| Summary: | Journeys Through Jackson is the official journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. The journal began as a monthly publication in July 1991, was published bimonthly from 1994 to 2003, and continues today as a quarterly publication. The journal issues in this digital collection are presented as annual compilations. Journeys Through Jackson The Official Journal of the Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. Vol. XXX, No. II 2020 Vol. 2 JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. 2019 Officers Secretary. Treasurer. Librarian. IT. President Vice Presidents Office Manager Kenneth Nicholson Norma Bryson Clayton, Jean Hooper Scott Lynn Hotaling Michael Clayton George Frizzell Mary Buchanan Smith Kirk Stephens Journeys Through Jackson is the official publication of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. Members and non-members are invited to submit genealogical materials for publication, with the understanding that the editor reserves the right to edit these materials for genealogical content, clarity, or taste. The Society assumes no responsibility for errors of fact that may be contained in submissions, and except where noted, the opinions expressed are not those of the editor or of the Jackson County Genealogical Society. The Society accepts no advertising for this publication except for notices from other non-profit groups. The year 2020 will go down in history as a strange and unusual year. While socially distancing, we have been busy doing genealogical research. As we go forward into future issues of JTJ, the fruits of that research will begin to show up. We hope that everyone has been safe and taking care of themselves. Our office is now opened on limited basis, but feel free to come in and do some research. We are still working on the update for the Cemetery Book, if you would like to help with that, please get in touch with us. As always, if you have any pictures, stories, or research that you would like to share with us, please feel free to share that with us. From the Editor Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents 49 JCGS Photo Album 50-54 It's My Life, Part 2 55-62 1880 Jackson County Census Records 63-66 1955 & 1956 Jackson County Death Certificates 67-69 Family Bible Records 70 Outline Descendant Report for Frederick (Baumgarten) Bumgarner 71-74 Descendants of William Solomon Parker, Sr 75-78 Descendants of John Thomas Tatham 79-82 Lists of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board for Military Duty, 1917-1918 83-86 Index 87-88 Our office will tentatively reopen on Tuesday, June 9, with researchers permitted in by appointment only. This coincides with the Jackson County Library's planned reopening on Monday, June 8, also by appointment only. All those entering the county Library and the JCGS office/research library must wear masks. Library doors will be locked and a JCGS volunteer will meet researchers with appointments at the Library's main entrance and escort them into the JCGS office. Office capacity will also be reduced, so visiting group size will be limited to 2 people. To schedule appointments, call the JCGS office at 828-631-2646 starting at 10 a.m. on June 9. Due to ongoing concerns regarding Covid-19 and group gatherings, the Genealogical Society has cancelled its next two programs, which were scheduled for Thursday, June 11, and Thursday, July 9. The Society will continue to monitor conditions and announce a decision regarding its August program by Aug. 1. Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 JCGS Photo Album Here are some more great pictures from JCGS member, Mary Buchanan Smith. The gentleman to the left is the great grandfather of JCGS member, Mary Buchanan Smith, James (Jim) Coleman Cabe. He was bom 28 Nov 1863 and he died 19 Mar 1938. He was the son of Amos Cabe (18 Sep 1837 - 13 May 1909) and Mary Magdalene Green Deitz (13 Mar 1841 -7 Apr 1884) The lady to the right is Mary's great-grandmother. She is Barthana Elnora Barron. She was bom 23 Jan 1875 and she died 3 Aug 1939. She was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Barron (16 Sep 1850 - 18 Dec 1909) and Alora Clementine Ashe (9 May 1860 - 8 Sep 1939.) She and James married 19 Mar 1893 in Haywood County. They had the following children: Frank Allen (1895-1956); Mary Etta (1897-1992); James Edgar (1900-1979); Amos David (1903-1993); Fred Siler (1906-2005) and Robert E. Lee (1909- 1990). 50 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 JCGS Photo Album WK.:,; r- ^>' According to Mary in the picture above: James Coleman Cabe, with Amos on his lap; Frank in back; Ed; Fred on Elnora's lap; EInora; Maryetta; Maryetta is Mary's grandmother and Frank is Joe Deitz's grandfather. The picture to the left; Maryetta Cabe Buchanan with the youngest three children: Fred (Mary's Dad); Warren; and Clara. 51 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 JCGS Photo Album JCGS member, Larry Crawford, gifted us with the following photographs. They will also continue in future issues. He said that he had been looking into the photographs that had belonged to his mother and grandmother. Men singing, Larry says that the picture is from Washington State. He is not sure of who any of the people are, so if anyone knows, please pass that information on please. Bottom left: Monroe Blanton and Bell Farley Blanton. He was the oldest child of Wm Blanton's 13 children. Bottom right: Timber! No trees like that anymore. Larry does not know the location or any of the people. 52 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 Vol 2 JCGS Photo Album The picture above was given to Larry by George Robert Shuler, who said the people in the picture is his Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother. Mr. Shuler received the picture from Lois Fisher Henry, the daughter of Cordelia Shuler Fisher, the daughter of the people in the picture. Geoi^e W. Shuler (29 Apr 1883-23 Aug 1927) and Salinda "Lyndie" Brooks (14 Aug 1853-13 Jan 1932) The gentleman to the left was Larry's Great Uncle Robert, the brother to Larry's Grandmother. 53 Journeys Through Jackson 2 0 2 0 V o l . 2 JCGS Photo Album The ladies in the picture above left are also unknown to Larry. The picture above is of a cougar hunt. Fred Blanton is to the left. The group picture to the bottom is another mystery. If anyone knows who these people are, please be sure to let us know. 54 Journeys Through Jackson 2 0 2 0 V o L 2 This is My Life An Autobiography by Ralph Lindon Allen Edited by Robert Jordan Allen Part 2 So, we asked around about Niagara. A lady said there was no bus route to the fort. She also said she had no idea why we would be going out there. We wondered what we were getting into. We later found that the French had built the Fort way back years ago at the mouth of the Niagara River at Lake Ontario, which was now a tourist place to visit. Anyhow, I made a friend that day even though we had much rather had been back home. I used Milton's shaving kit and borrowed some underwear. We checked every bus that came in for my luggage. Then about 5 o'clock my luggage came in, and you talk about relief The city of Niagara Falls put us on a bus to transport us to Niagara. The bus fort to the Fort at dark and set us out at what we thought to be a bus stop. A Sergeant came and marched us to a building where we ate supper. Rushing, we loaded onto an old army bus and went down a long road into what the sergeant in charge called the boondocks. At the end of the road, we came to some barrack type buildings. Behind the gates we were told which building to sleep in. It was late and everyone was tired. We had not been told anything else and we went to bed expecting to be up early next morning. But no one called until later in the morning. We went to breakfast in a new mess hall and a short time later a Sergeant and Captain cane in and talked to us. We would be assigned to the l" missile battalion of Niagara, New York. We would be starting school in a few days. The first thing that needed to happen was to be cleared for top secret. About twenty-five of us passed those tests. The ones that didn't pass were sent to Fort Drum as infantry units. We were moved a ways down the road to another barracks building. This was a 3 Vi mile from the