Tennessee Memories

Conner Photographs from Eva Ruth & Alyce

2011-02-10T10:00:00.000-08:00

Cealy Jane Rogers Conner

holding grandson, Ray Allen Shubert

with her son, George Dewey Conner and Ethel Conner

My father-in-law, Ray Shubert, the baby in this picture, was born in September 1917, leading me to believe the photo was taken around 1918. George was fifteen years old in 1920 on the Lenoir City, Loudon Co., Tennessee US census, so he was probably thirteen. Sweet Ethel in her precious hat was listed as eleven on the 1920 census, so would have been nine years old here. Ethel married a man named Thomas and later lived in Saint Louis near her son, Clarence, where she died. My father-in-law often talked about her and his childhood memories of her.

Ethel Conner Thomas - 1926

Cealy Jane Rogers Conner

Grave of her son George Dewey Conner

May 31, 1932

Lenoir City Cemetery

Lenoir City, Tennessee

Family handwritten notes that were mailed to me by Alyce Shubert Proaps had the following information:

George Dewey Conner

Born - April 22, 1905

Died - April 29, 1931

at the early age of 26 years years of age.

Ray Allen Shubert

September 08, 1917 - Lenoir City, Tennessee

January 17, 2003 - Nashville, Tennessee

"What a difference ten years makes!"

These pictures and notes were given to Alyce Shubert Proaps in Lenoir City, Cealy Jane's granddaughter, by George's daughter, Eva Ruth (another granddaughter), before she died last year (2011). So I imagine the writing on the back is hers. I know it is not Aunt Alyce's. If there is anyone who has information they would like to share or questions they have about what I have on my blog, please contact me.

Pictures of Cealy Jane Rogers Conner

2010-05-10T08:11:00.000-07:00

My father-in-law's sister in Lenoir City called us Saturday morning and talked a long time to both me and Shubert. She called to see how things were with his siblings in Nashville since she hadn't heard from them after the flood there this past week. They are fine. She always likes to talk about the past and family. She was telling me that after her oldest sister died in 2007 she saw how much she had accumulated and how difficult it was for her nieces to go through. But she was a wealth of information about our common ancestry and, like me, hated to let go of a newspaper clipping, a photo, a graduation program, or any number of things that make up the fabric of our lives.

Anyway, Aunt Alyce said she saves everything herself and so she went home and started going through things one room at a time so her only daughter wouldn't have to deal with so much when she is gone. She said she doesn't throw things away and is very careful to save things that she feels would have some family meaning.

A cousin of hers, the daughter of George D. Conner and Nelle Scarbrough, had given her some pictures before she herself had died a few months ago. She said they were of Cealy Jane! Cealy Jane Rogers Conner was Alyce and this cousin, Eva's, grandmother. Alyce is trying to locate the pictures. She said they are in the bedroom she is cleaning out and when she runs across them, she'll send me copies. I am very excited about that. I will then place them here on Tennessee Memories for all of you to see. I will then be able to confirm whether or not the little picture beside Grandma Martha Ann Conner Shubert is indeed her mother, Cealy Jane.

When she told me this, I started talking to her about Mr. Rogers contacting me and the connection we had found between the Conners and the Rogers. Listen to this ~ she said her Granny Cealy Jane had a brother whom she loved very much. And even though he had moved to Columbus, Georgia, they had remained very close all their lives! That was before I told her about Mr. Rogers' grandfather, George.

Alyce is the youngest of the Shubert siblings, only 10 years older than my husband, and she didn't remember seeing George and his brother, Jim, like my father-in-law had. Nor had she ever heard about their professional bent. But she did say they were a "little better off than some of us and had a little more spending money," (her) Granny said.

I don't remember whether she knew Mr. Rogers' grandfather's name was George or if I told her that, but she said she thought her Granny Cealy Jane had probably named her son, George D. Conner, after him because she missed and loved her brother so much. Her son, George D., committed suicide when he was only twenty-six. I can only imagine how devastated she must have been to lose him.

Read about the Rogers connection in my post, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, Prohibition and Revenuers.
See Martha Ann Conner Shubert's photo with possibly her mother in my post, Possible Conner Mother and Daughter.
See George D. Conner's headstone in my post, Conners and Rogers in Lenoir City Cemetery.

Mauve & Gray Mystery Woman

2010-04-26T16:45:00.000-07:00

Tennessee Mystery Woman

This beautiful lady was a surprise when I took my husband's grandmother's photo out of a frame that was in his mother's cedar chest. At first I thought it might be one of those pre-printed prints that smile up at you when you purchase a new frame - one that you feel you should know, but don't; one that has 8 x 10 and the manufacturer stamped across the front! It isn't one of those. It is definitely a studio portrait, but has no markings on the back except some penciled numbers that are common on some photographs.

Someone had placed Leola Hitch Davis Ray's studio portrait on top of this one. Her daughter, Marilee Davis Shubert, had the framed pictures in her home at the time of her death. Leola's picture wasn't removed for a long time, and when it was removed in order for me to scan it, I discovered this very pretty lady.

Marilee went to college at Carson Newman in Jefferson City, Tennessee, so I thought she might be a friend from school. Or she may have been a friend of her mother's, Leola. Leola left Tennessee and moved to Florida. Then again she may have been another member of the family: a Davis, a Delozier, a Burns.

If there is ANYONE out there who recognizes her, please, please contact me. I would love to be able to connect her with a family member. My email is in my profile on the right, or you can leave a comment at the bottom of this post.

Scrapbook Page created Using

Papers and Elements "In the Pink" from Judy at a Touch of Class

and Glossysticks Alpha Letters from Rainy's Alphas.

Moonshiners, Bootleggers, Prohibition and Federal Revenuers

2010-04-25T23:06:00.000-07:00

Just as I have been learning more about my husband's Conner and Rogers family in Tennessee and Georgia, the very moving and relevant "When Love is Not Enough: the Lois Wilson Story" aired tonight on CBS. The Hallmark Hall of Fame's presentation is based on the true story of the "sorely-tested but ultimately enduring love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous."

Their story took place during the years 1918 and 1934. James Ray Rogers was nine years old when Lois and Bill got married and he died four years before Lois, in 1934, finally witnessed Bill get and stay sober – not through her help, but from the support of a fellow alcoholic and later Dr. Bob Smith. Out of their relationship, AA was born. But I did not intend to tell the Wilson's story, but to tell you of the young Ray Rogers.

My father-in-law used to tell me of a couple of his uncles, George or "Shorty" and Jim, whom he remembered coming into Lenoir City in their fast cars and their fancy clothes and staying at the hotel down town. He said he thought they were bootleggers and that they had eventually moved from Blount County, Tennessee, to the Columbus, Georgia, area as whiskey dealers. He also told me Ray Rogers was killed by Federal "Revenuers" while he was carrying whiskey for his father, George.

The Rogers descendant I told you about in my previous post, Conners & Rogers in Lenoir City Cemetery, has told me that my father-in-law was correct. His grandfather, George "Shorty" Rogers, and great-uncle, James "Jim" Rogers, were the ones Mr. Shubert was talking about. Mr. Rogers sent me pictures of George and James "all dressed up like I imagine they were in Lenoir City so long ago."

George R. "Shorty" Rogers on Left

James "Jim" Rogers on Right

Brothers and sons of Jesse and Martha M. Graves Rogers

No one knows who was the first of the Tennessee Rogers to go to Columbus, Georgia, but go they did! No one knows why they chose Columbus, but everyone agrees that they had to leave Tennessee - some believe they were "run out" of the state. George had many ties to moonshine before and after leaving Tennessee and in the 1920 Muscogee County, Georgia Census he lists his birthplace as the "United States" - not Tennessee or Georgia or Arkansas - just the United States! Do you think he didn't want anyone to know where he was?

George worked as a cab driver in Columbus and later owned a grocery store, selling and delivering moonshine in the Columbus area. He had many conflicts with the law and others during the Prohibition time. His son, James Ray Rogers, paid the ultimate price while working for George. On July 25, 1930, at the age of twenty-one he was killed by a federal dry agent while delivering a gallon of moonshine in Columbus. It was ruled that the agent's gun went off accidentally and the case was dismissed.

James Ray Rogers

1909 - 1930

Son of George "Shorty" Rogers and Elizabeth Humes Stinnett

Brother of R. M. Rogers

When Prohibition ended, George and his son, R. M., opened one of the first liquor stores in Georgia, Rogers Liquor Store. They also opened the popular Rogers Supper Club, a restaurant next door at 14th Street and 5th Avenue in Columbus.

R. M. Rogers

1914 - 1988

Son of George "Shorty" Rogers and Elizabeth Humes Stinnett

Brother of James Ray Rogers

It is said that Jim Rogers never married or had children. He slipped one morning and hit the back of his head on the foot-board of his bed. The fall killed him. He is buried in the Rogers family plot in Riverdale Cemetery in Columbus.

"The Killing of Ray Rogers"

by Billie Atkins

Permission to publish here by Paul Rogers

James Ray Rogers

Dec. 12, 1909

July 25, 1930

"Gone But Not Forgotten"

George R. "Shorty" Rogers
holding his son, R. M. with son, James Ray standing beside them.

I wonder where their mother, Eliza, was when this photograph was taken. Was she looking on, smiling proudly at the men in her family or was she sitting with them in the next photo?

SOURCES

Websites:

"Hallmark Video - Sneak Peek - CBS.com." CBS TV Network Primetime, Daytime, Late Night and Classic Television Shows. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2010. .

Photographs:

Conners & Rogers in Lenoir City Cemetery

2010-04-23T11:50:00.000-07:00

Lenoir City Cemetery

Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee

Ray Allen Shubert beside His '82 Chevrolet Impala

Yesterday I found a group of pictures I had taken in 2001 while visiting the Lenoir City Cemetery with my husband and his daddy, Ray Allen Shubert. I had completely forgotten about them; they are 4 x 6 glossy prints - before my digital camera days. I have a pack of photos from that cemetery as well as some taken in 2003 in Eusebia Presbyterian Cemetery, Elijoy Cemetery, and Logan's Chapel Cemetery. The last three cemeteries mentioned are in Blount County. Lenoir City Cemetery is is Loudon County about three-quarters of a mile from the center of town. The county is in east Tennessee in what is considered the Knoxville Metropolitan Area.

I have recently been corresponding with a descendant and grand-nephew of Cealy Jane Rogers Conner, my husband's great-grandmother. He has generously allowed me to use photos and information that he has acquired about the family here on Tennessee Memories.

First, I would like to post some photos of the headstones and monuments found in Lenoir City Cemetery that I took back in 2001, when my father-in-law was still alive and enjoyed reliving his childhood and retelling the stories he had heard and conjuring up the things he had seen.

View from the area where some of the Conners and the Rogers are buried.

MARTHA ROGERS

Born 1852 - Died 1925

Ray's great-grandmother was buried beside one of her grandsons,

George D. Conner and his wife, Nelle Scarbrough.

CEALY JANE ROGERS

CONNER

Jan. 16, 1869 - Feb. 3, 1948

"There is Rest in Heaven"
Ray's grandmother.

JAMES R. CONNER

Ocr. 4, 1865 - Nov. 5, 1948

"There is Rest in Heaven"
Ray's grandfather.

GEORGE D. CONNER

Apr. 22, 1905 - Apr. 29, 1951

His Wife

NELLE SCARBROUGH

Dec. 20, 1904 - Nov. 22, 1983

"Asleep in Jesus"
Ray's uncle and aunt.

ALFRED L. CONNER

Jan. 22, 1897 - Jan. 22, 1959
Ray's uncle.

ELLEN CONNER

Born Aug. 22, 1899 - Died Mar. 3, 1912

"Christ Loved Her so and Took Her Home."
Ray's aunt who died at age thirteen.

Lenoir City Cemetery
Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee

Cemeteries on USGS Maps

Sources

Photographs:
Tombstones in Lenoir City Cemetery, Lenoir City, Tennessee, 2001. Digital format. Original held and photographed by Judith Richards Shubert, Copyright 2001.

Shuberts in Durham Cemetery, Roane County

2010-03-21T06:15:00.000-07:00

H. M. SHUBART

Born Mar 7, 1839

Died June 1, 1915

"Gone but not Forgotten"

My Wife

MORNAN A.

