Union Grove Schoolhouse Photograph, 1897. Then, following that listing: more on the Family of Cornelia Davie (Smith) & George Washington Smith -- not really kin to me, except that George MUNCIE or Munsey Smith married my mother's aunt, Gladys Headden (Smith)--Gladys with a long not a short "A" ; and Muncie & Gladys Headden Smith produced my mother's first cousins, viz., Maxine Smith Stanfield (Mrs. John Louis Stanfield, of Newbern then Tucumcari and last of Albuquerque, born January 1 or 2, 1923); "Baby Boy" Wilmere Headden Smith, born 1925 & died April 14, 1998, who m. Helen Legions (Smith) & had three children, Linda Dianne Smith Kolwyck Parnell, b. 1949, Randy Smith, b. 1951 and I guess Randy will be a bachelor; and Robert Louis Smith, b. 1953 who died way too young on Dec. 14, 2006; and George Scott Smith, the oldest child born to Gladys Headden & Muncie Smith.
Mr. George Washington Smith & Mrs. Cornelia DAVIE Smith appear on the early membership list of the Lemalsamac Christian Church. Then Cornelia, at least, became a devout member of Mt. Carmel Methodist Church. I just don't know about Mr. GW Smith.
Three of my own grandparents are in the 1897 photograph infra, viz., Ira Mitchell Cope, 1879-1949 (number four in photograph); Notie Headden (Cope), 1886-1984 (number 37 in photograph); and Sophie King McCorkle (Huie) (number 15 in photograph). The fourth grandparent, Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935, would have attended school at Yorkville and was a bit older than his wife Sophie, born 1882; and older than Ira Mitchell Cope, born 1879, & older than Notie Headden Cope, born 1886.
Charley Charles Garner is number 24. He was the maternal grandfather of Jennifer Catherine Huie Tucker, Joseph Headden Huie, and John Ewing Huie; of Robert Fletcher & his Fletcher brother; of Myla Rae Fowlkes Griffin, David Fowlkes, & Susanne Fowlkes Hall; of James Ellery Batts; of Luanne Wright; and of the sons of Opal Garner Wilkerson, Tom Wilkerson & Richard Wilkerson; and perhaps others.
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Original belonged to Mary Elizabeth Cotton McCorkle (the 2nd Mrs. John Edwin McCorkle)
1. John Flatt --He must have been a child of the first set born to Mr. J J Flatt and Jim Flatt's first wife, née Alice Walker. (It was on Alice Walker's folks' land that part of the Battle of Shiloh was fought.) There were 2 sets of Flatt children by old man Jim Flatt . Minnie Flatt who lived in McKenzie was one of the 1st generation; also Mr. Will Flatt who m. Miss Cattie Morrow (Flatt)--I think Mr. Will was the oldest child (?) ; and Miss "Mollie" Mary Flatt. One son of this 1st set went to New York and called himself a doctor. The patriarch JJ "Jim" Flatt's 2nd wife was a Glidewell, I think. And I think JJ Flatt had a 3rd wife.l
He had red hair and his Cope/KOB family were mostly German immigrants from the Palatinate/Rheinland area. The name KOB or German equivalent was anglicized sometime in North Carolina to "Cope" and these names are some that appear in his ancestry: the Swiss name for Good Citizen, Schweiβgute anglicized in North Carolina to Swicegood; and the name Ratz anglicizedin NC to Ratts. His Cope father was Wilson Newberry Cope, who served in the Confederacy fighting his way through Tennessee campaigns, and spoke of "war in all its horrors" having been revealed to him. My mother recently placed a marker for Newbery Cope in the Carmel Cemetery, but truth is we don't really know where he was interred. --Ira's middle name came from his uncle "Sandy" Alexander Cope's son Mitchell Cope (Ira's 1st cousin). Ira was born in 1879 and his father died in 1880, leaving the widow "Siss" Narcissus Elizabeth Hendricks Cope in rather dire straits, with 3 children on a small Hendricks plat inherited from her father, Uriah C. Hendricks. So, way back, W. Scott Headden thought Ira was too poor to be worthy to marry his daughter Notie Headden and would not consent to marriage; that is, until Notie, determinedly in love with Ira Mitchell Cope, reached the ripe old-maid age of twenty-five. At that point, Scott Headden relented and Notie and Ira happily married. Notie adored Ira; that, I remember. 5. Lee Garner --brother to Charles Garner 1st cousin to, inter alia, my father's father, Howard Anderson Huie
Ewing McCorkle died in 1900 aged about 16 or 17. His nephew and namesake was ill-fated, too: "Baby Ralph" Ralph McCorkle Huie, infant son of Sophie King McCorkle Huie & Howard Anderson Huie; '"Baby Ralph" died all too soon after the death of his mother Sophie King McCorkle Huie.
just down the way and worked some there on the farm so he could attend Union Grove. Back then there was a pretty good, albeit one-room, school at Union Grove. 9. Dorsey Hendricks --Blanche Hendricks' father who m. Nora Johnson. Now, "Miss" Blanche Hendricks is in her 90s and still attends Cool Springs C P Church. Carmel Methodist Church and were parents of Lurline Townes Overall, born circa 1895; Louise Townes Milner who married a Dyer Co. man, Charles Milner, & moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Maurine Townes Crosby who married several times and mostly lived in Memphis but produced no issue.
a son of Benjamin Huie (1798-1879) by Benjamin's 2nd wife Margaret Betts. I don't know what kin Kitty Franklin was to Fannie Huie; nor to Onis Franklin. Was Kitty a sister to Onis Franklin, M.D. late of Broken Arrow near Tulsa, Oklahoma? (Henley). Tommie Henley married a man over at Obion and had 2 children, Beatrice "Bea" Beard & ???? a son .
