{"id":797,"date":"2014-03-17T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T20:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?p=797"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:30:10","slug":"797","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/797\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMMUNITIES OF THE PAST<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

BINGHAM’S CHAPEL<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bingham’s chapel was located about 2 1\/2 miles west of Oakdale on what is now known as the Snow Hill Road area. Several families lived in this community. These families included the Whaleys, Engerts, Binghams, Snows, Robinson, Cromwell, Fairchilds and\u00a0 more. There was a building used as a church house on Sunday and as a school during the week.\u00a0 This building was bought by\u00a0 Charles Engert and moved a-ways out the road and used as a home.\u00a0 This building is still standing in 1999 and has been renovated and is owned by the Norris Family.\u00a0 The Whaley Cemetery is across the road from this home.\u00a0 The following\u00a0 excerpts are about Bingham’s Chapel\u00a0 and are from the Morgan County News.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

January, 1927<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nHenry McKenzie was the week end guest of Carl Whaley.\u00a0<\/span>
\nHenry Fairchilds and family have moved to Danville, Ky.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAlene Whaley went to Oakdale on business Friday.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMiss Lela Hyde will return from her home next Sunday to take\u00a0<\/span>
\ncharge of her\u00a0school at Bingham’s Chapel.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nBen and Pearl Snow were the Sunday afternoon guests of Milton Whaley.\u00a0<\/span>
\nReece Gilland was the Saturday night guest of Miss Eva Fairchilds.\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

February, 1927<\/span><\/p>\n

Rev. James Rose<\/i>\u00a0filled his regular appointment at this place.\u00a0<\/span>
\nMr. Joe Robinson is on the sick list but is slowly improving.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMiss Dorothy McKenzie Mr. Sidebottom and Henry McKenzie\u00a0<\/span>
\nmotored to Lenoir City Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—–\u00a0<\/span>
\nDave C. Whaley is barbering in Harriman this week.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMr. Lonnie and High Snow were Sunday guests of Mr. Chas. Bingham.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nOther names mentioned:\u00a0 Lou and Andy Fairchild, Mrs. Florence McKenzie, Harry\u00a0<\/span>
\nWhaley,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eva Fairchild, Ollie Fairchild,\u00a0 Mrs. Chas. Bingham, John Bingham\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-<\/span><\/p>\n

July, 1927<\/span><\/p>\n

Rev. James Rose filled his regular appointment here Sunday.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nEmma Whaley of Mossy Grove was visiting Mr. & Mrs. D. C. Whaley at this place Sunday.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nCharlie Blake of Pine Orchard spent Saturday evening with Fred Whaley\u00a0<\/span>
\nand enjoyed a nice Radio Program.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMisses Eva and Ollie Fairchild motored to Union Sunday.\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

ROSE REMARKS<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\u00a0<\/span>Rose was located north of Sunbright\u00a0<\/span>and near Burrville<\/span><\/p>\n

April, 1918<\/span><\/p>\n

Born to Mr. & Mrs. B. J. Neely on April 1st, a son.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nRev. T. V. Peters failed to fill his regular appointment\u00a0<\/span>
\nhere last Sunday on account of so much rain.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nJune 1918<\/span><\/p>\n

Everett Jones who is in the US Navy located at Ft. H.G. Wright\u00a0<\/span>
\non Fishers Island, NY is at home on a ten day furlough.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nSeveral from here attended the Baptizing at the\u00a0<\/span>
\nByrd School house Sunday.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMrs. J. S. Young who has been visiting relatives at\u00a0<\/span>
\nOneida has returned home.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-<\/span><\/p>\n

September 13, 1918<\/span><\/p>\n

G. M. York dismissed his school last Monday and hiked himself\u00a0<\/span>
\ndown to the Co. Capital where he took upon himself the solemn\u00a0<\/span>
\nand binding oath of a J.P.\u00a0 If any young lady can find her a man\u00a0<\/span>
\nto tie to let her proceed with him to the Squires where the knot will be tied at once.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nJune, 1920<\/span><\/p>\n

Corell Hull of Dayton, Ohio was calling on Miss Charlotte Morton Sunday.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nSome of our young people attended the singing and play\u00a0<\/span>
\nat Mrs. Lillie Davis’ Saturday night.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-<\/span><\/p>\n

January 1921<\/span><\/p>\n

Died on the 25th of Dec., Henry M. York.A large crowd\u00a0<\/span>
\nattended the funeral service conducted by Rev. Gamble.\u00a0<\/span>
\nInterment was at Nydeck on the 27th.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nGeorge M. York dismissed his school at Rugby about two\u00a0<\/span>
\nweeks, on account of his father’s serious illness.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMrs. Jane Peters is at the bedside of her brother,\u00a0<\/span>
\nA.J. Young, who is seriously ill at Rugby.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nJanuary, 1922<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Hubert L. Lewallen of Dayton, O, is vivisting his home a few days.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nFayette Crisp has moved to M.G. Drake’s farm.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nW. A. McKinney has moved to the Rollins place on White Oak.\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u00a0—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nRev. Jas. M. York of Va. is visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. H. M. York and other relatives here\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nB.M. Brooks has turned out for fodder, so there will be no more school at Nydick for two weeks.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nFebruary, 1928<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>
\nLawson Crisp who recently married has set up house keeping at the G.W. Crisp place.\u00a0<\/span>
\nR.M. Brooks is at Knoxville while his father H.MN. Brooks is the the hospital.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

