Forwarded message: Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 03:15:37 -0700 From: Mike Perry <mikeperry@skn.net> Reply-To: mikeperry@skn.net Organization: KCEOC To: PSPERRG@scifac.indstate.edu, PSPERRG@scifac.indstate.edu Subject: Sasser/Taylor Connections Dear Glenn, It has been a very interesting day- so interesting that I had to come to the office at almost mid night to e-mail you some of the information that I found out today. Also, this message will be my way of writing out my notes. Hawk Hale and his wife, (Ina) Faye Hale Hale, and Faye's sister, Lisle (pronounced "Lyle") came to Helen's today. They brought two copies of the picture of Hiram Moore and Susan Hammons Moore and their sons that we saw at Catherine's. The copies are for us. Faye Hale, Hawk' wife, whose maiden name was also Hale, and Lisle, who was never married, are related to us on the Sasser and Taylor side and have a wealth of information about both families. Faye is now 74 and said that she taught school in the one room schools at Cane Creek, Blackwater and Campground. Faye and Lisle are daughters of Allie Leddington who was the sister of Claudia Leddington Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame being married to Col. Harlan Sanders. Allie married a Hale (his first name doesn't appear to be in my notes). Anyway, Faye and Lisle are the great grandauters of Nicey Taylor who was Grandpap Clayborn Taylor's sister. Additionally, they are the great great grandaughters of Adin Sasser and on the other side (I'm not sure which) they are the great great great grandaughters of Jesse Sasser. They, Faye and Lisle, seem to know just about everyone in our lines and Lisle contended that she provided much of the information to sources that we know of, such as Cheryl Meecha. There were so many tidbits of information provided by them that I will from this point just try to make a list without attempting a formal narrative. Here goes: Lisle Hale lives at 2371 Blackwater Rd., London, Ky 40704 and her telephone number is (606)878-0370. Faye lives with Hawk at 308 West 1st St., London, Ky and their telephone number is (606)864-8940. They both invited visits or calls. They knew Aunt Lucy Standfield well. Lisle related that once when someone was talking with Aunt Lucy and referred to some person as the "meanest man in the world", Aunt Lucy corrected them and said "no, the meanest man in the world was my father, Clabe Taylor." Lisle's account of the posession of Henry Sasser's bible is that Rhoda Glass got it from Champ Sasser and never brought it back to him. Faye and Lisle's mother, Allie Leddington, was the daughter of Nancy Glass and her mother was Elizabeth Sasser Glass, the daugher of Jesse Sasser and Nan Gilbert. Lisle also said that Henry Sasser's bible was in the posession of some of the family and that it wasn't rightfully theirs. She said that Lucy Stanfield got it and sent it to Becky in Nebraska and that Lucy had gone to Rhoda's one day and just said "I'm taking this bible." Lisle said "I know this is true because Rhoda Glass told me so." Something flashes in my memory that Lisle may have said at first that Lucy went to Rhoda's after she died and said "I'm taking this bible." I'll ask Lisle about the matter as soon as possible. Faye and Lisle said the Wallace Gilber is buried at Tedders Creek on Big Richland upon the hill from the forks of the road. They said that there were about four graveyards up there. Wallace's grave they thought was marked. Susan Jones, Wallace Gilbert's wife, is buried in Jonesville, Virginia, according to their oral tradition. They tell that Susan asked Wallace to take her home to be buried with her people. Wallace took her while she was sick and he susposedly cried all the way there and back. Faye and Lisle say that they have been to the Jones Cemetery in Jonesville, Va and that it is a very old cemetery with practically no graves marked with only rocks. Lisle contends that Susan Jones' parents were Solomon Jones and Rhoda Smith. She says that there "are some who argue that Solomon's name was Issiac but I know that his name absolutely was Solomon." In regard to the Sasser's, Lisle and Faye strongly contend that their oral traditions have always held that they were French Huguenot's. They also say that their tradition has it the Sasser's were wealthy and either royalty or closely connected and that due to religious persecution, two of the boy children were smuggled to America by their governess. Faye and Lisle say that they had always heard that Jesse Sasser was giver poisoned buttermilk by a farm woman in Tennesee during the Civil War. They also say that Jesse Sasser's widow, Nancy Gilbert, is buried at Cane Creek down the road (Hale-Baker or Hopper Road) toward Hwy. 229 past the Dixon Sasser Cemetery and past Clabe Taylor's old farm off to the first road on the left known to them as Sled Road which goes to Sled Road Branch in Knox County and comes out just above Wallace Sasser's farm. (Glenn, this is the mud road that Daddy showed us and said that it took you over the hill to Blackwater.) Nancy Gilbert is buried on the Cane Creek side just a short distance up this Sled Road on the hill to the right. Nancy's grave was never marked and Faye and Lisle tell that someone had bull dozier work done that destroyed a lot of the graves stones. They also tell a horrible story that recently a minister from Texas and originally Oklahoma whose last name was Sasser was brought back and buried in what they believe to be Nancy Gilbert's grave. Yes, IN HER GRAVE! Hiram Moore was a drummer boy in the Civil War and was very young at the time of his enlistment according to Faye and Hawk. Faye says that she has the Moore line at least two generations farther back than James Moore who was Hiram's father. (She promised to make a copy for us.) Wallace Gilbert and Susan Jones' had a son Who was called Sol "Doc" Gilbert and he practiced medicine. Lisle says "he was the grandson of Solomon Jones" Lisle Hale says that their oral tradition has it that William Humfleet died within two miles of his home, getting to a house that she deduces was Jonathan Humfleet's. She says that he got to the house all ragged, torn and sick from the trip from the Union prison. In regard to questions about the parents of Cora Perry Sasser, wife of Wallace Sasser, Lisle and Faye say they are fairly sure that she was a sister of Charlie Perry who has a son still living by the name of Clovis Perry. Clovis and wife Beulah live at 2642 Blackwater Road and are listed in the telephone book with number(606)864-3222. Glenn, this is all of the information that my notes contain. Hawk, Faye and Lisle were very receptive to you and I visiting them and sharing more of their traditions. I sure wish that you could come back down here for a few days at least. I would like for our agenda to include: finding Wallace Gilbert's grave, interviewing Faye and Lisle, seeing Catherine again, finding the Nancy Gilbert Sasser's desecrated grave, traveling Sled Road from Cane Creek to Sled Road Branch, going to the Cobb cemetery on Tuttle Branch, and just, best of all, being together. I guess that I should close for now since it is 2:35 a.m. Sunday morning and Sherry will wonder why I'm still not home. Forgive all of the ramble-on sentences as well as the "rambling-on". Give all the tribe my regards and, most of all, my love. Michael ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) ****************************************