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Volume 40, Issue 10 Sandra J Stacey, Editor October 2017

THE CORNSHELLER Newsletter of the Montgomery County

Historical Society

Officers:

President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mary Nell Wooten

Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brenda Harper

Recording Secretary . . . . . . . . . . Gail Longton Correspondence Secretary . . . . . .Opal Kennedy Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Harris

Historical: County Historian . . . . . . . . . . . . .Eleanor Williams County Archivist . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jill Hastings Johnson County Genealogist . . . . . . . . . . .Gail Longton Members at Large: Molly Cook David Kanervo

Ken Grambihler

***All programs meet on the 3rd Monday of each month at 7:00

p.m. Unless otherwise stated. All regular meetings will be held at the Civic Center located in the Veter-ans’ Plaza

2017 HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROGRAMS

Oct 16 – Mt. Zion Baptist Church: Carr Johnson will present infor-mation about his great, great great grandfather, Horace Carr, and other ex-slaves who founded Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Port Royal, Tennessee, in 1867. The church is still in existence today. His presentation includes an introduction to and readings from Pioneer Colored Christians by Harriet Parks Miller.

Nov 20 – How I found my father The incredible story of the recovery of Rex Cummings' father Robert Roy Cummings after being reported missing in action in the Korean War Dec 18 – Christmas Dinner & Awards — Civic Hall MENU: Smoked Rib-eye, before cooking weight 8 oz. & Buck Sauce on side Or Chicken Breast encrusted with parmesan and breadcrumbs Loaded Smashed Potatoes Tossed Salad and crackers Ranch and Honey Mustard Dressing Yeast Rolls and Margarine Assortment of cheesecake and pecan pie

Sweeted and unsweetened tea, water, coffee regular and decaf, creamers, sweeteners, lemons

NAOMI SEVIER

Due to a death in the family our scheduled guest speaker for September could not be present. At the last minute Carolyn Ferrell pitched in to give the program. She presented a monologue on Naomi Sevier,

wife of Valentine Sevier that left the audience mesmerized. There was not a sound in the audience as we felt like Carolyn took us back in the past, and we were living Naomi’s life. Valentine Sevier was the brother of the state’s first governor. and Carolyn presented her pro-gram from a “Woman’s View” of the pioneer family—leading up to the 1794 massacre on the bluff above Clarksville. The program in-cluded the civil death pronounced upon Colo-nial women upon the marriage. Naomi had a good husband, but some women were beaten by their husband and it was allowed. When a women married everything she owned became her husbands, and she had no say in

anything. Carolyn brought along a few props to show items from around Colonial time.

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RICHARD BUCKNER DESCENDANTS Richard Buckner was born in 1658 in Gloucester, Gloucester CO VA and died on 4 Mar 1733 in Carolina CO VA at age 75. Richard married Elizabeth Cooke. Elizabeth was born in 1662 in Gloucester, Gloucester CO VA and died in 1748 in VA at age 86. They had two children: Philip and Richard William. Philip Buckner was born in 1710 in Essex CO VA and died on 10 Aug 1762 in Louisa CO VA at age 52. Philip married Jane Aylett in 1743 in King Wil-liam, King William CO VA. Jane was born in 1705 in King William, King William CO VA and died in 1787 in Albemarle CO VA at age 82. They had five children: William, Ann, Thomas, Mary, and Philip. William Buckner was born in 1744 in Louisa, Spotsylvania CO VA and died in 1787 in Albemarle CO VA at age 43. Ann Buckner was born in 1745 in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania CO VA and died in 1785 in Edgefield, Edgefield SC at age 40. Thomas Buckner was born in 1747 in Spotsylvania, Louisa CO VA and died on 29 Aug 1806 in Halifax, Halifax CO VA at age Mary Buckner was born in 1749 and died in 1762 at age 13. Philip Buckner Jr. was born on 13 Jan 1753 in Louisa CO VA and died on 15 Mar 1819 in Bacons Creek, Hart CO KY at age 66. Philip married Elizabeth Watson. They had one son: Aylett Hartswell. Aylett Hartswell Buckner was born on 18 Jan 1798 in Albemarle CO VA,

