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Description of My Contacts with the Warren W. Cline Family

2010-03-04T11:59:00.000-08:00

By Fred McCaleb

I arrived at my parents home in Fayette County, Al. just in time for Christmans 1945 fresh out of three years service in the Army Ordnance Corps repairing tires on Saipan. I had been traveling home for 4 weeks and it was a big occasion with gladness that I was still alive all around. I had worked at Radford Ordnance Works before the war and lived in the barracks there and worked in powder and explosives as a Government Inspector testing smokeless powder and nitro glycerin in the government laboratory. According to a bill that congress had passed veterans were supposed to get their old job back. I decided to relax at home for about 3 months before getting back into the working world. Meantime I helped my dad build a carshed big enough for 2 automobiles. He didn’t have a vehicle other than mules and wagon and my transportation was by two good feet. My dad wanted me to stay with him as long as I desired. I had alloted him part of my army paycheck since I was making all of the big amount of $78 per month and had been promoted to technical sargeant just before the war ended or right after. My dad had saved part of my allotment and was going to buy himself a pickup truck when they became available.

Sometime during the 3 months I was at home in early 1946 I wrote Radford Ordnance about getting my old job back. To my surprise they said I could. It wasn’t the same and the barracks I had lived in were shut down. I had to find a place to live in town. At first I rented a room on the street back of the First Baptist Church of Radford and was living with another boy in the room who had ways different from mine and was also paying what I considered high rent. An ad in the Radford Newspaper by a Mrs. Charlton had a cheaper room and only for one person. I took that room. She had a handicapped son who had had been born handicapped or had some disease that had damaged some part of his brain, but he could play beautiful church hymns and other music on the piano. His name was Tommy and he played music for the First Christian Church in Radford. Mrs. Charlton persuaded me to visit the Presbyterian Church the first two or three Sundays I was there. Then Tommy persuaded me to go to the Christian Church in Radford. There the young son of Warren W. Cline and his daughter Bettie Cline and I believe Ellen were singing in the choir. By the time I had been to that church two or three Sundays their daughter Bettie made herself acquainted with me. From then on I was mixed up with the Clines. Bettie invited me to go to a concert at Radford Women’s College and I accepted. The next Sunday after that she invited me to go home with her for the noon lunch at the Clines. There I met an amazing family. I wasn’t used to seeing and associating with many decent people during the last three years in the army. I estimated that about two thirds of the average people were sorry at that time by my way of thinking. I did make friends with a Jewish boy from NYC. I wondered why the Jewish people had neglected to pull the right strings and see that he became an officer. I made friends with a couple of decent Mormon boys. One showed me the Morman Tabernacle or church in Honolulu. Had other no good friends that tried to influence me without any success as I was very well set in my ways by that time. Not that I was all that perfect myself. The acquaintance with the Clines continued with the Bettie and Fred McCaleb courtship and I got many good Sunday meals there for the next five or six months. Our courtship was done entirely without the benefit of modern transportation. We apparently had good legs and walked all around the place. Bettie was a teacher at the Radford Elementary School at the time of our courtship. She was staying at home with her parents. I was catching a bus in downtown Radford to go to and from my work at Radfolrd Ordnance Works. I hadn’t thought of any need for transportation of my own. Had owned a 2nd handed A Model Ford before going off to war and was going to give it to my dad. He tried to drive it, ran it in the ditch across road from our driveway and busted 3 dozen eggs on himself and ruined right front wheel. I fixed the front end and sold the car before going off to war being afraid my dad would kill himself with this modern high speed contraption. It would make all of 55 miles an hour and I drove it from Radford to home and back two or 3 times. Same car was selling for about 3 times what I sold for when I returned and new autos were near impossible to purchase. I am relating all of this so you can see what kind of oddball fellow Bettie Cline got for a husband. By the time Bettie and I had gone together five or six months we were ready to get married on my birthday September 7, 1946 which was my 30th birthday. My mother told me not to get married untill I was 30 and I obeyed her on that one, although I didn’t always do what she told me to do or what suited her.

The main thing I worried about before marrying Bettie was if I would be able to provide for her and family and take care of her in the manner that she had been taken care of during her bringing up. Her decency won me over. I couldn’t help but know that I was marrying a likeable girl. She was much ahead of me in many ways, especially church work and leadership. I didn’t feel up to her standards. The wedding turned out to be formal one with her in her wedding gown and me in a suit.My parents had been married at my mother’s home by a country preacher. The house was full, played here comes the bride and beautiful music. We took each other for better or for worse, in sickness and health, until death do us part etc. We haven’t dumped each other yet, but I suppose death will soon part us. After the wedding celebrations were over, Mr Cline took us to the train station where we boarded a train for Bristol, Va. We spent our first night in a hot non airconditioned hotel in Bristol. The next night we were at Montreat NC not far out of Ashville. One of the prettiest places I ever saw with sparkling rock columns and walls in the dining room. After the wedding honeymoon in Montreat we came back to Mr. Cline’s home.

Now came the break of our lives. Mr. & Mrs. Cline offered us the big room upstairs, free room and board if we would stay with them. Not many son-in-laws run into an offer like that. I didn’t accept the board part. I paid Mr. Cline what we thought was enough to buy the groceeries to feed us at that time. Best I recollect it was $40 per month. Mrs. Early Dawn Sturdivant Cline was the best mother-in-law anyone could ever expect to have. She had grown up on the farm under poor conditions the same as me. She had made good in high school and gone to Emory & Henry one summer & Radford State Normal one summer for teacher training and had taught in New River High School and at Falls Mills, Va. where she met Warren W. Cline. She thought I was a good son in law whether I was all that good or not. It was unusual to have a wife and mother in law that thought so much of me after being buffetted around in the army with nobody caring what happens and it’s only yours to do or die. Early’s brother Bill Sturdivant and his wife and children lived 4 or 5 blocks away. She and Bill took the news seriously and liked to discuss politicks. Mr Cline didn’t take happenings too seriously. He did think the economy was going to the dogs with all the deficit spending the Roosevelt administration had done and the politicians were still doing. I agreed with him. Funny how our prediction hasn’t come true yet. Money is getting more worthless each year, but still it hasn’t declined to zero as it did in Germany after WW1. That could still be in store for the generation alive after 2000. Lets hope not and that they make more and more money that buys something. Mr. Cline helped Early’s brother Bill through economic hardspots. At one time he bought a farm near Dublin, Va. He was going to build a nice house there for he and Early to live on since she was a country girl but someway she didn’t decide to live in the country and instead he let her brother Bill and family live there. Mrs. Cline had several kinsmen in Dublin and Pulaski and in Montgomery and Pulaski counties. I could never remember the names of all of them. She bought butter and other foods from one of her cousins. The Dudleys, Sturdivants etc are listed under the Cline genealogy. One of Mrs. Cline’s brothers went west after having trouble with the sheriff while drunk, worked on a cattle ranch, never corresponded with the family for a long time and died out there. Mr. Cline helped the wife and children of that family out by helping support them. Mr. Cline did many good deeds unnoticed for both the Cline side of the family and the Sturdivant side.

Mr. Cline had a Mercury automobile all the 2 or 3 years I stayed at their residence. Mrs. Cline didn’t drive and was not interested in learning how. Mr. Cline did all the grocery and most of the rest of shopping. There was grocery stores a mile or more apart at each end of Radford and he would visit each to get the lowest priced item. Didn’t matter if he burned up extra gas to get the bargains. The gas cost probably balanced out the bargains. When he got home from shopping he set down at his desk and kept up with every penney he had spent. Entered it into his records. My wife Bettie has done most of the shopping for us but doesn’t worry about the monetary details. She is careful of what she gets and hunts bargains as did her dad. I see too many good things to eat when I go along and wind up getting junk foods. She apparently has some characteristics of her dad. She is getting about unable to do the grocery shopping now and I may have to do that if I don’t also get disabled. Mrs. Cline thought her daughter Bettie was getting a great country boy Fred McCaleb, but I never was sure whether Mr. Cline was impressed too much or not. I am sure he hated to lose his wonderful daughter. But he didn’t say anything for or against our marriage. The keeping up with his finances carefully was probably the result of his training as a secretary. He was a secretary for many years for the Walton Construction Co. who did railroad tunnels in the mountains of W. Va. & Va. That put him in better shape than most people before and during the depression years. The salary he made would be nothing compared with the amount received today in cheap dollars. But it was big money in those times. Compared with my family he was a well-to-do man and I didn’t understand why his daughter would want a fellow like me.

Mr. Cline was already a grown man when the twentieth century arrived. I got to listen at him tell about some of his early experiences. He was a rare high school graduate for his time. There was an Episcopal High School in Mt. Sterling, Ky. He worked his way through that school and didn’t have to pay the tuition fees. His job was firing the stoves and doing other things the school needed doing. I thought the Episcopal Church Priests and teachers may have had a good influenc on him. Some of the subjects he did well in there were mathematics and English. He did well in using the English in whatever he wrote with maybe few or any mistakes. After high school he went to, I believe, Lexington Ky Business College. There he took shorthand and the required accounting, etc. The shorthand course was Gregg. How much of that he learned I don’t know, but he formed that into his own brand of shorthand. It took him to read it. He used shorthand at work and in notes he took about things he needed to do around the house. When he graduated from business college I never heard him say what his first job was. Anyhow he was with Walton Construction Company most of his working life. He probably started with them about 1905. He had been working there several years when he met up with Early Dawn Sturdivant at Falls Mills, Va. about 1916. He took a liking to her and they got married Dec. 15, 1917. He had been taking the school teachers out and Early didn’t know if she wanted to have any dealings with him or not. But in the long run he won her heart.

Before marriage the best I could find out Mr. Cline had been quite a sportsman and a man that the girls would like. He owned early motorcycles, early model autos, and whatever early mobile transportation that might be around while others were going horseback, in the buggy, on foot, in the farm wagon or whatever.He may also have started out with a thoroughbred Kentucky riding horse. I didn’t find if he did or not. He told me that he owned several motorcycles and the last one he owned he got it stopped about 10 feet before it went over a cliff and after that he gave up on motorcycles. Many small streams along the roads didn’t have bridges over them back then. He said he crossed them with his cycle fast enough to part the water and go over on dry land. My dad used to cross streams with mules and wagon with water sometimes axle deep and up into wagon bed if a rain had come during our trip. I didn’t find when Mr. Cline got his first auto, but it must have been somewhere around 1910-1914. After marriage he owned a Baby Overland, Austin, Several Fords and he was driving a Ford Mercury when Bettie and I got married. He drove that till it gave out on account of not having sufficient oil in it in a trip to Roanoke, Va. After that he went with a large Dodge and then a Dodge Dart. Drove autos so long and couldn’t handle very well because of age. Bumped or backed into someone in parking lot and police told him he would have to take and pass driving test to keep driving and he never drove any more. He sold his auto, which was a good one, and health and spirit went down hill from then on till death.
I gleaned some of his tales about his work at the Walton Construction Company while I was there. He started out as a male secretary keeping up with costs and income. How many people worked, what they were paid, income from the job, profits etc. He finally got up to secretary and treasurer of the company. They hired a woman secretary to do what he had done and at last he was 10% owner of the company. Don’t know if that happened same time he got promoted or not. The company paid each worker in money when he was working and he was responsible for the payroll. He told about going to, I believe, Bristol, Va. with a suitcase full of money for payroll. Besides the money he had a .45 caliber pistol which he said he hoped he never had to use. His payroll job sounded dangerous to me. He never had any trouble getting robbed. He said they built a tunnel through a mountain for the railroad in West Va. and the tunnel went right through a thick strip of coal. They made a big profit out of that tunnel as they sold the coal. Told me about sorry workers and good workers. Many of them seemed to have come from Italy. Southern Italians wouldn’t work very well but the ones from north part of Italy were as good as one could find. He was working in a company owned office in Falls Mills, Va. with living quarters upstairs when he and Early got married. They lived upstairs until after Bettie was born. Then they moved to West Graham, now Bluefield, Va. After that they moved to Roanoke, Va where Ellen was born. Bill & David were born at Winsor Ave house in Roanoke. Early Dawn never did call Mr. Cline Warren or papa or dad or honey as other women sometimes call their husbands. She always called him Mr. Cline. Maybe she thought she had an important man as her husband. I thought that about him and always called him Mr. Cline. Bettie thought she had a wonderful dad also.

Mr. Cline’s dad was Andrew Moore Cline, a bricklayer in Mt. Sterling, Ky. Made good money laying brick, was friendly with his bricklaying friends, and liked to share drinking and throwing parties with them. He was very liberal on these occasions and cost was of no matter. Mr. Cline’s mother was Mary Elizabeth Jones. Best I could find out they were sometimes short of funds and the mother kept boarders to make up for bricklayer income spent on drinking and party sharing. Drinking was in style in that day and time and still is in many places. Mr. Warren Cline escaped all that through the influence of his mother and the Episcopal High school and turned out to be an outstanding person. Andrew Moore Cline’s dad at one time owned a brick plant in Paris, Burbon County, Ky. Bricklaying seemed to be in the Cline blood. My Son James Arthur McCaleb became a bricklayer. Mr. Cline’s mother Mary Elizabeth was also said to be one of the finest of women. She had a wonderful influence on the children. Her brother was a doctor in Mt. Sterling, Ky. Mr. Cline called him “Uncle Doc.” One of Mr. Cline’s tales he told while I was there was about uncle doc and his woman patient. The woman had been complaining for a long time. I didn’t catch whether she had been going to another Dr. or not. Uncle Doc visited the woman and he told her he would make her up some pills that would cure anything. He knew there wasn’t anything bad wrong with her. Uncle Doc went to the kitchen and fashioned her some pills he made from flour dough. The patient took them, got well, and said that was the best medicine she had ever taken. Mr. Cline really loved to tell this tale and told it several times while I was there. I gathered the impression he didn’t think a whole lot of what doctors could do for a person, much of it was psychological. He drank a glass of hot salty water in the morning to keep his bowels in good shape. He bought an ointment he called Rosenheims from a fellow that had told him about it and rubbed it on for scratches, boils, sores or anything wrong. When he had a bad cold or sorethroat he rubbed on and also ate Vicks Salve. Had his own system of staying well. The newspapers reported no one should eat cranberries one Thanksgiving because they had been sprayed with bad insecticide and might kill a person. Mr. Cline went to the store and purchased the usual amount of the berries and we all had a big turkey thanksgiving with plenty of cranberries. No one died. Mr. Cline ate nearly raw, just warmed up, boiled eggs for breakfast each morning. The chlorestol in them were supposed to clog arteries and cause heart attack. They seemed healthy for him. He supposedly disobeyed many of the rules for healthy eating. He wasn’t influenced by experts that knew everything in his day and time. The main truth for him was to be found in the Bible and he was well read on that.

Another tale he liked to tell was about his father in law, Dudley Kent Sturdivant. Dudley Kent and his wife stayed with the Clines when they were old and brokedown. Mr. Cline was moving from one house to another. A salesman came along and he let Dudley Kent talk to the salesman, who was trying to sell Eugene Debbs book on Socialism. Dudley Kent already had the book and Mr. Cline thought the father in law was big on socialism. The salesman and father in law set in the front yard on 2 old chairs and argued socialism until the last piece of furniture was loaded. Dudley Kent told the salesman how sorry socialists were and that the book was no good. Apparently Early Dawn’s father could argue either side of a question. He was self educated, read the books he could get ahold of in his time and wrote a beautiful handwriting. I never saw him, just heard the tales about him. He named his only daughter Early Dawn Sturdivant because she was born in the early dawn of day one morning. That daughter made good grades at Dublin High School, Va. and had two summers of teacher’s training at the colleges of the time and taught at New River High School and at Falls Mills High School before getting married to Mr. Cline.

Mr. Cline had several other tales he told but I forgot most of them except one that he told about the Indian and his horse. The Indian trained his horse not to eat. Thought that would be a very good idea as he had very little to feed the poor thing. Finally he got him trained. About that time the horse died. Mr Cline was old when he was telling these tales and told them several times, which aggrevated at least one of his children. It didn’t matter with me.

When Bettie and I were married, her brother Bill Cline was about a sophomore at Radford High School. He made good grades and almost cried sometimes when he had taken a test and thought he had made a low grade. His low grade was generally about 93 to 97. He was active in the Boy Scouts and became a member of the Radford Football team. He served as a lifeguard at the swimming pool two or three summers. He lived in one of the upstairs bedrooms until about the last year in high school. He then moved to an upstairs room in the two story garage Mr. Cline had built on 601 First St. East. Mr. Cline liked to build something at every house he lived in. He had built a garage or two in the side of the hills at other houses in Radford. I helped him some on the two story garage construction. Best I recollect his son David helped on that building after returning from the navy in ww2. He also built a chicken house back of the garage and chicken fence to keep chickens pinned in. He most always had plenty of eggs for family consumption, even though he was in town. Down past the garage and chicken house there was an extra city lot for gardening. He had a good garden most every summer. I helped him some in the garden. Son Bill helped him some. After Bill was a Dr. and had his own place he grew a beautiful garden each year. Mr. Cline may have influenced him to do some gardening. I was a country boy that never learned to grow very good gardens and Bill was a City boy that did all his gardening the right way. I felt ashamed of my garden after looking at his. Was I a bit lazy or just interested in other things?

Here is a little about what I was doing while staying with the Clines. The first year I worked at Radford Ordnance with the Government checking on stored powder and explosives. Part of the job included going to the Dublin Va. storage area where they had about 150 magazines filled with deteriorating powder and explosives. The black powder storage magazines were in the most deteriorated shape. By the way these magazines were on the Sturdivant farm where Mrs. Early Dawn Sturdivant had grown up. She discussed with me what was left. The only things at her place were the spring house and the cherry trees. They had even moved her family cemetery to the Dublin Cemetery. There is a plot in the Dublin Cemetery (big) where Mr. & Mrs. Cline are buried that any of their descendants or kinsmen that wish can be buried at. Mrs. Cline gave the interest off a bank account in perpetuity to take care of her part of the cemetery. It is in the hands of Phoebe Sturdivant Poff at the present time. I ate cherries from the Sturdivant cherrie trees and I believe took enough home for Mrs. Cline to make a pie or two. The army had taken the place away from the Sturdivants. We burned powder that was deteriorating by spreading in a thin row in a field and setting fire to one end of the row. It burned almost instantly to the other end . One of my coworkers got severely burned doing that.

After about a year with the government they reduced force and I got laid off. I was still eligible for the GI bill. I used that to take a year of advanced chemistry at VPI, Blacksburg, Va. Was trying for a masters in Chemistry but didn’t ever fulfill all the requirements on account of scheduling, B grades etc. I caught a ride with younger students that were driving from Radford to VPI. At the end of a year there I decided to see if I could get a job in the chemical field. I succeeded in getting hired at Celanese Corp of America at Narrows, Va. about the fall of 1948. There I caught a ride to at start every day from Radford, Va. to Celanese a distance of 30 miles each way. Finally the bus stopped running and I rode with a coworker. About that time I decided I should be closer to work and bought a lot in nearby Ripplemead, Va. We decided to rent a house at Celco Heights about ½ mile from Celanese while working on the house at Ripplemead. About the time I started working on house I decided some transportation might come in handy. Mr. Cline knew the Dodge auto dealer in Radford. That was about 3 years after WW2 and vehicles were very hard to be allowed to purchase. Mr. Cline’s auto friend notified him that a Dodge Station Wagon had come in and I could purchase that if I hurried on down. That’s when I got the Old Dodge station wagon at Jamison Motors. Had transportation of my own that could serve as a pickup truck or car by removing 2 back seats. I hauled the material to build the Ripplemeand house on that and did most of the work myself. Had the house paid for by the time I finished building and at that time we left the hospitality of the Clines. They said they hated to see us go,
But guessed it was the best to get on our own. Their hospitality had given us a tremendous start in life. I made the cement blocks for the Ripplemead house and garage beside Mr. Cline’s 2 story garage in Radford. Mrs. Haslip from across the street called the police because she thought I was doing it commercially. They didn’t do anything with me. The son Bill Cline helped me dig the septic tank at Ripplemead one summer. Forgot what I paid him but I am sure it wasn’t much. He wanted to exercise his muscles and be a strong football player. His help and a man that laid the floors and a man that plastered the walls was the only help I got outside myself. I was trying to be independent financally as Mr. Cline said he had been. After moving in the house I borrowed $600 from Mr. Cline to buy an adjoining lot. Paid that back in about 3 months. Maybe they didn’t feel like they lost too much by letting us stay with them about 3 years.

I will have to say some good words about Mrs. Early Dawn Sturdivant Cline. She prepared a whole lot of good food for us while we were there. She knew exactly what everybody liked and tried to serve it to them. I liked everything, so I don’t know if she had trouble figuring me out or not. She didn’t let me starve and I ate whatever was on the table. She kept her house spotless, believed in ironing everything, even underwear, whether it needed it or not. She had a cleaning lady come in a time or two during the week to do her harder cleaning. Some were black and some were white. I didn’t get the impression that her help was much good, and that Mrs. Cline worked as hard bossing the help as it would have taken to do the cleaning herself. But I suppose Mr. Cline wanted her to have help and was willing to pay what little money they cost. Mrs. Cline was already an old lady and didn’t have much strength. Radford was an area where she was close to two of her brothers, and many of her cousins. Mr. Cline had moved back to that area after retiring to satisfy her and had offered to move to the country near Dublin on a farm. She declined the country place. Mr. Cline retired about 1938 and died in 1966. Mrs Cline died in 1971 at the Hospital in Lynchburg, Va. near her son David’s home. Mrs. Early Dawn spent much time petting her grand daughter Jean Ellen McCaleb when Jean was baby. Jean Ellen and Fredrick were both born in Radford, but we were not there long enough for Fredrick to get his share of petting. She was a good grandmother to all her children. I thought back then that Jean Ellen had the good traits of both her grandma Cline and her grandma Eza Etta Hallmark McCaleb. I hope my thoughts were right. Early Dawn told me about all her nearby kin, but I can’t recollect many of their names. She had all the Dudley kin written down and I wrote that to my family page about Cline-Sturdivant family. She was ahead of Mr. Cline on the genealogy of her family. The Methodist Church Officials of Ala. had prompted her for that since her gg grandfather Matthew Parham Sturdivant had been the first regular Methodist preacher in the Tombigbee river area of Ala. and the first in all Alabama. Her brother Bill told her not to say anything about that since they were of the Church of Christ. Mrs. Cline said she was a Methodist in youth because that was the nearest church around, but that her dad told her the Christian Church of Christ was nearer right. Her dad was well read in the Bible and what other literature he managed to get ahold of. He had heard a Dr. Bullard, an early Church of Christ preacher in that area of Va. preach. A man named Rigdon was an early member of the Church of Christ and deserted to the Mormans and helped Brigham Young set up the Church at Salt Lake City. As far as I found out Mr. Cline was a member of the Christian Church of Mt. Sterling, Ky. And elsewhere from boyhood and never changed until very old after the Christian Church joined the National Council of Churches. In his last days he attended the Church of Christ noninstrumental outside Christianburg, Va. He always gave his part to Christian missionaries and preachers he thought were trying to follow the Bible, but balked on most of the modern stuff. What he gave, I didn’t ask. I know he sent his sister, Fanny Cline (an old Maid) money every week. I don’t know how much. Women occupied an exalted place with the Clines. They thought their sister was too good to stoop to working for a living. Brother Jim Cline was too poor and spent his money as fast as earned so he didn’t contribute. Mr. Cline said if brother Jim saw a Brass Monkey and wanted it he would spend his last dime for the monkey. I deduced that Mrs. Early Dawn didn’t exactly approve of the money Mr. Cline gave his sister, but he gave to whomever he wished, including cancelling a loan to Mrs. Cline’s brother Bill. I can hear his old office typewriter clanging away now writing his weekly letter and fixing his donation to “sister.” His old office desk on which this typewriter operated is setting in my dad’s old house here in Alabama. If any of the Cline descendants want it and are willing to come get it, they can have it as far as I am concerned. Ask Bettie first. Ha!

I must say in closing that I have never regretted marrying into the Cline family. They furnished me with the best wife anyone could ever imagine marrying. I thought I might get unlucky and marry the “devil’s grandma.” Her mother and daddy brought her up in the old fashioned way, but I can’t complain about that. She has tolerated me for over 53 years now, is old and crippled with arthritis and can hardly get around, but I intend to stick with her till “death do us part.” Hope I haven’t derated anyone of the Clines.

Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan August 1945

2010-03-02T10:17:00.000-08:00

by

Fred McCaleb

I was on Saipan with the 428th Army Ordinance Tire Repair Company for a time during the last months of 1944 and in 1945 until WWII ended. The following are some of my recollections concerning the trip to Saipan, a description of the devastation seen on Saipan, etc.

We boarded the Dutch motorship SS Japara in Honolulus, Oahu, Hawaii for the trip to Saipan. It was a grey ship and took a left front position in a seven ship convoy. The convoy was escorted by three destroyer escorts that were running about twice the speed of the troopships. The escorts were checking for submarines to the right, left and in front of us as we proceeded. We were given practice abandon ship lessons ever so often. That way one would never know if a practice or the real thing. The convoy was halted at Eniwetock Atoll for about ten days until conditions got better in the waters toward Saipan. At Eniwetok we saw the remains of some Japanese ships that had been bombed and were still sticking partly out of the water. At Eniwetok most of us slept on the top deck on our blankets with life jackets as the pillow. Here the stars seemed to rock in unison with the rocking ship. One fellow on our ship got deathly sick while there and had to be taken away to a hospital. I hope he lived. The sun beamed down very hot in the daytime. Finally we left. Our ship had a short wave radio that was hooked to the loudspeaker system and that tuned to Tokyo Rose. She would play American swing music and tell the married soldiers that their wives were right now out with a 4F. That didn't bother me since I was unmarried at the time. But then she said that there was a 7 ship convoy proceeding toward Saipan that wouldn't make it. That sort of shook things up. The destroyer escorts increased their activity. We started changing direction every few minutes, and the ships in the convoy closed in next to each other when night came. We came through without any ship getting torpedoed and arrived safely in Saipan. We heard by the grapevine that the Japara was sunk on the next trip. Whether that was true I will never know.

On arriving on Saipan we were treated to a good meal by Japanese prisoners of war as KPs. I found one could speak English and that he was from Utah,U.S.A. Saipan had been almost totally wiped out. There were a few house foundations and a bronze statue to the man that had introduced sugar growing to Saipan. These were in what had been the city of Garapan. The statue had many bullet scars. In the city of Charan Kanoa there was left the twisted steel framework of a sugar refinery. Everything else was gone. The U.S. bombers and naval ships, the marines and infantry had done their job. An estimated 15,000 Japanese soldiers had been pushed to one end of the island where there was nothing left but a cliff and ended their life by jumping into the Pacific ocean. A few Japanese and natives had surrendered, and they were in a concentration camp surrounded by barb wire and with no bathing facilities.

After being on Saipan a week or two, I and three other members of the 428th company were sent to Guam to help the Navy Seabees set up a tire repair shop. The B-24 bombers were bombing Iwo Jima at that time. Our tent was at the end of a naval pursuit plane field. The planes came over about 20 feet above our tent while we were trying to sleep at night. While we were on Guam we saw the marines and infantry leave in troopships to take Iwo Jima. About two weeks later we saw a big white ship with a red cross on its side come back with the wounded and the dying. They were the lucky ones. The rest had been killed. We also had a bombing scare while on Guam. In the bombing scare we turned all lights out, shut down the shop, and waited for the Japanese to attack. It turned out to be one of our own bombers that had been to Iwo Jima and his IFF wasn't working. The airports were all shut down and he had to land on the beach. One Seabee operating a bulldozer was killed while we were on Guam. We got a weapons carrier and toured the island while there. Some of the places we went were dangerous spots. My best elementary school friend, Marvin Johnson, was killed while helping take Guam. on the airplane trip to Guam the plane was overloaded when it left Tinian and took a mile or two to get off the ground, and when about halfway over near the Japanese island of Rota one engine quit. The wing immediately slanted down and I thought to myself,"This is the last of me." Fortunately the pilot got the engine going again, and all was well.

On arriving back on Saipan to our tire repair company a month later, the landscape had completely changed. Where two cities had been were now row on row of warehouses. Super roads, filled with thousands of army vehicles, had been built. There were floating piers for ship landings built with 8 foot hollow cubes of steel. The B-29 field had been constructed in record time. A mountain had been removed, and the end of the runway was a 200 feet drop into the Pacific ocean. Our tire shop occupied four of the wirehouses. An underground telephone system had been installed. I was told the Japanese dead were pushed into the same ditch as the cables. The signs of the horrors of war were gone.

While on Saipan I visited the cliff on the Pacific ocean where thousands of Japanese soldiers had jumped into the water when our marines and infantry pushed them to that end of the island. I visited the marine, infantry, and Japanese cemeteries. There were ten or fifteen thousand dead soldiers in each. I was told there were only rounded markers in the Japanese cemetery. War had been devastating and without mercy for the participants. The Japanese, by bombimg Pear Harbor, had started something they couldn't handle. One of my tent mate's hobbies was he was going back into the forest and collecting gold teeth fillings from Japanese skeletons. He also supplied us with bananas. I didn't take up his gold teeth collecting hobby, but ate the bananas.

When the B-29 field was finished on Saipan, one hundred and fifty B-29's left for Japan about every third day. There was also a B-29 field on Tinian, and 150 planes left there at the same time interval. The trips were staggered so that Japan got an almost continual bombing. Before leaving each plane loaded up with seven tons of bombs and 5000 gallons of aviation gasoline. There was a fuel pipeline from the piers to the B-29 field. There was always an oil tanker ship parked at the pier. When it left, another took its place. Our shop was near the piers. Japanese prisoners driving military trucks loaded with bombs passed by every few minutes. They were being forced to help finish off their homeland.

On the side of the hill where we had our living quarters was an outdoor movie. Here I saw many of the Hollywood movies that were produced in that era. While on Guam I saw an outdoor movie about the Pacific war. The B-17s were returning from a raid in the movie and at the same time planes were returning from a raid on Iwo Jima. There were bombers on the screen and bombers overhead at the same time. I thought that was unusual. Several of the B-29 crew members came to the movie on Saipan where I attended. They used to tell us how much of Tokyo had been bombed and burned during the last raids. The B-29 crews lost hardly any of the planes in combat, but operational difficulties claimed about five percent. The trip to Japan was 18 hours long. It was boring, and fuel was very low when they arrived back. Every plane that didn't make it back was replaced by another one that flew in from Hawaii. The field always had its quota of planes. The navy had flying boats to pick up downed crews.

About the first of August 1945 a soldier from Tinian visited his friend in our company. Tinian was across the strait about 6 miles from where we were on Saipan. He said, "Boy, they have a big bomb over on Tinian they are going to drop on Japan." I thought it must be a TNT bomb about twenty feet long. About a week after his visit the first atomic bomb in history was dropped. Hiroshima, Japan was gone. About three days later another was dropped on Nagasaki and another city was gone. After that the Japanese started talking peace. The Emperor made a speech telling the troops to surrender. His speech was rebroadcast every day and night from the military radio station on Saipan. The war was over. Nearly everyone on the island celebrated by firing off what ammunition they had. I instantly realized the danger of all this. I put on my helmet and walked up and down the center aisle of the prefab barracks we had by this time. Three bullets fell through the roof of the barracks. I never knew if anyone got killed celebrating victory. Anyhow I had been shook up.

Before the atomic bomb was dropped, we had been given instructions on the upcoming invasion of Japan. Every technical man was going to have to go as a soldier. Winter clothing was discussed. There was an estimate that at least 600,000 soldiers would be killed. At least that many Japs would also be killed. Truman's decision to drop the bomb had saved more lives than than the many that were lost in the bombed out cities.

By my being on Saipan in August,1945 I had been near one of the big events of all time. I think Truman made the right decision. I reached home Christmas day 1945 after leaving Saipan one month earlier. It took 17 days on a troopship to reach the west coast, about 4 or 5 days to cross the southern U.S. and a few days in army centers. When we reached the west coast, one soldier that had been with MCArthur in retaking the Phillipines, put his hand up and said, "I have returned." What a joy to be a civilian. Quite a few thousand didn't come back. by Fred McCaleb

1850, 1870, 1880, 1860 Agriculture Census etc

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Hallmarks and their kin in Marion and Fayetee Counties,Al

Thomas Hallmark had 17 acres in cultivation, 303 in timber worth $300, $60 worth of implemental, 1 mule, 1 milk cow,7 swine Total value livestock $85, grew l00 bu .com,

and slaughtered $40 worth of livestock. This was 1860 and he lived next house from his daddy George Hallmark.

A U S Marshal came along on a horse and,stopped to take the Census. Thomas said he was 30 yrs old, born in Al and ,his wife Phoebe (Holcomb) said she was 29 born in

Al. and they had.kids Nancy A 7., Sarah F 5., Mary F ., David H. 2 (later called himself

Thomas David) and they lived bv the Caddell family.

1870 Agriculture census Marion county,, AL Sarah (Tipton) Hallmark., 10 acres in culltivation, 30 acres in timber all worth $50., $5 farming implements, 1 milk cow., 4

sheep, 2 swine livestock all valued,$40., made 50 lb butter during the year., had, $20 worth homespun furniture , slaughtered $30 livestock for home use,, total value of produce, produced,on farm $60.

The census taker found the following people at her house; Sarah (Tipton) Hallmark age 60 keeping house born Va, Susan 29.Nancy 22., John 11, A.J."Drew" 8 , and Wm. "Will "6 All born in Al. The last 3 were her grandchildren, Hopwood Hallmark kids,and the 2 girls were her and husband George Hallmarks children. Her dau Ann Hallmark and, Husb. George had been killed by Home Guards during Civil Utr. Thomas died atNashville.

The William McCollum (father of Hopwood, Hallmarks lst wife Susan McCollum) farm 1850 60 acres improved land.., 100 acres wooded, value of farm $600., farming implements $90, 6 horses, 2 mules. 6 milk cows., 2 Oxen., 12 other cows, 9 sheep, 40 pigs., value of livestook $375., grew 16 bu wheat., 6 bu xye., 800 bu Indian corn,, 150 bu oats., 6 bales cotton, 20 lbs wool., 10 bu peas and beans, 75 bu Irish potatoes and made 150 lb. cheese.

The William McCollum farm 1860 agricultural census Fayette Co Al. 100 acres cultivated, 780 acres timber valued $1300., $35 worth farming implements, 4 horses, mules 4 oxen, 4 other cattle., 15 (fifteen) sheep,, 4 swine all valued $815 grew 60 bu .wheat., 800 bu cox,n,, 9 bales cotton, 10 lbs wool., 10 bu peas and beans., 50 lb butter., 3 tons hay. had $20 worth homemade household goods, and-slaughtered.livestock worth $240.

Wllliam McCollum 1870 Fayette County Agriculture census. Had 60 acres in cultivation,, 300 acres in timber all worth $400',$25 worth farming implements., 2 mules ,4 milk cows,, 1 other cow., 10 sheep., 15 swine, value of all livestock $350, grew 60 bu winter wheat., 500 bu Indian corn, 15 bu oats, I bale cotton, 5 lb wool., 4 bu peas and beans., 6 bu Irish potatoes, 50 bu sweet potatoes., 100 lbs butter, 1/2 ton bay, 4 gal molasses, had $25 home mfg. goods., slaughtered,$80 cattle for home use for a total value of $300

Living close by in the 1870 census was Harrison Eason ( a bro of our aacester Moses) He had 75 acres in cultivation,, 560 acres woodland.valued,$800., $30 farming implements ,paid out $150 wages , had 2 mules, 3 milk cows, 6 other cows,, 15 sheep., 20 swine all valued;$500, grew 40 bu wheat, 300 bu corne 10 bu oats, 1 bale cotton., 10 lbs wool, 25 bu sweet potatoes., 100 lbs butter., 2 ton bay, Home mfg goods $25., slaughtered,$80 stock,

The above shows that our ancesters were very much on their own in so far as making

a living was concerned back in the last part of the 1800s. One had to have a store of potatoes, dry beans and dry apples, oats., wheat., corn, molasses., wool with which to make clothing, etc. There was never an idle moment especially in the summertime. Our system today (1983) is based on somebody else producing the goods and,the Big White Father in Washington D C. handing out money for goods for everybody whether they work or not. It will be interesting to see if this system can survive.

Done by Fred McCaleb

A SHORT HISTORY OF BEREA CHURCH OF CHRIST OF FAYETTE CO. ALABAMA

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By: Fred McCaleb

First services began about 1845 or earlier. One Sunday a series of meetings began at Berea W.A.Black doing the preaching. A large crowd was in attendance for the first session. Many people from surrounding areas attended this meeting in each year. They had special attachment to the church.

History dates deep into the past. Under the influence of minister John Taylor and Jeremiah Randolph this church established in 1845 and so has as far as is known it was the only Church of Christ existing in Fayette County prior to the Civil War. John Taylor who lived from 1807 to 1885, came down from Franklin County on a mule with few essentials and a Bible in his saddle bag. He always carried a leather bound New Testament in his hat, so he could reach for it with ease. Covers worn on both backs of the book were worn by rubbing against the top of his head. Possibly the book had some effect on the good person, since he was completely bald where the book rubbed against what once was his hair.

He was so familiar with the New Testament that if someone gave him a verse he could quote the verse above and the one below from memory. He often entertained a circle of friends around the fireside with these mental feats.The minister was smith to carpenter engaged in his work between services in these outcropping while traveling with the young preacher through Marion County they noted an outcropping of coal. The young man momentarily forgot his future in the ministry and began by telling about developing the natural resources and becoming wealthy. The other man quietly warned that he supposed that all would be developed some day, but be ordered by qualified men in his own good time . In the meantime it was the preacher Jeremiah Randolph, who lived from 1806 to 1894, came from Walker County, later settling in the new river where he continued to preach in the surrounding area.

Some of the Berea Church of Christ preachers were W.P. Anthony, F.C. McCollum, Andrew McCaleb. Other families among the first were the Thorntons, Logans, McArthurs and others. Berea has been located at several sites throughout its long history. There have been 4 buildings at the present lolcation. One was destroyed by a tornado, one burned, one was torn down to to clean up the ground for the spacious brick structure which was built in 1959. Other preachers at the church were John McCaleb, Jimmy Woods, B.C. Faque, James Wade, O.C. Dobbs, Gus Dunn, Gus Nichols, Houston Haney and Wiley Hollingsworth. Mr. & Mrs. Houston Haney, Wiley Hollingsworth and a few others have been members of the church for more than 60 years. Mr. Haney is widely known throughout the county and is said to have preached more funerals for people of all faiths than any other minister. From the day when the Berea churchyard was only a clearing in the wilderness to today the institution has stood exerting an influence on many in this county and serving the community needs. It’s a very old and good church.