married Howard Anderson Huie, a son of Julius M. Huie & Julius' 2nd wife "Sade" Sarah Elizabeth Scott (Huie). Sophie McCorkle Huie bore 3 children: Sara Elisabeth Huie & my father Howard EWING Huie, but the 3rd child, "Baby Ralph," or Ralph McCorkle Huie, died in 1915, about a year after Sophie's death in the old St. Joseph's Hospital situated in downtown Memphis, the cause of her death being listed as what Memphis doctors diagnosed back then as a tubercular kidney but what I now think was probably ovarian cancer. She died at age 32, and I was 30 when I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Without taking the harsh and dangerous chemicals, the doctors cautioned, I had no more than a 50-50 chance to live a year. 16. Minnie Green (Hendricks) (Mrs. Will Hendricks)
Miss Cattie Morrow (Mrs. Will) Flatt used to write the Churchton News for the now defunct Newbern Tennessean newspaper. In my childhood (1950s) she lived in the heart of Churchton community, and I used to love visiting her. She knew that my father (Howard EWING Huie) and she (née Morrow) were Purviance-Thomas kin, but many great-greats back. Her Purviance-Thomas ancestor married a Woods (Eleazor Woods m. Sarah Purviance THOMAS); and my father's Purviance-Thomas ancestor married a McCorkle (my g-grandmother Jane Maxwell Thomas alias Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle). Sarah Purviance Thomas WOODS and Jane Maxwell Thomas McCORKLE were each daughters of Elizabeth PURVIANCE & her husband, a revolutionary war soldier in the North Carolina continental line William THOMAS. Elizabeth Purviance Thomas & husband William Thomas removed from NC westerly to Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tennessee; then removed farther west, with children to live in Dyer County, not long before the death of William Thomas, who predeceased by some years his wife Elizabeth Thomas. The widow, Elizabeth Purviance Thomas, applied from Dyer County for a revolutionary war widow's pension.) Elizabeth Purviance Thomas' father, "colonel" (I don't think he really was one) John Purviance had also served in the Revolutionary War. This John Purviance & wife Mary Jane Wasson Purviance lost a son, another JOHN PURVIANCE in the year 1792 to Indian depredations in what was then Sumner County, northern Middle Tennessee. This unfortunate John Purviance, a sister to my g-g-great-grandmother Elizabeth Purviance (Thomas), was scalped in view of his wife "Mattie" King (Purviance), who later married William McCorkle, William having been a brother to the Robert McCorkle who holds the first grave (1828) in the McCorkle Cemetery east of Newbern in Dyer County.
of Blythe Pigue whose brother was "Cotton" Pigue); Miss Cora Trout (was blind); Lucille Trout; Wiley Mitchell Trout; and Elwin Trout ...
--Circa 1902 she died in Hot Springs, Ark. Her paternal grandparents were Edwin Alexander McCorkle & wife Jane Maxwell Thomas McCorkle.
Nan Batts; Opal Wilkerson; Sarah Fowlkes; Edith Bogar(d)(t); "Top" Wright; et Loudelia or Ludelia Dick, the childless one who with her husband owned a motel in Paris, Tennessee.
(whose mother Mary Loggins Trout was a sister to Sammie LOGGINS Farrar, Sammie being the mother of Addie Eola Farrar Cowan); and a sister named Lucille Trout, no kids; and two brothers: Wiley Mitchell Trout and Elwin Trout. Avie Trout's family back then attended Mt. Carmel Methodist Church just down the road from Union Grove Schoolhouse. 27. Muncie Smith, actually GEORGE Muncie Smith, father of Maxine Stanfield & "Baby Boy" Wilmere Headden Smith & George Scott Smith. Uncle Muncie married Gladys Headden, a daughter of Ada Taylor Headden & Winfield Scott Headden. Ada Taylor's parents are buried in the Rutherford Cemetery (Gibson Co.) as Joseph & Josephine Taylor. Ada & Scott Headden's great-granddaughter my mother Joyce Cope (Huie), born in 1915, when her TAYLOR great-grandparents died could not understand why their funeral services were held in their front yard (almost in the little town of Rutherford, their little house sits now beside the new Highway 45 extension) and not in the church almost next-door. Finally, Joyce came to understand: for Josephine Spencer Taylor & Joe Taylor were "Campbellites," members of the Church of Christ so the nearby church was of another brand. But their daughter Ada Taylor (Headden), at least, married a Cumberland Presbyterian, viz., "Scott" Winfield Scott Headden, son of Mose Headden & Elizabeth Boyette Headden. Josephine Spencer Taylor (maternal grandmother mother of, inter alia, Gladys Headden SMITH (Mrs. George MUNCIE Smith), was without sight, blind, by the time her maternal great-granddaughter Joyce Cope (Huie), born 1915, knew her. Blind, Josephine was loosely guided out the back by a line attached to the clothes line erected in the back yard. Now, around 2000 a.d., the "new" road between Dyer and Rutherford goes right by the old Joe & Josephine Spencer Taylor farm. --Back in Dyer County near Churchton: after the CP congregation at Union Grove gave out for want of parishioners, W. Scott Headden joined the Methodist congregation just down the lane from Union Grove: Mt. Carmel Methodist Church. And that is how Gladys Headden Smith & children Maxine, George Scott, and Wilmere "Baby Boy" Headden Smith; and Notie Headden Cope and daughter Joyce Rebecca Cope Huie became Methodists. As far as I know, the Mose Headden descendants were first Presbyterians; then, after the 1810 genesis of the Cumberland Presbyterian church outside Dickson, Tennessee, became Cumberland Presbyterians; then, upon demise of the Union Grove Methodist Church, Methodists. End of the Headdens' being CPs. Now to the Hendricks / Hendrix / part of Joyce Cope Huie's father's mother, Narcissus Elizabeth "Siss" Hendricks (widow Cope) (then widow Forcum). -- I think that Joyce's father Ira Mitchell Cope's HENDRIX/HENDRICKS people (that is, the people of Ira Cope's mother, "Sis" Narcissus Elizabeth Hendricks Cope) had been Methodists at least as far back when these Hendricks / Hendrix / folk were living at Mocksville, in Davie County, North Carolina. Muncie Smith's daughter, Edna MAXINE Smith Stanfield died on or about June 25, 2007, aged 84, and her remains of incineration are buried in Newbern Fairview Cemetery. Inhumation was not her choice. Maxine's husband who predeceased her was John Louis Stanfield of Newbern. Maxine Stanfield's two sons are: John Louis Stanfield II of the Denver, Colorado, area, born in 1949; and George Chester Stanfield of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They wouldn't like my saying it, but each became wealthy; and it always makes me sad to realize most of us who prospered had to abandon our home in Dyer/Gibson county to do so. To think of the "brain drain" from rural northwestern Tennessee provokes tears. When will economic prosperity come to our home region?_______________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________ medical doctor of some distinction and ended up in Oklahoma. He served in WW I and at the end lived in Broken Arrow just outside Tulsa.
