Hello to all, Thought some of you might be interested in the following articles found in the Fannin County History book. I used my text-bridge program to scan the articles into my computer .... so if you find any typos, blame my computer! I know part of this material has been gone over many times before by some of you, but hope it is of some interest. Diane Carney ****************************************************** From: FACETS OF FANNIN A HISTORY OF FANNIN COUNTY, GEORGIA PUBLISHED BY CURTIS MEDIA CORPORATION DALLAS, TEXAS 1989 ISBN: 0-88107-147-1 Page: 486 QUEEN, ALBERT LEE, SR. F446 Albert Lee Queen, also known as Ab, was the son of Synthia Rash and Alford B. Queen. Synthia, born September 14, 1843, died May 3,1905, is buried in Mobile Baptist Church Cemetery. Alford died at the home of his son Tom in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and is buried there. Alford was one of several children (some say twelve boys and four girls). We only know some of their names. Those known are (not in order of age) Alford, John, George Washington, Isaac, Charlie, Lewis, Jerry, and a girl, Nicie. Four of these brothers fought in the Civil War in the Confederate Army. Alford and George Wash-ington were two of the boys who served, but we are not sure of the others. Their parents were Isaac and Ruth Hunt Queen who were married May 24, 1832, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, by Bondsman Joseph J. Denney. The marriage was witnessed by Joseph Taylor. Isaacs parents were George Queen and Betsey Queen who were married in 1818 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. George or Betsey was the son or daughter (not sure of parentage) of Meredith Queen and Jene Wedan who were married February 16, 1797 in Rutherford County, North Caroli-na, by Bondsman Benjamin Newton, with Samuel Carpenter as witness. Merediths father was probably William Queen of Virginia. Albert (Ab) Queen was born to Alford and Synthia Rash Queen on December 31, 1867, in Union County, Georgia. Ab died October 3, 1951, and is buried in the Mobile Baptist Church cemetery where many of the Queen family have been buried. Ab was one of six children. The others are John, Emory (married Vinie Walker), Tom (married Alice Ammons), Mary (married Tom Talley), Vennie (married Frank Davidson). Albert Lees first wife was Martha Walker, daughter of Rev. John Walker and Mary Elizabeth Simpson Walker of Union County, Georgia. She was a sister of his brother Emorys wife, Vinie. Ab and Martha had two daughters, Lula and Vinie, and two sons, Jess and Garnett. One baby died in infancy. When Martha died in 1901, Ab later married Ellen Louvenna Walker, Marthas sister. Their F446 children are Oscar, Claude, Deward, Frankie, Hoyl, Albert Lee, Ethel, James and Charles, who died at age four months. Ellen died November 23, 1955, and is buried in Mobile Cemetery. Ab moved his family to Fannin County in the early 1900s to take advantage of work opportunities offered by Tennessee Copper and Ducktown Coal and Iron Companies. He worked in some of the mines and walked to work. This work was probably at the # 20 mine, for he lived in the Madola Community. He was a member of the Mobile Baptist Church and was song leader there. Mobile Church held services on the fourth Sunday of each month and Lebanon Baptist Church on the third Sunday, so he went to both churches. He was also active in other commu-nity affairs. At one time he was a Notary Public and a Justice of the Peace and practiced as a defense lawyer for persons needing his help. He ran the general store, mill and post office in Madola on Little Fightingtown Creek (sometimes called Patterson Creek). The store sold everything from groceries to fertilizers. Orders were taken for fertilizer needs from the farmers and placed for shipment by rail to Galloway Station. The farmers were notified of the arrival of the fertilizer car, and they sometimes picked up their own order at the railway station. The rest was hauled to the store at Madola to be picked up when needed. Ab and his family later moved their church membership to Lebanon Baptist Church where, throughout his years there, the church progressed through three wooden structures. In 1946 when plans were in the making for the brick structure, he was one of two active deacons. When more deacons were needed, his son Deward was one of the group selected and still serves as a deacon today. Later Abs son James was ordained to the ministry and now serves as pastor of the Mobile Baptist Church. Abs children and their marriages are as follows: 1. Lula married Monford Trowbridge of Blyth, Georgia. They have one daughter, LuIa. 2. Jess married Iva Waldon of Fannin County. Their two daughters are Gurtha and Mildred. His second marriage was to Maude Pettigo Cantrell of Akron, Ohio. She had two daughters whom Jess adopted: Joy and Frances. 