Arlecia Owen, b. November 26, 1896, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. February 09, 1915, Transylvania County, North Carolina; m. M. Arthur Parker; b. Jackson County, North Carolina. viii. Ira Tillman Owen, ix. Ida Belle Owen. X. Jess Dillard Owen, xi. Cynthia Ellen Owen. Children of Alfred Owen and Elizabeth Wood are: 285. xii. Andrew Luther Owen, b. May 03, 1869, Jackson County, North Carolina; d. July 11, 1952, Buncombe County, North Carolina. xiii. James Dillard Owen. xiv. Margaret Elizabeth Owen. XV. Tillman Houston Owen, b. 1872. xvi. Pulaska Edward Owen, b. 1874. xvii. Olivia D. Owen, b. 1876, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. 1879, Transylvania County, North Carolina. xviii. Carr Wilburn Owen, b. 1880. 133. Baxter Carmichael Owen was bom April 17, 1854 in North Carolina and died November 12, 1903 in Transylvania County North Carolina. He married Clarinda Breedlove January 09, 1876 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. She was bom Febmary 01, 1856 in North Carolina and died Febmary 25, 1930 in Transylvania County North Carolina. Children of Baxter Owen and Clarinda Breedlove are: i. Josah Owen, b. 1878. ii. Jeptitha Owen, b. 1879. 134. John Ansel Owen was bom March 17, 1862 in North Carolina, and died February 06, 1951 in Transylvania County North Carolina. He married Nancy Elizabeth Gosnell February 19, 1882, daughter of John Gosnell and Narcissa Dill. She was bom Febraary 23, 1862 in South Carolina and died June 27, 1947 in Transylvania County North Carolina. Children of John Owen and Nancy Gosnell are: i. Emily Etta Owen, b. December 1882, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. Febmary 27, 1958, Polk County, Florida; m. Oscar Lafayette Lanning; b. March 10, 1877, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. July 13, 1969, Glenville, Jackson County, North Carolina. ii. Roxie Narcissa Owen, b. June 14, 1886, Transylvania County, North Carolina; d. January 16, 1964, Transylvania County, North Carolina. 286. iii. Mary Savannah Owen, b. Febmary 23, 1889; d. October 17, 1959. iv. Julius Nicholas Owen, b. 1893; d. 1981. V. Corneius Owen, b. 1897; d. 1915. vi. Vivian Adeline Owen, b. 1899; d. 1986. vii. Philadelphia Owen, b. 1902; d. 1973. 27 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 135. Merritt Tillman Owen was bom December 17, 1851 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and died June 17, 1892 in Jackson County, North Carolina. He married (1) Violet Jane Amanda Parker, daughter of Pleasant Parker and Rebecca Cathey. She was bom January 28, 1837 in Towns County, Georgia, and died October 08, 1920 in Jackson County, North Carolina. He married (2) Sarah Louise Parker January 06,1874 in Jackson County, North Carolina, daughter of Alfred Parker and Francis Parkes. She was bom November 09, 1854 in Jackson County, North Carolina, and died September 02, 1931 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. Child is listed above under (57) Violet Jane Amanda Parker. Children of Merritt Owen and Sarah Parker are: i. Henry Madison Owen, b. 1875. ii. Samuel R. Owen, b. 1877. iii. Charlie F. Owen, b. 1879. iv. Julius Mack Owen. v. Laura Arminda Owen. vi. Dock Cannon Owen. vii. WUey William Owen. viii. Loonie Dillard Owen. 136. William Walker McCal! was bom November 05, 1852 in Jackson County, North Carolina, and died November 26, 1943 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. He married Mary Ann Owen June 11, 1876 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, daughter of William Owen and Sarah Whitmire. She was bom June 01, 1855 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and died Febmary 14, 1949 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. Children are listed above under (123) Mary Ann Owen. 137. Mary Eimina McCall was bom Abt. 1848 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and died Abt. 1946 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. She married Asberry Lafayette Galloway May 17, 1869 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, son of William Galloway and Lydia Glazener. He was bom August 12, 1846, and died May 21, 1916 in Transylvania County North Carolina. Notes for ASBERRY LAFAYETTE GALLOWAY: 28 Jul 1850 Henderson Co., NC 1860 P.O. Gloucester, Henderson Co., NC 15 Aug 1870 Gloucester Twp, P.O. Cherry Field, Transylvania Co., NC 17 Jun 1880 Gloucester Twp, Transylvania Co., NC 07 Jun 1900 Gloucester Twp, Transylvania Co., NC 28 Apr 1910 Gloucester Twp, Transylvania Co., NC Children are listed above under (111) Asberry Lafayette Galloway. 138. James Milford McCall was bom January 23, 1853 in Jackson County, North Carolina, and died Febmary 09, 1947 in Transylvania County, North Carolina. He married (1) Margaret Emily Dunn. She was bom Febmary 01, 1849 and died December 18, 1902. He married (2) Roxie A. Dunn October 24, 1903 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, daughter of William Dunn and Anna Nicholson. She was bom April 01, 1875 in Transylvania County North Carolina and died June 27, 1954 in Transylvania County North Carolina. Child of James McCall and Margaret Dunn is: 288. i. Dora McCall, b. June 01, 1889, Transylvania County North Carolina; d. October 02, 1937, Jackson County, North Carolina. 28 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Outline Descendant Report for Frederick (Baumgartner) Bumgarner This descendant report was brought to the Society by Harry Bumgarner. It was given to him by Kenneth Bumgarner, who prepared the report. More will follow in future issues. Report has been edited to reflect birth dates of persons bom after 1945 being removed, replaced with * + Marion Reid b: Abt. 1826 in Burke Co., NC, d: Bef. 1870 8 Amanda Bumgarner 8 Andrew Jackson Bumgarner 8 M. Alexander Reid b: 07 Oct 1855 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 27 Sep 1925 in Caldwell Co, NC 8 Polly Ann Bumgarner b: 20 Dec 1860 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 02 Jan 1914 in Caldwell Co, NC 8 Matilda Jane Bumgarner b: 12 Oct 1864 in Caldwell Co,NC, d: 22 Apr 1947 in Granite Falls, Caldwell Co., NC 8 Ida Melissa Bumgarner b: 10 May 1876 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 17 Jan 1950 in Newton, Catawba Co., NC + Unknown Beach 8 Myra Elizabeth Bumgarner b: 30 Jul 1876 in Caldwell Co., NC, d: 17 Apr 1943 in Rhodhiss, Caldwell Co., NC + Unknown 8 William P. Bumgarner b: 1873 in North Carolina 8 James D. Bumgarner b: Abt. 1875 in North Carolina 8 John Z. Bumgarner b: 1876 in North Carolina 7 Elizabeth Rebecca Bumgarner b: Aug 1835 in Caldwell Co., NC, d: 1910 in Cleveland, Johnston Co., NC 7 Elsie Bumgarner b: 1835 in Caldwell Co., KY (NC?), d: 03 May 1907 in Caldwell Co., NC 7 Rosanna Reva Emeline Bumgarner b: 11 May 1836 in Lincoln Co., NC, d: 04 Mar 1918 in Lovelady, Caldwell Co., NC 7 Martha Ann Bumgarner b: 15 Dec 1842 in Lincoln Co., NC, d: 27 Jul 1923 in Caldwell Co., NC + James Jay Smitheon "Smith" Kirby b; 10 Jan 1820 in North Carolina, m: 29 Dec 1857 in Summers, Caldwell Co., NC, d: 19 Dec 1894 in Granite Falls, Caldwell Co., NC 8 Julius G. Kirby b: 04 Feb 1857 in Summers, Caldwell Co., NC, d: Bef. 1870 in Caldwell Co, NC 8 KeUy H. Kirby b: 05 May 1859 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 25 Nov 1946 in Granite Falls, Caldwell Co., NC 8 Theodore Dula Kirby b: 23 Jun 1861 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 05 Aug 1907 in Caldwell Co, NC 8 Simon Hartley (Hoyle) Kirby b: 01 Apr 1864 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 29 Jun 1936 in Lovelady, Caldwell Co., NC 8 Molten Avery Kirby b: 07 May 1867 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 10 Nov 1949 in Caldwell Co, NC 8 William Andrew Kirby b: 06 Dec 1868 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 10 May 1946 in Granite Falls, Caldwell Co., NC 8 Herman Lewis Kirby b: 28 Sep 1870 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 24 Dec 1958 in Winston-Salem, Forsythe Co., NC 8 Cordelia A. Kirby b:27Febl872in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 11 