Wife of

HENRY SHUBERT

Born Nov. 25, 1832

Died Nov. 3, 1878

"Gone but not Forgotten"

Notice in the first photo the last name is spelled "Shubert" and in the second it is spelled "Shubart". Mornan died first in the year 1878, so my theory is that Henry had her tombstone engraved with the correct spelling of their name; then when he died in the year 1915, his step-children or Nancy, his second wife, had it engraved incorrectly. It might have been an error by the maker of the monument or the family, but I feel that Mornan's tombstone was correct since Henry was still alive.

Here are extra pictures of the tombstones with others in the background, all taken on what appears to be a dreary, Fall day in Tennessee. Notice the stones in the following 3 pictures seem to have been cleaned with something in order to read them. Some of the detail found in the first 2 photographs seems to have been inadvertently removed.

Durham Cemetery

Roane County, Tennessee

Henry Shubert's tombstone and in the background on the far right is

grave marker of

Infant Child

J. P. (Jacob Pearson) & Dialtha Shubert

I cannot read the name on the other small marker on the left.

This seond photo of Mornan's tombstone with Jacob's and Dialta's baby infant's marker behind it marks Marnan's location as being buried beside and to the right of her husband, Henry.

This is a cropped view of Jacob's and Dialtha's infant child with tombstone of Sallie Shubert behind it. A post and better photograph of Sallie's tombstone can be found at my post "A Jovial Company."

They say that when Sarah Jane (Sallie) got sick, her husband, John Henry Shubert, took her on a boat to a doctor. He, however, was unable to help her. When she became unable to even take care of herself; he took her to the Reynold's home near Kingston where they cared for her until she died. She is buried along side Mitch and Mornan Shubert at Durham cemetery near Midway School in Roane County. Notes from Ray Allen Shubert.

DEATH Certificates for 1908-1912 Loudon County, TN

http://www.tngenweb.org/loudon/dcerts/dc2.html#fnames

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

Sources:
Original Photos given to the author by Loma Schubert Rodgers, Fort Worth, Texas 2003.
Digital format, Judith Richards Shubert, 2010.
TNGenWeb.org
Conversation with Ray Allen Shubert, 1998.

Shubert Births and Deaths Recorded in Bible

2010-03-12T05:57:00.000-08:00

Shubert Births Recorded in Bible

Copy sent to Bob Shubert by

Eddie Shubert around 2004

Shubert Deaths Recorded in Bible

Copy sent to Bob Shubert by

Eddie Shubert around 2004

Bob Shubert and Eddie Shubert are both descendants of Henry "Mitt " Shubert and Mornan Matilda Reynolds Shubert through their son, John Henry Shubert, and Sara Jane Cooley Shubert, all of Roane and Loudon Counties, Tennessee.

On the Births page the first entry is that of Henry M. and the second entry is that of his wife, Morenan. Their children are listed next. The Deaths page includes the death of his second wife, Nancy. The first death recorded is that of Morenan on November 3, 1878.

"A Jovial Company"

2010-03-08T19:25:00.000-08:00

Sara Jane "Sallie" Cooley Shubert

"Gone Ye Blessed"

Sallie

Wife of J. H. Shubert

June 25, 1868 - Sep. 25, 1909
"A tender mother and a faithful friend.

Buried in Durham Cemetery, Roane County, Tennessee

It's amazing! Over the last few weeks I have received emails from folks who are descendants of my husband's Shubert, Reynolds, and Cooley families. Boy, has that gotten me hopping! I must admit I haven't done any new research on these families in a few years, and I was a little rusty with my information, to say the least. But with so much paper in my files and a very large number of names in my Family Tree Maker, I was at least able to sound somewhat intelligent.

My husband and I were very excited when a Cooley descendant wrote because that is one line on which we have very little information.

My husband's line is as follows:
1. James Cooley, Sr., born about 1745, died about 1780 in Henry Co.,Virgina
+ Ann
2. James Cooley, Jr., born about 1765 in Virginia, died about 1852.
+Martha Patsey Stewart, born 1770 in Franklin Co., Virginia
3. Elijah Cooley, born 1788 in Franklin Co., Virginia, died 1868 in Roane Co., Tennessee
+Jemima Walden who died in 1832
4. Chapman Cooley, born 1824 in Roane Co., Tennessee; died 1905 in Miegs Co., Tennessee
+Ginity America Brock, born 1821; died 1897 in Meigs Co., Tennessee
5. John Thomas Cooley, born 1845, died 1918
+Nancy Jane Cofer, born 1843
6. Sara Jane Cooley, born 1868 in Meigs Co., Tennessee , died 1909 in Roane Co., Tennessee
+John Henry Shubert, born 1865 in Roane Co., Tennessee; died 1924 in Loudon Co., Tennessee
7. Henry Estel Shubert, born 1889 in Roane Co., Tennessee; died 1953 in Loudon Co., Tennessee
+Martha Ann Conner, born 1892 in Sevier Co., Tennessee; died 1964 in Loudon Co., Tennessee
8. Ray Allen Shubert, born 1917 in Loudon Co., Tennessee; died 2003 in Davidson Co., Tennessee
+Marilee Davis, born 1923 in Monroe Co., Tennessee; died 2000 in Davidson Co., Tennessee
9. Robert Allen Shubert + Judith Gail Richards

My husband's 3rd great-grandparents, Chapman Cooley and Ginity America Brock were married in Roane County in 1841. An interesting notation was written on the license.

Notes for Chapman Cooley:

According to the Roane County, Tennessee marriage records of 1801-1855, when Chapman Cooley married Merica (America) Brock on April 16, 1841, a note was written on the license that said:

"A find(e) weding(wedding) this evening, April 16th, 1841. A joval(jovial) company and well behaved."

Sources:

Family Sources

Tennessee Archives, Nashville, Tennessee

Photo in Digital Format, Judith Richards Shubert, Original held by Loma Schubert Rodgers

"Happy 101" Award for Tennessee Memories

2010-01-12T10:17:00.000-08:00

There are so many dear, sweet folks I've met through blogging about my family genealogy! Three of them have been so kind as to give me this "sweet" award called "Happy 101" to recognize Genealogy Traces and Tennessee Memories.

I first heard from Debbie Blanton at Blanton Family Roots and Branches and then Taylorstales-Genealogy dropped by with hers. I also heard from Robin Cordell-Inge who writes Where I Come From. Over at Tennessee Memories, Janice Tracy, author of Mississippi Memories and six other very interesting blogs, left her "sweet" comments! Thanks to all of you. I appreciate it, and you all make me happy!

If you receive this award you are asked to list 10 things that make you happy and list 10 blogs you would like to share it with.

10 Things that Make me Happy!
Laughter of my sisters
Reading about Texas
Research
My kids and grandkids
Sunny Days
Music (all kinds)
Collecting Glass
Walking through cemeteries with a camera and notebook
Movies
Iced Tea "the table wine of the South"

I'd like to pass the award on to the following blogs:
everything blues Everything about the blues, including history of the music form and details about the lives and the music of some well-known blues musicians. by Janice Tracy
Appalachian History Stories, quotes, and anecdotes. by Dave Tabler
Genealogy Simple & Fun Here are articles to help you in your research, news information plus items to make your genealogy adventure fun! by Tammy Evans
Greta's Genealogy Bog Seriously obsessed with genealogy since 2005; the joys, problems, and pitfalls of family research. by Greta Koehl
Lincecum Lineage A genealogy blog devoted to her Lincecum ancestors, as well as all allied lines that merged with or crossed their paths. by Stephanie Lincecum.
Raeburn Family Odyssey Connecting the dots of the Raeburn families and related surnames from Ireland to North America; with a little bit of this and that in between. by Holly
Where I Come From "This is the story of my family and where they came from....and the journey that brought me to here!" by Robin Cordell-Inge
Who Will Tell Their Story? "A blog dedicated to my collection of orphan photographs." by Julie Cahill Tarr
Consanguinity kin-necting the dots. Relationship by blood, whether linear or collateral. by Patti Browning
GeneaDiva's History, Genealogy and "Stuff" Genealogy, history and general stuff connected to my life with emphasis on history and genealogy. by the GeneaDiva

Please take a moment to check out my selections. They are all worthy of your readership and your comments

Dimit from Ashland Lodge, No. 604

2009-12-11T17:53:00.000-08:00

Ray Allen Shubert and Marilee Davis Shubert

at Bob & Judy's wedding

April 4, 1964

Shortly after moving back to Nashville from Ashland City, Tennessee

I have found many tombstones with the symbols of Freemasons in cemeteries where I have trekked looking for an ancestor or just visiting in order to take pictures for my cemetery blogs, Cemeteries with Texas Ties and Cemeteries of the Covered Bridges. They are varied and beautiful, indicating that the person memorialized there was a member of the Freemasons during his lifetime.

Since Dan Brown's books, "Da Vinci Code" and "Demons and Angels", were published in 2006 there has been a flurry of interest in the Masons. I've had questions about the institution's symbolism, philosophy, and history since then and have discovered several direct and collateral ancestors who were members of the Freemasons.

What I have been surprised to learn is that my late father-in-law was a Mason, but left the organization in 1988 after being affiliated with them for thirty-four years.

After he died in 2003 my husband brought home several boxes of papers, letters, photos, etc., to go through. He found an envelope and papers mailed to his father in Nashville from the Ashland Lodge No. 604, F. & A. M., Ashland City, Tennessee in June of 1988. It is an original document with the seal of the lodge affixed in the lower left corner.

Ray Allen Shubert

DIMIT No. 9 from Ashland Lodge No. 604

The document indicates that he asked in writing to be released from his membership in the Ashland Lodge. Not knowing what a "DIMIT" was and what it implied, I decided to do some research about the origin of the word.

In 1873 Albert G. Mackey, M. D., a 33 degree Mason, wrote and published in London, England "An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences." He did so because he felt that "few men had the means, the time, and the inclination for the purchase of numerous books, some of them costly and difficult to be obtained, and for the close and attentive reading of them which is necessary to master any given subject." It was that thought that suggested to him many years prior to writing and publishing his encyclopedia, "the task of collecting materials for a work which would furnish every Freemason who might consult its pages the means of acquiring a knowledge of all matters connected with the science, the philosophy, and the history of his Order."

On page 204 Dr. Mackey defines the word Demit. "A Mason is said to demit from his Lodge when he withdraws his membership; and a demit is a document granted by the Lodge which certifies that that demission has been accepted by the Lodge, and that the demitting brother is clear of the books and in good standing as a Mason."

In the body of my father-in-law's Dimit it says that he was in good standing "and having paid all sums regularly charged against him, was dimitted at a regular meeting of this (Ashland No. 604) lodge."

Mackey continues with "To demit, which is the act of the member, is, then, to resign; and to grant a demit, which is the act of the Lodge, is to grant a certificate that the resignation has been accepted. It is derived from the French reflective verb se demetire, which, according to the dictionary of the Academy, means 'to withdraw from an office, to resign an employment.'

The application for a demit is a matter of form, and there is no power in the Lodge to refuse it, if the applicant has paid all his dues and is free of all charges. It is true that a regulation of 1722 says that no number of brethren shall withdraw or separate themselves from the Lodge in which they were made, without a dispensation; yet it is not plain how the law can be enforced, for Masonry being a voluntary association, there is no power in any Lodge to insist on any brother continuing a connection with it which he desires to sever.

The usual object in applying for a demit is to enable the brother to join some other Lodge, into which he cannot be admitted without some evidence that he was in good standing in his former Lodge. This is in accordance with an old law found in the Regulations of 1663 in the following words: 'No person hereafter who shall be accepted a Freemason, shall be admitted into any Lodge or Assembly until he has brought a certificate of the time and place of his acceptation from the Lodge that accepted him, unto the Master of that limit or division where such Lodge is kept."

In looking at Mackey's definition of Dimit, he writes that the word is "a modern, American, and wholly indefensible corruption of the technical word Demit. As the use of this corrupt form is beginning to be very prevalent among American Masonic writers, it is proper that we should inquire which is the correct word, Demit or Dimit.

For almost a century and a half the Masonic world has been content, in its technical language, to use the word demit. But within a few years, [as of 1873 when Mackey wrote the Encyclopedia] a few admirers of neologisms - men who are always ready to believe that what is old cannot be good, and that new fashions are always the best - have sought to made a change in the well-established word, and by altering the e in the first syllable into an i, they make another word dimit, which they assert is the right one. It is simply a question of orthography, and must be settled first by reference to usage, and then to etymology, to discover which of the words sustains, by its derivation, the true meaning which is intended to be conveyed."

