Archibald Reagh

Archibald was likely born during the 1720s. He, by name of Archibald Jr, purchased Robert Reagh's 118 acres along Hays Creek by deed of 2 May 1758. His name appears several times in the Chaulkley Volumes as petitioner (1753), witness, administrator of estates, appraiser, collector for the Vestry (State Church) etc. According to various deed records he acquired and sold several tracts of land in Rockbridge, Augusta, Nelson and Amherst Counties. He sold the 300 acre home farm on Hays Creek in Rockbridge to John Rice, husband of daughter Isabella, by deed of 2 Jul 1783. Archibald likely moved to Augusta Co by 1784 where he resided when deeding 74 acres in Rockbridge to heirs of David Wilson. On 1788 Augusta Co Tax list. By 1800 he was on the tax list in Amherst Co. his will, dated 25 Sep 1803, was entered for probate on 15 Oct 1804 in Amherst. It named his wife, Jean, and daughter Mary -- then five sons named below - then four daughters - then children of Isabella. One guardian of minor children (unnamed) was Andrew McCauslin. In 1811 John McCausland, Bath Co, devised to daughter Jane (Jean) Rhea and to her sons: John, Robert, and Andrew. The foregoing suggests that Jean McCausland was a second wife, being married about 1775. Children may not be listed in order of birth as reckoned by writer.

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Notes found in Lauderdale Family Bible

William Lauderdale came to Lincoln co.
some time prior to 1806 from Hamilton Co.
in East Tenn. and settled near Fayetteville
on Elk River on what is known as the
Tillman farm. He had a ferry on the river
and the ford was known as Lauderdale ford.
He married Bettie Willis of the same
community and their children were
William, Samuel, Lewis, and Eliza.
William moved to Missouri in early
manhood and no further knowledge is
known of him. Samuel who helped with the
ferry when William Leigh, changed to Lay
as he didn't care for so many letters in it,
came to Lincoln Co. from near Rome, Ga. He had
some fine fat cattle that Samuel wanted
and one of the daughters was the loveliest girl
he had ever seen. He said he intended to
marry her and did. I don't know about the
cattle. Wm Lay settled in the same
neighborhood and the family burial plot
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is below Harms in the side of a hill now
known as DeFord hill.

Samuel Lauderdale and Elizabeth had one
son William Thomas who married Margaret Fullerton. Sarah Jane oldest daughter married Andrew Wright. Their children were Sue who died young.
Sarah "Sallie" Thomas who married James H. McDaniel,
their children were Mattie Sue (Mrs. Chas. Luker)
one dau. Roberta (Eming)
Charles Carlton and James Harold.
Maggie married P. G. Hamilton
Jennie married John A. Barnes, their children
Wallace-Minnie, Albert, Stella, Edith, and Joe.
Mary Lauderdale married Charles Wilson.
Their children Charles Jr. Beulah and Gussie.
Beulah married William Woodard and had
two sons, Frank and Albert.
Gussie married Tom Wallace and had one
son Nathaniel.
Charles married Agnes Whitaker of Mulberry
and had one son Alvin.
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Eliza Lauderdale married Barnet McWhorter
all that family are dead.
The William Lauderdale who married
Betty Willis had a brother James and
sister Agnes in East Tenn.
(Great grandfather)
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Margaret Lauderdale married William Turley
and had one son William Lay Turley.
He married Lilly Poindexter Gleghorn and
they had three sons, George, William, and
Lawrence.
Lewis Lauderdale brother of Samuel
married Polly Lay, sister of Elizabeth Lay
who came from Oglethorpe Co. Ga.
Their children were John William
who first married Anne Turley, (sister of William)
who died and he then married Willie Branson.
They had five children Sarah Martin,
Lewis, Robert, Annie, and James William.
Sarah Martin - Roy G. Swindell and had
three sons James William, Roy Gardner
and John Lauderdale. Lewis died in infancy.
Robert married Ruth Cashion of Knoxville
they had two children, Annie Martin
and Robert Arnis Jr. Arnie never married,
James William (Bill) married Bess Swafford
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of Pikeville, Tenn., in Sequatchie Valley.
?
Samuel Lauderdale married a Miss Patterson
and had one childe Mary Ann who married
a Mr. Burton.
Fannie Lauderdale married William McDaniel
and their children are Coleman, Mollie,
Ellis, John and Lucy. Coleman never married.
Mollie married Hugh Eddins and had four
children, Lucile, Ruth, McDaniel and
Mildred. Lucille and McDaniel are dead.
Hugh and Mollie are dead.
Ellis married Will Clark and had six
children. Two died in infancy Laura McDaniel,
Willa and Rachel.
John married Alice Waite, they had four
children, Charles, Joe, Evelyn and Edith.
Lucy married Robert Barnie, they have three
sons, Gordon, Lewis and Ray moved.