Aug 1916 in Long View, Catawba, Co., NC 8 Marshall Gilbert Kirby b; 08 May 1875 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 18 Oct 1949 m Granite Falls, Caldwell Co., NC 8 Rebecca Delila Kirby b: 25 Sep 1878 in Caldwell Co, NC, d: 11 Aug 1916 in Long View, Catawba, Co., NC 8 George S. Kirby b: 11 May 1886 in North Carolina, d: 21 Feb 1908 in Caldwell Co, NC 7 Catherine Bumgarner b: 1844 in Caldwell Co., NC, d: 1883 in Caldwell Co., NC 7 Mira Catherine Bumgarner b; 1845 in Caldwell Co., KY, d: 08 Jul 1892 in Cleveland, Johnston Co., NC 7 Jefferson Elisha Bumgarner b: 23 Jul 1847 in Caldwell Co., NC, d: 09 Aug 1924 in Caldwell Co., NC 29 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 7 Harriet Minerva J. Bumgamer b: Jan 1850 in Green Powder, Caldwell Co., NC, d: 08 Jul 1892 in Cleveland Johnston Co., NC 7 Alia Louisa Bumgarner b: 29 Jul 1853 in Granite Falls, Caldwell Co., NC, d: 01 May 1932 in Connelly Springs, Burke Co., NC 7 Thomas Clingman Bumgarner b: 10 May 1855 in Caldwell Co., NC, d; 21 Mar 1929 in Caldwell Co., NC 7 Alexander Bumgarner b: 1856 in North Carolina, d: 21 Mar 1929 in Caldwell Co., NC 7 Mary Etta Bumgarner b: 16 Mar 1880 in North Carolina, d: 03 Apr 1925 in Gastonia, Gaston Co., NC 6 Moses Bumgarner b: 1812 in Lincoln Co., NC, d: 1842 + Rachel Mathews 6 Catherine Bumgarner b: 1812 in Lincoln Co., NC, d: 1812 in Lincoln Co., NC 6 Leonard (Lenid) Bumgarner 5 Thomas Goodbread (Gregory) Bumgarner b: 12 Mar 1774 in Lincoln Co., NC, d: 18 Jul 1859 in Little Rock, Pulaski/Johnson Co., AR + Mary Davidson b: 1775 in North Carolina, m: 1815 in Lincoln Co., NC, d: 1833 in Lincoln Co., NC 6 John A. Bumgarner Sr. b: 09 Sep 1790 in Lincoln Co., NC, d; 17 Feb 1851 in Floyd Co., GA 6 Amon Davidson Bumgarner b: Abt. 1795 in Lincoln Co., NC, d: Bef. 1840 in North Carolina + Sarah Miller b; 1795 in Lincoln Co., NC, m: Lincoln Co., NC, d: 1852 in Alexander Co., NC 7 Thomas J. "Tom" Bumgarner b: 1819 + Rachel S. Unknown 8 M. Jane Bumgarner b: 1849 7 John (W.) Miller Bumgarner b: 09 Sep 1821, d: 11 Feb 1887 in Alexander Co., NC + Judith (Juda) "Judy" Fortner b: 06 Mar 1827, d: 31 Jan 1916 8 Amon Bumgarner b: 30 Sep 1846, d: 12 Jan 1917 + Mary Jane James b: 28 Jul 1850, m: 23 Apr 1867, d: 08 Aug 1931 9 Lovancy (Laurance) J. "Vancie" Bumgarner b: 1870 + James "Goodman" (Earph) Earp 10 Clyde Earp 9 John Gilbright Bumgarner b: 29 Jan 1874 in Alexander Co., NC, d:1950 + Laura Catherine Sweet b: Alexander Co., NC, m: 20 Aug 1893 in Alexander Co., NC, d: 1948 10 Delia Blanche Bumgarner b: Alexander Co., NC 10 Eula Bumgarner b: Alexander Co., NC + David Wright 10 Jennie Edwards Bumgarner b: Alexander Co., NC + Lemuell Privette 10 Eva Eflie Bumgarner b: Alexander Co., NC + Carey Gideon Glass 10 Thomas "Roland" Bumgarner b: Alexander Co., NC 9 Wilson Gryder (Gridel) Bumgarner b: 01 Nov 1871, d: 07 Nov 1932 + Frances Victoria Bumgarner b: 03 May 1872, m: 05 Feb 1893, d: 23 Nov 1952 10 James "Horace" Bumgarner b: 03 Apr 1897, d: 04 Jan 1984 + Bertha Lou Orren b; 21 Jan 1896, m: 22 Jan 1916 in Alexander Co., NC, d: 09 Aug 1973 11 Martha "Rachel" Bumgarner b: 17 Apr 1917 + Canie Chapman 12 Peggy Sue Chapman 12 Rebecca Chapman 12 John Chapman 11 George Bumgarner b: 05 Sep 1918, d: 01 Dec 1919 11 Polly "Kitty Sue" Bumgarner b: 28 Jan 1920 + Willis Barnes 12 Barry Barnes 12 Sandra Barnes 12 James Barnes 30 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 12 Bonita Barnes 12 Curtis Barnes d: Bom dead. 11 Frances Marie Bumgarner b: 01 Apr 1921 + Bruce Wilkinson 12 Kay Wilkinson 12 Bobby Wilkinson 12 Michael Wilkinson + Bob Shoe 11 John Jackson "Jack" Bumgarner b: 03 Sep 1923, d: 25 Jan 1944 11 Bertha "June" Bumgarner b: 23 Apr 1925 in Yadkin Co., NC + Lloyd Crowson Keever b: 14 Mar 1916, m: 21 Dec 1946 12 Roger "Gale" Keever b: 03 Nov 1952 + Shelby Jane Woodring m; Apr 1973 13 Roger Clifford Keever b: 17 Feb 1974 13 Chad Jason Keever b: 24 Sep 1976 12 Gary Lynn Keever b: 07 Jun 1954 12 Kathy June Keever b: 29 Jun 1956 + Gary Lee Elder m: Nov 1977 13 Caleb Ryan Elder b: 17 Jan 1986 11 James Horace "Trump" Bumgarner b: 17 Apr 1927 + Jacquline Jolly 12 Alan Bumgarner 12 Tina Bumgarner + Keith Game 12 Mack Bumgarner d: Deceased 12 Bill Bumgarner 12 Louanne Bumgarner 11 Ruby Josephine Bumgarner b: 19 Aug 1928 + Russell Deal 12 Joy Deal 12 Jimmy Deal 12 Hal Deal 12 Tammy Deal 11 Peggy Wren Bumgarner b: 07 Dec 1931 + Archie Mitchell 12 Debbie MitcheU 12 Lori Mitchell 11 Marchetta Bumgarner b: 22 Mar 1933, d: 30 May 1964 11 Gaynelle Bumgarner b: 25 Aug 1934 + Willard Watts 12 Donnie Watts 12 Laura Watts 12 Penny Watts 11 Teddy Bumgarner b: 24 Mar 1938, d: 20 Oct 1938 11 Joy Bumgarner + Van Fox 10 Ralph Julian Bumgarner + Mammie (Renniger) (Renegar) Remmomger 11 Several Children Bumgarner 10 Frank Osborne Bumgarner b: 07 Feb 1914, d: 09 Feb 1961 in Taylorsville Alexander Co., NC + Thelma Louise Watts b: 28 Jun 1913 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC, m: 06 Jul 1932 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC, d: 07 Sep 2004 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC 11 Fred Bumgarner b: 14 Nov 1932 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC + Shirley Deal 12 Sharon Lynn Bumgarner 31 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 + Ronnie Sharpe 13 Brittney Sharpe + Brent Harrington 14 Blake Harrington 14 Bryson Harrington 14 Bo Harrington 14 Bella Harrington 13 Leah Sharpe + Unknown 14 Child Unknown 12 George Franklin "Frankie" Bumgarner + Patsy Mecimore m: Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC 13 Allie Bumgarner 13 Grade Bumgarner 11 Margie Ann Bumgarner b: 10 Jul 1932 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC + Lloyd Wayne Mays m: Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC 12 Jimmy Wayne Mays b: 25 Dec in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC 13 Issac Mays 13 Adam Mays 13 Hannah Mays 12 Michael Lee "Mike" Mays b; 23 Nov 1960 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co.,NC + Denise Bumgarner b: Missouri 13 Courtney Mays 13 Lauren Mays 12 Tamara Mays + Unknown 13 Emma Unknown + Benjamin Haines m: Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC 11 Carol Dean "Deanie" Bumgarner b: 08 May 1942 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC + Harold Woodrow Mecimore b: 02 Apr 1939 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC, m: 26 Dec 1958 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC 12 Kenny Lee Mecimore b: 24 Nov* in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC + Debrah Bowman b: 22 Jan * in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC, m: Sep 1986, d: 26 Nov 2012 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC 13 Scott Anthony Mecimore b: 21 Sep • in Hickory, Catawba Co., NC 12 Kimberly Dawn "Kim" Mecimore b: 30 Jul • in Statesville, Iredell Co., NC + Robert Pressley m: 24 Mar 1983 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC 13 Brandon Lee Pressley b: 16 Dec • in Hickory, Catawba Co., NC 11 Johnnie (Johnny) Gail Bumgarner b: 12 Dec 1944 in Taylorsville Alexander Co., NC, d: 26 Jun 2008 in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC + Rosetta Wyke b: Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC 12 Connie Gail Bumgarner + Unknown Mash + Unknown + Unknown 11 Randy Lee Bumgarner b; 06 Oct • in Taylorsville, Alexander Co., NC + Barbara Walker 12 Justin Bumgarner 12 Chelsey Bumgarner + Janet Deese b: South Carolina 12 Justin Bumgarner 12 Chelsey Bumgarner 9 George Washington Bumgarner b: 1877 + Ora Johnson 10 Ronda Bumgarner 32 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 1953,1954 Jackson County Death Certificates of Persons Born 1900 - 1953,1954 [Key to reading the following: Name of deceased; Date of birth; Place of birth; 1953, 1954 date of death; Father's name; Father's place of birth; Mother's name; Mother's place of birth; Informant's name; Informant's address; Cemetery. Abstracted by Sanji Talley Watson in the Jackson County Register of Deeds Office 2019.] Some of the certificates are labeled as towns and communities instead of the townships. 