John Wilson "Cage" migrated early to MS. He married there. Then he moved back to TN later. He married in MS to Lucy Lanier; Feb. 7, 1849, in Madison County. Later he married Ida Bomar in TN, Jan. 15, 1875. He divorced her. Divorce record in Carroll County. Following are my notes on JHWCY: CAGE, J. H. W. -74- State: TN Year: 1891 County: Carroll County Record Type: Township: Dist. 21 -male Voters- Page: 039 Database: TN 1891 Voters List Carroll County Divorce Records, 1890 1890 CAGE (2 files) Ida M. CAGE J. H. W. Carroll County Court Records 1896 CAGE etals C. L. - Cage, C. L. estate 1891 CAGE etals J. H. W. TOWNES John B. - 1878 CAGE etals Peter M. CAGE P. H. W. - (should be J. H. W.) McLemoresville, nine miles west of Huntingdon and the place where the county was organized, is now only a post hamlet, containing two stores, a steam cotton-gin, and a good school, the Methodist Institute, and it has a population of about 150. In the early history of the county, and before railroads were established through it, McLemoresville was a place of considerable business importance. Clarksburg, nine miles south of Huntingdon, is a post village which was established about the year 1850 on lands of Peter Wood. Kelly Clark was its first merchant. It has three general stores, a drug store, grist-mill, cotton-gin and about 100 inhabitants. Buena Vista, about eight miles east of Huntingdon, was established about the year 1850 on lands of Thomas A. Pasture. W. P. Chambers, its first merchant, is still in the business there. It has two general stores, a cotton-gin, a Baptist Church and a good academy. Atwood, four miles southwest of Trezevant and on the same railroad, was established in 1872 on lands owned by J. H. W. Cage. The first merchants of the place were W. H. Scalloin and J. J. Clark. The postoffice was established the, same year, and J. H. W. Cage was the first postmastcr. The town now contains four general stores, a cotton-gin, gristmill and saw-mill, and two churches, Methodist and Baptist, the former hay-in been established in 1859, and the latter in 1874. The village has 118 inhabitants. The Shiloh Cotton Factory was established about the year 1850, in the Ninth Civil District, by Prince, Carson & Co. who prior to the war manufactured cotton yarns. Since the war the property passed into the hands of Messrs. Cheek, Ethridge & Co. who for a number of years manufactured carpet warp. They have recently changed the business and now manufacture woolen goods entirely. Bk. 22 p. 80 27 May 1848 Will of John Younger Wife, Sally Younger, whole estate during life and widowhood. After death or marriage to : Dau. Sarah Ann Younger, and heirs of her body. In event Sarah Ann dies without heirs, to brothers William, Armistead and Williamson Younger and their heirs. Filed for probate 26 June 1848. The Cages; the Youngers and Bomars; the Laniers; and the Keatons (draft in progress) By Henry Watkins Williamson, Jr. November 26, 2003 My mom, Jean Anthony Williamson, is the youngest daughter and child of Charles Mac Anthony and Ola Esther Keaton Anthony of Henning, Tennessee. Charles and Ola had four girls, Effie Ola, Alice Elaine, Rose, and Jean. Charles and his first wife Belle Walker, who died shortly after the birth of her youngest child, had seven children, Lela, Mary Sue, Louise, Charles, Dave, Allen, and Max Lee. This is the story of my grandma's people: the Cages, Youngers and Bomars, the Laniers, and the Keatons. My grandma, Ola Esther Keaton Anthony was a wonderful lady descending from pioneer stock that settled Carroll County in West Tennessee. I have prepared these family stories borrowing liberally from: " the Keaton history recorded by Mack Keaton, the half-brother of my great-grandfather James "Jimmie" Andrew Keaton, Jr. " records given to me by Lynn Thomas of Grants Pass, Oregon, who is not a descendant of the Keatons, but whose great grandmother was married to Cornelius Larkin Keaton, the Rev. James Andrew Keaton's brother " Wayne Lanier's website and correspondence " correspondence with a Younger cousin, Brownie Mackie, who also provided me with copies of letters written by my great-great grandfather, John Henry Wilson Cage (Younger) " Charles Cage's correspondence on the adoptive parents of John Henry Wilson Cage " Telephone conversations with Robert Keaton and Eugene Keaton, first cousins to each other and to my mom The Cages, Youngers, and Bomars Great, great grandpa John Henry Wilson Cage was a planter and cotton trader in Madison County, Mississippi before and during the Great War Against Northern Aggression. He served in various appointments while his family lived in Madison County. He was Constable in 1858, Justice in 1860, and Coroner in 1866. As his great granddaughter, Effie Ola Anthony Chenault told it: "Now you do know that this Cage was sort of like Rhett Butler. He traded with the Yankees during the war, during the late Great War. But what