Patterson Reese was born 12/25/1846 in Madison County, NC to Rev. William "Billy" Reese (DOB Abt. 1800 in Spartanburg County, SC; DOD 5/29/1863 in Madison County, NC) and Mary Jane "Polly" Freeman (DOB Abt. 1801 in Henderson County, NC; DOD 2/1884 in Madison County, NC). He was the next to last of 14 children. Rev. William Reese was a pastor of Bull Creek Baptist Church and other churches. He was a pioneer Baptist minister in those days and he was a circuit riding preacher to the other churches. He was one of the history makers in Western North Carolina and he is well documented. Patterson and his siblings were raised under his father's spiritual teachings. His mother was the daughter of Rev. Moses Freeman, another pioneer Baptist preacher who founded Bull Creek Baptist Church and taught and mentored Preacher Billy Reese. So Patterson's grandfather was also a minister of the gospel.

1860 U.S. Census of Madison County, North Carolina; Roll: M653_905; Page: 327; Family History Library Film: 803905

He and all of his brothers except one, were in the War of Northern Aggression. My direct ancestor was Patterson Reese' older brother, Green Hill Reese, and I could find no record of service for him. If he didn't serve, it was probably because he had a very obvious disability because all of his brothers and brother-in-laws served on one side and/or the other. The Reese family were anti-slavery. Although some of his older brothers joined the C.S.A. Army at first, they eventually deserted and came home when their father got sick and died in 1863. Then Patterson joined them as they went over to Greeneville, Greene County, TN (Madison County is on the NC border with TN and Greene County, TN adjoins Madison) to make their way to the Union side where they joined the U.S.A. Army for the rest of the War. Patterson Reese enlisted in the U.S.A. NC 2nd Mounted Infantry, Co. B, Private. His Civil War record contained some administrative errors, listing him as both present and a deserter at the same time. Several charges of absent without leave and desertion stem from his assignments to the 3rd Mounted Infantry Regiment by General Ammen, without the knowledge of his Commander in the 2nd Regiment. His early record was cleared of the charges by Special Order 120 by General Ammen, but he was again carried on the rolls of the 2nd Regiment as a deserter while he was actually participating in the raid behind enemy lines near Waynesville, NC. These charges were cleared from his record "By an Act of Congress approved March 26, 1869, the Secretary of War was authorized and directed to remove the charges of unauthorized absence in 1864 against certain men of the 2nd N.C. Mounted Infantry arising from their detail in June, 1864 to the 3rd N.C. Mounted Infantry to assist in making a raid into the enemy's lines." He was mustered out 8/16/1865 at Knoxville, TN at the end of the war with an Honorable Discharge.

Washington National Tribune
Washington, DC
11/16/1916
A Historical Coincidence
J.C. Pickens, Soldier's Home, Cal., says that the first gun of the war was fired by the order of Gov. Pickens, of South Carolina. The last gun of the war East of the Mississippi was fired by Comrade Pickens, of North Carolina, both of the same historic family. The first statement is already a part of history. In the regimental history of the North Carolina (Confederate) it is stated that May 5, 1865, there was an engagement between the Confederates and a party of Federals at Waynesville, N.C. Of the Federals engaged, only three are still living; Calvin Maner, Weaverville, N.C.; Patterson Reese, Mayor of Mars Hill, N.C., and John C. Pickens, Soldier's Home, Cal. Pickens had the only revolver in the party, and continued to fire after the others had fired their last volley. He was a private in Co. B, 2nd N.C. Mounted Infantry, which belonged to the Union Army.

He married Rachel Elizabeth Buckner (DOB Abt. 1846 in North Carolina) in 1868 in Red Oak, Buncombe County, NC. She was the daughter of Jeremiah H. Buckner (aka "Myrd" Buckner) (DOB Abt. 1822 in Buncombe County, NC to Nimrod Buckner and Nancy Elizabeth Anderson; DOD Abt. 1894 in Buncombe County, NC) and Rachel Telitha Hughey (DOB Abt. 1825 in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana; DOD Abt. 1862 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC).

Patterson and Rachel Reese bought tracts of land on Panhandle Branch, a tributary of the French Broad River, just above Marshall, NC. Their first cabin was built at the mouth of the branch and sat astride the creek with pillars on each side. The water flowed under the cabin. They moved to a cabin on his property further up the creek that was later called the Sexton Place. His son, Robert Maxfield Reese bought a tract of land that was above his father's land and adjoined the old Anderson Buckner place. Robert lived there the rest of his life. Across Panhandle and near Robert's spring, a log schoolhouse was built, which also served as a meeting place for Grandview Baptist Church. Patterson's children attended school in this log schoolhouse. His daughter, Texana, was a teacher there before she died. His son, Arcemus, taught there one summer too. They also attended the Grandview Baptist Church. Patterson and his son, Robert Maxfield Reese, were charter members and Deacons of Grandview.






They had 9 children:

1) Texana Tabitha Reese (DOB Abt. 1869 in Madison County, NC; DOD Abt. 1896 in Madison County, NC). She and her younger brother, Albert Jerome, died of fever. Buried in an unmarked grave.

2) Robert Maxfield Reese (aka Robert Maxwell Reese) (DOB 3/26/1870 in Madison County, NC; DOD 3/16/1950 in Madison County, NC) married Florence Vianna Ensley (DOB Abt. 1873 in NC; DOD 5/15/1966 in Marshall, Madison County, NC). They had Clitus V. Reese (Duffie Pearl Hunter), Edna Lulu Reese (aka Edna Lou Reese) (Sanford Steve Keyes, Charles T. Coates), William Oscar Reese (Nancy Lucinda "Cinda" Revis), Jeter Gaither Reese (Leila Burnett), Robert Harkins Reese (Mary Lucinda West), Flossie Ann Reese (David McKinley Smith), Ulala Lorraine Reese (Lala Lorraine Reese) (Frederick "Fred" Bradley Wilde), Herbert Arthur Reese (aka Hubert Arthur Reese) (Nellie L. Rice), Herman Patterson Reese, Troy Edwin Reese (Emalee Carter or Emily Lee Carter), Grace Pauline Reese (Elmer Herbert Morley), Lucy Mae Reese (Roy Hezekiah Fore).

3) Mary Loretta Surilda Reese (DOB 2/24/1872 in Madison County, NC; DOD 3/7/1955 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC) married Arthur Van Buren Ensley (DOB Abt. 1864 in Madison County, NC; DOD 9/28/1937 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC). They had Dolius Dewitt Ensley (Ila Marie Culbreth), Minnie Leila Gertrude Ensley (Ray Erastes Tillery), Rositor Tullius Ensley (Tassie Mae Hall), Eva Rosebud Ensley.

4) Ammons Hollingsworth Reese (DOB 12/19/1873 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC; DOD 5/27/1941 in Madison County, NC) married Louester Elmira Ensley (DOB 11/9/1875 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC; DOD 2/25/1948 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC). They had Ellis Woody Reese (Ida Lee Ingle), Edward Allison Reese (Edna Hyacinth Ball, Altha Mae Willis), Nannie Reese, Gladys Reese (Edgar Hill Jarvis), Thelma Reese (Jamie Fitzwilliam Buckner), Plato Taft Reese (Velma Mallett), Ruby Inez Reese (Robert Hardwick Ramsey), Eugene Ensley Reese (Hattie Mae Maxwell).

5) Arcemus Van Buren Reese, Sr. (DOB 6/17/1876 in Madison County, NC; DOD 4/20/1960 in Grady County, GA) married Mary Jane Burnett (DOB 3/11/1879 in SC; DOD 7/21/1951 in Henderson County, NC). They had Zoller Levering Reese (B. Delma Harkins), Edith Texia Reese (died young), Izorah Dorothy Reese (Emmett Otis Allison), Otto Horace Reese (Edna Florence Wetter), Arcemus Van Buren Reese, Jr. (Ruby Louise Huren, Martha Sides). He married 2nd Darthula Griffin (DOB 2/15/1885 in Calhoun County, FL; DOD 9/15/1966 in Leon, FL).

6) Tullius Otto Reese (DOB 10/6/1878 in Madison County, NC; DOD 10/3/1947 in Dothan, Houston, AL) married Nancy Jane Benson, aka Nannie Jane Benson (DOB 7/2/1879 in NC; DOD 11/20/1967 in Dothan, Houston, AL). They had Claxton McKinley Reese, Sr. (Bessie Mae Crenshaw), Cleo Elizabeth Reese (Isaac Cunningham Hall), Leila Hickman Reese (Warren Denson Cannon), Alyne Sadie Reese (Raymond Long), Dorothy Golden Reese (Gilbert Edward Davis, John Arnold Ramos), Joy R. Reese (John Curtis Coleman, Jerome Bernard Shaw), Alta Ruth Reese (Russell Charles Moore, Paul Meras, Harvey E. Barry, Donald Sydnor Jerman).

7) Albert Jerome Reese (DOB 6/27/1881 in Madison County, NC; DOD 1896 in Madison County, NC). He and his older sister, Texana, died of fever. Buried with his sister in unmarked grave.

8) Curtis Williford Reese, Sr. (DOB 9/3/1887 in Madison County, NC; DOD 6/6/1961 in Cook County, IL) married Fay Rowlette Walker (DOB 12/27/1888 in KY; DOD 7/15/1967 in Fairfax, VA). They had Marie Walker Reese (Donald Von Stein Wilson, aka Donald Vonstein Wilson), Rachel E. Reese (Emil John Sady), Curtis Williford Reese, Jr. (Lois Lorraine York).

9) Leila Oleatia Reese (aka Leila Oliotta Reese) (DOB 5/25/1889 in Madison County, NC; DOD 1/21/1958 by Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC) married Herbert Harold Honeycutt (DOB 1/1/1884 in Yancey County, NC; DOD 1/29/1959 in Greensboro, Guilford County, NC). They had Harold Reese Honeycutt, Sr. (Johnnie Maie McBrayer), Bruner Truett Honeycutt (Lucy Beverly Jerman), Christine Elizabeth Honeycutt. She married 2nd Robert Reid Yarbrough (DOB 8/8/1888 in NC; DOD 1/2/1961 in Bostic, Rutherford County, NC).

1870 U.S. Census of Flat Creek, Buncombe, North Carolina; Roll: M593_1125; Page: 184A; Family History Library Film: 552624




1880 U.S. Census of Bull Creek, Madison, North Carolina; Roll: 971; Page: 43C; Enumeration District: 125

On 4/2/1888Patterson Reese applied for soldier's pension due to disease of the throat, rheumatism, general disability, kidney disease, weak back, jaundice caused while in the Army during the War of Northern Aggression. He was only 42 years old. He suffered chronic pain.

1890 U.S. Veterans Census of Marshall, Madison County, NC

He and Rachel moved to Mars Hill to live in 1899. Many of their children attended Mars Hill College.



1900 U.S. Census of Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0088; FHL microfilm: 1241205

1910 U.S. Census of Mars Hill, Madison, North Carolina; Roll: T624_1107; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 0085; FHL microfilm: 1375120

Patterson Reese was the Mayor of Mars Hill, NC from 1913-1915.



1920 U.S. Census of Mars Hill, Madison, North Carolina; Roll: T625_1294; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 121




Patterson Reese died 4/24/1926 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC at the age of 79 years old. He was buried at Mars Hill Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Mars Hill, Madison County, NC just behind the small town of Mars Hill.




1930 U.S. Census of Mars Hill, Madison, North Carolina; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0009; FHL microfilm: 2341438


Rachel Buckner Reese died 1/3/1932 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC. She was buried with her husband at Mars Hill Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Mars Hill, Madison County, NC.






Reese Genealogy Newsletter on Patterson Reese.

Let's look at more detail of their children:

I) Texana Tabitha Reese (DOB Abt. 1869 in Madison County, NC; DOD Abt. 1896 in Madison County, NC). She and her younger brother, Albert Jerome, died of fever. Buried in an unmarked grave.


II) Robert Maxfield Reese (aka Robert Maxwell Reese) (DOB 3/26/1870 in Madison County, NC; DOD 3/16/1950 in Madison County, NC) married Florence Vianna Ensley (DOB Abt. 1873 in NC; DOD 5/15/1966 in Marshall, Madison County, NC). She was the daughter of Samuel Bruce Ensley (DOB 6/19/1829 in Sandy Mush, Buncombe County, NC; DOD 9/14/1896 in Madison County, NC) and Rachel Pauline Cassada (aka Rachel Pauline Cassidy) (DOB Abt. 1835 in Reem's Creek, Weaverville, Buncombe County, NC; DOD 1879 in Madison County, NC). Two other of Patterson's children would marry Ensleys, children of Samuel Bruce Ensley.

Robert Maxfield Reese and Florence Vianna Ensley had:

1) Clitus V. Reese (DOB 1/15/1892 in NC; DOD 12/8/1931 in Madison County, NC) married Duffie Pearl Hunter (DOB 6/28/1891 in NC; DOD 10/3/1978 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC). They had Chester Jefferson Reese (Nina Mae Fisher), Marjorie Lee Reece, Frank Reece.

2) Edna Lulu Reese (aka Edna Lou Reese) (DOB 1/8/1894 in Marshall, Madison County, NC; DOD 11/16/1995 in Newport, Cocke County, TN) married Sanford Steve Keyes (DOB 2/5/1890 in Madison County, NC; DOD 12/31/1979 in Cocke County, TN). They had Marvin W. Keyes, Woodward O. Keyes. She married 2nd Charles T. Coates (DOB Abt. 1884 in NC; DOD ? in ? ).

3) William Oscar Reese (DOB 7/28/1895 in NC; DOD 12/1979 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Nancy Lucinda "Cinda" Revis (DOB 2/20/1898 in NC; DOD 8/22/1995 in Woodfin, Buncombe County, NC). They had Willard William Reece, Clyde James Reece, Elmer Oscar Reece (Grace Helen Mason), Kathleen Reece (Coy Gordon Alexander), Pauline Florence Reece (Paul Alfred Dorsey), Christine Lois Reece (Virgil Calvin Caldwell), Jimmy Reece, Juanita Grace Reese (? Ponder)

4) Jeter Gaither Reese (DOB 1/17/1897 in Madison County, NC; DOD 1/29/1979 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Leila Burnett (DOB 6/9/1901 in Madison County, NC; DOD 12/1985 in Weaverville, Buncombe County, NC). They had Frances Viola Reece (Dellis Greene), Virginia Juanita Reese, Ruth Jeannette Reese (Herman Edgar Kennedy, Jr.), Zora Belle Reece (Robert L. Hays), Rolland McCloud Reese.

5) Robert Harkins Reese (DOB 12/4/1898 in NC; DOD 10/15/1987 in Fletcher, Henderson County, NC) married Mary Lucinda West (DOB 1/18/1903 in NC; DOD 10/12/1993 in Henderson County, NC). They had Luella Cordelia Reese (Porter Leroy Ammons, Arthur Everett Cole), R.V. Reese, David Erwin Reese (Nancy Creola Roberts).

6) Flossie Ann Reese (DOB 7/15/1900 in NC; DOD 2/7/1992 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married David McKinley Smith (DOB 9/29/1896 in NC; DOD 11/28/1971 in Palm Beach, FL). They had Robert Henry Smith (Leta Mae Fore), Burton "Bert" Smith (Ada Blanche West), Willard Blaine Smith, Howard Calvin Smith, Otto Wayne Smith (Lillian Elizabeth Forester), Jack Smith, Edna Zora Smith (Delbert William Paugh), Rex Carl Smith (Gertrude Ammons), Wanda Sylvia Smith (Eugene Henderson Reed), Juanita Smith (? Roberts).

7) Ulala "Lala" Lorraine Reese (DOB 8/27/1902 in NC; DOD 6/7/1994 in Henderson County, NC) married Frederick "Fred" Bradley Wilde (DOB 1/28/1893 in ?; DOD 2/21/1960 in Marshall, Madison County, NC). They had Thomas J. Wilde (Glenn Banks Beck), Kermit Clyde Wilds (Verna Ray Heath), Quinton Roosevelt Wilds (Minnie Bell Carroll), Alene Edna Wilde, Conley Chester Wilds (Ada May Elliott), Richard Herbert Wilde, Robert Claxton Wilds, Archie Clement Wilde (Hilda Arrington), Elzie Fuller Wilde (Nancy Anne Hunter, Barbara Jean Bryson, Mary Ruth Kuykendall).

8) Herbert Arthur Reese (DOB 5/27/1905 in Madison County, NC; DOD 4/2/1983 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Nellie L. Rice (DOB 1/1/1902 in NC; DOD 7/6/2001 in ? ). They had Harry Leo Reese (June Aiken), Ray Dean Reece (Rita Ann Hensley).

9) Herman Patterson Reese (DOB 6/6/1909 in Madison County, NC; DOD 2/2/2001 in Madison County, NC).

10) Troy Edwin Reese (DOB 6/27/1911 in Madison County, NC; DOD 3/17/1988 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Emalee Carter (aka Emily Lee Carter) (DOB Abt. 1909 in NC; DOD 1950 in ? ). They had Brenda Sue Reese.

11) Grace Pauline Reese (DOB 3/18/1914 in Macon County, NC; DOD 3/12/1991 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Elmer Herbert Morley (DOB 10/5/1910 in NC; DOD 8/23/1980 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC). They had Barbara Lucille Reese (? Merkel), Carol Jean Reese (? Morley).

12) Lucy Mae Reese (DOB 5/18/1918 in Madison County, NC; DOD 9/27/2011 in Arden, Buncombe County, NC) married Roy Hezakiah Fore (DOB 10/7/1903 in Madison County, NC; DOD 3/16/1992 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC).


III) Mary Loretta Surilda Reese (DOB 9/24/1872 in Madison County, NC; DOD 3/7/1955 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC) married Arthur Van Buren Ensley (DOB 12/10/1867 in Alexander, Buncombe County, NC; DOD 9/28/1937 in Madison County, NC). He was the son of Samuel Bruce Ensley and Rachel Pauline Cassada.

They had:

1) Dolius Dewitt Ensley (DOB 12/14/1891 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC; DOD 5/3/1960 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL) married Ila Marie Culbreth (DOB 8/30/1894 in ? ; DOD 8/10/1970 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL).

2) Minnie Leila Gertrude Ensley (DOB 11/18/1892 in Madison County, NC; DOD 11/10/1949 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Ray Erastes Tillery (DOB 12/12/1894 in NC; DOD 7/2/1986 in Madison County, NC).

3) Rositor Tullius Ensley (DOB 2/12/1893 in Madison County, NC; DOD 7/21/1880 in Burnsville, Yancey County, NC) married Tassie Mae Hall (DOB 11/11/1902 in Yancey County, NC; DOD 11/5/1997 in Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, NC). They had Erma Aileen Ensley, Alma M. Ensley, Miriam June Ensley (Ted Allen McMahan), Annie A. Ensley, Carolyn Ensley.

4) Eva Rosebud Ensley (DOB 8/25/1906 in Madison County, NC; DOD 12/15/1972 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC). Never married.


IV) Ammons Hollingsworth Reese (DOB 12/19/1873 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC; DOD 5/27/1941 in Madison County, NC) married Louester Elmira Ensley (DOB 11/9/1875 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC; DOD 2/25/1948 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC).

They had:
1) Ellis Woody Reese (DOB 3/14/1897 in Marshall, Madison County, NC; DOD 3/30/1976 in Candler, Buncombe County, NC) married Ida Lee Ingle (DOB 8/8/1893 in NC; DOD 3/13/1976 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC). They had Clarine Elizabeth Reese, Eloise Marie Reese (Norman G. Horton, Jr.), Mary Ellis Reese (Hugh Snow), Betty Jo Reese.

2) Edward Allison Reese (DOB 12/3/1899 in Madison County, NC; DOD 1/3/1971 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Edna Hyacinth Ball (DOB 1/21/1901 in Madison County, NC; DOD 11/2/1947 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC). They had Phoebe Lou Reece (William Louis Ramsey), Carl Dean Reese (Dorothy Mae Dodd), Flossie Edna Reese (? Selman), Joby Allison Reese, Jack Eugene Reese (Mabel Matcalf).

3) Nannie Reese (DOB 5/29/1901 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC; DOD 2/13/1975 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC). Never married.

4) Gladys Reese (DOB 5/16/1903 in NC; DOD 9/11/1976 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC) married Edgar Hill Jarvis (DOB 2/26/1889 in Madison County, NC; DOD 3/9/1951 in Madison County, NC).

5) Thelma Reese (DOB 9/23/1906 in NC; DOD 3/2/1990 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Jamie Fitzwilliam Buckner (DOB 1/25/1907 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC; DOD 8/24/1973 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC).

6) Plato Taft Reese (DOB 1/30/1908 in NC; DOD 9/18/1982 in Madison County, NC) married Velma Mallett (DOB 4/10/1911 in WV; DOD 11/28/1984 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC). They had Robert Plato Reese (Bobbie Jean Thompson), Sammie Reece, Wanda Marian Reece (Richard Howard Pfeiffer).

7) Ruby Inez Reese (DOB 7/8/1909 in Madison County, NC; DOD 10/2/1987 in Madison County, NC) married Robert Hardwick Ramsey (DOB 4/5/1917 in Madison County, NC; DOD 3/14/1964 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC).

8) Eugene Ensley Reese (DOB 6/2/1920 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC; DOD 10/27/1977 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Hattie Mae Maxwell (DOB 1/17/1909 in Buffalo Valley, Putnam County, TN; DOD 6/29/1999 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC).


V) Rev. Arcemus Van Buren Reese, Sr. (aka Arcemus Van Buren Reece, Sr.) (DOB 6/17/1876 in NC; DOD 4/20/1960 in Grady County, GA) married Mary Jane Burnett (DOB 3/11/1879 in SC; DOD 7/21/1951 in Henderson County, NC). He married 2nd Darthula Griffin (DOB 2/15/1885 in Calhoun County, FL; DOD 9/15/1966 in Leon, FL). She was the widow of ? Strickland.

Arcemus and Mary Jane Reese had:

1) Zoller Levering Reese (DOB 9/11/1896 in Madison County, NC; DOD 1/11/1982 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL) married B. Delma Harkens (DOB 4/20/1903 in Fayette, Fayette County, AL; DOD 8/25/1990 in ? ). They had Joanne Reese (Emmett Merritt Thompson), Evelyn Reese (Herman Edward Pennington).

2) Edith Texia Reese (DOB 5/19/1900 in Mars Hill, Madison County, NC; DOD 8/23/1905 in Crawfordville, Wakulla County, FL). She died as a child.

3) Izorah Dorothy Reese (DOB 9/12/1903 in Watonga, Blaine County, OK; DOD 3/6/1981 in Hendersonville, Henderson County, NC) married Emmett Otis Allison (DOB 4/5/1908 in Transylvania County, NC; DOD 8/24/1983 in Hendersonville, Henderson County, NC). No children.

4) Otto Horace Reese (DOB 4/28/1906 in Crawfordville, Wakulla County, FL; DOD 2/4/1996 in San Diego, San Diego County, CA) married Edna Florence Wetter (DOB 12/24/1906 in Moscow, Latah County, ID; DOD 1996 in San Diego, San Diego County, CA).

5) Arcemus Van Buren Reese, Jr. (DOB 3/20/1909 in Crawfordville, Wakulla County, FL; DOD 1/8/1996 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL) married Ruby Louise Huren and Martha Sides. He and Martha had Zollar Vann Reese and Mary E. Reese.


VI) Tullius Otto Reese (aka Tullius Otto Reece) DOB 10/6/1878 in NC; DOD 10/3/1947 in Dothan, Houston, AL) married Nancy "Nannie" Jane Benson (DOB 7/2/1879 in NC; DOD 11/20/1967 in Dothan, Houston County, AL).

They had:
1) Claxton McKinley Reese, Sr. (DOB 6/23/1900 in NC; DOD 1/31/1947 in Quincy, Gadsden County, FL) married Bessie Mae Crenshaw (DOB 5/4/1899 in TX; DOD 4/8/1973 in ? ). They had Charles Otto Reese (Lillian Lorraine Hull), Nell Louise Reese (Richard Daniel Butchee, Sr.), Mary Jane Reese (Arlington Robert Edwards), Cura Lee Reese (Joseph Ambrose Livingston, Jr. and ? Hardage), Claxton McKinley Reese, Jr., Frank Millard Reese (Doris Annette Whatley), Norma Jean Reese (Armond Randolph Cross), Patricia Ann Reese (? Lehmann).

2) Cleo Elizabeth Reese (DOB 1/17/1903 in Marbury, Autauga County, AL; DOD 6/11/1970 in Wetumpka, Elmore County, AL) married Isaac Cunningham Hall (DOB 4/18/1894 in AL; DOD 4/29/1975 in Titus, Elmore, AL). They had Dorothy Reese Hall (Jack Warren Gwinn), Edith Raye Hall (? Bailey), Laura Anne Hall (Wilbur Lee Spigener, Robert Lester Ferguson, Jr.), Merrette Christine Hall (Mahlon Eugene Roe, ? Miles, ? Pierce, ? Tannehill), Ceclia Jo Hall (Norman Gene Stallings).

3) Leila Hickman Reese (DOB 4/21/1905 in Geneva, Geneva County, AL; DOD 1/22/2001 in Dothan, Houston County, AL) married Warren Denson Cannon (DOB 2/12/1895 in AL; DOD 9/30/1956 in Houston County, AL).

4) Alyne Sadie Reese (DOB 8/9/1907 in Geneva County, AL; DOD 9/29/1976 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC) married Raymond Long (DOB 6/20/1903 in Gastonia, Gaston County, NC; DOD 6/10/1979 in Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL).

5) Dorothy Golden Reese (DOB Abt. 1909 in Geneva County, AL; DOD ? in ? ) married Gilbert Edward Davis (DOB 11/8/1904 in Hammond County, IN; DOD 10/1980 in Deadwood, Lawrence County, SD) and John Arnold Ramos (DOB 5/4/1906 in Tampa, FL; DOD 5/16/1972 in Hillsborough, FL).

6) Joy R. Reese (DOB 11/16/1919 in Marbury, Autauga County, AL; DOD 3/22/2005 in Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL) married John Curtis Coleman and Jerome Bernard Shaw.

