Horace Dotson LANKFORD Jr. born and died April 26,
1947 - buried in Ridgewood Cemetary at Carthage.
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3- Robert Hershal PETTY born Sept. 13, 1889 - died at
Defeated Creek, April 13, 1962. He is buried in Ridgewood Cem.,
Carthage, Tenn. He was married May 11,
1915 to Lorene Buford McCLELLAN. They had one child:
a-3 Oraleen Eloise PETTY born Feb. 26, 1916 -
married April 19, 1935 to Ethel Lee SIRCEY. They had one child:
a - Robert
Gene SIRCEY born March 23, 1936 - married July 7, 1958 to Betty Joyce REEVES.
They have four children:
aa - Benita
Gayle SIRCEY born May 15, 1959.
bb - Robert
Jeffrey SIRCEY born Dec. 3, 1960.
cc - Michael
Anthoney SIRCEY born June 22, 1965.
dd - Lori
Dell SIRCEY born May 18, 1968.
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4- William
Ernest PETTY born Aug. 1, 1891 in Smith Co., Tenn - died Nov. 20, 1958 at
Englewood, Colo. and is buried there. He was married May 5, 1912 to Alma
Pearl MARTIN born May 28, 1895 in Smith Co., Tenn.
They had four children:
a-4 Alta Estelle PETTY born Sept. 19, 1913,
married July 2, 1937 to Ernest F. FENTON. They had one child:
a- Carolyn
Ruth PETTY.* (Carolyn Ruth PETTY should be Carolyn Ruth Fenton.)
b-4 Ossie Lee Petty born Feb.4, 1919 at
Englewood, Colo. She was married twice - 1st Oct.2, 1943 to John Robert
HARTLEY. 2nd May 6, 1962 to Merret
ARLEDGE. There were two children by the first
marriage:
a- William
Robert HARTLEY
b- James
Harrison HARTLEY.
c-4 Helen
Dorothy PETTY born July 6, 1922 at
Englewood, Colo. She was married Oct. 10, 1941 to Raymond Eugene CHILDERS. He
was killed in action in World
War II. They had a daughter:
a- Barbara
Louise CHILDERS.
Helen Dorothy
CHILDERS married Dec. 17, 1947 to Dr. John Daniel BURD. They had two children:
b- John
Daniel BURD Jr.
c- Marjorie
Lynn BURD.
d-4 John Cordell PETTY born Sept. 4, 1924 - died Aug.
3, 1939 at Englewood, Colo. (51)
5- John Floyd PETTY born Aug. 3, 1897 in Smith Co.,
Tenn. He was married April 30, 1932 to Bertha WILLIAMS, daughter of Oliver and
Ada WILLIAMS. John
Floyd PETTY, a Veterinarian and farmer - a good one -
raises fine cattle and incidentally is a fine man. He and Bertha had one child:
a-5 Mary A.
PETTY born July 28, 1933. She married Nov. 28, 1953 to David MASSEY, son of
Dewey K. and Avo MORROW MASSEY. They have one child:
a- Stephanie
MASSEY born Aug. 20, 1960, Smith Co., Tenn. (52)
This 5th son of Thomas PETTY and Lydia MAYNARD should
have been an easy one to record - but somehow I never got nearly the
information I thought I could
pick up so easily - However, I will put down what I
have and I hope that for my own satisfaction, someone who knows will see this
and write to set me straight on the
whole thing.
7-3 Thomas
PETTY 5th son of Thomas PETTY and Lydia MAYNARD was born in North Carolina in
1822 - He died in Smith Co., Tenn. about 1908 and is buried in Dixon Springs
Cemetery with other old soldiers who rode with Nathan Bedord FORREST in the War
Between the States. Yes, he was a member of old "Bed" FORREST's
"Critter Company" - cream of the Confederacy, those gallant men who
fought to the bitter end for a lost cause.
It is a little difficult to gather material about the Thomas PETTYS
because it is a name that is used over and over again - our Thomas PETTY had
several ancestors named Thomas and he had a son named Thomas and seven other
sons, five of whom we know had a son named Thomas - and they are still using
the name. Four Thomas PETTYS that I recall at the moment, all from this family,
fought for the Confederacy. To identify this Thomas born in N.C. in 1822 (He
was my Dad's uncle) from the younger Thomas, who was my Dad's brother, my
mother used to speak of him as "Old Uncle Tom" -while my Dad's brother
was "Tommy". She was fond of "Old Uncle Tom" and used to
talk about how kind he was. She said he had a long white beard and as he used
to come often to our house when I was a baby, he would hold me on his lap and
never minded if I pulled his beard but if my fingers caught his moustache ,
Mama said he would quickly hand me over! Old Uncle Tom was married twice - 1st
Oct. 7, 1850 to Mary ROYSTER and they had at least two children:
a- Charlie
PETTY who married Doanie STAFFORD - and
b- Sarah E.
PETTY who was married Dec. 23, 1879 to Brown Lee ASBURY.