Mackey further writes, "to demit, in Masonic language, means simply to resign. The Mason who demits from his Lodge resigns from it. The word is used in the exact sense, for instance, in the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin, where it is said: 'No brother shall be allowed to demit from any Lodge unless for the purpose of uniting with some other.' That is to say: 'No brother shall be allowed to resign from any Lodge.'

To dimit is derived from the Latin dimittere. The prefixed particle di or dis has the effect of off from, and hence dimittere means to send away."

After finding Dr. Mackey's definitions of the words demit and dimit, which is found on my father-in-law's document from the Ashland City Lodge, I wasn't sure whether he was allowed to resign or whether he was "sent away."

The back of the document gave the dates of his initiation into the Freemasons in 1954, and his affiliation into the Ashland Lodge from the Nashville Doric Lodge #732 in March of 1962. I know that the Shuberts moved from Nashville, Tennessee to Ashland City, Tennessee around 1961 and then back to Nashville a short time later, around 1963. Whether or not he returned to the Doric Lodge and his fellow Masons in Nashville, we don't know. I have not found documentation that he did.

Ray Allen Shubert

Freemason Ashland Lodge No. 0604 Membership Card

Sources:

Websites

Mackey, Albert G., M. D., "An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences," Google Book Search, (Online: Books, Google.com) [Original published by Moss & Co. and A. G. Mackey, 1873 and 1878], pp 205, 211-213, <http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&id=ophIAAAAYAAJ&output=text&pg=PP1> accessed December 11, 2009).

Documents

Dimit No. 9 "To all Freemasons throughout the World" Ashland Lodge No. 604, dimit of Brother Ray Allen Shubert, June 6, 1988, John T. Bradley, Master. Original in private collection of Robert Allen Shubert.

Ashland Lodge No. 0604, Free and Accepted Masons, Membership Card, Ray Allen Shubert. No. 168, W. C. Jackson, Jr., Secretary. Original in private collection of Robert Allen Shubert.

Photographs

Marilee and Ray Shubert, Mineral Wells, Texas, April 4, 1964. Digital format. Original black and white in private collection of Robert Allen Shubert.

Fellow Bloggers are Fantastic!

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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

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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

2009-10-30T22:30:00.000-07:00

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

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: -----

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

2009-10-28T06:32:00.000-07:00

Lenoir City High School Football Game

Circa 1936
Ray Allen Shubert
Running Back

Where were They in 1909?

2009-10-25T15:18:00.000-07:00

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 7, 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:

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

2009-10-21T15:04:00.000-07:00

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

Carson-Newman 1941 Graduating Class

2009-10-19T11:26:00.000-07:00

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.

Phyllis Evelyn Froneberger Davis - 1922-2005

2009-10-12T14:56:00.000-07:00

Phyllis Evelyn Froneberger
March 10, 1922 - June 27, 2005

Phyllis F. "Maw" Davis, 83, of Hixson, passed away Monday, June 27, 2005. Phyllis was born in Maryville, Tennessee, and was a 1941 graduate of Maryville High School. She moved to Chattanooga in 1961 and was of the Baptist faith.

Phyllis and her husband owned and operated Chickamauga Marina until they retired in 1992. She was preceded in death by her parents, William Russell and Margaret Melvina Froneberger; sisters, Glenn Ferguson, Mae Brooks, and Margaret Froneberger; brother, William Froneberger; granddaughter, Rachel Cemel; and a great-grandson, Chandler Pursley.

She is survived by her husband, William "Bill" Davis, Jr.; daughters, Margaret Ann Pursley and husband, Buford, of Ringgold, Barbara Brewer and husband, Don, and Brenda Cemel and husband, Albert; son, Spence Davis, all of Chattanooga; and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Graveside services will be at 3 P.M. today at Hamilton Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Jim Hensley officiating. The family will receive friends from 1 P.M. until service time today at the funeral home. Share your thoughts and memories at www.mem.com. Arrangements are by the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory & Florist.

Aunt Phyllis was a delightful, sweet, and caring sister-in-law
to our dear mom and dad, Marilee Davis and Ray Shubert. They all visited with one another often and Phyllis always sent the most beautiful greeting cards to them. After mom and dad's deaths we found a great number of those cards that Marilee had carefully saved. I now have them in a beautiful scrapbook. I know her family misses her. We do.

Sources:

"Obituaries - Phyllis Evelyn Froneberger Davis." The Daily Times, http://www.thedailytimes.com/, [Blount County, Tennessee], 29 Jun 2005.

Photograph, Phyllis Evelyn Froneberger, Digital Format, original belonging to Brenda Davis Cemel, Hixson, Tennessee, 2009.

William Spence Davis, Jr. - Sept 28, 1921 - Oct 08, 2008

2009-10-11T14:13:00.000-07:00

William "Bill" Spence Davis, Jr.
Island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands
World War II

William "Bill" Spence Davis, Jr., 87, of Hixson passed away on Wednesday, October 8, 2008, at his home.

He was born in Sweetwater, Tennessee, but moved to Maryville, Tennessee, during his childhood. He served in the Navy as a Ship Fitter Second Class Construction Battalion from 1943-1945. He was stationed in Saipan during WWII.

After moving to Chattanooga in 1961, Bill and his wife, Phyllis, owned and operated Chickamauga Marina. They retired in 1992.

Mr. Davis was preceded in death by his loving wife of 63 years, Phyllis Evelyn Davis; parents, William Spence Davis, Sr. (Maryville) and Leola Hitch (Orlando, Florida); sister, Marilee Davis Shubert (Nashville); step-mother, Mary Sue Davis (Maryville); granddaughter, Rachel Cemel, and a great grandson, Chandler Pursley. Survivors include his son, William Spence Davis, III, of Chattanooga; daughters, Margaret Ann Pursley (Buford) of Ringgold, Barbara Brewer (Don) of Chattanooga, and Brenda Cemel (Albert) of Hixson; sister, Suzanne Kerr (Ernest) of Maryville; several grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

A graveside service will be held at 1:00 P.M. Saturday, October 11, 2008, at Hamilton Memorial Gardens with Dr. Jim Hensley officiating. Interment will be in Hamilton Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends for visitation from 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Saturday, October 11, 2008, at the North Chapel.

Arrangements are made by Chattanooga Funeral Home Crematory and Florist, 5401 Hwy 153, Hixson, Tennessee 37343.

Junior Davis was my husband, Bob Shubert's, uncle.
He is the uncle mentioned in the story about "Spence with His Oliver-66".
Bob's mother, Marilee, and her big brother, Junior, were inseparable
growing up and in the later days of their lives they talked
every weekend on the phone.
Junior was a handsome, funny, loving guy to his family and friends,
and the Shuberts miss him!

Sources:

"Obituaries - William (Bill) Spence Davis, Jr." Chattanooga Funeral Home Crematory [Chattanooga, Tennessee] 8 Oct. 2008.

Photograph, Junior Davis, Digital Format, original belonging to Brenda Davis Cemel, Hixson, Tennessee, 2009.

The Honor of a Nomination - "40 Best Genealogy Blogs"

2009-10-09T08:02:00.000-07:00

Wow! I've just learned from a dear friend and fellow blogger, Janice Tracy, author of several blogs about Mississippi that my blog, Tennessee Memories, has been nominated for one of the 40 Best Genealogy Blogs! I'm very honored and appreciate so much my readers.

In the May 2010 issue of Family Tree Magazine, the editors will name the 40 Best Genealogy Blogs.

The genealogy community was asked to nominate the genealogy blogs they read most. Beginning on October 5, voting commenced on the nominated blogs in several categories. You can find the list of nominees and vote for your favorites at Family Tree Magazine here. (For more on nominations and voting, go here.)

I had no idea. I have been so out of things for a while with my eyesight and the work I'm doing as Historian for our "50 Year Club" in Mineral Wells - my high school alma mater - that I've not been keeping up with my blogging community like I should. I truly appreciate the nomination and am really excited about the possibility of being voted on by readers.

Congratulations to all of the nominees!

Judy

Joseph E. Hitch & Arie Arthur Hitch

2009-07-12T14:22:00.000-07:00

Joseph Edgar "Joe" Hitch and Arie Lee Arthur
Married December 23, 1900
in Polk County, Tennessee by W. H. Rymer, M. G.

Arie Lee Arthur Hitch
Born May 20, 1879 in Polk County, Tennessee
Died 1961, Orlando, Orange County, Florida

Joseph Edgar Hitch
Born September 19, 1877
Died 1946, Orlando, Orange County, Florida

Joseph Edgar Hitch WWI Draft Registration Card

Arie and Joe were my husband's maternal great-grandparents. He doesn't remember Joe but remembered Arie very well. He said she taught him to read at a young age and remembers visiting her in Orlando after Joe died and she was living with her daughter (Bob's grandmother), Leola. Leola and Arie also would drive to Nashville from Orlando and visit. He has very fond memories of her.

Colleagues Voice Respect for Former Official Proaps

2009-06-16T15:10:00.000-07:00

Harold "Frosty" Proaps died Monday morning, leaving a city he loved to mourn his passing.

The 78-year-old Proaps served for 20 years as Lenoir City's treasurer/recorder - a job his friends and colleagues said he took very seriously.

"I've seen him spend hours trying to find a penny in the budget," said Councilman Gerald "Gene" Hamby. "He was the most honest man I've ever met in my life and a true public servant."

The former city treasurer served as a Marine in World War II and received the Purple Heart after being shot during action in the Pacific islands.

His daughter, Michelle Laughlin, recalled he was "a proud Marine."

Prior to becoming the city recorder/treasurer, he spent 30 years behind the counter at Moore Drug Company, which later became Atchley's Drug Store.

Proaps' successor, Debbie Cook, talked about her mentor as the flags at City Hall were lowered to half-staff.

Proaps hired Cook the first year he served in the office.

"He taught me how correct you have to be in taking care of the taxpayers' money," Cook said. "He helped build an extra classroom (for the schools) just by the way he saved and invested money.

"He was very intense in his job," Cook recalled. "He could be very particular in how he wanted things done."

Cook also remembered the lighter side of "Frosty."

"We were on a trip one time and he bought a soda and pack of crackers and said, 'Here's your meal allowance,' " Cook said.

Although "Frosty" may have at times showed a gruff exterior, he had a big heart.

"He was always giving when nobody knew it," Cook said. "Every year he would take a family in need and give them money."

Cook said Proaps worked with the American Legion to help with Christmas baskets.

He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans and a past member of the Lenoir City Civitan Club.

"I looked up to him and I'll miss him terribly," she added. "He loved his family, his job, his country, and God."

The family received friends from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Click Funeral Home in Lenoir City.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Click Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow with full military honors at Lakeview Cemetery.

Lenoir City Hall will close at 1:45 p.m. and remain closed for the remainder of the day to allow city employees to attend the service.

Source:

Graves, Brian. "Former Lenoir City Official Harold "Frosty" Proaps Dies." News-Herald [Lenoir City, Tennessee] 18 Dec. 2002, Volume 118, Number 101 ed., sec. A: 1-8.

Harold E. "Frosty" Proaps - 1924 - 2002

2009-06-16T14:01:00.000-07:00

Harold E. "Frosty" Proaps, 78, of Lenoir City died Monday, December 16, 2002 at the Parkwood Medical Center. He was of the Baptist faith. He served during World War II in the U. S. Marine Corp. He was awarded the Purple Heart after being shot in the Pacific Islands. He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans and the American Legion. He was employed for over 30 years at Moore Drug Co. which later became Atchley's Drug Store. He retired from the City of Lenoir City where he was treasurer/recorder for 20 years. He was a past member of the Lenoir City Civitan Club. He was preceded in death by his infant daughter; parents, William and Belle England Proaps; brothers, Raymond, Paul and Wayne; an infant brother and sister.

He is survived by his devoted wife of 50 years, Alyce Shubert Proaps; children, Army Maj. Ret. Michael Proaps and wife, Heather of Huntsville, Ala., Michelle Laughlin and husband, Jeff of Lenoir City; grandchildren, Chelsea and Tyler Laughlin of Lenoir City, Alex, M. G. Kelley and Brendan Proaps of Huntsville; brother, James R. "Bob" and wife, Dee of Lenoir City; sisters, Sue Jane Tilley and husband, Rob of Knoxville, Barbara Bright and husband, Allan of Maryville; sisters-in-law, Edna Proaps, Bunnie Walker, Lucille Gardner Greene, Helen Dutton and husband, Paul all of Lenoir City; brothers-in-law, Ray Shubert of Nashville and Robert Shubert of Knoxville; several nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends 5-8 p.m. Wednesday at Click Funeral Home in Lenoir City. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Click Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow with full military honors at Lakeview Cemetery.

