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- McGLOTHIN, MAY, 94, of Coalfield, died Friday, Dec. 13, 2002, at herhome. According to her family, Mrs. McGlothin was Morgan County'sfirst kindergarten teacher and taught school in Scott and Morgancounties for 37 years. In 1973, she was honored as Tennessee StateTeacher of the Year. Since 1931, she had been an active member ofMiddle Creek Baptist Church and had served the church as a Sundayschool teacher, children's church director, Women's Missionary Uniondirector, Vacation Bible School director and pianist. Born Dec. 27,1907, in Huntsville, she was the daughter of John and Ida PotterSexton of Huntsville, both now deceased. She was the widow of RobertHarvey McGlothin. Mrs. McGlothin enjoyed traveling, bird-watching,photography, quilting and crocheting. She traveled to all 50 statesand many foreign countries, including the Holy Land, Japan, Australia,China and England. Her family described her as a devoted wife, mother,teacher and caregiver whose philosophy of teaaching was that "Jesus isthe most perfect teacher of all" and who spent many hours cutting andstitching to make quilts and blankets for friends and family. Mrs.McGlothin is survived by her daughters, Ruth Hamby and her husband,Fred, of Coalfield, and Madge Jones and her husband, Bob, of OliverSprings; son-in-law, Jesse Kesterson of Coalfield; daughter-in-law,Ivadell McGlothin of Coalfield; grandchildren, Johnny Tanner ofMadison, Billy Tanner of Maryville, Mike Jones of Oliver Springs,Kenny Jones of Clinton, Jerry Kesterson of Coalfield, Jeff Kestersonof Marietta, Ga., Jean Tanner of Lenoir City, Millie Skiles, AnnLindsay, Karen Teague, Peggy Jones, Judy Solis, Jenny Wendt and JanetIsbell, all of Coalfield, Rita Brown of Oceanside, Calif., Sherry Poeof Buford, Ga., and Rebecca Brooks of Oak Ridge; and numerousgreat-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; sisters, HazelYancey and Grace Long, both of Oliver Springs; and sister-in-law,Grace Sexton of Jellico. In adaddition to her parents and her husband,she was preceded in death by a brother, William Sexton of Jellico;another sister, Ruth West of Huntsville; a son, Glen McGlothin ofCoalfield; two other daughters; Marie Tanner of Maryville and JuneKestersoson of Coalfield; and another grandson, Jimmy McGlothin ofCoalfield. The funeral was held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, in thechapel at Sharp Funeral Home in Oliver Springs. Burial followed atAnderson Memorial Gardens in Clinton. The family requests that anymemorials be in the form of donations to the Lottie Moon ChristmasOffering at Middle Creek Baptist Church, 6455 Knoxville Highway,Oliver Springs, TN 37840. [The Oak Ridger]From May McGlothin, dateunknown: I was born December 27, 1907, in Huntsville, Tennessee. MyMother, Ida Potter Sexton, was born December 25, 1886, in Helenwood,Tenn. Mother had 3 sisters and 1 brother. Hattie Potter SextonChambers, probably born in 1884, Nevada Potter Robbins Harrison,probably born in 1888, Benjamin Harrison Potter, probaby born 1890,Laura Potter Millard Fine, probably born in 1896. She told me oncehow old she was when I was born. Seems like she said she was nine.
Aunt Hattie married simeon (sim) sexton, a cousin of Dad's. They had5 children. The eldest was born dead. The other children are Floyd,never married, Flora, married but no children, Mattie, married and has1 daughter, Betty., Sim married anand had 2 children. Sim is dead. Simwas killed accidentally when little sim was 9 months old. uncle Simand dad closed grandpa Potter's store one night and went by the oldLodge Hall, which was still standing when I went to Huntsville to staywith Harriet Chldress arfter aunt Laura and husband Rial Millard and 3children, Cark, Louise, and Lucille, moved out and went to Dorton,near Crosville. Two more chilodren were born, Ruth and Kathleen.Lucille died when she was about 8 years old. She had a tumor. Herstomach was hard as a rock and she looked like she was pregnant. Theywere living in Cincinnati at that time.
