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MANESS, Thomas F. ("Tommy"); C.S.A. No further identification. Returned here to rear a family. A grandson, John Maness, now of Jackson, is well known here. Another grandson, Jess, now a retired T.V.A. employee of Sheffield, Ala., constructed a small airplane in nearby Decaturville in the 1930's that was the talk of the town! Improvised from materials at hand and obtainable locally, the engine was that of a Model A Ford. The machine flew perfectly; though Jess hit a few slumps in landing on farmlands, he did all repairs and soon had it flying again. When his machine was heard coming, during school, some boy would start yelling, "Jess Maness; Jess Maness'' and despite efforts to hold them in class, almost the whole school would rush out to see Jess pass over (I know, I was Principal). Jess would do a little stunting for us but when we saw steam coming from the engine radiator, we knew he would soon come down. Some government official was called in to put a stop to Jess and his flying machine. But Jess out-talked him! The man asked permission to fly it and after quite a little flight, landed to pronounce the machine the smoothest-flying he had ever tried out. Jess Kept flying! This is my ancestor - his middle initial is not F. - it is J. Does anyone have any information farther back on Thomas Jeptha Maness? Ola Horton Cates (named after grandmother Ola V. Maness) ----- Original Message ----- From: <EAdams2784@aol.com> To: <TNHENDER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [TNHENDER] question > Click on the highlighted site for the History of Scotts Hill. > > <A HREF="http://www.henderson-lea.hc.k12tn.net/donahue/turner/gt-til.htm">gt-ti l</A> > > ----------------------------- > See home page at: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adams1895 > > > ==== TNHENDER Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe send the message unsubscribe to > TNHENDER-l-request@rootsweb.com > > >