7) Alta Ruth Reese (DOB 1/18/1922 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL; DOD 3/12/1990 in Raleigh, Wake County, NC) married Russell Charles Moore (DOB 10/26/1908 in OH; DOD 9/3/1945 in Hillsborough, FL) and Paul Meras (DOB 6/10/1918 in ? ; DOD 10/13/1978 in ? ) and Harvey E. Barry and Donald Sydnor Jerman (DOB 4/1/1914 in Raleigh, Wake County, NC; DOD 2002 in Angier, Harnett County, NC).

VII) Albert Jerome Reese (DOB 6/27/1881 in Madison County, NC; DOD 1896 in Madison County, NC). He and his older sister, Texana, died of fever. Buried with his sister in unmarked grave.


Three of Patterson Reese and Rachel Elizabeth Buckner's children were somewhat famous. I want to go into more detail about them. It adds a lot of color to this family.

At the beginning of this post, I told you about Patterson's grandfather, Rev. Moses Freeman, and his father, Rev. William "Billy" Reese. They were Baptist ministers and pioneers in the Western North Carolina mountains.

Two of Patterson Reese' brothers were ordained as Baptist preachers too: Thomas "Tom" Reese (who disappeared during the War of Northern Aggression) and Moses Reese (who also disappeared during, or after, the War of Northern Aggression).

The entire family had long ties with God and the Baptist denomination and the history of the Baptist Church. My own Grandfather is descended from Patterson's brother, Green Hill Reese and my grandfather, Wilford William Reese, and his brother, Paul McCoy Reese, were Baptist ministers. Their father, Bailey Bright Reese was also ordained.

Patterson Reese, himself, had donated land for Grandview Baptist Church and was a charter member, as well as, a Deacon of Grandview Baptist Church.

Three of his sons studied at Mars Hill College and went on to Baptist seminaries. Arcemus Van Buren Reese, Tullius Otto Reese and Curtis Williford Reese, Sr.

Arcemus V. Reese (Arcemus V. Reece) was almost like a Billy Graham of his era. He not only started churches, pastored churches, but was a very popular evangelist as you will see soon. I did a search on Newspapers.com and found tons of newspaper articles on Rev. A.V. Reese (or Rev. A.V. Reece). His brother, Tullius Otto Reese was also a pastor and evangelist, working with his brother during the Great Depression. Curtis Williford Reese, Sr. started out pastoring a Baptist church but soon repudiated completely the Baptist faith and became a very famous humanist and Unitarian Universalist "pastor", speaker and author. According to Curtis, himself, this affected his relationships with his family.

I can only imagine with his grandfather, great grandfather, and two older brothers having spent their life teaching about Jesus Christ and the infallacy of the Holy Bible, as well as, attempting to lead thousands to salvation through Jesus Christ... to have another brother going behind them leading thousands to humanism which effect would be the loss of their souls... it would be hard to swallow. As Christians, I can only hope the family accepted and loved their brother anyway (and according to Curtis, this is what happened over time). But, as Christians, true believers, I'm sure they were desperately praying for his (and his family's) soul. In reading what Curtis said, preached, spoke on, he completely turned away from his early spiritual roots. He was baptized but he repudiated that as well. What is the saddest thing to me is that, while Arcemus and Tullius are unknown now, Curtis' words are still effecting people today.

You will see that Curtis Williford Reese, Sr. did good things, but works without God, are worthless. The Bible makes it clear that salvation comes through unmerited grace. It does not come because of our works, but because of the work of Jesus Christ on our behalf. Works involve action. Faith involves belief and action. I do not question that he was a good man, an honorable man, a man of integrity. But that still doesn't save someone. He was also a sinner (we all are). And he was leading others into false teachings that could lead to people being eternally lost.

Matthew 18:6-7 6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7 Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

Luke 17:1-2 1 Jesus said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come! 2 It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble. 3 Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

2 Peter 2:1-2 1 Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies that even deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2 Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of the truth will be defamed

St. Chrysostom, "[You shall find] many who have not the true faith, yet flourish in works of mercy. But the chief work is lacking: to believe in him whom God hath sent. So soon as a man hath faith, he shall flourish in good works. For faith is full of good works and nothing is good without faith. They that shine in good works without faith are like dead men who have goodly and precious tombs. Faith [cannot] be without good works, for then it is no true faith... A man must needs be nourished by good works, but first he must have faith. He that doth good [works], yet without faith, he hath no life... Faith by itself saved him, but works by themselves never justified any man."

Romans 4:2-5, 13-14, 16, 20-21 2 If his good deeds had made him acceptable to God, he would have had something to boast about. But that was not God’s way. 3 For the Scriptures tell us, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.” 4 When people work, their wages are not a gift, but something they have earned. 5 But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners... 13 Clearly, God’s promise to give the whole earth to Abraham and his descendants was based not on his obedience to God’s law, but on a right relationship with God that comes by faith. 14 If God’s promise is only for those who obey the law, then faith is not necessary and the promise is pointless... 16 So the promise is received by faith. It is given as a free gift. And we are all certain to receive it, whether or not we live according to the law of Moses, if we have faith like Abraham’s... 20 Abraham never wavered in believing God’s promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God. 21 He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever he promises. 22 And because of Abraham’s faith, God counted him as righteous.

Ephesians 2:8-9 8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.

Isaiah 64:6 6 We are all infected and impure with sin.
When we display our righteous deeds,
they are nothing but filthy rags.
Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall,
and our sins sweep us away like the wind.

Matthew 6:1-2 1 “Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. 2 When you give to someone in need, don’t do as the hypocrites do—blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity! I tell you the truth, they have received all the reward they will ever get.

Revelation 20:11-15 11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Galatians 1:6-9 6 I am shocked that you have so quickly turned from God, who chose you with his gift of undeserved grace. You have believed another message, 7 when there is really only one true message. But some people are causing you trouble and want to make you turn away from the good news about Christ. 8 I pray that God will punish anyone who preaches anything different from our message to you! It doesn't matter if that person is one of us or an angel from heaven. 9 I have said it before, and I will say it again. I hope God will punish anyone who preaches anything different from what you have already believed.



Resource by Harvard Square Library - Reese, Curtis W.
The Meaning of Humanism. Boston: Beacon Press, 1945. By Mason Olds
Abridged from Religious Humanism in America: Dietrich, Reese, and Potter, 1978
Reese, Curtis W. (1887-1961)
Curtis Williford Reese was born September 3, 1887, on a farm in Madison County, North Carolina which is in the western part of the state in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Reeses were very devout Southern Baptists and many of them had been ministers. Reese once said: “One of my paternal great-grandfathers was a Baptist preacher, one of my paternal grandfathers and two of my paternal uncles were Baptist preachers, my father is a Baptist deacon, two of my brothers are Baptist preachers, and a sister married a Baptist preacher.”
  With so many clergymen in the family, it is understandable that when Reese earned his first dollar he gave it to the Baptist church to help pay the minister’s salary. Also, it is not surprising that Reese “accepted Christ as his personal saviour” at age nine rather than later in life. He had been taught that once a person reached the age of accountability if he refused to become a Christian and if he died in this lost condition, he would spend eternity in hell. Believing that he was capable of making such an important decision, the nine year old boy stood before the congregation and confessed that he was a lost sinner and that he had trusted Christ to save him. Although it was mid-winter, he was baptized in an outdoor creek with some other converts.
  Later Reese decided to enter the ministry, which meant that he thought that God had given him the “call.” He entered the Baptist College at Mar’s Hill, North Carolina, and graduated in May 1908. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry.
  He met Fay Rowlett Walker, whom he later married on February 7, 1913.
  It was during his seminary studies that Reese first began to have any doubts about his religious faith. Since he felt that the Bible was divinely inspired, it came as quite a shock to encounter “higher criticism” even in a conservative Southern Baptist context. Also, Reese had a friend, Ralph E. Bailey, who later made the transition from the Baptist ministry to the Unitarian. Bailey has remarked: “In 1908, he and I were students at the Baptist seminary in Louisville, where I soon shocked him to his knees by my heresy. Much of his time was devoted, I think, to prayer that I be corrected in my outspoken apostasy from Baptist truth.”
  Moreover, it was in Louisville that Reese first came into contact with Unitarianism. In fact, he took some Baptist tracts over to the Unitarian church and picked up some of the Unitarian materials. One pamphlet especially appealed to him; it was entitled, “Salvation by Character,” and it was probably this experience that later contributed to Reese’s move into Unitarianism.
  Graduating from seminary in 1910, Reese took a job as state evangelist in the Illinois State Baptist Association, which was composed of approximately five hundred churches that had split off from the Illinois Baptist State Convention. In this position, he also had time for further study so that he took courses at Ewing College at Ewing, Illinois, a Baptist school which has since gone out of existence. In 1911 he received a Ph.D degree from Ewing. Reese said of this period: “During the year as State Evangelist, my heresies, which had begun even during my seminary days due to the impact of Higher Criticism, began to grow apace.” In this same year Reese became the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Tiffin, Ohio, which he thought was a “liberal” Northern Baptist Church; but he still felt cramped. He said: “I preached twice each Sunday, but following the evening service my conscience bothered me. I could and did say what I believed, but I did not feel free to say what I did not believe…” Not finding the Northern Baptists liberal enough, Reese decided he must transfer into a more liberal ministry.
  Realizing this, he considered the Unitarians, the Universalists, and the Christians; and, finally, he decided to examine more closely the Unitarians because of a work that he had read by Francis G. Peabody, a Unitarian social gospeler. Reese wrote the minister of the Unitarian Church in Toledo, Ohio and set up a meeting with him. At this meeting Reese presented a statement of his faith which consisted of the following: “(1) a Universal Father, God, (2) a Universal Brotherhood, mankind, (3) a Universal right, freedom, (4) a Universal motive, love, and (5) a Universal aim, progress.” When Reese inquired if his faith were consistent with Unitarianism, the minister assured him that it was.
  When Reese returned to Tiffin, he was faced with a decision; after some serious thought, he decided to transfer from the Baptist church to the Unitarian. The next move was to set up a conference between himself and the secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference. After this meeting Reese was recommended for the ministry of the Unitarian Church in Alton, Illinois. The Alton church accepted the recommendation, with Reese beginning his career as a Unitarian minister in 1913.
  This move from the Baptist faith to the Unitarian was not taken lightly by Reese, for it caused him great personal turmoil as well as creating a problem with his family. He said: “My mother said very sincerely that she would rather have seen me dead. This is understandable, for had she heard of my death she would have had the satisfaction of knowing that I was flying around with angels in heaven. But now she was sure that if and when I died, I would burn in hellfire and brimstone forever and ever.” Reese, who had been close with one of his sisters, was proud when she named her son, Curtis Williford, but when he became a Unitarian, she renamed him “Bruner Truett” for two well-known and solid Southern Baptist ministers. Later, the family did come to accept Reese in spite of the change, and even the sister attended a Unitarian Fellowship for a while and might have become member if it had not been for her husband, who was a Baptist deacon.
  Although Reese was in Alton for only two years, he did have a number of significant experiences. First of all, he became a very strong anti-vice crusader. He mobilized the ministers so that an active campaign was launched to rid the city of “gaming houses” and “brothels.” He raised money and hired a private detective to gain substantial evidence about vice, with the result being that the crusaders ran a man for mayor on a clean-up ticket and won. However, Reese was so zealous in his efforts that the underworld had him shot at several times, and one time it was necessary for him to hide in a parishioner’s attic. Once he was attacked at a railroad depot, but was only slightly injured. These episodes received newspaper coverage; therefore, they provided fuel for the election campaign. While Reese and his wife escaped to a parishioner’s home on the night of the election, a mob gathered in front of his home and lit several fires.
  Two other experiences merit mention. One summer Reese returned to Gratz, Kentucky, where he had been a pastor while in seminary. He rented an auditorium and conducted a week of lectures on Unitarianism. People came to hear Reese for various reasons, with some coming because they had never heard of a Baptist becoming a Unitarian. Some descendants of the old village doctor came because their father had been a Unitarian, and they wanted to learn about this faith. Unlike his days as a Baptist, Reese took no offering nor asked for anyone to join; his lectures were simply for the enlightenment of the people. The second experience deals with Reese’s commitment to run a summer camp at Lithia Springs, Illinois, with a guarantee that all expenses would be paid. The camp lasted for only three weeks and since it rained for nearly the whole time, the attendance dropped, with the expenses running into the red. To honor his commitment Reese paid the expenses out of his own pocket; and it is believed that it was this sort of integrity that enabled him to be elected secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference four years later.
  In spite of an increasing membership in Alton, Reese went on to become the minister of the Unitarian church in Des Moines, Iowa in 1915. Again, he became involved in a number of social problems. It did not take long for Reese to be moved by the poor housing conditions The Iowa Housing Bill was drawn up and, with Reese’s intense lobbying, the bill passed without a negative vote. Following the passage of the bill, Reese gained much publicity. In effect, he was asked to run for mayor of Des Moines with the promised backing of organized labor, and he was offered a lucrative position as a stock and bond salesman; but he declined both offers to accept the position of Secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference in 1919.
  Reese’s new base of operation was Chicago, and in this new administrative position his main responsibility was to help churches secure the “right,” most capable minister for their pulpits. Although this position was potentially a controversial one, Reese had the ability to retain the respect of both the conservatives and the radicals. It was during this period that Reese was elected to the Board of Directors of the Meadville Theological School, which at that time was located at Meadville, Pennsylvania. Reese wanted the school to be relocated in Chicago; he therefore contacted Morton D. Hull, a wealthy businessman and an active Unitarian, and secured a pledge from him of $100,000 if the school should come to Chicago. At the next meeting of the Board of Directors in February, 1926, Reese told of the pledge and it was decided that Meadville would relocate in Chicago. Reese also worked out with Shailer Mathews “an associated relationship” between Meadville and the University of Chicago, as well as negotiating the purchase of the President’s House and Channing House. Along with his position as secretary to the Western Unitarian Conference, Reese was appointed president of Lombard College, a Universalist school located in Galesburg, Illinois. Apparently his appointment was an attempt to bring the Unitarians to the aid of the Universalists in saving the school from financial collapse. Carl Sandburg is perhaps the most distinguished alumnus of the school. However, Reese was president for only a little over a year; and with the depression the financial situation became impossible, so that the school became a part of the Meadville Theological School in 1933.
  In January, 1930, Reese gave up his position as Western Conference secretary and accepted the position as dean at the Abraham Lincoln Centre in Chicago. The Centre was founded in 1905 by the Unitarian minister, Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Reese lived in an apartment in the Centre designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.




Abraham Lincoln Center, 3858 S. Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
Frank Lloyd Wright designed this building for his uncle the Reverend Jenkin Lloyd Jones. The building was to contain an auditorium, meeting rooms, offices, a kitchen, living quarters and street level shops. Wright produced designs and models for his uncle. The uncle and Wright quarreled over the design. In 1902 Wright turned the project over to Dwight Perkins and wrote on the blueprints "bldg. completed over protest of architect" The center was opened in 1905. John Lloyd Wright claims that the original design for this building should be dated 1888, and was his fathers first architectural work.

The programs for the Centre were many and varied; it had a Friday morning forum, where outstanding speakers with all varieties of opinion were provided a platform from which to be heard. Also, the Centre published a journal, Unity, which for many years had John Haynes Holmes as the editor, with Reese as an associate. As Jones and Holmes had been dedicated pacifists, this was the official policy of the journal; but, later, during the Second World War, Reese gave up his pacifism and convinced the directors of the journal to support him; so that a rift came about between Holmes and Reese, with Holmes relinquishing his leadership of the journal and Reese taking over as editor. The Centre had a counseling center and ran a clinic for “optional parenthood.” It sponsored “study classes, social service, a boys’ and girls’ camp, a public library, domestic science classes, instruction in music with glee clubs and an orchestra, various special activities for boys and girls, and dramatics.” Non-Jews, Jews, and Negroes were on the staff, and Reese maintained in the early days a fifty percent balance of whites and blacks in all programs; later as the neighborhood changed they ministered to an even larger percentage of blacks.
  Being connected with Unity as contributing editor, managing editor, and editor over a period of nearly forty years, Reese wrote numerous articles ranging from a sophisticated level of scholarship to simple editorials. He also published in several other liberal journals. In 1926 he published his first book, Humanism, followed in 1931 with Humanist Religion and in 1945 with The Meaning of Humanism. He also edited in 1927 Humanist Sermons, and in 1931 he edited a book entitled, Friedrich Nietzsche, which was the lectures of the late George Burman Foster, professor of comparative religion at the University of Chicago. Reese also wrote an autobiography entitled, My Life Among the Unitarians, which was submitted to Beacon Press, but it was never published. Generally, Reese’s books are short, contain insight, but are somewhat thin in the development of problems; however, they do document his interest in the movement of religious humanism and add greatly to an understanding of it.
  Retiring as dean of the Abraham Lincoln Centre in 1957, Reese and his wife moved to Kissimmee, Florida.
  On May 22, 1959, he was presented the Holmes-Weatherly Award for service to liberal religion by the American Unitarian Association.
  On June 5, 1961, while attending a Board of Directors’ meeting of the Meadville Theological School and the commencement exercises, Reese died of a coronary attack; and with his passing another pioneer of religious humanism faded from the religious scene.
  It should be stressed that Reese spent the larger part of his professional career as the dean of the Abraham Lincoln Centre; namely, from the spring of 1923 until February 12, 1957, when he was forced to retire as the result of a severe coronary. This Centre had distinguished members on its Board of Trustees such as Paul Douglas who later became a United States Senator from Illinois. The Centre was so well-known that both the House and the Senate of the State of Illinois, on separate occasions, passed resolutions commending it for its fine service to the state. It was from the context of a kind of settlement house and social and cultural centre that Reese worked and wrote about the world, rather than from a vantage point such as an academic institution or a church pulpit.
  In 1995, the Abraham Lincoln Center, celebrated 90 years of service: 1905-1995.
  Ernest W. Kuebler at the time of Reese’s retirement delivered an address to the Western Unitarian Conference meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan, entitled, “Curtis W. Reese—Liberal Statesman.” Reese’s statesmanship was obvious in his running of the Abraham Lincoln Centre; in his working out an acceptance of “A Humanist Manifesto” by men with independent minds and diverse backgrounds, as well as his contribution to the humanist movement generally; in the Adult Education movement; in his influence in the Western Unitarian Conference; in his sermons and addresses; in influencing the Meadville Theological School to become a part of the Federated Theological Faculty of the University of Chicago; and in helping prepare the way for the merger of the Unitarians with the Universalists.
  Reese was one of the founders and was president of the American Humanist Association for fourteen years, being acknowledged as a “humanist pioneer” in 1956. We follow Kuebler’s lead and refer to him as “the statesman of religious humanism.”
  Was Reese’s religion a religion without God? During the heat of the humanist-theist controversy Reese objected to the theists referring to humanists as atheists. He said: “The radical Unitarian Humanist is inclined to say, ‘Very well, if Humanism be Atheistic, so be it.’ But in point of fact, there is not the slightest ground for calling Humanists Atheistic. The Unitarian discussion might be summed up as ‘Theism or no Theism,’ but not as ‘God or no God,’ since most of the Humanists hold some one of the several non-Theistic theories of God.” In his book entitled, Humanism, he said: “The liberal recognizes and zealously proclaims the fact that purposive and powerful cosmic processes are operative, and that increasingly man is able to cooperate with them and in a measure control them. What these processes be styled is of but little importance. Some call them cosmic processes, others call them God.”
— By Mason Olds. Abridged from Religious Humanism in America: Dietrich, Reese, and Potter, edited by Mason Olds (University Press of America, 1978); revised edition, American Religious Humanism (Minneapolis: Fellowship of Religious Humanists, 1996).
Article by Alan Seaburg about Curtis Williford Reese, Sr. in Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
  Curtis Williford Reese (September 3, 1887-June 5, 1961) was an educator, administrator, social activist, journalist, and Unitarian minister. He was a founder and president of the American Humanist Association, Secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference (WUC), and Dean of the Abraham Lincoln Centre, an integrated social and educational community organization in Chicago. An editor of Unity, he wrote influential books on religious humanism and helped prepare the 1933 Humanist Manifesto.
  Curtis was born in Madison County, North Carolina to Rachel Elizabeth (Buckner) and Patterson Reese, the latter a farmer and merchant. He was educated in the public schools and raised in his parents' Southern Baptist faith. His father was a deacon. Several of his ancestors had been or were clergymen. When he turned nine, after publicly accepting Christ as his personal savior, he was baptized. A few years later he received a call to become a preacher.
  Reese's preparatory theological education was at the Baptist College, Mars Hill, North Carolina, from which he graduated in 1908. Ordained in the Southern Baptist ministry by the Mars Hill Baptist Church, he went to Geneva, Alabama where his brother, Pastor T. O. Reese, arranged for him to be the summer supply preacher at the nearby rural parish at Bellwood. He then enrolled at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. To pay his expenses he served half-time two small churches, at Gratz and Pleasant Home, Kentucky.
  In 1910 Reese graduated from the Seminary and became the State Evangelist for the five hundred churches that made up the Illinois State Baptist Association. At the same time he undertook further study at Ewing College, in Ewing, Illinois, receiving in 1911 a Ph.B. degree. "During the years as State Evangelist," he wrote in his unpublished autobiography, "my heresies, which had begun even during my seminary days, due to the impact of Higher Criticism, began to grow apace."
  That same year Reese accepted a call to the First Baptist Church in Tiffin, Ohio, believing it to be a liberal Northern Baptist group. There, he found that while he was able to preach what he believed he was unable "to say what I did not believe." It became clear to him that if he were to remain in ministry he would need to join a denomination whose views were compatible with his own.
  Reese considered the Universalists and the Christians, but in the end decided on Unitarianism. While at seminary he had studied some of their tracts and had been acquainted with the social gospel writings of Francis Greenwood Peabody. He visited with the minister of the Toledo Unitarian Church, George E. MacIllwan, and then conferred with Ernest C. Smith, the Secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference (WUC). As a result he became minister of the Unitarian Church in Alton, Illinois, 1913-15.
  In 1913 he married Fay Rowlett Walker, whom he had met while he was at the Pleasant Home Church five years earlier. They had three children.
  At this time Reese described his religious views as "(1) a Universal Father, God, (2) a Universal brotherhood, mankind, (3) a Universal right, freedom, (4) a Universal motive, love, and (5) a Universal aim, progress." To implement this faith, he developed a strong and active commitment to the idea of social justice for all. During his two years at Alton he inspired his fellow religious leaders to eliminate gaming houses and brothels from their community. The result was the election of a new mayor on a "clean-up ticket."
  Reese next served the First Unitarian Church in Des Moines, Iowa, 1915-19. There again he emphasized the social gospel. The church arranged chaperoned dances for miltary personnel at nearby Fort Hood. It also took on the task of improving sub-standard housing. With the support of local political leaders, and finally of the governor, Reese lobbied successfully for the passage of a state housing bill. When it was made law, he was appointed the state's first Housing Commissioner. He undertook this task in addition to his parish responsibilities.
  In 1919 Reese left parish ministry to serve as Secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference, 1919-30. The Conference, which had been founded in 1852, had its headquarters in Chicago. His chief administrative duty was to supply churches with ministers appropriate to their views and needs. As Secretary he was also able to play a helpful role in several other Midwestern Unitarian organizations. He was a trustee of the Meadville Theological School, 1920-33 (and later 1940-44 and 1947-61). The school, then in Meadville, Pennsylvania, was considering relocation to a large urban center. Reese arranged the finances for it to move to Chicago in 1926 and initiated a working association with the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Later he persuaded Morton D. Hull, who had already donated funds to Meadville, to underwrite construction of the First Unitarian Church of Chicago, across the street from the school. Meadville honored him with the D.D. in 1927.
  During 1928-29 Reese assumed the temporary presidency of the financially struggling Universalist-founded Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois. Although he brought his Unitarian connections to bear, the Great Depression doomed the college's independent survival. Lombard was eventually absorbed by Knox College. Its Ryder Divinity School, since 1912 based in Chicago, and its college charter, were transferred to Meadville, which is now the Meadville/Lombard Theological School.
  During this period Reese served as a trustee of the American Unitarian Association (AUA), 1919-30 (he served again 1947-50), was executive chair of the National Federation of Religious Liberals, and was an official delegate from the WUC to the London celebration in 1925 of the 100th anniversary of the British Unitarian Association. In 1929, while on a trip around the world, he represented the AUA at the centennial celebration of Brahmo Samaj and gave several warmly-received addresses on religion at the University of Calcutta.
  During the 1920s Reese emerged as a leader of religious humanism. He preached his first strictly humanist sermon in 1916 and explored the subject with Minneapolis minister John Dietrich at the next year's WUC meetings. In his 1920 address to the Harvard Summer School for Ministers, "The Content of Present-Day Religious Liberalism" (shortly afterward published by Unity and The Christian Register), he questioned "the Judaic-Christian tradition" and "the theistic basis of religion." Many at the gathering were outraged. From this point on the issue came to dominate religious discussion within Unitarian circles.
  In 1925 Reese joined the Board of the Unity Publishing Company in Chicago and became one of the associate editors of its periodical Unity. This magazine, devoted to radical reform and correcting social wrongs, carried on its masthead the motto: Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion. Later he was managing editor, 1933-44, and editor, 1945-1961. Over the decades Unity printed many of his articles on humanism. His writings were also regularly published in The Christian Register, The Humanist, The New Humanist, and Open Court.
  In The Meaning of Humanism, 1931, he wrote: "The trend in modern religious developments is away from the transcendent, the authoritative, the dogmatic, and toward the human, the experimental, the tentative; away from the abnormal, the formal, the ritualistic; and toward the normal, the informal, the usual; away from the extraordinary mystic expression, the exalted mood, the otherworldly; and toward the ethical, the social and the worldly; away from religion conceived as one of man's concerns, and toward religion conceived as man's one concern."
  In 1933 humanist thinking was epitomized in the Humanist Manifesto, 1933, signed by several Unitarian ministers as well as by prominent scholars and philosophers. Reese contributed to its composition. The manifesto stressed that theism is "past", that the universe is "self-existing and not created," that the "traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected", and that religion "must formulate its hopes and plans in the light of the scientific spirit and method."
  In 1930 Reese resigned as WUC Secretary to devote himself full-time to being the Dean (director) of the Abraham Lincoln Centre, 1930-57. He had been called Dean since 1926 but his earlier relationship had been nominal. The Centre, founded in 1905 by Jenkin Lloyd Jones, had been an outgrowth of Jones's Chicago parish, the Church of All Souls. It owned a six-story building that included a gym, living space for the Dean, classrooms, office space for Unity, and a local branch of the Public Library. A racially integrated organization from the start, it sponsored a variety of programs including classes, a forum, music, art, dramatic training, a planned parenthood clinic, a counseling clinic, and a summer camp for youngsters in Clear Lake, Wisconsin. By 1951 it served the needs of 140,000 children and adults. Reese described the Centre in The Christian Register as "a social center at the heart of which was a spiritual message and program. A social 'settlement' is a group of persons living within a district which they hope to improve by means of their exemplary life and habits. Lincoln Centre aimed to be the living embodiment of the best ideals of the people who composed the district—a co-operative experiment in righteous living."
  Throughout his professional life Reese was active in many social and educational causes. He served on a Juvenile Court Committee of the Chicago chapter of the American Association of Social Workers, taught in the education departments of George Williams College and the central Y.M.C.A. College, was on the board of the Chicago Adult Education Committee and chair of the editorial board of Religious Education, 1932-34. He was one of the editors of the joint 1937 Unitarian and Universalist hymnbook, Hymns of the Spirit; a regional vice-president of the AUA, 1940-45; president of the WUC, 1939-53; a board member of the Unitarian Service Committee; and a member of the Council of Liberal Churches, 1955-59. In 1941 he helped to establish the American Humanist Association and was its first president, 1941-54. In 1959 the AUA honored him with its annual award for outstanding service to the cause of liberal religion.
  Reese retired after a heart attack in 1957. He and his wife went to live in Kissimmee, Florida. He died in 1961 while in Chicago attending a meeting of the board of trustees of the Meadville/Lombard Theological School. A memorial service was held at the First Unitarian Church in Chicago.
  For biographical information see Reeses's AUA ministerial file at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His unpublished autobiography "My Life Among the Unitarians" (1961), is at the Meadville/Lombard Theological School in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote Humanism (1926) and The Meaning of Humanism (1945) and edited Humanist Sermons (1927) and Friedrich Nietzsche by George Burman Foster (1931).