The old lodge hall stood behind the old presbyterian church. At thattime, there was a Mossy School for Girls where the new presbyterianchurch now stands. Dad and Uncle Sims went to a pie supper. Whilethey were there a fight began and Dad anand Uncle Sim ran. In the dark,they got separated. Dad ran down the street towards the jail. Unclesim ran down the Bidenald in front of Mossip School. The next morningAunt Hattie sent Floyd out to the house to ask if Uncle Sim spent thenightt. Dad dressed quickly and started towards the lodge hall. Hefound Uncle Sim lying on his face on the sidewalk near the front gateof teh Mossip School grounds. A bullet had hit him in his back, wentthrough his heart, lodged in the day book in which he recorded theday's sales at the store. The book which had hard backs, was in hisinside coat pocket. The bullet had pierced one back the pages andlodged against the other back. A man left Huntsville that night, wasgone about 40 yearsrs, and came back. He asked about some Phillipsboys, Caldwell and Harrison. There may have been others, but they areall I remember. One man, Caldwell, I think it was, bought a pie whichbelonged to his girl. They fought and the shooting began. ThePhillips boys were tall like Dad and uncle Sim. Later, he asked ifanyone remembreed the Pie Supper and the fight. He was told yes, anda man, Sim Sexton, was killed by a stray bullet. He had left thinkinghe killed the Phillips so Dad said.
Aunt Hattie later married L.A. Chambers from Buffalo. They had 3children.
I was 4 years old in December. We moved to Buffalo in April 1912.Grace was 2 years, Hazel 4 months. I can remember 2 rooms inHuntsville before we moved. The house was built for Dad and Mother.They sold it when we moved to the farm. The house had 5 rooms and apantry. The 2 rooms I can remember were teh dining room, which weused for a sitting room. I remember mother sitting in a rocking chairrocking Hazel in Room 3. The back of the chair was next to the doorthat went into the hall. The grate with a fire in ith was to the leftof the chair. I stood between the chair and the wall. I think I mayhave stood on the rocker as mother rockerd.
Motyher told me Aunt Hattie's last husband, LA Chambers, came out oneday and had a new pistol. He handed it to her. She was sitting inthe rocker holding Hazel. I was standing between her and the wall.The pistol went off in her hands and only missed me by inches. Shewas always afraid to handle a gun.
The other room I remember was across the hall. It was our bedroom(#4). It had 2 double wide beds. Her Singer sewing machine set infront of the south window at the foot of 1 of the beds. I remember thesun coming in that window. One day mother had been sewing and leftthe machine open. I climbed up in the chair and ran the needlethrough the skin on a finger of my left hand. I screamed for mother.She backed the needle out of my finger. The other time I remember theroom, Hazel had buburped on the bed. I called Mother, She came andcleaned up the bed. The spread was dark and the burp was white. Iremember the back porch off the kitchen. Mother had a long, deep boxpainted green. She kept a quilt in it. Grace stood up in it andwalked around in it. It had to be late in the summer before coldweather. Probably before Hazel was born in December. The porch facedgrandpa Potter's house.
In later years, while I was in the 8th grade, Mary Helen (Doisy)Walker came by one afternoon to get me to go with her out to ourhouse, which was the presbyterian parsonage now. Her pastor, Rev.Dotty, and wife, were gone for a week and had left some spare ribs forthem. She didn't want to go in th ehouse by herself. We went in thekitchen door, past the window on the left, the stove on the right intothe pantry after the ribs. Many years later, Grace and I went to thehouse to visit Mrs. Rachel Sexton with whom I barded the second year Itaught at Paint Rock. She was staying with her daughter Eelie, whosehusband was Mortague Dobbs. Her room was on the front of the house#1, which was in front of Mother's dining room. Mrs. Sexton had afire in the grate. The room as very comfortable. That left 1 room inthat house I can't remember being in.