Charles Gable; and of "Bubba" Gabel--and the dad of those 3 boys was Ben Gable; other of Miss Annie Charles Gable's children were: Jim Gable who had no children and lived in "midtown Yorkville"; and Finis Gable who m. and begot Betty Helen Gable (Betty Gable first married a son of Jiley Austin); and Miss Annie Charles Gable's three daughters were: Charlene Gable ( ); and Gable ; and . --Did the 3 Gable girls including Charlene remove up to St. Louis?
member of the now defunct Newbern First Christian Church. I recall she had sort of a humpback which I now would recognize as osteoporosis, I guess. How I as a child loved Miss Nettie and Miss May ! My cousin Edward Campbell Huie (died 2001) could never not cry when telling how Miss Nettie from the church wrote him faithfully during his time away from home as a soldier in World War II and usually enclosed a bit of money which she really did not have to give away. Miss Nettie gave away to charity and the church most of what she had and would have suffered from penury in old age had it not been for the largesse of her husband Lon Jackson's nephew who, I think, was a car dealer in Union City; I think his name was Charles Jackson but may have that wrong. It is because of Miss Nettie that I can recite the books of the Bible; she rewarded me with a few dollars, coupled with a little white leather Bible, as she did for all of us Sunday School children who learned the names. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.... During the shameful intolerance and Red-Baiting of the McCarthy Era of my early childhood, it was not Miss Nettie who told our Sunday School class that C A R E, indeed almost any eleemosynary institution then in existence, was a Communist front. Miss Nettie had more sense than that.
Imogene Headden Whiteside, who died in Gary, Indiana, having become Mrs. "Mike" Marion Whiteside and having had three children: "Jim" James Whiteside; John Ray Whiteside; and Gina or Jeana Whiteside. Imogene was raised as a little sister to my mother, Joyce Cope Huie, because her mother Lula died too young and her father Elmer's sister, my grandmother Notie Headden Cope, and husband Ira Mitchell Cope, took in Imogene. One of Imogene's 1st cousins through her mother was Marian Flatt Moore, a daughter of "Miss" Cattie Morrow Flatt (supra).
and perhaps a third girl, were mixed up with "Cousin" (actually "Cud'n") Mose Alexander. (Cud'n Mose Alexander's father was John Alexander and his mother was née Headden). Connie Green and Minnie Green and perhaps another woman were John Alexander's step-children from an earlier marriage, that is before he married the Headden woman. No, we have this missed up. But we do remember that Minnie Green (Hendricks) and Connie Green came to the Headden family reunion.--Did their mother marry John Alexander after she gave birth to these girls?
each of the numerous Smith brothers said, 'There were [ten?] of us brothers and each had a sister' [Zula]. Well, it was funny the way they said it.
was the first wife of Newbern resident and rich man Haskins Ridens (whose 2nd wife was Arawahna). I believe the 2nd wife started out as Mr. Ridens' secretary.
Born June 2, 1886, NOTIE lived to be 97 years of age. Her husband was Ira Mitchell Cope, 1879-1949. Notie, a little girl in this photograph of Union Grove school, adored Ira Cope, who stands tall in the last row as a handsome, red-headed teenager. But Notie's father Scott Headden, who had acquired some land and a bit of money for his time and place, and even a steel safe to contain his valuables, would not consent to her marrying Ira Cope, who had been orphaned at age three and who in the father's opinion showed poor prospects. I remember Notie's telling me that she dated Mr. Aubrey Fowlkes a little, a very nice man and good friend, but always and only loved Ira. And so she proceeded to wait her father out. Finally, when Notie attained the old-maid age of twenty-five (25), Scott Headden (probably gladly) consented to her marriage to Ira Cope. It was a happy union. -- In order to attend high school, Notie had had to go up to Hickman, Kentucky, where she lived with her mother's sister, Dora Taylor (White). Come weekends, they crossed the Mississippi over to Dorena, Missouri, to stay at Aunt Dora's home. And after high school, Notie went to Huntington, Tennessee, to what was then Southern Normal Institute. I've seen a photograph taken at Southern Normal Institute which, I think, included Charley Garner but may be wrong about that. Notie taught school a bit, then married and raised a family, which included seeing about not only her niece Imogene Headden (later Whiteside) (who lived in her house) but also the children of Muncie Smith whose wife had been Gladys Headden (Smith), beloved sister of Notie. These children as adults spoke very fondly of "Aunt Notie." -- Notie's husband Ira must have received the name "Mitchell" from his father Wilson NEWBERRY Cope's brother "Sandy" Alexander Cope: Sandy Cope had named a son, a son much older than Ira, Mitchell Cope. --Sandy Cope is the brother of Newberry Cope who unbeknownst to Newberry (CSA) was fighting for the Union side in the Civil War, Sandy having removed from NC to Dyer County then westerly across the Mississippi River to Missouri.--Several generations back, the Cope name had been "Kob" in the Rheinland area called then the Palatinate. Ira's Cope ancestors' early graves in North Carolina--mostly Rowan then Davie and Davidson counties--were inscribed in German.