1953 Barkers Creek Gunter, Patsy Elizabeth; 11 Sep 1952; NC; 3 Jan; Gardner Gunter; ng; Rosnalla Wykle; ng; Gardner Gunter; Whittier; Barkers Creek Canada Mathis, Ske Joseph; 28 Mar 1953; NC; 28 Mar; Jasper Mathis; ng; Rezell Rigdon; ng; Jasper Mathis; ng; Mathis Middleton, Chas. Griffin: 29 May 1906; Cowarts; 2 Jul; Luther Middleton; ng; Eva Watson; Mrs. GrifTin Middleton; ng; Long Caney Fork Mills, Evadeen Mille: 12 Dec 1952; NC; 28 Dec; Theodore Mills; ng; Atlas Hensley; ng; Theodore Mills; Cowarts; Hooper Cashiers Robinson, Roy Melton: 11 Feb 1906; Transylvania Co.; 24 Oct; S. E. Robinson; ng; Maroget Galloway; ng; S. E. Robinson; Tryon; Old Toxaway Cullowhee Riley, Bessie Lee; 27 Feb 1912; Speedwell; 20 Mar; H. A. Bennett; ng; Ellia Pressley; ng; Snaders Riley; ng; Cullowhee Dillsboro Brooks, Arthur: 22 May 1905; Whittier; 5 Apr; William Brooks; ng; Polly Ward; ng; Clarence Brooks; Dillsboro; Locust Field Kincaid, Marshall Sherrill: 5 Apr 1914; NC; 9 Dec; Parson W. Kincaid; ng; Emma Sherrill; ng; Mrs. P. W. Kincaid; Dillsboro; Parris Glenville Aiken, Miles Clate: 27 May 1913; Transylvania Co.; 24 Oct; T. R. Aiken; ng; Arsulia Powell; ng; Mrs. Clete Aiken; Rosman; Old Toxaway Hamburg Thompson, Charles Edwin: 27 Apr 1910; Massachusetts; 26 Jul; Charles Bronson Thompson; ng; Caroline Walker; ng; Mrs. C. B Thompson; Sylva; Keener Mountain Norris, Betty Love: 17 Oct 1931; Greens Creek; 19 Jul; Thedore Brooks; ng; Lula Green; ng; Thedore Brooks; ng; Pine Creek Qualla Kinsland, Frank Bartlett: 28 Jul 1912; Jackson Co.; 13 Apr; Alex Kinsland; ng; Minnie Farmer; ng; Mrs. Louise Kinsland; ng; Thomas Millis, George; 1902; Pender Co., NC; 12 Aug; ng; ng; ng; ng; Henry G. Martin, Supt. Of Prison, (Warsaw, NC) Walkingstick, Samuel Edward: 31 Dec 1932; Cherokee; 4 Oct; Mason Walkingstick; ng; Lucy Bird; ng; Mrs. Lucy Walkingstick; Cherokee; Big Cove, Cherokee Saunooke, Nancy T.: 10 Aug 1901; Jackson Co.; 2 Dec; Mike Tooni; Ng; Anne Jumper; ng; Amoneeta Saunooke; Saunooke 33 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 River (Listed as Tuckasiegee Township) Ensley, Myrtle Froust: 16 Feb 1919; Avery Co., NC; 20 Oct; Tale Davis; ng; Unknown; ng; H. D. Ensley; ng; Jackson Sylva Pruitt, Buren Jason; 21 Aug 1911; Macon Co., NC; 24 Jan; Jason Pruitt; ng; Elsie Dills; ng; Mrs. B. J. Pruitt; Franklin; Franklin Jones, Joseph Francis; 20 Mar 1944; Dilisboro; 28 Jan; Unknown; ng; Margaret Jones; ng; Margaret Jones; Dillsboro; Parris Cowan, Alice Emery; 12 Jan 1907; Greens Creek; 3 Jan; Bill Tom Deitz; ng; Emery Wilson; ng; Cicero Cowan; ng; East Fork Dillard, Jerry Thomas: 13 Feb 1935; Jackson Co.; 6 Apr; Ralph Dillard; ng; Edith Woodard; ng; Jack Dillard; Sylva; Dillard McDowell, Warren Thedore; 4 Mar 1922; Sylva; 18 May; Walter McDowell; ng; Gertrude Gather: ng; Gertrude McDowell; Sylva; Cullowhee Maxwell, Terry Lee: 28 May 1953; Sylva; 29 May; Harold James Maxwell; ng; Ellen Delores Fannon; ng; Harold James Maxwell; Sylva; Green Hills, Asheville Bryson, Harrold Daniel: 7 Nov 1920; Webster; 27 May; Len Stillwell; ng; Charlotte Bryson; ng; Charlotte Bryson; Asheville; Old Field Mathis, Brenda Sue: 4 Oct 1952; Jackson Co.; 6 May; Elbert Mathis; ng; Ineze Mills; ng; Elbert Mathis; Sylva; Addie Hensley, Chas. Edward; 14Jul 1947; Clayton, GA; 31 May; Walter Hensley; ng; Junita Stewart; ng; Walter Hensley; ng; ng (Cashiers) Montieth, Roger Conrad; 23 Nov 1940; Sylva; 13 Oct; Roger Montieth; ng; Unreadable Cagle; ng; Roger Montieth; Sylva; Keener Bumgarner, Alene: 20 May 1922; Erastus, NC; 18 Oct; John B. Bryson; ng; Lena Coggins; Clyde Bumgamer; ng; Pine Creek Burleson, Carrie Lee: 8 May 1904; Mitchell Co.; 30 Dec; John B. Burleson; ng; Blanche Fortner; ng; Mrs. Sam W. Allison; Sylva; ng 1954 Canada Phillips, Birdie Cumile: 21 May 1904; Argura, NC; 21 Jun; Coleman Ashe; ng; Martha Broom; ng; Shurman Phillips; Argura; Rock Bridge Cashiers Bradley, Joseph Douglas: 29 Mar 19543; NC; 1 Jun; John Bradley; ng; Eva Mae Cox; John Bradley; Cashiers; Zachary Charleston Township (Cherokee) Barfield, Brenda Gail: 11 Aug 1954; Cherokee; 20 Dec; James Barfield; ng; Lilly Mae Smith; ng; Lilly Barfield; ng; Right's Creek Dillsboro Pangle, George Washington: 5 Oct 1953; Dillsboro; 13 Mar; Claude Pangle; ng; Mellie Wilson; ng; Claude Pangle; Dillsboro; Locust Field Gibson, Jessie Brooks: 18 May 1913; Jackson Co.; 28 Sep; Charlie Brooks; ng; Lula Cabe; ng; Glenn Gibson; Dillsboro; Long Branch Hamburg Fassmore, John Lensey: 14 Nov 1938; NC; 30 May; Jesse Passmore; ng; Ethel Lark; ng; Jesse Passmore; Glenville; Glenville Shook, Namoni Cumile: 7 Jun 1928; Tuckasegee; 29 Nov; Sherlie Ashe; ng; Myrtle Melton; ng; Fate Shook; Glenville; Melton 34 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Qualla Queen, Nancy: 9 Nov 1952; Jackson Co.; 4 Mar; Bascom Queen; ng; Martha Bird; ng; Tribal Census Records; Family Plot, Cherokee George, Benjamin F.: 24 Oct 1913; Jackson Co.; 6 Jun; Unknown; ng; Martha George; ng; Sallie Mae George; Whittier; George Family, Cherokee Gass, Horace Porter: 28 Mar 1900; Swain Co.; 28 Jul; Horace Gass; ng; Tina Conner; ng; W. T. Gass; Whittier; Thomas River Queen, William Horace: 8 Nov 1900; NC; 15 Feb; Jasper Queen; ng; Nonella Shular; ng; D. B. Queen; Liberty, SC; Silver Brook Cemetery, Anderson, SC Watson, Mary Jane: 1 Mar 1049; Jackson Co.; 14 Aug; R. O. Watson; ng; Nina Melton; ng; R. O. Watson; East La Porte; Wike Scotts Creek Crawford, Mrs. Cora Fisher: 25 Jul 1923; Jackson Co.; 23 Apr; Ranzy Fisher; ng; Pearl Mills; ng; Mr. Ed Crawford; Sylva; Crawford Family Sylva Ammons, Bertie Ann; 25 Apr 1935; East La Porte; 15 Jan; Eugen Rogers; ng; Annie Bennett; ng; Nerman Ammons; ng; Lovedale Carter, Fred Ray: 18 Aug 1953; Franklin, NC; 26 Jan; Luther Williams; ng; Bonnie Williams; ng; Sherman Carter; ng; Franklin Shook, Geoffrey Dean: 30 Jan 1954; NC; 31 Jan; Vaughn Shook; ng; Fay Holden; ng; Vaughn Shook; Glenville; Rock Bridge Cope, James Edwin: 13 Dec 1953; Sylva; 23 Feb; Barton Cope; ng; Bonnie Monteith; ng; Barton Cope; Sylva; Keener Watson, Ina Ottetia: 9 Mar 1939; Erastus, NC; 13 Feb; Grover Watson; ng; Leona Franklin; ng; Grover Watson; Erastus; Pine Creek Miller, Charles Junior: 23 Sep 1925; Sylva; 27 May; Charlie Miller; ng; Minnie Winstead; ng; W. L. Clawson; ng; Parris Jacobs, Roger Manuel: 2 May 1954; Sylva; 12 May; Manuel Jacobs; ng; Ann Duvall; ng; Mrs. Manuel Jacobs; Dillsboro; Parris Simpson, Thomas Henry: 20 May 1905; Toccoa, GA; 26 Jun; Thomas Saunders Simpson; ng; Mary Dean Allman; ng; Mrs. T. H. Simpson; Cullowhee; Cullowhee Gates, Barbara Jean: 21 Jun 1954; NC; 22 Jun; Robert Lee Gates; ng; Bardell Stiles; ng; Robert Lee Gates; Dillsboro; Dix Creek Bryant, Jess Franklin: 15 Aug 1914; Salem, SC; 31 Jul; Ruflis Bryant; ng; Ella Chapman; ng; Carol Bryant; Cullowhee; Salem, SC Shuler, David Daniel: 9 Feb 1908; Swain Co.; 5 Sep; James David Shuler; ng; Ellen Mills; ng; Lora Shuler; Dillsboro; Parris Conner, Victor, Jr.: 21 Feb 1938; NC; 5 Sep; Victor Lee Conner; ng; Eva Ashe; ng; Mrs. Victor Conner; Cullowhee; Tuckaseigee Huff, Leonard Orr: 5 Aug 1906; Mars Hill, NC; 25 Dec; Joseph B. Huff, Sr.; ng; Cornelia B. Huff; ng; Joseph B. 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If you'd like to receive Journeys as a PDF, just email editor@jcgsnc.org and let us know. 36 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 List of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board for Military Duty, 1917-1918 This is a list of men from Jackson County, ordered to report for Military duty. Mens names, date to report, where to report. Transcribed 2020 by Sanji Talley Watson. Adams, Andy 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Adams, Wm. A. 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Adams, Wm. Crawford 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson Aiken, Enlar 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Aiken, John 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Alexander, Bowen 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Alexander, D. V. 