Fred McCaleb

FRED MCCALEB'S MATERNAL ANCESTRY TREE

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Descendants of William Hopwood "Will" Hallmark

1 William Hopwood "Will" HALLMARK 1825 - 1874
. +Susan "Sudie" MCCOLLUM 1824 - 1869
....... 2 William Frank HALLMARK 1848 - 1928
........... +Mary F. BERRY 1852 - 1930
................ 3 John Hopwood HALLMARK 1874 - 1947
.................... +Artie Bess "Bess" HOLLINGSWORTH 1883 - 1951
.......................... 4 Villa HALLMARK 1904 -
.............................. +Thruston MITCHELL
.......................... 4 Trilla HALLMARK 1906 -
.............................. +Claude GALLOWAY
................................... 5 Vaudine GALLOWAY
................................... 5 Jack GALLOWAY
.......................... 4 William Taft "Buster" HALLMARK 1909 -
.............................. +Mary Lou PROPST 1910 -
................................... 5 William Kenneth HALLMARK 1930 -
................................... 5 James HALLMARK 1932 -
................................... 5 Ted Allen HALLMARK 1934 -
................................... 5 Betty Lou HALLMARK 1936 -
....................................... +Huie HOLLINGSWORTH
....... 2 Mary Jane HALLMARK 1849 - 1915
........... +Daniel Wesley FOWLER 1851 - 1935
................ 3 Susan FOWLER 1871 -
.................... +Johnny VANDIVER
................ 3 [1] Lovingy "Virgie" FOWLER 1875 -
.................... +Tom GANN
................ *2nd Husband of [1] Lovingy "Virgie" FOWLER:
.................... +John Landman MOTES 1865 - 1932
................ 3 William Alex FOWLER 1876 - 1894
................ 3 Tillman Madison Hopwood FOWLER 1879 - 1974
.................... +Mary Catherine MOTES 1885 - 1982
.......................... 4 Willis Hopwood FOWLER 1907 - 1993
.............................. +Ruth DOWNING 1910 -
................................... 5 Billy FOWLER 1935 - 1968
....................................... +[2] Phyllis Ann BIGNER 1937 -
................................... 5 Willis Hopwood FOWLER, Jr. 1937 -
....................................... +[2] Phyllis Ann BIGNER 1937 -
............................................. 6 [3] Ronald Kent FOWLER 1961 -
................................................. +MARTHA
...................................................... 7 Zacharie Kent FOWLER 1986 -
...................................................... 7 Amber FOWLER 1988 -
...................................................... 7 April Ann FOWLER 1988 -
............................................. *2nd Wife of [3] Ronald Kent FOWLER:
................................................. +JODI
...................................................... 7 Beau Ryan FOWLER 2001 -
...................................................... 7 Dillon James FOWLER 2004 -
............................................. 6 Teresa Ann FOWLER 1971 -
................................................. +Terry SLIMP 1965 -
...................................................... 7 Timothy Willis FOWLER 1996 -
...................................................... 7 Matthew Michael FOWLER 2000 -
...................................................... 7 Kari Ann FOWLER 2003 -
............................................. 6 Michael Willis "Mike" FOWLER 1973 -
................................................. +Heather MCGRAW
...................................................... 7 Juel FOWLER 2003 -
...................................................... 7 Benjamin FOWLER 2005 -
................................... 5 Norma Sue FOWLER 1940 -
....................................... +Donald Lee BIGNER 1940 - 1988
............................................. 6 Donald Lee BIGNER, Jr. 1959 -
............................................. 6 Deborah Sue BIGNER 1960 -
............................................. 6 Gregory Todd BIGNER 1961 -
............................................. 6 Randy Dwayne BIGNER 1962 -
............................................. 6 Timothy David BIGNER 1965 -
............................................. 6 Troy Allen BIGNER 1968 - 1968
................................... 5 Patricia FOWLER 1942 -
....................................... +John HUFF
............................................. 6 Regina HUFF
............................................. 6 Kimberly HUFF
............................................. 6 Tanya HUFF
............................................. 6 Dana HUFF
................................... 5 Frances "Frankie" FOWLER 1944 - 2001
....................................... +UNKNOWN
............................................. 6 John Scott UNKNOWN - 1990
............................................. 6 Tracy UNKNOWN
................................... 5 Gary FOWLER 1946 - 1985
................................... 5 Janice FOWLER 1947 -
....................................... +MAZUREK
............................................. 6 Alexus MAZUREK
............................................. 6 Holly MAZUREK
................................... 5 David FOWLER 1949 -
.......................... 4 James Franklin FOWLER 1910 - 1983
.......................... 4 Ellis McFaris FOWLER 1913 -
.......................... 4 Lurlene FOWLER 1915 - 1919
.......................... 4 Ray Raymond FOWLER 1918 -
.......................... 4 Claude Vernon FOWLER 1921 - 1983
.......................... 4 Virble FOWLER 1924 - 1924
.......................... 4 Charles Ralph FOWLER 1924 - 1969
................ 3 Oscar FOWLER 1881 -
.......................... 4 William McKinley FOWLER 1902 -
................................... 5 Carolyn FOWLER
................ 3 [4] James Isom FOWLER 1888 - 1982
.................... +Flossie BOMAR 1895 -
.......................... 4 Gus Herman FOWLER 1916 -
.......................... 4 Dorris William FOWLER 1919 -
.......................... 4 Arvis Leslie FOWLER 1921 -
................ *2nd Wife of [4] James Isom FOWLER:
.................... +Lillian Ophelia ASHMORE 1892 -
.......................... 4 Mary Lois FOWLER 1926 -
.......................... 4 Wilma Ellen FOWLER 1929 -
................ 3 Rosie Mae FOWLER 1893 - 1965
.................... +Isaac Joshua "Ike" MOTES 1893 -
.......................... 4 Casie Lee MOTES 1912 - 2002
.............................. +Evelyn GAGE 1917 - 1966
.......................... 4 Cornelius MOTES 1915 -
.............................. +Etta FERRELL
.......................... 4 Tulie Cecil MOTES 1917 -
.............................. +Albert MITCHELL
.......................... 4 Ivan Curtis MOTES 1920 -
.............................. +Louise OSBORN
.......................... 4 [5] Melvin Vernon MOTES 1922 -
.............................. +Nadine SCOTT 1923 -
.......................... *2nd Wife of [5] Melvin Vernon MOTES:
.............................. +ARNETTA
.......................... 4 Alton Parnell MOTES 1928 -
.............................. +Zeda Louise BARTON
.......................... 4 [6] Robert Harold MOTES 1931 -
.............................. +Mabel Naomi HARPER
.......................... *2nd Wife of [6] Robert Harold MOTES:
.............................. +Tommie WRIGHT
....... 2 John HALLMARK 1853 -
....... 2 William H. "Willis" HALLMARK 1856 - 1937
........... +Grace T. HARKIE 1866 - 1948
................ 3 Ada HALLMARK 1884 - 1966
.................... +John William Houston "Bill" HOLLINGSWORTH 1881 - 1968
.......................... 4 Arie Vider HOLLINGSWORTH 1905 - 1995
.............................. +Columbus Dewey STOUGH 1900 - 1961
................................... 5 Elsie D. STOUGH 1924 - 2001
....................................... +Bill BOLDING
................................... 5 Cecil C. STOUGH 1926 - 2002
....................................... +Eva Dean DODD 1929 -
............................................. 6 Dolphna "Daffy" STOUGH 1950 -
................................................. +Michael DAVIS
............................................. 6 Cecil Yohn STOUGH 1951 - 2005
................................................. +Anna Lee SEGARS
...................................................... 7 Michelle STOUGH
.......................................................... +Ron SOLOMBRINO
............................................. 6 Andrel STOUGH 1952 - 1952
............................................. 6 Mika STOUGH 1957 -
................................................. +Tommy BAKER
.......................... 4 Florence Almer HOLLINGSWORTH 1906 - 2000
.............................. +Cleburn Tyler MCCALEB 1901 - 1992
................................... 5 Jack MCCALEB 1926 -
................................... 5 William Henry Houston MCCALEB 1928 -
....................................... +Lucy Bell BAUMGARTNER 1930 -
............................................. 6 Lanny MCCALEB 1957 -
................................................. +Donna Jo BOX 1957 -
................................... 5 Joe MCCALEB 1932 - 1932
................................... 5 Faye MCCALEB 1933 -
................................... 5 Billy Ray MCCALEB 1935 -
....................................... +Loveta TUCKER 1941 -
................................... 5 Susie Mae MCCALEB 1939 -
................................... 5 Robert Clay MCCALEB 1940 -
................................... 5 Mary Nell MCCALEB 1943 -
................................... 5 Kenneth MCCALEB 1945 -
................................... 5 Jeri Ann MCCALEB 1948 -
....................................... +Bobby SANFORD 1948 -
............................................. 6 Donna Michelle SANFORD 1969 -
................................................. +Gregory Daniel LOWERY 1969 -
...................................................... 7 Hunter Daniel LOWERY 1996 -
................................... 5 Shelia MCCALEB 1950 -
....................................... +Bradley Milo BOX 1952 -
............................................. 6 Brandon Heath BOX 1978 -
................................................. +Andrea Renee BOURLAND 1980 -
............................................. 6 Derek Trent BOX 1983 -
.......................... 4 Lue Cena HOLLINGSWORTH 1908 -
.............................. +Cogar Veron HUBBERT 1902 - 1977
................................... 5 Thelma Edith HUBBERT 1927 -
....................................... +Hubert Dorsey ANTHONY 1921 -
............................................. 6 Charles Hubert ANTHONY 1954 -
................................................. +Donna Kay MARLOWE
...................................................... 7 Susan Kaye ANTHONY 1980 -
............................................. 6 Doris Janeene ANTHONY 1957 -
................................... 5 John Theodore "Ted" HUBBERT 1928 - 1978
....................................... +Edna Marie HOBBS 1932 - 2004
............................................. 6 [8] William Allen "W.A." HUBBERT 1953 -
................................................. +Donna Marie MASON
...................................................... 7 [7] Angela Yvonne "Angie" Hubbert THOMAS 1972 -
.......................................................... +Ray Allen MUSGROVE
................................................................ 8 Jeremy Allen MUSGROVE 1988 -
................................................................ 8 Brian Delmer MUSGROVE 1992 -
...................................................... *2nd Husband of [7] Angela Yvonne "Angie" Hubbert THOMAS:
.......................................................... +Eric Scott LOYED
...................................................... *3rd Husband of [7] Angela Yvonne "Angie" Hubbert THOMAS:
.......................................................... +Eric HURT
............................................. *2nd Wife of [8] William Allen "W.A." HUBBERT:
................................................. +Cathy Diane TRAMMELL
............................................. *3rd Wife of [8] William Allen "W.A." HUBBERT:
................................................. +Rebecca Ann "Becky" WILSON
............................................. *4th Wife of [8] William Allen "W.A." HUBBERT:
................................................. +Ramona C. "MONA"
............................................. 6 Karla Ann HUBBERT 1963 -
................................................. +Daniel F. TIBBS
................................... 5 Tessie Nell HUBBERT 1931 -
....................................... +Wallace Clifton JOHNSON
............................................. 6 Danny Wallace JOHNSON 1951 -
............................................. 6 Carolyn June JOHNSON 1956 -
................................................. +Jon Roger LUMSDEN
...................................................... 7 Michael Brandon LUMSDEN 1973 -
...................................................... 7 Kristofer Ryan LUMSDEN 1975 -
................................... 5 Thurmon Veron HUBBERT 1934 -
....................................... +Charlee MILES 1937 -
............................................. 6 Tony Faron HUBBERT 1956 -
................................................. +Melissa PERRY
...................................................... 7 Tony Faron HUBBERT, Jr. 1978 -
.......................................................... +VICTORIA
................................................................ 8 Kayleigh HUBBERT
............................................. 6 Eddie Wayne HUBBERT 1959 -
................................... 5 Thelon Cogar HUBBERT 1939 -
....................................... +Jane MILES 1938 -
............................................. 6 Rhonda Renee HUBBERT 1960 -
................................................. +Timothy BOND
...................................................... 7 Dawn Rene BOND 1978 -
...................................................... 7 Shawn Cole BOND 1978 -
............................................. 6 Rita Jane HUBBERT 1965 -
................................... 5 Terry Wilkes HUBBERT 1943 - 1945
.......................... 4 Floyd P. HOLLINGSWORTH 1912 - 2001
.............................. +Hassie Dell MCCALEB 1915 -
................................... 5 Tom HOLLINGSWORTH 1934 -
................................... 5 Mary Joyce HOLLINGSWORTH 1936 -
................................... 5 Gloria Jean HOLLINGSWORTH 1940 -
.......................... 4 Wilburn H. HOLLINGSWORTH 1915 - 1988
.............................. +Bonnie HUBBERT 1919 - 2000
................................... 5 Dale HOLLINGSWORTH 1938 -
.......................... 4 Earleen HOLLINGSWORTH 1918 -
.............................. +Charlie BROWN 1917 -
................................... 5 Charles Edward BROWN 1942 -
....................................... +Jacklon "Jackie" COUCH 1942 -
............................................. 6 Kimberly BROWN 1965 -
................................................. +Andrew High BATSON 1965 -
...................................................... 7 Alexander Charles BATSON 1992 -
...................................................... 7 Scott Andrew BATSON 1994 -
...................................................... 7 Jacob Curtis BATSON 1997 -
...................................................... 7 Joseph Phillip BATSON 1998 -
...................................................... 7 Eric David BATSON 1999 -
............................................. 6 Tina BROWN 1969 -
................................................. +Danny Garrett INGLE 1968 -
................................... 5 Steve BROWN 1944 -
.......................... 4 Augustus "Gus" HOLLINGSWORTH 1922 -
.............................. +Imogene ALDRIDGE
................................... 5 Shelia HOLLINGSWORTH
................................... 5 Debbie HOLLINGSWORTH
................................... 5 Donna HOLLINGSWORTH
.......................... 4 Ruth Ruenell HOLLINGSWORTH 1925 - 2000
.............................. +Thomas Clinton "T.C." FOWLER 1924 - 2007
................................... 5 Patsy Lynette FOWLER
....................................... +Roy WOOD
................................... 5 Phillip FOWLER
....................................... +SHERRY
................ 3 Felix HALLMARK 1887 - 1966
.................... +Susie Emma Dora PERRY 1887 - 1954
.......................... 4 Beulah Inez HALLMARK 1911 - 2005
.............................. +Echford Belton BOX 1904 - 1973
................................... 5 [10] Mary Elease BOX 1928 - 1996
....................................... +Orvil Lee "Britch" WHITEHEAD 1919 - 1971
............................................. 6 Sandra Lynn WHITEHEAD 1949 -
................................................. +Clark Douglas STEPHENSON 1944 -
...................................................... 7 Sonya Lynn STEPHENSON 1966 -
...................................................... 7 Chad Douglas STEPHENSON 1971 -
............................................. 6 Jacqueline WHITEHEAD 1952 - 1952
............................................. 6 [9] Kathy Annette WHITEHEAD 1957 - 2002
................................................. +David Paul MCCOY
............................................. *2nd Husband of [9] Kathy Annette WHITEHEAD:
................................................. +Joe Mack WATKINS 1956 - 1998
...................................................... 7 Misty L. WATKINS 1979 -
...................................................... 7 Rodney Joseph WATKINS 1980 - 1981
............................................. *3rd Husband of [9] Kathy Annette WHITEHEAD:
................................................. +Matthew "Matt" TUCKER
................................... *2nd Husband of [10] Mary Elease BOX:
....................................... +Merlin Joseph "Joe" SPANFELLNER 1926 - 2004
............................................. 6 Joseph Ecford "Jody" SPANFELLNER 1961 -
................................................. +Teresa KEETON 1966 -
...................................................... 7 Merlin Joseph "Joey" SPANFELLNER 1984 -
...................................................... 7 Emily Lynn SPANFELLNER 1991 -
................................... 5 Roland Felix BOX 1935 -
....................................... +Lynn BRADDOCK 1938 -
................................... 5 Martha Sue BOX 1939 -
....................................... +Horace Clifton RANDOLPH 1938 - 2006
............................................. 6 Pamela Sue "Pam" RANDOLPH 1961 -
................................................. +Ronnie Stanley SPRINKLE 1960 -
...................................................... 7 Ronni Rena SPRINKLE 1985 -
.......................................................... +Jeffery Daniel BRASHER 1984 -
................................................................ 8 Lara Elizabeth BRASHER
...................................................... 7 Clifton Ryan SPRINKLE 1988 -
............................................. 6 Melissa Ann "Lisa" RANDOLPH 1965 -
................................................. +Robert Keith MCDONALD 1959 -
...................................................... 7 Robert Daniel MCDONALD 1991 -
.......................... 4 Bernice Arla HALLMARK 1913 - 1988
.............................. +Vester Galloway HOLLINGSWORTH 1903 - 1977
................................... 5 Ila Jean HOLLINGSWORTH 1936 -
....................................... +Norman HOLLOWAY 1935 -
............................................. 6 Norman Scott HOLLOWAY 1959 -
................................................. +Debra Kay WEEKS 1959 -
...................................................... 7 Steven Scott HOLLOWAY 1991 -
...................................................... 7 Jonathan Mark HOLLOWAY 1995 -
............................................. 6 Michael Stewart HOLLOWAY 1960 -
................................................. +Amy Christine LAWLER 1962 -
...................................................... 7 Timothy John HOLLOWAY 1997 -
............................................. 6 Richard Warren HOLLOWAY 1963 -
................................................. +TRACY
................................... 5 Milton Barnard HOLLINGSWORTH 1939 - 1980
....................................... +Barbara Ann STEVENS 1941 - 2009
............................................. 6 James Ryan HOLLINGSWORTH 1966 -
................................................. +CARA
...................................................... 7 Josh HOLLINGSWORTH
...................................................... 7 Heather HOLLINGSWORTH
............................................. 6 Gary S. HOLLINGSWORTH 1968 -
................................................. +Sharyn WALLACE
...................................................... 7 Callie HOLLINGSWORTH
...................................................... 7 Drake HOLLINGSWORTH
............................................. 6 Vess HOLLINGSWORTH 1973 -
................................................. +Faith STIDHAM
...................................................... 7 Mia HOLLINGSWORTH
.......................... 4 [11] Clyde Bernard HALLMARK 1916 - 1990
.............................. +Emma Jean STANFORD 1929 -
................................... 5 Brenda Sue HALLMARK 1949 -
....................................... +Artise SMITH 1948 -
................................... 5 Linda Joan HALLMARK 1951 -
....................................... +Larry Lee TWILLEY 1950 -
............................................. 6 Larry Chad TWILLEY 1975 -
............................................. 6 Patrick Lee (Twilley) GAMBRIL 1976 -
................................................. +April Lasessa BATES
...................................................... 7 Patrick Jordan Dale GAMBRIL 2001 -
...................................................... 7 Maximus Michael GAMBRIL 2003 -
............................................. 6 Wesley Allen TWILLEY 1981 -
............................................. 6 Justin Ryan TWILLEY 1985 -
................................... 5 Charles Wade HALLMARK 1954 -
....................................... +UNKNOWN
............................................. 6 Scotty Wade HALLMARK
................................... 5 Benny HALLMARK 1953 -
................................... 5 Barry HALLMARK 1956 - 1956
................................... 5 Deborah HALLMARK 1958 -
................................... 5 Connie HALLMARK 1962 -
.......................... *2nd Wife of [11] Clyde Bernard HALLMARK:
.............................. +FLORINE
.......................... 4 Infant son HALLMARK 1920 - 1920
.......................... 4 Clifton Thomas HALLMARK 1921 -
.............................. +Sarah Polk BEAN 1921 -
................................... 5 Wendy Elaine HALLMARK 1950 -
....................................... +Bruce Tebbs GAMBLE
................................... 5 Martha Gwen HALLMARK 1952 -
....................................... +Steve Lee WOLBACK 1950 -
............................................. 6 Lindsey Ann WOLBACK 1981 -
............................................. 6 Steven Lee WOLBACK, Jr. 1984 -
............................................. 6 Jonathan WOLBACK 1992 -
................................... 5 Clifton Thomas HALLMARK, Jr. 1957 -
....................................... +Nicole LINDIG 1959 -
............................................. 6 Mackenzie HALLMARK 1988 -
.......................... 4 Eunice Mae HALLMARK 1923 - 2005
.............................. +Harland Landy WHITE, Sr. 1923 -
................................... 5 Wanda Lavada WHITE 1950 -
................................... 5 Harland Landy WHITE, Jr. 1952 - 1995
.......................... 4 Tessie Louise HALLMARK 1926 -
.............................. +James D. CUNNINGHAM 1920 - 1982
................................... 5 Denton CUNNINGHAM 1948 -
................................... 5 Janis CUNNINGHAM 1949 -
................................... 5 Polla Sue CUNNINGHAM 1957 -
................................... 5 James Gregory CUNNINGHAM 1964 -
.......................... 4 Robbie Lee HALLMARK 1929 -
.............................. +Eulan Randolph MCCALEB 1928 -
................................... 5 Alan Keith MCCALEB 1953 -
....................................... +MICHELLE
................................... 5 Paul Wayne MCCALEB 1956 -
....................................... +ALBERTA
................................... 5 Jeffery Randolph "Jeff" MCCALEB 1959 - 2002
....................................... +Janet COCHRAN 1960 -
............................................. 6 Rachel MCCALEB 1982 -
............................................. 6 Erika MCCALEB 1984 -
............................................. 6 Lucas Jeffery MCCALEB 1986 -
................ 3 Ida HALLMARK 1892 -
.................... +Anderson Lynn HUBBERT 1891 - 1968
.......................... 4 Virgil HUBBERT 1915 -
.............................. +Sarah Pearl DAVIS 1915 - 2006
................................... 5 Paul Ray HUBBERT, Dr. 1935 -
....................................... +Ann MCDONALD 1938 -
............................................. 6 Treasia HUBBERT
................................................. +Chris FROUGE
...................................................... 7 Rebecca FROUGE
.......................................................... +David REIMAN
............................................. 6 Yolanda HUBBERT
................................................. +Tom ZINK
...................................................... 7 Max ZINK
...................................................... 7 Zoe ZINK
.......................... 4 Virgie HUBBERT 1915 -
.......................... 4 Rita HUBBERT 1919 -
................ 3 Fenton HALLMARK 1893 -
................ 3 Edward "Ed" HALLMARK 1896 -
.................... +Arsula Catherine "Sula" TUCKER 1902 - 1971
.......................... 4 Clarence Baron HALLMARK 1919 -
.............................. +Dean EADS
................................... 5 James Clayton HALLMARK
................................... 5 William Carroll HALLMARK
.......................... 4 Eulene "Pat" HARMARK 1923 -
.............................. +Gardner Cecil "Spike" SIMPSON
................................... 5 Deborah Andrea SIMPSON
................................... 5 Pamela Sheree SIMPSON
.......................... 4 Willie Mae HALLMARK 1925 -
.............................. +Ray BASWELL
................................... 5 Richard "Tony" BASWELL
....................................... +Annette HARRIS
................................... 5 Paul BASWELL
................................... 5 Micheal PASWELL
....................................... +Cathy Sue EMERSON
.......................... 4 [12] Jessie Nell "Peggy" HALLMARK 1930 -
.............................. +George Morrison "Monk" REED
................................... 5 Sue REED 1950 -
................................... 5 Brenda REED 1952 -
................................... 5 Shirley REED 1954 -
.......................... *2nd Husband of [12] Jessie Nell "Peggy" HALLMARK:
.............................. +Clyde RENEAU
................................... 5 Wayne RENEAU 1956 -
................................... 5 Kenneth RENEAU 1958 -
................................... 5 Clyde RENEAU, Jr. 1960 -
.......................... 4 [13] Frankie Lee HALLMARK 1939 -
.............................. +Theodora E. NORDMART
.......................... *2nd Husband of [13] Frankie Lee HALLMARK:
.............................. +Milton FLUTY
................................... 5 Louise FLUTY 1958 -
................................... 5 Linda FLUTY
.......................... *3rd Husband of [13] Frankie Lee HALLMARK:
.............................. +Bill PUGH
................................... 5 Leslie PUGH 1959 - 1997
................................... 5 James PUGH 1961 -
.......................... 4 James Roosevelt "J.R.." HALLMARK 1941 -
.............................. +Barbara WEAVER
................................... 5 Billy WEAVER
................................... 5 Robert WEAVER
................................... 5 Angela WEAVER
................................... 5 Candace WEAVER
................ 3 Etta HALLMARK 1899 - 1908
................ 3 Evie HALLMARK 1899 - 1899
................ 3 Ector HALLMARK 1903 -
....... 2 Samuel Winn "Bud" HALLMARK 1858 - 1928
........... +Mary Roxie EASON 1866 - 1938
................ 3 Eva Belle "Evie" HALLMARK 1888 - 1974
.................... +Thomas Wiley PERRY 1876 - 1943
.......................... 4 Eunice Ruth PERRY 1919 -
.............................. +John James GIBBS, Jr.
................................... 5 Elizabeth GIBBS
................................... 5 James GIBBS
.......................... 4 Thomas Clarence PERRY 1921 -
.............................. +Reba AVANT 1928 -
................................... 5 Mike PERRY 1948 -
................................... 5 Susan PERRY 1949 -
................................... 5 Donald Avant PERRY 1952 -
................................... 5 Ann Marie PERRY 1955 -
.......................... 4 William Issac PERRY 1924 -
.............................. +Faye STEWART
.......................... 4 James Howard PERRY 1927 -
.............................. +Gwendolyn Virginia DYER 1928 -
................................... 5 Pamela Lynn PERRY 1953 -
................................... 5 Laura Kay PERRY 1960 -
................................... 5 Mary Gail PERRY 1962 -
.......................... 4 Mary Florence "Fuzz" PERRY 1929 - 1970
.............................. +Rayburn WHITEHEAD 1927 -
................................... 5 Shirley Ann WHITEHEAD 1950 -
....................................... +Ray MCBROOM
................................... 5 Dorothy Sue "Dot" WHITEHEAD 1951 -
....................................... +Jackie Dewayne HOLLINGSWORTH 1952 -
................................... 5 Bobby Thomas WHITEHEAD 1952 -
....................................... +June MCCALEB
................................... 5 Danny Ray WHITEHEAD 1955 -
................................... 5 Charles Wheeler WHITEHEAD 1959 -
....................................... +Robbie BERRYHILL
................................... 5 Richard WHITEHEAD 1961 -
................................... 5 Sarah Lynn "Sara" WHITEHEAD 1964 -
................................... 5 Jimmy Dale WHITEHEAD 1968 -
................ 3 Ethel HALLMARK 1890 -
.................... +Ector KILLINGSWORTH 1889 -
................ 3 Eza Etta HALLMARK 1892 - 1981
.................... +Aytch "H" MCCALEB 1893 - 1958
.......................... 4 Fred MCCALEB 1916 -
.............................. +Bettie Virginia CLINE 1919 - 2006
................................... 5 Jean Ellen MCCALEB 1947 -
....................................... +William Timm FREDRICKSON
............................................. 6 Matt FREDRICKSON
............................................. 6 Brooke FREDRICKSON
................................... 5 Frederick Warren MCCALEB 1949 -
....................................... +Dorothy Ruth "Dottie" MARSH 1947 -
................................... 5 James Arthur MCCALEB 1952 -
....................................... +Diane RAMEY
................................... 5 Bettie Dawn MCCALEB 1955 -
....................................... +David Kyle BOSWELL
............................................. 6 Bradley BOSWELL
............................................. 6 Eric BOSWELL
................................................. +COURTNEY
.......................... 4 William Hubert MCCALEB 1918 - 1996
.............................. +Lucille ROLLINS 1922 -
................................... 5 Carol Ann MCCALEB 1942 -
....................................... +Michael BROWN
............................................. 6 Michelle BROWN
............................................. 6 Scott BROWN
............................................. 6 Amy BROWN
................................... 5 William Hubert MCCALEB 1944 -
....................................... +Shirley ANDRESS
............................................. 6 William Herbert MCCALEB, Jr.
............................................. 6 Christopher MCCALEB
.......................... 4 Clancy MCCALEB 1921 - 2009
.............................. +Thomas F. WORSHAM 1922 -
................................... 5 Stephen Thomas "Steve' WORSHAM 1952 -
....................................... +Christine Elaine MIDDLETON
................................... 5 Mary WORSHAM 1956 -
....................................... +Kevin Rilous CANTLEY
................................... 5 Linda Sharon WORSHAM 1958 -
....................................... +Robert Francis "Rob" KELLIS, Jr. 1956 -
.......................... 4 Thomas Raburn "Tom" MCCALEB 1925 - 1927
.......................... 4 Clara Jean MCCALEB 1930 -
.............................. +Ardell REACH 1930 - 2009
................................... 5 James Ardell REACH 1956 -
....................................... +Susan Dolores LATIMER
................................... 5 Douglas Alan REACH 1958 -
....................................... +Doris Barbara RESMONDO
................................... 5 Kevin Thad REACH 1963 -
....................................... +Cori Patricia SEELY
................................... 5 Melissa Karen REACH 1968 -
....................................... +Scott EVANS
.......................... 4 Leroy Dewitt MCCALEB 1934 -
.............................. +Etta Laeuna DUCKWORTH 1940 -
................................... 5 Shelia Diane MCCALEB 1958 -
................................... 5 Michael Lee MCCALEB 1959 -
................................... 5 Gregory Eugene MCCALEB 1962 -
................................... 5 Darryl Edwin MCCALEB 1965 -
................ 3 Arthur HALLMARK 1895 -
................ 3 Emma HALLMARK 1902 -
.................... +BLOUNT
....... 2 Sarah Margaret "Sis" HALLMARK 1862 -
....... 2 [15] James Thomas "Jim" HALLMARK 1864 - 1936
........... +Amzora SOCKWELL 1870 -
................ 3 [14] Alonza Travis HALLMARK 1891 -
.................... +Dora ISBELL 1897 -
................ *2nd Wife of [14] Alonza Travis HALLMARK:
.................... +Alma BURLESON
................ 3 William Dorse HALLMARK 1895 -
.................... +Myrtle ADCOCK 1897 -
................ 3 Lillian B. HALLMARK 1897 -
....... *2nd Wife of [15] James Thomas "Jim" HALLMARK:
........... +BITHA 1876 -
....... *3rd Wife of [15] James Thomas "Jim" HALLMARK:
........... +Sofronia "Fronie" PHELPS 1885 - 1920
................ 3 Adella "Adel" HALLMARK 1900 - 1938
.................... +William Henry "Bill" BOX 1869 - 1934
.......................... 4 [17] William Howard BOX 1921 - 1994
.............................. +Mildred WHITEHEAD 1925 - 2004
................................... 5 [16] Patsy Gail WHITEHEAD 1943 -
....................................... +James Ronald HUBBERT 1943 -
............................................. 6 Ronnie Deland HUBBERT 1963 -
............................................. 6 Djuana Gail HUBBERT 1964 -
................................... *2nd Husband of [16] Patsy Gail WHITEHEAD:
....................................... +Kenneth WHEELER
............................................. 6 Jeff WHEELER
.......................... *2nd Wife of [17] William Howard BOX:
.............................. +Carmella R. "Carmel" HENRY 1926 - 2007
................................... 5 [18] Charles Howard BOX 1945 -
....................................... +UNKNOWN
................................... *2nd Wife of [18] Charles Howard BOX:
....................................... +UNKNOWN
............................................. 6 Charles Daniel BOX, Sr. 1969 -
................................................. +Beckie HUNTER 1971 -
...................................................... 7 Charles Daniel BOX, Jr. 1989 -
................................................................ 8 Daniel BOX
................................................................ 8 Nataniel BOX
................................... *3rd Wife of [18] Charles Howard BOX:
....................................... +Libeth BURTON 1951 -
............................................. 6 Christie Victoria "Vickie" BOX 1974 -
................................................. +Andrew ROMANO
...................................................... 7 Donnie ROMANO
...................................................... 7 William ROMANO
............................................. 6 Carrie Deann BOX 1978 -
................................................. +Norman THOMPSON
...................................................... 7 Kenneth THOMPSON
...................................................... 7 Carmelia THOMPSON
.......................... 4 [19] Clifford Hoover BOX 1929 - 1994
.............................. +Helen HARRIS 1929 -
.......................... *2nd Wife of [19] Clifford Hoover BOX:
.............................. +Marguerite LONGBRAKE 1934 -
................................... 5 Connie Jean MUSGROVE 1952 -
....................................... +Kenneth EDWARD 1952 -
............................................. 6 Shannon EDWARD 1971 -
................................... 5 Carolyn Sue BOX 1953 -
............................................. 6 Mariah Lea BOX 1973 -
................................... 5 Gail Ann BOX 1956 -
....................................... +Randy KEY
............................................. 6 Joseph Conley KEY 1976 -
............................................. 6 Hayden Randall KEY 1980 -
................................... 5 Carla Jo BOX 1961 -
....................................... +Lester LEAVELL
............................................. 6 Joshua Dale WALKER 1984 -
.......................... 4 Rada Mae BOX 1931 - 2006
.............................. +Don CAMPBELL 1924 - 1987
................................... 5 Kelly CAMPBELL 1958 -
................ 3 Leander HALLMARK 1912 -
.................... +Nocle DAVIS
.......................... 4 Robert Lee HALLMARK 1942 - 2002
.............................. +Dorothy TUCKER 1945 -
................................... 5 Robert Clifton "R.C." HALLMARK 1961 -
.......................... 4 Ann HALLMARK
.............................. +POSEY
.......................... 4 Linda HALLMARK
.............................. +BISHOP
.......................... 4 Thomas HALLMARK
................ 3 Earline HALLMARK 1914 -
.................... +Banks Fred WHITEHEAD 1899 -
.......................... 4 James WHITEHEAD
................ 3 Russell HALLMARK 1916 -
.................... +Bertha BOX 1918 - 2008
.......................... 4 James HALLMARK 1935 -
.............................. +MARGIE
.......................... 4 Doobie HALLMARK 1938 - 1940
................ 3 Lassie Avon HALLMARK 1920 -
.................... +Bill George Henry MORGAN 1921 -
....... 2 Andrew Jackson "Drew" HALLMARK 1865 -
........... +Martha Della EASON 1871 -
................ 3 Gus HALLMARK 1885 -
................ 3 Lura A. HALLMARK 1888 -
................ 3 William Victor HALLMARK 1890 - 1964
.................... +Carrie KILLINGSWORTH 1897 - 1990
.......................... 4 Herbert HALLMARK 1914 -
.............................. +Ruby Faye KIRKPATRICK
.......................... 4 Hilton HALLMARK 1918 - 2000
.............................. +GLADYS
.......................... 4 Howard HALLMARK 1922 -
................ 3 Annie HALLMARK 1902 -

FRED MCCALEB'S PATERNAL ANCESTRY TREE

2010-02-10T16:26:00.000-08:00

Descendants of James Franklin "Jim" McCaleb

1 James Franklin "Jim" MCCALEB 1870 - 1936
. +Rejina Catherine "Jynie" HOLLINGSWORTH 1875 - 1961
....... 2 Aytch "H" MCCALEB 1893 - 1958
........... +Eza Etta HALLMARK 1892 - 1981
................ 3 Fred MCCALEB 1916 -
.................... +Bettie Virginia CLINE 1919 - 2006
.......................... 4 Jean Ellen MCCALEB 1947 -
.............................. +William Timm FREDRICKSON
................................... 5 Matt FREDRICKSON
................................... 5 Brooke FREDRICKSON
.......................... 4 Frederick Warren MCCALEB 1949 -
.............................. +Dorothy Ruth "Dottie" MARSH 1947 -
.......................... 4 James Arthur MCCALEB 1952 -
.............................. +Diane RAMEY
.......................... 4 Bettie Dawn MCCALEB 1955 -
.............................. +David Kyle BOSWELL
................................... 5 Bradley BOSWELL
................................... 5 Eric BOSWELL
....................................... +COURTNEY
................ 3 William Hubert MCCALEB 1918 - 1996
.................... +Lucille ROLLINS 1922 -
.......................... 4 Carol Ann MCCALEB 1942 -
.............................. +Michael BROWN
................................... 5 Michelle BROWN
................................... 5 Scott BROWN
................................... 5 Amy BROWN
.......................... 4 William Hubert MCCALEB 1944 -
.............................. +Shirley ANDRESS
................................... 5 William Herbert MCCALEB, Jr.
................................... 5 Christopher MCCALEB
................ 3 Clancy MCCALEB 1921 - 2009
.................... +Thomas F. WORSHAM 1922 -
.......................... 4 Stephen Thomas "Steve' WORSHAM 1952 -
.............................. +Christine Elaine MIDDLETON
.......................... 4 Mary WORSHAM 1956 -
.............................. +Kevin Rilous CANTLEY
.......................... 4 Linda Sharon WORSHAM 1958 -
.............................. +Robert Francis "Rob" KELLIS, Jr. 1956 -
................ 3 Thomas Raburn "Tom" MCCALEB 1925 - 1927
................ 3 Clara Jean MCCALEB 1930 -
.................... +Ardell REACH 1930 - 2009
.......................... 4 James Ardell REACH 1956 -
.............................. +Susan Dolores LATIMER
.......................... 4 Douglas Alan REACH 1958 -
.............................. +Doris Barbara RESMONDO
.......................... 4 Kevin Thad REACH 1963 -
.............................. +Cori Patricia SEELY
.......................... 4 Melissa Karen REACH 1968 -
.............................. +Scott EVANS
................ 3 Leroy Dewitt MCCALEB 1934 -
.................... +Etta Laeuna DUCKWORTH 1940 -
.......................... 4 Shelia Diane MCCALEB 1958 -
.......................... 4 Michael Lee MCCALEB 1959 -
.......................... 4 Gregory Eugene MCCALEB 1962 -
.......................... 4 Darryl Edwin MCCALEB 1965 -
....... 2 Walker MCCALEB 1896 - 1969
........... +Lula ROBY 1901 - 1993
................ 3 James Arlon MCCALEB 1919 - 1974
.................... +Mildred BOX 1921 - 1996
.......................... 4 [1] Bette June MCCALEB 1946 -
.............................. +Tommy Wayne HENDERSON 1941 -
................................... 5 Patrick Caleb HENDERSON 1968 -
....................................... +Christy Cheryl BURNS 1970 -
.......................... *2nd Husband of [1] Bette June MCCALEB:
.............................. +Van O. JOHNSON 1946 -
................................... 5 James Clayton "Clay" JOHNSON 1978 -
................................... 5 Jon-Derek O'Neal JOHNSON 1983 -
................ 3 Ilean MCCALEB 1924 - 2010
.................... +Reedy E. BALLARD 1922 - 1993
.......................... 4 Belinda Sue BALLARD 1943 -
.............................. +Benny DAVIS
.......................... 4 Youonia Lou BALLARD 1945 -
.............................. +Carrol STOKES
.......................... 4 Patsy Lee BALLARD 1947 -
.............................. +DAWSON
................ 3 Clifton "Coonie" MCCALEB 1927 - 2000
.................... +Louise Annie "Sissy" BEASLEY 1925 - 2000
.......................... 4 [2] Jo Ann MCCALEB 1943 -
.............................. +William Eric SMITH, Jr. 1941 -
................................... 5 Scarlette Dacharia SMITH 1962 -
....................................... +NICHOLSON
................................... 5 William Eric SMITH, lll 1964 -
............................................. 6 Tristan SMITH
.......................... *2nd Husband of [2] Jo Ann MCCALEB:
.............................. +James F. MCDONALD, Jr. 1943 -
.......................... 4 Maxwell Clifton "Mackie" MCCALEB 1957 -
.............................. +Susan Darlene ROBINSON
................................... 5 Matthew Clifton MCCALEB 1986 -
................................... 5 Brittany Dawn MCCALEB 1989 -
................................... 5 Megan MCCALEB 1995 -
....... 2 Mary Elizabeth MCCALEB 1898 - 1974
........... +Alonzo "Lonnie" Jackson BOX 1895 - 1959
................ 3 [3] Albert Lee BOX 1917 - 1975
.................... +Mary Colburn WATLEY
................ *2nd Wife of [3] Albert Lee BOX:
.................... +Ola Mae BUTLER 1922 - 2004
.......................... 4 Ila Mae "Lucy" BOX 1944 - 2001
.............................. +Johney BRADLEY
................................... 5 Wilson Lee BRADLEY
................................... 5 Carlinda BRADLEY
.......................... 4 Mary Lee "Mac" BOX 1937 -
.............................. +J. L. "Fuzz" BENTON, Jr. 1935 - 2004
................................... 5 Thymon Neal BENTON 1958 -
................................... 5 Ola Kay BENTON 1960 -
....................................... +Cary DUNN
................................... 5 Sarina BENTON 1962 -
....................................... +Eddy CANTRELL
................................... 5 David Wayne "Bozo" BENTON 1974 -
....................................... +DEANIA
.......................... 4 Julius Aaron BOX 1946 -
.............................. +Patricia Dianna SMITH 1953 -
................................... 5 Julius Aaron BOX II 1971 -
....................................... +Sharon Lee BROWN 1975 -
................................... 5 Matthew Daniel BOX 1973 -
................................... 5 Rachael Dawn BOX 1976 - 1976
.......................... 4 Joe Anthony BOX
.............................. +Donna WALKER
................ 3 Shanon Grayel "Rook" BOX 1920 - 2008
.................... +Lillian Codelle HUGULEY 1926 - 1997
.......................... 4 Sandra Anglelyn BOX 1946 -
.............................. +Wayne BEASLEY 1943 -
................................... 5 Barett Shane BEASLEY
....................................... +Ginger Sara Ann VARNADOE
............................................. 6 Karlie Elizabeth BEASLEY
................................... 5 Heath Wayne BEASLEY
.......................... 4 Ferrin BOX 1952 - 1952
.......................... 4 [4] John Stephen "Johnny" BOX 1954 -
.............................. +Tammy SELLERS
................................... 5 Stephen J. BOX
.......................... *2nd Wife of [4] John Stephen "Johnny" BOX:
.............................. +REBA
.......................... 4 James Shannon BOX 1955 - 1955
.......................... 4 Mark Grayel BOX 1964 -
.............................. +Cynthia R. "CINDY" 1970 -
................ 3 J. C. "John" BOX 1922 - 1990
.................... +Willow Bashie "Bee" MCCALEB 1925 - 2009
.......................... 4 Brenda BOX 1946 -
.............................. +Harold Stephen "Steve" FLIPPO 1943 -
................................... 5 Stephanie FLIPPO 1968 -
....................................... +James David PETERSON
............................................. 6 Nicholas Chase FLIPPO
................................... 5 Tiffany FLIPPO 1973 -
....................................... +William Heath PORTER
............................................. 6 William Clayton PORTER
................................... 5 Chase FLIPPO
.......................... 4 Glenda BOX 1948 -
.............................. +Gary EADS 1947 -
................................... 5 Garry Kevin EADS 1967 -
....................................... +Showanna HENDERSON
............................................. 6 Haven Marich EADS
................................... 5 Tracy Dawn EADS 1969 -
....................................... +James SIMMONS
............................................. 6 Justin Caleb SIMMONS
............................................. 6 Madison Paige SIMMONS
.......................... 4 Rhonda BOX 1950 -
.............................. +Gary Quinton ADDISON 1948 -
................................... 5 Gary Wayne ADDISON 1968 -
....................................... +Lisa RAWLS
............................................. 6 Hunter Wayne ADDISON
............................................. 6 Scarlett Renee ADDISON
................................................. +DeWayne SIMMONS
...................................................... 7 Austin DeWayne SIMMONS
................................... 5 Scarlette Renee ADDISON 1973 -
.......................... 4 Beverly BOX 1954 -
.............................. +Lymon Hollis GOOLSBY, Jr. 1953 - 2001
................................... 5 Beverly Farrah GOOLSBY 1976 -
....................................... +Paul PARRISH
................................... 5 Jennifer Lee GOOLSBY 1977 -
....................................... +Brock MCMILLIAN
................ 3 Billy Ed BOX 1927 - 1992
.................... +Mary Laudis FOSTER 1932 -
.......................... 4 Billy Roy BOX 1952 -
.............................. +Deborah BRUMLEY 1953 -
................................... 5 Lauren Leigh BOX 1990 -
.......................... 4 Ricky Dale BOX 1955 - 1955
.......................... 4 Richard Allen BOX 1959 -
.............................. +Rebecca SPRINKLE
................................... 5 Cody Gaines BOX
................ 3 [5] Willie Fred BOX 1927 - 1993
.................... +Mildred NORRIS 1928 - 2007
.......................... 4 Larry Fred BOX 1948 -
.............................. +Charlotte WEBB 1952 -
................................... 5 Michael BOX 1971 -
....................................... +Stacey MOORE
............................................. 6 Elizabeth Charlotte BOX 1995 -
................................... 5 Jared Craig BOX 1973 -
....................................... +Melissa Kate SKAGGS
................................... 5 Jason BOX 1973 -
................................... 5 Bart Dwayne BOX 1977 -
....................................... +Leslie Ann STAMPS 1980 -
.......................... 4 Pam BOX 1957 -
.............................. +Tommy HOSCH 1956 -
.......................... 4 Scott BOX 1962 -
.............................. +Rose WILKERSON 1962 -
................................... 5 Jamie Deanna BOX 1981 -
....................................... +DABAL
................................... 5 Caleb Graden BOX 1983 -
................ *2nd Wife of [5] Willie Fred BOX:
.................... +Elease BRAZIL 1938 -
.......................... 4 Lyndon Carlos BOX 1973 -
.............................. +Rebecca Alix HARRIS
................ 3 Jimmie Rogers "Bobby" BOX 1932 -
.................... +Billie Joyce VICKERY 1938 -
.......................... 4 Roger Allen BOX 1955 -
.............................. +Ann MCMILLAN 1954 -
................................... 5 Amberly BOX 1974 -
....................................... +Jason H. CICERO 1975 -
................................... 5 Adrian BOX 1977 -
................................... 5 Meredith Allyn BOX 1978 -
....................................... +Christopher George CONCORD 1976 -
............................................. 6 Christopher Chance CONCORD 2005 -
.......................... 4 Patty BOX 1957 -
.............................. +David Greg BEASLEY 1955 -
................................... 5 David Chad BEASLEY 1975 -
....................................... +Julie Allison KELTON
............................................. 6 David Andrew BEASLEY
............................................. 6 Natalie Grace BEASLEY
............................................. 6 Emma Kate BEASLEY
................................... 5 Emma Caldonia "Cali" BEASLEY 1977 -
....................................... +Brian Keith ALEXANDER 1972 -
............................................. 6 Cannon Lane ALEXANDER
............................................. 6 Triston Gage ALEXANDER
................................... 5 Mary Christina BEASLEY 1978 -
....................................... +Jeremy Wayne WEBSTER 1975 -
............................................. 6 Makayla Christina WEBSTER
............................................. 6 Alexis Leigh WEBSTER
................................... 5 Gregory Clint BEASLEY 1980 -
....................................... +Crystal Dawn WILSON 1981 -
............................................. 6 Wilson Gregory "Will" BEASLEY 2004 -
............................................. 6 Garret Conner BEASLEY 2007 -
................................... 5 Jimmy Clark BEASLEY 1980 -
.......................... 4 Phillip Ray BOX 1961 -
.............................. +Tammy TRULL 1961 -
................................... 5 Alisha BOX 1982 -
................................... 5 Phillip BOX, Jr. 1984 -
................................... 5 William BOX 1989 -
................ 3 Hoyt Jackson BOX 1936 - 2008
.................... +Betty Jo RUTLEDGE 1940 -
.......................... 4 Donna Jo BOX 1957 -
.............................. +Lanny MCCALEB 1957 -
.......................... 4 Rebecca BOX 1959 -
.......................... 4 Jackie BOX 1960 -
.......................... 4 Lonnie BOX 1971 - 1983
.......................... 4 Beth BOX
.............................. +Herb JONES
................................... 5 Ashley JONES
................................... 5 Charlie JONES
................ 3 Lonnie Jackson BOX, Jr. 1939 - 1963
.................... +Shirley Ann LUALLEN 1939 -
....... 2 John Franklin MCCALEB 1907 -
....... 2 [6] Verla MCCALEB 1910 - 2000
........... +Vernon SANDLIN
....... *2nd Husband of [6] Verla MCCALEB:
........... +Louis H. "Luie" ROBY 1904 - 1956
................ 3 James Ray ROBY 1929 -
.................... +Wilma Dean WHITEHEAD 1930 -
................ 3 Roy Gene ROBY 1933 -
.................... +Mary Louise MCCOLLUM 1935 -
.......................... 4 Evelyn Denise ROBY 1948 -
.............................. +Rick HARRIS
.......................... 4 Curtis Eugene ROBY 1959 -
.............................. +Kathy THOMAS
................ 3 Roland ROBY 1942 -
.................... +Wanda Kay BOWLES 1943 -
.......................... 4 Dewayne Eddy ROBY 1960 -
.......................... 4 Derann ROBY 1964 -

