Sie ist verheiratet mit Caleb B. French.
Sie haben geheiratet am 28. August 1855 in Knox County, Tennessee, sie war 20 Jahre alt.Quelle 2
Kind(er):
Sarah Jane McCammon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Caleb B. French | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sarah Jane MCCAMMON
pg 288-290, THE JOHN PICKENS FAMILY, by Nellie Pickens Anderson; ed byElizabeth Shue 1985:"SARAH JANE McCAMMON/French;...Jane wrote letters to her sister MaryNaomi after Mary had moved to Kansas. Mary and her family preservedthese letters and through the interest and effort of Jane Little Toddwe have these to share with you. Every effort was mad to locateletters Mary Naomi wrote, but we are having difficulty in locatingJane's descendants. There were five children; Samuel, William, Oliver,Clemmie and Belle.""Kingston,November 14, 1800Dear Brother and SisterAfter begging pardon for not writing to you sooner I will tell you Ireceived your letters and was real glad to get them and hear that youwere all well. This leaves us all well. Caleb has gone to Belles forClemmie, and she had been up there for three months. Oliver was home tovote. This was his first vote for president and he says he did not losea vote, every one of his candidates were successful. Mc was atKnoxville at the republican rally Friday before the election. He wawhisuncle Thomas Mc and Marshall F. They reported the kinfolk well. Hesaid he thoguth his Uncle Pink was there but he did not see him. Therewas such a crowd it was impossible to find anyone unless you just runupon them. I suppose William had been in at the democratic rally andwas not there. The boys said they did not see him, but the way Col.Young told us that E.H.F. (E. H. Flenniken) said he was gong to vote arepublican ticket. How is Kansas on politics? If it is Democracticyouwill feel like a fish outof water won't you? Tell me in you nextletter what kind of home you have and if you have any good neighborsand all about everything, so I can imagine how you look at home in the"far West". I study about you a great deal and give a good deal to beable to see you and talk with you, and aks as many questions as I wantto. You know how I always would do that with you, more than any of therest of the connections. I believe you said in your letter that youcould buy coal for 5 cts. per bushel. We have to pay from 14 to 16 herefor it this winter and it is hard to get sometimes even a that. Haveyou sold yourhogs? In Knox, some of the farmers in this Co. have lostfine lots of hogs from cholera. I hope you wil not meet with such badlick with yours. Have you plenty of apples this year? and have you agood orchard, if you have not, let me emtreat you to select a fewvarieties that will do wellin the country and plant them out, for Ithing it is terrible to have no fruit. Have you good schools? in reachofyou and are the children going to school. How is uncle MontgomeryCowan and family? Tell them if I ever think I can spare money enoughto make a visit to Kansas... If we had not had our mill burned thissummer I think I could but it takes a yar or two to catchup after sucha loss, however Ihope i will be able to come to see you sometime. Bellewrote me the other day that she did not now wheather Mr. Kittrell wouldcome to Kansas this winter or not. He and another man were about to gomule buying. I must tell you before I quit about my trip home after Ileft you. The boat run on a rock and did not get to L. and nextmrorning Oliver come on the 4:00 o'clock train and about forty negropreachers going to K to a conference. They hired all the hacks inLoudon and started to Kingston. Before we got up the hotel keeper saidhe sent him word we wanted a hack, but we did not get, so got a skiffand Oliver, wife and me come to K in it in fives hours. Write me agreat long letter soon.Your affectionate sisterS.J. French.""To Jacob French from Caleb French, probably include in a letter fromSaray Jane to Mary Naomi, November, 1880. Transc. by E. Shue:"It never rains without it pours" Do not think because I have notwritten you that I have forgotten you for I think of you every day andhope you have health and happiness and friends in you new home. Thishas been the most peculiar and disagreeable year I ever experienced.Came in with ice and snow and the mercury down below "Keno" and themwarm through February and part of March and then cold and stormyuntil____ April then hot and cool by turns until 1st of July then dryand hot as blazes for 3 months the mercury standing at 102 and 103 forweeks at a time. I have sawed over a million feet and sold nearly allof it. I have shipped 950,000 feet to Ristine in May alone and have acontract with them for 1,500,000 ft. the coming season. have some of itsawed and will push it with the full capacity of my mill so soon asthere is a rise in the river that I can get logs. It is raining nowwith a prospect are high, corn is nsome places is very short in somefairly good, prices high, wire me a long letter and tell me all abouteverything and don't you forget it.CBFKingston, August 20, 1893My dear sisterIt has been a long time since I heard from you and long tome since Iwrote you, but in all the time I have never ceased to love and think ofyou and yours.My life for the last five years has been one of trouble as you aretrouble as you are aware Caleb got his leg broke at his mill and afterfour weeks in which he suffered terribly