Father was "Uncle Albert Hendricks." "Uncle Irl" was a banker in, last, Dyersburg. It was Aunt Lillie's sister's children, I think Teddy Medlin of Caruthersville, Mo, who inherited from them. Aunt LIllie died after Uncle Irl. -- "Uncle" Irl was a 1st cousin to my mother's father Ira Mitchell Cope.
her McCorkle descendancy. Verna was a McCorkle descendant, and her 2nd husband was "Buck" Arnold who lived in Yorkville.
husband schoolkeeper Riley Matthus Grills, received the "Leonard" from Leonard Scobey. --I may be entirely wrong but I think Leonard Scobey married Maybelle Zarecor, a McCorkle descendant through Rebecca McCorkle (Mrs. John C. Zarecor). Is this correct?
Sarah Purviance Thomas (a daughter of Elizabeth Purviance and Revolutionary War soldier in the North Carolina line, William Thomas; and Sarah Purviance Thomas alias Mrs. Eleazor Woods was a sister of, inter alia, Mrs. Edwin Alexander McCorkle née Jane Maxwell Thomas [McCorkle]. I assume he had to be Purviance-Thomas-Woods kin.
saying that C.F. Litton had removed to California and become a veterinarian. He appears as a participant, reading a paper, in the 1922 California veterinary association. And here follows record of a burial in California but the date of birth is too late to be this person in this photo so perhaps the following is a son:
Clyde Litton, Sgt., U.S. Marine
Corps, WWII, b. 01/10/1918 d. 10/12/1994
Section 38, Site 148, Riverside Nat. Cemetery, Riverside CA 60. Errett Cotton McCorkle, 1888-1976 --my paternal grandmother Sophie King McCorkle Huie's brother. Attended night law school in Louisville, Kentucky, while in the home of his mother's sister Laura COTTON Hunter (Mrs. John Crittenden Hunter). Was deployed to France in WWI. Became personnel manager for Renard linoleum company in St. Louis and Chicago. 61. Willie Edmiston
that hugs the Dyer-Gibson County line (a gravel road even now, I think).
Minnie Hicks' children: Claudia Hicks (Miller)(Paschal) and Larry Charles Hicks. Spence Trimble's children: Patricia Trimble (Mrs. Finis) Miller of Yorkville and Bobby Trimble, who married Renita Fletcher (Trimble) of Yorkville -Neboville.
she died rather young from complications from diphtheria, leaving three children. A Dr. Jones of the Churchton community attended the stridor and awaited the ultimate distress but with his scalpel missed the mark for the planned tracheotomy. Her name was pronounced as if the "a" were long, not short.
Janie Hundley Hall; and Buena V. Hundley (?????); and Leah Bryan Hundley. Ben Anna Spence married Brian Hundley, a descendant of Tirzah Clementine Scott (Trimble) 's daughter Bettie Trimble (Hundley). History: James "Jimps" Scott married Violet B. Roddy and begot, inter alia, "Sade" Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie (my dad's paternal grandmother) and "Clementine" H. Tirzah Scott Trimble (Mrs.Trimble). Clementine's daughter Bettie Trimble married Mr. Hundley and produced "Beau" or "Boss" Hundley, and Brian Hundley, both sons living in Yorkville.
was Margaret Allmon Hassell of the Yorkville community. I think Rada Headden was a 1st cousin to my mother mother Notie
Headden Cope in that Notie's father was Winfield Scott Headden and
Rada's father was ____ Headden. ____________________________________________________________________________
Of interest to the early Churchton (Dyer County, Tenn.) community were the family of George Washington Smith and wife Cornelia DAVIE Smith. (I suspect he was of the age to fight in the Civil War but do not know whether he did.) "Old" Mr. & Mrs. Smith lived on a farm roughly equidistant from, and close to on the back-roads, the McCorkle Cemetery and the Mt. Carmel Methodist Church in eastern Dyer County. They are interred in Mt. Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery and were good Methodists, although they appear briefly on the very early records of the neighborhood Lemalsamac Christian Church, now called Lemalsamac Church of Christ. I cannot name all their children, who are long deceased now, but here's a try. One of the sons, the youngest I think, named Rich Smith, married Madge McCorkle, a daughter of Eddie McCorkle, who was the only child of Hiram R. A. McCorkle by HRA McCorkle's 2nd wife: Janette Menzies (McCorkle). [HRA McCorkle by his 1st wife née Margaret A. L. Cowan had several children as named elsewhere herein.] These Smith children are probably not in proper chronological order: Ambrose MARIE Smith. He was called Marie Smith. Marie Smith married, had a son, and as an adult lived in Louisiana. A fine deacon's chair at the Carmel Methodist Church, according to its commemorative inscription, was donated by A.M. Smith in honor of his mother--; Zula Smith Rice (last of Nashville). Zula had two sons, viz., George Marie Rice who was a newspaperman in Chattanooga, as was his wife, but had no children; and David Rice, an engineer who lived in Nashville but never married--End of that line;
George MUNCIE Smith,
who married Gladys Headden (Smith).
