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-----He married Mary A. E. White, and had five
children as follows:
E John Pickens.
E Thomas Pickens,
E Letcher Pickens,
E Albert Pickens,
E Alice Pickens
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D CHARLES ASBURY PICKENS, son of
John and Nancy Bowen Pickens was born in Anderson county, S. C.,
November 4th, 1814, and moved to Tennessee with his parents when he was
about six year of age. From that time until his death, February 18th,
1875, he lived at the old John Pickens homestead, nine miles east of
Calhoun, eight miles from Riceville, and twelve miles Southeast of
Athens, Tenn.
D His firs wife was
Malinda Smith , and second wife was Mrs. Cassie Lane.
D The children of Charles Asbury and Malinda
Smith Pickens were:
E David C. Pickens,
E Sarah J. Pickens,
E Mary E. Pickens,
E Susie L. Pickens,
E John A. Pickens,
E Julius K. Pickens,
E Robert Mason Pickens,
E Henry B. Pickens,
E Lillie U. Pickens.
D At the time this records is made in 1923,
David, Sarah, Susie, John, Julius, Henry and Lillie are dead.
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-----E DAVID C. PICKENS, son of Charles
Asbury Pickens was born at the old John Pickens homestead in Tennessee,
married and had six children, four sons and two daughters.
----- One of these sons:
-----F J. H. Pickens.
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-----F J. H. PICKENS, so of David C.
Pickens is living near Etowah, Tennessee.
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-----E SARAH J. PICKENS, daughter of
Charles Asbury Pickens was born on the old John Pickens homestead in
McMinn County, Tennessee. She married Rev. William M. Love and had six
children, three boys and three girls. when this record was made in 1923,
Rev. William M. Love was living at Pomona, Calif., Names of children not
known to writer.
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-----E MARY E. PICKENS, daughter of
Charles Asbury Pickens was born in Tennessee, married James D. Cameron
and is living at Cambridge, Neb. James D. Cameron was a son of Talitha
Paris Cameron, and grandson of Dorcas Pickens.
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-----E SUSAN L. PICKENS, daughter of
Charles Asbury and Malinda Smith Pickens was born and grew to womanhood
in McMinn County, Tennessee. She married Calivn Clay Dodson in the fall
of 1870, and from the best information obtainable moved to
Texas. Children:
-----F George Julius Dodson,
-----F Loma Jane Dodson,
-----F Maude Dodson,
-----F Julia Dodson,
-----F Bell Dodson,
-----F Anna Dodson,
-----F Charles Dodson,
-----F Lillie Dodson,
-----F John Dodson.
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-----F GEORGE JULIUS DODSON, son of
Calvin Clay and Susan Pickens Dodson, married Mamie Learson in June
1909, and lives at Carson City, Nev.
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-----F LOMA JANE DODSON, daughter of
Calvin Clay and Susan Pickens Dodson, was born in McMinn County,
Tennessee, November 23rd, 1874 and died December 24th 1924. She married
Danridge Napoleon Williamson who was born in Collin County, Missouri,
December 19th, 1860, April 23rd, 1893.
----- Daughter:
G Loma Williamson. -----G LOMA WILLIAMSON, daughter of
Danridge Napoleon and Loma Jane Dodson Williamson, married Jacob H.
Owens and lives at Raymond, Washington.
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-----F MAUDE DODSON, daughter of Calvin
Clay and Susan Pickens Dodson Married Marion Tallent.
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-----F JULIA DODSON, daughter of Calvin
Clay and Susan Pickens Dodson is dead.
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-----F BELL DODSON, daughter of Calvin
Clay and Susan Pickens Dodson married Ed Stanford.
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-----F ANNA DODSON, daughter of Calvin
Clay and Susan Pickens Dodson is dead.
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-----F CHARLES DODSON, son of Calvin
Clay and Susan Pickens Dodson is dead.
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-----F LILLIE DODSON, daughter of Calvin
Clay and Susan Pickens Dodson, married James Bates.
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-----E JOHN A. PICKENS, son of Charles
Asbury Pickens was born November 16th, 1850, on the John Pickens
homestead in McMinn County, Tennessee. He moved to Chattanooga,
Tennessee, and lived at no. 711 Oak Street in that city. He was greatly
interested in the history of his family and assisted in getting up a
considerable amount of the information of the descendants of John
Pickens. He belonged to, and was a member of the official board of
contrary Methodist church at Chattanooga. He died February 24th, 1919 at
his home in Chattanooga.
-----On September
17th, 1884 he was happily married to Alice Reeder, who was born April
6th, 1862.
-----Their only child
was;
-----E Myara Reeder
Pickens.
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-----E MYRA REEDER PICKENS, daughter of
John A. and Alice Reeder Pickens was born September 14th, 1895 and died
with scarlet fever at the age of seventeen. Her death brought great
sorrow into the home of her parents, who were greatly devoted to
her.
