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Note for: William Grant Davis, 9 DEC 1899 - 18 JUL 1980 Index

Retirement:
     Place:   Coal Miner

Residence:
     Place:   Monroe County, Ballard, West Virginia

Burial:
     Place:   Blue Ridge Memorial Gardans in Prosperity, WV

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1930 Ashe county, NC census: living near brother Millard.

Newspaper Article: Couple observes 50th Aniversary, Mr and Mrs William Grant Davis of Route 5, Ballard observed their 50th wedding anniversary at their home Saturday. The couple was married Jan. 3, 1920 in Ashe County, NC. She is the former Florence Hall of Granson, NC and they have lived in Monroe County for 22 years. They are the parents of eight sons and four daughters and have 31 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Nine of their children attended a luncheon in thier honor. They were Clarence of Ballard, Mrs Beulah Cochran of Sophia, Mrs Opal Canady and Howard Davis, both of Ravenswood, Mrs Mae Pierce of Mountain City, TN, Warren of Daniels, J.C. of Woodsfield Ohio, Roger of Prosperity and Mrs Patsy Bennett of Lerona. A reception followed the luncheon with about 60 guests attending. The table was covered with lace over gold tablecloth and was centered with a three-teired cake and punch bowl. Their other children are Ralph of Sophia, and Elworth of Media, PA. The oldest son is deceased.

Obituary: William Davis - Forest Hill, William Grant Davis 82, died Friday in a Hinton hospital after a short illness. Born Dec. 9, 1899, in NC he was a son of the late Jordan and Sarah Jane Taylor Davis. A retired Coal miner and a member of the Free Will Baptist Church. Mr. Davis lived in Monroe County for the past 35 years.
Survivors include his wife Florence Hall Davis; seven son, Clarence Davis of Forest Hill, Ralph and Warren Davis, both of Beckley, Willard Davis of Meada, Pa., Howard Davis of Ravenswood, James Davis of Woodsfield, Ohio and Roger Davis of Prosperity; four daughters, Mrs Beulah Cochran of Sophia, Mrs Opal Canady of Ravenswood, Mrs Mae Pierce of Mountain City, TN, and Patsy Bennett of Lerona; two brothers, Millard and Garney Davis both of Lansing, NC; three sisters, Mrs Martha TAylor of Liberty, Ky., Mrs Ollie Perry of Lansing, N.C, and Mrs Mary Taylor of Zanesville, Ohio. 42 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.

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Note for: Mae Marie Davis, 3 FEB 1931 - Index

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Mae Marie Davis Pierce Married again after Joseph died. She married an old dude from Shady (Gather Blevins "John") they were married on September 19, 1993 at First Baptist Church in Mountain City,TN.

Mae was born in West Virginia in a mining town. They later moved to Ballard, West Virginia. She met Joseph on a visit to Mountain City. In her early marriage years Mae helped her father-in-law in his farm work. She used to help raise the tobacco from planting to grading and selling. She helped in planting the bean crops and picking them. She helped in planting sugar cane and making molasses.
She always had a big garden and she did her own canning. She put up hundreds of quart of beans, tomatoes, beets, kraut, pickles, corn and other vegetables, plus fruit (canned, frozen, sauce, jelly and dried) They also had cows, which she helped milk. She canned and froze the meat. She churned and made buttermilk from the milk. They raised hogs and pigs. She fed them and canned and froze the pork. The mincemeat pies made from the head meat of the pig was delicious. They even used the pigs feet to pickle and also the tongues.
They raised chickens for the meat and eggs. Mae would often make pets of the chickens and ducks and would not eat them. From the ducks and chickens they would pluck the feathers and make feather beds and pillows.
Martin was the oldest son and became ill and had to be hospitalized when he was about 7 years old. He went into a coma when he was in his 20's and Mae would feed him by hand and turn him every hour day and night. She took excellent care of him.
Mae and her daughter Barbara became involved in crafts and plaster of paris and ceramics. They started making house decorating items and selling them. They later had their own business together until Joseph died. Mae was a very talented crafts person. She used to make fancy pillows and sell them. She has made many quilts. She used to sew and make all the girls dresses. She made crafts and gave them to her friends and neighbors. Mae is always there when a neighbor or friend is ill or needs her. She takes them food (their favorite is her potato soup) and she visits the Nursing home every week, just to make people feel needed. She remarried to John Blevins from Shady Valley in 1991. Since her marriage to John, Mae joined the Senior Citizens Group in Mountain City, TN. She had never been involved with a group like that before and loves it very much. She spends much of her time baking and making crafts to take to her friends that she has made there.

