150 THE PICKENS FAMILY Weaver College and attended State University. He is an auditor and accountant and served as auditor of Buncombe County. He married Grace Lee. Children:      G  Grady Regan, Jr. - 0 -      F  JAMES ROBERT REAGAN, son of James J. and Caroline Pickens Reagan, was born January 27th, 1892. Like his father, he is a civil engineer and lives at Weaverville, N.C.      On October 10th 1917 he married Belle Norewood of Jacksonville Fla., who was born December 6th, 1894. She is a gifted musician and has been organist at the Weaverville Methodist church for a number of yaers. Children: G Gloria Reagan, G  Robert Norwood Reagan. - 0 -      F  ERNEST McDOWELL REAGAN, son of James J. and Caroline Pickens Reagan, was born Februrary 17th, 1894. He attended Weaver College. He has an excellent voice and has been much used in choral groups. He is also soloist at the Weaverville Methodist church.      On April 18th 1917 he married Zola Rowe, who was born December 31st, 1897. Children: G  Ethel Elaine Regan, G  Lois Reagan, G  Ernest McDowell Reagan, Jr., G  James J. Reagan. - 0 -      F  CARROLL PICKENS REAGAN, son of James J. and Caroline Pickens Reagan was born August 8th, 1896. His business is that of a bookkeeper and merchant.      On June 22nd 1922 he married Annie Shope, who was born September 2nd, 1898. They have one child:      G  Susie Reagan. - 0 -      F  MARY CAROLINE REAGAN, daughter of James J. and Caroline Pickens Reagan was born August 17th, 1898. She has a fine soprano voice and does a great deal of solo work in the clubs and churches.      She married Melvin Blalock Tilson, whose business is that of a salesman. Childen: G  Lucile Tilson, G  Melvin Blalock Tilson, Jr.

F. T. Pickens, Rev. C. M. Pickens. Dr. J. N. Gill; Seated: Mrs. Caroline Pickens Regan    Rev. Pickens and Dr. Gill have furnished the reunion association with the only two presidents it had from its organization through 1930.

151  THE PICKENS FAMILY      E  DR JAMES FORGY PICKENS, son of Rev. Robert Wesley an Susan Forgy Pickens was born July 19, 1861. He was educated at Weaver College, and bec;ame a popular dentist at Asheville, N. C. He was a member of the Methodist Church and was a steward in his church. He was Sunday School Secretary for a number of years, and served on the Conference Epworth League Board and on the Missionary Board.      He married Minnie Johnson; a successful teacher in the Asheville City Schools. No children. - 0 -      E  J. WILEY PICKENS, son of Rev. Robert Wesley and Susan Forgy Pickens was born March 20, 1863 and died October 3, 1900. Never married. - 0 -      E  MARY PICKENS, daughter of Rev. Robert Wesley and Susan Forgy Pickens was born in North Carolina. Married John Bolton. - 0 -      E  REV. CORNELIUS MILLER PICKENS, son of Rev. Robert Wesley and Susan Forgy Pickens was born at Weaverville, N. C., January 20th, 1867. He was educated at Weaver college, graduateing there in 1889. for two years following his graducation he taught at Big Creek, Tennessee. On September 3rd, 1892 he was licensed to preach andjoined the Holston Conference. In 1898 he transferred to the Western North Caroina Conference. Since that timehe has been in the pastorate in Western North Carolina except two years while serving as president of Davenport College, and the past two years during which timehe has been serving as Presiding Elder of the Waynesvile District.      He has served as secretary and treasurer of the Estern North Caroina Conference Brotherhood. The Holston conference of the Mothodist Church was organized in 1824, and in 1924 when it celebrated its centennial in Knoxville where it was organized, he was sent by the Western North CarolinaConference to take part in the celebration. He was elected to, andattended the General Conference of the Mothodist Episcopal Church, South, which met in Dallas, Texas in May, 1930. He is a trustee of Weaver College andhas founded a loan fund known as "The Robert Wesley Pickens Loan Fund" in memory of his father. The original amount of this fund was one thousand dollars but it so arranged that it grows all the time.      For thirteen years he has served as the president of the Andrew Pickens Reunion Association of the North Carolina branch of

