Tallapoosa-Pike County AlArchives Biographies.....Newberry, Joseph Cade ca1804 - 1862 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Steven Earl Newberry newberry@lakemartin.net January 12, 2006, 12:57 pm Author: Steven Earl Newberry MY NEWBERRY CONNECTIONS TO COOSA-TALLAPOOSA COUNTIES, by Steven Earl NEWBERRY, Lake Martin, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, , January 01, 2006: I descend from Joseph Cade NEWBERRY (c1804-1862) of Pike County, Alabama from c1845-c1858. He died in 1862 on a return trip to Largarto, Texas, where he and several of his sons were raising cattle. Joseph is probably buried at the Mathis Cemetery, San Patrico County, Texas, but that is a story all by itself. Joseph's wife, Susan ANDREWS (c1809-1860) is buried at Clay Hill Methodist Church Cemetery, Pike County, Alabama. Joseph and Susan had 14 known children, two sons dying in the Civil War. Joseph and Susan had a combined 11 sons and sons-in law that served the South in the Civil War, some in Alabama and some in Texas. Most of the family removed about 1858 to Texas and remained in Texas around Largarto and Mathis Texas, but my great grandfather Albert Howard NEWBERRY, Sr. (1845-1926) remained in or returned to Pike County, Alabama. Albert was with his father and several brothers in Live Oak County, Texas in 1860. One of Albert Sr.'s sons was Walter Cleveland NEWBERRY (1884-1927) who had one child, my father Walter Carl NEWBERRY (1922-1970). Walter Cleveland NEWBERRY died when my father was a young child of age 4. Walter Cleveland NEWBERRY is last found in a census at Precinct 37, Birmingham City, Jefferson County, Alabama in the household of his sister, Henrietta Eugenia NEWBERRY (1881-1971) and her husband Warren Butler WILKES (1868-1929), a railroad conductor and later engineer. Walter Carl NEWBERRY was raised by his mother, Gussie COLSON Newberry (1886-1954) in Montgomery Alabama, where I was born in 1952. Gussie was a daughter of John D. COLSON (1845-1912) and Normanda K. GAY (1851-1912) who were married in 1880 in Calhoun County, Georgia. This COLSON family removed to near Panther Creek at Malvern, Geneva County, Alabama in about 1881-1884. My brother, Robert Carl "Bob" NEWBERRY (1948-1999) died at home of cancer in Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama, leaving a wife and two sons. I have yet to prove a direct NEWBERRY connection between my line and the lines up here in Coosa-Tallapoosa or in Clay County, but there are some interesting indirect connections between the lines: [1] Joseph Cade NEWBERRY (c1804-1862), my great great grandfather, was a distant cousin of James Swain NEWBERRY (1797-1862) of Cherokee County, Alabama. A great granddaughter of James Swain NEWBERRY by son Isaac Newton NEWBERRY (1824-1862), by son Lawrence Winfield Scott NEWBERRY (1850-1925) of Crumly Chapel, Adamsville, Jefferson County, Alabama, was Mary Belle NEWBERRY (1889- 1982), who married John William NEWBERRY (1874-1940), who was a son of James P. NEWBERRY (c1836-1903) of Coosa County, Alabama. James P. NEWBERRY is buried at the Fish Pond Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Coosa County, Alabama. Mary Belle NEWBERRY and John William NEWBERRY are buried at the Crumly Chapel Church Cemetery, Adamsville-Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, with many of Mary Belle NEWBERRY's relatives. [2] My granduncle, Monroe Jackson NEWBERRY(1) (1876-1941), buried at Clay Hill Methodist Church Cemetery in Pike County, Alabama, married Olive "Ollie" DUNLAP (1879-1941), daughter of William Bennett DUNLAP (1843-1929), both buried at Macedonia, Coosa County, Alabama. Monroe Jackson NEWBERRY was a Telegraph Operator at the railroad depot at Hollins, Coosa County, Alabama. The family history shows him as a Depot Agent for the Central of Georgia Railroad at Hollins. In the 1910 Hollins, Coosa County, Alabama census, Monroe's neighbor was Charles J. CONAWAY (1842-1920). Monroe died a few months before Ollie and was buried at Clay Hill with his NEWBERRY family. Ollie's DUNLAP family apparently wanted her close to them and had her buried at Macedonia. [3] My grandaunt, Henrietta Eugenia "Etta" NEWBERRY, mentioned in the first paragraph, is said to have spent time at Hollins, Clay County, Alabama along with her brother Monroe Jackson NEWBERRY. Family history says that Etta was the post mistress at Hollins sometime between 1900 and 1910 and I have copy of a tin-type picture of her standing in front of a rock outcropping there, taken about 1905. Etta probably met her future husband, Warren Butler WILKES, train conductor also mentioned in the first paragraph. while she was at Hollins. Warren and Etta married 20 Mar 1910, location uncertain. Warren Butler WILKES apparently inherited the Telford Hotel at White Springs, Florida, where he and Henrietta spent many years; Henrietta many more than Warren. Warren Butler WILKES was the son of Warren DeKalb WILKES (1830-1883) and Isabella TELFORD (1837-1876). I'm not sure how or when Warren Butler WILKES and Henrietta gained control of the Telford Hotel, but it was probably not directly from his parents, possibly indirectly from another relative. From what I can determine, Isabella TELFORD's brother, William Butler TELFORD, was in Suwannee County, Florida in 1880 and I strongly suspect that this William TELFORD eventually built, owned, and operated the Telford Hotel at White Springs. Somehow this hotel came into the possession of