Click Here for additional information on Sarah E. Petty
Thomas
PETTY'S 2nd wife was Elizabeth BUSH. I know some of their children's names,
although I do not have nearly as much as I need to make a clear record.
c- Dorothula (This one I always heard called
"Sudie") was married Nov. 13, 1887 to Horace PARKER. I went to school with some of their
children, and although a half century has gone by, I think I can remember all
their names:
1-
Mary Jane (Maymie) PARKER. I remember her especially well because she was an
artist. She never had a lesson in her life, but
could
draw beautifully.(53)
There
was one boy - Floyd PARKER - I do not remember him - just his name. There was
Leila, born about 1889, then Mattie, Julie, Kate and Eppie PARKER. I think
Eppie was the youngest. She was probably born about 1905, as I think she was a
little older than I.
Another of Thomas PETTY'S children was
d-
Amanda Paralee PETTY born about 1859 and married Feb. 13, 1879 to William Arch
MOSS.
e- Alice PETTY married Wiseman MERRYMAN.
f-
Josie PETTY was blind and when her father died was in a school for the blind in
Nashville, Tenn. I never did hear what became of her.
There
was g - Hezekiah (Hezzie) PETTY, h- Andrew PETTY, i- Frank PETTY and
j-
Sampson (Sampsie) PETTY. Frank died when a young man and Sampson married Nov. 17,
1900 to Susan JOLLY a daughter of Dr. JOLLY of Riddleton, Tenn.
There
was also one named William (Willie) PETTY.
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WINSHIP
BLACKSTONE PETTY
Thomas and Lydia MAYNARD PETTY migrated to Tennessee
from North Carolina after 1827 but before 1834 - for the last child born in
North Carolina was John Tapley PETTY born in 1827 - the next child was born in
Tenn. The year was 1834 and the child born Nov. 22, 1834 was Winship Blackstone
PETTY - he died Jan. 14, 1923 at Carthage, Tenn. - was married Feb. 12, 1863 to
Charlotte S. GREER born Jan.24, 1837 - died Aug. 29, 1906. I was almost
seventeen when Uncle "Wins" PETTY died and remember him well. He was
a proud, handsome old man with a long, white beard. I used to see him sitting
in the old courhouse yard in Carthage, usually with two little grandsons, Fite
and Blackstone PETTY playing near him. They were almost always with him and I
can also remember seeing him walking uptown leading a tiny granddaughter. I
remember sitting in the Methodist church at Carthage at his funeral. I believe
he was a member of the Baptist church - but at that time the Baptists in
Carthage were building a new church to replace the old one that had burned - so
they had his funeral in the Methodist church and then took him back to his old
homeplace to bury him beside his wife in the little graveyard where a
daughter-in-law and some grandchildren were also buried. Winship Blackstone
PETTY gave many years of service to his country. He fought for the Southern
Confederacy the entire duration of that awful conflict between the states. He
organized his own company, known as "PETTY CO." or Co. B of the
Seventh Tenn. Regiment. He was its Captain. The (54) Seventh Tenn. was
incorporated into MAHONE's Div. at Gettysburg and spearheaded PICKETT's
ill-fated charge. He was at the "Battle of the Clouds", he was in the
trenches outside Atlanta and wherever else that gallant regiment went - and
that was where the fight was the hottest! After the war, he served Smith County
twelve years - 1870-1874 as Registrar and 1874-1882 as Circuit Court Clerk. I
have seen some of his beautiful, spidery old handwriting on some of the old
books at the courthouse in Carthage. He was a man devoted to his country and
his home. He loved his grandchildren very much - most of what I remember about
him centers around his grandchildren - the children of his son John Fite PETTY.
When John's first wife died, she left a tiny girl named Mattie. Uncle
"Wins" idolized that child. In those days he came often to our house
and he loved to talk to my mother about Mattie and how cute and smart she was.
One Sunday he was there, laughing proudly about something little Mattie had
done - that is the last time I ever remember that he was at our house - before
the next Sunday Mattie was dead of some mysterious malady that I think must
have been some sort of food poisoning.
Winship Blackstone PETTY and Charlotte GREER had five children:
1. Nancy Emmaline PETTY born Aug. 8, 1866 - died in
the 1940's. She was married to W.T. DOZIER. Children: Thomas Blackstone DOZIER
has a family and lives in Nashville, Tenn.
Willkie DOZIER - dead
Louis Lynn DOZIER - dead
Mary Louise DOZIER married Edward M. MOONEYHAM. She
died May 28, 1934.
2. There is a daughter listed in the Smith County
Census record as "Josephine Ancybelle" born 1869. A relative says that this is Grace PETTY who
was born Jan. 20,
1868 - died in the 1940's - ws married to Russ
HACKETT in 1895 and had a family. Her children:
a - Millie HACKETT married a Mr. HAILEY. She has at
least four children: Harry, T.C., Thomas E. and Alyene.
b - Jack HACKETT married and had two children - Mary
Catherine and Donald Neal HACKETT.
c - Raymond HACKETT
d - Eugene (Sal) HACKETT (55)