I remember the day in April that we went to Buffalo. Men wereflooring the bridge. They had to finish it before our furniturecame. We had to drive through the creek. It was up. I had to holdmy feet up to keep them from getting wet. The watater was in the buggybed. Our buggy had 2 seats. I was on the back seat. When we got tothe house, Mr. and Mrs. Alex (Sarah) Norman were living in it. Later,they moved out to the little house down in the field. Mrs. Norman wassitting in fronnt of a box stove in the kitchen. She had a dip ofsnuff in her mouth once in a while she would open the door, where sheput in wood, and spit in the ashes. I was fascinated and waited andwatched for her to spit again. I do not remember where we slept orwhen they moved or when our furniture came.
We moved for light housekeeping only, to Huntsville, for abuot 3-4months when Willard was born. He was born Sept 7, 1914. I went toschool at Huntsville in the first grade. iss Emma Williams was myteacher. I remember she kept me in during one recess because Icouldn't read the page in my reader. There was a pitcture and only 4lines. They were:
"Hark! Hark! the dogs do bark.
The beggars are coming to town.
Somein rags, some in tags
And some in tattered gowns."
I remember the day they came after me at school to go back to Buffalo.It was Friday afternoon. We were having a little program. I washelping with the pantomining "Little Boy Blue". We turned a chairdown, put some staw on it. He crawled undeer and pretended he wasasleep. We recited the rhyme. Miss Emma was related to ElizaWilliams and Jonn Tanner's mother, Mazude Williams Tanner in Wartburg.When we went back to the farm, Dad had gathered a small trunk we hadfull of Chestnuts. The leaves were off the trees. Two things Iremember while we lived at Huntsville, Uncle Ben was drunk. Someonetold mother he was going downtown to kill grandpa Potter. Grandpa'slaw office was on the side of his store building. Mother crossed theroad in front of our house to try ot stop Uncle Ben. He pushed her.She rolled won the bank into a ditch. We were crying. She had beenpraying and crying. It was before Willard was born. Laura Sexton,Uncle Ben's girl friend, was staying with us. One night he broughther some small candy hearts. They were the first I remember seeing.He would read the words on mine for me.
Laura had 2 children by Uncle Ben. Little May was the older. Laruaand the baby, Theodore, died during the flu of 1917 or 1918. LittleMay stayed with different families. But Uncle Ben would get behindwith her board bill. So she finally camame to Grandpa's when she was 4or 5 yeasr old. I was already staying with Harriet. Grandpa wasoperatiring a sawmill at Winfield. He was only home on Saturdaynight. When Little May came, she walked through the house tochingfurniture etc. Then she asked "will heaven look like this?" Thefirst thing I remember.... [stops here]
Aunt Hattie and LA Chambers had Glenice, William Henry (Judge) andRuth. They thought LA had tuberculosis. He sat and held Ruth a lot.She died about 5 or 6 years old. They are both buried in Salvisa, KY,near Danville. Aunt Hattie moved to Dnaville and the 6 children livedthere until she moved to Cincinnati. She is buried in Cincinnati. Sois Sim and Judge (1990--Flora and Floyd)
LA was Little Marion or Preacher Marion and Rachel Chambers son fromBuffalo. The Sugar Grove community. Hhis borhters were Jerry, Mose,a preacher, DT (Devine Truth), Doctor in Norma; Strelilng; McKinley,and a sister Narrie Yaden.
