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Published in the Carrollton, GA - Times-Georgian 2000-2-18
Mrs. Lynn Climer Tolbert, 69, of 7251 Confederate Lane, Villa Rica, died
Feb. 15, 2000. She was born in Floyd County on July 16, 1930, the
daughter of the late Carl Denson Climer and the late Clara Mae Turner
Climer. She lived in Austell for about 20 years, moved to Orange Park, Fl.,
for seven years and had been in the Villa Rica area for the past 12 years.
She was a homemaker and a Baptist.
She was the sister of Hazel Biggers of Mableton and Bernice Willis of
Marietta; wife of Owen Alvin Tolbert, Jr. (deceased), and Bill F. Giglio;
beloved mother of Gary M. Tolbert and family of Dallas, Texas; Brenda J.
Tolbert and family of Villa Rica; Owen Alvin Tolbert III and family of
Hiram, Ga.; and Joel Lee Tolbert and family of Greenville, SC. Lynn is also
survived by her grandchildren: Layla, Dain, Grace, Evan, Alayna, Adam,
Daniel and Michael; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Graveside services will be conducted today, Feb. 18, at 1 p.m. at Crest
Lawn Memorial Park, 2000 Marietta Boulevard, Atlanta, with the Rev. Bob
Whitmire officiating. J. Hoyt Thomas Funeral Home, Villa Rica.
Danny/Nancy Clemmer
http://clemmer.org/http://clemmer.org/1962/
Published in the Memphis, TN - Commercial Appeal Feb 13, 2000
TERRY L. CLEMMER, 76, of Houston, Texas, formerly of Memphis, retired
masonry
contractor, died of heart failure Wednesday at Memphis Veterans Medical
Center. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Forest Hill Funeral Home East
with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery East. He was a member of Heritage
Baptist
Church and a World War II Navy veteran who received a seven stars medal. Mr.
Clemmer, the widower of Nina Clemmer, leaves two sons, Larry Clemmer of
Memphis and Terry Clemmer Jr. of Houston, Texas; a sister, Nellie Jean Hawk
of Helendale, Calif., four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Danny/Nancy Clemmer
http://clemmer.org/http://clemmer.org/1962/
Jim
This is just what wanted to hear.
Christian did come before 1730, and he lived in Milford. ( he is my
grand--------father )
Now, to get that book. I will try the York Road Society first. I may
get back to you
Thanks
Leon
p. 236, Christian Treichler Clymer of Quakertown. Name is German,
formerly Klemmer. This line started in Germany and came to US prior to
1730, settling in Milford Twp. Jacob Clymer was born 1729 in US and
his son was Christian T.
> -
Leon, you in particular asked about a week ago a question about Clymers
in SE Pennsylvania. I didn't save the message and can't remember it
exactly, but it sounded like something I had read about. You asked who
had posted the info originally and it may have been me, but I didn't
want to commit until I got back to the library and checked it out.
One of the questions that arose between you and me was the origin of the
Clymer-Clemmer connection. Sure enough, that issue is mentioned in the
book "A Genealogical and Personal History of Bucks County,
Pennsylvania" by William W.H. Davis, 1905, Lewis Publishing Company
(reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company.)
In this book there are four separate genealogies/histories of Clymers
who originated in Bucks County. I will include a brief account of
each, but they are pretty wordy, so I just grabbed a few items and
paraphrased.
p. 236, Christian Treichler Clymer of Quakertown. Name is German,
formerly Klemmer. This line started in Germany and came to US prior to
1730, settling in Milford Twp. Jacob Clymer was born 1729 in US and
his son was Christian T.
p. 87, Lee Clymer of Reiglesville, Berks County (born 1863). Son of
William Heister Clymer and Valeria Smith Clymer and descended from
Richard Clymer, grandfather of George the Signer.
p. 270. Eli L. Clymer, born 1841, Warrington Twp, Bucks County. A
Mennonite family. son of Henry Clymer who was one of 11 children of
Henry Clymer.
p. 283, John Clymer of Nockamixon Twp, Bucks County, born 1793. This
book says the family was of German origin, but it appears to me that
they are of the English Clymers (via the West Indies.)
