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Category: 183, Roland Skelton
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Joyce Mayberry - May 25,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    The 2nd little boy on left looks exactly like Carmack Skelton??
jm 		    
  
Rickey Westbrooks - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Jerry: I cropped and resized this photo and in the lower left corner it says: Amos Skelton Reunion Sep. 12 1938 Meredith photo. Great picture. Rick     
  
Jerry Tatum - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Thanks Rick. I am in the process of copying several hundred photos from this family and appreciate your cleaning up after me.     
  
Rickey Westbrooks - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Several hundred? Omg! That's wonderful! I did not know whether to repost the ones I dealt with or not. I've been learning alot about doing this stuff on different programs. I, also, did the Unknown group 1 photo. All the folks in it are surely of the same family. Every one of them favor so much!
It is quite the dilemna wondering what to do when you copy as many as you and I and others on the sites do. Like these 3 major ones you've just done. The old frames are incredible and beautiful and need to be preserved, yet they take up so much room and space in the computer and files. I have many where I've kept the original photo and the same dealt with picture. Same thing with the orignal where it is scanned in bitmap and I then save it, also, in jpeg. It's hard to decide what to do. No wonder I've ended up with multiples of so many here and there in different folders, etc. I have been working hard to try and narrow it all down, but, then, as in your case.....I truly look forward to more of these fine family pics! Rickey 		    
  
Jerry Tatum - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Well, I've created a problem here by renaming this photo and don't really know how to clear it up. These are Amos Andrew and Ada Blackwell. Amos is son of Samuel Moore Skelton and Ada is daughter of Robert Elijah Blackwell and Martha Jane Catherine Baker. Along with the photos is a tree of the Blackwell Family compiled by Edna Grimmitt and edited by Era Skelton.     
  
Joyce Mayberry - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Then that little boy is Carmack. Great photo.
jm 		    
  
Joyce Mayberry - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Looks like the first lady in the back is Carmack's mother.
jm 		    
  
Rickey Westbrooks - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Well, I'm glad you know more about the photos, now. I went into my Skelton pictures folder and there are so many that favor. Keep 'em coming.. Rick     
  
Jerry Tatum - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    So the lady directly behind Carmack is Lura Mae McDonald?     
  
Ann Tyler - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Jerry, If I may butt in the woman in the back row w glasses looks more like Lural Mae I remember seeing with my mother can't be sure but this is the picture I have in my mind.course we talking about between 40-50 years ago. At.     
  
Jerry Tatum - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    I know someone has names for everybody here. I haven't made that contact yet.     
  
Rickey Westbrooks - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    I agree, Ann. I've seen that woman a thousand times at the funeral home in Hohenwald, etc. I wonder how she is doing. I graduated with Bill McDonald and always thought highly of his Dad & Ms. Lura Mae. They were brother & sister. r.w.     
  
Joyce Mayberry - May 26,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Yes that is the one I meant, the lady in the back with glasses. She wore glasses early on.
Sorry if I did not make myself clear.
jm 		    
  
Joyce Mayberry - May 27,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    In 1920 this was the family
Amos Skelton 43
Ada Skelton 36
Adell Skelton 19
Herman Skelton 16
Era Skelton 14
Therman Skelton 10
Delia Skelton 12
Sherman Skelton 5
Rolland Skelton 3
And in 1930 this was the family household

Amos Skelton 54
Ada Skelton 46
Era Skelton 23
Therman Skelton 19
Sherman Skelton 15
Roland Skelton 13
Landon Skelton 10
Hazel Skelton 7

    
  
Anne Whitehead Archer - May 27,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Joyce, as soon as you said the little boy looked like Carmack, I had him, mrs. Lura and Mr Thurman ID... Thurman Skelton is the taller man standing to the right of Mrs. Lura. There is no doubt in my mind that these three are ID properly...
Mr. Thurman was a fine person as well as Willie Mac and Mrs. Lura, Ricky.. They were all friends with my parents from their younger days & always treated us almost like family. I surely miss them both everytime I have to go to McDonald's FH.
Mr. Thurman drove the ambulance that took my dad from the Lewis Co. Hospital to the TB Hospital in Nashville on Monday before he died the next Sunday.. My brother in law Edwin (Pop) Duncan rode with them. Pop said that Mr. Skelton cried when they left my dad there and started back to Hohenwald. He told Pop that my dad had always been such a good friend and he surely hated to leave him there because he knew that the next time he drove him amywhere, it would be to the funeral home; and of course, it was. I have always had a great deal of love & respect for that family. They were so kind and caring.

Carmack would have been 4 yrs and 14 days old when that photo was made.