Christmas Letter 2009

2010-01-24T17:53:00.000-08:00

CHRISTMAS LETTER 2009

By
Fred McCaleb

I don’t understand many big events today because many TV announcers are sounding like machine guns shooting to me. Just catch something once in a while and so I will try to recall some of the exciting things that happened during my near 100 years of living. The first was a one teacher school across Boxes creek from where we lived taught by Alma Kizzire that made an example out of me and her boy. The 2nd another one teacher school at clover hill. Third was Shannon High School in Miss. Where all grades were taught and I failed 3rd grade under Mrs. Carter. There I read the Memphis commercial appeal about Charles A Lindberg crossing the Atlantic Ocean in his airplane, and in 1927 we honored Thomas Alva Edison’ s death by turning out lights for 3 minutes. You blew out a coal oil lamp at our house and thousands at others for many more years. Transportation had gone from wooden wheeled T model fords to Iron wheeled coupes. We got rides some times when rainy in an enclosed car. What a luxury. Soon my dad got tired of Miss. And we moved back to west part of Fayette County and in a better house. There I went to Kirkland Junior High and from there on to Winfield High. Couldn’t play foot ball, miss bus, and walk 12 miles home. They ran short of funds and I had to finish senior year 6 weeks at Fayette. Harry Hodge’s , one of the better off of Fayette, owned a car and his two boys brought me home from graduation.

I applied and was finally accepted to work my way through Berry College in December. Miss Berry had famous aviator Amelia Earhart speak at Joint Chapel and she left on her trip around the world soon and went down in the Pacific ocean and never returned. I saw Henry Ford 3 times while at Berry. One of his sayings was if a man thinks he can he can if he thinks he can’t he can’t. He was paying the highest wage of $5 per day earlier. He built the rock college for girls and their recreation hall for girls. Many other famous people like Emily Vanderbelt Hammond visited with money and philosophy. Soon I was gone from Berry to the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Co in Birmingham Al. at the big salary of 90$ Per month. My folks thought I was well to do. My brother, Hubert McCaleb had a job at Radford Arsenal near Radford, Va at $150 per month. This was nearly 1 yr. before Pearl Harbor and he told me to come there for a better job. I went and was accepted. I was at the Blacksburg Drug Store about 6 months later when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese war planes. War was declared right soon. I worked about 9 mos. Longer at Radford and Glen Wilkes TNT plant taken over from Russia until it exploded one night while I was home sleeping. Two buildings were completely destroyed. Spent two more months taking inventory and Then back to Radford. While at Glen Wilkes I took a Trip to New York and saw the Empire State Building, rode Trolleys for 5cts and did many other things. Got drafted from Radford. They let me stay home one month then thru Ft. McClellan, Atlanta, an hour or two in Washington, D.C. where I visited Congress in session and on to Aberdeen Proving Grounds for winter basic and then Texas where it was hot, then assigned to 428 Tire Company. From there to POE at Seattle, Wa. Then to Pearl Harbor for 6 months. I was driving a truck there and got ahead of the Franklin D Roosevelt convertible and stayed in front being waved on till I was back at Parking lot on side of road in Honolulu. I stopped beside road and watched Roosevelt go by with 2 motorcycles ahead and two behind. They had picked all cocoanuts off trees in Waikike Beach where he was lodging in the fancy hotel. I helped assemble weapon carriers on Sand Island across harbor from my truck lot for a week or two. We had hardest part dashboard to put on. A German POW camp was at our back. They got excited when all the big guns started trying to down a plane without friend or foe id that was missing. Truck drivers rode a small boat across the harbor to work each day. We finally caught a steamship to Saipan in a 7 boat convoy. Tokio Rose said we wouldn’t make it. That sort of tightened us up. We Closed ranks and zig zagged all night. Nothing happened. Finally on Saipan. There the B 29 bomber pilots told us at an out door movie how much of Tokio had been destroyed each day. One showed me thru one of the B 29 planes. They could shoot you down from every direction but one and that a military secret. I was on Saipan when atom bomb was dropped, the greatest event of modern times. Caught a ship back to San Francisco in November and got back home Dec. 21st in time for Christmas. Had Just finished 10000 miles of traveling. I helped my dad build a 2 car garage. He wanted me to stay home. In a month or so I wrote my old employment place about a job and they said I could come back. There I worked about a year until laid off. By that time I had already got married to a nice girl. I was pleased at being talked nice to and not to do or die. We lived together for 60 years until she died 3 years ago. I built a house at Ripplemead, Va. She cried when she had to leave it 11 years later. She was good about taking care of children while I was on shift work at Celanese plant near Pearisburg, Va. My next job was Thiokol Chemical at Huntsville, Al. I blew up an oven the first night after boss had told me to see if I could melt a sample of solid propellant. It would have disabled me if I had been there. I was there eating lunch in a parking lot when President John F Kennedy was shot in Texas. I was terminated when I got adhesion of liner from 5 to 45lbs to sq.in. Six months of un-employment and job was obtained at Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC. As chemist. There a $20 bill had to be folded thousands of times before breaking down. Linseed oil was mixed with ink and called special intaglio ink vehicle for printing. Printing couldn’t fade out. Saw cart loads of $100 bills. Saw them burning taken in old scrapped money. Went to counter fitting agent where they were catching counter fitters. One in Birmingham. Al. had never been caught making 1 $20 bill occasionally. Saw them loading big trucks with tons of money and machine gun officers guarding. We went to church one Sunday at a Washington Christian Church and Lindon B Johnson and family came in and sat 2 benches ahead of us with his armed guards. Some time along then I saw the remains of Herbert Hoover at white house. I was on the side walk and saw President Carter walk up Pa avenue unprotected for inauguration. Only recent one to do that. They got in an older new guy to be head guy of my department. I regretted that and got a job with more pay at Ft. Belvoir. There I analyzed gas samples from presidents helicopter that had fallen. Had to be sure but found nothing wrong. Next I analyzed gasoline from Russia. My boss was a Russian Jew. During all my time in Washington I attended ham radio shows. I was a licensed radio operator extra n4eb. I was only genealogist after retiring and getting lightning struck on radio tower and losing good transmitter-receiver. My wife attended my retirement at 63 years of age. I will be retired 30 years the last of December. May I after all this foolishness wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The best to all. Fred McCaleb

PERRY “SIE” MCCOLLUM OF SOME HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE IN NORTH EAST FAYETTE COUNTY, AL

2009-11-27T08:25:00.000-08:00

By
Fred McCaleb

Sie was born in mid 1850s at the McCollum plantation home where Hubbertsville now is. His mother was a black slave and dad was supposedly my ggg ancester James K McCollum. No proof except color. Sie was light brown and many of his children turned out to be nearly white. He was a young boy that did what James K told after the Civil war ended. James K was heavily in debt after the Civil war and decided that the way to clear it was for him and Sie to burn down the Fayette County AL Court house. They supposedly did but never proven. They were badly into it with the law for their meanness. They supposedly tried to get the truth out of Sie by hanging him with a rope around his neck tied to a limb of a tree. Sie said he felt like he was about ready to meet his master until they finally sympathized with him and let him down. He liked to tell about his hanging spell all the rest of his life. He told many other big tales which I have forgotten. He was finally grown and got married in the 1860s. Andrew McCaleb a gg grandpa of mine and married to one of James K’s girls gave Sie a sizeable track of land and told Sie never to let sorry whites beat him out of it. Sie never sold or willed the the land to anyone. He has hundreds of heirs and the place can never be sold. The original deed is still in the Fayette County Court house and will eventually belong to Fayette County if not now. Sie showed my dad and I a home-made coffin he had the local blacksmith Bill Ervin to make. He got it from under an old time bed that James K had. He showed my dad and I how he fit in it and said the master was about to call him home. He died about 10 years later and was the first buried in the McCollum Cemetery by a cedar tree. A good many of the white McCollum heirs tried to bargain for the old bed but I never knew if any succeeded. The cedar tree is just a stump now. Sie told my dad and I that his negroes (he didn’t call them blacks) were too sorry to bury him. I guess they were nice to him later on. They put him a fancier tomb stone up instead of the original. There are 150 or more graves of his heirs and wives buried there now. I guess that is all they will ever get of the Sie McCollum estate is a six foot hole in the ground for burial. I was told that the largest crowd of blacks and whites ever attended Sie’s funeral at White Chapel Church of Christ. I might have been about to get married in Virginia and Sie was up in 90s age when he died. What a man! When I was about 6 or 7 years old my dad worked with Sie’s son Dave McCollum cutting cross-ties for the railroad. They sold them at Tom Hollingsworth store in Bazemore. I still have the broad axe used to hew out the sides of ties. My dad never said much about Sie at that time until I was in my teen years and he took me by to see Sie’s coffin. I was interested in his story ever after and picked most of it up from kindred and genealogy. I hate to mention that Sie had trouble with other women during his marriage. One of Jacob Hollingsworth heirs, son of Felix Hollingsworth and Arla Killingsworth , had the trunk of Jacob that had passed through 3 lifetimes. Jacob was justice of the peace. He gave me the paper concerning Sie getting Fereby X Thornton pregnant. Sie gave 50lbs of bacon and 5 bushels of corn to satisfy her wants of feeding her baby. Some of Sie’s land was about ¼ miles north of Skimming Ridge a one teacher school where I went to school the first 3 years of my schooling. Some of the kids walked across Sie’s pasture and had to be careful about his bull getting them. I don’t know whether Sie or any of his children ever got a little learning or not. Blacks were denied schooling with whites back then. What a shame. There was a McCaleb school house nearby and that may have been a black school. Maybe some of his immediate family learned to read and write. That’s about all most whites could do back then. Some of Sie’s descendants are becoming nurses, big time foot ball players these times and succeeding in many other areas. Two or three of them I found out are working here at Morningside. My McCaleb-Hubbard nurse told me that Sie grew one of the biggest hogs weighing around 1000 lbs. ever grown in Fayette Co. A Montgomery black confirmed it and said Sie’s son Dave grew another about the same size. I met one at the genealogy society meeting in Winfield and gave her the McCollum ancestors on Sie’s dad. She seemed to be a very nice person. I guess they are facing hardships like most all families today. I am sorry I don’t know a whole lot about Sie. I remember him as a great story teller. I thought I would let others know what little I have found out. Story done by Fred McCaleb 93yrs old or young.

CHRISTMAS LETTER 2009

2009-11-24T13:05:00.000-08:00

by
Fred McCaleb

I don’t understand many big events today because many TV announcers are sounding like machine guns shooting to me. Just catch something once in a while and so I will try to recall some of the exciting things that happened during my near 100 years of living. The first was a one teacher school across Boxes creek from where we lived taught by Alma Kizzire that made an example out of me and her boy. The 2nd another one teacher school at clover hill. Third was Shannon High School in Miss. Where all grades were taught and I failed 3rd grade under Mrs. Carter. There I read the Memphis commercial appeal about Charles A Lindberg crossing the Atlantic Ocean in his airplane, and in 1927 we honored Thomas Alva Edison’ s death by turning out lights for 3 minutes. You blew out a coal oil lamp at our house and thousands at others for many more years. Transportation had gone from wooden wheeled T model fords to Iron wheeled coupes. We got rides some times when rainy in an enclosed car. What a luxury. Soon my dad got tired of Miss. And we moved back to west part of Fayette County and in a better house. There I went to Kirkland Junior High and from there on to Winfield High. Couldn’t play foot ball, miss bus, and walk 12 miles home. They ran short of funds and I had to finish senior year 6 weeks at Fayette. Harry Hodge’s , one of the better off of Fayette, owned a car and his two boys brought me home from graduation.

I applied and was finally accepted to work my way through Berry College in December. Miss Berry had famous aviator Amelia Earhart speak at Joint Chapel and she left on her trip around the world soon and went down in the Pacific ocean and never returned. I saw Henry Ford 3 times while at Berry. One of his sayings was if a man thinks he can he can if he thinks he can’t he can’t. He was paying the highest wage of $5 per day earlier. He built the rock college for girls and their recreation hall for girls. Many other famous people like Emily Vanderbelt Hammond visited with money and philosophy. Soon I was gone from Berry to the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Co in Birmingham Al. at the big salary of 90$ Per month. My folks thought I was well to do. My brother, Hubert McCaleb had a job at Radford Arsenal near Radford, Va at $150 per month. This was nearly 1 yr. before Pearl Harbor and he told me to come there for a better job. I went and was accepted. I was at the Blacksburg Drug Store about 6 months later when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese war planes. War was declared right soon. I worked about 9 mos. Longer at Radford and Glen Wilkes TNT plant taken over from Russia until it exploded one night while I was home sleeping. Two buildings were completely destroyed. Spent two more months taking inventory and Then back to Radford. While at Glen Wilkes I took a Trip to New York and saw the Empire State Building, rode Trolleys for 5cts and did many other things. Got drafted from Radford. They let me stay home one month then thru Ft. McClellan, Atlanta, an hour or two in Washington, D.C. where I visited Congress in session and on to Aberdeen Proving Grounds for winter basic and then Texas where it was hot, then assigned to 428 Tire Company. From there to POE at Seattle, Wa. Then to Pearl Harbor for 6 months. I was driving a truck there and got ahead of the Franklin D Roosevelt convertible and stayed in front being waved on till I was back at Parking lot on side of road in Honolulu. I stopped beside road and watched Roosevelt go by with 2 motorcycles ahead and two behind. They had picked all cocoanuts off trees in Waikike Beach where he was lodging in the fancy hotel. I helped assemble weapon carriers on Sand Island across harbor from my truck lot for a week or two. We had hardest part dashboard to put on. A German POW camp was at our back. They got excited when all the big guns started trying to down a plane without friend or foe id that was missing. Truck drivers rode a small boat across the harbor to work each day. We finally caught a steamship to Saipan in a 7 boat convoy. Tokio Rose said we wouldn’t make it. That sort of tightened us up. We Closed ranks and zig zagged all night. Nothing happened. Finally on Saipan. There the B 29 bomber pilots told us at an out door movie how much of Tokio had been destroyed each day. One showed me thru one of the B 29 planes. They could shoot you down from every direction but one and that a military secret. I was on Saipan when atom bomb was dropped, the greatest event of modern times. Caught a ship back to San Francisco in November and got back home Dec. 21st in time for Christmas. Had Just finished 10000 miles of traveling. I helped my dad build a 2 car garage. He wanted me to stay home. In a month or so I wrote my old employment place about a job and they said I could come back. There I worked about a year until laid off. By that time I had already got married to a nice girl. I was pleased at being talked nice to and not to do or die. We lived together for 60 years until she died 3 years ago. I built a house at Ripplemead, Va. She cried when she had to leave it 11 years later. She was good about taking care of children while I was on shift work at Celanese plant near Pearisburg, Va. My next job was Thiokol Chemical at Huntsville, Al. I blew up an oven the first night after boss had told me to see if I could melt a sample of solid propellant. It would have disabled me if I had been there. I was there eating lunch in a parking lot when President John F Kennedy was shot in Texas. I was terminated when I got adhesion of liner from 5 to 45lbs to sq.in. Six months of un-employment and job was obtained at Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC. As chemist. There a $20 bill had to be folded thousands of times before breaking down. Linseed oil was mixed with ink and called special intaglio ink vehicle for printing. Printing couldn’t fade out. Saw cart loads of $100 bills. Saw them burning taken in old scrapped money. Went to counter fitting agent where they were catching counter fitters. One in Birmingham. Al. had never been caught making 1 $20 bill occasionally. Saw them loading big trucks with tons of money and machine gun officers guarding. We went to church one Sunday at a Washington Christian Church and Lindon B Johnson and family came in and sat 2 benches ahead of us with his armed guards. Some time along then I saw the remains of Herbert Hoover at white house. I was on the side walk and saw President Carter walk up Pa avenue unprotected for inauguration. Only recent one to do that. They got in an older new guy to be head guy of my department. I regretted that and got a job with more pay at Ft. Belvoir. There I analyzed gas samples from presidents helicopter that had fallen. Had to be sure but found nothing wrong. Next I analyzed gasoline from Russia. My boss was a Russian Jew. During all my time in Washington I attended ham radio shows. I was a licensed radio operator extra n4eb. I was only genealogist after retiring and getting lightning struck on radio tower and losing good transmitter-receiver. My wife attended my retirement at 63 years of age. I will be retired 30 years the last of December. May I after all this foolishness wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The best to all. Fred McCaleb

Sturdivant History

2009-09-17T09:30:00.000-07:00

A Brief History of Mathew P. Sturdivant As We Know It

By Early Dawn Sturdivant Cline

About 1930

He and several brothers came to this country from Holland. (Daughter Bettie Cline later proved that wrong but the statement might be right on the ones further back than Matthew.) They settled in different parts of the country. One brother ,William , settled in Missouri. Mathew came to Virginia. He married Agnes Kent of Halifax County. Mathew bound out all his boys to learn a trade. He, Mathew, became a Methodist preacher, and was the first preacher to preach Methodism in Alabama. After that he came back to Virginia, settled in Nelson County at Massies Mill, and is buried there. (Grave not found, either ran the poor house or was a patient there in old ags.)

He had several children. I only know about three of them. One daughter, I don't know her name, but she lived at Thaxton, Virginia and is buried there. Another daughter, Mary, married a Mr. Diuguid. They lived in Lynchburg and founded the Diuguid Funeral Home, which I understand is the oldest funeral home in this part of Virginia. Although it has passed out of the family, it is still the Diuguid Funeral Home.

The other child, a son, was Pleasant Meade Sturdivant, and my Grandfather. He was a tailor by trade. He and his wife Nancy spent most of their life in Southwest Virginia. He served in the Civil War until he had pneumonia, and was never well after that. The family then moved to Snowville, Va. where they lived until his death in 1882. He is buried in the Christian Church Cemetery in Snowville. The oldest son was Dudley Kent Sturdivant and my father. To him fell the duty of supporting the family. He worked on Dr. Bullocks farm for seven years. There was a woolen mill in Snowville at that time and his sisters worked there and did sewing, weaving, and spinning. They had very little chance for schooling, but studied at home and all the family were very well educated considering the opportunities they had. Bianca was remarkably well informed. She learned to read well at age four. She was expert at weaving, spinning and sewing. She wrote a book but it was never published. She also wrote two poems, "The Graves of Our Southern Heroes" and the "Dark Haired Cavalier." This later poem was about her Sweet Heart, who never came back from the war. Isabella "Aunt Belle" who was crippled from rheumatic fever was also very well self educated, and one of my favorite aunts. (Early Dawn goes into eight pages of family genealogy here which I have listed under Dudley-Sturdivant genealogy. )

This writeup was furnished to the Methodist Church in Alabama to officials trying to get the history of the first preacher Matthew Parham Sturdivant. Lorenzo Dow was a free lance preacher the Methodists had thrown out that came just before Matthew and nearly ever church in Ala seems to want to claim Dow as their very own. Some of the Early Church of Christ preachers were named Lorenzo Dow + last name.

THE DEVIL'S CONVENTION

2009-09-12T17:25:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Fred McCaleb

Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his
evil angels, he said, "We can't keep the Christians from going to
church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the
truth. We can't even keep them from conservative values. But we can do
something else.
"We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship
experience in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our
power over them is broken. So let them go to church, let them have
their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't
gain that experience in Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do,
angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and
maintaining that
vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?", shouted his angels.
"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent un-numbered
schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, then borrow, borrow, borrow.
Convince the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to
work 6 or 7 days a week, 10 - 12 hours a day, so they can afford their
lifestyles.
"Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family
fragments, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures
of work.
"Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small
voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they
drive, to keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their
homes. And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world
plays non-biblical, contradicting music constantly. This will jam
their minds and break that union with Christ.
"Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their
minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with
billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail
order catalogs, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering
free products, services, and false hopes.
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return
from their recreation exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the
coming week. Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's
wonders. Send them to Amusement parks, sporting events, concerts, and
movies instead.
"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip
and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and
unsettled emotion.
"Let them be involved in soul-winning. But crowd their lives with so
many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon
they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health
and family for the good of the cause."
It was quite a convention in the end. And the evil angels went eagerly
to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy,
busy and rush here and there.
Has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge.
How about this definition of Busy:
B-- being
U-- under
S-- Satan's
Y-- yoke
Wow huh, makes one think! Satan's goal is to take our minds and hearts
off Christ then steer us toward the cares of the world.
God wants us to enjoy life but He must be first.
If we are too busy for God, then we are too busy.

This is a very good lesson to follow. Patsy

School Prayer

2009-09-12T08:01:00.001-07:00

Submitted by Fred McCaleb

Written by a 12 Year-Old-Girl in Boston.

Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule.
For this great country under God
Finds mention of him very odd.
If scripture now the class recites
It violates the bill of rights.
Anytime my head I bow
Becomes a federal matter now.
The law is specific; the law is precise
Praying out loud is no longer nice.
Praying out loud in a public hall
Upsets those who believe in nothing at all.
In silence alone we can meditate
And if God gets the credit-Great!
They are bringing their guns;
I don't dare bring my BIBLE,
To do so might make me liable.
So, now oh Lord, this plea I make,
Should I be shot in school,
My soul please take..
Jodi Morgan

Morris Cemetery, Fayette County, Alabama

2009-09-12T06:56:00.000-07:00

Note from Fred McCaleb:
Members of H McCaleb's family descendants should be slightly interested in this cemetery. One of my dad's little brothers, John Franklin McCaleb that died when 2 years old in 1907 is buried here. His rich Uncle Bird McCaleb is buried here also.

Submitted by

Patsy Box Johnson

Location: From Winfield, Alabama travel hwy 78 east to the Glen Allen turn off. Turn right on County Road 129, which will be the Hubbertville hwy. Turn left on County Road 24. Go about one mile to Berea Road and turn right. Morris Cemetery on right.

Nicodemus F. Morris b: 25 Nov 1853 d: 14 Jan 1933

Susan E. Whitehead Morris b: 8 Mar 1854 d: 16 Jul 1901
Luther F. Box b: 20 Sept 1893 d: 24 Dec 1968

Ruth F. Morris Box b: 11 Sept 1893 d: 11 Aug 1911

Reedie Box "Little Reedie" b: 17 Aug 1909 d: 21 Feb 1913

Joseph T. Box b: Jun 1864 d: 7 Jul 1927

Martha F. Whitehead Box b: 1873 d: 1950

Teddie M. Morris son of P.A. & J.M. Morris b: 31 Aug 1903 d: 16 May 1904

Liddie Morris dau of P.A. & J.M. Morris b: 22 Jun 1905 d: 1 Sept 1905

Jerusia Morris b: 12 Dec 1881 d: 19 May 1905

J.F.Whitehead b: 12 May 1859 d: 10 May 1927

Archibald Whitehead, Jr. b: 1822 d: Aug 1861

Martha "Patsy" Anthony Whitehead b: 1824 d: 1911

Archibald Whitehead, Sr. b: 1 Aor 1783 d: 5 Sep 1866

Nancy Smith Whitehead b: 22 Jul 1791 d: 25 Mar 1881

Nathaniel A. "Nathan" Whitehead b: 19, Mar 1861 d: 8 Jan 1873

J.N. Whitehead b:---

Melton Whitehead b: 1910 d: 1912

G. McCaleb b: 31 Aug 1909 d: 19 Nov 1915

T. Nichols son fo W.C.& V.E. Nichols b: 6 Jul 1911 d: 23 Aug 1904

Nellie Mills b: Abt 1829 d: 19 Mar 1905

John Franklin McCaleb b: 10 Dec 1907 d: 28 Jul 1909

Infant McDonald of W.C. & M.D. McDonald b: 26 Apr 1908 d: 4 May 1908

M.D. McDonald b: 1885 d: 1923

E.M. McDonald b: 1912 d: 1923

W.G. McDonald b: 1874 d: 1945

Mary Grigg b: 29 Jan 1879 d: 14 Jan 1942

Doshia McDonald b: 1894 d: 23 Aug 1958

Thomas LaFayette "Fayette" McDonald b: 29 Aug 1863 d: 18 Jul 1941

Ella Moore McDonald b: 14 Aug 1870 d: 28 Feb 1950

Ira W."Tete" McDonald b: 5 Feb 1892 d: 25 May 1954 (Pvt. WW1. 102Inf. Co.K.)

Effie McDonald b: 1870 d:---

Harom McDonald b: 8 Mar 1895 D: 27 Jul 1930 (Pvt WWI)

Avneil Ford b: 1920 d: 1920

H.L. Davis b: 4 Dec 1856 d: 17 Jul 1916

Fred Cockren b: 8 Jul 1920 d: 13 Sept 1921

Byrd McDonald b: 15 Sept 1858 d: 20 Sept 1930

Elizabeth "Lizzie" McDonald b: 18 jan 1863 d: 24 Aug 1950

Ador Miles b: 19 Feb 1906 d: 21 Dec 1906

Myrtle Whitehead b: 25 May 1902 d: 9 Jul 1905

Mary L. Whitehead b: 20 Apr 1901 d: 27 Jun 1901

Molissie Whitehead b: 6 Oct 1904 d: 2 Oct 1905

Elizabeth Crow b: 10 Feb 1828 d: 11 Dec 1909

J.D. Crow b: 24 Mar 1829 d: 6 May 1899

W.N. Guess b: 23 Mar 1873 d: 9 Mar 1899

M.E. Whitehead b: 22 Jul 1861 d: 6 Nov 1924

Melton Whitehead b: 1910 d: 1912

Drury Henry Co Whitehead b: 5 Sept 1831 d: 2 Apr 1914

Mary Jane Anthony Whitehead b: 27 Sept 1837 d: 1 Jul 1916

Infant Norris of Johnny Norris b&d: 8 Oct 1927

Abram Perry Whitehead b: 7 Aug 1859 d: 2 Jul 1937

Donna Alice Tucker Whitehead b: 27 Mar 1866 d: 16 Jun 1964

Clyde Darrel b: 9 Jul 1936 d: 11 Aug 1946

Mary Erwin b: 1840 d: 1898

Elizabeth Erwin b: Nov 1806 d: 3 Jun 1886

Mary A. Morton b: 12 Nov 1857 d: 2 Jun 1859

Luther O. Morton b: 3 Nov 1859 d: 24 Nov 1861

-----b: 15 Oct 1880 d: 19 Jan 1891

L.M. McCollough(wife of W.H.) b: 1 Jan 1846 d: 13 Sep 1909

William Henry Weaver b: 1901 d: 23 May 1957

A. Weaver (no dates)

Christine Whitehead b: 1925 d: 1926

Inf. Whitehead of L.N. 1921

Arzo Whitehead b: 1917 d: 1918

Inf.Whitehead child of G.A & A.J. b: 14 Feb 1932

Ethel L. Berry Whitehead wife of J.F."Frank" Whitehead b: 13 Feb 1894 d: 15 Feb 1926

A.L. Clark b: 2 Mar 1859 d: 22 Jun 1918

Mary G. Sexton b: 23 Feb 1820 d: 12 Jun 1903

Annie Lou Roby b: 12 Dec 1927 d: 27 Aug 1929

Belvie Whitehead b: 22 Jun 1905 d: 19 Nov 1939

Jo Ann Whitehead b: 1940 d: 1942

Lonzo b: 1882 d: 1949

Rosie Whitehead b: 1884 d: 19-

Terry Baccus b: 1947 d: --

Gaines McDonald b: 1876 d: 1948

Preshie McDonald b: 1878 d: 19-

Inf Campbell of Edwin & Aneda b: 15 Jun 1942 d: --

Jim McDonald b: 14 Oct 1886 d: 23 Dec 1929

Susan Shaw b: 25 May 1873 d: 30 May 1941

Harris ?

Josie Morris Davis b: 22 Nov 1880 d: 26 Feb 1925

Nocal Davis child of J.&T. b: 24 Feb 1914 d: 5 Mar 1914

Inf McCaleb son of Alfred & Hester b: 7 Sept 1921

Dexter F. McCaleb b: 6 Feb 1928 d: 21 Oct 1931

Hester McCaleb b: 7 Jun 1891 d: 7 Sept 1958

Alfred Cowan McCaleb b: 13 Jun 1891 d: 23 Dec 1955

Roy Elliott Ala.Pvt. 355 Inf. 92 Div. d: 21 Dec 1929

H.G. Threadway b: 12 May 1835 d: 28 Oct 1877

R.O. Mills (no dates)

J.J. Barnes b: 2 Oct 1865 d: 16 Mar 1934

Mrs. S.M. Barnes b: 1 Feb 1869 d: 19 Aug 1935

Nancy Mills b: 24 Jan 1820 d: 13 Mar 1891 (My Mother)

James E. Mills b: 1815 d: 24 Dec 1910 (My Father)

J.C. Meherg b: 18 Apr 1892 d: 2 Aug 1892 (6mo 15days)

James A. Mills b: 31 Jul 1876 d: 20 May 1899

Alice Mills b: 15 Feb 1878 d: 26 Apr 1900

Martha E. Mills b: 15 May 1881 d: 1 Dec 1903

Rufus S. Mills b: 24 Feb 1851 d: 13 May 1935

Mahala C. Mills b: 22 Dec 1846 d: 3 Aug 1920

William Madison Mills b: 1875 d: 9 May 1958

T.M. Mills b: 1876 d: 1945

George Rosco Whitehead b: 8 Sep 1891 d: 2 Mar 1934 (Ala Pvt 152 Inf 38 Div)

E. Glendon Matthews b: 31 Mar 1923 d: 21 Apr 1929

James McCollough b: 1882 d: 1931

Lucretia Morris McCollough b: 31 Dec 1882 d: 29 Apr 1981

Martha Whitehead b: 1862 d: 1945

Jerome Aldridge b: 1939 d: 1950

Charles S. Lee b: 1864 d: 5 Apr 1955

N.C. Lee b: 1879

Rebecca Rosena Sprinkle Whitehead b: 7 Jul 1866 d: 4 Jun 1935 (Mother)

John Sherman Whitehead b: 10 Jan 1868 d: 5 Aug 1951 (Father)

William McKinley Whitehead b: 27 Aug 1826 d: 13 Sep 1958

Alex Tidwell b: 1881 d: 1952

Missouri Whitehead Tidwell b: Sep 1881 d: 1964

Bertha E. Caddell b: 1882 d: 1943

Thomas E. Caddell b: 1857 d: 1932

Josie Caddell b: 1862 d: 1903

Bozzie A. Caddell b: 1898 d: 1917

Alonzo D. Caddell b: 1884 d: 1918

William H. McCollough b: 31 Aug 1840 d: 25 Aug 1911 (Co. I. 26 Ala Inf C.S.A.)

Our Past Ancestors

2009-09-05T12:03:00.000-07:00

Submitted by:
Fred McCaleb

"We are people to whom the past is forever speaking. We listen to it because
we cannot help ourselves, for the past speaks to us with many voices. Far
out of that dark nowhere which is the time before we were born, men who were
flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone went through fire and storm to break
a path to the future. We are part of the future they died for; they are part
of the past that brought the future. What they did--the lives they lived,
the sacrifices they made, the stories they told and the songs they sang and,
finally, the deaths they died-- make up a part of our own experience.
We cannot cut ourselves off from it. It is as real to us as something that
happened last week. It is a basic part of our heritage as Americans."

2009-08-31T15:58:00.000-07:00

2009-08-26T12:25:00.000-07:00

White's Chapel Church of Christ

2009-08-23T13:17:00.000-07:00

by Fred McCaleb

This church was established in 1927 with the following charter members: Bob and Cordia Herren, Jerry and Siddy White, Oscar and Dell Dodd, Mr. and Mrs. Boss Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hollingsworth, Mr. and Mrs. White Howell, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Howell, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hollingsworth.

Some of the earlier ministers were Charlie A. Wheeler, Gus Nichols, A.D. Dias, Chester Estes, W.A. Black, Edsel Burleson, and V.P. Black.

This church is located about 2 miles south of The Bazemore community in NE Fayette County, Ala.

My grandfather James "Jim" Franklin and Rejina Catherine McCaleb lived about a quarter mile down the road from that church. Their children were H (my dad), Walker married Lula Roby, Mary married Lonnie Box, and Verla Married Louie Roby. In 1925, Frank White and his wife lived in a nice framed house, the first one on right south of the church. He was the son of Jerry and Sid White. I have been told that Jerry White was the principle influence in getting White's Chapel started, and the church was named for him. Frank White had gone off to WW1 and lost one of his lungs. He struggled for breath the rest of his life. Best I recollect he had a mail carrier job, therefore had more income than anyone else in the community. One of his daughters married Marshall Wyers. Marshall was a young man that came to Mt. Olive Church to preach on a Sunday or two when I was attending church there in the 1930s. Marshall's son James Wyers is presently (1995) preaching at the Winfield Church of Christ. He does a good job preaching. Much of the attendees are young people, which is rare in a modern church. I like to think the influence of Jerry White and Marshall Wyers is extending on through the years.

The second house on right of road south of White's Chapel was Walker and Lula Roby McCaleb's. Walker deeded a piece of land across the road from his house and toward the church for a community center and a church social building. Home coming dinners and church social events take place there. Walker had three children. They were Arlin, Ilene, and Clifton McCaleb. Clifton and Arlin were active in the church during its' history.

Down the road on the left past Walker McCaleb lived his parents James "Jim" and Rejina C. Hollingsworth McCaleb, Walker's parents and my grandparents. I never knew exactly how good their church attendance was, but assumed they were members at Berea or White's Chapel and maybe attended some events at both places. I stayed at their house one summer and attended a singing school conducted by Homer Colley. I think my brother Hubert and sister Clancy also attended. Needless to say, I failed to learn how to sing. That represented my total training in the musical world, and still no singing improvement.

Next house down the road on the left was the Bob and Cordia Herren house. They raised fifteen children ranging in age from the older ones that my dad played with to the younger ones that went to school at Clover Hill and were in my age group. They were Susan Emma that married John Russell Roby; Duncan Newbern that married Ada Rosena Sprinkle; Elijah Columbus "E.C." that married Myrtle Lee Erwin (my first school teacher. ) Columbus was ordained to preach when young, but later just gave talks at churches. He was mainly a school teacher. Louis Wiley that married Alma Irene Hiten (dau of Raymond Hiten, a school teacher.)Wiley became a C. of Christ preacher. ; Alma that married Walter A. Dodd; Marion Francis that married Lucille Berry; Sherman Theodore who married Lorene Brazil; Robert Howard that married Maggie Lee Hutchins; Velma Neeland that married John Frederick Wyers; C.S. that married ( 1) Dora Bopeep Hollingsworth, and John Sidney "Jigs" that married Evacille Davis. Four of the children died young. I went to school at Clover Hill one year with the last three, and my dad, H McCaleb went to school at the same place with three or four of the earlier Herrens. Some, or all, of these Herrens and families must have attended White's Chapel part of the time. The names of the ones they married may also have attended.

Down from Bob Herren was the Aute and Emma Hollingsworth Tucker Family. Further on over were Wheeler Tucker and the Robys.

The Oscar Dodd and Idella White Dodd lived across the road from White's Chapel during the 1930s. I recollect their daughter Inez and son Garvin "Dits" Dodd. They may have had more. Seems like one may have died of typhoid fever. Their well got infected with the typhoid germ.

Jerry White seems to have masterminded the founding of White's Chapel. Jerry and Siddie Tucker's family that lived were Frances Jane who married William Henry Clark; Idella who married William Oscar Dodd, and Andrew Franklin who married Emma E. Sparks as a second wife. Frank married Velma Johnson about 1915. Frank had to go off to WW1 and Velma died, I don't know if from childbirth or what. One source said Velma walked off and left Frank and died later. Velma was the daughter of T.S. "Ditch" Johnson and Mary Frances McCaleb, a sister of my grandpa Jim McCaleb. Ditch wasn't much good and was in Texas and my grandfather was taking care of Velma and some of the Johnson family when Velma married Frank White. So the McCalebs didn't lack much being kin to the Frank white Children.

Before White's Chapel the church was at Clover Hill, about a mile east of present location. Clover Hill may have needed repairs and was probably about worn out. Whether there was some sort of split that formed Tidwell's Chapel and White's Chapel I never knew as we were away in Miss. at that time.