mess hall and classroom. For a long time, we marched or double timed to the mess hall and school. There were mounds all around this enclosed area and the grass was mowed once a week. We were eventually given a bus to make this trip to meals and school. This went on for sixteen weeks. We knew how to load missiles on launchers and run the fire control panels but we never saw a real missile until school was finished. We were taken to the mounds after and saw everything was underground. The air defense missiles system was operated out of the mountain at Colorado Springs, Colorado. The President of the United States of America was the only one who could give the orders to fire. Each battery also had atomic bombs loaded on large four-booster missiles. Our communications was tied into Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and all across Canada. This was called the D.E.W. Line, Distant Early Warning. Any aircraft that came into our system had to identify itself At this time we were in race with the USSR. They had threatened to come over the north pole and blow up our large plants from the Midwest to New England. It was our job to shoot any aircraft down when they entered our zone, that was off limits. Also, any shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway'. In 1966 the Russians started dismounting their threats to the USA. If they had tried this attack against us, we would have fired all the missiles and atomic weapons in our control. This would have been the atomic battle that everyone has read about. War had never before reached this point. If that happened, and we survived, we would have been put in as a ground force to protect the area around us. We had lots of good training. It was hard work. I was moved with our little group of men to C. Battery in Grand Island, New York, between Niagara Falls and Buffalo. It had a good defense system as there was water all around us, not a large population of people on the island and only two bridges at the time as access points. I went home on leave to be with Gail when Sheila was to be bom. On the trip I took a bus to Cleveland, Ohio then a Greyhound to Knoxville, Tennessee. In two rides I was in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. As always, I stayed around the bus station at night. Walt came and picked me up around 5 in the morning after I had called to Barkers Creek. We got to Barkers Creek about daybreak. Gail was fine. We visited around with the folks. My leave time was running out, the Red Cross made this call. I called back to home base at Grand Island, New York. I talked with my Captain and got my leave extended for a week. On the fifth day Gail went to the old Harris Hospital on Ridge Street. That night Sheila was bom and she was a fine baby girl. I had to leave early in the moming. Mont gave me a ride to the old Asheville Airport in Fletcher. I boarded a DC-4^ and off I went. We had stops along the way at Kingsport, Tennessee, Bluefield, ' A system of locks, canals and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as the westem end of Lake Superior. https;//em.wikipedia.or/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_Seaway ^ "ITie Douglas DC-4 is a four engine (Piston) propeller-driven airliner developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Military versions of the plane, the C-54 and R5D, served during World War II, in the Berlin Airlift and into the 1960's. From 1945, many civil airlines operated the DC-4 worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-4 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 West Virginia and Harrisburg, West Virginia. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania we changed to jet service to Buffalo, New York. From there we took a taxi to base. At the main gate a guard on duty advised me that I better check in with the Sergeant of the guard at the orderly room. I found out I had been AWOL for a week. I checked the work log and I was on guard duty from midnight to 6 am that night. I went to the barracks and got in uniform then went back to the main gate to stand guard. The next morning Captain Allen was one of the first to come in for work. Just as soon as he saw me he remembered talking to me at home, guess what, he had forgotten to extend my leave. That was taken care of first thing that morning. In fact, those seven days showed up on my last paycheck as leave time. Remember, our whole unit was about 35 men. Everyone knew each other. Looking back from another time I kindly look at our whole unit at C. Battery as a band of brothers working together. Time moved on. The next leave time came around. I was going home to Gail and Sheila. I hadn't seen Sheila up until this time. Milton MahafTey from Tucker, Georgia and Howard Mills from Kekut, Iowa were going on leave also and decided to drop me off in Sylva. Howard had a 55 Ford Fairlane. Off we went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. We got on Highway 1 to Bluefield to Knoxville to Sylva. I think they saw all of the mountains they wanted to see. Gail picked me up at the water fountain on main street with a bouncing baby girl. This was much better leave than the last one. Time went by and I left from Asheville on a long bus ride back to Grand Island, New York. My next trip was to Fort Bliss, Texas by charter plane and from there to McGregory Range way out in the desert. We stayed there for a while firing some missiles at drone planes flying over. We got some good Training there. With confidence, we could shoot down USSR military planes and intercontinental ballistic missiles that were pointed at us. Time moves on. We went back to Fort Bliss. Then back on a plane landing at Fort Worth, Texas. We had engine problems, so we changed to another plane and were back in the air to Niagara Falls Air Force base. A bus picked us up and took us on the Grand Island. We were on lO-minute standby a lot for weeks and were confined to the launch area. Then it went to every other week. The only recreation we had was a pool table. My paychecks got up to $35 a month the last months I was at C. Battery. If you owed the post exchange anything that was always paid, also laundry and haircuts. You were lucky if you had $ 15 left to last a month. The days passed slowly as our discharge day started drawing near. Thomas Pope from Wilson, North Carolina had asked me to ride with him on our way home. He had to wait a day on me before I could get cleared off the base. When I was all clear, we headed south to North Carolina. He set me off on US 64 just out of Raleigh, duffle bag and all. I got a ride to Lexington. This man I got a ride from dropped me off at the Erianger Cotton Mill where Gail and I had worked at one time. I always found it hard to travel at night. Edward was working second shift. It was just about time for him to get off work so I spent that night with him. Early on Sunday morning, he put me back on US 64 on the way to Mocksville. I had a bad trip to Hickory as drunks will pick up a soldier in uniform. I got lucky in Hickory and found a man going to Cullowhee. He gave me a good trip to Sylva. After the Army I was back home with Gail and Sheila. We rented Annie Buchanan's house on Sugar Fork, Greens Creek. We lived there for a little while. Eventually, Annie wanted her house back, so we moved to Richard Hall's house on up the creek. Gail and I were both working. One of us took Sheila every morning to Mon and Dad's on the head of Brashey Fork and picked her up in the evening. I was working with Daddy and Earlye Buchanan on Balsam cutting timber. Gail was working in the sewing plant. An old Army buddy of mine, Thomas Pope, came visiting one time at Richard's place. The next move we made was to the Mill House on Barker's Creek. There was a lot of cleaning up around the Mill House. After we got moved in, I went to work with Jack's crew picking road banks so that grass could grow. We also cleaned steep banks. I think the pay was 90 cent an hour. The hardest bank I worked on was just below the Fontana Dam on NC 28 to Dills Gap at the Tennessee line. One man had to hold the rope so the other could go down the steep banks while holding on. Hampton Johnson and myself worked together on this job. Jack would pick us up around the time we should have been to Bryson City. Then we would see how fast we could get to Dillsboro at 7 o'clock. We made the run to Topton, out to Robbinsville, to Andrews and Murphy and to the Tennessee line. Then we would go back to Murphy to Peachtree to Hayesville to Franklin. Then down 441 to the Georgia line and back 441 to Dillsboro by quitting time. We also cut the grass on traffic islands and at the Welcome to North Carolina at the Tennessee line. We also did the Georgia line on 441, all for $7.20 a day. The grass started looking greener down the Florida way. I had met Bill Ferguson on one of his vacation trips to a place on Pee Wee Branch that he owned. He was going to see if he might hire me and train me as a diesel mechanic when he got back to South Bay, Florida. Some people told me that I had a good job and Gail was working, we should have anything we wanted. I had got a raise and was working 54 hours a week for $54. So I got my things together, left Gail, Sheila and my Plymouth car. I took the 55 Olds two door hardtop. I left around Sunday and turned south on 441 in route to South Bay, Florida. I ran into a bad storm in north Georgia and drove in it until I got to Fargo, Georgia. 