152  THE PICKENS FAMILY the Pickens family. During this time the association has adopted a constitution, and begun the formation of an "Andrew Pickens Loan fund" the income from which all be used to assist worthy members of the family to get an education.      On October 29th, 1895, Rev. Cornelius Miller Pickens was united in marriage to Emma Watts, daughter of Sylvester and Celia Stanton Watts, of Fairmont, Ga. Their children are: F  Wiley Miller Pickens, F  Robert Sylvester Pickens, F  Marion Walker Pickens, F  Marshall Ivey Pickens, F  Stanton Watts Pickens. - 0 -      F  WILEY MILLER PICKENS, son of Rev. Cornelius Miller and Emma Lucind Watts Pickens was born September 21st, 1896. Graduated from Weaver College in 1914, Duke University in 1916, and is now superintendent of the schools at Lincolnton, N.C. He has joined the Sons of the American Revolution on the record of Captain Robert Pickens who served in the Revolutionary War on the personal staff of General Andrew Pickens. He married Blanche Ingram of Mt. Gilead, N.C. they have a daughter G  Cellia Pickens. - 0 -      F  ROBERT SYLVESTER PICKENS, son of Rev. Cornelius Miller and Emma Lucinda Watts Pickens was born December 12, 1899. He is a member of the Southern Division Staff of the Associated Press. On April 26, 1924 he married Vinton Liddell of Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the author of the book "War Clouds over Europe." They had two children: G  Jane Pickens, G  Cornelia Staton Pickens. - 0 -      F  MARION wALKER PICKENS, son of C.M. and Emma Watts Pickens was born at Mount Pleasant, N.C., March 7, 1902. He attended Trinity College one year then worked and traveled in may parts of the United States, returned to college andentered Duke University for his degree. - 0 -      F  MARSHALL IVEY PICKENS, son of Rev. C.M. and Emma Watts Pickens was born at Pinesville, N. C., January 23rd, 1902. He was graduated from Duke University. He was principal of the school at the Methodist Orphanage in Raleigh for two years, and is now connected with the Hospital and Orphanage Department of the Duke Endowment, at Charlotte, N.C.

153  THE PICKENS FAMILY      F  STANTON WATTS PICKENS, son of Rev. C.M. and Emma Watts Pickens was born in Pineville, N.C., September 6, 1906. He received his education at Duke University, taking his A.B. degree. He taught one year in the High school of Winston-Salem, and then studied one year at Law school of Harvard University. For one year he was connected with R.H. Macy in New York, and is now with Davison-Paxon, a Macy store in Atlanta, Ga. - 0 -      E  REV CHRISTLEY ANDREW PICKENS, the fourth child of Rev. Andrew and Catherine Weaver Pickens was born near Weaverville, N. C., February 24th, 1829 and died at High Point, N.C., March 3rd, 1908. At a tender age he decided to enter the ministry. He attended the public schools of Buncombe County, taught for a few years, but soon took up his lifework as a minister, in the Methodist Protestant Church which was organized at Mt. Zion, the first church of this denomination west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Soon after this, he with his little family moved t Ellijay, Georgia, and lived there near his wife's relatives. In 1864 they returned to North Carolina. After the close of the Civil War he was sent to Halifax Circuit in Western North Carolina and he with his family lived in Enfield for a few years. In 1872 hemoved to Yadkin College, DavidsonCounty, to educate his children and built a permanent home but continued his work as minister until 1899 when he retired fromactive service in the Conference.      After the deathof his wife at Lexington, N.C., in 1897 Rev. Christley Andrew Pickens lived most of the time with the family of his son, Rupert T. Pickens in Lexington and High Point, N.C. On Marc 3rd 1908, just after his seventy-ninth birthday, he with his little grandson, Rupert, Jr., spent the day with his friend, Rev. J. H. Molton, and was in his usual fine spirits and robust health. A few minutes after reaching his home, he suffered a stroke of paralysis, and expired before a physician could reach him. He was taken back to Lexington, out to Shiloh Cemetery, where he was buried by the side of the ove of his youth.      Rev. Christley Andrew Pickens as a man of beautiful child-like faith. To any question of doubt he always answered thus:"It is true because we find it in the bible." He was possessed of a bright sunny disposition, and won many friends by his jokes and sallies of wit. In his younger days he had a good voice and was in demand by this brother preachers as a helper in the old-time revivials and camp meetings because he loved to sing.      On April 4th, 1854 Rev. Christley Pickens and Sophina Carolina Dillingham were married.