I won't try to arrange these newspaper clippings in chronological order.

















I want to end this post with the two brothers who worked for God in lifelong ministry, Arcemus Van Buren Reese and Tullius Otto Reese. These were men who were human and therefore sinners. But sinners saved by the grace of Jesus Christ. Their work brought thousands to God. Remember, this was at a time before they had modern sound systems, airplane travel, television, computers, etc.



Arcemus Van Buren Reese family's home in Hendersonville, NC.









































Newspaper clippings were found using Newspapers.com.

This is another grandniece, Brooke, at a birthday party earlier this year. It was at a gymnastics center. Pretty good idea. So here is my digital scrapbook page of the birthday party at the gymnastics center.


This is our niece Jenny with their 4th child, Natalie. Natalie is four months old in this photo. So here is my digital scrapbook page of her 4 months old picture with Mommy.


Our little scamp, Ryan! Jenny and her family live in California right now but they come every summer for a nice long visit. I had just gotten to my sister's house and seeing them all for the first time this year. They were all so excited to see me and Ryan breaks into a "hoe down" dance.

I have family roots in the Appalachian Mountains on my mother's side. I wanted to do some digital scrapbook pages about Appalachia, the history. Here are my layouts.

I made this digital scrapbook page about my aunt in her high school beauty pageant.

Traves Rees had a son named...
...Thomas Rees who married Mary Polly Smith and they had a son named...
.....William Rees who married Mary Jane Freeman and they had a son named...
.......Green Hill Reese who married Telitha Jane Freeman and they had a son named...
.........William Hanes Reese who married Nancy Rebecca Lunsford and they had a son named...
...........Bailey Bright Reese who married Lillian Vianna Conner and they had a son named...
.............Wilford William Reese who married Geneva Margaret Lamb and they had a daughter named...
...............Eleanor Elaine Reese who married William Avery Huneycutt and they had ME!

Traves Rees had a lot of variations on his name:
Travas Rees
Travas Reese
Travas Reece
Travis Rees
Travis Reese
Travis Reece
Travis Rhys
Travis Rease
Traves Rees
Traves Reese
Traves Reece
Travace Rees
Travace Reese
Travace Reece
Travers Rees
Travers Reese
Travers Reece
Traverse Rees
Traverse Reese
Traverse Reece
Traverse Rhese
Travis Ruse
Travis Ruase
Travis Reease

Also see my posts of the Reese Genealogy Newsletters about Travis Rees.

Travis Rees was born about 1742 in North Carolina. Travis married Ann ?. They had Thomas, Henry, John, Mary Rogers, Sarah Snow, Henry and Jesse Reese. We don't know who his parents were or any more about his wife.


1790 U.S. Census of Spartanburg County, SC, Series: M637; Roll: 11, Page: 30, Image: 37, Family History Library Film: 0568151, Ancestry.com
1790 U.S. Census of Spartanburg County, SC
Travis Reece
Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 4
Free White Persons - Females: 3
Number of Slaves : 3
Number of Household Members: 12


1800 U.S. Census of Greenville County, SC; Series: M32, Roll: 47, Page: 277, Image: 539, Family History Library Film: 181422, Ancestry.com
1800 U.S. Census of Greenville, South Carolina
Name: Travis Ruase [Travis Reease, Travis Rees]
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Number of Slaves: 1
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 4



1810 U.S.Census of Greenville County, SC, Roll: 62, Page: 498, Image: 00107; Family History Library: 0181421, Ancestry.com
1810 U.S. Census of Greenville, South Carolina
Name: J Beese[T Reese, J Reese]
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Numbers of Slaves: 6 Number of Household Members Over 25: 1
Number of Household Members: 8


Court Minutes





Tax Record
NC State Archives - Tax Lists, LP 46.1, 1782 Tax List , Capt. Hardin's District
Traverse Rhese, 250 acres valued at 30, 1 Negro from 7016 and 40-50 yrs old valued at 409, 1 Horses and Mules valued at 15, 5 Cattle valued at 5, Total of Each One Property 90


Property Records
South Carolina, : Deed Book B, Pg 194, Travis Rees, 8/16/1816; Greenville County, SC, Greenville County, SC.
Deed of land purchased by Travace Rees in 8/16/1815. Deed Book B, Pg 194, Greenville County, SC. In 1819 this land was deeded again by Jesse Rees to Sarah Snow. Peter's Creek on the Enoree River is located in Simpsonville. The nearest road to where Peter's Creek enters the Enoree River is Hwy 417/146 (Woodruff Rd) at +34.793964 x -82.168851.

Actual text:
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State of S. Carolina
Greenville District

Know all men by these presents that I Benjamin Towers of the State and district aforesaid for In consideration of one hundred and ten dollars to me in hand paid by Travis Rees of said state and Dist. have granted bargained sold and released and by these presents doth grant bargain and Sell unto the Said Travis Rees a plantation or tract of land situate lying and being in the State and district aforesaid on Peters Creek waters of Enoree River it being part of a tract originally Granted to Sarah Robertson lying on the S.W. Side of said tract beginning on a Hickory on the old line thence North 30 East to a pine thence South 60 East to a post oak thence on a conditional line with Isaac Towers to a stake on the old line thence North 60 West on the old line to the Beginning. One square half acre excepted for a grave yard leaving the Graves as near the center of the Exception as possible this including fifty acres more on left Together with all and singular the Rights Members hereditament (sic, ?) and appurtenances to the premises belonging or in any wise incident or appertaining to have above half acre discribed Excepted and I do hereby bind myself my heirs Executors and administrators to warrant and for ever defend all and singular the premises before mentioned unto the said Traves Rees his heirs and assigns against myself my heirs and against every other person lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof the above half acre Excepted In witness where of I have hereunto Leb (sic, ?) my hand and seal this 16th day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifteen and in the 39th year of the Sovereignty of the United States of America Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of William Towers, Thomas Rees

Benjamin Towers (Seal)
State of South Carolina Spartanburgh District Personally appeared Thomas Rees before me and made oath that he saw Benjamin Towers sign seal and acknowlege the within and of conveyance for the use and purpose within mentioned and that himself and William Towers was subscribing witness Sworn to & Subscribed before me 26th Nov 1821
Recorded for first day of January 1827
Thos Poole

Thomas Rees


South Carolina, Sold to Travis Reese, 50 acres on Peters Creek, 3/2/1816; Greenville County, SC, Greenville County, SC.

Actual text:
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State of S. Carolina
Greenville District

Know all men by these presents that I Jeremiah Towers of the State and district aforesaid for and in consideration of fifty dollars to me in hand paid by Travis Reese of said State and District aforesaid the recipt whereof I do hereby acknowlege have granted bargained sold and released unto the Said Travis Reece his heirs and assigns and by these presents do grant bargain sell and release all that part or parcel of land situate lying to leeing in district on Peters Creek waters of Enoree River Beginning on a Chesnut corners x new the N.60 W. to the old line on a pine corner 3x went thence N.30 E. to a post oak corner 3x on thence S. 60 E. to a post oak corner on a drian (sic, ?) thence down Sd drean (sic, ?) to a white oak corner 3x new thence to the Beginning it being fifty acres more or less it being part of a tract originally Granted to Sarah Robertson on the fifth day of January one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Six Together with all and singular the Rights Members hereditament (sic, ?) and appurtenances to the Sd premises beloning or in any wise incident or appertaining to have and to hold all and Singular the premises before mentioned unto the Sd Travis Reese his heirs and assigns for ever and I do hereby bind myself my heirs Executors and administrators to warrant and for ever defend all and singular the Sd premises unto the said Travis Reese his heirs and assigns against myself my heirs and against every other person whomever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof Witness my hand and seal this 2nd day of March 1816 and in the 40th year of the Independence of the United States of America Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of Thomas Rees, Isaac X (his mark) Towers
Jeremiah Towers (Seal)


War Records
Travace Reese and his son Thomas served the Patriotic cause while living in Wilkes County, North Carolina in the 1780's. A continental line soldier, who were paid in land grants. His voucher was for 13 lbs., 5 shillings, 6 pence and was issued to purchase 250 acres of land in Wilkes County, NC.


State of North Carolina} N5293
Salisbury District } L13.5.6.
This may certify that Travus Rees was
allowed thirteen pounds 5 shills and six-
pence
Spei?? f??? ??bles Claims by ??pper
Board of ??deton the st day of Sept
1784
By order James Hunter } Audrs
Sam Handman CB Traugott Bagge}


Index to Revolutionary War Army Accounts, Volumes I-XII, Volume I, pges 55-56, "Travers Rees - Volume XII, page 75, Folio 2".
Actual Text (spelling intact):
State of North Carolina, N5293
Salisbury District, L13, 5, 6
This may certify that Travers Rees was allowed thirteen pounds, five shillings and six pence
Special - Board of 1784
The Claims by - Deton the 25
Paper - Day of Sept 1784
By order: James Hunter and Traugott (sic) Bagge
Sam Henderson CB
Back:
Pd into the Entry Tahern (sic) office by Dan Carland
Traves Reece (endorsed by Traves in his own hand as Traves Reece)

The Treasurers and Comptrollers Records, Military Papers, Vols 40-66, Travas Rees, #5293, Granted by Bagge and Hunter on 9/1782
Actual Text:
Special Certificates Paid Into the Comptroller
No. 5293, By Whom Granted: Bagge and Hunter, To Whom Granted: Travas Rees, Date Sept, 1782, Sum 13 pounds, 5 shillings, 6 pence, Int. - , To What Time 25 May 1784, Total Amount Principal and Interest: 13 pounds, 5 shillings, 6 pence, Remarks - No Check

During the Revolutionary War, State Militia soldiers were paid in case and Continental Line soldiers were paid in land grants. On the back of the certificate is "Paid into the entry" indicating that the certificate was used as payment on a land entry. The certificate is endorsed in Travis' own hand. It may have been used as payment on 250 acres of land that Travis owned in Wilkes County, NC as early as 1782.

Will
Greenville County, SC, Will Book A, Pg 275-276, Apt 6 File No. 396, Travace Rees, Probated 12/22/1817
(Spelling Intact)
Will of Travace Reese

In the name of God Amen I Travace Rees of South Carolina Greenville District Being Weak in Body But of Sound and Disposing mind and memory, but Calling to mind the Uncertainty of this Transitory life and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die I do make and Ordain this the last will and Testiment by me made and do hereby Revoke and Disannul all Former Wills and Testiments Heretofore made by me.

Imprimis I Give and Bequeath unto my Son Thomas Rees One Negro woman named Zilpah and her child James.

Item my will and Desire is that Sam George Esther and Child Elijar land and Stock of all kinds shall be Sold and The money Equally Divided amongst my Other children Namely Henry Rees John Rees and Jesse Rees Sarah Snow and Mary Rogers.

Item my will and Desire Further is that David Vaughn Shall Take John Rees with his part and Act as a Guardian for him as he is Not Capable of Taking Care of his Property.

Item my will and Desire is my old Negro Woman Named Betty shall be set Free and that David Vaughn Shall also act as her Guardian.

I Nominate and appoint David Vaughn and Beverly Braum Sole Executors of this my last will and Testiment.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twenty Sixth day of March one Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen.

Signed Sealed and Acknowledged
In Presence of Us
Lewis Vaughn his
Polly Vaughn Travace X Rees (L.S.)
mark
Probated December 22, 1817
S. Goodlet, O.G.D.

Recorded in Will Book A - Page 275-276
Apt 6 File No. 396


Estate Records

Actual text (spelling intact)
Warrant of Appraisement on the Estate of Travace Rees Deceased
South Carolina
Greeneville District
By Spartan Goodlett Esqr ordinary for Said District
To Charles Dean, Benjamin Land, Abriham Smith, and William Bramlet Esqr - You or any three of you are hereby authorised and empowered to repair to all such parts and places within the District aforesaid as you shall be decided unto by David Vaughan, and Beverly Braum, Executors of the Estate of Travace Rees Deceased, whensoever any of the goodsand Chattels of the said Deceased are do remain within the Said parts and places, and there view and appraise all and every the said goods and Chattels which shall be shewn unto you by the said Exts being first sworn to make a true and perfect Inventory and appraisement thereof and to return the same certified from under your hands to the said Executors within sixty days from the date hereof and this Shall be your Sufficient warrant for so doing
Given under my hand at office this Twenty ninth Day of December 0 in the year of our Lord 1817
Spartan Goodlett OGD
Andrew McCrary Esqu is authorised to quallify the above named apprasiers and to certify the same on the back of this warrant - Given under my hand this 29th Day of Decm, 1817
S. Goodlett O.G.D.

Record Book A Pages 239-240
Actual Text (spelling intact):
The Last Will and Tistament of Travace Rees
South Carolina
Greeneville District
By Spartan Goodlett Esq ordinary for said District Personally appeared before me Lewis Vaughan and being duly sworn doth say that he saw Travace Rees sign seal publish pronounce and declare the within writing to be his last will and Testament and that he the said Decd was then of a sound disposing mind memory and understanding the best of the deponents knowledge and belief and that he did writings the same at his reqest and in his presence
Given under my hand this 29th December 1817
S. Goodlett G.D.

Actual Text (spelling intact)
I do herby certify that I did quallify the within named Benjamin land and Abraham smith and William Blamlett as aprasers agreeable to the within order December the 31 1817
Andrew McCrary

Actual Text (spelling intact)
Just and Free Inventory of the Property Appraised of Travace Rees Decd
31 day of December 1817
Four Negroes......................................................... Value $2,400.00
One Yoke of Steers............................................................$35.00
Two Cows and Calves and Bull..............................................$30.00
Four Stacks of Blades........................................................$30.00
One lot of corn.....................................................................$45.00
5 Head of Hogs....................................................................$25.00
3 Head do (hogs).................................................................$9.00
Straw.........................................................................................$3.00
2 1/2 Bushell Rye.................................................................$1.87 1/2
2 Empty Barrels.....................................................................$ .50
One X Cut and handsaw.......................................................$10.00
One young mare..................................................................$30.00
1 Grindstone...........................................................................$1.50
3 pair Traces...........................................................................$2.00
Com and Piers........................................................................$8.00
One Bed of Furniture..........................................................$12.00
One Table Chair and Barrel...................................................$1.00
2 Beds of Bedstead..............................................................$80.00
1 Chest.......................................................................................$8.00
Cotton.........................................................................................$6.00
2 wheels and 3 chairs...............................................................$6.00
1 guy and Vad Irons.................................................................$1.50
2 Bowls and 1 mug and 1/2 gallon Measure.....................$1.00
One Reel and 1 shott gun......................................................$3.00
Pewter and Table...................................................................$3.00
1 Oreen and Pott and water and foil.........................................$4.00
2 scythes and Cradle.................................................................$2.00
2 Sows.........................................................................................$6.00
2 Tight Barrels and tub............................................................$2.37 1/2
One pen Shucks
One lott of Tools......................................................................$37.37
One Sorrel Horse......................................................................$20.00
...................................................................................................$2,974.12
We do certify that the above is a Just and true appraisment of all the goods and chattels of Travace Rees Decd given under our hand this 31st day of December 1817
Abraham Smith, William Bramlet, B. Lawson






Actual Text (spelling intact)
A
Just and true Estimate of
All the goods and Chattels of
Travace Rees Decd Sold January 19th
1818 as Follows, Vig.
Four Negroes..............................................Value $3,120.00
Five Head of Fat Hogs..........................................$53.37
Two Head of Horses..............................................$52.25
2 scythes and Cradles...............................................$1.87 1/2
2 Pots of Old Iron...................................................$2.73 3/4
One Shott gun.........................................................$4.06 1/4
1 Pair Saddle Bags..................................................$1.50
One Chest..................................................................$7.06 1/4
4 chairs.........................................................................$1.50
2 Sows and Pigs...........................................................$26.89 1/2
One wheel..................................................................$2.25
two Cows and Calves.................................................$30.50
One Jug and Chair.......................................................$1.00
One lott of Old Tools..............................................$2.12
One lott do (Old Tools)..........................................$1.37 1/2
One Blade stack........................................................$4.00
52 acres of land........................................................$67.00
One lott of tools.......................................................$1.12 1/2
One Cask and Vinegar...............................................$ .86 1/4
One Ax and x cut saw (cross cut saw)..................$4.00
2 Small Shoats...........................................................$11.25
18 Barrels Corn.........................................................$51.58 3/4
and do (18 Barrels Corn)..........................................$17.50
196 Acres land..........................................................$365.00
One lott of old lumber..........................................$8.11 1/4
2 Beds and Furniture.................................................$31.50
One lott of Old Pewter.........................................$2.30
Pott metal..................................................................$3.93 3/4
One lott do (Pott metal).......................................$3.50
215 D seed Cotton.................................................$12.90
One Old Coffee mill...............................................$ .12 1/2
2 Old Tubs..................................................................$ .25
One Pen Shucks.......................................................$1.95
One Blade Stack.......................................................$4.00
One wheel..................................................................$1.81 1/4
.......................................................................................$3,886.99 3/4
Carried over

........................................................................................$3,886.99
One Rule.....................................................................$ 56 1/4
52 Acres of land.......................................................$121.87 1/2
One loom and gins..................................................$6.18 3/4
One Ax..........................................................................$2.00
One Bed and Furniture..........................................$11.12 1/2
Smoothing Irons......................................................$1.05 1/4
One grindstone.......................................................$3.12 1/2
One Blade Stack......................................................$5.89 1/2
Wheat Straw..............................................................$ .50
Rye and Empty Barrel................................................$1.06 1/4
One Yoke of Oxen..................................................$32.00
........................................................................................$4,074.19 3/4
Notes Due..................................................................$164.96 1/4
Cash in Hand.............................................................$34.89 1/2
Total amt....................................................................$4,2940.01 1/2


Actual Text (intact spelling)
The first years Return of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Estate of Travace Rees Deceased up to the 7th February 1820 by Beverly Braum Executor
Received of money owing before the death of the Testator
Received of Jordan Rees.......................................................................$........6.00
Received of money arising from the Sale of the said Estate....................$2,280.24
..................................................................................................................$2,286.24
.................................................................................................................$......14.68
..................................................................................................................$2,271.56
Take off 6 dollars mistake.......................................................................$........6.00
.................................................................................................................$2,265.56

Amount Paid away
Work and Paid ordinary..........................................................................$........5.68
1818 Jan 20th Paid Cryer of Sale...........................................................$........4.00
May 5th 1819 Paid for Coffin................................................................$........2.00
Paid three appraisers...............................................................................$.......3.00

..................................................................$2,265.56
..................................................................$......14.68
..................................................................$2,250.88

B. Bomum Exct
Made before me on oath this
7th February 1820
S. Goodlett O.G.D.

The First Year's Return of the Estate of Travace Rees Decd


Actual Text (spelling intact)
South Carolina
Greenville district

To John Watson ordinary for said district
The petition of Beverly Bossoum and David Vaughn Exrs of the will of Travace Reece decds Sheweth That there is a small portion of personal estate left at the death of his late son John Reese undisposed of. Your petitioners crave an order of sale for the same in order to pay expenses and make distribution. Given under our hands April 3rd 1837
B. Bassoum
David Vaughan

South Carolina
Greenville district
By John Watson ordinary for sd district
Having only considered the above petition I do hereby order a sale of all the above mentioned property on a credit until Dec 25th next Ten days notice being given at three or more public places in the vicinity of the property. Given under my hand and seal this 3rd day of April 1837
Jno Watson
O.G.D.
Seal





Actual Text (spelling intact)
Sale bill of
Estate of Travace Reese
decd
No. 2
A Just and True Inventory of all the goods
and
Chattels Remaining of Travace Rees
Decd
One Tract of lant 196 Acres...........................$298.00
One Cow and Calf...............................................$13.00
One do (One Cow and Calf)...........................$11.93 3/4
One lott of tools..................................................$1.12 1/2
One lott of Corn...................................................$3.50
One Sow and Pigs...............................................$7.50
One Trunk...............................................................$ .56 1/4
One Table and tub..............................................$ .31 1/4
One Midiling of Bacon......................................$ .58 1/4
One Bridel & Curry Comb................................$ .75
One Saddle..............................................................$7.00
2 Axes........................................................................$1.56 1/4
One Churn and Pewter.......................................$1.31 1/4
One Bed...................................................................$5.87 1/2
One small Oven.....................................................$ .25
One Rifle gun..........................................................$6.25
Total Amt..................................................................$359.50
I Beverly Borroum noe of the executor of the Estate of Travace Rees decsd do certify the above to be a true return of the sale, of all the residue that I know of
April 17th 1837 B. Bomum





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Final Settlement of the Estate of Travace Reese decd up to the 29th Jany 1839
To Amt of Sale bill dew Jany 18 1819..............................$4,274.01 1/2
Deduct debr to...................................................................$...238.74 1/4
Amt to be distributed agreeably.........................................$4,035.25 1/4
to will (saydisc) (?)
Each Share............................................................................$....672.54

By executors comp on $4274. at 5 per..........$213.70
By expenses to paid on first return................$ 25.06 1/4
Amt of Dew and day 7 July 1830..................$238.76 1/4

D. David Vaughn Trustee for Jno Reese decd
in and with the __illegible__ of Said dedsc
To amt of Sale of the property of said John after his death...$359.50
Deduct amt paid......................................................................$ 60.84
Amt to be distributed among the heirs of John Reese desd...$298.66

By paid Thomas R. Brockman................$12.122
By paid W. Crumpton Do .......................$33.372
By paid Paid ordinary's fees.....................$ 4.872
Do Do and record.....................................$ 1.50
By comp paying out $359.50 at 2 1/2 .....$8.97
Amt paid In............................................$60.84 1/2
Made on oath and voucher produced Jany 10th 1842
Jno WAtson
South Carolina
Greenville district
In the Court of ordinary
If appearing that there was in the first return of the Estate of Travace Reese decs dated the 7th July 1820 a mistake of $14.68 against the heirs. Than this day audited the ofc of the executor and of the __illegible__ debts and expenses I find the sum of four thousand and thirty dollars 54/100 to be distributed agreeably to will
It also appears that David Vaughn the above named executor was appointed by the will to take charge of John Reeses Share be being deceased by his father incomeptent The said John having died, and his land and effects being sold by the executors for three hundred and fifty nine dollars 50/100 as above stated and and after deducting debts to these __illegible__ two hundred and ninety eight dollars and 66/100 which Turn I decress in favor of the hiers that may legally claim on the 28 Jany 1837 - Given under my hand this 10 Jany 1842
Jno Watson O.G.D.

Actual Text (spelling intact)
Gainsboro, Ten Aug 23rd 1855
To the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary
Greenville district, South Carolina
Dear Sir, I have been requested by one of the heirs of Mary Rogers deceased, who was an heir at law of Travase Reece Decd, who died suppose in your district in 1837 or 1838, to enquire of you if Mary Rogers' share of said estate has ever been paid over to any person and if so to whom and upon what authority.

It is impossible for me to know what your fee maybe for a Search, but if you will look into it and find the information sought and if you will and Send this amount of your account it will be paid.

Three of the heirs of Mary Rogers made a power of attorney to collect their Share of said estate but have never got one cent and I believe they think their lawyer in the county got it.
TH Butler

Actual text of letter from Patterson Reese at age 67 yrs old (Spelling intact, comments in parenthesis are mine)
Mars Hill, N.C.
May 29, 1914
My Dear nephew your letter to hand yesterday g hason to ancer the some I reind your other letter laid it a way cumming to ancer it in a fiew days got it misplaced could not find it hav not found it till this day. I could not think of your Steet no. tht explains my not ancering your other letter now as to our ancisters I no very little as I was the youges child and herd but little

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said about my gran pairents my father (his father was Preacher Billy Reese so Patterson's paternal grandfather was Thomas Rees) come to western NC from South Carolina I think my gran PaPa Reese (His great grandfather) nane was Travis my father had Several Brothers one named Levi and one named Jackson. Levi lived in South Carolina. Jackson lived in Cherykey Co tha both lived to a Ripe old age some of my grait uncles names was Jessie Reese and Jordan Reese.