56 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 I stopped to buy gas and dozed off while the attendant pumped gas. He advised me to pull over and sleep for a while. That station was in a big swamp. The station attendant said it was a long way to Lake City, Florida. With the windows down the mosquitos swarmed inside the car. So, I got back behind the wheel and headed South. There were only two roads to Belle Glade and 441 South was one of them. I arrived around 3 o'clock. I was around 23 hours getting to South Bay. Bill would soon be home from work. So, I was planning on finding a place to live. Bill and his wife Cathy and Billy lived in a house. It was small, but I stayed with them a few days to see what we could find for work out at Okeeianta Farm. The next day I road to Okeeianta with Bill. We spent most of the day riding around the farm. Bill was the tractor shop superintendent. He had hired some younger boys just about the same time 1 had called him. Roger Walker was one of those just out of school who would later be my friend and neighbor. Some others, such as welders and mechanics were in school. A new President for the company was away someplace as owner with 80% of everything on Okeeianta Properties. Land had been purchased, and they were buying new equipment. They were building a sugar mill to twice the size it was. Cane had only been hauled to the mill by tractor and cane wagons up until this time. Bill had checked around to see where I might fit in the best. We were at Mrs. Veardy's restaurant eating lunch. The field superintendent came to lunch and sat down with Bill and me. He had just moved from Indian River Country working at a sugar mill in Fellsmere, Florida. Bill told him I had come down from North Carolina to try to find work. He told him that we were friends and he introduced me to Mr. Wilber Day. Bill got a call to come to the shop, so he left me with Wilber. This started a friendship that went on for over 11 years. He and I looked over some new construction at the sugar mill. The dump pit had been finished by none of the approach roads or landscaping had been done. Plans were to start transporting sugar cane from ramps in the fields by truck and trailer to the dump pit that fed the sugar mill. Bill and his family went on vacation to the mountains of North Carolina. I stayed at their place for a month. I was working at the cane dump with an old D7 Cat Dozer. Got this in good shape. Wilber came around every hour or so. I was driving my car to work at this time. One day he came by and said he found me a truck to drive back and forth to work and we had some roads to build. We also had loading ramps to put up. A crew was clearing land south of the railroad on 17, four miles inside the main farm property. Bill and his family were coming home that weekend. I had found another friend. Woody O'Neal. Was one of the field foremen and he had just moved from Fellsmere. I told him I was needing a place to rent. He and his family were living at Willits apartments. One came open next to where he lived so I rented it. I got with Wilber and told him that I needed to go back the North Carolina and bring my family down. Bill had got back by then and I borrowed a trailer from him. I put a trailer hitch on the car to pull it. Headed up the road north. I took US 27 to Valoosa, GA. I checked at a station for road info and found that Interstate 75 was under construction. Some people were driving it though so off I went. I drove on gravel off and on all night. 1 arrived at Warner Robbins and cut across Macon to 441. I made it home to pick up Gail, Sheila and some items that we would need in South Bay. We left the Mill House on Barkers Creek to 441 south bound again. Darkness caught us in the Okefenokee Swamp. We were just north of Fargo, GA. We stopped at the only little motel in Fargo. We made sandwiches and went to bed. We were at the bank of the Swanee River. Every bug in the swamp was living around that motel. I guess you might say we rested for a while. Early that morning we took 441 to Wildwood, Florida. We hit US 27 south bound. At that time state road 80 ran together to South Bay with US 27. It was a two-lane road from Lake Harbor to South Bay. It was lined with Australian Pines on both sides. This was the worst road in the state of Florida. I think Gail and I thought of going back home but we went on to South Bay and Willits apartments. This was around the end of August. There was no air conditioning. It was hot inside and out. I guess we didn't have a fan at that time. Monday morning, off to work I go. Back on the old D7 pushing rocks to flatten them to make a two-lane road. The good building material was always on the very top of the rock pile. I talked to the supervisor. This was when I met Earnest Tillman, a good friend for years. He got his dragline operators to put the good road building material on the outside of the rock pile. This helped a lot. Working on the Miami Canal It was four miles to the Miami Canal. Wilber came by one day and said a new D6 would be in that week. Also, a number 14 Cat grader, it turned out to be a new one. Road building was getting better. This was around the time I met my old fishing buddy, Mr. Bill Waters. A finend also from Fellsmere. So, Bill ran the grader and I ran the D6 dozer. We keep working. Wilbur came by one day and advised me that Bill was going to start working with the sugar cane. 1 had been training me a dozer operator for some time by the name of Willie Kenarick. A long, tall and humble person. I asked him one day at lunch how many children he had. He thought for a while and he said, Mr. Lindon, the last time I counted there was 14 heads. He told me he lived in an old labor camp building about halfway from South Bay to Belle Glase. I said. Slim, you make me a good dozer operator and you can move out of that old labor camp. Willie B. Grantlin was running the other old dozer. These two men worked for me for 10 years. Mr. Waters started Journeys Through Jackson 2020 Vol 2 with the cane work. I started running the new grader and did for some time. I icept the roads graded at Lake Harbor, Knight farm and Tennant farm. Plus, ail the main farm roads. Later on, the company purchased a large farm at Canal Point. 