I'm researching an ancestor who was a traveling preacher. Is there anyone on the list that knows anything about the Antioch Church located in Sumner Co? According to GNIS it was located in the Fountain Head area. If so I would be interested in knowing what denomination it is/was....and some background history on it. Thanks Marie Beckman ===== http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rmbeckman/index.html Genealogy Chat Friends--Mom's Library http://www.genealogychatfriends.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

Bib, I don't know whether or not there was ever an Inn in White House, but if so, it was not the Cheek Tavern, for it was located on/near the banks of the Red River, North of White House. No part of the original Inn remains today. The TINNIN ROAD is interesting. Could you tell me where it was located? My 5th ggrandaunt, Mary Armstrong (daughter of Captain William Armstrong and Jane Lapsley Amrstrong) married Alexander Tinnen and the moved to Sumner County. I believe that Alexander was scalped by Indians. Helen FayII@aol.com wrote: > Mecca, I imagined as much about Mr. Cheek....My Dad told of an inn such as > you described but on Tinnin Road....at the foot of the hill. There is a > large cave on the property and the illgotten loot was suppose to be hid there. > He told of his Dad, as a young man, going with friends of his age, possum > hunting and one night ending up at this cave. Seems as if the innkeeper had > always driven a steelwheel buggy, pulled by one horse. Now, I don't > know.....and heaven forbid my Dad accusing anyone...but there was always a > still or two around...and there were several of these guys....soooooo...... > .ANYWAY...they were around the fire...in the second room of this cave, when > one of the guys yelled out..." Come out, Old Man, and show us where you hid > your money" Everything got real quiet...then they heard it....a steelwheel > buggy coming in the mouth of the cave...the horseshoes ringing on the rocks > You know I asked what happened.....Dad said Grandaddy didn't know...He > didn't stick around...none of them did......The cave was about two miles from > where he lived...but it took him six hours to get home...He ran in the wrong > direction...... > About the inn in White House...we moved near there in 1951...and there was > what I believe was a hotel there then....Someone tell me if I'm imagining > something AGAIN....Could it be the same? Bib.

In the early 1900s, my grandfather, C. W. Armstrong, purchased the land adjacent to that on which the Cheek Tavern had stood almost one hundred years before. The tales persisted, but there was more evidence. Whenever the Red River flooded, which was almost annually, large bones, the size of small cattle, or perhaps human bones, would be found along the banks of the Red River, as would an occasional gold coin. In my lock box, I have a gold coin of the early 1800s that my grandmother found along the banks of the Red River where it crossed the Carter farm. My Mother researched the story to use in a creative writing class that she took at Peabody College in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and she found that, even then, the legend of Elisha Cheek was very much alive. Helen Gant Donald DianePay@aol.com wrote: > For more information see > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnotcm.htm > > Here is some of it: > "Approximately seven miles north of White House was Cheek's Tavern, a stand > on the road between Nashville and Lexington at Red River, a natural location > for the development of a town or small community. But the rumors and > developing legend about the suspicious purposes of its owner Elisha CHEEK, > were enough to thwart settlements in the area...." > > Diane

So here is where we stand on the Cheek tavern. about 7 miles north of White House on 31W. I assume that would be on the left side if one was going north because someone said the tavern was on the Robertson Co side. This has been fun. I haven't thought of old Cheek in years. Thanks everybody Mecca

Thanks, do you know exactly where it was?

Mecca, I imagined as much about Mr. Cheek....My Dad told of an inn such as you described but on Tinnin Road....at the foot of the hill. There is a large cave on the property and the illgotten loot was suppose to be hid there. He told of his Dad, as a young man, going with friends of his age, possum hunting and one night ending up at this cave. Seems as if the innkeeper had always driven a steelwheel buggy, pulled by one horse. Now, I don't know.....and heaven forbid my Dad accusing anyone...but there was always a still or two around...and there were several of these guys....soooooo...... .ANYWAY...they were around the fire...in the second room of this cave, when one of the guys yelled out..." Come out, Old Man, and show us where you hid your money" Everything got real quiet...then they heard it....a steelwheel buggy coming in the mouth of the cave...the horseshoes ringing on the rocks You know I asked what happened.....Dad said Grandaddy didn't know...He didn't stick around...none of them did......The cave was about two miles from where he lived...but it took him six hours to get home...He ran in the wrong direction...... About the inn in White House...we moved near there in 1951...and there was what I believe was a hotel there then....Someone tell me if I'm imagining something AGAIN....Could it be the same? Bib.

