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Note: HI14
Note: (Research): Let me introduce myself. I am Ann Pardue, great granddaughter of Frances Lenora Eatherly, sister to your great grandmother, Anna Victoria Eatherly. I have been looking for sometime for a photograph of any one of Isaac Eatherly and Susan Stewart's children. I am sure there are probably many out there; I just have not found one until now. I never knew my grandfather, Finis Brown Pardue, (he died in 1926) son of Frances Lenora Eatherly who married Robert Cooper Pardue and I was into my 30's before I knew what he looked like. A wedding picture of him and my grandmother, Emily Rena Nicholson, whom he married in Sept.1899 had been stored in my grandmother's attic apparently for years, since I don't ever recall having seen it as I was growing up and would have definitely noticed it; and it was not until sometime in the 1970's when my aunt pulled it out and had it restored and hung it in an honored place in her house. Anyhow, of course, I had always been curious as to what he looked like. Interestingly, when I first saw the picture, I immediately recognized who he was, even though I never had seen him. I had known my maternal grandfather, who did not die until I was in my 20's, and knew both of my grandmothers, so Daddy Finis had always been a curiosity. He had died at age 49, leaving my grandmother, a 44-year-old widow with 5 children still at home, the youngest, a girl, age 6, who interestingly was the aunt of my oldest cousin, who was about the same age. My father was 14 years old and the youngest son. Finis had been born at Cheap Hill in 1872 actually at Beech Grove, down the road toward the Cumberland River from the highway crossroads, and when he was 6 or 8 years old, his parents moved to Henrietta. In all likelihood, your great grandmother Anna Victoria knew him as a baby and little boy. Perhaps, you or mother can answer a question for me. The interviews of your mother mentioned she moved to Cheap Hill and went to school at Cheap Hill. While she does not mention, it seems, any of her Eatherly kinfolk, perhaps, since she did live so close to where Isaac Eatherly and Andrew Stewart lived, she may remember some stories of that side of her family. I have a photograph of an old house that I have presumed to be the house that Isaac Eatherly and Susan Stewart Eatherly lived and raised their children. The censuses in which the families appear Isaac Eatherly's family and Andrew Stewart's family live next to each other. My question is, does she remember if she ever knew it, if the house that sat on the right hand side of the road that runs off the main highway, (which from her stories, appears to have been the road that she said went to Chapsmanboro on the way to Ashland city when she went to high school in Ashland City) was the house that her Eatherly grandmother, Anna Victoria was born and raised. The house is located on the right just before you get to the old Andrew Stewart-Eatherly Cemetery, which is located on the left hand side of the road. I have a picture of this house before someone fixed it up a few years ago, putting a bright red tin roof on it. However, within the past 3 years, a builder bought the property there and built a subdivision and tore down the house, so unfortunately it is no longer there. Mr. Weakley's book on the Weakley Family mentions that Andrew Stewart's house is the one where the Stewart-Eatherly Cemetery is located. Using that as at marker, I have thought that the above mentioned house maybe the old Eatherly house. And if is not, perhaps your mother might know which one I mean, and may remember who lived in it when she was a young girl. Have you been able to definitively identify that Isaac Eatherly, Anna's father, was the son of Jesse Eatherly? I have thought that he was, but have not been able to prove that he was, so if you do have any source that proves this connection; if you would I would appreciate any help here. I enjoyed reading your mother's interviews and "good cooks" must run in your family. I have some Pinson information, though it is newer information than that of your oldest sources. More or less, I grew up where Marmaduke Pinson & Larkin Pinson are listed in the 1820 census. That is where Henrietta TN is located now, though that community encompasses far more that it did when I was growing up. My cousins still own the lands where both sides of my family were born and raised. If I can I am going to attach my grandfather's photograph so you can compare it to your great grandmother's photo. Please note the chin and jaw line are very "related". I am trying to envision if my grandmother, Frances Lenora, known as Fanny, looked like her sister, Anna Victoria. I do not have her picture either. Do you have any other Eatherly photos? I have some anecdotes of their brothers that I will look up and send if you are interested. I grew up hearing that my grandfather, Finis was a big red headed Scotsman, standing 6ft 6in tall and weighed 250 lbs, so in some ways he has been a mythical figure in my life.
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