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| Estell Baucom and Brothers. Father, Charles Emerson Baucom far right. |
Monday, June 11, 2012
Charles Emerson Baucom & sons in Huntsville, AL, Monte Sano Taxi
"Estell "Doc" Baucom and his brothers purchased a Model “T” Ford and operated it as a taxi during the summer to take people arriving by train in Huntsville to the top on Monte Sano Mountain
Monday, June 4, 2012
Estell Lee Baucom & Bennie Eliza Hall Baucom
Written by Jim Baucom
[004] ESTELL LEE BAUCOM [005] BENNIE ELIZA HALL
b. 7 OCT 1887 Baucom, TN Coffee Co. b. 10 APR 1888 Memphis, TN Shelby Co.
d. 23 FEB 1987 Birmingham , AL d. 11 JUN Birmingham , AL
m. 1 MAR 1905 Huntsville, AL Madison Co.
Estell Lee Baucom, the only grandparent that I have ever known, was my inspiration and beginning source in my search for ancestors. The first time that I had a chance talk with him was in the fall of 1969, when he was 82 and I was 38 years of age. I had seen him twice before but only for a few minutes each time. He, sons Jesse and James (my father), and I made a weekend trip to Tennessee to visit Baucom , TN where he was born and to Archer , TN
Estell was usually called Doc by his children and most of the people that he knew. His daughter, Mary Beatrice said that he got that name when he was a boy because he would try to cure sick chickens. He informed me that Estell was the masculine version of Estelle. I never heard any one call him Estell. Doc’s memory was always phenomenal even until the last time that I saw him before he died, a few months shy of the century mark. He remembered the names any relative that he had known and who they married and their children names. He even knew much about his wife’s family, some of whom he had never met. I sat down with him with a tape recorder and used his information to begin my quest.
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| Estell Doc Baucom |
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| Bennie Eliza Hall Baucom (L) |
When Doc was born in 1887 his parents lived at Baucom , TN
He said that it was so steep that when he and the other children were playing upon the side of the hill his mother would call them to come in by shouting up the chimney. When I saw where it was I could almost believe his story. He said that his grandmother Matilda Lambert had died atBaucom , TN Archer , TN.
Doc said that during this move he saw his first train locomotive with a red smokestack just a pouring out heavy black smoke. He thought that his uncle Wesley had helped them make the move but he returned toBaucom , TN.
He said that it was so steep that when he and the other children were playing upon the side of the hill his mother would call them to come in by shouting up the chimney. When I saw where it was I could almost believe his story. He said that his grandmother Matilda Lambert had died at
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| Archer, TN. AKA "Spring Place" |
Doc said that during this move he saw his first train locomotive with a red smokestack just a pouring out heavy black smoke. He thought that his uncle Wesley had helped them make the move but he returned to
Doc’s parents rented at various locations near Archer (aka Spring Place) and share cropped. I do not know if he had any other trade experience. Meanwhile his grandparents, John and Nancy were living in the same household with their son John Jefferson Baucom and his wife Cinthia Holden and family in a house that still stands today, near Archer. The reason for calling it Spring Place was that cool water flowed from a spring nearby and they had made a storage structure there that kept the milk and other food from spoiling so fast. It was their refrigerator.
I assumed that Doc attended school for a while, but his dad hired him out to help share crop on “old Doc Murray’s farm at times. This was his life in Archer from the age of about 5 until he was 14 or 15. About 1902/3 there crops were so poor that they could not make a living. So Charles and Mettie and children all left Archer to go to Huntsville , AL
The industrial revolution had started many years earlier but my Baucom line was just now coming onboard. Charles, and most of his children took jobs in the mill. Age was not a barrier at that time. Since the younger children were not tall enough to reach the looms as needed to operate them, they stood on empty coke cases. Doc said that when he started working there he was a teenager, that had learned mechanical skills well enough to be trained to be a loom fixer, when they broke or had a problem. Loom fixers sat around until a problem arose and they made more money than the operators.