MARTHA CATHERINE PICKENS CARTER, daughter of Rev. Andrew and Catherine Weaver Pickens. Photo is about 100 years old.

154 THE PICKENS FAMILY Rev. Christley Andrew and Sophina Dillingham Pickens were the parents of three children, only two of whom reached maturity as follows: F  Rupert Tarpley Pickens, F  Emma Pickens - 0 -      F  RUPERT TARPLEY PICKENS, son of REv. Christley Andrew and Sophina Dillingham Pickens was born in Buncombe County, N.C., April 4th, 1856. He graduated from yadkin College, N.C. After this he studied law at the University of Michigan, at Ann ARbor, graduating with the clas of 1886 with the degree of L.L.B., and became an able lawyer. Among the offical positions held by him were Representative in the legislature, mayor of Ellijay, Ga., Mayor of Lexington, N.C. After practicing law several different places, he returned to his native State, and on November 22nd, 1899 married Blanch Armfield of High Point, N.C.      The children of Rupert Tarpley and Blanch ARmfield Pickens are: G  Wyatt Andrew Pickens, G  Lucile Armfield Pickens, G  Rupert Tarpley Pickens, G  Virginia Britt PIckens, G  Annette Emily Pickens. - 0 -      G  WYATT ANDREW PICKENS, son of Rupert t. and Blanch Armfield Pickens was born in Lexington, N.C., August 4th, 1900. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, June 1922 with A.B. degree, and from same university with A. M. degree in June 1924. Spent the summer of 1923 in Spain. Studied in Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1924-1925. In September, 1925 went to Suth America with pan American Highway Commission. In summer of 1926 was employed in Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Returned to Harvard in September, 1926 for Ph. D. Degree, and while taking this degree taught Romantic Languages. He is now teacing in a university in Louisiana. - 0 -      G  LUCILE ARMFIELD PICKENS, daughter of Rupert T. and Blanch Armfield Pickens was born January 30th, 1902. After finishing her high school educatio she entered Salem College in 1919 at winston-Salme, NC., where she studied one year and wnet to Western maryland College, Westminister, Maryland. After returning home she taught at Wadesboro City Schools, 1923-24. Studied Pipe Organ at Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Md., 1925-26, afther which she returned home an became assistant in the City Library at High Point.