1 had to work roads on it also. Later, I went back to south of the railroad on a new road project. Wilbur and I stayed pretty close, one day he said the commanding officer was in the process of a land purchase across the Miami Canal, all the way to the Henry County line. Gail and Shelia was doing ok. Gail went to a laundry to wash clothes in Belle Glade one day. When she started back to South Bay, she came to state road 80 and instead of making a right turn, she kept going on 80 to West Palm Beach and was lost for a bit. Cane harvest got started on time that year. We all jumped in to help. This was a 24-hour 7 day a week job. Everyone in the field operation worked 12 hours or more a day. I was at what we called the sand cut farm near canal point. Wilbur came by and said I was working too long hours. He said I was making more than the owner of the company. He said Mr. Rubio was putting me on a monthly salary with a vehicle and insurance. I used to kid with Wilbur. When I was on the motor grader it rained every day starting around 2 o'clock. These thunderstorms came out of the Everglades. I mean some gully washers. If Bill Waters, Boss or Wilbur was near one of them they would come by to pick me up. Sometimes it was later on in the day. I told Wilbur one day that it had rained very little after I went on salary. Time moved on all the crop was on time to get ready to cross the Miami Canal. We started clearing land, building roads, dikes, pumping stations and digging field ditches. We had been talking about new draglines and drill rig for some time. They were on order. Wilbur asked me if I would take off for vacation an get back by the time the new equipment would be in. So off Gail, Sheila and I went to NC for four weeks. This was a fast time for us, my brother Jimmy was out of high school. He was working at Dayco in Hazelwood. He had an accident coming from work one night and had gotten hurt, but he was doing ok. He was looking for a job so he loaded up in his Oldsmobile and followed us to South Bay. We moved from Willits Apartment to the back of City Hall on Canal Street. This was the North New River Canal. It took water fi-om Lake Okeechobee to Fort Lauderdale for city use. Back to work. Jimmy went to work with Earnest Tillman. He was working as a service man on an old P and H Dragline. He stayed wi^ Gail, Sheila and I. He went back to Sylva, and not long after that me, married Kay Estes. We were digging canals in the West area and putting in a large pumping station. We hired Rupert (Speedy) Young to run a new drill rig. He too was from Fellsmere. He worked with me for years. He was a hard-working man. When he sat down in the operator's seat unless something broke or he was changing drill bits, he was working. He would stop for lunch, build a fire and get some oil hot to quick fi^ gator tenderloin or softshell turtle fresh out of the water. I picked out three offshore laborers for powder and prima cord men. They too worked with me for years. Oswald Blake was the boss over that crew. He and Speedy got along most of the time. If I had just a little of what Oklanta spent on explosives or primer cord on that job, I would have been rich. I think we used a tractor load every few days. There is a place on the main canal if I recall right, about 2 miles south of the pump station on the left side. We dug a stretch of canal there where we found lots of round stones. They looked just like old cannon balls. Palm Beach Junior College came and got some of them, they said that when the ocean was there the waves rolled them back and forth until they were perfectly round. I thought I might go back sometime and pick some up if we had work to do down South. Along about this time I hired Marvin Davis who had a 15 B Dragline, he started digging field ditches. He worked for me all over the area. If something broke on one of the 5 IBs Marvin Would walk to the machine. A man could not lift anything on those machines. This land was on seven feet above sea level. This was a bigtime work going on. We excavated the material for the loading ramps every mile apart. Some, we drove the still with a pile driver. All we needed was lumber to build the sides and 6-inch pipe for cross over lines. Me, Woody O'Neal and Earnest Tillman purchased a half track a man in Clewiston had built. It was built out of a one-ton truck with a pump head attached to the rear end, which raised it above the water and mud. The drive shaft went to a four speed Standard transmission then to automatic Ford transmission then to a Ford Thunderbird transmission. Working and Hunting All the area West of Miami Canal was wild land. There were deer everywhere. We would go out to hunt and be back in before 11 AM. Everyone would kill whatever sized deer he wanted. The Sheriff of Palm Beach was a good cook. He would come out to Okeelanta, skin and dress the deer then come back and cook it. We had lots of quail and doves too. Everyone came to eat. At that time, the area that we were developing was the best hunting around. Of course, we had to clear out the gator ponds and moccasin snakes, they were everywhere. Me and Jimmy, later on, built another half track to hunt off of. The drive line was a Cadillac engine and the transmission was a four speed GM hooked to a two speed rear end. The tracks were two long steel tracks with aircraft tires on the front end. This thing would run up to 42 MPH. I kept this for years. We hunted different areas all the time we were in Florida. Woody 58 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 Vol 2 O'Neal had purchased a fiill track weasel type that would go in water to the top of the tracks. We also hunted from this. My job went pretty well. We went South from Bloomberg Canal for three and a half miles. There we turned left and went East to the Miami Canal. Speedy Young and I sounded about a mile so we could see how hard the rock ledge was. It was running about the same in this stretch, so we estimated the cost for this four miles of canal. I was asked at a meeting how long it would take to finish this stretch. As a guess, I told them around 2 '/j months at 24 hours a day but we ran into some gray granite type of rock just a little beyond where we had sounded. It was 10 feet thick. One year later, we got the pump station site on the Miami Canal. The cost of dynamite, five point diamond tipped drill bits, labor and fuel for the drill and dragline was probably tripled. Where we put the pumps was just off federal property. Under control of the South Florida flood control people. We had new bosses every day. Jimmy had gone back to North Carolina and married Kay Estes. He was looking for work. He moved back to Florida and rented a house from Charlie Crochfield near the South Bay city park. Gail and I moved to the Schelector Farm a ways South down US 27. Wilbur had talked the company into setting up a trailer. We moved in this. It was near the Everglades and you could get. We lived with all kind of game around us. Jimmy's wife, Kay, got herself a bus ticket and went back home. Jimmy went to North Carolina and brought her back to Florida. That summer when me and Gail and Sheila was in North Carolina on vacation, Kay's mother came back to Florida with us about the time Rickey was bom. Gail, Sheila and I had moved back to NW 7 Avenue. Woody O'Neal had purchased a duplex. The company rented the South apartment and we rented the other one. We were living there when Kent was bom. Granmaw Brooks came and stayed with us for a while. Kent was bom at Belle Glade General, a fine young boy. We lived at Woody's apartment for a long time. Later we purchased the Jones House across the street. Jimmy and Kay were living in a trailer park just off US 27 south. Mom and Daddy moved down and lived with Jimmy and Kay for sometime. Mr. Kritchfield was working at the new water plant out near the Rim Canal. Daddy got on and worked with the building water treatment plant. Me and Jimmy took Dad fishing several times. We went with Bill Waters at night to Rim Canal to crappy fish. We caught a boat load of fish. Me and Jimmy had replaced the Ford hunting buggy around this time starting with a V* ton truck frame. It went to a front two speed back end drive shaft to V* ton four speed shaft to a Cadillac auto transmission power unit. It was a 55 Cadillac motor with a large block and two live idlers. It had steel track aircraft tires on the front. This thing's top speed was around 42 MPH. We cooled the transmission by running lines to a large air conditioner cooling unit. Also, we had a unit hooked to the cooling system to keep the engine cool. One aftemoon, me, Jimmy, Foster Jones and Daddy went hunting. Me or Jimmy killed one. On our way back, a four-point got up in front of us. I was driving and Jimmy had put his gun in the holder. Daddy took one shot at the deer and it went down, but then it got back up. Foster was on my right and Daddy was on my left. I looked over at Foster, he was trying to load a pack of rolaids in his shotgun. Daddy didn't rack another shell in his gun. We were mnning about 35 MPH in rough country. No one was shooting. I finally ran the deer down with the half truck. This was the best hunting