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I do not no any thing futher back than that do not no whare the record you speak of Rev Thomes having is if it is not destroid it mite be with some of Betsy Corters papers tho I have no way of noing. I wold like very much to see the Book you speak of if I can boen any thing of impotonce futher I will write you. A.H. Reese (is A.H. Reese his son, Ammons Hollingsworth Reese? Ammons didn't die until 1941, he was a cobbler making shoes in his own shop) is very sick with Hip joint diseas he con not git in and out of bed with out taking morphean to didden the

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pain I fer he will not expefoker the Dr says it is tubercalosis of the hip joint if it is he will never recover tho I hope for the better He has a larg famly and is in a pittable condition.
C.W. Reese (another son, Curtis Williford Reese, was the 8th of 9 children) sent him 5 dolars I have helped him 10 dollars cash since he has bein sick he has worked very hard until he got partime work. He worked when he ought to have been in Bed. you ought to write Him and try to cher him up and if you hav any spair dollar

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inclose it in the letter he will graitly apreciate it and it wold come in good to buy metison with if we ever liston any thing for charity we should do it uppon the living
hope you are all well I will see Welch if he visits the Hill which he will before the Ele chior and urge the mat of promoting you and your boyes. We ar only tol while will he wether is hat and eling here now.

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Leila and H.H. (Leila Reese is Patterson's 9th out of 9 children and she married Rev. Herbert Harold Huneycutt) is gown to the Eastern part of the stat H.H. is Pastor of 3 churches down their his salary is one thousan dollars and a House to liv in fece you and the Boyes write me ofton keep me posted as to the prospect of your success to hold your positions
Your Uncle
Patterson Reese

Eleanor Elaine Reese Huneycutt passed away on 9/13/2018. She had been ill increasingly which accounts for my inability to keep up with my blogging since earlier in the summer. I should soon be able to get back to it so keep checking back and thank you for your prayers for my Dad and the family during this time.

Landry had her first birthday. Evans and Chelsea got some professional photos by Megan K. White. They were beautiful and I tried to do them justice with my digital scrapbook pages. She will never turn one year old again.





















Here are some of the digital scrapbook pages that I made of her photos taken during her first year. This first one is Landry with her big brother, Cash.


Here is Landry's first Easter with Evans, Chelsea and her big brother, Cash.


Here she was at 11 months old.



Here is her 6 months birthday



Here is Landry at 5 months






Here she was enjoying the sunshine and listening to a vintage Fisher Price toy radio that had been her father's when he was a baby!

My sweet, beautiful Mother died on September 13, 2018. As a genealogist and scrapbooker I wanted to document her funeral with digital scrapbook pages. We had a beautiful flower arrangement and I took framed photos of her and her family. I also made a flash drive of photos for the funeral home to play as people gathered for the funeral. Our pastor, Pastor Manning Strickland, of Legacy Outreach did the honor of speaking for her funeral. We had them play the music she had picked out. A few hymns that were piano instrumentals which sounded like her playing them (she was a wonderful pianist when she was younger, until arthritis affected her hands). It was intimate and sweet. But it was hard too. All of us were overwhelmingly sad but God not only enabled us to put one foot in front of the other but actually engage and appreciate everyone coming and the service. I have few memories of the funerals of family who have gone on before. My mind must have protected itself by blanking out a lot. I didn't want to forget this one. So I took photos, made notes and then scrapbooked to try to help me remember. My Mother deserved the highest honor for her exemplary life. She was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She loved her family fiercely and deeply. She is worth remembering and respecting.

This first one was about the flowers sent by her nephew and his wife, Robert and Amy. There were four siblings. Mother was the eldest, then Glenn, Judy and the baby was James. Judy died first of Diabetes and complications. Mother was close to all her siblings, but Judy was special as she was her sister. We were close to Judy and Cecil's sons, Kenneth and Robert, as we grew up. They live out of town and Hurricane Florence kept them from making the trip for the funeral. But they sent a beautiful bouquet of lilies and said it was Judy's favorite. It made Judy, as well as, her son Robert a part of the funeral and I wanted to commemorate it. (Flowers were optional with donations to charity being the other choice.)


This scrapbook page was to remember the flowers we, as a family, selected to honor her. They were beautiful.


I took photos of the table with the framed photos of her and her beloved family. I picked photos of her daughters and grandchildren to include because she loved us, and them, so much.


Mom always loved flowers. This gorgeous bouquet was sent by our niece's husband and his family. When the flowers dried, We each took the dried roses to keep.

In the bottom photo, Elaine is holding photos of her children. Luke is in the National Guard Air and is currently deployed to the Middle East. His wife came but, of course, he couldn't make it. Jenny's husband is in the U.S. Air Force and they are currently at Travis Air Force Base in California. Jenny wanted to fly in but her husband was being flown to Washington, D.C. for an awards banquet to honor him and his crew for 7 months last year for serving during the two Hurricanes (Texas and Florida). He and his crew had to do some logistics in loading planes of relief items. It kept him away from his wife and 4 children for 7 months. It was a big award but he was willing to miss it for Jenny to come to her Grandmother's funeral. But we told her it wasn't necessary. It was just too big a trip (it's an all day thing to get from there to here), leaving him with the 4 children and him missing such an important honor. They are being assigned to Columbia, SC and will be moving at the end of October. Luke should be home by then too. So we plan to have a family get-together in honor of Mother where they can all be there. But, we had them in our hearts during the funeral and Elaine is holding their photographs. The grandchildren knew how much their Grandmother loved them and we all knew it was a time of grief for them too. We knew Luke and Jenny wanted to be here and how hard it was on them not to be. They were in our hearts the whole time.


Uncle Glenn lost his older sister and I know it was hard on him. He's the only one left as James died 3 years ago of Parkinson's Disease. He's lost his whole little-boy family now. But his wife, Aunt Janis, lost her brother too just 4 days after Mom. They were there for us, so we went to her brother's funeral too. I felt so bad for them to have to go through it twice in one week. Aunt Janis is the one sitting with Dad in the bottom picture.




The picture of Mom holding one of their Pomeranians was the photo we all chose to be in her online obituary.


Here was her online obituary. I had written it many years ago and she had approved it. It's not only online but we also put her on FindaGrave.


Here are some digital scrapbook pages that I've made to make a book of Mom's life (I've done one for Dad too). This first one was her high school portrait. She had such high hopes back then. I found a paper she wrote in high school in 1955 and it was about the future.


Here she was as a music student in college at Mars Hill College. She met Dad there.


Here were Mom and Dad a couple of years ago at a 4th of July party. She still knew who everyone was then.




Here was her Easter picture as a little girl.


We have this portrait of the first 3 siblings (James wasn't born yet).


This was mother riding her tricycle.

Mom and Judy at the beach in the late 1950's.

Elijah John Ricker was the brother of my direct ancestor, Susannah Ricker (aka Susan Anna Ricker).



Elijah John Ricker was born 11/18/1829 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN to John K. Ricker (DOB 6/7/1799 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN to Johann Peter Ricker and Margaret "Peggy" Ricker; DOD 5/29/1885 in Greene County, TN) and Mary Delilah Lyles (DOB 2/16/1806 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN; 4/30/1891 in Greene County, TN).

John K. Ricker, Sr. married Mary Delilah Lyles. The only Lyle(s) I found in Greene County, TN was a tax record to James Lyle: Tennessee, Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895, Name: James Lyle, Year: 1783, Residence: Greene County, Tennessee. I couldn't find any other Lyle(s) in Greene County, TN back then. There is a James Lyle in Anson County, NC in th 1790, 1800 U.S. Census. Her mother's name may have been Margaret.

John K. Ricker and Mary Delilah Lyles had 10 known children:
1) David Sydney Ricker (DOB Abt. 1828 in TN; DOD 7/4/1884 in Greene County, TN) married Almira Meiers (aka Elmira Meiery, Almira Myers, Elmire Myers) (DOB 3/25/1830 in TN; DOD 3/4/1892 in Greene County, TN). They had Mary Jane Ricker, John F. Ricker, William "Bill" Callaway Ricker, Alice Ricker, David Frank Ricker.

2) Elijah John Ricker (DOB 11/18/1829 in Greene County, TN; DOD 11/20/1876 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN) married Charlotte Elizabeth Lamb (DOB 4/18/1824 in Greene County, TN to Nathan Marmaduke Lamb and Orpha Rollins; DOD 4/19/1881 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN). They had Frederick Knighton Ricker, Sr., Charlotte Caroline Ricker, John L. Ricker, Uriah M. Ricker, Salina Malinda Jane Ricker, Eliza Elvira Emaline Ricker, Sarah Frances Ricker, Hamilton Ricker.

3) Susannah Ricker (aka Susan Ann Ricker) (DOB 5/1/1831 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN; DOD 6/1/1918 in Greene County, TN). She had a daughter by Jackson "Jack"John Sevier Hare (DOB 5/8/1830 in Greene County, TN to Abraham Hare and Sarah Rebecca Sevier Waddell; DOD 7/18/1915 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN). He was also married to Temperance "Tempy" Caroline House and Nancy J. Lawson. Their daughter was Nancy Margaret Malinda Ricker (DOB 3/18/1852 in Greene County, TN; DOD 1/6/1919 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN, married Elbert Sevier Lamb, son of John Rollins Lamb and Sarah Ann Ealey, grandson of Nathan Marmaduke Lamb. Susannah Ricker married Edward M. Nolen (DOB 2/1847 in NC; DOD After 1920 in Greene County, TN). They had no children.

4) Daniel Peter Ricker (DOB Abt. 1834 in Greene County, TN; DOD 2/16/1913 in Greene County, TN) married 1st Mary Elizabeth Taylor (DOB 1/1837 in TN; DOD 7/1888 in Greene County, TN). They had Elbridge "Elbert" S. Ricker, Christopher Columbus Ricker, William M. Ricker, Rosen Burnsides Ricker, Hartencia "Artensy" Ricker, Martin Luther Ricker, Jane Ricker, Anderson Ricker, Horace Sidney Ricker. He married 2nd Martha Elizabeth Hair (DOB Abt. 1848 in TN; DOD ? in ? ).

5) Frederick "Fred" Ricker (DOB Abt. 1835 in TN; DOD Abt. 1870 in Greene County, TN) married Nancy Jane Taylor (DOB Abt. 1841 in TN; DOD ? in ? ). They had Delilah Catherine Ricker, Mary J. Ricker.

6) Eve Ricker (DOB 1/26/1837 in Greene County, TN; DOD 5/27/1963 in Greene County, TN) married James D. Carlisle (DOB 4/1831 in SC; DOD 1908 in Cocke County, TN). He married 2nd Martha Jane Ottinger. Eve Ricker and James Carlisle had Francis Elizabeth Carlisle, Joseph A. Carlisle, Mary Ann Carlisle, Virginia "Jennie" Carlisle, Frederick "Fred" V. Carlisle.

7) Mary Jane Ricker (DOB Abt. 1840 in Greene County, TN; DOD 6/14/1890 in Madison County, NC) married John Oliver Lamb (DOB 1/5/1842 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN to John Rollins Lamb and Sarah Ann Ealey; DOD 6/1880 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN). They had Sarah "Sallie" Lamb, Francis Marion Lamb, John B. Lamb, Mary E. Lamb, Charles Henry Lamb.

8) Malinda Ricker (DOB 11/11/1840 in Greene County, TN; DOD 12/10/1911 in Greene County, TN) married Stephen G. Jennings (DOB 11/15/1840 in TN; DOD 2/14/1919 in Greene County, TN). They had John Jennings, William Jennings, Ida Jane Jennings, Thomas Jennings, Marshall Jennings, George E. Jennings.

9) John K. Ricker, Jr. (DOB 8/7/1943 in Greene County, TN or SC; DOD 4/2/1924 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN) married Margaret Louisa Jane Allen (DOB Abt. 1844 in TN; DOD After 1920 in ? ). They had Charles Henry Ricker, Andrew Johnson Ricker, Launia Ella Ricker, Mary Ann Maude Ricker, David S. Ricker, John Quincy Ricker, Francis "Frank" Beverly Ricker, William Ricker.

10) Sarah Caroline Ricker (DOB 9/9/1848 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN; DOD 9/9/1884 in Greene County, TN) married Emanuel "Manuel" King Waddell (DOB 4/27/1843 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN; DOD 10/27/1902 in Greene County, TN). They had Susan D. Jane Waddell (Waddle), John Francis Waddell, Andrew Jackson Waddell, Catherine Waddell, Daniel Peter Waddell, Stephen Edward Waddell, James Cleveland Waddell, Charlie H. Waddell. Manuel Waddle married Sarah Jane Parton and they had Elizabeth Waddell, Chassie Waddell, Ollie Waddell.


1830 U.S. Census of Greene County, Tennessee; Series: M19; Roll: 180; Page: 157; Family History Library Film: 0024538
Name: John Ricker
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Greene, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 7
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 7

1840 U.S. Census of Greene County, Tennessee; Page: 9; Family History Library Film: 0024546
Name: John Rick
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Greene, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 10
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 12
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 12

1850 U.S. Census of Division 9, Greene, Tennessee; Roll: M432_880; Page: 153A; Image: 311, "John Richers" (sic)
John Richers, 51 yrs old (DOB 1799), M(ale), W(hite), Farmer, $800 Real Estate Value, Born in TN
Delila Richers, 45 yrs old (DOB 1805), F, W, Born in TN
Elijah Richers, 20 yrs old (DOB 1830), M, W, Farmer, Born in TN
Daniel Richers, 16 yrs old (DOB 1834), M, W, Farmer, Born in TN
Fred Richers, 15 yrs old (DOB 1844), M, W, Born in TN
Susannah Richers, 14 yrs old (DOB 1856), F, W, Born in TN
Eve Richers, 13 yrs old (DOB 1857), F, W, Born in TN
Jane Richers, 10 yrs old (DOB 1860), F, W, Born in TN
Malinda Richers, 9 yrs old (DOB 1861), F, W, Born in TN
Sarah E. Richers, 6 yrs old (DOB 1864), F, W, Born in TN

1860 U.S. Census of District 18, Greene, Tennessee; Roll: M653_1252; Page: 371; Family History Library Film: 805252, "Eliza Ricker" (sic)
Eligah Ricker, 29 yrs old (DOB 1831), M(ale), W(hite), Farmer, $400 Real Estate Value, $300 Personal Estate Value, Born in TN
Charlotte Ricker, 36 yrs old (DOB 1824), F, W, Born in TN
Fredrick Ricker (sic), 5 yrs old (DOB 1855), M, W, Born in TN
Charlotte Ricker, 3 yrs old (DOB 1857), F, W, Born in TN
John L. Ricker, 2 yrs old (DOB 1858), M, W, Born in TN
Uriah Ricker, 1 yr old (DOB 1869), M, W, Born in TN

1870 U.S. Census of District 18, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: M593_1531; Page: 386A; Family History Library Film: 553030, "Elizah Ricker" (sic)
Elizah Ricker, 40 yrs old (DOB 1830), M(ale), W(hite), Farmer, $1,200 Real Estate Value, $500 Personal Estate Value, Born in TN
Charlotte Ricker, 44 yrs old (DOB 1826), F, W, Keeping House, Born in TN
Frederick Ricker, 16 yrs old (DOB 1854), M, W, Born in TN
Charlotte C. Ricker, 15 yrs old (DOB 1855), F, W, Born in TN
John L. Ricker, 13 yrs old (DOB 1857), M, W, Born in TN
Uriah Ricker, 12 yrs old (DOB 1858), M, W, Born in TN
Salina M.J. Ricker, 10 yrs old (DOB 1860), F, W, Born in TN
Eliza E.E. Ricker, 6 yrs old (DOB 1854), F, W, Born in TN
Sarah F. Ricker, 4 yrs old (DOB 1856), F, W, Born in TN
Elijah H. Ricker, 2 yrs old (DOB 1858), M, W, Born in TN

1880 U.S. Census of District 18, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: 1258; Page: 37A; Enumeration District: 044, "Charlotte Ricker"
Charlotte Ricker, W(hite), F(emale), 56 yrs old (DOB 1824), Head, Widowed, Keeping house, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
John L. Ricker, W, M, Son, Single, Farmer, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Charlotte C. Ricker, W, F, Daughter, Single, At home, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Salina Malinda Janes Blancher (sic), W, F, 19 yrs old (DOB 1861), Daughter, Single, At home, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Eliza Elvira Emiline Ricker (sic), W, F, 15 yrs old (DOB 1865) Daughter, Single, At home, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Sarah Frances Ricker, W, F, 13 yrs old (DOB 1867), Daughter, Single, At home, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Hamilton Ricker, W, M, 12 yrs old (DOB 1868), Son, Single, Farm laborer, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Monterville Blancher (sic), W, M, 2 yrs old (DOB 1878), Gradson, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Purl P. Ricker (sic), W, F, 1 yr old (DOB 1879), Granddaughter, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

Elijah John Ricker married Charlotte Elizabeth Lamb (DOB 4/18/1824 in Greene County, TN to Nathan Marmaduke Lamb and Orpha Rollins) in 1843 in Tennessee.

1) Frederick Knighton Ricker, Sr. (DOB 5/11/1854 in Greene County, TN; DOD 10/16/1911 in Greene County, TN) married Mary S. Nichols or Mickels (DOB 11/26/1848 in Greene County, TN; DOD 2/5/1922 in Greene County, TN). They had Johnathon B.M. Ricker, Elijah Milton Ricker, Maggie W. Ricker, Robert Taylor Ricker, Frederick Knighton Ricker, Jr., John Henry Ricker, Sallie Jennie Ricker, James Mort Ricker, Infant Son Ricker.

2) Charlotte Caroline Ricker (DOB 3/21/1856 in Greene County, TN; DOD 7/19/1937 in Greene County, TN) married 1st Elbert Marshall (DOB 2/2/1860 in Greene County, TN; DOD 10/15/1925 in Greene County, TN). They had Estella Claudia "Stella" Ricker (Walter Columbus Nanney). She married 2nd George Washington Hipps (DOB Abt. 1825 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/21/1899 in Greene County, TN) in 1898. She also had Horace Thomas Ricker (DOB 5/6/1895 in Greene County, TN; DOD 11/29/1917 in Greene County, TN) and Clarence Hamilton Ricker (DOB 8/12/1902 in Greene County, TN; DOD 1/11/1948 in Greene County, TN).

3) John Luther Ricker (DOB Abt. 1858 in Greene County, TN; DOD 12/21/1930 in Greene County, TN) married Mary Ruth Wright (DOB 5/24/1871 in TN; DOD 6/19/1918 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN). They had Vernie Luther Ricker, Olive Essie Ricker, Ota Leona Ricker.

4) Uriah M. Ricker (DOB Abt. 1859 in Greene County, TN; DOD Abt. 1890 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN) married 1st Martha F. Smith (DOB 9/2/1860 in NC; DOD 8/20/1881 in Greene County, TN). They had Smith Alexander Stills Ricker (DOB 11/16/1879 in Greene County, TN; DOD 3/1/1947 in Greene County, TN). He married 2nd Hester E. Seaton (DOB 1/1873 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/1930 in Maryland). Hester married James Andrew Marshall in 1891. James Andrew Marshall had married Uriah's younger sister, Mary Isabell Ricker. She died in 1891 so the two new widowers married.

5) Salina Malinda Jane Ricker (DOB Abt. 1861 in Greene County, TN; DOD 12/15/1953 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC) married George Albert Blanchard, Sr. (DOB 6/21/1855 in TN; DOD 6/17/1917 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC). They had Liddie M. Blanchard, George A. Blanchard, James "Jim" Blanchard, Sr., Fred B. Blanchard, Hattie Blanchard, Dora K. Blanchard.

6) Mary Isabell Ricker (DOB 7/15/1862 in Greene County, TN; DOD 7/29/1888 in Greene County, TN) married James Andrew Ricker (aka James M. Ricker, his middle name may or may not be "Andrew" but he is generally listed as "James A. Ricker") (DOB 1856 in Greene County, TN; DOD 1935 in Greene County, TN). They had Thomas Andrew Marshall (6/7/1881-8/31/1953), Susan "Susie" Lodda Marshall (3/31/1883-7/22/1935), Bertha Mae Marshall (5/15/1888-4/3/1946) married Theodore Fannon/Fannin, George Washington "Pete" Marshall (8/11/1885-4/18/1944). James Andrew Ricker immediately married 2nd Hester E. Seaton (DOB 1/1873 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/1930 in Maryland) in 1891 in Greene County, TN. She had previously been married to Mary Isabell Ricker's older brother, Uriah M. Ricker, who had died in 1890. Of Mary and James Marshall's children, Thomas Andrew Marshall died at 72 of Uremia due to hypertensive heart disease and arteriosclerosis. Susie Marshall never married. She had rheumatism and died at 52 yrs old of chronic nephritis and myocarditis. Bertha Mae Marshall (1888-1946) married Theodore Fannon. She died of chronic myocarditis due to influenza and infection at 57 yrs old. George Washington Marshall married Lura Estelle Bellin 1914. She had been married to David C. Collyer (DOM 1900) who had been in the Spanish American War. He died at the young age of 30 in 1906 in the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Knoxville, TN of uremia. He had been a Tobaccoist. Lura/Laura/Lara Bell Collyer then married George Washington Marshall. He died at 58 yrs old in the the Eastern TN State Hospital for the Insane. He committed suicide by strangulation. He suffered from "general paralysis of the insane". He was in the East TN State Hospital for the Insane in Knoxville in the 1940 U.S. Census. In that census it indicated he was in Greeneville, TN in 1935. In the 1930 U.S. Census he worked in a Tobacco Warehouse as a Tobaccoist. George Washington Marshall had also served in the military. He registered on 11/12/1907 in Greeneville, TN. He was described as being 5'9", blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion. He registered for 3 yrs service.

7) Eliza Elvira Emaline Ricker (DOB Abt. 1865 in Greene County, TN; DOD 10/6/1886 in Greene County, TN).

8) Sarah Frances Ricker (DOB Abt. 1867 in Greene County, TN; DOD 11/25/1893 in Greene County, TN) married Enoch "Bud" Nathaniel Myers (DOB 7/12/1867 in Greene County, TN; DOD 8/4/1939 in Greene County, TN). They had James Crawford Myers, Grover Cleveland Myers, Tivis Myers, and Lavina "Vinie" Emma Myers.

9) Elijah Hamilton Ricker (DOB 1/31/1868 in Greene County, TN; DOD 2/7/1932 in Madison County, NC) married Sarah Sade Elizabeth McGee (DOB 9/23/1869 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN; DOD 4/1/1950 in Madison County, NC). They had Roy Calvin Ricker, Monter Bill Ricker, Goodson Vance Ricker, Sr., Pearl Ricker, Grace Leona Ricker, Vester Ricker, Timothy Titus Ricker, Elisha Matthis Matthew Ricker, Myrtle Eloise Ricker.

1870 U.S. Census of District 18, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: M593_1531; Page: 386A; Family History Library Film: 553030, "Elijah Rickor" (sic)
Elijah Rickor, 40 yrs old (DOB 1830), M(ale), W(hite), Farmer, $1,200 Real Estate Value, $500 Personal Estate Value, Born in NC
Charlotte Ricker, 44 yrs old (DOB 1826), F, W, Keeping House, Born in NC
Frederick Rickor, 16 yrs old (DOB 1854), M, W, Born in NC
Charlotte C. Ricker, 15 ysr old (DOB 1855), F, W, Born in NC
John L. Rickor, 13 yrs old (DOB 1857), M, W, Born in NC
Uriah Rickor, 12 yrs old (DOB 1858), M, W, Born in NC
Salina M. J. Rickor, 10 yrs old (DOB 1860), F, W, Born in NC
Mary. A.E. Rickor, 8 yrs old (DOB 1862), F, W, Born in NC
Eliza E.E. Rickor, 6 yrs old (DOB 1864), F, W, Born in NC
Sarah H. Rickor, 4 yrs old (DOB 1866), F, W, Born in NC
Elijah H. Rickor, 2 yrs old (DOB 1868), M, W, Born in NC

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Elijah John Ricker
BIRTH 18 Nov 1829, Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 20 Nov 1876 (aged 47), Limestone Springs, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 38422410
DEAR WIFE AND CHILDREN A SHORT FAREWELL. UNTIL WE MEET ABOVE WHERE ANGELS LOVE TO DEWELL AND PRAISE THE GOD OF LOVE.

1880 U.S. Census of District 18, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: 1258; Page: 37A; Enumeration District: 044, "Charlotte Ricker"
Charlotte Ricker, W(hite), F(emale), 56 yrs old (DOB 1824), Head, Widowed, Keeping house, Born in TN, Both parents born in NC
John L. Ricker, W, M, 21 yrs old (DOB 1859), Son, Single, Farmer, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Salina Malinda Jane Blanchard, W, F, 19 yrs old (DOB 1861), Daughter, Married, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Eliza Elvira Emaline Ricker, W, F, 15 yrs old (DOB 1865), Daughter, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Sarah Frances Ricker, W, F, 13 yrs old (DOB 1857), Daughter, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Hamilton Ricker, W, M, 12 yrs old (DOB 1858), Son, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Monterville Blanchard, W, M, 2 yrs old (DOB 1878), Grandson, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Pearl P. Ricker, W, F, 1 yr old (DOB 1879), Granddaughter, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

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Charlotte Elizabeth Lamb Ricker
BIRTH 18 Apr 1824, Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 19 Apr 1881 (aged 57), Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 38422657 · View Source



Sources:
1) Frederick Knighton Ricker, Sr.

Frederick Knighton Ricker, Sr. (DOB 5/11/1854 in Greene County, TN; DOD 10/16/1911 in Greene County, TN) married Mary S. MickelsorNichols (DOB 11/26/1848 in Green County, TN; DOD 2/5/1922 in Greene County, TN). They had Jonathon B.M. Ricker, Elijah Milton Ricker, Maggie W. Ricker, Robert Taylor Ricker, Frederick "Fred" Knighton Ricker, Jr., John Henry Ricker, Salina Jennie Ricker, James Mort Ricker and Infant Son Ricker.

Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002
Name: Frederick R Ricker
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 24 Nov 1872
Marriage Place: Greene, Tennessee, USA
Spouse: Mary S Mickels

1880 U.S. Census of District 18, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: 1258; Page: 36C; Enumeration District: 044, "Frederick Ricker"
Frederick Ricker, W(hite), M(ale), 26 yrs old (DOB 1854), Head, Married, Farming, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Mary Ricker, W, F, 36 yrs old (DOB 1844), Wife, Married, Keeping House, Born in SC, Both parents born in SC
Eligah Ricker (sic), W, M, 5 yrs old (DOB 1875), Born in TN, Father born in TN, Mother born in SC
Maggie Ricker, W, F, 2 yrs old (DOB 1878), Born in TN, Father born in TN, Mother born in SC

1900 U.S. Census of Civil District 18, Greene County, Tennessee; Enumeration District: 0048; FHL microfilm: 1241573, "Frederick Ricker"
 Frederick Ricker, Head, W(hite), M(ale), 46 yrs old (DOB 1854), Married 27 yrs (DOM 1873), Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer, Owns Farm Free of mortgage, Can read and write
Mary S. Ricker, Wife, W, F, Born Nov, 1848, 51 yrs old, Married 27 yrs old, 9 children with 7 still living, Born in SC, Both parents born in SC, Can read and write
Maggie W. Ricker, Daughter, W, F, Born Dec, 1878, 21 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Father born in TN, Mother born in SC
Robert T. Ricker, Son, W, M, Born Oct, 1880, 19 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Father born in TN, Mother born in SC
Frederick N. Ricker, Son, W, M, Born Dec, 1882, 17 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Father born in TN, Mother born in SC
John H. Ricker, Son, W, M, Born May, 1885, 15 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Father born in TN, Mother born in SC
Salina J. Ricker, Daughter, W, F, Born Mch, 1888, 12 yrs old, Born in TN, Father born in TN, Mother born in SC
James M. Ricker, Son, W, M, Born May, 1890, 10 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Father born in TN, Mother born in SC

1910 U.S. Census of Civil District 18, Greene, Tennessee; Roll: T624_1501; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1375514, "Fred K. Ricker"
Fred K. Ricker, Head, M(ale), W(hite), 56 yrs old (DOB 1854, 1st Marriage, Married 38 yrs (DOM 1872), Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Can read and write, Farmer, Owns farm free of mortgage
Mary Ricker, Wife, F, W, 60 yrs old (DOB 1850), 1st Marriage, Married 38 yrs, 7 children with 7 still living, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Can read and write
Magie Ricker (sic), Daughter, F, W, 31 yrs old (DOB 1879), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Can read and write
Fred K. Ricker, Jr., Son, M, W, 27 yrs old (DOB 1883), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Can read and write, Merchant dry goods store
John H. Ricker, Son, M, W, 25 yrs old (DOB 1885), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Can read and write, Clerk at dry goods store
Jennie Ricker, Daughter, F, W, 22 yrs old (DOB 1888), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Can read and write
Mart Ricker (sic), Son, M, W, 20 yrs old (DOB 1890), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Can read and write
Charlie Ricker, Cousin, M, W, 5 yrs old (DOB 1905), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

TN Death Certificate #30862 and #231
F.K. Ricker
Date of Death: 10/16/1911
Male, White, 49 yrs old, Married
Died in Greene County, TN
Cause of death: Appendicitus (sic)
Place of Birth: Greene Co., TN
Occupation: Farming
Date Recorded 7/20/1912

Tennessee, Deaths and Burials Index, 1874-1955
Name: F K Ricker
Birth Date: abt 1862
Birth Place: Greene County, Tennessee
Age: 49
Death Date: 16 Oct 1911
Death Place: Greene County, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Farming
FHL Film Number:1308100

Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008
Name: F K Ricker
Probate Date: 24 Oct 1911
Probate Place: Greene, Tennessee, USA
Inferred Death Year: Abt 1911
Inferred Death Place: Tennessee, USA
Case Number: 208
Item Description: Court Records, File No 72, Administrator Bonds, Aiken-Yates - File No 77, Hendry, George R

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Frederick Knighton Ricker
BIRTH 11 May 1854, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 18 Oct 1911 (aged 57), Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID 46225179

Mary S. Nichols Ricker
BIRTH 26 Nov 1848, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 5 Feb 1922 (aged 73), Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID 46225272

TN Death Certificate, File #42, Registered #17, District #301, Registration District 43018, Mary Ricker, DOD 2/27/1922 in Greene County, TN
Female, White, Widowed, DOB 3/20/1848 in SC, 74 yrs old
Occupation: Housewife
Father: Elija Mickel, born in SC
Mother: Mary More
DOD 7/27/1922
Cause of death: illegible
Burial: illegible (Rehobeth Cem)

2) Charlotte Caroline Ricker

Charlotte Caroline Ricker (DOB 3/21/1856 in TN; DOD 7/19/1937 in Greene County, TN) married Elbert Marshall (DOB 2/10/1860 in Greene County, TN; DOD 10/15/1925 in Greene County, TN). They had Estella "Stella" Claudia Ricker. Elbert Marshall didn't die until 1925 so they must have divorced? She married George Washington Hipps (DOB Abt. 1825 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/21/1899 in Greene County, TN) in 1898 but he died in 1899. She had two sons from unknown father(s): Horace Thomas Ricker (DOB 5/6/1895 in Greene County, TN; DOD 11/29/1917 in Greene County, TN of bronchopneumonia following measles) and Clarence Hamilton Ricker (DOB 8/12/1902 in Greene County, TN; DOD 1/11/1948 in Greene County, TN of heart failure).

Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
Name: Charllotte C Ricker
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Birth Date: abt 1856
Marriage Date: 25 Jun 1881
Marriage Place: Greene, Tennessee, USA
Spouse: Elbert Marshall
Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
Name: George W Hipps
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 17 Feb 1898
Marriage Place: Greene, Tennessee, USA
Spouse: Charlotte C Ricker

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George Washington Hipps
BIRTH 1825
DEATH 1899 (aged 73–74)
BURIAL Lamb Family Cemetery at Sherills Cove, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 76556270

1900 U.S. Census of Civil District 18, Greene County, Tennessee; Page: 3; Enumeration District: 0048; FHL microfilm: 1241573, "Charlotte Hipps"
Charlotte Hipps, Head, W(hite), F(emale), Born Mch 1856, 44 yrs old, Widow, 5 children with 5 still living, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer, Can read and write, Owns farm free of mortgage
Claudie E. Ricker, Daughter, W, F, Born Apr, 1884, 16 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Can read and write
Horace Ricker, Son, W, M, Born May, 1895, 5 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Clarence Hipps, Son, W, M, Born Aug, 1898, 1 yr old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

1910 U.S. Census of Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: T624_1501; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1375514, "Sherlotta E. Hipps" (sic)
Sherlotta E. Hipps, Head, F(emale), W(hite), 53 yrs old (DOB 1857), Widowed, 5 children with 3 still living, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer, Owns farm free or mortgage
Harris G. Hipps, Son, M, W, 15 yrs old (DOB 1895), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer
Clarance H. Hipps, Son, M, W, 11 yrs old (DOB 1899), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

TN Death Certificate #333, Registration District #43008, E.F. Marshall, DOD 10/15/1925 in Greene County, TN
Male, White, Married, DOB 2/1/1860 in TN, 65 yrs old
Occupation: Farmer
Father: A.J. Marshall, Born in TN
Mother: Mary Colyer, Born in TN
Informant: J.A. Marshall, Greene Co., TN
DOD 10/15/1925 1:05
Cause of death: Influenza
Buried: Hebron on 10/16/1925

1930 U.S. Census of District 2, Greene, Tennessee; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0004; FHL microfilm: 2341983, "Charlotte Ricker"
Charlotte Ricker, Head, Owns radio, F(emale), W(hite), 74 yrs old (DOB 1856), Widowed, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer, Owns farm
Clarance Ricker, Son, M, W, 30 yrs old (DOB 1900), Married at age 17 yrs old, Can read and write, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Merchant general store
Stella Nanney, Daughter, F, W, 44 yrs old (DOB 1886), Married at age 19 yrs old, Can read and write, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Thomas Nanney, Grandson, M, W, 22 yrs old (DOB 1908), Single, Can read and write, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Pauline Nanney, Granddaughter, F, W, 19 yrs old (DOB 1921), Single, Can read and write, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Charlotte Nanney, Granddaughter, F, W, 12 yrs old (DOB 1928), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Clarance Nanney, Grandson, M, W, 9 yrs old (DOB 1931), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Josephine Nanney, Granddaughter, F, W, 8 yrs old (DOB 1932), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

TN Death Certificate #18465, Registration District #43002, Registered #304, Mrs. Charlotte Ricker, DOD 7/19/1937 in Greene County, TN
Female, White, Widow, DOB 3/31/1856 in Greene County, TN, 81 yrs old
Father: illegible
Mother: illegible
Informant: Clarence Ricker, Greeneville, TN
DOD 7/19/1937 at 11:00pm
Cause of death: myocarditis, other condition was rheumatism
Buried: Rehobah on 7/21/1937

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Charlotte Ricker
BIRTH 1 Mar 1850
DEATH 19 Jul 1937 (aged 87)
BURIAL Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 46365698

3) John Luther Ricker

John Luther Ricker (DOB 9/1857 in TN; DOD 12/21/1930 in Greene County, TN) married Mary Ruth Wright (DOB 5/1871 in TN; DOD 6/19/1918 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN of pulmonary tuberculosis). They had Vernie Luther Ricker, Olive Essie Ricker, and Ota Leona Ricker.

Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002
Name: John L Ricker
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 11 Feb 1886
Marriage Place: Greene, Tennessee, USA
Spouse: Mary R Wright

1900 U.S. Census of Civil District 24, Greene, Tennessee; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0030; FHL microfilm: 1241573, "John Ricker"
John Ricker, Head, W(hite), M(ale), Born Sept, 1858, 41 yrs old, Married 14 yrs (DOM 1886), Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Carpenter, Can read and write, Rents home
Mary Ricker, Wife, W, F, Born May, 1871, 29 yrs old, Married 14 yrs, 1 child and 1 still living, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Verny Ricker (sic), Son, W, M, Born Sept, 1892, 8 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

1910 U.S. Census of Civil District 14, Greene, Tennessee; Roll: T624_1501; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0084; FHL microfilm: 1375514, "John L. Ricker"
John L. Ricker, Head, M(ale), W(hite), 52 yrs old (DOB 1858), 1st Married, Married 23 yrs (DOM 1887), Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer, Can read and write, Owns farm free of mortgage
Mary Ricker, Wife, F, W, 39 yrs old (DOB 1871), 1st Marriage, Married 23 yrs, 3 children with 2 still living, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Can read and write
Verney Ricker (sic), Son, M, W, 17 yrs old (DOB 1893), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Olive Ricker (sic), Daughter, F, W, 6 yrs old (DOB 1904), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

TN Death Certificate #155, Registration District #301, Primary Registration District 23010, Registered #62, Mrs. Mary Ruth Ricker, DOD 6/19/1918 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN
Female, White, Married, DOB (blank) in Greene County, TN, 47 yrs old (DOB 1871)
Father: Geo. Wright, born in Greene County, TN
Mother: (blank)
Informant: V.E. Ricker, Greeneville, TN
DOD 6/19/1918 at 11:45
Cause of death: Tuberculosis
Buried: Cedar Hill on 6/21/1918

TN Death Certificate #27645, Registration District #301, Primary Registration District 43013, Reg. #130, John L. Ricker, DOD 12/21/1930 in Greene County, TN
Male, White, Married, DOB (blank) in TN, 73 yrs old (DOB 1857)
Occupation: Farmer
Father: Elija Ricker (sic), Born in TN
Mother: "Don't know"
Informant: Vernie Ricker, Greeneville, TN
DOD 12/21/1930 at 12:00am
Cause of death: Sudden, cause unknown
Buried: 12/23/1930 in Cedar Hill


4) Uriah M. Ricker

Uriah M. Ricker (DOB 1859 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN; DOD Abt. 1890 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN) married Martha F. Smith (DOB 9/2/1860 in NC; DOD 8/20/1881 in Greene County, TN). They had Smith Alexander Stills Ricker (1879-1947). He married 2ndHester E. Seaton (DOB 1/1873 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/1930 in Maryland). After Uriah died, Hester married James Andrew Marshall (1856-1935). He had been married to Mary Isabell Ricker. She died in 1888 and Uriah died in 1890 so James Marshall and Hester Seaton married each other on 6/28/1891 in Greene County, TN.

Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002
Name: Uriah M Richer
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 20 Oct 1878
Marriage Place: Greene, Tennessee, USA
Spouse: Martha F Smith

1880 U.S. Census of District 18, Greene, Tennessee; Roll: 1258; Page: 32C; Enumeration District: 044, "Uriah Ricker"
Uriah Ricker, W(hite), M(ale), 21 yrs old (DOB 1859), Head, Married, Farm laborer, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Martha Ricker, W, F, 19 yrs old (DOB 1861), Wife, Married, Farm laborer, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Smith A. Ricker, W, M, 1 yr old (DOB 1879), Son, Single, Born in TN, Father Born in TN, Mother born in NC

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Martha F. Smith Ricker
BIRTH 2 Sep 1860, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 20 Aug 1881 (aged 20), Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 38418739

Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002
Name: W M Ricker
[U M (Uriah) Ricker]
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 13 Feb 1887
Marriage Place: Greene, Tennessee, USA
Spouse: Hester E Seaton

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Uriah M Ricker
BIRTH 1859, Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 1890 (aged 30–31), Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 55417312

5) Salina Malinda Jane Ricker
Salina Malinda Jane Ricker (DOB Abt. 1861 in TN; DOD 12/15/1953 in Spartanburg County, SC) married George Albert Blanchard, Sr. (DOB 6/21/1855 in TN; DOD 6/7/1917 in Spartanburg County, SC). They had:
1) Monteville Blanchard (DOB 5/1879 in TN; DOD 1/3/1970 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC) married 1st Nellie Mae Ross (DOB 10/1/1882 in SC; DOD 8/13/1931 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC of strangulated left femoral hernia intestinal obstruction). His second wife was Mamie Elizabeth Waters (DOB 9/21/1888 in SC; DOD 8/17/1957 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC of renal shutdown, uremia due to diabetes mellitus).
2) Ludia Margaret Blanchard (DOB 6/5/1882 in TN; DOD 12/26/1965 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC) married Henry Bell.
3) George A. Blanchard (DOB 1/8/1884 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN; DOD 2/2/1942 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC in automobile accident where his 2nd cervical vertebrae was broken and spinal cord probably cut. His first wife was Mary Wood (DOB 9/25/1885 in SC; DOD 11/11/1918 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC of influenza and pneumonia). His second wife was Martha ? (DOB Abt. 1905 in SC; DOD ? in ?
4) James "Jim" Blanchard, Sr. (DOB 6/6/1886 in NC; DOD 12/18/1968 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC). He married Meribah Malba Reed (DOB Abt. 1886 in SC; DOD 2/5/1965 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC). They had James "Jim" Tony Blanchard, Jr., Zeland Blanchard, George Silas Blanchard, Lena Valoriee Blanchard, Elease Blanchard, Ross W. Blanchard, James Henry Blanchard, Lettie Blanchard.
5) Fred Benjamin Blanchard (DOB 6/10/1889 in Spartanburg County, SC; DOD 11/5/1941 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC of cerebral accident and renal failure). He married Grace W. Summey (DOB 11/16/1889 in NC; DOD 1/6/1933 in Lexington, Davidson County, NC) and they had Charles Fredrick Blanchard and Edward Summey Blanchard. He also married Jennie B. McCall (DOB Abt. 1892, DOD ? in ? ).
6) Hattie Blanchard (DOB 2/16/1892 in SC; DOD 6/15/1948 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC of cardiac failure) married Paul Henry Taylor (DOB 12/27/1890 in Spartanburg County, SC; DOD 5/12/1968 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC). They had Albert Clyde Taylor (DOB in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC; DOD 2/21/1947 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC. He was an electrician and lineman and he fell from a pole fracturing his cervical vertebrae and laceration of spinal cord. They also had Annie Mae Taylor (DOB 10/24/1912 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC; DOD 1/25/2010) married William Miller Cash, Jr.
7) Dora K. Blanchard (DOB 4/20/1896 in SC; DOD 12/20/1987 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC) married Ira Tiller Boozer (DOB 8/30/1897 in Newberry County, SC; DOD 9/10/1972 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, SC).

6) Mary Isabell Ricker

Mary Isabell Ricker and James Andrew Marshall had:
1) Thomas Andrew Marshall (1881-1953)
2) Susan "Susie" Marshall (1883-1935)
3) George Washington "Pete" Marshall (1885-1944)
4) Edie Marshall (4/29/1888-2/18/1889)
5) Bertha Mae Marshall (5/15/1888-4/3/1946) married Theodore Fannon.

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Mary Isabell Ricker Marshall
BIRTH 15 Jul 1862
DEATH 29 Jul 1888 (aged 26)
BURIAL Mount Hebron United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 31232217

1900 U.S. Census of Civil District 24, Greene County, Tennessee; Page: 14; Enumeration District: 0030; FHL microfilm: 1241573, "James Marshall"
James Marshall, Head, W(hite), M(ale), Born Mar, 1852, 48 yrs old Married 9 yrs (DOM 1891), Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer
Hester Marshall, Wife, W, F, Born Jan, 1873, 27 yrs old, Married 9 yrs, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Thom Marshall (sic), Son, W, M, Born Mar, 1882, 18 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Lodda Marshall (sic), Daughter, W, F, Born Feb, 1883, 17 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
May Marshall, Daughter, W, F, Born Jul, 1887, 15 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
George Marshall, Son, W, M, Born Aug, 1885, 14 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Benny Marshall, Son, W, M, Born Aug, 1892, 7 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Sampson Marshall, Son, W, M, Born Apr, 1898, 2 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

1910 U.S. Census of Civil District 13, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: T624_1501; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0083; FHL microfilm: 1375514, "James M. Marshall" (sic)
James M. Marshall, Head, M(ale), W(hite), 65 yrs old (DOB 1847), 2nd Marriage, Married 18 yrs (DOM 1892), Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer
Hester E. Marshall, Wife, F, W, 50 yrs old (DOB 1860), 2nd Marriage, Marris 18 yrs, 9 children with 6 still living, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Benjamin Marshall, Son, M, W, 16 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Francis Marshall, Son, M, W, 12 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Walter B. Marshall, Son, M, W, 10 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Lottie R. Marshall, Daughter, F, W, 6 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Andrew J. Marshall, Son, M, W, 4 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Leo Marshall, Daughter, F, W, 2 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

1920 U.S. Census of Civil District 24, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: T625_1742; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 93, "James A. Marshall"
James A. Marshall, Head, Owns with mortgage, M(ale), W(hite), 64 yrs old (DOB 1856), Married, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer
Hester Marshall, Wife, F, W, 49 yrs old, Married, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Sampson Marshall, Son, M, W, 21 yrs old, Married, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Laborer on home farm
Walter Marshall, Son, M, W, 19 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Lollie Marshall, Daughter, F, W, 15 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Jack Marshall, Son, M, W, 14 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Laborer on home farm
Leo Marshall, Daughter, F, W, 11 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Clarra Marshall, Daughter-in-law, M, W, 17 yrs old, Married, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

1930 U.S. Census of Lisbon, Howard County, Maryland; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0011; FHL microfilm: 2340611, "James Marshall"
James Marshall, Head, Rents farm for $120, M(ale), W(hite), 72 yrs old, Married at 22 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer
Hester Marshall, Wife, F, W, 58 yrs old, Married at 18 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Lottie Marshall, Daughter, F, W, 26 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
William Marshall, Son, M, W, 19 yrs old, Married at 18 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Laborer general farm
Cleo Marshall, Daughter-in-law, 19 yrs old, Married at 18 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Donnell Marshall, Nephew, M, W, 2/12 mos old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Lucille Marshall, Niece, F, W, 2 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Deolus E. McAfee, Boarder, M, W, 24 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Laborer general farm

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James A. Marshall
BIRTH 1856, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 1935 (aged 78–79), Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Mount Hebron United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA MEMORIAL ID: 31232257

Hester E. Marshall
BIRTH 3 Mar 1871, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 18 Sep 1964 (aged 93)
BURIAL Laytonsville United Methodist Cemetery, Laytonsville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 154254225

7) Eliza Elvira Emaline Ricker

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Eliza E E Ricker
BIRTH 25 Mar 1865
DEATH 6 Oct 1886 (aged 21)
BURIAL Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 46365878
The loss in site to memory dear

8) Sarah Frances Ricker

Sarah Frances Ricker and Enoch "Buc" Nathaniel Myers had:
1) James Crawford Myers (DOB 6/8/1887 in TN; DOD 7/29/1928 in Koxville, Knox County, TN of Typhoid Fever) married Margaret "Maggie" Luticia Thomas (1882-1957)
2) Grover Cleveland Myers (DOB 6/18/1888 in TN; DOD 4/20/1974 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Addie Ramsey (1896-1969).
3) Tivis Myers (DOB 11/25/1893 in TN; DOD 7/28/1971 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC) married Mary White.

Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002, Jun 1856 - Dec 1888: Marriages
No. 1216, Greeneville, Greene County, TN
This day issued to E.N. Myers to marry Sarah Ricker on the 8th day of October, 1885
W.H. Piper, Clerk by J.W. McDaniel, DC
State of Tennessee
Greene County
I solemnized the rite of matrimony between the within named parties on the 8th Day of Oct, 1885.
W.P. Doan, Min

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Sarah Frances Ricker Myers
BIRTH 14 Aug 1866
DEATH 25 Nov 1893 (aged 27)
BURIAL Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 46364650
WIFE OF E.N. MYERS
NO NIGHT IN HEAVEN, NO CONSUMPTIVES THERE. ALL TEARS SHALL BE WIPED AWAY.
Gravesite Details STONE IS BROKE IN TWO PIECES. DOCUMENTATION FROM THE 30'S SHOWS INSCRIPTION ON STONE.

Enoch Nathaniel Myers married 2nd Emma Freshour (DOB 8/10/1875 in TN; DOD 3/5/1899 in Greene County, TN) on 5/5/1898 in Greene County, TN. He has a daughter, Lavina "Vinie" Emma Myers was born 8/25/1899 in TN and died 12/16/1985 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC. Vinie married Ralph Cooper (1896-1982). Notice the daughter's birth date is AFTER his 2nd wife's death date. So either Emma Freshour Myers' death date on her tombstone is wrong or Vinie's birth date on her Social Security records are wrong or Vinie was the daughter of an unknown mother?

E.N. Myers did not marry a third time.

9) Elijah Hamilton Ricker

Elijah Hamilton Ricker (DOB 1/31/1868 in Greene County, TN; DOD 2/7/1932 in Madison County, NC) married Sarah Sade Elizabeth McGee (DOB 9/23/1869 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN; DOD 4/1/1950 in Madison County, NC). They had Roy Calvin Ricker, Monter Bill Ricker, Goodson Vance Ricker, Sr., Pearl Ricker, Grace Leona Ricker, Vester Ricker, Timothy Titus Ricker, Elisha Matthis Matthew Ricker, Myrtle Eloise Ricker.

1) Roy Calvin Ricker (DOB 12/22/1886 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN; DOD 12/9/1948 in Paint Rock, Madison County, NC) married Martha Ellenburg (DOB 12/7/1882 in TN; DOD 6/10/1976 in Hot Springs, Madison County, NC). They had Annie Mae Ricker (John Herbert Keller), James Vance Ricker (Lucille Moore), Marie Ricker (? Ellenburg).



2) Monter Bill Ricker (DOB 4/10/1889 in Greene County, TN; DOD 12 20 1972 in NC) married Zennie Lucille Taylor (DOB 6/22/1891 in Paint Rock, Madison County, NC; DOD 5/9/1925 in Madison County, NC of Pellagra) and Lora Etta Keller (DOB 4/20/1884 in TN; DOD 12/17/1968 in Hot Springs, Madison County, NC of coronary thrombosis).


3) Goodson Vance Ricker, Sr., (DOB 4/1/1891 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN; DOD 1/18/1950 in El Paso, El Paso County, TX) married 1st Juanita Jennie Palma (DOB 6/24/1896 in Tortuga, New Mexico; DOD 10/26/1949 in San Bernardino, CA). They had Goodson Vance Ricker, Jr. (DOB 11/3/1926 in El Paso, El Paso County, TX; DOD 12/1/2009 in Rialto, San Bernardino County, CA) married Celia Garcia Hernancez. And Berta Ricker or Bertha Ricker (DOB 8/23/1928 in El Paso, El Paso County, TX; DOD ? in ? ) married ?.


He married 2nd Tomasa Aquilar (DOB Abt. 1897 in TX; DOD ? in ? ). They had Ruth Aguilar Ricker (DOB 7/1/1931 in El Paso, El Paso County, TX; DOD ? in ? ) married ? . And Lewis Adward Aquilar Ricker (DOB 5/4/1934 in El Paso, El Paso County, TX; DOD ? in ? ) married ? .




4) Pearl Ricker (DOB 5/28/1894 in Madison County, NC; DOD 8/8/1937 in Madison County, NC) married James John Woody (DOB Abt. 1895 in TN; DOD 1/3/1981 in Cocke County, TN). They had
a) James Mack Woody, Sr. (DOB 11/17/1916 in Delrio, Cocke County, TN; DOD 12/7/1973 in USA) married Bessie L. Kite (DOB 5/1898 in TN; DOD 5/25/1923 in Wolf Creek, Cocke County, TN of chronic nephritis during pregnancy) and Juanita Smith (DOB 1/16/1921 in Spring Creek-Beech Bluff, Madison County, NC; DOD 3/31/1992 in USA). They had James Mack Woody, Jr. (1941-1983).



5) Grace Leona Ricker (Gracie Leona Ricker) (DOB 1/31/1897 in Madison County, NC; DOD 10/29/1986 in Buncombe County, NC) married Charles Edgar Thornburg (DOB 4/27/1894 in Greene County, TN; DOD 9/29/1964 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC). They had Eloise Gertrude Thornburg (James Herbert Ball), Willie Lucille Thornburg (John Lewis Self, Jr.), Geneva Thornburg (? Keyes), Francis Thornburg, Jean Margaret Thornburg (Richard Reginald Roberts), Howard Karl Thornburg (Eula ? ), Robert Roy Thornburg.

