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From Leslie Murrow Morris:
My mother told me that her grandparents, Richard Murrow and Louisa Mesney, had four children. All four died at once, and then they had eleven more. I know of no more details.
The page from Vivienne Murrow Sornson's girlhood journal appears to verify that they had at least two children who died in the black plague. Why that information is scratched out, I do not know.
My mother may have said four in error, or I may have erred in remembering four instead of two.
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From Lewis of Warner Hall:
Sir Thomas Windebank was for many years Clerk of the Signet to Queen Elizabeth and to James I, and through his marriage to Lady Frances Dymoke he had allied himself with one of the most prominent families of the contemporary English nobility. | Windebank, Knight Sir Thomas (I1461)
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From Marion Morris Wood's "My Life Story" 1882:
I have been asked to record for the sake of future generations a few of the interesting facts of our family.
The first concerns my father's uncle, Samuel Tappan Morris of Abbeville SC. As a young man he was so anxious for a really good education that he rode from Abbeville SC to Oxford OH, hundreds of miles, sold his horse to pay his tuition, and studied at Miami University. This trip took two weeks each fall and two weeks in the spring when he bought another horse and rode home. This routine he continued for four years, achieving his BA degree in 1840.
I have some of the original letters he wrote to his mother from college and I think the most remarkable thing he wrote was "Mother, I want you to see that Sister Sarah has the best education possible--she has the best mind in the family." It was most unusual for a young man a hundred and forty years ago to realize his sister had a fine mind and was worthy of education. I'm very proud of him.
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A letter dated July 16, 1842 to Samuel Morris from G. W. W. Pressly mentioned getting a "snag horse" in Ohio for from 10 to 15 dollars.
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A letter dated November 8, 1844, from Samuel Morris to his mother establishes that he had been in Alabama for eight weeks, and had found a teaching job at a "classical school" in Union Springs, AL, for one year beginning in January 1845.
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A letter dated December 19, 1845, from Samuel Morris to his mother, he states that he is now in Montgomery, AL, on his way farther west in search of a situation as a teacher for another year. He writes "...my destiny is now fixed. My affections have been placed...& they have been reciprocated. Two years more, & (if spared) I will show you one of the most accomplished and beautiful ladies of the South."
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Unfortunately, six weeks after his marriage to Elizabeth, he was dead, about October 1848. | Morris, Samuel Tappan (I0037)
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From Marion Morris Wood's "My Life Story" 1882:
My mother's father, Christopher Simonton Brice, also fought under Robert E. Lee in Virginia and during those war years my mother (age 4) and her mother, Margaret Gooch, went to live with her maternal grandfather, Henry Gooch, near Chester, SC.
My mother was eight years told when Sherman arrived and camped on her grandfather's plantation and although she lived to be ninety-three years old, she always remembered the Sherman experiences. She saw her grandfather hanged from his own stairwell because he refused to tell the Yankees where his silver was hidden. He was cut down before he died, blue in the face. She saw every living creature that the soldiers didn't eat shot down in the yard. She saw her grandfather's blue damask curtains snatched from the windows and used as saddlebags by Sherman and his men. She saw the soldiers carry out every china dish in the house, stand them up against the trees and use them for targets. I myself have the only remaining dish, a beautiful platter, rescued I don't know how, and I treasure it immensely.
Sherman knew the war was already won, the South on her knees, broken and bleeding, before he started his raid. But he was willing to make war on the helpless women and children. He himself said "I've cut a swath through the South 200 miles long and 60 miles wide, and if a crow wants to fly over it, he will have to carry his lunch with him." He excused his savage action by saying "War is Hell." Even Winston Churchill says in his autobiography that the North was more to blame than the South.
Is it any wonder my mother always called it the Uncivil war, and that my father always told her she would die an unreconstructed rebel? | Brice, Christopher Simonton (I0065)
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From Marion Morris Wood's "My Life Story" 1882:
My mother's father, Christopher Simonton Brice, also fought under Robert E. Lee in Virginia and during those war years my mother (age 4) and her mother, Margaret Gooch, went to live with her maternal grandfather, Henry Gooch, near Chester, SC.
My mother was eight years told when Sherman arrived and camped on her grandfather's plantation and although she lived to be ninety-three years old, she always remembered the Sherman experiences. She saw her grandfather hanged from his own stairwell because he refused to tell the Yankees where his silver was hidden. He was cut down before he died, blue in the face. She saw every living creature that the soldiers didn't eat shot down in the yard. She saw her grandfather's blue damask curtains snatched from the windows and used as saddlebags by Sherman and his men. She saw the soldiers carry out every china dish in the house, stand them up against the trees and use them for targets. I myself have the only remaining dish, a beautiful platter, rescued I don't know how, and I treasure it immensely.
Sherman knew the war was already won, the South on her knees, broken and bleeding, before he started his raid. But he was willing to make war on the helpless women and children. He himself said "I've cut a swath through the South 200 miles long and 60 miles wide, and if a crow wants to fly over it, he will have to carry his lunch with him." He excused his savage action by saying "War is Hell." Even Winston Churchill says in his autobiography that the North was more to blame than the South.
Is it any wonder my mother always called it the Uncivil war, and that my father always told her she would die an unreconstructed rebel? | Gooch, Henry (I0067)
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From Marion Morris Wood's "My Life Story" 1982:
My mother's father, Christopher Simonton Brice, also fought under Robert E. Lee in Virginia and during those war years my mother (age 4) and her mother, Margaret Gooch, went to live with her maternal grandfather, Henry Gooch, near Chester, SC.
My mother was eight years told when Sherman arrived and camped on her grandfather's plantation and although she lived to be ninety-three years old, she always remembered the Sherman experiences. She saw her grandfather hanged from his own stairwell because he refused to tell the Yankees where his silver was hidden. He was cut down before he died, blue in the face. She saw every living creature that the soldiers didn't eat shot down in the yard. She saw her grandfather's blue damask curtains snatched from the windows and used as saddlebags by Sherman and his men. She saw the soldiers carry out every china dish in the house, stand them up against the trees and use them for targets. I myself have the only remaining dish, a beautiful platter, rescued I don't know how, and I treasure it immensely.
Sherman knew the war was already won, the South on her knees, broken and bleeding, before he started his raid. But he was willing to make war on the helpless women and children. He himself said "I've cut a swath through the South 200 miles long and 60 miles wide, and if a crow wants to fly over it, he will have to carry his lunch with him." He excused his savage action by saying "War is Hell." Even Winston Churchill says in his autobiography that the North was more to blame than the South.
Is it any wonder my mother always called it the Uncivil war, and that my father always told her she would die an unreconstructed rebel?
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From Leslie Gilbert Christy:
"We always spelled the lovey names "Ma-ma" and Da". Hers derived from the SC lowcountry name for mother---maybe started out as the French "Maman". I'm not really sure but several generations of our family used it. My mother called her grandmother "Ma-ma" and she in turn was called that by her grandchildren. I should have kept the tradition, but some of mine call me "Grandma" and the younger ones say "Mi-mi". My brother Stephen who was the first grandchild designated "Da". Probably the first word he verbalized and as it happened in Da's presence, he doubtless thought he was talking to him."
Note: Ma-ma was pronounced meh-meh. Da was her husband. | Brice, Ella Martha (I0004)
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From marriage certificate:
Occupation: clerk
Address: 10 Middle Parnell Place
Father: Richard Murrow, commercial traveller
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From Marshall, Charlotte Thomas. Oconee Hill Cemetery of Athens, Georgia, Volume I. Athens, GA: Athens Historical Society, 2009.
Erwin, Alexander S. 19 Jul 1843 - 7 Jun 1907 [Confederate iron cross ? missing 1998] [Alexander Smith Erwin, s/o Catharine Miles (Wales) & Col. Alexander Erwin who settled in Clarkesville, Habersham Co., in 1829; mother, a native of New Haven, CT, descended from long line of distinguished Congregationalist churchmen; father was a prominent merchant in the frontier settlement & ruling elder in Presbyterian church; trained in law; moved to Athens about 1868; m. 1872 Mary Ann Lamar Cobb; formed law practice with brother-in-law, Judge Andrew Cobb, later Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia; appointed by Gov. Colquitt to unexpired term on Superior Court in 1878 and was elected for a full term in 1879; for many years a ruling elder of First Presbyterian Church. New York Times, 8 Jun 1907: Athens, Ga. June 7 ? Alexander S. Erwin Dead. Said to Have Advanced Furtherest at Gettysburg of Any Confederate ? Judge Alexander S. Erwin, 64, counsel for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, died of heart failure at his home today. He had served as Judge of the Superior Courts of the Western Circuit and as a member of the Georgia Railroad Commission. Was a Captain in Phillips? Legion during the war and it is said that on the battlefield of Gettysburg he advanced further than any Confederate soldier. He leaves a widow, who is a daughter of General Howell Cobb, and seven children.]
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From Marshall, Charlotte Thomas. Oconee Hill Cemetery of Athens, Georgia, Volume I. Athens, GA: Athens Historical Society, 2009.
Thornton, Mrs. Lucy d. 7 Jul 1840 [Lucy Battaile, b. 24 Oct 1767, w/o Boswell Thornton, charter member of Athens Baptist Church; sister of Sarah Ryng (Battaile) Rootes & aunt of Sarah (Rootes) Cobb & Martha (Rootes) Jackson, WH73. Southern Banner, 10 Jul 1840: died at the residence of Col. John A. Cobb in 71st yr. of her age; for many years an exemplary member of the Baptist church and with true devotedness of heart to her God; tenderness of feeling seldom equaled; a paralytic affliction for the last 8 or 9 yrs. deprived her of most of her physical and mental powers and at length confined her entirely to her bed; to see "the silver cord loosed" and the spirit freed to take its upward flight was a subject of grateful praise to him who had bought her with his blood and had prepared for her "a house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens."]
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From Military Images Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 2
(76 pages) Spring 2017:
The Legion?s Fighting Bulldog by Vincent J. Dooley and Samuel N. Thomas Jr. (pp. 66-70)
The Civil War correspondence of Lt. Col. William Gaston Delony of Cobb?s Georgia Legion Cavalry and his wife, Rosa Delony, reveals a family man with strong leadership qualities who fought with unbridled aggression in numerous battles. His last engagement, at Jack?s Shop, Va., ended in a wound that proved mortal. | Delony, Colonel William Gaston (I0774)
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From Murrow Brice Morris:
After her marriage to Judge William Pope, they made their home in New Mexico where he was a judge. After his death, she moved with her youngest sister, Callie, to Washington, DC, where she made her home until she died.
