Stewart County: A Gift from Researchers for 2002
From Linda S. Hughes lshughes@mindspring.com:
This is a picture of the house built in Big Rock by my g-grandfather,
Richard Green Walker, in the late 1800's or early 1900's. The house is
still standing and is occupied by the husband of one of his daughters.
Richard Green Walker was born in 1872 and died about 1948. He lived in Big
Rock all his life. He was married to Eliza Ann Weatherford who was born in
1865 and died 1941. Both are buried in the Smith Cemetery in Big Rock.
From Andy Tift tbs306@papadocs.com:
This is an old coffee advertisement (girl in cart with dog) that my
grandfather Thomas Buckingham had around 1895-1900. It came in McLaughlin's
coffee.
Also a picture of men sawing wood outside Dover. The man
at off-bare with light shirt and overalls is my Grandfather,
Otto Tift.
From Linda Moss De Vita ldevita@socal.rr.com:
This is a photo of my g g grandparents: Henry Clay Hutchison and Elizabeth (Betty) Jones Hutchison. They lived in Model. Henry-- born 3/14/1827 & died 4/20/1909 & Betty-- born 11/22/1831 died 4/11/1909 both buried in Acree Cemetery, Stewart Co. ( I have no idea who the others were in the photo who were cut out!)
From Debbie Champion debchampion@mindspring.com:
This is a photograph that I just got a copy of this year from cousin Judy
Hicks Lancaster. The original photo is in the posession of her Mother,
Zanie Champion Hicks.
This photograph is Willis O. Champion with his wife Elazane Moela "Lainie" Vinson Champion and all nine of their children. Willis was the son of
Orville and Mary N. Herndon Champion, of Stewart County. Elazane was the
daughter of Riley and Anna S. Herndon Vinson, of Trigg County. Willis and
Lainie lived in Stewart County, near Crockett's Creek. The photograph was
taken between 1900-1906, as the last child, Joe was born in 1900 and Willis
died in 1906.
Back row left to right: Riley Orval, Augusta Pearl, Hollie S., Willie
Pearl, Alex Dermont, Chester Dare.
Front row left to right: Herman B., Willis O., Joe Bale "Bailey", Elazane
Moela "Lainie" Vinson, Flossie E.
Judy also tells me, that before Hutchenson school was torn down her Mother went there and got some wood and a pane of glass from a window. Aunt Zanie had someone make a picture frame from the wood and glass and this photograph is now in that frame.
I am also sending the photograph of where Willis and Lainie lived in LBL.
It's beautiful, no wonder that's where they chose to live. Their home was
to the right of this view, in the woods.
The socks were hung by the pot belly stove with care,
In hopes that St. Nick soon would be there;
All the Stewart Neighbors were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of Coconut and Orange cakes danced in their heads;
And Ma in her 'kerchief, and Pa in his cap,
Had just settled down for a well deserved winter's nap,
When out on the porch there arose such a noise,
Pa thought for sure, it must be those Parker boys.
Away to the door he flew in a dead run,
Tore open the door and grabbed his shotgun.
The light of his lamp, paled in comparison to the moons glow
If it was the Parker boys, they were going to have to go!
When what to his sleepless eyes was shown,
Pa let out an audible groan...
Ben Champion on a mule that looked sick....
There was no way this was St. Nick.
The mule bucked him around and was not kind,
Pa yelled, "Ben have you lost your mind?!?";
Between belly laughs that drifted into the night,
Ben hollered out "Something gave this cus a fright!".
Pa called out, "Now Ben, Now Mule, Now Ben, Now Mule!"
"Both of you, quit acting the fool!"
"Ma! Tom! Mary! Joseph and Orville!"
To the front door they all ran;
"Now herd that mule up, if you can!"
As dry leaves before the tornado hits,
They split up and and tried to calm the mule's fits.
To the corners of the yard they flew,
With Pa egging them on too.
An then, in a heartbeat, that mule just stopped
Ben flew off with a plop!
As the family gathered around,
Ben jumped up off of the ground.