6) Vester Ricker (DOB 11/11/1900 in TN; DOD 4/22/1917 in Paint Rock, Madison County, NC)



7) Timothy Titus Ricker (DOB 7/8/1903 in Madison County, NC; DOD 7/26/1980 in Swannanoa, Buncombe County, NC) married Bertha Shipley (DOB 11/1894 in TN; DOD 11/21/1924 in Paint Rock, Madison County, NC of typhoid fever). He married Florence Collins (DOB 6/10/1901 in TN; DOD 2/20/1931 in New Market, Jefferson County, TN of accidental drowning, odd time to be in the water?). They had William Eugene Ricker (1926-2012) and Marie Ricker (1928-? ). He married 3rd Veda Presley (DOB 6/10/1910 in Greene County, TN; DOD 6/23/1980 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC).

8) Elisha Mathis Ricker (Elisha Matthew Ricker) (DOB 3/18/1906 in TN; DOD 6/9/1932 in Paint Rock, Madison County, NC).



9) Myrtle Eloise Ricker (DOB 6/10/1908 in Paint Rock, Madison County, NC; DOD 3/21/1926 in Paint Rock, Madison County, NC of pericarditis and anemia).


1900 U.S. Census of Asheville Ward 4, Buncombe County, North Carolina; Page: 15; Enumeration District: 0141; FHL microfilm: 1241184,"Eliza Ricker" (sic)
Eliza Ricker, Head, W(hite), M(ale), Born Jan, 1870, 30 yrs old, Married 14 yrs (DOM 1886), Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Truck roler (sic)
Sara Ricker, Wife, W, F, Born Sep, 1872, 29 yrs old, Married 14 yrs, 5 children with 5 still living, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Roy M. Ricker, Son, W, M, Born Dec, 1886, 13 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Mont Ricker, Son, W, M, Born 4, 1889, 11 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Vance Ricker, Son, W, M, born 4,1891, 9 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Perl Ricker (sic), Daughter, W, F, Born 5/1894, 6 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in TN
Gracie Ricker, Daughter, W, F, Born 1, 1897, 3 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in TN

1910 U.S. Census of Hot Springs, Madison, North Carolina; Roll: T624_1107; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0080; FHL microfilm: 1375120, "Ham Ricker"
Ham Ricker, M(ale), W(hite), 46 yrs old (DOB 1864), Married 23 yrs (DOM 1887), Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Laborer in lumber yard
Sada Ricker, Wife, F, W, 40 yrs old (DOB 1870), Married 23 yrs, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Mont Ricker, Son, M, W, 21 yrs old (DOB 1879), 21 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Laborer in lumber camp
Vance Ricker, Son, M, W, 19 yrs old (DOB 1881), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Laborer in lumber camp
Pearl Ricker, Daughter, F, W, 16 yrs old (DOB 1884), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Grace Ricker, Daughter, F, W, 11 yrs old (DOB 1889), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Vester Ricker, Son, M, W, 10 yrs old (DOB 1900), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Tim Ricker, Son, M, W, 8 yrs old (DOB 1902), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Mathew Ricker, Son, M, W, 6 yrs old (DOB 1904), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Myrtle Ricker, Daughter, F, W, 2 yrs old (DOB 1908), Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

1920 U.S. Census of Hot Springs, Madison, North Carolina; Roll: T625_1294; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 116, "Elijah Ricker"
Elijah Ricker, Rented home, M(ale), W(hite), 57 yrs old (DOB 1853), Married, Can read and write, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Carpenter home
Sarah E. Ricker, Wife, F, W, 50 yrs old (DOB 1860), Married, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Pearle Ricker, Daughter, F, W, 26 yrs old (DOB 1884), Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in TN
Timothy Ricker, Son, M, W, 16 yrs old (DOB 1886), Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in TN
Matthew Ricker, Son, M, W, 13 yrs old (DOB 1887), Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in TN
Myrtle Ricker, Daughter, F, W, 11 yrs old (DOB 1889), Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in TN

1930 U.S. Census of Hot Springs, Madison County, North Carolina; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0007; FHL microfilm: 2341438, "Eligah H. Ricker" (sic)
Eligah H. Ricker, Head, Owns home valued at $600, M(ale), W(hite),Married at 18 yrs old, Can read and write, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Carpenter, building
Sarrah E. Ricker, Wife, F, W, Married at 16 yrs old, Can read and write, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Mont Ricker, Jr., Grandson, M, W, Single, Attends school, Can read and write, Born in NC, Father born in TN, Mother born in NC

NC Death Certificate #75, Registration District 585762, Certificate #2, Eligah Hamilton Ricker (sic), DOD 2/8/1932 in Paint Rock, Madison County, NC
Male, White, Married
64 yrs old
Occupation: Farmer
? Father: James H. Ricker (sic), born in Greene County, TN
? Mother: Maude Marshall (sic), born in Greene County, TN
Informant: Roy Ricker
DOD 2/8/1932 at 6am
Cause of death: Chronic interstitial nephritis
Contributing causes: Hypertensive cardiac hypertrophy
Buried: 2/9/1932 at Paint Rock, NC

1940 U.S. Census of Madison, North Carolina; Roll: m-t0627-02939; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 58-7A, "Sarah Elizabeth Ricker", living beside her son, Tim Ricker, and his family and Monte Ricker and his family.
Sarah Elizabeth Ricker, Head, F(emale), W(hite), 70 yrs old (DOB 1870), Widowed, Attended school thru 4th grade, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

NC Death Certificate #8555, Registration District #5808, Sarah Elizabeth Ricker, DOD 4/1/1950 in Madison County, NC
Usual residence: Paint Rock, Madison County, NC
Female, White, Widow of Elijah Ricker, DOB 9/23/1869 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN, 80 yrs old
Occupation: Housewife
Father: "Unknown"
Mother: "Unknown"
Informant: Mont B. Ricker of Paint Rock, NC
DOD 4/1/1950 at 6:00am
Cause of death: Bronchial pneumonia
Buried: 4/2/1950 at Paint Rock, NC

John K. Ricker, Sr. was born 6/7/1799 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN to Johann Peter Ricker (DOB 12/8/1751 in Philadelphia County, PA to Andreas Ricker and Elisabeth Magdalena Wolff; DOD Aft. 1/24/1814 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN) and Margaret "Peggy" Unknown (DOB Abt. 1753 in ? ; DOD Aft. 1814 in Greene County, TN). Johann Peter Ricker had served in the American Revolutionary War.




Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891
Name: Peter Ricker
State: TN
County: Greene County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1805
Record Type: Tax list
Database: TN Early Census Index





Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891
Name: Peter Ricker
State: TN
County: Greene County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1812
Record Type: Tax list
Database: TN Early Census Index


Johann Peter Ricker was buried at this church and may be buried beneath the current building.







I wanted to locate Limestone Springs area because it's an area keeps coming up in this family, along with the Paint Rock area in Madison County, NC. These areas were fluid with this family. They could be found in Madison County, NC or in Greene County, TN.








John K. Ricker married Mary Delilah Lyles. Mary Delilah Lyles was born 2/16/1806 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN to James Lyle and Margaret Unknown. I'm not real sure who her parents were but there was a James Lyle in the TN Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895. But I did not find him in the Censuses.

Tennessee, Compiled Marriages, 1784-1825
Name: Deliley Lyles
Spouse: John Rucker
Marriage Date: 15 Jan 1821
Marriage County: Greene

Name: John Rucker
Spouse: Deliley Lyles
Marriage Date: 15 Jan 1821
Marriage County: Greene

Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
Name: John Ricker
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 15 Jan 1821
Marriage Place: Greene, Tennessee, USA
Spouse: Debby Lyle

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: John K Ricker
Gender: Male
Birth Place: TN
Birth Year: 1799
Spouse Name: Mary Delila Lyle
Spouse Birth Place: TN
Spouse Birth Year: 1806
Marriage Year: 1821
Marriage State: TN
Number Pages: 1

John K. Ricker and Mary Delilah Lyles had 12 children:

1) Nancy Ann Ricker (DOB 2/2/1824 in Greene County, TN; DOD 11/2/1895 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN) married William Cutshall (DOB 9/23/1816 in Greene County, TN; DOD 8/10/1894 in Greene County, TN). They had James Cutshall, Orpha Cutshall, Moses C. Cutshall, Dorcas Cutshall Taylor, Mary Emma Maoma Cutshall Davis, Louise Cutshall Taylor, Joseph Hancher Cutshall, John Cutshall, Julia Cutshall Ricker.

2) Martha Ricker (DOB Abt. 1826 in Greene County, TN; DOD Abt. 1865 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN) married Jacob Cutshall (aka Jacob Cutshaw, Jacob Cutshawl) (DOB 1/12/1825 in TN; DOD 2/8/1886 in Greene County, TN). They had Henry Cutshall, Anderson Cutshall, Levi Cutshall, Eliza Jane Cutshall Pierce, Elijah Cutshall, Nancy Cutshall Nancy Cutshall, Isaac Cutshall, James H. Cutshall, Martha Alice Cutshall Cutshall.

3) David Sydney Ricker (DOB Abt. 1828 in TN; DOD 7/4/1884 in Greene County, TN) married Almira Miers (aka Elmira Miers) (DOB 3/25/1830 in TN; DOD 3/4/1892 in Greene County, TN). They had Mary Jane Ricker Mills, John F. Ricker, William "Bill" Callaway Ricker, Alice Ricker, David Frank Ricker.

4) Elijah John Ricker (DOB 11/18/1829 in Greene County, TN; DOD 11/20/1876 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN) married Charlotte Elizabeth Lamb (DOB 4/18/1824 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/19/1881 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN). They had Frederick Knighton Ricker, Sr., Charlotte Caroline Ricker Marshall Washington, John Luther Ricker, Uriah M. Ricker, Salina Malinda Jane Ricker Blanchard, Mary Isabell Ricker Marshall, Eliza Elvira Emaline Ricker, Sarah Frances Ricker Myers, Elijah Hamilton Ricker.

5) Susannah Ricker (aka Susan Ann Ricker) (DOB 5/1/1831 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN; DOD 6/1/1918 in Greene County, TN) had a daughter with Jackson John Sevier Hare (aka Jackson John Sevier Hair, Jack Hare, Jack Hair). That daughter was my Great Great Grandmother, Nancy Margaret Malinda Ricker (DOB 3/18/1852 in TN; DOD 1/6/1919 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN) who married Elbert Sevier Lamb. After Nancy Margaret Malinda Ricker married Elbert Sevier Lamb, Susannah Ricker married Edward M. Nolen (DOB 2/1847 in NC; DOD After 1920 in Greene County, TN).

6) Daniel Peter Ricker (DOB Abt. 1834 in Greene County, TN; DOD 2/16/1913 in Greene County, TN) married Mary Elizabeth Taylor (DOB 1/1837 in TN; DOD 7/1888 in Greene County, TN). They had Elbridge S. Ricker (aka Elbert S. Ricker), Christopher Columbus Ricker, William M. Ricker, Rosen Burnside Ricker, Hartencia Ricker Lamb, Martin Luther Ricker, Jane Ricker, Anderson Ricker, Horace Sidney Ricker. He married 2nd Martha Emaline Hair.

7) Frederick "Fred" Ricker (DOB Abt. 1835 in TN; DOD Abt. 1870 in Greene County, TN) married Nancy Jane Taylor (DOB Abt. 1841 in TN; DOD ? in ? ). They had Delila Catherine Ricker, Mary J. Ricker. Nancy Jane Taylor married 2nd ? Winkle and they had Sara Edna Winkle.

8) Eve Ricker (DOB 1/26/1837 in Greene County, TN; DOD 5/27/1863 in Greene County, TN) married James D. Carlisle (DOB 4/1831 in NC; DOD 1908 in Cocke County, TN). They had Frances Elizabeth Carlisle Nease, Joseph Carlisle, Mary Ann Carlisle, Virginia "Jennie" Carlisle Fine, Frederick V. Carlisle. James D. Carlisle married 2nd Martha Jane Ottinger (1843-1921). They had Sarah L. "Sallie" Carlisle, Ida Belle Carlisle, Elmer Eugene Carlisle, Hughbert Estel Carlisle, Homer Edwin Carlisle (aka Homer Edward Carlisle).

9) Mary Jane Ricker (DOB Abt. 1840 in TN; DOD 6/14/1890 in Madison County, NC) married John Oliver Lamb (DOB 1/5/1842 in Greene County, TN; DOD 6/1880 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN). They had Sarah "Sallie" Lamb Garrett, Frances Marion Lamb, John B. Lamb, Mary E. Lamb Briggs, Charles Henry Lamb.

10) Malinda Ricker (DOB 11/11/1840 in Greene County, TN; DOD 12/10/1911 in Greene County, TN) married Stephen G. Jennings (DOB 11/15/1840 in TN; DOD 2/14/1919 in Greene County, TN). They had John Jennings, William Jennings, Ida Jane Jennings Jennings, Thomas Jennings, Marshall Jennings, George E. Jennings.

11) John K. Ricker, Jr. (DOB 8/7/1843 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/2/1924 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN) married Margaret Louisa Jane Allen (DOB Abt. 1844 in SC; DOD ? in ? ). They had Charles Henry Ricker, Andrew Johnson Ricker, Launia Ella Ricker Stokely, Mary Ann Maude Ricker Waddle, David S. Ricker, John Quincy Ricker, Francis Beverly Ricker, William Ricker.

12) Sara Caroline Ricker (DOB 9/9/1848 in Limestone Springs, Greene County, TN; DOD 9/9/1884 in Greene County, TN) married Emanuel "Manuel" King Waddell (DOB 4/27/1843 in Greene County, TN; DOD 10/27/1901 in Greene County, TN). They had Susan D. Jane Waddell Fowler, John Francis Waddell, Andrew Johnson Waddell, Katherine Louise Waddell Southerland, Daniel Peter Waddell, Stephen Edward Waddell, James Cleveland Waddell, Charley H. Waddell. Emanuel King Waddell married 2nd Sarah Nancy Jane Parton. They had Elizabeth N. Waddell, Chassie D. Waddell, Ollie M. Waddell.

1830 U.S. Census of Greene County, Tennessee; Series: M19; Roll: 180; Page: 157; Family History Library Film: 0024538
Name: John Ricker
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Greene, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 7
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 7

1840 U.S. Census of Greene County, Tennessee; Page: 9; Family History Library Film: 0024546
Name: John Rick
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Greene, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 10
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 12
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 12

1850 U.S. Census of Division 9, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: M432_880; Page: 153A; Image: 311, "John Richer" (sic)
John Richer, 57 yrs old (DOB 1793), M(ale), W(hite), Farmer, $800 Real Estate Value, Born in TN, Cannot read or write
Delila Richer, 45 yrs old (DOB 1805), F, W, Born in TN, Cannot read or write
Elijah Richer, 20 yrs old (DOB 1830), M, W, Farm, Born in TN
Daniel Richer, 16 yrs old (DOB 1834), M, W, Farm, Born in TN
Fred Richer, 15 yrs old (DOB 1835), M, W, Farm, Born in TN
John Richer, 6 yrs old (DOB 1844), M, W, Born in TN
Susannah Richer, 15 yrs old (DOB 1835), F, W, Born in TN
Eve Richer, 13 yrs old (DOB 1837), F, W, Born in TN
Jane Richer, 10 yrs old (DOB 1840), F, W, Born in TN
Malinda Richer, 9 yrs old (DOB 1841), F, W, Born in TN
Sarah C. Richer, 6 yrs old (DOB 1844), F, W, Born in TN

1860 U.S. Census of District 18, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: M653_1252; Page: 375; Family History Library Film: 805252, "John Rick" (sic)
John Rick, 51 yrs old (DOB 1809), M(ale), W(hite), Farmer, $1,000 Real Estate Value, $3,000 Personal Estate Value, Born in TN
Delila Rick, 54 yrs old (DOB 1806), F, W, Born in TN
Susan Rick, 29 yrs old (DOB 1831), F, W, Born in TN
Mary J Rick, 20 yrs old (DOB 1840), F, W, Born in TN
Malinda Rick, 18 yrs old (DOB 1842), F, W, Born in TN
John Rick, 16 yrs old (DOB 1844), M, W, Farm Laborer, Born in TN
Daria W. Gann, 17 yrs old (DOB 1843), M, W, Farm Laborer, Born in TN
Margret Ricky (sic), 8 yrs old (DOB 1852), F, W, Born in TN

1870 U.S. Census of District 18, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: M593_1531; Page: 386A; Family History Library Film: 553030, "John Ricker"
John Ricker, 70 yrs old (DOB 1800), M(ale), W(hite), No occupation, $1,000 Real Estate Value, $500 Personal Estate Value, Born in TN
Delila Ricker, 64 yrs old (DOB 1806), F, W, Keeping house, Born in TN
Susanna Ricker, 39 yrs old (DOB 1831), Housekeeping, Born in TN, Cannot read or write
Nancy M. Ricker, 18 yrs old (DOB 1852), Housekeeping, Born in TN, Attends school

1880 U.S. Census of District 18, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: 1258; Page: 36D; Enumeration District: 044, "John Ricker"
John Ricker, W(hite), M(ale), 81 yrs old (DOB 1799), Head, Married, Farmer, Cannot read or write, Born in TN, Father born in Germany, Mother born in PA
Delila Ricker, W, F, 76 yrs old (DOB 1805), Wife, Married, Keepinghouse, Born in TN, Both parents born in SC
Susan Noline (sic), W, F, 49 yrs old (DOB 1831), Daughter, Married, Keepinghouse, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Edward M. Noline (sic), W, M, 33 yrs old (DOB 1847), Son-in-law, Married, Farmer, Born in NC, Both parents bon in NC
Mary Fanna, W, F, 22 yrs old (DOB 1858), Granddaughter, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

FindAGrave.com
John K Ricker
BIRTH 7 Jun 1799, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 29 May 1885 (aged 85), Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL: Solomon Lutheran Church Cemetery, Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
PLOT LL-2
MEMORIAL ID: 38635803

Mary Delilah Lyle(s) Ricker
BIRTH 16 Feb 1806, Limestone Springs, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 30 Apr 1891 (aged 85), Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Solomon Lutheran Church Cemetery, Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
PLOT (-) LL-3
MEMORIAL ID: 33847298

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One of our grandnieces, Blaire, was giving the photographer the stink eye during this Fall portrait. It was so cute. This is my digital scrapbook page of her Fall picture. I had to try to catch the "cute" with the little Fox.

This family is not related to me. I came across his story as I was researching and I couldn't help but see what happened to him.

William Henry Smith was born 8/2/1866 in Greene County, TN. I don't know who his family was although his obituary says he was survived by 2 brothers and 2 sisters. He is first found in the 1870 U.S. Census living with another family.


1870 U.S. Census of District 21, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: M593_1531; Page: 416A; Family History Library Film: 553030, "John Cassteel" (sic)
John Cassteel, 48 yrs old, M(ale), W(hite), Farmer, $3,000 Real Estate Value, $1,200 Personal Estate Value, Born in TN
Manda Cassteel, 45 yrs old, F, W, Keeping house, Born in TN
Susanna Cassteel, 22 yrs old, F, W, Keeping House, Born in TN
John Cassteel, 20 yrs old, M, W, Born in TN
Robert Cassteel, 14 yrs old, M, W, Born in TN
William Smith, 4 yrs old (DOB 1866), M, W, Born in TN


1880 U.S. Census of District 17, Greene County, Tennessee; Roll: 1258; Page: 238B; Enumeration District: 056, "Alexander Hicks"
Alexander Hicks, W(hite), M(ale), 52 yrs old, Head, Married, Farmer, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Rebecca Hicks, W, F, 54 yrs old, Wife, Married, Keeping house, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Disa Hicks, W, F, 21 yrs old, Daughter, Single, At Home, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Margaret Hicks, W, F, 17 yrs old, Daughter, Single, At Home, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
William Smith, W, M, 17 yrs old, Servant, Works on farm, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

On 12/1/1887 he married Annie Mary "Mollie" Harrison in Greene County, TN.



Annie Mary Harrison was born 3/10/1868 in Green County, TN to Amos J. and Rebecca Harrison. William Henry Smith and Mollie Harrison had 8 children:

1) John Robert Smith, Sr. (DOB 5/3/1888 in Greene County, TN; DOD 2/3/1967 in Chuckey, Greene County, TN) married Bertha Taylor (DOB 3/25/1896 in TN; DOD 8/15/1971 in Greene County, TN).

2) James Franklin Smith (DOB 9/24/1890 in Greene County, TN; DOD 10/17/1960 in Greene County, TN) married Ida Mae Peters (DOB 5/31/1896 in TN; DOD 12/12/1991 in Greene County, TN).

3) Gertie May Smith (DOB 3/4/1893 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/21/1981 in Chuckey, Greene County, TN) married Charles R. Campbell (DOB 1/24/1871 in TN; DOD 5/3/1933 in Greene County, TN).

4) Amanda Naomi Smith (DOB 1/14/1896 in Greene County, TN; DOD 1/14/1978 in Greene County, TN) never married.

5) Georgia Lee Smith (DOB 12/19/1898 in Greene County, TN; DOD 3/1/1994 in Afton, Greene County, TN) married James Byron Ross (DOB 2/20/1894 in TN; DOD 11/10/1965 in Afton, Greene County, TN),

6) William J. "Hoss" Smith (DOB 10/13/1902 in Greene County, TN; DOD 2/10/1990 in Afton, Greene County, TN) married Mary Gertrude Brown (DOB 3/9/1907 in TN; DOD 6/28/2008 in Afton, Greene County, TN).

7) Emma Pauline Smith (DOB 5/11/1905 in Greene County, TN; DOD 3/11/2002 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN) married Hubert Carl "Josh" Teague (DOB 1/11/1903 in Greene County, TN; DOD 2/2/1981 in Greene County, TN).

8) Anna Roxie Smith (DOB 12/31/1907 in Ottway, Greene County, TN; DOD 12/12/1999 in Batesville, Independence County, AR) married Styles Rowe Southerland (DOB 5/24/1906 in Banner, Cleburne County, AR; DOD 11/19/1995 in Batesville, Independence County, AR).


1900 U.S. Census of Civil District 11, Greene County, Tennessee; Page: 11; Enumeration District: 0039; FHL microfilm: 1241573, "William H. Smith"
William H. Smith, Head, W(hite), M(ale), Born Aug, 1864, 35 years old, Married 4 years (DOM 1896), Farmer, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farmer, Can read and write, Rents farm
Mollie A. Smith, Wife, W, F, Born Mar, 1868, 32 yrs old, Married 4 yrs, 5 children with 5 still living, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Can read and write
John R. Smith, Son, W, M, Born May, 1888, 12 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN, Farm Laborer
James F. Smith, Son, W, M, Born Sept, 1890, 9 yrs old, Single, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Gertie M. Smith, Daughter, W, F, Born Mar, 1893, 7 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Amanda N. Smith, Daughter, W, F, Born Jan, 1896, 4 yrs old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Georgia L. Smith, Daughter, W, F, Born Dec, 1898, 1 yr old, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN
Russ Ward, Lodger, W, M, Born Mary, 1845, 55 yrs old, Married 20 yrs, Born in TN, Both parents born in TN

At the young age of 42 yrs old, W.H. Smith was elected Sheriff and took office in September, 1908. He had 8 children from age 20 to 1 year old. His residence was in Ottway, Greene County, TN.



Sheriff Smith, of Greene county, while on his way from the Newport Fair, met with quite a serious mishap at Leadville, a small town between Newport and Morristown. Two drunken mountaineers were being ejected from the train by the train crew and in return were giving the trainmen more than they could do to put them off, when the conductor of the train asked for assistance. Sheriff Smith at once responded and in the melee got an ugly gas in the head by a rock thrown by one of the ruffians. He in return shot at the fleeing party who got away. The other one was captured and brought to Morristown where he was jailed.


But then tragedy struck. One month after taking office he accidentally killed himself.




Sheriff Smith Killed
On last Thursday morning, Sheriff W.H. Smith was accidentally shot with his own pistol. He was in the court room opening a box of court supplies, when his pistol, a 38-calibre Colt, fell from his pocket on the floor and exploded. The ball struck him in the left breast, passing through his body and through his lungs. He walked into the Trustee's office and sat down. All the doctors in town went to render aid, but they soon found that he was beyond their reach. His wife was informed by phone at Ottway 10 miles distant, of the accident and in two hours was at his bedside. In the afternoon he was taken to the residence of Richard Hall, where he died Friday 10:00 a.m.
On Friday afternoon he was taken to his home at Ottway and was buried Saturday morning. Rev. W.A. Brown conducted the funeral services which were held under the auspices of the Odd Fellows.
Mr. Smith was elected sheriff at the last August election, it being his first term. He was popular and well liked by all. His family consists of his wife and eight children.
About 1500 persons attended the funeral, attesting the esteem in which he was held by his neighbors and friends.
MIDWAY
We regret very much to hear of the death of Sheriff Smith and feel that we have lost a good man and one who have made a good officer and given satisfaction to all. We certainly sympathize with his widow and children in their sad bereavement.
BAILEYTON
Baileyton, Oct. 12-Some of our people attend the funeral of Sheriff Smith.
Executive Committee Passes Resolutions
At the meeting of the County Democratic Executive Committee, Monday, Oscar M. Duggers, J.D. Brown, W.K. Mitchell ... resolutions relative to the late Sheriff W.H. Smith. The following resolutions were presented and unanimously adopted:
RESOLUTIONS
WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty God to remove from among us Sheriff W.H. Smith, who, as a citizen, was honored and esteemed by all who knew him; who, as a husband and father, was the embodiment of all that is truest and noblest in man, therefore be it
RESOLVED That we are deeply sensible of the irreparable loss that we sustain in the death of Mr. Smith, and while we bow in humble submission to the will of Him who regardeth the sparrow's fall, we commend the upright walk and exemplary life of the deceased brother, and
RESOLVED, 2nd, That we extend to his widow and children our sincere sympathy, assuring them that since in the death of their husband and father they sustain a great loss, they should find consolation in the fact that they still have the priceless heritage of the good name which he left behind him.
RESOLVED, 3rd, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the county papers for publication, and also to the family of the deceased.
Oscar M. Duggers
J.D. Brown
W.K. Mitchell
Hon. J.R. Todd, who assumed the office of Sheriff after the death of Sheriff W.H. Smith, is conducting the affairs of his office in a most satisfactory manner. Mr. Todd very properly retained all of Sheriff Smith's deputies and is endeavoring to carry out his policies. Mr. Todd will hold the office until the county court elects a successor.



