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'68; Wm. Foster, 28 October '65; Thomas A. Forkner, 25 July '85; J. G. Forkner, ; M. B. Goddard® aff. (Athens) 25 May '66; J. W. Goddard aff. (Loudon), 24 August '66; W. W. Grubb, aff. 11 October '72; W. C. Grace aff. (115), 29 August '79; Wm. Harrison, 8 De- cember '66; N. P. Hight aff. (Mo.), 23 November '66; A. A. Humphreys, reaff. 22 March '72; E. T. Hale, aff. 30 January '74; dem. 12 October '77; Hicks G. F. aff. 20 January '80; John H. Johnston, 23 June '65; Jos. Janeway, aff. (Loudon) 23 February '66; J. Harvey Johnston, 28 September '66; E. C. Jones, 23 February '66; Eli C. Jones, 13 May '70; John M. Jones, aff. 4 De- cember '81; J. F. Key, 25 May, '66; W. T. Lenoir, 25 September '68; J. D. Low, 25 September 65; W. T. Le- noir, 30 June '71; Noah Lybarger, 2 May '79; dem. 3 February '82; S. J. Martin, 1 November '65; Martin G. W., 7 November '65, died 6 March '70; W. G. McKen- zie, dem. 4 July '73; A. H. Murray, 4 September
'65, -; N. I. Mayes, 9 September '68, - Jas. McGuire, -; O. W. Muller, ; J. H. Montgomery, 3 November '66, ; J. L. McKin- ney, aff. 6 September '78; A. R. Melendy, 28 February ; J. F. Owen, aff. (204), 27 April '66, '85, ; J. C. Pennington, 28 July '65; B. M. Porter, 22 June '66, dem. 30 June '71; Wiley Patton, 27 April -; J. H. Pickel, 5 May '68, ; W. W. '67,
Pickel, 26 June '69, ; W. L. Price, dem. 23 February '72; J. E. Roberts, 25 September '65, ; J. Crockett Rowan, 2 March '67, dem. 27 August '67; John W. Robertson, 30 July '67, dem. 27 August '67 ; J. H. Rowan, -; F. M. Rowan,
Josiah K. Rowan, 27 August '67, dem. 11 June '70; Jos- eph W. Robertson, 23 February '72; A. C. Small, 28 July '65, ; T. H. Small, 4 November '65, -; G. G. Stillman, -, died 29 July '72; J. N. Stamp-
er, 27 October '65, ; James Sample, 27
August '67, - dem. 2 December '70; J. C. Starrett,
; A. J. Stradley, aff. (484) 12 February '86; J. H. Taylor, ; N. G. Vineyard, 1 July '65, ; W. A. Upton, 25 October '67, dem. 11 Feb- ruary '81, he died in Texas; S. E. Young (392) aff. 11 February '81, -; Jno. S. Young, 6 June '84,
-; J. L. Willson, 12 August '65; W. P. Willson, -
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; A. W. Ward, 27 July '69, ; S. H. Willson, May '65, - -; C. I. Wright, 8 September '65, -; S. M. Walker, 10 January '70,-
C. B. Woodward, February '73, dem. 7 January '76.
SWEETMATER CHAPTER R. A. M., No. 57.
Of date the first day of January, 1866, John Frizzell, G. H. P. of Tennessee, granted to the following com- panions : John F. Slover, Richard C. Jackson, A. D. Rhea, S. B. Haines, W. A. Nelson, William G. Horton, I. N. Clark, J. B. Pickens, H. M. Rice, I. C. Grant and R. L. Scott, a dispensation empowering them to open and hold a chapter of Royal Arch Masons in the town of Sweetwater, Tenn., to be called Sweetwater Chapter No. 57.
In pursuance of said dispensation on January 22, 1866, John F. Slover, H. P., with the other proper of- ficers, opened and held a chapter in their hall at Sweet- . water. G. G. Stillman was made secretary.
