Rebecca married Mike Hixon [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Terrence Wayne Carroll [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Douglas Brooks [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Kelly June Brooks
2. Clark William Brooks
3. Kerry Rebecca Brooks

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• _UID: 8B2894F21B43412C84F9F30BBC538990A708
• Census: 1930, District 9, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1940, Anderson, Tennessee, United States

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1/19/05: Jesse told the story of his parents passing each other inCoalfield on the curve where the main road through Coalfield curvessharply north towards Highway 62, just past the local grocery store.One of the cars went into the ditch and one of his parents helped pushthe car out of the ditch without realizing the other parent was in theother car. They were married at the time.

Jesse gave Judy a songbook from prior to 1900 that was words only, nomusic. There were dirty fingerprints on some of the pages. Thefingerprints belonged to William Lincoln Cox. Dad took the songbookto church and sang from it one night prior to giving it to Judy. Hegave the book to Judy after Mary's death. Link (William Lincoln)worked in the mines in Prudential Hollow, which no longer exist, inCoalfield. The mines were located to the north of Highway 62 acrossfrom Big Mountain Bapptist Church. In the 1950s and 1960s, a bus ranfrom Coalfield School into Prudential carrying students. As the busdrove up to the school to pick up the afternoon students, somone wouldyell "Prudential Holler" in a singsong voice so everyone who rode thebus would know to line up to board.

When Jesse and June McGlothin were courting, Jesse used to walk acrossMiddleridge, through Judy's current property, to the McGlothins. Theywould sit in the porch swing and Jesse would walk back home throughthe woods across Middleridge. Jesse said one night it was very, verydark. He heard a noise just about the time he nearly stepped on oneof the cows. Jesse seemed to think it was worth walking through thedark!!

Jesse and June went on a picnic with Faye and Ab Jones up WindrockMountain. While there, they decided to get married.

Jesse asked Harvey McGlothin if he (Jesse) could marry June. Harveytold Jesse that he, Harvey, had never found a reason to hit one of hiswives and if Jesse found he had to do that, to bring June back home.Jesse never took June back.

Jesse and Judy once wondered aloud why May and Harvey McGlothin wouldallow their daughters, June and Madge, to marry so young--before theyfinished high school. In later years it became obvious. Each ofHarvey McGlothin's 5 children became illl and were cared for with greatlove and devotion by their spouses. We like to think that Harveyrecognized that Jesse and Bob Jones, Madge's husband, were of suchquality that to marry young would be no hindrance to their daughter'sfuture, rather a treasure worth grasping.

Jesse worked 4 weeks at the Brick Plant in Oliver Springs. There werehuge mounded ovens that the bricks were loaded into. When they hadsufficiently fired, they came out of the ovens. Jesse's job was toload the finished bricks onto a type of wheelbarrow and stack themaway from the ovens. After Jessee had worked there 4 weeks, theGeneral Shale Company decided to shut down the Oliver Springs BrickPlant because it wasn't profitable.

Jesse remembers visiting with Masten Hill. He used to walk throughthe woods with Masten and it was Masten who taught Jesse how to findjust the right hickory tree to cut and cure for the canes Jesse hasmade and shared over the years. Jesse uses one of those canes today.11-03-06.

Jesse also remembers Johnny Joyner visiting with them. Many times theonly Christmas presents were those Johnny and Stella brought to Sam'schildren.

All boy, Jesse managed to escape a whipping three times when he wasplaying with fire and shouldn't have been. On one occasion he set thewoods on fire. He took a bus to Grace's and left the woods to burn.Fortunately they didn't burn long! Once he set the wallpaper on fireat their house. Today he realizes how lucky they were that theydidn't lose their house.

Jesse helped his father build a barn when they moved to Coalfield.The barn stood in the middle of the driveway now going up to hisdaughter Judy's house. Judy took photos of the barn before it wastorn down.

Jesse also helped his father build a house in Coalfield. The housestands today and on what is now known as Jackson Lane. Sam and Marymoved in 1954 to Harriman. The house has had a number of owners, butstands essentially as it was built.
BIRT: ADR1 515 Black Valley Road
BIRT: CITY Coalfield
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Died:
JESSE MONROE KESTERSON, age 78, a resident of Coalfield, passed away Sunday, January 20, 2008 at his home. He was born December 23, 1929 in Clairfield,Tennessee.

Jesse was an active member and Deacon of Middle Creek Baptist Church. He had also served the church as choir director for more than thirty years.

Mr. Kesterson was a retired Millwright for the United States Government, at the Martin Marietta plants in Oak Ridge.

He enjoyed carpentry, woodworking, hiking, traveling, rock collecting from his travels, and spending time with his family.

He was preceded in death by his first wife of more than 50 years; June McGlothin Kesterson, by his parents; Sam and Mary Cox Kesterson, by a grandson; Seth Kesterson, by a brother; Paul Kesterson, and by a son-in-law, Charlie Carter.

Mr. Kesterson is survived by his wife; Sandra Walls Kesterson of Coalfield, by daughters; Judy Solis of Coalfield, Jenny Wendt and husband Jimmy of Coalfield, Rebecca Carroll and husband Terry of Claxton, Janet Isbell and husband Brad of Coalfieield, by sons; Jerry Kesterson and wife Paula of Coalfield, Jeff Kesterson and wife Kelly of Marietta, Georgia, by father-in-law; Arnold Walls, by step-children; Tammy Jackson and husband Lynn of Coalfield, Stanley Marcom of Knoxville, Jill Craft and husband Mike of Arab, Alabama.

His grandchildren include Tim Carter and wife Stacy of Maryville, Andy Carter and Amy of Knoxville, Julie Baker and husband Chris of Chattanooga, Jeremy Wendt and wife Stephanie of Cookeville, Kelly McGhee and husband Aaron of Petros, Clark Brooks and fiance Jessica of Knoxville, Kerry Brooks of Coalfield, Jesse Isbell and wife Megan of Coalfield, James Isbell of Coalfield, Jacob, Jill, and Jerrika Kesterson of Coalfield, Joseph and Kassidy Kesterson, Amber Miller and David Thead of Maarietta, Georgia, Brittney and Jillian Carroll of Clinton, by step-grandchildren; Colt and Casey Jackson and Alex and Maggie Craft. His great-grandchildren are; Bailey Carter, Cassie and Zach McCraken, Kyle and Grant Wendt, Jack and Jayden Baker, Tanner and Daisy McGhee, Caleb Morrow, Matthew Miller, Ricky and Amber Reyes. His sisters are; Grace Sweet of Knoxville, Dorothy Riggs and husband Jack of Dayton, Ohio, Martha Hill of Harriman, Helen Christopher and husband Oliver of Petros; and Ruth Lackey of Coalfield, he is also survived by sisters and brothers-in-law, Madge Jones and husband Bob, Ivadell McGlothin; Fred Hamby; Don Royce, Shannon and Melanie Walls; and Brenda Jackson. His special caregivers were his sister, Ruth Lackey and a granddaughter, Kelly McGhee. He has a host of special friends and extended family members.

The family will receive friends Tuesday, January 22, 2008 between the hours of 6:00 and 8:00 pm at Sharp Funeral Home. Funeral services will follow in the funeral home chapel at 8:00 pm with Rev. Ronald Guthrie officiating. Burial and graveside services will be held Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 11:00 am at Estes Cemetery in Coalfield. Sharp Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Jesse married Norma June McGlothin on 10 Dec 1949 in Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. Norma (daughter of Robert Harvey McGlothin and May Sexton) was born on 20 Jun 1934 in Huntsville, Scott, Tennessee, United States; died on 10 Sep 2000 in Oak Ridge Hospital, Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Estes Cemetery, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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KESTERSON, NORMA JUNE, 66, of Coalfield, died Sunday, Sept. 10, 2000.She was born June 20, 1934, in the Buffalo community of Scott County.Mrs. Kesterson is survived by her husband of 50 years, Jesse MonroeKesterson; four daughters, Judy Solis, Jenny Wendt and her husband,Jim, Rebecca Brooks and Janet Isbell and her husband, Brad, all ofCoalfield; two sons, Jerry Kesterson and his wife, Paula, of Coalfieldand Jeff Kesterson and his wife, Kelly, of Marietta, Ga.; and by hermother, May MccGlothin of Coalfield. Mrs. Kesterson is also survived bytwo sisters, Madge Jones and her husband, Robert, of Oliver Springsand Ruth Hamby and her husband, Fred, of Coalfield; 14 grandchildren,Tim Carter, Kelly Brooks, Clark Brooks, Kerry Brooks, Jesse Isbell,James Isbell and Jacob Kesterson, all of Coalfield, Andy Carter ofKnoxville, Julie Baker and Jeremy Wendt, both of Cookeville, and AmberReyes, David Thead, Kassidy Kesterson and Joseph Kesterson, all ofMarietta; and three great-grandchildren, Bailey Carter of Wartburg,Matthew Stock of Marietta and Kyle Wendt of Cookeville. Her father,Robert Harvey McGlothin, another brother and sister, Glen McGlothinand Marie Tanner, and a grandson, Seth Kesterson, died earlier.Burial was in Estes Cemetery in Coalfield. Mrs. Kesterson's grandsonswill serve as pallbearers. [The Oak Ridger]

Some Coalfield Notes from

June and May Oly Owens married Fanny HInds and their children were Damon, Joe and Johnny. Their house sat behind the current Olga Owens home. It was gloomy. Their father was dead and their mother died when Joe was 16. He lived in the house by himself and finished school.

Shack Ruffner: Somebody burned up in a house at the end of Back Valley. When it cooled, they found an axe in the chimney. The housesat about where the senior citizen's building now sits. There was a mill across the road.

Glen told about an event going on at school and Glen wanted to attend so asked Harvey for some money. Poppaw gave him the money and Glen went. He began to feel guilty because he took all the money hisfather had.

June was pianist at the Middle Creek Baptist Church and served as treasurer, clerk and Sunday School Teacher. She was also president ofthe WMU .

June and Jesse met at church. June played piano for Jesse and some other men to sing at church.

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• _UID: 6AA731B91E1541CDB267AB615EABCF9FD888
• Census: 1900, Civil District 06, Anderson, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1910, Civil District 8, Anderson, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1920, Civil District 9, Anderson, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1930, District 9, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1940, Anderson, Tennessee, United States

Notes:

Sam was a miner. One year he mined at his property in Coalfield, TN.Jesse remembers that the mine was behind what is now Judy Solis'house.

When the Kestersons moved from Oak Ridge to Coalfield.....

Sam Kesterson purchased 96 acres, the former Davis property, inCoalfield in 1943. They sold the property in 1954 and moved toHarriman.

When Eliza Dunn and Thomas Kesterson married, Sam, who was 7, waslilving with an uncle (Dunn). Sam and the youngest daughters of Elizamoved with the newlyweds to their new home.

Mary Cox Kesterson told that Sam went to Montana because his motherdidn't want him to marry Mary. Sam mailed Mary a wedding ring.

Samuel Whetson Dunn was given the Kesterson name so Eliza could drawThomas Kesterson's pension according to some people, particularlyBarbara Kesterson. There are no facts to support this.

Samuel Whetson Kesterson became acquainted with Mary Cox when hissister married Mary's only brother, Sam Hutson.


The Manhatten Project

From the Knox News - By Kelly Norrell community@knoxnews.com Posted June 3, 2009 at midnight
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jun/03/novel-shares-story-families- displaced-manhattan-pr/
Kelly Norrell is a freelance contributor to the News Sentinel.

In October of 1942, four Kesterson children - Martha, Jesse, Helen and Ruth - came home from their Anderson County schools with surprising instructions: Don't come back. That's because their schools, Scarborough School and Robertsville School, were closing. Life as they knew it was grinding to a halt in their farming community, Lupton Crossroad, and on all the other farms in the roughly 60,000 surrounding acres.

Soon a letter arrived informing the children's parents, Sam and Mary Kesterson, that the family had two weeks to move. They were among about 900 Tennessee families displaced by the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government operation that would develop the atomic bomb and found what became the city of Oak Ridge.

Rebecca Carroll, the daughter of Jesse Kesterson, has released a novel inspired by the family's experience. "Milk Glass Moon" is about a 14-year-old girl's experience of being displaced by the Manhattan Project and her gradual understanding of what the government was doing. "I wanted people to know the pre-Oak Ridge story and to know about the people who had to leave. They did their part and their story was never told," said Carroll, who now teaches English at Pellissippi State Technical Community College.

The move itself became the grist of family legends. On New Year's Day, 1943, a horse-drawn wagon with livestock plodding alongside moved chickens, furniture and a cast-iron cookstove to a two-story house in Coalfield, 20 miles away. The Kestersons, like all the displaced families, had combed areas like Deer Lodge, Harriman and Oliver Springs for housing. Carroll described her family's feelings as mixed. "My dad was eetheart and they had three children.

In a cruel twist of fate, her father, who worked at three plants at Oak Ridge, developed myelofibrosis, a cancer associated with beryllium used in one of the plants. He received a settlement, but died of the cancer when he was 78.

Life was not easy for Carroll either. She and her husband divorced, and then she remarried and divorced again. In 2002, she enrolled in the master's program in English at the University of Tennessee. There she took creative writing for the first time and it changed her life. "I took courses from Michael Knight and Allen Wier (both on the creative writing faculty) at UT. Milk Glass Moon was my creative thesis. I had never really had anyone critique my writing. They taught me a lot about writing, about showing and not telling," she said.

Carroll wrote the book in the summer of 2003. "I had done the research, and then I sat down and wrote the book very quickly." In the fall, she submitted the finished work to Knight and Wier. "Michael was director of my committee. I was really worried as to what Michael would think. I was afraid he would give it back and say it was garbage." Carroll said she ran into Knight one day on campus. "He said, 'I've finished your book.' I said, 'What did you think?' He said, 'I like it.' I about fell over." She said he suggested a number of changes, which she was willing to make.

She said her father liked the manuscript. "My dad said, "You got Mama good." Carroll's father did not live to see the book published.

Samuel married Mary Ann Cox on 19 Nov 1916 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. Mary (daughter of William Lincoln Cox and Elizabeth Jane Foster) was born on 30 Sep 1898 in Tennessee, United States; died on 12 Nov 1983 in Harriman, Roane, Tennessee, United States; was buried in New Hope Cemetery, Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: C0A2A84EC9CC4C198FDCB7D87D4FCB1BFE3D
• Census: 1900, Civil District 01, Morgan, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1920, Civil District 9, Anderson, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1930, District 9, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1940, Anderson, Tennessee, United States

Notes:

A tape recorded conversation with Mary Kesterson by her granddaughter,Judy. Date unknown, but probably in early 1980s.

Mary's grandmother and grandfather were Joshua Foster and ParleyUnderwood Foster. Parley possibly died the summer before Mary wasborn in September.

Levi was called Uncle Lee and was Jane Elizabeth Foster's brother.Jane Elizabeth or Elizabeth Jane Foster was Mary's mother.

George Washingon Foster was called Uncle Wash.

Fred and John

Uncle Wash took his family to Missouri in a covered wagon. They gotthere and John Brown sent him with horse and sled to get wood to burn.The wood was on a creekbank. The sled turned over and they found himon the ice. He had been drinking and had frozen into the ice.Sarah's boy, John, apparently went with them.

The snow would bank up to 10' against the fence sometimes. John wouldrun back and forth from the house to the barn so Jane could go to thebarn to milk the cows in the barn. Jane's parents raised him.

Mary remembers her mother telling stories of her childhood inMissouri. It is possible that Elizabeth Jane Foster lived in Missourifor awhile.

Mary doesn't remember many of her cousins.
Uncle Lee's wife thought Mary Kesterson was named after her and gaveMary a pretty piece of cloth one time with anchors in it. It was greyand red with white ahcnors.

Ernest, son of Levi Foster, was the father of A.B. "Salty" Foster.Salty was Mayor of Harriman for several terms and died in 1982.Another of his children, Victor Foster, was responsible for the familytree through 1800 and Enoch Foster.

Joshua, brother of Jane, went to college in Middle Tennessee. Maryis not sure he graduated, but he was called the "professor". Theclover threshers came and grandma (Jane's mother) said she wasn'tgoing to let them stay long. Jane told her Jot may be begging(thumbing?) his way through from MT right now,"you'd better let them stay". And She let them stay just becauseMommy told her Jot might be on his way to come home.

Jane Elizabeth married George Hudson (1) had Sam. "Lord how I lovedmy brother. He was the greatest person in the world. I'd go meet him at the store and he'd set me up on the counter and say 'Nowwhat do you want?'" "Sunbeam Candy" It was an oblong piece of candy"wrapped up in paper that looked like the sun, real pale, soft candy,hard center, only candy I loved"

Jane married (2) William Lincoln (Link) Cox. Samuel WhetsonKesterson's mother was married to a Pruitt at sometime or another.
Daisy and Lizzie were Hudson's
Johnny and Fanny died before Mary was born

Sam, Jane's brother, took Jane to parties when they were young, suchas barn dances and socials. They enjoyed dancing very much.

