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Part 3 of a 3 part series
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Maryville Enterprise (Blount County, TN) August 18, 1911“Logan’s Chapel---A Sketch. A Historical Article Dealing With The Older Families Who Lived About This Old Chapel.
Granny Wolf, as everybody called her, lived at the Caroline Carter place. We do not know anything about her husband, but she was a widow and reared there a son and daughter, James and Polly. James married Barbara Hafley and reared five boys and three girls. The boys were Marcus, Neil, Major, Frank and Joe. The girls were Peggy, who married a Brooks; Anna, who married a Glem, and Polly, who married Charley Ott. These all reared families but the only representatives left in this neighborhood that we know of is Peter, son of Neil, who lives where his father died years ago. Joe’s son, Alex, and perhaps others, lives near Union Academy near the county line between Blount and Sevier. But all the older ones are gone unless it is Joe who still lives. All are buried here. Marcus Ott lives here still.
G.W. and C.W. Adney were reared on the old Cruze place where C.W. died a few years ago. They all are buried here.
William Shaver lived about three miles northwest of here on the farm his son, Houston, still lives on. He married Betsy Hafley. His brother, Tom, owned and lived alone, having never been married, on the place where Mr. Ogle now lives. His sister married John McCamy. The Shavers are all buried here.
Peter Wheeler lived at what was later known as the James Wolf place or the old voting ground. He reared a family but his boys were mostly girls, two of whom married Wolfs, a thing rather remarkable. One married James Wolf and was his second wife, while Betsy married Neil Wolf, a son of James, making James and Neil brother-in-law as well as father-in-law. But we know one to beat that. Lewis Houser married a widow Brummett and his father, Phillip Houser, married his son, Lewis’ step-daughter, Sallie Brummett, thus making Lewis his father’s father-in-law; and all that happened right on this spot, for they were living in one of the old camps at the time. The old Wheeler place is now owned by the Harris brothers, William and Charles. All the Wheelers are buried here.
Mr. Kidd lived on a part of the Keller place. His son, Robert, married Easter Newman and settled on the farm where James W. French was living at the time he was drowned in Little River. Mr. Kidd reared a family but the only descendants are the children of Lizzie, who married J.W. French as a second wife. Peter French married William Kidd’s daughter, Malinda, and built on a part of the old Kidd place where his grandson, William, still lives. Hon. Charles T. Cates also married another daughter.
Alex McClain lived at the Col. James Davis place. He sold it to Samuel McCamy and he to Col. James Davis. It is now owned by Andrew Davis, son of Col. James Davis. The only survivor of the McClain family that we know of in this country is W.W. McClain of Maryville. The survivors of the Davis family are Mrs. Tobe Henry of Maryville and Mrs. Andy Hitch of Chandler.
The Covingtons lived where C.C. Haggard now lives, but they left before the war and we do not know what became of them. A man named Jacob Garman lived there during the war. Thomas Prichard bought the place and lived there a number of years. After James French sold his home to his brother-in-law, J.M. Goddard, which is now the home of James Johnson, he bought this place. After living there a few years he sold to Prof. W.M. Rogers and he to Dr. E.L. Mullendore, who came from Boyd’s Creek in Sevier County in 1881. And here Dr. Mullendore’s wife died. He reared two sons and five daughters. They were W.W., R.L., Mollie, Hattie, Ida, Annie and Matella. Of these only Ruel is left in this neighborhood; W.W. having become a Baptist preacher and is located in Madisonville; Mollie and Hattie are dead. After the Mullendore family scattered, the place was sold to C.C. Haggard.
John Walker, with his good wife, Sallie, and their children, Thomas, William, Joseph and Robert, also Margaret and Mary, came from Miller’s Cove to Nails Creek. They lived several years where Perry Franklin now lives. They left some older married children in the cove. Uncle Johnny, as everybody called him, was a blacksmith and a good man and made a good and useful citizen. Robert, their baby boy, who, by the way, made quite a noted Methodist minister, dying while holding the position of Conference Evangelist. Mrs. Margaret Dupes and several grandchildren are buried here, while William and Joe still live in the neighborhood.
The French family originated in Knox County, near New Salem Church. But they always attended our camp meetings. And two of Jacob’s sons, James W., and Peter, finally made this their home. James on the Monroe Goddard place, and Peter, having married Malinda Kidd, inherited a part of the old Kidd place, which is now known as the Keller place. James reared a family of eight sons and two daughters. The boys were Thomas, Millard, William, Jefferson, Stephen, John, James Jr., and George H. The girls were Ellen and Victoria. James, his two wives and several children are buried here; the others have left the county and some the state. Peter reared Tennessee, J. Baxter and Jacob. Peter, Malinda, Tennessee (Mrs. H.C. Clemens) and Jacob are all buried here, only leaving Baxter and his family to represent the French name in this county. Baxter lives at the old Jacob Newman home place while his son, Willie, lives at the Peter French place.
Another prominent name in the ancient history of this place is that of Britton Girard or Garrett as he was called. He was a local preacher and lived with his wife, Hazel, near the old Wolf homestead, later the Carolina Carter place. They had no children but are buried here.
John Thomas, another old landmark, was born in Virginia in 1794. He came to this place about 1818 or 1820. He bought the old Yankee Hill place, now owned by a Mr. Clevenger, from a man named Kirkpatrick. He fought in the War of 1812, after which he ran a blacksmith shop in connection with his farm. There he made the wagon that hauled the Logans to Illinois. He sold the wagon to Robert Pickens and he to the Logans. Here, Mr. Thomas reared a considerable family. His sons were William, Marion, Andrew and John. His daughter was Mrs. Mary Ann Kennedy. All are dead but Marion and John, who is an old man and lives in Knoxville. William, his eldest son, came into possession of a part of the old home and reared a family of five boys: Joseph and William Jr., by his first wife, and John, Dock and Major by his second wife. His brothers also reared families but left the old neighborhood to do so. Marion has a son near Rockford known as Red Jim; and other children live near Knoxville. The old couple, with many of their children are buried here.
Alfred Seaton lived on Crooked Creek four miles away, but attended church here. And he, with members of his family are buried here. Rev. James B. Seaton, his brother, came from Sevier County in 1867 and settled where his widow still lives. Rev. Seaton preached all over this county and has gone home to enjoy the reward of the faithful. Besides being a preacher, he was a consecrated Christian gentleman and a good citizen.
Esq. D.W. Trotter also came from Sevier County and bought the old Ambrister tan yard in 1872, where he has since lived. His first wife was a daughter of Alfred Seaton, and they reared Mollie, Maggie, Minnie, Myrtle, Isaac and James. His present wife was Miss Bobbie McTeer. The End.”
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