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STICKLEY COLLECTION 1600-1946

Processed by: JBW

Archival Technical Services Accession Number: 1771 Date Completed: August 16, 1966 Location: VII-J-5-6; VII-K-4-6 Microfilm Accession Number: 1198

MICROFILMED

INTRODUCTION

These materials, primarily genealogical in nature, were collected and compiled by Nancy Elizabeth Jones (Mrs. Robert Houston) Stickley (1881-1962), genealogist and wife of an attorney and judge of Memphis, Tennessee. The collection was given to Tennessee State Library and Archives by her niece and heir, Florine Jones (Mrs. Harry) Hall, Sweetwater, Tennessee.

The materials in this collection measure 12.6 linear feet. There are no restrictions on the materials.

Single photocopies of unpublished writings in the Stickley Papers may be made for purposes of scholarly research.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection of Nancy Elizabeth Jones (Mrs. Robert Houston) Stickley, spanning approximately the period 1600-1946, and numbering approximately 8,700 items and 5 volumes, is composed primarily of genealogical data copied from various records. There are also account books, clippings, a diary (copy), indexes, invitations, letters, maps, a memoir (copy), notes, obituaries, a photograph of Robert E. Lee, a plat, portions of genealogical and historical periodicals, a receipt, scrapbooks, and sketches. Although the following are not original sources, much valuable information has been copied from them: cemetery records, census records, church records, court records, deeds, estate records, land grants, marriage records, military records, tax lists, and wills.

Genealogical data is given for the following families, among numerous others: Bogart, Doyle, Heironimous, Jansen (Johnson), Lincoln, Patterson, Powell, Range, Rapelje, Reneau, Sevier, Sims, Stickley, Tipton, Van Arsdale, Washington, Wilson, Wright, and Wyckoff.

There is data taken from records of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, with a large concentration of records from Somerset County, New Jersey; Greene, Jefferson, and Knox counties, Tennessee; and Frederick and Prince William counties in Virginia. Most of the records as a whole are from New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Much of the data from the New Jersey area concerns Dutch families. In the collection is also information on English lineages, German pioneers in Virginia, and family nationality origins.

Data has been taken from cemetery records of New York; Carter, Jefferson, Union, and Washington counties, Tennessee; and from records of the Baptist, Dutch Reformed, Episcopal, Society of Friends (Quaker), Lutheran, and Presbyterian churches.

Original documents include three account books which appear to be those of stores owned by Joseph Johnston (1809-1874), and James A. Haire (b. ca. 1784) in Coffee and Monroe counties, Tennessee. The book for the store in Coffee County is for 1824-1826, while the other book is undated. Johnston was an early pioneer and leading businessman of Monroe County. It would appear that he operated at least two business centers in the county from 1841 to 1848 ? one at Madisonville, the other at Mt. Vernon. From 1855 to 1859 the firm name was Johnston and Haire. James A. Haire, the father-in-law of Joseph Johnston, was quite prominent in the official life of Monroe County. Other original manuscripts include letters (1873; 1884), a plat (1839) of Middletown, Edgar County, Illinois, notes (1857-1874), and a receipt (1851).

Newspaper clippings include a large collection of the column "Dropped Stitches in Southern History" by Mary Brown Daniel (Mrs. John Trotwood) Moore, numerous clippings pertaining to the Hamilton and Shelby county areas in Tennessee, and to historic houses, etc., especially in the southern states and New York. There are two scrapbooks of clippings dealing with family names and heraldry.

The diary (1862-1863) of Zeboim Cartter Patten (1840-1925), published April 9, 1930, in the Chattanooga News (TN), begins at Camp Butler, Illinois, tells of his movements over Kentucky, describes the setting of Henry Clay's home near Lexington, Kentucky, tells of the area around Lexington and around Richmond, Kentucky, mentions

John Hunt Morgan's activities, and ends with comments about the burial of soldiers at Fort Donelson, Tennessee. (Patten's diaries in four volumes are also available on microfilm in the Microfilm Division.)

The memoir (1861-1869) of George Decature French (1834-1923), published in installments from April through December 1920, in the Midland Methodist, tells of experiences during the Battle of Puncheon Creek, Kentucky, of deserters during the War, of the days following the War, and of experiences connected with the Methodist Church. Reverend French, a Methodist minister and Presiding Elder of the Morristown (Tennessee) District, was the son-in-law of Bishop E.E. Hoss. Mention of Bishop Hoss and Dr. William E. Munsey is made in the memoir.