Sources:

"Obituaries - Harold E. "Frosty" Proaps." News-Herald [Lenoir City, Tennessee] 18 Dec. 2002, Volume 118, Number 101 ed., sec. A: 2-2.

Photograph, Frosty Proaps, Digital Format, original belonging to Bob Shubert, Fort Worth, Texas, 2009

Possible Conner Mother and Daughter

2009-06-11T18:02:00.000-07:00

Martha Ann Conner Shubert

and
Possibly her Mother
Cealy Jane Rogers Conner

Martha Ann Conner was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, on October 27, 1892. She married Henry Estel Shubert in Lenoir City, Roane County, Tennessee, on July 4, 1914. She died June 5, 1964 and is buried in Lenoir City Cemetery beside her husband who died in 1953.

Martha was the oldest of six children who were born to James R. Conner and Cealy Jane Rogers who were married in 1880. Her siblings were Alfred L., Ellen, Mae, George D., and Ethel.

Cealy Jane was born January 16, 1869, either in Sevier County, Tennessee, or western North Carolina. Her parents were Jessie Rogers and Martha Graves. She died in Lenoir City on February 3, 1948 and is buried in Lenoir City Cemetery beside her husband, James R. Conner.

My husband's father, Ray Shubert, couldn't tell me for sure that the woman in the little photo on the right was his grandmother, Cealy Jane, but he thought it was. We have several pictures of Ray's mother, Martha Ann, and my husband remembers his grandmother Conner but not his great-grandmother, Cealy Jane.

Ray tells us that his grandmother, Cealy, often told him that she played with the wife of James Pinkney Davis (Elizabeth Anne Burns) when they were children. James Pinkney Davis and his wife were the grandparents of Ray's wife, Marilee Davis Shubert.

I posted the two small pictures together so we could compare them. Bob and I think they look a lot alike. Their chins are similar, their hair is parted on the same side, and they seem to be sitting in the same position. If there is anyone who recognizes the photo on the right, or who knows her identity, I would love for you to contact me, either by comment here on the blog or by email which can be found on my profile page accessed on the right side of this blog.

I hope to post pictures of their headstones found in Lenoir City Cemetery in the next post.

Pictures:
Martha Ann Conner Shubert and unidentified woman (possibly Cealy Jane Rogers Conner). Digital format. Privately held by Robert Allen Shubert, 2009.

The "Puckerbrush Award" for Tennessee Memories

2009-06-08T06:07:00.000-07:00

Harriett from Tennessee and author of Genealogy Fun has just given my blog, Tennessee Memories the coveted "Puckerbrush Award". I appreciate it so much. I love the fact that she and I are familiar with a lot of the same countryside. I understand that Terry Thornton, author of Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi, created the award to honor fellow genealogy blogger, Janice Brown. Terry explained that "Janice told us all about the word 'puckerbrush' in an article she posted August 27, 2007, at Cow Hampshire."

Terry's challenge: "Henceforth these awards will be called the Janice Brown Puckerbrush Blog Award for Excellence. All blog authors are hereby challenged to name the ten blogs which have influenced their writing the most and list them as a tribute to Janice --- the Janice Brown Puckerbrush Blog Awards for Excellence.

You can read more about the award in my post on Genealogy Traces.

I will list ten more blogs that have influenced my writing and Tennessee Memories. There are many great blogs about genealogy and wonderful writers that give me inspiration daily.

George Geder, Family Historian and Photo Restoration Artist is one of my favorite writers. He is very knowledgeable about photo restoration and his column on Shades of the Departed is well worth reading.
Lidian, author of The Virtual Dime Museum , has a wealth of information and photos of "weird corners of history and retro pop culture". It's so much fun.
A. Spence of Spence-Lowry Family History has so much that is familiar in her blog because of the area she writes about. Her family stories and photos are great sources of inspiration to many.
Virginia Travis who writes Oh Blah Vi, Oh Blah Va, life goes on has a beautiful way with words and photos. I enjoy this beautiful blog.
Robert Baca, author of The Baca / Douglas Genealogy and Family History Blog has a very informative and interesting blog. I love to read about his family ties to the west and New Mexico in particular.
Julie Cahill Tarr has been an inspiration to me since I started blogging a little over a year ago. Her beautiful blog Who Will Tell Their Story? is so well done and thoughtful, you just know the rightful owner of those lonely mystery photos will stumble upon them and come forward.
Colleen from Arizona writes a great blog! Her Orations of OMcHodoy has something for everyone. I love her humor and her clear instructions when explaining how she did things like recoloring a photo or cleaning up her files!
I love Drusilla Pair, from her lovely name to her blog, Find Your Folks. Her obvious love of her family heritage shows in her writing and pictures on this great blog that has inspired me to work harder.
Terry Snyder's blog, Desktop Genealogist Unplugged, has been a great source of inspiration and new information. I learn something each time I stop by. Her articles about her searches and discoveries help me in so many ways.
Debbie Blanton who writes Blanton Family Roots and Branches may be too busy right now trying to get moved, but I couldn't leave her out. She has been an encouraging and inspirational blogger to me and I love reading her blog.

Now get busy and pass the Puckerbrush Blog Award along when you have time.

Wordless Wednesday Outside Lenoir City

2009-06-03T05:29:00.000-07:00

Pinzgauer Sign

Lenoir City, Louden County, Tennessee

Photograph taken by Judith Richards Shubert, (c) September 2005

Lois Walker Blalock - 1914 - 2009

2009-06-01T18:01:00.001-07:00

Lois Walker Blalock
September 10, 1914 - May 26, 2009

One of my favorite ladies in all the world was Mrs. Lois Blalock. She had such a sweet spirit and shared her life with so many. I met her in 1988 when my daughter, Gail, met her only grandson, Troy, and they began a 3-year courtship that we all enjoyed as it progressed toward a life together. When Troy and Gail got married Lois was the first to take her under her wing and treat her like a granddaughter. I'm glad she had old-fashioned traditions and she shared her life with Gail. Indeed, all of the Blalocks helped me leave my precious daughter in North Carolina without worrying about her when Bob and I moved to Texas. We knew she was in good hands. I'll miss Lois.

CALDWELL - Mrs. Blalock was born September 10, 1914 to Wesley and Maggie Latta Walker in the St. Mary's community of Orange County. She attended St. Mary's school and graduated from Hillsborough High School in 1930. She received a teaching certificate from East Carolina and later at Duke University completed her bachelor's degree. She began her teaching career, which spanned 37 years, at Caldwell school in 1934 and later taught at Grady Brown Middle SChool in Hillsborough. While at Caldwell School Mrs. Blalock was principal for many years while also teaching fifth and sixth grades. She had a great love for children which was evident in her teaching.

She was a life-long member of New Sharon United Methodist Church where she played piano, sang in the choir, taught Sunday school, was a charter member of the United Methodist women and served on many committees. In 1992. she was presented The Book of Golden Deeds award by the Exchange Club of Hillsborough. She was very active in the Caldwell Community including the Caldwell Home Demonstration Club, The Caldwell Community Club and also supported the Caldwell volunteer fire department. She was a member of the Orange County Retired Teachers Association.

Mrs. Blalock was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Lewis Blalock and brother, Warren Walker. She is survived by her son, Charles W. Blalock and wife, Brenda, of Caldwell; grandson, Troy Blalock and wife, Gail, and their girls, Gailey and Shelby of Caldwell; granddaughter, Jamie Blalock Borland and husband, Jeff, and their girls, Paige and Payton of Cedar Grove.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in New Sharon United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Walker's Funeral Home of Hillsborough. Online condolences: Walkersfuneralservice.com.

The family will welcome donations to New Sharon United Methodist Church, 1601 New Sharon Church Road, Hillsborough, NC 27278 or Duke Hospice at Meadowlands, 1001 Corporate Drive, Hillsborough, NC 27278.

Obituary printed Durham Herald-Sun May 28, 2009

Honoring One of our Own on this Memorial Day 2009 - William Spence Davis, Sr.

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Sgt. William Spence Davis

October 16, 1917 - June 20, 1919
United States Army

Pvt Lcl June 2 1918, Corp July 18 1918, Sgt Sep 7 1918. Overseas service from July 3, 1918 to June 14, 1919. Discharged on Jun 20 1919 with no disability. Address at enlistment RFD 2, Greenback Tennessee. Inducted at Loudon, Loudon County, Tennessee on Oct 16 1917.
Place of birth Sevier County, Tennessee.

William Spence Davis
Born March 24, 1895 in Sevier County, Tennessee
Died December 17, 1976 Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee

A young Spence appears with his family in the banner on my blog Genealogy Traces; in the 3rd picture from the left, he is standing behind his mother, Elizabeth Anne. The same picture appears below.

James Pinkney Davis Family

In the photo from the left are:
Elizabeth Anne Burns Davis, William Spence, Alvin, Nora,
father James Pinkney "Pink" Davis, Louis, Ethel, and Baby Lessie.

Approximately a year and a half after being discharged from the Army, Spence married Leola Hitch of Ducktown, Tennessee, in September of 1920. He was married a second time to Mary Sue Delozier of Blount County in June of 1936. His children are William Spence Davis, Jr., Marilee Davis Shubert, and Suzanne Hampton Davis Kerr.

I have previously written about Spence in the article Spence with His Oliver 66 found here and on my blog, Genealogy Traces. He is my husband's grandfather. There are many veterans found in our family, as there are in most readers' ancestry, but I have chosen to honor Spence this Memorial Day 2009 because he was a very special man. He served his country well and came home with an honorable discharge. Until he met and married his second wife, Mary Sue Delozier, Spence cared for his two oldest children with only the help of a nanny while working fulltime. He and Mary Sue worked very hard and were prosperous dairy farmers in Maryville. They were both teachers, as well.

My husband's father, Ray Allen Shubert, tells of Spence and Mary Sue in an interview during the 1990s:

Spence Davis, went to the Bill Jones School in Sevier County - a "Normal School" as it was called - took a state exam to become a school teacher. He was a good ball player and we have a couple of pictures of him with his team. He taught grade school in Monroe. While teaching he took a job in the Sweetwater post office during the Summer. Then he went to the Knoxville post office. Spence got full custody of Marilee and Junior when he divorced from their mother, Leola. After Leola left, he hired a nanny to look after the children. They called her "Aunt Tilly" - she was as broad as she was tall. Soon she told Spence that the kids were so big she couldn't handle them any longer and he needed to find a wife!" Marilee was a student of McCampbill School where Mary Sue Delozier taught. Spence and the kids lived on Valley View Road in Knoxville.

Suzanne Hampton Davis was born to Spence and Mary Sue in 1942. The Delozier's were prominent farmers in Blount County. Mary Sue taught at Wildwood High School where Marilee, Junior and Suzanne all attended. Suzanne and Marilee were cheerleaders, at different times, of course. Marilee and Mary Sue were pregnant with their first child at the same time. When Suzanne was a few months old, Marilee and Ray went into the post office where Spence worked. She remembered one of the clerks looked over her glasses at her and then called out, "Mr. Davis, your OLDER daughter is here!"

William Spence Davis
World War I Draft Registration Card
(accessed Ancestry.com 2009)

Tabler's "Appalachian History" is a Great Blog

2009-05-21T12:30:00.000-07:00

Cade's Cove Methodist Church
The Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Cade's Cove, Tennessee

Dave Tabler began blogging about Appalachian History about 13 years ago. He has put an enormous amount of work into this blog as he strives to write a 400-500 word article every day, Monday through Friday. His work takes the form of articles, extracts, pictures, interviews, and audio samples.

"The Appalachia covers a vast expanse of area: It includes all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states." Our beautiful Tennessee falls within that area. You can read Mr. Tabler's interesting blog by clicking on this link: Appalachian History. I'm sure he'd love to hear your comments. You can also read his interview on the History Nexus site. You'll learn all manner of neat things about our Appalachian expert.