died on 11 Dec 1851 in Beechland CO AR at age 53, and was buried in Frankfort Cemetery, Plot: Section 8, 9, Frankfort. KY. Burial Notes: Memori-al reads as follows: SACRED to the memory of AYLETT HARTSWELL BUCKNER Who was born in the state of Virginia January 18, 1798 Died at Beechland, ARK December 11, 1851. Whoe'er thou art with silent footsteps tread, the hallowed mound where he reclines his head, and let not one a kindly tear deny, but pensive pause where truth and honor lie. Aylett married Elizabeth "Emily" Ann Morehead. General Notes: Name Emily used on son's death certificate. Emily was born on 9 Aug 1801 in War-

renton, Fauquier CO VA, died on 6 Jan 1862 in Beachland, Union CO AR at age 60, and was buried in Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort. KY. She was usually called Emily. They had three children: Turner Hartswell, Simon Bolivar, and Mary Elizabeth. Burial Notes: Daughter of Turner Hartswell and Mary Ann Hewitt Morehead. Wife of Aylett Hartswell Buckner. Burial location unknown but it's presumed that since her husband's burial location notes two plots that Elizabeth is buried with him. Turner Hartswell Buckner was born in 1820 in KY and died on 5 Jun 1854 in Beechland CO AR at age 34. Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General, Kentucky Governor. Born in Hart County, Kentucky, he graduated from the United States Military Academy with the Class of 1844, serving in the Mexi-can War. In 1855, he left the Army to enter the private business world. Alt-hough he did not own any slaves, he felt that the States had the right to deter-mine whether they would allow slavery or not. When the South left the Union, he was commissioned a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. His forces occupied Bowling Green, Kentucky, but he was forced to surrender Fort Do-nelson to his former classmate, General Ulysses Grant, and became a prisoner of the Union Army. After a prisoner exchange in 1862, Turner joined Con-federate General Braxton Bragg's 1862 invasion of Kentucky, and was placed in command of the Department of East Tennessee. In 1863, he transferred back to Bragg's command, and led troops at Chickamauga, but played only a minor role there. He became a leader in the move to get General Bragg removed from command, and on September 20, 1864, he was promoted to Lieutenant Gen-eral, and moved to the Trans-Mississippi Department. There he served as Chief of Staff for General Edmund Kirby Smith, until the end of the he returned home, where

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CLARKSVILLE IN EARLY DAYS TOLD IN AN INTERVIEW --"An interesting account of her first visit in Clarksville early in the nine-teenth century has been left to posterity by Mrs. Rachel Herring. Mrs. Herring was born in what is now District 6, November 5, 1796, the daugh-ter of Bryan Whitfield who came to this county from New Bern (new New-bern) North Carolina, in 1795. She was married to Benjamin Herring in 1814. When she was interviewed by Mr. A. V. Goodpasture she was 83 years old, but her memory was clear and accurate. She told Mr. Goodpas-ture the following story of her impressions on the first visit she made to Clarksville which was about 1807 or 1808. The station at Clarksville was at the spring where the foundry property now is. When I first recollect seeing Clarksville in 1807 or 1808, there was a log house, one story, without loft, with puncheon floors, the home of James Saunders. Amos Bird had the best house. It was located just below the town spring and was of hewn logs with a porch in front and plank floors sawed by hand. Zack Dennis had a one story cabin lower down the river, about where the gas works are. (This near present L.& N. RR). They preached in a little log cabin back of Mr. McClure's. Mr. McClure lived opposite the Southern Hotel. There were some roads, but no regular street – everyone took the highest course to where he was going. Mr. McClure and Mr. Elder were the only merchants there at the time. Amos Bird ran a barge to Nashville – Joseph Patton's stillhouse was on Red River, on a little branch a short distance from Collin' Mill in the Sixth District. Renfro's Station was on the hill where James Her-ring used to live near the mouth of Person's Creek. On the first Saturday in February 1810, I was going to a meeting with my uncle and aunt, Owens when we met Father Bright Herring. He told us he was out hunting his hogs and hunting a preacher; that he understood there was a preacher in these woods somewhere, and he wanted to find him. We had only gone a short distance when I, then a little girl and in front, discov-ered a smoke and told him. I guessed his preacher was over there. We went to the smoke and upon a stump in the neighborhood of where St. Bethlehem now is, I saw the Rev. Reuben Ross. This was the first time I ever saw him. His family and the family of Mr. Cherry were in a tent near by. Father Herring addressed him, found he was a preacher, and invited him to preach the next day, which he at first declined to do, but being pressed, he consent-ed and did preach at Spring Creek Church. The Spring Creek Baptist church was constituted on the first Sunday in May 1808. When asked about Josiah Hoskins, Mr. Hervey Whitfield remembered him well; and that he lived in the 11th Dist. of this county at the place where Squire W. R. Anderson now lives; about 6 miles from Clarksville. Mr. Hoskins came to this county from North Carolina about the beginning of the past century and died here at a good age. The Hoskins family was considered a little peculiar and old-fashioned. There were 5 old maids in the family; and these good ladies made silk from their own spinning and weaving, long after the Port Royal silk boom had collapsed. R. W. Thomas was editor of the Chronicle and Charles O. Faxon of the Jeffersonian (a descendant of Faxon wrote the L-C recently-she lives in Hopkinsville) ---- when Mr. Whitfield first began to read the newspapers. And this reminds us that Drew Thomas who was bur-ied in Riverview Cemetery last year was a grandson of R. W. Thomas. And this again reminds us that the Clarksville Library has two copies of "The Young Colonel” and Other Stories by R. W. Thomas published at Nashville in 1860. This item I copied -- but the date of the event isn't given: NEWS ITEMS FROM OLD CHRONICLES: This evenings Chronicle contains' all the exercises of the reunion up to three o'clock. The program will be concluded this afternoon with a regatta on the river front and a sup-per at the couthouse tonight; the entire program ending with a gathering at Elder's Opera House after the supper. (the Opera house burned just before I was born in 1915). Article From the Geneva Suggs Swain collection