I will be glad to help as much as I can, although one of two ways would
be best for me if someone wants this info. (1) get the book
interlibrary loan or (2) I can copy pages and mail them snail-mail to
interested parties.
Maybe this will help answer a couple of those Pennsylvania
Clymer/Klemmer questions.
Jim
Calvin Augustus Clemmer and Mary Margaret Robbins b May 1, 1856 Boston, TX
died Apr. 7,1933 Willow, OK. had the following children:
Media Ethel b July 4, 1888 Putnam, TX m Robert Sherwood Roberts Aug. 27,
1907 d 1984
Orah Elva b Aug. 22, 1890 TX m Jim Tyra d June 1979 Willow OK
Oscar Augustus b Aug. 7 1892 TX m (1) Ethel Fox (2) Mollie Graham d Apr.
1938 Bullhead AZ
Mary Lucy b Dec. 28, 2893 TX m (1) Bill Underwood (2) Ben Urton d July 9,
1930 buried Willow, OK
Frank Brittan b July 3, 1895 TX m (1) Elsie Fox (2) Zula Cornet
Lundia May b Mar 31, 1897 TX m August Denker d 1971 Oklahoma City, OK
Ima Cassie b Feb 4, 1903 TX m (1) Herman Reed (2) Carl Hutchison d March
27, 1982 Midland, TX
David Columbus and Mollie Clinton had 3 Children:
Leanna
John
Fanny
(I have not more information on this family)
Henry Clemmer and Malisa Florence Myers had 5 children:
Vernon Arthur b June 12, 1884 Putnam, TX m Mae Ann Wilson July 29, 1906
(marriage recorded in Eastland Co., TX) d Oct 4, 1908. (he was murdered in
Putnam, TX. May was my grandmother)
Lela Dell b Dec. 12, 1888 Putnam TX m Bob Crawford Sept 9, 1909 (marriage
recorded in Callahan Co.)
d June, 1980
Elbert Curtis b 1889 Putnam m Adelia King Feb 18, 1906 in Cisco, Eastland
Co., TX d Apr. 21, 1955. Adelia was b Aug. 4, 1884 in TN d May 19, 1968 in
Eastland, TX (both are buried in the Putnam cemetery)
Thomas Earl b Nov 15, 1890 m Mae Ann Wilson Clemmer (first husband was
Vernon Clemmer) May 17, 1915 (marriage recorded in Eastland Co) d June 20,
1972. Mae Ann was born Mar 20, 1891 d March 19, 1961& buried on her
birthday. Mae's parents were Alvin C. Wilson and Nancy Frances Stotts.)
Alice Louise b Mar. 21, 1892 Putnam m James Briscoe Nov 30, 1910 d Dec.
1982
Laura Clemmer was born 1858 NC m S. B. Sigler Nov. 13, 1884. He was born
June 6, 1856 d Apr. 7, 1903. He is buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery southeast
of Putnam. There is no marker for Laura and I have no further information
on her. No known children.
Burton Craig Clemmer b 1860 Henderson, NC m (1) Emma Anderson Wood Nov. 29,
1883 d 1935 Clyde, Callahan Co. TX. Emma b 1865 TN d 1917 Clyde, TX. Both
are buried in cemetery at Clyde, Callahan Co., TX. (2) Cordelia Marshall.
Burton Craig and Emma had the following children:
Ethel Elena b 1885 Putnam m Morris Woodward d 1959 Clyde TX
Belva Melissa b Apr 8, 1888 Putnam m Grover Augustus Collins Mar 19, 1908 d
Sept. 22 1967 Abilene TX
Blanch Hazel b Jan 7, 1889 m Harry Lester
Verda b 1890 Putnam d with TB (no death date)
Raymond Craig b Mar 13, 1893 Putnam m Mollie Estes Dec 7. 1916 Clyde, TX d
Feb 1948 Clyde
Sallie Putnam TX (d young)
Ralph Anderson b Jan 16, 1896 Putnam m Lillian ?