I called him "Uncle Muncie, George Scott Smith (no biological issue), "Baby Boy" Wilmere Headden Smith (3 children: Linda, Randy, & Robert Louis), and Edna Maxine Smith Stanfield (two sons, John L. S. Jr. & George Chester Stanfield). (Maxine died summer of 2007 living in Albuquerque, buried Newbern. For years before moving to Albuquerque, she had lived in Tucumcari, where she & husband managed a Holiday Inn motel.) George Scott Smith adopted his wife's grandson Jerry Smith, and Jerry after having one child, Charlotte Smith, died rather young. Baby Boy and Helen Legions Smith had three children, viz., Linda Smith, born 1949--sons Alan Kolwyck, adopted by Linda's husband, and Scott Kolwyck. Linda Smith became Linda Parnell. viz., Randy Smith, an engineer in D.C. who has not yet married, born circa 1951; and viz., Robert Louis Smith, b. 1953, who in 2007 died in the Churchton community of a heart attack aged 4 days short of being 54. Robert Louis Smith had one son named Chris Smith. Robert Louis is buried at Mt. Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery. --;
Mack Smith, who moved to, perhaps, Louisiana. He was a physician and had one child, Mattie Maxine Smith Sheeley--;
"Cap" Smith. This was not his real name. "Cap" Smith was at least at one time a captain in the U.S. military. [World War One?] He had one son--;
Homer Smith -- Homer taught school, at the end, perhaps, at Trimble in Dyer County. Homer had an only child, a son, who died rather young tragically in Michigan, but left 4 children. Homer married Vera (_____) Smith. Buried in Union City.
Leland Smith --lived in Newbern at the end, in the Newbern Hotel which he had purchased. --For some reason we never understood, in his old age Stanford Edw. Cashdollar (my brother-in-law Parker's father) bought the Newbern Hotel which was by then ramshackle.-- Leland Smith never married; his nephew Dr. OK Smith Jr. named a son after Leland, who recently became a medical doctor like his dad. At one time Leland and brother OK Smith owned a large grocery store in the Churchton community. Leland and my mother's father, Ira Mitchell Cope, used to take tours--excursions--on the train around the U.S. Sadly, liquor got the better of Leland toward the end of his life, but everybody seemed to love him nevertheless--; Frank Smith (moved to Memphis) married Alma Parker (Smith), who had a sister named Pearl Parker (or vice versa). Whichever Parker sister it was who married Frank, these two Parker sisters came down south with the Mengle or Mengel Farm near Trimble to live in Dyer County. Frank had no children-- ;
OK Smith -- m. Lady Ruth Herndon (Smith). Max Edwin Gregory tells me Miss Lady Ruth was a 1st cousin to Max's mother, Robyn JONES Gregory. & to Miss Lady Ruth's sister GEORGIA HERNDON who never married and lived in Nashville. Mr. OK & "Miss" Lady Ruth's children: Mary Evelyn Smith (Mrs. Dick) Reese of Gallatin in Sumner County (near Nashville); Rose Marie Smith Smith (Mrs. Dale Smith of Florida); and OK Smith Junior, M.D., of Union City/Martin. Mr. OK & Miss Lady Ruth built a nice house in 1939 on the Newbern-Yorkville Highway which went to Rose Marie upon their death but has stood empty since the last parent's death. Rose Marie lives in Fort White, Florida, near Gainesville. Rose Marie Smith Smith's children by husband Dale Smith are: Stephen Smith, who lives near Gainesville, Fla., Debbie Smith Grambling; and Lisa Smith Hayes, who lives near Tallahassee. I loved Mr OK, and adored Miss Lady Ruth. Tragically, they had lost a little child named Doris to the fireplace; tethered in a high chair she had somehow rocked and fallen into the fire before the frantic parents could rescue her. --At one time Mr. OK had four grocery stores: one in Mason Hall south of Yorkville; one in Yorkville run by Mr. Red Ledbetter to whom he eventually sold it; one in Trimble; and one in Churchton, where Irene Rose (Baker) (Mrs. Brian Booker Baker, later) long worked for him. At the end he owned one grocery, the one in Smitty City. I remember when he ran a contest asking the homefolks to name his new story; the entrant suggesting SMITTY CITY won, and justifiably so I thought. Not many people around these days remember when there was a Smitty City. --At his death Mr. OK had a good grocery store in "Smitty City" about a mile or 2 west of Lemalsamac church on the Newbern-Yorkville Highway. My grandmother Notie Headden Cope and I used to take in chickens to trade Mr. OK for groceries. Grandmother Notie Cope went to town to "trade" not to "shop." --
Rich Smith, who married Hiram R A McCorkle's granddaughter Madge McCorkle (Smith), a daughter of Eddie McCorkle. Rich & Madge had Suzy Smith (Mrs. Charley) Dunivant of Newbern (no issue) ; Helen Smith (Mrs. Norville Williams) (after divorce from Norvy Williams Helen became: Mrs. Joe _____. Joe was from Starkville, Mississippi, and had early radio stations there)-- Helen Smith had 4 children; and Rich & Madge Smith also produced a daughter Sarah Smith _____ of Memphis; and a son Max Smith. I think Max Smith made shrouds, and he removed from Newbern to somewhere in Louisiana. He had two sons. And that's some of what I know, or think I know, about the Cornelia Davie Smith / George Washington Smith Family. Caveat: Don't ever tell me anything without expecting me to remember it. |
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2009 Update: Photograph added of Union Grove School 1905:
UNION GROVE School, 1905. Churchton Community, eastern Dyer County, Tennessee. VERDANT PLAIN, my g-g-g grandmother Margaret Morrison McCorkle called her virgin community.
First Row: OK Smith; Maurice Gregory, grandson of TINA Margaret Latina McCorkle (Mrs. John T. Gregory) and father of Max Gregory and Anna Lois Gregory Kuykendall; Rich or Richard SMITH; Hubert Strawn McCorkle, son of Will & Una Pace McCorkle and grandson of John Edwin McCorkle & first wife Tennie Scott McCorkle; John LEXIE Gregory, who died around 16 years; Benton GRILLS; Eulen Moore?; Eugene FLATT.