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Mary Elizabeth Buckner daughter of Aylett Hartswell and Elizabeth "Emily" Ann Morehead Buckner was born in 1831 in KY and died in 1883 at age 52. Mary married John A. Tooke. John was born in GA and died in 1858 in AR.

Richard William Buckner II son of Richard and Elizabeth Cooke Buckner was born in 1720 in Hazel Grove, Carolina CO VA and died on 14 Dec 1777 in Carolina CO VA at age 57. Birth & Death Notes: info from U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications. Richard married Eliza-beth Aylett in 1744 in Carolina CO VA. Elizabeth was born in 1712 in Caro-lina CO VA and died in 1777 in Carolina CO VA at age 65. They had three children: Aylette, Richard, and Frances Upshur.

This is the basic background where the Buckners came from. Because of space restrains I am skipping ahead. From here the Buckners migrated io Hopkinsville, Christian Co KY where most were buried in Riverside Ceme-tery. From there some moved to New Providence, Montgomery CO TN and some on to Nashville Davidson CO TN.

William Francis "Frank" Buckner was born on 15 Jun 1843 in Oak Grove, Christian CO KY, died on 9 Aug 1913 in Clarksville, Montgomery CO TN at age 70, and was buried in Elliott Family Cemetery, Clarksville, Montgomery CO TN. Frank served in the military in Jun 1861: joined the Oak Grove Rangers under Capt. T. Woodard. After secession, he transferred to the First Kentucky Cavalry. He went into the commission business in Clarksville in 1885 in New Providence, Montgomery CO TN. Frank mar-ried Harriet "Hattie" Edmonds Elliott, daughter of Col. William H. Elliott, in 1867. Hattie was born on 8 May 1846 in TN and died on 4 Apr 1925 at age 78. They had children: Elliott, Lula, J. W., William Gordon, Anne "Annie," Lewis Douglas, and Mildred

Children: Elliott Buckner was born on 2 Nov 1868 in KY, died on 20 Feb 1951 in Nashville, Davidson CO TN at age 82, and was buried in Riverview Ceme-tery, Clarksville, Montgomery CO TN. Death Notes: Fractured his left hip and Bronchopneumonia set in causing his death 20 days later. He appeared on the North Second Street census in 1920 in Clarksville, Montgomery CO TN. He owned his home. He worked as a Teacher in 1951 in Nashville, Da-vidson CO TN. He in 1951 he lived a little over three years in Nashville, Davidson CO TN. Elliott married Maud Drane, daughter of William McClure Drane and Amelia Haddox,. The marriage ended in divorce. Maud was born on 25 Mar 1868 in TN, died on 18 Dec 1954 in Nashville, Da-vidson CO TN at age 86, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Plot: 5, Clarksville, Montgomery CO TN.