3. Garnett married Elsie Russell of Fannin County. They had four sons: Eugene, Ezell, Delane, and Ray who was killed in the Korean War; their two daughters are Pauline Queen Buttram and Peggy Queen Galloway. 4. Vinie married Carl Thomas of Fannin County. They had two sons, Harold and Grady, and four daughters, Miriam, Helen, Verda, and Blanche (who died as a child). 5. Oscar married Rexie Caldwell of May-field, Kentucky. They had no children. 6. Claude married Edmona Stiles of Fannjn County. Their one daughter, Edna Louise, died at age four months. Their six sons are Claude, jr., Jack, Bill, Lee, Wayne and Ronnie. 7. Deward married Delsie Norton of Fan-nm County. Their son, Donald, was killed in the Viet Nam Conflict in 1968. Their two daughters are Ora Faye and Martha. 8. Frankie married Homer Earley of Fan-nm County. Their children are son Hubert and three daughters, Marilyn, Linda and Debris. 9. Hoyl married Ruby Galloway of Fannin County. Their two sons are H.G. and Ken-neth and their three daughters are Rexie, Imogene and Loretta. 10. Albert Lee, Jr. married Ruth Galloway (sister of Hoyls wife, Ruby). They had a daughter, Reta Ann, who died at the age of twenty months. Their five sons are Albert Lee III, Steve, Gary, Mike and Scott. 11. Ethel married J.B. Chastain of Fannin County. They have one daughter, Almarine. 12. James married Evelyn Ballew of Fan-nm County. They had two sons, Jimmy and Larry, and two daughters, Barbara and Carol. Only three of Albert Lee Queens children are alive in 1987: Deward Queen of Epworth, Ethel Queen Chastain of Cleveland, Tennes-see, and James Queen of Epworth, Georgia. by Mrs. Deward Queen Page: 487-488 QUEEN, ISAAC WILEY F448 Tracing the Queen family ancestral heritage from Scotland and Ireland, we shall begin this historical account of the heritage of the Isaac Wiley Queen family in Fannin County, Georgia, with William Queen in Virginia in 1749. (Georgia became a Colony in 1733.) The sons of William Queen were many, perhaps twenty-two, among whom was Meredith Queen who married Jene Widan on February 16, 1797 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. One of the children born to Meredith and Jene was George Queen who married Betsey on November 8, 1818 also in Rutherford County. One of the children born to George and Betsey was Isaac Queen, who married Ruth Hunt on May 21,1832 in Rutherford County. Isaac and Ruth had several children. Some names known to us are George Washington Queen, Alfred Queen, Isaac Queen, Louis Queen, Charlie Queen, John Queen, Jerry Queen and Nicey Queen, not necessarily in that birth order. The Isaac Wiley Queen hereinafter mentioned was a son of George Washington Queen. George served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War 1861- 1865. Isaac Wiley Queen came to Fannin County in 1877 from Union County at the age of nine years with his parents, George Washington and Sapphira Logan Queen, and his elder brother Virgil L. Queen. In Union County the Queens have lived along the Nottely River near the area we now know as Vogel State Park. Upon coming to Fannin County, they settled in the Mobile District on a farm on Fightingtown Creek off Madola Road. Four others, a brother and sisters were born: John Grayson Queen, Emma Sue Queen (Cole), Martha Elizabeth Queen (Leatherwood), and Mary Queen (Weeks). The children were educated some in Fannin County, completing the Blue Book Speller and then they periodi-cally returned to Blairsville and Young Harris, Georgia, staying with relatives in order to attend school. George, Sapphira and their children all attended the Mobile Bap-tist Church. All members