He was covered in snow and dirt,
From head to toe, even on his new shirt;
A hole had been torn in his britches knee,
But Ben just couldn't hold back his glee.
His laughing eyes, his side-ways grin!
Ben was giggling again!
His hair was all a mess, standing up straight,
Between giggles he apologized for calling so late.
He pulled out some chaw and held it tight in his gum,
With that, a Christmas carol he began to hum;
He was a very big man, big as an oak.
Broad in the shoulders, under his cloak.
He had strong arms that could hold their own,
Ben was a good man, clear down to the bone.
Ben lived down the road with his family,
He was married to Martha now, but first married Emily.
Pa began to laugh, even though pulled from his bed,
"Ben, I thought you had lost your head!"
Ben turned suddenly and went in the house so quick,
Ma hurried the family in, "Before ya'll get sick!"
Ben's big frame sat in a chair,
He ran his large hands through his hair.
Said Ben, "Now I'll tell you why I came here!"
"Martha has filled me with God's fear."
"If I don't come home with some butter,
There ain't gonna be no livin' with her!"
His eyes twinkled, as Ma smiling handed it over,
"Tell Martha, I'll talk to her tomorrow in Dover."
He sprang to his feet, flew out the door like a fool,
Ran and jumped back on that old mule!
But I heard him holler as they bucked and twisted off into the night...
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!!
From Tim Hoskins TCHOSKI@aol.com:
Poke Salad Recipe
first - pick the poke
second - turn on garbage disposal
third - poke the poke into the disposal
fourth - turn on water
fifth - wash it all down the drain
sixth - wash hands to get rid of that nasty stuff....lol
From Sue Edmonds edmunds@atlantic.net:
1923 Dover High School graduation program cover
1923 Dover High School graduation program inside
1924 Dover High School graduation program cover
1924 Dover High School graduation program inside
1925 Dover High School graduation program inside
Lock E, Cumberland River 1924-1925
From Marcia S. Trekell Trekell@peoplepc.com:
This is a poem my mother wrote when she was in her forties after she revisited Green Hollow, an isolated hollow between Rorie Hollow Road and Shepherd Hollow Road, near Indian Mound, the place where her father had spent his boyhood:
GREEN HOLLOW
by Margaret Ellen Green Shepherd
My Daddy told us about a place
As he reminisced, eyes filled with tears,
While he lived again the past
In his second-childhood years.
His faltering words evinced such love
That I determined some day to see
This homeplace he called Green Hollow,
And here's how it looked to me:
A spring-fed creek flows through the trees
In the dim shadowy hollow.
Lazily the rippling water falls
Over huge gray limestone boulders.
The sunlight filters through the leaves,
Casting dappled patterns of green
On the rocks and on the water,
Moving softly down the stream.
In times past, small cabins clung
Precariously to the side of the hill,
A stone's throw from the moving water,
Within earshot of the murmering rill.
Now no trace of a dwelling remains,
No chimneys, no cornerstones...
Every sign has been erased
Of the families who knew this as home.
The peach orchard has vanished.
Not one fruit tree still stands
Where once hung the golden globes,
Ripe and juicy for eager hands.
I'm glad my Daddy can't see it now.
I want him to remember, in the time that follows,
The way it was when he still lived there,
His beloved childhood home...Green Hollow.
From Evelyn Harvey Tara040813@worldnet.att.net:
Back row....left to right -
Kate Barrow m. Joel Outland (aunt) ; Great Aunt Ocie Dilday; Great-Grandparents Roderick Henderson Dilday & Mary Etta Vinson Downs Dilday; Great Uncle & Aunt .. Dr. Alexander Russell and Cozie Dilday Russell; My Uncle Clyde Rudolph Barrow; My Aunt Ola Olon Barrow m. Colie Outland.
Second Row - Grandfather James Fostine Barrow, Grandmother Ida Ethel Dilday Barrow; Cousin Fakes???; My Great Aunt and Uncle .. Maggie Rushing Dilday and Alonzo (Lon) Dilday, son of R. H. Dilday and Mary Etta Dilday.
