David, I am kin to the wades,my dad was Nelson Wade, his father was Robert Elvis Wade, his father was Samuel Perkins Wade and his father was Noah Wade Sr. I have been trying to locate Noah's grave and this the first clue I have had. Most of them lived around the Hardin and mcnairy Co Line. Thanks Robert Wade ----- Original Message ----- From: David Cagle<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net> To: Betty Stivers<mailto:BLS@g5i.net> Cc: tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Rebecca Wade Betty, There is very much a connection. You see that your William M. Wade and my Sarah Wade Whitlow were brothers and sisters and were children of Noah and Rebecca Satterfield Wade. That makes us some kind of cousins. Milton and Sarah Whitlow are buried on Whitlow Creek near the old Carrollville Ford of Indian Creek. Noah Wade who apparently died ca 1845 is buried about a mile northeast on the other side of Indian Creek, on or near his old home place. David ....... 2 Noah Wade 1780 - 1850 (1845?) ........... +Rebecca Satterfield 1793 - 1860 ................ 3 David Hampton Wade 1810 - 1878 .................... +Pamelia M Moseley 1815 - 1878 ......................... 4 Noah F Wade 1832 - 1912 ............................. +Linnie Parmelia Polk 1835 - 1910 ......................... 4 Thomas B Wade 1835 - ......................... 4 Pamelia A Wade 1838 - ......................... 4 John H Wade 1840 - ......................... 4 Mary J Wade 1843 - ......................... 4 Teressa Ann Wade 1845 - ......................... 4 Sarah F Wade 1848 - ................ 3 Sarah Wade 1812 - 1868 .................... +Milton Whitlow 1808 - 1870 ................ 3 Harvey B Wade 1813 - .................... +Amanda ................ 3 Nymphia Wade 1818 - ................ 3 William M Wade 1827 - 1882 .................... +Jane McCasland 1817 - 1892 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Stivers" <BLS@g5i.net<mailto:BLS@g5i.net>> To: <dcagle1@charter.net<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net>> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:46 PM Subject: Re: Rebecca Wade > Hello David, my name is Betty Asbille Stivers. I received this article > today. You said that Rebecca Wade was your 3x great grandmother. I have a > great grandmother named Rebecca Elizabeth Wade, she was married to William > Anderson Boroughs. Rebecca's parents were William Wade and Mary Jane > McCasland Wade. I am wondering if there could be a connection? > Sincerely, > Betty Asbille Stivers > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Cagle" <dcagle1@charter.net<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net>> > To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com>> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:00 AM > Subject: [TNHARDIN] Happy New Year from Cerro Gordo > > >> The following is an article that I wrote for the Courier about a year ago >> at this time of year. If your family lived at Cerro Gordo, you might >> find their name on the books John White kept from 1830 to 1845. In a few >> weeks, I have an article that I hope will be published in the Courier >> concerning The Pitts brothers and in particular, John Hardy Pitts who >> operated the store from about 1900 until 1955. If any of these are your >> relatives below, let me know and we will try to figure out where they >> lived if that is of interest. >> Happy New Year, >> David >> _________________ >> >> >> "The Store" >> At Cerro Gordo >> B. G. Brazelton in his "History of Hardin County" written in 1885, tells >> us that the first retail business was established in Hardin County when >> L. H. Broyles opened a store in a log house at James Hardin's place. His >> first sale was that of two wool hats for a buck each to Miss Nellie >> Thacker for her two boys, William and Shepherd Thacker. Broyles remained >> at this location for a year or so then moved to Hardinsville after the >> county seat was moved there in 1822. James Hardin continued to operate a >> ferry until his untimely death in 1826, after which his immediate family >> moved to Western Kentucky. About 1830 John White, probably from Bertie >> County NC, and Elisha Bryant purchased several acres of land which >> included the land where the present 94 years old, 90 by 100 feet brick >> building now stands at Cerro Gordo Landing. John and Elisha were in >> business there for about 11 years. Elisha Bryant died in May of 1841. >> John white continued to operate the store until he died in 1845. A! >> record of an Inventory and Sale of his estate gives us a glimpse of what >> people would buy from a frontier store in 1845 and at the same time gives >> many of the names of the citizens who lived in our community and a few >> form elsewhere. >> >> An inventory of the items to be sold at the estate sale of John White >> included 115 separate items with some items having as many as 120 units >> to as few as 1. Some unusual items were: 16 bottles paregoric; 8 vials >> laudanum; 1 scythe & cradle; 8 chamber pots; 120 gallons of whiskey; 1 >> spinning wheel; 18 pair shoes; 6 bear knives, the list goes on and >> includes guns, flints, caps, powder and shot and about anything you would >> need to survive on the frontier. Most people who where at the sale bought >> 1, 2 or perhaps 3 items. Those who bought the most appeared to be other >> merchants trying to get a good deal. Some of these merchants appear to >> have been: James Irwin - 17 items; P. S. Hawkins - 10; Margaret S. >> White - 56 (widow of John White); George Johnson - 20 (Administrator of >> John White's Estate); Alexander Russell - 21; and James S. Nichols - 9 >> items. My kinfolks who were purchasers were: Green H. Polk (the brother >> of my g/g/grandmother, Eliza Polk Cagle); Milton Whitlow (my g/g/! >> grandfather) and his brother, Paschal Whitlow. >> >> Following are a list of individuals that were doing business with John >> White on a routine bases. The first group had signed notes and promised >> to pay, while the second group had open accounts. These individuals >> should be a very good representative of the people who live in the north >> part of Hardin County as of 30th April 1845. >> >> John White was carrying a note on the following individuals: Archibald >> Pool; Thomas White; Harvey White; J. W. Ellis; Edly Shannon; D. H. Wade; >> Isaiah Brown; Redick White; E. Y. Hindly; Jonathan Courtney; Ebenezer >> Thompson; Peter White; Henry Tilley; G. W. Carter; Ezekiel Conley; >> William Winchester; Granville Alexander; James A. Bell; Jacob Reynolds; >> Thomas Caldwell; Woodson Wells; Abraham Branch; Berry Holland; Silas >> Oates; Joseph McMahan; John K. Orr; S. P. Bowls; Jesse Turner (my >> g/g/grandfather); Thomas S. Spencer; Joseph Howard; J. Y. Nichols; P. B. >> Hawkins; S. Brown; Joseph McMullin; William Williams; Phillip Harris; >> Williams Wells; Shepard Thacker; William Winchester; W. W. Mosley; John >> Turner; James McLin; Martin, H. Stephens; J. F. Garner; J. B. Hargrove; >> A. S. Brown; D. B. Beasley; A. Nesbitt; Samuel Smith; George Johnson; >> Thos White; Thos Thacker; William Wells; David Smith; John Cagle (my >> g/g/grandfather); E. T. Rousey; Joseph Damien; D. B. Beasley; Josiah >> Alexan! >> der; Thomas Holland; Thomas Layton; John McConnell; Wayne Hopkins; Garner >> Wade; James F. McCall; Isaac Wells; Needham Wells; S. B. Hargrove; Novel >> White; William West; Thomas White; Rix Randolph; Jacob Bost; Garrard >> Stephens; James S. Nichols; and James Barnett. >> >> John White, Book Accounts: Elijah Alexander; Dicey White; Joseph Wilson; >> A. Russell; Priscilla Layton; James A. Nichols; S. B. Hargrove; ?ama >> Hooker; Thomas Crotts;Samuel Newman; William Clark; Thos. L. Woodriver; >> R. R. Russell; Rix Randolph;W. McCurray; John D. Wells; Rob Russell; >> Jefferson Nichols; Fanny Gil; Leroy Blache; J. W. Findley; David Finch; >> Thomas Layton; Daniel McCall; Michel Kincannon; Wm. White; Granville >> Whitlow; Wm. Russell; Thos White; John Cagle (my g/g/grandfather); Garred >> Shelly; Elijah Kelly; Elizabeth Lee; Taylor Alexander; John Slaughter; >> Hugh McCall; A. Hutchens; H. G. Garner; L. Thacker; Thomas Holland; >> Redick White Sr.; Arch Pool; John Lane; Mary McConnell; James Went; >> Ephraim Churchwell; T. Joyce; D. H. Wade; Rebecca Wade, (my >> g/g/g/grandmother); Holt White; Thomas Martin; John Polk; Josiah Gattan; >> P. G. Nichols; Joseph Danville; Andrew Brown; T. G. Lee; U. L. Lee; >> Norbert Lee; William Wells; Williamson Wells; John McConnell; Charley >> Holland; Tom ! >> Hanes; Ezekiel Alexander(my g/g/g/grandfather); W. S. Alexander; Thos F. >> Pool; Marion Clifton; Widow Barry; Joseph McMullin; William Love and G.H. >> Polk. >> >> I have made an attempt to learn what happened to the store at Cerro Gordo >> Landing after the death of John White. We know from reading A. A. >> Watson's "Bits and Pieces of Hardin County History" that John was buried >> on top of the hill behind Hardy Pitts' garden. But who bought the store? >> >> On the 7th of April 1845, Margaret White (the widow) and George Johnson >> were appointed by the court as the administrators of the estate of John >> White. That is the source of the names listed just above. On the 7th of >> December 1846, George Johnson was appointed as the guardian of Marshall >> White; James D. White; Henry A. White; Isaac N, White; John White; Martha >> A. White; Emily C. White; Margaret A. White and George M. Dallas White, >> minor heirs of John White. The daughters became wards of their husbands >> as they were married: Martha to B. F. Guinn in 1855; Margaret to G. H. G. >> Penn in 1860 and Emily to J. S. Perry also in 1860. >> >> About 1846-48, James H. Filgo married the widow of John White. The 1850 >> census of Hardin Co., TN shows that family as follows: James H. Filgo, 28 >> NC; Margaret S. (White), 40 TN; Mary F. Filgo, 1 TN; Henry A. White, 19 >> TN; Martha A. White, 12 TN; Isaac W. White, 16 TN; Emily White. 