he would do is take the cotton from around Jackson, Mississippi and take it down to New Orleans and sell it. When the Yankees took over New Orleans, well, he knew enough people to get the cotton down there. And so after the war people were not happy with him because he didn't go to war. He had just made money selling their cotton. And of course they couldn't have stood it without what they got from him. But after the war they were mad and he had to kind of slip out of town. He already had this land up at Atwood [Tennessee] and so they moved up there. And they had four more children, but she [Lucy Ann Lanier Cage] died when Granny was born. He took up drinking. He did finally get married again [Ida Bomar] cause he couldn't handle the children. He needed somebody to handle the children. But they were married only about eighteen years, and then he divorced her. And that is whom Uncle Cage is named for. Cage Lanier [Keaton], and Lanier was the name of Grandmother; that was her last name." To my knowledge no one in the family knew much about John Henry Wilson Cage's parentage. The wonderful thing about the Internet is that you can keep searching until you get answers, and that's exactly what I did. I've logged more than a dozen hours on the Internet trying to find out where the Cage line originates. I made what I consider to be a major discovery through on-line communications with Charles Cage and Brownie Mackie. With great surprise I learned that my ancestor John Henry Wilson Cage was born in Halifax County, Virginia on June 15, 1818 the youngest son of Williamson Younger and Mary Bomar Younger. Williamson died young leaving Mary with five small children, and a sixth child on the way. This sixth child was John Henry Bomar Younger, my great, great grandfather. His parentage is listed in the Halifax County, Va. Minute Book M 5, on page 229. Mary Younger gave this young boy to Wilson Cage and his wife Elizabeth Ussery Cage, who adopted him and changed his name to John Henry Wilson Cage. Wilson Cage was the son of Fielding Cage and Susannah Jones of Charlotte County, Virginia, and was born around 1795/1800. Wilson married Elizabeth Ussery on February 28, 1825. They moved from Halifax County, Virginia to Madison County, Mississippi. Wilson Cage, the adoptive father of our ancestor, died in testate on March 27, 1845 in Lafayette County, Arkansas listing JHW Cage as his only heir. The November 1832 Court order directing the estate of Mary Bomar Younger's father, Bibby Bomar, to be divided into eight equal parts and distributed among his children or their heirs includes: "The children of Mary Younger, dec'd: John, James, Armistead, and Williamson Younger, Mary Ellington (the wife of Loring Ellington); and [John Henry] Wilson Cage" [our ancestor]. Brownie Mackie, the great great granddaughter of Williamson Younger, Jr., and my cousin has a record from the Halifax courts showing that John Henry had to take all his siblings to court in order to claim what he had coming from Mary Bomar and Williamson Younger's estate. In one of the court records he uses the name of Younger. Here is a transcript of a letter Brownie sent me written by John Henry to his brother Williamson Younger, Jr. after the estate was settled: Madison County MS, January 21st, 1846 Dear Brother I take pleasure in answering your friendly letter of December 12th 1845 in which you seemed to entertain a belief that I did not like you much. Brother it has seemed ever since I have been old enough to appreciate the right kind of feelings towards a parent, a Brother, or friend it has been our fate to be separated far apart and that contrary to my wishes-- for it has ever seemed to be my greatest desire to be near to you all until within the last few years when our disputed matter came into litigation-- when it seemed to me to create a disrespectful feeling among my brothers for trying for that which they said was not my rights. However, from all the letters that I have received from you in the last few years and now before me I must [ ] frankly, my Brother, that I do not now believe that you do or ever did entertain that disrespectful feeling that some of the Brothers did or all the rest did-and from the present view of the matter if I have in any of my addresses hurt your feelings by any remark that I made I am now sorry for it and earnestly hope that the impressions that have been made on each of our minds may be [ ] and if we should ever meet again on earth that we should meet as friends and as brothers. Enough for the [ ] of that matter__ if I am blest with life and health I will see you in one or two years more in which time my intentions are to quit the business I now follow and settle myself for life and before I do settle I wish to see all my near relatives and then retire from a [ ] and traveling life. I am yet single and ever expect to remain [ ] for the [ ] am from marrying. I am still with