One of her brothers lived in East Fork Valley and was bringing a bridein (home) and there was a big snow on the ground. They were cominginto Kingston (via ferry?) and I don't know, must have been coming ona boat. Momma and others went to meet them and her riding skirt wasfrozen plumb to her waist. They rode horses, the whole wedding partywent to meet them. They got wet in the snow while riding. Could havebeen the one that married a Fox.

Uncle Wash. When I was 14, I spent the night with Uncle Wash. He wassick. They lived in East Fork Valley. Mary and her mother went tothe home as was customary when someone was dying.

Deal Bailey - Ruth and Granny went to seen them in Oliver Springs andRuth sneaked meat off her stove. If she hand known Ruth had of been(was) hungery, she'd given her something off the table. side of bacon stacked up on a plate on the kitchen stove.

"I can just see Uncle Lee sitting in the holler when Paul was 3or 4 (1924-1925). Lee had a mustasche. We rode a buggy up there witha cheastnut hourse."

"Bob's wife is one I was on the horse with and I fell off backwards,off the horse's end onto the ground. I was 14. It was the last horseI ever rode. They hadn't been married long. It was when Uncle Washwas sick. He died after that.

Uncle Jot went to college and possibly was a professor

Cousin Lee moved to Andersonville.

Uncle Enoch worked in a bank at Coal Creek. Lost his mind. The bankwent broke and he lost his mind.

Jane (Mommy) died in 1925

Mary's great grandmother was a cherokee indian and her grandfather wasa "Farmer". They lived in bear creek valley where she and a baby waskilled by a bear. Granny said her grandparents were Fanny and MartinCox and that Fanny lived to be 106. Her great grandmother was acherokee indian and great grandfather was ??? farmer. Fanny andMartin had a daughter, Kate, and sons Will and Tom.

Her mother's parents were Joshua Foster and Parley Foster Underwood
Her mother was Elizabeth Jane Foster, born in East Fork Velley anddied at her sister's house at Morley" and William Cox, a miner. Shewas buried in White Oak graveyard above Westburn, above Catula, AboveLafollette. William was buried around Peabody.

Grandma and Grandpa Cox were Fanny and Martin Cox. Fannie waspossibly a Farmer and lived to be 106 per Mary. Fanny also had adaughter named Kate.

Mary thought she remembered her mother telling her that her mother'sparents, Joshua and Parley Foster, owned slaves

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September 2006. Jesse,Mary's son, and Judy, Mary's granddaughter,tried to find the grave of Mary's mother, Elizabeth Foster Cox, at thegraveyard at White Oak and didn't find anything that would indicate agrave was hers. There were other Cox graves there, however, and manyunmarked graves. J SOLIS
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Mary Cox Kesterson talked about her wedding day to her granddaughterJudy. Mary said it was her first time to wear nylons. Sam mailed herwedding ring to her. Sam's mother wouldn't let them get married soSam hoboed on a train to Montana. Later he mailed the wedding ring andcame home to marry his love (His sister was there at the time.) Sherode in a taxi to the wedding. Mary said Sam's sister stole herbrother Sam whom she loved better than anything. Mary told her newsister-in-law, Minnie Dunn, that since she stole Mary's brother, Marywas going to steal HER brother.

Sam used to play hopscotch with Mary and she told him she was going tomarry him.

Mary once said to Judy, her granddaughter, that Sam Kesterson's (Dunn)mother was hateful, that she had a heavy burden to bear. Mary wouldnot discuss that burden.

Mary said that if she had her life to live over and could be anythingshe wanted to, she would be a detective!

Her memory of when one of her children was born was that they wereplanting sweet potato slips after the baby was born. Mary would go tothe house to breastfeed the baby and would cool her wrists with waterand feed the baby and go back to helping Sam plant sweet potatoes.

Mary Cox had only a 4th grade education. She was often sick with asore throat and would miss so much school that she fell behind.

Mary's mother knitted her a pair of stockings that Mary absolutelyhated. Mary would leave the house wearing them, stop at a rock andtake them off and hide them under the rock and put them on again whenshe came home from school. This might have contributed to herfrequent sore throats!!!

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Mary Cox met Samuel Whetson Kesterson when Mary's brother marriedSam's sister. Mary was only 5 years old when her brother married andleft home. This is how Mary told her granddaughter, Judy Kesterson,about her brother and husband in an interview in the late 1970s.

"I told Minnie I didn't like her taking my brother away from me. Shetold me, "I've got a brother, his name is Sam." I told her, "Thatbrother ofyours will be my man someday."

Minnie went on to change the spelling of her name to Hutson fromHudson because of a neighbor with a similar name, according to Mary.Minnie and Sam Hutson lived with Elizabeth and Will Cox (Mary'sparents) for a few years after they were marriedd. When they moved outon their own, they moved to Westburn and Mary would visit with themoccasionally. It was during one of the visits, whehn Mary was 13,that she first met Minnie's brother, Sam. Sam was 15 when they metand was boarding at his sister's home while he worked in the mines.

According to Mary, she and Sam became good friends, seeing each otherevery day. Sam played in Mary's playhouse and made hopscotch squaresfor her. Mary recalled that the two of them wore out their shoeskicking a block back and forth on the hopscotch board.

Mary said that their friendship developed into a courtship eventuallyand they made plans to marry. Neither of the parents wanted them tomarry. Mary told Judy that she thought her mother's main reason foropposing the marriage was her mother's fear of being left with no oneto do the housework. "She liked to have went crazy after I left,"Mary said.

According to Mary, Sam's family was alos opposed tot he marriage. Samwas upset and sold some property he owned (no documentation for this)and left for Melstone or Milestone Montana, where his sister Cora wasliving at the time.

Mary said Sam hopped a freight train, hobo style, although he had themoney for a ticket. He told her later that the freight train carriedlumber and he got splinters in his backside from riding on top of thelumber.

Sam corresponded with Mary and eventually sent her a wedding ring byregistered letter. Mary said it was a pink gold band. He also senther a pair of yellow gold earrings.

Sam stayed in Montana 2 years and 3 months. Mary said that when hereturned to Tennessee, they went ahead with their wedding plans.

He returned and they were married on November 16, 1916, at Sam'ssister's home (Ethel) in Clinton, TN. Thye man who married him wasJudge Wallace, a distant relative of Mary's through her mother.

OBITUARY - Mary Kesterson.

Mrs. Mary Kesterson,87, of Harriman, died Saturday, November 12, 1983.
Her daughter Grace (Mrs. Clarence) Sweet lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Mrs. Kesterson was the widow of Samuel W. Kesterosn. She was a member of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Oliver Springs.

Survivors in addition to Mrs. Sweet are another daughter, Dorothy (Mrs. Jack Riggs) of Dayton Ohio, Martha (Mrs. Hubert) Hill of Harriman, Helen (Mrs. Oliver ) Christopher of Petros, Ruth (Mrs. Boyd) Lackey of Lawton, OK, sons, Paul Kesterson of Wilmington, NC., Jesse Kesterson of Coalfield; 18 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.

Services are being held today at 2:00 p.m. at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, Oliver Springs. The Rev. Milford Ely is officiating. Burial will be in New Hope Cemetery, Oak Ridge. Sharp Funeral Home in Oliver Springs is in charge of arrangements.

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Notes:

May McGlothin believes the McGlothins and Fagans came from Irelandtogether. There is a community called Fagin near Tallahassee, TN.CHECK THIS. Did the McGlothins come to upper East Tennessee first?

What is the source of Harvey McGlothin's birthplace?

Morgan County, Tennessee Marriages
July 1906 - June 1910*
FHL#0978841
Item 4
*(note - these dates are on the title page of the film, but the volume
covers Feb 1906 - June 1910)

Page Groom Bride Date of License /Marriage

54 McGLOTHIN, Harvey HINDS, Maud 3 Sept 1906 / 9Sept 1906
Harvey and Maude had a double wedding at MiddleCreek Baptist Churchwith Harvey's sister, Merle, and Lilburn Owens.

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Harvey McGlothin met May Sexton in Scott County TN when he and histhree children boarded at the same place May was boarding as shetaught in a local school. May would walk to school with and home withRuth.

Per Marie's son, Johnny, Marie didn't think too highly of May afterMay and Harvey were married. John, Marie's husband, would tease Marieby telling his children to call May Grandma or Grandma May. Mariewould say, "She ain't nothing to them." Marie and May were friends,Johnny said, but only to a point.
Observation by myself: it must have been difficult on all three ofHarvey's children when he married a woman their age, and especiallywhen May had Madge and June. 06-03-07

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Harvey and May McGlothin lived on Back Valley Road in Coalfield TN forall of their married life. It was the same house Harvey and his firstwife, Maude, lived in.

June remembers when the house was remodeled. May had the houseremodeled and changed the Mansard roof and the upstairs. Originallythe house had a porch on the east and west side and possibly on thenorth side and may have been t-shaped. May had those porches takenin. In later years, the rooms that were once the porches sagged.There would have been only 3 rooms downstairs then--the living room,the bedroom that was always called the "front" bedroom and thekitchen, which was to be grandma mcglothin's bedroom as we knew it.The steps to the second floor were originally on the west side of thehouse, on the opposite side of grandma's bedroom that they whilegrandma was alive.

The kitchen became a room that spanned the width of the house. One ofit's features was built in cabinets that were flush with the wall.These were white and had small doors, upper and lower cabinets.Grandma's floor was red and white tile and she had a red metal kitchentable and chairs.

Grandma's counter tops in the kitchen were red, too. But they werekind of soft, like tile. They wrapped around one end of her kitchenand the cabinet nearest the wide opening to the dining room haddrawers that opened out towards the center of the room. It also had aflat surface that opened out. This is where grandma kept hersilverware (top drawer) and her kitchen towels.

When Grandma decided to move home from Oliver Springs, Dad (JesseKesterson) redid the kitchen and put in new cabinets. Somehow thatend cabinet, the one with the silverware, ended up upstairs. Aftergrandma died, I brought it home and was going to refinish it. Idiscovered that it was one end of a roll-top desk.

Grandma's house had a wide front porch with a swing. Jesse Kestersonsat in the swing a few years after mom (June McGlothin Kesterson) diedand said he had spent many, many evenings in that swing with Mom.

The front porch had brick steps that went to the ground, then wideconcrete "landings" that went on down the hill, and finally more stepsthat went down to the road level. There was a rock wall about six oreight feet high that lined the roadway for a bit.

The steps going to the second floor were steep and dark. A stringattached to a chain at the bare-bulb light fixture and to a hook nearthe bottom of the steps was used to turn the light on and off--thelight being at the top of the stairs.

There were double windows at each end of the open second floor.Poppaw McGlothin or someone had built four or five "file" cabinetswith doors that open instead of drawers and were held closed by smallblocks of wood that were held in place by a nail.
These sat on the second floor with their backs to the stairs andprevented one from falling down the stairs. As a child, I loved to goupstairs and look in these. They were full of littletreasures--fountain pens, stamps, paper. After grandma died, we foundfive of these. I have one of them, but it isn't in good shape and hasbeen painted white.

In an undated interview with May McGlothin, she said that "Harvey" stayed with Rachel & Cecil Carson "and all her kids", which is where he met May, who was boarding there, too.

On another occasion, May talked about the woman who ran her boarding house (may not have been the Carsons) and said that the woman opened May's mail and read it. She wanted May to marry her son and didn't want May to receive correspondence with anyone else.

Buried:
Anderson Memorial Gardens, Highway 61 between Oliver Springs and Clinton TN

Robert married May Sexton on 20 Sep 1930. May (daughter of John Sexton and Ida Potter) was born on 27 Dec 1907 in Huntsville, Scott, Tennessee, United States; died on 13 Dec 2002 in Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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McGLOTHIN, MAY, 94, of Coalfield, died Friday, Dec. 13, 2002, at herhome. According to her family, Mrs. McGlothin was Morgan County'sfirst kindergarten teacher and taught school in Scott and Morgancounties for 37 years. In 1973, she was honored as Tennessee StateTeacher of the Year. Since 1931, she had been an active member ofMiddle Creek Baptist Church and had served the church as a Sundayschool teacher, children's church director, Women's Missionary Uniondirector, Vacation Bible School director and pianist. Born Dec. 27,1907, in Huntsville, she was the daughter of John and Ida PotterSexton of Huntsville, both now deceased. She was the widow of RobertHarvey McGlothin. Mrs. McGlothin enjoyed traveling, bird-watching,photography, quilting and crocheting. She traveled to all 50 statesand many foreign countries, including the Holy Land, Japan, Australia,China and England. Her family described her as a devoted wife, mother,teacher and caregiver whose philosophy of teaaching was that "Jesus isthe most perfect teacher of all" and who spent many hours cutting andstitching to make quilts and blankets for friends and family. Mrs.McGlothin is survived by her daughters, Ruth Hamby and her husband,Fred, of Coalfield, and Madge Jones and her husband, Bob, of OliverSprings; son-in-law, Jesse Kesterson of Coalfield; daughter-in-law,Ivadell McGlothin of Coalfield; grandchildren, Johnny Tanner ofMadison, Billy Tanner of Maryville, Mike Jones of Oliver Springs,Kenny Jones of Clinton, Jerry Kesterson of Coalfield, Jeff Kestersonof Marietta, Ga., Jean Tanner of Lenoir City, Millie Skiles, AnnLindsay, Karen Teague, Peggy Jones, Judy Solis, Jenny Wendt and JanetIsbell, all of Coalfield, Rita Brown of Oceanside, Calif., Sherry Poeof Buford, Ga., and Rebecca Brooks of Oak Ridge; and numerousgreat-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; sisters, HazelYancey and Grace Long, both of Oliver Springs; and sister-in-law,Grace Sexton of Jellico. In adaddition to her parents and her husband,she was preceded in death by a brother, William Sexton of Jellico;another sister, Ruth West of Huntsville; a son, Glen McGlothin ofCoalfield; two other daughters; Marie Tanner of Maryville and JuneKestersoson of Coalfield; and another grandson, Jimmy McGlothin ofCoalfield. The funeral was held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, in thechapel at Sharp Funeral Home in Oliver Springs. Burial followed atAnderson Memorial Gardens in Clinton. The family requests that anymemorials be in the form of donations to the Lottie Moon ChristmasOffering at Middle Creek Baptist Church, 6455 Knoxville Highway,Oliver Springs, TN 37840. [The Oak Ridger]From May McGlothin, dateunknown: I was born December 27, 1907, in Huntsville, Tennessee. MyMother, Ida Potter Sexton, was born December 25, 1886, in Helenwood,Tenn. Mother had 3 sisters and 1 brother. Hattie Potter SextonChambers, probably born in 1884, Nevada Potter Robbins Harrison,probably born in 1888, Benjamin Harrison Potter, probaby born 1890,Laura Potter Millard Fine, probably born in 1896. She told me oncehow old she was when I was born. Seems like she said she was nine.
Aunt Hattie married simeon (sim) sexton, a cousin of Dad's. They had5 children. The eldest was born dead. The other children are Floyd,never married, Flora, married but no children, Mattie, married and has1 daughter, Betty., Sim married anand had 2 children. Sim is dead. Simwas killed accidentally when little sim was 9 months old. uncle Simand dad closed grandpa Potter's store one night and went by the oldLodge Hall, which was still standing when I went to Huntsville to staywith Harriet Chldress arfter aunt Laura and husband Rial Millard and 3children, Cark, Louise, and Lucille, moved out and went to Dorton,near Crosville. Two more chilodren were born, Ruth and Kathleen.Lucille died when she was about 8 years old. She had a tumor. Herstomach was hard as a rock and she looked like she was pregnant. Theywere living in Cincinnati at that time.
The old lodge hall stood behind the old presbyterian church. At thattime, there was a Mossy School for Girls where the new presbyterianchurch now stands. Dad and Uncle Sims went to a pie supper. Whilethey were there a fight began and Dad anand Uncle Sim ran. In the dark,they got separated. Dad ran down the street towards the jail. Unclesim ran down the Bidenald in front of Mossip School. The next morningAunt Hattie sent Floyd out to the house to ask if Uncle Sim spent thenightt. Dad dressed quickly and started towards the lodge hall. Hefound Uncle Sim lying on his face on the sidewalk near the front gateof teh Mossip School grounds. A bullet had hit him in his back, wentthrough his heart, lodged in the day book in which he recorded theday's sales at the store. The book which had hard backs, was in hisinside coat pocket. The bullet had pierced one back the pages andlodged against the other back. A man left Huntsville that night, wasgone about 40 yearsrs, and came back. He asked about some Phillipsboys, Caldwell and Harrison. There may have been others, but they areall I remember. One man, Caldwell, I think it was, bought a pie whichbelonged to his girl. They fought and the shooting began. ThePhillips boys were tall like Dad and uncle Sim. Later, he asked ifanyone remembreed the Pie Supper and the fight. He was told yes, anda man, Sim Sexton, was killed by a stray bullet. He had left thinkinghe killed the Phillips so Dad said.

Aunt Hattie later married L.A. Chambers from Buffalo. They had 3children.