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1905 1909 1913 1915

1930s 1951 1962

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Nancy Elizabeth Jones (Mrs. Robert Houston) Stickley

April 3 ? Born in Monroe County, five miles southeast of Sweetwater, Tennessee; daughter of Capt. John Martin Jones, Co. C, 19th Tennessee and Co. E, 61st Tennessee, C.S.A., and Martha Jane Tipton, of Elizabethton, Tennessee

Graduated from Randolph-Macon Women's College at Lynchburg, Virginia with a major in history

Was an organizing member and secretary of the John C. Vaughn Chapter, No. 1244, U.D.C., Sweetwater, Tennessee (See Tennessee Division U.D.C. Records, Volume 19, p. 134); member of D.A.R. Chapter, Sweetwater

Furnished the data on the Jones and Tipton families for A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans by Hale and Merritt (See Vol. VIII, pp. 25932608)

Married Robert Houston Stickley, son of Vastine Stickley and Josephone Houston, of Madisonville, Tennessee. Moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where her husband practiced law and served as a judge. Compiled voluminous genealogical data through research in county records in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia

As a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, assisted in their program of microfilming unpublished manuscripts

Was engaged with Mrs. L.W. McCown of Johnson City, Tennessee, in the compilation and publication of the Washington County Lists of Taxables, 1778-1801 when she was stricken

December ? Died in Sweetwater, Tennessee; buried in the Stickley plot in the cemetery at Madisonville, Tennessee

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Martha Jane Tipton (Mrs. John M.) Jones

Martha Jane (Tipton) Jones, born August 31, 1846, and whose death occurred July 28, 1913, was a woman of the rarest intellectual attainments, one whose education was not closed with the completion of the curriculum offered by her home town schools at Elizabethton or that of the Synodical College at Rogersville, which she attended until the war broke out; ? truly, the World was her school, Travel her teacher, Nature her book, and God her friend. Born with a rare susceptibility to receive impressions from God's Works in their correct proportions and correlations, endowed with an alert and sagacious mind, a gigantic and unassailable memory, her aggressive thirst for knowledge sought alike the fields of nature, science, history and art, and through the mother of thirteen children, nine of whom she reared to maturity, she was ever abreast of the times, genuinely conversant upon government and political conditions at home and abroad, and more than superficially informed of the great advances in science, manufacture and art ? a strong-minded woman indeed but she herself never suspected how much.

Thirteen children were born to John M. Jones and his wife, Martha Tipton, none of whom are living (1913) to bless and honor the memory of their parents. They are as follows: Cora Lee, who died in infancy, Mollie Tipton, who died in infancy; William Albert, general manager of the Park Woolen Mills at Chattanooga; Samuel Tipton, president of the Bank of Sweetwater; John McClung, Jr., who is mayor and a manufacturer of Sweetwater; Ben Dickinson, president of the Eagle Flouring Mills; Kate Lenoir, who died in infancy; Oliver King who is a member of the Guthrie-Bradley & Jones Mercantile Firm in Sweetwater; Nancy Elizabeth, at home; Mamie Rachel, wife of W.D. Gilman, Jr., of Chattanooga; Myrtle, who died at the age of six years; and Sue Coffin, at home.

A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans By William Thomas Hale and Dixon L. Merritt Excerpt above from page 2597

DESCRIPTION OF SERIES

Container Numbers Series

(Boxes)

1-12

Genealogical data, by family name

13-17

Genealogical data, by state and county represented by data

18

Genealogical notes, taken from various books, periodicals, and libraries

19-23

Genealogical notes, taken from records: cemetery records, church records, court records, deeds, estate records, land grants, marriage records, military records, tax lists, and wills

24

Account books; application blanks

25-26

Clippings

27

Clippings; correspondence; and diary

28

Indexes; invitations; letters; lists; maps; memoir; obituaries;

photograph; and plat

29

Publications, selected portions from

30

Receipt; scrapbooks; and sketches

Map Drawer # 2

Family tree chart ? Coontz family (John Coontz, b 1706) ? Map ? South Carolina ? Chester County

CONTAINER LIST

Microfilm Container List Reel: 1. Box 1, folder 1 to Box 4, folder 10 2. Box 4, folder 11 to Box 11, folder 4 3. Box 11, folder 5 to Box 15, folder 9 4. Box 15, folder 10 to Box 21, folder 2 5. Box 21, folder 3 to Box 23, folder 17 6. Box 24, folder 1 to Box 26, folder 7 7. Box 26, folder 7 continued to Box 29, folder 2 8. Box 29, folder 2 continued to Box 29, folder 9 9. Box 29, folder 9 continued to Map ? Chester County, South Carolina

Microfilm Reel # 1 Box 1 Genealogical Data 1. Aids to the Researcher ? Addresses of Genealogical magazines 2. Aids to the Researcher ? County formations ? AL, KY, NJ, NC, PA, TN, VA, WV 3. Aids to the Researcher ? Miscellaneous notes 4. Baker family (Jacob Baker, d. 1787?) 5. Beadle family (Abraham Beadle, d. 1795) 6.-7. Black family (John Black, d. 1758)

Microfilm Reel # 1 Box 2 Genealogical Data 1.-5. Blackburn family 6. Blackburn family ? Military records 7. Blackburn family (Ambrose Blackburn) 8. Blackburn family (John Blackburn of Jefferson County, Tennessee) 9. Blackburn family (Richard Blackburn, 1706?-1757?) 10. Blackburn family (Robert Blackburn) 11. Blackburn family (Samuel Blackburn, 1758?-1835)

Microfilm Reel # 1 Box 3 Genealogical Data 1. Blackburn family (Alabama) 2. Blackburn family (England) 3. Blackburn family (Kentucky) 4. Blackburn family (Maryland) 5. Blackburn family (Mississippi) 6. Blackburn family (North Carolina and South Carolina)

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