Ida Potter Sexton, the second child of William Henry (Judge) Potterand .. (He served Scott County 2 8-year terms as County Judge)Charnettie Chambers Potter, was born in Helenwood Dec 25, 1886. Shetaught 3 or 6 terms (5 months each) before she and dad were marriedFebruary 11, 1907. They were married in Harriet's bedroom. Dad's andMother's bedroom later. The door was a sheet. I don't know how longthey were married before Grandpa found out. Dad bought 2 licenses.The first in Campmpbell County. Mother wouldn't go with him to CampbellCounty. It wasn't legal in Scott County. He bought another. Aftergrandpa found out their bedroom was upstairs over Dad and Mother'sdining room in later years, . One night Dad blew out the kersoenelight. It caught fire. He had gone to bed. He got up, grabbed aquilt off the bed and smothered it out. The scorched wall was stillthere when stayed with Harriet and when Ruth bought the place in the1970s.
I went to Grandpa's to stay with Harriet in Dec 1917. I was in the6th grade. Miss Stacey A. Tedford was my teacher. I think she mayhave been from Maryville. Carl Byrd was the only one in my 6th gradeclass that went on with me to graduate ie in 1924.. Mary Helen Doisywent to the Mossip School through the 7th grade. They closed theschool. I think the few girls left were moved to Harriman. MaryHelen was in my 8th grade class. She went to Maryville to High Schooland then collegege. The first think I remember about school dyas atBuffalo was when i was in 3rd grade. I took Hazel to school with me.At morning recess, I had to take her home. Another time I rememberthe teacher had to be out of the classroom for awhile. He left agirl, Nannie Chambers, to take names. She pulled me out of my seatthen put my name down because I was out of my seat. I had to stand onone foot 30 minutes in the corner for it. I may have been a 4th or5th grader.
I can't remember much about life on the farm before I went toHuntsville. I remember Grace and I gathering duck eggs along the ditchnear the road through the field to the little house. They were blueshells. Once I remember mother taking us to tthe barn and we hidupstairs behind hay. A man, Mr Abner, was drunk. Mother was scared.I remember peeing through a crack. Mrs. Abner had tried to get to thebarn. She got inside the barn gate. He caught up with her. Iremember seeing him knocock her down several times and kick her severaltimes. She was in bed several weeks. I think I remember mothersaying she had several broken ribs and maybe pneumonia. Thatexperience with a drunk man made me feel like I never wanted anythingto do with a man who drank.
Another time I remember gong to the wedding of Clergie Chambers andGirlie Owens at the home of Clegie's parents, Jackson and SallieJChambers. After the wedding they served dinner. She and I atedinner. I remember mother sending me across ththe creek to FlemChamber's house. His wife, Em, was very ill. I took her some soup.She was about 20 years older than Flem. Coming home, I saw a starfall in Jackson Chamber's field, to the left of the road. It wasn'tdark, but was getting late. I expected the sedge grass to burst intoflames. It didn't I wish I had known about meteorites. I wish I hadthat one. I remember Dad and Mother keeping boarders. They wereworking on the log woods above the house on Smith creek and towardsPioneer. We all slept in the back room downstairs. Mother and Dadand Mabe Willard slept in one double bed. Fannie Southerland, whostayed with us and probably Hazel, slept in the other double wide.Grace was probably sleeping in the baby bed. MMother had a twin bedpair of springs with a wooden frame. It had rollers on it. She wouldroll it under her bed during the day and roll it out at night. It wasmy bed. I wish i had my baby bed. Mother gave it away when Ruthoutgrew it. She had double beds and 1 twin bed or a cot in thebedroom next to the dining room and 2 double wide in 2 big bedroomsupstairs. I do nto know how many boarders there were. It was inFebruary maybe that mother and Fannie were chnging the beds upstairsand Grace and I picked up her flour sack or seed beans in a shelf, andtook out some matches she had in them to keep out bugs. The nightbefore grace and I climbed the ladder nailed to the side of the logcrib. We took Hazel up and couldn't get h her down. We were told in nouncertain terms not to do that again. Someone, maybe Dad, brought herdown. That morning while Fannie and mother were washing, we went backto the crib. Grace had the matches. The crib had a shuck pen.Somehow Grace struck a match, before it burned her fingers, she thewit down. She was sitting on top log of shuck pen. (The crib was fullof corn.) The match went in the shucks. They were ignited. Mothersaw the smoke and started screaming. The men on thhe mountain saw thesmoke and came runing. They were able to save the barn but not thecrib. If we had taken Hazel up with us, she wuld have burned up. Dadwas working on a road somewhere and came home on weekends. We thoughthe would spank Grace. Instead, he brought her some candy. I remembercrawling under the bed and giving her a stick. She had refused tocome out.