Hi Friends, Thanks for all the wonderful contributions. I appreciate all of you! Here is the latest What's New on the Sumner Co. TNGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/index.html Cemeteries in Sumner County Online cemetery transcriptions Brackentown Cemetery - New! Cummings (W.P.A. Project) - New! Edwards Graveyard (W.P.A. Project) - New! Edwards-Love Graveyard (W.P.A. Project) - New! Dorris Cemetery - New! Dunn Family Graveyard (W.P.A. Project) Elliott Family Graveyard (W.P.A. Project) - New! Gallatin City Cemetery (W.P.A. Project) - New! Glover Family Graveyard (W.P.A. Project) - New! Green-Freeman Family Graveyard (W.P.A. Project) - New! Hall-Haynes Family Graveyard (W.P.A. Project) - New! Morgan Cemetery (W.P.A. Project) - New! Peyton (W.P.A. Project) - New! White House Church of Christ - New! Court Records Project Court Record Transcriptions Montgomery, D., Isaac Moore, James Watkins, & Jefferson Montgomery Trustees for Temperance Hall, 1855 - New! Deeds and Land Records, 1787 - 1949 Deed & Land Online Records Transcription Project Brinkley, Dorris, Patton, Sears & White, 1836 (Abstract) - New! Brown, Mathew & Robert Patton, 1808 (Abstract) - New! Childers, Joel to Robert Patton, 1808 (Abstract) - New! Johnson, Frances, Robert Stewart, R. W. Guthrie to Trustees Dry Fork Church, 1834/1836 - New! Kirkpatrick, Patton & Watson, 1832 & 1841 - New! Patton, Robert & Isaac Gregory, 1809 (Abstract) - New! Patton, Thomas & Robert Patton, 1800 (Abstract) - New! Patton, Thomas vs Thomas White, 1799 (Abstract) - New! Payne, Robert to Robert Stewart, 1841 (Abstract) - New! Vinson, Henry & Thomas Patton, 1794 (Abstract) - New! Family Album Biographies & Descendancy Charts Lovell, Andrew - New! Unidentified Photos Unidentified Photo 21 - Unidentified Young Lady - New! Unidentified Photo 22 - Unidentified Couple - New! Unidentified Photo 23 - Unidentified Couple with Baby - New! Interesting Sumner County Tidbits Cyclone, March 18, 1925 - Updated! Migrations Project -- Where did they come from? Where did they go? Rhody ALLEN - New! Alfred E. BRACKIN - New! Abel BROUGHTEN - New! Colin CAMPBELL - New! Military Histories and Muster Rolls, Revolutionary War to World War I! Civil War Civil War Photos Bate, Maj. Gen. William B. - New! Bragg, General Braxton - New! Breckinridge, Major General John C. - New! Camp Chase - New! Camp Douglass - New! Forrest, Brigadier General Nathan Bedford - New! Hood, Lieutenant General John Bell - New! Morgan, Brigadier General John H. - New! Wheeler, Major General Joseph - New! Zollicoffer, Brigadier General Felix - New! Sumner County, Tennessee In the Civil War - Chapter Three 7th TN Infantry - Companies C and E - Back Online! Take care, Diane Payne Sumner Co. TNGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/index.html

Edward Riley is on the 1816 Sumner County, TN tax list for 40 acres of land on Caney Fork of Drakes Creek. In Sherrill's Reconsctructed 1810 Census of Tennessee, Edward Riley is on the Sumner County tax list , Capt. Moore's Company. Also listed on Capt. Moore's 1810 tax list were Daniel Riley, Isaac Riley, and James Riley. What relation are these 4 Riley's to each other? Are they brothers? OR are they a father and 3 of his sons? What area of Sumner County did Mr. Moore's Company cover? Anyone have any of these Riley's in their line? Irene in California

For more information see http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/sumnotcm.htm Here is some of it: "Approximately seven miles north of White House was Cheek's Tavern, a stand on the road between Nashville and Lexington at Red River, a natural location for the development of a town or small community. But the rumors and developing legend about the suspicious purposes of its owner Elisha CHEEK, were enough to thwart settlements in the area...." Diane

I think I spelled his name Elijah in my last mote to the list, but I do believe his name was Elisha not Elijah. Mecca

Fay: Elijah Cheek ran an inn/tavern near White House, Tn. I'm sure there are some on line who know exactly where it was. I was told several years ago that the stones that formed the enterance steps to the inn were still in place. Anyway, when men were traveling to Nashville and points south do do business, Cheek was a very careful and considerate host hoping to have their business on their way back home. However his guest had a strange was of disappearing and the last place that people could remember seeing them was at the Cheek tavern/inn. The story is that there was a deep sink hole on his property and that after robbing the travelers, Cheek would murder them and throw their bodies down the sink hole. The person who told me about the steps also said that his grand daddy had a shoe box full of teeth, little bones and coins that has washed into the creek from the sinkhole (that is supposed to be there still) I have known this person for many years and frankly do not put much store in his stories, but be that as it may, Elijah Cheek was supposed to be half black, one quarter white and one quarter Cherokee, and he had a very savory reputation. You should be able to find about him in any one of several books on Sumner/Robertson County history.Since I don't know exactly where the tavern was and since White House sits in both counties You can probable find stories about it in both counties. Can anyone else add to this story? I would love to here more about it myself. Please correct any errors I have made. Mecca