Fay b 1900 Putnam TX m Jack Doyle
Joyce b Apr 4, 1904 Putnam m Jack Gorman d. Jan 30, 1984 Snyder, TX
Marcus Milford b July 25, 1905 Putnam m Eleanor "Pet" Greene d Dec 1986
Dallas, TX
Children of Adam Clemmer and Louisa "Eve" Rhyne:
Martha b 1842 in NC married Ephriam Ingle in MS
Margaret Adelaide b March 27, 1843 NC m William E. Whitesides Jan. 1, 1861
d Dec. 6, 1920 in
Rochester, Haskell Co, Texas
Leander Roburtus b March 13, 1845 Gaston Co. NC m (1) Margaret E. Rhyne (2)
Carrie S. Anderson, d Dec. 4, 1928. He is buried at the cemetery in Clyde,
Callahan Co. TX
Calvin Augustus b Jan. 26, 1847 Gaston Co. NC m Mary Margaret Robbins d
Sept. 16, 1931 Willow, OK.
David Columbus b 1849 NC m Mollie Clinton
Henry Curtis b Apr. 12, 1851 NC m Malisa Florence Myers (daughter of Thomas
Jefferson Myers and Jane Ann Futhey) d Dec. 9, 1921 Hope, Eddy Co., NM
(marriage record in Callahan Co. DOB determined from age given in funeral
home records)
Laura b 1858 NC married S. B. Sigler Nov. 13, 1884 (marriage record in
Callahan Co.)
Burton Craig b 1860 NC m (1) Emma A Wood (2) Cordelia Marshall d 1935.
Buried in Clyde, Callahan CO, TX.
Martha Clemmer and Ephraim Ingle had one child, Mary (according to "Our
Kin")
Margaret Adelaide Clemmer and William Edward Whiteside b Jan 1839
Gaston/Lincoln Co., NC m Jan 1, 1961 Gaston Co. NC (his parents were John
Whitesides, Jr. and Mary Massey) Margaret and William had six children:
James Robert b Aug. 6, 1865 Dallas NC m Margaret Emily Austin Oct 19, 1890
in Putnam, TX, d June 25, 1939 Dallas, TX.
Elizabeth b 1868 NC d before 1880
Auguston 1870 d Feb 20, 1920 Dallas, TX
Henry b March 9, 1873 TX d Oct 21, 1940 Rochester, TX
Ada b 1874 TX died before 1880 Callahan Co. TX
Maggie b 1883 TX d May 9, 1942 Rochester, TX
(info contributed by Beth McBeth of Plainview, TX descended from James
Robert)
Leander Roburtus and Margaret Rhyne b Oct 2, 1845 Gaston Co., NC d Dec 15,
1887 Putnam, TX buried at Putnam. Leander is buried at Clyde beside his
second wife, Carrie Sydney Anderson. Leander and Margaret had nine
children:
William Allen b Sept. 20, 1868 Putnam, TX m Deaner Narcissus Ham 1890 (I
think the marriage record is in Callahan Co. TX) d July 23, 1951
Grandfield, OK
Mary Justina "Molly" b Feb 10, 1871 Cass Co. TX m Samuel Neill d June 30,
1953 Port Lavaca, TX
Lucinda T "Lulu" b July 24, 1873 Putnam, TX m J.R. Roper d July 4, 1914
Callahan Co., TX. Lucinda is buried in Putnam cemetery near her mother.