Frank and Emma Sparks White's children were Frankie Lee White who married Marshall Wyers. Marshall was beginning to be a Church of Christ preacher when I was in my teens (1930s.) Their son James Wyers is the preacher at Winfield Church of Christ (1995.) Franks daughter Myrl Christine married Boss Beasley; son Thomas Loyd married Edith Sue Sherer,; Jerry Calvin married Jewell Brazil?; Juanita Inez maarried "Bill" Black; and there was a son named Eugene Rudolph White.

At the forks of the old gravel road at White's Chapel was a little store run by a Sprinkle, Moses I think. Some of the Sprinkles went to church there. Going north toward Bazemore and across New River was the Holly and Alma Woodard Tucker family. Then in Bazemore was the Howell families and the Tom and Molly McCaleb Hollingsworth family. Tom ran a store in Bazemore back then, and his son Ecter later operated the same store. Many of the Howells and Hollingsworths up there went to White's Chapel. This is about all I have picked up on this church. The cemetery there is full of graves of people I knew, or knew of, that have been put there during my lifetime. It's enough to make one want to cry.

Some of this info was furnished by James "Jim" Herren, son of C.S.,and some was from Herbert Newell's History of Fayette County. Some came from Fred McCaleb who did this write-up.

New River Vignette

2009-08-23T09:34:00.001-07:00

By Myrtle Aldridge
Submitted by Fred McCaleb

On Sunday August 4 (year unknown) a series of meetings began at the New River Church of Christ. Curtis W. Posey is doing the preaching, and the public is cordially invited.
This must be at least seventy five times that an event sililar to this has taken place on this same spot. The original building was incorporated into the present one when a remodeling job took place a few years ago.
1886 has been given as the date of organization. Mr. John Tyler McCaleb owned a large farm near by. He gave the land and financed the building of the house except for $18 which was donated by Mr. Jim Wade. Mr. McCaleb was an elder from the time of the organization till his death August 13, 1918.
One of his young daughters was first to be buried in the church cemetery. She was Sarah H. McCaleb Reed. June 13, 1868 to Oct. 13, 1888. She left a small son, Luther, who was reared by his grandfather.
Another daughter, Medora S. Haley, 1866?-1890, also left a small son Wilburn who was also reared by his grandfather McCaleb.
Mr. McCaleb was twice married: first to Elizabeth Susan McDonald whose dates are 1847-1894. After her death he was married to Mattie Drucilla Lee whose dates are 1860 to 1940.
Mr. McCaleb was highly respected by all who knew him. A man once came to him to buy a turn of corn. Mr. McCaleb was busy and told the man to go to the crib and help himself. The man said, "But no one will be with me to check on my honesty." "Oh you are mistaken" replied Mr. McCaleb, "The Lord will be there."
Needless to say, the man could not have then been dishonest if he had had any inclination to do so.
Mr. McCaleb was also known for his generosity. Mr. Huse Haney tells me that during a big meeting he had seen as many as forty saddles on the fence at Mr. McCaleb's home.
Papa Aldridge told me that as a young man, he often visited in this home. On one such occasion, several pallets had to be made down. The next morning Aunt Silla said "Well where did Wilburn sleep last night?" To this her young stepson, Joe McCaleb, replied, "The last time I saw him he was standing in a corner with a quilt over his head, like a tent."
From 1899 till 1911, Mr. McCaleb served as postmaster of the New River Post Office.
Some ministers who have served this churchS: Jeremiah Randolph, whose dates are 1807 to 1894, his son Virgil, whose dates are 1847 to 1908,Green Haley, Joe Halbrooks, C.A. Wheeler, W.A. Tipton, Samuel B. Carson, Howell Taylor & others.
Uncle Joe Holbrooks lived at New River for a period of 16 years. He preached there, in adjoining communities and counties. At the time he was considered a very scholarly man, for he had attended Mars Hill Bible School near Florence.
Some of the older members of this church today are Mr. & Mrs. Bill Hollingsworth, Mrs. Lucy McCaleb and Mr. Oliver Davis and wife.
The morning I visited this cemetery, a gentle rustling of the leaves, bird calls, the flutter of butterflies wings in an ancient crepe myrtle, were the only sounds in this tranquil spot. I was reminded of a poem by Mrs. Ruth E. McCaleb as I stood by l
her grave, in which she described the land which her husband loved, the acres of fine corn through which the wind passed and "Came to rest, with a sigh, at his tomb."

Skimming Ridge School or Boxes Creek School

2009-08-23T09:30:00.001-07:00

(On front row third from left is Fred McCaleb)
by Fred McCaleb

From the best info I could obtain from the old timers in the area of this old one teacher school, it was built about 1910-12. It was located on the road between Berea Church of Christ and New River Baptist Church in Northeast Fayette County, Al. It was not built as a church building. Some singings and church events may have been held there in the last years of its duration. Berea probably had a country one teacher school, so did New River Baptist (Killingsworth) church, Clover Hill, Gravel Hill, Philadelphia Church, Glen Allen and other communities around the Hubbartville area. Fayette County had many one teacher schools up to around 1930. The schools in the Hubbartville area were consolidatted into Hubbardville Junior High School which later became Hubbartville High School. Skimming Ridge School operated from about 1912-1927. Travis Hollingsworth came in possession of the school house at end and dismantled it by hand,piece by piece.
I wondered how this building came to have the name of Skimming Ridge. Skimmings were a byproduct of sorghum molasses making. They could be stored in a barrel, let ferment into alcohol, and then boiled off in a still to obtain whiskey. One of the local enterpreneurs saved some barrels of skimmings, dug holes in the ground for the barrels and camouflaged the location. Some local resident came along and fell into one of the barrels. Thereafter the area was known as Skimming Ridge. Boxes Creek School was named Skimming Ridge after the above event.
Some of the earlier students at this school were the Sherrill and Fanny Barnard Killingsworth children : Cecil, Grady, Barnard, Arla and Mae. The younger ones Barbera and Gladys didn't go there.
John and Catherine Hollingsworth Nichols' children Ruby and Jack attended.
Dan and Leona(Mayfield) Swindle's children Mae, Reuben and Talmadge attended.
Wallace and Susan Angeline Tucker Roby's Children Attended. They were Ras, Emma, Louie, Arthur, Mae and Ruth and Willidine. Louie married Verla McCaleb(sister of my dad H.) Ruth Married Arvil Moore. Willidine married a Webster & Mae an Eads.
Judge and Maud Killingsworth Hollingsworth's children Sherman and Shelby attended. I(Fred McCaleb) can recollect when Shelby got burned to death under a T Model Ford truck that had turned over on him one night. He struck a match to see how to get out and gas caught on fire.
Houston and Kate McCaleb Haney's children Avis, Pauline, Lucille and Wilma attended. Their younger children Jimmie Lou and Borden didn't go there. Huse was a famous Church of Christ Preacher.
Billy and Alabama Hocutt's kids Cecil and Sleetia attended.
Billy and Alabama Whitehead were students?
Floyd ,Minnie Tucker, Jerry and Evie attended. Parents were Dee & Mandy Tucker.
Pollard Wakefield's daughters Carrie and Essie were students, and Essie was later a teacher there.
Charlie and Mollie Malone Killingsworthh's children Claudie, Wilburn and Sam attended.
Bud and Sara Hollingsworth's children Maud, Artie, Travis, Pate, Ceburn, and Cleburn attended.
Dude and Georgia Hollingsworth's children Lillie and Luther and Georgia attended.
John R.Hollingsworth's Dodson grand daughter Mabelle and her brother Lawrence went there.
Jim and Velma McCollum's kids were Ila, Wiley, Frankie & J.C.
Frank and Jinnie Box's kids were Ola, Lola, and Zola.
Tom and Bessie McCollum's kids were Ida and Ada.
Sem and Silla Tucker's kids were Sherman, Boss, Pearl and Eurna. John Roby's kids Roy, Early and Cordie Bell attended.
Jim and Mandy Kelly Hollingsworth's children were Ned, Luke, Flonnie, Tom, Alfred, Andy, Bess and Dot.
Curley and Bessie Sprinkle's kids were Basil, Polly, Kate, Mildred and Lois.
Tim and Sleetie Beauchamp McCaleb's attendees were Roy, Houston, and Alton.
Andrew and Julie Dunnovant's child that attended was Marvin.?
Rass and Carrie Sprinkle's kids were Tine, Lou Eva, Bethie, and Fletcher.
The ones I recollect the best were the older children of Ecter and Ethel Hallmark Killingsworth. They were Ola, Eunice, Mildred and I believe also Vivian. We walked to school together, and had to pass over Boxes Creek on a one bannister footlog. Ola got dizzy and fell off the footlog one day. She barely missed falling into the water and drowning. Her face was injured and bleeding. We got help and she pulled through. The above were cousins.
The H and Eza Hallmark McCaleb's son Fred attended this school as his first introduction to the educational world. The teacher Alma Sherrer Kizzire made an example of me and her son Albert. Alma was one of my mother's best girl friends.
One of the pupils that went to this school made a lawyer. He was Jim McCollum. His son Hardy McCollum is mayor of Tuscaloosa, Al.now(1996.) You can never tell what a school or individual will produce or become.Jim's dad was Capt.Newman McCollum. Jim's brother Clay also attended.
Virgie and Minnine Hollingsworth and Felix (their brother and husband of Arla Killingsworth) were early students. Could that have been where Arla met Felix? Their oldest son Howard may have attended there a while. Parents were John T. and Orpha Perry Hollingsworth.
Some of the Joe Kellly children attended this school. They were Jess, Fannie, and Bill.
The teachers I could find out about were Jim and Pollard Wakefield, Pollard and Bet Wakefield's daughter Essie, Thomas Herren, Myrtle Ervin Herren(wife of Columbus), Alma Sherrer Kizzire (later Cannon,), Murry Duncan,Florence Ezell,Fred Johnson, Fannie Little, Kelly Little and Maybell Baker.
The board of education(a paddle or good switch from the woods) resided on the teacher's desk at that time. Obeying easy.
Some contributors for this write up were Ada McCollum Box, Ruth Roby Moore, Arla Killingsworth Hollingsworth and her family, Fred McCaleb and my cousin Eunice Killingsworth.
The classes of old Skimming Ridge School are thinning out now. Only a few of the most hardy that have survived the hardships and temptations of the years are around today. Arla Hollingsworth is about 95. The youngest would be around 70. The house is gone and its pupils are about gone. The bell that called the classes from playing town ball and "Antny Over" still survives on a post at a neighbors' of my Aunt Verla McCaleb Roby Sandlin. I have a VCR recording of the bell. Soon it will be only something to read about. Then the story will not be believed. I felt like I wanted to say something for posterity about my first school. I guess I learned something about reading, writing and arithmetic here and some respect for authority.
The Roby children walked through Sie McCollum's pasture to get to school. Sie's bull would try to run them out of his territory. Sie was a black boy from slave days. He had Bill Ervin make him a coffin many years before he died and kept it under his bed. He said his black (he called them Nigger) kids were too sorry to bury him. All the whites loved Sie. Sie showed my dad and I how he fit in his coffin one day in the 1930's when we stopped by to talk. Andrew McCaleb just about gave Sie the first track of land he acquired and told Sie never to let the white folks beat him out of it. I am not sure, but don't think his estate has been settled yet. There is a nice McCollum Cemetery there where many of his descendants are buried. So many of his descendants must have been better than he thought they would be.
None of Sie's kids had the privilege of attending Skimming Ridge.
Ada McCollum had to walk to school with Alton McCaleb. Alton was a big tease and aggrevated her very much.
I don't recall getting into any fights while attending Skimming Ridge. I was 6-years of age at the time. My cousin Ola Killingsworth was sort of a "mother hen" that looked after her younger sisters and me. I did have fights in other schools later, especially at Shannon, Ms.
School lunches were not packed in a paper bag at that time. One brought his or her lunch in a half gallon lard can. You might have a biscuit with some ham meat or country eggs in it. One might have some butter and syrup or jelly to put on the biscuit.
The pickings were not too good. They just depended on what home grown canned or dried food your mother had at home. Fried apple tarts with plenty of grease in the ingredients were a favorite. The apples were sliced, dried and bagged in the summertime. Later sandwiches from bought loafbread became popular, and the lunch was packed in a paper bag. Then that succombed to the school lunch program under the present socialism. Still the kids liked junk food instead of the good prepared food, and spent their allowance for junk food and dope. There was no allowance at Skimming Ridge, and face was lost if you got a whipping at school you got another one by your parents at home if they found out. Self esteem was earned by performance instead of teaching it.

MY FATHER

2009-08-19T05:19:00.001-07:00

by Fred McCaleb

My father was H McCaleb. The H was just a letter of the alphabet and not an initial for a given name. Sometimes it was spelled Aytch. His mother, Rejina Catherine Hollingsworth McCaleb,studied the Blueback Speller (memorized much of it) at the little log schoolhouse she attended. She memorized the spelling of all the alphabetic letters, and for some reason she called my dad's first name H. My dad was born February 18, 1893 in Northeast Fayette County Alabama. His parents were James (Jim) Franklin McCaleb and Rejina Catherine Hollingsworth. Rejina's mother was a McCaleb,Elizabeth (Bet) Jane McCaleb the daughter of Andrew McCaleb. Andrew was an older brother of Alfred McCaleb. Grandpa Jim McCaleb was the son of Alfred McCaleb. So I suppose my father must have been loaded with McCaleb genes.
My father was the oldest of the Jim McCaleb family. Jim and Rejina got off on the wrong start at the beginning of their marriage. Jim and Rejina ran away to Aberdeen, Ms.to get married. Rejina's father John R. Hollingsworth didn't like Jim from the start. Jim and Rejina started farming, the mule died and the crop failed, and by that time my dad was born. Jim was faced with feeding the family. He went to Texas to make a fortune. One of his McCaleb uncles owned a ranch there. Whether he worked for this uncle I never found out. My grandmother went home to her Hollingsworth parents. She and baby H resided there until grandpa arrived back from Texas. I suppose the Hollingsworths took care of my dad and grandma for a year or two. In Texas my grandpa got lightning struck from the legs on down. The lightning knocked the tacks out of his shoes. He kept the shoes and showed them to visitors all during his lifetime. By the time daddy started to school John R. Hollingsworth had given grandma a track of woodland. Grandpa hewed out logs for a one room log house, and had cleared up some land for crops. My dad went to school at Clover Hill. Clover Hill was a church building about a mile away. The church buildings also served as school buildings at that time. Religion and learning were freely mixed. I went to that one teacher school when I was in the third grade. My dad didn't seem to accomplish much learning in school. He was left handed. The teacher tried to make him use his right hand. One of his teachers was Raymond W. Hiten. After my dad got older his father kept him out of school much of the time to help with the farm work. So his education was of a meager amount of book learning. He could write a little and read slowly. In his older days, the main thing he read was the Bible. Mr. Hiten's son Hollis Hiten told me of dad being in the school play one time. Dad played the part of the hoot owl in a tree outside the building. Hollis said dad did real well with that. I suppose dad had the equivalent of about a fifth grade education.
My dad was a farm boy during his youth. Farm families hoped to have boy babies back then. They could help their father do hard work. Grandpa tried to get as much work as possible from my dad. He had a crop to make every summer, and woodland to be cleared of trees every winter. So my dad was trained to use a cross cut saw, a chopping axe, a broadaxe, how to hoe cotton and corn,and how to plow a mule. He knew all about hitching mules to buggies, wagons, and plows. He came up in the tradition of hard work, hard knocks, and bad luck. Not much was done back then to boost his ego. He did manage to buy a fancy riding saddle by the time he was grown. He could then show off by riding his horse or mule at high speed to the church gatherings. I recollect his saddle. It finally deteriorated sometime after I was grown. Owning a fancy saddle and fast horse back in his early days was about like owning a fancy high speed sports car today. Dad's education was more of a learning by doing manual farm labor than of school learning. My dad rebelled against grandpa about the time he was grown. He and grandpa got crosswise about something. Grandpa tried to punish him. He left on a train for Texas to seek his fortune just as grandpa had done. He found a job in The Rio Grande valley as a hand on a vegetable farm. In about six months or a year he became tired of that and wrote a conciliatory letter to grandpa for money to pay railroad fare back home to Alabama. Grandpa sent enough money for the train fare, but nothing for eating. It took two or three days to get back from Texas, and dad was about starved when he got home. He then stayed home until he married my mother, Eza Etta Hallmark.
My dad was more of a sociable being than was my mother. According to Myrtle Ervin Herren, he could be talked into driving the mule wagon with Myrtle and his sister Mary McCaleb to social events. Myrtle described a bob tailed grey mule and a black mule that grandpa had. Dad would hitch the mules to a wagon and drive the girls high speed to an all day singing. Myrtle was amused at how the bob tail mule's tail flopped around as they proceeded to a gathering. Dad must have been easy prey for the girls to talk him into taking them where they wanted to go. Dad was sociable in other ways. He always liked to fox hunt and kept fox hunting hound dogs. He had many fox hunting friends. The friends would talk him into going fox hunting Saturday night. They would stay out all night listening to the dogs run the fox and tell big tales. Also they liked to brag on the dogs. My mother wasn't too impressed with this. I wasn't either. I went fox hunting one time. That turned out to be enough for me for a lifetime. My mother cooked cornbread for the dogs. The dogs were never allowed inside the house as many modern little and big pet dogs are allowed. My dad never expected to imprison his dogs. He wanted them to be free to run rabbits, bark at buggars or do what they wished at night. Dad had too many fox hunting friends. He most always tried to go to church, at least as long as I knew, each Sunday. He was biased against other religious beliefs other than his own. The best I could find out, when young, my dad got into trouble using too much alcohol a time or two. Momma said that soon after they were married, some of dad's social friends got him drunk at an all day singing. He got fined a few dollars. Momma paid off the fine. She also let him know that such behavior shouldn't happen again. Another fellow told me that his daddy and my daddy got into a fight with a black boy at some social gathering. They didn't think the black boy should be there and raised a fuss with him and hurt him. I never thought my dad was biased against the blacks. He and Dave McCollum, a black, used to cut railroad crossties together when I was a little boy. They could hue out eight in a day. The next day they would load the ties on a wagon and take them to Bazemore on a wagon and receive fifty cents apiece for the ties, thereby making one dollar a day. It was hard work, and the compensation was about as good as they could get back then. I still have the broadax my dad cut the ties with.
My dad married Eza Etta Hallmark of northeast Fayette County Alabama. She was the daughter of Samuel Winn Hallmark and Mary Roxie Eason. They were married August 15,1915 at the Hallmark parents home. Daddy had a mule and the fancy saddle mentioned earlier when he was courting momma. He lived about 5 miles from where momma lived. I guess they met at Killingsworth (Now Newriver) Baptist Church. Daddy had some Woodard first cousins that lived near the church. Grandma's sister Martha Hollingsworth married Melton Woodard, and their children were first cousins of my dad. I expect the Woodard cousins somehow made the connection.The cousin Alma Woodard and my momma were big friends. She told me that her and momma were the smartest two in the little school at Killingsworth, and that their teacher tried to get them to take the test to become qualified to teach school at that time. They didn't take the test. Perhaps they were more interested in becoming Mrs. H McCaleb and Mrs. Holly Tucker.
The children of H McCaleb and Eza Etta Hallmark were me, Fred McCaleb born September 7, 1916, Hubert McCaleb born September 28, 1919, Clancy McCaleb (a girl) born September 21, 1921, Thomas Raburn McCaleb born 27th July, 1925 and died two years later, Clara Jean McCaleb born December 26, 1930 in Lee County Mississippi, and Leroy Dewitt McCaleb born May 21, 1934. We were raised up much as my dad had been raised up. By the influence of my mother, we were never required to work many hours on the farm when school was in session. The first three children never had any transportation other than their two feet, a mule drawn wagon, and some train rides. We were required to work in the fields doing hard farm manual labor. The last two children, Jean and Leroy were almost a separate family from the first three. My dad had a Chevrolet pickup truck by the time they were grown. The truck was the only auto he ever had during his life. He paid for it mostly from an allotment from my pay while I was a soldier in WW2. The wheel of progress? had turned slightly by the time Jean and Leroy were grown. I had given them a bicycle to to get around on. So they had a little more than their two feet and the mule drawn wagon. My sister Clancy thought she was a boy, or at least she could do anything a boy could, until she was about 16. We walked across most of the county one day by 1PM to our uncle Arthur Hallmark's House. On arriving there Arthur persuaded Hubert and I to go squirrel hunting. Clancy didn't go with us on that. We walked in the woods the rest of the evening. We didn't have any trouble sleeping that night until 4AM when Arthur came shouting "last call for breakfast." It was the habit of many farmers back then to get up at 4-5 AM and get ready to go to work by daylight in the fields. The work hours were from sunup to sundown with about an hour out for lunchtime. It took most of that to get to the house, eat, and rest about 30 minutes.
Our growing up seemed mostly hardships to me. Our pleasures seemed to be mostly nonexistant. Hubert and I saved our money and bought a Sears and Roebuck 22 rifle for about seven dollars. We went squirrel hunting with that, but killed few squirrels. We practiced target shooting. I shot at many birds. I shouldn't have done that, but the birds were mostly safe. It was very rare that I ever hit one. I got pleasure out of making truck wagons. The wheels were sawed from a black gum log. We would ride the home made wagons down a steep hill in a path winding between the trees.Hubert and I had one little red wagon my dad bought us when very young. We and our friends tore it up in a month or two. Dad never bought us another toy of anykind. That was probably the nicest thing he ever did for me. I had to learn to use what few tools he owned and make things for myself. When I was young I had a click and wheel to run up and down the gravel road. The wheel was a rim off an old wagon wheel hub. The click was a stiff piece of wire with a U on one end. The U fit the bottom back of the wheel and one ran down the road making the wheel turn. Hubert, I, and our Trim boyfriends walked to a few basketball games when in junior high school. Mt. Vernon was only 7 miles away. Wayside was about 6 miles away. I don't know if that was pleasure or not. Anyhow we got our exercise. When I was young I was pretty good at climbing trees. I climbed one slim tree to about 20 feet high. It bent over with me down to about ten feet. I couldn't get back down via the tree, so I had to let drop to the ground. I bent my knees so they would have spring and landed safely. Young boys used to see how wide a ditch they could jump. I think about 6 feet wide was the best I ever did. I built a 2 seat farris wheel one time. Clancy and someone, I think Hubert, agreed to test it. Clancy landed about 12 feet up in the air with Hubert on the bottom. She sort of got shook up but got down some way, I don't know how fast. I had to write that project off as a failure. One of my most pleasurable recollections was when I was at my grandpa Jim McCaleb's house. I was about 9 years old. He was in the field plowing a mule hooked to an Avery cricket turning plow. He let me plow a few rounds and I thought I was really up in the world. No one had ever let me do that before. He had trusted me and let me do something the grown ups did all the time. I was wanting to be like the grownups. You had to set your life to the examples the grown ups provided. There was no radio or tv to let one know how ignorant the grownups were, and how to hate them. The way my grandparents picked up the news back then was by going to some neighbors house nearly every night. They would discuss their problems of the day, what they had heard about the neighbors, etc. There was no instant news back then. When someone died the neighbors would take turns staying up all night. Myrtle Erwin, my first school teacher, said she just loved to stay up with grandpa McCaleb present. He would just keep on talking, and she loved it. I never was as sociable as my grandpa McCaleb and my dad.
My dad mostly raised his family in Fayette County Ala. The first place I recollect living was on Boxes Creek. It was away from everything, even a gravel road. The school there was Skimming Ridge one teacher school. It was about 1/2 mile away. We walked a path that crossed Boxes Creek over a footlog with only one bannister to hold to. Momma's friend Alma Sherer Kizzire was the second teacher I had there. She made an example out of her son Albert and myself. We got the full round of punishments. At the time we lived there my dad and his uncle Jim Hollingsworth had a fish trap on the creek. To have a mess of fish he went to the fish trap and brought back the fish. Sometimes there was a snake in the trap. I recollect my dad having steel traps set to catch mink. Their hides were valuable to put on women's fur coats. Once in a while daddy would catch a mink, skin it, and stretch the hide over a special shaped board to dry. Then he would sell it when dried for about $4. That was cruelty to the mink family to make a little money so the socialites of New York could wear the latest style fur collar on their coat. The next place my dad took the family was a little house on his daddy Jim McCaleb's place. We stayed there a year. Our next door neighbor was Neil Sprinkle who was a county deputy sheriff. My dad liked the sport? of rooster fighting, and that was against the law. My dad ordered steel spurs for his game rooster. One of his social friends came with his rooster. They fought the roosters in one of the mule stables. They fought to the death, and dad's rooster won out. This was in sight of the deputy sheriff's house, and rooster fighting was illegal. We shared a well with the Sprinkles. The well went dry in the summer. Then we got drinking water from Grandpa's drilled well. That well had yellow mineral water in it. My mother did her washing in tubs and washpot heated water from a little stream that ran by the house. She washed when the stream wasn't muddy. There was no running water in the houses. Water was made to run by sending a boy to the well to draw a bucketfull and run back with it. My brother, Thomas Raburn McCaleb, was born at this place in 1925 and died two years later in Lee County, Miss. While at grandpa's place I went to the one teacher school taught by Mrs. Hassie Reed. She traveled to the school, from about 4 miles down the road, in a buggy pulled by her favorite horse. This was the same school house where my daddy had attended classes. He hadn't gained very much " book larnin" there. I must not have learned too much there either. I failed the third grade after moving to Mississippi where there was a better school.But Mrs. Reed was a very nice lady. In the winter of 1925-26 we moved to a place between Nettleton and Shannon,Ms. There they had excellent schools for their time. Mrs. Carter kept me in the third grade for two years. I never failed anything completely after that. The farm my dad had in Mississippi was too wet for farming most of the years. Occasionally the weather would cooperate. My brother Raburn died with membrane croup or diphtheria. Momma held him while he choked to death. All the then family had the malarial. Daddy nearly died with the malarial fever. A big hero of mine in 1927 was Charles A. Lindburg when he flew across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis. I read the Memphis Press Scimiter each day to see if Lindburg was going to make it. After that flight nearly all boys in the school got a leather aviators cap. It was good to shed the rain and to keep the ears warm in the winter. The move to Mississippi was a good thing from the standpoing of education for his three oldest children. From an economic and health standpoint it was a bad move. By 1932 daddy had had enough of Mississippi. He moved the family back to Alabama to a farm on the west side of the Luxapallila river ten miles northwest of Fayette, Alabama. Here he resided until his children had all left him and married. He died October 31st,1958. At this farm he cleared the trees from about 20 acres of land called newground. I was at the other end of the crosscut saw in much of this clearing. In this work I learned to sharpen saws. My dad was left handed and not adept at using tools to make or fix things. At this last place my father lived he was finally able to heve electricity about 1945. After electricity the children installed an indoor bathroom, a well pump for running water, and a refrigerator and electric stove for the kitchen. The family had never had any of this before. He was up in the world. His family had never had even an outside Johnny. They had to use the mule stables, high timber, or high cotton. The Sears & Roebuck catalog was used for toilet paper. Some used corn cobs that were obtained when a turn of corn (about 1 bushel shelled corn) was prepared to take to the grist mill to be ground into meal for cornbread. This sounds crude by present standards, but we were among the well to do. My dad made about $400 a year from the farm. He was too rich for me to get into the CCC camp just before WW2. We would be in super poverty now. Many people now make more than $400 in one day. My outlook on things is quaint and antiquated.
What was it like having a father like mine? I guess the way things turned out I couldn't have been luckier even if I had picked my parents before being born. My dad had some bad habits. The worst of his habits was smoking. That lead to his early death when he was only 65 years old. In his last years he had emphysema and had to do much struggling even to get a breath of air. He tried to be sociable and do what others were doing. I have never been much of a one to try to do what the Joneses are doing myself unless what they are doing sounds logical. My dad was somewhat of a tease and criticizer. He had the habit of foxhunting sometimes with his friends all night on Saturday night. I heard him and one of his foxhunting friends discussing their children one day. The friend told my daddy his children wouldn't do what he told them to do. My dad told the man he didn't have any trouble with his children disobeying. He told him he just didn't tell his children to do anything, therefore you get perfect obedience. As you can see he liked to outtalk the other fellow. He would let a traveling salesman talk his pitch an hour before telling him he wouldn't buy. At the same time if a salesman came along late in the evening he would invite him to spend the night so they could get in some talking. My dad tried to never punish his children while he was angry. He had the good habit of going to church most every Sunday. He was biased against other churches than his own. Only his could have the whole truth. Who in the population isn't biased against something? My dad never heard of psychology, but he was adept at using reverse psychology. When he gave me $2.45 for a Greyhound bus ticket to Berry College at Rome, Ga. to work my way through there, he said he expected me back home in about 2 weeks. I never showed back up until I had earned enough for the first year's tuition. I would have completely lost face if I had left and come back home. When my sister Clancy was ready to go to Berry he told her that education was no good for girls. The only thing they were good for was to have babies. That completely determined her to go to college or bust. She made a more outstanding record there than either Hubert or me. There was no welfare to go to for help in dad's day. When a family was in trouble the neighbors would help out if they knew about the need. My dad would share what little he had and could spare with another family. When we were in Mississippi he found out that Roy Williams and his two sisters were starving. My dad carried a bushel of cornmeal and some homecanned goods to the family. The family was too proud to ask anyone for help, and dad may have saved their life. When I was in my teens, I judged my dad to be sort of ignorant and making mistakes in the way he managed things. When I was older I realized he did the best he knew how with what he had. Later on I knew not to make the same mistakes he had made. Never in my life did I become disloyal to my parents or to my brothers and sisters. My daddy's ways made me want to do better. His influence never steered me in the wrong direction.
I have already mentioned dad's means of transportation: his two feet, saddle and horseback, mules and wagon and finally a pickup truck. The truck was in his last days.
Daddy's religion was Church of Christ, non instrumental type. He was more religious than momma but no better in the practice thereof. The church was the main center of social activities back then. The church building was also the school house. The preachers were self educated in the Bible. Everyone believed their interpretation of the Bible was correct. The churches were small country congregations. The members arrived on foot, on horseback, and on wagons. Mules and horses were tied to trees in the woods around the church buildings. Sometimes a dog came along and came in the building during services. The big events were the Big Meetings held by a preacher in August after the crops were "laid by." The preacher generally got a few conversions during the meeting. Baptizing was in a nearby river or pool. The big events were the "all day singings." All types of people attended the singings. Singers all tried to do their best and make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Many people stayed outside never going into the house. Sometimes there was a whiskey bootlegger around selling liquor to the outsiders. It was not unusual for someone to get drunk. At noon a dinner was spread on a on the ground or in the back of a wagon bed. Some people labeled these singings as "an all day singing, dinner on the ground, and the Devil all around." As mentioned before, my dad got mixed up with the alcohol devils at least once during his early life. People of other beliefs and people with no belief or principle at all came to the singings. I suppose something of a religious nature rubbed on to many of the attendees. The churches had singing schools in the summer when crops were laid by. I went to one or two singing schools. There I learned a little about music, but didn't learn how to sing. My dad never learned anything about singing. I suppose it was not in the McCaleb genes until it got to my daughter Bettie Dawn McCaleb Boswell.That must have come from her mother's family. Part of them couldn't sing either.
How did my dad manage his economic affairs? That was easy. He had nothing to manage. His average income was about $400 per year. He grew most of the things the family ate. He grew enough sorghum cane to make about 30 gallons of molasses. He generally raised 3 fattening hogs so we could have meat and lard. He had a cow or two to furnish milk. He had chickens running all over the place to furnish eggs and fried chicken. He was a squirrel hunter and killed squirrels to eat. He also killed rabbits until they said the rabbits were infected with somekind of disease. At the first place I recollect living he had a supply of fish from the illegal fishtrap. There was no lawn mower. The chickens mowed the yard. We went barefoot in the summer. Sometimes I stepped on a black chicken manure dropping and squished it between my toes. Grandpa Jim McCaleb loaned the money to buy the place. Dad never was able to get all that paid. With his $400 income he bought flour, cloth for women's dresses and men's shirts, two pairs of denim ovralls per boy per year, one pair of shoes per year for the winter, sugar, salt, pepper, soda, spices, coffee etc. The corncrop supplied cornbread for the year and fed the mules for another crop. He had several stands of bees to make honey for the family. He spent part of the $400 for smoking tobacco. That was a shame, but people have to have their nicotine and freedom to die early. We were rich and never starved, luckily. One summer his money gave out. He told us we would have to eat cornbread for breakfast until the crops were sold. My mother and I agreed. Eating cornbread for breakfast was a loss of face for him. He went to the Raymond Harris store in Winfield and they credited him with a barrel of flour for the summer. My dad managed his affairs on what one might call nothing in the way of income. If you don't have an income you have to figure ways to get along without one. That he did. He never believed in credit. I never believed in credit either. Maybe I learned at least that much from him. He had a good credit rating among the local merchants, but never used it unless real hard up.
My dad's attitude toward his brothers and sisters wasn't too good. His oldest sister Mary McCaleb married Lonnie Box. Lonnie did some moonshining and liquor peddling. We drove up to Lonnies in the farm wagon to visit when I was young. I recollect Lonnie giving me a sip of whiskey on one occasion. I reckon dad loved his sister Mary but thought she had married the wrong man. The Boxes were better off financially than our family. When we visited them one time in 1925 Lonnie had a brand new T-model Ford touring car. He took us for a 3 or 4 mile ride. That was my first automobile ride. Daddy would never engage in any shady operation to make money. He remained a financially poor man all his life but rich in other ways. My dad's brother Walker McCaleb when a young man got drunk and into a fight with another drunk. The drunk cut Walker with a knife. Walker lost the use of one of his arms. Dad thought grandpa and grandma always gave Walker preferential treatment by giving him more assistance than they did dad.Walker was the only one of that family that went to high school. There was a boarding high school at Eldridge, Al. Walker went a year there. Whether dads idea of unfair treatment was justified or not I could never tell. My dad loved his sister Verla McCaleb better than the rest. He was dissatisfied that she married Louie Roby when she was only about 14 years old. Louie seemed like a real nice sociable man. His sociability got him mixed up with drinking and drunks. One of his friends killed him and threw him out beside the road sometime in the 1950s. Then Verla raised three nice Roby boys. Her son Roland and his wife are teachers at Hubbardville High School. Verla was a very nice lady and is still living at age 85 in 1995. She had a very hard life and lived more years than any of my dad's family. All the rest have already gone on to the Great Beyond.
My dad made a living by farming. The methods used were crude by comparison to modern ones. Mulepower and manpower were the power sources. The land was broken with turning plows pulled by a mule and operated by a boy or man and sometimes a girl. Corn and cotton stalks were cut,in the spring, by a stalk cutter pulled by 2 mules. The land to be planted to cotton or corn was first middle busted. Then guano from South America was put in the furrow and covered by listing a row with a turning plow. The guano was strowed by hand through a funnel held by the left hand and the right hand put the guano through the hand distributor from a bag on the shoulder. After the rows were made a section harrow was dragged over the tops of 3 rows at a time with 2 mules pulling the harrow. After the rows were prepared, a mule drawn planter was used to plant the cotton or corn. If too much rain came after the seeds came up the crab grass would grow faster than the cotton or corn. The women of the family or younger members did the back breaking hoeing. Farmers finally learned to plant the corn in a furrow instead of on top of the row. That way, if the corn grew faster than the grass, a plow or hoe could be used to cover the grass instead of digging it up. My dad never seemed to learn any of the shortcuts of farming. We generally did things the hardest possible way. There were no pesticides being marketed at that time. They did have paris green for the potato bugs in the garden. In the fall of the year the corn was pulled by hand and thrown into heaps. Then the heaps were picked up and thrown into the bed of the farm wagon and hauled to the corncrib at the barn. The corn crop was used for corn meal for the family and to feed the mules to make another crop, and to feed the hogs to make them grow large to have meat for the family. The cotton was picked by hand into long ducking picksacks that drug behind the picker. Some people could pick about 240 pounds of cotton in one day. I never did pick more than 150 pounds a day and not that much too often. About 1400 pounds of cotton was picked and emptied into a tall wagon bed and pulled to a ginn by the mules to get into a line and wait your turn for the seed cotton to be ginned into a 500 pound bale of cotton. A bale of cotton during the depression sold for as low as $25. The seeds were swapped for cottonseed meal and hulls to be fed to the cows. Enough cotton seeds were kept for next year's planting. The above is not a full coverage of everything that went on, but gives some idea. The cow and horse manure in the stables was hauled to the garden spot or a field where the land was poorer. We raised some beautiful gardens when the only fertilizer used was cow or horse manure.
What did my daddy like to do best of all? Talking maay have been his best sport. Fox hunting combined with talking would have been second or perhaps even first. He loved hunting of any type. He was squirrel hunting when he fell over dead in the woods. My dad loved hound dogs for fox hunting. He also loved squirrel treeing dogs. We once had a small black fist dog that was good at treeing squirrels. He loved all kinds of domestic animals and always treated his plow mules good. He plowed the gentle mule and let me plow the wild one. I don't know if he made his mule gentle or if I made mine wild. It was uncertin whether my mule was wilder or that I made her wilder. Anyway we were both higher tempered than dad and his mule. His mule was named Maud and my mule was named Ida. Ida didn't go for someone trying to ride her. Hubert onetime talked my sister Clancy into trying to ride Ida. Clancy soon had been thrown to the ground. Momma saw all this happening. Needless to say, she was upset. The mules we had before Maud and Ida were Nig and Nance. Nig was a small black mule, and Nance was a small brown mule. I wonder how daddy arrived at naming Nig. I would just love to have a picture of these helpers on the farm. No pictures of them were ever taken. Daddy loved to go to gatherings, church or other type. That gave him an outlet for talking. He wouldn't help momma do anything in the kitchen at home. I found out from a foxhunting friend of his that dad was appointed at a foxhunting convention to make a washpot of brunswick stew. The friend said it was the best he had ever eaten. He must have kept that secret from momma. I guess I have done my wife, Bettie Virginia Cline, that way. Perhaps some of my dad coming out in me. I guess I should say that my dad liked to tease people. I don't think that went over too well with momma.
My dad did'nt have much choice in the way of food. His favorite meat was beef. My mother hated the smell of beef. She had a pet calf during her childhood that granpa Samuel Winn (Bud) Hallmark had killed for beef. That completely turned momma against beef. She didn't want any beef in the house. Daddy would occasionally slip off to Loftis Cafe in Fayette and have a mess of beef with the turnip greens, greasy biscuits, potatoes and the gravy that went with it. The cost of a meal there at that time was 35cents. The foods at home were fried ham, backon, sausage, sorgum cane syrup, big biscuits greased with hog lard, milk with cornbread crumbled in for supper, fried chicken, eggs, gravy, cabbage, collards, beans, pumpkins, beans fresh and dried, black eved peas fresh and dried. butter for cooking and spreading on hot biscuits. Fatback was used in cooking beans, greens etc. The diet was high in fat content. That worked ok for 12 hour day manual labor in the fields. In dad's older days after he had quit being able to do much work, the fat in the diet and the nicotine from the cigarettes ruined his health. He had a heart attack in June 1958 while robbing his bees. Honey was another of his favorite foods. He loved watching the bees. He died Oct 31, 1958 while in the woods doing a favorite thing, squirrel hunting. He told me he heard the angels singing during his heart attack. He loved all day singings. Maybe he is enjoying the angels singing now.
How did daddy get along with momma? They took each other for better or for worse until death did them part. I think momma may have thought he was worse than than she thought when she married him. She didn't approve of several things he did. One thing was the little drinking he did when first married. Another thing was that he spent money for smoking tobacco when it could have been better spent for something else. He teased her about her shortcomings. I recollect him trying to teach her to swim when I was a little boy. He turned her loose in boxes creek to swim on her own. She nearly drowned. She never went swimming again with him or anyone else anytime after that. She burned her hand on the stove. He told her he had sense enough to remove his hand before it burned. At the time of marriage, she was a Baptist and he was a Church of Christ member. He tried during his life to make a Church of Christ member out of her. He never changed her beliefs during her lifetime. She never changed his habits, unless it was his amount of drinking, during his lifetime. Momma had a very hard life milking cows, hoeing cotton and corn fields, cooking on a wood stove, doing the washing by hand with outside wash pots, tubs and washboards. The modern woman wouldn't put up with what she had to do, not even for a 2 week period. Momma stuck with daddy till death did them part, and she missed daddy very much after he was gone. She thought she had a great life together with daddy. The worst she ever did daddy was to refuse to cook him any beef. She would cook fried chicken when the preacher was coming for dinner. We would wait and be the last to eat which was generally the wings. Momma lived 22 years after daddy died. Maybe not eating beef was good for her. Or, could she have thrived on hardships? Don't expect to change your husband or wife very much after you have married them. They will remain the same at best, or maybe even get worse.
My dad got along with the neighbors just fine. Sometimes he talked about what was wrong with them, but he never actually got into fights with them. When the neighbor in Mississippi built a levee around dad's place there to keep the water from getting on the neighbors place, dad decided to sell the land and go back to Alabama. Dad may not have stood up for his rights as much as he should. One of my dad's neighbors in Al. was Thomas Dodson. Thomas was a Primitive Baptist and dad Church of Christ. My dad loved to argue religion with him. They would tell each other what was wrong with each's religion. Thomas was at dad's funeral. He told me that daddy was the best neighbor he had ever had. The community put daddy in as a member of the Kirkland Jr. High school board. I always wondered why they did that since he had such little education. He seemed to be liked by most all in the community. Maybe it was because he was a sociable being.
My dad's last 3 or 4 years were not too pleasant living. He had emphysema from his smoking. On waking up in the morning he had to cough for quite a while before he could get a good breath of air. He had been unable to do hard work on the farm for quite some time. He was renting the farmland to someone else. Before that he had sold the mules. He and my youngest brother Leroy had gone together and bought a John Deere tractor. Soon after getting the tractor, Leroy had been drafted into the army. I think they made a crop or two with the tractor. I think daddy got someone else to run the tractor while Leroy was in the army. When Leroy got back he soon married Laeuna Duckworth. Daddy and Leroy's farming was over. He rented the place from then on till death. During this time the fat clogged his arteries, health fell off fast until his death. He did have the pickup truck during his last days. Jean and Leroy were able to drive him around in that. Dad learned to drive the pickup himself in his older days. He didn't get very proficient, I don't think. But he did have transportation besides his 2 feet and mules.