Ricky; Mrs. Lura is a resident at Life Care in Columbia... Don't know how she is now but the last time I saw Carmack & Nancy was last Labor day wk-end, at the afternoon singing & Cemetery meeting; at the Flatrock Homecoming and Nancy told me that his mom was doing 'pretty well' at that time.
awa 		    
  
Joyce Mayberry - May 27,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Anne, when did Carmack's dad die or what year?
jm 		    
  
Brenda Willis Coleman - May 27,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Joyce, this is what is listed in my funeral home book about Carmack's dad. I always thought his name was spelled Thurman for some reason, but this is how it was listed on the funeral home records as Therman and in other records that I have seen.
Brenda

SKELTON, Therman Elijah
d: June 4, 1969 / Lewis Co.Hosp
b: March 30, 1911 / Wayne Co.,TN
a: 58 yrs,2 mo,5 da /McDonald FuneralHome Director[Nov.10,1952]
White/ Male/Married
SP: Lura Mae McDonald / a: 54 [ 2-28-1915]
F: Amos Skelton
M: Ada Blackwell
INF: Lura Mae Skelton
BUR: Swiss / Lewis Co.,TN
    
  
Joyce Mayberry - May 27,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Thanks Brenda, I thought he was not very old when he died.
jm 		    
  
Joyce S Tuverson - Aug 28,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Jerry, I've missed seeing these kinds of pictures since my computer died!! I
don't believe that I have ever seen a picture of Amos and Ada, and this is
wonderful. He was a half brother to my grandmother Martha L. Skelton
Whitehead. My daughter met a lady that is from this family a few years
ago. Her husband was in the nursing home, and later passed away. My
daughter kept in touch with her for a long time, and her name may have been Iva??
Thanks much, Joyce T. 		    
  
Alva Warren Westland - Aug 28,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Joyce, the picture I posted for you, Iva Nell, Horald and Lou Ann Skelton are the children of Herman and Ada Pope Skelton. Another pic of Iva Nell and I think Lou Ann was posted abt a week ago. Ada's twin sister, Ida was my grandfathers Jim Higgins 2nd wife. I remember Iva Nell and Lou Ann looking as they did in the pic. Iva so fair and natural blond and Lou A. darker hair and complection. Both pretty girls and Horald was very handsome.     
  
Anne Whitehead Archer - Sep 01,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Thanks, Brenda.
this is the first time I have been back to this page in a while so did not see Joyce's question and I couldn't have answered it anyway... I was living in CT at the time of my dad's death (Aug. 1967 ) and was still up there when Therman died as well... I don't remember knowing about his death until I came back here to live in 1969. I had no idea that he had died less than two years after my dad. I was not taking the Lewis Co Herald at that time, although I have taken it off and on since I left Hohenwald. I am not going to re-up my current subscription though, since the obits and most of the news which I am interested in is on their online site now. AND I do get the obit e-mails from Richard.

Alva, (or anyone who can) please help me with the geneaology of Ada & Ida Pope. I have Ada as a daughter of Joseph Cary & Rachel Treadwell Pope and have 9 siblings for her but none are Ida and none have the same DOB as ADA... I have her birth date as 04 Jun 1901. Can anyone tell me if this is correct?? If anyone needs the other siblings names & dobs I will be glad to share. Also are Iva Nell, Horald & Lou Ann all of Herman & Ada's children and do you have their Dobs and whom they married... Would love to have these to put in my tree.
I just updated my family Tree Maker to Version 16 and I am not sure that I like it as well as I did the old model. [I was still using version 9]. I guess this is like so many things in life---as you get older change is harder to deal with and it just seems more cumbersome to me than being an improvement. Is anyone else using this version or a newer one? and how do you like it??

Thanx, Anne 		    
  
Boyce Edwards Morris/Fayette Co - Sep 02,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Anne, I am also using version 16 and there are good and bad things in it. When you go into the 'Edit' below the names, when you go to type in the burial place for the person, it doesn't add it automatically when the first few letters are typed in like in the old ones. A good thing is you can open up more than one FTM if you have more than one family group going, such as the paternal and maternal lines separated. Also, it shows the parents of the Husband and Wife without having to open the next window to see them.
I used Version 7 so long, that it was hard getting used to the Version 16, but all in all, I wouldn't change back. Boyce 		    
  
Darryl Luna - Aug 30,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    I used to think it was Brewers, Kelly and Nuts that dominated the landscape (which I am a very minor member of this heritage) now I see the truth. There are a bunch of you and thank the Good Lord for You     
  