trip I have been on. I guess I should write a book on it. While hunting was open and we had a chance to go, Roger Walker, was wanting to go sometime. So, when the time came, we loaded up the old frog. We were going to hunt East of the Miami Canal. We loaded up coolers, gas, oil and everything we needed for the day. Roger loaded up water. In the 1940s the US Army had used some of this area as a bombing range. There were lots of holes. We found all of this area to be a hard place to hunt. Around 11 am that morning, I was going around a hole. I came to a sudden stop, the front idler axle had jumped across an old stump. All I could move was about two feet each way. Around noon we stripped a pinion gear on the back end. It was a bad breakdown. I went to get the ice chest and it was gone. Roger had not tied it to the frame. He had once said to me that if anything bad was going to happen it would happen when he was along. It did. We had no water and no food. We had gas and water for the half-track but it was broken down. It was seven miles to the New River Canal and US 27 and swamp all the way. Roger wanted to start walking East to 27. I told him there was no way we would make it. I told him Woody O'Neal would check to see if we had come in. That would be after sunset sometime, so we sat down to wait. There were seven hours 'til dark. The Everglades were a sea of grass and water, wildlife ponds where gators lived and water snakes crawled. There were birds of all kinds and then there was me and Roger. Time passed. We got what little wood we found nearby. Sunset came and the birds starting making sounds all around us. Snakes started moving around for this time too. I found a bucket and pan in a box on the back of the rig. Getting ready for the night I put gas in these containers. We moved up to the top of the halftrack. I started looking North after a while. Around 11 pm we saw an aircraft circling, but it was still a long way off. We started wetting the wood pile with gas. After a few gallons, the plane tumed our way. It was the company's twin engine from Fellsmere. It was making a long approach with landing lights on, making sure we were ok. A long night set in. The seats on the top weren't the best to sit in. All we knew was that someone would come get us. We had no water and no food. We waited till 4 am arrangements had been done by our own company. Kennet Warren owned a full track that could go Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 on any kind of land or water. Roger and I loaded up and just about daylight we pulled up at the levy at the Miami Canal. We had spent approximately 18 hours in the Everglades. After that a drink of water and a bite of food sure tastes good. Woody O'Neal owned a full track, so we went to the halftrack, hooked on, and pulled it to the Miami Canal levy. Later, me and Jimmy went hunting some with the Batista' crew. At 20 Miles Bend near West Palm Beach. Batista had been the president in Cuba when Castro took over and was training some troops in the Everglades. We had finished work at the old South Florida property that the company had purchased East of US 27. We moved back to the West area to more wild land to develop one dragline near Terrytown, west of US 27. Wilbur Day was in a hospital in Miami. Things wasn't the same on the jobs 1 was doing. Our new field superintendent was out of Cuba. My first run in with Joe Reevis was on this job west of US 27. He was wanting someone to teach him his new job. I had a 5 IB Dragline off the matts. When he came by, he advised me that we would never get it back on the matts. 1 started to get a hold of him. He ran, after falling in a mudhole. This was the only time 1 ever saw him dirty. I had one 51B in route to near the Henry County line. A 51 B will only travel a little over a mile in an hour. Things just weren't working out, so I went and talked to Mr. Rubio, the head man in charge. I advised him that Gail and I were moving back to North Carolina as soon as we could get someone to take over our house payments. After the house bill sold, we loaded up a U-haul with all that we could get on it. Move to North Carolina On the road again in route to North Carolina. We found a house on Buff Creek at the end of the pavement. It was Lester Sutton's place. We moved in. Sheila and Kent were in school. I started looking around for work. I got an offer fi-om people in Tennessee building a dam for the electric corp. Just a few days later, people started protesting about a snail darter that was found in that area and the job was stopped. I was helping Gail and Dad finish covering a porch he had built. While we were working a nail ricocheted off the hammer I was using and went straight into my left eye, taking it out. This was the start of weeks of recovery. I had the loss of sight and I was hurting fi-om a bad back injury in Florida. This went on for several weeks. I had lots of infections, one to another. After I recovered, I picked up an old Chevy car, a 57 model. Asheville Contractors were building the Sylva bypass. I stopped and talked with Dock Ledbetter and got a job running equipment the next morning in the Monteith Branch area. I was pushing dirt and loading backfill to finish grade. Several men had told me no one got along with Ledbetter. He came by several times and we got to talking. He put me on just about all the equipment including the dragline. He wanted to put culverts at Allen Branch with it. I got on and started it up. The first thing I found was that it had no digging dogs to lock in to keep it from rolling when the buckets was used. You had to twist it around sideways and then dump the bucket fast and pull in some dirt to keep it from rolling off. I got the drain and culverts in. 1 flagged Dock down and told him someone was going to get hurt on the dragline if he didn't fix it. It was moved to a shop in Asheville. 1 had taken the D8 Cat to Grindstaff Cove to work and Dock came by and asked me to go back to Monteith Branch. He needed some dirt pushed. Crossing Allen Branch road, it was steep getting back upon the new road. Dock had parked his truck on the right side where we ran the pans and other equipment. The blade on the D8 was so big that by the time I saw his truck, it was stuck on the end of the blade. Pan operators and graders and myself saw Dock running and we all got off our equipment. The grader man told Dock not to say a word. He had been in the way all day. The next morning Dock came to work with a new Chevy truck. We were working on the ramp going and coming to the new bypass. A strip of flint about 6 to 8 feet wide ran all the way across that part of the road east to west. We worked two or three days on it. Rippers could only break small parts off. He sent for the Cat pans self-loaders. I pushed them all with the D8 until we just about tore everything up. Dock was standing up in the road cursing and screaming. We all asked for our checks. This was the last work I did for Asheville Contractors. When I went to work $3.75 per hour, with a promise of a .25 raise. It never came. I was looking for work again. Holmes Allison sent word to me to check with the sheriff, Fred Holcombe. When I talked with him, he asked me to come to the office the next morning. He and I went to Mrs. Henson's office at the old Courthouse. She did the swearing in and then the pay was to be $454.00 a year. I was to buy my own clothing and furnish my own car. Fred gave me a badge and a model 10 Smith and Wesson that day. This was one job I never thought of in my life. Jobs were hard to find, pay was very little. One dollar a day in the military. I had worked in the ' Fulgencio Batista (January 16, 1901 - August 6, 1973) was elected President of Cuba, from 1940 to 1944 and the US backed authoritarian ruler from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown during the Cuban Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista 60 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 Vol 2 Shuler cove for $75.00 a month and gotten all the yellow com meal I could use. I had the promise of four dollars a day cutting timber and another 10 cents a gallon to pick wild strawberries. Sawmill work promise was four dollars a day, but lots of weeks we got 10 and sometimes none. The sheriff dept was Sheriff, Fred