Her father's journal of a trip to New Mexico to visit the Popes is in the New Mexico archives.
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From the 1880 Census of Clarke County, Georgia:
Hull, May N. W F 6 Daughter School Georgia
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From Murrow Brice Morris:
Lucy Cobb's father founded the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, GA, and named it for his first-born child.
From 1850 Census of Clarke County, Georgia:
COBB, Lucy 5 F W --- --- Georgia
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From Murrow Brice Morris:
Uncle Dick had a lovely house at his Irvindale Farms in Duluth, GA, with a swimming pool and a wing for the children.
He owned a small airplane and took Mother, Marion and me up for our very first airplane ride. He had the pilot climb high and then suddenly lose altitude. Mother was scared to death and yelled at him not to do that again, but Marion and I thought it was thrilling--we were very impressed with Uncle Dick.
Mascot of the dairy was a cow named Minnie Quarts, which could be seen in a glass-front building at the dairy on Spring Street in Atlanta. When Minnie was expecting a calf, Uncle Dick held a naming contest, and the winning name was Lotta Pints. Her father was Fulla Bull.
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Currie, Vara Andrews (I0002)
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From Murrow Brice Morris:
We adored Uncle Philip, especially his sense of humor. He and Aunt Sally sat in the same pew at church, and he and my sister Marion would pass notes back and forth.
My recollection is that, while I was growing up, Uncle Philip took on failing organizations and put them back on their feet: Oglethorpe University, the dry cleaners.
In his later years, after Aunt Sally had died and the other children had married and moved away, Philip, Jr., took care of his father. While I was at home with my father in 1956-58, we used to meet Uncle Philip and Philip for dinner now and then at the Rose Bowl, where they ate most nights, I think, for home cooking.
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The Atlanta Journal
Monday, September 7, 1981
Page 4-A
Philip Weltner
We never have enough heroes. We should value them, mourn them when they pass.
Dr. Philip Weltner was one. He died Saturday at age 94 after a long and varied career involving him in education, prison reform, charitable giving, and in myriad other forms of public service.
His longtime friend, attorney John Sibley, observed that Weltner "never followed the beaten path. He always looked for a new and better one."
He chose some unorthodox paths. In 1912, Weltner posed as an escaped convict and turned himself in, so that he could do time on a Georgia chain gang and see for himself how much reform our prison system needed. He set up a detention center in Atlanta for juveniles while serving as probation officer, so that youngsters would not be tossed into jail. He was the executive director of the Atlanta Housing Authority when the first public housing project in the entire country was constructed. In later years, at an age when most people are retired, he served for more than two decades as a consultant to Coca-Cola's Robert Woodruff advising Woodruff on literally millions of dollars of charitable giving.
Woodruff described Weltner as a "tremendously valuable" community resource, saying that the "enthusiasm and dedication with which Dr. Weltner approached any undertaking, whether in the public or private sector, was refreshing. His record of accomplishment is unparalleled."
But perhaps Philip Weltner will be remembered primarily as an educator. He was a leader for educational reform in the state in the 1920s and 1930s, pushing for the creation of a State Board of Regents to improve supervision of state colleges and universities. Later, he was the first person appointed to that Board of Regents, then became chancellor of the University System of Georgia and still later served as president of Oglethorpe and labored successfully to improve that university.
Members of the Board of Regents of the University System passed a resolution praising Philip Weltner years ago, in the 1930s. It is hard to improve on the words of that praise. "With a clear mind and a pure heart," said the testimonial to Weltner, "he has given unsparingly of his energy and talents to educating the minds of the young people of Georgia to think straight, and has implanted in their hearts that love of justice and righteousness which is the chief aim of true education."
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From Murrow Brice Morris:
When our family went to Boston and New York in 1950, Cousin Gertrude and her husband took us out to dinner. After my mother died in 1956, Cousin Gertrude tried to keep in touch, but I neglected to reply and we lost touch. I can't remember her married name. | Orr, Gertrude (I0607)
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From Murrow Brice Morris:
Grandfather was a fascinating and complex man, and I adored him. We lived with him at 818 Morningside Drive from 1937, just after Mer died, until 1944, when he remarried. He was a tall, big man with a white mustache and was very imposing and dignified. He loved to tease us children, and he was great fun. I remember following close behind in his footsteps on the front porch while he called to Mrs. Callaway next door, "Have you seen Murrow"? My sister Marion and I loved to get in bed with him in the early morning and have him draw pictures for us, our favorite being a birthday cake with candles. He told us a story, drawing it as he went along, of a man who was wakened in the middle of the night by a loud noise. He went out of the house, down a path, around one side of the pond, down here and down there, up around the other side of the pond until he found what was making the noise--a duck, which he had just drawn.
As if practicing medicine and preaching were not enough, Grandfather had a great many other interests. He enjoyed photography and took many colored slides and prints. I believe he built the bay window on the front of the house, and remember various carpentry and painting projects he worked on. He played the flute and the violin, though probably neither very well. He kept a diary for many years, and I have a copy of the one covering 1893 to 1896, when he worked in the Department of the Interior in Washington while going to medical school at night and then did his internship in New York, where he met Mer, who was a nurse.
From his earliest writing in his family's journal, he was deeply religious and evangelical, and he intended to be a medical missionary in Korea. In courting Mer, he influenced her to join his church and to commit herself to foreign missions. They never went abroad, but his commitment to God was the major influence in his life. He co-founded the Atlanta Bible Institute and preached there until he died while teaching a Bible class. He wrote several books, such as "Precious Hours in Galatians" and "Precious Hours in Revelation," wrote a weekly Bible study column for the Atlanta Journal, and taught Bible lessons on WSB radio. During World War II, I recall his picking up hitchhiking soldiers. He would ask them if they were saved, and if they dared to say no, he would do his best to convert them before they left his car. He also brought soldiers home for dinner from time to time, especially at Thanksgiving or Christmas.
He also was a founder of the North Avenue Presbyterian School (NAPS) in 1909. As I heard it, Uncle Dick was sick for some time, and when he went back to school he was told his place was taken. Grandfather was so angry that he founded NAPS, and Uncle Tom, Mother and Uncle Dick were among the first students.
He had scruples about going to movies (he relented and saw "Gone With the Wind" but didn't approve of it), playing cards (he would play Flinch but not Sorry--both card games), and making anyone work on Sunday (he had Rena come in to cook Sunday breakfast and dinner, though, and used the telephone).
This religious fervor made life a little difficult for my father, a Presbyerian minister's son himself, who had never intended to move in with Grandfather. His own father had only recently died, and he wanted to stay in the apartment he and Mother had in his mother's house in Ansley Park, but Mother called him at the office one day and told him to come home to Morningside Drive. There Grandfather, not Daddy, sat at the head of the table. Grandfather once grew grapes and gave half to Daddy, but Daddy's grapes did not ferment and Grandfather's did, so each threw out his share. One night Mother had her Sunday School class over and, since Grandfather was out for the evening, when Mother served refreshments, Daddy asked who'd like a "stick in it" (alcohol in the beverage). Several said they would, so he came down the hall with a bottle under each arm and met Grandfather coming up the hall. (I should add that my father was no heavy drinker--he didn't start regularly having one drink a day until he was in his fifties.) Daddy also was in medical practice with Grandfather, and someone (Uncle Tom?) said that Daddy didn't feel he was adequately remunerated for the work he did, that Grandfather took a large portion of his fees.
From Daddy's point of view, it was a great day when Grandfather, who was 72, decided to marry Vara Curry, a member of the Institute, who was 28. Mother, who was 43 at the time, had a very low opinion of "that woman," so she and Daddy bought a house "sight unseen" at 58 Brighton Road, and we moved out of Grandfather's house.
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From notes in Grandfather's Bible:
Marion McHenry Hull, born of A. L. and Callie Cobb Hull in Athens, Ga, February 9th 1872.
Florence Evyleen Malcolm Messney Murrow Hull, born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, January 7th, 1873 [actually 1872]. Married to Marion McH Hull in Madison Avenue Reformed Church, New York City, by Rev. A. E. Kittredge, D.D., on June 2nd 1897.
Thomas Cobb Hull, born of Marion McH. and Florence Evyleen May 17th 1899, at Atlanta, Ga, 387 Peachtree St.
Marion Lumpkin Hull, born of Marion McH. & Florence Evyleen Hull, September 22nd 1900, at 387 Peachtree St, Atlanta, Ga.
Richard Louis Hull, born of Marion McH. & Florence Evyleen Hull, July 7th 1902 at 416 Peachtree St, Atlanta, Ga.
Thomas C. m. Nancy Linthicum June 1926.
Nancy Gray Hull, born of Thomas C. & Nancy L. at Davis Fischer Sanitarium Aug 21, 1927.
Thomas Cobb Hull, Jr, born of T.C. & N.L. at D.F. San died (of burns from hot coffee) Jan 18th 1930.
Marion Slaughter Hull, born of Thos. C. & N.L. at D.F. San Nov 14th 1930.
Longstreet Murrow Hull, born of T.C. & N.L. in Birmingham Ala, Apr 28th 1934.
Marion Lumpkin Hull, married Samuel Leslie Morris, Jr May 14th 1927.
Marion Morris, born of S.L. Morris, Jr. & Marion Hull Morris, at Crawford Long Hospital (D.F. San) May 19th 1934.
Murrow Brice Morris, born of S.L.M. Jr. & Marion Hull Morris at Crawford Long Hospital, July 7th 1936.
Richard L. Hull married Nora Glancy in Detroit, Mich, Jan 3rd, 1931.
Nora Joan Hull, born of R. L. & N.G.H. at Piedmont Sanitarium, Dec 23rd 1931.
Susan Hull, born of R.L. & N.G.H. at Piedmont Sanitarium April 30th 1933.
Richard Louis Hull, Jr, born of R.L. & N.G.H. at Piedmont Sanitarium, Feb 13th 1939.
Gerry Hull, born of R.L. & N.G.H. at St Joseph Infirmary 1941.
Florence Murrow Hull died of cancer of the cordiac and of the stomach Nov 5th 1937 at 10:25 p.m. Her testimony was victorious.
Vara Andrews Currie, born in Maysville, S.C. March 6, 1916. Married to Marion McH. Hull July 21st 1944, at the Atlanta Bible Institute, Atlanta Ga, by Rev. Talmadge Payne of the C. I. M.