Leanna "Anna" b Jan 1, 1876 Putnam, TX m William E Clardy d Aug. 10, 1976
Abilene, TX
Benjamin Franklin b Jan 14, 1878 Putnam TX m Mollie Ingram Peeler d Jan 2,
1970 Meadow, TX
Robert Edward b Mar 5, 1881 Putnam, TX m Jessie Bell Windland d June 26,
1937 Abilene, TX
Henry Ellis b Feb 27, 1883 Putnam, TX m Bessie Pearl Moore d Apr. 20, 1970
Walter Ardie b July 18, 1885 Putnam TX m Zella Spencer d Oct 4, 1965
Abilene, TX
James Euel "Boss" b Dec 3, 1887 Putnam, TX m Iva Mae Sherridan d June 30,
1918 Callahan Co., TX
Leander Roburtus and Carrie Sidney Anderson b June 8, 1867 Mexia, Freestone
Co. TX m Dec 24, 1896
d Dec 4, 1938 (I don't have her parents names) Their children were:
Eugene Lesley "Jack" b Feb. 25, 1897 Putnam TX m (1) Lenora Smith (2) Iva
Bell Hanks d Nov. 1981 Abilene, TX
Cecil Conrad b June 29, 1898 Putnam m (1) Mary Elizabeth Hill Oct 5, 1926
Montague Co. TX (2) Elsie Arnold Clemmer d Dec. 1976 in Eagle Point,
Oregon. (Cecil had no children. Elsie had known my husband for several
years. When my mother died in 1993, Elsie questioned her relationship to
the Clemmers and discovered the kinship to her husband.)
Iva Helen b Jan 10, 1900 Putnam m Lane O'Steen Aug. 1922 Baird, Callahan
Co., TX d Jan 11, 1997 Hobbs NM
Leland Ray b Jan 10, 1902 m Sallye Elvira McIntosh Mar. 9, 1924 d March,
1965 California
Rosalie "Rose" b Feb 10, 1904 Putnam, TX m John Randall Shelton Dec 20,
1924, Clyde Callahan Co., TX. d early 1997 Irving, TX buried Midland, TX.
Vida b Nov. 21, 1906 Putnam m B.J. Stewart
Since this post is getting rather lengthy, I will send more later.
Gearldean McCrary
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> From: FamilyHart(a)aol.com
> To: gmc(a)eastland.net
> Subject: Re: [CLEMMER-L] Adam and Lousia Clemmer
> Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 8:53 AM
>
> In a message dated 02/23/2000 10:58:09 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> gmc(a)eastland.net writes:
>
> > Adam Clemmer was born Apr. 4, 1818 in Gaston Co., NC. He died in
Callahan
> > Co. Apr. 28, 1900. Louisa "Eve" Rhyne Clemmer was born Feb. 26, 1813
in
> > Gaston Co., NC. She died June 26, 1899. I have looked at microfilmed
> > newspapers but never found an obituary for either of them.
> >
> > Gearldean McCrary
>
> Thank you very much!!!! You wouldn't happen to have dates and places for
all
> of their children, would you?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Don & Jeanine
I'd be awfully tempted to back up into the PA area for this info if they
aren't in the Chester, Lincoln, Mecklenburg or Gaston Countys area
Joyce jreece(a)icx.net
----- Original Message -----
From: <FamilyHart(a)aol.com>
To: <CLEMMER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 10:41 PM
Subject: [CLEMMER-L] Adam Clemmer
> In a message dated 02/21/2000 5:10:37 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> jerrybarb(a)earthlink.net writes:
>
> > Parents were Adam & Louisa Rhyne Clemmer md. 8 Jan. 1841 Lincoln Co.
> > N.C.
>
> Does anyone have dates and places for this couple?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Don & Jeanine
>
>
> ==== CLEMMER Mailing List ====
> A great Klemmer history page;
> http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/4340/
>
>
Other than the information in Our Kin, there wedding date and the fact
that they left NC after the War.
They were buried in Putnam, Tx after 1880 Census where they were age 62
& 66 thats it.
Their parents were Lewis and Mollie Cloninger of Gaston,
Lewis b.ca. 1778 Adams Co. Pa d aft 1830
Mollie b.ca. 1797 Lincoln NC d. aft 1841
buried unknow
We would like dates on any of the above, if anyone can help
Thanks
This was sent to us by L.Curtis Clemmer son of Gus Jr.
recorded by Gus Jr.. for his father
Gus Jr died 6 March 1988 age 96 years
C.A. Clemmer born 16 Jan 1847 Gaston Co. NC
lived there until after the war.
