The first section of photographs is from an old and tattered photograph album held by the Chastain family of McMinnville Tennessee. Many of the photographs have deteriorated beyond repair while others simply are unidentifiable.
     Myra Elizabeth “Lib” Chastain contributed the photographs in the late 1990s. It appears that Lib Chastain was the keeper of the album. There we see some photos identified with white ink while a few were appearently identified later in ball point pen. There are questions regarding a few photos. The Miles Thomas Chastain, Sr. photo is identified by a living granddaughter as being “Mr. Vogle” but the subject of the photo does not appear to be this Vogel. Also, the “Uncle Burley” photos appear to be of two diferent men.
     Lib and her brother Ed were living on the old Chastain (aka Chasteen) farm on Shellsford Road east of McMinnville. Lib died in 2003. Ed is still there with his neice and her husband. The Chastain home is one of Warren County older homes, started about 1828; it has had considerable additions since then. Lib believed that the farm was obtained from the Burleson family ca1828, however, no deed records have been found to substantiate this.
     The second section of photographs contains a few newer Chastain photographs.

From the Old Album

Schools

  Columbia School (12th Dist.) 1909, 78k. Detail of teacher, 17k

  Dark Hollow - 1911, 86k. Detail of teacher, 17k

  Dibrell Graduates 1914, 95k

  Dibrell, 88k (from a poor quality original)

  Vernon School 90k

  Center, 65k (from a very poor quality original) Large 345k version.

Family and Friends

  Miles Thomas Chastain, Sr. 40k

  Miles Thomas Chastain, Sr. 67k

  Mariah B. Chastain (Mariah Burleson Chastain, wife of Miles Chastain, Sr.)

  Burleson Chastain 43k

  Chastain Family, Nancy, Thomas, Maria, Robert, and Mary Belle.

  Miles Thomas Chastain, Jr. Baby picture. 30k

  Edna Parlee Chastain (from a very deteriorated tintype)

  Mary Rice Chastain (detail from a very faded print)

  Uncle Burley

  Uncle Burley and Aunt Maggie

  Logan Watley and Jenny Smoot Watley

  Logan Watley, Marshall Curtis

  Walter Rice

  Ellen Rice

  Ellen Rice Lucas

  Aunt Artie Lucas, Jim

  Vogel

  Carrie Potts

  Rev. John Butler. From an engraving?

  Joe Evans

  Bill Evans, child photograph.

  The Venus Dodson Family

  Everett, Edna, and Gentry [Dodson], (children).

  Maria Chastain Dodson

  Everett Dodson, baby photograph.

  Everett Dodson

  Edna [Dodson]

  Allie Dodson Johnson

  Christia Dodson, Dee Christian

  Virgil Farless, Oscar Martin, Charlie Cunningham, Christia Dodson

  Haskell Cunningham, Waymon McGee

  Richard Madewell 28k

  Cora Phillips

  Dora Phillips

  Dora & Sam Bocook

  Aunt Liz Saulisbury & Relatives

  Ray Saulisbury

  Hillis Boys

  Milus Goodson 20k

  Frank Williams [+ 1]

  Sophia Williams, Mary Clark

  Mary Clark and Mary Clark

  Oscar Harris, Henry Adams

  Albert & “Bige” Crain

  Davis DeBard and his Dog

  Unidentified 1

  Unidentified 2

  Unidentified 3

  Unidentified 4

  Unidentified 5, child photograph.

  Unidentified 6

On the Collins River

  Shellsford Sawmill (from a very poor quality original)


A Few Newer Chastain Family Photographs

  Chastain Home, 1992

  Sunday at the Chastain’s, 1992

  Logan Darnell Watley, 1992. (Son of Logan Watley)

  Lib Chastain and Fred Smoot, 1996

  James E. “Jim” Cantrell, killed in Iraq, 2005

  Webpage Compiled by Fred Smoot, 2005





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