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From 1880 Census of Clarke County, Georgia:
Hull, Marion McH. W M 8 Son School Georgia
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Antievolution rhetoric remained strong, and some of Georgia's leading citizens issued uncompromising denunciations of the Darwinian theory. Among them was the former evolutionist Marion McHenry Hull, an Atlanta physician who published a popular antievolution address in the mid-1920s. Hull declared that Darwin's theory represented mere speculation and called it "destructive" to Christian views.
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In 1893, he was a receiving clerk in the General Land Office of the Department of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior at the time was Hoke Smith, his uncle by marriage to Marion Thomas Cobb.
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Books:
Precious Hours in Galatians, by Marion McH. Hull, M.Sc., M.D., 1937.
Bible Study Helps for the International Sunday School, Lessons for 1930, by Marion McH. Hull, M.Sc., M.D., 1929.
Two Thousand Hours in the Psalms, by Dr. Marion McH. Hull, Dean of Atlanta Bible Institute, and Professor of Bible Exposition and Prophecy, 1934.
Precious Hours in Revelation, by Marion McH. Hull, M.D., 1948.
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From Murrow Morris:
When Tattie lived in New Mexico with Auntie May, a young man invited her to go horseback riding. Auntie May said all right, she could go, but she mustn't get off the horse. They rode a long time and the young man suggested they dismount and rest, but Tattie refused. After awhile, he again suggested they dismount, but she said no. Finally she was so tired she just had to get off the horse. Nothing untoward happened, and they came safely home.
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From Elizabeth Cannon:
My mother recently told me about Tattie's beau, Bronson Cutting, the senator from New Mexico. He died in a plane crash and remembered Tattie in his will. Tattie was so embarrassed because everyone assumed that she was his mistress. She said that if he had to embarrass her by leaving her money, he should have left her a whole lot more.
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From Elizabeth Cannon:
All I have to add is that Tattie died on 29 October, 1975, one day
before her 87th birthday. May was married 29 Nov 1905 in Athens. Oh,
yeah, and Uncle Hoke Smith helped both Tattie and May get jobs with the
federal government. Tattie had earlier graduated from library school at
Emory. They initially lived with their brother, Harry Hull on
California Street. He died in 1920. By 1930 they had moved to an
apartment within the same block. Tattie lived in that apartment until 1973. | Hull, Callie Lucy (I0235)
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From Murrow Morris:
When I lived in Arlington, MA, 1981-86, I visited Harry and Catherine Hull a couple of times at their home in Manchester by the Sea. The house was situated high on a steep hill--almost a cliff--overlooking the sea. Catherine was a dedicated gardener, specializing in wildflowers, and they had an annual garden party to show off her handiwork. The plantings ranged down the hill in rows broken by paths, and the guests wandered across the hill on these paths. Unfortunately, the day I was there, it poured rain.
Another time I was invited to dinner, and met my cousin Dick Hull, son of Joseph L. Hull, and father of Betsy, as well as another relative who runs a B&B in Scotland.
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ADMIRAL HARRY HULL, 89;
COMMANDED WWII SUB
Published on 03/24/2001 in The Boston Globe.
Retired Rear Admiral Harry Hull, who commanded the submarine Thresher during World War II and a cruiser-destroyer flotilla based in Boston in 1963, died Feb. 22, apparently of a heart attack, while vacationing with his family in Cancun, Mexico. He was 89.
Admiral Hull was born in Athens, Ga. He graduated from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1932.
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From Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma:
Joseph L. Hull, member of the Muskogee bar since 1915 and now engaged in the practice of civil law as a partner in the firm of Gibson & Hull, was born in Athens, Georgia, May 6, 1885, and is a son of Augustus L. and Callie (Cobb) Hull. He is also a nephew of the Hon. Hoke Smith, at one time governor of Georgia and afterward United States senator.
Augustus L. Hull was born and reared in Georgia and for a number of years was secretary and treasurer of the State University at Athens, while his name is found on the title page of several historical works, including the "Campaigns in the Confederate Army" and a second volume called the "Annals of Athens."
In the maternal line Joseph L. Hull also comes of distinguished ancestry. He is a great-grandson of Judge Joseph Henry Lumpkin, who was the first chief justice of the supreme court of Georgia and in whose honor one of the counties of the state was named. The grandfather in the maternal line was Thomas R. R. Cobb, the author of the codification of the laws of Georgia and one of the authors of the constitution of the Confederate States of ?America. He was prominent in the affairs of the Confederate government throughout the Civil war period and was numbered among the most distinguished representatives of the Georgia bar. Other names connected with Mr. Hull through the maternal line figured prominently on the pages of professional and military history. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus L. Hull were four sons and three daughters Marion, a physician and surgeon of Atlanta, Georgia; Harry, a real estate dealer of Athens, Georgia; Augustus L., formerly a reporter of the United States district court for the western district of Oklahoma at Guthrie; Joseph L., of this review; Mrs. William H. Pope of New Mexico, whose husband was judge of the United States district court there; and Mrs. Philip Weltner and Callie Hull, both residents of Atlanta.
Joseph L. Hull spent three and a half years as a student in the State University of Georgia, pursuing law studies during one year of that period. In 1905 he was admitted to the bar of his native state and engaged in general practice at Athens until 1910, when he became a resident of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and assisted Clinton O. Bunn in annotating the statutes of the state. In April, 1912, he was appointed special assistant attorney general of Oklahoma, under Charles West, and on the 1st of July, following, he was made a regular assistant in the attorney general?s office. On the 13th of October, 1914, he was licensed to practice before the United States supreme court.
In 1915 Mr. Hull removed to Muskogee, where he has since engaged in practice, being now junior partner in the firm, of Gibson & Hull, their attention being concentrated upon civil law cases.
On the 23d of October, 1912, in Oklahoma City, Mr. Hull was married to Miss Lucille Kilpatrick, a daughter of James Kilpatrick, who was controller of the United States sub-treasury in New Orleans under President Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Hull have two children: Alyce Lucille and Joseph Lumpkin.
Mr. Hull belongs to the Delta Theta Pi, a law fraternity, also to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, of which he became a member while a student in the University of Georgia. He has always stood as a stalwart champion of democratic principles and his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian Church, South.
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From Nellie Phinizy Fortson Hull:
Ella Eddings Hull's remains were transferred from Laurel Grove Cemetery to Bonaventure Cemetery next door on Feb. 5, 1880. | Eddings, Ella (I0728)
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From Nellie Phinizy Fortson Hull:
Lydie Thiery Hull's father was French ambassador to Belgium. After he died, her mother sewed ball gowns for the elite of Washington, D.C., and later in Hollywood.
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From Nellie Phinizy Fortson Hull:
Nellie Hull believes this is the Alice Hull who wrote a little book about her uncles. | Hull, Alice (I0743)
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From Nellie Phinizy Fortson Hull:
Percival Huntington Whaley married Clara King Dyer, whose first husband died when their son was five years old. Whaley raised the boy, and the name Whaley passed into the Hull line.
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From Oconee Hill Cemetery:
Born Cherry Hill, Jefferson Co., Ga.; died New York City; son of John Addison Cobb and his wife Sarah Rootes Cobb; Solicitor General, Western Circuit 1837-1840; Representative from Georgia in the Congress of the United States 1843-51, 1855-57; Speaker of the House of Representatives 31st Congress; Governor of the State of Georgia 1851-53; Secretary of the Treasury of the United States 1857-60; President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America; Colonel 16th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, C.S.A.; Brigadier General, C.S.A.; Major General, C.S.A.
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From 1850 Census of Clarke County, Georgia:
COBB, Howell 35 M W Speaker, US House Reps. $25,000* Georgia
*Value of real estate owned.
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1864 - On the night of November 22, the 14th Corps of the Union Army led by General William T. Sherman camped at the Howell Cobb Hurricane Plantation, located about ten miles northwest of Milledgeville. Upon hearing that the plantation belonged to Confederate General Cobb, Sherman burned the house to the ground the next morning and then marched to Milledgeville.
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From Rootschat posting from Jeye 19 April 2008:
William senior was employed by the coastguard service to crew their vessels and he was mate and then master of the coastguard cutter stationed in Carrickfergus from the mid 1840s to 1862 approx. | Mesney, William (I2144)
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From S. L. Morris--An Autobiography:
...one of the gentlest, most patient and Christian among women...
My maternal grandmother, Susanna Clark Foster, was a granddaughter of Alexander Clark, who came from Pennsylvania (being one of twenty-one children), and who was a relative of General George Rogers Clark who opened up the Ohio Valley, and who is the hero of the story of "Alice of Old Vincennes." The Clarks are buried near the banks of LIttle River, on land now owned by myself. Her grandfather, Robert Foster, was a member of General Pickens' Command in the Revolutionary War. In the fight with the Tories near Patterson's Bridge on Long Cane, about five miles from my birthplace, he was killed--entitling my children to be enrolled as "Daughters of the American Revolution." | Foster, Susanna Clark (I0104)
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From S. L. Morris--An Autobiography:
Author's Father.
My father, "James Hervey," named for the author of "Hervey's Meditations," was born May 6th, 1829, near "Reedy Branch," between Cedar Springs Church and "Harrisburg," on land which is still in the possession of our family. He was very frail, remarkably conscientious, and entered Erskine College at Due West, South Carolina, when only fourteen, beginning in the Preparatory Department. He remained six years in college and graduated September 19, 1849, twenty years old. He was a faithful student, with a bright mind, and was awarded one of the honors of his class. Naturally religious, his graduating speech was on "The Progress of Christianity." Upon receiving his diploma he shocked the faculty of the college and the audience by tearing it into shreds, stamping upon it, exclaiming, "Honor to whom honor is due."--(Romans 13:7.) His explanation was, that a member of the class related to the faculty had been awarded a "first honor" by "favoritism" thereby doing him an injustice. It was his dramatic method of showing his righteous indignation. The college evidently did not cherish resentment against him long, if at all, for he was soon after elected Professor of Mathematics, which position he declined as he was engaged in business more remunerative.
His inclination was to study for the ministry, but the death of his only brother, Samuel, a Presbyterian Minister at Montgomery, Alabama, made it necessary that the only living son should remain in close proximity to his widowed mother, where he could assist her in the management of the estate, consisting of two plantations and a goodly number of slaves.
War Record.