I want to post an addition to the above two paragraphs. Dave left a comment after seeing my post and I thought everyone might not see it. He wrote:

Judith, thanks so much for all that enthusiasm! I do want to point out that, while I started my journey into the world of Appalachian history 13 years ago in the form of helping my dad edit his memoirs, the Appalachian History blog itself only dates back to December of 2006.

And boy, what an eye opener it's been digging up all this stuff. Truth really IS stranger than fiction.

So, I wanted to correct my statement on how long the blog had been online and apologize to Mr. Tabler. Thanks for stopping by.

Photograph taken by Judith Richards Shubert (c) October 2005

2009 Friendly Blogger Award from Harriet

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Harriet, author of Genealogy Fun has sent me this very cute award! Thanks so much. I'll pass it on to seven more friendly bloggers.

And my good friend, Robin, the "Wolfhuntress", at Where I Come From has also passed this award on to me. I'm very grateful to them both.

Sheila at A Postcard a Day
Family Attic at Attic Treasures
Kay at Camp Across Texas w/ Skip and Kay
Alana at A Twig in My Tree
Eddy at D'HIER A AUJOURD'HUI
Marie at Cpaphil Vintage Postcards
Michelle at If you can color you can meditate

Have a wonderful week and "be friendly to another blogger!"

Thanks, Becky, for "One Lovely Blog Award"

2009-05-06T08:13:00.000-07:00

I was very pleased to find this beautiful award in my mailbox last night. My good friend, Becky Jamison, author of Grace and Glory, has bestowed Tennessee Memories with this honor. She had some of the sweetest things to say about my blog and I'm so pleased that she thought of me. She described the award button as custom made for her tastes. I agree. It reminds me of home and warmth and love.

I'd like to pass "One Lovely Blog Award" on to seven beautiful blogs and their exceptional authors. When you receive yours I hope you will take the time to read some new blogs or revisit some of your favorites. Then as Diana Ritchie at Random Relatives says, "The instructions are quite simple - just to nominate 7 other blogs. Well, it SOUNDS simple, but looking over all the creativity we have out there, wow, how to pick only 7!"

Betsy at My Five Men
Mim at Auntie Mim's
Janice at Missisippi Memories
Marie at Cpaphil Vintage Postcards
Vanna at Delusions of Grandeur
Harriet at Genealogy Fun
Kay at Kay B's Place

Congratulations to all recipients everywhere of "One Lovely Blog Award"!

Wordless Wednesday - Davis and Shubert Kin

2009-04-29T20:40:00.000-07:00

Suzanne Davis Kerr of Maryville, Tennessee

Robert Allen Shubert of Fort Worth, Texas
originally of Nashville, Tennessee
at
The Palo Pinto Cafe
Palo Pinto, Palo Pinto County, Texas

(Aunt and nephew ~ only they're the same age!)

Inanimate Objects

2009-04-04T14:48:00.000-07:00

Today as I puttered around in my kitchen I noticed the funnel that I use in canning season. It has a wide mouth that fits nicely down into the mouth of glass jars and has numerous dents and scratches on its shiny surface. It is made from aluminum, I believe, and is shiny with swirls made from cleaning it with a soapy SOS pad.

As my eyes fell on the funnel my mind drifted to my mother-in-law who used it for many years and I thought of all of the jars of applesauce laced with cinnamon and red hot candies that she had made with the help of that funnel. I remembered the taste of the applesauce and how my children had smiled when we opened a brand new jar. That memory led to another memory and then another.

That is the way it is so often around here when I glance at a picture, walk by and touch a chair, or snuggle under an afghan that once belonged to an older member of my family.

I found this short entry in a little book given to my mother-in-law by her co-workers when she had been out on sick-leave. It spoke so clearly about my thoughts this morning in the kitchen, I want to share it with you.

Inanimate Animate

"Have you ever noticed that older people tend to cling to the things that have surrounded them? We call it sentiment and scoff. Our mobile, semi-disposable society tends to treat our many possessions with little dignity. Somehow we have lost the beauty of associating an object with the things it has touched. Perhaps we need a little sentiment to give root to our lives.

A table is a
Living thing,
A part of all
It touches.

It is
A loving thing,
Caressed with
Polished pride.

A table
Senses things,
Remembers tears,
The hands of a child."

from Ironing Board Altars
Mary Ann Bohrs
Broadman Press, Nashville, Tennessee
Copyright 1969

Graphic by June at Art Freebies

A Thank You from "5 Branches"

2009-04-01T07:59:00.000-07:00

March 30, 2009

Hello Helen,

My name is Judy Shubert and I live in North Richland Hills. My husband is a
descendant of Henry M. "Mitt" Shubert who was married before he died to
Nancy Ann Weese Parks, mother of Cara or Carrie Parks Plemons. I discovered
your newsletter yesterday and wanted you to know that I have written a
couple of short posts about the "poisoning of Martin Plemons". You can
access them at my blog, Tennessee Memories.
http://tennesseememories.blogspot.com

Please feel feel to use my posts or blog in your newsletter. Please let me
know if you think I have overstepped my bounds in my posts. I would love to
hear from you.

Judy Richards Shubert


March 30, 2009

Judy,

I am very touched that you used the information from the 5 Branches
newsletter. Sadly, the Newsletter has about died. . . .

. . . You have not stepped out of bounds by the article. The story makes for
interesting stories about the family. And it should be told for others to
know.

Thanks again for refreshing the story.

Helen Parker

The Rest of the Story at "Monday Madness"

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Blain Plemons
Nancy Ann Weese Parks Shubert & Henry M. "Mitt" Shubert

You remember “Poor Mr. Plemons”? Well, I have the rest of the story!

After last Monday’s post for Monday Madness, the brainchild of Amy Crook of Untangled Family Roots, Cheryle Hoover Davis asked the question: “Whatever happened to L. M. Plemons' wife? Did she get away with it?” That led me to do a little more investigating.

In a Plemons Family Online Newsletter entitled “5 Branches” I discovered a little background to what possibly led up to the poisoning. In the early 1950s, an article appeared in a Knoxville, Tennessee, newspaper that asked some of the same questions that I and my readers asked. The newspaper clipping, cut out and given to Warren Plemons by his mother, was reprinted in the family newsletter and family members added to the details.

A Mr. Gurth Robinson who was interviewed for the newspaper article said, “Who in the world would have an inscription like that cut into a gravestone? This fellow dies when he is 29 years old. And then someone puts up this gravestone saying publicly that he died from poisons administered by his wife. How did this person know the wife administered poisons? And why did she do it – if she actually did?”

The gravestone which is pictured in my previous post is found in Laurel Bluff Baptist Church Cemetery near the town of Kingston. Warren Plemons said that there was a “family story – or rumor, passed down through generations and probably changed with the re-telling.” The story as reported in the Plemons newsletter is retold here.

“On October 30, 1892, L. Martin Plemons married Cara Parks. Martin is the son of Thomas Jacob Plemons, grandson of Jacob Plemons and Adaline Harden. Cara is the daughter of James Parks and Nancy Ann Weese. They had one child, Blain, in November 1897.

According to the story, it was common knowledge that Cara was seeing the town butcher whenever Martin would leave for work. Martin was an iron ore miner and also worked on a farm for his father. One day, when Martin came to work, he told his father, ‘I think that I will go back home, and if he is there, I will kill the both of them.’

Martin left and returned some time later. His father asked him whether he had found Cara and her suitor together, he replied, ‘Yes – but I couldn’t bring myself to kill them.’

Some short time later, Martin died – under suspicious circumstances. The Plemons family did not make a secret of their dislike for Cara. They believed that she had killed Martin and they hired a doctor to come from Knoxville and perform an autopsy. As they had suspected, poison was discovered in the stomach contents. Cara was subsequently arrested and tried for murder.

At the trial, the doctor was asked whether there was a chance that some of the Plemons family could have tainted the evidence by placing poison in the containers used to collect the stomach contents. The doctor answered that he had left the containers alone in a buggy on his way back to Knoxville while he had gone inside a house to eat. This cast enough doubt on the accusation that the jury found Cara ‘Not guilty’ and released her.

The Plemons family was enraged, but there was nothing that they could do. Their only recourse was to make the incident public by carving the accusation on Martin’s gravestone.

The stone is there today, and sits near the road in a corner away from the church. Martin is buried near his father, mother, and grandmother along with many other relatives.”

Above is a photo of Martin and Cara’s only son, Blain, with his grandmother, Nancy Ann Weese Parks Shubert and her husband at the time, Henry “Mitt” Shubert. Henry M. Shubert is my husband’s great-great-grandfather. Nancy married James Parks in 1856 and began having children in 1857. Her husband, James, was killed in the Battle of Chickamauga on September 22, 1863, but Nancy continued to have children until 1877. Nancy and Henry M. Shubert were not married until April 4, 1881.