Sheriff Smith Killed
At 11 o'clock Thursday morning while opening a box of cuspidors in the courthouse, Sheriff W.H. Smith dropped his pistol on the floor. The pistol fired and the shot entered his left breast passing through his body. He walked into the Trustee's office and sat down. Physicians were summoned and a cot was provided. The physicians found the Sheriff beyond the reach of medical aid. The family was notified at Ottway about 2 hours after the accident. His wife was at his bedside. At four o'clock, he was taken to the residence of Mr. Richard Hall on Summer Street, at which place he died at 5 a.m. Friday. On Friday morning the body was taken in charge by the firm of J.J. Mitchell and Co., and on this, (Friday) afternoon, was taken to his home at Ottway, Funeral services will be conducted from the Mt. Pleasant church Saturday morning at 10 a.m., by Rev. W.A. Brown. The funeral will be held under the auspices of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which order the deceased belonged.
Mr. Smith is survived by his widow and eight children, two brothers and two sisters. He was 42 years of age.
Mr. Smith was elected Sheriff in the August election and was inducted into the office on Sept 1st. He served just one month of his term. But in this time he had won the confidence and esteem of the people of the county, to such an extent that his untimely death is regarded not only as a loss to his family and immediate friends, but a distinct loss to the good citizenship of the county.
Mr. Smith was a self-made man, and his standing in the community in which he lived, attested his good qualities as a neighbor and friend.
In his home he was all that a devoted husband and father could be.
Before his death, in conversation with his brother, Mr. H.M. Smith...

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William H “W H” Smith
BIRTH 2 Aug 1866, Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 9 Oct 1908 (aged 42), Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL: Cross Anchor Cemetery, Cross Anchor, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
PLOT Section C [D1]
MEMORIAL ID 39361909

Mollie Harrison Smith
BIRTH 10 Mar 1868
DEATH 4 Feb 1959 (aged 90), Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL: Cross Anchor Cemetery, Cross Anchor, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
PLOT Section C [D1]
MEMORIAL ID 39361906

I love grits but I know it's a regional thing. Or as we say, a "Southern thang"! I truly think that most people would love them if cooked right. If you try to eat unsalted grits, they are very bland. But salt to taste and they are a comfort food. Cornmeal is nothing more than finely ground, dried corn. Grits are usually made from dent corn. This starchy variety of corn is less sweet than sweet-corn and it becomes smooth and creamy as it cooks. This type of corn is treated with lime to remove the hull which technically makes it hominy. After the treated corn is dried, it is coarsely ground to become hominy grits. Most grits are ground more coarsely than cornmeal. Stone ground grits are whole grain grits that retain the germ. The stone ground grits take 45 minutes to cook fully, but they have more health benefits. Instant grits will cook up in about 5 to 10 minutes. Polenta is similar to grits except that it is made with flint corn. Native to Italy, polenta is made by coarsely grinding up dried flint corn. This variety of corn has a hard starch in the center, which gives polenta its characteristic grainy texture.

2 cups water
1 1/4 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup quick-cooking grits, not instant (I use Quaker)
1/4 cup butter

Directions:
1. In a small pot, bring water, milk, and salt to a boil.
2. Slowly stir grits into boiling mixture.
3. Stir continuously and thoroughly until grits are well mixed.
4. Let them boil. Then cover pot with a lid, lower the temperature, and cook for approximately 20 minutes stirring frequently.
5. Add more water if necessary.
6. Grits are done when they have the consistency of stiff cream of wheat.
7. Stir in butter.
8. Serve with additional butter on top of each portion and add salt to taste.

You can use white or yellow grits. They get their color from the type of corn that is milled, some say there is a negligible difference in taste, with the yellow grits being sweeter and having a slightly more assertive corn flavor.


By adding milk, it makes them creamier. You can also add shredded cheese (any kind) to make cheese grits. And you can include them in recipes. I like to put some cooked grits in a mug, add cheese and a raw egg (whip it). Stir and add to the microwave to cook the egg. It makes an egg and cheese grits for a satisfying breakfast. Like rice, they also make a good base.

Grits and Tomatoes

Grits (cooked)
Salt and pepper to taste
Ripe tomato

Directions
Cook grits according to package, chop fresh (very) vine ripe tomato, salt & pepper to taste, stir into grits and eat.

Stuffed Tomatoes with Grits and Ricotta

1/2 cup dry grits
1 1/2 cups water
3/4 teaspoon salt

cooking spray
1 1/3 cups ricotta cheese
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup grated Asiago cheese
2 eggs
2 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 teaspoon salt
8 tomatoes

Directions
In a small pot combine dry grits, 1 1/2 cups water, and 3/4 teaspoon of salt. Bring to a boil, then simmer until grits are tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool.
Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
Beat the eggs in a large bowl, then stir in the cooled grits, ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese, and Asiago cheese. Stir in the garlic powder, parsley, crushed red pepper, and 1 teaspoon salt. Mix well.
Slice the top off of each tomato. Use a spoon to hollow out the tomatoes, leaving the outer shells (approximately 1/4 inch thick) intact. Fill each with the grits mixture. Arrange stuffed tomatoes on prepared baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven until light golden brown, 30 to 40 minutes. Allow to cool slightly before serving.



Old Charleston Shrimp and Grits

1 cup coarsely ground grits
3 cups water
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups half-and-half

2 pounds uncooked shrimp, peeled and deveined
salt to taste
1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
1 lemon, juiced
1 pound andouille sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices
5 slices bacon
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
1 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese

Directions
Bring water, grits, and salt to a boil in a heavy saucepan with a lid. Stir in half-and-half and simmer until grits are thickened and tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Set aside and keep warm.

Sprinkle shrimp with salt and cayenne pepper; drizzle with lemon juice. Set aside in a bowl.

Place andouille sausage slices in a large skillet over medium heat; fry sausage until browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove skillet from heat.

Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Retain bacon drippings in skillet. Transfer bacon slices to paper towels, let cool, and crumble.

Cook and stir green, red, and yellow bell peppers, onion, and garlic in the bacon drippings until the onion is translucent, about 8 minutes.

Stir shrimp and cooked vegetables into the andouille sausage and mix to combine.

Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat; stir in flour to make a smooth paste. Turn heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture is medium brown in color, 8 to 10 minutes. Watch carefully, mixture burns easily.

Pour the butter-flour mixture into the skillet with andouille sausage, shrimp, and vegetables. Place the skillet over medium heat and pour in chicken broth, bacon and Worcestershire sauce, cooking and stirring until the sauce thickens and the shrimp become opaque and bright pink, about 8 minutes.

Just before serving, mix sharp Cheddar cheese into grits until melted and grits are creamy and light yellow. Serve shrimp mixture over cheese grits.

There are so may variations of shrimp and grits. Try different things. Instead of andouille sausage, try fried bacon. Use different cheese. Add tomatoes. Top with cilantro or chives.

Grits and Sausage Bake

6 cups water
2 cups uncooked grits
1/2 cup butter, divided
3 cups shredded Cheddar cheese, divided
1 pound ground pork sausage
12 eggs
1/2 cup milk
salt and pepper to taste

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a large baking dish.

Bring water to a boil in a large saucepan, and stir in grits. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer about 5 minutes, until liquid has been absorbed. Mix in 1/2 the butter and 2 cups cheese until melted.

In a skillet over medium-high heat, cook the sausage until evenly browned. Drain, and mix into the grits.

Beat together the eggs and milk in a bowl, and pour into the skillet. Lightly scramble, then mix into the grits.

Pour the grits mixture into the prepared baking dish. Dot with remaining butter, and top with remaining cheese. Season with salt and pepper.

Bake 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until lightly browned.

Grits A Ya Ya

3 1/2 cups chicken stock
3/4 cup old fashioned grits
1/4 cup heavy cream, plus more as needed
1 cup shredded smoked Gouda cheese, or more to taste
1/4 cup butter
8 slices bacon, chopped
3 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon minced shallot
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 splash white wine
1 pound jumbo shrimp, peeled and deveined
2 cups chopped spinach
1 cup chopped portobello mushrooms
1/4 cup sliced green onions
2 cups heavy cream
1 dash hot pepper sauce, or to taste
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Directions
Bring the chicken stock to a boil in a saucepan over high heat.

Slowly pour the grits into the stock while stirring constantly.

Reduce heat to low; simmer until the grits are tender and thick, 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Stir in 1/4 cup heavy cream to thin the grits.

Stir in the Gouda cheese and 1/4 cup butter until melted and smooth.

While the grits are cooking, place the bacon in a large, deep skillet over medium heat; cook until the bacon fat is rendered, about 3 minutes.

Stir in the shallot and garlic; cooking and stirring until the shallots are tender, about 5 minutes.

Pour in the white wine and stir in 3 tablespoons butter, cooking and stirring until the butter has melted.

Drop the shrimp in the skillet; cook and stir until they are bright pink on the outside and the meat is no longer transparent in the center, about 3 minutes.

Stir in the spinach, mushrooms, and green onions; cook and stir until the spinach wilts, about 2 minutes more.

Remove the shrimp with a slotted spoon.

Stir in 2 cups heavy cream. Simmer until the cream is reduced by about a third, about 10 minutes.

Season with hot sauce, salt, and pepper.

Return the shrimp to the skillet to heat through.

Serve shrimp and sauce over the prepared grits.



Fried Grits

5 cups water
salt to taste
1 cup stone ground grits
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
vegetable oil

Preparation:
Bring the water and salt to a boil in a large heavy saucepan. Add the grits and continue to simmer, stirring constantly, over medium heat until the grits are cooked and thick like mush, about 15 to 20 minutes. If necessary, add a little more boiling water.
Pour the hot grits onto a large plate to make a layer about 3/4-inch deep. Cover and let stand to cool, then refrigerate to chill thoroughly.
When the grits are cold and firm, cut into rectangular pieces. Dredge the grits pieces with flour, shaking off excess flour.
Heat the oil to a depth of 1/2-inch in a heavy skillet. Fry grits pieces until golden brown on both sides, about 4 to 5 minutes total. Drain on paper towels and sprinkle with salt. Serve hot.
Serves 4. Its a great way to use leftover cold grits!

William "Bill" Marion Teague is not related to any of my lines but I came across him while working on a female who married into one of my lines.

William Marion Teague was born 10/16/1845 in Greene County, TN to Wallace Teague (DOB Abt. 1820 in NC; DOD Aft. 10/1874 in TN) and Nancy Thomas (DOB Abt. 1825 in SC; DOD Aft. 10/1857 in TN).

William Teague served during the War of Northern Aggression. He was in the C.S.A. TN 13th Regiment, Co. L aka Zollicoffer Avengers. The 13th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry was organized at Jackson, Tennessee, in June, 1861. Few were included in the surrender on April 26, 1865.
U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934


Bill Teague first married Margaret "Mag" E. Wright. Margaret E. Wright was born 3/13/1849 in Greene County, TN to George Wright (1819-1880) and Catherine Woolhaver (1823-1862). They were married on 11/4/1865 in Greene County, TN. The 13th Infantry was originally composed of 10 companies which assembled at Jackson, Tennessee, where they were mustered into state service. They were organized into the regiment on June 4, 1861. Co. “L” was not attached to the regiment until April 28, 1862.



They had 6 children:

1) George Robert Teague (DOB 9/25/1868 in Greene County, TN; DOD 6/13/1927 in Greene County, TN) married Mary Louise Chedister (DOB 2/16/1868 in TN; DOD 1/1/1946 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN).

2) Bessie Teague (DOB 6/24/1869 in Greene County, TN; DOD 3/17/1903 in New Market, Jefferson County, TN) married William N. Foland (DOB 6/1862 in TN; DOD 11/3/1947 in Knoxville, Knox County, TN).

3) Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Teague (DOB 8/17/1873 in Greene County, TN; DOD 12/26/1962 in Johnson City, Washington County, TN) married William "Bill" A. McClain (DOB 4/15/1873 in Greene County, TN; DOD 9/22/1957 in Greene County, TN).

4) Frank Olander Teague (DOB 1/7/1877 in Greene County, TN; DOD 9/29/1946 in Greene County, TN) married Mattie Bell Chapman (DOB Abt. 1878 in Greene County, TN; DOD ? in ? ).

5) Josephine Olympia Teague (DOB 5/28/1879 in Greene County, TN; DOD 5/16/1951 in Greene County, TN) married James Isaac Sweeney (DOB 8/18/1869 in TN; DOD 8/31/1949 in Greene County, TN).

6) Benjamin Hunter Teague (DOB 2/25/1881 in Greene County, TN; DOD 6/27/1946 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA) married 1st Edith Lorene Rankin (DOB 12/11/1888 in PA; DOD 9/19/1919 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA) and 2nd Mary Emma Burns (DOB Abt. 1883 in PA; DOD 1955 in PA).

1870 U.S. Census of District 13, Greene County, Tennessee; Ancestry.com; Roll: M593_1531; Page: 322A; Family History Library Film: 553030, "William Tigue"


1880 U.S. Census of District 13, Greene County, Tennessee; Ancestry.com; Roll: 1258; Page: 192A; Enumeration District: 053, "Bill Tigg"



Margaret Wright Teague died 6/16/1883 in Greene County, TN.

Greene County, Tennessee Cemetery Records, Ancestry.com,
Name: Margaret E.
Relation: Wife
Relative: W. M. Teague
Birth Date: 18 Mar 1849
Death Date: 16 Jun 1883
Age: 34
Comments: "At Rest"
Cemetery Name: Greene County Tomb Stone Record Oakland Cemetery
Cemetery Description: Located one mile south-west of Tusculum College, Tenn., on the White's Mill Road, and is on the property of the Shiloah Cumberland Preshyterian Church.

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Margaret E. Wright Teague
BIRTH 13 Mar 1849, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 16 Jun 1883 (aged 34), Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Oakland Presbyterian Cemetery, Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID 77579200


William Teague then married Susannah "Susan" Catherine Boswell on 7/6/1884 in Greene County, TN. Sue Boswell was born 9/26/1866 in Floyd County, VA to Bird Robert Boswell (1831-1885) and Christina Walters (1834-1910).


Bill Teague and Susan C. Boswell had 11 children:

1) William Herman Teague (DOB 5/11/1885 in Greene County, TN; DOD 8/29/1958 in Iowa City, Johson County, IA) married Mary "Mollie" Evaline Brumley (DOB 11/24/1886 in Greene County, TN; DOD 1/22/1965 in Iowa City, Johnson County, IA).

2) Lethia Pearl Teague (DOB 10/6/1887 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/18/1969 in Greene County, TN) married Frank Reginald Staten (DOB 10/4/1881 in TN; DOD 9/6/1963 in Greene County, TN).

3) Nellie May Teague (DOB 4/19/1890 in Greene County, TN; DOD 3/4/1965 in Yeadon, Delaware County, PA) married Richard Kidwell (DOB 11/3/1889 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/20/1921 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA.

4) Georgia Clementine Teague (DOB 8/20/1892 in Greene County, TN; DOD 11/27/1935 in Greene County, TN of acute heart failure) married 1st Robert Hartsell Rupe (DOB Abt. 1881 in Greene County, TN; DOD 8/21/1930 in Greene County, TN of heart disease) married 2nd Walter Koontz (DOB ? in ? ; DOD ? in ? ).

5) Ruby Hazel Teague (DOB 8/20/1895 in Greene County, TN; DOD 11/30/1973 in Greene County, TN) married Marion A. Gaddis (DOB 6/5/1890 in TN; DOD 6/21/1969 in Afton, Greene County, TN).


6) Hobart John Teague (DOB 5/3/1898 in TN; DOD 1/17/1921 in Greene County, TN) married ? .

7) Madge Christina Teague (DOB 9/26/1900 in Greene County, TN; DOD 3/1/1975 in Greene County, TN) married Newman Monroe Ripley (DOB 6/6/1898 in Greene County, TN; DOD 10/9/1952 in Greene County, TN).

8) Hubert Carl "Josh" Teauge (DOB 1/11/1903 in Greene County, TN; DOD 2/2/1981 in Greene County, TN) married Emma Pauline Smith (DOB 5/11/1905 in Greene County, TN to William Henry Smith and Ann Mary "Mollie" Harrison; DOD 3/11/2002 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN.

9) Donald Alexander Teague (DOB 6/5/1905 in Greene County, TN; DOD 12/23/1992 in Greene County, TN) married Cordie Ruth Taylor (DOB 6/7/1905 in Greene County, TN; DOD 12/19/1988 in Greene County, TN).

10) Glena Louvenia Teague (DOB 10/24/1907 in Afton, Greene County, TN; DOD 8/9/1994 in Greene County, TN) married Charles Elijah "Lige" Kilday (DOB 12/29/1908 in Greene County, TN; DOD 8/21/1992 in Greene County, TN).

11) Kenneth Eugene Teauge, Sr. (DOB 4/19/1912 in Greene County, TN; DOD 11/5/1983 in Maryville, Blount County, TN) married Imogene Jones (DOB 1/30/1917 in Greene County, TN; DOD 4/7/1966 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN).


1900 U.S. Census of Civil District 13, Greene County, Tennessee; Ancestry.com; Page: 4; Enumeration District: 0041; FHL microfilm: 1241573, "Wm N. Tigue"



1910 U.S. Census of Civil District 13, Greene County, Tennessee; Ancestry.com; Roll: T624_1501; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0082; FHL microfilm: 1375514, "William M. Tigue"


1920 U.S. Census of Civil District 13, Greene County, Tennessee; Ancestry.com; Roll: T625_1741; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 82, "William Teague"





W.M. Teague died 3/14/1930 in Afton, Greene County, TN. I couldn't find his death certificate.

Tennessee, Deaths and Burials Index, 1874-1955
Name: Wm M Teague
Birth Date: abt 1846
Age: 84
Death Date: 15 Mar 1930
Death Place: Greene, Tennessee
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 944408

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William Marion Teague
BIRTH 16 Oct 1845, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 15 Mar 1930 (aged 84), Afton, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Fairview Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Afton, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
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MEMORIAL ID 68176723 Originally Created by Karen Leftwich Tomlinson Added: 10 Apr 2011

Obituary of William Marion Teague.
Father of 20 Children Dies At Fairview
Mr. William M. Teague, Succumbs to Long Illness Saturday.
Mr. William M. Teague, aged 84 died Saturday afternoon at three o'clock at his home near Fairview in the seventh district. He had been in poor health for some time owing to his advanced age, but had been confined to his room for only the past ten days. He was the father of twenty children, fourteen of whom survive. One was the late Mr. Robert Teague of this city. His wife is living and the following sons and daughters: Ben Teague, Frank Teague, Will Teague, Hubert Teague, Don Teague, and Kenneth Teague, Mrs. W.A. McLain (Mary Elizabeth Teague), Mrs. Nell Kidwell (Nellie May Teague), Mrs. J.I. Swiney (Josephine Olympia Teague), Mrs. R.H. Rupe (Georgia Clementine Teague), Mrs. T.R. Staten (Lethia Pearl Teague), Mrs. M.A. Gaddis (Ruby Hazel Teague), Mrs. N.M. Ripley (Madge Christina Teague), and Mrs. C.E. Kilday (Glena Louvenia Teague) all of Greene County, and one sister, Mrs. Mark Crouch of Trenton, Mo.



Susie Boswell Teague died 10/26/1951 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN. They are both buried at Fairview Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 4720 Snapps Ferry Road, Afton, Greene County, TN

Tennessee, Deaths and Burials Index, 1874-1955
Name: Wm M Teague
Birth Date: abt 1846
Age: 84
Death Date: 15 Mar 1930
Death Place: Greene, Tennessee
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 944408

TN Death Certificate #51-22674, Susan Boswell Teague, DOD 10/26/1951 Laughlin Clinic, Greeneville, Greene County, TN
White, Female, Widowed, DOB 9/26/1866 in VA, 85 yrs old
Father: Birdwell Boswell, Mother: Christine Walters, Informant: Don Teague of Greeneville, TN
DOD 10/26/1951 at 3:00pm
Cause of death: Chronic myocarditis, Other condition: accidental traumatization causing fracture complete of right hip. She fell on floor on 10/23/1951.
Burial: 10/28/1951 in Fairview

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Susannah Catherine Boswell Teague
BIRTH 26 Sep 1866, Floyd County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 26 Oct 1951 (aged 85)
Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL Fairview Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Afton, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
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MEMORIAL ID 68177053 Originally Created by Karen Leftwich Tomlinson Added: 10 Apr 2011

Obituary for Susan Catherine Boswell Teague
Mrs. W.M. Teague Passed Away Friday; Funeral Rites Sunday
Mrs. W.M. Teague, aged 85, died Friday at 12:45 in a local hospital.
She is survived by four sons, Will, H.J., Don, and Kenneth Teague; Five daughters, Mrs. W.A. McLain, Mrs. Frank Staten, Mrs. Richard Kidwell, Mrs. Marian Gaddis, Mrs. Newman Ripley, and one brother, Elliott Boswell.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Fairview Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Interment in church cemetery. Funeral will be conducted by the Rev. J.P. Malone, the Rev. Warren C. Mounts, and the Rev. C.B. Scott.
Active pallbearers will be grandsons, Eugene Gaddis, Walter and Billy Teague, Olen Kilday, Thomas Staten and J.P. Teague.
The body will remain at Doughty-Stevens Funeral Home until time of service.

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Flossie Shelton was quite a story. She was not related to any of my lines, I just came across her and found the story and couldn't resist.



Flossie Roseleah Shelton was born 7/25/1904 in Madison County, NC to John Robert Shelton, Jr. (DOB 3/16/1862 in Madison County, NC; DOD 3/14/1937 in Madison County, NC) and Nancy Gentry (DOB 12/25/1865 in NC; DOD 12/24/1931 in Madison County, NC). John R. Shelton and Nancy Gentry had 13 children:

1) Crittendon "Crit" Shelton (DOB 12/1882 in TN; DOD 12/28/1966 in Marshall, Madison County, NC)

2) James Jacob Shelton (DOB 8/26/1883 in Madison County, NC; DOD 1/15/1959 in Marshall, Madison County, NC)

3) Betty Jane Shelton (DOB 12/12/1886 in Madison County, NC; DOD 7/26/1966 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC)

4) Malinda Shelton (DOB 2/1/1888 in NC; DOD 12/21/1938 in Unicoi County, TN) at 50 yrs old of pulmonary tuberculosis.

5) Stephen Shelton (DOB 2/15/1891 in NC; DOD 9/13/1944 in Madison County, NC)  at 53 yrs old.

6) Persada Shelton (DOB 5/2/1891 in Madison County, NC; DOD 12/29/1969 in Lynchburg, VA)

7) Ursula Lavada Shelton (DOB 8/6/1894 in Madison County, NC; DOD 6/15/1985 in Keeling, Pittsylvania County, VA)

8) Isaac Shelton (DOB 3/25/1896 in Madison County, NC; DOD 6/15/1921 in ? ) at 25 yrs old.

9) Grant Shelton (DOB 9/4/1898 in NC; DOD 11/23/1823 in Marshall, Madison County, NC) at 25 yrs old of lobar pneumonia.

10) Cora Shelton (DOB Abt. 1901 in NC; DOD 1937 in ? ) at age 36 yrs old.

11) Infant Son Shelton

12) Flossie Roseleah Shelton (DOB 7/25/1904 in Madison County, NC; DOD ? in ? )

13) Ottie Shelton (DOB 4/23/1908 in Madison County, NC; DOD 6/1908 in Madison County, NC)


North Carolina, Birth Indexes, 1800-2000
Name: Flossie Rosleah Shelton
Gender: Female
Race: White
Event Type: Delayed Birth
Birth Date: 25 Jul 1904
Birth County: Madison
Parent1 Name: John R Shelton
Parent2 Name: Nancey Gentry
Roll number: NCVR_B_C062_68001
Volume: 27
Page: 129

Flossie married first Austin Presley (DOB Abt 1894 in TN; DOD ? in ? ) on 11/27/1920 in Craven County, NC.

She married Arland Shelton. See underlined mentions in newspaper articles below.

She married Fred Mack Shelton (DOB 1/9/1910 in Madison County, NC; DOD 8/19/1929 in Greene County, TN) on 6/22/1929 in Craven County, NC.

She married Thomas Jackson Johnson Newell (DOB 10/28/1897 in NC to James Jackson and Sarah Catherine Pierce; DOD 8/25/1940 in ? ) on 5/19/1931 in Lee County, NC.

She married Derry C. O'Brien (DOB 7/10/1901 in Appomattox, VA; DOD 2/20/1977 in Jonesborough, Washington County, TN) .

I have not been able to find her after Derry O'Brien except they had a tombstone together. He must have died before she did and no one had the stone completed with her date of death when she died. I couldn't find a death certificate, social security record or obituary for her so I don't know when she died. Is it possible she married again and had a different last name?

She married Arland Shelton and then stabbed him almost killing him. I had a hard time following Arland Shelton and my info on him is sketchy.

She married Fred Mack Shelton, supposedly Arland's cousin, and shot and killed him. She went to jail for it.