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-----D JULIUS K. PICKENS, son of Charles
Asbury and Malinda Smith Pickens married twice. First Rose Beasley and
second Toney Royland.
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-----E ROBERT MASON PICKENS, son of
Charles Asbury and Malinda Smith Pickens, was born on the old John
Pickens home place in McMinn County, Tennessee, November 14th,
1866.
-----In the boyhood days of Robert
Mason Pickens, he and the sons of Martha Pickens Trew were very fond of
hunting and fishing and he became very much attached to his cousins. In
1869 this aunt, (Martha Pickens Trew) and her family moved to Texas, and
Robert ran away from home and moved with them to Texas. In Texas he was
thrown upon his own resources, and found work as a farm
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hand and received ten
dollars per month for his work. His work was very hard, and his wages
were not enough to sustain him, so after about five years his health
gave way. He gave up to die. In 1875 his father back in Tennessee died
and he received his portion of his father's estate. This enabled him to
go to Washington Territory where in due time he regained his health. On
April 13th 1888 he was married to Nellie Murray and settled in Morton,
Washington, where he engaged in farming. He is now living in Langley,
Washington.
-----Nellie Murray, wife of
Robert Mason Pickens, was born in Bagley, Iowa, October 22nd, 1866 where
she lived until she was eighteen years of age. She prepared herself for
a teacher. In 1884 her mother moved to Washington Territory. she soon
commenced teaching and engaged in this work until her marriage.
-----The children of Robert Mason and Nellie Murray
Pickens are:
-----F Lillian
Orinda Pickens,
-----F Loma
Linda Pickens,
-----F Florence
Mae Pickens,
-----F Robert
Perry Pickens,
-----F Beulah
Hazel Pickens.
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-----F LILLIAN ORINDA PICKENS, daughter
of Robert Mason and Nellie Murray Pickens was born April 5th 1889. On
September 14th 1918, which was during the last year of the World War,
she sailed as a missionary to Japan. After spending about two years
studying the language she taught in a Bible Training school in Osaka,
Japan for five years, and part of that time she had charge of the Girl's
Dormitory. When she first arrived in Japan the climate was very hard on
here, but she soon became used to it and her health was very much
improved. In June 1925 she returned to America for rest, and while in
America visited Methodist churches on the pacific coast reportin the
work being done in Japan.
-----On December
4th, 1926 she returned to Japan and took up her work there.
-----F LOMA LINDA PICKENS, daughter of
Robert mason and Nellie Murray Pickens was born August 6th, 1891. She
married Elmer H. Johnson a professor in Wisconsin University at Madison,
Wis. He was born in 1888. They were married Dec. 31st, 1920.
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-----F FLORENCE MAE PICKENS, daughter of
Robert Mason and Nellie Murray Pickens was born October 16, 1894 and on
May 25th 1920 she was married to Eugene J. Henry.
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-----Child:-----G Loma Gale Henry.
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-----F BEULAH HAZEL PICKENS, daughter of
Robert Mason and Nellie Murray Pickens was born June 2nd, 1904 and grew
up to be a beautiful talented woman. On December 27th, 1922 she married
Paul A. Jerling and lives at Los Angeles, Calif.
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-----E LILLIE U. PICKENS, youngest
daughter of Charles Asburry Pickens of McMinn county, Tennessee was born
September 27th, 1862, died in Amarilo, Texas, where she had gone for her
health, January 17th, 1922, and was taken back to Tennessee for burial.
On October 15th, 1880 she married John C. Carlock, who was born December
6th, 1856 and died March 16, 1915.
-----John C. and Lillie Pickens Carlock were the
parents of eleven children as follows:
-----F Charlie L. Carlock,
-----F Fannie Carlock,
-----F Mary Carlock,
-----F Emma Sue Carlock,
-----F James F. Carlock,
-----F Lemia E. Carlock.
-----F William A. Carlock,
-----F Albert A. Carlock,
-----F Lillian Pearl Carlock.
-----F Kathryn Carlock,
-----F John Pickens Carlock.
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-----F CHARLIE L. CARLOCK, son of John
C. and Lillie Pickens Carlock was born September 1, 1881, died March
14th, 1918. No further record available.
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-----F FANNIE CARLOCK, daughter of John
C. and Lillie Pickens Carlock, was born May 5, 1884 in Tennessee, and
has lived in and near Etowah all her life. In 1922 she was an efficient
employee of the Post Office at Etowah. She furnished a considerable
amount of information for this sketch of the Carlock family.
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-----F MARY CARLOCK, daughter of john C.
and Lillie Pickens Carlock was born December 13th, 1885. No further
records.
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-----F EMMA SUE CARLOCK, daughter of
John C. and Lillie Pickens Carlock was born December 12, 1886, and died
January 26th, 1887.