9 TN; >> George M. D. White, 6 TN. Marshall White, age 22, a boatman was living >> in the household of Felix G. Lee of the 12th C. D., while James D. White, >> age 20, was living in the household of Lewis B. Parrish in the 4th C. D. >> In 1860, Margaret, age 18 is living with her husband, G. H. G. Penn, 23, >> a lawyer in Decatur County, while Martha, age 22, is living with husband, >> B. F. Guinn, a salesman in the 2nd C. D. James Filgo was the original >> owner of part of the old Cagle Home-Place where my parents were living >> when I was born 1940. He likely built the old board and batten house >> located on that tract where I spent the first three years of my life. >> >> The land of John White appears to have been parceled out. I am not sure >> how the land was sold, but apparently the John White Estate was divided >> into 8 parcels and the widow had a dower interest as well. C. S. Broyles >> obtained Margaret White Filgo's tract on 10 January 1851. Henry A. White >> also sold to C. S. Broyles; John White to Isaac White; James D. White and >> Frank Guinn, (B. F. Guinn, husband of Martha White) to Thomas D. Shelby . >> William H. Cherry later sold two tracts to R. D. Deford referred to as >> the Isaac White Tract and the Emily White Tract. All or most of this John >> White Land, that part which included Cerro Gordo Landing, appears to have >> been purchased by Conway Sevier Broyles who already owned about 1500 >> hundred acres nearby know as the Hardin Bottom and was formerly James >> Hardin property. Although I don't have the specifics, C. S. Broyles >> appears to have owned a mill, blacksmith and carpenter shop a gin and a >> store at Cerro Gordo Landing soon after John White di! >> ed. The 1850 census lists C. S. Broyles as a merchant. >> >> Beginning about 1876, Risden D. Deford and some of his family began to >> buy the property that had originally belonged to John White and Elisha >> Bryant. They bought most of the property from Conway Sevier Broyles, and >> some from William H. Cherry. The Defords, who already had a mill and >> other businesses at Olive Hill, were expanding their operations. However, >> on the 19th day of September of 1882, Risden D. Deford sold out at Cerro >> Gordo to E. B. Harbour for $5000, what amounted to 284.6 acres of land >> including mill and machinery, blacksmith and carpenter tools, >> storehouse-fixtures and furniture including safe, desk, and store >> showcase. E. B. Harbour who was married to Martha Frances Pitts of Hardin >> Creek, did quiet well in the mercantile business. He soon expanded his >> business to include operations in Paducah Kentucky requiring additional >> manpower to manages his properties. Harbour brought his nephews into the >> business- John Hardy, John Abrham, Barney Brownlow and Elijah Frankli! >> n Pitts. The business at Cerro Gordo became known as Harbour-Pitts >> Company. >> >> Business was so good as to outgrow the two-story white frame store >> building that sat in what is now Hardy Pitts' driveway immediately across >> Clifton Road from the existing brick store building. A new building was >> needed. I am guessing, about 1910 construction begin toward that goal. A >> brick kiln was set up on the top of the ridge east of the store, thus the >> bricks for the proposed building were made on site. By 1911, a new 90 by >> 100 feet two story brick building came out of the ground, having brick >> walls reported to be 5 or 6 layers thick. The new building was completed >> in 1912. The next year, Elisha B. Harbour sold his interest to his >> nephews. By deed recorded on the 8th of July 1913, Harbour transferred >> his holdings at Cerro Gordo to Harbour-Pitts Company which amounted to >> about 400 acres including Cerro Gordo Landing and other property. The >> Pitts Brothers continued to do well and eventually bought additional land >> at Cerro Gordo that once had belonged to C. S. Broyles and ! >> Amos Hardin. However, I think due in part to illness in the family, >> Harbour-Pitts Company sold their Cerro Gordo holdings to The Cerro Gordo >> Mercantile Company owned by E. P. Churchwell and son, this transaction >> being recorded on the 10th of February 1920 in Deed Book UU-565 in the >> Hardin County Courthouse. About two years later on the 16th of January >> 1922, this process was reversed, and The Cerro Gordo Mercantile Company >> deeded the property back to Harbour-Pitts Company. The "Store" remained >> with the Pitts family until it closed a few years ago. >> >> When I was growing up in the 40's and early 50's Pitts' Store was the >> place to go when you needed anything from groceries, hardware, seed, >> feed, dry goods, shoes, clothing, dishes, pots & pans, guns and >> ammunition, horse collars, wagons, and a little before my time, coffins. >> I remember as a youngster sneaking to the basement to see the two or >> three old coffins down there. One was reported to have been too short or >> too narrow and had been returned. It's still there. I got new shoes about >> once a year. Brogans--boy did they hurt my feet. It took forever to break >> in those new shoes, but after a mud hole or two and letting them settle >> to my feet, I guess it wasn't so bad. Those shoes never did feel just >> right until they were almost worn out. I'm sure you've been there. Then >> you had to begin the process again. I couldn't wait until spring to go >> barefooted. >> >> The Store survived as long as it did, in part, because of travel >> limitations. A 10 mile round trip was an all day affair driving mules and >> a wagon. The depression and the 2nd War did not help this problem as >> transportation was severely limited. However, the upside for everyone >> involved was that you could buy just about anything you needed at the >> store, also borrow money and mortgage your property if need be. The old >> Store that ceased operation about the turn of this century was a >> Wal-Mart, Lowes, a Bank and a Post Office all rolled into one and was >> located out in the center of our community. We didn't know we had it so >> good. >> >> David Cagle >> December 2006 >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: > 269.17.13/1206 - Release Date: 1/1/2008 12:09 PM > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Did any of these WADEs migrate to southern Indiana, particularly Posey, Pike and Gibson counties? My maternal line is WADE, RICKETTS and GOURLEY. Would appreciate any info. Thanks, Terry Winchester Evansville, IN WINCHESTER, PEERMAN, MOORE, ROWE, WADE, RICKETTS, GOURLEY Robert Wade <jwade9301@msn.com> wrote: David, I am kin to the wades,my dad was Nelson Wade, his father was Robert Elvis Wade, his father was Samuel Perkins Wade and his father was Noah Wade Sr. I have been trying to locate Noah's grave and this the first clue I have had. Most of them lived around the Hardin and mcnairy Co Line. Thanks Robert Wade ----- Original Message ----- From: David Cagle To: Betty Stivers Cc: tnhardin@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Rebecca Wade Betty, There is very much a connection. You see that your William M. Wade and my Sarah Wade Whitlow were brothers and sisters and were children of Noah and Rebecca Satterfield Wade. That makes us some kind of cousins. Milton and Sarah Whitlow are buried on Whitlow Creek near the old Carrollville Ford of Indian Creek. Noah Wade who apparently died ca 1845 is buried about a mile northeast on the other side of Indian Creek, on or near his old home place. David ....... 2 Noah Wade 1780 - 1850 (1845?) ........... +Rebecca Satterfield 1793 - 1860 ................ 3 David Hampton Wade 1810 - 1878 .................... +Pamelia M Moseley 1815 - 1878 ......................... 4 Noah F Wade 1832 - 1912 ............................. +Linnie Parmelia Polk 1835 - 1910 ......................... 4 Thomas B Wade 1835 - ......................... 4 Pamelia A Wade 1838 - ......................... 4 John H Wade 1840 - ......................... 4 Mary J Wade 1843 - ......................... 4 Teressa Ann Wade 1845 - ......................... 4 Sarah F Wade 1848 - ................ 3 Sarah Wade 1812 - 1868 .................... +Milton Whitlow 1808 - 1870 ................ 3 Harvey B Wade 1813 - .................... +Amanda ................ 3 Nymphia Wade 1818 - ................ 3 William M Wade 1827 - 1882 .................... +Jane McCasland 1817 - 1892 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Stivers" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:46 PM Subject: Re: Rebecca Wade > Hello David, my name is Betty Asbille Stivers. I received this article > today. You said that Rebecca Wade was your 3x great grandmother. I have a > great grandmother named Rebecca Elizabeth Wade, she was married to William > Anderson Boroughs. Rebecca's parents were William Wade and Mary Jane > McCasland Wade. I am wondering if there could be a connection? > Sincerely, > Betty Asbille Stivers > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Cagle" > > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:00 AM > Subject: [TNHARDIN] Happy New Year from Cerro Gordo > > >> The following is an article that I wrote for the Courier about a year ago >> at this time of year. If your family lived at Cerro Gordo, you might >> find their name on the books John White kept from 1830 to 1845. In a few >> weeks, I have an article that I hope will be published in the Courier >> concerning The Pitts brothers and in particular, John Hardy Pitts who >> operated the store from about 1900 until 1955. If any of these are your >> relatives below, let me know and we will try to figure out where they >> lived if that is of interest. >> Happy New Year, >> David >> _________________ >> >> >> "The Store" >> At Cerro Gordo >> B. G. Brazelton in his "History of Hardin County" written in 1885, tells >> us that the first retail business was established in Hardin County when >> L. H. Broyles opened a store in a log house at James Hardin's place. His >> first sale was that of two wool hats for a buck each to Miss Nellie >> Thacker for her two boys, William and Shepherd Thacker. Broyles remained >> at this location for a year or so then moved to Hardinsville after the >> county seat was moved there in 1822. James Hardin continued to operate a >> ferry until his untimely death in 1826, after which his immediate family >> moved to Western Kentucky. About 1830 John White, probably from Bertie >> County NC, and Elisha Bryant purchased several acres of land which >> included the land where the present 94 years old, 90 by 100 feet brick >> building now stands at Cerro Gordo Landing. John and Elisha were in >> business there for about 11 years. Elisha Bryant died in May of 1841. >> John white continued to operate the store until he died in 1845. A! >> record of an Inventory and Sale of his estate gives us a glimpse of what >> people would buy from a frontier store in 1845 and at the same time gives >> many of the names of the citizens who lived in our community and a few >> form elsewhere. >> >> An inventory of the items to be sold at the estate sale of John White >> included 115 separate items with some items having as many as 120 units >> to as few as 1. Some unusual items were: 16 bottles paregoric; 8 vials >> laudanum; 1 scythe & cradle; 8 chamber pots; 120 gallons of whiskey; 1 >> spinning wheel; 18 pair shoes; 6 bear knives, the list goes on and >> includes guns, flints, caps, powder and shot and about anything