Appended to the by-laws of this chapter, published by the Forerunner office at Sweetwater, Tenn., in 1868, the names of the officers and members of this chapter follow :
W. H. Cooke, H. P .; N. P. Hight, K .; F. Bogart, S .; T. G. Boyd, C. H .; W. L. Clark, P. S :; Charles Cannon, R. A. C .; R. F. Scruggs, Treas .; J. H. Patton, sec'y .; E. F. Sharp, G. M., 3rd V .; W. L. Price, 2nd V .; I. T. Lenoir, 1st V .; J. W. Goddard, Sent .; G. G. Stillman, R. A. M .; C. H. Matthewson, R. A. M .; A. D. Rhea, R. A. M .; Morgan Bryan, R. A. M .; T. J. Ballard, R. A. M .; T. N. Epperson, R. A. M .; Wm. P. McKamey, R. A. M .; Sam'l. Reese, R. A. M .; I. B. Kimbrough, R. A. M .; H. J. Foote, R. A. M .; Frank Felts, R. A. M .; W. C. Peak, R. A. M. ; J. J. Harrison, R. A. M. ; E. C. Jones, R. A. M .; Wm. Osborn, R. A. M .; J. C. Starrett, R. A. M .; O. C. Carter, R. A. M .; Jas. P. Galyon, R. A. M .; W. N. B. Jones, R. A. M.
This chapter prospered for some years and greatly assisted financially the Sweetwater Lodge No. 292, F. & A. M. to erect the two buildings they constructed, the hall on the hill and the third story of the Carter build- ing. It was the understanding with the chapter and the Master Mason's Lodge that the chapter should hold its
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meetings in the hall and own their proportionate part of the buildings, although not so expressed in the deed.
With the formation of new chapters their territory was much reduced and it was hard to secure a quorum for the transaction of business. In 1887 the Grand Chapter of the state of Tennessee revoked their char- ter, since which time there has been no chapter in Sweet- water.
THE NEWSPAPERS OF SWEETWATER.
The first paper published in Sweetwater was "The Sweetwater Forerunner." Volume 1 No. 1 was dated September 1, 1867. It was a four-page paper about half the size of the usual weekly. Editor and proprietor, H. L. Fry. Subscription price was $2 per year. We find this among the editorials in the first paper.
"Last night was a terrible night .- The storm raged all night, and is not over with. Saturday, September 21, 1867, will be, in all time to come a memorable day in the history of Sweetwater. Amid the flashing of lightning and muttering and bellowing of thunder the greatest event that has ever transpired within her limits is taking place; the first newspaper ever printed in Sweetwater is being pub- lished. Long may the day be remembered and may it be pointed to with just pride as the commencement of a new epoch in the history of the village."
There were also poets in those days. Note these lines in that issue from J. A. H .:
A WARNING.
"Old bachelors arise, away, Shake off the fleas and dust, If you on earth expect to stay, In woman put your trust. A married man is right in town With a pocket full of rocks, A wife to fix his clothes up brown And darn his ragged socks."
Advertisements in the issue were:
Hight & Scruggs, General Merchandise and Produce; N. I. Mayes, D. S .; Stock & Roberts, Commission Merchants, Cartersville, Ga .; Glenn, Wright & Carr, Commission Merchants, Atlanta.
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The Forerunner was enlarged in May, 1868, and was published by Fry and Fisher. From December 17, 1868, to March, 1869, Charles M. Fisher was sole pro- prietor. He was from Richmond, Va., and was appar- ently finely educated and very versatile. He was the best all round newspaper man, the finest flute player and the most accomplished "boozefighter" that ever lived in the town.
He never wrote out his editorials; he just set them up and rarely looked them over. They were absolute- ly correct in spelling and grammar and were well ex- pressed. He was a fluent writer although he did not write at all.
I heard that after he left Sweetwater he became a derelict and a tramp printer. He was such an enter- taining companion and so fine a musician that drinks were easy for him to procure.
In March, 1869, C. B. Woodward bought out the pa- per and became its editor and proprietor. On Sep- tember 1, 1869, he changed its name from "Forerun- ner" to "The Sweetwater Enterprise." He ran this paper until the early part of 1876, when Joe Ivins took charge and conducted it until after the November elec- tion. The paper was then suspended. Hight and Scruggs acquired a title to the outfit. In December, 1876, J. H. Bean of Knoxville bought the paper and press from them and published the paper on January 1, 1877, under the name of "The Monroe Democrat." He was editor and proprietor until the 1st of January, 1880, when he sold out to D. B. Grace.
