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The Jarrett O. Lewis Family Collection contains dozens of photographs and a few family documents and ephemera of a Stewart County Lewis family. Jarrett O. Lewis (1877-1954) was the son of George Rufus Lewis (1844/1920) and Martha Oneal (1844) of Stewart County.
Jarrett Oneal Lewis and Ella Esterlee Walker married in Stewart County in 1904. They had 6 children, 2 of whom survived to adulthood, Virginia (Lewis) Honeyman (1912-1958) and Jesse Lahiff Lewis (1920-1962). Esterlee Walker had a brother who lived in Miami, Florida, and some of the photos are of that Walker family. In 1957, Fannie (Hembree) Patterson, a widow with two young daughters, married Jesse Lahiff Lewis. They had no children together. After Jesse died, in 1966 Fannie married W. Cecil Richardson (1918-2000), son of Benjamin F. Richardson of Stewart Co. In 2022, the collection was donated by Jane (Smith) Bagwell of Stewart County. The collection was given to her by a ‘Lewis family member’ a number of years ago, consisting mostly of Lewis family photos – mostly unlabeled – and a few documents. Some Patterson and Richardson photos appear in the collection as well. The collection includes the family Bible of Jarrett and Esterlee Lewis, the funeral register of Jarrett O. Lewis, and the Naval training manual of their son Jesse L. Lewis. Individuals identified in the photos include: Crawford, Frank - unknown, but sent from the Presidio, San Francisco, CA Hembree, Fannie (1927-2017) – wife of Jesse L. Lewis, James W. Patterson & W. Cecil Richardson Honeyman, Russell F. (1919) – husband of Virginia Lewis Honeyman, Russell O. (1950) – son of Russell & Virginia (Lewis) Honeyman Ledford, Tommie Lewis, Jarrett C. (1920-1921) – infant son of Jarrett & Esterlee Lewis Lewis, Jarrett O. (1877-1954) – husband of Ella Esterlee Walker Lewis, Jesse Lahiff (1920-1962) – son of Jarrett & Esterlee (Walker) Lewis Lewis, Virginia (1912-1958) – dau. of Jarrett & Esterlee (Walker) Lewis; wife of Russell F. Honeyman Patterson, James W. (1925-1950) – husband of Fannie Hembree Patterson, John Wesley (1892-1980) – father of James W. Patterson Patterson, Annie (Darnell) (1896-1962) – mother of James W. Patterson Walker, Flora (Sharp) – wife of M. Clinton Walker Walker, M. Clinton – brother of Esterlee (Walker) Lewis Walker, Ella Esterlee (1878-1968) – wife of Jarrett O. Lewis Walker, Nancy - niece of Esterlee (Walker) Lewis Walker, Ruth - niece of Esterlee (Walker) Lewis Immigrants who wished to obtain American citizenship could file a declaration in any court of record, stating their intention to become naturalized citizens. Their petitions typically included their year and place of birth, date of immigration, and residency since immigration.
A declaration of intention had to be filed first, and after 2 years' time a final petition could be filed. Thirty-two such petitions filed in Stewart Circuit Court have survived. The petitions are part of the loose records of the Circuit Court, and are viewable online on our Google Drive. The petitioners, countries of origin and petition dates are: Atkins, William (Great Britain) - 1837 Baltz, Philip (France) - 1854 Bloch, Leopold (Hohenzollen, Prussia) - 1855 Bloch, Simon (Hohenzollen, Prussia) - 1855 Bodener, John Jacob (Nußdorf, Germany) - 1843 Buhler, Ulrich, John & Frederick (Switzerland) - 1871 Catois, Belrus Louie (France) - 1845 Devers, Anthony (Ireland) - 1872 Fach, Charles Christian (Hofheim, Nassau, Germany) - 1848 Forman, M. J. (Russia) - 1891 Gansner, George (Seewaas, Switzerland) - 1856 Graham, Samuel (Scotland) - 1841 Green, Henry - 1858 Hartoch, Eugene (Prussia) - 1873 Hartoch, Oscar (Prussia) - 1873 Hogg, James (Scotland) - 1840 Holliday, Alexander (Scotland) - 1841 Howell, Evan (South Wales, England) - 1856 Jones, Thomas (Breconshire, Wales) - 1856 Kane, Edward Dunlap (Londonderry, Ireland) - 1849 Klein, Victor (France) - 1854 Lyddy, Timothy (Great Britain/Ireland) - 1867 Lory, J. H. (Cornwall, England) - 1891 Mantha, Henry (Switzerland) - 1853 Martin, Thomas (Great Britain/Ireland) - 1847 McGovern, Thomas (Great Britain/Ireland) - 1894 McIntire, James (Great Britain/Ireland) - 1841 Osbourne, Francis H. (England) - 1896 Patterson, John (Scotland) - 1846 Price, Joshua (England) - 1852 Röder (Roeder), Albert (Memmingen, Kingdom of Bavaria) - 1849 Rougemont, Albert (Neuchatel, Switzerland) - 1857 Sanders, Isaiah & Samuel (Great Britain) - 1837 Thomas, Ellis (Syria) - 1906 Walder (Walter), Bernard (Austria) - 1843 Wetton, J. D. - 1909 Williams, David (Glamorganshire, Wales) - 1856 The Archives has a growing collection of local school yearbooks. Stop by and take a stroll down Memory Lane:
Austin Peay State University - 1953-1955, 1958-1960, 1963, 1970-1971 Big Rock School - 1956, 1958, 1959 Bumpus Mills School - 1954 Center Point School - 1951, 1952, 1956 Dover Elementary School - 1963-1965, 1976-1977, 1979-1982, 1984-1985, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 New Haven School - 1954 North Stewart Elementary - 1975, 1976, 1980, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 Stewart County High School - 1946, 1951-1956, 1958, 1966-1968, 1970, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 Stewart County Middle School - 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 W. T. Thomas School - 1956, 1987 The Mary Ann Scurlock Collection contains documents, photographs and ephemera belonging to late Dover resident Mary Ann Scurlock. The collection is arranged in 1 box, with some loaned items available as digital scans only. The collection was donated to the Archives in 2020. Mary Ann (Bruton) Scurlock (1927-2020) was the daughter of Harvey and Lora Seay (Brandon) Bruton. She founded Mary Ann’s Flower Shop in Dover and was a member of the Ft. Donelson Memorial United Methodist Church. She was the widow of James T. Scurlock. The collection includes several 1930s issues of the Stewart County Times newspaper, various family and Dover photographs, souvenir scarves, the 1963 Dover Grade School yearbook, and an interesting compilation of Civil War research material. A 48-star U. S. Flag is also in the collection (proudly hanging on the wall at the Archives). Digital-only items include Bruton family research and photos, letters from William Henry Oliver, and funeral cards of Nancy Bufford Webb (1897-1915). The Finding Aid of this collection is here:
The Ella Lee Keatts Hilliard Collection contains 6 store ledgers from the Cumberland Valley Drug Company, a pharmacy / drug store at Indian Mound, Tennessee, and covers the years 1926 through 1948. Also included is a circa-1953 Army regulation manual and a savings book from the First Trust and Savings Bank, Clarksville, TN. The items were found in a shed behind Mrs. Hilliard's former home by the current owner, who donated them to the Archives.
The Cumberland Valley Drug Company began operations about 1921. Its President was Dr. Cyrus Nathan Keatts, MD, and the Secretary/Treasurer was his brother, Clarence Kincaid Keatts. Dr. Cyrus Nathan Keatts was born in 1876, a native of Montgomery County who moved to Stewart County at age 14. He died in 1963, having been a physician at Indian Mound for 61 years. Clarence Kincaid Keatts, a native of Montgomery County, was born July 5, 1874 and died February 10, 1942. His obituary stated that he had been in the drug business in Indian Mound for 21 years. The 1913-14 edition of the Era Druggists Directory lists Keatts & Co., Smith and Stewart, and H. B. Smith as retail druggists in Indian Mound, Tenn. Ella Lee (Legate) Keatts Hilliard was born January 2, 1909 in Stewart County, the daughter of Morris and Minerva (Byrd) Legate. She was married about 1925 to Clarence Kincaid Keatts, and in 1948 to Freeman J. Hilliard, who died in 1956. Mrs. Hilliard died May 16, 1990 at Memorial Hospital, Clarksville, TN. The store ledgers contain accounts due from customers of the drug company, and are indexed. In 2019, the Crow Family Papers Collection was donated to the Stewart County Archives by a long-time friend of the family. The items were recovered from the house of the late Dr. Charles Henry Crow in 2015 by his nephew, and sent back to Dover for donation in 2019. Dr. Charles Henry Crow (1926-2015) was the son of Dr. Henry L. and Aline (Evans) Crow of Dover. He was a 1944 graduate of Dover High School, a World War II veteran who was decorated with a Purple Heart, and for many years a dentist in Nashville and Dover. Among the papers of this collection is a series of newspaper articles mentioning Dr. Crow’s heroics as a 5-year-old in 1931, when he and a friend helped save the life of a playmate who had slipped into deep water while wading in the Cumberland River at Dover. The Finding Aid for this collection is here:
From 1976-1900, the Tennessee Historical Commission sponsored surveys of historic (pre-1930) buildings across the State. In Stewart County, the work was carried out in 1981 via a grant to the Mid-Cumberland Youth Conservation Community Improvement Project. Workers traveled around the county inventorying the surviving historic man-made structures, using state-provided forms. Photographs of the structures were made where possible. The collection includes not only residences, but also out buildings, and a few historic structures that were no longer standing. The original documents and photographs produced by the project are housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Record Group 189 (County Architectural Surveys, 1976-1990). The Stewart County Archives has a copy of the Stewart County part of that collection, and they are useful for researching the history of historic homes in the county. A list of the 827 structures that were inventoried was also created, and each structure was assigned a number. You can view that list in this file:
Samples of the completed survey forms are shown here. Each structure typically has 2 survey forms and 2 photographs.
In 2021, Jane (Smith) Bagwell loaned four 3-ring binders to the Stewart County Archives for digitization, consisting of research notes, correspondence and documents compiled by her late mother-in-law, Lorena (Lewis) Bagwell, a longtime county and family historian.
Topics and families covered in the binders include:
Vertical files are a grab-bag, shot-in-the-dark at any research location. They're typically stored 'vertically' in a filing cabinet, as opposed to how books are stored on shelves. They can contain all sorts of research material compiled by other researchers or staff members. You may find family research, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. Be sure to ask for them when you visit! Here is a (mostly complete) list of the vertical files at the Archives.
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