DOROTHY D. CLEMMER -
Dorothy Dena Clemmer, age 75, of Maryville, passed away Sunday morning, December 38, 2003 at Colonial Hills Nursing
Center. She attended Fairpark Wesleyan Church. She dedicated her life to working with young children in outdoor
Bible clubs and children's church in her home. She went on several mission trips to Haiti, also living and serving
the Lord in New Hampshire and Maine. Preceded in death by parents, Erskin and Pearl Clemmer; brothers, Brent Clemmer,
Glee Clemmer, Charles Reed Clemmer, infant brother, Gratis Clemmer; sisters, Ersie Wright, Georgia Shockley; niece,
Emma J. Wright Baker; nephews, Billy R. Clemmer and Edwin Wright. Survivors include nieces and nephews and a very
loving Church family and many friends. Thanks to all who have helped with her care and visits. Funeral service
is at 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at Miller Funeral Home, Magnolia Chapel with the Rev. Wayne Friday officiating.
Family and friends will meet at Vonore Methodist Church Cemetery in Monroe County at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning
for the interment service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Children's Ministry at Fairpark Wesleyan
Church, 1509 Jefferson Ave., Maryville, Tenn. 37804.
The Daily Times, (Maryville, TN) - December 29, 2003 - submitted by,
Erica Beatty
ELIZA COFFIN -
MARYVILLE, July 14. – Eliza Coffin, an aged and well known colored woman, died suddenly at her home on Depot street
last Saturday night in a spasm of coughing.
Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune (15 July 1891) - submitted by,
Marla Zwakman
MRS. FATE GRAMSTON - (see Thomas Hart obit)
THOMAS HART -
Maryville, Jan. 27. – Since my last letter, Mrs. Fate Gramston and Mr. Thomas Hart have passed into the beyond.
Mr. Hart died on the farm three miles north of town where he was born and raised. He was seventy-three years old
at the time of his death. Truly we can say a good man has gone to his reward. He was a good citizen, a kind father
and he will be missed in the community where he lived.
Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune (28 Jan. 1896) - submitted by,
Marla Zwakman
REV. SPENCER HENRY -
Rev. Spencer Henry, one of the twelve children born to Samuel and Elizabeth Henry, was born on Little River, in
Blount county, Oct. 21, 1805, died at his home near Carpenter's campground, June 3d, 1883, in the 78th year of
his age. After the death of his mother his father was married the second time; four children, two sons and two
daughters were the fruits of this last union, making sixteen brothers and sisters in all; all of whom, except Hon.
John F. Henry, of Louisville, Tenn., Samuel Henry and Mrs. Hettie McClelland, of Murphy, N.C., of the first, and
Rev. Hugh J. Henry, of Ellejoy, Tenn., and Mrs. Jesse Donaldson, of Kansas, of the last family of brothers and
sisters, had preceeded him to the grave.
The deceased had made a profession of religion, and joined the M.E. Church
in early life, being for several years the only professor of religion in his father's family....We have often heard
him tell how great a cross it was for him to endure the taunts and scoffins of his ungodly brothers and sisters
and the colored slaves of his father's household, who often watched him to the place of secret prayer, which they,
out of thoughtless contempt, denominated "Spence's Tabernacle." But he was afterwards so well repaid
for all that he endured on account of his religion... as he was always regarded by the family as their counsellor
and foreman in all of their business enterprises, notwithstanding he had a brother and two sisters older than he.
He was married to Miss Elizabeth Mayze, January 17, 1828, with whom he
lived happily until his death, a period of more than fifty-four years. They had born to them ten children, four
sons and six daughters, six of whom, a son and five daughters, were present at the funeral, together with their
aged and bereaved mother... All of them live in Blount county except Mrs. A. Spottswood Henley, of Roane county,
Tenn., and Mrs. Athene McGinley, of Stratford, Mo. Three sons and his oldest daughter had gone before him to rest...
He was privileged to see all of his ten children make a public profession of Faith in Christ...
After his marriage he lived six or seven years on Little River and in
Miller's Cove, in Blount county, then eleven years in Newport, Cocke county, and for thirty-five years previous
to his death near Carpenter's Camp Ground; and always and everywhere securing the confidence and afflictions of
all of his well-disposed neighbors.. He was licensed as a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in behalf
of the Quarterly Meeting Conference for Little River Circuit, at Middle Creek Campground (Sevier county) August
6, 1832, by Rev. James Cummings, President, he having walked to that place from his home in Miller's Cove, a distance
of 18 or 20 miles, through the mountains, under an August sun. His license... having been renewed every year except
two after they were granted until 1840, and on the first day of November, 1840, he was ordained a Deacon in the
M.E. Church by Bishop Thomas A. Morris, at the Holston annual Conference at Knoxville. On the 13th day of October,
1844, he was ordained to the office of an Elder in the M. E. Church, by Bishop EdmondStover Janes, at holston annual
Conference at Reemes' Creek, N.C.... He having been all his life a farmer, except that the eleven years he lived
in Newport he was engaged in the mercantile business. In 1868, when he beheld the great moral desolation which
the late civil war had spread throughout the bounds of the Holston Conference... his great soul moved him to join
the Conference as a traveling minister, being then 63 years old. He continued to serve his Conference super-anuated
him, because of his age and failing health. While he only received a common school education in early life, his
thrist for knowledge, and his taste for reading good books, led him to devote all of his spare moments to reading..