Second Row: Bater ?Baxter? Shelby; Kerrah Taylor; ?????; Macie CROW; Mary Headden --is this Mary Glidewell?; Jennie Flatt; ?Mattie Creasy? ; Virgie Burkett? if so, a sister to Aunt Lily--Lilly Burkett who m. Irl Hendricks--didn't Miss Vergie have a daughter who m. a Medlin and had TEDDY MEDLIN of Caruthersville, Missouri? ; ? Mary Zarecor?; Maurine Towns? if so, sister of Lurline Towns Overall.
4. TOP ROW: Earnest Moore; Eva Fowlkes? ; Lillie Burket (Mrs. Irl Hendricks); Crowder--Grandville?
Ellroy or Ellery Crowder; Dutch Headden; Finis Scott (teacher); Mollie Flatt; Mary Flatt; Murry ZARECOR.
Third Row:
B Alexander or OLIVER? ; Leland Smith; Maury Adolphus Huie; Mat Flatt; Eunice Hall (?); Gladys Headden (later Mrs. George MUNCIE Smith), mother of Baby Boy Smith and George Scott Smith & Edna MAXINE Smith STANFIELD, and sister of Notie Headden Cope, my grandmother; Miss Cattie Morrow, teacher (later, Mrs. Will FLATT); Rada HEADDEN; Lurline Towns? (if so, later Lurline Towns OVERALL); Ethel Moore.
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Now to a bit about the Miller Family of the Churchton community:
Most of the following Miller Family Information, received with gratitude, comes from Vernon Miller (a son of Ollie Miller & Irvia London Miller). All my life the Millers have been pillars of the Churchton & Lemalsamac community.
1. Josiah Miller, b. Ireland, immigrated to South Carolina early in life.
[Can we check Charleston ship passenger lists circa 1730?]
2. (Captain) Charles Miller (Revolutionary War soldier), b. Chester District, South Carolina
3. James Reed Miller, b. October 6, 1806, Chester District, South Carolina
4. William M. Miller, b. August 15, 1840, Gibson County, Tennessee.
--From the 1840 date of birth, I speculate that this William M. Miller might have had a sister who was the Jennie E. Miller (Scott) who married James Allen Scott. J A Scott (born 1839), husband of JENNIE E. MILLER (Scott), was born in 1839 as a twin to my paternal great-grandmother Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie alias Mrs. Julius M. Huie). J A Scott removed to Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas, near Fort Worth. I think 3 of her children were BRUCE SCOTT, HOWARD SCOTT, & NANNIE SCOTT but the census of Johnson County, Texas, should correct me if I’m wrong.
5. Thomas Benjamin Miller (Tom) 11-13-1867—d. 1939; b. Gibson County, Tennessee.
This is the Mr. Tom Miller in whose pond my “Uncle Mutt” alias Maury Adolphus Huie, 1895-1973, was baptized.
6. Ollie Harvey Miller May 8,1891 –Oct.27,1951, b. Obion Co., Tenn.; m. Irvia Lee London.
7. Juanita -- Mrs. Lonnie Carrell
7. Demova --Demova Miller McKeel died 2009, lived in the Mason Hall area north of Yorkville.
I know Demova had at least one son, because when the Mason Hall School closed he came to school at Yorkville.
7. Ollie Bruce “BRUCE” --lives Newbern, has mechanic shop
7. Charles -- is dead now; Charles Miller moved to Henderson. He married a Miss Williams, a daughter of a one-time Lemalsamac Church of Christ preacher. Charles Miller worked up to owning a bank in Henderson, Tenn.
7. Vernon Miller. Postmaster at Newbern.
7. FLORENCE ETTA FULTZ—“BUG”—lives in Newbern
7. Finis –m. Patricia Trimble, dau. of James Spence Trimble.
7. Edith Hassell. Twin to Edna.
7. Edna -- twin to Edith Miller Hassell. She died young of colon cancer but did marry not long before she died.
7. Billy -- Bill Miller.
7. Donald Rae Miller, b. Aug. 7, 1940 in Gibson County, Tenn. Wife: Linda Jo Tackett (Miller).
The mother of Don Rae Miller’s two sons is Claudia Paschall of Yorkville (née Hicks), born 1946 to Claude Hicks & Menthia TRIMBLE (Hicks). Menthia was sister to James Spence Trimble. Don’s two children are Mark Miller & Dean Miller. One son is married, the other single. The married son wed a daughter of Susie McDonald (Fessmire) & Gary Fessmire of Yorkville-Dyer.
7. Arthel Miller; female; lives in Newbern
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to Generation 5 above: Children of Gen. 5 “Tom”
Thomas B. Miller
&
Minnie Etta
Flatt
Miller:
6.
Ollie H. Miller
m.
Irvia Lee
London (Miller) --
At least12 children were born to this union, including Vernon Miller who for me kindly supplied much of this information to my good friend Linda Jo Tackett Miller (Mrs. Don Rae Miller; Don’s 2nd wife).
6. Bertha Miller Van Eaton m. Arthur Van Eaton
“Aut” Van Eaton was a first cousin to my father’s father, Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935, because Aut’s mother LaMyra Huie (Van Eaton) married Benj. Lafayette “Fate” Van Eaton. LaMyra Huie Van Eaton was born to Benjamin Huie & 1st wife Lavinia Cowan (Huie) of Rowan Co., N.C., as was Julius M. Huie (my great-grandfather), as was Aunt “Lyddie” Lydia Huie Pierce; as was Nan Huie alias Mrs. E.K. Tucker last of Fort Smith, Arkansas (interred city cemetery there). –That makes Maury Huie & my father Ewing Huie second cousins to the children of Bertha & Aut Van Eaton, and that also makes the late brothers Ed C. & Rev. Bill Huie (each died in the year 2001) and my sister Sophie Huie Cashdollar & me, third cousins to the grandchildren of Bertha & Aut Van Eaton.