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-----F JAMES F. CARLOCK, son of John C.
and Lillie Pickens Carlock was born February 15th, 1888. No further
record available.
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-----F LEMIA E. CARLOCK, was born
February 6th, 1890. No further record available.
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-----F JOHN PICKENS CARLOCK, son of John
C. and Lillie Pickens Carlock was born December 21st, 1891. He was a
member of Company E, thirty-first Infantry, United States Army, and was
in the Philippines Islands, when "World War 1" broke out. After war was
declared, returned to Untied States to camp in California. From that
place was sent to Siberia, and was in a few skirmishes there. Returned
to United States and was mustered out of army about 1920.
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-----F LILLIAN PEARL CARLOCK, daughter
of John C. and Lillie Pickens Carlock was born April 28th, 1893. She
married and has two children. Names of her husband and children not yet
furnished. Now lives with her brothers and sisters at Etowah,
Tennessee.
-----F WILLIAM A.
CARLOCK, son of John C. and Lillie Pickens Carlock was born November
2nd, 1895, Grew to manhood in McMinn County, Tennessee. He was first
sergeant of company L, 117th Infantry, Thirtieth Division, during the
"World War" and was severely wounded in action overseas. The following
is a sketch of the Company to which he belonged:
-----Company was organized by Captain R. W. Green,
in September 1910, as Company "A", Separate Battalion, Tennessee
National Guard. Was later attached to and made a part of First
Battalion, third Tennessee Infantry. Company letter changed to "G".
Later changed to company "L" and attached to the third Battalion, same
regiment.
-----Mexican Border service from
September 20th, 1916 until March 7th, 1917. Called into Federal service,
July 25, 1917.
-----Went into mobilization
camp at camp Sevier, near Greenville, S.C., September 8th, 1917. Left
Camp Sevier, May 3rd, 1918; arrived at Camp Mills, Long Island, May 4th.
Left United States for overseas service May 11th, 1918, arrived at
Liverpool, England May 23rd. Left Liverpool same day, arriving at
Folkstone, England, May 23rd or early in the morning of 24th, thence
across English Channel, arriving at Calais, France, same day. Left
Inglehem, July 1st, arriving Tunneling Camp, Belgium, July 4th, 1918.
Left Tunneling camp July 27th, arriving at "P" Camp same day. Left "P"
camp of Ypres front line August 1st. Left Ypes Front August 4th. arrived
at Orilla Camp August 5th and left August
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7th and arrive at
Ypres Rampart same day. The Company arrived at Hamel, France, September
23rd, 1918; at Jeancourt, September 24th; remained in support until
morning of September 29th, when the Thirtieth Division broke the famous
Hindebburg line. Left from lines October 2oth, and came out for rest,
and while at Heilly the armistice was signed. Left Heilly November 23rd,
for Beaufy, France.
-----The Company left
St. Nazaire, France March 18th, 1919; arrived at Charleston, S.C., April
2nd; moved to Camp Jackson, thence to Chicamauga Park, and was muster
out April 16, 1919.
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-----F ALBERT A. CARLOCK, son of John C.
and Lillie Pickens Carlock was born October 15th, 1898, and was killed
in the World War, near Jeancourt, France, October 7th, 1918. He was
Corporal, Company "L," 177th Light Infantry. The movements of this
company being shown in above sketch of William a. Carlock.
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-----F KATHRYN CARLOCK, daughter of John
C. and Lillie Pickens Carlock was born July 1st, 1901.
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-----D NANCY PICKENS, daughter of John
and Nancy Bowen Pickens was born September 14th, 1817, and died March
4th, 1896, aged seventy-eight years, five months and twenty days. She
married Henry B. Davis, an lived for a while in McMinn County,
Tennessee, but moved to Cleveland about 1851.
-----The children of Henry B. and Nancy Pickens
Davis were:
-----E John P.
Davis,
-----E Mary
Davis,
-----E Fannie
Davis,
-----E Lillie
Davis,
-----E Loma
Davis,
-----E Emma Davis.
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-----E JOHN P. DAVIS, MARY DAVIS, FANNIE
DAVIS and EMMA DAVIS, all children of Henry B. and Nancy Pickens Davis
are reported dead.
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-----E LILLIE DAVIS, daughter of Henry
B. and Nancy Pickens Davis married a Mr. Thomas and lives near
Cleveland, Tennessee.
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-----E LOMA DAVIS, daughter of Henry B.
and Nancy Pickens Davis, married a Mr. Cleveland and lives at some place
in Idaho.
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-----D MARTHA PICKENS, the youngest
child of John and Nancy Bowen Pickens, was born January 13th, 1822, and
was the only
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child of John Pickens
to be born in Tennessee. She died in Cook County, Texas. December 13th,
1887. She married Warner Trew and their children were:
-----E Jess Trew,
-----E Reece Trew,
-----E Emma Trew,
-----E Barshie Trew.