Joined the Confederate Army at seventeen in March 1864, belonged to
Company C, Second North Carolina regiment of Junior Reserves mustered
into service at Raleigh NC.
My Captains name was J.E. Holland, a find man and loved by all the
boys.
Miles Hoffman was Lieutenant. My Colonel was Anderson, Lieutenant
Colonel was Beasley.
We were under General Featherstone's command until we were thrown into
Johnsons army near Kingston NC.
Had a scrap with Sherman's army near Mill Creek east of Kingston.
The next fight was at Bentonville NC. We were forced to fall back and
continued to fall back until Lee surrendered at the Court House,
Appomattox, Va.
Than Johnson surrended at Greensboro NC.
We got home in April 1865 without surrendering and I did not surrender
until after I married in 1872.
Gus Jr, "You know I have heard him tell a few things, but not many
about the War."
G-grandson Jerry Williams
In a message dated 02/21/2000 5:10:37 PM Mountain Standard Time,
jerrybarb(a)earthlink.net writes:
> Parents were Adam & Louisa Rhyne Clemmer md. 8 Jan. 1841 Lincoln Co.
> N.C.
Does anyone have dates and places for this couple?
Thanks!
Don & Jeanine
Adam Clemmer was born Apr. 4, 1818 in Gaston Co., NC. He died in Callahan
Co. Apr. 28, 1900. Louisa "Eve" Rhyne Clemmer was born Feb. 26, 1813 in
Gaston Co., NC. She died June 26, 1899. I have looked at microfilmed
newspapers but never found an obituary for either of them.
Gearldean McCrary
----------
> From: jerry williams <jerrybarb(a)earthlink.net>
> To: CLEMMER-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: [CLEMMER-L] Adam and Lousia Clemmer
> Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 10:16 PM
>
> Other than the information in Our Kin, there wedding date and the fact
> that they left NC after the War.
> They were buried in Putnam, Tx after 1880 Census where they were age 62
> & 66 thats it.
> Their parents were Lewis and Mollie Cloninger of Gaston,
> Lewis b.ca. 1778 Adams Co. Pa d aft 1830
> Mollie b.ca. 1797 Lincoln NC d. aft 1841
> buried unknow
> We would like dates on any of the above, if anyone can help
> Thanks
>
>
> ==== CLEMMER Mailing List ====
> Post a query to
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Clemmer. You might
snag a nonmember.
Found on another list;
Subject: Sheriffs of Burnet County, Texas
The Burnet County Sheriff's Office is currently attempting to obtain
photographs of all persons who have served as Sheriff of Burnet County.
Below is a list of the Sheriffs, with dates of service. We have
obtained photographs of the individuals whose name is preceded by an *.
Copies of these photographs will be displayed in the lobby of the Burnet
County Sheriff's Office, 1215 Hwy. 29 East, Burnet, TX.
. . .
John Clymer 1875-1876
. . .
If you know the full name of any of these individuals or where we might
borrow a photograph for copying, please advise.
Tem Moody
Chief Deputy
512/756-8080
P. O. Box 216
Burnet, TX 78611
Taken from the Gastonia Gazette Sept. 13, 1923
CLEMMER BROTHERS BACK IN GASTON AFTER 57 YEARS
Burt and Gus Clemmer, Back From Texas After Absence of More Than Half a
Century, Are Amazed at the Fairy-Like Development of Their Native
County--Talk Interestingly of Olden Days. (By Mrs. Joe Gribble)
Something happened in Dallas a few days ago that never happened before and
is not likely to happen in a town of it's size again in a hundred hears.
Two visitors arrived who had not been in Dallas for 57 years and another
who had been gone thirty years and still another who had been away for
sixteen years.
The two who had been away for 57 years were Burt Clemmer, aged 79, of
Texas, and his Brother, Gus Clemmer, aged 77 of Oklahoma. They came all
the way in a Ford driven by Gus Clemmer's son, Gus Jr. They made the trip
in nine days.
When they left Gaston fifty-seven years ago, they went West in a wagon.