Phillips Family Cemetery

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Copied to computer by Fred McCaleb

Wakefield, G. W - B. Dec. 14, 1804 - D. July 11, 1802

Wakefield, Nancy Mahala, wife of G W. Wakefield - B. Nov. 2,1814 -D. Jan. 6, 1891

Phillips, F. L. - B. Dec. 14, 1847 D Aug. 30, 1922

Phillips, Donia - B. Sept. 14, 1853 D. Jan. 28, 1943

Blount, Emma Hallmark, wife of Henry F.Blount - B. Dec. 16, 1901 D. Nov. 2, 1927

Hallmark, S. W., father - B. July 10, 1856 D. Apr. 15, 1928

Hallmark, M. R. mother - B. May 15, 1866 D. Oct. 14, 1938

Dozier, Ada B dau. of C.H. & W.E.Dozier

Phillips, J.R. - B. Nov. 27, 1845 - D. Apr. 14, 1917

Phillips, Nancey E. - B. Aug. 25, 1862 - D. Oct. 1, 1942

Phillips, John & Nancy - B,.

McCollum, Mary - B. July 22, 1852 - D. Jan. 16, 1906

Eason, Betty - B. 1836 - D. 1912

Eason, Moses - 6, 1832 - D. 1914

Dozier, W. E. - B. 1875 - D. 19_____

Dozier, C. H, - B. 1872 - D. l943

Earnest, Susie Hunt - B. Aug. 23, 1903 - D. Nov. 12, 1954

West off Byler Rd. north of Carbon Hill Rd. - Copied: H. &J,N, Mar. 21, 1959

Following is an update of the Phillips Cemetery done by Fred McCaleb June 25, 2000

John and Nancy Phillips scratched on a real old marker

Hallmark, Arthur April 28, 1894-Aug. 27 1973 Pfc US Army WW1

Hallmark, Nannie Lee Harkins Oct. 30, 1904-Apr. 15, 1997

Johnson, Katie July 21., 1915-May 15, 1966

Johnson, Ruben Nov. 28, 1910-May 16, 1992

Johnson, Doyal Drtti Feb. 4, 1936-------------

Johnson, Nora S. Jo Ann June 10 1933-June 11, 1990

Dozier, Grover C. 1899-1963

Dozier, Gracie N. Feb. 15, 1901-Nov. 5, 1975

Left grave unmarked

Silman, Eula Mae Dozier June 13, 1918-May 16, 1975 Resting in peace

Lowe, “Little Simon” David Ray Dec. 12, 1946-Mar. 27, 1971

Lowe, “Mama Smokie” Helen Gracie July 25, 1924-Dec. 3 1971

TUCKER FAMILY CENETERY

Lawrence, Margaret E. - B. Dec. 26, 1870 - D. Feb. 17, 1941

Tidwell, A. J. - B. Dec. 15, 1820 - D. Oct. 26, 1920

Tidwell, Margaret, wife of A.J.Tidwell - B. July 22, 1823 - D. July 20, 1867 July 20, 1887

Buice, Martha A. - B. Mar. 12, 1849 - D-. Apr. 29, -1927

Tidwell, S. P. - B. Jan. 20, t844 - D. Jan. 17, 1928

Tidwell, Gracy J., wife of S P. Tidwell - B. Oct. 22, 1854 –D Aug. 16, 1924 D. Aug. 16, 1924

Tucker, W, T. - B. June 15, 1880 - D. Nov. 29, 1925,

Heathcock, Willis Leon, Inf. Son of Mr. & Mrs. Pervy Heathcock 1930 1930

Sparks, Elvira - B. 1825 - D. Aug. 13, 1897

Sparks,William B. Mar. 31, 1821 - D. July 25, 1893

Sparks, Phelix B. Apr. 5, 1906 - D. Aug. 4, 1915

S.parks, Alice B. Marr. 6, 1900 - D. Oct. 17, 1900

Sparks, Mary F. - B. Jan. 31, 1891 - D. Apr. 4, 1891

Herren, Aaron - B. May 15, 1835 - D. July 13, 1915

Herron, Mary A., mother - B. Mar. 29, 1841 - D. Apr.25, 1932

Shaw, William - D. Jan. 14, 1956 - 18 Yrs. 5 Mos. 11 Days.

Shaw, Martha Alice - B. Jan. 28,- 1869 - D. June 10, 1909

Shaw, Lula M., dau. of J.M. & M.A,Shaw - B. Dec. 7, 1898 - D. Sept. 7, 1909

Whitehead, Mary 0. - B. Aug. 20, 1878 - D. Sept. 17, 1878

Whitehead, Mary J., wife of G.W.Whitehead - B. Feb.25,1846 -D. Aug. 20, 1878

Whitehead, James - B. Feb.17, 1877 - D. Mar. 13, i877 '

Tidwell, Sarah, dau. o,f A.J. & M.E.Tidwell - B. & D. May 22, 1862

Sparks, Susan - B. 1841 - D. 1888

Sparks,T. -B. July 25, 1847 - D. Dec. 25, 1913

Tucker, Samuel, son of G.W. & Arrenie Tucker - B. Apr. 17, 1892-D.Oct.12,1893

Kelley, Margret - B. July 15, 1877 - D. Oct.-1900

Tucker, Irena - B. July 25, 1855 - D. Oct. 30, 1923

Tucker, G, W. - B. July 8, l848- D. Jan. 31, 1934

Sparks, Clara Nobe, dau. of J.H. & E.L.Sporks - B.May 4,1913 -D. Feb.28, 1916

West of Byler Rd, North of Carbon Hill Rd. - Copied: H. & J.N, - Mar. 21, 1959

Killingsworth or New River Cemetery, Fayette County, Alabama

2009-08-13T13:44:00.000-07:00

By: Fred McCaleb
Hallmark, G. T.Harkey, mother -.b Feb. 22, 1866 - D. Jan. 6 1948
Hallmark W. H., father - B. Apr. 1, 1856 - D. Nov. 1, 1937
Woodard, Vester C. - D. July 21, 1958 - 66 Yrs. 6 mos. 21- Das. B Dec. 31, 1891
Flora L. Woodard b Feb. 15, 1896------May 4, 1964
Woodard, Stephen - B. May 21, 1835 - D. Feb. 5,. 1908
Woodard, Mrs. E. J., wife of Steven Woodard - B.Mar.16,1835 D. Dec.31,1921
Woodard, J. T., father - B. July 29, 1870 - D. Mar. I1, 1934
Woodard, Julia, mother - B. Mar. 20, 1875 - D. Apr. 28, 1940
Woodard, Martha J. - B. June 8, 1865 - D. June 6, 1941
Woodard, William Melton - B. Mar. 27, 1866 d. Apr. 21, 1939
Woodard, William Edward - B. Feb. 1, 1897 D. Sept. 11, 1936
Cannon, Terrell F., Jr., son of Terrel F. & Alma Cannon - B. 1929 D, 1942
Mayfield, Inf. of W.E. & M.J Mayfield - B. & D. Apr. 25, 1912
Mayfield, Inf. of Ed & M.Mayfield - B. & D. Jan. 27, 1924
Hallmark, J. M. B. Jan. 18, 1855 - D. June 6, 1916
Depoister, Susan B. Nov. 18, 1842 - D. Oct. 21, 1897
Depoister, R. J. S. Dec. 3, 1880 - D. Oct. 14, 1897
Woodard, Harold A. - B. Nov. 23, 1928 - D. July 2, 1930
Woodard, Floid, Inf. Son of John H. & Sallie Woodard - B.Sept.19,1892-D.Jan.1,1893
Woodard, Etta E., dau. of John H. & Sallie Woodard - B. Mar. 13,1896 -D. Sept. 23, 1913
Woodard, Sallie E. - B. Dec. 2, 1862 - D. Apr. 5, 1934
Woodard, John H. - B. Apr. 4, 1861 - D. Jan. 20, 1915
Woodard, Mamie S. - B. 1888 d 1955
Fowler, J. R. - B. 1871 - D. 1943
Fowler, Inf. of J.R. & S.J.Fowler - B. 1898 - D. 1898
*Killingsworth, Arms of James Samuel - Fingers of James Monroe 11:45 A.M. Friday
Oct. 19, 1903 - Cotton Gin
Killingsworth, The Son of J. M.. Killingsworth
Wedgeworth, Mrs. S. J. B. Oct. 4, 1814 - D. Feb. 14 -1887
Killingsworth, Mollie B. Dec. 5, 1869 - D. Jan. 1, 1936
Killingsworth, Charlie L. - B. Mar. 15, 1872 - D. Aug. 15, 1956
Killingsworth, Freeman - b. Aug. 6, 1830 - D. Aug. 14, or 24, 1883
Killingsworth, N\artho M - B. Dec. 11, 1813 - D 0 July 22, 1892
Killingsworth, James - D. Oct. 24, 1883 - Age 81 Yrs.
Wakefield, J. M. - Co. K. 4 Ala. Cav. - C.S.A. - B. Apr.12,1846 -D. Aug. 8, 1920
Mayo, James M. - B. Jan. 6, 1904 – D. Mar. 21, 1904
Bodds, Elizabeth - B. Aug. 30, 1827 - D. Feb. 22' 1889
Dobbs, J. H. B. Apr. 5, 1822 - D. July 2, 1899
Dobbs, Albert B. Oct. 13, 1835 - D. Mar. 16, 1912
Parker, J.H.M . - B. May 22, 1811 D. Aug. 31, 1893
P_____, S.M.F.- B. Apr. 15, 1879 D. Nov. 23, _____
Hoket, Mary A. B. Apr. 17, 1873 - D. 19_
Hoket, James C.B. Jan. 20, 1941 -
Sherer, Mary Lea B. Sept. 30, 1905 - D. Nov. 2, 1914
Dozier, Adeline B. 1840 - D. Aug. 7, 1906
Roby, M. M. wife of T.L.Roby - B. May 16, 1852 - D. Mar. 3, 1932 - mother
Roby, T. L. - B. Sept. 29, 1849 D. Dec. 22, 1898 ?
Roby, J. R. - B. Feb. 10, 1889D. Oct. 15, 1898
Roby, Noah - B. & D. Aug. 1897
Roby, bleiv. - B. & D. Aug. 1875
Hunt, Floyd A. - B. 1912 - D. 1956 - Ala. Pfc. 99 General Hosp. World War II (B. Sept. 2, 1912 - D. Oct. 11, 1956)
Killingsworth, Emma - B. 1879 - D. 19_
Killingsworth, Henry A. - B. 1876 - D. 1956
Killingsworth, H. K. - 80 Yrs. 4 fi\os. 23 Das.
Eason, Miss h\innie 6, - D. Jan. 3, 1959 - 86 Yrs. 2 Mos.
Killingsworth, W. J. - B. July I1, 1840 - D. Oct. 21, 1918
Woodard, Lewis F. - B. 1898 - D. 1952
Johnson, Sam E. - B. 1896 - D. 1958?
Johnson, Velma - B. 1894 - D. 1955
Johnson, Bethel - B. 1899 - D. 1952
Pickle, Minerva, mother - B. June 6, 1877
Pickle, A. J., father - B. Aug. 8, 1867 - D. Sept. 16,1942
Stubblefield, Sherrel Deann - B. Sept. 22, 1957 - D . June 13, 1956
Killingsworth, Mary , wife of W.O.Killingsworth - B. Sept. 6,1858-D.Nov.18,1883
Kelley, Dau. of J.E.O. & May Kelley - 25 Yrs. 2 Mos. 10 Das.
Tidwell, E. H., wife of J.C.Tidwell, dau. of J. & Mary.Kelly - B. Oct. 31, 1846
D. Aug. 28, 1873 - 24 Yrs. 9 Mos. 27 Das.
Depoister, C. A., son of J:.R..Depoister & Susan Depoister - B, Oct. 3, 1874 - D.
Nov. 23, 1876 - 2 Yrs. I Mo. 20 Das.
Townsend, Nancy V. E. - B. Jan. 24, 1870 - D. Mar. 5, 1915
Woodard, Wiley - B. Sept. 25, 1890 - D. Jan. 16, 1948
Woodard, George C. - B. 1868 - D. 1948
Woodard, Fannie - B. 1893 ----d. 1975
Woodard, Inf. of G.C. & S.F.Woodard - B. & D. Feb. 28, 1930
Woodard, Julia C. - B. Apr. 12, 1867 - D. June 10, 1922
Allred, George R., son of A.B. & M.E.Atired - B. Jan.B,.1915 d. Apr. 28, 1916
Killingsworth, Infants of C.W. & Ada Killingsworth - B. & D. (1) Dec. 8, 1922 (2) D. April 11, 1919
Killingsworth, Ada - B. 1895 - D. 1957
Killingsworth, Claudie - B. 16§3 - D. 1953
Fowler, S. J. - B. 1879 - D. 19----
Chafin, Edie - B. Aug. 29, 1886-- D. Mar. 13, 1888
Sherer, Gilder - B. 1880 - D. 1863
Sherer, Themanda B. - B. 1872 - D. 1876
Sherer, Joel C. - B. 1878 - D. 1901
Sherer, Charlie D. A. - B. 1867 - D. 1869
Eason, J. E. - B. Mar. 28, 1859 - D. Oct. 4, 1888
Dosier, W. D., to my husband - B. Aug. 19,, 1871 - D. Sept. 7, 1909
Sherer, Inf. of I.E. & Li.ilian Sherer B. Jan. 9, 1898
Sherer, Inf. of I.E. & Lillian Sherer B. Apr. 19, 1909
Sherer, Inf. of I.E. & Lilliaa Sherer B. Aug. 15, 1912
Sherer, John M - B. June 5, 1874 - D. Aug. 24, 1907
Sherer, Lillian - B. 1880 - D. 1943
Sherer, Ira E. - B. 1876 - D. 1952
Sherer, Johnathan D. - B. Sept. 6, 1842 - D. June 23, 1911
Sherer, Mary B. - B. April 10, 1846 - D. Arp. 1, 1911
Sherer, Christine Morrison - B. Oct. 30, 1907 - D. Oct. 26, 1909
Sherer, Noses Eason, Inf. Son of Dr. & Mrs. M.E.Sherer - B. May 22,1926-D.Aug.14,1926
Hunt, George A. b. 1900 d. 1907
Hunt, Clifteon B. 1915
Hunt, Ulysses F. B. 1935 D.
Wade, F.E. B. Jan 23, 1888 D. March 19, 1888
Additions June 24, 2001
Ralph H. Hunt Aug. 2, 1909-Jan 24, 1977
Isaac Newton Hunt Aug. 26, 1979—Nov. 12, 1966
Albetrt N. Hunt Jan. 11,, 1906---Oct. 22, 1987
Howard T. Hunt Jan 1`2, 1919-------Pfe US Army World War 2
Addie Lackey Hunt July 9, 1881-----Jan 20 1966
Rebeca H. Pratt Oct. 4, 1939-----Dec. 18, 2000
Melvine Hoket Apr. 9, 1884---Aug. 20, 1970
Lucille A. Sherer Campbell July 10, 1907----------------------
Claud S. Campbell June 15, 1902------September 3, 1996
Mary A. Hoket Apr. 17, 1873-----Jan. 29, 1974
James C. Hoket September 17, 1860---Jan 20, 1941
They were the sunshine of our home but now they are at rest.
Daly F. Dodd Oct. 1901-----Dec. 27, 1978
Effie I. Dodd Apr. 20, 1896-----Nov. 8, 1976
Minnie Woodard Feb 20, 1894----Oct. 11, 1979
Robert N. Wright Apr. 22, 1928------Apr. 9, 1994
Emma L Wright Apr. 6, 1931------------------------
Mother Minerva Pickle June 6, 1877------Mar. 7, 1960
Father A.J. Pickle Aug. 6, 1867-----September 16, 1942
Lester Stephen Woodard Apr. 1, 1907------July 8, 1992 US Army World War 2
Lewis F. Woodard Apr. 25, 1898-------Feb. 10, 1952
Michael L. Garner April 28, 1956----June 19, 1975
Fenton Hallmark April 3, 1893----July 4, 1985
Ida W. Hallmark July 23, 1887------March 26, 1976 Our lives to be continued, prepare to meet us in Heaven
Bryan Woodard September 6, 1900---April 19, 1985
Louise Woodard Dec. 29. 1908---April 5, 1985 In loving memory
Thomas L. Wells April 29, 1924----June 29, 1985
Mary E. Wells June 25, 1929--------------------------------
Ector Hallmark Sept 9, 1902-----1962
Pauline Hallmark April 4, 1907------April 27, 1944
Stephen Russell Woodard September 12, 1890—June 17, 1972 Gone but not forgotten
John L. Woodard June 30, 1921---Mar. 4, 1987
Evil L. Woodard Dec. 25, 1913-----March 9o, 1954
Pearl Anderson Mother Aug. 9, 1916------Aug. 28, 1994 We miss you mother
Cora Ethyl Killingsworth 1900----------------------------
James Samuel Killingsworth 1896----1968
Terrell F. Cannon 1901-1974
Alma Sherer Cannon 1901----1977 My first one teacher school teacher at Skimming Ridge. Fred McCaleb
Kathleen Cannon Thompson 1927-----1969
Mayfield babies
John E. Woodard Nov. 20, 1943----------------------
Margaret Linda Woodard April 15, 1945----July 19, 1997
Alton N. Woodard Nov. 14, 1904----May 23, 1973
Addie J. Woodard July 18, 1907---May 9, 1981
Exie Woodard June 30, 1890----September 28, 1964
S. J. Fowler 1879-----1964
Cemetery Northeast of the Church June 24, 2001
Hubert Milton Baker Son of Lynn and Mainda Baker May 11, 1909-------May 24, 1998
Lila Bay Baker Daughter of W.T. & Mary E. Clements Aug. 7, 1912----May 29, 1998
John Stovall--------------------------
Andrew Jeffrey Stovall May 11, 1972------Sep 13, 1986
Andrew Jackson (AG) Stovall June 2, 1938-----Jan. 1, 1993
Eben Jerome Porter S1 US Navy WW2 September 20, 1926----April 25, 2000
Louise Stovall May 4, 1926---------------------------
Mary S. Aldridge June 25, 1909------May 17, 1885
Pervie B. Aldridge July 26, 1912------September 26, 1992
Bertha Tucker March 24, 1906-----May 26, 1994
John L. Tucker May 17, 1905----Aug. 31, 1970
Geraldine Sims Goram September 21, 1930-----------------
Martha Jean Sims Jenkins Nov. 20, 1927----Jan. 3, 1995
Elsie Woodard Sims April 1, 1901------Dec. 6, 1986
Arthur Sims Pfc Mg Co. 322 Infantry World War 1 Jan 5, 1895-----Feb. 12, 1965
Albert T. Stovall Mar. 7, 1917-----Aug. 5, 1989
Ruthie Mae Stovall Nov. 18, 1920-------March 18,1995 Albert was elected 7 times to Fayette County Commission, served 28 years,
Highway 13 in Fayette County named for him, a frient to all
Harold Stovall June 27, 1939--------Oct. 10, 1965 The rose still grows beyond the wall Sp4 US 53345 905 Co C 2nd Bn 13th Inf
James W. Phillips Pvt US Army World War 2 Feb. 7, 1908------September 24, 1984
Maggie McCaleb Phillips Oct. 18, 1887------Feb. 12, 1983
J. Luther Phillips Jan. 16, 1888-------March 15, 1965
Brady E. Webster Oct. 21, 1907------Oct. 14, 1981
Euna B. Webster Dec. 9, 1911----Nov. 27, 1982
Jesse E. Woodard March 22, 1885-----Aug. 9, 1969
Bettie M. Woodard May 6, 1890----Oct. 15, 1981
Russell D. Stovall June 1, 1919----Jan 7, 2000 U.S. Army ww2
William Dale Stovall , Florida Pfc Co B 35th Inf 4th Inf Div. Vietnam BSM—PH June 11, 1948----Oct. 31, 1968
Dean Stovall Nov. 26, 1927----------------------
Henry W. Miles April 12, 1892------March 3, 1972
Carrie R. Miles Feb. 21, 1898----Oct. 23, 1974
Jack Wakefield Feb. 7, 1901----Jan. 7, 1989
Ruth Wakefield Oct. 5, 1903----July 3, 1980
Arnold Woodard Aug. 21, 1916----April 1, 1981 Married October 4, 1973
Catherine N. Woodard Dec. 30, 1927------------------------------
Clifton H. Stovall Pfc Army Air kForces WW2 Oct. 15, 1913------July 23, 1972
Eldon L. Stovall MSG U. S. Airforce WW2 Korea Aug 20, 1921------Jan. 23,1979
Helen J. Stovall June 3, 1928------------------
Harold R. Walters Nov. 21, 1915------Jan 29, 1982 Pfc US Army World War 2
Frances S. Walters Oct. 20, 1914----Aug. 15, 1985
]eremy Christopher Porter Dec. 1, 1969------April 26, 1990
Rayford Porter September 28, 1922-----Aug. 5, 2000
C.Mildred Porter May 5, 1923-----Jan. 24, 1990
Billie Mareia Farris Aug. 5, 1947-----July 2, 1992
Billy Ray Foster June 20, 1939------Dec. 28, 1992 Married April 20, 1961 Ruth 1: 16,17
Geraldine M. Foster Feb. 22, 1943----------------------------
Eldon Foster Dec. 8, 1911---------------------
Lillie Foster Dec. 19,1905-------April 2, 1972
Harold Killingsworth 1925--------1988
Beulah Killingsworth 1928-------1989
Copied June 24, 2001 by Fred McCaleb No guarantee that every inscription was copied correctly. Cemetery in NE Fayette, Co. Al.
About 5 or 6 miles below Eldridge, Al. Just to right of state highway 13 where a county road crosses. The old part was transcribed from work
Done in 1959 by Herb and Jeanie Newell. Herb is dead and Jeanie said it was OK for me to copy.

The Saga of William Bauck "Bill" Looney Aka Ol' Bill Looney & Old Black Fox

2009-08-13T13:39:00.000-07:00

Written by: Leola Looney Hessom and Wesley S.
Thompson
Submitted by: Fred McCaleb

His name was William Bauck Looney, but everyone called him
Bill, or just Ol' Bill Looney. He was born in 1827 in Lawrence
County, Alabama just along the northeast border with Winston
County, near the intercepts of Morgan and Cullman counties.
Bill was the 11th child of Moses and Mary Guest Looney, both
born in Tennessee, married in Warren County, 1807. Moses
and his brother, John came down to northern Alabama with
Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812, and when the war
was over, they returned to Tennessee and brought their families
back to Alabama, Moses settling in Lawrence County and John
in St. Clair County.

The life of Bill Looney seems to have been more or less
uneventful up until the time of the Civil War. He had left
Tennessee Valley for Winston County, and had married Senie
Ellen Penn, daughter of John Penn and wife Elizabeth Day
Penn. His just younger brother, Andreson Marion Looney (Sgt,
Company I, 1st Alabama Cavalry, USA), married Senie's sister
Nancy Emily Penn, and Anderson and Nancy also settled in
Winston County. Other siblings of Bill and Anderson Loony
married into families that had prosperous farms in the fertile
Tennessee Valley which would lead them in the direction of the
Southern Cause, the protection of "property" and enlistment in
the Rebel Army.

Henrietta Looney, daughter of Anderson and grandmother to
Leola Looney Hessom was the teller of many Bill Looney
stories about "Uncle Bill," telling these stories over and over.
Leola explains that Henrietta's versions of the stories may
"differ some that from that of Professor Thompson, but they are
substantially the same."

In 1854 Bill Looney received through the Huntsville Land
Office, a plot of land in Winston County described as the SE1/4
of the SW1/4 of Sec 2 and the NE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Sec 10 in
TS 10 S, R 7 W, on Clifty Fork about four miles north of the
town of Houston, which at that time was the county seat of
Winston. Wesley Thompson's research indicates that this was
the location of Looney's Tavern.

Wes Thompson tells of the area-wide political meeting to
discuss the secession speculation and related issues which was
held at Looney's Tavern on July 4, 1861, and he points out the
desirability of this location for such a meeting. It was near the
intersection of the Burleson and Burnham roads. Burleson
Road connected westward to the Marion County seat of
Pikesville and the Burnham Road ran northward toward
Moulton, connecting with Cheatham's Road. This meeting
would be a festive social gathering occasion. However, there
would have been no indecent behavior, as Bill Looney would
not tolerate it on his property and he had a reputation for
enforcing his standards with a shotgun. This meeting became
famous for setting the stage for several of the north Alabama
counties, centered by Winston, to take up a strongly pro-Union
stance in the midst of a sea of emotional Confederate
sympathies. This meeting was the origin of the legend of the
"Free State of Winston" and later developed into possible
consideration of creating the state of "Nicajack" (after one of
the Cherokee Indian tribes) which was proposed to unite the
pro-Union sympathy counties of north Alabama with similiar
philosophy segments of Eastern Tennessee. Of course neither
of the fledgling proposals prevailed.

Bill Looney played an important role in the history of North
Alabama during the Civil War. When it became evident that the
people of Winston County and the surrounding areas were not
going to be left out of the conflict, many men in the area
decided that if they had to fight they would do so on the Union
side. One of the problems was how to get past the Confederate
lines into the Union Army encampments. Bill Looney was the
answer to that problem for many of the hill country men.

The pro-Union sympathies were much more widespread than
many today realize. And the makeup of men who served in the
1st Alabama Cavlary, organized specifically for these pro-Union
men reflects the widespread Union sentiment among the many
north Alabama counties. In a special Alabama State Convention
of 1861, the residents of Winston County had voted 477 - nil for
a Cooperationist Platform vs. a Secessionist Platform; indeed 22
other north Alabama counties also voted for the Cooperationist
position.

Although small, being just five feet tall, Looney was a man of
considerable strength and endurance. He was thin and wiry and
reportedly could do a standing jump over his horse.

He is said to have had black hair and dark eyes. Bill was an
expert tracker and knew the woods, caves, creeks, and bluffs,
all good hiding places, in north Alabama. And when those men
who desired to join the Union Army needed someone to guide
them through the maze of hills and hollows, Looney was the
one. After the war, Colonel George Spencer, CO of the 1st
Alabama Cavalry and congressman Chris Sheats, both testified
that the "Black Fox" had piloted more than 2500 (or 500?)
Confederate deserters (or pro-Union sympathizers) to Union
lines between 1862 and 1865.

Looney became a wanted man, with a price on his head. Large
rewards were offered both in terms of money and even a
permanent discharge from service for the one who could bring
him in dead or alive. He was captured several times but in each
instance either escaped or was rescued. He became known as
"The Black Fox." This name was probably given him because
of an association with a Cherokee Chief from the Guntersville
area called Black Fox in the early 1800s (1801-1811), who also
had the English name of "John Looney" and the Cherokee
name of Enoli. Bill Looney would have been about six years old
at the time of the Cherokee Removal from north Alabama when
Chief John Looney, aka Enoli & Black Fox, was removed into
western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. One of Bill's great
uncles, was Captain John Looney (Revolutionary War soldier)
who was captured by the Cherokees in March 1782 on the
southern branches of the Tennessee River, and may have left
some progeny behind when he was set free after a few weeks
of captivity.

Ol' Bill Looney was captured several times by the Rebs but was
never subdued. Upon his capture at one time, Looney was
placed in the custody of two officers. Rather than place him in
confinement they decided to keep him close to themselves to be
sure he didn't escape again. They took a room on the second
floor of a hotel. The room had two beds, one for each officer.
Looney was placed on the floor, tied with ropes and the ropes
tied to the beds. When the officers were asleep, Looney
worked constantly on the ropes and finally succeeded in freeing
himself. He tied blankets together and went out the window.
Upon reaching the ground, he picked up a piece of charcoal
and wrote on the wall of the building, "The Old Black Fox is
gone again."

Bill Looney developed a survival instinct that included a "quick
on the trigger" reaction. One account by Sgt. John R. Phillips,
was that he met Looney one day in Decatur and they were to
ride together down into the hills. Just west of Day's Gap, the
party met a man (Martin Stout) known by Looney to have
Confederate sympathies. Looney drew his pistol, shot and killed
the man without passing a word and left him where he lay.
When asked why he had shot the man, Looney replied that he
was one of the Rebs that tired to hang him in Decatur. Looney
said that if he ever laid eyes on him again, he would kill him.

Further westward, Looney, Phillips, and other members of the
party stopped to rest by a branch. While at the branch, the
party received an incoming volley of fire from hidden foes
which killed party members Phillip Sutton and a Carter boy.
Looney and other members of the party scattered, leaving
Phillips and Bill Elkins to fend off the Rebs, which they were
able to do. Looney had slipped away heading for a nearby
friend's house where he would hole up for the night.

On another occasion, five of the Union sympathizers had been
captured in a raid by the homeguard and been put in the jail at
Jasper, Alabama, with the ultimatum that they had five days to
make up their minds to join the CSA Army or be shot. Ol' Bill
was named to ride to the Union camp at Decatur and plea for
cavalry assistance to raid the Jasper jail and free the imprisoned
men. So soon thereafter, Bill appeared at the headquarters of
the Federal Army in Decatuor, tired and exhausted. Looney
spoke with General Mitchell; Looney got the detachment of 26
volunteers which he sought, led by Captain Anderson Ward of
Winston County and in a lightning quick raid, the five loyalists
were set free. As the entire detachment had only 14 horses and
mules, they had taken turns riding and walking down to Jasper.
The jail was burned and the jailer Gilbert Sides was hit by a
volley of about ten shots in the back as he ran away.

After the war, many people wanted to get revenge on Bill
Looney. One day after the war, a man came to Looney to tell
him that a man named Bill Eady had been going around telling
a story about Bill. The story was untrue, Bill said and the
informant who was blaming Eady knew the charge was a lie.
Looney then went looking for Bill Eady and when he found
him, he shot him. A few nights later, a contingent of
white-robed, masked members of the Ku Klux Klan entered
Looney's home and found him in bed. When they walked up to
his bed Looney asked "Where did you come from?" One of
them said, "We came straight from Hell." Looney drew his
pistol from beneath his pillow and, pointing it at the nearest
figure, inquired, "Did you see anything of old Bill Eady? I sent
him there a few days ago." The white robed figures silently
withdrew and never bothered him again.

No one ever told Bill Looney that he had murdered an innocent
man, for they knew that to do so would ensure the death of the
informant who lied. [Some of these stories have taken on
legendary status and some variations of these stories circulate
with different circumstances or completely different people, but
with essentially the same outcome.]

Bill Looney continued to live in the general area of Winston and
Lawrence Counties. Sometime during the war, Rebels had
staked out his Tavern and waited in hiding for several days.
When he failed to show up, they burned the Tavern. He stayed
in the area at least until 1870, probably living near his family in
Inmanfield, but after that, all track of him is lost.

Although Bill Looney was never officially enlisted in the US
Army, his role was one of a "spy," scout, and recruiter, all
performed without any pay. He applied for a pension but his
application was ignored since he had never officially enlisted. In
1867, congressman Chris Sheats, led a petition drive which
resulted in Bill Looney receiving a Congressional Citation and a
small pension by action of the 40th US Congress, 3rd Session
on February 8, 1869. This action was reported in the
Congressional Globe on May 12, 1870 pages 3430-3431. This
citation/pension effort was aided by the signatures of some 196
fellow fighters or sympathizers of the Union cause, including a
large number of officers of the 1st Alabama Cavalry.

It is told by some relatives that he went to Memphis, Tennessee
where one of his sisters was living. He and wife Senie Ellen
Penn Looney had a family of four children: Henry, Mary,
Anderson, and Sarah. After leaving Alabama, the family seems
to disappear with no trace. One rumor is that Ol' Bill the Black
Fox was finally outsmarted somewhere over in Mississippi, with
some indication that a man from Winston or Marion County
named Hyde had tracked him down and was instrumental in the
hanging of Bill Loony for injustices done during the war.
Perhaps this rumor is true but one almost has to believe that the
hero/villain that Old Black Fox had become, escapted with his
family into self-imposed silence. The spirit of the courageous,
resourceful, crafty, vengeful Old Black Fox lives on today in the
annual summer-long performances at the Looney's Tavern
Theater held just east of Double Springs, Alabama, on a hill-top
overlooking Looney's home - the "Free State of Winston" and
the larger province of "Nicajack." To this day Old Black Fox
can continue to be seen slipping silently through the "hills and
hollars" of his native land, leading a good neighbor to freedom,
to take up the valliant cause of the Union - forever.

CHRISTMAS LETTER 2003

2009-04-17T07:59:00.000-07:00

by
Fred McCaleb

This is to wish everyone a merry Christmas and happy new year. We haven’t done any traveling past Fayette and Winfield, Al. Which are ten and twelve miles away. I am 87 years old and hope to make it to 88. So will write a little about my passage through life.

I was born in 1916 in the brushbroom area before the use of lawnmowers to cut the grass. A family trying to have their yard looking good on Saturday would have it swept with a dogwood brushbroom. The husband or grandparent had this done with sons or grandsons if they were around. Chickens had the grass already eaten and there was just chicken manure, trash and the ground to sweep. The chickens laid eggs for the family to eat and to swap to a peddler or country store for salt, soda, matches and other little things.

The fastest way of travel was by T Model Fords that cost $400-500 but only very few of the well to do had them. They had to be driven on a dirt road and got stuck if it came a rain. John Tyler McCaleb had one before 1916 but had to use mule or horse power to keep it unstuck. Our family’s fastest way of travel was walking or by mules and wagon. For distant travel the passenger train was available but we didn’t have much money for that. The wagon roads were all unnumbered and graveled and the streams had to be forded instead of crossing on a million dollar bridge.There were narrow wooden bridges across the big streams that cost $500 or less to build. Every land owner that couldn’t pay road tax was required to work on the road several days a year. All our able bodied ancesters helped build roads.

My schooling was in a one teacher church schoolbuilding until 1925. The transportation to school was walking. At the Skimming Ridge school there was a one bannister footlog that spanned Boxes Creek that my dad and Ector Killingsworth had constructed. I never fell off of it but one of my cousins Ola Killingsworth fell just at the edge of the water and skinned her head. The second one teacher one was Clover Hill through half the third grade. That was in the fall of 1925. We moved that year to between Nettleton and Shannon, Ms. And they had a good school there. I failed the third grade under Mrs. Carter. I never failed a grade level after that. We had to walk to school at Shannon. We walked on until 1931 when we moved back to west Fayette County, Al. The toilets were outside. One for the boys and one for the girls in a different direction.
Some of the playthings we had back then was a click and wheel. The wheel was a rim off wooden hub of wagon and the click was a U bent in a heavy wire to make the wheel roll. I had right much fun with that. I tried to do everything my dad did include cut with a chopping ax. Nearly cut the end of my little finger off with that. My dad let us use any of the tools he had and that made me glad. Had to make most of my toys except one little red wagon. It tore up in a month or two and my dad never bought any more toys for me. My grandpa let me plow with a turning plow pulled with his mule when we lived there in 1925. I thought that was the greatest thing I had ever done. There were radios around in the late 1920s but we didn’t own one. My mother did her washing once a week with two tubs and a washpot to heat the water. She got the water from a branch at Grandpa McCalebs when the water was clear. That was a hard job for her. There was no electricity or automatic washing machine and dryer. We had what had been an artesian well in Ms. Which provided good clear water. It had a pitcher pump to raise the water. There was a small water branch that ran between our shack and the well. I was riding one of our mules to water her. Something stung her and she threw me into the water in the branch.

Health care was sort of crude in the 1920s and 30s. My mother was our main doctor. She had a remedy for everything. Some of it must have worked on me or I had plenty of resistance or something. If you took pneumonia though you were a goner most of the time. My grandpa Hallmark died with it in 1927. I recollect being there and his son Arthur trying to give him some sort of medicine. He was already too weak to take it and died the next day. There was no penicillin or sulfa drugs at that time. My little brother two year old Raburn died with membrane croup the same year. He just choked out and couldn’t breathe. Her nursing sister died in Fla. That same year. Things were very sad that year for mother. My brother Hubert didn’t want to go to school at Clover Hill at first. My mother gave him a dose of castor oil and he never got sick at school again. So some of her remedies worked.

The past was an entirely different scene from the post WW2 area. The family got electricity about 1946 or 47. Radios, refrigerators, and electric lights were available to replace the kerosene. Farm tractors replaced mules over the next 20 years. The price for one went from $2000 to around $100000 by 2000. Only the wealthy or credit worthy man can even start to farm now. The small farms have almost totally disappeared. Most of the farmers prior to WW2 grew thier own food with a pair of $300 mules. They made $400 to $500 per year but at least they ate during the great depression. How will they fare during a similar depression? This question worries me.
Fred McCaleb

More of Nick Morris Diaries by Fred

2008-10-30T07:44:00.000-07:00

Nick Morris Diary Necrology 1913-1930 by Fred McCaleb

1913 June 19 Mrs. Butler

1914 Feb. 21 Reedy Boz
28 Josie Davis baby died
Mar. 2 George Wakefield
3 Josie’s baby 10 days old died
April 2 D. C. Whitehead
2 Mrs. Emma Ehl

1915 Jan. 24 Emma Williams Dau. Born
July 16 Made coffin for Gen Davis
Sept. 16 Babe of J. R. Hiten died
30 Dau. Born to Lane & Cora Morris
Nov. 20 Helped bury Tim McCaleb’s little girl

1916 April 15 George Kelly

1917 Oct. 31 J. Jones Haney
Dec. 21 Fred Ervin Friend of my dad. I may have been named for
Jan. 22 Mrs. Minda Harkness
May 12 Helped bury Larry’s baby
April 8 Mrs. Wiley Hollingsworth
12 Frank Smith of Okla.
Aug. 11 George Caddell

1918 Feb 1 D. M Harkins
D. M. Patterson
June 1 Mrs Sam Clark
18 Helped bury Lonzo White
Lonzo Baby Buried
12 Mrs Sam Clark
Oct 12 Helped make coffin for George Grigg
12 Bage Caddell
Dec 13 Don Sprinkle

1919 Feb 10 J. R. Anthony
June 15 Mary Guess

1920 April 14 Mrs Weavers baby
July 19 H. S. McArthur
Dec 11 J. J. Jones

1921 Jan 1 John E Tucker
Feb 30 W. A. Lee
1921 May 16 G. D. Wakefield
July 28 Baby born to Zilpah Clark
Aug 8 Mc Baby buried
15 Kilby & Vergie Corpreys baby
Oct 15 Hassie Nichols
31 G. W. McDonald

1922 Jan 16 Old lady Gann
Mar 11 Ras Tidwell
May 7 Son Born to Cora Morris
Sept 30 Isaac Perry
Nov 15 Nick Whitehead
1 Shirley Artory ?