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 my father was farming on his plantation adjoining that of his wife's father, and teaching at Long Cane Church. Just as soon as his school term ended, he volunteered and went out in Orr's famous Regiment of Infantry, General Micah Jenkins commanding his brigade in Longstreet's Division. My sister "Fannie" was born June, 1862, while he was in the service, and he never saw his daughter till she was six months old, when he was allowed a furlough of twelve days to come home from Virginia and return thither to the Army. He tood part in the "Seven Days Fighting Around Richmond," in such battles as Gaines Mill, Frayser's Farm and in other severe engagements, while he served in the Infantry.
The scourge of diphtheria broke out on our place in 1863, while he was in the Army. My brother, Foster (born 1860), was ill for months and did not swallow anything for three weeks. Several of the Negro children, my playmates, died. My father came home and stayed several months, according to my recollection. In January, 1864, he joined Company B, Captain A. B. Mulligan commanding, being part of the Fifth South Carolina Cavalry of General Wade Hampton's Division. I was too young to remember his first leaving but I well remember this latter occasion--my mother's grief and fallilng prostrate on the bed, my father taking me up in his arms and saying I might never see him again. I ran after him to the front door, saw him ...
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From Confederate Archives:
M 5 Cav. S.C.
J. H. Morris
Pvt, Co. B, 5 Reg't South Carolina Cav.*
Appears on
Company Muster Roll
of the organization named above,
for Mch & Apl, 1864.
Enlisted:
When 20 Jan, 1864
Where Abbeville SC
By whom Lt Russell
Period [ illegible]
Present or absent Present
Remarks: Entitled to commutation in lieu of transportation 400 miles, from Abbeville S.C. to Richlands N.C.
*This company formerly served as Company C, 17th Battalion South Carolina Cavalry.
The 5th (also known as Ferguson's) Regiment South Carolina Cavalry was formed by the consolidation of the 14th and 7th Battalions South Carolina Cavalry and Captains Harlan's and Whilden's Independent Companies, South Carolina Cavalry, by S. O. No. 18, Hdqrs. Dept. S. C., Ga. and Fla., dated January 18, 1863.
G. C. West, Copyist
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Same heading as above for Apl 30 to Aug 31, 1864
Remarks: Died in Hospital of wounds received June 23 /64.
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M 5 Cav. S.C.
J. H. Morris
Pvt. Co. B 5 Regt. S. C. Cav.
Appears on a
Report of Sick and Wounded
in General Hospital
at Charlottesville, Va.,
for the month of June, 1864.
Discharges on Surgeon's Certificate and Deaths:
Disease [illegible: Vuln Sclopet?]
Date of death June 29, 1864
Remarks: G. S. wound left knee compound June 11 ball removed same day above inner side of Patilla. This man died in a strange manner apparently from exhaustion. His wound was looking remarkably well and discharge healthy. The symptoms of Pyremia.
A. S. Andrews, Copyist.
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M 5 Cav. S.C.
J. H. Morris
Pvt. Co. B. 5 Regt S.C. Cav
Name appears on a
Register*
of Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Confederate States who were killed in battle, or who died of wounds or disease.
When deceased June 29, 1864
When received July 26, 1864
Number of certificate 3594
Remarks: See statement J. Claagg, Co. G 1 S.C.
*This register appears to have been compiled in the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office from returns furnished by Hospitals and by Regimental and Company Officers.
Confed. Arch., Chap. 10, File No. 10, page 167
M. Ballada, Copyist.
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From Marion Morris Wood's "My Life Story" 1882:
I have been asked to record for the sake of future generations a few of the interesting facts of our family.
[See Samuel Tappan Morris]
The second unusual fact concerns Samuel's younger brother James Hervey Morris, my own grandfather. A patriotic Southerner, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and fought four years under Robert E. Lee in the Wade Hampton Division. In 1865, just a short time before the end of the war, he fell mortally wounded. He died at the University of Virginia Hospital and was buried there. Even before the war ended my grandmother sent her minister to Virginia to bring home his remains. In company of dozens of the bodies of Confederate soldiers his reached Charlotte NC where the bodies were placed in the depot to await a train. That night the depot caught fire and soldiers rushed in to save the bodies but the fire was so intense they managed to save only one, that of my grandfather. He was then taken to Columbia SC, but a great freshet washed away the railroad track along the Broad River and it was necessary to bury him again in Columbia. A wagon was sent to Columbia, a hundred miles away to finish the sad journey and bring him home in December 1868. He now rests in the family cemetery in Abbeville, SC, having been buried the third time.
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From S. L. Morris--An Autobiography:
His [Samuel Morris's] wife was in some respects the most remarkable woman of the county. Left a widow with six small children, she not only managed the estate well but accumulated considerable property. I have seen her mount a horse when seventy-five years of age, and ride over her large plantation and direct her numerous "hands" in the cultivation of her varied crops. Her children often complained of her indiscriminate charities, but she maintained that God had entrusted her with worldly possessions, that she was accountable for her stewardship, and that liberality tended not to poverty but to plenty.
She knew her Bible; and when occasionally the worldly-wise or skeptical attacked church and religion in her presence, she never failed to take up the gauntlet in defense of God and truth; and her antagonists ordinaraily limped away, so discomfited by the laugh she turned against them that they seldom repeated the experiment. As an illustration, on one occasion a scoffer in the community said to her: "Mrs. Morris, do you believe in the resurrection of the body?" To which she replied: "Most certainly I do, for such is the teaching of God's Word." "Well," said the skeptic, "How is it possible for God to reproduce the dust of the millions who have been dead for centuries?" Quick as a flash came her knockout reply: "Please tell me, Mr. Frazier, where you could hide a particle of this dust so God could not find it?" She was very small in stature and was so bent with age and reduced in flesh that she could not have weighed over 70 pounds when she died in July, 1881, lacking only three months of being ninety years old. She and her husband were above reproach, and sleep side by side in the cemetery of Cedar Springs Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.
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From S. L. Morris--An Autobiography:
Morris Ancestry.
Athelstan Glodrydd was the 18th direct descendant of Teon, Archbishop of Gloucester in 542 A.D., who was himself descended from Beli Mawr (Beli, the great or chief), King of all England and Wales. It is a singular coincidence that the 18th descendant of Athelstan himself was named "Morris." His children assumed the surname "Morris" from their father, which is the origin of the family name in its present spelling.
It is thus comparatively easy to trace the family line from father to son by historic records down through the above-mentioned parties until their descendants assumed the surname of "Morris" at Gloucester. It is equally easy to trace our immediate family back to Clifford-Chambers, a section of Gloucester, and to Stratford-on-Avon in the same vicinity. Our forefathers owned estates at both places and their children were baptized some at Clifford-Chambers in Gloucester and others at Stratford--according to the official records--only four miles apart.
The difficult task is to form the connecting links of the two lines which meet in Gloucester; but the explanation of the difficulty itself is not difficult. The ancient line consisted of individual names such as "Idnerth," "Athelstan," "Griffith," etc., until they began to duplicate the common names of "John," "William," "George," etc., with nothing whatever to distinguish between father, son and grandson or cousin. Our modern line can be traced back officially to "George, Sr." of Clifford-Chambers, about the time Queen Elizabeth died. Between the two lines, there is unfortunately a brief period of confusion, because the parish clerk records simply the baptism of "John Morris," "Richard Morris," or "William Morris," with no data showing their relationship except in some cases. The connection betwen the ancient and modern lines is a moral certainty which, however, as yet still lacks official confirmation.
The official records show that members of the Morris family were living at Stratford as early as the reign of Edward IV and have done so uninterruptedly until the time when our line begins definitely as shown by the parish records. "George Morris, Sr." was born about 1600 and the first one positively identified as our ancestor.
Definite Data.
The records from his time, however, become more definite and give official relationships. He was the father of George, Jr. (1641), who was the father of Robert (1673), who was the father of Samuel, Sr. (1712), who was the father of Samuel, Jr. (1739), who married Lucy Stevens in 1772 of Stratford, and who emigrated to the United States in 1788 and settled in Abbeville, S.C., being my great grandfather. | Morris, George Sr. (I0823)
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From S. L. Morris--An Autobiography:
My grandfather, Moses Oliver McCaslan, was a character, decided in his convictions, outspoken in his opinions, uncompromising in his principles, honest in his dealings and rather intolerant in his manner. Natural[l]y, he made bitter enemies and staunch friends who could be counted on to stand by him to the last ditch. As an illustration, he was such an uncompromising "rebel" he would insult any man and almost lay violent hands on such as even admitted that the Confederacy might by any misadventure fail of its independence. He married Susanna Clark Foster, one of the gentlest, most patient and Christian among women, and very naturally she was scarcely allowed to say her soul was her own. Despite his defects--which were in reality virtues unrestrained by moderation--he was a man of noble character, influenced by the very highest motives, the leading elder in the Presbyterian Church of Hopewell. He was generous to the poor, liberal toward the church, a man of large wealth accumulated by his industrious habits. So frequently was he the leader of men that he was known jocularly throughout the county as "M. O. McCaslan, Foreman of the Jury." | McCaslan, Moses Oliver (I0103)
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From S. L. Morris--An Autobiography:
My great grandfather, Robert McCaslan (born 1767), emigrated from County Tyrone in Ireland, and he married Margaret Link from Virginia (born 1782). The name in Ireland is McCausland and has some distinguished scions, Dominick McCausland being a famous scientist, and another of the name being Lord Mayor of Belfast, whose statue still stands in its magnificent City Hall. | McCaslan, Robert (I0109)
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From S. L. Morris--An Autobiography:
Parentage
My great grandfather, Samuel Morris, of Stratford and Clifford-Chambers, England, emigrated to America in 1788, landing at Charleston, S.C. In the census of Abbeville, S.C., for 1800 he is recorded as living on the East side of Long Cane Creek. Eight of his children were born in England by his marriage with Lucy Stevens.
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From S. L. Morris--An Autobiography:
Characteristics.
Samuel, my grandfather, the youngest child [of Samuel and Lucy Stevens Morris], married Margaret McCullough, January 25, 1816, who was born in 1791, five years his senior. He was for many years an elder in Cedar Springs Church. This tribute by his pastor is inscribed on his monument:
IN
MEMORY OF
SAMUEL MORRIS, ESQ.
BORN MARCH 7, 1796
DIED AUGUST 1, 1841
A man full of the Holy Ghost and faithful in all
his house and ruled well in the Church of God.
The Memory of the Just is Blessed.