155  THE PICKENS FAMILY      G  RUPERT T. PICKENS,Jr., son of Rupert T. and Blanch Armfield Pickens was born in Lexington, N.C., June 28th, 1904. Graduated from University of North Carolina with a.B. degree and Phi Beta honors in June 1925. In 1926 he returned to the University of North Carolina and took a law course, and is now a popular and efficent lawyer at High Point, N.C. He married Ida Munyon in 1928. - 0 -      G  VIRGINIA BRITT PICKENS, daughter of Rupert T. andBlanch Armfield Pickens was born at High Point, N.C., July 23rd, 1907. After finishing her high school education she entered college at High Point, N.C. where she finished in 1929. On June 7, 1930 she married Robert G.Garland. - 0 -      G  ANNETTE EMIY PICKENS, daughter of Ropert T. and Balnch Armfield Pickens was born i Hight Point, N.C., January 3rd, 1910. She was a student in High Point High Schools in 1926. - 0 -      D  MARTHA CATHERINE PICKENS, the fifth child of Rev. Andrew And Catherine Weaver Pickens was born May 27th, 1831 and died December 1st, 1890. She married William Henry Carter January 26th, 1848. William Henry Carter was born, February 1st, 1825 and died January 10th, 1913. children: E  Delila Alvira Carter, E  Solomon Andrew Carter, E  Hannah Catherine Carter, E  Margaret Amanda Carter, E  Eliza Talitha Carter, E  Samuel Tarpley Carter E  Mary Etta Carter. - 0 -      E  DELILA ALVIRA CARTER, daughter of Willia Henry and Martha Catherine Pickens Carter, was born February 9th, 1850 and died in August, 1854. - 0 -      E  SOLOMON ANDREW CARTER, son of William Henry and Martha Catherine Pickens Carter was born May 9th, 1852. He married Pauline McNair, March 29th 1886 and ived in Buncombe County, N.C. They did not hav any children of their own but reared an adopted daughter.

156  THE PICKENS FAMILY      E  HANNAH CATHERINE CARTER, daughter of William Henry andMartha Catherine Pickens Carter was born May 10th, 1855 and on May 27th, 1872 married John Brigman. Children: F  Leona Louise Brighman, F  Nannie May Brigman, F  Charles Lewis Brigman, F  Mary Ollie Brigman. - 0 - F  LEONA LOUISE BRIGMAN, daughter of John and Hannah Catherine Carter Brigman married a Mr. Chambers.      F  NANNIE MAY BRIGMAN, daughter of John andHannah Catherine Carter Brigman married Anderson B. Nix, a prosperous farmer of North Carlina. Anderson B. Nix was born July 8, 1874, and was married April 19th, 1894 G  May Eliza Nix, G  Carl Lee Nix, G  Myrtle Ollie Sue Nix, G  Woodrow Nix. - 0 -      G  MAY ELIZA NIX, daughter of Anderson B. and Nannie May Brigman Nix was born March 14th, 1897 and married J. E. Nesbitt January 21st, 1913. Children H  Martha Evelyn Nesbit, H  James E. Nesbitt, Jr., H  Dorothy Elva Nesbitt, H  Mildred Mae Nesbitt. - 0 -      G  MYTRLE OLLIE SUE NIX, daughter of Anderson b. and Nannie May Brigman Nix was born Jun 2nd, 1902, and on December 18, 1927 married W.D. Marrey. - 0 -      G  WOODROW NIX, so of anderson B. and Nannie May Brigman Nix was born October 11th, 1912 and died November 12th, same years. - 0 -      F  CHARLES LEWIS BRIGMAN, sn of John and Hannah Catherine Carter Brigman was born April 13th, 1879. On april 8th, 1901 he was married to Matilda Blankenship, who was born July 2, 1884. - 0 -      F  MARY OLLIE GRIGMAN, daughter of John and Hannah Catherine Carter Brigman was born November 12th, 1882. On January 2nd, 1907 she married James Greer Kincaid. He was born