1923 Feb 25 Tinie Had boy last night
Apr 1 Bud Williams
Aug 7 J. B. Whitehead of Brilliant
July 2 President Warren G. Harding of Ca.
Aug 7 Mrs Don McDonald
Nov 24 John M Barnes
Dec 25 Mrs Icy McCaleb
12 May McDonald from falling tree

1924 Jan 30 Lois Anthony
Feb 20 Mrs Pender
2 Woodrow Wilson
Mar 15 Frank Tidwell
Apr 19 Mrs W. W. Kelly
26 Mrs Sophia Walker
June 21 Mrs Ann Haney
3 Alex McCaleb
Nov 7 Mary Whitehead

1925 Feb 26 Josie Davis
June 5 James E. Early Bham.
Oct 31 Henry Aldridge
Nov 20 Joe Wakefield
22 R. P. Caine died in Fayette

1926 Feb 16 Helped bury Ethel Whitehead
27 Helped Make coffin for Miss Annie Phillips
Mar 7 Mr. Pierce Hubbard
4 T. D. Davis Married
April 13 Bettie Smith died
May 4 Car wreck killed someone
June 4 H. B. Moore in Tex.
1926 July 4 Mrs Wakefield by lightning
5 Susie McDonald died last night
Ervin Whitson electrocuted (no Date)
27 Tim McCaleb died ( I ate My first grapefruit at Tims)
Oct 4 Conley Berry died 3 AM

1927 Jan 21 Myrtice McCaleb died
May 10 J. F. Whitehead
Aug 11 Ruth died this am
Oct 9 Babe of Mrs. John Norris

1928 Jan 21 J.F. Aldridge dies
Feb 2 Rhinalda Jones son died
23 W.H. Billy McCaleb died at noon
April 28 J. R. Baccus
May 7 Bashie Perrys funeral
Aug 18 Ida Harris
19 Ida and babe buried
Oct 5 Josie born+

1929 Jan 25 Senator O. W. Underwood
June 17 J. N. Sprinkle died suddenly
July 8 J. T. Box
Aug 13 J. M. Haney at Haleyville
28 Lillie Roby
Oct 29 Rosalee Ervin I believe lst buried White’s Chapel
29 Preacher J. M. Wade
Nov 24 Sandy Flippo
Dec 23 Joe E McDonald
20 Roy Elliott

1930 Jan 4 Mrs O. C. Dobbs
Mar 23 Nick Morris (Author Went to Jasper Hospital diagnosed
With prostrate cancer by Dr. Hollis of Winfield and that’s all he wrote. Said
he
was there 2 wks. He must have got back home unable to write. Don’t know when
he died. I was glad to bring his deaths up to 1930 as he hadn’t done that. I
guess
he hoped to live many more years much as people today do. I didn’t know the
last names of some of the ones he called by first names. He would have done
better

He lived up to the main entrance to the high speed auto ago. His wife and
daughter hade a ride to Berea Church in sons 2 door Ford Sedan. He had helped
paint a Ford truck or two and son had wrecked one truck. He had driven a
delivery truck for a company he worked for. Dr. Barsele was one of the dentists
back then. They didn’t patch teeth back then. If it got infected and hurting
the
remedy was to extract. Dentists were feared. Dr. Green Was another Dr. which I
don’t know what kind. He saw an airplane pass over. I saw one of the early
dare devil sort of planes fly at Winfield in cow pasture while at Winfield
High School. They flew upside down and every other way imaginable. A big cotton
mill was built in the pasture and it moved to a foreign country 10 or 20 years
ago. Nick attended all political rallies and elections. He was interested in
the school at Glen Allen, helped build it and upkeep , took census of students
that would attend. He and family went mainly to churches at Berea, Elam, and
Clover Hill. Went a few times to White’s Chapel, to New River, to
Hubbardville, to Glen Allen and to the black church above Bazemore. Many of the
times he would tell who was preaching. He hardly ever went many times to same
church before trying another one.

He and my grandpa’s brother Bird McCaleb visited at least once a week.I never
did figure out why. Bird didn’t work at toiling or do any for Nick. Nick must
have gone for advice or to sell Bird something like making out mortgages for
him. Bird’s children helped Nick pick cotton and do other things. A. C.
Alfred McCaleb later lived somewhere near Nick

Cotton sold for 5 1/2 c per lb in 1909, 7c lb 1914, 12C 1912, up to about 20c
1918, up a little in 1920 and down to about 5c in depression days of 30s. It
has been above 60c per lb in the 1990s and later. Sort of slumps very badly
with depressions.

Nick stripped cane, made molasses, pulled fodder, gathered corn and picked
cotton in the fall until the last years of his life. Early in the spring he
broke up land the old fashioned way with mules and turning plows. Women and
children hoed millet, corn, cotton and garden. They also fed mules, slopped the
hogs, milked cows. Nick got to where he helped his wife wash the clothes in his
last. His wife seemed to go places to visit on her own.

I will try to mention some of the places he went to store and to mill. They were
Hollingsworth store, William Ervins shop to help make coffins, to stave mill in
Glen Allen to work and hauled strips for wood, to gin in Glen Allen, Beasley
store, Raspberry sawmill, Curt Hubbards, to corn grinding mill in Glen Allen or
Bazemore, Tilly sawmill, Tom Perry mill, Kelly multiple mills in Bazemore and to
Winfield many times.

Nick’s house seemed to be open to all that wished to visit, especially his
children, to William Ervin, Bird McCaleb and children, politicians, and
seemingly to all. No one goes much further than the TV set today. He was
willing to help most anyone in trouble, to make a coffin or dig a grave. He was
a center of news and complained of being too sick to work many times in thee 15s
and 20s. He helped repair phone lines, put in phones, went to Winfield for
batteries, put in relay stations, dig well at Berea, repaired church benches,
hauled many loads of wood by mule and wagon and at last strips by truck, took
cane to molasses maker, helped with Kelly school, to U. S. court in Bham. For 3
weeks out of one month, talked about a big whiskey still raid at Austin
McDonalds and the agent accidentally wounding self with gun and no trial, WW1
registration and hostilities ceasing, split boards and repaired roof on own
house and outbuildings, attended most all elections, worked on road maps,
watched boys cut bee tree for honey, saw the 1920 census enumerator, moved for
about a month to near Jasper and worked in store, and then came back, worked in
stores in Glen Allen & Bazemore, adjusted and cleaned gin saws and gristmill
rocks, family reunion at Glen Allen, tick eradication law, half soled shoes,
helped eat a possum, said what weather was most every day, told about dry
spells, about a railway boiler explosion, about wife Bip’s nearly a month
trip to Texas, about Virgil Whitehead moving to Neddleton,Ms. And Virgil coming
back to visit and Nick going to Ms. To visit one other and Virgil, to all day
singings at different churches and at Curt Hubbards, about his wife selling
about 40 acres of land for 25 dollars and 2 years to pay, about big protracted
meetings and how many saved, about peddler Sprinkle, about hanging of Harry
Mark of Fayette, about writing Senator John B Bankhaed and brother
Reprasentative William Bankhead big congressmen in his late years and my
early time, about son in law Dock and Jenny Hollings leaving for Ark. Oct. 7,
1925 and 1927 Jennie back for a while, then Nick and wife went to visit Ark.
For about a month and there seemed to be no bad feelings toward each. They had
been faithful to visit all through the years. Nick seemed to hold no bad
feelings against anyone. He was just too busy most of the time. There were 2 or
3 places where he seemed to be referring to my grandpa McCaleb. After 1927
Cover Hill was moved to about a ½ mile away and is now Tidwell Chapel and
White’s Chapel started by Jerry White. There seemed to have been no argument.
Some of this data is not done too well but it’s my best at 92 years old. I
salute Nick Morris for telling what it was like in first part of 20th century.
Done by Fred McCaleb.

Unhappy Americans

2008-10-06T17:32:00.000-07:00

submitted by Fred

"The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I
found rather hard to believe. It must be true, given the source, right?

The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the
direction the country is headed, and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with
the performance of the President. In essence, 2/3's of the citizenry just
ain't happy and want a change.

So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, ''What are we so unhappy
about?''

Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?

Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and
heating in the winter?

Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job?

Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time, and see more
food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?

Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean
without having to present identification papers as we move through each state?

Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way
that can provide temporary shelter?

I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the
world is just not good enough.

Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and
provide services to help all, and even send a helicopter to take you to the
hospital.

Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. You may be
upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained
firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish
the flames thus saving you, your family and your belongings.

Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or
prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will
come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.

This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and
pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90 percent of teenagers own cell
phones and computers.

How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that
are the envy of everyone in the world?

Maybe that is what has 67 percent of you folks unhappy.

Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, overfed, spoiled brats the
world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S., yet has a great
disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people
in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we
hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.

I know, I know. What about the President who took us into war and has no plan to
get us out? The President who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this
the same President who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The
President that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be
the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in
keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks?

The Commander-In Chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you
and me? Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did
this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look
around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad?

Think about it...are you upset at the President because he actually caused you
personal pain OR is it because the "Media" told you he was failing to kiss your
sorry ungrateful behind every day.

Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to
serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no
draft in this country. They didn't have to go.

They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an
''other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable''
discharge after a few days in the brig.

So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans?
Say what you want, but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds, it leads; and
they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and
guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows
this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells , and
when criticized, try to defend their actions by "justifying" them in one way or
another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write
a book about "how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it
this way"...Insane!

Stop buying the negativism you are fed everyday by the media. Shut off the TV,
burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage.
Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially
more good than bad.

We are among the most blessed people on Earth, and should thank God several
times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative.

Seventy Five Years +

2008-09-24T16:51:00.000-07:00

Submitted by
Fred McCaleb

What A Difference 75 Years Can Make!

A sure sign that you're getting "up there" is that you can remember back
when things were different . . . A LOT Different!

Consider some of the changes that we have witnessed!!!
We were born before the PILL and the population explosion.

We were born before TV, penicillin, polio shots, antibiotics, frisbees,
frozen food, nylon, dacron, Xerox and contact lenses.

We were before radar, flourescent lights, credit cards, split atoms,
laser beams, and ball-point pens.

For us, time-sharing meant togetherness ... not computers or condominiums.
A "chip" meant a piece of wood, hardware meant hardware, and software
wasn't even a word!

In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of," and being
gay meant you were happy and carefree.
In those days, bunnies were small rabbits and rabbits were not Volkswagons.

We were before Batman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Snoopy.

We were before DDT, vitamin pills, disposable diapers, Jeeps, and the Jefferson
nickel.

We preceded Scotch Tape, the Grand Coulee Dam, M&M's, automatic
transmissions, and Lincoln Continentals.

When we were in school ... pizzas, Cheerios, frozen orange juice, instant
coffee and McDonald's were unheard of. We thought fast food was what you
ate during Lent and Outer Space was the back of the Riviera Theater.

We never heard of FM radio, tape recorders, electric typewriters, word
processors, electronic music, digital clocks, artificial hearts and guys
wearing earrings.

We were before pantyhose and drip-dry clothes, ice makers, dishwashers,
clothes dryers, freezers, electric blankets, air conditioners and before
Hawaii and Alaska became states.

We were before yogurt, Ann Landers, plastics, hair spray, the forty-hour
week and the minimum wage and before man walked on the moon.

We got married first ...and then lived together afterward. How quaint
can you be?

In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, "grass" was mowed, "coke"
was something you drank, "pot" was something you cooked in, "rock music" was
a grandmother's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office.

We were before coin-operated vending machines, jet planes, helicopters,
and interstate highways. "Made in Japan" meant junk and the term "making
out" referred to how you did on your exam.

We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers,
and computer marriages. We were also before day-care centers, group therapy
and nursing homes.

We had fountain pens with bottles of real ink. We had stockings made of
real silk with seams up the back that were never straight. We had saddle
shoes and cars with rumble seats. We had corner ice-cream parlors with
little tables and wire-back chairs where we had a choice of three flavors.
We hit the scene when there were 5-cent and 10-cent stores where you
bought things for five and ten cents. You could buy ice cream cones for a
nickel or a dime.
For one nickel you could ride a street car, make a phone
call,buy a Pepsi, or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards.

You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600 ... but who could afford one? A
pity, too, because gas was only 11-cents a gallon.

We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was
discovered, but we were surely before the sex change ... we made do with what
we had.

And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a
husband to have a baby! Can you imagine that?

Hallmark Postcard 1877

2008-09-16T08:14:00.000-07:00

by
Fred McCaleb

Dear Brother,

In answer to your inquiry of family relations I will give you a few members. My
great grand father came from England. His name was George and grandfather was
named George Father’s name is James. I will give you the names of a few of
grandfather’s brothers names on the back side. Yours, W.H. Hallmark

On the other side of the card were listed these brothers and a sister of George
Hallmark Jr namely Tom (ours), Williiam, Jessie, John, Minet, Cummings,,
Richard, & sister Polly. So at least these and some more were the children of
George Hallmark Sr of England.

I listed part of James Washington Hallmarks children tnat were in the family
Bible on a

previous page. Here is a letter that was written to his sister Polly (Mrs.
Daniel Henderson) at Alto, Cherokee County, Texas by A.J. Hallmark.

Wetumpkia, Ala. Sept. 25, 1859 Dear Sister and Bros

I have just received yours, of the 9th inst I was truly glad to see it for it is
the first letter I have got from you since you left here. I wrote you three
letters and received no answer. Since you left here we have passed through
severe series of affliction. The tenth of October was a year ago our only
daughter Bettie died. She was just grown. Beautiful and intelligerit---wel1
educated. We had spent most all we made upon her, but its God knows what is
best and I try to submit to his providence. We have only two children. They are
boys, one about 15 and the other about 13 years of age both very well educated
good English scholars and now studying "Latin". I am getting along tolerable
well so as to live very comfortable. As you see I am living in Wetumpkia
keeping a large hotel, the principal one of the place, but I have been selling
goods most of the time since you left. Business is good here. Crops are
generally good. Well, you wanted to know where all the connections were in the
first place I could say that I am here all alone from connections. They are all
gone from this country but Claiborn he is still livinagCoosa. Fatherr living
louisaia up on Red River near a little place by the name of Montgomery, La,
near all of his wifes relations asc there too. Uricle Evans Gaskills family are
all living in Louisiana at a post office by the name of Rose Hill in Union
Parish except Sarrah. She married a man by the name of Williams and lives in
Memphis,. Tenn. Uncle Charles & Ryan and aII their family are out in Texas Some
where about the Basos River-there is but fear of the old settlers about
Sylacauga now all gone. My wifes motner and father are both dead.Wm. Bulgar is
preaching. He is at this time President of the Louisiana Conference of the
Protestant Church . He is married, he married very well. I was at Dr. Elisha
Wlilsons a few days ago he is livin g in Shell County near Wilsonville but is
now fixing to move West to Louisiana. Has a farm and some hands there now. I
saw aunt Sally. She looks well for her age. Several of their family are living
in Bibb about the same old places. Uncle John Cottingham and his family are
living in Lowndes Co of this state down below Montgomery –Have not seen any
of them for some time. Uncle Elisha and a part of his family are still living
in Bibb at the same old place that Grandfather used to live at. So you se we
are very much scattered and no probability that we will ever live so close
together again as we once did (all of us). My dear sister and brother and
family there is a place where we may all meet again that place is Heaven and by
the Grace of God I am determined to try and go there when I leave this world. I
hope you all enjoy religion, live so that at last we may meet in that Happ
World if we never see each other here. I would like to seel you still hope that
I may. Jane and the boys send their loves,

Your brother,

A J Hallmark

Application for land in Madison County Ala 1809

George Hallmark Sr No 206 Aldreds Creek 1 R 54 150 205 8 George Hallmark Jr,
Indian Creek 100 27 150 228 8

The 1809 census of Madison Coumty, Ala (Mississippi Territory) Jan 1800

George Hallmark 3r 3 white males imder 21 and 1 over 21 2 white females over 21
George Hallmark Jr 2 white males under 21 and I over 21, 4 white females under
21 and 2 over 21

William Hallmark 3 white males under 21 and 1 over 21, 3 white females under 21
and 1 over-21

Richard Hallmark I male over 21 , and I female over 21 Must have just got
married

The last 3 Hallmarks are Georae Hallmark Sr children and brothers of our Thomas

Letter to Dr. Howell ll

2008-09-10T03:21:00.000-07:00

Plastic Surgery, Dr. Howell II

Dear Sir,

All the cancer tests I have ever taken have turned out positive. The Dr. here in
Fayette gave me a PSA test for prostate and it registered 12 about 15 years ago
and said I better come in and get it treated before it killed me. I came in
and he sent me to Tuscaloosa and I got it tested and they said it was OK. He
tested 3 or 4 more times and it was always positive. And tried to send me
again. I didn’t go. Test worthless on me.

I year or two ago he tested a bump on face for skin cancer. I believed that test
and let him cut it out. Then there was a spot on head he tested. I went back for
treatment and he said wait and see what happens. Nothing happened.

I scratched a place and went to him again this year. He tested me for skin
cancer. I told him I didn’t need the test but he paid me no attention. The
place he tested was trying to bleed me to death that night and the nurse here
at Morningside assisted living called an ambulance to take me 1 ½ miles to
Fayette Hospital. Dr there got blood stopped with gauze and bandage around
head. The place healed up in about a week. It seems to be completely healed.

I have been waiting on younger sister to come and take to different Dr. and see
if I need operation. I am determined not to have it myself. If it kills me I
will just die happy and go on to the great beyond. I am 91 years old and have
lived mostly a long and happy life. Sorry If I have inconvenienced you. But I
am not coming unless someone drags me.

Yours Truly Fred McCaleb

My Daughter called this afternoon and said she would go by my decision.

Hymn Designations

2008-09-08T02:09:00.000-07:00

Submitted by Fred

The Dentist's Hymn: Crown Him With Many Crowns
The Weatherman's Hymn: There Shall Be Showers of Blessings
The Contractor's Hymn: The Church's One Foundation
The Tailor's Hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy

The Golfer's Hymn: There is A Green Hill Far Away
The Politician's Hymn: Standing On The Promises
The Optometrist's Hymn: Open My Eyes That I May See
The IRS Agent's Hymn: I Surrender All
The Gossip's Hymn: Pass It On
The Electrician's Hymn: Send Out Thy Light
The Shopper's Hymn: Sweet By And By

For those of you who drive, if you must speed on the highway, please
sing these......
45 mph: God Will Take Care Of You
55 mph: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
65 mph: Nearer My God To Thee
75 mph: Nearer Still Nearer
85 mph: This World Is Not My Home
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Letter from Fred

2008-09-04T14:53:00.001-07:00

Dear Clancy & Tom, Jean & Ardell,

I am lazy today and am making this letter cover more than one address. I hope no
one minds. You asked if I got over my skinned forehead in January. I did do
that. It seemed to heal faster than usual and the bad looks of it was gone in
about a week or little over. The Psychological effects of the fall are not
gone yet however. I have been fearful of walking for fear of falling again.
Seems I have just about got my courage back. Probably about ready for another
fall. It is bad to have to try to walk again. I never realized I would get in
the position of 2nd childhood.

My second eye operation turned out to be 20/30 vision. Not quite as good as the
first which turned out a perfect 20/20. I was a little disappointed in that. But
I shouldn’t complain since 20/30 was as good as I ever had before. The costs
of the 2 eye operations was approximately $10,000, $4000 for the doctors 40
minutes work, and $6000 for 4 hrs outpatient stay at the hospital. Somebody is
as great an expert stealing as Clinton’s expertise at lying. The 2nd eye was
a little red when you were here but cleared up OK. Clinton has done lyed twice
in last 2 wks, once about dope peddling from Mexico and once about bombing
Cosovo or whatever Yugoslav fighting is called. Trying to tell rest of world
what to do and its none of our business. Let them kill each other and settle
their troubles themselves.

Bettie is up in the world now. She got an 80th birthday card from Hillary and
Billary Clinton. Am sure she really has their sympahies. I got one from them 2
½ years ago. I saved it in my miscellaneous notebook and labeled it “from
the champion liar of the world”. How cruel to treat a beloved president that
way!

We have had 2 letters from Jean since her and Ardell went to Fla. to spend the
bad part of the winter. They’re down there eating oranges and grapefruit and
basking in the sun. Enjoying living in their mobile travel home whichever spot
they choose to live. Sound like aristocrats.

This is Tuesday and it has been cold here for a couple of days. 21 degrees
yesterday morning and 35 this morning and spit a little snow. Guess the
roughest part of winter is coming up. Pear trees are starting to bloom and
ready for som 10 degree weather to kill the blooms. Then after that the spring
tornado blow away.

I am on the internet now and my e mail address is n4eb@fayette.net. Got a
little genealogy about the daughter of 1st Hugh of Fayette County, Barbary
McCaleb Lauderdale. Got it from a girl in Ca. I may become addicted to this
internet mess. You can even find out what your latitude and longitude is.
Pretty well got one placed. I even find my own name on there in the
genealogical field. Billary knows all about you. Got your number.

Jean Ellen, Timm & Brooke are coming to see us March 20th. Grandson Bradley
Boswell is coming to see us by himself on his spring break Mar.7th. So I guess
we will have a little Company in March. Will be glad to see anyone that comes.

We are still taking aquatic exercise. I try to walk and do the equivalent of
about a mile of exercise on other days. Am not sure its worth anything. Have
arthritis of the neck and right arm. I guess this is enough of my complaints.
Hope everybody is well and will write me if they ever get time.

With love, from Fred McCaleb

Letter to Clancy from Fred 1997

2008-09-04T12:37:00.000-07:00

4146 county Rd.51
Fayette,Al. 35555
November 8,1997
Dear Clancy and Tom,
I got your nice letter today. I wish I could write one that good. As far as I
can tell you do a perfect job of writing letters. We were glad to have all of
you here, and enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for all your nice comments.
You will be welcome to come here for another reunion next year if I am alive
and welcome to come visiting any time you wish.
I am trying to take Lucille’s advice and not talk of being old and disabled
but find it sort of hard to do. The general trend of my thinking has been to
assume that tomorrow will be just the same kind of day as today, but that is
somewhat false thinking. Tomorrow can bring most anything to one, good or bad.
I try not to worry much about the future and find absolutely no reason to worry
about the past. We have only today, and have to do the best we can with it.
We went to the genealogy society meeting in Winfield Monday night and to
Tuscaloosa Thursday morning. We ate lunch with some of the old ladies at
Tuscaloosa. I told one I hoped to make it to 2000. She said she didn’t know
if she wanted to make it that long or not. Said they would have the world in
such a mess by then that she didn’t know if she would want to be around. So
some people have my kind of young outlook or worse. Poor things. Ha!
I have been searching the other CD rom disks I have for our genealogy and have
found a few pages more.
I am about fed up with genealogy. Need to get my mind on something else. About
as far or further than anybody has ever got anyway, and its very hard to find
the ancestors of wives of husbands where their only last name is their
husband’s. I will just have to pat myself on the back and admit I have done
the best I could. Some of it may not be exactly right, but I will let others
prove the mistakes. I have put? marks in most all places where unsure.
Momma told me I might find something I didn’t want to know if I went too far
with the ancestors. She was right on that. I guess none of them have measured
up to being perfect as I might have expected, but one has to take them as they
were. There is no changing of the past. Momma might have meant I might find
something about daddy we didn’t want to know. Best I can find out he was at
least a better man after he got momma but not perfect. I haven’t found faults
with momma except she did some extra worrying that was probably unnecessary.
Their combination produced good children. We are proud to be who we are.
Dad’s favorite song was “Love Lifted Me.” He used to try to sing that
sometimes when we were plowing. He may have been lifted by momma’s love and
Christianity. Lets hope so.
Guess I had better quit rambling around in my thoughts and quit for this time.
With Love,
Fred McCaleb

Fort Hollingsworth-White House

2008-09-02T12:54:00.001-07:00

Send to Fred McCaleb about his Ancestors

Fort Hollingsworth-White House is located in the community of
Hollingsworth, on Wynn Lake Road, about two miles off US Hwy
441 between Baldwin, Ga. and Homer, Ga.

Hollingsworth Fort was first shown on a map of the Defensive Plan
Western Frontier, Franklin County in 1793.

Georgia's boundaries in the 1700's can best be described as the
wild frontier. Between 1782 and 1797 various treaties were made
with the Indians to define Georgia's boundaries. Forts were built
to protect the settlers who lived on the frontier. Indians were
likely to be incited by misunderstandings. Horses and farm animals
were frequently stolen, and families had to be protected in fortress-
type buildings surrounded by wooden fences.

The first settlers of Franklin County whose lands granted by the
State of Georgia between 1783 and 1788 lay north of the Indian
Boundary fixed by the treaty of 1785. These lands were granted
under the impression that they lay south of the agreed Indian
boundary line. When this line was surveyed it was found that
these lands lay north of the boundary line and in the Cherokee
Nation, which demanded their removal.

William W. Wofford and Jacob Hollingsworth both moved from North
Carolina to Franklin Co., Ga. before l792. Wofford's fort appeared
on the map in 1792 and Hollingsworth's in 1793. This area was known
as Wofford's Settlement.

When Col. Wofford found out that their settlement was considered to
be in Indian territory after the line was surveyed, he along with
the other settlers in this area petitioned Georgia Governor James
Jackson to have the line re-run or to take such other action as
would protect them and the possessions of their homes.

Legend has it that he mounted his horse and rode to Washington to
talk with the authorities about his land holding in Georgia. This
resulted in the "Four Mile Purchase" of 1804 when the Indians ceded
a strip of land 4 miles wide (from the Habersham and Banks County
line on Baldwin Mountain to the Line Baptist Church on Hwy. 441)
and 23 miles long (extending from Curahee Mountain to the head waters
of the South Oconee River) which included the Wofford Settlement. It
was originally marked by a line of felled trees at least twenty feet
wide which became a sort of no man's land. The United States agreed
to pay the Cherokee Indians $5,000 and $1,000 per annum for the
property rights.

By about 1796 the Indian troubles were about over and the need for
the string of frontier forts was no longer pressing. The forts,
after the need for defense subsided, became log farmhouses.

The Wofford's and the Hollingsworth's traveled together to new
frontiers in the west using passports to travel through Indian
territory. As the years passed many of their descendants would
pack up their belongings, taking wives, children, slaves and
animals and move west, as genealogy records show. Fort Hollingsworth
was left on these vacant lands.

In Habersham County Inferior Court setting as a land court May
Term 1855, William B. Wofford, son of Nathaniel Wofford, grandson
of William W. Wofford, petitioned the court for a head right warrant
for vacant lands. He received a grant from the state on Oct. 2,
1855. He sold this property to Col. Robert McMillan on April 18,
1857. Fort Hollingsworth was on this property.

Col. Robert McMillan came from Ireland in 1831. He put his heart,
soul, and money into the Confederate cause and raised and commanded
the 24th Georgia Regiment. Although nearly sixty years old he was
noted for his bravery. When General Thomas R. R. Cobb fell, mortally
wounded at Fredricksburg, Col. McMillan was placed in temporary
command and would have been made Brigadier-General but his health
failed and he came home to die.

On March 1, 1861, Robert McMillan sold the property to John Lane.
He had owned the property little more than a month when the Civil
war started. He went off to the war, Co. D-43 Regiment-Ga.
Volunteer Infantry-Army of Tenn. CSA-"Middle River Volunteers",
and never returned. He was shot by his own men as he returned
from getting water from a spring in Tennessee. Until this day
no one knows where he is buried. He was killed in the summer of
1862. He never got to live in the house, in life, but his ghost
still haunts the place. He has been seen by those who have lived
in the house and they all describe him in the same way, a somber
face and dressed in clothing of the 1860's. Canon blasts are
heard occasionally that rattles the windows. His property was
divided among sisters.

On December 9, 1862, Joshua White bought the "Upper Leather Tract",
from the John Lane estate, and he and Katharine Lane White made the
fort their home. They built the addition to the two story single
pen that had been the fort and made it look like any other farm
house of the mid 1800's. The addition was linked to the original
structure by a covered walkway, known as a dogtrot. Dogtrots
allowed the inhabitants to work outside in pleasant weather and
protected the entire house from burning if one side caught on fire.
The air flow through the dogtrot helped to cool the house in the summer.

The old wagon road ran through the yard of the fort, past the barn,
down through the fields and across Mountain Creek. It continued on
to the old Hollingsworth Store (which was across the road from where
Irvin's Store now stands) and crossed US Hwy 441 near Harmony Church
and continued on to the Wofford Fort on Broad River. It is still
visible today, in places.

Water was always a problem on the site. Several wells were dug
but had to be filled in because of caving. Water was carried
from a spring located southwest of the house. Water flowed into
a stone bowl just deep enough for a bucket.

Also, located near this spring was a wash place. Laundry was carried
from the house to the water instead of carrying the water to the house.

Across the branch from this wash place was a hole in the bank that
contained pure white clay. It was called the white mud hole.
This white clay was used to polish the fire-places during spring
cleaning. It was also used for the chinking between the logs in
the fort.

Near the spring was an Indian ceremonial ground. This area was de-
stroyed in the 1930's when timber was cut and dragged across the site.

March 21, 1903 - The Fort-White House was passed to the children of
Joshua & Katharine Lane White.

The Hollingsworth Fort/White House looks very much today like it
did in the 1860's. Beacher White who acquired the house in 1936
knew the historical value of the fort and would not allow it to be
painted or changed much. He wanted to preserve it as much as possible.

Due to beacher White's foresight, it is still possible to see the
tiny window in the side of the house which was used to watch for
Indians, the original fireplace mantels, and the 18 inch baseboards.
It is very easy to imagine what life must have been like in those
early days of Georgia.

In 1980 the Fort/White House was passed to Beacher & Mellie Segars
White's children. They too recognize the historical value of this
property and wish to share it with the public. Efforts are currently
underway to restore the Fort/White House. The Friends of the Fort
organization has been formed to manage the house and its preservation.

Funny Observations

2008-08-31T03:37:00.000-07:00

Send by Fred

The paradox of our time in history is that
we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;
wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;
We spend more, but have less;
we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;
we have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgment;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, and laugh
too little, drive too fast, get too angry to quickly, stay up too late, and
get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life;
we've added years to life, not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We've conquered outer space, but not inner space;
We've done larger things, but not better things;
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul;
We've split the atom, but not our prejudice;
We write more, but learn less;
We plan more, but accomplish less.

We've learned to rush, but not to wait;
We have higher incomes, but lower morals;
We have more food, but less appeasement;
We build more computers to hold more information to produce more
copies than ever, but have less communication;
We've become long on quantity, but short on quality.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion;
tall men, and short character;
steep profits, and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;
more leisure, but less fun;
more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are days of two incomes, but more divorce;
of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers,
throw away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies,
and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in
the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a
time when you can choose to make a difference

Fred's Letter to Clancy & Tom

2008-08-30T01:57:00.001-07:00

Nov. 29, 1995
Dear Clancy and Tom,

I received your letter last week and never got around to answering it. We had
our Boswell daughter and husband and grandkids from Thursday night until
Sunday morning. They seemed to enjoy themselves here. Bradley read most of the
time. I guess he acted sort of like your Steve did when he was young and
visited here. If reading will help, maybe he will turn out to be some sort of
genius. Eric seems to have more ordinary intelligence if he will use it in the
long run. He seems gifted in mathematics, and can multiply big numbers out in
his head. I let them have a cedar for a Christmas tree. I don't know how it
fared at 75 miles an hour on top of the car for 750 miles.

I took your advice before I got your letter on extra tests concerning what the
Dr. in NC thought was a TIA. The Dr. here, since I have very good insurance,
had a brain catscan run and also audio echo tests done on blood flow to and
from head and on heart condition. From these tests he said there was no sign of
my ever having a TIA. He said my heart condition was equal to one in a much
younger age group. He supposed I must have had some sinus congestion or
something like that. At least he made me feel good. Fayette hospital has the
modern test instruments to extract the most money from Medicare and Bluecross,
so I didn't have to go off somewhere to get tested. Anyhow the Brevard, NC Dr
got me well by taking a few extra aspirin, so I wasn't dissatisfied with what
he did. I guess I will just die off with nothing wrong but old age and
meanness. I had eyes checked in early summer. That Dr. was ready to operate the
same week. I told him I was "gunshie" of eye operations; since having a sister
and a brother with not much success with eye operations, and that I would wait
until I went blind first. I can still see the leaves on trees 1/4 mile away and
see the road good in daytime, so I guess I will hang around a while before
trying to have my eyes improved. My eyes seem to me to be in about the same
shape as in 1936 when the Navy recruiter in Bham. told me to get out of the
recruiting office, that I couldn't see. I suppose they never have been too
good, or too awfully bad, so I will just try to be satisfied with what I have.
The female eye Dr. at Ft. Belvoir said I had unusual striations in my eyes. The
Dr. here saw nothing unusual, but was eager to make a dollar.
I have been compiling a little Church of Christ history here lately. I found a
church in Morgan County, Al. where the Nick Hackworth family went to church.
His Dau. Sally married Philemous Morris. Phil was the Morris that wrote the
diary while living near Berea Church, and was the grandson of Sally Hackworth.
Sally's sister was Mary Hackworth. She married John McCaleb, the preacher son of
Hugh and Elizabeth Holbrook McCaleb. So I deducted that the Hugh McCaleb family
must have lived somewhere near the old Log Church where Sally and Mary were
baptized. The Randolphs were up in Morgan Co. also. The Randolphs and John
McCaleb were instrumental in establishing Berea Church. Jim Wade, a Primitive
Baptist turned C. of Christ after marrying Leah Catherine McCaleb ( dau of
Andrew and Leah C. McCollum), Was the most loved preacher at Berea. He didn't
charge for his preaching (a prim. bap. principle), Ha! Virgil Randolph married
Martha McCaleb. So everywhere I turned there was a McCaleb woman married to an
Early C. Of Christ preacher and McCalebs and McCollums donating land for Berea.
Nick Morris started the Morris cemetery where daddy's brother Franklin is
burried. It may turn out that I know more Church of Christ history than any of
the members around here, and me not even a good member. Should I give them a
copy of what I have? I also have Killingsworth Baptist. Grady Randolph wrote up
the Randolph contribution to the Church of Christ. He lives in Atlanta, and is
the grandson of Virgil and Martha McCaleb Randolph. Would you like to have the
full amount I acquire on the Church of Christ?
Guess I better quit for today. We seem OK at present. Have had greens from
garden. The noise of Thanksgiving has died down. I hope you and Tom are OK.
Glad to hear Tom and Bill are getting out of cow business. Too much work for
old fellows. Maybe Tom hasn't got old yet. I hope he stays young for a very
long time.

With love,
Fred

Fred's Letter to Clancy & Tom

2008-08-30T01:57:00.000-07:00

Descendants of John Lowry?

2008-08-25T15:03:00.000-07:00

by
Fred McCaleb

Generation No. 1

1. John Lowry1 ? was born in Ireland?. He married Unknown.

Child of John ? and Unknown is:
+ 2 i. John2 Lowry, born Abt. 1700 in Ireland; died Bet. 1761 - 1762 in Augusta
County Va. Rockbridge will nov 26 nov 1761.

Generation No. 2

2. John2 Lowry (John Lowry1 ?) was born Abt. 1700 in Ireland, and died Bet.
1761 - 1762 in Augusta County Va. Rockbridge will nov 26 nov 1761. He married
Elizabeth Moore?, daughter of Andrew Moore? and Elizabeth Baxter?.

Children of John Lowry and Elizabeth Moore? are:
+ 3 i. William3 Lowery, born Bet. 1732 - 1741 in Augusta County Va.; died Bef.
1778 in Stokes County, N.C.?.
4 ii. David Lowery, born Abt. 1744.
5 iii. Rebecca Lowery, born Abt. 1734.
6 iv. Robert Lowery, born Abt. 1738.
7 v. Jannet Lowery, born Abt. 1740.
8 vi. Elizabeth Lowery, born Abt. 1742.
9 vii. James Lowery, born Abt. 1746.
10 viii. John Lowery, born Abt. 1748.

Generation No. 3

3. William3 Lowery (John2 Lowry, John Lowry1 ?) was born Bet. 1732 - 1741 in
Augusta County Va., and died Bef. 1778 in Stokes County, N.C.?. He married
Isabelle White? Taylor?.

Children of William Lowery and Isabelle Taylor? are:
+ 11 i. Elizabeth4 Lowry, born 1750; died 1810 in Stokes Co., North Carolina.
+ 12 ii. John Lowry, born Abt. 1759; died April 17, 1849 in Surry County NC..
13 iii. James Lowry, born Bet. 1750 - 1755. He married Jean/Jane.
14 iv. Mary Lowry, born Abt. 1757; died Abt. 1835 in Stokes County, N.C..

Generation No. 4

11. Elizabeth4 Lowry (William3 Lowery, John2 Lowry, John Lowry1 ?) was born
1750, and died 1810 in Stokes Co., North Carolina. She married Andrew
Mckillip, son of Hugh McKillip and Agnes Hannah.

Children of Elizabeth Lowry and Andrew Mckillip are:
+ 15 i. Hugh White5 McKillip, born Abt. 1770 in Stokes Co., North Carolina; died
1845 in Fayette County, Alabama.
16 ii. Jane McKillip, born Abt. 1770.
17 iii. John McKillip, born Abt. 1780.
18 iv. Ann McKillip, born Abt. 1780.
19 v. Margaret McKillip, born Abt. 1780.
20 vi. Elizabeth McKillip, born Abt. 1790.
21 vii. Mary McKillip, born Abt. 1790.
22 viii. William McKillip, born Abt. 1790.

12. John4 Lowry (William3 Lowery, John2 Lowry, John Lowry1 ?) was born Abt.
1759, and died April 17, 1849 in Surry County NC.. He married Hannah Vance
February 09, 1789 in Surry County NC, daughter of Samuel Vance and Aley.

Children of John Lowry and Hannah Vance are:
23 i. John5 Lowry, born 1798. He married Louisa?.
24 ii. Hugh Lowry. He married Ann Elizabeth Walker.
25 iii. Allen Lowry, born January 01, 1809. He married Lydie McNight February
05, 1844.
26 iv. James Lowry.
27 v. Samuel Lowry.
28 vi. Isabel Lowry. She married William Workman.
29 vii. Aley Lowry. She married Ferrel Crews.
30 viii. Sarah (Sallie) Lowry. She married William Warren.

Generation No. 5

15. Hugh White5 McKillip (Elizabeth4 Lowry, William3 Lowery, John2 Lowry, John
Lowry1 ?) was born Abt. 1770 in Stokes Co., North Carolina, and died 1845 in
Fayette County, Alabama. He married Elizabeth Holbrook August 13, 1803 in
Stokes Co., North Carolina, daughter of James Holbrook and Unknown.

Children of Hugh McKillip and Elizabeth Holbrook are:
31 i. Hugh White Jr6 McCaleb, born April 04, 1819 in N.C.?; died September 26,
1899 in Kimble Countyh Texas Buried Red Creek Cemetery. He married Mahala
Richards Abt. 1853 in Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama.
32 ii. Lavinia McCaleb. She married David Gibson November 14, 1822 in Morgan
Co., Alabama.
33 iii. Jane W. McCaleb, born 1803 in Stokes Co., North Carolina. She married
Robert Logan November 11, 1822 in Morgan Co., Alabama.
34 iv. John A. McCaleb, born 1805 in Stokes Co., North Carolina; died 1886 in
Texas. He married Mary Ann Hackworth December 24, 1844 in Morgan Co., Alabama.
35 v. Barbara McCaleb, born August 24, 1810 in Stokes Co., North Carolina; died
March 04, 1846 in Fayette County, Alabama. She married Thomas Lauderdale
September 30, 1826 in Morgan Co., Alabama.
36 vi. Andrew McCaleb, born February 03, 1813 in Stokes Co., North Carolina;
died July 02, 1899 in New River, Fayette Co., Alabama. He married Leah
Catherine McCollum March 08, 1838 in Fayette County, Alabama.
37 vii. James H. McCaleb, born November 1814 in Stokes Co., North Carolina;
died in Fayette Co., Alabama. He married Phoebe Hollingsworth May 10, 1838 in
Fayette Co., Alabama.

Notes for James H. McCaleb:
James H. McCaleb was a member of the Home Guard during the Civil War. He and
Pheobe Hollingsworth had 10 children but only raised 1, Hugh Clark McCaleb.

38 viii. Elizabeth McCaleb, born 1825.
39 ix. Alfred Cowan McCaleb, born May 18, 1827 in Fayette County, Alabama; died
January 14, 1891 in Fayette County, Alabama. He married Mary Ann McDonald.
40 x. William F. McCaleb, born April 06, 1830 in Fayette County, Alabama; died
December 06, 1910 in Fayette County, Alabama. He married Caroline A. McDonald
in Fayette Co., Alabama.

Christmas Letter 2000

2008-08-24T13:29:00.000-07:00

Fred McCaleb

I have been seeing or experiencing Christmases since 1916, or a total of 84 of
them. In my young years while growing up the most expensive presents we ever
got was a dozen or two of apples and about that many of oranges. At about the
time I was 6 years old my father bought a little red wagon for my brother and
I. We and the neighboring Hollingsworth cousins tore the wagon up in about a
month. My dad never bought another wagon Christmas present after that. He
allowed we would only tear it to pieces. He did continue buying the fruit and
sometimes 5 or 10 cents worth of peppermint candy. He did that until I was a
grown boy. Thinking back about him, that was all the gifts he could afford. I
don’t recall him ever making over $500 in any one year. It was all he was
able to do was to keep us fed with mostly groceries grown on the farm. For heat
in the winter at Christmas he burned wood cut from his place with a cross cut
saw with me pulling one end of it after I got big enough. When I was 15-17
years old we cleared the trees from about 10 acres of woodland on which to grow
corn. It is a miracle that I didn’t get killed doing that. After spending
spare time clearing each winter we had a log rolling to pile the logs in a big
heap for burning. We must have burned up several thousand dollars worth of
timber at present 2000 AD prices. At a log rolling the neighboring men come in
to help pile the logs and their wifes come to help prepare the meals. They had
a talking, hard working time on those days and got fed bountifully.

After the log rolling and the piles were burned came the plowing of the cleared
field. It was my dad and me for the plowing with a gee whizz plow. The gee
whizz had spring teeth to plow the ground with and the teeth were constantly
swinging back and forth while plowing. Sometimes you received a hard knock on
the leg or ankle with that plow. But I had to take whatever knocks came my way.
I wished I had a mechanical plowing machine to do the work, but machines that
ran on own power were only a pipe dream at that time for us on a poor farm.