I remember Hazel and I had chicken pox. No one else had them. I onlyhad 3 or 4 blisters. One over my right eye was bad. and left a badscar. Mart Chambers used to tell me I'd been shot, that was thebullet hole.
I rember popping popcorn over the wood fire in the fireplace. I heldup the popper to shake it. Half of the popper had small holes in it.The unpopped grains would fall out. One fell out and landed inside mycollar. I had a good sized blister oon my collar bone. I remember wehad the measles in the summer. My nose bled a lot. Mother had me inthe baby bed and kept a cold cloth on my head. I remember when Ruthwas 2 or 3 months old, we all, including Fannie, had the whoopingcough, toooo. We nearly lost Ruth. I remember how black her face gotand mother working with her. We moved to Huntsville maybe in August1914 in a little 4 roomed house. Willard was born Sept. 7 1914.While we lived there someone came and told Mother thaat Uncle Ben wasdrunk. He was on his way from Grandpa's house past our house toGrandpa's office to kill Grandpa. Mother saw him coming. He waswalking on the walkway outside Williams picket fence. The walkway washigher than the road. At least knee higher and maybe more. Iremember seeing mother cross the road and go up the bank and met himface to face. She was crying, praying, and begging. He pushed herout of the way. She rolled down the bank into the ditch at the sideof the raod. Uncle Ben was arrested and put in jail before he got tothe office. People who saw the incident came running to help Mother.I don't know how long it was after this when Willard was born. UncleBen's girl friend, Laura Sexton, was staying with us. One nght hebrought her some candy hearts. They were the first I had seen. Hewould read the words on mine for me.
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A Note from May McGlothin. This was found among May's things. Sheoften wrote about genealogy. However, these were writtgen when shewas in her later years, about 90, and some of the references aren'tclear. Only those that are clear have been included here.
Etta and Will Jackson
Have W. Lee (Whitus) both deceased. 1 daughter, Melba, a retiredschool teacher, a collector of rocks. When Melba was born, the doctormade hosue calls. When Dr. Heaker was ready to leave, they told himnot to tell Mom and Dad. Well, Dr. Heaker came from Petros and passedtheir house. Both of them were sitting on the front orch. Dr.Heacker tooted the horn and yelled, "Helloooo Grandpa". Will and Ettalooked at each other and said, "What did he mean?" In a minute Ettasaid, "The baby's here. Let's go to Petros." When they arrived,Harve and Lee both said, "Dr Heacker told you." They said, "No, hedidn't." Many years later they told them and Melba what he said.They had a good laugh about it.
Howard and Frances Self:? When Howard and Frances got so theyweren't able to do much for themselves, they moved close to Katherinein Florida. I remember when Kenneth was born (3 weeks before Madgewas born in 1932), Frances was getting ready to come to Tennessee forthree weeks and then Howard had a week's vacation to come visit andtake them back home. I think they lived in Ohio. He was working onthe railroad. She was trying to show how to do a few things. Shetold him how to warm the skillet with some grease in it, then breakthe eggs, put them in the skillet, then salt them. Then she held herhand over the coal bucket and dusted the salt off.
Howard said, "Wait a mintue. I know how to salt the eggs, but I don'tknow how much salt to put in the coal bucket."
Frances came to see me when Madge was 1 week old. She told me aboutgetting ready to come. I liked HOward and Frances very much.
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