Lula Buckner was born about 1870 in KY and J. W. Buckner was born about 1872 in KY

William Gordon Buckner was born on 31 Aug 1874 in KY, died on 16 Feb 1933 in Clarksville, Montgomery CO TN at age 58, and was buried in River-view Cemetery, Clarksville, TN.

Anne "Annie" Buckner was born on 29 May 1878 in Edgeton, TN, died on 21 Nov 1959 in Versailles, Woodford CO KY at age 81, and was buried in Elliott Family Cemetery, Clarksville, TN . She was a member of the DAR. Mrs. Annie Buckner Nelson. DAR ID Number: 49442; Born in Montgomery County, Tenn. ; Wife of Bolling Gordon Nelson. ; Descendant of Capt. James Upshaw, of Virginia. ; Daughter of William Frank Buckner and Relief Ed-munds Elllott, his wife. ; [p.196] Granddaughter of Frank Buckner and Sa-rah Gordon, his wife. ; Gr-granddaughter of George Buckner and Ann Saun-ders, his wife. ; Gr-gr-granddaughter of Francis Buckner and Martha Upshaw, his wife. ; Gr-gr-gr-granddaughter of James Upshaw and Mary Martin, his wife. ; James Upshaw served as lieutenant, Continental line, and as captain of militia. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He was born in Essex County, Va., where in 1807 he died.; Also Nos. 23322, 48516. DAR ID. Number: 49442. Annie married Captain Bolling Gordon Nelson. Bolling was born on 9 Dec 1873 in KY, died on 3 Jul 1925 in Hop-kinsville, Christian CO KY at age 51, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Christian CO KY. They had three children: Boiling Gordon, Frank, and Isabel "Belle".

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(Richard Buckner Descendants Cont. from p. 2)

he worked in private business and was active in Confederate Veterans

Groups. In 1887, he. In was elected Governor of Kentucky, serving 4 years.

He ran for Vice President in 1896, but lost the election. He died in in Mun-

fordville, Kentucky , the last survivor of the top three ranks of the Confeder-

ate Army. His son, Simon Jr, also went his home war to West Point and

became a full General (4 stars). (bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson) Simon

married Delia Hayes Claiborne in 1885 in Richmond, King George CO VA.

Delia was born on 22 Jul 1857 in Richmond, King George CO VA, died on

3 Mar 1932 in Louisville, Jefferson CO KY at age 74, and was buried in

Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort. KY. She was the daughter of John Hayes

Claiborne and Anna Virginia Bassett, a descendant of Col. Fielding Lewis,

the Great-granddaughter of Robert Lewis and Mary Walker Browne and

the Great-great-granddaughter of Fielding Lewis, colonel of a regiment of

militia at Yorktown. They had one son: Simon Bolivar

Simon Bolivar Buckner was born on 1 Apr 1823 in Walnut Hills, Hart CO KY, died on 8 Jan 1914 in Munfordville, Hart CO KY at age 90, and was bur-ied in Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort. KY. General Notes: Governor Simon B Buckner 1887 - 1891

Simon Bolivar Buckner

Jr. was born on 18 Jul 1886

in Munfordville, Hart CO

KY, died on 18 Jun 1945 in

Okinawa, Japan at age 58, and was buried in Frank-

fort Cemetery, Frankfort. KY. Simon married Ade-

le Blaine Blanc on 30 Dec 1916 in Louisville, Jef-

ferson CO KY. Adele was born on 14 Jun 1893 in

Silver City, Grant CO NM, died on 30 Jun 1988 in

San Francisco, San Francisco CO CA at age 95, and

was buried in Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort. KY.

General Notes: Wife of Simon Bolivar Buckner,

Jr. Daughter of Henry William Blanc, M.D. and Mary Victoria May of

New Orleans. Beloved mother of Simon Bolivar III, Mary and William

Claiborne. Traveler, Lecturer, Filmmaker, The Spirit of Adventure never

left her.