you would >> need to survive on the frontier. Most people who where at the sale bought >> 1, 2 or perhaps 3 items. Those who bought the most appeared to be other >> merchants trying to get a good deal. Some of these merchants appear to >> have been: James Irwin - 17 items; P. S. Hawkins - 10; Margaret S. >> White - 56 (widow of John White); George Johnson - 20 (Administrator of >> John White's Estate); Alexander Russell - 21; and James S. Nichols - 9 >> items. My kinfolks who were purchasers were: Green H. Polk (the brother >> of my g/g/grandmother, Eliza Polk Cagle); Milton Whitlow (my g/g/! >> grandfather) and his brother, Paschal Whitlow. >> >> Following are a list of individuals that were doing business with John >> White on a routine bases. The first group had signed notes and promised >> to pay, while the second group had open accounts. These individuals >> should be a very good representative of the people who live in the north >> part of Hardin County as of 30th April 1845. >> >> John White was carrying a note on the following individuals: Archibald >> Pool; Thomas White; Harvey White; J. W. Ellis; Edly Shannon; D. H. Wade; >> Isaiah Brown; Redick White; E. Y. Hindly; Jonathan Courtney; Ebenezer >> Thompson; Peter White; Henry Tilley; G. W. Carter; Ezekiel Conley; >> William Winchester; Granville Alexander; James A. Bell; Jacob Reynolds; >> Thomas Caldwell; Woodson Wells; Abraham Branch; Berry Holland; Silas >> Oates; Joseph McMahan; John K. Orr; S. P. Bowls; Jesse Turner (my >> g/g/grandfather); Thomas S. Spencer; Joseph Howard; J. Y. Nichols; P. B. >> Hawkins; S. Brown; Joseph McMullin; William Williams; Phillip Harris; >> Williams Wells; Shepard Thacker; William Winchester; W. W. Mosley; John >> Turner; James McLin; Martin, H. Stephens; J. F. Garner; J. B. Hargrove; >> A. S. Brown; D. B. Beasley; A. Nesbitt; Samuel Smith; George Johnson; >> Thos White; Thos Thacker; William Wells; David Smith; John Cagle (my >> g/g/grandfather); E. T. Rousey; Joseph Damien; D. B. Beasley; Josiah >> Alexan! >> der; Thomas Holland; Thomas Layton; John McConnell; Wayne Hopkins; Garner >> Wade; James F. McCall; Isaac Wells; Needham Wells; S. B. Hargrove; Novel >> White; William West; Thomas White; Rix Randolph; Jacob Bost; Garrard >> Stephens; James S. Nichols; and James Barnett. >> >> John White, Book Accounts: Elijah Alexander; Dicey White; Joseph Wilson; >> A. Russell; Priscilla Layton; James A. Nichols; S. B. Hargrove; ?ama >> Hooker; Thomas Crotts;Samuel Newman; William Clark; Thos. L. Woodriver; >> R. R. Russell; Rix Randolph;W. McCurray; John D. Wells; Rob Russell; >> Jefferson Nichols; Fanny Gil; Leroy Blache; J. W. Findley; David Finch; >> Thomas Layton; Daniel McCall; Michel Kincannon; Wm. White; Granville >> Whitlow; Wm. Russell; Thos White; John Cagle (my g/g/grandfather); Garred >> Shelly; Elijah Kelly; Elizabeth Lee; Taylor Alexander; John Slaughter; >> Hugh McCall; A. Hutchens; H. G. Garner; L. Thacker; Thomas Holland; >> Redick White Sr.; Arch Pool; John Lane; Mary McConnell; James Went; >> Ephraim Churchwell; T. Joyce; D. H. Wade; Rebecca Wade, (my >> g/g/g/grandmother); Holt White; Thomas Martin; John Polk; Josiah Gattan; >> P. G. Nichols; Joseph Danville; Andrew Brown; T. G. Lee; U. L. Lee; >> Norbert Lee; William Wells; Williamson Wells; John McConnell; Charley >> Holland; Tom ! >> Hanes; Ezekiel Alexander(my g/g/g/grandfather); W. S. Alexander; Thos F. >> Pool; Marion Clifton; Widow Barry; Joseph McMullin; William Love and G.H. >> Polk. >> >> I have made an attempt to learn what happened to the store at Cerro Gordo >> Landing after the death of John White. We know from reading A. A. >> Watson's "Bits and Pieces of Hardin County History" that John was buried >> on top of the hill behind Hardy Pitts' garden. But who bought the store? >> >> On the 7th of April 1845, Margaret White (the widow) and George Johnson >> were appointed by the court as the administrators of the estate of John >> White. That is the source of the names listed just above. On the 7th of >> December 1846, George Johnson was appointed as the guardian of Marshall >> White; James D. White; Henry A. White; Isaac N, White; John White; Martha >> A. White; Emily C. White; Margaret A. White and George M. Dallas White, >> minor heirs of John White. The daughters became wards of their husbands >> as they were married: Martha to B. F. Guinn in 1855; Margaret to G. H. G. >> Penn in 1860 and Emily to J. S. Perry also in 1860. >> >> About 1846-48, James H. Filgo married the widow of John White. The 1850 >> census of Hardin Co., TN shows that family as follows: James H. Filgo, 28 >> NC; Margaret S. (White), 40 TN; Mary F. Filgo, 1 TN; Henry A. White, 19 >> TN; Martha A. White, 12 TN; Isaac W. White, 16 TN; Emily White. 9 TN; >> George M. D. White, 6 TN. Marshall White, age 22, a boatman was living >> in the household of Felix G. Lee of the 12th C. D., while James D. White, >> age 20, was living in the household of Lewis B. Parrish in the 4th C. D. >> In 1860, Margaret, age 18 is living with her husband, G. H. G. Penn, 23, >> a lawyer in Decatur County, while Martha, age 22, is living with husband, >> B. F. Guinn, a salesman in the 2nd C. D. James Filgo was the original >> owner of part of the old Cagle Home-Place where my parents were living >> when I was born 1940. He likely built the old board and batten house >> located on that tract where I spent the first three years of my life. >> >> The land of John White appears to have been parceled out. I am not sure >> how the land was sold, but apparently the John White Estate was divided >> into 8 parcels and the widow had a dower interest as well. C. S. Broyles >> obtained Margaret White Filgo's tract on 10 January 1851. Henry A. White >> also sold to C. S. Broyles; John White to Isaac White; James D. White and >> Frank Guinn, (B. F. Guinn, husband of Martha White) to Thomas D. Shelby . >> William H. Cherry later sold two tracts to R. D. Deford referred to as >> the Isaac White Tract and the Emily White Tract. All or most of this John >> White Land, that part which included Cerro Gordo Landing, appears to have >> been purchased by Conway Sevier Broyles who already owned about 1500 >> hundred acres nearby know as the Hardin Bottom and was formerly James >> Hardin property. Although I don't have the specifics, C. S. Broyles >> appears to have owned a mill, blacksmith and carpenter shop a gin and a >> store at Cerro Gordo Landing soon after John White di! >> ed. The 1850 census lists C. S. Broyles as a merchant. >> >> Beginning about 1876, Risden D. Deford and some of his family began to >> buy the property that had originally belonged to John White and Elisha >> Bryant. They bought most of the property from Conway Sevier Broyles, and >> some from William H. Cherry. The Defords, who already had a mill and >> other businesses at Olive Hill, were expanding their operations. However, >> on the 19th day of September of 1882, Risden D. Deford sold out at Cerro >> Gordo to E. B. Harbour for $5000, what amounted to 284.6 acres of land >> including mill and machinery, blacksmith and carpenter tools, >> storehouse-fixtures and furniture including safe, desk, and store >> showcase. E. B. Harbour who was married to Martha Frances Pitts of Hardin >> Creek, did quiet well in the mercantile business. He soon expanded his >> business to include operations in Paducah Kentucky requiring additional >> manpower to manages his properties. Harbour brought his nephews into the >> business- John Hardy, John Abrham, Barney Brownlow and Elijah Frankli! >> n Pitts. The business at Cerro Gordo became known as Harbour-Pitts >> Company. >> >> Business was so good as to outgrow the two-story white frame store >> building that sat in what is now Hardy Pitts' driveway immediately across >> Clifton Road from the existing brick store building. A new building was >> needed. I am guessing, about 1910 construction begin toward that goal. A >> brick kiln was set up on the top of the ridge east of the store, thus the >> bricks for the proposed building were made on site. By 1911, a new 90 by >> 100 feet two story brick building came out of the ground, having brick >> walls reported to be 5 or 6 layers thick. The new building was completed >> in 1912. The next year, Elisha B. Harbour sold his interest to his >> nephews. By deed recorded on the 8th of July 1913, Harbour transferred >> his holdings at Cerro Gordo to Harbour-Pitts Company which amounted to >> about 400 acres including Cerro Gordo Landing and other property. The >> Pitts Brothers continued to do well and eventually bought additional land >> at Cerro Gordo that once had belonged to C. S. Broyles and ! >> Amos Hardin. However, I think due in part to illness in the family, >> Harbour-Pitts Company sold their Cerro Gordo holdings to The Cerro Gordo >> Mercantile Company owned by E. P. Churchwell and son, this transaction >> being recorded on the 10th of February 1920 in Deed Book UU-565 in the >> Hardin County Courthouse. About two years later on the 16th of January >> 1922, this process was reversed, and The Cerro Gordo Mercantile Company >> deeded the property back to Harbour-Pitts Company. The "Store" remained >> with the Pitts family until it closed a few years ago. >> >> When I was growing up in the 40's and early 50's Pitts' Store was the >> place to go when you needed anything from groceries, hardware, seed, >> feed, dry goods, shoes, clothing, dishes, pots & pans, guns and >> ammunition, horse collars, wagons, and a little before my time, coffins. >> I remember as a youngster sneaking to the basement to see the two or >> three old coffins down there. One was reported to have been too short or >> too narrow and had been returned. It's still there. I got new shoes about >> once a year. Brogans--boy did they hurt my feet. It took forever to break >> in those new shoes, but after a mud hole or two and letting them settle >> to my feet, I guess it wasn't so bad. Those shoes never did feel just >> right until they were almost worn out. I'm sure you've been there. Then >> you had to begin the process again. I couldn't wait until spring to go >> barefooted. >> >> The Store survived as long as it did, in part, because of travel >> limitations. A 10 mile round trip was an all day affair driving mules and >> a wagon. The depression and the 2nd War did not help this problem as >> transportation was severely limited. However, the upside for everyone >> involved was that you could buy just about anything you needed at the >> store, also borrow money and mortgage your property if need be. The old >> Store that ceased operation about the turn of this century was a >> Wal-Mart, Lowes, a Bank and a Post Office all rolled into one and was >> located out in the center of our community. We didn't know we had it so >> good. >> >> David Cagle >> December 2006 >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: > 269.17.13/1206 - Release Date: 1/1/2008 12:09 PM > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

