Tombstone Tuesday - Walter and Susie Brown

A couple years ago I was doing some research for a client at Golden Hill Cemetery in Montgomery County, Clarksville, Tennessee. This is one of the many cemeteries that are in despair and in need of some love and attention. I took many photographs of some the tombstones and thought I would include some of them in my "Tombstone Tuesday" postings. 

WALTER               SUSIE A.

BROWN               BROWN

                                                1876-1926               1876-

[1]1910 United States Federal Census from Montgomery County in the state of Tennessee, address listed  is Post Royal Road, Louis Wimberly is head of household, married, black, male, was born abt. 1850 in Tennessee, fathers birth place was Virginia and mothers Tennessee. It shows is occupation as Farmer on General Farm, owns his home, farm, he is able to read and write, has been married for 30 years, he was 60 years of age. Dora Wimberly wife to head of household, married, black, female, was born abt. 1860 in Tennessee and both parents were born in Tennessee. No occupation is listed, she was able to read and write, married for 30 years, gave birth to 10 children and 8 are living, she was 50 years of age. Susana Wimberly daughter to head of household, single, black, female, was born abt. 1882 in Tennessee and both parents born in Tennessee. Her occupation is teacher in public school, she was able to read and write, she was 28 years of age. Emmett Wimberly son to head of household, single, black, male, was born abt. 1892 in Tennessee and both parents were born in Tennessee. No occupation listed, attended school and was able to read and write, he was 18 years of age. Patty Wimberly daughter to head of household, single, black, female, was born abt. 1895 in Tennessee and both parents were born in Tennessee. No occupation listed, attended school and was able to read and write, she was 15 years of age. Fennie Wimberly daughter to head of household, single, black, female, was born abt. 1898 in Tennessee and both parents were born in Tennessee. No occupation listed, attended school and was able to read and write, she was 12 years of age. Mamie Wimberly daughter to head of household, single, black, female, born abt. 1901 in Tennessee and both parents born in Tennessee. Attended school, she was 9 years of age.

[2]1920 United States Federal Census from Montgomery County, Clarksville in the state of Tennessee, address listed is 113 St. John Street, Walter Brown listed as head of household, married, black, male, was born abt. 1880 in Alabama and both of his parents were born in Alabama. It shows his occupation was listed as blacksmith, owns a shop and house, was able to read and write, he was 40 years of age. Susanna Brown wife to head of household, married, black, female, born abt. 1880 in Tennessee, both parents born in Tennessee. Her occupation is list as supervisor at a school, she was able to read and write, she was 40 years of age.

 

[3]1930 United States Federal Census from Montgomery County, Clarksville in the state of Tennessee, address listed is 113 St. John Street, Susie Brown is listed as head of household, widowed, negro, female, born abt. 1880 in Tennessee, both parents born in Tennessee. The value of the home she owned was as $3,000, she was 32 years of age when she was first married; she was able to read and write, she didn’t attend school, her occupation was listed as Supervisor in the Colored Public Schools, and she was 50 years of age. Pattie Wimberley is sister to head of household, single, Negro, female, born abt. 1895 in Tennessee, both parents born in Tennessee. She is able to read and write she has attended school, no occupation listed; she was 35 years of age.

[4]Walter Brown, male, colored, married, birth was in 1877 born in Alabama, and his death was May 8, 1926 in Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee. Additional information shows he was a blacksmith,   49 years of age at time of death, he died of TB. Date of burial shows 10 May 1926,  place of burial is Golden Hill Cemetery in Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee. Informant was Susie Brown at 113 Saint John Street, Clarksville, Tennessee.

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[1]1910 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 11 February 2016) Provo, UT, USA; Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006. Civil District 6, Montgomery, Tennessee; Roll: T624-1513; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0122, FHL microfilm: 1375526    

[2] 1920 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 11 February 2016) Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc. 2010. Clarksville Ward 9, Montgomery, Tennessee; Roll: T625_1756; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 157; Image 832.

[3] 1930 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 11 February 2016) Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Clarksville, Montgomery, Tennessee; Roll: 2265; Page:9B; Enumeration District: 0022; Image: 776.0, FHL microfilm.

[4] Tennessee, Death and Burials Index, 1874-1955 Ancestry.com.(http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 11 February 2016) Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.  