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Alexander, John Wesley 5 Aug 1918 Camp Wadsworth Alexander, Will 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf Allen, John 30 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson Alley, Felix Morris 26 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson Allison, Coleman Birch 5 Sep 1918 Camp Jackson Allman, Frank 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Arrington, Lenore Bruce 14 Feb 1918 Camp American University Ashe, E. F. 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson Ashe, James 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf Ashe, James Elisha 1 Oct 1918 Sate Trinity College Ashe, John Emanuel 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf Ashe, Luster 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Ashe, Raymond Theo 19N0V 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Ashe, Raymond Theo 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson Ashe, Roy Robt 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson Ashe, Thomas 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Ashe, Thomas Walter 26 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson Ashe, Wm. Donaldson 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Bailey, Clyde 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Baird, Vernon 30 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson Barnes, Hurshal 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Barnes, Robt. 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Barnes, Robt. Cary Odell 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Battle, John Bascombe 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson Bennett, Dock 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf Bentley, Joe 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Bentley, Joel 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson Berry, James 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Biddix, Wm. Walter 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Biddix, Wm. Walter 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson Bigwitch, Charlie 19 Nov 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Bishop, Hugh Neal 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Blakeley, Chas. Andrew 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Blanton, Thos. Posey 6Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf Blanton, Wm. Ransom 26 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson Bradbum, Chaple 19 Nov 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Bradbum, Mallie 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson Bradley, Andrew 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf Bradley, Bedford 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson Bradley, Bedford 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Bradley, Morgan J. 10 May 1918 Fort Screven Bridges, Richmond P. 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson 37 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Brooks, Joe Lee M. Brown, Claude Brown, Jesse Brown, Robinson Browning, John C. Bryson, Bascomb Bryson, Claud Bryson, Erastus Bryson, Geo. Robert Bryson, Harley McDuff Bryson, Harley McDuff Bryson, Kimsey Bryson, Samuel Richard Buchanan, Clyde Davis Buchanan, Edgar Buchanan, Garland Buchanan, Rufus Buchanan, V. C. Bumgamer, Fred Chas. Bumgamer, Lewis Wilbum Bumgamer, Roy Carl Burch, Melvin S. Cabe, Frank A. Cabe, Walter Cagle, Otho V. Campbell, Andrew Stover Cannon, Lewis Henry Casey, Robert Thomas Cathey, Benj. Hamilton Jr. Cathey, H. Posey Chastain, Em Childers, Carl Childers, Carl Christy, Norman Robt. Clayton, Ceyman Cogdill, Edgar S. Coggins, Lloyd Coggins, Rector Coggins, Samuel Edward Coggins, Thomas Cooper, Arnold Cope, Andy L. Cope, Robert Lee Corbin, Frank Cotter, David Claire Cowan, Coleman Cowan, Donald Cowan, Thad Coward, Andy Coward, Dillard Crawford, Geo. Nelson Crawford, James Avery Crawford, Jarvis W. L. Crawford, Jarvis W. L. Crisp, Lonnie M. Crow, Bird 6Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 29 Mar 1918 Camp Grant 29 Mar 1918 Camp Grant 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 5 Sep 1918 Camp Jackson 12 Oct 1918 Sate A and E College 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 1 Oct 1918 Sate A and E College 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 19N0V 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 5 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 29 Sep 1918 Camp Grant 26 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 10 May 1918 Fort Screven 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 5 Aug 1918 Camp Wadsworth 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 1 Oct 1918 Wake Forest College Sate 1 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson 30 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson 5 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 19 Nov 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 19 Nov 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 38 Journeys Through Jackson Crow, John T. 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Crow, Robt. 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Crow, Styles T. 24 Jul 1918 Camp Jackson Cunningham, Samuel 5 Aug 1918 Camp Wadsworth Cunningham, Severe 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Cunningham, W. H. 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Daves, Nathan 26 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson Davis, George 5 Aug 1918 Camp Wadsworth Davis, Walter 28 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson Deitz, Jack 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson Deitz, Jake W. 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Deitz, Richmond 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Dillard, Benj. Franklin 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Dillard, Daniel H. 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson Dillard, Raleigh Howard 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson Dillard, William Garland 1 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson Dills, Cicero 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson Dills, Frank 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Dills, George N. 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson Dills, Judson Candler 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf Dyer, Wm. Champ 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Earley, Randolph 5 Aug 1918 Camp Wadsworth Elders, Candler 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson Elders, Candler 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Elders, Harley 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Elders, Joe 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson Ellenburg, Travis Melton 5 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Enloe, Luther 29 Mar 1918 Camp Grant Enlow, Will 17 Jun 1918 Camp Sherman Ensley, Oscar 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Ensley, Reuben 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Evans, George 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson Evitt, Dock Richmond 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson Evitt, Mack 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Extine, Harley 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Fincher, Herman 28 Mar 1918 Camp Jackson Fowler, Jones 5 Aug 1918 Camp Wadsworth Fox, Cail 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf Fox, Griffin 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Fox, Griffin 5 Sep 1918 Camp Humphreys Fox, Merritt 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson Fox, Merritt 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Fox, Will 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson Fox, Zollie 5 Sep 1918 Camp Jackson Franklin, Elias Raymond 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson Franks, George 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock Franks, John Henry 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson Galloway, Justice B. 