Joyce S Tuverson - Aug 31,2009   Viewers  | Reply
    Darryl, It was Brewers, Kellys, and Nutts, and Staggs was what I always heard,
but if all of our Skelton family had lived around Wayne County, we would have
shown them!!! lol We don't even have to claim some of our relatives...Joyce
    
  
Joyce Mayberry - Feb 02,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Bringing up this pic for Mancel.
jm 		    
  
 - Feb 02,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Greaaat picture! Does anyone have names for all these people? Some of the gentlemen could pass for my uncles!
Mancel 		    
  
Joyce S Tuverson - Feb 02,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    I never knew most of the family, but everyone knew Miss Era Skelton, because she was a teacher for many years. She is standing directly behind Amos Andrew, and she has a black dress trimmed in white. I know the faces of some of the others, but don't know their names. Also, I think that Roland may be the last man on the right on the porch, but
I'm not sure. I really like this pic too. Joyce T. 		    
  
Jerry Tatum - Feb 02,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Well, I see I need to try and find someone with names for these people. I have shown it to Rosalind Trammel Minatra and she cannot name any others than have already been identified. Suggestions as to who to contact?
I know I have seen many of these people. The woman front row right looks very familiar. 		    
  
Joyce S Tuverson - Feb 04,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Jerry, I know that several of these people have descendants in Wayne
County. I'm not sure, but is Leo Skelton from this family? Joyce T. 		    
  
Jerry Tatum - Feb 04,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Leo and Tommy are from Amos Henry's family but I'm still looking. Carolyn and Hilda Nutt are from this family.     
  
Ann Tyler - Feb 04,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Jerry, I have Carloyn and Hilda children of Rex Nutt and Leva Opal Mathis Nutt is this the Carloyn and Hilda you refered too.I have Opal Parents as Ester Parthena Skelton and Pete Mathis,if this the one I need who Ester Parthena. Parents were.( this is my line through the Nutt and Mathis. thanks in advance AT.     
  
Jerry Tatum - Feb 04,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    I have her parents as Amos Andrew Skelton (05 Feb 1876- 10 Oct 1940) and Ada Blackwell (15 Sep 1882-09 Feb 1952) I have him born in Hickman County and buried in Whitehead Ceme at Topsy.
I have her listed as Esther Parthenia but that means very little. There has been some doubt in my mind about her since I saw some census record listing her as Esther Blackwell along with other children listed as Skelton. I have no other marriage record for Ada Blackwell and have not examined this doubt. 		    
  
Joyce S Tuverson - Feb 05,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Esther Skelton's parents were Amos Andrew and Ada Blackwell Skelton.
I have that she was born Jan. 4, 1900, died Oct. 31, 1952. She md.
Pete Mathis, June 30, 1918, and both are buried at Whitehead Cemetery.
Pete Mathis was born May 9, 1900-died June 30, 1935. Pete was the
son of Bryant Mathis and Sarah 'Sallie' Hickerson, and I'm sure that
Shirley has all of the info on this family. Joyce T. 		    
  
Shirley DuPont - Feb 05,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Yes, Uncle Pete was my grandpa Dock Mathis's brother. He was first married to Pearl Beatty on Dec. 12,1917 Wayne Co. They had no children and Pearl died shortly after their marriage. I have no other info on her. Then He married Esther Parathenia Skelton on June 30,1918. They had 8 children and Uncle Pete got burned really bad at the sawmill when a boiler blew up and lived just a short time (That's what my mom had told me and she gave me a picture of him in his casket which I still have} Esther was the daug. of Amos Andrew and Ada Blackwell Skelton. Uncle Pete and Aunt Esther had 8 children.. 6 daug. one son and 1 inf.to die at brith.     
  
Boyce Edwards Morris/Fayette Co - Feb 06,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Joyce, I think I have the wrong death date for Pete Mathis. I have Sept. 08, 1935. I will go check out the stone for him . Is the Whitehead Cemetery in Wayne County ??? Thanks, Boyce     
  
Joyce S Tuverson - Feb 06,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Boyce, Whitehead Cemetery is in Wayne County, right in the Topsy area.
I could have the date wrong too?? My aunt has told me about how Pete
got burned so bad, and left his wife and little children. Shirley, I didn't
have the info on his marriage to Pearl Beatty. Thanks, Joyce T. 		    
  
Jerry Tatum - Feb 06,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    I have Pete Mathis death 08 Sept 1935 from his gravestone.     
  
Joyce S Tuverson - Feb 09,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Jerry, I checked the date, and you are right. I had picked up part of another date!! These eyes do get older every day...lol, Joyce T.     
  
Jane Brewer - Feb 04,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    second row from the back fourth from the left is lois mathis trammell, her sister linda M.staggs and in front of her is opal nutt     


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