Saturday Spotting - Alabama History

Published in September of 1922 in the Montgomery Advisor out of Montgomery, AL

CONSERVING OUR HISTORY

     It took Alabama about a hundred years to show any special interest in its own history, but of late its people have been concerned over the preservation and teaching of that history. This modern movement for marking historic sites and stimulating in various ways the study of Alabama history was led by Dr. Thomas M. Owen and his work as the head of the Department of History and is being carried on by that department.

     It is now being fostered by the Centennial Commission of which Governor Kilby is chairman and Mrs. Thomas M. Owen now head of the Department of History, is secretary.

     The unveiling exercises attendant upon the setting up of a boulder, with a suitable inscription at St. Stephens, is one of a number of series of historic occasions of that character. Boulders or monuments have been erected at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff on the Alabama river, marking the rite of the first settlement in Alabama, a site which preceded but was merged into the establishment of the city of Mobile. Then a monument was erected at Old Fort Toulouse, nine miles from Montgomery at the junction of the Alabama and Coosa rivers, designating the site occupied by a garrison from 1715 to 1760 by the French, when it was taken over by the English. This is a point of significant importance in the State’s history, reminding us that Alabama was once colonial territory, its fate decided by a battle between French and British armies on the plains of Abraham, overlooked by the walls of Quebec.

     Into the same fort, dismantled even on this day, Andrew Jackson marched his victorious riflemen after the battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814. There he summoned the Creek chiefs and forced them to sign a treaty which gave most, but not all, the lands of the Indians to the white settlers.

     Old Hickory was frankly an “imperialist” and untroubled by modern theories of the consent of the governed and the rights of small nations. He held to the crude practice followed by soldiers of every age, that when your enemy fought you and tried to kill you that he owed a penalty if he did not succeed.  Moreover, the white settlers wanted to come in and cultivate the unused lands that were occupied by the Indians.

     The Centennial Commission in commemorating events which fell in and around centenary of Alabama’s birthday put up last year an inscribed boulder to mark the site of the first capitol building at Cahaba. St. Stephens was never the capital after the government of the State was organized. It was the capital of the Territory of Alabama. All these events have revived interest and stimulated study of Alabama history and all help to conserve the history of the State. 

Saturday Spotting - Plants and History

Published 1903 in the month of January in the Montgomery Advisor out of Montgomery, AL

PLANTS THAT MADE HISTORY

Sugar, Tobacco and Cotton Have all Influenced History

     Rather more than sixty years ago, says Stray Stories, a tiny fungus – itself a plant – appeared in Ireland and fastened itself on the potato. Fostered by a cheerless summer, the fungus spread until the whole potato crop, the mainstay of the Irish, was ruined and the resulting famine of 1845 stands out in history as a time of overwhelming trouble.

     Its relief occupied the whole attention of the British ministry and when the famine was over a quarter of the whole population lay slain by the fungus.

     And the potato disease acted in two distinct ways on history. It had an immediate effect in helping the repeal of the corn laws and throwing the country open to free trade.

     In the second place, it had a great and unforeseen effect on another continent, for there then started a stream of emigrants across the Atlantic which has steadily continued.

   At the beginning of the seventeenth century the English and Dutch were rivals for the possession of a certain little island, Amboyna, in the East Indies, because of the cloves that grew upon it. At this date the production of cloves was extremely limited and finally the Dutch massacred a small English colony established there. This aroused the bitter feeling in England against the Dutch and, as a great historian tells us, furnished a popular way for two years.

     A sudden passion for tulips turned the heads of the usually placid Dutchmen in the seventeenth century, and the tulipomania is a well recognized event in Dutch domestic history.

     It is a time when the desire to possess an uncommon tulip was sufficient to drive men to meet extreme lengths of speculation, to cause the ruin of noble houses and to carry whole families to misery. In fact, so acute did the rage become that the Dutch Government was obliged to step in with a heavy hand and by stringent measures allay this fever of the tulip.

     The tea plant was the “last straw” which brought about the independence of the United States, as we all know.

     The poppy involved England in the opium war with China at the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria. Though the war was an unjust one, yet it did ultimate good in opening up China to foreign influence and trade.

     Sugar, cotton and tobacco have all influenced history, for these three plants were particularly responsible for the slave trade of modern times.