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Galloway, Justice B. 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson Gashe, Raymond 19 Nov 1917 Columbia, South Carolina George, Logan 19 Nov 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Gibbs, Charlie Hampton 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson Gibbs, Wm. Asbury 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina Gidney, Landrum Hilliard 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson Green, Allen 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf Green, Felix Ethel 5 Aug 1918 Syracuse, New York Winter 2020 39 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Green, Golman L. Green, Grover Cleveland Green, Jerry Green, Joseph L. Green, Lenoire Green, Wm. Benjamin Gribble, David C. Guffy, Chas. Eugene Gunter, Julius Hall, Jimerson Hall, John Hurshal Hall, Norman Harris, Odus Henderson, R. C. Henry, Elsie McKinley Henry, Elsie McKinley Hensley, Baxter Hensley, Isaac Henson, Laurence Henson, Rufus Benjamin Henson, Wm. Thomas Higdon, Archalius Wm. Higdon, Benj. Franklin Higdon, Cornelius W. Hipps, Leonidas Joseph Hooper, Dillard McKinley Hooper, Joe Hooper, Lloyd Hooper, Lloyd Hooper, Orie Hooper, Ransom E. Hombuckle, Israel C. Howell, J. O. Hoyle, Dock Hillard Hyatt, James Hyatt, John Hyatt, Pearlie Asbury Jackson, Walter Henry Jamison, Ernest Wm. Jennings, Sam Jones, Carrie Jones, Elsie Richard Jones, Fred Jones, George Washington Jones, Robt Jones, Walter L. Keener, Adam Leroy Keener, James Ernest Keener, Rufus Kellar, Chas. H. Kellar, Wm. Harry Key, J. Clyde Knight, John Percival Lambert, John Corbett Ledford, Will Lemmings, Robert 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 14 Feb 1918 Camp American University 19 Sep 1917 Columbia. South Carolina 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson 5 Sep 1918 Camp Jackson 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 1 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson 30 Aug 1918 Camp Grene (near Charlotte) 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 5 Aug 1918 Camp Wads worth 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 19 Sep 1917 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 15 Jul 1918 Clemson College 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 19 Nov 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 4 Oct 1917 Camp Jackson 29 Mar 1918 Camp Grant 29 Mar 1918 Camp Grant 5 Sep 1918 Camp Jackson 5 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 25 May 1918 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson 6 Jul 1918 Camp Greenleaf 1 Apr 1918 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 5 Sep 1918 Camp Jackson 5 Aug 1918 Camp Wadsworth 2 Oct 1918 University North Carolina Sate 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson 19N0V 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 25 Jun 1918 Camp Jackson 25 Aug 1918 Camp Jackson 9 Oct 1918 SATC 5 Sep 1918 Camp Jackson 19 Sep 1917 Columbia, South Carolina 24 Jul 1918 Camp Hancock 40 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 This is My Life An Autobiography by Ralph Lindon Allen Edited by Robert Jordan Allen Where go the years. Down what tunnel of time are poured the precious days. We are young and the fires withii us bum bright. All the world lies before us and nothing is too great to be done. No challenge too awesome, thei suddenly the days are no more. The years are gone and the time that remains is little indeed Ralph Lindon Allen 8 Jul 1936-2 Oct 2017 Early Years I was bom in Macon County, NC in the Cowee Valley on part of property settled by the Allen, Leatherman, Gibson and Welch pioneers. To William Scott Allen and Eva Buchanan Allen, 8 Jul 1936 on the property of the Sheep Knob. Memories go back to what we were told. Times were hard. The big depression of our time was not completely over. Memories go back to very early childhood. I recall we would sit around on cold days cracking walnuts and picking the goodies out. Some Mama would use in walnut cakes. The others were taken to Franklin and sold in stores for money or traded for something needed at home. I recall going with Edward to the mountain to check the traps that were set to catch small animals or going with Daddy to the creek to check traps for mink and muskrats. These were skinned then stretched on boards and tanned out. Then Daddy shipped them some place up North to the fur companies. Daddy used to say a fifty -cent piece looked like, and was, as big as a wagon wheel. Times were really hard. Money was hard to come by. I can recall when the news came to the valley about Pearl Harbor being bombed by Japan. We were told that our Navy was wiped out. We had no idea where Pearl Harbor was. And we heard the Japs were little yellow people that wore glasses made from wire. Times were hard before this. Recovery was slow in coming after the depression. World War II set everything back again. Food was what you could grow for yourself Then every item was rationed that was needed. I recall going to the store at the Old Leatherman Post Office and everyone in the family had a book of coupons. If you had a coupon and the money to pay for whatever you needed, good. But, if you had no coupon, then no item was purchased. I recall very few motor Vehicles in the valley. Gas was just about impossible to buy. Tires were patched over and over. All of this was due to the United States building an Army, Air Force and Navy. All money was for that purpose. My first trip to Franklin with my Dad was around the time my Grandma was in the hospital. She lost a leg due to blood poisoning Moving on, Worid War II came to an end. We moved from the Cowee Valley to Jackson County, Greens Creek, the Bradley Fork area. I can recall going to the old Cowee School with Pauline and Barbara. Back then you could go with your brothers or sisters. But schooling started for me in Jackson County at the Savannah School. We would walk to where Grandpa had a little country store to catch the bus. When winter time came we carried a lantern to the store and left it so we could have it to get back home after school. The house we lived in was a four room, small, like other houses of the day. Six of us lived in it. My brother, Jimmy was bom there. There was lots of love in that home and so many memories. Words can never express them. Daddy was always working someplace cutting timber. Mama raised a garden and raised us kids. On wash day, water was boiled outside in what we called the wash house. Clothes were boiled and rinsed in hot water. Pauline and Barbara helped with that work. We had hogs to feed, cows to milk and com to hoe. Tere was always firewood to cut for heating and cooking every day. Edward and Daddy started walking back to Macon County to Cut acid wood.' They left home before daybreak. They walked up the creek trail to the Lick ^ During the 1940s and 1950s, in middle Tennessee it was common to see tnickloads of dead logs being hauled, presumably to the railroad, and these were commonly called "acid wood." I remember that as a boy in Sparta, TN, when I first observed those trucks of dead timber and asked a man who told me it was dead chestnut and was called acid wood. He said that the blight had killed all of the American Chestnut, and this was the harvest. It was not whole tree trunks like we see today, but gray, with no bark; it reminded me of rails used in rail fences. As I was contemplating the possible resurgence of American Chestnuts, I remember the truck loads of acid wood and thought 1 would see if the term was known to the dictionary. (Quote from http;//www.