of this family are interred at Mobile Baptist Church Cemetery. Isaac Wiley Queen (1868-1963) was a farmer and merchant. He owned and operated the I.W. Queen Grocery in Fry, Georgia. he served as Justice of the Peace of the Mobile District for many years and served as Mayor of Fry, Georgia, while it was an incorporated city. His wife was Mae Pulliam Queen (1890-1975) and they had eight children: one unnamed stillborn infant; Wayne Queen (lived and died in 1910); George Queen, now resides in Delray Beach, Florida; Geneva M. Queen (Griffith) and Lillian A. Queen (Anderson), now resides near Detroit, Michigan; Morris J. Queen, resides in Fannin County, Georgia; Isaac Wiley Queen, Jr. (1928-1965); and Martha Nell Queen (Thomas), resides in Forest Park, Georgia. Brother, Virgil L. Queen (1866-1903) was a miner. He married Mary Amanda Matthews Queen (1872-1956) and they had three children: Myrtle Q. Ainslie born April 1, 1897, who resides in the Bakertown section of McCaysville, Georgia; George Everett Queen (1900-1939); and Blanche Queen (1902-1906). Brother, John Grayson Queen (1870-1959) was a merchant, owning the J.G. Queen Grocery store in Copperhill, Tennessee, where the First National Bank is now located. He married Mary Louise Mull Queen (1877-1950) and they had four children: Emory Francis Queen (1897-1940); Howard G. Queen (1900-1904); Verda Q. Richards (1898-1967); and Gerturde Q. Thomason (1903-1985). Sister, Emma Sue Queen Cole (1872-1968) was a housewife, and married Robert M. Cole (1872-1925) and they had six children: Ear-nest Cole (1895-1926); Elmer Cole (1905-1952); Grayson Homer Cole (1908-1960); Mamie Cole Deweese and Claude B. Cole who reside in the Mobile community of Fannin County; and Ezra Cole who resides in Tucker, Georgia. Sister, Martha Elizabeth Queen Leatherwood (1877-1971) married James Eldridge Leatherwood (1888-1965). They had no children. She owned and operated a grocery store at her home in the Mobile community, formerly known as the old George Phillips homeplace property. Sister, Mary Ellen Queen Weeks (1880-197 1) married Lee C. Weeks (1879-1938). She was postmaster at Mobile Post Office, then known as Pierceville, Georgia. They had six children: an infant daughter born and died 1903; Hoyt Weeks (1908-1912); Emmett D. Weeks (1905-1973); J. Edward Weeks, who resides in the Mobile community of Fannin County; Howard Weeks, who resides in DeKalb County, Georgia; and George E. Weeks (1919-1986). The old Isaac Wiley Queen and Mae P. Queen homeplace is a present-day landmark in the Fry community of Fannin County, Georgia. It was originally constructed in 1876 by the Wiley Higdon family and has been the Queen family home for approximately sev-enty years. The home is a two-story white house on Old Mobile Road and is presently owned by Morris J. Queen, son of Isaac Wiley Queen and Mae P. Queen. Morris is married to Patricia A. Queen and they have restored the homeplace property. by Morris Queen Page: 488 QUEEN, SAMUEL AND MARGARET P449 In 1917 when the Santeetla Dam was backed up over the property of native Robbinsville, North Carolina families, many of the people in their search for land found their way to the east side of Fannin County, Georgia. One such family was Samuel Hardy Queen, born May 29, 1888, and his wife, Margaret Caroline Collins Queen, born Jan-uary 31, 1888. Sam and Maggie were married in Robbin-sville on May 9,1909 and along with their four older children, Ethel Mae, born February 17, 1910; Hazel Louise, born February 14, 1912; Annie Ellen, born December 16, 1913; and Rosa, born February 11, 1916, settled on a farm near Padena, Georgia on the old Dial Road. Sam was a farmer; however, he periodi-cally worked as a logger and helped with clearing and construction for Blue Ridge Dam. The Queens became parents of eight more children born in Fannin County: Pear-lie Quince, born February 7, 1918; Mary Roselle and Martha Claudell, born March 11, 1920; Mildred Lucille, born January 5, 1923; Alwayne, born January 11, 1926; Herbert Hoover, born January 14, 1928; Jack Hollis, born April 11, 1930; and Paul Jefferson, born April 27, 1932. Maggie Queen was deceased August 8, 1945. Sam lived thirty-four more years and passed away August 17, 1979. by Polly Queen