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Notes:

Unproven source for middle name is an online Ancestry.com tree. JKS


Joshua is buried in Oak Ridge, TN. His tombstone is in cemetery AEC#31 Oak Ridge

Joshua FOSTER Household 1880 census
Male

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Birth Year <1825>
Birthplace TN
Age 55
Occupation Farmer
Marital Status M
Race W
Head of Household Joshua FOSTER
Relation Self
Father's Birthplace TN
Mother's Birthplace TN

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Source Information:
Census Place District 8, Anderson, Tennessee
Family History Library Film 1255244
NA Film Number T9-1244
Page Number 86D

Joshua Foster was administrator of the Estate of Washington Underwoodin 1864, along with William Underwood. Washington was probablyParley's father and Willian her brother. Items were sold to thefollowing among others:
Elija Foster: Parlia Foster; S.L. Cox; Joshua Foster
A statement of items sold and to whom was signed 09/05/1864

Joshua Foster was guardian of Sara A. Love and reported to the courtin that capacity 11/10/1880

Per 1860 Census: Occupation of Joshua Foster, Farmer
Real Estate Value $3,000
Personal Property Value, $3,580

Joshua married Parley J. Underwood in 1842 in Tennessee, United States. Parley (daughter of Washington Underwood and Freely Hill) was born on 26 Oct 1826; died on 21 Jul 1896 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Robertsville, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Source for this child is 1850 US census.

Anderson County, Tennessee
Biographies

FOSTER, Levi

Farmer; born Andersonville, Tenn., Aug. 13, 1843; son of Joshua and Parley (Underwood) Foster; father was a farmer; English-Scotch-Irish-Dutch descent; paternal grandparents Samuel and Rachel (Adkins) Foster; maternal grandparents George W. and Freely (Hill) Underwood; educated at Andersonville; married Mary A. Gage Nov. 1, 1866; he began farming at an early age, which occupation he still follows; member Baptist church.


Source: Who?s Who in Tennessee, Memphis: Paul & Douglass Co., Publishers, 1911; transcribed by Kim Mohler

Family/Spouse: Mary Adaline Gage. Mary was born on 2 Feb 1849 in Benton, Indiana, United States; died on 26 Mar 1918 in Edgemoor, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Robertsville Cemetery, Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 611DCAE49D8347D6A2DDCD484243328034B2

Notes:

Source for this child is 1850 US census.


Joshua and Parley raised their grandson, John Brown. John died inMissouri. He was sent to the creekbank with his horse and sled togather firewood that was stacked up by the creek bank. The sledoverturned and John was found later, frozen several inches into theice. Mary said he had been drinking. Mary was the niece of Sarah,the daughter of Jane Elizabeth Foster Hudson Cox.

Family/Spouse: Love Wallace. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Ephriam John Brown on 7 Oct 1866. Ephriam (son of William Brown and Malinda K. Overton) was born in 1844 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; died in 1875 in Missouri, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Source for this child is 1850 US census.

Per Mary Cox Kesterson, he was called "Uncle Wash"

George married Margaret Wallace on 13 Jan 1868. Margaret (daughter of James Wallace and Eliza Adkins, daughter of James Wallace and Elizabeth Leach) was born on 2 Feb 1846 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; died on 21 Dec 1920 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Source of this child is US 1870 census

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• 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

Elizabeth married William Lincoln Cox on 5 Feb 1888 in Kingston, Roane, Tennessee, United States. William (son of Martin Cox and Frances (Fanny) Farmer) was born on 14 Dec 1862 in Tennessee, United States; died on 13 Dec 1917 in Kingston, Roane, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George Hudson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Enoch FOSTER Household 1880 Census
Male

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Birth Year <1863>
Birthplace TN
Age 17
Occupation Farming
Marital Status S
Race W
Head of Household Joshua FOSTER
Relation Son
Father's Birthplace TN
Mother's Birthplace TN

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Source Information:
Census Place District 8, Anderson, Tennessee
Family History Library Film 1255244
NA Film Number T9-1244
Page Number 86D

Buried:
Event Description: Y

Buried in sunset cemetery, Clinton

Family/Spouse: Nannie Bell Moore. Nannie was born on 28 May 1869; died on 16 Jul 1913 in Sunset Cemetery, Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Source of this child is US 1870 census.

Birth:
Source of place of birth is Find-A-Grave entry by Edward E Gardner. Unproven.

Buried:
Source of burial is Find-A-Grave.