He kindly furnishes the following information :
"David B. Grace went from Birmingham, Ala., in 1880, to pay a visit to his father, F. M. Grace, who was professor of English in Hiwassee College. Finding that J. H. Bean was desirous of selling the Monroe Democrat he bought him out and ran the paper for four years, returning to Birmingham in 1884. During the four years Mr. Grace ran the paper it never missed an issue. On one occasion the supply of paper ordered failed to arrive, and on Wednesday afternoon Mr. Grace went down to Athens on the train and bought five hun- dred sheets of paper from Mr. (Sam. P.) Ivins, of the Athens Post, and brought it with him on the train to Sweetwater. Thus the Demo- crat came out in time Thursday morning. While Mr. Grace pub- lished the Democrat there was no other paper in Monroe County. The Democrat printed the legal notices and these, together with the liberal patronage of the Sweetwater merchants and those of Knoxville, gave the paper a good advertising patronage. Mr. Grace
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was at the time a young man without experience, but he was ably assisted by his father, Dr. Brunner, Mr. W. B. Lenoir, Dr. Bachman and others." (Note: The assistance I gave him was to drop in his sanctum, read his exchanges and talk to him about the Sweetwater girls .- W. B. L.)
"In 1884 Grace sold the Democrat and returned to Birmingham. There he assisted in founding the Evening Chronicle, and afterward served as editorial writer on the News, which had been merged with the Chronicle. He also acted as assistant editor on the Age-Herald. He is now engaged in general literary work."
After Mr. Grace disposed of the Democrat J. S. Year- wood became the editor and proprietor. (See H. B. Y.) He ran the paper till W. B. Lenoir purchased from him in March, 1889. W. B. L. ran the paper till the fall of 1891 when he was bought out by F. H. Sruggs of the News. The Monroe Democrat, as its name would indi- cate, was always a democratic paper.
THE SWEETWATER NEWS
Began to be published by F. H. Scruggs as editor and proprietor in 1886. He published it under that name until the fall of 1891. After F. H. S. purchased the Monroe Democrat from W. B. Lenoir he ran the merged papers under the name of the Democrat-News till his death which occurred on July 8, 1895. This paper was then suspended and the printing presses and the type sold to Mr. Martin of the Loudon Record.
Not long after the suspension of the Democrat-News J. M. Kirkland ran a small paper for several months which he called the "Ruby Wave." He then enlarged it and changed the name to Sweetwater Courier. This paper he conducted for about two years.
THE SWEETWATER TELEPHONE.
The latter part of 1895 D. L. Smith and others formed a stock company and on January 1, 1896, commenced the publication of The Sweetwater Telephone. D. L. Smith was editor of this paper until September 1, 1907. Then at a reorganization of the stock company D. L. Smith became president and James M. Pardue, editor and manager. D. L. Smith died November 19, 1912.
J. M. Pardue has had a controlling interest in this paper for six years up to present (1916).
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LEGISLATORS IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF TENNESSEE, RESIDENTS OF SWEETWATER VALLEY. .
Sweetwater Valley has had its share of lawmakers in the General Assembly, and they have all been farmers except three-one of these three was a farmer when he was elected.
Those representatives living in the valley when elected were: General James H. Reagan, senator Twenty-first General Assembly, Monroe and McMinn, and also in the Thirtieth General Assembly, the first to hold its meet- ings in the state capitol. Reagan's history is given else- where in this book.
Hon. Few Hall Gregory was a representative in the Twenty-third General Assembly, elected in 1839. See Gregory elsewhere in this book.
Colonel Jno. Ramsey was elected representative from Monroe to the Twenty-seventh General Assembly. His opponent was Wm. Heiskell. An account of this race and his history is given in this book.