trying to save his leg,he hadto have it taken off to save his life for four or five months afterthat he lay in a helpless condition and a part of the thime almostdiead he finally got up and got an artificial limb but never could getabout well with it and felt so discouraged. His health was never sogood a year ago las tBeb. our youngest daughter Clemmie died. She hadbeen married nearly four years to Welcher Hope of Loudon Co. Caleb hadnot been well and her death seemed to prostrate him. He said he feltjust as though his heart was broke and I sometimes think it was thewent down steadily and in a few weeks began to have smothering spellsthat Dr's said he had heart trouble and treated him for that after awhile he commenced swelling when he first noticed it he told me thatwould be the last of him he said he had often thought he had heartdisease after he had his leg taken off. He seemed anxious to get wellbut said he was not afraid to die and at the last passed off peacefullyand I think is better off than any of us. While I am left all alone ina sense all the children ar married but it won't be long till I hope tomeet my loved ones that have gone before.I have just returned from avisit to our brothers and sisters I had not been there since you movedwest. I went to Knoxville down on the Knoxvville Southern road toGreenback in a mile of Clemmies when I got there I found Pinkney andAnn there they had just got there and intended going home in the eveningbut Clem and Mattie insisted on them staying all night and then sent forSam and his wife to come down so we had a little family reunioin. theywas all tolerably good health except Mattie She had had a sick spelljust before I went but was up able to go around. Sam came down with hishack and took us all up to his house. Mattie went back with Clemmie saidshe felt so bad she would rather be at home Pinkney come down to Samsand took me up to his house, and from there to Tommys he lives ustabove the old Houston place, the place where Browns used to llive theyare all in aobut as good health as common, and seem very well satisfiedthough they are on a very poor pllace he has a righ good crop on itthis year. Tommy is breaking might fast. McCall has a righ good placebut they have a very old house and you know Mattie bought half of theand I think Jo don't want to built o it undivided and it is notsuitable for division. Mattie of course is not able to pay her half forbuilding a house but her and Clemmie does want a house I hope they willcome to some decision so they can have a comfortable home.Sam is well fixed and good buildings, but hehas nearly broke himself down building and working so hard. I went fromTommys to Williams's they are all well, the oldest chidren are marriedand Meg is up at Huffakers with her grandparents so there is onlyMattied and Eliza ofhis first chidren there they have three by the lastmarriage. They all seem to get along very well. William has beenrunning a dairy for several years. They were milking sixteen cows whenI was there and his wife and the girls was doing the milking churningand house work. I told him to sell off some of them cows or it wouldkill his women folks there is too much hard work about it.I was at Marsh French's twice while Iwas in KNox they are all well, marsh says he can't stand much hard worksince he had that spell of pneumonia.Addie Flenniken went to see Sarah Andes.You perhaps head they has their house burned in the spring they lostnearly everything except their beds with the clothes that were on themand what was in the jparlor they have built a house in the smae jplace,and was living in it but only. Three rooms were finished. Sarah has notchanged as much as I expected to find her. I had not seen her for 21years and seems right cheerful. She has a baby 13 or 14 months old.I also went to see Joshia's widow and boysthey are getting along very well. Frank graduated at Maryville thissummer. Cynthia's health is better tthan whe I saw her last.I spent nearly two months i Knoxville andFountain City with Will F. who lives there and Oliver and Addie inKnoxville. Mc is in Kingston. Belle is living in Athens. Mr. K sold hisfarm and moved there laast winter to send the children to school.I have been reading a good deal about thestrikes at Weir City and the trouble that is likely to arise from theemployment of negro miners and I have condered whether it would affectyou or your family. I hope not.Now I do want you to write me a long leter andtell me of yourself and family, after I come home I told Mc I hadvisited every brother and sister ofhis Pa's and mine except you andJacob and if it was not such an undertaking by myself I would go toKansas befire I quit. My health is tolerably good except rheumatism ICan't stand the hard work I could a few years ago. I hope we will meetsometime in life. If not that we will meet in better and brighter worldlet me hear from you right soon. with much love to you all.Your loving sister Jane French"ID Number: 11253123
Father:
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Samuel MCCAMMON [Parents] was born on 9 May 1808 in near Neubert's Springs, Knox Co, Tennessee. He died on 1 Apr 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee. The cause of death was bowel obstruction. He was buried about 2 Apr 1865 in Dunn Cemetery, near Valley, Knox Co, Tennessee. He married Martha Boyd COWAN on 6 Jan 1831 in Seiver Co, Tennessee.