5 Branches, s.v. "A Newsletter of the Plemons/Plemmons/Plemone/Plemon/Plemens Family – Winter 2002" http://www.5branches.net/Winter_2002/Winter_2002.htm (accessed March 2009).
“5 Branches” Helen Parker, editor
Photograph original belonging to Loma Schubert Rodgers, descendant of Jacob Pearson Shubert and Dialthia H. Parks who was a daughter of Nancy Ann Weese.

~~~~~~~

The above is my second contribution to "Monday Madness"!

Amy Crook of Untangled Family Roots has started a new meme for those of us researching our ancestors. This will occur each Monday as a recurring meme similar to Tombstone Tuesday and Wordless Wednesday. Check it out. It's great fun!

Poor Mr. Plemons - Poisoned by His Wife! "Monday Madness"

2009-03-23T15:35:00.000-07:00

L. M. Plemons
Born June 7, 1873
Died May 10, 1902
"Died from poison administered by his wife"

Family legend tells that Carrie Parks (Dialtha Parks Shubert's younger sister) married L. M. Plemons and that he was poisoned by his wife. His headstone actually reads "L. M. PLEMONS born June 7, 1873 died May 10, 1902 - 'Died from poison administered by his wife' ." Photo of headstone is in the possession of Loma Schubert Rodgers. This was told to Nelle Mae Shubert by Mattie Cox, daughter of Sarah Shubert. (This gravestone is in Roane County in the Laurel Bluff Cemetery.)

There is a photo of Henry Mitchell "Mitt" Shubert and his 2nd wife, Nancy Ann, with a child identified as Blaine Plemmons, cousin. I have posted that photo on this blog with the title "Henry Milton (Mitchell) Shubert - March 07, 1839-June 1, 1915." Could this be a child of Carrie Parks and L. M. Plemons? If the photo belonged to Nelle Mae Shubert, Blaine would be Nelle Mae's cousin.

The above is my first contribution to "Monday Madness"!

Amy Crook of Untangled Family Roots is starting a new meme for those of us researching our ancestors. This will occur each Monday as a recurring meme similar to Tombstone Tuesday and Wordless Wednesday. Check it out. It's great fun!

Davis Wordle

2009-03-21T11:30:00.000-07:00

This is the first of my planned Wordles. It has most of my husband's mother's ancestor surnames. Hope you like it. Wordles are created at wordle.net and I first learned about them from Randy Seaver at GeneaMusings.

Images of Wordles are licensed by Creative Commons License.

Carson Newman 1941 Football - Wordless Wednesday

2009-03-10T22:24:00.000-07:00

Carson-Newman Football Team, 1941
Jefferson City, Tennessee
Ray Allen Shubert, Linebacker, Team Captain
pictured 6th from right front row

11th Edition Smile for the Camera - Brothers & Sisters in Nashville, Tennessee

2009-03-04T10:35:00.000-08:00

The word prompt for the 11th Edition of Smile For The Camera at Shades of the Departed is brothers & sisters. Were they battling brothers, shy little sisters, or was it brother & sister against the world? Our ancestors often had only their siblings for company. Were they best friends or not? Show us that picture that you found with your family photographs or in your collection that shows your rendition of brothers & sisters. Bring them to the carnival and share. Admission is free with every photograph!

Bobby and Leta Shubert
Nashville, Tennessee

Big brother Bobby is displaying some of the sweet, caring disposition he has always had. Even though I can't find a photograph with all three of the siblings together, below is a picture of Bobby and his younger brother Billy. Now THEY might be planning to get into trouble! But it looks like Bobby may have been sick and Billy was entertaining him.

Billy and Bobby Shubert
Nashville, Tennessee

Photos in collection belonging to Marilee Davis Shubert and made in the 1940s or very early 1950s.

Judy has posted her submission for Brothers & Sisters at Genealogy Traces. Check it out.

Memories of Davis Cousins

2009-03-01T08:27:00.000-08:00

Barbara, Margaret, Spence, Jr. and Brenda Davis
Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee
Circa 1949

You remember my writing about the Davis Dairy Farm in Maryville (the subject of my blog banner)? Well, Brenda Davis Cemel, one of my husband's 1st cousins that lived close by on the farm when she was little shared some photographs that she has graciously given me permission to use here on Tennessee Memories.

Bobby & Billy Shubert
(My husband, Bob, and his younger brother, Bill)

Marilee Davis Shubert & Ray Allen Shubert
Billy & Bobby
Marilee ~ Born March 19, 1923 - Died January 11, 2000
Ray ~ Born September 8, 1917 - Died January 17, 2003
(My husband's parents and brother)

The pictures in the yard are taken on the side of the house with the drive coming up from the mailbox. In the picture of Bob and Bill, you can see the garage behind them. Behind the garage was a smoke house. On the right side of the driveway was a garden (along with one behind the house). They planted potatoes and peanuts in the one beside the driveway. Brenda Davis says she remembers having to dig potatoes and peanuts in that garden!

SHUBERT Cemetery Plot in Lenoir City, Tennessee

2009-02-21T16:39:00.000-08:00

This is a photo of my husband, Bob, looking at the graves of his parents and grandparents. This beautiful cemetery is the Lenoir City Cemetery which is about three fourths of a mile from the center of town just off of the Knoxville Highway. The cemetery is in three sections, having been added to as the space was filled.

Photo taken September 25, 2005 by Judith Richards Shubert (c)
After the Shubert Gathering held in Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, a get-together of the children and descendants of Henry Estel Shubert and Martha Ann Conner.

Lenoir City Cemetery
Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee

Cemeteries on USGS Maps

Kreativ Blogger Award for Tennessee Memories

2009-02-20T08:36:00.000-08:00

Harriet over at Genealogy Fun has been so kind to honor me with the Kreativ Award for my blog, Tennessee Memories. This latest effort of mine has proven to be one of my favorites and I'm so glad that others are enjoying it. Thanks so much, Harriet.

Even though Greta from Greta's Genealogy Bog nominated my Genealogy Traces
and I chose seven bloggers to receive the award from me, I now have the opportunity to choose another seven. That's good, because it was difficult to choose from so many great blogs.

I'd like to nominate the following blogger for this award:
Elizabeth at Little Bytes of Life
Meili-Lo at She Writes, You Write
A. Spence at Spence-Lowry Family History
Janice at Mississippi Memories
William at The Central Florida Graveyard Rabbit
Greta at The Graveyard Rabbit Afield
Robin at Where I Come From

Instructions are as follows:
1. Copy the award to your site.
2. Link to the person from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate other bloggers.
4. Link to those sites on your blog.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you nominate.

Thanks again, Harriet!

Tennessee Memories Wordless Wednesday - Feb 18, 2009

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Dairy Farm in Maryville at the Foot of the Smokies

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Mary Sue Delozier Davis
"Granny Sue"
November 17, 1902 - March 5, 1994
Maryville, Tennessee

The beautiful scene depicted in my blog banner is the dairy barn on the Davis homeplace in Maryville, Tennessee, at the foot of the Smoky Mountains. I took this picture in September of 2005 while visiting my husband's aunt, Suzanne Davis Kerr, and her husband, Ernie.

It is the same farm that I talked about in the post about Bob's grandfather, Spence Davis and his Oliver 66 tractor. Bob helped a lot on the dairy during his childhood and worked many hours in that dairy barn! His grandmother, Granny Sue, is shown in a picture above in the field with some of those cows. And the picture below is his grandfather, Spence, with a friend (unidentified) and some more of those cows ready to milk.

William Spence Davis
March 24, 1895 - December 17, 1976
Maryville, Tennessee

My Brock Ancestors - James R. Brock, John Henry Brock, and Eleanor Elizabeth Brock

2009-02-02T17:38:00.001-08:00

My Great-Grandparents
James Newton Gailey - May 24, 1869 - April 30, 1930
and Eleanor Elizabeth Brock - July 25, 1871 - July 21, 1943

My grandfather was born into the Brock and Gailey families in the small north Texas community of Brock in Parker County. His father James Newton Gailey came to Texas with his brothers from his home in Hall County, Georgia. Some folks in the area simply called him “Jim”. Jim and Eleanor Elizabeth Brock met in Parker County and got married in Millsap by J.S. Huckabee in 1897, according to a Family Bible entry written in my grandfather’s handwriting.

Jim and Eleanor had three children, my grandfather, James Dolphus Gailey, born November 8, 1898, Grace Amanda Gailey, born March 1, 1900, and Nellie Mae Gailey, born December 5, 1903, all born in Parker County.

Captain James R. Brock

“Captain James R. Brock and his family were living in Rusk County near Henderson (Texas) in 1853, when they purchased 400 acres of land in Van Zandt County, Texas, near Canton. They had moved from Gordon County, Georgia, to Rusk County. He was a skilled carpenter, cabinetmaker and farmer. He was also captain of the Georgia Militia in Habersham and Gordon Counties for many years. One of these districts was known as Captain Brock’s District. He was born August 9, 1807 to Thomas and Jane Brock who settled in Georgia before 1820. James R. married Elizabeth Bryan, November 11, 1824, in Georgia. Both were born in North Carolina.”

My ancestor, John Henry Brock, was the youngest of three sons born to James R. and Elizabeth. Their other children were Thomas Jasper, Newton Vanburen and Margaret Jane. When Elizabeth died in late October of 1860 the family was devastated. Because he was so heartbroken James R. decided to volunteer with his sons as soon as the Civil War was declared in 1861. They were among the very first to enlist in the Confederate Army.

Even though James R. was fifty-four years old he joined with the rank of 1^st Lieutenant, Company E, 6^th Regiment, Texas Cavalry. Thomas Jasper was in Company I, 11^th Regiment, Texas Infantry, Newton Vanburen was in Company E, 6^th Texas Cavalry; and John Henry, who was still a student, joined Company E, 6^th Regiment, Texas Cavalry. Margaret Jane, the youngest child at age twelve, was left behind to live with the J. G. W. Bivins family until her father and brothers came home from the war. Newton Vanburen, John Henry and their father, James R. all returned home to join Margaret after the war; however, Thomas Jasper was killed during his long journey home, traveling by foot.

John Henry was born in Red Bud, Gordon County, Georgia, on December 13, 1843. Before joining the Confederates he took advantage of a good education and was eighteen when he volunteered. He fought with Nathan B. Forrest in Tennessee and it was in Sping Hill that he was captured and taken to a prisoner of war camp in the north where he remained until the end of the war. He was captured “in clothing described as shoes so worn he was almost barefoot and clothing that was almost indecent.”

After the men returned they took Margaret and went back to Rusk County near Henderson. “It was here that John Henry Brock met and married Polly Sanders Elam on October 21, 1866. Polly was the daughter of Joel Elam and Sarah Eleanor Stamps, landowners adjoining the Sparkmans and Risingers and near the G. D. Buckners.” John Henry and Polly bought 160 acres of land adjoining her father’s property, where they lived “until around 1870 when they followed his father, brother, and sister to Parker County.” There was one son, Joel Walter Brock, born to them while in Rusk County, June 18, 1869.

Brannon Crossing on the Brazos River is the place John Henry and Polly settled in Parker County. He and his brother, N. V. (Newton Vanburen) bought 400 acres of land in the Hiner Community. N. V. later sold his share to his brother and moved to Ellis County.

John Henry later moved to Olive Branch and bought several lots. A skilled carpenter and cabinetmaker, he built most of the town. He built the first cotton-gin, two two-story mercantile stores, the Baptist Church, the school, and most of the houses. A post office was established in 1890, and the town’s name was then changed to Brock, in his honor. His wife, Polly, was postmaster from 1892 until her death in 1924.

My Great-Great-Grandmother

Polly Sanders Elam Brock

December 25, 1843 - August 25, 1924

Postmaster Brock, Texas 1892 - 1924

Children born to Polly and John Henry were Joel Walter, who married Sally Barnett; Eleanor Elizabeth, who married Jim Gailey; Lucy, who died in her late teens; James Thomas, who married Emma (?); Margaret “Maggie Maude,” who never married; Alice, who married J. W. White; and Henry Newton, who married Ollie Bell Bish. They also reared three of the Gunn children – Dom, Ponnie, and May – children of Polly’s sister, Ann America and her husband, J. M. Gunn.

John Henry Brock died of a heart attack on September 18, 1911, and is buried in the Brock Cemetery, which he laid off at the request of Mr. Maddux. Polly died August 25, 1924, and is buried beside her husband.

Hall and Habersham Counties were adjacent to one another in this 1822 Georgia map. The two counties were formed in the year 1818. Both my Gailey and Brock ancestors lived in these counties before moving to Texas.

The Brocks moved to Rusk County near the state line of Texas and later to Van Zandt which is further west, and finally to Parker County, still farther west. The map to the right shows the counties formed in 1860.

Sources:

Palo Pinto County History 1978 "A Word of Mouth History Book", Brock, Buckner, Elam Families by Juanita Brock McEntire

Family Bible belonging to James Dolphus Gailey and genealogy reports prepared by Raymond R. Stone, son-in-law, Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Texas

Original photos in album belonging to Judith Richards Shubert.

GeorgiaInfo

TXGenWeb

My Brock Ancestors - James R. Brock, John Henry Brock, and Eleanor Elizabeth Brock

2009-02-02T17:38:00.000-08:00

My Great-Grandparents
James Newton Gailey - May 24, 1869 - April 30, 1930
and Eleanor Elizabeth Brock - July 25, 1871 - July 21, 1943

Captain James R. Brock

My Great-Great-Grandmother

Polly Sanders Elam Brock

December 25, 1843 - August 25, 1924

Postmaster Brock, Texas 1892 - 1924

Sources:

Palo Pinto County History 1978 "A Word of Mouth History Book", Brock, Buckner, Elam Families by Juanita Brock McEntire

Family Bible belonging to James Dolphus Gailey and genealogy reports prepared by Raymond R. Stone, son-in-law, Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Texas

Original photos in album belonging to Judith Richards Shubert.

GeorgiaInfo

TXGenWeb

Spence with His Oliver 66

2009-01-09T21:08:00.001-08:00

This is one of my favorite pictures.

WHO: William Spence Davis, Sr.
Father of William Spence, Jr., Marilee, and Suzanne
Husband of Mary Sue Delozier
Son of James Pinkney Davis and Sue Burns Davis

WHAT: Photograph taken on his farm at the foot of the Smokey Mountains in Maryville, Tennessee.

WHEN: Taken in the early 1950s by his daughter, Marilee.

WHERE: His grandson, Robert Allen "Bobby" Shubert remembered his mom going out into the cornfield and asking to take his picture. Bobby said "Grandpa said reluctantly, oh, alright!" He was cultivating the cornfield with his Oliver 66 tractor.

WHY: This is one of my favorites because my husband, Bobby, treasures it. He spent many summers working on the dairy farm with his grandpa, his uncle, cousins and little brother. He enjoyed those summers and has many stories about the times he and his brother spent there. Bobby drove that tractor, saying he spent many hours gazing at the Blue Ridge just over the rise, then looking back at the uneven rows of his plowing!

I enlarged this little 3 x 5 picture to an 8 x 10 for Shubert's Christmas present a year ago. He was so surprised he was nearly speechless. He proudly tells our visitors stories about the picture, the Oliver 66 and his time on the dairy.

Country Churches and Cemeteries in North Carolina

2008-11-20T10:18:00.000-08:00

While at our daughter's home in North Carolina we took several excursions along the back roads while "leaf peeping". We saw many little churches and cemeteries. I'd like to show you some of my favorites.

This pretty little church on the hill was having a worship service that morning. We couldn't see any cars at first, but as we drove up the drive and circled around toward the back, we saw the parking lot full of cars. I hope we didn't disturb anyone.

All of the tombstones were slanting toward the top of the hill and the church. There were several square stones placed in the ground on an angle. The one in this picture at the end of the row has a child's name (last name Green) with his day of birth and day of death. I also saw some of this same type of marker in the St. Thomas Episcopal Church cemetery in Bath, North Carolina.

This seemingly abandoned church with the red door had a sign that said, "Open for Prayer Daily." This was on a Sunday afternoon somewhere around the little community of Todd.

North Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Service 3rd Sunday, Established 1742

Mount Olive Church of Christ
Just outside of Bell Haven on the way to the Outer Banks

Right outside of Bell Haven we were stopped at a routine traffic stop. Out in the middle of nowhere! My daughter decided after that she should stop and attach her new license plate sticker before we saw another highway patrol. We pulled over in Mount Olive's parking lot and we took pictures while she worked on the plate.

One of the prettiest churches we saw was the New Sharon Methodist Church in Hillsborough, North Carolina, which is my son-in-law's family church. This is the cemetery where his grandfather is buried. These two pictures were taken late in the afternoon.

All photographs property of Judy Richards Shubert
Copyright October 2008 - Taken with Olympus SP-550UZ

North Carolina Churches, Barns and Buildings

2008-11-17T11:42:00.000-08:00

North Carolina is beautiful this time of year. Of course, leaf-peeping is an activity that a lot of you are familiar with, but my cousin had very little exposure to when the two of us decided to at last fly away on one of American’s best, Flight 300, and visit that beautiful state. We were picked up at RDU by my daughter and two granddaughters on a beautiful, crisp day in the middle of October.

My daughter was a great sport. She entertained, accommodated, made sacrifices and “turned around” at every missed country road we wanted to go down! We took picture after picture of old country churches, cemeteries, and broken down barns and buildings. We had a great time. Thank you, daughter-o’-mine!

The pictures above are of buildings in Valle Crucis near the Mast General Store that is shown in the third photo. While there we all enjoyed going into the Candy Barrel and buying something for our sweet tooth! The day was cold and wet but we enjoyed every minute. Once we were back on the road we ate candy and had my daughter turning around every chance we got.

Only two of about eight barns we saw with quilt blocks painted on them. I fell in love with them but didn't have the heart to ask my daughter to stop for every one. They were in the Boone area near the Blue Ridge Parkway.

This pretty white clapboard church was in the historic town of Bath, the first incorporated town in North Carolina on the Pamlico Sound. It was the Bath Christian Church.

In the distance you could see this beautiful little building, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, the oldest existing church building in the state, construction having begun in 1734 by the Rev'd John Garzia. There is a small cemetery with tombstones dating to the 1820s and evidence of burials beneath the floor of the existing church.

In Swan Quarter we passed this older church that was across the street from the new one below.

All photographs property of Judy Richards Shubert
Copyright October 2008 - Taken with Olympus SP-550UZ

Cranberry Salad

2008-10-15T19:49:00.000-07:00

If you read the post about my cousin, Julie Martin , you will know that she sent me a surprise Christmas present last year – a box of canned Bing Cherries. This is my husband, Bob’s, favorite dessert. If I don’t have or can’t find Bing Cherries I will make the Cranberry Salad shown below. I think it is just as good. Maybe you will try them both and you decide!

I usually make this version of Cranberry Salad at Christmas because I can rarely find the sweet Bing cherries called for in the Coca Cola salad. This makes a FULL LARGE rectangular Pyrex dish 9 x 14 or something like that.

Ingredients:
3 regular packages cherry or strawberry Jell-O
3 cans whole berry cranberry sauce
1 #2 can crushed pineapple and juice

Dissolve Jell-O with 3 cups boiling water. Let cool. Do not let it get firm. Add cranberry sauce and drained pineapple. Divide mixture in 2 parts. Put half in large oblong Pyrex dish and congeal. After it has congealed, spread with mixture of the following:

12 ounces cream cheese
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
½ cup pineapple juice

Add ½ cup chopped nuts to remaining half of cranberry mixture. Pour over cream cheese and place in refrigerator again to congeal.

Pretty and good!

Photo accessed from free images at http://www.sciencedaily.com/

Coca-Cola & Bing Cherry Salad

2008-10-15T19:44:00.000-07:00

Here is the Coca Cola salad Bob's mother used to make - very sketchy directions but you get the idea. This is also the recipe that uses the Bing Cherries that my cousin, Julie Martin , mailed to me at Christmas.

Ingredients:

1 pkg. Raspberry Jell-O

1 pkg. Cherry Jell-O

2 cans Bing cherries, sweet (drained)

1 small can crushed pineapple (drained, saving some for cream cheese topping)

1 cup nuts

2 bottles coca cola (cold)
She used coke that was sold in individual glass bottles. I imagine they held about same amount as our canned drinks of today.

Congeal

Then mix one 4 oz. pkg. cream cheese with a small amount of pineapple juice.

Sprinkle walnut or pecan pieces to top.

Tastes great!

Enjoy!

at The Daily Grind Museum, Mineral Wells, Texas May 20, 2008

Searching for Arthurs near Ducktown, Tennessee

2008-10-12T15:07:00.000-07:00

On top of a mountain near Sylco, Tennessee looking at the Ocoee River

This is in the Cherokee National Forest just northwest of Ducktown. Bob and I were on the road to the old Arthur Community and the Sylco Cemetery. It was a beautiful place.

Photos taken April 30, 2003 by Judy Shubert

No, we didn't find the Sylco Cemetery. I think that it may be overgrown by now or maybe we made a wrong turn somewhere. But like Linda Kay tells me, "Judy, you KNOW they're not there." She loves to tease me about my hunting out cemeteries!

A Miner’s Shoes and Overalls

We spent the night in Ducktown and decided to go to a museum we ran across. These miner’s shoes and overalls were found in the Burra Burra Mining Museum. Just around the corner from this display was an entrance to one of the mining shafts. Those miners had more stamina and guts than I have!

This photo was taken inside the Mining Museum at the Copper Basin in Ducktown, Tennessee. The man giving Bob and I the tour gave me permission to take the photo. He said the workers in the mines were a happy lot and most of the copper mining accidents were single occurances, not accidents that will trap several men at one time as you see in the coal mines because they are mined differently. Bob had asked about that because his great-grandmother's younger brother died in the Muscat mine in 1910. He was only around 28 years old. (More about that later.)

This is a closer look at those folks in the previous picture. Just wish their faces were clearer!

Bob said he felt we were in a time-warp!

Imagine our surprise to round one of those horse-shoe turns up on top of the mountain near Ducktown, Tennessee and see this coming toward you. They were so nice and hated that they "couldn't rightly tell us where that Arthur cemetery was".

I lightened the photo up some trying to see the 2 gentlemen a little better.

You can't imagine how excited I was when I first saw them coming down the road. This reminded me of our ancestors coming across the plains in those Prairie Schooners. There is a story about Grandpa Harvey Puckett and Grandma Alice and Indians and camping overnight! That story reminds me, too, of these two gentlemen. You can find that story in Chapters 1 and 2 of Irene Gailey Stone's Memories – “Grandma in Her Bonnet.”

Carson Newman Men's Letter Club

2008-10-12T07:41:00.000-07:00

Men's Letter Club

"Composed of all men who wear the Varsity C.-N. Monogram in athletics, the Men's Letter Club is active in promoting the interests of the varsity sports and also provides a means of sharing common interests in the world of athletics."

Taken from a 1940 Appalachian
Carson-Newman College Yearbook
Jefferson City, Tennessee
Published by the Senior Class
Yearbook belonging to Ray Allen Shubert, Class of 1941

My father-in-law, Ray Allen Shubert, is in the front row, second from the left. He was a student of Carson-Newman from 1938-1941.

1941 Carson Newman Graduate Ray Allen Shubert Deceased - September 8, 1917 - January 17, 2003

2008-10-12T06:45:00.000-07:00

Ray Allen Shubert
1940
Carson Newman College
Jefferson City, Tennessee

Death Notice
The Tennessean, Sunday, January 19, 2003
Nashville, Tennessee

SHUBERT, RAY ALLEN – Age 85, January 17, 2003. He was born September 8, 1917 in Lenoir City, TN. Mr. Shubert was a graduate of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN. While there he met his wife, Marilee Davis. They were married September 27, 1941. He was captain of the Carson-Newman football team, played on the baseball team and was inducted into the Carson-Newman Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. He served as President of the Men’s Student Government. He also served in the U. S. Navy in 1941 and retired from Eaton Laboratories. He and his wife were active members of the First Baptist Church of Nashville for more than 50 years.

Mr. Shubert was preceded in death by his wife, Marilee and parents Henry E. and Martha Conner Shubert of Lenoir City, TN. He is survived by sons, Robert A. (Judy) Shubert of Fort Worth, TX and William H. Shubert of Brentwood, TN; one daughter, Leta (John) Sproule of Franklin, TN; sisters, Helen (Paul) Dutton, Alyce (Harold) Proaps, Lucille Gardner-Greene, and Berniece Walker, all of Lenoir City, TN; brother, R. H. Shubert of Knoxville, TN.

Grandchildren are Brandy Shubert of Bowling Green, KY; David (Tammy) Shubert of Andalusia, AL; Gail (Troy) Blalock of Caldwell, NC; Michael (Shannon) Shubert of Mt. Pleasant, TX; Jonathon Shubert of Brentwood, TN; Clint Wilder, Shannan Saratella Shubert, and Lacey (Joseph) Dozier, all of Nashville. Services will be held on Monday, January 20, 2003 at 10 a.m. with Dr. Frank Lewis officiating at the Broadway Chapel of Roesch Patton Brentwood Funeral Home. 1715 Broadway, Nashville.

The family will receive friends on Sunday, January 19, 2003 from 2-4 p.m., also at the funeral home. Honorary Pallbearers are members of the Koinonia Sunday School Class. Services will also be conducted in Lenoir City, on Tuesday, with interment to follow at the City Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Parkinson’s Disease Association. Broadway Chapel of Roesch Patton Brentwood Funeral Home. 1715 Broadway. (615) 244-6480.

Henry Milton (Mitchell) Shubert - March 07, 1839-June 01, 1915

2008-10-10T05:17:00.000-07:00

Back of Photo reads: Nancy Ann Shubert
Blaine Plemons, cousin
Henry Shubert

My search for the Shubert ancestors began with my husband’s great-great-grandfather, Henry “Mitt” Shubert. The search was compelling because my husband’s father told us he had come to the United States from Austria in 1842 when he was a small child. The combination of Austria and the name Shubert was intriguing enough to make me long to find proof of this, even though at the time I knew nothing of genealogy and researching various documents and census records.

The search led me to South Carolina and a Robert Shoebird and his wife, Lydia. My father-in-law had never seen a copy of any census and when I showed him the copy of the microfiche page where Robert and Lydia’s names appeared he nearly cried. He was amazed. He said, “There, that’s (Milton) my great-grandfather.” He knew and had already given me all of the other names of the children and parents that appeared in the census. I felt that was a pretty good indication that I had the right family. But, then again, I was new at genealogy.