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/acid%20wood) 41 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Log Gap and then on to Mica City Creek. They worked all day and returned home after dark. Later on, I walked the same trail. Stop and think, this was before chainsaw day. All work was done with axe, cross cut, go devil iron wedges and gluts^ made from Locust trees. Nothing was easy work. Logs were pulled to the road with mule or horse. Daddy's old mule. Kit, made the same trip Daddy did. It's been said for every dollar or mouth full of food this faithful mule had a part in it. I recall going to church at the old church on Greens Creek. A favorite time of mine was Christmas. We always had a play for the service. Also, a Christmas tree. Gifts were small, but everyone drew names and at Christmas most folks had a bag of oranges. This being the only time we had them in the year. We used to go out just before Christmas to the Turkey Knob, just above the church, to gather burch berries to put on the icing of the cake. Then we would pop po{)com and string it on a thread to decorate the tree. We also used popcorn to make popcorn balls to eat. This was one source of sweets for Christmas. You can say we grew the popcorn in the garden. We planted the cane see and grew the cane. We helped make the syrup and made our own sweets for Christmas. Of course, we had holly and mistletoe for decoration. Christmas was a happy time at home. I recall going to the store. Grandpa also had a com mill there to grind com for everyone in the community. For that he had a little box to take out his toll. This was his part for grinding com. Then he ground his part, bagged it and sold it to people that had not grown com. 1 recall being inside Bert Ashe's com mill. On down the road the creek turned a wheel that tumed the grinding stones to grind the com for meal. This was the last water powered mill on Green's Creek. Grandpa's mill was pulled with an old A Model Ford engine. At the Jot Em Down was where I drank my first ice cold drink. Grandpa had got an old box from Bryson City Ice Co., some big blocks of ice and a few Red Rock Cola' But ice was hard to keep without any way to keep it from melting. This was in the old-time way. No electricity. No roads. Few vehicles. Still, we walked every place we went. Carl Cagle had an old A Model. Gudger Buchanan usually had an old junker of some kind. Else Buchanan kept a wood truck all the time. Daddy had got the acid wood on Mica City Creek so we moved to the Troy Hurst house. This was the last house on the head of the creek. I was in the fourth grade in school at Cowee. I walked to the Liberty Baptist Church to catch the bus and I walked back home after school. This was a long road that became a mud hole in bad weather. Edward had quit school to help Daddy cut wood. Pauline and Barbara were married around this time. Jack went to the state of Washington. I recall that Barbara and 1 walked to where Molly Green lived near the Ned Hill Gap. Barbara's mail had been put in the wrong mailbox. There were several letters from Jack from the state of Washington. Mica City Creek was a good trout stream. Edward and 1 caught some good rainbow trout from it. Daddy's wood cutting went well. Things got a little better. We moved back to Brashy Fork in Jackson County. I finished the fourth grade at Savamnah. The teacher was Mary Jane Dillard. The things we had to play with ere things we made ourselves. Wooden wheel wagons were one. This was a job. To start with, we would get the old crosscut saw"* which was most times dual. Then we had to go and find a Pine or Black gum tree just the right size. If it is was a Pine we had to have kerosene to keep the saw wet to keep it from binding when we were sawing. After that, we would go to Uncle Davew Buchanan and borrow and old augor to drill the holes in the wheels. About one inch holes. This was a slow job, and to drill the holes in the center of the wheels was very hard with nothing to measure with. But when this was done, we went back to the woods to find straight Dogwood for axles. Again, this was a slow process to make the axles to fit the wheels. Then to find a coupling pole was no easy thing. Then some boards to make a seat. Then a shaft for a steering wheel. We needed some hay wire for our steering cables. Then we would put it all together. Nails were hard to find. All had been used before. It is hard to drive a nail that has been straightened a lot of times into seasoned Dogwood. Try it sometime. By this time the process of wagon building, you only need to put the wheels on the axles. After all this work, if you got in a hurry to ride you would pick up a nail and drive it into the axle. But guess what, it would split the axle. But with no small drill to drill the axle, we would use wood to pin the axle to hold the wheel on. Later we heated a wire and burned a hole for the pin. Many hours on Sunday aftemoon, we had a lot of fun pushing or pulling to get to ride a short way. A grape vine swing was a good pastime. I recall some good ones. Also, bird hunting with a slingshot, a lot of evenings and Saturdays, that was what we did. A good rubber tire tube was worth a lot to us in those days. That and a ^ (n.) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing. The red Rock Company was founded in 1885 by Lee Hagan and G. T. Dodd of Atlanta, Georgia. Dodd initially introduced ginger ale as the company's first product, which became popular in the Southern US. By 1938, Red Rock was an early leader in the distribution of carbonated beverages, distributing 12-ounce bottles by the way of a distribution network of 200 bottlers. By 1947, Red Rock products were bottled in 45 of the 48 US states but by 1958, the company's success began to decline. ^http/://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red Rock %28beverage%29) A crosscut saw (thwart saw) is any saw designed for cutting wood perpendicular to (across) the wood grain. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosscut saw) 42 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 good set of forks meant a lot. A short time later we started hunting. Grandpa Buchanan let us borrow a single shot 22 to start hunting with. He also gave us ammo. It was hard to have any in those days. But I have gone hunting with only five or six .22 shells. But, when we killed a squirrel or rabbit it was food for the family. Fishing was the same way. This was meat for the table. Later on my favorite places to hunt were in the area of Licklog Gap, Big Knob, Ruben's Nest, Big Rocky Knob, Gipson Fields, Willyridge, above the Tom Field, Big Field, Dix Knob, Little Branch, Gosslin Branch, Bill Knob, Cherry Tree Spring Gap, Round Knob, and Edd Cabe Road. All of these and more are where I spent lots of happy hours. When things were simple. My first work to make money was picking wild strawberries. The Mead Corporation' in Sylva purchased a D$ Bulldozer to build roads to the head of Brashey Fork. Bill Buchanan ran it for years. Raymond Sutton worked for Mead Corp. He talked some of us into the strawberry business. It would take all morning to pick a gallon. Mr. Sutton would pay us 10 cents a gallon. This only lasted a few days. The next job was peeling Hemlock bark and getting it to the road for Mr. Else Buchanan. This was over the top of the falls on Gosslin Branch. For two dollars a day. Me and Vernon Buchanan worked together on this job. A short while later Else Buchanan set up an old saw mill around from where he lived in his pasture on Pee Wee Branch. Daddy went to work sawing lumber. This mill was not very good to saw good lumber with. He traded for a better one. We set this one below Author Trainthan's bam just around the curve. The crew was Daddy as sawer, I was off bearer and ran the edger. Tommy McMahan lumed logs, moved saw dust and kept water in the old commercial buick engine. Vernon Buchanan ran the cut off saw. He cut firewood and bad ends. Garland Green handled and stacked lumber. Elsie and Clyde Green hauled logs and lumber before we started milling. We worked with Elsie Buchanan cutting acid wood. One job was on Wayah Mountain in Macon County on Rough Fork Creek. At this time, Elsie had three trucks. He drove one. Glenn and Russell Buchanan drove the other two. But, it was a long trip on bad roads all the way to Mead in Sylva. Later, we went to cutting logs. This time we set the saw mill just