We did have a Christmas tree after I was in my teens and maybe before, but I
don’t recollect the before. We would cut a little cedar tree and brace it up
in the front room. My sister Clancy would do the decorating. The decorating was
done with home made decorations at practically no expense. Cut up aluminum foil
and strung popped popcorn around the tree. Throw the cut up aluminum foil on
the sides of the tree and do other cheap things I have forgotten about. The
Christmases were just as merry then as they are now. We didn’t know how poor
we were financially. Everyone in the community was in same shape and didn’t
know the difference. We didn’t know we were disadvantaged by present
standards. My dad’s old farm, which I have today, has yeilded many thousands
of dollars in timber and gas royalty. I regret that my parents and young family
never got any benefits of that. The good timber on your place would sell for
about $200 back in those days. Today mature timber would sell for $100,000.
Money has gradually cheapened and is getting cheaper.
The water for the farm was drawn with a windlass and well bucket
For our water needs. Washed your hands in a common washpan and drank from a
waterbucket with a cheap dipper. Dippers were sometimes made from gourds and
the fanciest costliest dipper was a cedar one. No attention was paid to getting
germs. Sanitation and safety were on a primitive level.
In the 1930s president Roosevelt started dishing out government money to needy
families and the amount of the dish has been getting greater through the 1900s.
The country would be in sad financial shape without the welfare payments.
Farmers with sophisticated equipment are growing the food and grain products.
The mule farmers have vanished. It’s anyone’s guess as to what may happen
in the future if the US has financial reverses. But the politicians say nothing
like that can happen. Let us hope so. My Christmases have been better since I
went to Berry College in 1937 and obtained a starting job at US Steel in
Birmingham, Al. at $90 per month. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Fred and
Bettie Cline McCaleb

Letter of Adcice from Enoch Smith to his Children 1811

2008-08-24T11:25:00.000-07:00

Fred & Bettie McCaleb

The following letter was written by Enoch Smith (b 21 June
1750,Stafford County, Va) a Revolutionary War soldier and early Kentucky
Surveyor and pioneer, who settled in Montgomery County as early as 1775.
Smith was a son of Henry Smith and Sarah Crosby. According to a history of
Mt. Sterling, Ky., 1792-1819 by Carl M. Boyd Jr. and Hazel Mason Boyd,
Smith who owned 1400 acres in the area, was one of four men who donated
land for the town of Mt. Sterling in 1792. He served as one of the town's
original trustees and helped found Montgomery Academy in Mt. Sterling in
1798. Smith is said to have been a friend of General George Rogers Clark
and Daniel Boone. He was a brother of U.S. Senator Daniel Smith of Tenn. He
married 1. Nancy Belfield Land and 2. Frances Wren(born 16 June 1766,
Fairfax County, Va.) and was the father of by first wife Nancy Smith b 21
Nov 1779,married William Reed, Joseph Smith b 31 May 1781, and married
Margaret Smith, Mary Smith b 18 Mar 1783, m Daniel Smith Lane and Sarah
Smith b 25 May 1786 and had 2 marriages Thomas Jamison and James Hardage
Lane. Children by marriage to Frances Wren were Susan b 1789, d 1848 m
William Ferguson 27 Nov 1807, Anna married Thomas I Garrett, Bettie,
Frances b 17 Dec 1797 m Josiah Ferguson 1812 d 31 Jan 1812, Enoch II m
Sallie Grimes, Sanford m Adeline Cammpbell 26 Feb 1829 and Franklin Smith.
Mrs Franklin is a ggggg grand daughter of Enoch Smith. No Changes have been
made to original text, with the exception of the inclusion of modern
punctuation.
(Bettie Cline McCaleb added the Children and marriages Will book c page82,
Montgomery Co Ky).
To my dear children, I am now 61 years old. I never expect to have
another child. Much of my time has been spent studying the nature and order
of things. Permit me therefore to give you council (sic) which perhaps may
be good and profitable to you when I am gone to the dust nevermore having
the opportunity of doing it.

First as you grow up be careful of your moral character, if this is
lost your usefulness and happiness is also lost. Have respect to the
Scriptures, it is the best of books and contains a fund of instruction and
knowledge. And when you read them do it with --attention; not only read but
think; look to Him that can give you the Spirit that dictated them and then
you can more easily understand them. From them I have got my religious and
political sentiments , with the help of Other Men's opinions which I have
been careful to bring to the Standard. And I now take the scriptures of
the old and new Testament for my rule of faith- and practice and lay aside
all Confessions of faith and religious creeds. They are works of Man and
imperfect. They Shakle Men's minds and when they see into inconsistences
they have been Tought (sic) by them, they cannot shake their fetters and
travel in more pure air.

If Soloman made use of the law of nature to find out who was the
mother of the live Child as mentioned in the first book of Kings 3 chapter
25th verse--surely it is good policies for all legislators to make now laws
inconsistent with the laws of nature. If they do, wil (sic) find them hard
to execute; amendments upon amendments follow, a set of Rapacious Lawyers
wil (sic) rise up among them from interested motives and will lead their
clients through laws; the management of the----and the command of the army
(are) two (sic) much power for any human being to possess. Aristocracy
according to the modern definition of the word is a government in the hands
of Nobles. But this government is more ancient than nobility itself. It was
an instinct created in human nature and it was an Aristocracy that Moses
instituted among the children of Isaac and it appears that the number
seventy composed the (sanctum?) of the Jewish nation.

Some politicians have been for choosing a Senate for life to attach
them to the government. Some think it more safe to have transient
elections. Others have thought that it would answer a better to; find the
choice in familys (sic). Others have gloried much in a good constitution
for a basis in government which may answer a valuable purpose to bad powers
of government divided. Those who are legislative to another, those who are
Judicial to another and those who are Executive to another. But I have
extended my ideas still farther and believe that it is a government that
has its existence in human nature and that self love in this body politic
is the Jenius (sic) that supports it in peace and prosperity, and on the
contrary, individual self love though a species of Aristocracy is the
abandon or destroyer of this government.

If true it would be prudent in the choice of senators to consider
how much property they possess of what kind it is, and what kind of manners
they have. For great men are not always wise, though they have more to
attach them to government than the poor. But if the poor are justly dealt
with they may be divulged on by government. Also for the aristocratical
beast must resemble the face of a calf--a clean beast that chews the cud
with every member of the body--receives nourishment and strength by which
every member is protected and guarded with care. Even as in a natural
Aristocracy every body receives nourishment and strength, every member is
treated with care----his natural rights such as life, liberty and property.

A maze of expense delays and disappointments; and take it for
general rule, Nation that has two (sic) much law,has two (sic) much
property, held by the laws of society, and that nature or natures God
neaver (sic) designed should be so. Instance the Kentucky land law and
Slave law.

I believe there are four kinds of government, three of which have
their existence in human nature and one Divine government that rules and
over rules all things which four governments proclaim the Almighty to be a
holy Lord (See Revelations the 4 chapter 7&8 verses. Ezekiel the first
chapter. Zachariah the 6th chapter 5 verse).

As the first government Parential appears to be the Senior
golvernment and the jenius (Sic) that supports it is natural affection,
like that of a father to his children. If this is lost the foundation is
destroyed and the structure will fall to the ground and through the
Legislature, Executive and Judiciary powers of government are lodged in the
hands of the parent, which makes him resemble the face of a Lyon (sic),
that is, fear. It is right as should be so. As those that are to be
governed are not capable of exercising in their Infantile years their
reason and therefore it is the best government they can conceive.

The parents wish is the best of law to them until they are capable
of a better government and there is not much dainger (sic) of the Parent
abusing his power as long as he has natural affection for his offspring.
If government is executed by one void of natural affection he soon
degenerates into despotism. Power intoxicates him and makes him forget what
manner of man he is.

Though Kingly government has been much practiced, it has no
foundation in nature. Ignorance and wickedness have a natural tendency
when they cohabit together to beget Kings a mongril (sic) offspring, who by
their craft and cunning by which they derive their name, deprive their
subjects of their natural rights and plain diffinition (sic) of Monarchy
seem to be that of a state in which a single person by whatever name he may
be distinguished,is intrusted with the execution of the opportunity of
acquiring the property that is essential in a natural Aristocracy that is
better basis and---to attach and bind Mankind faster to government than
consolidation, metamorphising, altering the nature--thereof can do ;which
wil (sic) find (?)it on a foundation that is not to be found in nature.

Democracy and government in the hands of the people and by some
politicians held up with contempt to the world as having a natural tendency
to disunion and faction. Perhaps this is a natural consequence that flows
from their not being qualified to receive this government as being ignorant
and wicked for knowledge and virtue are the pillars of a Democracy and
whatsoever is reasonable is right in this government. Hence it is a
Democratic heart has the face of man and the jenius (sic) that supports its
reason; therefore in this government every citizen ought to be a well
informed virtuous man and then they may enjoy the government by Christ
himself is appointed(sic) for the Church. (See Matthew the 18 chapter).

Theocracy is a government superintended by God himself,which many
philosophers of Old believed in and the Scriptures abundantly testify of
it--Read Moses' Song, Deutronomy Chapter 22 which is a wonderful effect of
Inspiration no human being could have such exhalted ideas of God without
the assistance of his Spirit.

The man of God describes the dealings of God, providence to that
nation in language wonderfully striking as an Eagle. It stirreth up her
nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth (abroad?) her wings. So the lord
did lead him and there was no strange God with Him, which makes me believe
this Government has the aspect of an Eagle which flies high and by some
called the Heaven (circles?) sometimes out of our sight. So is providence
of Almighty God.

Now dear children, I know now how better to conclude than in the
words of the wise Man Solomon, let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter. Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of
man his whole interest his whole honor his whole happiness in short his
all. May God bless you all is the prayers of your affectionate Father.
Enoch Smith

Read this book and the book of Nature and become wise.

The way to greatness ought in a natural Aristocracy ought to be kept open
and as plain as the way to market.

Christmas Letter 1999

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Fred McCaleb

Hello out there everybody, sisters, brothere (all gone), aunts (one left),
cousins of all ranks & varieties,nephews, nieces, friends, genealogists and
whoever happens to read this,

I wish you a happy Christmas and new year and new millenium. Decide you are
going to be happy whatever your circumstances. I am happy and thankful that I
got this far. I have come a long ways since 1916 when I was born and 1921 when
my greyheaded and long whiskered g grandpa John R. Hollingsworth who was born
1838 was sitting on the porch at my McCaleb grandparents,pointing his walking
stick at us, and telling me and the other great grandchildren to behave or he
would see that we did. I never imagined getting this far in age. Maybe I will
reach the next milennium if I pull through the next few days. Have attended
schools from the one room varieties to outstanding colleges. I thought a
teacher was old at 30 years when in Jr High school. Had good and bad teachers
and those in between. Found that achievement depends on what you do, not the
capacity of the teacher. Been through the roaring twenties (we had nothing
then) and through the great depression of the 30s and smaller ones since. Got
through them all—if you have nothing adjust your wants accordingly and want
nothing and be pleased to get nothing.

Finally I have been in the age of cheaper and cheaper money since WW2. Everybody
gets more and more cheap money and the loan agencies get what of that they have.
What high priced item the average person doesn’t have he thinks he has to
borrow and putchase it right now at high interest and call it his own
possession. It belongs to the lender. Even teen agers have to have an
automobile and get one one way or another. A great busy, unhappy age trying to
have all the material goods that are out there.

I have come from being proud of my grandpa McCaleb letting me plow his mule
hooked to a cricket turning plow at my age of 9 to operating a computer and
setting up a net page at the age of 83. Great to have come through all this and
met all the varied people of humanity that I have come in contact with. Have
known people born more than 160 years ago and know younger people that may live
past 2070. Time marches on. Best of happiness to all.

Henry McCollum Sr.

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by
Fred McCaleb

Generation No. 1

1. HENRY1 MCCOLLUM, SR. was born in Scotland. He married MARGARET.

Child of HENRY MCCOLLUM and MARGARET is:

2. i. HENRY2 MCCOLLUM, JR., b. 1760; d. 1782.

Generation No. 2

2. HENRY2 MCCOLLUM, JR. (HENRY1) was born 1760, and died 1782. He married
ANN NEWMAN.

Child of HENRY MCCOLLUM and ANN NEWMAN is:

3. i. JAMES3 MCCOLLUM, b. Abt. 1768, Scotland or Ireland; d. Abt. 1805,
Pendleton Dist., S.C..

Generation No. 3

3. JAMES3 MCCOLLUM (HENRY2, HENRY1) was born Abt. 1768 in Scotland or
Ireland, and died Abt. 1805 in Pendleton Dist., S.C.. He married SUSANNA.

Children of JAMES MCCOLLUM and SUSANNA are:

i. ELIZABETH4 MCCOLLUM.

ii. NANCY MCCOLLUM, b. Abt. 1790.

iii. ALEXANDER MCCOLLUM, b. Abt. 1797.

iv. GEORGE MCCOLLUM, b. Abt. 1800.

4. v. WILLIAM MCCOLLUM, b. March 07, 1804, S.C.; d. August 17, 1887, Fayette
County, AL.

Generation No. 4

4. WILLIAM4 MCCOLLUM (JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born March 07, 1804 in
S.C.1, and died August 17, 1887 in Fayette County, AL. He married (1) MARY
PICKLE. She was born 1802, and died March 21, 1849. He married (2)
ELIZABETH. She was born April 06, 1814, and died July 24, 1890.

Notes for WILLIAM MCCOLLUM:

On the 1850 Fayette Co., AL Slave Schedule, William McCollum had 5 slaves.
One of them, William F., born 1839 & died 10-3-1918, is said to be the son
of William. He is buried next to William at Old Union Primitive Baptist
Church cemetery. He also was a Pvt. in the AL 812 Pioneer Infantry during
the Civil War. (Taken from research notes of Barry Uptain, 1998).

More About WILLIAM MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried at Old Union Primitive Baptist Church (Wade Cemetery),
Fayette Co., AL.2

Census: 1850, He is found in Fayette Co., AL with his 6 children.3

Occupation: He was a farmer and owned five slaves.4,5

More About MARY PICKLE:

Burial: Buried at Old Union Primitive Baptist Church cemetery, Fayette Co.,
AL.6

Children of WILLIAM MCCOLLUM and MARY PICKLE are:

5. i. SUSAN5 MCCOLLUM, b. August 01, 1824, South Carolina; d. April 30,
1869, Fayette or Walker County, AL.

6. ii. SAMUEL MCCOLLUM, b. 1831.

7. iii. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MCCOLLUM, b. 1833, Fayette county, AL; d. 1875,
Lawrence Co., AL.

iv. MARY MCCOLLUM, b. 1836.

v. GEORGE MCCOLLUM, b. 1837.

vi. WILLIAM MCCOLLUM, b. 1840; m. SUSANNA.

vii. SARAH MCCOLLUM, b. 1842.

Children of WILLIAM MCCOLLUM and ELIZABETH are:

viii. MARTHA5 MCCOLLUM, b. November 16, 1853; m. ? HUTTON.

8. ix. JAMES J. MCCOLLUM, b. 1854.

Generation No. 5

5. SUSAN5 MCCOLLUM (WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born August 01,
1824 in South Carolina7, and died April 30, 1869 in Fayette or Walker
County, AL. She married WILLIAM HOPWOOD HALLMARK7 Abt. 1848 in Fayette Co.,
AL7, son of GEORGE HALLMARK and SARAH TIPTON. He was born August 03, 1825 in
Fayette Co., AL7, and died 1874 in Colbert Co., AL.

More About SUSAN MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Carbon Hill, Walker Co., AL, Primitive Baptist Church Cemetary7

More About WILLIAM HOPWOOD HALLMARK:

Burial: Buried in Hardshell Cemetery, Lawrence county, AL.8

More About WILLIAM HALLMARK and SUSAN MCCOLLUM:

Marriage: Abt. 1848, Fayette Co., AL9

Children of SUSAN MCCOLLUM and WILLIAM HALLMARK are:

i. WILLIAM FRANK6 HALLMARK9, b. August 27, 1848, Fayette Co., AL9; d. Abt.
1874, Colbert Co., AL9; m. MARY F. BERRY9, January 14, 1869, Fayette Co.,
AL9; b. March 08, 18529; d. April 30, 1869, Fayette Co., AL9.

More About WILLIAM HALLMARK and MARY BERRY:

Marriage: January 14, 1869, Fayette Co., AL9

ii. MARY JANE HALLMARK9, b. October 10, 1849, Fayette Co., AL9; d. January
22, 1915, White Co., AR9; m. DANIEL WESLEY FOWLER, September 12, 1869,
Fayette Co., AL9; b. Abt. 1852, Fayette Co., AL9; d. Abt. 1935, Bebee, White
Co., AR9.

More About MARY JANE HALLMARK:

Burial: January 24, 1915, White Co., AR, Lebanon Cemetary9

More About DANIEL WESLEY FOWLER:

Burial: Bebee, White Co., AR, Bebee Cemetary9

More About DANIEL FOWLER and MARY HALLMARK:

Marriage: September 12, 1869, Fayette Co., AL9

iii. JOHN M. HALLMARK9, b. January 18, 1855, Fayette Co., AL9; d. June 06,
1916, Fayette Co., AL; m. LUCY CHILCOTE9, Abt. 1873, Fayette Co., AL9; b.
Abt. 1855, Alabama9.

More About JOHN HALLMARK and LUCY CHILCOTE:

Marriage: Abt. 1873, Fayette Co., AL9

iv. WILLIS HOPWOOD HALLMARK9, b. April 01, 1856, Fayette Co., AL9; d.
November 01, 1937, Fayette Co., AL9; m. GRACE T. MARKEY, November 12, 1882,
Fayette Co., AL9; b. February 22, 1866, Alabama9; d. January 06, 1948,
Fayette Co., AL9.

More About WILLIS HALLMARK and GRACE MARKEY:

Marriage: November 12, 1882, Fayette Co., AL9

v. SAMUEL WINN "BUD" HALLMARK9, b. July 16, 1858, Fayette Co., AL9; d. April
15, 1928, Fayette Co., AL9; m. MARY ROXIE EASON9, February 03, 1887, Fayette
Co., AL9; b. May 15, 1866, Fayette Co., AL9.

More About SAMUEL HALLMARK and MARY EASON:

Marriage: February 03, 1887, Fayette Co., AL9

vi. SARA MARTHA HALLMARK, b. Abt. 1862, Fayette Co., AL9; m. ALEC TIDWELL9,
Abt. 1880, Fayette Co., AL9.

More About ALEC TIDWELL and SARA HALLMARK:

Marriage: Abt. 1880, Fayette Co., AL9

9. vii. JAMES G. THOMAS "JIM" HALLMARK, b. September 03, 1860; d. October
30, 1936.

viii. ANDREW JACKSON HALLMARK9, b. October 18669.

6. SAMUEL5 MCCOLLUM (WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born 1831. He
married MARTHA J.. She was born 1832.

Children of SAMUEL MCCOLLUM and MARTHA J. are:

i. FRANCES6 MCCOLLUM, b. 1859.

ii. MARY MCCOLLUM, b. 1868; m. GEORGE ALDRIDGE.

7. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5 MCCOLLUM (WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born
1833 in Fayette county, AL, and died 1875 in Lawrence Co., AL. He married
CLARYSA JANE SOCKWELL 1860 in Fayette county, AL, daughter of EDWIN SOCKWELL
and MARGARET HEAD. She was born February 04, 1838 in Carroll County, GA, and
died December 24, 1911 in Alabama.

Notes for BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MCCOLLUM:

Estate of B. F. McCollum

On the application of C. J. McCollum and J. H. Sockwell for the
administration of the Estate of B. F. McCollum, deceased, and they having
entered into bond in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars with Samuel Hefner
and E. B. Sockwell as their securities conditioned as the law directs. It is
ordered that the said C. J. McCollum and J. H. Sockwell be appointed
Administratee and Administrator of the Estate of said B. F. McCollum and
that letters issue to them accordingly which are the words and figures
following to wit:

The State of Alabama

Lawrence County Probate Court December 10, 1875

More About BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MCCOLLUM:

Property: Purchased 320 acres in north Alabama on Dec. 1, 1859.10,11

Will: His Will was filed in Lawrence Co., AL in Sept. 1875. Will Book 18.

More About CLARYSA JANE SOCKWELL:

Burial: Buried in Old Bethel Cemetery, Colbert Co.,AL.12

Census: 1880, Listed as Head of House with children & her father, E. B.
Sockwell.13

More About BENJAMIN MCCOLLUM and CLARYSA SOCKWELL:

Marriage: 1860, Fayette county, AL

Children of BENJAMIN MCCOLLUM and CLARYSA SOCKWELL are:

i. JAMES W.6 MCCOLLUM, b. December 23, 1860; d. March 09, 1941; m. MARY
ABIGAIL MCCAIN14; b. October 13, 1866, Alabama; d. January 19, 1939.

More About JAMES W. MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried in Tharptown Cemetery, AL.15

Religion: Listed on Bethsaida Baptist Chruch member roster in 1902.

More About MARY ABIGAIL MCCAIN:

Burial: Buried in Tharptown Cemetery, AL.15

Information: Community post office "Abby" was named after her "Abergail"

Occupation: Was Post Mistriss of Abby PO, established 10-31-189816

Religion: Listed on early church records of Bethsaida Baptist Church.17

10. ii. EDWARD ERASTUS MCCOLLUM, b. March 09, 1865; d. May 11, 1939.

iii. GEORGE W. MCCOLLUM, b. 1867; d. 1939.

More About GEORGE W. MCCOLLUM:

Information 1: He was committed to an insane asylum in Tuscaloosa, AL in
1896 at age 28.18

Information 2: His mother, Clarysa Jane, was appointed his guardian.

11. iv. JOHN HENRY MCCOLLUM, b. December 28, 1869; d. November 17, 1910.

12. v. MARY LUCINDA MCCOLLUM, b. April 28, 1872; d. January 21, 1946,
Colbert Co., AL.

13. vi. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MCCOLLUM, JR., b. October 1875; d. 1943.

8. JAMES J.5 MCCOLLUM (WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born 1854. He
married MARY.

Children of JAMES MCCOLLUM and MARY are:

i. FLOYD6 MCCOLLUM, b. 1877.

ii. KEMPER MCCOLLUM, b. 1879.

Generation No. 6

9. JAMES G. THOMAS "JIM"6 HALLMARK (SUSAN5 MCCOLLUM, WILLIAM4, JAMES3,
HENRY2, HENRY1)19 was born September 03, 1860, and died October 30, 1936. He
married (1) AMZONIA A. SOCKWELL February 28, 1889 in Colbert Co., AL20,
daughter of EDWIN SOCKWELL and SARAH PHILLIPS. She was born October 02,
1871, and died March 17, 1906. He married (2) FRONNIE PHILLIPS Aft. 1906.
She died 1920.

More About JAMES G. THOMAS "JIM" HALLMARK:

Burial: Fergason Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL.21

Religion: Listed on 1902 membership roster of Bethsaida Baptist Church.
"Lettered out" August 17, 1902.22

More About AMZONIA A. SOCKWELL:

Burial: Fergason Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL.23

Religion: 1902, Listed on Bethsaida Baptist Chruch member roster in 1902.24

More About JAMES HALLMARK and AMZONIA SOCKWELL:

Marriage: February 28, 1889, Colbert Co., AL25

More About FRONNIE PHILLIPS:

Burial: Fergason Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL.26

More About JAMES HALLMARK and FRONNIE PHILLIPS:

Marriage: Aft. 1906

Children of JAMES HALLMARK and AMZONIA SOCKWELL are:

14. i. LULA E.7 HALLMARK, b. December 11, 1889; d. January 10, 1959.

ii. LYDIA HALLMARK, b. December 18, 1892; d. April 12, 1903.

More About LYDIA HALLMARK:

Burial: Fergason Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL.26

Individual Note: From The Moulton Advertiser, Thursday, April 30, 1903: The
ten year old daughter of James Hallmark was burned to death near Concord
recently.27

iii. AZLE HALLMARK, b. September 22, 1899; d. September 23, 1899.

More About AZLE HALLMARK:

Burial: Fergason Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL.28

iv. ELSIE LUCILLA HALLMARK, b. August 31, 1904; d. October 21, 1904.

More About ELSIE LUCILLA HALLMARK:

Burial: Fergason Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL.28

v. TRAVIS HALLMARK29, m. (1) DORA ISBELL; m. (2) ALMA BURLESON.

vi. DORIS HALLMARK, m. MYRTLE ADCOCK.

10. EDWARD ERASTUS6 MCCOLLUM (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2,
HENRY1) was born March 09, 1865, and died May 11, 1939. He married MARY
ANN/ELIZABETH MCCOLLUM, daughter of JAMES MCCOLLUM and SORENA
KILLINGSWOORTH. She was born November 18, 1873 in Fayette Co, AL, and died
February 16, 1954 in Franklin Co., Alabama.

Notes for EDWARD ERASTUS MCCOLLUM:

Listed as member and deacon at Bethsaida Baptist Church. Oldest church
records go back to 1924. Ordained as deacon in 1930. Active in church
activites. Church was established in 1884.

Listed as member and deacon at Bethsaida Baptist Church. Oldest church
records go back to 1924. Ordained as deacon in 1930. Active in church
activites. Church was established in 1884.

More About EDWARD ERASTUS MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried in Gargis Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL30

Elected 1: Was a deacon at Bethsaida Baptist Church, Franklin County, AL.31

Elected 2: Delegate to the annual Big Bear Creek Baptist Association
convention for Bethsaida Church in 1908, 1916, 1924, 1925, and
1929.32,33,34,35,36

Religion: 1902, Listed on 1902 membership roster of Bethsaida Baptist
Church.37

More About MARY ANN/ELIZABETH MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried in Gargis Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL38

Information 1: Delivered Mrs. Lennie McClusky's babies.39

Information 2: Mary's maiden name was also McCollum.40

Occupation: Was a midwife in the Saint's Crossroads area.41

Religion: Listed on 1902 - 1928 membership roster of Bethsaida Baptist
Church.

Children of EDWARD MCCOLLUM and MARY MCCOLLUM are:

15. i. FRANCIS7 MCCOLLUM, b. January 30, 1891; d. July 27, 1972.

16. ii. MARY ETTA MCCOLLUM, b. September 03, 1894, Franklin Co. AL at home.;
d. November 17, 1965, Franklin Co. AL at home..

17. iii. EDWARD ERASTUS MCCOLLUM, JR., b. March 31, 1899, Franklin Co.,
Alabama; d. July 19, 1921, Lawrence Co., AL.

18. iv. JAMES CLARENCE MCCOLLUM, b. February 06, 1900; d. March 14, 1969.

19. v. FLORA MCCOLLUM, b. October 13, 1902; d. February 14, 1977.

20. vi. MAUD MCCOLLUM, b. March 25, 1906; d. August 09, 1934.

21. vii. M. W. MCCOLLUM, b. February 05, 1911; d. June 30, 1981.

11. JOHN HENRY6 MCCOLLUM (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2,
HENRY1)42,43 was born December 28, 1869, and died November 17, 1910. He
married SARAH "SALLIE" THOMPSON44,45 WFT Est. 1873-190146,47, daughter of
WILLIAM THOMPSON and FRANCIS LANDERS. She was born October 02, 1871, and
died October 17, 1941.

More About JOHN HENRY MCCOLLUM:

Date born 2: WFT Est. 1847-187648,49

Died 2: WFT Est. 1901-196150,51

Burial: Buried at Old Bethel Cemetery.52

More About SARAH "SALLIE" THOMPSON:

Burial: Buried at Old Bethel Cemetery.52

More About JOHN MCCOLLUM and SARAH THOMPSON:

Marriage: WFT Est. 1873-190153,54

Children of JOHN MCCOLLUM and SARAH THOMPSON are:

22. i. WILLIAM ERNEST7 MCCOLLUM, b. December 28, 1891; d. January 24, 1976.

23. ii. JOHN FRANKLIN MCCOLLUM, b. December 03, 1894; d. August 02, 1926.

24. iii. LUCINDA ANITA MCCOLLUM, b. July 26, 1898; d. January 06, 1980,
Lauderdale Co, AL.

12. MARY LUCINDA6 MCCOLLUM (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2,
HENRY1) was born April 28, 1872, and died January 21, 1946 in Colbert Co.,
AL. She married CARROL CLIFTON ISBELL55, son of JAMES ISBELL and CLARISSA
CRITTENDON. He was born March 15, 187355, and died October 14, 1933 in
Colbert Co., AL56.

More About MARY LUCINDA MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried at Tharptown cemetery, Franklin Co., AL.56

Religion: Listed on 1902 membership roster of Bethsaida Baptist Church. 57

More About CARROL CLIFTON ISBELL:

Burial: Buried at Ozbin Hill cemetery, Colbert Co., AL.

Children of MARY MCCOLLUM and CARROL ISBELL are:

i. SYLVESTER7 ISBELL, b. October 16, 1886, Franklin Co., Alabama; m. METHEL
BROOKS.

More About METHEL BROOKS:

Residence: 1967, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL

ii. JESSIE ISBELL, b. April 27, 1888, Franklin Co., Alabama; d. June 30,
1923.

iii. ALVIE ISBELL, b. October 29, 1896, Franklin Co., Alabama; m. EFFIE
ISBELL, October 27, 1912; b. February 10, 1896.

More About ALVIE ISBELL and EFFIE ISBELL:

Marriage: October 27, 1912

iv. CHESTER ISBELL, b. October 21, 1900, Franklin Co., Alabama; m. MARY LOU
STANCIL, June 30, 1923.

More About CHESTER ISBELL:

Religion: Listed on early Bethsaida Church records. She requested her
letter57

More About CHESTER ISBELL and MARY STANCIL:

Marriage: June 30, 1923

v. MARVIN ISBELL, b. May 07, 1907, Franklin Co., Alabama; m. GRACIE BROOKS.

13. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN6 MCCOLLUM, JR. (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3,
HENRY2, HENRY1) was born October 1875, and died 1943. He married LULA SMITH.
She was born June 1877, and died 1961.

More About BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MCCOLLUM, JR.:

Burial: Buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Franklin County, AL.58,59

Occupation: Owned a grist mill.60

More About LULA SMITH:

Burial: Buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Franklin County, AL.61

Child of BENJAMIN MCCOLLUM and LULA SMITH is:

i. JAMES OSCAR7 MCCOLLUM, b. September 22, 1897; d. July 01, 1935; m. SARAH
LILLIE BELL ALSBROOKS; b. December 20, 1902; d. December 12, 1992.

More About SARAH LILLIE BELL ALSBROOKS:

Burial: K.P Cemetery, Russellville, Franklin Co., AL.62

Generation No. 7

14. LULA E.7 HALLMARK (JAMES G. THOMAS "JIM"6, SUSAN5 MCCOLLUM, WILLIAM4,
JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born December 11, 1889, and died January 10,
1959. She married GEORGE W. ARNOLD. He was born March 20, 1889, and died
October 11, 1970.

More About LULA E. HALLMARK:

Burial: Buried in Old Bethel Cemetery, Colbert Co., AL.63

More About GEORGE W. ARNOLD:

Burial: Buried in Old Bethel Cemetery, Colbert Co., AL.63

Children of LULA HALLMARK and GEORGE ARNOLD are:

i. WILLIAM T.8 ARNOLD, b. 1907; d. 1958; m. MYRTLE F. SUMMERS; b. 1919.

More About WILLIAM T. ARNOLD:

Burial: Buried in Old Bethel Cemetery, Colbert Co., AL.63

More About MYRTLE F. SUMMERS:

Education: Bet. 1932 - 1933, She is shown in a photo of students at C. C.
Smith School in Lawrence Co., AL.64

ii. INFANT ARNOLD, b. August 10, 1909; d. August 10, 1909.

More About INFANT ARNOLD:

Burial: Fergason Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL.65

25. iii. MAMIE L. ARNOLD, b. September 03, 1910; d. 1996.

26. iv. MARY LYNN ARNOLD, b. January 13, 1915.

27. v. LULA GEORGE ARNOLD, b. December 18, 1932.

15. FRANCIS7 MCCOLLUM (EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4,
JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born January 30, 1891, and died July 27, 1972.
She married JAMES COLUMBUS JOHNSON, son of WILLIS JOHNSON and JOEL MURPHY.
He was born July 28, 1897, and died June 1955.

More About FRANCIS MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried in Pickens County, AL.66

Religion: Listed on 1902 - 1928 Bethsaida Baptist Chruch member roster in
1902.67

More About JAMES COLUMBUS JOHNSON:

Burial: Buried in Pickens County, AL.68

Children of FRANCIS MCCOLLUM and JAMES JOHNSON are:

28. i. JAMES MILTON8 JOHNSON.

29. ii. MARJORIE JOHNSON.

30. iii. MARY V. JOHNSON.

31. iv. JULIAN JOHNSON.

16. MARY ETTA7 MCCOLLUM (EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4,
JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born September 03, 1894 in Franklin Co. AL at
home., and died November 17, 1965 in Franklin Co. AL at home.. She married
EARNEST CARROLL ISBELL October 27, 1912, son of JOHN ISBELL and MARTHA
AYCOCK. He was born October 31, 1893 in Lawrence Co., AL, and died February
26, 1940 in Colbert Co., AL.

More About MARY ETTA MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried at Old Bethel Church cemetery.69

Religion: Listed on Bethsaida Baptist Chruch member roster in 1902.70

More About EARNEST CARROLL ISBELL:

Burial: Buried at Old Bethel Church cemetery.71

More About EARNEST ISBELL and MARY MCCOLLUM:

Marriage: October 27, 1912

Children of MARY MCCOLLUM and EARNEST ISBELL are:

i. VILAS8 ISBELL, b. April 08, 1917; d. January 17, 1921.

More About VILAS ISBELL:

Burial: Buried at Old Bethel Church cemetery.72

32. ii. CLOYCE ISBELL, b. January 27, 1921, Colbert Co., AL.

33. iii. BILLY JOE ISBELL, b. March 1927.

17. EDWARD ERASTUS7 MCCOLLUM, JR. (EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5,
WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born March 31, 1899 in Franklin Co.,
Alabama, and died July 19, 1921 in Lawrence Co., AL. He married MAUDE MURRAY
1915, daughter of JAMES MURRAY and MARY AYCOCK. She was born April 22, 1895
in Franklin Co., AL, and died September 03, 1987 in Colbert Co., AL.

More About EDWARD ERASTUS MCCOLLUM, JR.:

Burial: Aycock Cemetery, near Franklin-Colbert county line.73

Cause of Death: Respiratory infection

More About MAUDE MURRAY:

Burial: Buried in Aycock cemetery, Franklin Co., AL.73

More About EDWARD MCCOLLUM and MAUDE MURRAY:

Marriage: 1915

Children of EDWARD MCCOLLUM and MAUDE MURRAY are:

34. i. OLLIE JAMES8 MCCOLLUM, b. February 18, 1917; d. March 07, 1975.

35. ii. HELEN LORENE MCCOLLUM, b. October 07, 1920, Wolf Springs, Lawrence
Co., AL.

18. JAMES CLARENCE7 MCCOLLUM (EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4,
JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born February 06, 1900, and died March 14, 1969.
He married EVA MAE STANLEY September 14, 1919, daughter of JAMES STANLEY and
JOSEPHINE MCCLUSKEY. She was born May 31, 1900 in Colbert Co., AL, and died
September 19, 1964 in Tuscumbia, AL.

More About JAMES CLARENCE MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried at Old Bethel Church cemetery.74

Religion: Listed on Bethsaida Baptist Church member roster.75

More About EVA MAE STANLEY:

Burial: Buried in Old Bethel Cemetery, Colbert Co., AL.76

Religion: July 15, 1942, Listed on Bethsaida Baptist Church member roster of
1902.77

More About JAMES MCCOLLUM and EVA STANLEY:

Marriage: September 14, 1919

Children of JAMES MCCOLLUM and EVA STANLEY are:

36. i. JAMES VELCIA8 MCCOLLUM, b. September 21, 1920, Franklin Co., Alabama.

37. ii. VASTIE MCCOLLUM, b. September 01, 1922, Franklin Co., Alabama.

38. iii. CLARENCE VERELL MCCOLLUM, b. August 09, 1924, Franklin Co.,
Alabama; d. May 15, 1981.

39. iv. VINCE LEE MCCOLLUM, b. March 13, 1927, Franklin Co., Alabama.

40. v. ROSALENE MCCOLLUM, b. March 01, 1929, Colbert Co., AL.

41. vi. CURT E. MCCOLLUM, b. October 26, 1930, Colbert Co., AL.

vii. EDWIN W. MCCOLLUM, b. May 22, 1932; d. February 26, 1956.

More About EDWIN W. MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried at Old Bethel Church cemetery.78

42. viii. HOMER WADE MCCOLLUM, b. February 26, 1934, Colbert Co., AL.

43. ix. JESSIE ORLIN MCCOLLUM, b. April 30, 1935, Colbert Co., AL.

44. x. MILFORD STANLEY MCCOLLUM, b. February 03, 1937, Colbert Co., AL.

19. FLORA7 MCCOLLUM (EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3,
HENRY2, HENRY1) was born October 13, 1902, and died February 14, 1977. She
married JESSE H. HALLMARK, son of GEORGE HALLMARK and SUSAN. He was born
March 03, 1896, and died November 30, 1948.

More About FLORA MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried in Gargis Cemetery, Lawrence Co.,AL.79

More About JESSE H. HALLMARK:

Burial: Buried in Gargis Cemetery, Lawrence Co.,AL.79

Child of FLORA MCCOLLUM and JESSE HALLMARK is:

i. LOIS8 HALLMARK, b. 1920.

More About LOIS HALLMARK:

Burial: October 1929, Enrolled in 2nd Grade at Bruton School, Franklin Co.,
AL.80

20. MAUD7 MCCOLLUM (EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3,
HENRY2, HENRY1) was born March 25, 1906, and died August 09, 1934. She
married THURMOND WILLIAMS.

More About MAUD MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried in Gargis Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL81

Religion: Abt. 1920, Listed on Bethsaida Baptist Church member roster of
1902.82

Child of MAUD MCCOLLUM and THURMOND WILLIAMS is:

i. CHARLES JIMMY8 WILLIAMS, b. December 11, 1927; d. May 31, 1979; m. THELMA
H..

More About CHARLES JIMMY WILLIAMS:

Burial: Buried in Gargis Cemetery, Lawrence Co.,AL.83

21. M. W.7 MCCOLLUM (EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3,
HENRY2, HENRY1) was born February 05, 1911, and died June 30, 1981. He
married HAZEL MAE VANDIVER. She was born July 15, 1910.

More About M. W. MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried in Gargis Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL84

Religion: 1926, Listed on Bethsaida Baptist Church member roster of 1902.85

More About HAZEL MAE VANDIVER:

Burial: Buried at Gargis Cemetery, Lawrence Co., AL.86

Religion: Abt. 1930, Listed on early Bethsaida Church records.87

Child of M. MCCOLLUM and HAZEL VANDIVER is:

i. CHARLEY LEE8 MCCOLLUM, b. May 14, 1935; d. August 05, 1988.

More About CHARLEY LEE MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried in Gargis Cemetery, Lawrence Co.,AL.88

22. WILLIAM ERNEST7 MCCOLLUM (JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4,
JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born December 28, 1891, and died January 24,
1976. He married CORA MYRTLE SMITH, daughter of BENFORD SMITH and ANNIE
ASKEW. She was born February 21, 1895, and died December 17, 1975.

More About WILLIAM ERNEST MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried in Tharptown Cemetery, AL.89

Information: Killed in auto accident.90

More About CORA MYRTLE SMITH:

Burial: Buried in Tharptown Cemetery, AL.91

Information: Killed in auto accident.92

Children of WILLIAM MCCOLLUM and CORA SMITH are:

i. DOROTHY8 MCCOLLUM, b. December 30; m. ROBERT FITTS.

45. ii. LUCY ADLE MCCOLLUM, b. October 13, 1914.

46. iii. CLARA MCCOLLUM, b. March 29, 1920.

23. JOHN FRANKLIN7 MCCOLLUM (JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4,
JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born December 03, 1894, and died August 02,
1926. He married RUTH MURRAY, daughter of JAMES MURRAY and MARY AYCOCK. She
was born October 04, 1892, and died December 24, 1975.

Children of JOHN MCCOLLUM and RUTH MURRAY are:

i. LUCILLE8 MCCOLLUM, m. BILLY WILLIS.

ii. ODIE MONROE MCCOLLUM, b. November 26, 1916; d. May 11, 1918.

More About ODIE MONROE MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Bethlehem Cemetery, Franklin Co., AL.93

iii. MAY BELLE MCCOLLUM, b. March 31, 1919; m. J. FRANK HARRISON; b. March
27, 1914; d. August 27, 1962.

More About J. FRANK HARRISON:

Burial: Buried in Hopewell Cemetery, Colbert Co., AL.94

iv. EULALIA MCCOLLUM, b. September 21, 1921; m. JAMES HOLLIS HALLMARK; b.
June 26, 1917; d. December 01, 1977.

More About JAMES HOLLIS HALLMARK:

Burial: Buried in Hopewell Cemetery, Colbert Co., AL.95

24. LUCINDA ANITA7 MCCOLLUM (JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4,
JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1)96,97 was born July 26, 1898, and died January 06,
1980 in Lauderdale Co, AL98,99. She married CHARLIE JOSIAH ASKEW100,101
December 05, 1915102,103, son of JOHN ASKEW and ANNIE WHITLOCK. He was born
January 31, 1896 in Franklin Co., Alabama104,105, and died June 29, 1972 in
Lauderdale Co, AL106,107.