Warren Butler WILKES and his wife, Henrietta Eugenia NEWBERRY, probably sometime before Warren's death in 1929. The Telford Hotel at White Springs was one of the most prestigious Hotels in northern Florida. It is a Historical Landmark and was the destination of many famous people in the early 1900's. Its registry includes names like, Teddy Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, William Howard Taft, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. In 2002 the Hotel was in the possession of radio talk show host Chuck Harder, who was the president and CEO of "The Peoples Radio Network". Mr. Harder was injured in 1995 and in 2002 he was down- sizing his operations and the antebellum Telford Hotel was scheduled to be auctioned on the Internet on May 30, 2002. Warren Butler WILKES and Henrietta Eugenia NEWBERRY Wilkes are buried at the Riverdale Cemetery, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia. Shortly after my father, Walter Carl NEWBERRY, married my mother, Mary Earl BARNES (1930-Living) in 1947, they went on a trip to visit some of Walter's NEWBERRY relatives. One of the things my mother remembered about this trip was the visit to the Telford Hotel in White Springs, Florida, though in 2003 she did not remember the name of the hotel. My father and grandfather, Walter Carl NEWBERRY and Walter Cleveland NEWBERRY, must have been very close to Henrietta. She filled out my father's birth certificate and may have accidentally written her name in the space provided for the name of the newborn child. In 1940 my father filed an amended birth certificate in order to have his name corrected. From the birth certificate, Henrietta wrote in the name, Eugenie or Eugenia Newberry. When still a young man of about 18 in about 1944 and before his marriage, my father visited Henrietta, who was widowed and living in California at that time. [4] Lillian Eunice NEWBERRY (1912-1991), daughter of Henry Cleveland NEWBERRY (1885-1966) of Socopatoy, Coosa County, Alabama, who was a son of James P. NEWBERRY and Martha Elizabeth BUZBEE Hughes Newberry (1844-1907, age 63 years on tombstone), married William Marcus DUNLAP (1905-1988), both buried at Hissop's Concord Church Cemetery, just east of Rockford, Coosa County, Alabama. I have yet to research the ancestry of William Marcus DUNLAP, but suspect he is connected to the line of William Bennett DUNLAP, father of Olive "Ollie" DUNLAP, who married my granduncle, Monroe Jackson NEWBERRY(1) born Pike County, Alabama. [A note about Martha Elizabeth BUZBEE Hughes Newberry: In the 1986 Family Group Sheet, by Dorothy NEWBERRY Gainous, descendant of Whigham, Grady County, Georgia in 1986, Dorothy makes the notation by Martha Elizabeth BUZBEE, "daughter or granddaughter of a Methodist Minister". This notation and Martha's birth year and birth location of Saint Clair County, Alabama appear to make Martha the daughter, Martha born about 1844, of Jeremiah BUZBEE (1814- 1902), who was a Methodist Minister. WARNING: Other genealogies show the daughter, Martha, of Jeremiah BUZBEE as "Martha M." or "Martha Magora" BUZBEE, born about 1844, but with no marriage or death information. I can not resolve the discrepancy in the middle initials or names, but I feel almost sure, that Martha M. BUZBEE and Martha Elizabeth BUZBEE Hughes Newberry are one and the same person.] [5] I also have a NEWBERRY second cousin, who was a Russell High School teacher at Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, now retired and whom I have never met. She married an ALLEN (Living). She also descends from Joseph Cade NEWBERRY (c1804-1862). Her line is: Joseph Cade NEWBERRY > Joseph Jordan NEWBERRY (1873-1947) of Geneva County > Monroe Jackson NEWBERRY(2) (1903-1980) of Andalusia, Alabama > Cousin NEWBERRY (Living). [6] My half-granduncle, Albert Howard NEWBERRY, Jr. (1899-1959) and his wife, Eula May HIXON (1900-1941) were living at Sylacauga, Alabama in 1930. The Jackson names in this line undoubtedly originate with Albert Howard NEWBERRY Sr.'s first wife, Ella Lillie Ora JACKSON (1854-1891), daughter of Jordan T. JACKSON (1814-1898) of Baldwin County, Georgia and Comfort Amanda CULPEPPER (1822-1868), who were apparently married 9 Nov 1837 at Louina, Randolph County, Alabama, which was about a mile from current day Wadley, Randolph County, Alabama. Ella Lillie Ora JACKSON, my great grandmother, was apparently at least part Native American, probably Cherokee Indian. This lore comes from a CARROLL-JACKSON family line of Pike County, Alabama. Ella Lillie Ora JACKSON had a sister, Ida Leny JACKSON (1857-1874) who married Marshall Ellis CARROLL (1852-After the 1880 census of Pike County, Alabama) in 1871 in Pike County, Alabama. At least one of their descendants, a granddaughter, Zela Chastiline "Meme" CARROLL (1902-1972), daughter of Claudius Samuel CARROLL, remembered and passed on her memories of visiting what she called an "Indian Reservation" down there. She remembered that when she visited, her relatives knew the people there by name. Ida Leny JACKSON married Marshall Ellis CARROLL at age 14 and died at age 17. Marshall Ellis CARROLL and Ida Leny JACKSON had a son, Claudius Samuel CARROLL (1872-1941), previously mentioned above, who was told by the relatives that raised him, that his mother was an "Indian Princess". File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/tallapoosa/bios/newberry31bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 11.2 Kb