The industrial revolution had started many years earlier but my Baucom line was just now coming onboard. Charles, and most of his children took jobs in the mill. Age was not a barrier at that time. Since the younger children were not tall enough to reach the looms as needed to operate them, they stood on empty coke cases. Doc said that when he started working there he was a teenager, that had learned mechanical skills well enough to be trained to be a loom fixer, when they broke or had a problem. Loom fixers sat around until a problem arose and they made more money than the operators.
I think he said that his uncle Matthew and wife Belle also went to Huntsville to work in the mills. Matthew and Belle had come to Archer from Baucom when the others migrated as had Nancy ’s younger brother Miles Berry Crick. Miles had been a part time farmer and a Baptist preacher. Charles and family worked through the winter and when spring came the lure of Tennessee pulled them back to Archer to try share cropping again. This year it was no better than the previous year so in the fall they loaded up all their belongings and children onto Berry Crick’s wagon and he moved them to Huntsville in a blinding rain storm. Berry returned to Archer.
As many children as could possibly work joined Charles to work in the mill. Doc returned to his old job as loom fixer. And life became more stable for everyone, but it was long tedious work.
About 1903/4 a Mrs. Mary Hall came to Huntsville an opened a boarding house near where the Charles Baucoms were living. She was a widow with children who had been living on a small farm in Huntland , TN , 32 miles, north - north east of Huntsville . Her crops also had failed.
Mary’s oldest child was Bennie Eliza Hall who married Estell Baucom on March 1, 1905 in Huntsville , AL. He was 18 and she was 17. He and his brothers purchased a Model “T” Ford and operated it as a taxi during the summer to take people arriving by train in Huntsville to the top on Monte Sano Mountain
When searching the Tennessee 1910 census, I discovered by accident that sometime after Comer was born in 1908 in Huntsville before 19 April 1910, Doc, Bennie, my dad James and his brother Comer went to the town of Bemis in Madison Co, TN, from Madison Co., AL where Huntsville is located. The four of them are listed in the 1910 census and indexed at HQ under Estell Bancom, and the boys are listed as being born in Tennessee but from I have been told the were born in Huntsville.
And by the way, Doc’s occupation was a loom fixer in the mill at Bemis. As far as I know they were in Bemis until some time before Jesse was born in April of 1913 inHuntsville . There was a son, Ben Lee, born to Doc and Bennie in December of 1910 but I have no evidence as to where he was born but it was most probably at Bemis. After Jesse was born in 1913 at Huntsville ,Bea in 1915, Katherine in in1917, Lois in 1919 and Margie in 1921 were born in Huntsville . Finally, Charles was born in 1923 in Birmingham , AL as was Ruby in 1925 and Garland in 1927. Doc never mentioned the Bemis part of his life.
And by the way, Doc’s occupation was a loom fixer in the mill at Bemis. As far as I know they were in Bemis until some time before Jesse was born in April of 1913 in
Uncle Jesse told me that when Doc and his family came to Birmingham from Huntsville by train the family rode the street car to where Bennie’s mother, Mary Hall was living in Birmingham having left Huntsville ahead of Doc and Bennie. They stayed with her until they rented their own place. Once again Doc found employment as a loom mechanic in the local cotton mills and much later had a popcorn stand near where he lived in Eastlake , and at the Greyhound Bus Depot at Birmingham , AL
After Bennie died in 1950 at the age of 62, Doc married a widow named Lessie Carlton.
When she died he lived alone until he was past 90 before going into a nursing home where he died at 99 years, 4 months and 16 days.
Lessie Downs Carlton Baucom - 2nd wife of Estelle "Doc" Baucom and mother of Milo's Hamburger's founder, Milo Carlton.
When she died he lived alone until he was past 90 before going into a nursing home where he died at 99 years, 4 months and 16 days.