-----This family all moved to Texas in 1869.
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-----C MARTHA PICKENS, daughter of
Captain Robert and Dorcas Hallum Pickens, was born June 15, 1776. Little
is known of her girlhood days, but when she was about seven years old
her parents moved from Abbeville county to Three and Twenty. About the
year 1800 she married John Smith, the son of Jeb Smith, and her father
gave them a plantation near his, on which they lived an died. It is
interesting to know that they built their log house one and one-half
stories high, eighteen feet wide and twenty-four feet long. It had a
shed room and a small plazza, in front and the house had a brick
chimney. years later the house was converted into a barn and the shed
room and plazza used as a wagon shed. Martha Pickens Smith died March
17th, 1818.
-----John Smith was a farmer
and blacksmith, an energetic honest and successful business man. He
joined the Methodist Church as soon as it was organized in his community
and lived a consistent religious life. He died September 26th,
1848.
-----The Smith had several
daughters, one of whom was Martha Smith who married Robert Pickens (son
of Captain Robert Pickens). Israel Smith and Joseph Smith married
daughters of John Pickens (son of Captain Robert Pickens).
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-----The
children of John and Martha pickens Smith were:
-----D Lucinda Smith,
-----D Talitha Smith,
-----D Sidney Smith,
-----D Miranda Smith,
-----D Mary A. Smith,
-----D John Collinsworth Smith,
-----D James Douthett Smith
-----D Andrew McKindrew Smith.
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and Martha Pickens Smith was born in South Carolina, September 16th,
1802, and died in Indiana, December 18th, 1870. She married James
Douthett Sims, a farmer and local Methodist minister and live in South
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Carolina and Georgia
for sometime, but moved to Indiana before their children were
grown.
-----The children of James Douthett
and Lucinda Smith Sims were:
-----E Mary Ann Talitha Sims,
-----E Martha Emeline Sims,
-----E John McPherson Sims,
-----E Eliza Jane Sims,
-----E Marinda Elizabeth Sims,
-----E Margaret Louisa Sims,
-----E James Addison Sims,
-----E Emily Amanda Sims.
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-----E MARY ANN TALITHA SIMS, daughter
of James Douthett Lucinda Smith Sims, was born in South Carolina, but
her parents moved to Indiana before she was grown. She married James
Wesley Higgins, a carpenter and cabinet maker. Their only child
was: F James B. Higgins.
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-----F JAMES B. HIGGINS, son of James
Wesley and Mary Ann Talitha Sims Higgins is a millwright. He married
Emeline Smith and they had two children:
G Estella Higgins,
G Pearl Higgins.
The second wife of James B. Higgins was
Elizabeth Stultz and their children were:
G Claude Higgins,
G Nellie Higgins.
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G ESTELLA HIGGINS, daughter of
James B. and Emeline Smith Higgins lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. She
married John S. Shoaf, a designer and manufacture of biscuit dies. They
have two daughters:
H Dorris Shoaff,
H Marie Shoaf.
G CALUDE HIGGINS, son of James B.
and Elizabeth Stultz Higgins is an electrician. He married Dana Lowden
and their daughter is:H Jeannette Higgins.
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E MARTHA EMELINE SIMS, daughter of
James Douthett and Lucinda Smith Sims, married Martin Van Buren
McQuinty, a
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farmer, and they moved
to Iowa. The following are the names of their children:
F Hannah McQuinty,
F Luella McQuinty.
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E JOHN McPHERSON SIMS, son of James
Douthett and Lucinda Smith Sims, was a contractor and builder, but later
in life became interested in farming, and superintended farming
interests until his death. He was greatly interested in his family
history, and when the Smith-Pickens Association was organized he became
its first president. he was married twice. At his first wedding there
was a double wedding ceremony, in which he was married to Emilyne Parr,
and his sister Emily Amanda Sims was married to his wife's brother, Dr.
J. Nelson Parr. After the death of his first wife he married Mrs. Jane
Ellen Scott-Port, of Knightstown, Indiana, and they lived at Kinghtstown
until his death.
The only child of
John McPherson and Emeline Parr Sims was:
F Charles Elliott Sims.
There were no children by the second
marriage.
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G HERBERT ELLIOTT SIMS, son of
Charles Elliott and Lula Pea Sims soon after the death of his father and
grandfather met with a fatal accident while crossing a
railroad.
E ELIZA JANE
SIMS, daughter of James Douthett and Lucinda Smith Sims, after the death
of her oldest sister was married to James Wesley Higgins, her
brother-in-law.
Names of their
children follow:
F Orra
Higgins,
F Margaret
Higgins,
F Malissa
Higgins,
F Emma
Higgins,
F William Addison
Higgins.
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