Holcombe. The Chief Deputy was Harold McMahan. The others were Chief Ret. Ben Cabe, Jailer, Pete Sorrells, Road Patrolmen; Lee Roy Clawson, myself, Tom Moss in Glenville, Lee Roy Crow in Cashiers, Dan Teaster, Special. I started as dispatch and jailer. I purchased my first patrol car from McMahan. I started night shift patrol. Clawson was helping on weekends. We served papers and warrants as they came in. We had a murder case on Caney Fork, the Buchanan Case. Another body was found, (Barnwell) just north of Cabbage Curve on Glenville mountain. Hyatt and Green case, one on Shovel Creek, I made lots of trips to the Broughton Hospital. I worked lock up in Salisbury. Dorothy Dix and Central Prison SWT started teaching law enforcement classes. This was another job. One class at a time to get certified by the state. End of writing Notes fi'om Robert Jordan Allen My Paw died on October 2,2017.1 was working at Southwestern Commimity College in Sylva, NC on the custodial crew at the time and my phone rang at 5:17 pm that evening. I knew what the call was before I even took my phone out of my pocket. Paw had been diagnosed with Leukemia only a few months before and it took him quickly. He was one of the greatest and hardest working men I have ever had the pleasure to know and I was so fortunate to have him live into my 30"" year. Paw was a constant in my life. He was someone I knew I could call or stop by and visit anytime. I spent many hours with him on his fi-ont porch, but it will never have been enough. I miss him terribly. Time may heal all wounds, but it also takes the memories from us. I'm going to try to record some of those memories here. My grandparents were already settled on Barkers Creek before I was bom, so many of my memories are there. One of the earliest memories I can recall was during 1993. We had a blizzard in Jackson County that year, as anyone who is old enough to remember it will be happy to tell you. My Dad and I were living in the apartment building beside where Nationwide Insurance in downtown was at the time. I remember we had to leave because snow had knocked out the power in downtown. Paw had heaters though and so we packed up and headed out the door only to fall sown the flight of stairs that had iced over leaving our second floor apartment. We did make it to Barkers Creek and we stayed there for some time. I don't recall how long, but I know I had a great time playing in the snow and then sitting in front of the heaters in Paw's living room. Paw used to let me get away with anything at his house. One of the earlier gifts that he gave me as a young child was a Red Ryder BB gun. We used to sit on his porch and he would let me shoot all the glass out of his bird feeders that he always had in the trees around his property. He loved watching birds and I feel so bad about doing this now that I'm an adult, but he genuinely didn't seem to care and would even congratulate me on being a good shot with the gun. His only rule was that I had to put it down when a car would pass on the other side of the creek. Paw used to occasionally pick me and my siblings up from school in the afternoons. I remember one time we were headed back up Barkers Creek, my family lived right above Paw's property at the time, and there was a rattlesnake in the road. I was the only person riding with him that day and there wasn't anyone on the road. Paw ran over that snake about 10 times. Stopping and reversing and going forward again before jumping out of his truck and grabbing a shovel from the bed. He got back in the tmck a moment later and handed me the rattle off that snake. I'm not sure whatever happened to that rattle, but I carried it around with me for a long time. When Paw was sick there towards the end of his life., I remember going to the hospital to see him in Asheville. He was in the cancer center at Mission Hospital for some tests. Even then, he was joking around with the nurses that were working on him. He knew how uncomfortable everyone was in the room. One of the nurses was doing some tests and she was shining a light in both his eyes to check his pupils, I guess. He made a remark about how he was having trouble seeing out of the eye he had an artificial eye in. Everyone got a good laugh out of that. Speaking of that eye, when I was a kid, we were down at Mamaw and Paw's house one day and my sister Kaleigh, who was probably 4 or 5 at the time, asked Paw if he could take out his false teeth. She loved that. But, he offered something better and told her to come close to him. He then proceeded to pop his artificial eye out and she was terrified and took off screaming. Paw used to help me work on my vehicles whenever something would tear up on them. Most of the time his solutions were good, quick fixes that would most likely hold up for a fair amount of time. I had a tan colored Jeep Cherokee that I drove for a long time. It was my first car and we got it from my Aunt Dot for $500 and painting her house. I loved that Jeep and he spent a lot of time working on it with me. One time he wanted to just tear out the ceiling lining because it was starting to hang down in a few places. I talked him out of that one, but Lord, that engine had so much Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 duct tape and zip ties holding things together, by the time I traded it in for my next car, I'm surprised AlUson's car dealership took it at all. The only time I ever went deer hunting was with Paw. We went to some property that I think he owned or rented for a while down in Georgia. I don't remember where it wss. Paw gave me a Remington .22 rifle, that I still have, for that trip. There were two other people that went with us, who met us down there, but I don't recall who they were. We left super early that first morning so that we could get down to Georgia at a decent time. We did stop at McDonalds to eat breakfast. (Paw used to always order a meal that comes with two cheeseburgers and he would eat one and give the other to whatever dog he had at the time.) I remember driving down into the backcountry in Georgia and we saw a couple of wild boars on our way into the hunting grounds. We stayed in a shack at least one night there and that's the first time I remember eating com beef hash. I still like to get a can every now and then. It always reminds me of Paw. We didn't see a single deer on that hunting trip. 1 liked the way Paw bated for them though. He brought a bunch of cans of almost empty peanut butter and would cut them in half while we were walking and just toss them on the ground. We saw a lot of tracks for deer at least. One of my favorite memories of him is sitting and eating Oranges together while we leaned against a fallen tree. Paw always kept a knife in his pocket and the thing I saw him cut the most with it was fruit to eat. Looking at photo albums at Paw's house after he's been gone for two years, makes me so sad and yet Paw still made me laugh. I was trying to find photos of people to ad to some family tree stuff I'm building and Paw didn't label one person's name in those photo albums. But you know who he wrote the names down for? His dogs! Left to right: Harold McMahan; Mary Clawson Cook; Lyndon Allen; Ray "Frog" Lewis; Mark Holcombe; Ricky Bryson; Kim Hooper; Davis Woodard. All members of the Sylva Police Department. 62 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 1880 Jackson County Census Records ED: We continue in this issue with the Canada Township. Abstracted in 2020 by Sanji Talley Watson. The records were abstracted as written. Enumerator had problems with reporting the number of the houses and families. Some entries were unreadable. To read: dwelling number; house number; name; age; race; relation to head of household; job; person bom; father bom; mother bom. Woodruff, Laurance 8 W - Bound Boy NC NC NC 24-25 Wood, James C. 24 W - Carpenter NC NC NC Signora 17 W - Wife - Keeping house (( it (( 24-26 Wood, Henry A. 25 W - Farmer NC NC NC Rebecca S. 20 W - Wife - Keeping house (i (( James M. 2 W-Son «4 (4 ii Violet J. 11/12 W - Daughter (« (( 25-27 Chastain, John 30 W - Farmer GA GATN Mary A. 35 W - Wife - Keeping house NC NC NC William 17 W - Son - Working on farm NC GA NC Roberson 16 W - Son - Work on farm (( (« Rufus S. 14 W - Son - Work on farm (t i( Nelson G. 12 W - Son - Work on farm 44 44 44 David A. 10 W-Son 44 44 44 James T. 8 W-Son 44 44 44 Tolvan T. 6 W-Son 44 44 44 John B. 4 W-Son 44 44 44 26-28 Hawkins, Brit (?) 