I was 4 years old in December. We moved to Buffalo in April 1912.Grace was 2 years, Hazel 4 months. I can remember 2 rooms inHuntsville before we moved. The house was built for Dad and Mother.They sold it when we moved to the farm. The house had 5 rooms and apantry. The 2 rooms I can remember were teh dining room, which weused for a sitting room. I remember mother sitting in a rocking chairrocking Hazel in Room 3. The back of the chair was next to the doorthat went into the hall. The grate with a fire in ith was to the leftof the chair. I stood between the chair and the wall. I think I mayhave stood on the rocker as mother rockerd.
Motyher told me Aunt Hattie's last husband, LA Chambers, came out oneday and had a new pistol. He handed it to her. She was sitting inthe rocker holding Hazel. I was standing between her and the wall.The pistol went off in her hands and only missed me by inches. Shewas always afraid to handle a gun.
The other room I remember was across the hall. It was our bedroom(#4). It had 2 double wide beds. Her Singer sewing machine set infront of the south window at the foot of 1 of the beds. I remember thesun coming in that window. One day mother had been sewing and leftthe machine open. I climbed up in the chair and ran the needlethrough the skin on a finger of my left hand. I screamed for mother.She backed the needle out of my finger. The other time I remember theroom, Hazel had buburped on the bed. I called Mother, She came andcleaned up the bed. The spread was dark and the burp was white. Iremember the back porch off the kitchen. Mother had a long, deep boxpainted green. She kept a quilt in it. Grace stood up in it andwalked around in it. It had to be late in the summer before coldweather. Probably before Hazel was born in December. The porch facedgrandpa Potter's house.

In later years, while I was in the 8th grade, Mary Helen (Doisy)Walker came by one afternoon to get me to go with her out to ourhouse, which was the presbyterian parsonage now. Her pastor, Rev.Dotty, and wife, were gone for a week and had left some spare ribs forthem. She didn't want to go in th ehouse by herself. We went in thekitchen door, past the window on the left, the stove on the right intothe pantry after the ribs. Many years later, Grace and I went to thehouse to visit Mrs. Rachel Sexton with whom I barded the second year Itaught at Paint Rock. She was staying with her daughter Eelie, whosehusband was Mortague Dobbs. Her room was on the front of the house#1, which was in front of Mother's dining room. Mrs. Sexton had afire in the grate. The room as very comfortable. That left 1 room inthat house I can't remember being in.

I remember the day in April that we went to Buffalo. Men wereflooring the bridge. They had to finish it before our furniturecame. We had to drive through the creek. It was up. I had to holdmy feet up to keep them from getting wet. The watater was in the buggybed. Our buggy had 2 seats. I was on the back seat. When we got tothe house, Mr. and Mrs. Alex (Sarah) Norman were living in it. Later,they moved out to the little house down in the field. Mrs. Norman wassitting in fronnt of a box stove in the kitchen. She had a dip ofsnuff in her mouth once in a while she would open the door, where sheput in wood, and spit in the ashes. I was fascinated and waited andwatched for her to spit again. I do not remember where we slept orwhen they moved or when our furniture came.

We moved for light housekeeping only, to Huntsville, for abuot 3-4months when Willard was born. He was born Sept 7, 1914. I went toschool at Huntsville in the first grade. iss Emma Williams was myteacher. I remember she kept me in during one recess because Icouldn't read the page in my reader. There was a pitcture and only 4lines. They were:
"Hark! Hark! the dogs do bark.
The beggars are coming to town.
Somein rags, some in tags
And some in tattered gowns."
I remember the day they came after me at school to go back to Buffalo.It was Friday afternoon. We were having a little program. I washelping with the pantomining "Little Boy Blue". We turned a chairdown, put some staw on it. He crawled undeer and pretended he wasasleep. We recited the rhyme. Miss Emma was related to ElizaWilliams and Jonn Tanner's mother, Mazude Williams Tanner in Wartburg.When we went back to the farm, Dad had gathered a small trunk we hadfull of Chestnuts. The leaves were off the trees. Two things Iremember while we lived at Huntsville, Uncle Ben was drunk. Someonetold mother he was going downtown to kill grandpa Potter. Grandpa'slaw office was on the side of his store building. Mother crossed theroad in front of our house to try ot stop Uncle Ben. He pushed her.She rolled won the bank into a ditch. We were crying. She had beenpraying and crying. It was before Willard was born. Laura Sexton,Uncle Ben's girl friend, was staying with us. One night he broughther some small candy hearts. They were the first I remember seeing.He would read the words on mine for me.

Laura had 2 children by Uncle Ben. Little May was the older. Laruaand the baby, Theodore, died during the flu of 1917 or 1918. LittleMay stayed with different families. But Uncle Ben would get behindwith her board bill. So she finally camame to Grandpa's when she was 4or 5 yeasr old. I was already staying with Harriet. Grandpa wasoperatiring a sawmill at Winfield. He was only home on Saturdaynight. When Little May came, she walked through the house tochingfurniture etc. Then she asked "will heaven look like this?" Thefirst thing I remember.... [stops here]
Aunt Hattie and LA Chambers had Glenice, William Henry (Judge) andRuth. They thought LA had tuberculosis. He sat and held Ruth a lot.She died about 5 or 6 years old. They are both buried in Salvisa, KY,near Danville. Aunt Hattie moved to Dnaville and the 6 children livedthere until she moved to Cincinnati. She is buried in Cincinnati. Sois Sim and Judge (1990--Flora and Floyd)
LA was Little Marion or Preacher Marion and Rachel Chambers son fromBuffalo. The Sugar Grove community. Hhis borhters were Jerry, Mose,a preacher, DT (Devine Truth), Doctor in Norma; Strelilng; McKinley,and a sister Narrie Yaden.

Ida Potter Sexton, the second child of William Henry (Judge) Potterand .. (He served Scott County 2 8-year terms as County Judge)Charnettie Chambers Potter, was born in Helenwood Dec 25, 1886. Shetaught 3 or 6 terms (5 months each) before she and dad were marriedFebruary 11, 1907. They were married in Harriet's bedroom. Dad's andMother's bedroom later. The door was a sheet. I don't know how longthey were married before Grandpa found out. Dad bought 2 licenses.The first in Campmpbell County. Mother wouldn't go with him to CampbellCounty. It wasn't legal in Scott County. He bought another. Aftergrandpa found out their bedroom was upstairs over Dad and Mother'sdining room in later years, . One night Dad blew out the kersoenelight. It caught fire. He had gone to bed. He got up, grabbed aquilt off the bed and smothered it out. The scorched wall was stillthere when stayed with Harriet and when Ruth bought the place in the1970s.

I went to Grandpa's to stay with Harriet in Dec 1917. I was in the6th grade. Miss Stacey A. Tedford was my teacher. I think she mayhave been from Maryville. Carl Byrd was the only one in my 6th gradeclass that went on with me to graduate ie in 1924.. Mary Helen Doisywent to the Mossip School through the 7th grade. They closed theschool. I think the few girls left were moved to Harriman. MaryHelen was in my 8th grade class. She went to Maryville to High Schooland then collegege. The first think I remember about school dyas atBuffalo was when i was in 3rd grade. I took Hazel to school with me.At morning recess, I had to take her home. Another time I rememberthe teacher had to be out of the classroom for awhile. He left agirl, Nannie Chambers, to take names. She pulled me out of my seatthen put my name down because I was out of my seat. I had to stand onone foot 30 minutes in the corner for it. I may have been a 4th or5th grader.

I can't remember much about life on the farm before I went toHuntsville. I remember Grace and I gathering duck eggs along the ditchnear the road through the field to the little house. They were blueshells. Once I remember mother taking us to tthe barn and we hidupstairs behind hay. A man, Mr Abner, was drunk. Mother was scared.I remember peeing through a crack. Mrs. Abner had tried to get to thebarn. She got inside the barn gate. He caught up with her. Iremember seeing him knocock her down several times and kick her severaltimes. She was in bed several weeks. I think I remember mothersaying she had several broken ribs and maybe pneumonia. Thatexperience with a drunk man made me feel like I never wanted anythingto do with a man who drank.

Another time I remember gong to the wedding of Clergie Chambers andGirlie Owens at the home of Clegie's parents, Jackson and SallieJChambers. After the wedding they served dinner. She and I atedinner. I remember mother sending me across ththe creek to FlemChamber's house. His wife, Em, was very ill. I took her some soup.She was about 20 years older than Flem. Coming home, I saw a starfall in Jackson Chamber's field, to the left of the road. It wasn'tdark, but was getting late. I expected the sedge grass to burst intoflames. It didn't I wish I had known about meteorites. I wish I hadthat one. I remember Dad and Mother keeping boarders. They wereworking on the log woods above the house on Smith creek and towardsPioneer. We all slept in the back room downstairs. Mother and Dadand Mabe Willard slept in one double bed. Fannie Southerland, whostayed with us and probably Hazel, slept in the other double wide.Grace was probably sleeping in the baby bed. MMother had a twin bedpair of springs with a wooden frame. It had rollers on it. She wouldroll it under her bed during the day and roll it out at night. It wasmy bed. I wish i had my baby bed. Mother gave it away when Ruthoutgrew it. She had double beds and 1 twin bed or a cot in thebedroom next to the dining room and 2 double wide in 2 big bedroomsupstairs. I do nto know how many boarders there were. It was inFebruary maybe that mother and Fannie were chnging the beds upstairsand Grace and I picked up her flour sack or seed beans in a shelf, andtook out some matches she had in them to keep out bugs. The nightbefore grace and I climbed the ladder nailed to the side of the logcrib. We took Hazel up and couldn't get h her down. We were told in nouncertain terms not to do that again. Someone, maybe Dad, brought herdown. That morning while Fannie and mother were washing, we went backto the crib. Grace had the matches. The crib had a shuck pen.Somehow Grace struck a match, before it burned her fingers, she thewit down. She was sitting on top log of shuck pen. (The crib was fullof corn.) The match went in the shucks. They were ignited. Mothersaw the smoke and started screaming. The men on thhe mountain saw thesmoke and came runing. They were able to save the barn but not thecrib. If we had taken Hazel up with us, she wuld have burned up. Dadwas working on a road somewhere and came home on weekends. We thoughthe would spank Grace. Instead, he brought her some candy. I remembercrawling under the bed and giving her a stick. She had refused tocome out.

I remember Hazel and I had chicken pox. No one else had them. I onlyhad 3 or 4 blisters. One over my right eye was bad. and left a badscar. Mart Chambers used to tell me I'd been shot, that was thebullet hole.
I rember popping popcorn over the wood fire in the fireplace. I heldup the popper to shake it. Half of the popper had small holes in it.The unpopped grains would fall out. One fell out and landed inside mycollar. I had a good sized blister oon my collar bone. I remember wehad the measles in the summer. My nose bled a lot. Mother had me inthe baby bed and kept a cold cloth on my head. I remember when Ruthwas 2 or 3 months old, we all, including Fannie, had the whoopingcough, toooo. We nearly lost Ruth. I remember how black her face gotand mother working with her. We moved to Huntsville maybe in August1914 in a little 4 roomed house. Willard was born Sept. 7 1914.While we lived there someone came and told Mother thaat Uncle Ben wasdrunk. He was on his way from Grandpa's house past our house toGrandpa's office to kill Grandpa. Mother saw him coming. He waswalking on the walkway outside Williams picket fence. The walkway washigher than the road. At least knee higher and maybe more. Iremember seeing mother cross the road and go up the bank and met himface to face. She was crying, praying, and begging. He pushed herout of the way. She rolled down the bank into the ditch at the sideof the raod. Uncle Ben was arrested and put in jail before he got tothe office. People who saw the incident came running to help Mother.I don't know how long it was after this when Willard was born. UncleBen's girl friend, Laura Sexton, was staying with us. One nght hebrought her some candy hearts. They were the first I had seen. Hewould read the words on mine for me.
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A Note from May McGlothin. This was found among May's things. Sheoften wrote about genealogy. However, these were writtgen when shewas in her later years, about 90, and some of the references aren'tclear. Only those that are clear have been included here.

Etta and Will Jackson
Have W. Lee (Whitus) both deceased. 1 daughter, Melba, a retiredschool teacher, a collector of rocks. When Melba was born, the doctormade hosue calls. When Dr. Heaker was ready to leave, they told himnot to tell Mom and Dad. Well, Dr. Heaker came from Petros and passedtheir house. Both of them were sitting on the front orch. Dr.Heacker tooted the horn and yelled, "Helloooo Grandpa". Will and Ettalooked at each other and said, "What did he mean?" In a minute Ettasaid, "The baby's here. Let's go to Petros." When they arrived,Harve and Lee both said, "Dr Heacker told you." They said, "No, hedidn't." Many years later they told them and Melba what he said.They had a good laugh about it.

Howard and Frances Self:? When Howard and Frances got so theyweren't able to do much for themselves, they moved close to Katherinein Florida. I remember when Kenneth was born (3 weeks before Madgewas born in 1932), Frances was getting ready to come to Tennessee forthree weeks and then Howard had a week's vacation to come visit andtake them back home. I think they lived in Ohio. He was working onthe railroad. She was trying to show how to do a few things. Shetold him how to warm the skillet with some grease in it, then breakthe eggs, put them in the skillet, then salt them. Then she held herhand over the coal bucket and dusted the salt off.

Howard said, "Wait a mintue. I know how to salt the eggs, but I don'tknow how much salt to put in the coal bucket."

Frances came to see me when Madge was 1 week old. She told me aboutgetting ready to come. I liked HOward and Frances very much.
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Birth:
May have been born in Buffalo or in Huntsville. Unknown at this time (12-1-12) JKS

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• _UID: 3D81D3D8B3F34A3CBC0BDD1E49D7373FEDFD
• Census: 1900, Civil District 06, Anderson, Tennessee, United States

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From: Jas T Kesterson Sr
Subject: Masten Tate Hill
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 21:45:18 -0400

I am looking for information on my grandfather, Masten Tate Hill who lived and worked on a farm in Sunbright,Morgan Co.,Tenn. around 1930.
Masten was born in Anderson Co.,Tenn.in 1855. I don't know why he went to Sunbright, because he had no relatives there. I am trying to find out if he married and had children in Morgan County,Tenn. He had 17 children by 3 different women. If any one has any information they can share I would appreciate it.
Thanks, Barbara (Hill Kesterson).

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Jesse Kesterson and daughter Judy talked with Barbara Kesterson about2003. Barbara said that Masten married again after Harriet Dunn Hill divorced him. His wife was a Hill (Florence B.). She died and Masten put his 5-6 children from this marriage in an orphanage and left them to go somewhere else. No substantiation as of yet. J Solis 10-12-07

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RESEARCH BY BARBARA HILL KESTERSON on MASTEN TATE HILL

For more information, see Barbara's Book, " Descendants of Thomas Lambe

JAMES HILL FAMILY by Barbara Hill Kesterson

James Hill born 1770/75 Stokes Co., NC. died 4 Sept.1826 in Anderson Co., TN. married Mary Clayton born 1776 Wilkes Co., NC.died 3 Apr.1824 Anderson Co., TN.

Children:

(1) Mastin Hill born 19 Nov.1795 Stokes Co., NC. died 18 Nov.1831 Anderson Co., TN. married 15 Feb.1816 in Knox Co., TN. to Mary C."Polly"Hansard born 1798 Amherst Co., VA. died 23 Sept.1888 in Anderson Co., Tn.

(2) Edy Hill born 13 July 1798 died Oct.1841 married John Childress died Feb.1837

(3) Freely Hill born 26 Oct.1800 died 25 Sept.1860 married Washington Underwood born 11 Jan.1796 died 5 July 1864

(4) Marvel Hill born 4 Nov.1802 died 29 Aug.1870 married 18 Mar.1824 to Ann Milly Cox born 1 Jan.1806 died 22 July 1886

(5) Duly Hill born 1 May 1805 died 24 June 1887 married 26 Sept.1824 to William Loy born 31 May 1794 died 22 Jan.1879

(6) Martha Parley Hill born 27 Nov.1807 married 14 Oct. 1834 to Lewis Miller

(7) Hazy Hill born 11 Feb.1810 died 10 Sept.1829 married Jacob Loy born 1805 died 1829

(8) Eary Hill born 15 Jan.1813 died 23 Nov.1821

(9) Cander Hill born 4 Oct.1815 died 20 Sept.1820

(10) Alethea Hill born 18 Oct.1818 married George Miller born 1816 Mastin Hill born 19 Nov.1795 Stokes Co., NC., md. 15 Feb.1816 in Knox Co., Tn. to Mary C. Hansard born 1798 Amherst Co., VA. Mastin Hill died 18 Nov. 1831 Anderson Co., TN, Mary Hansard Hill died 23 Sept.1888

Children of Mastin Hill and Mary C."Polly" Hansard:

(1) Lindley D. Hill born 13 Sept.1817 in Anderson Co., TN. died 21 Apr.1889 in Anderson Co., TN., married 4 Mar.1850 in Anderson Co., TN. 1st to Eavy J. Rucker born 1820 died 7 Sept. 1854 in Anderson Co., TN. Married in 20 Oct.1855 in Anderson Co., TN.to Mariah Slaughter born 1823

(2) Martha Jane Hill born 1819 in Anderson Co., TN. died 1880 in Anderson Co., TN. married 14 Oct. 1834 in Knox Co., TN. to Gavin Miller born 1811 died 1880

(3) George Hill born 1820/1825 in Anderson Co., TN

(4) James Clayton Hill born 15 Apr.1821 in Anderson Co., TN. died 27 Jan. 1906 in Anderson Co., TN. married 24 Oct.1853 in Anderson Co., TN. to Martha Jane Beets born 18 June 1835 in Anderson Co., TN. died 21 Oct.1920 in Anderson County, TN.

