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home at Lone Mountain. (Big Sycamore Creek)
Left to right are: Daniel, Lucy Janeway Farmer, Ethel
Farmer, John Guy Farmer, Mary Elizabeth Baumgardner Farmer.
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This is a picture of
the home of Josephine Farmer Reece and Hiram Reece, Jr. They are making molasses.
The woman stirring the molasses is Rosa Reece Clement. I do not know the
location of the Reece home. In one of the Claiborne County books there is
a photo of Howerton School which it says is in Howard’s Quarter on Big Sycamore
Road. Josephine’s son, Bluford is a child in the photo so I expect they
lived in that area.
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All the people in this
photo were identified but the house is still a mystery. For ID and more
Farmer, Baumgardner and Stone pics click here.
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A picture of the Hugh
Farmer, Sr. farm on Clinch River along base of Comby Ridge. Daniel inherited
the part of the farm on the far left. His sister, Sarah Manila Farmer Loop
inherited the portion in the main part of the picture. Maybe the old log
house was on her property. The Loops moved to Oregon – I’m not sure when.
Ann says, "In the late 1940s my Uncle Guy Farmer took Mother and me by
boat to the site of their old home. The water was low enough we could get
out and walk about a bit. The stone that was their door step (I think) was
still there. That day was very difficult for Mother." I think that his
farm was where Sycamore Creek enters the Clinch River.
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A description of the
Daniel Farmer property from TVA as it may help you identify the location.
This farm is on the main channel of the Clinch River because of the boundry
of Claiborne and Grainger Counties. Big Sycamore Creek is boardered on both
sides by Claiborne County. That looks like Lone Mountain in the background.
Anyone hazard a guess. The picture next to this is of Daniel Farmer outside
a log house structure. Ann Dogde and I both think that this log structure
may have been on this property.
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Zillow image of 1984 Piney Grove Road, just off Hwy. 33 towards Sneedville.
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Pictures are Charles
F. Baumgardner and wife, Lizzie Wilson Baumgardner. Lizzie's mother is also
in the picture but I don't know which one she is. Don't know the 4th person.
Charlie’s son, James Baumgardner has modernized the house and still
lives there at 1984 Piney Grove Road, Tazewell.
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TVA Contract
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Also will send a photo
I just ran across of 4 teachers at Claiborne Co High School which I expect
was taken about the time my mother graduated – 1918. Teachers at Claiborne
County High School. In center is Miss Wylie. On right is Miss Dempster.
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Now, my question.
One of Hugh Farmer and Roseanne Arnwine's daughters, Susannah Farmer Bones,
had in her posession a letter from a Mr. William M. Day telling of Susannah's
death. It appears that after Hugh's death Rosanna remarried.
Claiborne Co. Pioneer Project has an entry for William M. Day and Rosia Farmer.
No dates there but Denny Brubaker repprts an entry in Claiborne County marriage
book 1838-1935 of their marriage in 1887 in Claiborne County. Do you
have any knowledge of this? I know you have studied the Day family.
Evidentally a Mr. Day had a farm next to Hugh Farmer's .
The woman who had this letter, Susannah's daughter, has long since passed
away and her vision was too poor to read the letter to get any more details.
Ann Doege flight822@comcast.net
I got the map from:
TVA Maps and Photo Records
2837 Hickory Valley Road
Chattanooga, TN 37421
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