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HiB.2ACI/709.725 Message Board Post: Did you ever find out any information on Orien Mayberry? If you did, could you please contact me at landsjewell@aol.com? I would love to hear it. Thank you Leah

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Hey, fellow listers, I was wondering if there's anyone else out there who's researching the Mandrell clan. A few weeks back, Carline Mandrell's photo was published on the Sumner TNGenWeb page and my unconfirmed research shows that she might be the eldest daughter of Freeman Mandrell and second wife, Gertrude Ellen Brown. Input anyone? Thanks, Sherry

Hey. Fellows, There doesn't HAVE to be a real family connection for naming this boy James Strother Parrish. My own name crossed over into our family from a neighboring family during the Civil War era. Nathan-- didn't Robert and James belong to a local milita and even fought with Andy Jackson? James could have made friends with people from a large area who might choose to name a son after him. Also we know that there were Strothers in Robertson County and also in Rutherford Co. A Robert Strother married a girl named Hannah in Rutherford in 1813. And a Strother from Robertson Co married a daughter of the notorious Elisha Cheek and ran the inn at White House after Cheek died. We (or at least I) seem to think of Richard Strother coming into Sumner Co with his in-laws, the Cottons, but other Strothers could have come too and just spread out. Ed Strother lists three brothers for Richard and there were probably sisters too. Mecca

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HiB.2ACI/2076.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I believe my James Strother resided in Sumner County continually once he settled here; however, it certainly is not impossible that he spent some time in Wilson County which as you know is just across the Cumberland River. At this time, I do not have any record of a Strother / Parrish family connection, but this does not mean that there isn't one. I just don't know about it. My James Strother, here in Sumner County tended to be executor, witness, etc. for several public documents concerning other people, but left a very small paper trail on himself personally. It would not surprise me if he was witness, etc. in Wilson County documents also. However, if the document you mention is in 1796, James would be 16-19 years old, an age at which he would probably not be involved in official transactions, but not impossible. The sisters of my James Strother are accounted for in his father Richard Strother's will of 1809 and none were Patsy or Martha. The number of children Richa! rd Strother had in 1809 matches the number of his household in the 1790 North Carolina census, so there were not any daughters who died during the period from 1790 to 1809. My best GUESS, is that we are probably dealing with two separate James Strothers here. But, I will try to keep my eyes open for any Parrish connections I run across in the future. I wish I could be of more help.

The obit for Harold H. Cole of White House, TN, is in today's Tennessean at http://tennessean.com/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HiB.2ACI/2076.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Nathan and Ronn, Maybe both of you can help me. Sorry I was so vague in the last e-mail, but here is more concise information. Here is my two bits of "evidence" for the Parrish families connection to the Strother family, particularly James Strother. 1. David W. Parrish, had a son, James Strother Parrish, born February 2, 1827 in Sumner County, TN. James was David's only son. 2. In a Wilson county, TN estate inventory for a Philemon Bowers, in 1796, there is mentioned a Henry Parish (father of my David W. Parrish) and James Strother. Now, I don't know if this line of Strothers were ever in Wilson County, but I would assume so, since it's so close. Here is my history of the Parrishes: Henry Parrish was born circa 1765 in NC or VA and was married to a woman named Elizabeth in the 1780's. Henry and Elizabeth lived in Franklin County, North Carolina, until 1793, when they moved west to Wilson County, TN. Henry Parrish died in 1811. Very soon after that, his son, David W. Parrish, fought in the War of 1812, and afterwards moved to Sumner Co., TN, where he was married in 1813. He later moved to Christian Co., KY. Henry and Elizabeth Parrish's children were: David, Fanny, William, Jane, Martha, and Elizabeth. Maybe Parrish and Strother were just related on a friendship level, but I am hoping there may be another connection. Here is the whole of the estate information I found from the Wilson County mailing list: "WB A - p. 171 - Inventory of estate of PHILEMON BOWERS, decd. March 7, 1796. Among the items were 1 negro woman Annaky, 1 negro girl Cresey, 1 negro boy Anderson, 1 negro girl Eady, a negro Jimmy. Persons mentioned: HARVEY, JAMES STROTHER, WILLIAM BROWN, KANNON COOPER, HENRY PARRISH, JACOB FOX, WILLIAM STONE, SOLOMON BIBBY, BENJAMIN RICHRDS, CHARLES RICHARDS, GEORGE RAILEIGH, JOHN RIMES." I then looked at the entry above it. This was the will of Giles Bowers, 1796. In it he mentions "To daughter PATSY STROTHER 5 shillings." He also says that Philemon Bowers, listed above, was his son. My guess is that James Strother would have been Philemon's brother-in-law. Who knows. What are both of your take on this? Thanks.