Mr. Gus Clemmer was in the same company during the war between the states
with Philo Summey, who lives at Mariposa, Lincoln Co. They were born and
lived on the old Clemmer place known for many years past as the Eugene
Summey place, a short distance out of Dallas. They were sons of Adam
Clemmer. Among the older citizens of the town and relatives whom they are
visiting are P.A. Summey, Eugene Summey, J.R. Lewis, Larkin A. Thornburg
and A.P.H. Rhyne, and their cousins, Monroe and J. L. Clemmer, and others
throughout the county.
Seated on the porch Friday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.A.
Thornburg were seven old comrades all nearly the same age relating tales of
former days and enjoying to the fullest hearty laughs about "You Remember"
as places, events and persons were brought to mind. The party was composed
of these two visitors, Mr. Burt Clemmer, 79 years, and Gus Clemmer 77,
former Dallasonians; Big Andy Cloninger, 77, Eli Costner, 78, Monroe
Clemmer, a cousin, 77 and E.E. Summey, 67, the latter hesitating a little
in thus publicly confessing his age at this time for he said, "It goes
against the grain, but I'll be a sport with the rest of the boys."
"Tell us about Gastonia, Dallas and Gaston Co. he you were here 57 years
ago." said the interviewer.
"Bless you, Gastonia wasn't born and wasn't even thought of. All that
territory was nothing but a happy hunting ground, woods, old fields, with
only two houses, as we remember one, the home of Joe Bradley and the other,
a Mr. Davis, uncle to Nil Davis, Now of Gastonia, and they were far apart;
Daniel Hoffman's old flour and corn mill stood about a mile from Dallas,
southwest on Big Long Creek to which was added later a cotton gin, the
first in the county. Our chief occupation at night was down upon the floor
before the big open fire that served for heat and light, seeding cotton
with our fingers, which was then carded , spun and woven by our mothers and
grandmothers."
With a chuckle, Mr. Gus Clemmer hesitated in a story about to be told when
the party chimed in, "out with it!"
"Well, you remember we fellows only had one suit of clothes, generally
woven with a dressed up copper-colored stripe, that were our
Sunday-go-to-meetin' clothes and during work days, it was no uncommon sight
to see boys and men plowing in long shirts to the ankles with the short
slits on the side. When going to the gin, only a bag of cotton would be
carried at a time, mule back, and just think of Gaston today with her
hundred cotton mills and numerous gins."
"How about schools and churches?" was then asked. "A few log cabin school
houses daubed with mud, with slab benches, wooden shutter windows and the
old blue-back speller was how we got our learnin'. Long Creek,
Philadelphia and 'Antioch. You knew we searched all the old haunts
yesterday in search of the old log once the hiding place for our
home.....just before entering the church for we didn't care to spoil our
store-bought by the long and rough walk. Helping the ladies off and on
with their shoes was a chivalrous act in those days."
"What do you think about the roads in Gaston now?"
"Well, we can hardly believe our eyes when we see the vast and numerous
buildings, cities, farms, roads and great progress in general. One or two
roads were fairly good then while the majority could not be traveled in bad
weather."
"To tell a fact," said another of the party, "just out of Dallas west at
one time the buggy in which I was riding mired so deep in the mud the mule
stripped itself out of the harness trying to pull out, we finally having to
resort to crow bars to lift the buggy."
"In our travel by wagon going West, the roads were rough and we traversed
wooded countries teeming with deer, wild animals an all sorts of boogers.
Sometimes we traveled more than 40 miles without a house in sight."
When we left here, there was no railroad in Gaston County and only one in
Charlotte, the Carolina Central. There were only two towns, Dallas and Mt.
Holly, the latter with only a few houses. Dallas is the only place men
just home from the war with......we would have recognized the old home
place but all other places, especially Gastonia, are wonders to us."
Big Andy Cloninger then remarked, "why I haven't been on a train since the
night I came home from the was when I landed in Charlotte and walked all
the way of 22 miles home the same night."