Copied handwritten notes on folded page in family Bible.

William T. Lauderdale

William T. Lauderdale was born near Fayetteville, Tennessee, April 29,1829, and spent his entire life in this locality, save when he was a member of Forrest's Battery. He united with Cave Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, under the ministry of Rev. J. B. Tigert about 1885, afterward transferring to Fayetteville. He was industrious, frugal, peace-loving, unassuming, pure, patient in suffering and a friend to the needy. In his death, which occurred February 7, 1900, the church lost an excellent member, and the community one of its best citizens. His wife and daughter survive him.l To them he left a sufficiency of property and the better heritage of the memory of his affection and devotion as a husband and father.
J. R. LAMB, Pastor

From a clipping in the Lauderdale Family Bible

Edmund Winchester Rucker

We found the photo below in a trunk of papers from Adele Wynne that included newspaper clippings from the early 1900's listing members of Forrest's Cavalry from Lincoln County, Tennessee, but we could not identify him after trying cross reference it with the newspaper clippings. Today, quite by accident, we learned that the clippings and the photo are unrelated.

While visiting Cragfont, the home of James Winchester, we were surprised to see the same photo hanging on the wall there. The guide identified the man as Edmund Winchester Rucker, and some research on that name easily confirmed it. General Rucker was the grandson of James Winchester, and a hero of the South in the Civil War. He apparently lost his arm in the Battle of Nashville, after being injured and captured while leading a brigade under General John Hood during his invasion of Tennessee. Yankee doctors removed the arm which had been badly injured in the fighting. Though he was never formally commissioned General, he is rerred to as a Brigadier General because of his command of multiple brigades.

Edmund Winchester Rucker would have been Adele Wynne's first cousin, once removed. Rucker's mother Louisa, and Adele Wynne's grandmother Almira, were sisters. Rucker was four years older than his first cousin, Andrew Jackson Wynne, Adele's father. Both had grown up in middle Tennessee, about 35 miles apart -- Rucker in Murfreesboro and AJ Wynne in Castalian Springs. Both men settled in Alabama after the war -- Rucker in Birmingham and AJ Wynne 100 miles southwest in Dayton. It is very likely that Adele Wynne knew Rucker, and probably knew him well, which would explain why her papers would have included the photo.

For more on Edmund Winchester Rucker, see this article about the General Edmund Winchester Rucker Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Enterprise, Alabama.

William M. McCready

W. M. McCREADY, Superintendent of Operations, is known to everybody and generally called just "Bill." The most complete knowledge of the plant and its many operations known to any human being lies locked up under his thin blonde locks and behind those clear blue eyes. What he doesn't know about the works has yet to be found out.

Born at McCready's Gap, three miles up the river from the plant. He began with the company as a water boy when work was first started in 1894. It is said that not a brick was laid or a joint of pipe connected that he didn't see it and that no brick has ever been removed or pipe disconnected that he didn't know what became of it.

When the plant was put into operation "Bill" went to work first on the lime kilns, and then in the vat house, first on one job and then on another, vat man, mud stiller, still man, tower man and through the whole circle of "the wet side." When a vacancy occurred in the place of shift foreman, "Bill" got the job, then he became assistant superintendent of operations, and later superintendent. He knows the plant from the ground up as no other man ever did. He has worked at almost every job in it and is past master of them all.

Some of the biggest improvements in the works have resulted from Bill's suggestions and experiments. if you ask him about them he will say his men worked them out, but that is Bill's way -- to always give the other fellow credit.