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| Doc Baucom |
Here are some personal observations made by me and others in his family. My dad was not overly fond of his father because Doc made Comer and him drop out of school early to work and help support the family. Doc would disappear for several days to go gambling and whatever, then would come home broke and sometimes beaten up. Dad and several of his siblings have stated that sometimes their family would have starved had it not been for Bennie’s brother Tom Hall. He often bought groceries for them.
I was present at one incident that trapped Doc in one of his biggest lies. Dad, Doc, his second wife, Lessie and I were at the cemetery inBirmingham viewing gravesites of Bennie and other members of the family buried there. Lessie turned to my dad and asked, “how come you never helped out your father in his time of need, like her family did for her.” Doc had told her that he received very little help from his children. During the depression after my dad got a job on the WPA program, he mailed home a few dollars each month because he said his siblings need the money for food. I know this is true because when I was 6 years old I went to the post office, bought a money order and placed it in an addressed envelope to Bennie and mailed it. Later dad’s sister Katherine sent money to him while living in Colorado . Another sister, Lois told me she was asked by Lessie how come she never helped Doc with his large family like his son Charles did. She and her husband Howard had been sending him money for years. She said that she cried all night after that occurred. And finally, what really got my dad was that he and my stepmother, Edith, had sent Doc a check to help purchase a headstone for Bennie’s grave. Doc had acknowledged none of this financial aid from his children.
I was present at one incident that trapped Doc in one of his biggest lies. Dad, Doc, his second wife, Lessie and I were at the cemetery in
The above paragraph was not written to be critical of Doc, but he would never be named father of the year. Some people have said that Doc played the guitar and sang, an event that I never witnessed. While in the nursing home he would create puzzles for others to solve because he thought that it was too easy solving crossword puzzles. I have always liked to solve any kind of puzzle, if it was challenging enough. Perhaps that is one of the reasons I got so interested in my genealogy, since there is no end to the puzzle. Each time an ancestor is identified the two parents of that person become two more people to search for.
Doc was very interested in my genealogy findings. He maintained some contact with some of his cousins inTennessee for years. I felt that he was a fairly intelligent person who knew his way around and I wish that I had been given the chance to be around Bennie and him when I was a child. Being the eldest of their many grandchildren did make me the recipient of birthday cards early in my life, before many other grandchildren were born. After that no more cards were received. This concludes my research for the ancestors of Estell Lee, (Doc) Baucom. Their descendants are being continuously added to my data base but I will not circulate that information publicly because most of them are alive and to do so would violate their privacy. It is available to any of my kin for their own use.
Doc was very interested in my genealogy findings. He maintained some contact with some of his cousins in
I have some information on the siblings and their descendants of Charles [016] in my data base. I would like to include more if it is available. My email is jim0400ATaol.com
Jim Baucom's research on his great grandmother, Mettie Lambert
CHARLES E, BAUCOM
[008] METTIE
LAMBERT [009]
b. SEP 1858 Baucom, Coffee Co., TN 11 JUN 1869 Baucom, Coffee Co. ,
TN
d. 16 JAN 1924 Huntsville , AL 31
DEC 1945 Huntsville , AL
m. 1884 Coffee Co., TN
The information presented here on this couple, my great
grandparents, came mainly from their son, Estell (Doc) Baucom. Charles Baucom
ancestry has been described in the previous pages so now it is time for his
wife and her ancestors to be detailed. Doc said that his mother was Mettie
Lambert whose father was James Lambert, for whom my father was named. He
further stated that Mettie’s mother was The Widow Johnson who had married James
Lambert after her husband was killed in the Civil War. Furthermore, James
Lambert first wife had recently died so when they married they brought their
children from their earlier marriage with them. Doc did not know Widow
Johnson’s first name, nor her maiden name. They were found in the Coffee Co.,
census:
1870 1880
James Lambert 55
Farmer b. VA James Lambert 61 VA VA VA
Matilda “ 40 TN Matilda “ 40 TN TN TN
Robert Johnston 7 TN Leeroy “ 15 TN VA TN
William “ 18 TN Martha “ 14 TN VA TN
Sis “ 14 TN William “ 9 TN
VA TN
Lee Lambert 5 TN
Arametta “ 3 TN
One observation to be made is how different the
information is between the 1870 and 1880 census. James has aged 6 years,
Matilda’s age unchanged. The Johnston
children are gone, the spelling of Arametta’s name is changed to Martha and
there is a new son, Willam, since 1870 who is 9, so he did not exist in the
1870 census.