(5) Lucy Steven Hill born 12 Apr.1826 in Anderson Co., TN. died 21 June 1915 in Atlanta, Georgia married 9 May 1339 in Anderson Co., TN. to James Monroe Slaughter born 9 Dec.1818 in Anderson Co., TN. died 4 Aug.1907 in Bradley Co., TN.

(6) John Goss Hill born 17 Jan. 1829 in Knox Co., TN. died 12 Oct.1902 in Anderson Co., TN. married 23 Mar. 1851 in Anderson Co., TN 1st to Janette Slaughter born 16 Feb. 1831 in Anderson Co., TN. died 18 Dec. 1886 in Anderson Co., Tn., married 2nd. on 14 Jan. 1888 in Anderson Co., TN. to Sarah Margaret Morris born Aug.1850 died 28 Mar. 1928. James Clayton Hill born 15 Apr.1821 in Anderson Co,.TN. died 27 Jan.1906 in Anderson Co., TN. married 24 Oct 1853 in Anderson Co., TN. to Martha Jane Beets born 18 June 1835 in Anderson Co., TN.

Children James Clayton Hill and Martha Jane Beets:

(1) Masten Tate Hill born 2 Dec.1855 in Anderson Co., TN., died 13 Jan.1940 in Anderson Co., TN. married 19 Dec.1878 in Anderson Co., TN. 1st Harriet Ann Dunn born 13 May 1854 born Knox Co., TN. died 22 Dec.1925 in Anderson Co., TN., married 23 Oct.1904 in Hamblen Co., TN. 2nd Florence Beatrice Hill* (maiden name Hill) born Mar.1884 in Jefferson Co., TN. died 8 may 1918 Jefferson Co., TN.

(2) John Wesley Hill born 28 Oct.1858 in Anderson Co., TN. died 30 Mar.1937 in Anderson Co., TN. married 24 Dec.1884 1st Callie Byrd born 10 Jan.1862 died 26 Feb.1892, married 3 Oct.1894 2nd Maude Maggie Ambrister born 9 Jan.1872 died 14 Oct.1955

(3) Sereptha Ann Hill born 1861 died bef.1870

(4) Sarah Elizabeth Hill born 13 Dec.1862 in Anderson Co., TN. died 21 Oct.1948 in Anderson Co., TN. married 31 Dec.1885 1st John Byrd born 16 Apr.1856 in Anderson Co., TN. died 16 Sept.1895 in Anderson Co., TN. married 14 Nov.1897 William A.Herrell born Apr.1843 in Anderson Co., TN.

(5) William Thomas Hill born 5 Oct.1865 in Anderson Co., TN. died 3 Jan.1951 in Anderson Co., TN. married 25 Dec.1889 1st Emma Belle Elliott born 1869, married 14 Apr.1894 2nd Nannie Jane Crawford born 30 Jan.1876 Anderson Co., TN. died 18 Sept.1945 in Anderson Co., TN.

(6) Nancy Jane Hill born 15 Dec.1867 in Anderson Co., TN. died 26 Feb.1899 in Anderson Co., TN. married 15 Dec.1892 Frank Flanigan born 11 June 1869 died 9 Feb.1960

(7) Mary C.Hill born 19 Dec.1870 in Anderson Co., TN. died 1947 in Colfax,WA. married 16 Nov.1890 Henry Franklin Elliott

(8) James Gideon Hill born 6 Sept.1874 in Anderson Co., TN. died 14 Nov.1943 married 4 Aug.1895 Sarah Elizabeth Hamm born 2 Jan.1876 died 27 Dec.1960 in Anderson Co., TN. Masten Tate Hill born 2 Dec.1855 died 13 Jan.1940 married 23 Oct.1904 in Hamblen Co., TN. 2nd to Florence Beatrice Hill* born Mar.1884 in Hamblen Co., TN. died 8 May 1918 in Jefferson Co., TN.,

Children of Masten Tate Hill and Florence Beatrice Hill:

(1) Oba Diah Hill born 8 Sept.1906 Jefferson Co., TN. died 20 Feb.1995 in Hawkins Co., TN. married 25 Dec.1925 to Birdie Lee Russell

(2) Orvel Lee Hill,Sr. born 16 Sept.1908 Jefferson Co., TN. married 7 July 1940 in Hawkins Co., TN. to Margaret Louise born 28 Mar.1922 in Greene Co., Tn.

(3) Cecil Beatrice Holt born 22 Apr.1911 Jefferson Co., TN. died 5 Jan.1998 in Greene Co., TN. married 25 May 1927 to Joseph Edgar Holt born 9 Apr.1898 died 15 Mar.1969

(4) Henry H.Hill born 18 June 1914 in Jefferson Co., TN. died 10 Jan.1998 in Washington Co., TN. married 24 June 1939 to Daisie Belle Burroughs

(5) Lee Hill born 20 Feb.2917 Jefferson Co., TN. married 14 Sept.1941 1st Mary Helen Harris, md. 16 Apr.1977 2nd.Phyliss Smith. Orvel Lee Hill,Sr. born 16 Sept.1908 Jefferson Co., TN. married 7 July 1941 in Hawkins Co., TN. to Margaret Louise Lamb born 28 Mar.1922 in Greene Co., TN.

Children of Orvel Lee Hill,Sr. and Margaret Louise:

(1) Barbara Jean Hill born 4 Aug.1941 md.4 Jan.1964 to James T. Kesterson born 27 Mar.1946

(2) Orvel Lee Hill,Jr. born 6 July 1943 married 15 Apr.1991 to Melanie Ann Disney

(3) James Oscar Hill born 12 Nov.1944 married to Ellen Louise Smith

(4) Caye Francis Hill born 3 June 1946 married 27 Apr.1963 to Charles Lee Manning

(5) William Edward Hill born 27 Feb.1948 married 12 May 1973 to Theresa Gail Duncan

(6) Kathy Louise Hill born 11 Dec.1950 married William Henry Carter,Sr.

(7) Don Aaron Hill born 6 Feb.1957 married 24 Mar.1972 to Lu Anna Rector

(8) Chrisann (Penny) Hill born 6 June 1959 married Robin Kelly Mayes

(9) Pamela Marie Hill born 4 Oct.1960 married 6 Oct.1979 to Ricky Myers

(10) Anthony Allan Hill born 1 Mar.1962 married 4 Apr.1983 to Lisa Annette Jackson. Barbara Jean Hill born 4 Aug.1941 Anderson Co., TN. married 4 Jan.1964 in Anderson Co., TN.to James Thomas Kesterson born 27 Mar.1946

Children of Barbara Jean Hill and James T. Kesterson:

(1) Marla Kay Kesterson

(2) James Thomas Kesterson

(3) Michael Thomas Kesterson

Marla Kay has 2 children,Torie and Nikki
James Thomas and Dawn have 1 son,
Anthony Tyler Michael has no children.

Died:
OBITUARY
Masten Hill

Clinton Courier
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Anderson County News
Thursday-January,1940

Masten Tate Hill, 85 retired farmer of Anderson County, died at the home of his son, Oba Hill, Clinton RFD 4 last Saturday night. Mr. Hill had been a member of the Methodist Church for many years. Two daughters, Mrs.Henry Holt of Rogersville Junction and Mrs.John Hickson of Clinton; and six sons, Oba of Clinton, Henry of Midway, Orville of Rogersville Junction, Lee of Richmond,VA., Oliver and Wesley of Cincinnati, Ohio; all survive as do two sisters, Mrs.Sarah Herrell and Mrs.Frank Elllliot of Washington,D.C.; and two brothers, J.G.(Gid)Hill and W.P.Hill, both of near Clinton. Funeral services were Monday at Zion Baptist Church with the Rev. Mr. Rhyne and the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon and the Rev. K.M. Spickard officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery with Wells in charge.

NOTE: Obituary does not mention his children by Eliza Dunn nor his children by another wife, XXX Hill.

Masten married Eliza Jane Dunn. Eliza (daughter of James Chambers Dunn and Sarah Malone) was born on 11 Aug 1870 in Knox, Tennessee, United States; died on 30 Jan 1931 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; was buried in New Hope Cemetery, Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 8A7A1CBA4D1844DEB81877B9803FFBCFEA2B
• Census: 1900, Civil District 06, Anderson, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1910, Civil District 8, Anderson, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1920, Civil District 9, Anderson, Tennessee, United States

Notes:

Divorce Petition:
W.M. Pruett, A citizen of Knox County Tennessee, Complainant, vs ElizaPruett, a citizen of Anderson County Tennessee, Defendant. Yourpetitioner, W.M. Pruett, would most respectfully show to thishonorable court that he and the defendant were lawfully married inKnox County on the 18th day of October, 1892, and were separated onthe 3 day of November, of the same year. He would show that thedefendant willfully deserted him on the 3 day of November, 1892, inKnox county, Tennessee, and they ahve not lived together as husbandand wife since that time. He would show further than the defendantcommitted adultry with one Maston Hill in Clinton, Anderson County,Tennessee, in the month of December 1892, and your petitioner has beeninforformed and believes that she has committed adultry with said MastonHill and with divers others both before and since that time and thatshe is now living in open adultry and lewdness with the said MastonHill in Clinton, Anderson County, Tennessee. Your petitioner wouldshow further that he has been a resident of the state of Tennessee twowhole years prior to the filing of this petition. He therefore praysthat proper process issue to compell the defendant to appear andanswer this bill and that the bonds of matrimony now subsistingbetween them be dissolved. J.R. Ailor Atty.
Personally appeared before me J.R. Ailor, a notary public, W.M.Pruett, the petitioner in the foregoing bill and makes oath and saysthat the facts stated therein are true, to the best of his knowledgeinformation and belief, that his complainant is not made.
Filed on the 28th day of July 1894.

Masten Tate Hill married Harriett Ann Dunn
December 19,1878 Anderson, Tennessee james98@bellsouth.net
Masten is the blood father of Samuel Whitson Kesterson

In the 1910 Census Eliza J. Kesterson (age 42), widow, was living withher son, Sam, and daughter, Ethel. Also in the household was MargaretDunn, Elizas sister-in-law. The census shows Eliza as ?W? widowed

Maston Hill (age 41) was living with his stepmother, Margaret Hill,age 60. She was his stepmother, married or widow of his father.

Harriet A. Hill, age 54, is living with her sister, Margaret Hall, age56. The census shows Harriet as ?M? (married) and Margaret as ?W?(widowed). Harriet had 7 children, 5 of whom were living

Email from Barbara Kesterson 11/2004.
Judy:
I guess you would call Masten homeless. He stayed wherever he could.My dad did not speak very well of him. He didn't want anything to dowith him, but my dad loved his precious mother, Florence BeatriceHill, who died and left her 5 young childreren with Masten and sad tosay Masten didn't want them, so he took them to an orphanage. Mastenwasn't home with my dad and his siblings when their mother passed awayat the early age of 34 with T.B. My dad said their was an aunt takingcare of them. My dad would get up in church and talk about hismother and cry like a baby. He loved her so much. Dad was 10 years oldwhen she died.

Barbara

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District 8, P17/167 D128/F128 Knox Co. TN 1870 Census:
Dunn, J.C., 57 TN Carpenter $1200/$200
Sarah 26 TN KH
Margaret E. 19 TN
Harriet A. 17 TN
James 14, TN
Julia 12 TN
Mary E. 10 TN
Joseph 6 TN
John 2 TN
Sarah must have been pregnant with Eliza Jane Dunn at this time.In the1910 Census Eliza J. Kesterson (age 42), widow, was living with herson, Sam, and daughter, Ethel. Also in the household was MargaretDunn, Eliza?s sister-in-law. The census shows Eliza as ?W? widowed

Maston Hill (age 41) was living with his stepmother, Margaret Hill,age 60. She was his stepmother. This can't be Eliza's children'sfather because he is too young.

Harriet A. Hill, age 54, is living with her sister, Margaret Hall, age56. The census shows Harriet as ?M? (married) an Margaret as ?W?(widowed). Harriet had 7 children, 5 of whom were living.

Per Masten's granddaughter, Barbara Hill Kesterson, Maston and Harrietwere divorced and Maston went to Overton(?) county and remarried aBeatrice Margaret Hill. She died at age 34 and Maston put hischildren by this wife in an orphanage. Barbara's father was 10 yearsold when his mother died of TB.
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Katy Sands:

Katy Sands was a friend of Eliza's and was a school teacher. They lived in Roane County. Some unscrupulous men who lived in the area near the Sands home had stolen from several neighbors and had been caught. The owners of the stolen items were asked to appear in court and testify against the thieves. Katy was one of those testifying in court after recognizing her iron skillet as one of the items stolen by the men. She told officers or family that these same men had once run their dirty hands through her freshly churned butter and contaminated her milk.

The thieves were angry with Katy for testifying against them and apparently extracted revenge.

One night Katy and her husband were preparing for a school Christmas party or program. Her husband went ahead to start a fire to warm up the building, leaving Katy to finish preparations at home.

Katy never arrived at the school. When friends and family went back to find her, they found her dead. She had been beaten in the head with a stick of firewood and stabbed in the throat with a butcher knife.

Eliza Dunn Kesterson lay on her deathbed at the time of her good friend's death--which was the winter of 1929. Eliza's house was filled with family and friends, including Johnny and Stella Joyner,who had just recently arrived. Johnny Joyner was a close friend to Eliza's son Sam. They were said to have grown up together as close as brothers. Johnny was the son of Katy Sands and had come home to attend Katy's funeral, then went to be with his friend Sam as they sat with Eliza.

No one wanted to tell Eliza about her dear friend's death, so Johnny and Stella told her they were home for the Christmas holidays. But a woman identified as a Mrs. Brummett, came in and talked about the murder where Eliza could hear her and the family had to finally tell Eliza about the loss of her friend.

The murderers were later apprehended and housed in the Roane County jail. Johnny and Sam went to the jail. Johnny was carrying a pistol and intended to kill the men responsible for his mother's death. He managed to smuggle the pistol into the jail. Sam pleaded with Johnny to abandon his mission of killing the prisoners and Johnny finally listened. They left the jail..

Eventually the murderers were convicted and executed, according to family stories. Their names are unknown.

(Source, children of Sam Kesterson.)

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Per Mary Kesterson, Eliza's daughter-in-law, Eliza's mother was struck by lightning as she sat in a rocking chair beside a window watching for her husband to come home one night. The lightning didn't come through the window, instead came through the chimney and struck her mother.
NOTE: 2014--other stories on Ancestry.com say it was Mildred, not Sarah (Eliza's mother) who was killed by lightning. J SPRADLIN.

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Eliza met Thomas A Kesterson after he got out of the Spanish American War in 1899. Eliza wanted to marry Thomas and Masten did not want her to marry him and told her if she did, she could not take her children with her. (Sam was living with Eliza's brother at that time; he was 7years old.) Eliza relayed Masten's message to Thomas. Thomas got his gun (one story says he strapped on his six-gun) and went with Eliza to get her children. Masten was sitting in the front yard with a shottgun when they arrived. Thomas told him that they were going to get married and she wanted her children. They had come to get them whether he liked it or not. Thomas told Masten he had better not put his hands on his shotgun because if he did, Thomas would shoot him. So Masten just sat there and they loaded up the children and left.

Another version of this story says they went after the baby, Ethel,not all the children since Sam was not there.