[Notes]
Martha Boyd COWAN was born on 5 Nov 1813 in Boyds Creek, Seiver Co, Tennessee. She died on 1 Apr 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee. She was buried about 2 Apr 1865 in Dunn Cemetery, near Valley, Knox Co, Tennessee. She married Samuel MCCAMMON on 6 Jan 1831 in Seiver Co, Tennessee.
[Notes]
They had the following children:
F i Mary MCCAMMON was born on 5 Dec 1831 in Knoxville ?, Knox Co, Tennessee. She died on 5 Dec 1831 in Knoxville, Knox Co, Tennessee. [Notes]
M ii Thomas MCCAMMON was born on 4 Jun 1833 in Knoxville ?, Knox Co, Tennessee. He died on 14 Mar 1841 in Knoxville, Knox Co, Tennessee. [Notes]
F iii Sarah Jane MCCAMMON
M iv William Cowan MCCAMMON
M v Samuel H. MCCAMMON was born on 10 Dec 1839 in Knoxville, Knox Co, Tennessee. He died in Dec 1840 in Knoxville, Knox Co, Tennessee. [Notes]
M vi Oliver Pinkney MCCAMMON
F vii Mary Neoma MCCAMMON
M viii Thomas H. MCCAMMON
M ix Samuel Alexander MCCAMMON
F x Martha Caroline MCCAMMON was born on 27 May 1849 in Knoxville ?, Knox Co, Tennessee. She died on 11 Dec 1922 in Knoxville, Knox Co, Tennessee, Eastern State Hospital. [Notes]
F xi Cynthia Clementine MCCAMMON
Samuel MCCAMMON
Legislator 1805 Tennessee. ES1995
pg 287, THE JOHN PICKENS FAMILY by Nellie Pickens Anderson: ed.
Elizabeth Shue 1985:
"Every effort has been made to do a careful transcription of this and
other letters. However, punctuation was uncertain, spelling not
standard and capitalization seemed not to follow rulles as we use them.
We do trust that the messages are faithful to the original content. ES
Letter to Martha B. McCammon from Samuel McCammon
Nashville
March 29, 1865.
Mrs. Martha B. McCammon,
my dear wife.
I address you to let you now I got along. We arrived here the night of
the 27th, all safe. I am now more comfortable. Monday my cough was
increased owing as I believe to my exposure in coming to Knoxville in
that cold wind. I will write today to O. P. Pulaskia. I have no account
of the prisoners of the 3rd. All that I converse agree that they have
doubt about them having got through the lines but can not tell at what
point they aer now. I hope in a very few days to learn more about their
whereabouts. Tuesday morning I met Sethe Lea at the Capital, he looks
bad but in health enough to recover. He told me that he lacked 12 days
of two years in prison, most of which time he was in Castle Thunder at
Richmond. He was sent to Saulsberry, North Carolina, but went back t
Richmound, was paroled and sent through the lines. I am told by him
that he was a man from Saulsberry, North Carolina prison who said he
knew Frank Kirby, that he cerainly was dead. This is sad news for me to
relate, but nevertheless I feel it my duty to let his friends know what
account I have got and I fear it is true. Well, I think I will get a
boarding house today, we done nothing about it yesterday. It was cold
and unpleasant day. It being the night when we arrived at the St. Cloud
where it cost $4.00 per day. This won't do. I think I can board at a
good private home at $2.00 per day. This is the best that can be done.
I wish you to answer my letter as soon as you can. Tell me how Samuel
stood his exposure in coming with me to KNoxville and how Wm. C., is
and all the rest. Give my respects to all my friends. I will write soon
again. Nashville is being fitted up for legislature. We had fine
weather in coming out here. There is not much knowing how long we will
be here, but I'm in hopes tha twe will not be so long here as Sam
supposed. My opinion is tha twe should do what ever will put our state
laws in force at present and not to much! I will close for the present.
Fare you well
S. McCammon
(The original of this letter is in the private collection of Joanna
McCammon Henderson, Mrs. Harold Alpheus Henderson.)
ID Number: 1125312
Date of Import: 29 Nov 2002