Next, I checked the 1860 Coffee Co. census I found S; B.
Johnson, his wife Matilda and children Hugh
10, William 7, and Lucretia 2. After
that the 1850 Bedford Co., TN census provided a clue as to Matilda Johnson’s
maiden name.
Listing 102
Johnson Nancy 60
SC
Delila 34
TN
Listing 103
Mongomery H.T. 42 NC
Methodist Minister ( Hugh, on
some marriage records)
Lucretia 47
VA
Pheba
H. 20
TN
Listing 104
Johnson Samuel 22
TN
Matilda
F 18
TN (No children)
So two of Matilda Johnson’s children had the same first
names as the couple next door and that leads to a high probability that Matilda
was the daughter of Hugh and Lucretia Montgomery. But it became a fact when I obtained a copy
of Hugh’s will in Coffee Co. at the court house. He had named as his heirs
daughter’s Phoebe and Matilda and his second wife Cassa.
Still later I discovered a web site www.justcallbob.com belonging to a man
in St. Louis
whose ancestors included Phoebe Montgomery, Matilda’s sister. This is what I
received from him:
Name Hugh Tayton Montgomery Rev
Birth abt 1808, North
Carolina
Death abt 1887
Burial New Hope Ch. Cem. Fairfield Bedford, Co.
MILI Christen: "Descendants of Jessee Shelton "
Misc. Notes
Rev. Montgomery and Lucretia Howard (widow of John Gregory)
lived in Bedford Co., Tn., in 1850 in the 3 Civil District; Beech Grove, Coffee
Co., in 1860 and 1870. and in 2 Civil District Bedford
Co. , Tn., in 1880 and 1900. He married 2nd
Effie Jane Walls, Born May 1853. 2 Children by first wife and 2 children by 2nd
wife. Montgomery
was ordained as a Minister July 4, 1850. The parents of Hugh T. Montgomery had
not been documented at this time, however, it is believed that he was the son
of John Montgomery, b ca 1781 in Va. ,
who lived next door to him in 1850 in Civil District 1, Bedford Co., Tn., and
his wife Matilda, b N.C.. H.T. lived in Bedford Co. until after 1870 then moved
to Coffee Co., 3 Civil District by 1880. (SCS note: this info was taken from
two different sections from the same soure. It appears to give conflicting
statements as to where he lived.) On Dec 12, 1829 Hugh T. and Lucretia
Montgomery of Rutherford Co, rec'd from Alexander P. Richmond, administratior,
Deed, (Book BB Pg 168, Bedford Co., Tn.) "....Lucretia H. Montgomery, the
late wife of John Gregory, deceased, said land being in Bedford Co....34 acres...$100..." This
was her dower from John Gregory and included her 1/3 share of his
estate...indicating that she may have had 2 children by Gregory, but not stated
as such. In deed book M, pg 265, John Gregory rec'd Deed from Archibald Chaffen
on July 10, 1820, for 100 acres, $1200, for land in 2 civil district, Bedford
Co., located on West Wartrace fork of the Duck River Shelton " Cecil and Louise Shelton
Spouses
1 Lucretia Howard
Birth 15 Jun 1803
Children Phebia Howard (1830-1893)
With this additional information Mettie’s ancestor chart can
be made as shown on the next page.