1910 U.S. Census of Shelton Laurel, Madison County, North Carolina; Roll: T624_1107; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 0090; FHL microfilm: 1375120, "John R. Shelton"
John R. Shelton, Head, M(ale), W(hite), 48 yrs old, Married 23 yrs, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC, Farmer, Can read and write, Owns farm free of mortgage
Nancy Shelton, Wife, F, W, 46 yrs old, Married 23 yrs, 10 children with 8 still living, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Stephen Shelton, Son, M, W, 21 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC, Farm laborer
Persada Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 19 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Lavada Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 16 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Isaac Shelton, Son, M, W, 14 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC, Farm laborer
Grant Shelton, Son, M, W, 11 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Cora Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 9 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Flossie Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 6 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC


1920 U.S. Census of Marshall, Madison County, North Carolina; Roll: T625_1294; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 119, "John Shelton"
John Shelton, Head, Owns farm with mortgage, M(ale), W(hite), 57 yrs old, Married, Can read and write, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC, Farmer
Nancy Shelton, Wife, F, W, 55 yrs old, Married, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Cora Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 18 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Flossie Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 15 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Mona Shelton, Granddaughter, F, W, 10 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC

North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011
Name: Flossie Shelton
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 18
Birth Year: abt 1902
Marriage Date: 27 Nov 1920
Marriage Place: Craven, North Carolina, USA
Spouse: Austin M Presley
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Race: White
Spouse Age: 26
Event Type: Marriage

North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011
Name: Flossie Shelton
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 22
Birth Year: abt 1907
Marriage Date: 22 Jun 1929
Marriage Place: Craven, North Carolina, USA
Spouse: Fred Shelton
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Race: White
Spouse Age: 21
Event Type: Marriage

Fred Shelton was born 1/9/1910 in Madison County, NC to Armstrong "Armp" Shelton (DOB 4/25/1861 in Madison County, NC; DOD 2/17/1943 in Madison County, NC) and Polly Elizabeth Chandley (DOB 12/2/1875 in NC; DOD 8/13/1961 in Marshall, Madison County, NC).  Armp Shelton married 1st Milam Rosszilla Chandley (DOB 4/25/1854 in Madison County, NC; DOD 1/30/1931 in Marshall, Madison County, NC). She also married Robert Ramsey and George Washington Hensley. She and Armstrong Shelton had Sylvanis Shelton (DOB Abt 1879 in Unicoi County, TN; DOD 1/23/1930 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC).

Armp Shelton and Polly Elizabeth Chandley had 10 children:

1) Lonnie Henry Chandley (aka Lonnie Haze Chandley, Lonnie Harry Chandley)(DOB 3/25/1880 in Madison County, NC; DOD 12/17/1959 in Marshall, Madison County, NC)

2) James Major Shelton (DOB 2/17/1893 in Madison County, NC; DOD 3/1984 in Manchester, Clay County, KY)

3) Porter Shelton (DOB 10/7/1896 in Madison County, NC; DOD 10/26/1967 in Madison County, NC)

4) Edgar "Edd" Shelton (DOB Abt. 1899 in NC; DOD Aft. 1920 in Madison County, NC)

5) Vera Eula Shelton (DOB 12/27/1901 in NC; DOD 10/31/1994 in TN)

6) Mettie Elizabeth Shelton (DOB 9/9/1904 in Madison County, NC; DOD 10/8/2002 in Buncombe County, NC)

7) Oviet Vance Shelton (DOB 7/21/1907 in Madison County, NC; DOD 6/18/1998 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC)

8) Fred Mack Shelton (DOB 1/9/1910 in Madison County, NC; DOD 8/19/1929 in Greene County, TN)

9) Dominow Shelton (DOB 12/8/1913 in Madison County, NC; DOD 9/10/2004 in ? )

10) Reva Bemerta Shelton (DOB 9/12/1917 in Madison County, NC; DOD ? in ? )

1910 U.S. Census of Shelton Laurel, Madison County, North Carolina; Roll: T624_1107; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 0090; FHL microfilm: 1375120, "Armp Shelton"
Armp Shelton, Head, M(ale), W(hite), 1st marriage, Married 20 yrs (DOB 1890), Born in NC, Both parents born in NC, Farmer, Can read and write
Polly Shelton, Wife, F, W, 34 yrs old, 1st marriage, Married 20 yrs, 7 children with 7 still living, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Major Shelton, Son, M, W, 16 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Porter Shelton, Son, M, W, 14 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Edd Shelton, Son, M, W, 11 yrs old, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Vera Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 8 yrs old, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Mettie J. Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 5 yrs old, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Mack Shelton, Son, M, W, 3/12 mos old, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC

1920 U.S. Census of Shelton Laurel, Madison County, North Carolina; Roll: T625_1294; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 125, "Armp Shelton"
Armp Shelton, Head, Owns farm free of mortgage, M(ale), W(hite), 57 yrs old, Married, Can read and write, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC, Farmer
Polly Shelton, Wife, F, W, 44 yrs old, Married, Can read and write, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Porter Shelton, Son, M, W, 23 yrs old, Single, Can read and write, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC, Farm laborer
Edgar Shelton, Son, M, W, 20 yrs old, Single, Can read and write, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC, Soldier in U.S. Army
Eula Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 18 yrs old, Single, Can read and write, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Mettie Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 15 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Ovid Shelton, Son, M, W, 12 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Fred Shelton, Son, M, W, 10 yrs old, Single, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Dominia Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 5 yrs old, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC
Reva Shelton, Daughter, F, W, 2 yrs old, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC



Asheville Citizen Times, Asheville, NC, 7/19/1929, Pg 1



Asheville Citizen Times, Asheville, NC, 7/30/1929, Pg 1


Statesville Record and Landmark, Statesville, NC, 7/22/1929, Pg 2

Asheville Citizen Times, Asheville, NC, 8/14/1929, Pg 1

Photo of Flossie Shelton
Flossie Shelton was ordered re-arrested by Solicitor R.M. Wells after word has been received from a Greeneville, Tenn., hospital that her husband, who was shot several weeks ago, was in critical condition. She is lodged in the Madison County jail.
Fred Shelton Is Near Death; Wife In Madison Jail
Solicitor Orders Woman Rearrested As Man Grows Weaker
Marshall, Aug. 13 - Fred Shelton, young Madison county man, was reported unconscious and near death in a Greeneville, Tennessee, hospital tonight, while Mrs. Flossie Shelton, his bride of a few weeks, is being held in the Madison County jail here without bond on a charge of shooting him.
Shelton was shot at his home in the Laurel sectionJuly 16, less than three weeks after he had been married. According to information gathered by members of the sheriff's department, Mrs. Shelton fired the shot which struck him in the head, as he attempted to tear a revolver from her hands in an effort to prevent her from shooting another woman.
Flees Scene
Mrs. Shelton fled and her husband was taken to the hospital where he has been in a serious condition since. After officers had search for her several days in the Laurel and East Tennessee mountains, she surrendered to Tennessee authorities and was lodged in jail here. Several days later, a slight improvement was noted in her husband's condition, and she was released on bond.
Monday night Solicitor Robert M. Wells, of Asheville, ordered her rearrested after receiving notice from Greeneville of her husband's critical condition. She was arrested several hours later by a member of Sheriff Ramsey's department, and preliminary examination waived to court. Officers here stated yesterday that she will be held in jail until the next term convenes in August.


Asheville Citizen Times, Asheville, NC, 8/14/1929, Pg 2

Asheville Citizen Times, Asheville, NC, 8/21/1929, Pg 1
Madison County Man Dies; Bride To Face Jurors
Fred Shelton Lingers 34 Days In Greeneville, Tenn. Hospital
Greeneville, Tenn., Aug. 20 - Fred Shelton, young Madison county man, died in a local hospital shortly after midnight this morning after clinging tenaciously to life for 34 days with a bullet wound in his head.
Since he was brought here from his home in the Laurel mountains on the North Carolina side of the state line on the night of July 16, the mountaineer had been in a semi-conscious condition, and several days ago hospital attaches gave up hope for his recovery.
Mrs. Flossie Shelton, his bride of only a few weeks, is held in the Madison county jail at Marshall without bond on a charge of firing a fatal shot. According to Madison officers, she fled after the shooting, which took place at their home, and surrendered to Tennessee authorities several days later, after an extensive search had been conducted for her on both sides of the state line. Information secured by officers who investigated the affair is that Shelton was shot as he attempted to take the gun from his bride in an effort to prevent her from shooting another woman, who is alleged to have been quarreling with Mrs. Shelton at the time.
The identification of the second woman in the case has not been established so far as could be learned here late tonight. Shelton did not discuss the shooting during his long stay in the hospital, other than to whisper almost totally incoherent and scattering remarks while in a semi-conscious state. According to reports, one of these whispered statements was: "It was no accident."
The body will be sent to his relatives in Madison for burial. Arrange-
Please turn to page 2

Fred Shelton Lingers 34 Days in Greeneville, Tenn. Hospital
ments for an inquest had not been completed late today.

Grand Jury Case
Solicitor R.M. Wells informed The Citizen late last night that no preliminary hearing will be held for Mrs. Shelton because of the nearness of the Madison county term of Superior Court which will convene Monday, and that the hearing will be held before the grand jury.
Mrs. Shelton was released shortly after her surrender to Madison officers, but was re-arrested several days ago when her husband's condition became critical. Since, she has been held without bond. The order for her re-arrest was issued by Solicitor Wells and she was taken into custody by Madison County officers.
Fred Shelton was her second husband, officers stated last night. She was divorced from Arland Shelton, a Cousin of the dead man, about a year ago. The decree was granted in the Madison civil court, after Arland Shelton had recovered from serious knife wounds, said to have been inflicted by his wife. A true bill, charging her with assault with a deadly weapon was returned by a Madison County grand jury. However, the case was not prossed when her husband failed to appear in court to testify.





Statesville Record and Landmark, Statesville, NC, 8/22/1929, Pg 6
Madison County Man Dies In Tenn."
Fred Shelton Succumbs to Shot Alleged to Have Been Fired By His Bride-She Is Held In Jail
Asheville, Aug. 21 - Fred Shelton young Madison county man, died in a Greeneville, Tenn., hospital shortly after midnight Tuesday morning after clinging tenaciously to life for 34 days with a bullet wound in his head.
Mrs. Flossie Shelton, his bride of only a few weeks, is held in the Madison county jail at Marshall without bond on a charge of firing the fatal shot. According to Madison officers, she fled after the shooting which took place at their home, and surrendered to Tennessee authorities several days later after an extensive search had been conducted for her on both sides of the state line.
Solicitor R.M. Wells said that no preliminary hearing will be held for Mrs. Shelton because of the proximity of the Madison county term of Superior court which will convene Monday, and that the hearing will be held before the court grand jury.


1930 U.S. Census of N.C. State Penitentiary, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0050; FHL microfilm: 2341459, "Flossie Shelton"
Flossie Shelton, Prisoner, F(emale), W(hite), 24 yrs old (DOB 1906), Married at age 15 yrs old (DOM 1915), Can read and write, Born in NC, Both parents born in NC

She evidently wasn't in jail for long as she killed her husband in 1929, was in the penitentiary in the 1930 U.S. Census but marries Thomas Newell in 1931. I'm not sure how she got away with it seeing as there were obviously witnesses and she had nearly killed her prior husband, Arland. It says there was another woman there who fled. That is one witness. The man named Landers who gave her the revolver was a witness to her intention. And Flossie fled the scene but someone was there who drove Fred Shelton to Greeneville, TN hospital so that's witness (or witnesses).

North Carolina, Marriage Index, 1741-2004
Name: Flossie Shelton
Gender: Female
Birth Date: abt 1905
Age: 26
Race: White
Spouse: Thomas Newell
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Age: 31
Spouse Race: White
Marriage Date: 19 May 1931
Marriage Location: Greenwood
Marriage County: Lee
Marriage State: North Carolina

North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011
Name: Flossie R Shelton
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 26
Birth Year: abt 1905
Marriage Date: 19 May 1931
Marriage Place: Lee, North Carolina, USA
Father: J R Shelton
Mother: Nancy Shelton
Spouse: Thomas Newell
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Race: White
Spouse Age: 31
Spouse Father: J J Newell
Spouse Mother: Sarah C Newell
Event Type: Marriage

She must have divorced Thomas Newell pretty quickly too. I could not find her in the 1940 U.S. Census but I found him. He was listed as divorced and living with his sister and her husband in Barbecue, Harnett County, NC. He died later that year on 8/25/1940 of pulmonary tuberculosis in Joneston, Moore County, NC.

FindAGrave.com
Derry C. O'Brien
BIRTH: 10 Jul 1901
DEATH: 20 Feb 1977 (aged 75)
BURIAL: Maple Lawn Cemetery, Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 189224350

Flossie S. O'Brien
BIRTH: 25 Jul 1904
DEATH: unknown
BURIAL: Maple Lawn Cemetery, Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, USA MEMORIAL ID: 189224535

So there must be a lot more to Flossie's story. I've only been able to suss out these details but there is so much missing and I can only wonder what it is? If anyone has any corrections or further information on Flossie or any of her husbands, please contact me at Mom25dogs@gmail.com.

William Baxter Shelton is not related to any of my lines but I came across his violent story.

William Baxter Shelton was born 9/29/1877 in Madison County, NC to William Riley Shelton (DOB 12/11/1836 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC; DOD 2/3/1896 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC) and Mary Riddle (aka Mollie Riddle, Polly Riddle) (DOB Abt. 1837 in Madison County, NC; DOD ? ).

William Riley Shelton was 1st married to Martha Jane Johnson (DOB Abt. 1839 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC; DOD Abt. 1875 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC) on 3/1/1855 in Craven County, NC. They had five children:

1) Arminda Shelton (DOB 7/13/1857 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC; DOD 5/25/1941 in Erwin, Unicoi County, TN) married Levi "Bud" Shelton, Solomon Hensley, David Shelton.

2) Noah Shelton (DOB 3/7/1858 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC; D)D 4/9/1935 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC)

3) Bluferd Elbridge Shelton (DOB 12/27/1861 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC; DOD 12/19/1925 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC)

4) Bayless Shelton (DOB 1/27/1865 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC; DOD 1/23/1926 in Jasper, Marion County, TN)

5) Jersey Lynn Shelton (DOB 1/1/1868 in Madison County, NC; DOD 6/13/1944 in Madison County, NC) married John S. Chandley.

William Riley Shelton was 2nd married to Mary Riddle. They had two children:

1) William Baxter Shelton, Sr. (DOB 9/29/1877 in NC; DOD 5/6/1912 in Madison County, NC) married Ida Bell Franklin, Mary Katherine "Kittie" Moore, Milom Sidonia "Donna" Shelton.

2) Vianna E. Shelton (DOB 4/13/1880 in NC; DOD 6/5/1956 in Washington College, Washington County, TN) married Champ Harrison Briggs (DOB 7/29/1870 in Erwin, Unicoi County, TN; DOD 2/21/1954 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN).

Mary Riddle was also married twice. She was first married to Solomon "Sol" Chandley (DOB 7/13/1825 in NC; DOD 11/25/1910 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC) on 11/15/1869 in Madison County, NC. Chandley had children with 3 different women: Juda "Judy" Shelton (1833-1910). He had 12 children with Judah Shelton. Judy Shelton was born (7/1833 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC; DOD 8/27/1910 in Madison County, NC) to David Eli Shelton and Catherine Miller. Judy was the younger sister of William Riley Shelton.

 Sol Chandley and Mary Riddle had 4 children. And he had Hattie Chandley with Eliza ? .

Although he married Mary Riddle on 11/15/1869, he was having children with Judy Shelton before and after his wedding to Mary. That would be awkward.


William Baxter Shelton married 1st Ida Bell Franklin (DOB 10/14/1875 in NC; DOD 11/8/1942 in Madison County, NC) on 1/9/1895 in Greene County, TN. She was also married to Benjamin Franklin (1886-1952). Baxter Shelton and Ida Bell Franklin had two children:

1) Flossy Franklin Shelton (DOB 1/3/1896 in Marshall, Madison County, NC; DOD 8/10/1989 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC) married Jesse Vinson Wallin (1893-1989).

2) Garrison Franklin (DOB 1/23/1898 in Madison County, NC; DOD 2/10/1917 in Madison County, NC of paralysis)


William Baxter Shelton then married Mary Katherine Moore (DOB 1/18/1883 in TN; DOD 11/29/1969 in Erwin, Unicoi County, TN) on 11/27/1901 in Craven County, NC. Kittie Moore was also married to Joseph R. Salts (aka Joseph R. Saultz). Baxter Shelton and Kittie Moore had six children:

1) Glenna Faye Shelton (DOB 10/30/1902 in Unicoi County, TN; DOD 8/6/1981 in Jefferson County, KY) married Fletcher Roosevelt Cole.

2) Mamie Dorothy Shelton (DOB 2/16/1905 in White Rock, Madison County, NC; DOD 7/14/1985 in Gastonia, Gaston County, NC) married Haywood Gordon Kincaid.

3) William Beauford Shelton (DOB 2/1/1907 in White Rock, Madison County, NC; DOD 1/8/1989 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC) married Natalie Louise Lumpkin.

4) Clayton Jackson Shelton (DOB 8/16/1909 in White Rock, Madison County, NC; DOD 2/17/1995 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC)

5) Dwight Eugene Shelton (DOB 7/16/1910 in Madison County, NC; DOD 10/8/1972 in Sebring, Highlands County, FL) married Eva Mary Owens.

6) William Baxter Shelton, Jr. (DOB 3/14/1912 in White Rock, Madison County, NC; DOD 5/16/1986 in Burekville, Nottoway County, VA) married Emily Cutshall.



I have set up the family for you, now let me share the stories of Baxter Shelton.

Everett Hayes Shelton (DOB 12/2/1876 in Madison County, NC; DOD 2/2/1896 in Madison County, NC) His parents were Solomon Shelton and Ann Minervia Haire. Solomon Shelton's father (Everett's grandfather) was Solomon Chandley and Judy Shelton (see above).


Hamilton News Press - Marion County, AL - March 7, 1895 - Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney
A BAD BLOOD LETTING -
Information was received at Asheville, N. C. Monday afternoon of a shooting affray that occurred at Shelton Laurel, a wild mountainous section in Madison County. Baxter and Everette Shelton, brothers, (not brothers but cousins, see below) were engaged in a game of cards with "Boss" and Jim Stanton, brothers, when a dispute arose, with the result that "Boss" Stanton was shot and instantly killed by Baxter Shelton and Everette Shelton was mortally wounded by Jim Stanton. Bad blood had existed for some time.


News and Observer, Raleigh, NC, 3/1/1895, Pg 1

Statesville Record and Landmark, Statesville, NC, 2/28/1895, Pg7



Asheville Daily Gazette, Asheville, NC, 1/7/1898, Pg2




Here you see Baxter Shelton and his brother-in-law, Champ Harrison Briggs, involved in a shooting with Jack Shelton.

Jack Shelton was born 4/22/1862 in Madison County, NC to Roderick "Rod" Shelton (DOB 5/1825 in Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC; DOD 5/18/1921 in ? ) and Mary Polly Mercer (DOB 3/1822 in Madison County, NC; DOD 1906 in Madison County, NC). Rod Shelton was the son of David Eli Shelton and Catherine Miller.

William Baxter Shelton
Jack Shelton was Baxter Shelton's first cousin once removed.



The North Carolinian, Raleigh, NC, 4/26/1906, Pg5

William Baxter Shelton...........................................Ulysses Grant Shelton
William Baxter Shelton
Rod Shelton would have been Baxter Shelton's great uncle.


Asheville Citizen Times, Asheville, NC, 12/19/1912, Pg 10


Asheville Citizen Times, Asheville, NC, 12/21/1912, Pg 3


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SOUTHEASTERN REPORTER Pg 537
Appeal from criminal court Madison county Ewart Judge James Stanton and Rod Shelton were convicted of murder in the second degree and appeal Affirmed JM Moody for appellant The Attorney General and J M Gudger Jr for the State MONTGOMERY J The indictment is for murder A special venire was ordered and return thereof made The defendants challenged the array on the grounds First that the sheriff had failed to summon several of the special venire drawn from the jury box second that the jury boxes had not been revised by the county commissioners The court properly declined to hear either one of the grounds of objection There was no allegation that the sheriff acted corruptly or with partiality in summoning the venire or that anything had been done affecting the integrity and fairness of the entire panel in State v Whitt 113 NC 716 18 SE 715 a challenge was made to the array one of the grounds being because one of those named in the venire was not summoned The objection was overruled and this court affirmed the ruling of the court below The same point had been decided in State v Hensley 94 NC 1021 in the last named case it was decided that while the county commissioners who had failed to revise the jury list according to law were guilty of neglect highly culpable and the clerk and sheriff were equally negligent in the performance of their respective duties as to the locking custody and safe keeping of the box yet the regulations concerning these matters were directory and not mandatory and that the only essential was to obtain a fair and impartial jury composed of eligible men it was not suggested even in the defendant's objection that any names in the jury box were improperly there or that any had been put there fraudulently or that any had been taken out There was not even a suspicion hinted at that the defenounts might be prejudiced in the trial by reason of the matters stated in the opinion and it does not appear anywhere that they were prejudiced There was no error in the ruling of his honor The first special venire having been exhausted before the jury had been completed the court made an order that another special venire of 30 returnable at once should be summoned Upon the return of this venire the defendants objected on the ground that as the first venire had been drawn from the jury box the court did not have the power to order a second venire to be summoned by the sheriff from the bystanders The objection was overruled and his honor was right in bo doing The statute section 1739 of the Code provides that the judge in his discretion has the power the first venire proving insufficient to order a further venire to be drawn from the box or summoned by the sheriff State v Brogden 111 NC 656 16 SE 170 construes the power of the judge under that statute Exceptions were made by the defendants to the ruling of his honor admitting the testimony of Jamison Chandley George Franklin Hattie Franklin and Baxter Shelton witnesses for the state Chandley had testified at considerable length when the defendants counsel objected without specifying what part of the evidence he objected to He was informed by the solicitor that the object of the testimony was to show a conspiracy between the defendants to assault and beat deceased or to kill him The witness then continued his testimony at great length when objection was again made because there was no conspiracy charged in the indictment and the conspiracy ought to be shown first before any circumstances were admissible and the defendants objected to this whole evidence on that line as given so far The witness still proceeded at length when defendants objected to all this testimony if made to show a conspiracy The witness in the beginning of his testimony leading up to the meeting of the parties an hour or so before the homicide occurred stated some immaterial things of no harm to the defendants without objection As he proceeded he narrated facts and circumstances strongly going to show a conspiracy between the defendants to assault and beat the deceased The witness was also an eyewitness to the killing and gave the details with clearness and in an intelligent manner We have read his testimony and we fail to see that it was objectionable if however it had contained objectionable matter the defendants ought to have pointed out from the general mass of the whole evidence the parts that were alleged to be obnoxious

Pg 538 SOUTHEASTERN REPORTER
Earnhardt v Smith 8C NC 473 the then Chief Justice Smith said for the court As a rule of practice a party Is not allowed to except generally to testimony severable Into distinct parts some of which are competent and others not and afterwards single out and assign as error the admission of the Incompetent parts The exception as embracing the whole testimony must be valid or it will not oe sustained It Is not erroneous to refuse to rule out a volume of testimony when portions of it ougut to be received and therefore the salutary rule of practice prevails which requires that th e obnoxious evidence should be specifically pointed out and brought to the notice of the court in order to a direct ruling on its reception This ruling was affirmed In Smiley v Pearce 98 NC 185 3 SE 631 and In Hammond v Schlff 100 NC 175 6 SE 753 The objections to the testimony of the other state witnesses named above were made in the same manner as were those made to Chandley's evidence generally without specifying the parts alleged to be objectionable and for the reasons given for overruling the exceptions to Chandley's evidence the objections to the testimony of the other witnesses were properly overruled We have examined the whole of it however and we are of opinion that It was competent and almost all of It relevant Of course in a large volume of testimony like that which was brought out in this case there must creep in some tautology and prolixity about Immaterial and Irrelevant matters The state also Introduced one Blankenship as a witness for the purpose of proving the conspiracy between the defendants who testified as follows He, that is Rod Shelton the defendant, did not UU what he did. Rod and I were in Jail together and Rod told me that they had been his destruction and ruin forever. He said that he met Bev Stanton, Jim Stanton, and Boss Stanton in the road somewhere near the church and he had been up the creek and had started home and they begged him to come back up the creek and go with them to hunt these boys Baxter and Everett Shelton to get into an affray with them and he said that he turned and went back with them and that was his destruction and ruin. James Stanton the other defendant was not present when this conversation took place. His honor received this testimony as against both defendants and against their objection. Of course the testimony was competent against the defendant Shelton for all purposes. It was not competent against Stanton the other defendant it being a declaration made after the homicide and if the jury had convicted him of murder in the first degree he would be entitled to a new trial The testimony was harmless however because they were convicted of murder in the second degree and by this verdict the jury declared that the conspiracy had not been proved and there was not more than a scintilla of evidence n favor of Stanton going to show excusable homicide Stanton himself in his testimony making statements which alone would have justified the jury In convicting him of murder In the second degree and no witness who saw the killing had a favorable word for him Six special instructions were prayed by the defendants There appear in the case no exceptions to the charge of the Judge nor doe it appear what ruling was made on the request for special Instructions The fourth prayer requesting the court to withdraw the testimony of Blankenship from the Jury was not granted as we notice it in the recapitulation of the evidence by his honor to the jury but as we have before remarked the error in admitting that testimony was harmless On all the other questions involved in the prayer for Instructions his honor's charge was full and in accordance with the law He submitted the question of excusable homicide to the Jury which we doubt if the prisoner Stanton was entitled to There is no error and the judgment la affirmed


What caused Baxter Sheldon to follow the road of violence? Madison County, NC and it's adjacent Tennesse county of Greene, were in the western NC and eastern TN mountains. The Shelton Laurel area straddled the county lines with some parts in Buncombe County too. And in these mountain counties, Shelton Laurel was known for being particularly remote and isolated. The area was covered with dense laurel bushes. A lot of violence happened there and it was also famous for the Shelton Laurel Massacre during the War of Northern Aggression. As I began researching this story, I was amazed at how the Sheltons intermarried. Now I'm not saying it was inbreeding but it was remote and therefore they didn't get to meet a lot of other people and they were prolific so, in that area, it seems there were Sheltons everywhere. They would have had no trouble finding distant cousins to marry. I came across a Shelton who married a Shelton and their child married a Shelton. I also noticed that it seemed many were marrying 2-3-4 times. In a time when divorce was relatively rare, the Sheltons were marrying and divorcing and having out of wedlock families fairly consistently. But from these newspaper articles, it seems Baxter Shelton was known to be the bad of the bad as it were. I would love to know about his family life or events in his life that sent him in that direction. If anyone has any corrections or further information about William Baxter Shelton, please contact me at Mom25dogs@gmail.com.