Jean Underwood Fox and Harry Fox presently own the Albert Miller Lea farm at Richland, and this is the 209th anniversary of Mr. Lea’s birth. What a birthday gift, a Tennessee Historic Marker, presented by Mr. and Mrs. Fox. They have begun working with Grainger County Historian Ken Coffey to have Richland: Albert Miller Lea Farm placed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is the tenth historic marker to be placed in Grainger County. Mr. Marvin House, who restored the Richland Mill, was also helpful in this process.

I was just thinking about Irene today and wanted to include this audience in reading what I wrote about Irene back in 2008.
Irene Tolliver Hamilton celebrated her 90th birthday at a grand party given by her daughter, Betty Hamilton Bullen, on Sunday afternoon, October 26, 2008, at the Optimists Building in Maynardville.

The Luttrell community was shocked to learn that on Saturday morning, April 16, 1904, Lyde Hubbs and his son, Parlin Hubbs, were killed in a tragic collision of the hack, in which they were riding, and passenger train, No. 6. The train tracks were owned by a company called KCG & LRR, and train No. 6 was due to arrive in Knoxville at 9:10 am. Just as the hack reached the tracks the train slammed into the team of horses and both horses were killed instantly having been carried a considerable distance down the tracks.

Our good friend and good buddy, Frank Sharp [HMHS Class of 1960], is an avid reader and photographer who left Union County many years ago for the Atlanta area. Since his retirement, he's had many photography exhibits and is indeed a world traveler. I know you will enjoy Frank's piece. Bonnie Heiskell Peters

In Memory of
Miriam Waggoner Heiskell
October 15, 1918 - January 21, 2016
Obituary
On January 21, 2016, Miriam Heiskell died peacefully at home surrounded by three generations of loved ones. She was born on October 15, 1918 in Morristown, TN, to A. B. and Blanche (Proffitt) Waggoner and grew up in Maryville, TN, in a close-knit family with three brothers and twenty-three first cousins.

Ruby Rema Rice Little, daughter of Marcellus “Sillus, Sill” and Isabel “Ibbie” Weaver Rice was born on July 23, 1907 at the home her parents had built around 1904 on Bull Run Creek just inside Knox County. Ruby’s ancestors had been on Lost Creek since 1798, and her parents had lived in Big Valley until the early 1900s. The Rice name remains familiar to many Union Countians.

I found these terms in a very old Bible with a note, “Here is a table which it would be well for us to cut out or copy for reference in our Bible studies: It was copied from a January 17, 1895 newspaper. I have no idea if it was a local or Knoxville paper.

A day’s journey was about twenty three and one fifth miles.

The Paulette community is located at the south end of Union County. I have heard that the community may have been named for a Paul family living in the area. In researching the Union County Census, the 1880 Census listed one family by the name of Paul. The family consisted of the William J. Paul family living between George and Orleana Evans and Josiah and Sarah Russell. The enumerator for District 2 was David S. Turner. (I do not know if Paulette may have been in District Two in the 1880s) William J. Paul was 33 years old in June of 1880.

It was a cold, snowy, winter day in the school year 1941-42 at Maynardville Elementary School. It was also my first year of school. I had a new snow suit of gray tweed with a maroon velvet collar and buttons that I was very proud of. I was also one of the first graders who had to learn about riding a school bus. I did not have a watch, and I don’t remember if I could tell time then; but I do remember that I worried constantly about missing the school bus and not having a way to get home.

James M. Heiskell, descendant of Daniel who left then Knox County and settled in Monroe County, and his wife Marian who ran the Heiskell School at Buckhead in Atlanta until last year were two of the most gracious people I've ever met. [bhp] James died about a year ago and Marian in her 90s is in fragile health. Carol DeMar, one of the teachers at Heiskell School, wrote this in 2009:

Great Expectations
May 5, 2009 by American Vision