THE
BACKTRACKERã
VOLUME
I
October 1972
NUMBER IV
Contents..................................................................................................................................1
New Members and Policies.....................................................................................................2
Presidents Notes and
Advertisement.....................................................................................3
Index to Carroll Co. Biographies..............................................................................................4
The biographies are
from Goodspeeds History of
In Memory of Beaver Families
by Donna Cooper....................................................................5
William Bill
Beaver was born 1781 in
portion of the information
in the article is from Goodspeeds History of
Franklin Co.,
These clippings are
from the diary of Mrs. T. H. Moore and were originally
published under the
column Long, Long Ago in the newspaper, The
Spectator. The entries
are dated from
They include the names
of visitors to
weather.
Carroll and Madison Co. Census...............................................................................7,
8, 9, 10
This concludes the
1840 Census, continued from Volume 1 Issue III.
Straw Ancestry, By Mrs. Wardlaw.......................................................................11,
12, 13, 14
My Straw Ancestry
by Muriel E. Wardlaw is a family history beginning with
Richard, the immigrant
from probably Scotland, prior to the Revolutionary
War.
Obituaries from
These are copied from
the
February 1972. It only
includes individuals born prior to 1910. There is an
alphabetized list of surnames,
B through D.
As I Remember It, By Mrs. Jane Jennings.................................................................17,
18
As I Remember
It by Jane Kaylor Jennings recaptures an interview with
her
grandfather, Walter
Kaylor, age 96, of
surnames mentioned are: Rose,
Crouch, Spencer,
Queries..........................................................................................................19,
20, 21, 22, 23
Index.....................................................................................................................................24
This
Surname Index is the original index from the Backtracker.
NAME |
PAGE |
|
|
|
|
ADAMS |
6 |
|
AKRIGHT |
16 |
|
ARMSTRONG |
6 |
|
ARRINGTON |
6 |
|
BACON |
13 |
|
BAILEY |
15 |
|
BAKER |
15 |
|
BATES |
18 |
|
BEARD
|
15 |
|
BEAVER |
5 |
|
BECK |
15 |
|
|
6 |
|
BOATWRIGHT |
15 |
|
BOX |
15 |
|
BOYD |
6 |
|
BRACE |
15 |
|
BRITT |
6 |
|
BURNETT |
15 |
|
CALLIER |
16 |
|
|
15 |
|
CARLSON |
15 |
|
|
17 |
|
CARTER |
6,15 |
|
CASEY
|
15 |
|
CHEATBONE |
15 |
|
CLANTON |
16 |
|
CLARK |
15 |
|
CLAYPOOL |
15 |
|
CLAYTON |
15 |
|
CLINE |
15 |
|
CLOTHIER |
16 |
|
CLOWER |
16 |
|
COLBURN |
6 |
|
COMBS |
16 |
|
CONATZER |
6 |
|
COOK |
16 |
|
CORNWALLIS |
11 |
|
COTTON |
6 |
|
|
12 |
|
COWAN |
16 |
|
COX |
16 |
|
CRANDELL |
14 |
|
CRATES |
15 |
|
CROUCH |
17 |
|
CUNDIFF |
16 |
|
CURTIS |
|
|
DAHLSTROM |
16 |
|
DANIEL |
16 |
|
DART |
16 |
|
DAVIDSON |
6,16 |
|
|
16 |
|
|
16 |
|
DEATHERAGE |
15 |
|
DeCALB |
11 |
|
DEMMELMAIER |
15 |
|
ELSEY |
6 |
|
EVANS |
5 |
|
FINE |
16 |
|
FISBEY |
12,14 |
|
FORD |
15 |
|
GARNER |
6 |
|
GASKINS |
5 |
|
GATES |
11 |
|
GEROLD |
16 |
|
GOOD |
16 |
|
GREENE |
16 |
|
GREER |
6 |
|
HALL |
6 |
|
HAMBRIGHT |
6 |
|
HARDCASTLE |
5 |
|
HARTMAN |
16 |
|
HESLER |
16 |
|
|
6 |
|
HOLDEN |
6 |
|
HOWELL |
12,13 |
|
|
6,17 |
|
KAYLOR |
17,18 |
|
KEEGER |
16 |
|
KEITH |
18 |
|
|
15 |
|
LEVINE |
14 |
|
MACKIE |
16 |
|
MAJOR |
16 |
|
|
6 |
|
MARTIN |
15,16 |
|
MATHES |
6 |
|
McKINLEY |
6 |
|
MOLLISON |
15 |