6. Leonard M. Miller; m. Betty Edmiston (Miller)
7. 1 Harold Holmes Miller
7. 2 James Ralph Miller
7. 3 Anne Laura Miller
6. Melvin Miller, b. Nov. 21, 1901 – d. Feb. 11, 1924
6. Laura Bess Miller Parrish (Mrs. A. Scott Parrish). [from Yorkville to Dyersburg]
Laura had one son: Gen. 7. Allen Scott Parrish.
Scott Parrish was a brother to Roy Parrish (Roy m. Ruby Taylor, born to Wines O.Taylor & Ethel, is buried McCorkle Cemetery; no issue), and a brother to Leon Parrish, who m. Evelyn Moore (Parrish), who—Evelyn—was a sister to Joe Harris Moore, who m. Marian Flatt (Moore) and had 2 children, a young Moore son buried early in Arizona during World War II and an unmarried daughter Sallie Kathryn Moore who was killed by a drunken driver soon after graduation from Bethel College. – Scott, Roy, and Leon Parrish were all 3 sons of Ida SCOTT Parrish (later Ida Scott, as a widow, married Mr. Moore –Joe Harris Moore & Evelyn Moore’s father, a widower, of Churchton neighborhood. Ida Scott (Parrish) (Moore)’s father was Allen “Tobe” Scott, “Tobe” being a brother to my great-grandmother Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie (1839-1893). Young relatives called Sade Scott Huie’s husband Julius M. Huie, 1828-1911, “Uncle Huie.”
-- Ida Scott (the widow Parrish who later married Mr. Moore and took her boys to Mr. Moore’s household, which included Evelyn Moore & Joe Harris Moore, but not their little brother, whom Mr. Moore had farmed out elsewhere –was it with Minnie ) was a Scott granddaughter of “Jimps” James Scott—“Jimps” Scott was born about 1810 to James Scott, 1777-1953, & wife Sarah Dickey (Scott), 1777-1838; and “Jimps” Scott married as his 1st wife and mother of his children, as far as I know, Violet B. Roddy (Scott) who are interred in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery. –Leon Parrish removed to East Tennessee and married his step-sister Evelyn Moore, a full, biological sister to Joe Harris Moore late of Churchton.
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From: Vernon Miller
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Thomas Richman (Dutch) Miller married Anna Lou (Parker) Miller –
Their Children: They had (? two daughters and?) two sons:
Thomas Reuben Miller --he didn’t have children, did he?
James Melvin Miller -- he had one daughter who lives in Florida; is the daughter’s name Sara Frances Miller?
? 2 Daughters?
2009 Update: A little about the Miller Family of the Churchton community is at the end of this entry, also here at the beginning.
Now we go to a bit more about the Miller Family of Churchton community.
Census James Reed Miller, b. 6 Oct. 1806, Chester Co., SC; son: William Miller, Yorkville, Gibson Co., aged 38 at census; born in Indiana. Wife: Mary E., father born in Ky. and mother born in Indiana.
James Reed Miller [b. 1806] appears at Palestine, Obion County, Tennessee (north of Newbern & Trimble in Dyer Co., & near Obion in Obion Co.) aged 73 in the 1880 census. James Reed Miller's father was born in Ireland and his mother in South Carolina. Lived in 1880 with Nancy E. Malady, aged 30, and Jos. D. Maladay.
1850 Census shows M.E. Miller, aged 8, Dyer County, Tennessee; and a Matt Miller, aged 6; and:
Joseph Miller, 27; and M.C. Miller, 25; and male child L (T? I?) Miller, aged 2; and Jane Miller, aged 1; and E. Doyle, aged 12, female living in household. --?Could this one-year-old JANE Miller (born circa 1849) be the Jennie E. Miller who m. James Allen Scott, born in 1839 (a twin to Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie) and removed to Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas south of Fort Worth??
The 1850 Census also lists George Miller, aged 32, no wife; and two boys: Resin Miller, 5; and Solon or Solan Miller, 3.
Most of the following Miller Family Information, received with gratitude, comes from Vernon Miller (a son of Ollie Miller & Irvia London Miller). All my life the Millers have been pillars of the Churchton & Lemalsamac community.
Thanks also to our good family friend, Linda Jo Tackett Miller, a Flatt descendant through her mother's parents, Mr. Will & Mrs. Cattie Morrow Flatt:
1. Josiah Miller, b. Ireland, immigrated to South Carolina early in life.
[Can we check Charleston ship passenger lists circa 1730?]
2. (Captain) Charles Miller (Revolutionary War soldier), b. Chester District, South Carolina
3. James Reed Miller, b. October 6, 1806, Chester District, South Carolina
4. William M. Miller, b. August 15, 1840, Gibson County, Tennessee.
--From the 1840 date of birth, I speculate that this William M. Miller might have had a sister who was the Jennie E. Miller (Scott) who married James Allen Scott. J A Scott (born 1839), husband of JENNIE E. MILLER (Scott), was born in 1839 as a twin to my paternal great-grandmother Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie alias Mrs. Julius M. Huie). J A Scott removed to Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas, near Fort Worth. I think 3 of her children were BRUCE SCOTT, HOWARD SCOTT, & NANNIE SCOTT but the census of Johnson County, Texas, should correct me if I’m wrong.
5. Thomas Benjamin Miller (Tom) 11-13-1867—d. 1939; b. Gibson County, Tennessee.
This is the Mr. Tom Miller in whose pond my “Uncle Mutt” alias Maury Adolphus Huie, 1895-1973, was baptized.