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Note for: Joseph Clayton Pierce, 28 AUG 1927 - 14 MAY 1988 Index

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Joseph worked in Lenoir, NC in a furniture factory for many years.
He died in 1988, just 2 years before retirement

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Note for: William Isaac Hall, DEC 1877 - Index

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1900 Ashe County Nc Census: William Hall b. dec 1877, Lillie C b. 1879, Florence 1899

1920 Ashe County Census, Laurel: William M. Hall (farmer) 43, NC, NC, NC, Callie 41, NC NC, NC, Florence 20, Albert 18, George 10, Hattie 8, Ressie 4 5/12

1930 Ashe County Census, Pond Mtn: William Hall 52 (can read) Cally 51 (can't read) George 20, Hattie 18, Ressie 14, Bessie 12, Walter 9

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Note for: Ray Sharp, ABT. 1919 - Index

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1930 Clifton, Stag's creek rd., Ashe County, Census: Andy S. Sharp 49 NC, VA, NC, Lavinia 37 NC NC NC, Joseph 14, Raymond 11, Paul 8, Grant 6, Burl 3

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Note for: Fred Elliott, 27 MAR 1918 - AUG 1980 Index

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Fred went to the Marines on February, 25, 1944.

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Note for: George Hamilton Pierce, 19 AUG 1892 - 27 NOV 1972 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Shoun Cemetery

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George was a farmer and a trader. For a short time, he worked for Lamon Cress at his Service Station in Mountain City.
George was a gentle natured person. He used to tease and make his family laugh. Maw would fuss about something and paw would laugh, and tease her until she was happy again. Paw was a very hard working farmer, but he always took time to talk, joke and play a game of checkers with the kids.
He first started farming with a horse pulling a plow, long before he ever bought a tractor. He raised acres of beans, tobacco, corn and sugar cane. He had a mill to make the sugar cane into molasses.
     He had a large barn down near the creek, where he kept horses and cows. He milked the cows every day.
He had a tool shed in front of the house where he parked his old truck and tools.
He used to drive to Mountain City once a week. It would take all day, he drove very slow, 20-25 miles per hour. He had high racks on the back of his truck. The racks were for hauling cattle, etc. but when the grandchildren went someplace with him, they would get to ride in the back of the truck. It was a Common site to see a truck going down the road with the back full of children.
Long after the first Television came out, Joseph, his youngest son, bought one for them. It was a black and white and reception was fuzzy, but it was the best thing in the world to them. George used to watch the wrestling. He would get so excited with fights that he would jump up out of his chair and sling his arms and shout at them. He was far more fun to watch then the TV. Vada's favorite show was "I Love Lucy"

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Note for: Vada Ann Stout, 24 JAN 1894 - 23 OCT 1974 Index