|
MONTAGUE |
6 |
|
|
6 |
|
MULLINS |
14 |
|
MYERS |
16 |
|
NAILOR |
6 |
|
|
16 |
|
NICHOLS |
6 |
|
OLIVER |
15 |
|
|
15 |
|
PARKER |
18 |
|
PARMAN |
16 |
|
PENDERGARSS |
5 |
|
POLLOCK |
15 |
|
PORTER |
16 |
|
POTTER |
15 |
|
RANDOLPH |
16 |
|
REYNOLDS |
6 |
|
RICE |
15 |
|
RICHARDSON |
6 |
|
ROSE |
17 |
|
ROWLAND |
6 |
|
SADLER |
6 |
|
SHOCKLEY |
16 |
|
SITLESS |
15 |
|
SNETHEN |
15 |
|
SPENCER |
17 |
|
|
6 |
|
STARR |
18 |
|
STOCKBURGER |
16 |
|
STRAUGHN, STRAWN |
11,12,13,14 |
|
TEAGUE |
15 |
|
THOMPSON |
16 |
|
TRAINOR |
12,13,14 |
|
TURNER |
6 |
|
VALENTINE |
6 |
|
WAGNER |
6 |
|
WAITS |
5 |
|
|
6 |
|
WALL |
6 |
|
WALLACE |
15 |
|
WALTING |
6 |
|
WARNER |
6 |
|
|
15 |
|
WITT |
15 |
|
WITHERS |
6 |
|
WYNN |
12,13 |
|
YATES |
15 |
|
|
6 |
|
My grandfather, Walter
Kaylor, is an extraordinary man.
His mind is sharp, his memory phenomenal, and his physical
stamina has allowed him to survive eight major operations.
Yet, in the matter of age, the
Grandpa, you were born on March 11th,
right? And youre 96 years
old?
Yep, I was born in 1876.
Do you realize that you were born during
the U.S. Centennial?
Well, I declare!
I guess I was!
Where exactly were you born?
I was born in
When did you come to
When I was five years old.
Did you come in a wagon?
No.
We rode a train. I
still remember it.
Grandpa Kaylor has lived, since moving west
from
Tell me about your parents.
My dads name was Jim and my mothers
name was Martha Rose--Rose was her last name--and she died when
I was real young. My dad married again in
about a year. He married a nineteen year
old womern.
(No typing error--Grandpa says womern!) She was a widder
with a baby and her name was Bell Crouch Spencer. They say she came to the
house, I peeped through a hole in the door at her and said, I
see you, Maw!. (Remembering this, he laughs.)
What about your schooling?
I didnt start to school until I
was nine. I went for eight years. One of the schools I went
to was called Six-Bits, Haw Haw!
And how about when you met Grandma? (My grandmother, Allie
Mae Carson Kaylor, was born in 1883 (?), and died on July 4, 1970.)
Oh, she was real purty
and all the boys liked her.
Once she was ridin in a buggy with a feller and to
tease me he says, Hey, she says she wishes you were up here
in the place of me, and I says, Well, so do I!
Anyway, we got married when she was nineteen and I was
twenty-six. The first
year we lived in
Grandma was always so delicate. Did she help you farm?
(He chuckles)
One year we picked ten bales of cotton between us.
Me eight and her two!
(Walter and Allie Kaylor had four children. Raymond, who died in the
flu epidemic in 1918, Mrs. Modena Bates
of Barling, Arkansas, my father, Avery
Kaylor, who lived in Lavaca and who died in 1966, and Mrs. Golda
Keith of Inglewood, California.)
Tell me what
Well, the main street (
What in the world do you mean by that?
I mean there wasnt many buildings,
and when they started
Did you see many Indians in
Yes.
But they had on regular clothes.
Oh, Ill tell you something.
My pappy served on Judge Parkers jury lots of times.
Id take him to
I never knew that!
Yep, and somethin
else. Once I was standing on
the street in
Grandpa, thats so exciting. And before I go I want
to ask you something. Why
do you think youve been permitted to live such a long life,
and been allowed to keep so mentally alert?
Well sir, I think the secret is that
I dont never dwell on it.
I just go on the best I can.
At that moment, a female attendant came in
with some medication and a pat for his gray head.
Grandpa still has a way with a womern.
Note: Walter William Kaylor is of German descent. The original spelling of
his last name is Koehler.