Babies - Uncle Russell Barrow; Fakes daughter; Daughter and son of Uncle Lon & Aunt Maggie -Ruby Dilday m Ballard Bartee, and Beal Dilday m Georgia Holmes. First Row - My Dad Oscar Orvis Barrow; Fount Russell son of Great Aunt & Uncle - Cozie & Dr. Russell; Fakes Boy; My Uncle Barney Barrow, and another Uncle who died as a young boy of typhoid Berlie Barrow.
From Nora Meema11@aol.com:
To the great people, family and friends of our Stewart County, TN mailing list.......this says the way it is for me.....
Merry Christmas
Love and hugs,
Nora
Cooking? Cleaning? I'd Rather do Genealogy!
They think that I should cook and clean, and be a model wife.
I tell them it's more interesting to study Grandpa's life.
They simply do not understand why I hate to go to bed . . .
I'd rather do two hundred years of research work instead.
Why waste the time we have on earth just snoring and asleep?
When we can learn of ancestors that sailed upon the deep?
We have priests, Rabbis, lawmen, soldiers, more than just a few.
And yes, there's many scoundrels, and a bootlegger or two.
How can a person find this life an awful drudge or bore?
When we can live the lives of all those folks who came before?
A hundred years from now of course, no one will ever know
Whether I did laundry, but they'll see our Tree and glow . . .
'Cause their dear old granny left for them, for all posterity,
not clean hankies and the like, but a finished family tree.
My home may be untidy, 'cause I've better things to do . . .
checking all the records to provide us with a clue.
Old great granny's pulling roots and branches out with glee,
Her clothes ain't hanging out to dry, she's hung up on The Tree.
by: Mel Oshins
From Betty Clay BCLAY@compuserve.com:
August the 19th, A. D. 1853
Elder Correll Morris and H. B. Sills on Rushing Creek and protracted from day to day.
On Saturday, the 23rd, opende the the (sic) Reception of Members.
On Wensday the 24th open the door for the reception of members at which time came forowed:
Claborn Downs
G. Nution Shaw
P. W. Hicks and wife N. Hicks
Thos. Downs
James Hendon
Wright Rushing
Alford Downs
Thos. G. Downs
James Vinson and wife Henretah Vinson
J. W. Hicks
W. K. Barrow
H. C. Hicks
Isaiais Bateman
R. M. Knight
Loucindia Cahoon
Susan Downs
Carlina Rushing
Susan Hans (Haynes?)
and all was rec’d by expearance but Mr. Bateman & him by Excamniation. All was babetised but Mr. Merdith (note that Mr. Meredith does not appear on the list above!) and was organised in to a free and sepprit Church and named Rushing Creek Church and the Ruglear meting shold commence Saturday befour the 3rd Lord’s day in every monthe.
On the 24th day of Augt. 1853, the Rushing Creek Church was constuted by a presbyter of hoom was the Revernt Correll Morris and H. B. Sills W. C. Hodges and was constieted on the principles of the bible and we the members of sd church do hereby agree to Accept sd. Constitution and fullfill the Commandements of said constitution to the best of understanding of the facts theare in contained. Given under our hands and seal and accepted in the same mannor
Correll Morris, mod.
H. B. Sills
I. G. Hodges
Claborn Downs
F. N.. Shaw
P. W. Hicks and Nancy Hicks his wife
J. W. Hicks
H. L. Downs
James Hendon
Right Rushing
Alford Downs
Thos. J. Downs
James vinson & Henretah his wife
W. K. Barrow
X. C. Hicks
Y. Bateman
R. M. Knight
Lucindia Calhoon
Susan Downs
Carlina Rushing
Susan Hanes
asigened by J. W. Hicks by order of the Church.
Article 1st. We bleve in one only true and living God the father the son and the holy gost and these three are one.
Article 2nd. We bleve the scriptures of the old and new testatemt and to be the word of God and the only rule of our faith and practise.
Article 3rd. We bleve in the doctrin of an Election and that God chose his people in Christ before the foundation of the world.
Article 4th. We bleve in the doctrin of original sin.