down the creek from the Jot Em Down. We sawed lots of lumber at this location. The equipment was better. First we used a Buda Diesel Engine, but it was just about impossible to start on a cold morning. Then we moved this mill to Hoopers Creek near Fletcher. About the same crew was still running the mill. Elsie sold it at that location. We were working for about twenty dollars a week. Sometimes we got paid and sometimes we didn't, so we started looking for other work. Going West Me, Vernon Buchanan and Tommy McMahan started working with Frank and Bill Jones on the Biltomore Forest. We stayed in an old camp near Skyland, where 1-26 is today. In the process of time, Vernon had gone to Arizona and was working in the copper mines in Lowell. My brother, Edward, got out of the Army about this time. Vernon had called and said he had us a job in Arizona in the copper mine. We found out later he was getting homesick. Anyway, Edward picked me up at Skyland and the next day, we went west. Vernon's brother, Carol James went with us. Back in the mid 50's all roads were two lanes. We took US 64 from Memphis to Little Rock, the long way across Texas, Dallas to El Paso, Roswell< New Mexico to Douglas, Arizona. To Lowell and Bisbee. Vernon was living at the fire station. We got a room at an old hotel on Main Street in Lowell. In a day or so, we found out the copper mine was not hiring anyone. So the next few days, we started looking for work elsewhere. We were at the unemployment office and as we were leaving an old lady motioned for us. This was when we met Mrs. Breese. She told us that she had a house we could live in and work for her until we found work. We did not accept her offer at this. We went to where Carl Bud Buchanan lived. He was a miner working in the Phelp Dodge Mine. When we told him about Mrs. Breese, he said he knew of her and she was well to do. So the next day, we moved into her adobe house. Not too long after that Edward, Carol and myself all went to work in the mines, on the 2966 feet level. That elevator felt like it fell that far before it stopped. We got Clyde Green a job with a moving outfit then he joined us. We made our first trip to Mexico. On one trip Edward got stopped for speeding. Had some problems getting out that time. We went to the wonderland of rocks, up to Tombstone, Benson. Again, all roads were two lane. Alfcio Mine and Mill pulled a strike, but we stayed around a while. Mrs. Breese like to go to the rodeo in Sat. or Sun. Headed North ® Located east of downtown Sylva, Tannery Flats is named for the Harris-Rees Tannery, which operated on the location until 1953. The Mead Corporation opened a factory next to the tannery in 1928 and later bought the old tannery. In 1955, Mead expanded and relocated NC 107 and Scotts Creek about 100 feet. This called for the demolition of several buildings, and an A&P supermarket was built on the "reclaimed" land. Mead closed in the mid-1980's, and Jackson Paper opened a few years later. The neighborhood extends along Chipper Curve Road and Skyland Drive (both old US 19/23), and is where Bryson Parks is located as well. Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Me, Edward, Vem and Clyde loaded up in the old 51 Ford and started to Washington State. Vem left his car with Carol James. We went to San Diego then turned up the coastal highway on 101. The longest road any place. We stopped in Forks, Washington on the 4*^ of July that year. We stayed at the Far West Motel and left Forks the next day. We stopped where Edward had lived with Jack and Barbara when he and Jack worked nearby. Went on to Port Angeles and took a ferry boat to Oak Island. We crossed Deception Pass to main land. To Skagit Valley Road to Sedro Woolley. We got a room at a hotel in Sedro Woolley and ran into Holmes Allison the next day. The next time we heard of Holmes he was back on Greens Creek, NC. He had to move fi-om hotel due to a shortage of funds. We started looking for work that day. Logging companies were starting slow this year. We went to Hamilton Division of Scott Paper Co. and got a promise for later work for them. All four of us, Edward, Clyde, Vem and myself found a place to park the car, a 1951 Ford. This was across the Skagit River, East of Sedro-Woolley. This turned out to be home for a while. At bed time we all sat and slept in this 51 Ford. Try that sometime. A dirt road ran up the East side of Skagit River. There was some pavement in places. The only place to cross the river was at Concrete. We drove this road a few times. Gas was getting hard to buy. So we split up. Me and Vem started hitchhiking but mostly walking. We walked from Lyman to Hamilton. We had talked to some people at a picnic table at the city park in Lyman and found out that one farm near Hamilton was starting to pick strawberries. So to Hamilton we go. When we got to the strawberry patch, the people picking berries were Mexican women. We started walking back to Lyman, About half-way, 1 asked Vem if he had any money to keep gas in his car hoping to find work soon. Vem and I decided to go back to the field and ask for a job. When we asked the lady said she had more pickers than she needed. We stayed around for a while away from the pickers and ate strawberries for lunch that day. Then it was back to Lyman Park. To where Edward and Clyde was going to pick Vem and I up. When we got to the park we went to a small store on the right side of the highway. A man eating lunch there 1 bought a pack of saltine crackers from him with the last dime I had. Me and Vem crossed the road to the picnic table and ate lunch while we waited for Edward and Clyde. Then we went back to our best parking place on the Skagit. We continued looking for work. Then we found a job at a big sawmill in Sedro Woolley. Willis Rogers and Person we had worked two or three days. We were celebrating a little at the Four Comers Bar and got into a fight with some local boys. Vemon pulled a knife. Just about the time the law arrived. Put Vem in the back seat. I tried to get him out but there were no door handles on the police car. So off to the Skagit County Jail, Vem went. The next day was Saturday and we had no money to get Vem out of jail with. We called one of the boss men from at work. A trial was set for that day and we got Vem taken care of. I have wondered many times what the boss thought of his employees but everything worked out fine. Edward, Clyde, Vem and I all worked on the Green Chain' The first few days we were four of eight men. We went into work one day and two men had been moved to other jobs. Then two more were taken off, so the four of us kept the Green Chain clear. I worked one day in the kiln dry department handling grooved flooring. Folks, this was the hardest days work I ever did. We got word that Scott Paper Co. was going to start its operations at the Hamilton division. Remember, we were still living in the 51 Ford car on the banks of the Skagit River at Clear Lake Bridge. We were in Sedro Woolley one afternoon and someone came mnning to Edward and started talking. It was Alice Cabe Cagle, who married J. P. Cagle. Alice was raised on Cabe Road in Savannah. We all knew her mother, Mrs. Cabe had worked at the school at Savannah. We were invited to come and eat supper with the Cagles on Saturday night. They lived in Lyman. Alice must have seen we were hungry and that was the first meal we had sat down to in a long time. J. P. was working in the timber already. We got to talking. Alice was the boss and in a little while she had everything worked out. They lived in a large two story house. We could use the four rooms on the 2"** floor and she would wash our clothes and cook meals for us and we could keep something to pack for lunch. We also used and old 30 something model truck to get to work for a while. J. P. Was a brother to Frank Cagle who always lived at Green's Creek, NC. He was married to Ruby Green. Barbara and Jack had lived in Lyman for sometime and were good friends with J. P. and Alice. So we lived in Lyman with the Cagles. We paid them thirty five dollars a week for room and board. Alice told us the day we left she saved a few dollars for the first time ever/ This, my fiiend, is what you call good folks and someone willing to help others. I'll always remember that family. Back to North Carolina A green chain is a type of lumber delivery system that can be used in a sawmill. The green chains purpose is to collect the final product of the mill and move it at a controlled rate to be graded and sorted. In the 19"' and early to late lO"" century, the green chain was used by people. Men would stand alongside and pull lumber that matches the required dimensions and place it in piles. In short, the workers sorted the lumber. Modem sawmills use automatic systems, such as the lumber dropping through the chain into large slings, where it can be picked up and moved to a staging area to dry. Most likely called the green chain because the umber is green and has not been seasoned. 