Family/Spouse: Sally Dupee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Mossie Rachel Baker. Mossie was born on 14 Dec 1876 in Campbell, Tennessee, United States; died on 8 No 1948 in Pineville, Bell, Kentucky, United States; was buried in Sunset Cemetery, Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Sada A. Crozier. Sada was born on 18 Aug 1882 in Harriman, Roane, Tennessee, United States; died on 21 Sep 1964 in Harriman, Roane, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Willard Park Cemetery, Harriman, Roane, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: E09756DFD4D142E2A4EECEBE8302B5CE9BC7

Family/Spouse: Minnie Foster. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Martha was raised by her grandparents, Joshua and Parley UnderwoodFoster

Family/Spouse: William Henderson Lakins. William was born on 5 Sep 1859 in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States; died on 11 Nov 1939 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Event Description: Y

Event Description: Y

She is buried in the Robertsville Baptist Church cemetery. The church has changed denominations and names over the years but is in Oak Ridge, TN, off of Robertsville Road.

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Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Lula Mae. Lula was born on 26 Dec 1887; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: George Anna Wright. George was born on 20 Oct 1896; died on 2 Oct 1974. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Ella was Lee's daughter. She choked to death on an apple

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

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• 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.

Mary married Samuel Whetson Kesterson on 19 Nov 1916 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. Samuel (son of Masten Tate Hill and Eliza Jane Dunn) was born on 16 Jul 1894 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; died on 2 Jul 1962 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: B0A2BACAF8014A5B84C70DC94A73656A212F
• Census: 1900, Civil District 01, Morgan, Tennessee, United States

Family/Spouse: Mckamey Seiber. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Isaac Seiber. Isaac (son of James Seiber and Sarah B Daugherty) was born on 16 Sep 1878 in Oliver Springs, Roane, Tennessee, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Minnie Mae Hill. Minnie (daughter of Masten Tate Hill and Eliza Jane Dunn) was born on 29 Oct 1889 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; died on 1 Jan 1971 in La Follette, Campbell, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Nancy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Died:
Charles E. Foster, 62, died Monday at 9 a.m. at Jewish Hosptal.

He lived at 314 W. St. Catherine, and was employed at Parkmoor Bowling Lanes, 2425 S. Third. He was a native of Saxton, Kentucky.

Survivors include his Widow, the former Helen Hill, and two sons, Jack and Charles E. Foster, Jr.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Durham Funeral Home in Pineville, with burial in the Hurst Cemetery Middlesboro.

Courier Journal, Louisville, KY 28 Feb 1968

Family/Spouse: Helen Hill. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl married Inez Whitus on 11 Apr 1926 in Anderson, Tennessee, United States. Inez (daughter of Edward Holmes Whitus and Cora Mae Koontz) was born on 5 Jan 1906 in Morgan, Tennessee, United States; died on 17 Aug 1992 in Morgan, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Oliver Springs Cemetery, Oliver Springs, Roane, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Mabel Lucille Black. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ella was Lee's daughter. She choked to death on an apple

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• Census: 1920, Civil District 9, Anderson, Tennessee, United States
• Census: 1930, District 9, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States

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Died:
Grace E. (Kesterson) Sweet , Grace E. Kesterson Sweet, age 90, a resident of Oak Ridge, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, at NHC of Oak Ridge. Grace was born March 6, 1918, in Peabody, Tenn., and lived most of her life in Oak Ridge.

Mrs. Sweet was a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Oak Ridge. She was known for her great faith in God and she was always eager to present Christ to each one she came in contact with. Grace was one of the few remaining people of Oak Ridge who knew John Hendrix and his vision for the town of Oak Ridge.

She was an avid gardener who thoroughly enjoyed sharing her flowers as well as her ceramics and wood crafts with her many friends and family members. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence Sweet; a son, Arlie Thomas Sweet; her parents, Sam W. and Mary Belle Cox Kesterson; and brothers, Paul, Samuel and Jesse Kesterson.

She is survived by sons, Clarence Alvin Sweet and wife, Joyce, of Knoxville, and James Sweet and wife, Linda, of Powell; sisters, Dorothy Riggs and husband, Jack, of Dayton, Ohio, Martha Hill of Harriman, Helen Christopher and husband, Oliver, of Petros, and Ruth Lackey of Coalfield; grandchildren, Bryan Sweet, Susan Hammontree, Kellye Bennett, Jeffrey Sweet, Bradley Sweet, and Christi McGinnis; 11 great-grandchildren; sisters-in-law, Sandra Walls Kesterson of Coalfield, and Lucille Kesterson of North Carolina; and a host of friends and extended family members.