Article 5th. We bleve in man man impotency to recover him self from the fauling state he is in by nature by his own free will and abilities.
Article 6th. We blive that siners are justifide in the sight of God only by the imputed Rightness of Christ.
Article 7th. We blive that God elect shall be cald converted regenerated and sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Article 8th. We bleve that Saints shall Persevere by grace and never ?Pwll? ?finaly? away.
Article 9th. We bleve that babetisam and the Lord supper is the ordinance of Christ ?Jesus? and that bleavers are the subjects theare of and that the true mod of babitisam is a immursion.
Article 10th. We bleve in the resurection of the dead and a General Judgement.
Article 11th. We bleve that the punishment of the wicked and the joys of the Rights will be eternelly.
Article 12th. We bleve that no minister have a right to the administration of the ordances only such as are Regulary babetised, Kall, and Commanded imposition of hands by the ?prsbettey? (presbytery?).
Article 13th. And we further agree by the help of God’s grace to serve and depend on him for instructions in the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jeases Christ and our fellowe creature.
Article 14th. We bleve it is our duty to asimbel our selves to together for the worship of God and order therefore of the church and acording to our ?answerability? to Defray the Necessary expenses for mintaning of the worship of God.
Article 15th. We bleve it to be our duty to walk in all the Commandement of the Lord Blamless and strictly to adhere to our duties to the Commonwelth, our Nabors, and our brothers. To bare reproof and to reprove each other in case of visable falttes in Christain Charity and brothly Love as ordered by Christ in the Gospel.
Article 16th. Eney member or members whoo shall be found ornieas or disorderly in any of these perticlars tha or eny of them shall be liable to sensher and in case of obsnant Contuanance thare in entiarly be excluded from our feloweship.
N. B. The above article are always to be understood to stand in strict surbornation to the Will of God as Rivield in the scripture of the Old and New Testiment and may be altered from time to time as it may please the Holy Spirit to cause Light to arise tharefrom.
Froman a long searieas of Exersise we whoo perfess to be the church of Christ on Rushing Creek, Stwart County Tennessee being convinced of the Nesesity of Convening to gether often to hold Conference and discharge our duty in watchen over each other as Christ has commanded agreed thare four that the folowing be a Rule for the Church to Conduct her self by in her futere Confurance. Neh. 10c. 39v.
Article 1st. We are not to forsake the House of God.
Article 2nd. Confurance shal be composed of the members of the church only unless members of the sister churches of the same fath and order being presant ma be invited to take seats with us.
Article 3rd. The Conferance shall be open by Prase or Worship to Almighty God. I tim. 2 = = = I Thes 17...18.
Article 4th. Our preacher shall be our moderator unless sufishant reason be given by himself or the members of the Conference pressant see eney reson that the preacher can not act as moderator one may be chosen by Conferance. Every speach is to be directed to the Church by the application of ?brethren?.
Article 5th. Inquiry shal be mad if the church is in peas when it is thought wise.
Article 6th. A door shal be open for the admision of members ether by Lettor or experience into the Church when suposed to be nessesery but non shall be admitted but by unamness consent those by Expearience shall first visibly relate thare experance or give an acount of the work of God upon thareselves and ?sicherly? of thare fath and princepleles of Religon if the Church thinks neseasry and the Church may make inquiry Respecting thare thare morrel Conduct and when full satisfaction shall be attand the preacher deacon or moderator shall manefest the same by giving the right hand of fellowship and thare by resive them in due form. I Peter 3:1 Gal 2st.
Article 7th No Complaint shall be brought into the church aganst transgresing members for Crimes of a private nature until the agreved members have complide with with direction of our Lord. Matt. 15 16 17.
Article 8th. Every motion made and seconded shall come under the Consideration of the Church unless with drawn by the membeers which mat it. Cor. 14.4
Article 9th. Every quary presented shall be three times read Befour it is recived the moderator shall then put it to vote and if thare be a majority for it it aught to Receive an answer but the member shoo made it may withdraw it pevious to it being acted upon.