my same old boys Mr. [ ] of Huntingdon. There is not much news of importance in this section [ ] and [ ] prevails with us. Property is higher than usual. I sold my negros not long since for a profit of [ ] dollars each clear of [ ], ___Give my respects to inquiring friends if such there be in your country. Tell them if they wish to know the particulars that I am doing well in this life, but Brother I awfully fear that I am neglecting my welfare in the life to come to long. Remaining your Brother and friend until death. John H. W. Cage Brownie also gave me a copy of at second letter written by my great great-grandfather, John Henry, to her great-great grandfather Williamson Younger, Jr. Here is a transcript of that letter: Madison County MS, August 20, 1848 Dear Brother: I embrace this as the first opportunity since the reception of yours of July 10th and 20th in which I found that you was yet indisposed, but I earnestly hope that these lines may find you again in the enjoyment of health. I am in fine health at present and have been for a great while, and may it please God to extend that blessing to me and to you for a time beyond our expectations. I have no news of any consequence at present to write about. Our crops of cotton is generally better than they have been since 1844, and I think from the general act from the different cotton regions that this years crop will exceed any ever made in the United States. I predict for 2 800.000 bails this year in the U.S. If so, cotton must be lower than ever was known before and should the hubbub in Europe continue til the finish of this crop with no prospect of getting better [ ] is elected. Woe be unto the cotton planter. I think raising and eating then will be much the best business. I think without accident or cause that I shall have this fall some six or seven thousand dollars that I wish to lay out in negroes and I think I shall not have time to go to VA. And expect to cruise along the line of the Ohio River and buy as many as I can. I think it is likely that I can do as well as to go to [ ] gras perhaps I may be in your section if I have time. If not, I will see you in the Washata if life lasts year after next. You go there and make corn enough for us both, and I will come the year after you get there. I am on a [ ]sugar plantation in Louisiana where I am offered 1500 dollars for next or to stay in this country for 800 dollars. I think of marrying perhaps this winter. The final issue of the above. I will inform you soon. My lady love is young and beautiful in almost every other quality that suits me, and why shall not strike while young. I am going to LA in a few weeks to see the man and plantation that has offered me the above 1500 dollars. He is a namesake of mine, and an old bachelor...maybe he may take a liking to me and leave me a part of his estate. Will you write to me again soon...if you are there, inform me of the price of negroes through those parts and let me know by that time perhaps the price of cotton may develop more fully, so I can better judge what I may do. My best respect to the Momma of all your babys. I am ever yours with the greatest respect. John H. W. Cage. The Younger family migrated from Glasgow, Scotland. William Alexander Younger was born about 1608 in Glasgow, and he married Margaret Steinsoune on February 9. 1631. To this union was born Thomas Younger on January 25, 1651 who married Anna Smith in 1680. The son of Thomas and Anna, Alexander Younger, was born in 1681 and died in 1727. He migrated from Glasgow to Essex County, Virginia. Alexander had a son named Thomas, who had a son named Thomas who died in 1791. Thomas had a son named William (d. 1801) who had a son named Williamson, who is the father of our ancestor John Henry Wilson Cage (Younger). John Henry's mother, Mary Bomar Younger, was the daughter of Bibby and Ann Bomar. Bibby is the son of Edward and Isabel Bomar, and Edward is the son of Bibby and Susannah Bush Bomar. Great, great grandpa John Henry married Lucy Ann Lanier, originally from Virginia, in Madison County, Mississippi on February 7, 1849. We'll get into the Lanier lineage shortly, but first here are the children of Lucy Ann and John Henry: Sterling Webster Cage (1858-1861), Harry Cage (1859-1867), Creola Belle Cage (1861-1861), Snooks W. Cage (1855-?), Czar Lanier Cage (1867-1895), Ola Cage (1869-1961), and Effie Cage (August 14,1871- March 16,1955). On the day of my great grandma Effie Cage's birth her mother Lucy Ann died. Just as my Aunt Effie Ola Anthony Chenault has told it, great, great grandpa Cage remarried on January 25, 1875 to Ida Bomar, but divorced her in 1890, after all his children had grown up. I'm told my great grandma, Effie, loved Ida as if she were her natural mother. Around the close of the Great War, the Cages moved from Madison County, Mississippi to Carroll County, Tennessee and settled in Atwood. Interestingly, Williamson