More About LUCINDA ANITA MCCOLLUM:

Date born 2: July 26, 1898, Colbert Co., Alabama108,109

Burial Place: Bethlehem Cem., Franklin Co., AL110,111

Nick name(s): Lucy112,113

More About CHARLIE JOSIAH ASKEW:

Burial: Bethlehem Cemetery, Franklin Co., AL.114

More About CHARLIE ASKEW and LUCINDA MCCOLLUM:

Marriage: December 05, 1915115,116

Children of LUCINDA MCCOLLUM and CHARLIE ASKEW are:

47. i. WILLIAM OTTIS8 ASKEW, b. May 04, 1919, Franklin Co., Alabama; d.
October 25, 1994, Colbert Co., Alabama.

ii. INFANT ASKEW, b. October 30, 1924; d. October 30, 1924.

More About INFANT ASKEW:

Burial: Bethlehem Cemetery, Franklin Co., AL.117

iii. INFANT ASKEW, b. February 20, 1930; d. February 20, 1930.

More About INFANT ASKEW:

Burial: Bethlehem Cemetery, Franklin Co., AL.117

48. iv. MYRDIS OPAL ASKEW, b. Private.

49. v. JOE HOLLIS ASKEW, b. Private.

50. vi. GRADY OLEN ASKEW, b. Private.

51. vii. MILDRED WYOLEN ASKEW, b. Private.

52. viii. COMER JACK ASKEW, b. Private.

53. ix. HOMER LEE ASKEW, b. Private.

54. x. HOWARD EUGENE ASKEW, b. Private.

Generation No. 8

25. MAMIE L.8 ARNOLD (LULA E.7 HALLMARK, JAMES G. THOMAS "JIM"6, SUSAN5
MCCOLLUM, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born September 03, 1910, and
died 1996. She married CLARENCE MONROE DAILY. He was born March 03, 1905,
and died July 14, 1982.

Marriage Notes for MAMIE ARNOLD and CLARENCE DAILY:

They were honored with a reception at their home on Sunday, Oct. 12,
celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.

Children of MAMIE ARNOLD and CLARENCE DAILY are:

i. BARBARA9 DAILY, m. JOHN PATTERSON.

55. ii. JOYCE MARIE DAILY, b. June 19, 1932, Lawerence Co., AL.

26. MARY LYNN8 ARNOLD (LULA E.7 HALLMARK, JAMES G. THOMAS "JIM"6, SUSAN5
MCCOLLUM, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born January 13, 1915. She
married WILLIAM HAYES BRADFORD August 18, 1940 in Lawrence Co., AL, son of
JAMES BRADFORD and ROSIE KILLINGSWORTH. He was born October 18, 1910 in AL,
and died July 06, 1985.

More About WILLIAM HAYES BRADFORD:

Burial: Buried in Old Bethel Cemetery, Colbert Co., AL.118

More About WILLIAM BRADFORD and MARY ARNOLD:

Marriage: August 18, 1940, Lawrence Co., AL

Child of MARY ARNOLD and WILLIAM BRADFORD is:

i. MARY ELAINE9 BRADFORD, b. December 26, 1941, Moulton, Lawrence Co., AL.

27. LULA GEORGE8 ARNOLD (LULA E.7 HALLMARK, JAMES G. THOMAS "JIM"6, SUSAN5
MCCOLLUM, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born December 18, 1932. She
married (1) J C SMITH, son of VESS SMITH and HATTIE. He was born April 10,
1929, and died February 27, 1986. She married (2) WILLIARD BLANKENSHIP Aft.
1986.

More About J C SMITH:

Burial: Buried in Old Bethel Cemetery, Colbert Co., AL.119

More About WILLIARD BLANKENSHIP and LULA ARNOLD:

Marriage: Aft. 1986

Children of LULA ARNOLD and J SMITH are:

i. TOMMY9 SMITH.

ii. JUDY SMITH.

28. JAMES MILTON8 JOHNSON (FRANCIS7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) He married VIRGINIA WHITE.

Children of JAMES JOHNSON and VIRGINIA WHITE are:

i. JACKIE9 JOHNSON.

ii. LYNN JOHNSON.

29. MARJORIE8 JOHNSON (FRANCIS7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) She married RANAL BOYLES.

Children of MARJORIE JOHNSON and RANAL BOYLES are:

i. AMARLOUS LAVON9 BOYLES.

ii. JIMMY DON BOYLES.

iii. RENEE BOYLES.

30. MARY V.8 JOHNSON (FRANCIS7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) She married HENRY POSEY.

Children of MARY JOHNSON and HENRY POSEY are:

i. PATRICIA9 POSEY.

ii. LYNETTE POSEY.

iii. DENNIS POSEY.

iv. KAY POSEY.

v. LISA POSEY.

31. JULIAN8 JOHNSON (FRANCIS7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5,
WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) He married ELSIE.

Children of JULIAN JOHNSON and ELSIE are:

i. LINDA9 JOHNSON.

ii. DANNY JOHNSON.

iii. JUDY JOHNSON.

56. iv. JEANETTE JOHNSON.

57. v. LILA MAE JOHNSON.

58. vi. CURTIS JOHNSON.

32. CLOYCE8 ISBELL (MARY ETTA7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born January 27, 1921 in
Colbert Co., AL. He married LORA HOVATER March 14, 1940, daughter of FRANK
HOVATER and MARTHA LINDSEY.

More About CLOYCE ISBELL and LORA HOVATER:

Marriage: March 14, 1940

Children of CLOYCE ISBELL and LORA HOVATER are:

59. i. MARIE9 ISBELL, b. December 09, 1941, Colbert Co., AL.

60. ii. CAROLINE ISBELL, b. February 27, 1944, Colbert Co., AL.

iii. JUANITA ISBELL, b. February 09, 1947, Colbert Co., AL; m. CHARLES
THOMAS HILLIS, July 28, 1973; b. October 02.

More About CHARLES HILLIS and JUANITA ISBELL:

Marriage: July 28, 1973

33. BILLY JOE8 ISBELL (MARY ETTA7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born March 1927. He married
SUPHRONIA COMER, daughter of HERBERT COMER and MYRTLE TIPPER. She was born
October 20, 1932 in Lawrence Co., TN.

More About SUPHRONIA COMER:

Religion: Belonged to the Baptist church in Colbert Heights, AL.120

Children of BILLY ISBELL and SUPHRONIA COMER are:

i. KAREN JO9 ISBELL, b. October 08, 1954; m. BILLY JOHNSON, October 16,
1973; b. September 19, 1952, Franklin Co. AL..

More About BILLY JOHNSON and KAREN ISBELL:

Marriage: October 16, 1973

ii. MICHAEL WADE ISBELL, b. February 25, 1958, Colbert Co., AL; m. LAURA
LANG, January 19, 1980, Colbert Co., AL; b. Decatur, AL.

More About MICHAEL ISBELL and LAURA LANG:

Marriage: January 19, 1980, Colbert Co., AL

34. OLLIE JAMES8 MCCOLLUM (EDWARD ERASTUS7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born February 18, 1917, and
died March 07, 1975. He married CLARA ONEAL WHITLOCK, daughter of JOHN
WHITLOCK and CARRIE ASTON. She was born February 24, 1913, and died May 04,
1971.

More About OLLIE JAMES MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Buried in Old Brick Cemetery.121

More About CLARA ONEAL WHITLOCK:

Burial: Buried in Old Brick Cemetery.121

Children of OLLIE MCCOLLUM and CLARA WHITLOCK are:

i. BONNIE C.9 MCCOLLUM, b. May 21, 1945; m. BOBBY BATES.

ii. GYPSIE MCCOLLUM, b. December 11, 1948.

35. HELEN LORENE8 MCCOLLUM (EDWARD ERASTUS7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born October 07, 1920 in
Wolf Springs, Lawrence Co., AL. She married HARVEY WASHINGTON UPTAIN121 June
02, 1940, son of NEWTON UPTAIN and ARMINDA SMITH. He was born September 10,
1916 in Franklin Co., ALabama near Vina..

More About HELEN LORENE MCCOLLUM:

Religion: 1948, Joined Bethsaida Baptist Church.122

More About HARVEY WASHINGTON UPTAIN:

Religion: Member of Bethsaida Baptist Church.

More About HARVEY UPTAIN and HELEN MCCOLLUM:

Marriage: June 02, 1940

Children of HELEN MCCOLLUM and HARVEY UPTAIN are:

61. i. O'NEAL9 UPTAIN.

62. ii. GLENN EDWARD UPTAIN, b. April 17, 1947.

iii. JERRY RAY UPTAIN, b. August 19, 1951; d. April 03, 1989.

Notes for JERRY RAY UPTAIN:

Jerry's poem is written on his tombstone-

As sleep shadows over my soul,

May God look down upon my heart

and find dwelling within it Gratitude,

and the most precious gift of all-

His Love.

Jerry Ray Uptain[Wft-todate2.FBK]

Jerry's poem is written on his tombstone-

As sleep shadows over my soul,

May God look down upon my heart

and find dwelling within it Gratitude,

and the most precious gift of all-

His Love.

Jerry Ray Uptain

More About JERRY RAY UPTAIN:

Died 2: He was a Registered Nurse.

Burial: Aycock Cemetery, near Franklin-Colbert county line.123

Information: Jerry and Gary were identical twins. Jerry could be identified
due to a long scar on his face which occued when he was a baby. His glass
baby bottle broke and he was cut.

iv. GARY UPTAIN, b. August 19, 1951.

More About GARY UPTAIN:

Information: Gary & Jerry are identical twins.

Religion: May 05, 1965, Joined Bethsaida Baptist Church.124

63. v. MAUDIE JANE UPTAIN, b. January 01, 1941; d. September 02, 1994.

36. JAMES VELCIA8 MCCOLLUM (JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born September 21, 1920 in
Franklin Co., Alabama. He married ALEXIA IRENE OLDROYD September 30, 1944 in
England, daughter of WILFORD OLDROYD and ANNIE LAMBE. She was born October
29, 1922 in England.

More About JAMES VELCIA MCCOLLUM:

Education: October 1929, Enrolled in 2nd Grade at Bruton School, Franklin
Co., AL.125

More About JAMES MCCOLLUM and ALEXIA OLDROYD:

Marriage: September 30, 1944, England

Children of JAMES MCCOLLUM and ALEXIA OLDROYD are:

i. SANDRA ANN9 MCCOLLUM, b. January 04, 1948, Cleveland, OH.

ii. DIANE CAROL MCCOLLUM, b. October 21, 1949, Cleveland, OH.

iii. BARBARA MCCOLLUM, b. March 05, 1953, Cleveland, OH.

iv. JAMES BRIAN MCCOLLUM, b. August 04, 1954, CLeveland, OH.

v. LINDA SUSAN MCCOLLUM, b. August 24, 1960, Cleveland, OH.

vi. SHARON GAIL MCCOLLUM, b. October 25, 1962, Cleveland, OH.

37. VASTIE8 MCCOLLUM (JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5,
WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born September 01, 1922 in Franklin
Co., Alabama. She married DOLTON ROBBINS December 25, 1945, son of HUNVIAL
ROBBINS and DOSIE MIDDLETON. He was born September 05, 1922 in AL, and died
February 02, 1971.

More About VASTIE MCCOLLUM:

Burial: New Bethel Cemetery, Colbert Co., AL

Education: October 1929, Enrolled in 1st Grade at Bruton School, Franklin
Co., AL.126

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Burial: Buried at New Bethel cemetery, Colbert Co., AL.127

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Marriage: December 25, 1945

Children of VASTIE MCCOLLUM and DOLTON ROBBINS are:

i. JOSEPH9 ROBBINS, b. March 08, 1952.

ii. MARY ELLEN ROBBINS, b. April 14, 1953.

iii. JOHN FRANKLIN ROBBINS, b. March 11, 1954.

iv. SHELIA FAY ROBBINS, b. May 13, 1956.

v. ANDREA ROBBINS, b. November 10, 1958.

vi. PAUL BAXTER ROBBINS, b. February 11, 1961.

38. CLARENCE VERELL8 MCCOLLUM (JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born August 09, 1924 in
Franklin Co., Alabama, and died May 15, 1981. He married LUCILLE FROST April
01, 1944, daughter of EMANUEL FROST and MATTIE BRACKINS. She was born
January 11, 1926 in AL.

More About CLARENCE VERELL MCCOLLUM:

Religion: Listed on early Bethsaida Church records.128

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Marriage: April 01, 1944

Children of CLARENCE MCCOLLUM and LUCILLE FROST are:

64. i. MARY LOU9 MCCOLLUM, b. April 04, 1945.

ii. RAYMOND MCCOLLUM, b. April 06, 1947.

39. VINCE LEE8 MCCOLLUM (JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born March 13, 1927 in
Franklin Co., Alabama. He married LINNICE BYRD June 23, 1947, daughter of
EDWARD BYRD. She was born February 06, 1926.

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Information: November 1949, He was ordained as a deacon at Mount Moriah
Baptist Church.129

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Marriage: June 23, 1947

Child of VINCE MCCOLLUM and LINNICE BYRD is:

i. DANNY LEE9 MCCOLLUM, b. May 03, 1955.

40. ROSALENE8 MCCOLLUM (JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born March 01, 1929 in
Colbert Co., AL. She married EARNEST OLIVER November 27, 1948, son of WILLIE
OLIVER and METHEL VANDIVER. He was born August 01, 1929 in AL.

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Marriage: November 27, 1948

Children of ROSALENE MCCOLLUM and EARNEST OLIVER are:

65. i. CAROLYN FAY9 OLIVER, b. September 20, 1950, Colbert Co., AL.

ii. PATRICIA OLIVER, b. November 27, 1951.

iii. JANETT OLIVER, b. January 23, 1953.

iv. MICHAEL OLIVER, b. July 19, 1954.

v. ERNIE OLIVER, b. May 03, 1959.

vi. MYRON MATTHEW OLIVER, b. October 24, 1964.

41. CURT E.8 MCCOLLUM (JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5,
WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born October 26, 1930 in Colbert Co.,
AL. He married MABLE MASON April 04, 1953, daughter of HERMAN MASON and
LAURA SHEFFIELD. She was born July 27, 1932 in AL.

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Marriage: April 04, 1953

Children of CURT MCCOLLUM and MABLE MASON are:

i. BRENDA9 MCCOLLUM, b. March 18, 1954.

ii. BOBBY MCCOLLUM, b. August 04, 1957, FL.

iii. EVA LOU MCCOLLUM, b. October 29, 1960.

iv. JAMES HERMAN MCCOLLUM, b. November 22, 1963, Ohio.

42. HOMER WADE8 MCCOLLUM (JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born February 26, 1934 in
Colbert Co., AL. He married RACHELL BEHEL October 21, 1956, daughter of
LOWELL BEHEL and OSC HOWARD. She was born March 11, 1941 in AL.

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Marriage: October 21, 1956

Children of HOMER MCCOLLUM and RACHELL BEHEL are:

i. CYNTHIA ANN9 MCCOLLUM, b. April 16, 1961, Cleveland, OH.

ii. HOMER WADE MCCOLLUM, b. June 08, 1962, Cleveland, OH.

iii. RANDALL KEITH MCCOLLUM, b. March 08, 1964, Colbert Co., AL.

43. JESSIE ORLIN8 MCCOLLUM (JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born April 30, 1935 in
Colbert Co., AL. He married BETTY SARTAIN, daughter of HORACE SARTAIN. She
was born November 26, 1934 in AL.

Children of JESSIE MCCOLLUM and BETTY SARTAIN are:

i. ROGER DALE9 MCCOLLUM, b. December 12, 1954.

ii. TERESA MCCOLLUM, b. October 17, 1958.

iii. GREGORY WAYNE MCCOLLUM, b. November 04, 1964.

44. MILFORD STANLEY8 MCCOLLUM (JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born February 03, 1937 in
Colbert Co., AL. He married OLENE DAVIS September 18, 1956, daughter of
CLAYTON DAVIS and MARGIE HOWARD.

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Marriage: September 18, 1956

Children of MILFORD MCCOLLUM and OLENE DAVIS are:

i. PATRICIA9 MCCOLLUM, b. June 17, 1957.

ii. MILFORD STANLEY MCCOLLUM, JR., b. July 27, 1958.

45. LUCY ADLE8 MCCOLLUM (WILLIAM ERNEST7, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5,
WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born October 13, 1914. She married
THOMAS ANDREW CREWS. He was born October 28, 1910, and died September 14,
1968.

More About LUCY ADLE MCCOLLUM:

Burial: Tharptown Cemetery, Franklin Co., AL130

More About THOMAS ANDREW CREWS:

Burial: Tharptown Cemetery, Franklin Co., AL130

Children of LUCY MCCOLLUM and THOMAS CREWS are:

i. BOBBY JOE9 CREWS, b. April 04, 1945; d. November 17, 1950.

More About BOBBY JOE CREWS:

Burial: Tharptown Cemetery, Franklin Co., AL130

ii. INFANT CREWS, b. 1949.

46. CLARA8 MCCOLLUM (WILLIAM ERNEST7, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5,
WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born March 29, 1920. She married
TRAVIS OSWALT.

Children of CLARA MCCOLLUM and TRAVIS OSWALT are:

66. i. SANDRA9 OSWALT.

67. ii. SHIRLEY FAYE OSWALT.

47. WILLIAM OTTIS8 ASKEW (LUCINDA ANITA7 MCCOLLUM, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1)131,132 was born May 04, 1919 in
Franklin Co., Alabama133,134, and died October 25, 1994 in Colbert Co.,
Alabama135,136. He married (1) EDITH SMITH137,138 1941139,140. She was born
WFT Est. 1905-1928141,142, and died 1957143,144. He married (2) ANNIE JO
UNKNOWN145,146 Private. She was born Private.

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Marriage: 1941147,148

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Religion: Private

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: Private

%s date: Private

Marriage Fact: Private

Private-Begin: Private

Children of WILLIAM ASKEW and EDITH SMITH are:

i. LINDA OTIS9 ASKEW149,150, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

ii. THOMAS EARL ASKEW151,152, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

iii. WILLIAM LARRY ASKEW153,154, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

Children of WILLIAM ASKEW and ANNIE UNKNOWN are:

iv. TAMMY9 ASKEW155,156, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

v. MATTHEW OTIS ASKEW157,158, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

48. MYRDIS OPAL8 ASKEW (LUCINDA ANITA7 MCCOLLUM, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1)159,160 was born Private. She
married LEONARD OTIS HAMILTON161,162 Private. He was born Private.

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Religion: Private

More About LEONARD OTIS HAMILTON:

Religion: Private

More About LEONARD HAMILTON and MYRDIS ASKEW:

: Private

%s date: Private

Marriage Fact: Private

Private-Begin: Private

Children of MYRDIS ASKEW and LEONARD HAMILTON are:

i. MARGEL9 HAMILTON163,164, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

ii. JOE MILTON HAMILTON165,166, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

iii. JIMMY CHARLES HAMILTON167,168, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

49. JOE HOLLIS8 ASKEW (LUCINDA ANITA7 MCCOLLUM, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1)169,170 was born Private. He
married CARRIE LUCILLE SCOTT171,172 Private. She was born Private.

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Religion: Private

More About CARRIE LUCILLE SCOTT:

Religion: Private

More About JOE ASKEW and CARRIE SCOTT:

: Private

%s date: Private

Marriage Fact: Private

Private-Begin: Private

Children of JOE ASKEW and CARRIE SCOTT are:

i. GRACE KATHLEEN9 ASKEW173,174, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

ii. PATRICIA ANN ASKEW175,176, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

50. GRADY OLEN8 ASKEW (LUCINDA ANITA7 MCCOLLUM, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1)177,178 was born Private. He
married ANNIE LOU WINTER179,180 Private. She was born Private.

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Religion: Private

More About ANNIE LOU WINTER:

Religion: Private

More About GRADY ASKEW and ANNIE WINTER:

: Private

%s date: Private

Marriage Fact: Private

Private-Begin: Private

Children of GRADY ASKEW and ANNIE WINTER are:

i. JERRY OLEN9 ASKEW181,182, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

ii. ANNIE JOYCE ASKEW183,184, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

iii. LILLIE KATHERINE ASKEW185,186, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

iv. JOHNNY GLENN ASKEW187,188, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

51. MILDRED WYOLEN8 ASKEW (LUCINDA ANITA7 MCCOLLUM, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1)189,190 was born Private. She
married RALPH RHODES191,192 Private. He was born Private.

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Religion: Private

More About RALPH RHODES:

Religion: Private

More About RALPH RHODES and MILDRED ASKEW:

: Private

%s date: Private

Marriage Fact: Private

Private-Begin: Private

Children of MILDRED ASKEW and RALPH RHODES are:

i. STEVE9 RHODES193,194, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

ii. DEBRA RHODES195,196, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

iii. TIM RHODES197,198, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

iv. ROLAND RHODES199,200, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

52. COMER JACK8 ASKEW (LUCINDA ANITA7 MCCOLLUM, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1)201,202 was born Private. He
married (1) SARAH RUTH SHARP203,204 Private. She was born Private. He
married (2) MARY UNKNOWN205,206 Private. She was born Private.

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Religion: Private

More About SARAH RUTH SHARP:

Religion: Private

More About COMER ASKEW and SARAH SHARP:

: Private

%s date: Private

Marriage Fact: Private

Private-Begin: Private

More About MARY UNKNOWN:

Religion: Private

More About COMER ASKEW and MARY UNKNOWN:

: Private

%s date: Private

Marriage Fact: Private

Private-Begin: Private

Children of COMER ASKEW and SARAH SHARP are:

i. JANICE9 ASKEW207,208, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

ii. COMER JACK ASKEW,JR209,210, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

iii. TERESA ASKEW211,212, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

Child of COMER ASKEW and MARY UNKNOWN is:

iv. KEITH9 ASKEW213,214, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

53. HOMER LEE8 ASKEW (LUCINDA ANITA7 MCCOLLUM, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1)215,216 was born Private. He
married LOLA OLIVIA YOUNG217,218 Private. She was born Private.

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Religion: Private

More About LOLA OLIVIA YOUNG:

Religion: Private

More About HOMER ASKEW and LOLA YOUNG:

: Private

%s date: Private

Marriage Fact: Private

Private-Begin: Private

Children of HOMER ASKEW and LOLA YOUNG are:

i. GARY WAYNE9 ASKEW219,220, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

ii. EDDIE LEON ASKEW221,222, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

iii. STELLA ANN ASKEW223,224, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

iv. BABY BOY ASKEW225,226, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

54. HOWARD EUGENE8 ASKEW (LUCINDA ANITA7 MCCOLLUM, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1)227,228 was born Private. He
married PATRICIA ANN PRATER229,230 Private. She was born Private.

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Religion: Private

More About PATRICIA ANN PRATER:

Religion: Private

More About HOWARD ASKEW and PATRICIA PRATER:

: Private

%s date: Private

Marriage Fact: Private

Private-Begin: Private

Children of HOWARD ASKEW and PATRICIA PRATER are:

i. HOWARD ANTHONY9 ASKEW231,232, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

ii. ANITA KAY ASKEW233,234, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

iii. CHRISTOPHER LEE ASKEW235,236, b. Private.

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Religion: Private

Generation No. 9

55. JOYCE MARIE9 DAILY (MAMIE L.8 ARNOLD, LULA E.7 HALLMARK, JAMES G. THOMAS
"JIM"6, SUSAN5 MCCOLLUM, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born June 19,
1932 in Lawerence Co., AL. She married LEROY NOAH BRADFORD April 02, 1950 in
Iuka Miss, son of NOAH BRADFORD and NANCY EDGAR. He was born July 24, 1930
in Franklin Co., AL.

More About LEROY BRADFORD and JOYCE DAILY:

Marriage: April 02, 1950, Iuka Miss

Children of JOYCE DAILY and LEROY BRADFORD are:

i. JOYCE SHARON10 BRADFORD, b. October 05, 1950, Russellville, Franklin Co.,
AL.

ii. NANCY RENEE BRADFORD, b. November 04, 1960, Russellville, Franklin Co.,
AL.

56. JEANETTE9 JOHNSON (JULIAN8, FRANCIS7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) She married PHILLIP BOYLES.

Child of JEANETTE JOHNSON and PHILLIP BOYLES is:

i. BOBBY10 BOYLES.

57. LILA MAE9 JOHNSON (JULIAN8, FRANCIS7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) She married SONNY FIELDS.

Children of LILA JOHNSON and SONNY FIELDS are:

i. BARBARA10 FIELDS.

ii. KATHY FIELDS.

58. CURTIS9 JOHNSON (JULIAN8, FRANCIS7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) He married EDDIE WILL SMITH.

Children of CURTIS JOHNSON and EDDIE SMITH are:

i. PAUL10 JOHNSON.

ii. KENNETH JOHNSON.

59. MARIE9 ISBELL (CLOYCE8, MARY ETTA7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born December 09, 1941 in
Colbert Co., AL. She married WAYLAND DUNN October 30, 1964.

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Marriage: October 30, 1964

Children of MARIE ISBELL and WAYLAND DUNN are:

i. LISA10 DUNN, b. August 12, 1967.

ii. WAYLAND LEE DUNN, b. February 05, 1969.

60. CAROLINE9 ISBELL (CLOYCE8, MARY ETTA7 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS6,
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born February 27,
1944 in Colbert Co., AL. She married PATRICK WU October 09, 1964.

More About PATRICK WU and CAROLINE ISBELL:

Marriage: October 09, 1964

Children of CAROLINE ISBELL and PATRICK WU are:

i. ANTHONY10 WU, b. September 17, 1965.

ii. JEFFREY WU, b. August 19, 1969.

61. O'NEAL9 UPTAIN (HELEN LORENE8 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS7, EDWARD
ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) He married
BARBARA HICKS, daughter of WALLACE HICKS and FAIRY ADCOCK.

More About BARBARA HICKS:

Religion: 1959, Listed as member of Bethsaida Baptist Church on the early
records (1902 - 1928)..237

Children of O'NEAL UPTAIN and BARBARA HICKS are:

i. ANGIE10 UPTAIN.

ii. CHRIS UPTAIN.

More About CHRIS UPTAIN:

Religion: August 27, 1989, Joined Bethsaida Baptist Church.237

62. GLENN EDWARD9 UPTAIN (HELEN LORENE8 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS7, EDWARD
ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born
April 17, 1947. He married BOYCE LANETTE BRADFORD November 11, 1965,
daughter of HERBERT BRADFORD and BOYCE AKINS. She was born March 23, 1950 in
Sheffeld, Colbert Co., AL.

More About GLENN UPTAIN and BOYCE BRADFORD:

Marriage: November 11, 1965

Children of GLENN UPTAIN and BOYCE BRADFORD are:

i. BARRY GLENN10 UPTAIN, b. November 12, 1966, Keller Mem Hosp Sheffield
Colbert co Al.

ii. SHANE EDWARD UPTAIN, b. July 17, 1972, Colbert Co., AL.

63. MAUDIE JANE9 UPTAIN (HELEN LORENE8 MCCOLLUM, EDWARD ERASTUS7, EDWARD
ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born
January 01, 1941, and died September 02, 1994. She married JAMES R. M.
CLEMENT, son of MATTHEW CLEMENT and ORA GREEN. He was born May 29, 1939.

More About MAUDIE JANE UPTAIN:

Burial: Bethsaida Baptist Church Cemetery, Franklin Co., AL238

Child of MAUDIE UPTAIN and JAMES CLEMENT is:

i. BAXTER LEE10 CLEMENT, m. CARRIE ANNIE POLLICK, May 28, Russellville,
Franklin Co., AL at East Side Baptist Church.

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Marriage: May 28, Russellville, Franklin Co., AL at East Side Baptist Church

64. MARY LOU9 MCCOLLUM (CLARENCE VERELL8, JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD ERASTUS6,
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born April 04,
1945. She married JOHN SPURLING September 23, 1962 in Cleveland, OH.

More About JOHN SPURLING and MARY MCCOLLUM:

Marriage: September 23, 1962, Cleveland, OH

Child of MARY MCCOLLUM and JOHN SPURLING is:

i. ANGELA JOYCE10 SPURLING, b. April 02, 1964, Cleveland, OH.

65. CAROLYN FAY9 OLIVER (ROSALENE8 MCCOLLUM, JAMES CLARENCE7, EDWARD
ERASTUS6, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) was born
September 20, 1950 in Colbert Co., AL. She married CHARLES ONEAL HILL August
28, 1968, son of WALSIE HILL and MISSOURI ISBELL. He was born May 22, 1947
in Franklin Co., Alabama.

More About CHARLES HILL and CAROLYN OLIVER:

Marriage: August 28, 1968

Child of CAROLYN OLIVER and CHARLES HILL is:

i. CHARLES DAVID10 HILL, b. June 28, 1973.

66. SANDRA9 OSWALT (CLARA8 MCCOLLUM, WILLIAM ERNEST7, JOHN HENRY6, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) She married GREG LANE, son of
HERMAN LANE and MARGARET ALEWINE.

Child of SANDRA OSWALT and GREG LANE is:

i. JASON GREGORY10 LANE, b. September 12, 1976; d. January 14, 1993.

More About JASON GREGORY LANE:

Burial: Tharptown Cemetery, Franklin Co., AL.238

Information: He was killed in an auto accident when he lost control of his
pickup truck and hit a tree. His brother was seriously injured but
recovered.

67. SHIRLEY FAYE9 OSWALT (CLARA8 MCCOLLUM, WILLIAM ERNEST7, JOHN HENRY6,
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN5, WILLIAM4, JAMES3, HENRY2, HENRY1) She married BILLY
MORRIS SPARKS, son of OWEN SPARKS and DOROTHY WILLIS. He was born September
09, 1934239.

Children of SHIRLEY OSWALT and BILLY SPARKS are:

i. SPARKS10.

ii. STEPHAN SPARKS.

Our Visit to Johnson Bible College June 1995

2008-08-17T17:58:00.000-07:00

Johnson Bible college is located about 20 miles east of Knoxville, Tn. out in
the country on the banks of the French Broad River and on the western edge of
the Great Smokey Mountains.
This school was a favorite charity recipient of my wife's father, Mr. Warren W.
Cline, during his lifetime. It was established in 1893, and my wife, Bettie
Virginia Cline, an I were last there in 1993 for the 100th anniversary
celebration. My wife's brother David attended school at Johnson about
1946-1949.He had decided to become a minister at the age of 9 when he became a
member of the Christian church, and the decision became further reinforced
right after WWII when he was in the navy on a destroyer with the Pacific Fleet.
The whole fleet got caught unexpectedly in a typhoon and his ship rode out the
main storm listing as much as 65 degrees, or nearly lying on its side. The ship
lost its paint during the storm and required a new paint job. David flunked
Greek at Johnson during his three year stay and went on to Kentucky Christian
College to graduate from Bible college. But at Johnson Bible David was known as
the electrical fix-it man with the long flashlight. So, in memory of her dad
and brother and in Christian Service, Bettie likes to go to Johnson each year
after school is out to what they call SENIOR SAINTS IN THE SMOKIES. She
generally donates about $300 yearly to the college. I go along with her and
enjoy meeting everybody.
For this year's trip we left Fayette County, Alabama about 7:00 A.M June
19,1995, to drive about 340 miles by 3:30 P.M E.D.S.T., arriving about 1 1/2
hours earlier than 5 P.M. the designated time to register. We took the scenic
country routes through Alabama via Cullman, Arab, Guntersville, Scottsboro, and
Sand Mountain area to Trenton, Ga. We made several rest stops. At Trenton we
filled our gas tank with Ga. Gasoline because gas is 12 cents a gallon cheaper
in Ga. than in Al. or Tn. Sand Mountain of Northeast Alabama is a good farming
area, and the garden spot of Alabama. The area around Trenton, Ga. is
interesting in that one can be in three southern states in less than a 25 mile
drive. One can go to the top of Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga, Tn. and on a
clear day see seven states. From Georgia to Knoxville we traveled on
superhighways at a speed of about 60 M.P.H. Many were traveling at 75 or more
and passed us as if we were standing still.
The first time I came to Johnson Bible College was during the World's Fair at
Knoxville in 1982. Johnson offered lodging at their dormitories cheaper than
did the motels. We spent one day at the World's Fair and became bored. The rest
of the time I spent on genealogical searches at the McClung Library and at Knox
county courthouse. There I found much material on my Hallmark and Mynett
ancesters. The Knoxville phonebook has many Mynatts in it today. They are
distant kinsmen. The last day we went to the Little Flat Creek Baptist Church.
The Hallmarks and the Mynatts helped build the original church in 1791. I did a
word description of this church at that time.
Since 1987 we have come to THE SENIOR SAINTS OF THE SMOKIES program at least
six times. I believe everybody that is a Christian is supposed to be a saint
and fits into their program. I have a little trouble calling myself a saint,
since I have quite a few imperfections. It sometimes takes a few hundred years
for a Catholic to be sainted. At Johnson we were all saints. Most of the people
were old, so they deserved to be called saints if they had lived the good life.
My wife Bettie is a good Christian and fits the saint description.
The reason the college sponsors this program is probably a selfish one. It
acquaints older church people with the college and its personnel in hopes that
some of them may become donors. It gives the older people a chance to associate
with each other. Nothing is scheduled in the evenings until 7:30 P.M. That gives
a chance to visit the Smokies in the Gatlingburg, Tn. area. There is a religious
service after breakfast each morning. After that there are workshops on
different subjects in different rooms at 9:45 A.M. This year I attended
workshops on Understanding Contemporary Culture, and another on "The struggle
for America's Soul." The Christian Church is a fundamentalist church. In recent
years, the Fundamentalist have seldom been mentioned in a favorable light by the
media. By TV and radio and the press you would think they are out to take away
rights and prevent the wheel of progress from turning. I saw no-one with
pistols strapped to their sides, or that advocated the overthrow of the
government. Most figured the most influence they could have would be by example
of living a decent life themselves. They are worried about the media's control
of the people and shifting them back toward the jungle morally. I Generally go
to two or three of these workshops each time I come and go away not feeling
anything bad has happened to me. My thinking has always been biased toward the
decent. So has everyone's thinking been biased in some direction, whatever the
area. The Senior Saints also have a night program at 7:45 P.M consisting of
singing the old church hymns, religious talks, talent night, and the last night
patriotic songs dedicated to the veterans. They ask the veterans to stand, and
that is where I stand up and am made to feel great. I was in the army from
1942-1945 in WWII.
Great food servings are part of the Senior Saints program. You take your pick
of most anything that is ordinarily served for breakfast and lunch. There is no
evening meal served, but one goes through a line where he can pack a sack lunch
consisting of peanut butter and jelly, about 3 types of sliced meat, different
types of loaf bread for the sandwich, and all sorts of trimmings. There are
apples, oranges, and bananas, cookies, and an assortment of soft drinks. Many
of the attendees overindulge in the eating part including this one, thereby
violating one of the principles of good living stressed by the Bible. The
Bible says be temperate in all things. Eating intemperance would be my harshest
criticism of the gathering.
The lodging is in one of the student dormitories. We had been getting a boys
dorm called Brown Hall until this year.(1995) This year we got the modern
girl's dormitory (Johnson Hall.) the temperature was better controlled, but we
had an inside room with no window to the outside. The insides of the rooms at
both places are modern and efficiently arranged. They are for two students. The
rooms have a desk with drawers and a bookcase that reaches the ceiling at 2
corners of the room. A pull out bed is on each side of the room with shelf and
padded flip openings to space below the shelves that that serve as the back of
a sofa arrangement when bed is pushed in. The room has 2 closets with a mirror
between with 3 drawers each for 2 students and a tall mirror beside the door. I
believe the mirrors were only in the girl's dormitory. Each room also has a
telephone. I saw no connection for cable TV. Perhaps the college has taken away
some rights to view pornography, etc. Ha! Isn't that awful?
I have done various things in the afternoons when visiting Johnson. As already
mentioned I searched library and courthouse records on the first trip and went
to the World's Fair. On one or two of the trips, I searched through the old
1800's church magazines for glimpses of my ancester’s church activities and
description of church houses where they attended. I have found out a few things
doing that and found the old timers expected one to shape up and deliver the
goods. On other trips I have played with my mobile amateur radio from my auto
parked under a shade tree at Brown Hall. There I have talked to various hams
and tripped the many radio 2 meter repeaters in the Knoxville area. There is
one on Mt. Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Rockies. From it I have
talked to people east of the Smokies in N.C. S.C., and Va. You can hear
someone on highway 85 or 95 talking much of the time. There are other repeaters
on nearly every high mountain down the west side of the Smokies. Last year we
took the hike along the eastern banks of the French Broad that borders the
college land. On it there used to be a boat landing for the college. The early
students came by boat or by stage from Knoxville. This hike had a footlog over
one spot, and Bettie had to be helped across that. We ate an outdoor picnic
lunch at the faculty leader's house, and then walked back along modern roads
and streets. This year (1995) we went to Laurel Falls in the Smokies for a 2.6
mile walk. There we went uphill 1.3 miles to a beautiful 75 ft. high waterfall.
It was a struggle going up but no trouble coming back. Laurel Falls is located
near Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg,Tn. A young preacher's wife from Eden,N.C was
the chauffeur for us and 4 more on the trip. I asked her if they had gardens in
Eden making them gardens of Eden. She said they did. She was a musician and
singer similar to our daughter Bettie Dawn. The hills at Gatlingburg were
dotted with motels where the continuous flow of tourist traffic was similar to
that of a big city. One motel was 10-15 stories high. One could get a
helicopter ride and look the section over. Our group didn't seem interested in
that.
The characters (I'm one too) attending the event always seem interesting to me.
I always have time to pick out at least one or two interesting people to talk
to. This year(1995) I found one right away. She sat down beside me at the first
meal. She said she was 83 years old, lived back in the country off the main
roads, and had a 4 wheel drive vehicle and drove it to town and church. Her
husband had been killed in an auto wreck ten years ago. She had worked in
flower shops until a year or so ago, then she just retired and was enjoying
herself. She said she didn't care whether she lived much longer. She thought it
would be better to pass on to the great beyond. I didn't understand that
thinking. It was alien to mine. In 1993 I talked to a missionary from Brazil
that said he had to pull his own teeth, make his own repairs, be his own doctor
and otherwise be mostly self-sufficient. He seemed impressive to me. Another
fellow made wooden name tags for the over 200 people that are generally at a
session. The tags were in the shape of the state one was from. He was there
this year checking to see if anyone had his tag. We had left ours at home.
Another year I talked with a missionary's wife. She told of her experience in
Spain, about their customs, bull fights etc. An old lady from Dallas, Tx. has
been there every time I have attended. She always acts as if she were my best
friend. She was there again to greet me this year. The most interesting
character was there at one of our first trips. He was a real old preacher who
had worked in the mountains of W.Va and Ky. telling about his experiences. He
had preached some temperance sermons and had been told to leave or get shot.
Bettie's brother David first preached in that area. He had also preached a
temperance sermon and was told to leave. He never told any of his folks about
that. We found out about it several years later from someone in that area
attending a convention. Apparently preachers suffer many humiliations. This
year I had fun asking the old ladies if they were liberated women. There didn't
seem to be a Woman's Libber present. It seemed that what liberty they had was
obtained by conforming to the rules of Christian living. The laws of Christian
living are the laws of liberty. At least they are the nearest that have been
put out.
The main meetings at Johnson are in an auditorium that is also an inside basket
ball court. They had the U.S. flag, the Christian flag and flags of many nations
flying. They have a flag from every nation where their missionaries have gone,
but there was not room to display them all. Maybe their efforts are having some
impact in the world. It would seem to me that the training should be for home
territory work. The U.S. is in real bad need of some enlightened ways of
living, of some moral principles.
The last two sessions we came to before the 1995 one, I brought my camcorder
along and made video pictures of the many things that went on. This year I
brought a pencil and notebook. This writeup is an effort to do a written word
picture. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, so I am sure my
words are inadequate. I tried anyway. This could very well by our last trip. We
are growing older and feebler.
Done by Fred McCaleb June 1995

Wildcat Story

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The wildcat story that grandma and, grandpa J.F. & R.C. MCalab used to tell

Alma Woodard Tucker who will be 90 her next birthday remembered the old wildcat
story I used to hear at my MrCaleb grandparents when I was a young boy..Mincy
Tidwell had two boys that had gone coon hunting after dark and,it was getting
way on in the night and they hadn't arrived back home. Mincy was worried. She
decided to go looking for her bavs. She went down a lonely dark trail through
the woods. and passed under a tree that was leaning over the trail. A wildcat
jumped from the tree and clawed up her shoulders. Alma said Mincy showed her
shoulders the and scars. This story put fear into my heart after dark when I
was a boy. I was afraid to get into the woods at night.

Jim and Rajina C. McCaleb family visit the Woodards

Their oldest son was my dad H, McCaleb., his brother Walker and.his sister Mary
McCaleb were going to visit their cousins. the Melton and Martha Hollingsworth
Woodard children. Mary and Walker had the Lice.. but daddy didn't have lice in
his hair, Grandma McCaleb told the children not to mention about the lice or
the Woodard children wouldn't play with them, My dad H arrived at the Woodard
home first and announced to his cousins to not play with Walker and Mary.

By Fred McCaleb