44 Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 Time went by fast. Had to rebuild motor on Edward's 51 Ford. It was the first engine we had worked on. Everything worked out ok. With some help from J. P. we got the car started the first time and went to work one Friday morning. It was raining in the valley. Snow was falling on the twin peaks, twin sisters across from where we worked that day. All of us decided to collect all of our pay and go back to NC. Vem and I had purchased a 41 Desota and we returned it to a used car lot in Lyman. We loaded our clothes and got ready to go to NC in the morning. We decided to go the northern route. We were just lucky to make it at the Stevens Pass that day over into Eastern Washington and into Idaho. We stopped in Butte, Montana to see J. L. Buchanan but were unable to locate him. We went on to North Dakota, then to South Dakota and turned to the southeast road to North Carolina, stopping for gas and food along the way. I stayed around home for a while and helped daddy log some on Tellico in Macon County. Edward and I went to Michigan the last day of February hunting for a week. We put in lots of applications but never did get called to work. Most likely due to no address. We were sleeping in the Ford car again. On returning home the car started running hot in Jelaco, Tennessee. The head gasket was leaking. We kept putting water in the car and made it home ok. We fixed the car and went back to cutting timber again. Later that year, Me, Edward, Vem and Clyde let for California to go job hunting. This time to Areata. It was a slow time in this area. Most jobs in the mountains were saw milling or timber. We got a motel room in McKinleyville, California. We visited with Dear! and Elva Mae FrizzeL We visited the Redwood Forest. Me and Clyde made one trip with Henry Jr. Hall across the mountains to Redwood Creek where he was hauling logs from Areata. It was an all-day trip. Got a chance at a job way back in the mountains at a sawmill. The logs were pulled by Cat tractors from the woods to the mill. Edward and Vem got a job bringing the logs in and Clyde and I were on the yard cutting the logs to whatever length the mill was cutting that day. I worked about four hours that day and told the boss to keep the pay for himself We went back to Areata that day. Edward and Vem went back to work at the mill the next moming and worked all summer at that job. They were sleeping in the car again but started building a house to stay in as long as they worked. Before going back to the state of Washington, Clyde and I made up our minds to retum to North Carolina. I had enough money to buy a bus ticket to Sylva. Clyde had money wired from home to him. Like me, it was just enough to buy a ticket home. Home was thirty-two hundred miles and five days away. We were on the same bus from Los Angeles, Califomia to Saint Louis, Missouri. There was very little food on this trip. A lady that was on the same bus paid for two cheeseburgers for us. It was the first real food we had. Ask Clyde sometime how good it was. We switched buses. When we got to Cherokee, we found out the road to Sylva was being rebuilt. In order to keep from having to go to Waynesville then to Sylva, we decided to walk. And walk we did, to the Gateway. Just beyond Harry Shelton Exxon we got off the road and into a water ditch and slept until after daylight Sunday moming. Again, we started walking until a boy from Nations Creek picked us up. After a long week with no money, no food and no clothes we made it to Green's Creek. Come Monday moming it was time to find a job. Eke Buchanan had set up an old sawmill on Pee Wee Branch. Dad, Else, Toranny Mack had been sawing a little lumber but the mill was giving lots of problems. Uncle Tom, Daddy's brother, had a job on Tellico in Macon County. So we went to that job to help out with some extra-large logs some way below the road. We used two large horses with ropes and tackle blocks to get then to the landing. The one thing I recall most was Ben Jiles helping us. At lunch time just about everyday he would catch rattlesnakes and he tied them up at the log yard. I don't recall how many snakes we killed on that job. We finished that job and moved up Bumingtown road to the next job. Marriage Gail Brooks and I had been going together for sometime and we decided to get married. So, the date was set. We loaded up in a 51 Dodge and set out to Wall Hollow (Wahalla), South Carolina. We stopped to eat lunch and went back to the car. Guess what, the car would not start. Gail got behind the wheel while I got behind the car and pushed it off and luckily it started. We went to the Courthouse the next thing. We were married and came back to Jackson County by NC 28 to Highlands and Franklin. To Sylva and to the Old Davis Motel just below Dicks Creek. We spent the night there. The next day being Sunday, we presented ourselves to Gail's family. We lived with Gail's Mom and Dad for some time. (Walter Brooks and Helen Bradley.) Gail was driving the school bus and going to school and I was logging on Bumingtown in Macon County. Times were hard for us. I worked for Bill Dillard for a time helping build John Parris' house and the phone company building across from the old City Hall in Sylva. Edward had married recently to Betty Lewis and was working at Erlanger Mills in Lexington, NC. When he came home one weekend, I went back with him to Lexington. Gail Did not go at this time. 1 went to work at Erlanger Cotton Mill. It was all new to me. This was one of the hottest places 1 had ever worked. I started hauling filling for the loom battery and this gave me a little time out of the weave room where it was so hot. After a while I purchased 1950 Olds Coupe and found an apartment at Century Oaks on the Journeys Through Jackson Winter 2020 second floor. I went to Sylva to pick Gail up and took her back to Century Oaks Apartments. While I was working at the cotton mill, Gail got a job at the weave room filling batteries.^ This too was a hot job. Labor wages were around 90 cents an hour. When I left, I was making $1.37 an hour. Jones Construction Company began to hire people to go to Iran to build the pipeline for oil to flow to the Persian Gulf Shed Roberts and I went to Charlotte to get a job. We were turned away due to our age, as we were too close to the draft age. Gail and I moved back to Jackson County and rented a house in Rhodes Cove. I went back to work with Daddy, Earlie Buchanan, Frank and Bill Jones. I was back in the timber again. Part of our bills was gas and horse feed and an old vehicle to get to work in. Army I went to the draft board one day to check on my draft status. I was scheduled for the next call, so I signed up for the next call. It came a few weeks later. I had been in a car wreck in this time period. I checked with my doctor and he stated that the Army would send me back home from Knoxville because of it. Me and Dewey Sutton from Dillsboro got on the Trailway Bus to Knoxville, TN. After being there for about 2 hours we were asked to step forward. The Sergeant said "In 6 years if you are luc