I am not sure but I will let you know if find anything. I have just started and I am trying to get organized. Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Winchester<mailto:tacticaltal@yahoo.com> To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Cc: tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Rebecca Wade Did any of these WADEs migrate to southern Indiana, particularly Posey, Pike and Gibson counties? My maternal line is WADE, RICKETTS and GOURLEY. Would appreciate any info. Thanks, Terry Winchester Evansville, IN WINCHESTER, PEERMAN, MOORE, ROWE, WADE, RICKETTS, GOURLEY Robert Wade <jwade9301@msn.com<mailto:jwade9301@msn.com>> wrote: David, I am kin to the wades,my dad was Nelson Wade, his father was Robert Elvis Wade, his father was Samuel Perkins Wade and his father was Noah Wade Sr. I have been trying to locate Noah's grave and this the first clue I have had. Most of them lived around the Hardin and mcnairy Co Line. Thanks Robert Wade ----- Original Message ----- From: David Cagle To: Betty Stivers Cc: tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Rebecca Wade Betty, There is very much a connection. You see that your William M. Wade and my Sarah Wade Whitlow were brothers and sisters and were children of Noah and Rebecca Satterfield Wade. That makes us some kind of cousins. Milton and Sarah Whitlow are buried on Whitlow Creek near the old Carrollville Ford of Indian Creek. Noah Wade who apparently died ca 1845 is buried about a mile northeast on the other side of Indian Creek, on or near his old home place. David ....... 2 Noah Wade 1780 - 1850 (1845?) ........... +Rebecca Satterfield 1793 - 1860 ................ 3 David Hampton Wade 1810 - 1878 .................... +Pamelia M Moseley 1815 - 1878 ......................... 4 Noah F Wade 1832 - 1912 ............................. +Linnie Parmelia Polk 1835 - 1910 ......................... 4 Thomas B Wade 1835 - ......................... 4 Pamelia A Wade 1838 - ......................... 4 John H Wade 1840 - ......................... 4 Mary J Wade 1843 - ......................... 4 Teressa Ann Wade 1845 - ......................... 4 Sarah F Wade 1848 - ................ 3 Sarah Wade 1812 - 1868 .................... +Milton Whitlow 1808 - 1870 ................ 3 Harvey B Wade 1813 - .................... +Amanda ................ 3 Nymphia Wade 1818 - ................ 3 William M Wade 1827 - 1882 .................... +Jane McCasland 1817 - 1892 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Stivers" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:46 PM Subject: Re: Rebecca Wade > Hello David, my name is Betty Asbille Stivers. I received this article > today. You said that Rebecca Wade was your 3x great grandmother. I have a > great grandmother named Rebecca Elizabeth Wade, she was married to William > Anderson Boroughs. Rebecca's parents were William Wade and Mary Jane > McCasland Wade. I am wondering if there could be a connection? > Sincerely, > Betty Asbille Stivers > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Cagle" > > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:00 AM > Subject: [TNHARDIN] Happy New Year from Cerro Gordo > > >> The following is an article that I wrote for the Courier about a year ago >> at this time of year. If your family lived at Cerro Gordo, you might >> find their name on the books John White kept from 1830 to 1845. In a few >> weeks, I have an article that I hope will be published in the Courier >> concerning The Pitts brothers and in particular, John Hardy Pitts who >> operated the store from about 1900 until 1955. If any of these are your >> relatives below, let me know and we will try to figure out where they >> lived if that is of interest. >> Happy New Year, >> David >> _________________ >> >> >> "The Store" >> At Cerro Gordo >> B. G. Brazelton in his "History of Hardin County" written in 1885, tells >> us that the first retail business was established in Hardin County when >> L. H. Broyles opened a store in a log house at James Hardin's place. His >> first sale was that of two wool hats for a buck each to Miss Nellie >> Thacker for her two boys, William and Shepherd Thacker. Broyles remained >> at this location for a year or so then moved to Hardinsville after the >> county seat was moved there in 1822. James Hardin continued to operate a >> ferry until his untimely death in 1826, after which his immediate family >> moved to Western Kentucky. About 1830 John White, probably from Bertie >> County NC, and Elisha Bryant purchased several acres of land which >> included the land where the present 94 years old, 90 by 100 feet brick >> building now stands at Cerro Gordo Landing. John and Elisha were in >> business there for about 11 years. Elisha Bryant died in May of 1841. >> John white continued to operate the store until he died in 1845. A! >> record of an Inventory and Sale of his estate gives us a glimpse of what >> people would buy from a frontier store in 1845 and at the same time gives >> many of the names of the citizens who lived in our community and a few >> form elsewhere. >> >> An inventory of the items to be sold at the estate sale of John White >> included 115 separate items with some items having as many as 120 units >> to as few as 1. Some unusual items were: 16 bottles paregoric; 8 vials >> laudanum; 1 scythe & cradle; 8 chamber pots; 120 gallons of whiskey; 1 >> spinning wheel; 18 pair shoes; 6 bear knives, the list goes on and >> includes guns, flints, caps, powder and shot and about anything you would >> need to survive on the frontier. Most people who where at the sale bought >> 1, 2 or perhaps 3 items. Those who bought the most appeared to be other >> merchants trying to get a good deal. Some of these merchants appear to >> have been: James Irwin - 17 items; P. S. Hawkins - 10; Margaret S. >> White - 56 (widow of John White); George Johnson - 20 (Administrator of >> John White's Estate); Alexander Russell - 21; and James S. Nichols - 9 >> items. My kinfolks who were purchasers were: Green H. Polk (the brother >> of my g/g/grandmother, Eliza Polk Cagle); Milton Whitlow (my g/g/! >> grandfather) and his brother, Paschal Whitlow. >> >> Following are a list of individuals that were doing business with John >> White on a routine bases. The first group had signed notes and promised >> to pay, while the second group had open accounts. These individuals >> should be a very good representative of the people who live in the north >> part of Hardin County as of 30th April 1845. >> >> John White was carrying a note on the following individuals: Archibald >> Pool; Thomas White; Harvey White; J. W. Ellis; Edly Shannon; D. H. Wade; >> Isaiah Brown; Redick White; E. Y. Hindly; Jonathan Courtney; Ebenezer >> Thompson; Peter White; Henry Tilley; G. W. Carter; Ezekiel Conley; >> William Winchester; Granville Alexander; James A. Bell; Jacob Reynolds; >> Thomas Caldwell; Woodson Wells; Abraham Branch; Berry Holland; Silas >> Oates; Joseph McMahan; John K. Orr; S. P. Bowls; Jesse Turner (my >> g/g/grandfather); Thomas S. Spencer; Joseph Howard; J. Y. Nichols; P. B. >> Hawkins; S. Brown; Joseph McMullin; William Williams; Phillip Harris; >> Williams Wells; Shepard Thacker; William Winchester; W. W. Mosley; John >> Turner; James McLin; Martin, H. Stephens; J. F. Garner; J. B. Hargrove; >> A. S. Brown; D. B. Beasley; A. Nesbitt; Samuel Smith; George Johnson; >> Thos White; Thos Thacker; William Wells; David Smith; John Cagle (my >> g/g/grandfather); E. T. Rousey; Joseph Damien; D. B. Beasley; Josiah >> Alexan! >> der; Thomas Holland; Thomas Layton; John McConnell; Wayne Hopkins; Garner >> Wade; James F. McCall; Isaac Wells; Needham Wells; S. B. Hargrove; Novel >> White; William West; Thomas White; Rix Randolph; Jacob Bost; Garrard >> Stephens; James S. Nichols; and James Barnett. >> >> John White, Book Accounts: Elijah Alexander; Dicey White; Joseph Wilson; >> A. Russell; Priscilla Layton; James A. Nichols; S. B. Hargrove; ?ama >> Hooker; Thomas Crotts;Samuel Newman; William Clark; Thos. L. Woodriver; >> R. R. Russell; Rix Randolph;W. McCurray; John D. Wells; Rob Russell; >> Jefferson Nichols; Fanny Gil; Leroy Blache; J. W. Findley; David Finch; >> Thomas Layton; Daniel McCall; Michel Kincannon; Wm. White; Granville >> Whitlow; Wm. Russell; Thos White; John Cagle (my g/g/grandfather); Garred >> Shelly; Elijah Kelly; Elizabeth Lee; Taylor Alexander; John Slaughter; >> Hugh McCall; A. Hutchens; H. G. Garner; L. Thacker; Thomas Holland; >> Redick White Sr.; Arch Pool; John Lane; Mary McConnell; James Went; >> Ephraim Churchwell; T. Joyce; D. H. Wade; Rebecca Wade, (my >> g/g/g/grandmother); Holt White; Thomas Martin; John Polk; Josiah Gattan; >> P. G. Nichols; Joseph Danville; Andrew Brown; T. G. Lee; U. L. Lee; >> Norbert Lee; William Wells; Williamson Wells; John McConnell; Charley >> Holland; Tom ! >> Hanes; Ezekiel Alexander(my g/g/g/grandfather); W. S. Alexander; Thos F. >> Pool; Marion Clifton; Widow Barry; Joseph McMullin; William Love and G.H. >> Polk. >> >> I have made an attempt to learn what happened to the store at Cerro Gordo >> Landing after the death of John White. We know from reading A. A. >> Watson's "Bits and Pieces of Hardin County History" that John was buried >> on top of the hill behind Hardy Pitts' garden. But who bought the store? >> >> On the 7th of April 1845, Margaret White (the widow) and George Johnson >> were appointed by the court as the administrators of the estate of John >> White. That is the source of the names listed just above. On the 7th of >> December 1846, George Johnson was appointed as the guardian of Marshall >> White; James D. White; Henry A. White; Isaac N, White; John White; Martha >> A. White; Emily C. White; Margaret A. White and George M. Dallas White, >> minor heirs of John White. The daughters became wards of their husbands >> as they were married: Martha to B. F. Guinn in 1855; Margaret to G. H. G. >> Penn in 1860 and Emily to J. S. Perry also in 1860. >> >> About 1846-48, James H. Filgo married the widow of John White. The 1850 >> census of Hardin Co., TN shows that family as follows: James H. Filgo, 28 >> NC; Margaret S. (White), 40 TN; Mary F. Filgo, 1 TN; Henry A. White, 19 >> TN; Martha A. White, 12 TN; Isaac W. White, 16 TN; Emily White. 