Of interest in passing is that on Mettie’s headstone her
birth date is June 11, 1869 yet she was 3 years old when the 1870 census was
taken. My dad, and several of his brothers said that Mettie was a mean woman
and put others before her grandchildren and husband. My dad told me that his
grandfather, Charles [008] would re-sole his shoes with leather purchased with
his tobacco money because if Mettie would not allow him to buy anything for the
grandchildren. And dad and his brother Jesse told me that on Sunday when the
preacher came for dinner, with his family the grandchildren had to wait outside
until they were finished eating and the got anything that was left over. Dad’s
sister Bea said that Charles would bring popcorn to the house for the children.
From the few pictures I have seen of Charles and Mettie she appears to be a
head taller than him. I would guess that he was just over 5 feet tall.
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| Charles Emerson Baucom & Mettie Lambert Baucom |
From what I can tell Charles Baucom was a share cropper and a mill worker and it appears tht he never owned any property. They lived in mill housing until he retired, the he and Mettie moved in with their only daughter Lulu Baucom Stolz. He died in 1924, 67 years of age and Mettie died December 31, 1945 which is ironic since my dad, who disliked her so much died exactly 45 years later on December 31, 1970. There will be a bit more discussion on Charles and Mettie in Doc’s section which is next.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Why Jim Baucom concluded that the wife of Jacob Powell Crick was Susan Haley, the daughter of Barnabas Haley & Nancy Coursey
In which I submit an essay written and researched by my rocket scientist cousin, Jim Baucom.
"WHY I CONCLUDED THAT THE WIFE
OF JACOB POWELL CRICK WAS
SUSAN HALEY, THE DAUGHTER OF
BARNABAS HALEY & NANCY COURSEY"
REVIEW OF KNOWN INFORMATION
My grandfather, Estell (Doc) Baucom had known and lived
among his grandparents John Baucom and his wife Nancy D. Crick when he was a
small boy at Baucom , TN
in Coffee County Salt Lake City , UT and libraries and Court Houses at various
locations in AL and TN I was able to trace my line back to John Baucom and
Rachel Barker in Wake County ,
NC
Their son Cader Baucom and his wife Susannah Fowler came to Williamson County , TN
before 1820 and had as neighbors, the Crick Family from SC, That region today
is around the Eagleville, Versailles ,
townships and at that time very close to the Bedford County Line.
I found that Wilson Baucom, son of Cader, married Cressy
Crick in 1821and that their son John married Nancy Crick in 1844. While at the
Library at Murfreesboro , TN Henry
Horton State
Park
He filled me in on The Cricks from when they left England , came
to SC and then to TN. It was there that I learned that John William Crick Sr.
was the father of Christiana Crick (who married Wilson Baucom) and her brother
Jacob Powell Crick who married Susan Haley and it was their daughter Nancy
Crick who married her first cousin John Baucom. No one that I talked to at the
Crick gatherings knew anything about Susan Haley except her name. That was
approximately forty years ago.
And about mid May 2012, I stumbled onto some data that leads
me to be 90% sure that I know who were the parents of Susan Haley. I was
reviewing page 215 of the 1850 RU Co. Census for Christiana (Crick) Baucom to
see about when he husband Wilson might have died. Her Youngest child Martha D.
was 2 so he probably died after 1847 and before the census. I usually look on
the page before and the page after to see if there might be someone of interest
to me.
Christiana’s son Mark was on the previous page but I already
had his data. But on page 216 was Barnabas Haley in a household full of
Courseys of all ages. It was easy to find the probable relationship of this
group. Charles Coursey m Susan Haley about1803 in VA. This Susan Haley’s
brother was Barnabas Haley who had married Nancy Coursey about the same time.
Census Records show Barnabas in Bedford Co, TN in 1820 with 2 daughters in the
10-16 age bracket.
The following shows the census records for the people
involved.