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dunn Name Meaning and History
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic

OBITUARY:
Eliza Jane (Dunn) Hill Kesterson died at her home Friday night Jan. 30,near Robertsville. She was born Aug. 18,1871, near Knoxville. She had been ill for some time with heart trouble. She was a member of New Hope Church and lived devoted christain and was loved by all who knew her, and will be sadly missed in the community. She leaves to mourn her death, two brothers, J. M. Dunn of Knoxville, John Dunn of Cincinnati, Ohio., one sister, Mrs. Julia Frances of Knoxville, also five children, Sam Kesterson, Mrs. Ethel White and Mrs. Cora Smith of Robertsville, Mrs. Minnie Hudson of Cotuia and Mrs, Nola Seivers of Habeshan, Tenn. and several grandchildren. She was buried at New Hope Sunday.
(Obituary donated by Susie Bullock, contributed by Angela Meadows)

Horror in Jonesville
There is usually a beginning and end to most stories but occasionally a story is not so clear and one must pick a point for both. This story will begin in the early nineteenth century when many families were leaving Virginia and heading west in search for land and a new life. Thomas Howerton Jett was one of these pioneers who along with his family would find their way to Knox County. Thomas was the oldest child of Stark Jett and Frances Howerton. Thomas parents would later cross the Clinch River into Anderson County and Thomas would marry Rebecca Bell Tillery and continue carving out a new life in Roane County around Wheat, Tn. Thomas was an industrial young man and his hard work would take the family to Morgan County to start a long career as a lumber business and the owner of a saw mill and raise a family of twelve children.
The youngest of his children was Erastus (Rassey) H. Jett who worked with his father until he married Rebecca A Love from Roane County in 1893. It

Died:
OBITUARY:
Eliza Jane (Dunn) Hill Kesterson died at her home Friday night Jan. 30,near Robertsville. She was born Aug. 18,1871, near Knoxville. She had been ill for some time with heart trouble. She was a member of New Hope Church and lived devoted christain and was loved by all who knew her, and will be sadly missed in the community. She leaves to mourn her death, two brothers, J. M. Dunn of Knoxville, John Dunn of Cincinnati, Ohio., one sister, Mrs. Julia Frances of Knoxville, also five children, Sam Kesterson, Mrs. Ethel White and Mrs. Cora Smith of Robertsville, Mrs. Minnie Hudson of Cotuia and Mrs, Nola Seivers of Habeshan, Tenn. and several grandchildren. She was buried at New Hope Sunday.
(Obituary donated by Susie Bullock, contributed by Angela Meadows)

Many of the Kesterson Family is buried in the New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery
Kesterson, Eliza Dunn 08-11-1870 / 01-30-1931 w/o Thomas A
Kesterson,
Mary A. 09-30-1896 / 11-12-1983 Mary Anna Cox wife of Samuel Whitson Kesterson

Kesterson, Samuel Luther 11-24-1938 / 11-27-1938

Kesterson, Samuel W. 07-16-1894 / 07-02-1962 (Samuel Whitson)
Kesterson

Thomas A 10-14-1853 / 03-01-1907 Pvt Co C 4 Regt TN Inf Spanish American War

Post on Kesterson Genealogy by Robert Copeland.

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 02605ED017804468B65C021A790E8FB4CBFA
• Census: 1900, Civil District 01, Morgan, Tennessee, United States

Notes:

Someone in the Cox side of the family, believed to be William Lincoln's mother's parents or grandparents, lived in Bear Creek Valley where the woman and the baby in her womb were killed by a bear. Per Mary, the woman was sitting at a spinning wheel with her back to the door and her husband and obviously some other children were away. The bear came inside the cabin and killed her and ripped the baby from her belly.

She was reportedly a Cherokee Indian, he was -------- Farmer.

William Lincoln Cox married Jane S. or Jane Elizabeth Foster Hudson. She had children by her first marriage.

In the 1880 census William Lincoln Cox and his siblings were all living at home in the 15th district of Roane County. Their father Martin (incorrectly identified as Marlon in Ancestry.com) was identified as a farmer while occupations of his offspring, ages 18 and under, were not listed.

Next door to them was Mary Cox, age 70, her daughter Catherine, age 26, Catherine's daughter and son, Anna E, 9, and Charley, 2. Catherine's surname is given as Cox as is her children's, but she is identified as a daughter to Mary Cox. There is no identity of a father for Catherine's children in the census record.



Birth:
Ancestry says his birthdate is 1861.

Buried:
Event Description: Y

Event Description: Y

Buried near his father and brothers on bear creek road in Roane Co. TN They have the only markers in the cemetery.

William married Elizabeth Jane Foster on 5 Feb 1888 in Kingston, Roane, Tennessee, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of Joshua Bernice Foster, Sr. and Parley J. Underwood) was born on 10 Oct 1853 in East Fork Valley (Historical), Anderson, Tennessee, United States; died in in Morley, Campbell, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 36499AC027A64137AA1A4112326635EEF07A
• Census: 1900, Civil District 01, Morgan, Tennessee, United States

Notes:

Per Ruth Kesterson Lackey, Jane and Link fed their two babies something as medicine that probably poisioned them. Need more information.

Stories from Mary Cox Kesterson, daughter of Elizabeth Foster Cox.
Uncle Wash took his family to Missouri in a coverd wagon. They got out there and John Brown sent him with horse and sled to get wood to burn.The wood was on the creek bank. The sled turned over, and they found him on the ice. He'd been drinking, had frozen into the ice. He was Sarah's boy, John, apparently went with them.

The snow would bank up 10 feet against the fence sometimes. John would run back and forth from the house to the barn so Jane could go to the barn to mind the cows in the barn. Janes's parents raised him.

Mary Cox didn't remember many of her cousins though she tried.

Uncle Lee's wife thought Mary was named after her and gave her a pretty piece of cloth one time with anchors on it. It was grey and red with white anchors.

Earnest was Salty Foster's father

Victor Foster was responsible for the family tree.

Joshua, brother of Jane, went to college in Middle Tennessee.

The clover threshers came and grandma said she wasn't gonna let them stay long. Jane told her "Jot may be begging (thumbing) his way through from Montana right now. You'd better let them stay." And she let them stay just because Mommy told her Jot might be on his way to come home.

jane Elizabeth married George Hudson. They had a son, Sam. Mary said of her brother: "Lord how I loved my brother. He was the greatest person in the world." "I'd go meet him at the store and he'd set me up on the counter and say "now what do you want?"." "Sunbeam Candy",I'd say. It was an oblong piece of candy wrapped up in paper tha looked like the sun--real pale, soft candy, and center, it was the only candy I loved."

Jane married (2) William Lincoln Cox. Sam's mother was married to a pruett at sometime or another. Daisy and Lizzie were Hudson's.Johnny and Fannie died before Mary was born.

Sam, Jane's brother, took Jane to parties when they were young. These were like barn dances. They'd dance togehter.

One of her brothers lived in East Fork valley and was bringing a bride in and there was a big snow on the ground. They were coming into Kingston and don't know, must have been coming on a boat. Momma and others went to meet them and her riding skirt was frozen plumb to her waist. They rode horses, whole wedding party, went to meet them. They got wet in the snow while riding. Could have been the one that married a Fox. Not sure.

About Uncle Wash: When I was 14, I spent the night with Uncle Wash--he was sick. They lived in East Fork Valley. Deal Bailey--Ruth and Granny went to see her in Oliver Springs and Ruth sneaked meat off her stove. If she knew Ruth had of been hungry, she'd given her something to eat off the table. There was a side ofbacon stacked up on a plate on the kitchen stove.

I can just see Uncle Lee (levi?) sitting in the holler when Paul was 3 or 4 (1924-1925)..He had a mustasche. We rode a buggy up there with a chestnut horse.

Bob's wife is one I was on the horse with and I fell off backwards, off the horse's end into the ground. I was 15. Was the last horse I ever rode. They hadn't been married long. It was when Uncle Wash was sick, he died after that.

Uncle Jot (Joshua B) went to college, possibly was a professor.

Cousin Lee moved to Andersonville.

Uncle Enoch worked in Branch at Coal Creek. Lost his mind. The bank went broke and he lost his mind.

Jane Foster Cox died in 1925

source for this child is 1870 US census. E.J. was not listed in 1860 census and may have been living elsewhere. At one time some of the Fosters went to Missouri to visit relatives or with the intent of living there. A male relative got drunk and fell off his horse in the creek and drowned, per Mary Cox Kesterson, daughter of Elizabeth Jane Foster Hudson Cox.

Cotula, Campbell County, was originally called Gatliff in honor of Dr. A. Gatliff, a physician of the locality. The name was changed to Cotula in 1908, when the railroad was built through the section. It is located near the central part of the county.

Jane and husband William Lincoln (Link) Cox and Mary were living in Cotula in 1910 when the census was taken. The census in 1910 still listed the area as Gatliff even if the name had been changed a few years earlier. Judy Spradlin. Census to support this is attached to William Lincoln Cox.

Died:
Believed to be buried in the White Oak cemetery, in an unmarked grave In February 2007, Jesse Kesterson, a grandson, and Judy Solis, daughter of Jesse and June Kesterson, searched for Elizabeth Foster Hudson Cox's grave. Her daughter, Mary Cox Kesterson, was unable to attend her funeral and burial because she had just given burth to a baby girl (Dorothy). Mary told Jesse where her mother was buried. No marked grave has been found. 08-2009

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• _UID: 3508214902A34042A1911DCA535D22BA7336

Notes:

died in a mining accident.

Household 1880 census
Name RelationMarital StatusGenderRaceAgeBirthplaceOccupationFather'sBirthplaceMother's Birthplace
Wesly MC GLOTHIN Self M Male W 33 VA Farming IRE VA
Marthy J. MC GLOTHIN Wife M Female W 21 TN Keeping House TN TN
Fanny J. MC GLOTHIN Dau S Female W 2 TN TN TN
Charly MC GLOTHIN Son S Male W 1 TN TN TN
Carnelious MC GLOTHEN Brother S Male W 34 VA Farm Work IRE VA
Catheran MC GLOTHEN Sister S Female W 25 VA IRE VA
Caldona MC GLOTHEN SisterL M Female W 28 TN VA VA
Marthy MC GLOTHEN Niece S Female W 14 TN VA VA
Mary MC GLOTHEN Niece S Female W 11 TN VA VA
Catherin MC GLOTHEN Niece S Female W 6 TN VA VA
Willia MC GLOTHEN Niece S Female W 4 TN VA VA

Denny, Wesley's son, sold a watch that belonged to Wesley to Abraham.
This note is per May McGlothin, who didn't identify Abraham.

May McGlothin believed the McGlothins in Coalfield followed the Fagansto this area. The Fagans are found in the 1930 census in the Camparea of coalfield, north of Highway 62 but earlier in the Coalhillarea. No other evidence supports this.

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Wesley McGlothin was working in the mines on September 18, 1894 when awall of slate flell on him. Witnesses helped lift some of the slateoff of him and said he was working in the door to his room. The slatewas said to be "rotten". The death was ruled an accident by aninvestigation. Documentation in binders from the Bureau of Minesinvestigations. 06-03-07

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William Wesley (Wesley) McGlothin was born in Virginia in 1847 anddied in a coal mining accident in 1894 while living in Coalfield. Heattended school in Virginia and is listed with the family on the 1860census in Blount County, Tennessee. He m married Martha Jane Walls inMorgan County March 4, 1877 per Morgan County marriage records Theirchildren were Fanny, Charlie, Wesley, Samuel James, Robert Harvey,Fanny, Etta, Dennie, Merle Loutish, Algie Lee, and Mattie. Charlie andMattie died in childhood. Several of Wesley?s brothers and sistersmade their home with Wesley at different times according to census andfamily records.

Jos. Richards, Jr., Supt. Oliver Coal Co., Oliver Springs, Tenn.

Dear Sir : As soon as you get the Felker entry through to the prop, make it a permanent air-course ; also put up a good furnace, one that will give a sufficient quantity of air for the men on the inside; and be very careful to examine the loose slate on the cross entries and haulways. As soon as you have complied with these changes you will greatly oblige me by notifying this office.

Yours very respectfully,
Jno. E. Lloyd, Com. of Labor $ Ins. of Mines.

Wesley McLaughlin was killed by turning a room on Ivey Entry, September 18th, by a fall of slate; cause, as proven by the evidence of those present, that as the rules are of this company in turning these rooms from the entry are 6 feet wide and this was 10 feet wide, thus giving room for the draw slate in the neck of the room to draw and give, so as to give chance to the entry top, which is full of slants, as a general thing, to give way also, and as common. He intended to stand a prop as soon as he could get the car loaded and take some of the draw slate down in the face of his room.

Testimony of A.R.Wall: I was working in about 12 feet of deceased when the slate fell on him and killed him. He was on the entry near the mouth of his room. I helped take some of the slate off him. He was loading a car when it happened. The fall was rotten slate. I think there was two or three tons. I was the first man to him.

Testimony of W.H. Jackson: I worked in Richards Mine today. I know that Wesley McGlothin was killed there. He was killed by a fall of rotten slate. There were three or four tons of it. He was loading a car in the entry near the mouth of his room when it occurred. Roe Wall told me that he told McGlothin that the top was "drummy". It should have been timbered.

The verdict of the jury was that he came to his death by falling slate.

Source: Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor, Statistics and Mines:1894 Volume 4 pages 85&86

Died:
Killed in a mining cavein in 1894

William married Martha Jane Walls on 4 Mar 1877. Martha (daughter of William G. Walls and Edith Ann Williams) was born on 4 Mar 1858 in Morgan, Georgia, United States; died on 22 Jul 1935 in Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Davis Cemetery, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: A3F91C590F3A430DBC42BA9EB9A713FE7136

Notes:

My date conflicts with that of Sammy Carson. He shows she was born03/04/1858 and died on 07/22/1935 and buried 07/24/1935 in DavisCemetery, Coalfield, Morgan Co. TN

McGLOTHIN, MARTHA JANE, {grandma McGlothin} died July 21, 1935 inCoalfield, age 76 years, 4 months and 19 days. Survivors: daughters,Mrs. W. H. Jackson, Mrs. Fannie Jackson, Mrs. J. L. Owens; Sons, S.J. McGlothin, Harvey McGlothin, Dennis McGlothin and Lee McGlothin, 31grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren, one brother, Andy Walls, andsister, Mrs. Mary Byrd. Preceded by 2 children, 3 grandchildren andone great-grandchild. [Morgan County News dated 7/25/1935]

1900 census transcription by Morgan Co Historical Society lists her asMcGalkin. They also list her as a widow and uncle Neal (Cornelius)living with her. He was born in 1845 per the census, no month; he isshown as single. The census transcription incorrectly lists herchildren Esther and Myra but correctly lists Samuel, Harvey and Denny.Charlie is deceased by the 1900 census.

Died:
McGLOTHIN, MARTHA JANE, {grandma McGlothin} died July 21, 1935 in Coalfield, age 76 years, 4 months and 19 days. Survivors: daughters, Mrs. W. H. Jackson, Mrs. Fannie Jackson, Mrs. J. L. Owens; Sons, S. J. McGlothin, Harvey McGlothin, Dennis McGlothin and Lee McGlothin, 31 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren, one brother, Andy Walls, and sister, Mrs. Mary Byrd. Preceded by 2 children, 3 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. [Morgan County News dated 7/25/1935]

Notes:

Married:
What is the source of this info?

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• _UID: 11E0C6E87CDB4436957F2BBABF333604955D

Notes:

Per his daughter, May McGlothin, John was left an orphan at age 5. (conversations with May McGlothin by Judy Kesterson Spradlin.)

Julian Sexton was an uncle or great uncle with whom dad (John Sexton)lived with after his grandmother, Mrs. Griffith, died. He was about 6 or 7 years old. He went to work for grandpa Potter (Judge William Henry]. He drove a wagon and team from a sawmill loaded with lumber. The lumber was loaded on Railroad Cars at Helenwood. With his first payday, he bought his first pair of shoes, overalls, etc. He said he had to go out on the porch and onto the ground and around the house to a ladder made of two poles nailed to the wall with strips of wood nailed to them, climb the ladder to the loft, which was not closed in, to go to bed. He said many mornings his bed was covered with snow. His sister, Etta(m. Carson) began hiring oout when she was 12 or 13 years old. He never heard from her or them [unknown who them refers to] until he came home from the Army. He joined the army about 1901 and was stationed in Monterey, Calif. His commanding officer sent him to the bank in a buggy with a horse to pick up the payroll each weekend. (In another conversation, I was told that by the time he got to California the war was over.)

He came home [from the army] in about 1903 (1913, 1923?). He worked at a sawmill in Gobey. He boarded with Aunt Etta and husband Ewell Carson. Then he worked for Zumsteins at a sawmill in Nemo.

Dad and mother were married February 11, 1907. They slept upstairs at Grandpa's (Judge William Henry Potter, Huntsville, TN) in the room over what was mother's dining room. One night Dad blew out the light, an oil lamp. He got in bed and immediately saw the fire was down in the oil and going up the wall. The blaze scorched the paint over the mantel. Mother said Dad grabbed the quilt off the bed, reached up over the mantel and smothered the blaze.

They moved into their home as soon as it was finished. I do not know if they were in it when I was born. I know we were there when Grace was born in 1909, and Hazel in 1911. We moved to Buffalo in April 1912.

Mother taught school 4 or 5 years before they were married. I've heard her talk about teaching at Wolf Creek, which is to the left of Glennmary or rather the Todd Farm coming South from Huntsville. I do not know if all her teaching experience was at Wolf Creek

To teach, they had to attend summer school at the Presbyterian Academy in Huntsville. It was still standing there when I began to stay with Grandpa Potter. It burned after Harvey and I were married. I remembered being in it once before I started to school. I said "Annie's and Willie's Prayer" at their Christmas Program. All I remember about their program was the pantomime-- all the girls dresses were white. They had tinsel around their heads. The flame they burned made each girl's dress a different color. I also said "Annie's and Willie's Prayer" at the Huntsville High School (2 yr.). It may have been at Christmas before I went to school there in the fall, which would have been Christmas 1913 (?). I went to first grarade in Huntsville the fall Willard was born, 1914. We lived in Huntsville 3 months. I remember going to Grandpa Potter's one Christmas, probably the first after we moved in April. They had the Christmas tree upstairs in the room over Mother''s living room. The tree went to the ceiling. It had real candles on it. They lit them after we went upstairs. As soon as the presents were given out, they blew the candles out. Mother had 3 children there, Aunt Hattie 5, Aunt Vadie probably 3, Aunt Laura and Uncle Ben none, neither were married. (NOTE: These would have been the children of William Henry Potter, which would make them Ida's siblings, not her children.)

