Ago 85 years ago Mathew Deaver lived in a cedar log house that still exists six miles down the R.,R., from Oneonta just below where Jesse Armstrong lives. It is on the South side of the R. R. It has a stone chimney at the west end of the house and a shed room at the east end all made of cedar logs. This house was perhaps built 95 years ago.
I have been correctly informed that 85 years ago there was a beautiful girl lived in that home whose name was Nancy Deaver. There was a fine-looking young man that lived four miles up the Valley above Oneonta by the name of George D. Staton.
Miss Nancy and Mr. George met each other with sparkling eyes and smiling faces till they were so deeply impressed with each other until Nancy thought he is mine and George thought she is mine if I can get her. Nancy was a beautiful girl dressed from her chin down her arms to her thumbs and then down her body within two inches of the ground, and her spider-web stockings were knit at home of woolen thread. George and Nancy did their courting in the shed room 01 the cedar house while Nancy sat on the meal tub and George sat on a sack of wheat bran.
Nancy's father owned about 8 or 10 slaves and George's father owned about 20 slaves. George and Nancy married and had a happy home. George was a Primitive Baptist and Nancy a Cumberland Presbyterian. They lived two miles up the Valley from Oneonta in the house that now belongs to Mr. David Moody. They built that house about 65 years ago. They had prosperity Their fathers gave them a setting of darkey eggs and they owned 30 slaves when the civil war broke out.
To this union was given 4 sons and 3 daughters. The names of the sons were John, Dock, Tom and Will. Names of the girls, Elizabeth, Sheba and Carry-Ann.
The father and mother of this family and John, Dock, Tom, Will, and Sheba all moved to Texas 45 years ago. John married a Miss Beason. Dock married a Miss Camp. Sheba married Mr. Mace Bynum. Elizabeth married Mr. Henderson Cowden and died at her home one mile from Village Springs. Carry-Ann married Mr. Rufus Beason. They had a happy home. They prospered in the material things of this world. Carry-Ann died 3 or 4 years ago and Rufus died in November 1916. Dock Staton moved back from Texas 25 years ago. He came to Birmingham. He was a Missionary Baptist minister. About 15 years ago he had a revival meet meeting, had several converts and was to baptize them on Sunday and got up Sunday morning dressed himself and went to the breakfast table and returned thanks and fell out of his chair dead. His good wife had him buried just as he had dressed himself.
The Master found him with his armor on,
Servant of God well done,
Rest from they loved employ,
The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Masters joy.
Mathew Deaver that lived in the cedar house was killed by a falling limb from a tree 72 years ago. I saw him buried. He was the second person buried in the Liberty Cemetery.
J. E. Bynum.
[The Southern Democrat, January 18, 1917]
I have been correctly informed that 85 years ago there was a beautiful girl lived in that home whose name was Nancy Deaver. There was a fine-looking young man that lived four miles up the Valley above Oneonta by the name of George D. Staton.
Miss Nancy and Mr. George met each other with sparkling eyes and smiling faces till they were so deeply impressed with each other until Nancy thought he is mine and George thought she is mine if I can get her. Nancy was a beautiful girl dressed from her chin down her arms to her thumbs and then down her body within two inches of the ground, and her spider-web stockings were knit at home of woolen thread. George and Nancy did their courting in the shed room 01 the cedar house while Nancy sat on the meal tub and George sat on a sack of wheat bran.
Nancy's father owned about 8 or 10 slaves and George's father owned about 20 slaves. George and Nancy married and had a happy home. George was a Primitive Baptist and Nancy a Cumberland Presbyterian. They lived two miles up the Valley from Oneonta in the house that now belongs to Mr. David Moody. They built that house about 65 years ago. They had prosperity Their fathers gave them a setting of darkey eggs and they owned 30 slaves when the civil war broke out.
To this union was given 4 sons and 3 daughters. The names of the sons were John, Dock, Tom and Will. Names of the girls, Elizabeth, Sheba and Carry-Ann.
The father and mother of this family and John, Dock, Tom, Will, and Sheba all moved to Texas 45 years ago. John married a Miss Beason. Dock married a Miss Camp. Sheba married Mr. Mace Bynum. Elizabeth married Mr. Henderson Cowden and died at her home one mile from Village Springs. Carry-Ann married Mr. Rufus Beason. They had a happy home. They prospered in the material things of this world. Carry-Ann died 3 or 4 years ago and Rufus died in November 1916. Dock Staton moved back from Texas 25 years ago. He came to Birmingham. He was a Missionary Baptist minister. About 15 years ago he had a revival meet meeting, had several converts and was to baptize them on Sunday and got up Sunday morning dressed himself and went to the breakfast table and returned thanks and fell out of his chair dead. His good wife had him buried just as he had dressed himself.
The Master found him with his armor on,
Servant of God well done,
Rest from they loved employ,
The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Masters joy.
Mathew Deaver that lived in the cedar house was killed by a falling limb from a tree 72 years ago. I saw him buried. He was the second person buried in the Liberty Cemetery.