9 TN; >> George M. D. White, 6 TN. Marshall White, age 22, a boatman was living >> in the household of Felix G. Lee of the 12th C. D., while James D. White, >> age 20, was living in the household of Lewis B. Parrish in the 4th C. D. >> In 1860, Margaret, age 18 is living with her husband, G. H. G. Penn, 23, >> a lawyer in Decatur County, while Martha, age 22, is living with husband, >> B. F. Guinn, a salesman in the 2nd C. D. James Filgo was the original >> owner of part of the old Cagle Home-Place where my parents were living >> when I was born 1940. He likely built the old board and batten house >> located on that tract where I spent the first three years of my life. >> >> The land of John White appears to have been parceled out. I am not sure >> how the land was sold, but apparently the John White Estate was divided >> into 8 parcels and the widow had a dower interest as well. C. S. Broyles >> obtained Margaret White Filgo's tract on 10 January 1851. Henry A. White >> also sold to C. S. Broyles; John White to Isaac White; James D. White and >> Frank Guinn, (B. F. Guinn, husband of Martha White) to Thomas D. Shelby . >> William H. Cherry later sold two tracts to R. D. Deford referred to as >> the Isaac White Tract and the Emily White Tract. All or most of this John >> White Land, that part which included Cerro Gordo Landing, appears to have >> been purchased by Conway Sevier Broyles who already owned about 1500 >> hundred acres nearby know as the Hardin Bottom and was formerly James >> Hardin property. Although I don't have the specifics, C. S. Broyles >> appears to have owned a mill, blacksmith and carpenter shop a gin and a >> store at Cerro Gordo Landing soon after John White di! >> ed. The 1850 census lists C. S. Broyles as a merchant. >> >> Beginning about 1876, Risden D. Deford and some of his family began to >> buy the property that had originally belonged to John White and Elisha >> Bryant. They bought most of the property from Conway Sevier Broyles, and >> some from William H. Cherry. The Defords, who already had a mill and >> other businesses at Olive Hill, were expanding their operations. However, >> on the 19th day of September of 1882, Risden D. Deford sold out at Cerro >> Gordo to E. B. Harbour for $5000, what amounted to 284.6 acres of land >> including mill and machinery, blacksmith and carpenter tools, >> storehouse-fixtures and furniture including safe, desk, and store >> showcase. E. B. Harbour who was married to Martha Frances Pitts of Hardin >> Creek, did quiet well in the mercantile business. He soon expanded his >> business to include operations in Paducah Kentucky requiring additional >> manpower to manages his properties. Harbour brought his nephews into the >> business- John Hardy, John Abrham, Barney Brownlow and Elijah Frankli! >> n Pitts. The business at Cerro Gordo became known as Harbour-Pitts >> Company. >> >> Business was so good as to outgrow the two-story white frame store >> building that sat in what is now Hardy Pitts' driveway immediately across >> Clifton Road from the existing brick store building. A new building was >> needed. I am guessing, about 1910 construction begin toward that goal. A >> brick kiln was set up on the top of the ridge east of the store, thus the >> bricks for the proposed building were made on site. By 1911, a new 90 by >> 100 feet two story brick building came out of the ground, having brick >> walls reported to be 5 or 6 layers thick. The new building was completed >> in 1912. The next year, Elisha B. Harbour sold his interest to his >> nephews. By deed recorded on the 8th of July 1913, Harbour transferred >> his holdings at Cerro Gordo to Harbour-Pitts Company which amounted to >> about 400 acres including Cerro Gordo Landing and other property. The >> Pitts Brothers continued to do well and eventually bought additional land >> at Cerro Gordo that once had belonged to C. S. Broyles and ! >> Amos Hardin. However, I think due in part to illness in the family, >> Harbour-Pitts Company sold their Cerro Gordo holdings to The Cerro Gordo >> Mercantile Company owned by E. P. Churchwell and son, this transaction >> being recorded on the 10th of February 1920 in Deed Book UU-565 in the >> Hardin County Courthouse. About two years later on the 16th of January >> 1922, this process was reversed, and The Cerro Gordo Mercantile Company >> deeded the property back to Harbour-Pitts Company. The "Store" remained >> with the Pitts family until it closed a few years ago. >> >> When I was growing up in the 40's and early 50's Pitts' Store was the >> place to go when you needed anything from groceries, hardware, seed, >> feed, dry goods, shoes, clothing, dishes, pots & pans, guns and >> ammunition, horse collars, wagons, and a little before my time, coffins. >> I remember as a youngster sneaking to the basement to see the two or >> three old coffins down there. One was reported to have been too short or >> too narrow and had been returned. It's still there. I got new shoes about >> once a year. Brogans--boy did they hurt my feet. It took forever to break >> in those new shoes, but after a mud hole or two and letting them settle >> to my feet, I guess it wasn't so bad. Those shoes never did feel just >> right until they were almost worn out. I'm sure you've been there. Then >> you had to begin the process again. I couldn't wait until spring to go >> barefooted. >> >> The Store survived as long as it did, in part, because of travel >> limitations. A 10 mile round trip was an all day affair driving mules and >> a wagon. The depression and the 2nd War did not help this problem as >> transportation was severely limited. However, the upside for everyone >> involved was that you could buy just about anything you needed at the >> store, also borrow money and mortgage your property if need be. The old >> Store that ceased operation about the turn of this century was a >> Wal-Mart, Lowes, a Bank and a Post Office all rolled into one and was >> located out in the center of our community. We didn't know we had it so >> good. >> >> David Cagle >> December 2006 >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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Robert, Are you sure that the father of Samuel Perkins Wade was Noah Wade? My charts show Samuel Perkins Wade (1860-1941) was son of Harvey Blackburn Wade (Sr) (1813-1889) and first wife Amanda Perkins(1821-1893). (Harvey and Amanda was living with Amanda's father Samuel Perkins in 1850 census). Although I don't have a hard copy, my notes show that a will listed in willbook abstracts of McNairy County, Tenn by Nancy Wardlaw Kennedy (book in Savannah library): WADE, Harvey B date of will june 1, 1883, p74. Wife Amanda. Children Mary Anne Meeks, wife of W.F. Meeke, Sarah C O'Neal, Agnes McGlofing (?), H.B. Wade Jr,, Eliza H Hardeman, Samuel P. Wade, Amanda P Sewell. You might want to check the will book personally but looks like the father of Samuel Perkins Wade was harvey Blackburn Wade Sr. Regards, Gene Wade ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Wade" <jwade9301@msn.com> To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Rebecca Wade > David, > I am kin to the wades,my dad was Nelson Wade, his father was Robert > Elvis Wade, his father was Samuel Perkins Wade and his father was Noah > Wade Sr. I have been trying to locate Noah's grave and this the first clue > I have had. Most of them lived around the Hardin and Mcnairy Co Line. > > Thanks > Robert Wade > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Cagle<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net> > To: Betty Stivers<mailto:BLS@g5i.net> > Cc: tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:43 PM > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Rebecca Wade > > > Betty, > There is very much a connection. You see that your William M. Wade and > my > Sarah Wade Whitlow were brothers and sisters and were children of Noah > and > Rebecca Satterfield Wade. That makes us some kind of cousins. Milton > and > Sarah Whitlow are buried on Whitlow Creek near the old Carrollville Ford > of > Indian Creek. Noah Wade who apparently died ca 1845 is buried about a > mile > northeast on the other side of Indian Creek, on or near his old home > place. > David > > ....... 2 Noah Wade 1780 - 1850 (1845?) > ........... +Rebecca Satterfield 1793 - 1860 > ................ 3 David Hampton Wade 1810 - 1878 > .................... +Pamelia M Moseley 1815 - 1878 > ......................... 4 Noah F Wade 1832 - 1912 > ............................. +Linnie Parmelia Polk 1835 - 1910 > ......................... 4 Thomas B Wade 1835 - > ......................... 4 Pamelia A Wade 1838 - > ......................... 4 John H Wade 1840 - > ......................... 4 Mary J Wade 1843 - > ......................... 4 Teressa Ann Wade 1845 - > ......................... 4 Sarah F Wade 1848 - > ................ 3 Sarah Wade 1812 - 1868 > .................... +Milton Whitlow 1808 - 1870 > ................ 3 Harvey B Wade 1813 - > .................... +Amanda > ................ 3 Nymphia Wade 1818 - > ................ 3 William M Wade 1827 - 1882 > .................... +Jane McCasland 1817 - 1892 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Betty Stivers" <BLS@g5i.net<mailto:BLS@g5i.net>> > To: <dcagle1@charter.net<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net>> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:46 PM > Subject: Re: Rebecca Wade > > > > Hello David, my name is Betty Asbille Stivers. I received this article > > today. You said that Rebecca Wade was your 3x great grandmother. I have > a > > great grandmother named Rebecca Elizabeth Wade, she was married to > William > > Anderson Boroughs. Rebecca's parents were William Wade and Mary Jane > > McCasland Wade. I am wondering if there could be a connection? > > Sincerely, > > Betty Asbille Stivers > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David Cagle" <dcagle1@charter.net<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net>> > > To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com>> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:00 AM > > Subject: [TNHARDIN] Happy New Year from Cerro Gordo > > > > > >> The following is an article that I wrote for the Courier about a year > ago > >> at this time of year. If your family lived at Cerro Gordo, you might > >> find their name on the books John White kept from 1830 to 1845. In a > few > >> weeks, I have an article that I hope will be published in the Courier > >> concerning The Pitts brothers and in particular, John Hardy Pitts who > >> operated the store from about 1900 until 1955. If any of these are > your > >> relatives below, let me know and we will try to figure out where they > >> lived if that is of