Morgan County, Tennessee Marriages
July 1906 - June 1910*
FHL#0978841
Item 4
*(note - these dates are on the title page of the film, but the volume
covers Feb 1906 - June 1910)

114 SEXTON, John POTTER, Ida 9 Feb 1907 / noreturn

Per May McGlothin, daughter of John and Ida Potter Sexton:

Honey John Sexton: After his mother died, he stayed with his Grandma Griffith until she died and then he boarded out to an Uncle who lived at Paint Rock, over the hill from where Grandpa's barn was (Grandpa John Sexton, which is today the 4-Oaaks funeral home 2015). There were 1-2 rooms and he walked to the end of the porch and went around to the end of the house and climbed the planks or logs to the attic under the roof. He slept in the attic and often woke to the snow covering him in the winter. When he was 17, he came to Grandpa Potter's store and got his first job. It was with his first paycheck that he bought his first pair of shoes.

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Honey John:
In the late 1970s, Judy Kesterson Smith Spradlin had the dishonor of riding to the airport with a member of Roane County's republican party to pickup Howard Baker. I don't remember who the person who was driving was, but Howard Baker sat in the front seat passenger side, and I sat in the back seat passenger side. One of Baker's aides sat in the backseat driver's side. Baker was rude, rude, rude. He was upset that I was there and said that he got car sick from turning around talking to me. He was a total ass hole.

But his aide, was Ron something--I can't remember his name--who was very personable. I told him my ancestors were from Scott County and he asked me who they were. I said John Sexton and he said which John. I told him where my grandfather lived and he listed the names of the John Sexton's and one of the choices was Honey John. As soon as I got home I called Grandma McGlothin and learned that my great grandfather was indeed Honey John Sexton. While Baker was a dud and a jerk, his assistant was a hero in my eyes because of his kindness. From that day forward I've made sure all our descendants knew the story of Honey John.

On Wed, 6/17/09, Rae Smith wrote:

From: Rae Smith
Subject: RE: John Sexton
To: "Judy"
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 9:44 PM

#yiv1982190544 .ExternalClass #EC_yiv615514198 .EC_hmmessage P{padding:0px;} #yiv1982190544 .ExternalClass #EC_yiv615514198{font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} I love this. Thank you for sending it. I really like reading stories from back then written by the people who lived it. Especially the ones that are related to me. I have never lived in Tennessee but grew up listening to my mother tell stories about growing up there. Now I wish I had paid closer attention. She would love to know a lot of the info I have found. She passed away 8 years ago. Thank you again. This helps a lot in solving the mystery. I did find out that John M Sexton was my Grandfather's 3rd cousin after I found out that his mother was Nancy Sexton. I had them in my files but didn't know he was the same John M Sexton who married Ida Potter who I also had in my files. I merged the 2 John Sextons .
I am so glad you knew to look for Nancy (his mother) I probably would have never connected the 2 if it weren't for you. Thank you again.

From: Rae Smith
Subject: RE: John Sexton
To: "Judy"
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 10:24 AM

This is another mystery. Julian got custody of John after his aunt died. We need to find out who the aunt was. Julian isn't listed in my files as his mother's brother so I don't know what relation they were. I have several Julian Sextons in my files.
I am still trying to solve this.
Rae

--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Rae Smith wrote:

From: Rae Smith
Subject: FW: John Sexton
To: "middleridgefarm@yahoo.com"
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 8:40 AM

According to Shelia Strunk John was the son of Nancy Sexton. Her parents were William Griffith and Sarah Sexton. I don't know yet why Nancy went by Sexton unless Sarah had her before she married William. I am still looking.

Okay. I found a note from Shelia Strunk saying that Sarah had 3 children before she married William Griffith. That would be why Nancy is a Sexton instead of a Griffith. So John was born out of wedlock. That would explain why someone else raised him other than his father probably. I also have a note saying John's father was a Lewallen, but he never acknowledged him.
Rae

May Sexton McGlothin, in an undated interview with Judy Spradlin, said her father, after his mother died, stayed with his grandmother Griffith until she died. He then boarded out to an uncle who lived on Paint Rock, just over the hill from wherere Grandpa's (John Sexton) barn was. The home had one or two rooms only, so John walked to the end of the porch and went around to the end of the house and climbed planks or logs to the roof (attic). He laid over & under feather beds under the roof. He said that in the winter it wasn't unusual for him to wake up covered in snow.

When he was 17, he went to work for William Henry Potter and with his first month's pay bought his first pair of shoes. He started to school that fall. Mrs. Mary Caldwell took a great interest in the 17-year-old man who couldn't read or write. He went three years, in the cold months of the year. He could "figure" without a pencil and paper the lumber needed to build something and tell you exactly how many board feet, 2 x 4's etc. needed

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The SEXTON FAMILY of SCOTT COUNTY, TENNESSEE

Compiled by Robert L. Bailey Copyright 1992

The following is from my four volumes of The Sexton Family of Scott County, Tennessee, published and copyrighted in 1992. Although these books (and my other Scott County books) are published and sold by The Scott County Historical Society, I owown the copyright and reproduction rights to my books. This had led me to these web pages. As time permits, I will add more. If you wish to purchase these books, they are available from The Scott County Historical Society, P.O. Box 7, Huntsvillee, TN 37756. Volume I, contains my documentation of the early generations. Volume II traces the descendants of Timothy Sexton, Jr. (1783-1850's). Volume III traces the descendants of William SEXTON (1786-1854) and Volume IV traces the descendants of Moses Sexton (1789-1850).

Timothy SEXTON, Sr., was born about 1750, possibly in Connecticut. He enlisted in the army during the Revolutionary War in Morristown, New Jersey in 1777. In 1781, he was discharged at Baltimore, Maryland. He fought in battles at Brunswick Amboboy Wertfield, Staten Island and Long Island, New York. He married 18 Aug 1782 in York District, South Carolina, Esther SISEL (b. ca 1755-d. 23 Jan 1850 in Scott County, TN). After his marriage to Esther, he fought against the Catawba Indians annd Tories. Timothy and Esther SEXTON were living in York District, South Carolina, in 1790 as they are listed on the 1790 Census. By 1800, they had left South Carolina and moved to Georgia, living in Wilkes County and Elbert County, Georgia. They then removed to Knox County, Tennessee. One of the first records of their appearance in Tennessee occurs in 1808. On 18 May 1808, Timothy SEXTON, Sr., surveyed land on the west side of New River opposite to the mouth of Buffalo in Campbell County, Tennessee. He also surveyed 108 acres of land on New River which included "the improvement on which he now lives" on 10 Dec 1809. Timothy and Esther continued to live in Campbell County, Tennessee until about 1819 when he removed to Brimstone Creek in Morgan County, Tennessee (now a part of Scott County, Tennessee). Timothy, Sr., died on 18 Jun 1832 in Morgan (now Scott) County, Tennessee and is probably buried in the Rob Sexton Cemetery near Round Mountain on Brimstone. Both Timothy and Esther received a pension for his service in the Revolutionary War.

Timothy and Esther (SISEL) SEXTON, Sr. had five sons. Four of their sons, Timothy, Jr., William, Moses, and John, are mentioned in Timothy Sr.'s pension file. The fifth son, Aaron, is mentioned as being a son in the Morgan County Court Minutes. In the April 1850 term, Jesse TRIPLETT came into court and said that Esther SEXTON, the widow of Timothy SEXTON had died on 23 Jan 1850 and that she left five surviving children, Timothy, William, Moses, Aaron and John. [Morgan County, Tennessee County Court Minutes, April 1850 term, page 89).

The oldest son was Timothy SEXTON, Jr. He was born on 25 Dec 1783 in York District, South Carolina, according to the Revolutionary Pension file of Timothy SEXTON, Sr. Timothy Jr. married Nancy ELLIS. The second child was William SEXTON. He was born about 1786 in York District, South Carolina and he married Rhoda GRIFFITH. The third child of Timothy and Esther SEXTON, Sr. was Moses SEXTON. He was born on 18 Mar 1789 in York District, South Carolina, according to the Revolutionary War Pension file of Timothy, Sr. Moses SEXTON married LEANDER HATFIELD. The fourth child was Aaron SEXTON. Aaron was born about 1791. The youngest child of Timothy and Esther SEXTON, Sr., was John SEXTON. He was born about 1795.

Of these five children Timothy and Esther SEXTON, Sr., only Timothy, Jr., William and Moses stayed and raised families in Scott County. All of the SEXTONS in Scott County, Tennessee are descended from these three sons.

Children of Timothy and Esther (SISEL) SEXTON.

Timothy SEXTON, Jr. (b. 25 Dec 1783 in York District, South Carolina-d. 1850's in Scott Co., TN) md Nancy ELLIS

William SEXTON (b. ca 1786 in York District, South Carolina-d. 10 Sep 1854 in Scott Co., TN) md Rhoda GRIFFITH

Moses SEXTON (b. 18 May 1789 in York District, South Carolina-d. 1 or 5 Jun 1850 in Scott Co., TN) md Leander HATFIELD

Aaron SEXTON (b. ca 1791-

John SEXTON (b. ca 1795-



Sexton family deep-rooted in Paint Rock

[EDITOR?S NOTE The following article was published by Esther Sharp Sanderson on January 8, 1965 as part of her "Profiles In Courage" series of newspaper articles in the Scott County News. The entire collection of articles is now on sale in book form by the Scott County Historical Society].

January 8, 1965

More than a half century ago, there lived on Paint Rock a Christian gentleman, CASWELL SEXTON, his good wife, RACHEL, and a brood often healthy, happy youngsters. Mr. SEXTON was a coal miner by trade, but he owned a small farm on which he and his children worked to help supplement the low income that he received from his work in the dark confines of the narrow seams of coal beneath the surface of the hills up and down the creek.

Almost as soon as the boys learned gee from haw, they plowed the fields. Those too young to plow followed along behind the plow with their weeding hoes. There were occasional clod fights in the fields, and if the weather was unusually hot the booys would dive in the old swimming hole in their birthday suites to cool off. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" thought the SEXTON boys. They managed to sandwich in enough fun to remain alert. In the evening, when their father was seen emerging from the mouth of the mines overlooking the farm, the daily task was finished and the boys were free to take their guns and go into the woods to hunt. Some good fat rabbits, squirrels, groundhogs, raccoons, opossums, quails and pheasants added variety to the meals which consisted principally of produce from the farm.

In spite of the low income from the farm and the mines, Mr. and Mrs. SEXTON managed to keep their family well fed and with sufficient clothing to be in school every day. They too occupied their places in church and Sunday School, come rain or shine, snow or sleet, the SEXTON parents and their big family were present at both services. Mr. CASWELL SEXTON was a pillar in the Paint Rock Baptist Church, serving as elder and Sunday School superintendent for many years.

A familiar scene marching down the aisles each Sunday morning was the sprightly, vivacious, well-groomed mother of ten. Like stair steps from the oldest to the youngest, LETCHER, LATONIA, MANFORD, ELIE, CALEB, MAXWELL, ALTON, OSWELL, EDRIE and M MALVIN took their seats in the classes and places in the choir. LATONIA served as organist for many years. All the children attended the Almy Elementary School, and all but LETCHER attended the Huntsville High School. The whole SEXTON family was interested in education, and they walked about ten miles a day to and from school, being financially unable to board. They were active in all extra curricular activities; school plays, debates and especially athletics in which they excelled. Better players never graced the basketball courts nor threw their weight about on the football fields than the children of the Sexton families. Competition was in their blood and it had to come out.

There was little money beyond actual necessities in the SEXTON home, but there was joy and a heap of living within the walls of that old frame building. In early life the children learned to give and take and to accept responsibility. How very r rich are those children who are so very richly blessed with these attributes. But their happy home life was shattered by the sudden death of their kind father in a mine explosion on Christmas Eve day. Little did MANFORD think as he held the heaad of his dying father in his lap that his education would be curtailed in order for the younger children to continue theirs. Upon his young shoulders and the brave and courageous mother fell the hard task of keeping the large family together and educating them. They were equal to the occasion.

The three younger children, EDRIE, MALVIN, and OSWELL, finished high school and went to work to put themselves through college, later received their M.A. degrees. In the meantime, MANFORD taught school and with the help of the younger children during vacation they continued to operate the farm. Six of the SEXTON children taught public school in Scott County; namely, LETCHER, MANFORD, MAXWELL, OSWELL, EDRIE and MALVIN. MALVIN served two terms as Scott County School Superintendent and Mrs. EDRIE HUFF served as Scott County Public School Supervisor. MAXWELL finished law school and is at present a practicing attorney in Oneida, Tennessee. MANFORD served several terms as Circuit Court Clerk. Five of the Sexton boys served in the various branches of the armed services of their country. Mrs. SEXTON passed away a few years ago. Two of her children, Caleb and Elie (Mrs. M. DOBBS) preceded her in death. Eight are still living.

In the early history of what is now Scott County, there were three items that were indispensable to the early settlers. One was THE BOOK, the BIBLE, another was the axe used in felling the trees and shaping the logs that went into their cabins in the clearing, the last but nowise the least important was the trusty rifle, Old Betsy. Upon their merits as marksmen, depended the wild game that helped to feed their pioneer families. The CECIL and SEXTON men were known the country round as expert shots. When they met at the shooting matches, it was a common occurrence for them to carry home the first choices of beef or the big fat turkeys.

According to statistics, young men in the armed services from East Tennessee were experts on the rifle range. In fact, they were considered the best. It was an inherent trait handed down from father to son to bark a squirrel from the highest tree or to shoot a fowl in flight. Servicemen like the late Sergeant ALVIN C. YORK and our own Scott County boy, ARCHIE ALTON SEXTON, developed most unusual skills roaming the mountains in search of necessary game. Times were hard and ammunition was not too plentiful. They developed through pride and necessity, a skill that was to bring them fame in the years ahead.

People are aware of the fame of Sergeant YORK, but we doubt if too many are aware of the outstanding achievements of ARCHIE ALTON SEXTON. He served in the Cavalry and in the regular army before accepting positions as Lieutenant in the Protection Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the branch office in Detroit. He lives in Chicago where he continues to work in the Protection Department of the Federal Reserve Bank. It has been during his duties in connection with the bank that he has amassed a most remarkable record with 110 medals to his honor.

According to the "Commentator," a monthly publication of the Chicago Reserve Bank, the Protection Department is going to run out of exhibit cases to display ARCHIE ALTON?s medals. That is, if he keeps up his present pace.

He recently won the department?s quarterly shoot which brings his total of medals up to 110. For thirty years he has been on the "No. 1 Team" for the department, and one-fifth of the medal honors given to the department are to his credit.

From 1934 to 1945, the Bank?s Protection Department won 90 percent of the competitive shooting matches in the state. "Then a score of 250 was tops," ARCHIE ALTON said, "now pistol matches are more competitive and the shooter must reach the 280 or 290 mark to be good."

He has only one higher level to shoot for, that of master. Once ALTON shot a score of 280 which puts him in the category of master. "But you have to do that three times in a row, and it isn?t so easy," he qualified.

ALTON says that shooting is hard on the nervous system because you cannot flinch, and you are always anticipating that "boom." ALTON says that he tries to have 70 or 80 rounds of practice shots per month. In 1942 he started wearing glasses, but says he, "It didn?t affect my sharp eye. I can still see good at a distance." This expert?s goal is "to watch potential young shooters in the department be able to win."

ALTON, may we suggest that the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank buy some round trip tickets for your fellow workers to spend some Indian Summers in the beautiful hill country of Scott County where they can learn the lore of field and stream and join in a "turkey shoot" where a "bull?s eye:" is easy to come by. There are not witches left to spell "Old Betsy."

Early Days On Paint Rock: An Oral History
(Part II)

(EDITOR?S NOTE ? The following article is the second installment of an oral history by Letcher Sexton which was recorded by his sister Edrie Huff in January 1979 and was later transcribed and printed in the Spring, 1986 issue of the Scott County Historical Society Newsletter).

A new tipple made it much more convenient to transport the coal and the little thousand pound coal cars to the new and better tip house. And somewhere along at this time, my Dad decided I should be put to work a little bit. So, between the ages of nine and eleven I was taken in to help him get his coal in the number two mine, which was on the right as you go up into Punkin Hollow.

He had a room that had a little moisture in it and, anyway, I was big enough and with my narrow shovel, I could help him out considerably. I was especially good in moving his drill tools around. The drill tools were the augers and the thread babar and the posts and the tube extensions. And there was a crank to make the auger turn. It fitted on the thread bar. The thread bar had a thread box that fitted in the posts with threads on it to force, at regular speed per turn, the advancemennt of the auger to cut the coal. Well, I was quite handy at the moving those around, but he?d want me to crank that thread bar to drill the hole. I remember I could just barely get it over with two hands, and squatted down and on my knees and lay down, I tried all different positions to be able to crank that. I could do it a little. But he could come over there and take one hand and he?d kneel down, since the coal was only 28 inches high ? didn?t leave much room between the top and botttom to straighten up. He could straighten out, but he couldn?t straighten up. He had power, he could just turn that crank around and right away he?d drill up two feet. Then he?d take it out and put in a four foot bit, drill it out two feet more, then take it out and put in a six foot bit, and drill it up two feet more. Then he had a six foot hole to put powder and fuse in to blast out a section of coal.