6. Ollie Harvey Miller May 8,1891 –Oct.27,1951, b. Obion Co., Tenn.; m. Irvia Lee London.
7. Juanita -- Mrs. Lonnie Carrell
7. Demova --Demova Miller McKeel died 2009, lived in the Mason Hall area north of Yorkville.
I know Demova had at least one son, because when the Mason Hall School closed he came to school at Yorkville.
7. Ollie Bruce “BRUCE” --lives Newbern, has mechanic shop
7. Charles -- is dead now; Charles Miller moved to Henderson. He married a Miss Williams, a daughter of a one-time Lemalsamac Church of Christ preacher. Charles Miller worked up to owning a bank in Henderson, Tenn.
7. Vernon Miller. Postmaster at Newbern.
7. FLORENCE ETTA FULTZ—“BUG”—lives in Newbern
7. Finis –m. Patricia Trimble, dau. of James Spence Trimble.
7. Edith Hassell. Twin to Edna.
7. Edna -- twin to Edith Miller Hassell. She died young of colon cancer but did marry not long before she died.
7. Billy -- Bill Miller.
7. Donald Rae Miller, b. Aug. 7, 1940 in Gibson County, Tenn. Wife: Linda Jo Tackett (Miller).
The mother of Don Rae Miller’s two sons is Claudia Paschall of Yorkville (née Hicks), born 1946 to Claude Hicks & Menthia TRIMBLE (Hicks). Menthia was sister to James Spence Trimble. Don’s two children are Mark Miller & Dean Miller. One son is married, the other single. The married son wed a daughter of Susie McDonald (Fessmire) & Gary Fessmire of Yorkville-Dyer.
7. Arthel Miller; female; lives in Newbern
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Back to Generation 5 above: Children of Gen. 5 “Tom” Thomas B. Miller & Minnie Etta Flatt Miller:
6. Ollie H. Miller m. Irvia Lee London (Miller) --At least12 children were born to this union, including Vernon Miller who for me kindly supplied much of this information to my good friend Linda Jo Tackett Miller (Mrs. Don Rae Miller; Don’s 2nd wife).
6. Bertha Miller Van Eaton m. Arthur Van Eaton
“Aut” Van Eaton was a first cousin to my father’s father, Howard Anderson Huie, 1870-1935, because Aut’s mother LaMyra Huie (Van Eaton) married Benj. Lafayette “Fate” Van Eaton. LaMyra Huie Van Eaton was born to Benjamin Huie & 1st wife Lavinia Cowan (Huie) of Rowan Co., N.C., as was Julius M. Huie (my great-grandfather), as was Aunt “Lyddie” Lydia Huie Pierce; as was Nan Huie alias Mrs. E.K. Tucker last of Fort Smith, Arkansas (interred city cemetery there). –That makes Maury Huie & my father Ewing Huie second cousins to the children of Bertha & Aut Van Eaton, and that also makes the late brothers Ed C. & Rev. Bill Huie (each died in the year 2001) and my sister Sophie Huie Cashdollar & me, third cousins to the grandchildren of Bertha & Aut Van Eaton.
6. Leonard M. Miller; m. Betty Edmiston (Miller)
7. 1 Harold Holmes Miller
7. 2 James Ralph Miller
7. 3 Anne Laura Miller
6. Melvin Miller, b. Nov. 21, 1901 – d. Feb. 11, 1924
6. Laura Bess Miller Parrish (Mrs. A. Scott Parrish). [from Yorkville to Dyersburg]
Laura had one son: Gen. 7. Allen Scott Parrish.
Scott Parrish was a brother to Roy Parrish (Roy m. Ruby Taylor, born to Wines O.Taylor & Ethel, is buried McCorkle Cemetery; no issue), and a brother to Leon Parrish, who m. Evelyn Moore (Parrish), who—Evelyn—was a sister to Joe Harris Moore, who m. Marian Flatt (Moore) and had 2 children, a young Moore son buried early in Arizona during World War II and an unmarried daughter Sallie Kathryn Moore who was killed by a drunken driver soon after graduation from Bethel College. – Scott, Roy, and Leon Parrish were all 3 sons of Ida SCOTT Parrish (later Ida Scott, as a widow, married Mr. Moore –Joe Harris Moore & Evelyn Moore’s father, a widower, of Churchton neighborhood. Ida Scott (Parrish) (Moore)’s father was Allen “Tobe” Scott, “Tobe” being a brother to my great-grandmother Sarah Elizabeth Scott Huie (1839-1893). Young relatives called Sade Scott Huie’s husband Julius M. Huie, 1828-1911, “Uncle Huie.”
-- Ida Scott (the widow Parrish who later married Mr. Moore and took her boys to Mr. Moore’s household, which included Evelyn Moore & Joe Harris Moore, but not their little brother, whom Mr. Moore had farmed out elsewhere –was it with Minnie ) was a Scott granddaughter of “Jimps” James Scott—“Jimps” Scott was born about 1810 to James Scott, 1777-1953, & wife Sarah Dickey (Scott), 1777-1838; and “Jimps” Scott married as his 1st wife and mother of his children, as far as I know, Violet B. Roddy (Scott) who are interred in the old Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery. –Leon Parrish removed to East Tennessee and married his step-sister Evelyn Moore, a full, biological sister to Joe Harris Moore late of Churchton.
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From: Vernon Miller
Thomas Richman (Dutch) Miller married Anna Lou (Parker) Miller –
Their Children: They had (? two daughters and?) two sons:
Thomas Reuben Miller --he didn’t have children, did he?
James Melvin Miller -- he had one daughter who lives in Florida; is the daughter’s name Sara Frances Miller?
? 2 Daughters?