By reason of education and character he was, perhaps, the most prominent citizen in the community, and known far and wide for his integrity, and as "Squire Morris." | Morris, Samuel (I0028)
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From S. L. Morris--An Autobiography:
Her [Susanna Clark Foster's] grandfather, Robert Foster, was a member of General Pickens' Command in the Revolutionary War. In the fight with the Tories near Patterson's Bridge on Long Cane, about five miles from my birthplace, he was killed--entitling my children to be enrolled as "Daughters of the American Revolution." | Foster, Robert (I0137)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Dorsey, Jasper Tucker (I0862)
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From Ship Passenger List:
Thomas Dutton, Master, SS Servia, boarded at Liverpool and Queenstown, arrived at New York May 9, 1892.
Passenger 1041 James Murrow 29 M Carpenter Illinois Liverpool
Passenger 1042 George Murrow 31 M Carpenter Illinois Liverpool
James may have been a cousin.
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From Ancestry.com - U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992
M 600
Murrow G. V.
5526 Carpenter St.
12734
Gt. Brit. & Ireland
Oct. 25, 1894
George W. Murrow 5526 Carpenter St.
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From John Murrow:
George W. immigrated in 1884.
Richard D. immigrated in 1888. | Murrow, George William (I0830)
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From Slave Narratives, Library of Congress
Manuscript/Mixed Material
Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 4, Georgia, Part 3, Kendricks-Styles
Date: 1936-00-00
Let us hear now from Anna Parkes. A quick word before we hear her voice: Keep in mind that Anna?s record is a historical artifact of the post-Civil War, Jim Crow South, the late 1930s to be exact. She is not from our own time, and she does not speak to us in language with which we are accustomed, nor perhaps entirely comfortable.
Some readers may look at Anna?s words and think that, because she doesn?t speak disparagingly of her former masters, she is defending or glorifying the institution of slavery. She is not speaking to the institution of slavery as a whole, but to her own experiences. And as you?ll see later in her testimony, she is very much aware that her experiences as a slave were atypically uneventful. If you?d like, you can go to the Library of Congress website to see the original transcript.
Her testimony is lengthy, and we?ll take it in parts. Here is the first part:
Ex-Slave Interview
ANNA PARKES
150 Strong Street
Athens, Georgia
Written by: Sarah H. Hall
Federal Writer?s Project
Athens, Georgia
Edited by: John N. Booth
District Supervisor
Federal Writer?s Project
Residencies 6 & 7
Augusta, Georgia
Anna Parkes? bright eyes sparkled as she watched the crowd that thronged the hallway outside the office where she awaited admittance. A trip to the downtown section is a rare event in the life of an 86 year old negress, and, accompanied by her daughter, she was taking the most of this opportunity to see the world that lay so far from the door of the little cottage where she lives on Strong Street.
When asked if she liked to talk of her childhood days before the end of the Civil War, she eagerly replied: ??Deed, I does.? She was evidently delighted to have found someone who actually wanted to listen to her, and proudly continued: ?Dem days sho? wuz sompin? to talk ?bout. I don?t never git tired of talkin? ?bout ?em. Paw, he wuz Olmstead Lumpkin. Us lived at de Lumpkin home place on Prince Avenue. I wuz born de same week as Miss Callie Cobb, and whilst I don?t know z?ackly what day I wuz born, I kin be purty sho? ?bout how many years ole I is by axin? how ole Miss Callie is. Fust I ?members much ?bout is totin? de key basket ?round ?hind Ole Miss when she give out de vitals. I never done a Gawd?s speck of work but dat. I jes? follerred ?long atter Ole Miss wid ?er key basket.
?Did dey pay us any money? Lawdy, Lady! What for? Us didn?t need no money. Ole Marster and Ole Miss all time give us plenty good sompin? teat, and clo?es, and dey let us sleep in a good cabin, but us did have money now and den. A heap of times us had nickles and dimes. Dey had lots of comp?ny at Ole Marster?s, and us allus act might spry waitin? on ?em, so dey would ?member us when dey lef?. Effen it wuz money dey gimme, I jes? couldn?t wait to run to de sto? and spend it for candy.?
?What else did you buy with the money??, she was asked.
?Nuffin? else,? was the quick reply. ?All a piece of money meant to me in dem days, wuz candy, and den mo? candy. I never did git much candy as I wanted when I wuz chillun.?
?You see I didn?t have to save up for nuffin?. Ole Marster and Ole Miss, dey took keer of us. Dey sho? wuz good white folkses, but den dey had to be good white folkses, kaza Ole Marster, he wuz Jedge Lumpkin, and de Jedge quz bound to take evvybody do right, and he gwine do right his own self ?fore he try to make udder folkses behave deyselves. Ain?t nobody, nowhar, as good to dey Negroes as my white folkses wuz.?
Who taught you to say ?Negroes? so distinctly?? she was asked.
?Ole Marster,? she promptly answered, ?He ?spained dat us wuz not to be ?shamed of our race. He said us warn?t no ?niggers?; he said us wuz ?Negroes?, and he ?spected his Negroes to be de best Negroes in de whole land.
?Old Marster had a big fine gyarden. His Negroes wukked it good, and us wuz sho? proud of it. Us lived close in town, and all de Negroes on de place wuz yard and house servants. Us didn?t have no gyardens ?round our cabins, kaze all of us at de big house kitchen. Ole Miss had flowers evvywhar ?round de big house, and she wuz all time givin? us some to plant ?round de cabins.
?All de cookin? wuz done at de big house kitchen, and hit wuz a sho? ?nough big kitchen. Us had two boss cooks, and lots of helpers, and us sho? had plenty of good sompin? teat. Dat?s de Gawd?s trufe, and I means it. Heap of folkses been tryin? to git me to say us didn?t have ?nough teat and dat us never had nuffin? fittin? teat. But ole as I is, I cyan? start tellin? no lies now. I gotter die fo? long, and I sho? wants to be clean in de mouf and no stains or lies on my lips when I dies. Our sompin? teat wuz a heap better?n what us got now. Us had plenty of evvything right dar in de yard. Chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, tukkeys, and de smoke?ouse full of good meat. Den de mens, day wuz all time goin? huntin?, and fetchin? in wild tukkeys, an poddiges, and heaps and lots of ?possums and rabbits. Us had many fishes as us wanted. De big fine shads, and perch, and trouts; dem wuz de fishes de Jedge liked mos?. Catfishes won?t counted fittin? to set on de Jedges table, but us Negroes wuz ?loved to eat all of ?em us wanted. Catfishes mus? be mighty skace now kaze I don?t know when ever I is seed a good ole river catfish a-flappin? his tail. Day flaps dey tails atter you done kilt ?em, and cleaned ?em, and drap ?em in de hot grease to fry. Sometimes dey nigh knock de lid offen de fryin? pan.
?Ole Marster buyed Bill Finch down de country somewhar?, and dey called him ?William? at de big house. He wuz a tailor, and he made clo?es for de young marsters. William wuz right smart, and one of his joos wuz to lock up all de vitals atter us done et much as us wanted. All of us had plenny, but dey won?t nuffin? wasted ?round Ole Marster?s place.
?Ole Miss wuz young and pretty dem days, and Ole Marster won?t no old man den, but us had to call ?em ?Ole Miss,? and ?Ole Marster,? kaze dey chilluns wuz called ?Young Marster? and ?Young Mistess? f?um de very day dey wuz born.?
When asked to describe the work assigned to little Negroes, she quickly answered: ?Chilluns didn?t do nuffin?. Grownup Negroes done all de wuk. All chilluns done was to frolic and play. I wuz jes? ?lowed ter tote de key basket kaze I wuz all time hangin? ?round de big house, and wanted so bad to stay close to my ma in de kitchen and to be nigh Ole Miss.
?What sort of clo?es did I wear in dem days? Why Lady, I had good clo?es. Atter my little mistresses wore dey clo?es a little, Ole Miss give ?em to me. Ma allus made me wear clearn, fresh clo?es, and go dressed up good all de time so I?d be fittin? to carry de key basket for Ole Miss. Some of de udder slave chilluns had homemade shoes, but I allus had good sto?-bought shoes what my young mistess done outgrowed, or what some of de comp?ny gimme. Comp?ny what had chilluns ?bout my size, gimme heaps of clo?es and shoes, and some times dey didn?t look like dey?d been wore none hardly.
?Ole Marster sho? had lots of Negroes ?round his place. Deir wuz Aunt Charlotte, and Aunt Julie, and de two cooks, and Adeline, and Mary, and Edie, and Jimmy. De mens wuz Charlie, and Floyd, and William, and Daniel. I disremembers de res? of ?em.
?Ole Marster never whipped none of his Negroes, not dat I ever heard of. He tole ?em what he wanted done ,and give ?em plenny of time to do it. Dey wuz allus skeert effen dey didn?t be smart and do right, dey might git sold to some marster would beat ?em, and be mean to ?em. Us knowed dey won?t many marsters as good to dey slaves as Ole Marster wuz to us. Us would of most kilt ourself wukkin?, fo? us would have give him reason to wanna git rid of us. No Ma?am, Ole Marster ain?t never sold no slave, no whilst I can ?member. Us wuz allus skeert dat effen a Negro git lazy and triflin? he might git sold.
?No Negro never runned away f?um our place. Us didn?t have nuffin? to run f?um, and nowhar to run to. Us heard of patterrollers but us won?t ?fraid none kaze us knowed won?t no patterroller gwine tech none of Jedge Lumpkin?s Negroes.
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From Slave Narratives, Library of Congress
Manuscript/Mixed Material
Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 4, Georgia, Part 3, Kendricks-Styles
Date: 1936-00-00
Let us hear now from Anna Parkes. A quick word before we hear her voice: Keep in mind that Anna?s record is a historical artifact of the post-Civil War, Jim Crow South, the late 1930s to be exact. She is not from our own time, and she does not speak to us in language with which we are accustomed, nor perhaps entirely comfortable.
Some readers may look at Anna?s words and think that, because she doesn?t speak disparagingly of her former masters, she is defending or glorifying the institution of slavery. She is not speaking to the institution of slavery as a whole, but to her own experiences. And as you?ll see later in her testimony, she is very much aware that her experiences as a slave were atypically uneventful. If you?d like, you can go to the Library of Congress website to see the original transcript.
Her testimony is lengthy, and we?ll take it in parts. Here is the first part:
Ex-Slave Interview
ANNA PARKES
150 Strong Street
Athens, Georgia
Written by: Sarah H. Hall
Federal Writer?s Project
Athens, Georgia
Edited by: John N. Booth
District Supervisor
Federal Writer?s Project
Residencies 6 & 7
Augusta, Georgia
Anna Parkes? bright eyes sparkled as she watched the crowd that thronged the hallway outside the office where she awaited admittance. A trip to the downtown section is a rare event in the life of an 86 year old negress, and, accompanied by her daughter, she was taking the most of this opportunity to see the world that lay so far from the door of the little cottage where she lives on Strong Street.