157  THE PICKENS FAMILY August 11, 1881 and is a member of the firm of Kincaid-Swain Furniture Company of Asheville, N. C. Children G  Margaret Elizabeth Kincaid, G  Florence Lee Kincaid. - 0 -      G  MARGARET ELIZABETH KINCAID, daughter of James Greer and Mary Ollie Brigman Kinciad was born Septmeber 22nd, 1907, and on June 11th 1929 married William Berger Nichols of Asheville, N.C. - 0 -      G  FLORENCE LEE KINCAID, daughter of James Greer and Mary Ollie Brigman Kinciad was born July 29th, 1909 and is a student at North Carlina College for Women, at Greenvoro. - 0 -      E  MARGARET AMANDA CARTER,daughter of Henry and Martha Chatherine Carter was born May 29th, 1858 and died in1892. She married D.c. Holcombe June 7th, 1882. No Children. - 0 -      E  SAMUEL TARPLEY CARTER, son of William Henry and Martha Catherine Pickens Carter was born May 13th, 1867, and on October 12th, 1904 was united in marriage to rolla Sue Roberts. He died February 9th, 1911. Children: f  Martha Elizabeth Carter, F  William Andrew Carter. - 0 -      E  MARTHA ELIZABETH CARTER,daughter of Samuel Tarpley and Rola Sue Roberts Carter was born March 29th, 1906. She graduated from Weaver College in 1925 and from duke University in 1929. - 0 -   &:nbsp;  E  MARY ETTA CARTER, daughter of William Henry and Martha Catherine Pickens Carer was born January 9th, 1873. On November 14th, 1895, she was united in marriage toJohn Elverson Smathers, a successiful business man of Asheville, N. C., sho was born June 5th, 1860. They are living at their attractive home at No. 36 Macon Ave., Asheville, N. C. Two daughters: F  Thelma Virginia Smathers, F  Elizabeth Pauline Smathers. - 0 -      F  THELMA VIRGINIA SMATHERS, daughter ofJohn Elverson andMary Etta Carter Smathers was born September 14th, 1896, in Asheville, N.C., where she grew to womanhood. For two years she was leader of the Robert E. Lee chapter of the Children of the Confederacy, winning the Ricks Banner for the best chapter report in the United States. She is a member of the D.A.R. So-

158  THE PICKENS FAMILY ciety on the Robert Pickens line and organized the Western North Carolina district of the Children of the American Revolution.  &:nbsp;  : On November 25th, 1925 she ws united in marriage to robert Henry Johnson of Sylvester, Ga. Daughter: G  Henrietta Claire Johnson. - 0 -      F  ELIZABETH PAULINE SMATHERS, second daughter of John Elverson and Mary Etta Carter Smathers was born in Asheville, North Carolina, January 7th, 1898. In 1915, she was graduated from the Asheville School for Girls. The folling September she entered Agnes Scott College at Decatur, Georgia, andspent two years. In 1917 she entered the Normal College of the americian Gymnastic Union, at Indianapolis, Indiana, completing the course at this institution in two years. The Fall of 1919, she entered Duke University, Durham, N.C., where she spent a year as instructor in physical education for the women students, and completed the requirements for her degree. Following this for eight years, she directe girls athletics and taught physical education, for six years being in charge of the physical education for girls in the high schools of Asheville. In 1928 she entered Teacher's College of Columbia University ,New York City, and recieved the degree of Master of Arts. - 0 -      D  MARGARET SUSANNAH PICKENS, the youngest daughter of Rev. Andrew and Cathereine Weaver Pickens was born July 22nd, 1835, and died September 2nd, 1929, at the age of ninety-four years. At the time of her death she was liing with her youngest son, Joseph Andrew Ray at Grouse, Oregon.      She was married twice. Her first marriage was on December 27th, 1857 to James Bachus Ray, who was born May 12th, 1835 and died December 21, 1861 of measles while in the Confederate Army. Her scond marriage was t Nathan Ray.      The children of James Bachus and Margaret Susannah Pickens Ray were: E  Rupert Tarpley Ray, E  Telitha Ray, E  Martha Ray.      The children of Nathan and Margaret Susannah Pickens Ray were: E  Sidney Ray, E  Julia Ray, E  Robert Ray, E  Joseph Andrew Ray.

MARGARET SUSANNAH PICKENS RAY, youngest daughter of Rev Andrew and Catherine Weaver Pickens.   We regret that we were not able to get the picture of Eliza Pickens Gill or of Christley Andrew Pickens to use with these of James Tarpley, Robert Wesley, Martha Catherine and Margaret Susannah (of the six children of Rev. Andrew).

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