He was a "Free and Accepted Mason" of the brightest order for
a great many years. He was scrupulously careful about educating his conscience in right principles and always particularly
exact in following the dictates of his conscience...
The last nine or ten years of his life was spent in patient physical suffering...
He continued when at all possible, his early custom of attending all the church courts of his own Church, attending
the very last annual meeting of Holston Conference, in October, 1882, contrary to the wishes and remonstrances
of his family - he being at the time in failing and feeble health - giving as a reason.. that it might be the last
Conference he would ever have the opportunity of attending. Among the last acts of his life before taking his death-bed,
was to visit a sick friend, neighbor and relative, to administer consolation to him, in a dying condition. The
sickness of which he died was pneumonia, which was only of a few days' duration; and although death came at last
rather suddenly and unexpectedly to him and friends, he was not disappointed or found wanting in faith. When asked
by a loving and stricken daughter how he felt in view of death, he calmly and firmly replied, "All is bright,"
and quietly and peacefully breathed out his life...
On the 4th day of June, after an impressive funeral service conducted
by his nephew, Rev. P.H. Henry, preacher in charge of the Maryville Circuit, his remains were decently interred
in the family burying ground at Carpenter's Campground, in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing friends
and neighbors. Peace to his ashes. Surely the life, character, and death of such a man is worthy of the study and
emulation of all.
The East Tennessee News (Maryville). Vol. 30, No. 35, 02 July 1883. page
3 - transcribed by, Amanda Jowers
THOMAS HENRY -
Maryville, Jan. 27. – Thomas Henry, colored, died last night of consumption at his home in West Maryville.
Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune (28 Jan. 1896) - submitted by,
Marla Zwakman
JOHN MARTIN -
Died - On the 15th ult., at his residence in Blount county, Ten., MR. JOHN MARTIN, in the 58th year of his age,
after a severe illness of a week.
The Jonesborough Whig, and Independent Journal, (Jonesborough, TN) Wednesday,
November 01, 1843; Issue 25; col E - transcribed by, Amanda Jowers
JAMES WALKER -
MARYVILLE, July 14. – James Walker, of Houk died last Thursday after a lingering illness from chronic diarrhea.
He was a scholarly and noble young man, called away in the prime of life.
Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune (15 July 1891) - submitted by,
Marla Zwakman
BARTON L. WARREN -
Barton L. Warren, one of the oldest and most noted citizens of this section, died at his residence, Louisville,
Tenn., yesterday morning. Mr. Warren was born in Virginia in the year 1800 and was consequently ninety-two years
of age. When seven years old he came with his father, a pioneer Methodist preacher, and eleven other children to
Knoxville. The older Warren settled on First Creek, near the river. The subject of this sketch entered upon a successful
business career at an early age, and at the outbreak of the war was the wealthiest man in Blount County, owning
a vast estate and many slaves. To each of his children at the time of their marriage he gave a handsome sum to
start them in life. He has always been a kind neighbor, and willing at all times to lend a helping hand to those
in need. The destitute never left his door empty handed.
Mr. Warren was well known as an active politician, as a democrat he stood
at the head of the list. He was an active worker for his party's interest and voted the ticket form his majority
up until the last election. At this he was too feeble to go to the polls, this being the only election that he
missed since he came of age. Jas. K. Polk was a great favorite with the old gentleman. He gave an entertainment
in honor of Polk at one time, to which he invited 500 people. They were bountifully fed. Messrs. C. W. Steele and
L.S. Steel the well known real estate dealers of this city, are his grandsons and they speak in the highest terms
of the old gentleman's many good qualities. He attended the democratic rally just before the election in 1881.
As the procession passed through Gay Street he sat in front of the Hattie house and cheered as lushly as any young
democrat in the town. The next morning as he bade Mr. C. W. Steele's family good bye he remarked with tears in
his eyes "I never expect to be in Knoxville again" and he never was.
The funeral will take place at three o'clock this afternoon at the late
residence at Louisville. Mr. Warren is the last link in the neighborhood that connects the present generation with
the long ago. He was a good citizen, lived to a good old age, and those who have so familiarly known "Barton
Warren" in times gone by, will regret that the old landmark is gone, and will trust that his reward is sure.
Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune, November 16, 1892 - submitted
by Pam Rathbone