When asked if she liked to talk of her childhood days before the end of the Civil War, she eagerly replied: ??Deed, I does.? She was evidently delighted to have found someone who actually wanted to listen to her, and proudly continued: ?Dem days sho? wuz sompin? to talk ?bout. I don?t never git tired of talkin? ?bout ?em. Paw, he wuz Olmstead Lumpkin. Us lived at de Lumpkin home place on Prince Avenue. I wuz born de same week as Miss Callie Cobb, and whilst I don?t know z?ackly what day I wuz born, I kin be purty sho? ?bout how many years ole I is by axin? how ole Miss Callie is. Fust I ?members much ?bout is totin? de key basket ?round ?hind Ole Miss when she give out de vitals. I never done a Gawd?s speck of work but dat. I jes? follerred ?long atter Ole Miss wid ?er key basket.
?Did dey pay us any money? Lawdy, Lady! What for? Us didn?t need no money. Ole Marster and Ole Miss all time give us plenty good sompin? teat, and clo?es, and dey let us sleep in a good cabin, but us did have money now and den. A heap of times us had nickles and dimes. Dey had lots of comp?ny at Ole Marster?s, and us allus act might spry waitin? on ?em, so dey would ?member us when dey lef?. Effen it wuz money dey gimme, I jes? couldn?t wait to run to de sto? and spend it for candy.?
?What else did you buy with the money??, she was asked.
?Nuffin? else,? was the quick reply. ?All a piece of money meant to me in dem days, wuz candy, and den mo? candy. I never did git much candy as I wanted when I wuz chillun.?
?You see I didn?t have to save up for nuffin?. Ole Marster and Ole Miss, dey took keer of us. Dey sho? wuz good white folkses, but den dey had to be good white folkses, kaza Ole Marster, he wuz Jedge Lumpkin, and de Jedge quz bound to take evvybody do right, and he gwine do right his own self ?fore he try to make udder folkses behave deyselves. Ain?t nobody, nowhar, as good to dey Negroes as my white folkses wuz.?
Who taught you to say ?Negroes? so distinctly?? she was asked.
?Ole Marster,? she promptly answered, ?He ?spained dat us wuz not to be ?shamed of our race. He said us warn?t no ?niggers?; he said us wuz ?Negroes?, and he ?spected his Negroes to be de best Negroes in de whole land.
?Old Marster had a big fine gyarden. His Negroes wukked it good, and us wuz sho? proud of it. Us lived close in town, and all de Negroes on de place wuz yard and house servants. Us didn?t have no gyardens ?round our cabins, kaze all of us at de big house kitchen. Ole Miss had flowers evvywhar ?round de big house, and she wuz all time givin? us some to plant ?round de cabins.
?All de cookin? wuz done at de big house kitchen, and hit wuz a sho? ?nough big kitchen. Us had two boss cooks, and lots of helpers, and us sho? had plenty of good sompin? teat. Dat?s de Gawd?s trufe, and I means it. Heap of folkses been tryin? to git me to say us didn?t have ?nough teat and dat us never had nuffin? fittin? teat. But ole as I is, I cyan? start tellin? no lies now. I gotter die fo? long, and I sho? wants to be clean in de mouf and no stains or lies on my lips when I dies. Our sompin? teat wuz a heap better?n what us got now. Us had plenty of evvything right dar in de yard. Chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, tukkeys, and de smoke?ouse full of good meat. Den de mens, day wuz all time goin? huntin?, and fetchin? in wild tukkeys, an poddiges, and heaps and lots of ?possums and rabbits. Us had many fishes as us wanted. De big fine shads, and perch, and trouts; dem wuz de fishes de Jedge liked mos?. Catfishes won?t counted fittin? to set on de Jedges table, but us Negroes wuz ?loved to eat all of ?em us wanted. Catfishes mus? be mighty skace now kaze I don?t know when ever I is seed a good ole river catfish a-flappin? his tail. Day flaps dey tails atter you done kilt ?em, and cleaned ?em, and drap ?em in de hot grease to fry. Sometimes dey nigh knock de lid offen de fryin? pan.
?Ole Marster buyed Bill Finch down de country somewhar?, and dey called him ?William? at de big house. He wuz a tailor, and he made clo?es for de young marsters. William wuz right smart, and one of his joos wuz to lock up all de vitals atter us done et much as us wanted. All of us had plenny, but dey won?t nuffin? wasted ?round Ole Marster?s place.
?Ole Miss wuz young and pretty dem days, and Ole Marster won?t no old man den, but us had to call ?em ?Ole Miss,? and ?Ole Marster,? kaze dey chilluns wuz called ?Young Marster? and ?Young Mistess? f?um de very day dey wuz born.?
When asked to describe the work assigned to little Negroes, she quickly answered: ?Chilluns didn?t do nuffin?. Grownup Negroes done all de wuk. All chilluns done was to frolic and play. I wuz jes? ?lowed ter tote de key basket kaze I wuz all time hangin? ?round de big house, and wanted so bad to stay close to my ma in de kitchen and to be nigh Ole Miss.
?What sort of clo?es did I wear in dem days? Why Lady, I had good clo?es. Atter my little mistresses wore dey clo?es a little, Ole Miss give ?em to me. Ma allus made me wear clearn, fresh clo?es, and go dressed up good all de time so I?d be fittin? to carry de key basket for Ole Miss. Some of de udder slave chilluns had homemade shoes, but I allus had good sto?-bought shoes what my young mistess done outgrowed, or what some of de comp?ny gimme. Comp?ny what had chilluns ?bout my size, gimme heaps of clo?es and shoes, and some times dey didn?t look like dey?d been wore none hardly.
?Ole Marster sho? had lots of Negroes ?round his place. Deir wuz Aunt Charlotte, and Aunt Julie, and de two cooks, and Adeline, and Mary, and Edie, and Jimmy. De mens wuz Charlie, and Floyd, and William, and Daniel. I disremembers de res? of ?em.
?Ole Marster never whipped none of his Negroes, not dat I ever heard of. He tole ?em what he wanted done ,and give ?em plenny of time to do it. Dey wuz allus skeert effen dey didn?t be smart and do right, dey might git sold to some marster would beat ?em, and be mean to ?em. Us knowed dey won?t many marsters as good to dey slaves as Ole Marster wuz to us. Us would of most kilt ourself wukkin?, fo? us would have give him reason to wanna git rid of us. No Ma?am, Ole Marster ain?t never sold no slave, no whilst I can ?member. Us wuz allus skeert dat effen a Negro git lazy and triflin? he might git sold.
?No Negro never runned away f?um our place. Us didn?t have nuffin? to run f?um, and nowhar to run to. Us heard of patterrollers but us won?t ?fraid none kaze us knowed won?t no patterroller gwine tech none of Jedge Lumpkin?s Negroes.
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From Sue Reid Williams:
The book Rootes of Rosewall by Clayton Torrence gives the full lineage as he discovered it of Major Philip Rootes, first of that name to whom the family in Virginia has been traced. He was born before 1700, lived in King and Queen County at his home place, Rosewall, on the Mattaponi River, some distance above West Point. He was a vestryman and church warden of Stratton Major Parish and justice of the peace for King and Queen County.
He is first mentioned in Virginia records in a deed recorded in Spotsylvania County wherein the trustees of the town of Fredericksburg convey to Susannah Livingston, widow, for her natural life 2 lots, #29, #31. in Fredericksburg, and after her death to Philip Rootes of King William County. This was June 3, 1729. Mrs. Livingston, well known in early Fredericksburg history, left a Bible to his daughter Lucy. What, if any, relationship there was is not known.
He married Mildred Reade, of a fine Virginia family, and they raised a large family who married into the families of the area. In 1732 Captain Philip Rootes was appointed vestryman in place of Mr. Valentine Ware and was added to the vestry in October on taking the oath appointed and signed to conform to the Church of England. In April 1734 Captain Rootes and family were ordered to sit in the pew Major Robinson sits in. This was the pew next to the vestry. (His grandson Thomas would later marry a granddaughter of Benj. Robinson. I do not know if this is the same Robinson.) The vestry also purchased the houses and land of his son, Col. Philip Rootes lying on the Main Road, 300 acres or thereabouts for a glebe and paid 600 pounds current money. He or his son was appointed to oversee the building of the church along with Corbin and others. (It was Corbin who bought Rosewall after young Philip's financial losses.)
Major Philip [Rootes] was one of the King's magistrates as justice of the peace for King and Queen County. He was planter, merchandiser, and large slave holder. Besides Rosewall, he owned land in New Kent, Spotsylvania, Orange, and Culpeper counties. He also owned valuable property in Fredericksburg.
His tombstone was found in 1933 in New Kent County, and Tyler's Quarterly, p. 65, gives an account and establishes dates of death and birth. He had dancing masters for his daughters--Christian taught Priscilla and Mary--and traces of a race track were still visible on the land. The Rooteses were known for fine horses.
His will disposed of his trooper's saddle, presumed to be in the militia. Seals of his bookplate and watches survived until the late 1800's.
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University of Virginia Alderman Library
Manuscript Division
Charlottesville, Virginia
Copied 8/9/78
Hugh Grove Journal, #3850
"...from the renowned Library of the Late Sir Thos. Phillips of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, of Thistlestone House, Chiltenham.
Note: the Day Book of Hugh Grove was begun in 1698:
1732, April 17. [p. 109]:
June 22...landed at York. Lands elevated on a sandy hill like Black Heath or Richmond Hill. Strangers concluded there were at least 100 houses whereas there are not 30. Kitchens and warehouses generally separate. About 10 good houses....not above 4 of brick. Williamsburg near 100 houses. West Point sough fall [sic] from Proprietor L. Delaware is very L____ to me.
July Matapony. I sailed up it last night. Divides K & Q County from King William as Pamunkey does from New Kent...w. gentry on its banks..are at most 2 mi. from each other...as ye Widow Gregory..Dr. Dixon...Major Johnson, Capt. Roots...Co. Corbin..Maj. E. Robinson...most of them have pleasant gardens and ye prospect of ye river & mere plesant [sic]equal to Thames from London to Richmond supposing ye townes omitted.