Hon. George W. Gaines, formerly of the fourteenth civil district of Monroe County, was living with his son- in-law, Dr. F. Bogart of Sweetwater, when elected to the Legislature in 1865. This legislature has no regular number and is known as the "Brownlow Legislature." In his race he received the Democratic vote of the coun- ty. He was a Union man during the war but opposed the disfranchising legislation and other violent meas- ures passed by that assembly.
Hon. Jesse F. Owen was elected in 1869 to represent Monroe County in the Thirty-sixth General Assembly. For further history see Owen in this book.
General J. C. Vaughn was a senator from the seventh senatorial district to the Thirty-seventh General As- sembly. He was speaker of that body. His history is given in this book.
Hon. S. J. Martin was representative from Monroe and London counties in the Thirty-eighth General As- sembly. For history see Presley Cleveland family.
Hon. William Cannon was elected to the Fortieth General Assembly as the representative from Monroe and Loudon counties.
Hon. W. B. Sample was a representative of Monroe and Loudon counties in the Forty-first General Assem-
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bly, although he did not reside in the first civil district of Monroe County nor in Sweetwater Valley, but close to the line between first and second districts, and his post-office was at Sweetwater. His team of oxen and his corn-cob pipe were frequently seen in our town. On election day in November, 1878, a large crowd smoking cob pipes went in a body to the polls and voted for Sam- ple. He was called the farmer's candidate.
Hon. J. R. Love was representative from Monroe County in the Forty-fourth General Assembly, elected in November, 1884. Died during his incumbency. For sketch of him see Reagan family.
Hon. D. R. Nelson was a member of the Forty-sixth General Assembly as a senator of the sixth district. (See Nelson.)
Hon. W. L. Brown was senator from the sixth sen- atorial district in the Forty-seventh General Assembly. History in this book.
W. N. Hoge was a representative from McMinn Coun- ty to the Forty-eighth General Assembly. At the time of his election he resided near Reagan Station. Previ- ous to his election he occupied several important county offices.
W. G. Lenoir was a joint representative for Knox and Loudon counties in the General Assembly. He was elected in November, 1910, as a fusionist. He was a zealous prohibitionist and was a prominent factor in state-wide legislation while he was a member.
Hon. James M. Pardne was representative from Mon- roe to the Forty-ninth General Assembly. He is the present (1916) senator from the district comprised of Knox, Blount, Monroe and Polk counties. He is a law- yer by profession and now (1916) editor of the Sweet- water Telephone. He was born in Loudon County and came to Sweetwater twenty years ago.
Hon. J. C. Waren was a member of the Fifty-sixth General Assembly as the representative from Monroe County. For further history see Colonel Jno. Ramsey in this book.
Hon. James May was senator from the 6th district in the Fifty-fifth General Assembly. He was born in Knox County on October 10, 1863. He came to Sweetwater in November, 1896. He embarked in the hardware busi-
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ness in which he remained eighteen years. He was mayor of Sweetwater for eight years. He was married to Prudie C. Howard of Fork Creek on December 21, 1887. He was prison commissioner for East Tennessee, under Governor Hooper, 1912-14. He had charge of the penitentiary farm near Nashville which he ran suc- cessfully, clearing $55,000 over and above expenses dur- ing his incumbency. His children are Ethe1, Beulah and Earl. Earl is a member of the firm of James May & Son at Sweetwater.
SOME TRANSACTIONS IN HORSES IN 1863.
In the last years of the Civil War East Kentucky, East Tennessee, Western North Carolina and North Georgia were infested with various bands of horse thieves, robbers and bushwhackers. Sometimes several of these bands acted in common after the John A. Mur- rell style. Others chose a leader and acted independ- ently. Often they claimed to affiliate with one or the other side in the civil contest. The union bushwhackers claimed that they did not rob and kill Union men and the Rebel bushwhackers that they did not rob and mur- der Southern sympathizers. As notable examples' we might mention Tinker Dave Beattie and Champ Fer- guson in the Cumberlands and Goldman Bryson and Lyons in the Smokies. I presume if we ever have a war with a foreign country we will likely have American and hyphenated-American bushwhackers.