Younger, Jr., John Henry's natural brother, also settled in Atwood. John Henry is mentioned in Williamson Younger's Diary on page 75, published in the West Tennessee Historical Society Papers. The town of Atwood was established in 1872 on the large tracts of land owned by our ancestor, John Henry. He opened the post office and was the first postmaster, according to Goodspeed's History of Carroll County, Tennessee. He also, leased land to the Louisville/Nashville Railroad, and donated the land for the school and three churches. Great, great grandpa Cage built a beautiful home in Atwood, but later this home burned in a fire. He owned two stores in downtown Atwood and had them relocated just outside of town, making them into a home. This home eventually became the life-long home of my great grandparents, Effie and Jimmy Keaton. Great, great grandpa Cage was a bit of an eccentric. There are certain stories of his notoriety, but they shall remain untold. He died on August 30, 1892 and is buried beside his first wife, Lucy Ann, at the Pisgah Cemetery in Atwood. The Laniers Lucy Ann Lanier (1732-8/14/1871) married great, great grandpa John Henry Wilson Cage on February 7, 1849 in Madison County, Mississippi. Great, great grandma Lucy Ann was born in Virginia in 1832 to Sterling Hartwell Lanier (1806-1863) and Sarah E. Simmons Lanier (1809-1870). Sterling Lanier moved his family to Madison County, Mississippi from Virginia where he became a landowner and successful planter. Lucy Ann had at least four younger sisters, Sarah J., Mary S., Louisa V., and Henrietta W. Let's look at Lucy Ann's ancestry. Sterling Lanier's parents were Thomas Lanier (1771-1840) and Polly Vaugh Lanier (-1808). Thomas is the son of William Lanier (1731-) and Elizabeth Burch Lanier ( -1798). William is the son of Thomas Lanier (1701-1745) and Amy Maclin* Lanier (1709-). Thomas is the son of Sampson Lanier (1681-1743) and Elizabeth Washington (1660-1725). Sampson is the son of John Lanier Jr. (1655-1719) and Katherine Sampson. John Lanier Jr. is the son of John Lanier Sr. (1631-1685) and Lucreece Bassano Lanier, who is the son of Clement Lanier (1590-1661) and Hannah Collett Lanier, of County Kent, England. Clement is the son of Nicolas Lanier (died 1610) of France. It is believed that the Laniers migrated to Rouen, France from Tuscany, Italy. Nicolas Lanier and family fled France as Huguenots from religious persecution to London, England in 1561. Frankly, I don't understand this Huguenot business. The Laniers were originally Catholic, of nobility and took up arms for the cause of the Great Crusades. What caused this turn from the ancient Church to novel Calvinism? Anyway, the Laniers were court musicians for both the French and English royalty. Nicholas was named "Musician of the Royal Flutes" in the court of King James, and his son Clement was named "Gentleman of the King's Chamber" and "Master of the Recorder," an instrument similar to a clarinet, to both James I and Charles I. John Lanier Sr. was known to the family as "John the Emigrant." He with his wife Lucreece and their son John Jr. moved from Lewisham, England to Charles City County, Virginia in 1656. John and John Jr. took part in Bacon's Rebellion in protest of Governor Berkeley's failure to protect the colonists from Powhatan Indian attacks. I can't tell how excited I was to see Amy Maclin's name as bride of Thomas Lanier. You see, Amy Maclin is the sister of my gggggg grandfather John Maclin on the maternal side of my grandfather Wilkins Maclin Williamson's family. Amy Maclin Lanier, is my gggggggrandma on the maternal side of my grandmamma Ola Esther Keaton Anthony's family. Amy's father, William Maclin, names her in his will: "Item: I give and bequeath to unto my daughter, Ann Lanier, labor and use of 1 Negro man named George her lifetime and then, I give the same to her son Thomas Lanier, and to his heirs forever. Also, I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Ann Lanier, my bed and furniture, whereon I now lie myself, to her and her heirs forever." Amy's father-in-law, Sampson Lanier, was one of the securities for the executor of William Maclin's will, and her husband Thomas was a witness. Ann named her son William, after her father William Maclin (1683-1751), who was the first of the Maclin clan to emigrate from Paisley, Scotland to Surry County, Virginia. Sampson Lanier married Elizabeth Washington, the granddaughter of Major John Washington, who was the great grandfather of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Sampson and Elizabeth moved from the Isles of Wight to Brunswick County, Virginia where Sampson was a Justice, a Vestryman of St. Andrews Parish, and at one time on the school board. I wish I knew more about great, great grandma Lucy Ann. Sadly, she died giv ing birth to my great grandma, "Granny" Effie Cage Keaton. My sister Lucy Margaret Williamson Hines has an heirloom