interest. > >> Happy New Year, > >> David > >> _________________ > >> > >> > >> "The Store" > >> At Cerro Gordo > >> B. G. Brazelton in his "History of Hardin County" written in 1885, > tells > >> us that the first retail business was established in Hardin County > when > >> L. H. Broyles opened a store in a log house at James Hardin's place. > His > >> first sale was that of two wool hats for a buck each to Miss Nellie > >> Thacker for her two boys, William and Shepherd Thacker. Broyles > remained > >> at this location for a year or so then moved to Hardinsville after the > >> county seat was moved there in 1822. James Hardin continued to operate > a > >> ferry until his untimely death in 1826, after which his immediate > family > >> moved to Western Kentucky. About 1830 John White, probably from Bertie > >> County NC, and Elisha Bryant purchased several acres of land which > >> included the land where the present 94 years old, 90 by 100 feet brick > >> building now stands at Cerro Gordo Landing. John and Elisha were in > >> business there for about 11 years. Elisha Bryant died in May of 1841. > >> John white continued to operate the store until he died in 1845. A! > >> record of an Inventory and Sale of his estate gives us a glimpse of > what > >> people would buy from a frontier store in 1845 and at the same time > gives > >> many of the names of the citizens who lived in our community and a few > >> form elsewhere. > >> > >> An inventory of the items to be sold at the estate sale of John White > >> included 115 separate items with some items having as many as 120 > units > >> to as few as 1. Some unusual items were: 16 bottles paregoric; 8 vials > >> laudanum; 1 scythe & cradle; 8 chamber pots; 120 gallons of whiskey; 1 > >> spinning wheel; 18 pair shoes; 6 bear knives, the list goes on and > >> includes guns, flints, caps, powder and shot and about anything you > would > >> need to survive on the frontier. Most people who where at the sale > bought > >> 1, 2 or perhaps 3 items. Those who bought the most appeared to be > other > >> merchants trying to get a good deal. Some of these merchants appear to > >> have been: James Irwin - 17 items; P. S. Hawkins - 10; Margaret S. > >> White - 56 (widow of John White); George Johnson - 20 (Administrator > of > >> John White's Estate); Alexander Russell - 21; and James S. Nichols - 9 > >> items. My kinfolks who were purchasers were: Green H. Polk (the > brother > >> of my g/g/grandmother, Eliza Polk Cagle); Milton Whitlow (my g/g/! > >> grandfather) and his brother, Paschal Whitlow. > >> > >> Following are a list of individuals that were doing business with John > >> White on a routine bases. The first group had signed notes and > promised > >> to pay, while the second group had open accounts. These individuals > >> should be a very good representative of the people who live in the > north > >> part of Hardin County as of 30th April 1845. > >> > >> John White was carrying a note on the following individuals: Archibald > >> Pool; Thomas White; Harvey White; J. W. Ellis; Edly Shannon; D. H. > Wade; > >> Isaiah Brown; Redick White; E. Y. Hindly; Jonathan Courtney; Ebenezer > >> Thompson; Peter White; Henry Tilley; G. W. Carter; Ezekiel Conley; > >> William Winchester; Granville Alexander; James A. Bell; Jacob > Reynolds; > >> Thomas Caldwell; Woodson Wells; Abraham Branch; Berry Holland; Silas > >> Oates; Joseph McMahan; John K. Orr; S. P. Bowls; Jesse Turner (my > >> g/g/grandfather); Thomas S. Spencer; Joseph Howard; J. Y. Nichols; P. > B. > >> Hawkins; S. Brown; Joseph McMullin; William Williams; Phillip Harris; > >> Williams Wells; Shepard Thacker; William Winchester; W. W. Mosley; > John > >> Turner; James McLin; Martin, H. Stephens; J. F. Garner; J. B. > Hargrove; > >> A. S. Brown; D. B. Beasley; A. Nesbitt; Samuel Smith; George Johnson; > >> Thos White; Thos Thacker; William Wells; David Smith; John Cagle (my > >> g/g/grandfather); E. T. Rousey; Joseph Damien; D. B. Beasley; Josiah > >> Alexan! > >> der; Thomas Holland; Thomas Layton; John McConnell; Wayne Hopkins; > Garner > >> Wade; James F. McCall; Isaac Wells; Needham Wells; S. B. Hargrove; > Novel > >> White; William West; Thomas White; Rix Randolph; Jacob Bost; Garrard > >> Stephens; James S. Nichols; and James Barnett. > >> > >> John White, Book Accounts: Elijah Alexander; Dicey White; Joseph > Wilson; > >> A. Russell; Priscilla Layton; James A. Nichols; S. B. Hargrove; ?ama > >> Hooker; Thomas Crotts;Samuel Newman; William Clark; Thos. L. > Woodriver; > >> R. R. Russell; Rix Randolph;W. McCurray; John D. Wells; Rob Russell; > >> Jefferson Nichols; Fanny Gil; Leroy Blache; J. W. Findley; David > Finch; > >> Thomas Layton; Daniel McCall; Michel Kincannon; Wm. White; Granville > >> Whitlow; Wm. Russell; Thos White; John Cagle (my g/g/grandfather); > Garred > >> Shelly; Elijah Kelly; Elizabeth Lee; Taylor Alexander; John Slaughter; > >> Hugh McCall; A. Hutchens; H. G. Garner; L. Thacker; Thomas Holland; > >> Redick White Sr.; Arch Pool; John Lane; Mary McConnell; James Went; > >> Ephraim Churchwell; T. Joyce; D. H. Wade; Rebecca Wade, (my > >> g/g/g/grandmother); Holt White; Thomas Martin; John Polk; Josiah > Gattan; > >> P. G. Nichols; Joseph Danville; Andrew Brown; T. G. Lee; U. L. Lee; > >> Norbert Lee; William Wells; Williamson Wells; John McConnell; Charley > >> Holland; Tom ! > >> Hanes; Ezekiel Alexander(my g/g/g/grandfather); W. S. Alexander; Thos > F. > >> Pool; Marion Clifton; Widow Barry; Joseph McMullin; William Love and > G.H. > >> Polk. > >> > >> I have made an attempt to learn what happened to the store at Cerro > Gordo > >> Landing after the death of John White. We know from reading A. A. > >> Watson's "Bits and Pieces of Hardin County History" that John was > buried > >> on top of the hill behind Hardy Pitts' garden. But who bought the > store? > >> > >> On the 7th of April 1845, Margaret White (the widow) and George > Johnson > >> were appointed by the court as the administrators of the estate of > John > >> White. That is the source of the names listed just above. On the 7th > of > >> December 1846, George Johnson was appointed as the guardian of > Marshall > >> White; James D. White; Henry A. White; Isaac N, White; John White; > Martha > >> A. White; Emily C. White; Margaret A. White and George M. Dallas > White, > >> minor heirs of John White. The daughters became wards of their > husbands > >> as they were married: Martha to B. F. Guinn in 1855; Margaret to G. H. > G. > >> Penn in 1860 and Emily to J. S. Perry also in 1860. > >> > >> About 1846-48, James H. Filgo married the widow of John White. The > 1850 > >> census of Hardin Co., TN shows that family as follows: James H. Filgo, > 28 > >> NC; Margaret S. (White), 40 TN; Mary F. Filgo, 1 TN; Henry A. White, > 19 > >> TN; Martha A. White, 12 TN; Isaac W. White, 16 TN; Emily White. 9 TN; > >> George M. D. White, 6 TN. Marshall White, age 22, a boatman was > living > >> in the household of Felix G. Lee of the 12th C. D., while James D. > White, > >> age 20, was living in the household of Lewis B. Parrish in the 4th C. > D. > >> In 1860, Margaret, age 18 is living with her husband, G. H. G. Penn, > 23, > >> a lawyer in Decatur County, while Martha, age 22, is living with > husband, > >> B. F. Guinn, a salesman in the 2nd C. D. James Filgo was the original > >> owner of part of the old Cagle Home-Place where my parents were living > >> when I was born 1940. He likely built the old board and batten house > >> located on that tract where I spent the first three years of my life. > >> > >> The land of John White appears to have been parceled out. I am not > sure > >> how the land was sold, but apparently the John White Estate was > divided > >> into 8 parcels and the widow had a dower interest as well. C. S. > Broyles > >> obtained Margaret White Filgo's tract on 10 January 1851. Henry A. > White > >> also sold to C. S. Broyles; John White to Isaac White; James D. White > and > >> Frank Guinn, (B. F. Guinn, husband of Martha White) to Thomas D. > Shelby . > >> William H. Cherry later sold two tracts to R. D. Deford referred to as > >> the Isaac White Tract and the Emily White Tract. All or most of this > John > >> White Land, that part which included Cerro Gordo Landing, appears to > have > >> been purchased by Conway Sevier Broyles who already owned about 1500 > >> hundred acres nearby know as the Hardin Bottom and was formerly James > >> Hardin property. Although I don't have the specifics, C. S. Broyles > >> appears to have owned a mill, blacksmith and carpenter shop a gin and > a > >> store at Cerro Gordo Landing soon after John White di! > >> ed. The 1850 census lists C. S. Broyles as a merchant. > >> > >> Beginning about 1876, Risden D. Deford and some of his family began to > >> buy the property that had originally belonged to John White and Elisha > >> Bryant. They bought most of the property from Conway Sevier Broyles, > and > >> some from William H. Cherry. The Defords, who already had a mill and > >> other businesses at Olive Hill, were expanding their operations. > However, > >> on the 19th day of September of 1882, Risden D. Deford sold out at > Cerro > >> Gordo to E. B. Harbour for $5000, what amounted to 284.6 acres of land > >> including mill and machinery, blacksmith and carpenter tools, > >> storehouse-fixtures and furniture including safe, desk, and store > >> showcase. E. B. Harbour who was married to Martha Frances Pitts of > Hardin > >> Creek, did quiet well in the mercantile business. He soon expanded his > >> business to include operations in Paducah Kentucky requiring > additional > >> manpower to manages his properties. Harbour brought his nephews into > the > >> business- John Hardy, John Abrham, Barney Brownlow and Elijah Frankli! > >> n Pitts. The business at Cerro Gordo became known as Harbour-Pitts > >> Company. > >> > >> Business was so good as to outgrow the two-story white frame store > >> building that sat in what is now Hardy Pitts' driveway immediately > across > >> Clifton Road from the existing brick store building. A new building > was > >> needed. I am guessing, about 1910 construction begin toward that goal. > A > >> brick kiln was set up on the top of the ridge east of the store, thus > the > >> bricks for the proposed building were made on site. By 1911, a new 90 > by > >> 100 feet two story brick building came out of the ground, having brick > >> walls reported to be 5 or 6 layers thick. The new building was > completed > >> in 1912. The next year, Elisha B. Harbour sold his interest to his > >> nephews. By deed recorded on the 8th of July 1913, Harbour transferred > >> his holdings at Cerro Gordo to Harbour-Pitts Company