...the manner of building is much alike..a broad staircase with a passage that in the middle...sunshine..drafts of air...2 rooms on each side...some indeed have only 1 room.
...I arrived at Capt. Roots lay there a week, was entertained very elegantly. House at ___at Col. Corbin etc. The only inconvenience of these places are the many _____cov_____of marshes near them with some _____.
...white holland waistcoat & drawers & thin caps on their heads..the ladies in thin silk or linen.
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From Sue Reid Williams:
The story I heard as a child is that her mother was so tired of naming children, she took Keziah from the Bible and Malsyann was the midwife! | Taylor, Keziah Malsyann (I2836)
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From the 1880 Census of Clarke County, Georgia:
Hull, Julia W F 2 Daughter At home Georgia
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Julia died in childhood. | Hull, Julia Ermina (I0230)
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From the Boston Globe:
?Rock gardening is a spell,?? Catherine Hull wrote in a 1995 issue of Arnoldia, the Arnold Arboretum magazine. ?If you succumb to it, there is seldom any turning aside from the passionate love of small wild things. There is no point pontificating or preaching ? it swoops you up or it leaves you cold.??
It definitely swooped up Mrs. Hull. Prepared to start a garden in her new home, the Uplands, in Manchester-by-the-Sea in 1967, she found the 5 acres contained solid granite and desiccated sand. ?My only previous gardening experience had been in backyards, but here one thrust of a shovel and CLANG ? a rock,?? she wrote.
Margot Parrot, a longtime friend from Scarborough, Maine, had the answer for Mrs. Hull during a visit. ?I think it was that little flower growing out of a rock,?? Parrot recalled. ?It was an alpine poppy. Orange. I can see it now in my mind?s eye. Katrink [as she was called] always thought that was what got her started.??
Mrs. Hull joined the American Rock Garden Society and, through the years, she won ?every prize for her garden that was available,?? Parrot said.
A passionate horticulturist and a member of the Trustees of Reservations preservation group, Mrs. Hull died of cancer on May 22 at her Manchester home. She was 88.
She was the widow of Retired Rear Admiral Harry Hull and a descendant of presidents John and John Quincy Adams.
People, Places & Plants magazine included Mrs. Hull among its ?50 most influential gardeners in the Northeast.?? She wrote many articles for horticultural periodicals, often laced with self-effacing humor, and she was asked to judge many of the country?s top-rated flower shows.
At one time, she served as a member of the visiting committee for the Arnold Arboretum.
?Katrink?s work was indispensable to the arboretum,?? professor Peter Ashton, who ran the arboretum for Harvard, said in a phone interview from England. ?When my wife and I came to the US in 1978, the arboretum had gone through some difficult years. Katrink took to improving it. Hers was a huge legacy.??
At home, Mrs. Hull was busy ?transforming Uplands into an award-winning woodland garden, renowned for its long tufa bed and granite ledges replete with alpine plants from many parts of the world,?? said her son, Harry III of Costa Rica.
?My mother had a lively, inquisitive mind about almost anything,?? he said. ?She set high standards for us (and herself) but with remarkable tolerance. If, as a son, I had to pick her most important quality, it would be that the way she loved and lived her life never made us lose faith in ourselves.??
Mrs. Hull had friends all over the world, said her daughter, L. Catherine A., known as Kata, of Wayland. ?By the time we were of college ages and out of the house,?? she said, ?our parents would travel looking for alpine plants to the Dolomites, the mountain ranges in this country, and the Rockies, in Japan, and the mountains of Czechoslovakia and Alaska.??
In 1981, Catherine said, her parents? car was hit by a drunk driver. ?It was a miracle they survived,?? she said. ?I think it renewed their zest for life.??
?Mother always looked forward and didn?t dwell on the bad stuff. You soldiered on.??
Louisa Catherine Adams Clement was born in Newburyport to Clarence Erskine and Bianca Cogswell Harrington Clement. On her father?s side, she was a direct descendant of the Adams presidents. During the Great Depression, she and her half-sister, Bianca Harrington, lived several years in Paris with their mother, then a widow. It gave Katrink a chance to become fluent in French, a language she maintained, along with Spanish and Italian.
She learned Spanish during a summer spent in Havana, during her junior year at Bryn Mawr. She graduated from there cum laude with a major in history in 1943. That same year, she married Harry Hull, an Annapolis graduate who would become a rear admiral. They had met at a debutante party in 1939 in Washington, D.C., where Mrs. Hull was living with her mother. At her own coming-out party, she turned her gifts of money over to the British ambassador to support the British war effort.
Until the birth of their first child in 1945, Mrs. Hull worked for the Office of Strategic Services in San Francisco while her husband was serving on submarines in the Pacific.
In San Francisco, she met another war bride, Euphemia Steffey, now of Pittsburgh, starting a 70-year friendship. ?Katrink drew people to her like a warm fire,?? Steffey said. ?She was such a welcoming person. Talk about a renaissance woman. She delighted in her domestic skills and was a competent seamstress. She made a quality chocolate. Beyond the domestic, the world wasn?t large enough to satisfy all her appetites, travel, books. We all have loads of friends, but you only have a handful that change your life. Katrink was one of mine.??
In the course of Rear Admiral Hull?s naval career, the family lived on both the West and East coasts, in Hawaii in the early 1950s, and for three years in Naples, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where he was assigned a tour of duty.
Another son, Kimball E.C. of Cambridge, recalled the friends his mother made in Italy, ?as she did wherever she went.?? As a boy, he recalled, he was embarrassed by her ?haggling?? at food markets in Naples until he realized the vendors expected that and were delighted. ?I could see the vendor?s face light up. Mom delighted in people and was so good at making friends.??
One summer in the mid-1950s, the family spent the season at Beverly Farms and ?fell in love with Boston?s North Shore,?? Harry said. ?From then on, they lived in Manchester as often as they could.??
When the rear admiral retired from the Navy in 1967, he and his wife purchased the Uplands in Manchester, which became the family seat.
From 1967 to 1977, her husband was director of the International Business Center of New England, dedicated to promoting world trade. He died in 2001. Mrs. Hull lived at the Uplands for 39 years before moving to another home in Manchester.
She was a member of the Adams Memorial Society and, Harry said, in 2007 donated several personal belongings of Louisa Catherine and John Quincy Adams to the museum collection. That same year, she donated to the Massachusetts Historical Society ?a trove?? of correspondence from John and John Quincy Adams that she had inherited.
Mrs. Hull also liked writing doggerel. Her children?s favorite is ?Time Passing:??
Is there anyone out there
Who can remember the color of our hair
When young?
Is there anyone under the sun
Who can hum the songs we hummed
At twenty-one?
There will be no one left who knows
How it was before we touched the moon
In addition to her daughter and two sons, Mrs. Hull leaves three grandsons and two granddaughters.
A memorial service is planned at 11 a.m. Aug. 27 at St. John?s Episcopal Church at Beverly Farms.
© Copyright 2011 Globe Newspaper Company.
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From the funeral notice:
Howell "Chip" Cobb III
August 26, 1954 - September 7, 2014
Howell Cobb III, 60, known to everyone as Chip, died and entered eternal life in Christ on Sunday, September 7, 2014, with his wife, Bonnie Balius Cobb, by his side. Chip was born in Houston, Texas, on August 26, 1954, to Howell Cobb and Torrance Chalmers Cobb. The family moved to Beaumont when Chip was a baby. A cradle Episcopalian, Chip was a member of St. Stephen?s Episcopal Church in Beaumont, St. Clement?s Episcopal Church in El Paso, Texas, and St. Mark?s Episcopal Church in Beaumont.
Chip graduated from Forest Park High School in 1972. He attended the University of Virginia as an Echols Scholar, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Religion, graduating with High Distinction in 1976, and was invited to join Phi Beta Kappa. A Texas Longhorn fan from childhood on, Chip attended the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was a member of Chancellors, Order of the Coif, Texas Law Review, was a Teaching Quizmaster, and graduated second in his class with a Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1979. Following his admittance to the Texas Bar, Chip served as the Briefing Attorney for Chief Justice Joe Greenhill of the Texas Supreme Court.
In addition to being admitted to the State Bars of Texas and New Mexico, Chip was admitted to the United States District Court for the Western, Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. He was Board Certified in both Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and was a member of the Texas Bar Association, Jefferson County Bar Association, American Board of Trial Advocates since 1995, and a former member of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel and International Association of Defense Counsel.
Chip practiced law in El Paso, Texas, for over twenty years. Since 2003, Chip has been Senior Trial Counsel with the firm Germer PLLC in Beaumont.
Chip enjoyed reading, playing a challenging game of chess, engaging in witty repartee, and attending Texas Longhorn football games. His pride for and love of his children was his guiding purpose throughout his life.
Chip was welcomed to eternal life by his parents, Howell Cobb and Laetitia Torrance Chalmers Cobb. He is survived by his wife of almost twenty-five years, Bonnie; daughter, Nicole Cobb Voglewede and her husband Stephen Voglewede, of El Paso; daughter, Natalie Laetitia Cobb, of Chicago; son, James Howell Cobb, of Beaumont; son, Travis Alan Cobb, of Lake Charles; daughter, Torrance Elizabeth Cobb, of Beaumont; and son, Thomas Steven Cobb, of Beaumont; grandsons, Ian Agustín Voglewede and Elias Julian Voglewede, of El Paso; mother, Amelie Suberbielle Cobb, of Beaumont; sisters, Catherine Cobb Cook and her husband, David Cook, of Beaumont; Mary Ann Cobb Walton and her husband, Ray Walton, of Fredericksburg; Caroline Cobb Ervin and her husband, Jimmy Ervin, of Washington, D.C.; brothers, Thomas Hart Cobb and his wife, Farrah Cobb, of Beaumont and John Lamar Cobb and his wife, Monica Cobb, of Beaumont; brother-in-law, Glenn Alan Balius and his wife, Barbara Morgan Balius, of Houston; and numerous nieces and nephews. He is also survived by Evelina Ortega, of El Paso, the mother of his daughters, Nicole and Natalie.