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Vada was the only one of the Richard Lawson "Loss" Stout girls to wear her hair short. All the other girls wore their hair long and twisted in a bun and pinned on back of the head. Vada wore her hair short and tightly curled. She had perms when they began to do that. Perms made her hair frizzed. Vada would wear a bonnet on her head while she was at home working and when she would go to town or someplace, she would dress up real nice and wear powder and rouge. She would curl her hair at nights on small pieces of wire that she cut from tobacco cans.
Vada made very beautiful quilts and crocheted spreads. In those days, they used the spreads on all the furniture before sitting anything on it.
Vada and George were called Maw and Paw by all the Grandchildren.
Vada had a garden and canned all their food. There was a little room built off the kitchen, called the flour room, where she made biscuits and other breads. She churned and made buttermilk and butter. The main meal was bread and milk. She got up early every morning and made biscuits and gravy. At every meal she made a cake of cornbread and fixed mashed potatoes.
They raised their own cows and pigs. Vada kept a very clean house.
In the Winter, they kept Thier bed in the living room, as many did in those days, and only heated that room, shutting off the rest of the house. She never had an electric stove. She cooked on a wood stove. They drank water from a bucket that she kept in the sink under the spicket. Everyone drank from that bucket with the same dipper that she kept hanging from a nail above the sink.

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Note for: Richard Lawson Stout, 30 MAR 1849 - 14 FEB 1909 Index

Alias:   /Loss/

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Had a farm about 1 mile north and 1 mile west of Doe Creek and by road 4 miles west of Mountain City (now highway 67 Stout Branch Road forked off of Swift Hollow Road at Dewey Christian Church).

Johnson Co. TN Will Book 2, page 114. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF R. L. STOUT, Deceased.
I, R. L. Stout, of Mountain City, Johnson County Tennessee do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all wills by me heretofore made.
1. I direct that all my debts be paid by my Executor as soon after my death as possible.
2. I direct that all my property both personal and real be equally divided among my Children, except one thresher and engine which I hereafter give to my son Clay.
3. I direct that my Executors shall collect debts due me, and sell all my property, Both real and personal if necessary in order to get an equal division of my property upon such trans? as in their judgment they may deed best within a reasonable time after my death in order that they may distribution thereof as herein directed.
4. I direct that my son Clay have all interest that I have in one steam Engine and Threshing Machine, now owned by Stout Brothers and Co., and also an equal division in the balance of my property.
5. I appoint W. L. Wilson, M. E. Wilson and E. W. Stout to be the Executors of this Will. This July 25/ 1908. R. L. Stout
The foregoing will was signed by the testator in our presence and we attest the same on his presence and at his request. This July 25/ 1908. W. L. Wilson, E. W. Stout, D. B. Shoun.
State of Tennessee, Johnson County. I, L. B. Morley, County Court Clerk for said County hereby certify that the aforesaid Will and testament of R. L. Stout, Dec'd was registered in the office of County Clerk July 5" 1909. L. B. Morley, Clk.

1900 Johnson County Census: Richard Stout 51, Louisa 48 (12 children), Victoria 26, Sallie 24, Fannie 20, Minnie 18, Julia 16, Jessie 14, Clay 12 , May 10, Richard 3


The Richard Lawson Stout family spent their lives in much the same way as most of their neighbors. Lawson was busy all day clearing the fields, building fences and planting crops. The horses, cattle, chickens and pigs had to be cared for.
Louisa did the housekeeping. Every morning, she did the milking and gathered the eggs. In the yard there was a hopper to hold the ashes from which came the lye for making soap. She made thier butter, soap and clothes. The children were also busy. Just as soon as they were big enough, about five or six years old, they had their work to do. They helped take care of the babies. They carried buckets of water from the spring, picked beans and berries. By the time the boys were twelve, they cut firewood with an ax and plowed with a horse. They helped raise sugar cane, tobacco, corn and hay. They were proud of being able to raise everything the family needed.

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Note for: Louise Fanny Elrod, 17 JUL 1851 - 18 DEC 1904 Index

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sister to Mary Elrod who married Isaac F. Shoun

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Note for: David M. Stout, 10 NOV 1817 - 3 APR 1905 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Farmer

Burial:
     Place:   Shoun Cemetery, Doe Valley, TN

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Note for: Sarah "Sallie" Shoun, 5 APR 1821 - 6 DEC 1883 Index

Burial:
Place: Shoun Cemetery, Doe Valley, TN