Lieutenant Simon Buckner, next married Mary

Jane Kingsbury the daughter of Maj. Julius B.

Kingsbury, U.S. Army, and Jane (Stebbins) Kings-

bury. On May 2, 1850, in Lyme, New London CO

CT. Mary was born on 24 Feb 1831 in Old Lyme

CO CT, died in Jan 1873 in Elizabethtown, Hardin

CO KY at age 41, and was buried in Cave Hill

Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson CO KY. They had

one daughter: Lily.

Lily Buckner the daughter of Simon Bolivar and Mary (Kingsbury) Buck-ner. was born on 7 Mar 1858 in Louisville, Jefferson CO KY, died on 29 Dec 1893 in KY at age 35, Lily at age two, shortly before the Civil War, became a member of the Buck-ner Guards in the Second Regiment, KY State Guard militia. During the war, when her father was a Con-federate general, she spent much time in and around military camps. On June 14, 1883, she married Mor-ris B. Belknap at Calvary Episcopal Church in Louis-ville. She died on December 29, 1893, and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson CO KY leaving her husband and four young children. In 1896, her husband installed a beautiful marble fountain in her memory in Munfordville, Hart County, KY.

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WINDOW INTO THE PAST Sandra J Stacey

What Would you find if you looked in the “WindoW into the past” in oCtoBeR:

Clarksville Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee) - 29 Oct 1858, Fri - P. 4 New Daily Stage Line FROM CLARKSVILLE TO NASHVILLE. We have made arrangements and are now running a daily line of stages from Clarksville to Nashville, over the New Paradise Hill Turnpike we run a large four-horse coach, and a new and comfortable hack by way of Port Royal, Turnersville and Cooperstown. The four-horse coach leaves Clarks-ville every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday morning, at 5 ½ o’clock. The hack leaves every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning, at 4 o'clock. Stage office at Washington Hotel, Clarksville and at General Stage office

Nashville. ALLENSWORTH, SLAUGHTER & CO. Sept 3, '58 -3m

Clarksville Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee). 06 Oct 1865, Fri P. 3 Last Monday, County Court day, was the largest day we have had in the city for sometime.—Lots of, folks in town--many horses and mules were Sold at auction—business men made good sales, and, in fact, it reminded

us of the stirring times of yore.

Clarksville Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee) 06 Nov 1868, Fri Page 3 *Cantor Beaver Macks and Frocks, black, dahlia and brown colors at all prices from lowest to highest, at R. E. McCulloch's Clothing Store. Oct. 23 '68-tf. *Extra Fine Germania Beaver Overcoats. black, dahlia and brown colors, very cheap, at R. E. McCulloch's Clothing Store. Oct. 23 '68-iw. *Alexanders Kid Gloves and the celebrated PANTALOON DRAWERS are sold lower at McCulloch's Clothing Store than anywhere else. Oct. 23 '68 4w. *A large and very superior stock of men’s underwear is now on exhibi-tion, and for sale at low prices at McCulloch's Clothing Store. Oct. 23, 68-4w. *An elegant assortment of linen bosom, full bosom and negligee shirts at McCulloch's Clothing Store, and will be sold cheaper than the material in them can be bought in this city. Oct. 23 '68 4w. Clarksville Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee) 04 Oct 1873, Sat. P. 3 Dr. L. B. Chilton physician of Woodlawn, Tenn., paid us a visit and a sub-scription one day this week. This reminds us of a statement made to us not long since, that out of a number of deaths around Woodlawn, for the last two years. only one was under the age of 70. Where they have such a phy-sician as Dr. Chilton, to die, they have to wear out, for he is almost certain to cure his patients if they have vitality enough left to work on. He recently sold his celebrated saddle horse, Gray Bob, for $225.00 to a gentleman in Stewart county. This amount will enable him to buy two common horses to carry him through his large and increasing practice. Clarksville Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee) 17 Oct 1874, Sat. P. 2 The colored preacher in the Knoxville District, who was invited to run for Congress, declines the invitation and says he has a moral character to sus-tain which makes it imperative upon him not to risk that character by an association with such a body as the majority in Congress. This is a hard but well-deserved hit, and shows that the colored preacher's head is level on the subject of congressional morals.