A gathering of Chip?s family and friends will be Wednesday evening, September 10, 2014, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., at Broussard?s, 2000 McFaddin, Beaumont. Please join family and friends for a Celebration of Life on Thursday, September 11, 2014, at 4:00 p.m., at St. Mark?s Episcopal Church, 680 Calder, Beaumont with burial to follow at Forest Lawn Cemetery, 4955 Pine Street. A reception will follow in the St. Mark?s Fellowship Hall. | Cobb, Howell III (I2595)
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From the Hull Family Association article Common Errors in the Rev. Joseph Hull Line by Phyllis J. Hughes:
* HFAm #720, Rev. Hope Hull, who married Ann Wingfield, is not a Rev. Joseph Hull descendant. This is proven by DNA testing of some of his documented descendants. His father, HFAm #360 Hopewell Hull, probably had none of the children assigned him in HFAm, or he may have been only the father of the Rev. Hope Hull | Hull, Hope (I0421)
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From The Hull Family in America:
2619. JOHN HOPE HULL, 1856(???), son
of (1461) Henry and Mary A. Nisbet Hull,
was married June 6, 1883, to Rose Deloney,
daughter of Col. William G. Deloney of
Athens, Ga.
CHILDREN
5,242. Rosa D. Hull, m. Gordon Carson.
5,243. Henry Hope Hull.
5,243a. Deloney Hull.
5,243b. Lelia May Hull. | Hull, John Hope (I0345)
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From the Hull Family Journal:
Harry signed himself as "Pawnee Killer."
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From the Internet, www.leofranklynchers.com:
Leo Frank Lynchers
Copyright January 1, 2000 by Stephen Goldfarb, Ph.D.
Since the infamous lynching of Leo Frank on August 17, 1915, in Cobb County, Georgia, the identity of those involved has remained a closely-guarded secret. The list reproduced below and the ensuing discussion documents for the first time the identity of some of those who both planned and carried out this murder. This document is an incomplete list of the men who planned and carried out the kidnapping and lynching of Leo Frank in August of 1915.
The document (used with permission) is part of the Leo Frank collection and is housed in the Special Collections Department, Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University. Although the document is unsigned, the identity of the author is known to me; however, because of the nature of this list, I have decided not to disclose its author at this time.
Leo Max Frank (1884-1915) was the manager of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, Georgia, from the time of its establishment sometime in 1909. On April 26, 1913, one of his employees, a young girl named Mary Phagan, was brutally murdered in the factory. Frank was convicted of this crime in the summer of 1913 and sentenced to be hanged. For most of the next two years, Frank’s lawyers appealed the death sentence, twice to the United States Supreme Court, but to no avail. In June 1915, shortly before he was to leave office, Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank’s death sentence to life in prison. About two months later, Frank was kidnapped from the state prison farm at Milledgeville, transported about 175 miles to Cobb County, original home of Mary Phagan, and lynched near a place called Frey’s Mill on the morning of August 17, 1915. None of the lynchers of Frank was ever tried for the murder of Frank, much less convicted; in fact the identity of the lynchers has remained a closely-guarded secret. [2]
The list itself contains twenty-six names, two less than contemporary accounts claimed as having taken part in the lynching.[3] Some of these names are of people who will very likely never be identified, unless someone with special knowledge of the lynching comes forward. In some cases only surnames are given, and in others the names are so common, that there are likely to have been several persons among the thousands of males living in Cobb County at that time with that name.[4] Nevertheless, nine of the lynch mob members, including all but one of those listed as being either a "leader" or a "planner" can be identified with confidence. The two "leaders" were identified as Judge Newton Morris and George Daniels.
Newton Augustus Morris (1869-1941) was, according to his obituary in the Marietta Daily Journal, a "leader in the Democratic party in Georgia." He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1898 to 1904, during which time he was speaker pro tem (1900-1901) and then speaker (1902-1904), after which he served two terms as judge on the Blue Ridge Circuit (1909-1912, 1917-1919), the Georgia court circuit that included Cobb County. [5] Morris was credited with preventing the mutilation of Frank’s body after the lynching. According to newspaper accounts, Morris rushed to the scene of the lynching as soon as he heard about it, and once there, he "interceded and pleaded with everyone to permit Frank’s remains to be sent home to his parents for a decent burial." While Frank’s body was being removed, one member of the crowd, who had earlier wanted to burn Frank’s body, began stomping on the corpse; Morris was able to stop this, which enabled the undertakers to remove Frank’s body to a funeral home in Atlanta. [6] The other man listed as being a leader is George Daniels. Research in contemporary documents has failed to turn up a man by that name, though two persons with the name George Daniel (or Daniell) have been identified, whose age was similar to those of the other lynchers. George Daniels is the only one on the list that is identified as being a member of the Ku Klux Klan. [7]
The following three men are listed as being "planners": Herbert Clay, M. M. Sessions, and John Dorsey. Of the three, the best known was Eugene Herbert Clay (1881-1923). Son of United States Senator Alexander Stephens Clay, and older brother of four-star General Lucius D. Clay, who served as Allied High Commissioner of Germany from 1945-1949, Herbert Clay was mayor of Marietta (1910-1911) and solicitor general (i.e. district attorney) of the Blue Ridge judicial circuit (1913-18). In this capacity Clay should have prosecuted the lynchers of Frank, a bitter irony, as he himself was a planner of the lynching and may well have taken part in the lynching. He was subsequently elected to the Georgia State Senate and served as its president in the years 1921-1922; he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives the following year but died in an Atlanta hotel, a few days before the opening of the 1923 session. [8] Clay is the only lyncher whose identity as such has appeared in print.[9]
Born in neighboring Cherokee County, Moultrie McKinney Sessions (1863-1927) moved to Marietta as a child and lived there for the rest of his life. Son of a prominent judge, Sessions received his legal training in a law office and became a lawyer while still a minor. A successful lawyer and financier, he founded Sessions Loan and Trust Co. in 1887. Although active in civic organizations, Sessions does not appear to have held any elected political office.[10]
Also a lawyer, John Tucker Dorsey (1876-1957) moved to Marietta in 1908, after graduation from the University of Georgia and practicing law in Gainesville, Georgia. According to his obituary in the Marietta Daily Journal, Dorsey was active in many civic activities and served in the Georgia House of Representatives (1915-1917, 1941-1945), as solicitor general of the Blue Ridge Circuit (1918-1920), and as ordinary of Cobb County from 1948 until his death. Dorsey represented the state of Georgia at the Coroner’s Jury that met to investigate the lynching of Frank. [11]
Of the remaining twenty or so lynchers, five more have been identified with confidence ...
The identification of a third of the lynch mob certainly bears out the claim that at least some of its members were prominent citizens of Cobb County, and a few were known state-wide. Included are a former speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives and president of the Georgia State Senate, and other members of the Georgia House of Representatives and Senate, mayors of Marietta, as well as judges, prosecutors, and other members of the local judiciary. Furthermore, this research offers an explanation for the failure of the criminal justice system to prosecute Frank’s murderers, for a member of the lynch mob was also the solicitor general for the Blue Ridge Circuit, the person responsible for the prosecution of the lynchers. ...
[11] MDJ, Feb. 22, 1957, pp. 1, 4; AC, Feb. 22, 1957, p. 48; NYT, Aug. 25, 1915, p. 6. | Dorsey, John Tucker (I0857)
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From the Murrow family Bible:
Rich'd Murrow maried to Rose Anne Adams - died Octr 27th 1830
June the 2d 1826 at Armagh
"Rose Anne Jane" 1st Child Born May 25th 1825 at No. 4 L. Ormd Quay Dublin
"Elizabeth Frances" 2d " Born Jany 25th 1827 Do
"Grace Sarah" 3d " Born October 27th 1828 Do Died March 10th 1831
"Sarah Ann" 4th " Born June 7th 1830 No. 2 L Ormond Quay Died Sept 19th 1830
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Rich'd Murrow maried to Mary Catherine Morgan February 8th 1833 at Monkstown Church Co. Dublin.
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Richard Lewis Born at 2 L. Ormond Quay Jany 8th 1834.
Annette Maria Born 2 L. Ormond Quay March 3d 1835.
William Bernard Born 23 Wellington Quay Sept. 19th 183-
Loftus Robert Born 19th June 1841 Haddington Rd.
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Of typhus fever
Richard the beloved husband of Mary his wife departed this life January 2nd 1844 in his 44th year of age.
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From the Reverend Dennis Stalvey, Office of the Chaplain, Magnolia Manor, on the occasion of her death to the Reverend Shane Green. Reverend Stalvey saw her obituary and, knowing that Reverend Green, hadn't known her well, sent this letter to tell him a little about her:
Shane,
I saw in the Columbus Enquirer the obit of Mrs. Marion Lummus and that you are to officiate at her funeral. Not that I think you need my input, but I share with you out of
my context over the last ten years with Marion.
When I first came to Magnolia Manor, she was a resident at the Retirement Center. Her eyesight was beginning to fail, but she was a person who interacted with everyone she met. When she discovered that I had two sons in the military, she asked me for a picture of my grandson and my grandson's name. I have always been reserved in sharing personal info with others, especially info about my family. She would not tell me what she was up to, but closer to that first Christmas, Marion called me and asked to meet with me. She had gone to Walmart and in their photo department she had had a coffee mug made with my grandson's photo on it. Marion said, "I don't know how to mail this to your son (who at the time was serving one of 3 tours in Iraq) but please mail it to him so he will have his son to look at when he has coffee.
She reached out to others in ways which met their needs. She was constantly wanting to know addresses of other people when their needs were made known in times of prayer concern. Marion was not flashy with what she did, but she was on the mark with some little touch which would make the recipient feel a need had been met by someone who really cared.
When Marion moved to our Nursing Center, she continued to reach out to those around her. Although she was wheelchair bound, she did not let that stop her from affirming people and caring for people. We sing a great theologically sound song in times of worship. The title is Jesus Loves Me. Marion always had a different way of singing Jesus Loves Me. When we would get to the chorus, "Yes, Jesus loves me..." Marion would always point to those around her. Even when her eyesight was almost completely gone, she would simply point her finger to where she thought people were. I know that every time I sing Jesus Loves Me, I think of Marion and her pointing finger that shared she was aware that Jesus not only loved her, but others.
Marion was part of my doctoral research project and continued to be part of the Laughter Wellness Therapy which I began four years ago from that research. From her
wheelchair Marion would join in the 30 minute sessions of laughter and breathing exercises. She remarked more than once how much better she felt after the sessions. She would often say that she couldn't wait to help make someone laugh so they would get the same benefits as she got from the sessions. She would share in our sessions how laughter had restored her joy and helped her to sleep better at night.
I shall not soon forget Marion Lummus. She was the kind of person who helped brighten the corner where she was, and her bubbly presence touched those around her.
These are a few things which are in my memory of meeting and knowing this dear resident of ours.
Grace and Peace,
Dennis
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