J. E. Bynum.
[The Southern Democrat, January 18, 1917]
Ago 85 years ago Mathew Deaver lived in a cedar log house that still exists six miles down the R.,R., from Oneonta just below where Jesse Armstrong lives. It is on the South side of the R. R. It has a stone chimney at the west end of the house and a shed room at the east end all made of cedar logs. This house was perhaps built 95 years ago.
I have been correctly informed that 85 years ago there was a beautiful girl lived in that home whose name was Nancy Deaver. There was a fine-looking young man that lived four miles up the Valley above Oneonta by the name of George D. Staton.
Miss Nancy and Mr. George met each other with sparkling eyes and smiling faces till they were so deeply impressed with each other until Nancy thought he is mine and George thought she is mine if I can get her. Nancy was a beautiful girl dressed from her chin down her arms to her thumbs and then down her body within two inches of the ground, and her spider-web stockings were knit at home of woolen thread. George and Nancy did their courting in the shed room 01 the cedar house while Nancy sat on the meal tub and George sat on a sack of wheat bran.
Nancy's father owned about 8 or 10 slaves and George's father owned about 20 slaves. George and Nancy married and had a happy home. George was a Primitive Baptist and Nancy a Cumberland Presbyterian. They lived two miles up the Valley from Oneonta in the house that now belongs to Mr. David Moody. They built that house about 65 years ago. They had prosperity Their fathers gave them a setting of darkey eggs and they owned 30 slaves when the civil war broke out.
To this union was given 4 sons and 3 daughters. The names of the sons were John, Dock, Tom and Will. Names of the girls, Elizabeth, Sheba and Carry-Ann.
The father and mother of this family and John, Dock, Tom, Will, and Sheba all moved to Texas 45 years ago. John married a Miss Beason. Dock married a Miss Camp. Sheba married Mr. Mace Bynum. Elizabeth married Mr. Henderson Cowden and died at her home one mile from Village Springs. Carry-Ann married Mr. Rufus Beason. They had a happy home. They prospered in the material things of this world. Carry-Ann died 3 or 4 years ago and Rufus died in November 1916. Dock Staton moved back from Texas 25 years ago. He came to Birmingham. He was a Missionary Baptist minister. About 15 years ago he had a revival meet meeting, had several converts and was to baptize them on Sunday and got up Sunday morning dressed himself and went to the breakfast table and returned thanks and fell out of his chair dead. His good wife had him buried just as he had dressed himself.
The Master found him with his armor on,
Servant of God well done,
Rest from they loved employ,
The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Masters joy.
Mathew Deaver that lived in the cedar house was killed by a falling limb from a tree 72 years ago. I saw him buried. He was the second person buried in the Liberty Cemetery.
J. E. Bynum.
[The Southern Democrat, January 18, 1917]
I have been correctly informed that 85 years ago there was a beautiful girl lived in that home whose name was Nancy Deaver. There was a fine-looking young man that lived four miles up the Valley above Oneonta by the name of George D. Staton.
Miss Nancy and Mr. George met each other with sparkling eyes and smiling faces till they were so deeply impressed with each other until Nancy thought he is mine and George thought she is mine if I can get her. Nancy was a beautiful girl dressed from her chin down her arms to her thumbs and then down her body within two inches of the ground, and her spider-web stockings were knit at home of woolen thread. George and Nancy did their courting in the shed room 01 the cedar house while Nancy sat on the meal tub and George sat on a sack of wheat bran.
Nancy's father owned about 8 or 10 slaves and George's father owned about 20 slaves. George and Nancy married and had a happy home. George was a Primitive Baptist and Nancy a Cumberland Presbyterian. They lived two miles up the Valley from Oneonta in the house that now belongs to Mr. David Moody. They built that house about 65 years ago. They had prosperity Their fathers gave them a setting of darkey eggs and they owned 30 slaves when the civil war broke out.
To this union was given 4 sons and 3 daughters. The names of the sons were John, Dock, Tom and Will. Names of the girls, Elizabeth, Sheba and Carry-Ann.
The father and mother of this family and John, Dock, Tom, Will, and Sheba all moved to Texas 45 years ago. John married a Miss Beason. Dock married a Miss Camp. Sheba married Mr. Mace Bynum. Elizabeth married Mr. Henderson Cowden and died at her home one mile from Village Springs. Carry-Ann married Mr. Rufus Beason. They had a happy home. They prospered in the material things of this world. Carry-Ann died 3 or 4 years ago and Rufus died in November 1916. Dock Staton moved back from Texas 25 years ago. He came to Birmingham. He was a Missionary Baptist minister. About 15 years ago he had a revival meet meeting, had several converts and was to baptize them on Sunday and got up Sunday morning dressed himself and went to the breakfast table and returned thanks and fell out of his chair dead. His good wife had him buried just as he had dressed himself.
The Master found him with his armor on,
Servant of God well done,
Rest from they loved employ,
The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Masters joy.
Mathew Deaver that lived in the cedar house was killed by a falling limb from a tree 72 years ago. I saw him buried. He was the second person buried in the Liberty Cemetery.
J. E. Bynum.
[The Southern Democrat, January 18, 1917]
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