The Pittsburg Daily Headlight (Pittsburg, Kansas) 07 Oct 1896, Wed. P. 2 Flogged by Regulators. CLARKSVILLE., Tenn., Oct. 6. —Mark Green, who lives with his paramour near Dover island, was taken from his house by a band of regulators and se-verely punished. After being terribly beaten he was left in the woods, where he remained, unable to move for some time. The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) 26 Oct 1905. Thu. Page 8 ROWDIES ON A TRAIN Negroes Raise a Racket—White Man Hurt by Rock. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 23. —(Special.)—Last night while returning to his home near Hampton Station on the Louisville & Nashville accommoda-tion, T. W. Winn was struck by a rock and badly hurt. He was seated in the coach and as the train started to pull out from St. Bethlehem an unknown mis-creant threw a rock at it. The missile broke a window pane, throwing glass in every direction, and struck Mr. Winn back of the ear, inflicting quite a painful wound. There was a large crowd on the train returning from the circus and several negroes were under the influence of whisky and raised quite a disturb-ance. Several shots were fired, but no damage was done, although the ladies were badly frightened. This morning Horace Roach colored. who lives at Hampton Station was arrested charged with shooting on the train and commit-ted to the county jail pending the examining trial. Hopkinsville Kentuckian, 28 Oct 1904, Fri, Page 4 Clarksville Women Owns One 160 Years Old. Clarksville. Tenn. Oct. 24. —Mrs., Elizabeth Gilmer, of New Orleans, who is popularly known throughout the literary world as “Dorothy Dix," has in this city. where she formerly resided and now has prominent relatives one of the most antique pieces of furniture now existing in this country. It is an old fash-ioned but finely fashioned and well-built bookcase. The bookcase formerly belonged to Mrs. Gilmers' great-great-grandfather, who was sent by the King of England from Scotland to America as a missionary in the year 1745. He brought the case with him and it has passed down from one generation to another until it was recently purchased by Mrs. Gilmer for a comparatively small sum. The case is in a perfect state of preservation. It will shortly be shipped to Mrs. Gilmer at New Orleans. Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Kentucky) 17 Oct 1914, Sat. P. 5 Organ Turned Loose. Zuber Organ, the negro arrested at Princeton on suspicion of being one of the negroes implicated in the assassination of J. M. Renshaw, was brought here from Bowling Green Wednesday and on trial was released. A number of wit-nesses both white and black testified that Organ was at Palmyra, Tenn. at work in a section gang on the day Mr. Renshaw was shot. A complete alibi was established, and the case against Organ was dismissed, The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) 30 Oct 1917, Tue. Page 11 Red Cross Chapter. ADAMS. Tenn., Oct. 20. —Special.—A Red Cross chapter has been orga-nized here with Mrs. J. R. Connell as Chairman. An interesting meeting was held and a large membership pledged. The members are enthusiastic and have pledged 100 hospital shirts for the first week's shipment. The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee). 31 Oct 1923, Wed. P.8 Clarksville, Tenn., Oct. 30. —If women want to shoot craps without embar-rassing their sex, they, should don men's apparel. This seemed to be the opin-ion of two dark-skinned dames taken in a Sunday raid by county officers. Three Women were in the game. Two wore trousers, but the third was content to enter in feminine garments. Seventeen men were also taken in the raid and all drew fines of $16.40 and costs before Judge Wiley J. Smith, justice of the peace.

"WindoW into the past” is closed.

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MEMBERSHIP Editor Sandra J. Stacey

sandra.stacey@charter.net MEMBERSHIP: Welcome new member: Gary Baker 2303 Bearden Road Clarksville, TN 37043-8740

The MCHS sends their condolences to the family of long time member Lin-da Robertson Long, and shares in their loss.

Linda Robertson Long, 76, passed away peacefully at her home in Clarksville on Saturday, September 16, after an extended illness. She was born on August 30, 1941, in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of the late Wallace and Laura (McCoy) Robertson of Bumpus Mills, Tennessee. She was married in Clarksville on May 17, 1961, to Wayne Long, who survives her after 56 years of marriage. In addition to her husband, she is survived by sons, J.T. (Kelly) Long of Franklin, Ed (Laura) Long of Clarksville, and Jim Long of Franklin, and by five grandchildren.