"How did you come to leave Dallas?" they were asked. "Being young men
just home from the war with the wanderlust still in our heads, we didn't
mind accepting th invitation of our captain, Sam Stowe, brother to Lee and
Ed Stowe, who had taken a liking to us, to go with him out West. Our first
occupation there was tending sheep, later farming."
Mr. Bert Clemmer raised a family of 15 children to be grown, thirteen of
whom still live, with 35 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Mr.
Gus Clemmer's family number 16. Twelve lived to maturity with nine still
living. He also has 36 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. His son,
Mr. Gus, Jr. came with them and did the driving.
The Messers. Clemmer are jolly people and very robust, despite their age
and are enjoying to the fullest, the wonders of Gastonia and Gaston Co. and
their pleasant visit with kinsfolk and former pals.
Retrospection of Gaston Co. 57 years ago, knowing the present, what might
one think of the future 57 years hence..
(Note .....some words I can't make out.) (note from Chera)
Gearldean
.
Thanks Danny,
If you had not posted your tidbit we may never have found where Jerry's
gg-grandparents were buried.
Thank you Gearldean we well have to come to Putnam and go to the
cemetery.
Arl Dalton talked alot about Putnam, he was born there.Aug 7, 1886
died March 20, 1966 PaulsValley, Okla.
We have Calvin Augustus reviews on the Civil War I well find the letter
and post it.
Calvin Clemmer of Abilene has the Shanks Book and yes there are mistakes
a few on our side to.
I only saw it for a short time at the Reunion I need to look at it again
and make the corrections.
Thanks again everyone
Jerry & Barbara
Hal, I have spent the day searching my records & have found nothing further
on Solomon Rhyne or Elizabeth Rhyne. I am sending a couple of articles
from my Clemmer book, by Chera Clemmer, that might be interesting to some
of you. There is also another article I will try to send later when time
permits.
Letter from L.R. Clemmer (Leander Roburtus is the oldest son of Adam
Clemmer and Louisa "Eve" Rhyne)
(taken from the Gastonia Gazette, Gastonia North Carolina Aug. 9, 1904)
A Member of Old Co. B. enjoys the War Articles and Adds Some Recollections
of His Own
To The Editor of the Gazette:
"Putnam, Texas, August 2, 1904------I see John B Carson has written up the
Battles of Fredricksburg but don't think we lost quite two-thirds. We lost
our gallant and good Lieutenant Wiley Cloninger there and also many
privates whom I could name if space would allow. Brother Carson says he
was a private, but I think he was our orderly Seargent (sp), if I mistake
not. I was but a boy in my 17th year at that time.
"I see John A. Morrow gives a detailed statement of the Gettysburg battle.
I was there, too. It was a hard fought battle. I wish more of the old Co.
B would give their experiences on that line. I remember the first skirmish
we had at Hanover Court House, when we went to guard a wagon train around
in the rear of McClellan's army to a mill to get flour. I recollect we
never got there. I know we lost our knapsacks and all we had. We were
ordered to throw down our knapsacks and pile up rails for breast works; but
Col. Lane saw he was getting in a trap and had to turn his men loose. We
all took to the woods. I recollect they got Capt. SAN. Stow and 50 of his
men. There were 5 or 6 in the squad that I was in that got away with
Lieutenant R. D. Rhine. We hid out in a clump of timber in a swamp till
dark and then slipped out. The next day, we got back to Richmond, starved
to death as we thought then, but we learned better later on. If the old
Company Recollects Room's Station; it was no child's play there. We lost
our gallant Captain Thomas B. Smith--as good a captain as was in the army.
L. R. Clemmer.
(Leander Roburtus was first married to Margaret E. Rhyne, daughter of
Joseph Rhyne and Lavenia Cloninger. After the death of Margaret, he
married Carrie Sydney Anderson.)
There is another article
Remember that this summer we will be publishing a book on the Glattfelder
family descendants which include all descendants of Jacob Rhyne of North
Carolina which also includes many, many Clemmer descendants.
We have our database online at:
http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/
If you can add names, dates, and places, we would sure appreciate it.
Thanks!
Don & Jeanine