of Lucy Ann's, her metal headboard and footboard set. The Keatons The first Keaton to migrate to America was William Keaton who was born in Ireland in 1627. He stowed away on a ship, "The Rose" and came to America in January 1641. The York County Virginia court records that William was bound by indenture to serve William Hockaday for a period of five years from February 1641. But William ran away and was caught and brought before the court. Two years were added to his indenture and he was whipped at the whipping post receiving thirty lashes on his bare shoulders. In May 1643 he ran away again! We know not if this William was our first ancestor. There are records of land grants in the years 1694 and 1695 to several Keatons in compensation for their sponsoring a large number of immigrants into the colony of Virginia, according to Mack Keaton's history. Our first ancestor of record is Lawrence Keeton who was born about 1644. He married Ruth and they had a son named Henry Keeton, born about 1675 in Pasquotank, North Carolina. He married Mary in 1690 in Pasquotank, North Carolina. Henry was a Quaker, and at the monthly meeting held on May 5, 1706 he was selected along with two other men to choose a proper location and build a Quaker meeting house. Henry and Mary had six children, the eldest being a son named Joseph Zachariah Keaton (notice the spelling of the last name changed) born about 1699. Joseph married Sarah S. on January 7, 1721 and they had four children including a son named Zachariah Keaton Sr., born in 1708 in Pasquotank, North Carolina. Zachariah Sr. married Elizabeth Wilcocks and they had two sons: Zachariah James Keaton, Jr. born in 1754 in Albemarle, Virginia, and our ancestor, Cornelius Keaton in 1775. Cornelius moved to DeKalb, Tennessee in 1807, and his elder brother followed him two years later. Both brothers served as 60 day volunteers in Tennessee regiments. Cornelius Keaton served as a Private in the 1st Regiment West Tennessee Mounted Volunteers from December 1813- February 1814. This regiment filled the ranks of Major General Andrew Jackson's dwindling army during the Creek Wars. Cornelius and his regiment "saw some of the fiercest action of the Creek War at Emuckfau and Enotochopco (January 22 and 24, 1814) where Jackson's army was nearly routed by attacking Creeks." Our ancestor fought the "Red Sticks," as the Creeks were called at that time, in hand-to-hand combat at the battle of Enotochopco Creek. Jackson's army killed 189 Creek warriors, with his own casualties being twenty killed and seventy-five wounded. It was during the War of 1812 that President James Madison called on the men of Tennessee to help defend the "Lower Country" and Tennesseans volunteered in such great number that the state earned the nickname, "The Volunteer State." My first cousin, Charles Pounds Jr., is just about the biggest "Vols" fan I know of, that is of course, the University of Tennessee Volunteers football team. Now, Charles, you know the rest of the story! Our great, great, great, great grandfather, Cornelius, was an original Volunteer, the real thing! Anyway, Cornelius married Sarah "Sally" Adams, a relative of John Adams, on November 12, 1793 in Patrick County, Virginia. They had seven children: Cornelius W., Larkin, Jacob, Isaac, William, Mary (Polly), and Peter, of whom Cornelius W. is our ancestor. Cornelius W. Keaton was born on March 29, 1796 in Patrick County, Virginia and died March 7, 1870 in Carroll County, Tennessee. He moved to Dekalb County, Tennessee when he was about ten years old. On January 31, 1818 he married Mary Calhoun Hayes of South Carolina (b. March 2, 1801 -d. November 29, 1872), who was a relative of Rutherford B. Hayes. They were the original settlers of Atwood in the year 1821, opening a store and a blacksmith shop within eyesight of their homestead. Cornelius and Mary had twelve children of whom our ancestor is James Andrew Keaton Sr. who was born on October 25, 1836 and died on September 10, 1916. James Andrew is named for his great uncle. James Andrew Keaton Sr. married Rebecca Jane Browning on December 29, 1855. The Brownings were of English descent and migrated to Union County, South Carolina and came to West Tennessee about 1838. To their union came seven children of whom our ancestor is James Andrew Keaton Jr., who was born on February 2, 1867 and died on February 9, 1944. Rebecca died December 5, 1874. On June 15, 1875 James Sr. married a second time to Mary Roach Craig Keaton, the widow of John Craig. Mary had a daughter from her first marriage, Sarah Elizabeth, who married James Sr.'s oldest son William Jefferson, making Sarah Elizabeth James Sr.' stepdaughter and daughter-in-law. James Sr. and Mary had four children, one of whom is Mack Keaton. My aunt, Rose Anthony Robertson, sent me a copy of an article written about our ancestor. Here are some excerpts from the article: "The Reverend James Andrew