52 W - Farmer NC NC NC Darcus 37 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Theodocia 12 W - Daughter - Ast. Keeping house 44 44 44 Julia A. 8 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Elihue 6 W-Son 44 44 44 Fanny 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 27-29 Bird, Esther 35 W - Keeping house NC NC NC Carson, Sintha 63 W - Sister - Ast. Housekeeper 44 44 44 Bird, William 20 W - Working on farm 44 44 44 28-30 Dills, Edison 30 W - Farmer NC NC NC Susanna 26 W - Keeping house 44 44 44 Mathis, William 10 W - Step-son 44 44 44 29-31 Mathis, David 33 W - Farmer NC GA ALA. Mary J. 30 W - Wife - Keeping house GA NC NC Charlottie 10 W - Daughter NC NC GA Manervy B. 7 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Allace V. 6 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Altha L. 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Rutherford 2 W-Son 44 44 44 30-32 Grant, Elvira 24 W - Keeping house GA NC GA William 9 W-Son GA SC GA John M. 7 W-Son (4 44 44 Edward 3 W-Son 44 44 44 Raut 1 W-Son NC NC GA 30-33 Brown, Thomas 40 W - Farmer NC NC NC 31-34 Huffman, Elias 54 W - Farmer NC NC NC Sarah 49 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 James W. 18 W-Son 44 44 44 Harra M. 17 W - Son - Working on farm 44 44 44 John H. 15 W - Son ~ Work on farm 44 44 44 63 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 Kiley 9 W - Daughter (( ii (( Levy R. 9 W-Son (« (( «« 32-35 Brown, Levy 53 W - Doctor NC NC NC Sousan 28 W - Wife - Keeping house (( Julius 19 W - Son - Working on farm (« «4 Julietta 16 W - Daughter - Ast. Keeping house (fc (( Emma 10 W - Daughter 44 44 44 John A. 4 W-Son 44 44 44 Andrew 2 W - Son 44 44 44 33-36 Bryson, Thomas 65 W - Farmer NC NC NC Sousan 66 W - Wife - Keeping house SC SC sc Adaline 30 W - Daughter - Keeping house GA NC sc Caroline 28 W - Daughter - Ast. Housekeeper NC NC SC Allace 4 W - Granddaughter NC NC GA 34-37 Bryson, Daniel 26 W - Farmer GA NC SC Martha 22 W - Wife - Keeping house NC NC NC Sarah A. 4 W - Daughter NC GA NC 35-38 Queen, Americus 61 W - Farmer NC NC NC Mary J. 61 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Jepthy 24 W - Son - Ast. Farmer 44 44 44 Marion 22 W - Son - Ast. Farmer 44 44 44 Smith, Robert 7 W - Grandson 44 44 44 36-39 Rece, Manley 24 W - Hireling NC NC NC Mary 23 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Sarah 1 W - Daughter 44 44 44 William 9/12 W-Son 44 44 44 37-40 Queen, Nathan 39 W - Farmer NC NC NC Arty A. 35 W - Wife - Keeping house GA NC SC Allace B. 8 W - Daughter NC NC GA Garlin 1 W - Son NC NC NC 38-41 Rece, David 67 W - Farmer NC NC NC Cassie 64 W - Wife -Keeping house SC SC NC Henry C. 14 W - Grandson - Working on farm NC NC NC Russel, Lucy C. 22 W - Servant 44 44 44 39-42 Franklin, Joseph 21 W - Farmer NC NC NC Dicy 21 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 40-43 Looker, Alford 35 W - Farmer SC GA SC Tempy C. 30 W - Wife - Keeping house NC NC NC Charles 9 W-Son FL SC NC Americus 7 W-Son 44 44 44 Robbert 6 W-Son NC sc NC Mary M. 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Alford A. 2 W-Son 44 44 44 James W. 10/12 W-Son 44 44 44 41-44 Hoxit, James A. 27 W -Farmer SC NC SC Avaline 22 W - Wife - Keeping house NC NC NC Virgel R. 5 W-Son NC SC NC Arlecy B. 3 W - Daughter 44 44 (4 Elzine H. 1 W - Daughter 44 44 44 42-45 Queen, John 37 W - Farmer NC NC NC Ferriby 24 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 William A. 7 W-Son 44 44 44 Ruben M. 6 W-Son 44 44 44 64 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 Vol 2 Lavisa E. 1 W - Daughter «« (( (( Leadford, Loucinda 6 W - Step daughter GA NC SC 43-46 Bryson, Henry 33 W - Farmer GA NC SC Margrett 33 W - Wife - Keeping house NC NC NC Cal?ery 3 W - Daughter NC GA NC William 2 W-Son NC GA NC Brown, Olavina 17 W - Step daughter - Ast. Keeping house NC SC NC 44-47 Parker, Solomon 27 W - Farmer NC NC NC Liddie 29 W - Wife - Keeping house Western 5 W-Son (( (i Dialpha 3 W - Daughter " " " Wilbum 1 W-Son (( «( 45-48 Owen, John B. 29 W - Farmer NC NC NC Sousan J. 33 W - Wife - Keeping house NCTNNC Sarah C. 9 W - Daughter NC NC NC Charlotte ? W - Daughter (4 H 44 Ra????? ? W-Son 44 46-49 Parker Javan ? 31 W~ ? NC NC NC Delpha C. 32 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Miny L. 7 W ~ Daughter 44 44 44 Lillie ? 7 W - Daughter 44 44 44 L.M. 3 W-Son 44 44 44 Dillard J. 1 W-Son 44 44 44 47-50 Dawson, C???? E. 47? W - Keeping house NC NC NC Mary A. 27 W - Daughter - Ast. Keeping house 44 44 44 Martha J. 16 W - Daughter - Ast. Keeping house 44 44 44 Brown, Columbus 9 W - Grandson 44 44 44 John 7 W - Grandson 44 44 44 Ellen 5 W -Granddaughter 44 44 44 48-51 Parker, William 66 W - Farmer NC NC NC Loucinda 54 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Henry W. 17 W - Son - Working on farm 44 44 44 Benjamin 12 W - Son - Working on farm 44 44 44 49-52 Brown, John ?? ?6 W - Farmer NC NC NC Violet 72 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 John Jr. 18 W - Grandson - Working on farm 44 44 44 Leadford, James 7 W - Grandson 44 44 44 50-53 Parker, John H. 37 W - Farmer NC NC NC Arta E. 36 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Samuel M. 12 W - Son - Working on farm 44 44 44 Andrew 10 W-Son 44 44 44 James A. 8 W-Son 44 44 44 Silvester 6 W-Son 44 44 44 Celenia ? J. 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Ardelia E. 2 W - Daughter 44 44 44 52-54 Bierd, Henry F. 26 W - Farmer GA GA GA Lavada 26 W - Wife - Keeping house NC NC NC Hooper, Lillie T. 10 W - Step daughter 44 44 44 52-55 Unreadable, Thomas J. 24 W - Farmer NC NC NC Lavada M. 21 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Loretta J. 8 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Mary E. 6 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Martha A. 3/12 W - Daughter 44 44 44 65 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 Vol 2 53-56 Cathey, James M. 54 W - Fanner NC NC NC Elisabeth 56 W - Wife - Keeping house U 4i (( James F. 18 W - Son - Working on farm ( « ( ( U John H. 12 W - Working on farm 54-57 Mathis, John 37 W - Farmer NC NC NC Sarah H. 31 W - Wife - Keeping house (4 (4 Dovey E. 12 W - Daughter - Ast. House keeper (4 44 44 Western ? 10 W-Son 44 44 44 M??att R. 9 W-Son 44 44 44 John H. 7 W-Son 44 44 44 Ellen T. 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Unreadable H. 2 W - Daughter 44 44 44 55-58 Cathey, Alford W. 28 W - Farmer GA NC NC Unreadable M. 19 W - Wife - Keeping house NC NC NC Tennessee 3 W - Daughter NC GA NC Elisabeth E. 2 W - Daughter 44 44 44 James V. 4/12 W-Son 44 44 44 56-59 Unreadable (Brown?), James 37 W - Farmer NC NC NC Unreadable H. 31 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 John R. 19 W - Son - Works on farm 44 44 44 Unreadable 16 W - Son - Works on farm 44 44 44 Rufus 14 W - Son - Works on farm 44 44 44 Mariah 12 W - Daughter - Ast. House keeper 44 44 44 Manley 9 W-Son 44 Arena A. 7 W -Daughter 44 44 44 Ruben 6 W-Son 44 44 44 Ellen 3 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Nelia 2 W - Daughter 44 James C. 1 W-Son 44 44 44 57-60 Fortner, Eliga W. 35 W - Farmer NC NC NC Louisa 26 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Sarah R. 11 W - Daughter - Ast. Keeping house Mary W. 10 W - Daughter 44 44 44 William L. 9 W-Son 44 44 44 Thomas 6 W-Son 44 44 44 Adolphus 4 W-Son 44 44 44 Callie A. 6/12 W - Daughter 44 44 44 58-61 Queen, Samuel 19 W - Farmer NC NC NC Sarah 18 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Mary ? 