In the sections mentioned in 1863 and 1864 no man's life or property was safe. If a soldier deserted from either army he usually stole a horse as an additional means of safety in getting away and also to secure a val- uable piece of property.
In this section horse stealing was very common in 1863. In May of that year my father, I. T. Lenoir, had a fine horse stolen from a barn near his home located about one and a half miles south of Sweetwater. It was stolen by a deserter from the 10th Confederate, Colonel Goode's Cav., Regt. of conscripts. My father got on his track and followed him to the Sand Mountains of Alabama now the richest, then the poorest section of the state. He failed to find his own horse but his expedition was not fruitless. One day in following a supposed clue
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he came across a rough looking sand-mountaineer who was riding a fine roane mare. He engaged him in con- versation and on close inspection he was confident that he had seen the animal he was riding hitched in Sweet- water several times and was convinced that she had been stolen. He told the fellow he had come after that horse and to throw down his rifle and dismount. This he at first refused to do, but my father reasoned with him in such a way that he finally did as requested. He then ordered him to walk back the way he came and not to turn round or look back. When he had gotten some distance off, father himself lost no time in return- ing, fearing he might be pursued. The mare, as it. turned out, belonged to Mr. Robert Wright of Fork Creek Val- ley. It would have been a fine joke on father if he had not succeeded in finding the owner.
After the sand mountain episode, we took precautions to prevent the horses from being stolen. Our barn had some stables which could only be reached through a passage which was closed at each end by a gate. The gate at one end was padlocked and the one at the other end, least used, was fastened by a large wood screw through the slat into the latch; thus the gate could not be opened without taking out the screw. We did not think a thief would catch on to the scheme without wak- ing the negro or myself up. We slept in the barn loft as additional protection against thieves. But "the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley."
On Sunday the 5th of July, 1863, I persuaded one of the neighbor boys to go with me to Craighead Lake in the Bat Creek knobs for a swim. The lake then was considerably larger than now. We did not particularly need to go in bathing, but we had heard the Rev. Mr. Bradshaw preach for an hour and a half in the morn- ing and we thought we were entitled to an afternoon off. For fear of embarrassing complications we thought best not to consult our parents about the trip. We remained in the water considerable time trying to outswim the mellow bugs, with which the surface of the lake abound- ed. This made me sleep sounder in the barn loft than usual that night. So when the thief came Sunday night, as he told me afterwards about 11 o'clock, I did not wake and neither did the darkey that was with me.
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In the morning the gate was wide open and a horse was gone. The thief, in trying to get the horse out, had started to cut the latch in two. He found that would take too long. He accidentally discovered how the latch was fastened and unloosed the screw with his knife, which happened to be a strong one.
The horse stolen was one easily described and identi- fied. He was a large rawboned bay horse, about sixteen and a half hands high and had a very large head and had a couple of large warts on his jaws. A blind bridle was missing but he got no saddle. He stole a saddle in Dancing Branch neighborhood. We heard of that on Monday. We found out on Tuesday that a man Car- ter had left the 6th Georgia, Hart's Regiment without a furlough and that he had volunteered from Towns County, Ga. Mr. W. H. Taylor, son of E. A. Tay- lor, and a former merchant in Sweetwater, had married a Miss Bradshaw of Towns. County, Ga. Her mother still lived there and Mr. Taylor was acquainted in that section. He told my father he would go with me to get the horse and, if possible, the man that stole him. I was anxious to go as I was much chagrinned at my father's saying ironically what a fine guard I was. So we made our arrangements to start from Sweetwater next morn- ing, Wednesday.
To show how thoughtful my father was I remember a little circumstance. He knew that it gave me a bad headache not to have coffee for breakfast as I had al- ways been used to it. He suggested that I get my mother to put me up some coffee to take along. This was not to be given out where we stopped, but if I got the headache for lack of it, the grounds were to be drank from a cup mixed with cold water from some spring by the roadside. On trying the experiment when the headache came on, I found it worked like a charm. Coffee in the Confederacy owing to the blockade of the ports in 1863 was exceedingly scarce and high in price when it could be obtained at all. As a substitute parched rye and wheat were used. It tasted all right like postum but did not have any kick to it like real cof- fee.
