Fellow Bloggers are Fantastic!

What a beautiful award! I am so honored to have been given this new Kreativ Blogger award by Diana, the creator and author of Random Relatives. Thanks, Diana.

The winner of this award is supposed to list seven things about themselves and then pass the award along to seven other bloggers. There are so many wonderful bloggers out there who deserve this award, and I enjoy reading them all. I have learned more about genealogy through my association with the friends I've met through blogging than anywhere else. I would love to recognize them all! Let me start with 7 ~

Roots Digging
Deb's Genealogy Room
The Graveyard Rabbit Afield
100 Years in America
Nordic Blue
My Family Roots Run Deep
A Couple of Bubbles Off Center

Now for those 7 things about me ~ hmmm ~
1. Working on new project. As newly appointed historian for the Mineral Wells High School 50 Year Club, my alma mater, I'm preserving memorabilia that has been donated to the club.
2. My mother was a twin and my step-father was a twin. Just KNEW I'd have twins, but didn't.
3. Struggling with recurrent cornea erosion for the last year.
4. Lived in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama after getting married. Then finally back to Texas where we met!
5. Love to read history books ~ read for an hour every night, no matter what time I go to bed, and at least that long while I'm drinking coffee every morning.
6. Live on a cul-de-sac and can see our pick-up on Google Earth!
7. Always wanted to learn to fly. Do ya think at 66 I've waited too late?

Thanks again, Diana!

Memorial Day 2005 - Stones River National Battlefield

Stones River National Battlefield

In the cold, early morning of the last day of 1862, a battle erupted between two American armies totaling more than 80,000 men. The small town of Murfeeesboro, Tennessee was about to become a major battlefield.

The Battle of Stones River was one of the bloodiest of the war. More than 3,000 men lay dead on the field. Nearly 16,000 more were wounded. Some of these men spent as much as seven agonizing days on the battlefield before help could reach them. The two armies sustained nearly 24,000 casualties, which was almost one-third of the 81,000 men engaged.

Today, more than 6,100 Union soldiers are buried in Stones River National Cemetery. Of these, 2,562 are unknown. Nearly 1,000 veterans, and some family members, who served in the century since the Civil War are also interred there.

About 2,000 Confederates are buried in the Confederate Circle at Evergreen Cemetery. This plot is their third resting place. They were buried on the battlefield by Union soldiers after the battle, and were moved to their own cemetery later. When the first Confederate cemetery fell into disrepair in 1867, the bodies were moved to Evergreen Cemetery.

On Memorial Day, 2005, some of my family members visited the Stones River Battlefield where we listened to a Park Ranger tell of the battle that raged on that site more than one hundred years earlier. My grandsons, young as they were, listened with awe and asked questions of us as we walked through the cemetery later. They remembered the ranger telling about the German soldier named Christian Nix that fell on the first day of battle. Stones River National Battlefield’s museum and archives collections hold many artifacts and documents detailing the life of Lieutenant Christian Nix of the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Infantry. The boys were anxious to look for his tombstone. A carved wooden board once marked his original burial place and a marker of stone now displays his name and company. That Labor Day there were flags marking all of the graves.

Tombstone of Lieutenant Christian Nix

24th Wisconsin Infantry

 

Sources:

Websites:

• Friends of Stones River National Battlefield, s.v. "Saving the Past for the Future" http://www.friendsofstonesriver.org/ (accessed November 16, 2009).
• Stones River National Battlefield, s.v. "Stones River - National Park Service"  http://www.nps.gov/stri/index.htm/ (accessed November 16, 2009).
• Civil War Album, s.v. "Stones River, a Virtual Tour" http://www.civilwaralbum.com/stonesriver/index.htm (accessed November 16, 2009).

Photographs:

• Stones River National Battlefield and Cemetery, Digital Format, Original photographs taken and belonging to Judith Richards Shubert, Labor Day, 2006.

Henry Estel Slept Upstairs

Loudon County Museum / Carmichael Inn
Loudon, Tennessee

Loudon County Museum/Carmichael Inn – 501 Poplar St., Loudon, 37774. Museum includes Civil War exhibits showcased in the Carmichael Inn, a circa 1810 two-story log cabin used as a stagecoach inn. A self-guided tour of downtown Loudon and the county tells of the town’s early years and Civil War history. Open daily. Admission is free.

Located behind the courthouse in Loudon is one of the area's oldest homes. The Carmichael Inn is a two story log structure which served as a stopping place for stage coach travelers enroute from Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. Travelers would be ferried across the river to spend the night and then resume traveling the next morning by the next stagecoach. Although the exact date of construction is unknown, the first stage of construction is thought to have been completed around 1810. The log house was built by John Hudson Carmichael (1780-1840). His sons operated the Inn, the ferry, and the stagecoach. Two of his sons, James and Dan, fell in love with and married two sisters who were traveling on the stagecoach from Georgia to the Tate Springs Resort.