which amounted to > >> about 400 acres including Cerro Gordo Landing and other property. The > >> Pitts Brothers continued to do well and eventually bought additional > land > >> at Cerro Gordo that once had belonged to C. S. Broyles and ! > >> Amos Hardin. However, I think due in part to illness in the family, > >> Harbour-Pitts Company sold their Cerro Gordo holdings to The Cerro > Gordo > >> Mercantile Company owned by E. P. Churchwell and son, this transaction > >> being recorded on the 10th of February 1920 in Deed Book UU-565 in the > >> Hardin County Courthouse. About two years later on the 16th of January > >> 1922, this process was reversed, and The Cerro Gordo Mercantile > Company > >> deeded the property back to Harbour-Pitts Company. The "Store" > remained > >> with the Pitts family until it closed a few years ago. > >> > >> When I was growing up in the 40's and early 50's Pitts' Store was the > >> place to go when you needed anything from groceries, hardware, seed, > >> feed, dry goods, shoes, clothing, dishes, pots & pans, guns and > >> ammunition, horse collars, wagons, and a little before my time, > coffins. > >> I remember as a youngster sneaking to the basement to see the two or > >> three old coffins down there. One was reported to have been too short > or > >> too narrow and had been returned. It's still there. I got new shoes > about > >> once a year. Brogans--boy did they hurt my feet. It took forever to > break > >> in those new shoes, but after a mud hole or two and letting them > settle > >> to my feet, I guess it wasn't so bad. Those shoes never did feel just > >> right until they were almost worn out. I'm sure you've been there. > Then > >> you had to begin the process again. I couldn't wait until spring to go > >> barefooted. > >> > >> The Store survived as long as it did, in part, because of travel > >> limitations. A 10 mile round trip was an all day affair driving mules > and > >> a wagon. The depression and the 2nd War did not help this problem as > >> transportation was severely limited. However, the upside for everyone > >> involved was that you could buy just about anything you needed at the > >> store, also borrow money and mortgage your property if need be. The > old > >> Store that ceased operation about the turn of this century was a > >> Wal-Mart, Lowes, a Bank and a Post Office all rolled into one and was > >> located out in the center of our community. We didn't know we had it > so > >> good. > >> > >> David Cagle > >> December 2006 > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com> > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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Hi Gene, You are right, When I started I came up with Noah Wade but later detremined he was not in the line that we were related to. I just didn't think when I answered the email. Thanks Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: Gene Wade<mailto:egwade@comcast.net> To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Rebecca Wade Robert, Are you sure that the father of Samuel Perkins Wade was Noah Wade? My charts show Samuel Perkins Wade (1860-1941) was son of Harvey Blackburn Wade (Sr) (1813-1889) and first wife Amanda Perkins(1821-1893). (Harvey and Amanda was living with Amanda's father Samuel Perkins in 1850 census). Although I don't have a hard copy, my notes show that a will listed in willbook abstracts of McNairy County, Tenn by Nancy Wardlaw Kennedy (book in Savannah library): WADE, Harvey B date of will june 1, 1883, p74. Wife Amanda. Children Mary Anne Meeks, wife of W.F. Meeke, Sarah C O'Neal, Agnes McGlofing (?), H.B. Wade Jr,, Eliza H Hardeman, Samuel P. Wade, Amanda P Sewell. You might want to check the will book personally but looks like the father of Samuel Perkins Wade was harvey Blackburn Wade Sr. Regards, Gene Wade ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Wade" <jwade9301@msn.com<mailto:jwade9301@msn.com>> To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Rebecca Wade > David, > I am kin to the wades,my dad was Nelson Wade, his father was Robert > Elvis Wade, his father was Samuel Perkins Wade and his father was Noah > Wade Sr. I have been trying to locate Noah's grave and this the first clue > I have had. Most of them lived around the Hardin and Mcnairy Co Line. > > Thanks > Robert Wade > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Cagle<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net>> > To: Betty Stivers<mailto:BLS@g5i.net<mailto:BLS@g5i.net>> > Cc: tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com%3Cmailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com>> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:43 PM > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Rebecca Wade > > > Betty, > There is very much a connection. You see that your William M. Wade and > my > Sarah Wade Whitlow were brothers and sisters and were children of Noah > and > Rebecca Satterfield Wade. That makes us some kind of cousins. Milton > and > Sarah Whitlow are buried on Whitlow Creek near the old Carrollville Ford > of > Indian Creek. Noah Wade who apparently died ca 1845 is buried about a > mile > northeast on the other side of Indian Creek, on or near his old home > place. > David > > ....... 2 Noah Wade 1780 - 1850 (1845?) > ........... +Rebecca Satterfield 1793 - 1860 > ................ 3 David Hampton Wade 1810 - 1878 > .................... +Pamelia M Moseley 1815 - 1878 > ......................... 4 Noah F Wade 1832 - 1912 > ............................. +Linnie Parmelia Polk 1835 - 1910 > ......................... 4 Thomas B Wade 1835 - > ......................... 4 Pamelia A Wade 1838 - > ......................... 4 John H Wade 1840 - > ......................... 4 Mary J Wade 1843 - > ......................... 4 Teressa Ann Wade 1845 - > ......................... 4 Sarah F Wade 1848 - > ................ 3 Sarah Wade 1812 - 1868 > .................... +Milton Whitlow 1808 - 1870 > ................ 3 Harvey B Wade 1813 - > .................... +Amanda > ................ 3 Nymphia Wade 1818 - > ................ 3 William M Wade 1827 - 1882 > .................... +Jane McCasland 1817 - 1892 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Betty Stivers" <BLS@g5i.net<mailto:BLS@g5i.net<mailto:BLS@g5i.net%3Cmailto:BLS@g5i.net>>> > To: <dcagle1@charter.net<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net%3Cmailto:dcagle1@charter.net>>> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:46 PM > Subject: Re: Rebecca Wade > > > > Hello David, my name is Betty Asbille Stivers. I received this article > > today. You said that Rebecca Wade was your 3x great grandmother. I have > a > > great grandmother named Rebecca Elizabeth Wade, she was married to > William > > Anderson Boroughs. Rebecca's parents were William Wade and Mary Jane > > McCasland Wade. I am wondering if there could be a connection? > > Sincerely, > > Betty Asbille Stivers > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David Cagle" <dcagle1@charter.net<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net<mailto:dcagle1@charter.net%3Cmailto:dcagle1@charter.net>>> > > To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com%3Cmailto:tnhardin@rootsweb.com>>> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:00 AM > > Subject: [TNHARDIN] Happy New Year from Cerro Gordo > > > > > >> The following is an article that I wrote for the Courier about a year > ago > >> at this time of year. If your family lived at Cerro Gordo, you might > >> find their name on the books John White kept from 1830 to 1845. In a > few > >> weeks, I have an article that I hope will be published in the Courier > >> concerning The Pitts brothers and in particular, John Hardy Pitts who > >> operated the store from about 1900 until 1955. If any of these are > your > >> relatives below, let me know and we will try to figure out where they > >> lived if that is of interest. > >> Happy New Year, > >> David > >> _________________ > >> > >> > >> "The Store" > >> At Cerro Gordo > >> B. G. Brazelton in his "History of Hardin County" written in 1885, > tells > >> us that the first retail business was established in Hardin County > when > >> L. H. Broyles opened a store in a log house at James Hardin's place. > His > >> first sale was that of two wool hats for a buck each to Miss Nellie > >> Thacker for her two boys, William and Shepherd Thacker. Broyles > remained > >> at this location for a year or so then moved to Hardinsville after the > >> county seat was moved there in 1822. James Hardin continued to operate > a > >> ferry until his untimely death in 1826, after which his immediate > family > >> moved to Western Kentucky. About 1830 John White, probably from Bertie > >> County NC, and Elisha Bryant purchased several acres of land which > >> included the land where the present 94 years old, 90 by 100 feet brick > >> building now stands at Cerro Gordo Landing. John and Elisha were in > >> business there for about 11 years. Elisha Bryant died in May of 1841. > >> John white continued to operate the store until he died in 1845. A! > >> record of an Inventory and Sale of his estate gives us a glimpse of > what > >> people would buy from a frontier store in 1845 and at the same time > gives > >> many of the names of the citizens who lived in our community and a few > >> form elsewhere. > >> > >> An inventory of the items to be sold at the estate sale of John White > >> included 115 separate items with some items having as many as 120 > units > >> to as few as 1. Some unusual items were: 16 bottles paregoric; 8 vials > >> laudanum; 1 scythe & cradle; 8 chamber pots; 120 gallons of whiskey; 1 > >> spinning wheel; 18 pair shoes; 6 bear knives, the list goes on and > >> includes guns, flints, caps, powder and shot and about anything you > would > >> need to survive on the frontier. Most people who where at the sale > bought > >> 1, 2 or perhaps 3 items. Those who bought the most appeared to be > other > >> merchants trying to get a good deal. Some of these merchants appear to > >> have been: James Irwin - 17 items; P. S. Hawkins - 10; Margaret S. > >> White - 56 (widow of John White); George Johnson - 20 (Administrator > of > >> John White's Estate); Alexander Russell - 21; and James S. Nichols - 9 > >> items. My kinfolks who were purchasers were: Green H. Polk (the > brother > >> of my g/g/grandmother, Eliza Polk Cagle); Milton Whitlow (my g/g/! > >> grandfather) and his brother, Paschal Whitlow. > >> > >> Following are a list of individuals that were doing business with John > >> White on a routine bases. The first group had signed notes and > promised > >> to pay, while the second