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"By now Smithville had a Methodist Church and what was left of the members moved to Smithville and old Siloam fell into decay. The bright lights of the jack-o-lantern that were seen on misty nights and the sheep sleeping in the house gave rise to the most terrific ghost stories and superstitious people were afraid to pass there. The Maxey and Wright families burial ground is on the spot where the old church stood.
I have no idea when Major Smith built the first home where Aden Moore lives and kept a store in part of the dwelling. My parents were born in 1839. My daddy remembers riding behind his father and buying a pair of red top boots there. My mother remembered attending tghe marriage of William Moore and Amanda Pierce. Major Smith's daughter, Miss Frances Smith danced at this wedding. Mother remembered her stylish costume, knee length dress, wide pantelets that came down over her slippers and big padded sleeves. I have no idea when the Fulton road was opened and a stage coach put on, but Major Smith kept the stage stand. In recent years a lady in Covington Tn asked my assistance in locating her great grandmother Frances Smith's grave. We located it at Ballardville in Lee County. Through this lady I learned that Jane and Frances Smith married coachmen, Bolin and Livingston.
Some 80 years ago grandfather moved to Lee County and found the descendants of the Bolins and Livingstons. Many years ago a grandson of Miss Frances Smith, the Rev Alvin Bolin, was pastor of our Methodist Church. His daughter is Mrs Ruth Armstrong, a nurse in the Amory hospital. This ends the Smith story.
I don't have much history on my great-grandfathers Riggan and Armstrong. The Riggan came from the Carolinas and lived 2 years in Virginia. His wife was and Edington. His 6 sons are buried at Riggan Chapel that bears their name. Belva Harman traced the Armstrongs back to the Easter States and found some of them to be of importance hence the Armstrong pride.
The Stegalls came from Kentucky. Mrs Elizabeth Burdine has the names of the original Stegalls. There were 6 of theses: Henry, William, and Stanley, the great-grandfather of the Nabors Brothers. He built a home where the funderal home is now. This old home burned down a long time ago. The Stegall sisters were Sally, Ester and Tarley. Sally married my great uncle, Dr William Armstrong. Ester married my other great uncle Drury Armstrong who lived at Cotton Gin. His family burial ground was taken for the Amory cemetary. Tarly married a Wigul and died in Fulton.
Henry Stegall settled just beyond where the Negro church where New Chapel is. He built a school house where the road now makes a bend. Just north of this he built a find 2 story dwelling. Across the road was a post office and a big store. At Ironwood Bluff he built a big river port office and a warehouse where the steamboats delivered his supplies. In the meantime he had a big 2 sotry white house built on a square bend on the north prong of Bull Mountain, and it was a beautiful place. you had to go down a long road to the door. When you turn down the creek a narrow road faced a cabin at the foot of the bluff. On top of this hill was a house where an old Mrs Naylor lived and told fortunes. She was quite famous as a fortune teller. Here also was an old cemetary. That was a dense wilderness in my early childhood and the mill was rotting down when I could first remember."
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