They had a regular time, at quitting time, to blast out. So, I learned how to stick your lamp under the fuse and light it so it wouldn?t blow the light out. Accidents were caused by persons with a small light that didn?t know how to light a fuse and hold their lamp so that the flame wouldn?t blow out. Dad taught me how to sound out the slate above you and tell whether it was dangerous or not. How to put up brace posts and caps on them, drive them up tight so the roof wouldn?t come down, or chunks fall out? of it. He almost made a miner out of me.

It was along about this time that he got a summons to go over to Huntsville and appear in court. It seemed like in some mine, somebody had got hurt. And they had a lawsuit and not much that I can remember about it other than they asked dad a lot of funny questions and, finally, the judge got disgusted, either at dad or the lawyers one. He turned and said, "Mr. SEXTON, in your opinion, how long does it take a man to become a dependable coal miner?"

Dad said, "Your Honor, some may learn within four months. Others may learn within six months. But there?s some that will never learn."

So, I fiddled around for several months helping him in the coal mine. It was all interesting to me, but I was a lot more interested in what some of the other miners were doing. And, every time I could sneak out, I?d sneak around and try to get i in a conversation with some other miner and usually, he?d want me to go because he?d be busy doing his work. But it was in this mine that DAVE JEFFERS, while eating lunch and sitting on his tool box, a chunk of slate fell out and broke his back. The result brought about his death not long afterwards.

That?s the first coal mine accident death that I can remember. There?s some others that I?ll mention a little later on.

(End of one taping session and beginning of another).

This is January 30, another day I promised to carry on... I?m not sure to whom I made the promise, probably sister EDRA.

At this time, I wish to tell about the dinner hour. During the time from 11:30 to 12:30, some of the miners that lived nearby took their dinner by chasing home. Well, I was one that run home and got my dinner and run back. I could make it in about 20 minutes.

By that time, the regular miners, who had carried their lunch with them, had their dinner over with and were resting comfortably around a big sandrock there and telling tales and jokes. and one that I remember very well was one about the big watermelon that was grown in Georgia. This tale was told by BOB ELLER, we called him, one of the miners. And listening was four or five other miners. This watermelon that he told about was a mighty big one, according to his tale. The watermelon grew so big that, the way he described it, it would feed a hundred people ? all the melon they wanted.

And one of the miners said, "BOB, that melon that you?re talking about, I bet if it got busted all those creeks and rivers around there would overflow. Bob says, "I?m not sure that that would happen, but some of those branches might rise a little bit."

They seemed to accept and joke about it a little further. A couple of days later, that watermelon subject was brought up after a little interesting song by SHORTY ADKINS, as he was called. And, of course, I had got up as close as I could to SHORTY without getting in his way because I liked that fellow and he seemed to like me. After the song was finished, SHORTY said, "I had a trip to Knoxville in the last day or two. And on this trip I passed by a big blacksmith shop and they had a big chunk of iron red hot on a big anvil and they was three or four men beating on it with sledge hammers. It was all red and they were hammering away with great noise. I went on to Knoxville and when I came back that evening, they had that thinned out on one edge and I was curious so I went up there and I said to one of the men: "What in the world are you making ? that big thing?s got a blade about a foot wide and about six feet long? What are you making?"

"Oh," he said, "I had an order from Georgia. There?s some farmer down there that had a big farm and he wanted us to send it down that night."

He said, "I wondered about that all the way home.., that big butcher knife that they was a?making." And, he said, "After I?ve studied it out, I could only come to one conclusion."

And BOB ELLER spoke up and said, "What was that conclusion, Shorty?"

"Why," he says, "that conclusion was that they were making that knife to cut your big Georgia watermelon!"

So, that is one of the jokes that I remember there when I was a kid about nine years old.

There was an explosion in this mine. And that explosion occurred on a Saturday and dad took me to Cherry Fork Church to hear Uncle REUBEN preach on Saturdays about once a month. And this happened to be that Saturday. And dad crowded me into the seat and sat over to the edge next to the aisle and the other part of the seat was against the wall. I could slide back and forth on the seat for entertainment, but I daren?t try to get out from my Dad. And they had a strip underneath of the seat in front and underneath the seat on one I was sitting on there was no way for me to get down and crawl through, so I had to take it. And I did.

I can?t ever remember what Uncle GEORGE preached. He had a sing-song kind of way of preaching that was very interesting but it was hardly understandable to me at my age of about eight or nine.

Now, during the time that we were up there, an explosion occurred in this No. 2 Pumpkin Hollow Mine and a Mr. HILL and a Mr. BLEVINS got their face pretty well pitted and speckled with black mine dust. That?s about all I can remember of that.

Then, along not far from that time, AARON (or Allen?) DUNCAN was caught by a slate fall and it resulted in his death a little later. And then, W. M. or BILL SMITH was caught in another slate fall and his back was broke. He survived on the bed helpless for more than five months before he died.

And then, along about 1910 (I?m moving this up a little), the Pumpkin Hollow No. 1 Mine exploded. At that time I was attending school at Oneida School... they didn?t have a high school there, then.., and staying with my grandmother. On this daay before Christmas the school turned out about two o?clock and I remember walking home with CLIFFORD SEXTON, about four miles through the Tunnel Hill tunnel and along the railroad ?til I got down to Stanley Junction. And at Stanley Junction they had a store and someone said there was an explosion at 11:30 up at the mine. And this was between three and four o?clock that Clifford and I arrived at Stanley Junction.

We went up immediately to this Pumpkin Hollow No. 1 Mine and went to the wide opening inside the mine ? it had been made so they could have a side track, or a double track, at this point about 50 or 75 yards long. And then beyond that, there was an entry that turned to the right and one to the left. The left entry had had a door to cause the air to be sucked around and through the entry to the right. But the explosion had occurred... it was a dust explosion set off by having two or three heavy shots in a close place and made dust and set the dust on fire.

So, this was a dust explosion that occurred one or two days before Christmas, 1910. It had blown down the curtains and the doors and other arrangements that caused the air to circulate around the mine. Therefore, the men that was in there woulld be suffocated by the carbon dioxide that was hanging in the air. So I turned to a group consisting of FRED PHILLIPS, MITCHELL THOMPSON, Uncle BILL SEXTON, and EVERETT DUNCAN and we was proceeded ahead up the airway. As they got (unrecognizable word) backup to force the air along, we followed it up. Dr. M. E. THOMPSON came along with a box full of ammonia and he?d give us a little teaspoon every now and then and we kept on until we got a way back under the mountain. We came across fiirst MONROE SEXTON, that was laying on his stomach, his face down, in a little airway. Right ahead of him lay his brother BILL SEXTON, who was a first cousin to the other BILL SMITH that had died before. And then on up in a room that had been cucut back about 50 or 60 feet, we found JOHN FREEMAN (Sexton), laying on his right side, facing down the room, with the little lamp in his hand and fully dead. So the five of us managed to scoot him back to the airway, down this room that the coal was 28 inches high. In other words, it was only 28 inches between the slate above and the rock floor below, and we laid on our sides and managed to scoot him down until they got him through the airway to where some of the slate had been shot down and loaded out, then they could carry him over to the entry. And the entry was about eight or nine feet wide at the bottom and about four feet wide at the top, and six feet from the floor to the top of the entry. We started down this entry and I was carrying his right leg and hip, and had just got started about 10 or 15 feet when I had to let down and holler to the others, "I?m losing my strength," and I run back up into this airway and immediately fell to sleep.

LUTHER PENNINGTON came in and slapped me and waked me and got me

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up enough that he could manage to get me to walk hanging over his shoulder to get me down to where there was plenty of fresh air.

I got home that night and I slept about 14 hours straight through. And that?s my memory of the explosion in which the three Sexton brothers were killed. These were sons of EMANUEL SEXTON and WINNIE WEST SEXTON, who was mother?s uncle.

Somebody told a tale about a salesman traveling around in the hills and up the hollows in a horse and buggy. Well, there were very few roads that a horse and buggy could be taken over together. But this salesman was doing the better areas and at one place in a rainy spring season, he passed along a field and he saw a young boy over there all by himself hoeing out weeds in a corn patch and the weeds was about to take it. And the boy was lookin? pretty bad. So, he hollered out at the boy, "Hello, there boy!"

The boy hollered, "Hello," and kept on hoeing weeds out of the corn. And the salesman hollered, "It looks like you?re having a pretty tough time a?keeping the weeds out."

The boy said, ?Yes, it?s been too rainy to get out here to plow it and look after it like it should?ve been."

The fellow says, "It looks like you?re going to have a yellow crop this year."

The boys says, "I hope so, we planted yellow corn."

An the salesman felt a little steam there and he said, "There?s not much between you and a fool, is there?"

The boy looked up and said, "No, just a fence."

And that sent the salesman on his way.

KATHERINE WEST, who later married HARRINGTON, taught a subscription school there on Paint Rock. And dad subscribed for me ? I must have been somewhere around eight and nine years old at this time ? and I had to walk about three quarters of a mile up to the building that the school was in. It was started in an old church building that was burned down not long afterwards, just south of the commissary, southeast of the commissary in old Alma.

It was a very nice church building, built by the company to serve the families of the miners. They used it a lot. Uncle GEORGE CECIL used to come there and hold meetings. And then there was a preacher that came in that they called the Holy Rollers. And he had a few nice people with him when they held meetings that I can remember.

But it was in this building that KATHERINE started her subscription school. And, of course, I was a little bit hunting for devilment and I came to the tip house where they have some fairly coarse dust and I put some of that in my pocket one day. And I made me a slingshot with a cutout piece of rubber tab on it to hold my stones or dust or whatever I? wanted to shoot. But the rubber was made out of women?s garters. I?d cut them in two and put them around a forked stick and they were pretty strong garters and I could shoot pretty good with them.

One day I looked over across the aisle, on the side where the girls sat, and I saw one of the girls with her dress up about her knees. They wore mostly longer dresses in those days. And her legs looked white and kindly fat, so I loaded my slingshot pouch up with this coal dust and got it down in the aisle and pulled it back and let it go.

Well, this stung this girl?s legs and she didn?t know what had happened and let out a little yell. And the teacher come back in investigate and she looked all around and everybody, including me, had their nose in the book and just as innocent as could be and that went on for a little while longer. I loaded me up another and give another shot, and that time the girl squealed because I?d pulled the rubber a little tighter and let the coal dust go a little harder and it stung a little stronger. And KATHERINE come rushing back there. And I was the only one, she said, that could have done it, so she invited me to come out into the aisle. And I got out in the aisle and she was going to search me. And she did. And she found this slling shot. And when she found it, I grabbed for it, too. I had hid it under my clothes. I got a hold of one of the forks and she got a hold of the other fork and in the pull the fork split, and that left me with a broken slingshot. But she got it away from me and I didn?t have any more garter slingshot.

But I did learn and I did enjoy going to school to KATHERINE.

Now, going to another subject, along about 1907 or 1908, dad thought I should go over and stay with Grandma SEXTON. That would be his mother, who had Aunt WINNIE and MANDY, two daughters with her, and three of her grandchildren. And my job was to help them with the farm work around there. They lived on 109 acres, had a big double log house. Had a well and a spring. Had mules and had an old horse and a colt named Pin-(line missing in transcription) to that enjoyed playing with. Then they had chickens and guinnies and turkeys around. And an old peacock that I used to be afraid of when he spread his tail in front of my face and showed me how pretty it was back there.

?They had some bee gums but they had just about died out. I hauled in wood, plowed, and went to the store and, in the fall of the year, I started walking two miles to school in Oneida. (I think I?d better leave the rest of this for a little later about a school story and move on to the shutdown of the Roberts Coal Company and the closing down of the mine).

Along about 1910 or before.., when it closed down, they left very little coal to be taken out of the old Cornbread Mine that had lasted about 20 years. The electrical machinery had all been removed. The tipple was beginning to show signs of decay and part of the tipple that went across the branch had already been taken down, leaving just the part the coal was tippled over into the railroad cars.

About this time, R. A. WOOD took over and opened the Boneyard Mine again and we had a little operation going up there. And at that time, I had worked with dad and Uncle BILL and Uncle FERNANDEZ (?) BILBREY had made a contract over at the Pumpkin Hollow Mine area for another section and they operated the mine and I drove a mule from about a half a mile where they brought the coal out of the mine in cars and lined them up on top of a little grade, hill, with the track running steeply down and used old Spoonfoot, a mule that we had at that time, to take them on over to the old Pumpkin Hollow Tip House. And I was the weigh master, the tip master, and the mover of the coal cars to get them right under the tipple, and carry the empties back up to the top of the hill where another mule skinner and another mule took the empties back in and get them loaded and bring them back full for me to pick up again.

This was in the winter of 1911 and -12 and that was the coldest winter I ever remember ever experiencing in this area. The creek that run alongside the railroad down by Stanley Junction and over from our house got dammed up by freezes till the water would rise up three foot high and then flow over little bluffs .of ice. There was only a few places we could cross the stream and take a chance on getting the mule to cross, because of this dammed up ice and icy water. I believe that the temperature stayed at zero and below from the latter part of January up to the middle of February of that year.

That was worked on up ?til May and then dad and Uncle BILL and FERNANDEZ closed this mine over there down and went to work for R.A. WOOD at the Boneyard Mine. And up there I was transferred to a mule skinner to gather the coal from inside the mine, while JOHN GOODMAN was the mule skinner that took it about a mile around a tramway to get to the old Cornbread Tip House that is still in use.

Now, just before . . . in 1911. I?d succeeded in getting appointed to teach school at the old Foggle?s (?) School. And that was to begin in July, the last of July, 1911. At that time, I lacked about three months of being 17 years old. I faced the school students, that ranged from about 18 years or 19 years old down to about 5 years old, in all 6 grades? Then, the enrollment was between 80 and 100. So, you can imagine what a problem I had. But I managed to teach that school and two years later, the citizens wanted me back, so I do have a little something to brag about.

FRANK JEFFERS, son of RANEY JEFFERS JONES, accidentally was blasted to death in a coal mine in the hill across from Paint Rock Creek and railroad, south from the new schoolhouse. I remember JOE KIDD carrying his limp body to his mother?s home. FRANK had a brother, JAMES, and a sister, JOSIE, and an older sister, ELDORA, who was the wife of W. M. or BILL SMITH. Also about this time, RANEY?s son, JIM, shot and killed a Mr. FORD and a Mr. FOSTER. After being shot down, Mr. FORD was able to kill JIM as he began to run away. The shotgun blast almost removed the back of JAMES JEFFERS? head. This event happened along the railroad directly across from the creek and railway from JOHN KEETON?S home, above the rock cut. This is a sad year for... RANEY JONES.

Now, sister LATONIA may have been old enough to remember mother?s taking us with her to pay respects when the corpses were laid out waiting their coffins. I do not know which one of the Sons died first. JOSIE had married MORRIS DUNCAN, son of MARION DUNCAN. A year or so later, he and another man left Paint Rock and was never heard from again.

Now, we get to BARRY SIMPSON. He with his Sons HARVE and JESS opened a coal mine about 300 yards west of the JOE KIDD opening and built a big, high tip house. This mine soon played out and was closed. However, in the mine the big, black wild bear hoax was staged. Thus, a yearly calf hide was well stuffed and painted black. A lantern was lighted and placed for light to shine through the removed eyes. The apparition was hung on a stretched length of wire suspended from the roof of the entry and a pull wire was arranged to move the animal back and forth. The operator was placed safely back in the mine so he could manipulate the bear and imitate the bear?s ranging growls.

Bear tracks were made in scattered areas, so that the bear hunters could find the bear tracks leading to the damp earth which had been wetted by carried water leading directly to the mine.

Then, the arranged bear hunt began. Three or four men with their gullible one included in the group. All had rifles except the pigeon man, who had a shotgun. Several other men kept hidden so as to approach when the pigeon man saw the raging bear, got scared, began firing and backing away. When the bear backed away into the dark mine, he began to get bold and brag. The mad bear advanced again; more shots were fired. The bear?s eyes went out, then the crowd got large and hollered, ?You s sure killed that bear!" All the children yelled. By that time, the children had accumulated. And the bear imitator and manipulator came forth with the stuffed calf. Now, the hoax man became very mad and began raising his shotgun say, "I ought to kill you.

Some of the men nearby grabbed him and got the gun. It took a lot of talk and apology and several free drinks of whiskey to calm and pacify him Then, with the help of the whiskey, he began to laugh. And he laughed even to a belly laugh.

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So, it ended the bear hoax in a friendship and good humor.