The family will receive friends Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008, between the hours of 6 and 8 p.m. at Sharp Funeral Home. The funeral will follow in the funeral home chapel at 8 p.m. with the Rev. Steve McDonald officiating. Burial and graveside services will be held Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, at 11 a.m. at Anderson Memorial Gardens. The family expresses their most sincere gratitude to the staff of Caris Health Care and National Health Care of Oak Ridge for the care given to Mrs. Sweet during her illness. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to the Calvary Baptist Church Building Fund, 163 N. Jefferson Circle, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Sharp Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements
Thanks to Jane Lane for obits.

Grace married Clarence E. Sweet on 15 Jun 1938 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. Clarence (son of John W Sweet and Nancy Belle Duncan) was born on 19 Nov 1910 in Marlow, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; died on 27 May 1992 in Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Anderson Memorial Gardens, Dossett, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, District 9, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States
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Paul married Lucille Burress on 25 Aug 1945 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States. Lucille (daughter of Homer John Burress and Nannie Grubb) was born on 17 Feb 1921 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States; died on 21 Jan 2011 in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States; was buried in Raleigh Memorial Park, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, District 9, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States

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Memories by Judy:

Granny and Grandpa Kesterson moved from Coalfield to a community near Harriman TN. The road they lived on was an inverted "U" and granny and grandpa lived at about 11o'clock on that "U". Aunt Martha and Uncle Hubert lived about 3:00 on the "U" and I used to go through the woods between the two houses when we would visit with Granny. I was probably not more than 5-6-7 years old. Aunt Dorotha and Uncle Harry Padgett lived in a small, silver mobile home in the woods. One day I was r running through the woods towards Granny's house when Uncle Harry stopped me. He stooped down to my level and told me he was leaving. I don't remember anything else he said or how long I stayed there, just that he stopped me and told me he was leaving. He may have told me I'd never see him again--I don't precisely remember any other details.

The only other memory I have of Harry is several years later when I was in my teens. Mother was going to Oak Ridge to shop and had several of us children with her. We were in Oliver Springs, getting near Oak Ridge, turning the curve just before the intersection of Highways 62 and 61. Mother told us not to look a certain direction, that she thought that Uncle Harry was on a motorcycle and he would want to come to our house if he recognized us. She was trying to avoid him.

I never heard anything else about Uncle Harry after that.

Judy Kesterson Solis 03-03-07

Mary Cox Kesterson told her granddaughter, Judy Kesterson Carter, that her mother died a few days after Dorothy was born and Mary didn't get to go to her funeral because of that. She also said they were planting sweet potato slips when Dorotha was born and that she would come to the house and run tepid water over her wrists to cool down her body before she breast-fed Dorothy.

Mary's mother was buried in the White Oak Cemetery in Campbell County. Her son, Jesse, and granddaughter, Judy, went to the cemetery and tried to find her grave. It was not marked and we did not find the grave.

Judy Kesterson Carter Spradlin

Birth:
May have been born in Claiborne Co. Per her sister Ruth, Dortha's daughter, Teresa, has 3 birth certificates for Dot listing 3 different places of birth.

Died:
Dortha Elizabeth Kesterson Riggs of Dayton, Ohio, went home to be with the Lord on Nov. 25, 2011, in her home.

Mrs. Riggs was born Aug. 18, 1923, in Anderson County, Tenn.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Sam W. Kesterson and Mary Cox Kesterson; her eldest son, Joseph Paul Padgett Sr.; three brothers, infant Samuel, Paul and Jesse Kesterson; and a sister, Grace Sweet.

Mrs. Riggs is survived by her husband of 52 years, Jack Riggs of the home; sons, Elvis Padgett and David Riggs; daughter, Teresa Pierce and her sons, Jacob and Jeremiah Behnken; granddaughters and Melinda Padgett Smith, Treva Padgett, and Joseph, Jeff, Tim and Chris Padgett, Paul's children.

She is also survived by three sisters, Martha Hill, Harriman, Tenn., Helen (Mrs. Oliver) Christopher, Petros, Tenn., and Ruth Lackey, Coalfield, Tenn.; 15 nieces and nephews and their spouses, and a host of extended families and friends.

A private service was held Dec. 2, 2011, at New Hope Cemetery in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Dorotha married Harry Cecil Padgett on 15 Oct 1941. Harry (son of Elvis Green Padgett and Bertha May Thompson) was born on 29 May 1912 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States; died on 21 May 2001 in Corbin, Whitley, Kentucky, United States; was buried in MacFarland Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorotha married Jack Riggs on 18 Dec 1958. Jack was born in 16 Feb. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married Hubert Wily Hill [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, District 9, Claiborne, 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.
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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]

Jesse married Sandra Walls [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Helen married Marion Oliver Christopher [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married Davis Boyd Lackey [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Cread Childs. Cread (son of Harley Alexander Childs and Eliza E Newby) was born in 1916; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Joe Newby. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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