Keaton James Andrew Keaton, one of the pioneer Cumberland Presbyterian ministers of West Tennessee, was born in the Atwood community, in Carroll County, Tennessee, October 25, 1835, and died September 30, 1916, just twenty five days before his eighty-first birthday. He was ordained to the full work of the ministry in 1868 by Hopewell Presbytery, the moderator at that time being the Reverend Reuben Burrow, one of the leading theologians of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Brother Keaton organized the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Milan, Tennessee, in 1876. Thirty years later, when the congregation in Milan became divided over the attempted union with the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., the remaining Cumberland Presbyterians in the Milan church again called on James Andrew Keaton to lead in re-establishing that church. Although he was then past seventy years of age, he assumed the pastoral oversight of the "remnant" and led in the purchase of a church building and later in the erection of a more adequate building. He retired from the Milan pastorate in about 1911. He is known to have served various churches in Carroll, Gibson, and Madison Counties, including Double Springs, Pilgrim's Rest, Pleasant Green, Davidson's Chapel, McLemoresville, Pisgah, and Bradford. Just two or three years before his death he organized a church near Idlewild, Tennessee, known as Oliver's Chapel. 'He was considered one of the leading authorities of his on the Bible as well as the Confession of Faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and his counsel and advice was widely sought by young ministers, as well as by people in all walks of life,' his son Mack Keaton says of him. His grandson, Dr. Shelton Beatty, says of him, 'The Reverend James Andrew Keaton, popularly and affectionately known a 'Parson Pete,' combined in his life of business and the Christian Church a double emphasis upon his foremost belief and his constant practice: (1) That whosever will should be the mainstay and absolutely dedicated belief in gaining acceptance of the Christian gospel, and (2) that any citizen of the church, whether preacher or layman (and he was both for many years and even in so-called retirement) should devote himself frequently and regularly to the study of Testaments, and should also engage in discussions of the Bible and the interpretation of it, with much support from memorized and logically presented passages from the Bible. No one who ever came to see him on his porch or by his fire or after a sermon or as he sat in a pew could come away from his presence without remembering 'Uncle Pete,' as he was also called, taking up topic after topic and supporting it with generous and accurate quotations from the Bible. He liked to talk with all visitors and associates, whether young grandchildren, or peddlers off their wagons, or churchmen, especially young ministers who were his frequent guests in the family household… His spacious home and very generous table were always open to guests from the church and the Bethel College ministerial students, to friends and even sometimes acquaintances from camp meetings and from many branches of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in West Tennessee especially. At the General Assembly he was a strong figure who emphasized careful interpretation of the Scriptures without narrow pointing opinions, but on no occasion could he tolerate any view of man's spiritual life that would deny him what he lovingly and admiringly called 'the whosoever will gospel', making the way open for all who confessed their error and sought forgiveness and wished to make a new life. He was indeed a missionary minister aiding in building churches without considering whether his services should be paid for or not, for he was going about the business he considered the most important in the world, establishing and fostering the growth and practice of 'whosoever will' gospel-preaching churches where the common people should read, study, and discuss ideas gained from the Bible." His obituary from the "Milan Exchange" of Milan, Tennessee read: "Rev. J. A. Keaton Dies Suddenly One of the Oldest and Widest Known Ministers of West Tennessee Rev. J. A. Keaton died very suddenly at his home on Smith Street last Saturday morning from acute indigestion. Though he had not been well for several days the sudden attack was unexpected and his death a shock to the entire community. He had been about town during the week and on Thursday went to the meeting of the Hopewell Presbytery at Davidson's Chapel and attended the session Thursday. Friday he was not well and returned home in the afternoon. Saturday morning he arose as usual and dressed to go to Cairo to see his brother, Judge C. L. Keaton, who was very low, and ate breakfast with the family. **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)