CATOOSA\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Catoosa was located west of Lancing and Wartburg.<\/span>* * * *\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

July 1921<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nBorn to Mr. & Mrs. Pollard, on the 13th,\u00a0<\/span>
\na fine girl, named Mary Ina.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nWillie H. Summers is home from Hazard, Ky.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMrs.\u00a0 Noah Potter was called here from Sunbright last week\u00a0<\/span>
\non account of her mother, Mrs. Martin Norris being very ill.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMrs Mitchell Litton and two sons left for Oneida Monday, where they\u00a0<\/span>
\nwill make their home during the school term there.\u00a0 Mr. Litton will\u00a0<\/span>
\ncontinue to work here for awhile yet.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMarch 1926<\/span><\/p>\n

Born to Mr. & Mrs. Gillum Jones, March 24th, a fine girl\u00a0<\/span>
\nwho will bear the name Geneva.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMrs. A. M. Hawn was the guest of Mrs. E. T. Brown Sunday.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMr. Archie Brown was the Sunday Guest of Carl Zumstein.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMrs. Fred Jones and little daughter, Ruth were visiting\u00a0<\/span>
\nMr. and Mrs. Gillum Jones Sunday.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nSeptember, 1926<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nJessie Debord and Ed Jackson moved their families to Powells Station last week.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMiss Jewel Allen of Marton, Tenn.. began school here\u00a0<\/span>
\nlast week with an enrollment of forty six pupils.\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

HUFFMAN<\/span><\/p>\n

May have been called Huffman’s Switch\u00a0<\/span>and was located north of Wartburg\u00a0<\/span>between Sunbright and Glen Mary<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

February, 1920<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reuben Hurtt was out riding on his bicycle Sunday.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMisses Sarah and Florence Dunaway and Dewey Hutcherson were\u00a0<\/span>
\nthe guest of Mollie and Dorothy Hurtt Sunday.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMr. Carl Trew who has been working at Warley, Ky,\u00a0<\/span>
\nspent the week-end with his mother Mrs. Hannah Trew.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—\u00a0<\/span>
\nMiss Julia hurt spent the night with home folks\u00a0<\/span>
\nMr. & Mrs. W. E. Hurtt Saturday night.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMr. J. R. Hurtt is not running his mill this week.\u00a0<\/span>
\nHe is logging and preparing to saw next week.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—–\u00a0<\/span>
\nMrs. Z. T. Scott has been very ill but is better at this writing.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMAY, 1920<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nEd Bunch called on his best girl Miss Ruth Hurtt near\u00a0<\/span>
\nSunbright.\u00a0 We are sorry Ruth has moved so far away.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nWe are sorry\u00a0 to learn that Misses Molley and Dorothy Hurtt and\u00a0<\/span>
\nEunice Scott have moved to Union Grove.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nJohn L. Scott is spending a few days in Lancing this week.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nB. B. Barnes left Monday for Bollingreen, Ky.\u00a0<\/span>
\n—-\u00a0<\/span>
\nMiss Lola Davis was the Sunday Guest of Miss Molley Hurtt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COMMUNITIES OF THE PAST BINGHAM’S CHAPEL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bingham’s chapel was located about 2 1\/2 miles west of Oakdale on what is now known as the Snow Hill Road area. Several families lived in this community. These families included the Whaleys, Engerts, Binghams, Snows, Robinson, Cromwell, Fairchilds and\u00a0 more. There was a building used as a church… Continue reading Communities of the Past<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,83],"tags":[207,259,488,108,72,181,490,478,286,20,483,479,485,471,363,477,474,482,134,493,484,444,442,486,473,195,10,491,438,481,104,476,472,302,480,136,431,489,42,475,45,23,487,492,470,297,424],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-misc-records","tag-barnes","tag-bingham","tag-binghams-chapel","tag-brooks","tag-brown","tag-bunch","tag-catoosa","tag-crisp","tag-cromwell","tag-davis","tag-debord","tag-drake","tag-dunaway","tag-engert","tag-fairchilds","tag-gamble","tag-gilland","tag-gillum","tag-hawn","tag-huffman","tag-huffmans-switch","tag-hull","tag-hurtt","tag-hutcherson","tag-hyde","tag-jackson","tag-jones","tag-lancing","tag-lewallen","tag-litton","tag-mckenzie","tag-neeley","tag-norris","tag-peters","tag-pollard","tag-potter","tag-robinson","tag-rose","tag-scott","tag-sidebottom","tag-snow","tag-summers","tag-trew","tag-wartburg","tag-whaley","tag-york","tag-young","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}