1850 RUTHERFORD CO., TN CENSUS, as copied
Page 242 Versailles
Household
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Gender
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Age
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Birthplace
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John Buncom
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M
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29
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F
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21
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M
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3
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F
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1
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Page 242 not all children shown. Nancy
Household
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Gender
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Age
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Birthplace
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Jacob P Crick
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F
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43
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M
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16
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M
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16
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F
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9
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Page 214 May Dst another son of Wilson and
Christiana.. Both he and John were wheelwrights
Household
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Gender
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Age
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Birthplace
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Mark Baucom
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M
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22
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F
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18
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Page 215 Wilson probably died
1848-1850
Household
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Gender
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Age
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Birthplace
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Christiana Bancom
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F
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45
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M
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17
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M
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12
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M
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10
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M
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7
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M
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6
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F
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2
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Page 215-216 This is the newly discovered data
Household
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Gender
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Age
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Birthplace
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M
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70
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F
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66
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F
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42
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F
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22
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M
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17
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Susan
Corsey (my notes, grandmother)
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F
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93
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Nancy
Haley (mother)
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F
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73
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Barnabas Haley (father)
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M
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68
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These last 3 are the
parents and grandmother of Susan Haley Crick who named her daughter Nancy..
Logic and location stand out for the reason for coming to
the conclusion that SUSAN HALEY is the daughter of Barnabas and Nancy.
First is the naming pattern of using Susan and Nancy as
dominating female names that repeat over and over. The second reason is that
proximity of Christiana (Crick) Baucom, to Charles Coursey and the others in
the 1850 RU Co. TN census on pages 215-6. This region was in Williamson Co. TN
until about 1845.
Barnabas and Nancy had lived just across the county line in
Bedford Co., TN until the moved in with their siblings between 1840 and
1850. And SUSAN HALEY was after all the
sister in law to the widow Christiana (Crick) Baucom as Wilson Baucom died
about 1849. The following article tells of how
people did not move, but the county lines did. And abt. 1845 where the Baucom,
Cricks and Coursey lived in Wm. Co. was placed in RU Co.
ROVER, TENNESSEE
Rover is a community located in
the North West Bedford County
and adjacent to Rutherford County , it has had close connection with some of the
communities in that county, closer than with some Bedford County Versailles
to the northeast were in Williamson
County Bedford
County were included in the Williamson County
Where did the Baucom name come from? Here's one possibility.
"Where did the Scottish Baucom family come from? What is the Scottish Baucom family crest and coat of arms? When did the Baucom family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Baucom family history?
The Baucom family name was first used by descendants of the Pictish people of ancient Scotland. It is a name for someone who lived in Balcomie, in the parish of Crail, in the county of Fifeshire." http://www.houseofnames.com/baucom-family-crest
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=22331
The Baucom family name was first used by descendants of the Pictish people of ancient Scotland. It is a name for someone who lived in Balcomie, in the parish of Crail, in the county of Fifeshire." http://www.houseofnames.com/baucom-family-crest
In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Balcomie like this:
Balcomie, an ancient castle, a farm-house now, in Crail parish, Fife, 1 mile W of Fifeness, and 1¾ NNE of Crail. It belonged in 1375 to a John de Balcomie; passed in the time of James IV. to the Learmonths, in 1705 to Sir William Hope, and afterwards to successively Scott of Scotstarvet and the Earl of Kellie. In June 1538 it entertained Mary of Guise on her landing at Fifeness to be married to James V. Originally an edifice of great size and splendour, it was reduced by the Earl of Kellie to only one wing, but it still is of considerable size, and serves as a landmark to mariners. A small cave near is falsely alleged to have been the scene of the beheading of Constantin, King of the Picts (863-77), by Northmen; and a group of islets, ¾ mile NW of Fifeness, is called Balcomie Brigs. See part ii. of Thos Rodger's Kingdom of Fife (Edinb., n. d.).
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=22331
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