This census record seemed to prove to us that Mitt was not born in Austria, but in Tennessee; that his father and mother were born in South Carolina, unless they fabricated a story for the census taker. I have not been able to track them further back than this 1850 census.

A photo given to my husband by Loma Schubert Rodgers has Blaine Plemons, "cousin", with Henry M. Shubert and Nancy Ann Parks Shubert. This could be the son of Nancy's daughter, Carrie, and L.M. Plemons. The photo shows Mitt in what the owner of the picture called his military uniform. He did serve in the Civil War with the Union Tennessee Volunteers.

Nancy Ann Parks Shubert was Henry’s second wife whom he married April 04, 1881 in Loudon County, Tennessee, after Henry’s first wife (my husband’s great-great-grandmother) Mornan Matilda Jenkins, died on November 03, 1878.

The 1890 Civil War Veterans census indicated that a Nancy A. was to receive benefits. Nancy A. was 10 years younger than Henry. Her daughter, Dialtha Parks, by her previous marriage to James Parks was married to Henry's son, Jacob Pearson Shubert. Another of Nancy's daughters, Carrie Parks, married L.M. Plemons.

My husband and I have spent many hours looking for information and learning about this very interesting family. Family tidbits picked up here and there to be shared with you as time goes by.

Robert Shoebird Born in South Carolina in 1805

2008-09-23T07:48:00.000-07:00

According to the 1850 census Robert Shoebird was born in South Carolina in 1805 and married Lydia Reynolds, born in 1807 in South Carolina. The information given to the census taker may have been given by a child in the home. It listed the following children of Robert Shoebird and Lydia Reynolds and their age:

1850 Roane Co. Census, 248-259, P. ff 339, 30 Aug. 1850
SHOEBIRD, Robert, 45, Male, born SC
Lydia, 43, Female, born SC
Elizabeth, 15, Female, born TN
Nancy, 12, Female, born TN, Deaf
Fanny, 10, Female, born TN
Milton, 8, Male, born TN
Daniel, 6, Male, born TN
Margaret, 4, Female, born TN
Elvira, 1, Female, born TN

The birth year of all of Robert and Lydia Shoebird's children except Milton was calculated based on the above census information. Henry M.'s birth year was listed in Family Bible as 1839 which would have made him 11 on this census.

The Sevier County census of 1840 shows Robert Shubird on p. 188 and Charles Shubird on p. 184.
1840 Sevier Co. Census (No date or numbers noted.)
SHUBIRD, Robert, 30-40, b. 1800-1810
1 Female, 30-40, b. 1800-1810
1 Male, Under 5, b. 1835-1840
2 Females, Under 5, b. 1835-1840
2 Females, 5-10, b. 1830-1835
1 Male, 5-10, b. 1830-1835
2 Males, 10-15, b. 1825-1830

1860 ROANE CO. MORTALITY CENSUS SCHEDULE: A listing of deaths for the year ending 30 June 1860. Kingston City Library. Page 4, Entry 5: Rbt. Shubart, age 58, married, b. SC, d. Oct. (1859), Laborer, died of pneumonia after a 14 day illness.

Schubert and Wells Genealogy, written by W.B. Howerton Kingston, TN, September 1987

From Henry Mitchell Shubert's Civil War pension file which was obtained from the National Archives, Washington, D.C.: Sheet 14. Death Certificate Copy by L.B. Johnson, Registor, Dist. 47404. Henry M. Shubert, d. 1 June 1915, age 76 years. (2) Father's name: ROBERT SHUBERT. (3) Mother's maiden name: LYDIE REYNOLDS (4). Informant: Nancy Shubert.

Schubert and Wells Genealogy, written by W.B. Howerton Kingston, TN, September 1987

This Robert Shoebird is my husband, Robert "Bob" Allen Shubert's, 3rd great-grandfather. His son, Henry Mitchell Shubert, listed as Milton in the 1850 Census above, was Bob's 2nd great-grandfather.

Robert Henry Shubert & Bobby Shubert - Uncle & Nephew

2008-07-31T16:23:00.000-07:00

This is a favorite picture of my husband, Robert Allen "Bobby" Shubert, born in 1942 Knoxville, Tennessee and his uncle, Robert Henry "R. H." Shubert, born in 1925 in Lenoir City, Tennessee. R. H. was in the Navy and was apparently home on leave. Bobby is the son of his brother, Ray Allen Shubert. This picture was taken in Lenoir City around the year 1945.

Enhanced Indexes to the U. S. Censuses

2008-07-21T21:08:00.001-07:00

FamilySearch and Ancestry.com Team to
Publish New Images and Enhanced Indexes to the U.S. Censuses

This announcement has already been posted on other genealogy blogs. I ran across it tonight on The Accidental Genealogist blog at http://theaccidentalgenealogist.blogspot.com/

SALT LAKE CITY—Ancestry.com and FamilySearch, the two largest online family history resources, announced today they will exchange records and resources to make more historical records available online. The first project is a joint initiative to significantly enhance the online U.S. Federal Census Collection (1790 to 1930). The original census records are among the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

FamilySearch is digitally converting master microfilm copies of the original U.S. Federal Censuses from 1790 through 1930 and, under this agreement, will give these improved images to Ancestry.com. All census images and indexes will be available on Ancestry.com for subscribers. As projects are completed, images will be available for free in NARA reading rooms and FamilySearch’s 4,500 Family History Centers.

Ancestry.com, which currently offers indexes and images to the entire publicly available U.S. Federal Census Collection, will give FamilySearch copies of its existing census indexes. Through its online indexing system and community of volunteer indexers, FamilySearch is already indexing select censuses. FamilySearch will merge the Ancestry.com indexes with the new FamilySearch indexes to create enhanced census indexes, which will be added to both sites. Indexes to the enhanced censuses will be free on Ancestry.com for a limited time as they are completed. Indexes will also be available for free on FamilySearch.org.

Allen Weinstein, the Archivist of the United States, welcomed this agreement as a significant benefit for researchers. He remarked that, “Census records are among the most important documents the American people have to trace their genealogy and know their family history. Having two of our partners working together to enhance the indexes and images of these essential documents will enable an unprecedented level of access and understanding.”

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You can read this article in its entirety on The Accidental Genealogist by Lisa Alzo, a genealogist and writer currently residing in New York.

Marilee Davis Shubert - March 19, 1923 - January 11, 2000

2008-05-27T07:32:00.000-07:00

Marilee Davis Shubert

Picture taken 1940 at age of 18
Carson Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee

Restored Photo done by Fred Tyson, Franklin, Tennessee 12-04-2008

Her obituary dated Thursday, January 13, 2000, appeared in the Blount County Daily Times, the Lenoir City newspaper, and the Nashville Banner.

Marilee Shubert, age 76, died Tuesday, January 11. She was born March 19, 1923 in Sweetwater, TN. She is survived by her husband, Ray Allen Shubert; three children; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Shubert graduated from Porter High School in Blount County and attended Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN. While there she met her husband, Ray Shubert. They were married September 27, 1941. She is a retiree of the Southern Baptist Convention, Seminary Extension Division; she is also a retired worker in the Sunday School Department of Nashville First Baptist Church. She and her family have been active members of First Church for more than 50 years.

She is survived by two sons, Robert A. (Judy) Shubert of Fort Worth, Texas, William H. Shubert of Brentwood, TN; and one daughter, Leta (John) Sproule of Franklin, TN; sister, Suzanne (Ernest) Kerr of Maryville; and a brother, William Spence (Phyllis) Davis of Chattanooga; grandchildren include David (Tammy) Shubert of Andalusia, Alabama, Michael (Shannon) Shubert of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Gail (Troy) Blalock of Caldwell, North Carolina, Jonathon Shubert of Brentwood, Shannan Shubert, Clint Wilder, Lacey (Joseph) Dozier and Brandy (Andy) Yarbrough of Nashville. She was preceded in death by her parents, William Spence Davis of Maryville, and Leola Hitch Ray of Orlando, Florida.

There will be a memorial service for Mrs. Shubert at the First Baptist Chuch, 7th and Broadway, Nashville, on Saturday, January 15, at 1 p.m. The family will receive friends one hour before the service at the church. Pastor Dr. Frank Lewis and retired pastor Dr. Franklin Paschall will officiate at the memorial service. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to your favorite charity.

Robert Henry Shubert - January 7, 1925 - April 23, 2008

2008-05-27T07:31:00.001-07:00

From left to right: Alyce Shubert Proaps, Bunnie Shubert Walker,
R. H. Shubert, Helen Shubert Dutton, and Lucille Shubert Gardner Green
Children of Henry Estel Shubert and Martha Ann Conner Shubert
Photo taken during a Shubert Gathering September 25, 2005 in Lenoir City, Tennessee

OBITUARY OF ROBERT H. SHUBERT
April 23, 2008

Shubert, Robert H. - age 83, of Seymour, passed away Wednesday, April 23, 2008. He retired from KUB after 49 years of service. He was a veteran of the US Navy serving during World War II. He served in the South Pacific. Preceded in death by wife, Bonnie Shubert; daughter, Nancy Ballard; parents, Henry and Martha Shubert; brother, Ray Shubert; sister, Helen Dutton.

SURVIVORS
Survived by son, Ray and wife Ginny Shubert of Seymour; granddaughter, Erin Shubert of New York City, NY; grandson, Matt Ballard and wife, Michele of Seymour; great-granddaughters, Jordan and Reid Ballard; sisters, Lucille Greene, Bernice Walker, Alyce Proaps, all of Lenoir City; special friends, Fred Chadwick and family; several nieces and nephews.

SERVICE
Family and friends will meet at Highland South Cemetery at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, April 26, 2008 for a graveside service with Dr. Chad Rittenhouse officiating. Family will receive friends Saturday, April 26, 2008 from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at Berry Funeral Home Chapel. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The American Cancer Society or the charity of your choice. A guestbook and additional information is available at www.berryfuneralhome.com and you are invited to share your thoughts and memories of Robert at his memorial website at www.MeM.com. Arrangements by Berry Funeral Home, Chapman Highway.

Paul H. Dutton - 1922 - September 10, 2007

2008-05-27T07:29:00.000-07:00

Paul H. Dutton, Lenoir City, Tennessee
Circa 1945

OBITUARY
Click Funeral Home, 109 Walnut Street, Lenoir City, Tennessee

Paul H. Dutton age 85 of Lenoir City, passed away Monday, September 10, 2007 at his home. Paul was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. He was retired from his own construction business. He was a 50 year member of Avery Masonic Lodge 593 F & AM and the Shriners. Paul was a veteran of World War II serving in the U. S. Army.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Rev. C. M. and Freddie Jane Dutton; brothers, Ashley Dutton and wife, Mary, Arthur Dutton and wife, Juanita; sisters, Mary Gustafson and husband, Harry, Ruth Eldridge and husband, Ralph. Paul is survived by his wife of 67 years, Helen Shubert Dutton; daughters, Paul Ann Baker, Betsy Lynn Munsey and husband, Steve all of Lenoir City; granddaughters, Carla Culpepper and husband, Phillip of Knoxville and Lisa Holmes of Oak Ridge; grandson, Christopher Munsey and wife, Cindy of Knoxville; great grandchildren: Briana Holmes, Taylor and Caleb (Bubba) Munsey, Carissa (C. C.) Culpepper; sister, Anna Lee Preston of Loudon; special in-laws: Alyce Proaps, Lucille Greene, Bunnie Walker and R. H. Shubert along with many beloved nieces, nephews and friends.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday with funeral services to follow at 8 p.m. in the Click Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Eddie Click and Rev. Donny Crass officiating. Serving as pallbearers: Fred Shaver, Phillip Culpepper, Lee Roy Dutton, Charlie Henderson, Chris Munsey and Jeff Laughlin. Serving as honorary pallbearers: Deacons of Calvary Baptist Church. Family and friends will gather at Click Funeral Home by 1:30 p.m. Thursday and proceed to Lenoir City Cemetery for 2 p.m. graveside services with military honors conferred by the Loudon County Veteran's Honor Guard. Click Funeral Home, 109 Walnut Street, Lenoir City is serving the Dutton family.

Helen Shubert Dutton - May 21, 1920 - March 6, 2008

2008-05-27T07:27:00.000-07:00

Paul H. and Helen Shubert Dutton
Photo taken on the Occasion of their 67th Wedding Anniversary
September 2007 - Lenoir City, Tennessee

OBITUARY

Helen Shubert Dutton, age 87 of Lenoir City, passed away peacefully Thursday, March 6, 2008, at her home. Helen was a faithful member of Calvary Baptist Church since 1941. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, Paul H. Dutton; parents, Henry and Martha Shubert; and her brother, Ray Shubert.

Helen is survived by her daughters, Paul Ann Baker, Betsy Lynn Munsey and husband, Steve all of Lenoir City; granddaughters, Carla Culpepper and husband, Phillip of Knoxville and Lisa Holmes of Oak Ridge; grandson, Christopher Munsey and wife, Cindy of Knoxville; great-grandchildren: Briana (Bree) Holmes, Taylor and Caleb (Bubba) Munsey, Carissa (C.C.) Culpepper; sisters: Alyce Proaps, Lucille Greene, Bunnie Walker all of Lenoir City; and brother, R.H. Shubert of Seymour; sister-in-law, Anna Lee Preston of Loudon along with many beloved nieces, nephews and friends.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday with funeral services to follow at 3 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church with Rev. Donny Crass, Rev. Charlie Henderson and Rev. Bill Wilkinson officiating. Serving as pallbearers: Phillip Culpepper, Fred Shaver, George A. Gardner, Jim Gardner, Mike Pickell, Tom Walker, Larry Walker and Terry Holder. Serving as honorary pallbearers: Deacons and wives of Calvary Baptist Church and her Sunday School class. Family and friends will proceed to the Lenoir City Cemetery for graveside services. Memorials may be made to Calvary Baptist Church or the charity of your choice. Click Funeral Home, 109 Walnut Street, Lenoir City is serving the Dutton family. www.clickfuneralhome.com
Published in the Knoxville News Sentinel on 3/7/2008.