The Carmichael Inn can be described as an "I-house" as it is two stories tall, one room deep and two or more rooms long. It has a central chimney which opens into fireplaces in the two downstairs. The structure has a gable roof and two front and two rear doors. A two-story porch runs the length of the house. The Carmichael Inn is currently being used as a museum and visitors center.

Henry Estel Shubert
November 11, 1889 Roane County, Tennessee
October 25, 1953 Loudon County, Tennessee

Children of John Henry Shubert (1865-1924) and Sara Jane (Sallie) Cooley (1868-1909)
Lenoir City, Tennessee
Left to right: Arch, Ben, Ulysis, Maude, Henry Estel, and Buck
Picture made before 1953.

On the wall in Aunt Alyce's dining room there is a painting of a home, one that looks like so many others found in the little communities across our country. It is a wooden structure and it is obviously a place that holds many memories for the Shubert family, as it is lovingly displayed in a place of prominance. I asked Aunt Alyce about the picture and about why it meant so much to her and her brothers and sisters. She was eager to tell us the story about how her father, Henry Estel, had lived in the house as a child and how he had laid on his bed in the upstairs bedroom and looked out of the window, staring at the stars dreaming of what his life would be like one day. She pointed out the very window that opened up the world to him in his dreams. It was the second one from the left. Now the house stands as a testament to those days when our ancestors lived and died, worked and played in our beloved Tennessee. It is the very same structure that houses the Loudon County Museum.

Schubert and Wells Genealogy, written by W.B. Howerton Kingston, Tennessee,
September 1987, p. 26:

1900 Roane Co. Census, 9th Dist., 102-103, P. 120A, 11 June 1900
SHUBERT, John, head, 33, b. Dec. 1866 m. 13 yr.
Sarah, wife, 34, b. Aug. 1865, m. 13 yr., 6 chld., 5 living
Fred, son, 12, b. May 1888
Henry, son, 10, b. Nov. 1889
Maude, dau, 6, b. Apr. 1894
Buck, son, 1, b. Sep. 1898
Ben, son, 1, b. Sep. 1898
Deceased: Infant child of J.H. and Sallie Shubert.*
Nancy Morenan, dau. of J.H. and S.J. Shubert, b. 18 July 1901, d. 26 July 1902*
*On gravestone in Durham Cemetery, near Laurel Bluff, in Roane Co., TN
DEATH CERTIFICATE NUMBER: 55091 Name: Sarah Shuberd Date of Death: 9/26/09 Sex: Female Color: ----- Age: 40 Married or Single: Married Place of Death: Roane County Cause of Death: Cancer Place of Birth: Roane County Occupation: Farmer's wife

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DEATH CERTIFICATE NUMBER: 54644 Name: Cacil Shubert Date of Death: 6/4/12 Sex: Female Color: White Age: 6 months Married or Single: ----- Place of Death: Lenoir City Cause of Death: Toa bactas (?) Place of Birth: Lenoir City Occupation: -----

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Sources:

Websites:
1920 U.S. Census Roane County, Tennessee, [http://www.tngenweb.org/loudon/census/1920/snames.html] accessed:February 15, 2009.

Loudon County Death Certificates, [http://www.tngenweb.org/loudon/dcerts/dc5.html#snames] accessed:February 15, 2009.

"Carmichael Inn", Loudon County TnGenWeb [http://www.tngenweb.org/loudon/history/cinn.htm] accessed:February 15, 2009.

Photographs:
Loudon County Museum/Carmichael Inn, Digital Format, Originals belonging to Judith Richards Shubert, 2009.

Shubert, Henry Estel. Digital Format, Original photograph belonging to Robert Allen Shubert, 2009.

Shubert, children of Henry and Sallie Shubert, Digital Format, Original photograph belonging to Robert Allen Shubert, 2009

Books:
Howerton, W. B., "Schubert and Wells Genealogy," Kingston, Tennessee, September 1987.

Another Wordless Wednesday Football Game

Lenoir City High School Football Game

Circa 1936
Ray Allen Shubert
Running Back

Where were They in 1909?

Sometimes "I am a day late and a dollar short!" But I had written this some time ago and forgotten it. For family members who might be interested, I thought I'd go ahead and post.

Back on June 6, 2009, Randy Seaver of Saturday Night Genealogy Fun fame challenged us to do the following:

1) Which of your ancestors were alive in 1909?
2) Tell us where your ancestral families were living in 1909. What country, state, county, city/town, etc. Who was in the family at the time? Use the 1910 census as "close enough."
3) Have you found each of these families in the 1910 census?
4) Write a blog post about your response. Or write a comment to this post.
5) Have fun. Learn something!

My husband, Robert Allen Shubert's, ancestors:

Maternal Grandmother:
LEOLA HITCH - b. May 24, 1903 Ducktown, Polk County, Tennessee
- d. August 1976 Winter Park, Orange County, Florida* (See Census below.)