7/12 W - Daughter 44 44 44 59-62 Fortner, William 38 W - Farmer NC NC NC Mary Ann 37 W - Wife - Keeping house NCTNTN 60-63 Parker, John W. 30 W - Farmer NC NC NC Martha J. 22 W - Wife - Keeping house 44 44 44 Arminda 4 W - Daughter 44 44 44 H??n A. 3 W - Daughter 44 44 44 Lemuel 5/12 W-Son 44 44 44 Ann 20 W - Sister - Ast. House keeper 44 44 44 66 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 1955,1956 Jackson County Death Certificates of Persons Born 1900 - 1953,1954 [Key to reading the following; Name of deceased; Date of birth; Place of birth; 1955, 195 date of death; Father's name; Father's place of birth; Mother's name; Mother's place of birth; Informant's name; Informant's address; Cemetery. Abstracted by Sanji Talley Watson in the Jackson County Register of Deeds Office 2020.] Some of the certificates are labeled as towns and communities instead of the townships. Balsam Mehaffey, James Albert, Jr.: h/o Magdalene Marie Mehaffey; 2 Jun 1928; NC; 11 Jan; James Albert Mehaffey, Sr.; ng; Maude Foster; ng; Magdalene Marie Mehaffey; Balsam NC; Crawford Memorial Park, Waynesville, NC Cashiers Painter, Boyce Wheeler; 29 May 1911; Gaston Co., NC; 27 Jan; Robert Milton Painter; ng; Beulah Hooper; ng; Richard M. Painter; Belmont, NC; Pineview Cemetery, Belmont, NC. Cullowhee Morgan, Charlie Grady; 31 May 1933; Webster; 8 May; David Morgan; ng; Evie Jones; ng; Mrs. David Morgan; Cullowhee; Balsam Grove. Dillsboro Sutton, Claud Landon; 26 Aug 1936; Dillsboro; 8 Mar; Baxter Sutton; ng; Lola Pangle; ng; Charles Sutton; Dillsboro; Love Field Hamburg Potts, James Leonard; 16 Aug 1938; Jackson Co.; Leonard Potts; ng; Flossie McCall; ng; Mrs. Leonard Potts; Cullowhee; Potts Cemetery, Cullowhee Bryson, OIlie Juanita; 20 Aug 1955; SC; 30 Nov; Bud Bryson; ng; Mildred Brice; ng; Bud Bryson; Glenville; ng Qualla Hornbuckle, Lorena Ann; 2 Dec 1954; Cherokee; 25 Jan; ng; ng; Nora Hombuckle; ng; Clifford Hombuckle; Cherokee; Wrights Creek Lambert, Patrick Monaham; 7 Jan 1945; Haywood Co.; 8 Feb; Carl Glenn Lambert, Sr.; Laura Thompson; ng; Carl Glenn Lambert, Sr.; Cherokee; Family Plot, Cherokee. Littlejohn, Marian; 25 Jul 1954; Swain Co.; 4 Apr: Luke Littlejohn; ng; Lydia Driver; ng; Nancy Littlejohn; Cherokee; Family Plot, Cherokee. Rhinehart, Glenn Lee; 11 May 1914; Tuckaseigee; 23 Apr; Will Rhinehart; ng; Altha Reece; ng; Glenn Rhmehart; Sylva; Old Savannah Sauter, G. Fred; 8 Jun 1907; Baltimore, Maryland; 11 Jul; Frank Sauter; ng; Lenora Meyd; ng; Mrs. G. Frank Sauter; Whittier; Camp Creek. Scotts Creek Leverson, Jessie Allman; 4 Nov 1900; Jackson Co.; 9 Oct; John C. Allman; ng; Harriet Clayton; ng; L. B. Leverson; Sylva; Addie Sylva Hall, Rufus Clyde; 28 Feb 1900; Greens Creek, NC; 13 Jan; Charlie Hall; na; Palestine Beasley; ng; Jim Hall; Sylva; Old Savannah 67 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 Moore, Randall Eugene; 18 Sep 1945; Sylva; 18 Jan; Haze Moore; ng; Gladis Buchanan; ng; Haze Moore; Sylva RFD; Old Field Ray, Thomas Fred; 15 Sep 1938; Comerce, GA; 25 Jan; Chas. L. Ray; Minnie Lewallen; ng; Weldon Massey; Comerce, GA; Comerce, GA. Edwards, Ora Myrtle; 9 May 1915; Erastus, NC; 3 Feb; Ophram Moody; ng; Bulah Leapord; ng; A. C. Edwards; Erstus, NC; Pine Creek. Frady, Clyde Neil; 10 Dec 1912; Greens Creek; 7 May; Robert Frady; ng; Florence Cowan; ng; Mrs. Robert Frady; Sylva; East Fork Moore, Deborah Jean; 1 Nov 1954; Jackson Co.; 17 May; Hayes Moore; ng; Gladis Buchanan; ng; Hayes Moore; Sylva; Old Field Robinson, Wilma Lee; 9 May 1955; Jackson Co.; 10 May; Jim Young; ng; Bertha Ramsey; ng; Mrs. Bertha Robinson; Sylva; Hamburg Neill, James Charles; 16 Jun 1955; NC; 18 Jun; Elmer Neill; ng; Helen Sossman Neill; ng; Elmer Neill; Hendersonville, NC; Oakdale, Hendersonville, NC. Bradley, Kathryn Dean; 26 Apr 1923; TN; 24 Jun; Chas. Wesley Kolonaheskie; ng; Elanora Long; ng; Personal Record; Sherrill Rainwater, Ethel Alice; 10 Apr 1917; Douglas Co., GA; 3 Jul; George Owens; ng; Bessie Boyd; ng; C. B. Owens; Carrolton, GA; Prays' Hill, Doregesville, GA. Gaylor, Earline Liner; 27 Dec 1920; NC; 4 Jul; Marion D. Liner; ng; Minnie Dills; ng; Husband; Sylva; Mt. Zion, Haywood Co. Bryson, Michael Edward; 2 Jan 1955; Sylva; 11 Aug; Van Bryson; ng; Velma Nations; ng; Van Bryson; Glenville; Glenville Crisp, William Crawford; 19 Aug 1901; Jackson Co.; 19 Aug; Sam Crisp; ng; Martha Shular; ng; Mrs. William Crisp; Dillsboro; Parris Norris, Vernon Andrew; 7 Oct 1928; Hamburg; 31 Aug; ng; ng; Myrtle Norris; ng; Leamon Norris; Cullowhee; Stewart Dillard, John Morgan; 11 Jun 1909; Sylva; 13 Aug; John Dillard; ng; Dora Holland; ng; Mrs. Morgan Dillard; Sylva; Dillard Coggins, Harry Lee; 25 Jul 1940; Speedwell; 4 Sep; Harley Coggins; ng; Nellie Wilkes; ng; Mrs. Nellie Coggins; Cullowhee; Bumgamer, Speedwell Page, George Guess; 6 Feb 1909; Cheraw, SC; 16 Oct; George Page; ng; Lillie Hurley; ng; James M. Gillis; Mariann, FL; Lewis Memorial Cemetery, Asheville Rhinehart, Lynda Gail; 26 Oct 1955; Sylva; 29 Oct; John Rhinehart; ng; Ellanora Cable; ng; John Rinehart; Webster; Lovedale Deitz, Dora Crawford; 14 Apr 1927; Argura; 10 Oct; Will Crawford; ng; Ethel Masengale; ng; Daisy James; Sylva; East Fork McMahan, Infant Girl; 11 Nov 1955; NC; 11 Nov; Albert Lee McMahan; ng; Annie Mae Martin; ng; Albert L. McMahan; Dillsboro; Locust Field Webster Hall, Buddy Ray; 8 May 1939; Sylva; 20 Dec; Dexter Hall; ng; Vinnie Cagle; ng; Dexter Hall; Sylva; Old Savannah. 1956 Balsam Loftis, William Dickie; 30 Nov 1956; Haywood Co.; 27 Dec; Hilan Loftis; ng; Lavonia Jones; ng; Hilan Lofits; Balsam; Parris Canada Owens, Rebecca Jean; 7 Aug 1956; NC; 11 Nov; Vaughn Owens; ng; Peral Harris; ng; Vaughn Harris; Tuckasegee; Wolf Mountain Cashiers Wene, Dale William; 16 Apr 1940; Normal, IL; 29 Jul; Wm. P. Wene; ng; Mary Elizabeth Weaver; ng; William P. Wene; Clemson, SC; Illinois 68 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 Vol. 2 Dillsboro Eller, Everett Lloyd; h/o Leona Eller; 18 Dec 1923; Cack Co. (Cocke Co.) TN; 6 Sep; Lloyd Eller; ng; Margaret Henderson; ng; Mrs. Leona Eller; Whittier; Birdtown, Whittier. Hamburg Glenn, George Curtis; 10 Mar 1907; Arden, NC; 1 Jul; George Glenn; ng; Zelma Mehaffey; ng; George C. Glenn, Jr.; Arden, NC; Asheville, NC. Qualla Ensley, Herman Bee; 17 Jul 1909; Pine Mountain, GA; 6 Feb; Charles Ensley; ng; Rebecca Metcalf; ng; Clifford Hombuckle; Cherokee; Wright's Creek, Cherokee. Crisp, Daniel Boone; 7 Oct 1907; Graham Co.; 28 Feb; James A. Crisp; ng; Marrie Carver; ng; Harley S. Crisp; Almond; Panther Creek, Almond. Maney, Kenneth Stanley; 21 Feb 1943; Swain Co.; 11 Feb; Shufford Maney; ng; Marie Sneed; ng; Shufford Maney; Cherokee; Family Burial Plot, Cherokee. Ferguson, Jesse Nathaniel; h/o Flora Ferguson; 30 Jun 1903; Kings Mountain, NC; 8 Dec; William Edward Ferguson; ng; Rachel Ann Guition; ng; Flora Ferguson; Cherokee; Bethel, Cherokee, NC River Fuller, Thomas B.; h/o Lavon Gilstrap; 24 Nov 1922; Franklin Co., GA; 15 Nov; John Henry Fuller; ng; Bertha Irene Hood; ng; Mrs. John Henry Fuller; Lavonia, GA Sylva Houston, Alvin Jessie; 21 May 1927; Cullowhee; 11 Jan; Marion Houston; ng; Jaunita Potts; ng; Mrs. Marion Houston; Cullowhee; Cullowhee Lawler, Joan Elizabeth; 16 Mar 1956; Sylva; 13 May; James Lawler; ng; Mildred Peagin; ng; James Lawler; Sylva; Locust Grove, Huntsville, Alabama. Cooper, Betty Sue; w/o Clayton Cooper; 3 Mar 1932; NC; 8 Jul; Austin Dills; ng; Maude Cunningham; ng; Mr. Clayton Cooper; Asheville; Teseentee, Franklin. Franks, Sandra; 24 Nov 1950; Jackson Co.; 3 Aug; Clinton Franks; ng; Evelyn Young; ng; Clinton Franks; Sylva; Zion Hill Burgess, James Arthur; h/o Maggie Burges;3 Sep 1908; Jackson Co.; 5 Aug; Arthur Burgess; ng; Rebecca Chavis; ng; Mrs. Maggie Burgess; Sylva; Parris Trull, Thomas Michael; wid/o Mable Pless; 25 Aug 1916; Haywood Co.; 20 Aug; R. X. Trull; ng; Elsie Henson; ng; Mrs. Vaniee B. Soesbee; Canton, NC; Canton, NC Ledford, Morris Thomas; h/o Angel Ledford; 20 Dec 1918; NC; 6 Sep; Duffel Ledford; ng; Ida Ashe; ng; Mrs. Morris T. Ledford; Franklin; Bumingtown, Franklin, NC Lewis, David Clingman; h/o Betty Lewis; 5 Apr 1913; Jackson Co.; 5 Oct; Clingman Lewis; ng; Nola Moore; ng; Raymond Powell; Chatanooga, TN; Keener Byson, Infant Son; 21 Oct 1956; Jackson Co; 21 Oct; Herbert Bryson; ng; Betty Jean Davis; ng; Herbert Bryson; Sylva; Parris Smith, Carl; h/o Hattie Smith; 3 Feb 1908; Jackson Co.; 28 Oct; John Woodfin Smith; ng; Daisy Cope; ng; Mrs. Ruth O'Kelly; Sylva; Old Field Cogdill, Terry Kevin; 14 Sep 1956; Sylva, NC; 17 Nov; James Cogdill; ng; Annie Crawford; ng; James Crawford; Sylva; Buff Creek McMahan, Mary Annie; w/o Thomas O. McMahan; 19 Sep 1931; Barkers Creek, NC; 19 Nov; Will Gregory; ng; Mary Messer; ng; Will Gregory; Dillsboro; Greens Creek 69 Journeys Through Jackson 2020 VoL 2 Family Bible Records Submitted by Irene Bryson McClure, g-granddaughter of John and Sarah Ann Haskett Bryson. The Bible pages were copied verbatim. Marriages: John
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