An incident characteristic of his modesty occurred some months ago when after a moment's steady aim, from the side of the plant he killed a wood chuck coming down the hill across the river. Those who saw the shot marvelled at the feat and boasted of the distance between "Bill" and his mark. Some estimated it at five hundred feet, several placed it at four hundred and all agreed it was no less than three hundred. Finally they put it up to Bill and asked him how far it was. "Oh," he said casually, "about a hundred feet, I guess."

A natural mechanic, a close observer, always trying to learn, Bill is a true example of what ability backed by willingness can amount to. More bashful and modest than most girls we know, he doesn't talk -- he gets results. he knows his men, he likes them, and they like him. his long legs carry a competent man around. We wish there more Bill McCreadys in the world.

From The Alkalite.

A Letter from Adele Wynne Barry to Joe (Wynne)

Ensley Ala.

3 . 11 . 1912

My dear Joe,

Hall handed me your letter tonight to show you how very much it interests me, I am replying immediately. Am always glad to hear from you & your little family, enjoyed so much meeting them, on their visits to our old home at Dayton.
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For years I have been grieving over "lost opportunities" in many ways, or am still worrying. In my younger days (was 69 a few days ago) there was a Bible at home, she ______ of long ago with the family record, and it amused me wonderfully then, the strange mix up of F's & T's.

Your question I think I can answer. Our grandfather's name was David Prowell, married Rachel [Morris] had four children two sons & two
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I have told you what I know of the Prowell name. Hall has an Encyclopedia Twentieth Century in Vol X, I find the name of the Prowell with whom you are in correspondence, famous educator, journalist - or many other titles, Gen. R. Prowell of [York] Penn. he seems only interested in living prominent people. It is up to you to fill the niche in our branch of the family.

Uncle James had so many children that I have not mentioned them: he has a son, [ ] filling the Sheriff's Office in his County, several years ago the same one I believe filled the same office. His daughters were
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superior women. Virginia married Dr. Ryland, she lives in the County and I wish you could get her address as she is the oldest child & lived with Grandmother Prowell who lived to a good old age, died after the Civil War, she could perhaps give you more authoritative information than anyone else. I mean by the County that her home is not in Columbus Miss but another place several miles away. You remember Rachel Lenoir the pretty girl who visited at your father's. She was the daughter of Eliza [ ] lives or did live in N.O. several years ago. Married
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Mr. Montgomery who owned stock yards there or dealt in cattle or stock generally.

While we are on family names, it may interest you to know something of the Pickerings. Pauline Askew, who married Mr. Winslow of Cleveland, Ohio, in order to be in the "social swim", had the ancestry traced, if I wanted it, she would give me the Washington address where by paying $5.00 I could secure the genealogy of the Pickerings. She said had been traced to the time of Wm the Conqueror 14th Century I believe. I am not good on dates.
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I suppose you remember in your classroom at West Point the Picture of Timothy Pickering & you thought, "you are my kinfolk" & it gave you fresh inspiration to reach the top of the ladder as he had done; in looking over Worlds Almanac, I find he was member of the Cabinet, three times Secretary of State, Postmaster Gen. & Sec of War. Look in McCauley's history of the Lies of the Queens of England & you will find Sir Timothy Pickering a suitor of Queen Elizabeth.

From family papers: a handwritten letter. Adele Wynne Barry is presumed to be the author based on references to "Hall", her son, and the discussion of the Prowells, her mother's family. Some pages may be missing -- there was no signature page -- and the pages shown may be owut of order as they were not numbered and did not follow logically along folds.

Obituary of Anna Belle Medearis

MRS. BELLE MEDEARIS HOLMAN, for twenty-seven years an active member and worker in the Russell Street Church of Christ, died at a Nashville hospital Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock. She had been a member of the Christian Church for thirty-nine years, joining the denomination in Fayetteville, Tenn., her birthplace, when she was 14 years old. In 1889 she was married to MR. W. F. HOLMAN, a real estate man, and moved to Nashville. She is survived by her mother, MRS. J. H. MEDEARIS, nine sisters and three brothers, one son and three daughters. Buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. (Nashville Banner)

The Shelbyville Gazette, September 28, 1916, as copied by the Chestnut Ridge Cousins.