Article 10th. If the menarity shal be greaved at any time at the desision of the majarity tha are herby directed to make the same known ameadiatly to the Church and if satisfaction can not be obtain it may be neseary in that Case to call for help from sister churches.
Article 11th. All the bisness of Confurnance shall be farly Recorded by the Church and corrected if nessary.
From Louise Guinn
GREAT AUNT ALMA
In July 1947, after the end of World War II, Mother took me back to Kentucky to visit family. We went to see the only relative of my father’s that she knew about, Great Aunt Alma [Alma Alice Cherry (Wyatt) (Adams) 1876-1951] at her home in Big Rock. Aunt Alma gave me a large picture of my grandfather, but that 16 year old California girl was not interested in that “old stuff”. Now that I am almost her age and look more like her than I do a “California girl”, that picture and the picture of us together are among my treasures. I missed the chance to get to know Aunt Alma, but I have learned a couple of stories about her.
Mother remembered that Aunt Alma never put the dishes away when she washed them but would re-set the table and cover all with a cloth. Janie Clinton Cherry (Rose) (Stone) [1908-2001], who grew up in Big Rock, remembered that it was always fun to visit her Aunt Alma. When Janie married and had a child, though, she hesitated to visit Aunt Alma because she thought the place wasn’t clean. Aunt Alma always left the door open and chickens would run in and out of the house. But we do know the dishes were clean!
Lovingly submitted by her namesake Alice Louise Guinn
From Leslie Moore lmoore@ecsis.net:
William Wesley Bass
Great Grandfather of Leslie Moore
Son of Jethro Bass (1835-1920) & Elizabeth A Knight
Stewart County, TN
1. WILLIAM WESLEY12 BASS (JETHRO11, NORFLEET WESLEY10, JETHRO9, JETHRO8, JOHN7, JOHN6, WILLIAM5 BASSE, JOHN4, NATHANIEL3, HUMPHREY2, WILLIAM1)1,2 was born March 06, 1865 in Stewart Co, TN2, and died September 16, 1916 in Tiptonville, Tenn.2. He married SAMMIE DESSIE JACKSON3,4,5 July 24, 1894 in Lake County, Tennessee, daughter of JOSEPH JACKSON and SARAH HUSS. She was born July 09, 1874 in Hickman Co., KY6, and died April 04, 1953 in Ridgely, Lake County, Tennessee.
Burial: 1916, Old Cronanville cemetery-under Mississippi River
William Wesley Bass and Sammie Dessie Jackson Bass lived at Bass Landing (beneath Cherokee Landing - what is now Sheep's Ridge) until the floods of 1912 and 1913 which washed away their land and also a cemetery at Cherokee Landing. ( Perhaps Joseph A Jackson was buried at this cemetery which washed away.) At that time they moved up to Cronanville and manned the lanterns on that bend of the river as they had on Bass Landing - to warn the barges and steamboats of the curves and to advise them where the landings were. The boats had to stop often along the trips for wood to burn - they couldn't carry a very large load of wood.
Marriage license: July 24, 1894, License obtained - not returned-probably married by preacher.
Children of WILLIAM BASS and SAMMIE JACKSON are:
i. MYRTLE13 BASS, b. June 23, 1895, Lake County, Tennessee; d. November 08, 1967, Kenton, Tennessee.
ii. EULA LEE BASS, b. February 08, 1897, Tennessee; d. September 29, 1971, Martin, Weakley County, Tennessee.
iii. MAUDE BASS, b. December 15, 1898, Lake County, Tennessee; d. March 18, 1973, Lake County, Tennessee.
iv. BERTHA MAE BASS, b. September 18, 1900, Lake County, Tennessee; d. October 26, 1989, Lake County, Tennessee.
v. LEONA BASS, b. October 29, 1902, Lake County, Tennessee; d. December 30, 1983, Lake County, Tennessee.
vi. WILLIAM JETHRO BASS, b. March 01, 1905, Lake County, Tennessee; d. August 02, 1983, Lake County, Tennessee.
vii. EUNA BASS, b. 1909, Lake County, Tennessee; d. Obion County, Tennessee.