group had open accounts. These individuals > >> should be a very good representative of the people who live in the > north > >> part of Hardin County as of 30th April 1845. > >> > >> John White was carrying a note on the following individuals: Archibald > >> Pool; Thomas White; Harvey White; J. W. Ellis; Edly Shannon; D. H. > Wade; > >> Isaiah Brown; Redick White; E. Y. Hindly; Jonathan Courtney; Ebenezer > >> Thompson; Peter White; Henry Tilley; G. W. Carter; Ezekiel Conley; > >> William Winchester; Granville Alexander; James A. Bell; Jacob > Reynolds; > >> Thomas Caldwell; Woodson Wells; Abraham Branch; Berry Holland; Silas > >> Oates; Joseph McMahan; John K. Orr; S. P. Bowls; Jesse Turner (my > >> g/g/grandfather); Thomas S. Spencer; Joseph Howard; J. Y. Nichols; P. > B. > >> Hawkins; S. Brown; Joseph McMullin; William Williams; Phillip Harris; > >> Williams Wells; Shepard Thacker; William Winchester; W. W. Mosley; > John > >> Turner; James McLin; Martin, H. Stephens; J. F. Garner; J. B. > Hargrove; > >> A. S. Brown; D. B. Beasley; A. Nesbitt; Samuel Smith; George Johnson; > >> Thos White; Thos Thacker; William Wells; David Smith; John Cagle (my > >> g/g/grandfather); E. T. Rousey; Joseph Damien; D. B. Beasley; Josiah > >> Alexan! > >> der; Thomas Holland; Thomas Layton; John McConnell; Wayne Hopkins; > Garner > >> Wade; James F. McCall; Isaac Wells; Needham Wells; S. B. Hargrove; > Novel > >> White; William West; Thomas White; Rix Randolph; Jacob Bost; Garrard > >> Stephens; James S. Nichols; and James Barnett. > >> > >> John White, Book Accounts: Elijah Alexander; Dicey White; Joseph > Wilson; > >> A. Russell; Priscilla Layton; James A. Nichols; S. B. Hargrove; ?ama > >> Hooker; Thomas Crotts;Samuel Newman; William Clark; Thos. L. > Woodriver; > >> R. R. Russell; Rix Randolph;W. McCurray; John D. Wells; Rob Russell; > >> Jefferson Nichols; Fanny Gil; Leroy Blache; J. W. Findley; David > Finch; > >> Thomas Layton; Daniel McCall; Michel Kincannon; Wm. White; Granville > >> Whitlow; Wm. Russell; Thos White; John Cagle (my g/g/grandfather); > Garred > >> Shelly; Elijah Kelly; Elizabeth Lee; Taylor Alexander; John Slaughter; > >> Hugh McCall; A. Hutchens; H. G. Garner; L. Thacker; Thomas Holland; > >> Redick White Sr.; Arch Pool; John Lane; Mary McConnell; James Went; > >> Ephraim Churchwell; T. Joyce; D. H. Wade; Rebecca Wade, (my > >> g/g/g/grandmother); Holt White; Thomas Martin; John Polk; Josiah > Gattan; > >> P. G. Nichols; Joseph Danville; Andrew Brown; T. G. Lee; U. L. Lee; > >> Norbert Lee; William Wells; Williamson Wells; John McConnell; Charley > >> Holland; Tom ! > >> Hanes; Ezekiel Alexander(my g/g/g/grandfather); W. S. Alexander; Thos > F. > >> Pool; Marion Clifton; Widow Barry; Joseph McMullin; William Love and > G.H. > >> Polk. > >> > >> I have made an attempt to learn what happened to the store at Cerro > Gordo > >> Landing after the death of John White. We know from reading A. A. > >> Watson's "Bits and Pieces of Hardin County History" that John was > buried > >> on top of the hill behind Hardy Pitts' garden. But who bought the > store? > >> > >> On the 7th of April 1845, Margaret White (the widow) and George > Johnson > >> were appointed by the court as the administrators of the estate of > John > >> White. That is the source of the names listed just above. On the 7th > of > >> December 1846, George Johnson was appointed as the guardian of > Marshall > >> White; James D. White; Henry A. White; Isaac N, White; John White; > Martha > >> A. White; Emily C. White; Margaret A. White and George M. Dallas > White, > >> minor heirs of John White. The daughters became wards of their > husbands > >> as they were married: Martha to B. F. Guinn in 1855; Margaret to G. H. > G. > >> Penn in 1860 and Emily to J. S. Perry also in 1860. > >> > >> About 1846-48, James H. Filgo married the widow of John White. The > 1850 > >> census of Hardin Co., TN shows that family as follows: James H. Filgo, > 28 > >> NC; Margaret S. (White), 40 TN; Mary F. Filgo, 1 TN; Henry A. White, > 19 > >> TN; Martha A. White, 12 TN; Isaac W. White, 16 TN; Emily White. 9 TN; > >> George M. D. White, 6 TN. Marshall White, age 22, a boatman was > living > >> in the household of Felix G. Lee of the 12th C. D., while James D. > White, > >> age 20, was living in the household of Lewis B. Parrish in the 4th C. > D. > >> In 1860, Margaret, age 18 is living with her husband, G. H. G. Penn, > 23, > >> a lawyer in Decatur County, while Martha, age 22, is living with > husband, > >> B. F. Guinn, a salesman in the 2nd C. D. James Filgo was the original > >> owner of part of the old Cagle Home-Place where my parents were living > >> when I was born 1940. He likely built the old board and batten house > >> located on that tract where I spent the first three years of my life. > >> > >> The land of John White appears to have been parceled out. I am not > sure > >> how the land was sold, but apparently the John White Estate was > divided > >> into 8 parcels and the widow had a dower interest as well. C. S. > Broyles > >> obtained Margaret White Filgo's tract on 10 January 1851. Henry A. > White > >> also sold to C. S. Broyles; John White to Isaac White; James D. White > and > >> Frank Guinn, (B. F. Guinn, husband of Martha White) to Thomas D. > Shelby . > >> William H. Cherry later sold two tracts to R. D. Deford referred to as > >> the Isaac White Tract and the Emily White Tract. All or most of this > John > >> White Land, that part which included Cerro Gordo Landing, appears to > have > >> been purchased by Conway Sevier Broyles who already owned about 1500 > >> hundred acres nearby know as the Hardin Bottom and was formerly James > >> Hardin property. Although I don't have the specifics, C. S. Broyles > >> appears to have owned a mill, blacksmith and carpenter shop a gin and > a > >> store at Cerro Gordo Landing soon after John White di! > >> ed. The 1850 census lists C. S. Broyles as a merchant. > >> > >> Beginning about 1876, Risden D. Deford and some of his family began to > >> buy the property that had originally belonged to John White and Elisha > >> Bryant. They bought most of the property from Conway Sevier Broyles, > and > >> some from William H. Cherry. The Defords, who already had a mill and > >> other businesses at Olive Hill, were expanding their operations. > However, > >> on the 19th day of September of 1882, Risden D. Deford sold out at > Cerro > >> Gordo to E. B. Harbour for $5000, what amounted to 284.6 acres of land > >> including mill and machinery, blacksmith and carpenter tools, > >> storehouse-fixtures and furniture including safe, desk, and store > >> showcase. E. B. Harbour who was married to Martha Frances Pitts of > Hardin > >> Creek, did quiet well in the mercantile business. He soon expanded his > >> business to include operations in Paducah Kentucky requiring > additional > >> manpower to manages his properties. Harbour brought his nephews into > the > >> business- John Hardy, John Abrham, Barney Brownlow and Elijah Frankli! > >> n Pitts. The business at Cerro Gordo became known as Harbour-Pitts > >> Company. > >> > >> Business was so good as to outgrow the two-story white frame store > >> building that sat in what is now Hardy Pitts' driveway immediately > across > >> Clifton Road from the existing brick store building. A new building > was > >> needed. I am guessing, about 1910 construction begin toward that goal. > A > >> brick kiln was set up on the top of the ridge east of the store, thus > the > >> bricks for the proposed building were made on site. By 1911, a new 90 > by > >> 100 feet two story brick building came out of the ground, having brick > >> walls reported to be 5 or 6 layers thick. The new building was > completed > >> in 1912. The next year, Elisha B. Harbour sold his interest to his > >> nephews. By deed recorded on the 8th of July 1913, Harbour transferred > >> his holdings at Cerro Gordo to Harbour-Pitts Company which amounted to > >> about 400 acres including Cerro Gordo Landing and other property. The > >> Pitts Brothers continued to do well and eventually bought additional > land > >> at Cerro Gordo that once had belonged to C. S. Broyles and ! > >> Amos Hardin. However, I think due in part to illness in the family, > >> Harbour-Pitts Company sold their Cerro Gordo holdings to The Cerro > Gordo > >> Mercantile Company owned by E. P. Churchwell and son, this transaction > >> being recorded on the 10th of February 1920 in Deed Book UU-565 in the > >> Hardin County Courthouse. About two years later on the 16th of January > >> 1922, this process was reversed, and The Cerro Gordo Mercantile > Company > >> deeded the property back to Harbour-Pitts Company. The "Store" > remained > >> with the Pitts family until it closed a few years ago. > >> > >> When I was growing up in the 40's and early 50's Pitts' Store was the > >> place to go when you needed anything from groceries, hardware, seed, > >> feed, dry goods, shoes, clothing, dishes, pots & pans, guns and > >> ammunition, horse collars, wagons, and a little before my time, > coffins. > >> I remember as a youngster sneaking to the basement to see the two or > >> three old coffins down there. One was reported to have been too short > or > >> too narrow and had been returned. It's still there. I got new shoes > about > >> once a year. Brogans--boy did they hurt my feet. It took forever to > break > >> in those new shoes, but after a mud hole or two and letting them > settle > >> to my feet, I guess it wasn't so bad. Those shoes never did feel just > >> right until they were almost worn out. I'm sure you've been there. > Then > >> you had to begin the process again. I couldn't wait until spring to go > >> barefooted. > >> > >> The Store survived as long as it did, in part, because of travel > >> limitations. A 10 mile round trip was an all day affair driving mules > and > >> a wagon. The depression and the 2nd War did not help this problem as > >> transportation was severely limited. However, the upside for everyone > >> involved was that you could buy just about anything you needed at the > >> store, also borrow money and mortgage your property if need be. The > old > >> Store that ceased operation about the turn of this century was a > >> Wal-Mart, Lowes, a Bank and a Post Office all rolled into one and was > >> located out in the center of our community. We didn't know we had it > so > >> good. > >> > >> David Cagle > >> December 2006 > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com%3Cmailto:TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com>> > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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