She enjoyed camping, traveling, quilting, Reelfoot Lake, college football, fishing, genealogy, playing cards, and spending time with her grandchildren. She also loved spending time with her classmates from the CHS Class of '59 and planning reunions with them. She was a retired Guidance Secretary with the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System. She was also a member of Hilldale Church of Christ. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Linda's memory to the Stewart County Archives, P.O. Box 367, Dover, TN 37058. Online condolences may be made at www.nealtarpleyparchman.com. Published in The Leaf Chronicle from Sept. 18 to Sept. 20, 2017

(Richard Buckner Descendants Cont. from p. 3) Boiling Gordon Nelson Jr. was born about 1906 in KY. He married Mary M. Mary was born about 1905 in NY. Frank Nelson was born about 1907 in KY. Isabel "Belle" Nelson was born about 1909 in KY Lewis Douglas Buckner was born on 6 Jul 1884 in KY, died on 27 Aug 1957 in Clarksville, TN at age 73, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Clarksville, TN. Lewis married Martha Elizabeth "Mattie" Leigh, daughter of Walter Washington Leigh and Lillian James Wilson, Mattie was born on 10 Jan 1890 in TN, died on 10 Apr 1976 in Clarksville, TN at age 86, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Plot: Section 9, Clarksville, TN. They had children: Mildred "Millie" Bell, Lewis Douglas "Buck," Martha Jo, and William "Billy" Leigh. Mildred "Millie" Bell Buckner was born on 27 Sep 1921 in Clarksville, TN, died on 14 Mar 1995 at age 73, and was buried in Greenwood Ceme-tery, Plot: Section 9, Clarksville, TN. She worked as a Soda Clerk in 1940 in New Providence, Montgomery CO TN. Lewis Douglas "Buck" Buckner Jr. was born on 28 May 1923 in TN, died on 17 Feb 2017 in Harris-burg, Cabarrus NC at age 93, and was buried in Carolina Memorial Park, Charlotte, Mecklenburg CO NC. Buck married Lizzie Mae Williford, daughter of Lawrence Williford and Perlie, on 18 Nov 1950 in Edgecombe CO NC. Lizzie was born on 12 Aug 1918, died on 18 Oct 1994 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg CO NC at age 76, and was buried in Carolina Memorial Park, Charlotte, Mecklenburg CO NC. They had children: Michael D. and Eliza-beth A.

Martha Jo Buckner was born on 24 Sep 1924 in Montgomery CO TN, died on 7 Jun 2007 in Nashville, Davidson CO TN at age 82, and was buried in Wood-lawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Nash-ville, Davidson CO TN. Martha married Isaac Fletcher "Ike" Gentry Jr. Ike was born on 8 Feb 1922 in Nashville, Davidson CO TN, died on 12 Aug 2005 in

Nashville, Davidson CO TN at age 83, and was buried in Woodlawn Me-morial Park and Mausoleum, Nashville, Davidson CO TN.

William "Billy" Leigh Buckner was born on 28 Dec 1926, died on 17 Aug 2003 at age 76, and was buried in Central Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery. Clarksville, TN. Billy married Margaret Moore. Marga-ret was born on 5 May 1924 in Montgomery CO TN, died on 27 Aug 2008 at age 84, and was buried in Central Chapel United Methodist Church Cem-etery, Clarksville, TN.

If you are interested in purchasing “Warm Hearts & Sadlebags” by Jeremiah Walker Cullom, all 3 volumes are fin-ished. The cost to purchase one is $25 or all three copies for $60. For more in-formation or to purchase contact MCHS vice-president Brenda Harper at brharper931@gmail.com to get on the order list.

The MCHS BBQ fundraiser was a com-plete success. The society cleared $2,800. We forget to give credit to the cooks. I hope I got all the names cor-rect, but the cooks were Jimmie Evans, Eddie Farmer, Mike Swift and Mike Perrigo. Kudos to the cooks. I under-stand the flavor comes from the white oak slabs they use. Hope I didn’t give away a secret.

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