At that time, in 1902, there were no autos, no radios, no televisions. Fun and distractions and entertainments were homemade, along with whiskey, brandy, beer, cider, applejack, biscuits, cracker and bread, cakes, pies and other goodies too tedious to mention.

This is the last day of January, 1979. and I think I?ll tell about a visit that Grandpa CHRIS SEXTON made to our homeplace on Paint Rock. At the time, I was around five or six years old. My grandpa came walking up through the field with his walklking stick ? I was playing outside ? and I ran down to meet him. Well, he was giving me a look-over, didn?t say anything, just kept right on walking. Come on up to the house, went up on the porch, saw a chair and went on over and sat down in it. Mother came out and they greeted one another with a few words. Mother asked him if he wanted anything to drink, and if he wanted anything to eat.

"No, no.

?Won?t you come into the house?"

"No, I just want to rest a few minutes."

And she looked kind of funny.

And he said, "I just needed a little walk and I thought I'd walk down here and see how the family was along I?ll be going in a few minutes."

And directly he kind of perked up and said, "How ?bout taking him with me?"

Mother said, "Alright," as far as she knew.

He said, "Alright, get him ready."

So, she got me ready and he stuck his finger down in a few minutes and come off the porch with him. We walked on until we come to a fence about 100 yards from the house that we had to go through to follow the old wagon road that went up through Paint Rock, where we could get on the railroad and continue walking toward Tunnel Hill.

Now, he hardly said a word and I turned the finger loose and continued to jog along beside him. We got on up through Paint Rock a little ways and we-came to what was called a rock cut, and there the water was gushing out and there was a tin cuup sitting by it and he picked up the cup, took a drink of water himself, caught another cut and give me a drink of water and I wondered why he didn?t give me a drink of water first. And the only answer I could figure out was, if it?s good enough for me it ought to be good enough for you. I?ve tested it and it ought to be safe enough for you.

So, we drank the water and he emptied the cup and sat it back and started just a little farther and the section foreman of the railroad maintenance crew was tamping the ties at the upper end of the cut. And, as soon as we got up with them, GEORGE SHARP seemed mighty happy to see grandpa and they talked a minute or so ? George did most of the talking ?and then he looked over at his crew and he said, "Put your tools on and set it on."

Then he picked me up and set me on (the section car) with the tools. Then he told the men we?d go up to Tunnel Hill, he had a little job that needed to be done up there. And that was about three quarters of a mile, partially upgrade all the way to Tunnel Hill.

So, grandpa and GEORGE SHARP, the foreman, walked back behind and I couldn?t hear what they said. But I was rather amused to get to ride on this section tool car. There was four men and they just pushed you.., and, finally, we arrived at the entrance to the tunnel.

GEORGE came over and put me off, then he said to the men, "Set her off." They picked it up, one at each corner, set if off at the side of the track. Then he said, "Bring your tools and fix this track along here." And while they were doing that, grandpa stuck his finger down to give me the sign that I should go with him.

He took a little path along the right side of the road that went on up the side of the tunnel and up to a ridge road at the top of the tunnel that led westward. So, we followed on up to this ridge road to kind of a haul road, a wagon haul road, and we followed on across the hill, climbing a little higher and higher.

We got all the way to the top just before we turned down a little bit, to come down to the brow from which we could look down on the CHRIS SEXTON farm. He had 109 acres there and partially cleared with some fields in the valley and some fields on some ridges. And he had a pasture and a meadow and fields for corn and fields for hay, and all that I could see down there. But what interested me more was looking down on the barn and seeing all those guinnies and turkeys and geese and pigs a and the cows and the calves all running around. Then I looked down a little farther to the right in a hollow to the right of the house and there was a colt and a mare and a mule and another kind of bayish colored animal, horse. And looked towarrd the house and there was apple trees all along, and a paling fence along the side. And I know today that there was about two acres reserved along that paling fence for his garden area. And then right between the house and the garden was a great big top of a barn.

And over to the left was a big feed shed and another shed. On down was the house, a great big double loghouse, quite long and it had a big long porch along the right hand side. And on the left hand side of the logs an enclosed area that might have been a porch that was now used for a kitchen.

Anyway, grandpa and I went on down this hill and down past the barn and through the gate and on past the well and around into the house. Of course, at that time, there was my grandma, Aunt MARTHA, and WINNIE, and MANDY and Aunt SALLY still at home.

I was kindly restless and wanted to look around. And Aunt WINNIE took me to walk around the house. And they had flowers in little beds all along the front of the house. We walked on around past the smokehouse, looked over at the big cedar tree at the back of the bow of the hill. Under there was a bird with a long tail, the longest tail that I?d ever remembered seeing. And that was, Aunt WINNIE said, the old peacock.



Part III: Early Days on Paint Rock: An Oral History

(EDITOR?S NOTE? This is the third and final installment of an oral history by LETCHER SEXTON which was recorded by his sister EDRIE HUFF in January 1979 and was later transcribed and printed in the Scott County Historical Society Newsletter).

Of course, there was turkeys and a gobbler or two strutting around back there. And then she walked on around past the end of the house and we came to more flowers. Over next to the paling fence, along that end of the fence, there was bee gums, ttwo kinds. One was a patent white-type bee gum, kindly square and covered over and then over, scattered amongst them, were these tree bee gums, where they had cut a hollow tree down and cut it about four feet long and run sticks on the inside for the bees to build their honey on. And the bees were just all around there and I was plenty scared of being stung. But Aunt WINNIE said, ?Pay no attention.?

We went on around the house and back in the house. About that time they was ready to turn me loose and let me play. But they had warned me not to bother with the little dog there they called Plato. He looked like a little fox ?small teeth and quite small. But he was old and ill and ill natured. But he was attached to Grandpa and stayed right with him.

Now, I think I?d better close out on the visit by saying my Dad come up at the weekend and took me back home.

From there, I?ll skip over to the period between 1900 and 1904...

During the period of time that CAS and RACHEL SEXTON was affected by the following events of closely related people.

Grandma NANCY WEST CECIL died of cancer on her face. She had been moved from her home to the home of her daughter, NANCY, or Mrs. JAMES CARSON?s. Here she died on the twelfth of March, 1900 at the age of 67. I can remember seeing them hold her a arms while she was hollering and paining with this cancer that had partly removed part of her face and particularly her left ye. She was buried at the Cecil Cherry Fork Cemetery in a well-made coffin trimmed in black muslin and padded and pitted and sewed by neighbor women, all of whom were relatives.

RACHEL CECIL SEXTON was the descen

SEXTON, JOHN died 11 Mar 1968
Funeral services were held March 14 for John Sexton, 90, of Route 1, Oliver Springs [Coalfield]. Mr. Sexton died March 11 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary [May] McGlothin, Route 1, Oliver Springs. Mr. Sexton, who had been in excellent heaealth, suffered a heart attack. The funeral was held at the First Baptist Church of Huntsville, Tenn. Burial was in Huntsville Cemetery. Mr. Sexton and his wife were long [time] residents of Huntsville until Mrs. Sexton suffered a stroke in 19666. Since that time, they have made their home with their daughter, Mrs. McGlothin. Mr. Sexton is also survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Potter Sexton, three other daughters, Mrs. Grace Long and Mrs. Hazel Pennington, both of Huntsville and Mrs. Ruth West, Oneida; one son, Willard Sexton, Jellico; one sister, Mrs. Ewell Carson, Danville, Ky. (Source: The Scott County News, 15 Mar 1968, p5)


Found Obituaries
SEXTON, JOHN died 11 Mar 1968 Comment
Funeral services were held March 14 for John Sexton, 90, of Route 1, Oliver Springs. Mr. Sexton died March 11 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary McGlothin, Route 1, Oliver Springs. Mr. Sexton, who had been in excellent health, suffered a heart attack. The funeral was held at the First Baptist Church of Huntsville, Tenn. Burial was in Huntsville Cemetery. Mr. Sexton and his wife were long residents of Huntsville until Mrs. Sexton suffered a stroke in 1966. Since that time, they have made their home with their daughter, Mrs. McGlothin. Mr. Sexton is also survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Potter Sexton, three other daughters, Mrs. Grace Long and Mrs. Hazel Pennington, both of Huntsville and Mrs. Ruth West, Oneida; one son, Willard Sexton, Jellico; one sister, Mrs. Ewell Carson, Danville, Ky. (Source: The Scott County News, 15 Mar 1968, p5)

There are several errors in the obit above:
Mary McGlothin should be May McGlothin.



Found Obituaries
SEXTON, JOHN died 11 Mar 1968 Comment
Funeral services were held March 14 for John Sexton, 90, of Route 1, Oliver Springs. Mr. Sexton died March 11 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary McGlothin, Route 1, Oliver Springs. Mr. Sexton, who had been in excellent health, suffered a heart attack. The funeral was held at the First Baptist Church of Huntsville, Tenn. Burial was in Huntsville Cemetery. Mr. Sexton and his wife were long residents of Huntsville until Mrs. Sexton suffered a stroke in 1966. Since that time, they have made their home with their daughter, Mrs. McGlothin. Mr. Sexton is also survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Potter Sexton, three other daughters, Mrs. Grace Long and Mrs. Hazel Pennington, both of Huntsville and Mrs. Ruth West, Oneida; one son, Willard Sexton, Jellico; one sister, Mrs. Ewell Carson, Danville, Ky. (Source: The Scott County News, 15 Mar 1968, p5)

There are several errors in the obit above:
Mary McGlothin should be May McGlothin.


Died:
Jeff Kesterson was staying with Grandma McGlothin (John and Ida's eldest daughter, May) that morning. Jeff was about 4 years old--he hadn't started to kindergarten yet. I don't know where Mom was but she must have been working somewhere since she left Jeff with Grandma May often. Grandma sent Jeff to the bedroom to wake Great-Grandpa Sexton and ask what he wanted for breakfast. Jeff went to the room but could not get Grandpa Sexton to wake up. He went back to the kitchen and told Grandma May McGlothin. This was told to me by my mother, June McGlothin Kesterson 1980. Judy Solis, 2009

John married Ida Potter on 11 Feb 1907 in Scott, Tennessee, United States. Ida (daughter of William Henry Potter and Charnottie Chambers) was born on 25 Dec 1888 in Helenwood, Scott, Tennessee, United States; died on 8 Dec 1968 in Back Valley, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Potter Cemetery, Huntsville, Scott, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth date based on family information from her daughter (my grandmother) May Sexton Mcglothin, and 1900 census. Judy Solis 06-23-09

At some point in her life, Grandma Sexton (Ida Potter Sexton) had what is believed to be polio. One of her feet was curved inward on both sides, making a hollow in the center of the bottom of her foot. I can remember seeing it once, but I am n not sure when or where. She limped when she walked. Grandma Sexton was about 5'2" or 5'4" and Grandpa Sexton was about 6'4". He was tall, lanky, and had arms that hung down his side long, like a monkey. He always wore overalls and I remember that he sometimes wore a suit jacket or blazer with his overalls.

While Grandma Sexton was bedridden at Grandma McGlothin's house in about 1968, Grandpa Sexton would always talk to her and call her "Mrs. Sexton." He would talk to her as if she were awake and able to talk to him. He sat by her bed and held her hand and talked to her. He was extraordinarily respectful of her and always seemed to talk to her as if they had just fallen in love.

During this time, Uncle Fred Hamby spent a lot of time with Grandpa Sexton. I always thought of it as Uncle Fred doing everyone of us a favor by paying attention and listening to Grandpa talk. But Uncle Fred told me years and years later thahat he learned so much from Grandpa Sexton! Grandpa told him tales about WWI and WWII. Some of them I don't think were true, but that is the manner of men in those days---they told tall tales. I can remember bits and pieces of some of them I'd heard.

Every evening, Uncle Fred would come to Grandma McGlothin's and sit in a chair next to Grandpa Sexton and talk to him. Uncle Fred had been to the mailbox down the steps and across the road from Grandma McGlothin's house and he delivered the day's mail to Grandma McGlothin. We knew Uncle Fred and great-grandpa John Sexton were talking, but at 17, I didn't find it interesting and didn't listen. Oh how I wish now I had recorded every word!!!

Grandma Sexton couldn't speak and was bedridden after her stroke on Christmas Day. At times she would yell out Hell, Hell. Someone finally realized she was calling for her daughter, Hazel, but couldn't speak the name clearly. That was about the only decipherable word she spoke during the years that Grandma McGlothin took care of her.

I just hope they recognized how much their daughter, May, my precious grandmother, sacrificed to take care of her parents. Grandma Sexton had her stroke just after Christmas while Grandma May was visiting. Grandma May tried to lift Grandma Sexton and could not, injuring her own back. An ambulance took Grandma Sexton to the Oneida Hospital, where she did not improve. Grandma McGlothin brought her home to Coalfield (Back Valley Road) to take care of her. That she did until Grandma Sexton died in late 1968 or early 1969.

June McGlothin Kesterson inherited her mother's (May McGlothin) devotion to her parents. While June was dying with cancer and barely able to care for herself, she moved May into her house and tried to take care of her. She finally had to move May back to May's own house, just a half mile away. Madge and June took care of her and hired Ruth Kesterson Lackey, June's sister-in-law, to take care of May. Ruth stayed for several years, but quit after June died.

SEXTON, IDA POTTER died 8 Dec 1968
Ida Potter Sexton, 81, retired teacher, passed away Dec. 8, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mae McGlothin, of Oliver Springs, after an illness of two years. She was the daughter of the late W. H. Potter and the late Charmittie Chambers Potter. Mrs. Sexton was the wife of the late John Sexton and a member of the First Baptist Church of Huntsville. She was very active in the Church in Huntsville and the New River Baptist Church for many years. Mrs. Sexton is also survived by three daughters, Mrs. Hazel Pennington and Mrs. Grace Long, both of Huntsville, and Mrs. Ruth West, of Winfield; one son, Willard Sexton of Jellico, Tennessee; one sister, Mrs. Laura Fine, of Newport, Kentucky; four grandchildren and thirteen grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted from the First Baptist Church in Huntsville at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1968, with the Rev. John Stalens officiating. Burial followed in the Potter Cemetery. West Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. (Source: The Scott County News, 13 Dec 1968, p1)

Ida Potter Sexton

Birth:
Source = delayed birth certificate.

Notes:

Married:
Ida taught 3 or 6 terms of 5months each before she and John Sextonwere married on February 11, 1907. They were married in Harriett'sbedroom (later Dad and Mom's bedroom). The door was shut. I don'tknow how long they were married before Granddpa (Potter) found out.Dad bought 2 licenses. The first in Campbell Co. Mother wouldn't gowith him to Campbell County. It wasn't legal (the license) in Scottco. so he bought another. After Grandpa found out, their bedroom wasupstairs over DaDad and Mother's dining room in later years. One nightDad blew out the kerosene light. It caught firel. He had gone to bed.He got up, brabbed a quilt off the bed and smothered it out. Thescorched wall was still there when I stayed with Harriet and when Ruthbought the place (in the 1970s or 1980s).
Another source lists marriage date as February 10, 1907 per Ancestry.com Family Trees. No documentation attached.
John and Ida Potter Sexton lived in Buffalo at one time--before they moved into Judge Potter's home in Huntsville after his death. The land they lived on was part of the property of Thomas Chambers, one of the first settlers of Scott County, who walked across the mountain from Campbell County with his wife, Margaret, and her father, Isham Sharp. According to Ida and John Sexton's oldest daughter, May Sexton McGlothin, the land was later purchased by Judge William Henry Potter. This has not been proven, however. May McGlothin said Judge Potter gave each of his children, 4 daughters and one son, a piece of property when they got married.
In the very late 1970s, Judy Kesterson Smith Spradlin was a reporter for the Harriman Record in Harriman, Tennessee. A member of the Harriman Republican party asked her if she would like to go to him with the Rockwood (Morgan County) airport t to pick up Howard Baker. He was coming to Roane County to address the Republicans. I (Judy) was thrilled. We rode to the Rockwood airport and picked up Howard Baker and his pilot, Ron. I can't remember Ron's last name. Ron and I rode in the back seat and Howard and the man who I came with (I can't remember his name) rode in front. I was sitting behind Howard Baker and asked him some of the usual reporter questions. He was rude, asked the driver why I was there, and eventually told me he got car sick on the curves down Rockwood mountain trying to turn around and talk to me.

Ron tried to soothe it over by striking up a conversation with me. He was very nice. I told him about my great-grandfather, John Sexton, living in Scott County. He asked me which John? I asked what he meant. He said there was many John Sexton's in Huntsville so they were given nicknames. He asked about several, but when he asked about Honey John, it struck a cord--not because I'd ever heard the name before but because I knew that my great-grandpa John Sexton raised bees.

As soon as I had a chance, I called Grandma McGlothin and asked if Great-grandpa Sexton had a nickname and what was it. She said, "Honey John". What a thrill it was for me to hear that tidbit of information!

Later, I learned from reading great-grandma Sexton's journal of settling the estate of her father that the Bakers "raped" the estate, charging for this and that and more this and more that until they took all the money that Judge Potter had. I think it was some sort of vendetta against Judge Potter, who had passed the bar and got his license to practice as an attorney without going to law school. That was allowed back in his day.