But to resume my narrative: We, Taylor and myself, left Sweetwater in the morning. He rode a good horse
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of father's; I rode a horse rather on the pony order, which I had purchased from a Texas ranger. His name was Craig. He wanted to sell the horse to me because his ankle had been rope scorched and he was temporarily disabled. I paid for him $100.00 in Con- federate money. One was about as unsafe possession as the other. I was rather proud of my trade, as that was the first horse I had ever bought.
The result proved that he was a very hardy animal but rather a tiresome saddler. We, W. H. Taylor and myself, stayed at Austin Fry's the first night. He then lived on Conasuaga Creek three miles this side of the toll gate on the road from Madisonville to Murphy, N. C. He was an old acquaintance of my father and used to reside near Reagan's Station. There at Fry's we heard nothing of the man and the stolen horse but on reaching the toll gate at the foot of Unaka Mountain we were told that our man had passed through the gate there. This was encouraging and we determined to push rapidly on. There were only two routes he could take, either up the Hiwassee River towards Murphy or the one to Ducktown going south and crossing the Hi- wassee River at Taylor's Ferry near where Apalachia now is. We concluded to risk the Murphy route as we thought Carter had gone that way with the stolen horse. We did this though we had been told by Mr. Fry that that route was very dangerous. He said: "I would not undertake what you two are trying to do for my hat full of gold. The country east of the mountains towards Murphy is full of bushwhackers who do not hesitate to commit any sort of depredation." Mr. Fry some weeks before had been shot in the shoulder from ambush and narrowly escaped with his life. He was at the time we stopped with him carrying his arm in a sling in conse- quence of his wound. Goldman Bryson's notorious gang were then in process of formation. From the toll gate for twelve miles we saw no one, though that is no evi- dence that we were not ourselves seen, till we reached the Beaver Dam country on the Hiwassee River ten miles from Murphy ; there we passed a man with Federal blue pants on driving two calves hitched to the front wheels of a wagon. Two or three miles further on we met a man carrying a fiddle and a bow in a sack. He
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was about the only man we saw that day who looked cheerful and did not eye us with suspicion. I supposed® he thought that no one would be mean and heartless enough to hurt a good fiddler however steeped in crime he might be. Not far from Hanging Dog Creek we saw Jim Reddicks, so Taylor said his name was, plowing corn in a field. We questioned none of them. We did not care about advertising our business.
We stopped at Murphy where we arrived about the middle of the day, and got our dinner at S. W. David- son's. He kept hotel in an old frame building, now torn down, which occupied the lot under the large elms and aspens opposite the site of the new Regal Hotel. At this town we made some inquiries but found out nothing of consequence. We were there about an hour and a half. We had come twenty-five miles and still had twenty-nine to go if we reached Mrs. Bradshaw's, Mr. Taylor's mother-in-law. She lived four miles east of Hiwassee, Towns County, Ga. When dark came upon us we were ten or twelve miles from our destination, but we thought it better to arrive in that neighborhood at night so that no one could have any idea who we were or what our business was. We did not want it known there were any strangers there. It must have been nearly mid- night when we arrived at Mrs. Bradshaw's. Her son was away in the army and Mrs. Bradshaw being natural- ly excited at any one coming at that time of night and a visit from him was entirely unexpected that Taylor could hardly convince her that he was her son-in-law. When he knocked, "Who's there?" she asked. "Billy Taylor." "What Taylor?" "Della Bradshaw's hus- band." She finally became convinced of his identity and let us in and told us where we could get feed for our horses. We had traveled fifty-four or fifty-five miles that day and I was so thoroughly weary that it seems to me I was asleep before I hardly got my clothes off. When I had slept for about ten minutes, as I thought, Taylor awakened me out of the shortest night's sleep in my experience. He said it was near sunrise and we must be up and doing. After considerable inquiry in the neighborhood we found that Carter's wife had lived not very far from Mrs. Bradshaw's but had left some- time previous for parts unknown. They told us how-
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