Maternal G-grandmother:
ARIE LEE ARTHUR HITCH b. May 20, 1879 Polk County, Tennessee
- d. 1961 Orlando, Orange County, Florida* (See Census below.)
Maternal G-grandfather:
JOSEPH EDGAR HITCH b. September 19, 1877 Polk County, Tennessee
-d. 1946 Orlando, Orange County, Florida* (See Census below.)

Maternal 2nd G-grandfather:
JASON K. ARTHUR b. 1846 - d. 1921 Polk County, Tennessee
with children Arie Lee Arthur, Horace G. Arthur, Blanche Arthur, and 3 other daughters

Maternal 3rd G-grandfather:
JASPER NEWTON MITCHELL - b. February 10, 1824 Tennessee
- May 26, 1910 Blount County, Tennessee

Maternal Grandfather:
WILLIAM SPENCE DAVIS, SR. - b. March 24, 1895 Sevier County, Tennessee
- December 17, 1976 Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee

Maternal G-grandmother:
ELIZABETH ANNE BURNS DAVIS b. February 16, 1874 - d. August 1, 1943
Maternal G-grandfather:
JAMES PINKNEY DAVIS b. September 09, 1869 Sevier County, Tennessee
- d. May 01, 1934 Loudon County, Tennessee

Maternal 2nd G-grandmother:
SARAH MELVINA HINES - b. May 19, 1850 Blount County, Tennessee
- d. September 24, 1919 buried Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

Paternal G-grandfather:
JAMES R. CONNER - b. October 4, 1865 Tennessee
- d. November 5, 1948 in Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee
Paternal G-grandmother:
CEALY JANE ROGERS CONNER - b. January 16, 1869 Sevier County, Tennessee or Western North Carolina
- d. February 03, 1948 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee
with children: Martha Ann, Alfred L., Ellen, Mae

Paternal 2nd G-grandfather:
JESSIE ROGERS - b. August 30, 1847 - April 29, 1914
Paternal 2nd G-grandmother:
MARTHA GRAVES ROGERS- b. 1852 - d. 1925

Paternal Grandmother:
MARTHA ANN CONNER SHUBERT - b. October 27, 1892 Sevier County, Tennessee
- d. June 5, 1964 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee
Paternal Grandfather:
HENRY ESTEL SHUBERT - b. November 11, 1889 - Roane County, Tennessee
- d. October 25, 1953 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee

Paternal G-grandfather:
JOHN HENRY SHUBERT - b. December 26, 1865 Midway, Roane County, Tennessee
- d. March 16, 1924 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee
Paternal G-grandmother:
SARA JANE COOLEY SHUBERT - b. June 25, 1868 Meigs County, Tennessee
- d. September 25, 1909 Roane County, Tennessee *(See death certificate below)

Paternal 2nd G-grandfather:
HENRY MITCHELL SHUBERT - b. March 7, 1839 Sevier Co., Tennessee
- d. June 1, 1915 Midway, Roane County, Tennessee

Paternal 2nd G-grandfather:
JOHN THOMAS COOLEY - b. March 1845 - d. 1918 prob. Meigs County or Roane County, Tennessee

*DEATH CERTIFICATE NUMBER: 55091
Name: Sarah Shuberd
Date of Death: 9/26/09
Sex: Female
Color: -----
Age: 40
Married or Single: Married
Place of Death: Roane County
Cause of Death: Cancer
Place of Birth: Roane County
Occupation: Farmer's wife


Found in the 1910 Florida U. S. Census:

Name:	Arie Hatch
Age in 1910:	30
Estimated Birth Year:	abt 1880
Household Members:	Name Age Joe Hatch 33 Arie Hatch 30 Leola Hatch 6

Says they were in Caddo Co. (?) Name Hitch misspelled.

These are Bob's family ancestors living in 1909.

Wordless Wednesday - Von Bryan Mountaintop Inn in Sevierville, Tennessee

Von Bryan Mountaintop Inn
View from Porch
Sevierville, Tennessee
Christmas 2003

Carson-Newman 1941 Graduating Class

Carson-Newman College
1941
Graduating Class

Jefferson City, Tennessee

My father-in-law, Ray Allen Shubert, is in the 2nd row from top, standing 2nd from left. Ray was born September 8, 1917, in Lenoir City, Tennessee. Son of Martha Ann Conner and Henry Estel Shubert, Ray was a star athlete in high school and college. He was honored with an induction into the Sports Hall of Fame at both Lenoir City High School and Carson-Newman.

Sources:

Carson-Newman College Yearbook, The 1941 Appalachian, Jefferson City, Tennessee, Ralph Below, Editor, Conard Gass, Manager. Digitally reproduced photo by Judith Richards Shubert, 2009.