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Note NI19783 :

Individuals : Jamison Harry L.
Inscription:
PFC US Army WW II

Note NI19789 :

Individuals : Petty Lucille
Dyersburg Funeral Home Obituary
Dyersburg, TN
December 17, 2012
7, 2012
Lucille Jamison, 92, of Dyersburg, died Sunday, December 16, 2012 at The Bridge at Ridgely.
ONC Bridge at Ridgely.
She was a retired factory worker with Dyersburg Fabrics, where she worked for 48 years and a 60 year member of East Dyersburg Methodist Church.
burg Methodist Church.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Terry Lynch officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.
in Fairview
The family will receive visitors from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday at Dyersburg Funeral Home.
sday at Dyersburg
Survivors include her three sons, Mark Jamison and wife, Coleen, and Joe Jamison, all of Dyersburg and Tim Jamison and wife, Joyce, of Deltona, FL; seven grandchildren, Stacy Jamison Hawkins and husband, Mark, of Springfield, Hunter Jamison, Scot Jamison and Kristen Jamison, all of Dyersburg, Matthew Jamison and Corey Jamison, both of Deltona, FL and Coley Jamison of Los Angeles, CA; and a great-grandchild, Charlie Hawkins of Springfield.
Coley Jamison of Los Angeles, CA; and a great-grandchild, Charlie Hawkins
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Jamison; a son, Charles Jamison, Jr.; her parents, Arthur and Eula Prim Petty; two sisters, Willie Anderson and Lois Trees; and a brother, L.M. Petty.
Willie Anderson and Lois Trees; and a brother, L.M. Petty.
Grandsons and Larry Pleasant will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Charles and Tamara Dunn, Kenneth and Janet Westbrook, George Yarbro, Albert Fowlkes and Jack Todd.
ro, Albert Fowlkes and Jack Todd.
The family requests that memorials be directed to East Dyersburg Methodist Church or to a charity of the donor's choice.

Note NI19801 :

Individuals : Jamison J. W.
age: 59 yrs. old
married at the time of death
lived Dyer County, Tennessee
nnessee
s/s Sue Jamison
wed: Dec. 16, 1949

Note NI19803 :

Individuals : Jamison Jimmy Lynn
Plot: Section 61, Lot 234 North 1/2
CONT
Dyersburg State Gazette Obituary
Dyersburg, TN
March 21, 2009
arch 21, 2009
Jimmy Lynn Jamison, 58, of Dyersburg, died Thursday, March 18, 2009 at Veterans Hospital in Memphis.
s Hospital in Memphis.
He was a retired employee of UPS, a Navy veteran, very active in Ducks Unlimited, and a member of the Elks Club and Moose Lodge.
Club and Moose Lodge.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim Wolfgang officiating.
Wolfgang officiating.
Survivors include his mother, Sue Jamison of Dyersburg; a sister, Suzanne Jamison of Marion, Ark.; and a nephew, Jamison McGuire of Knoxville.
McGuire of Knoxville.
He was preceded in death by his father, J.W. Jamison; and grandparents Farris and Edna Jamison, and Ike and Lottie Reasons.
ke and Lottie Reasons.
The family requests that any memorials be directed to East Dyersburg Methodist Church.

Note NI19805 :

Individuals : Jamison Mary Ann
Mary Ann was the daughter of George P. Jamison and Sallie Ann (Powell) Jamison. She married Thomas A. Bolton on October 1, 1885, in Gibson County, Tennessee.

Note NI19807 :

Individuals : Jamison George Perkins
Inscription:
Epitaph: "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."
"
Lived in Randolph, Alabama

Note NI19816 :

Individuals : Jamison Lora Mae
Burial:
Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown
Memphis
Shelby County
Tennessee, USA
Plot: The Abbey Mausoleum, Section Y, Column 36
GPS (lat/lon): 35.09488, -90.02452

Note NI19829 :

Individuals : Barnwell Isaac Hayne
ISAAC HAYNE BARNWELL III, 68, of Memphis, retired from Barnwell & Hayes Cotton Co., died of complications from diabetes Thursday at St. Francis Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. John's Episcopal Church, where he was a member, with burial in Elmwood. Canale Funeral Directors has charge. He was a graduate of the Webb School and attended Tulane University and University of Memphis. He was a World War II Navy veteran, a charter member of the Sports Car Club and a member of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Mr. Barnwell, the husband of Claire Jamison Barnwell, also leaves a stepdaughter, Lucy Bell Butler of Lexington, Tenn.; two stepsons, Rip Bell and Clifton Louie Bell, both of Memphis, and a granddaughter. The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. John's Episcopal Church, the Webb School or the American Diabetes Association. (Published in The Commercial Appeal on November 26, 1995)

Note NI19832 :

Individuals : Jamison Enos
In 1850 the family was living in Montgomery Co., TN
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Note NI19835 :

Individuals : Jamison Josiah C.
The 1860 Gibson County, Tennessee Census list Sam Jamison, age 18 as a laborer. Sam was probably

Note NI19837 :

Individuals : Jamison Lewis Chesterfield
Notes from "Jamisons Forever":
CONT
Lewis Chesterfield served with the Union Army during the Civil War. He enlisted at Waverly Landing, Tennessee January 9, 1864. He served with the 2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry, 2nd Regiment, Company "G". Records also show his brothers, George P. Jamison and Robert , in the same Company. Lewis Chesterfield Jamison was Mustered out of the Army in December of 1865, at Nashville, Tennessee.
He was stationed at Waverly, Tennessee in April of 1864.
CONT He was stationed at Waverly, Tennessee in April of 1864.
Lewis Chesterfield received a pension from the Government for a Hernia he received when his horse was shot out from under him and he was ordered to mount a mule. On jumping on the mule he injured himself on the saddle horn causing the hernia. This fight took place at or near Paris Landing, Tennessee on March 27, 1864. Major Hardy was in Command, L. C. Jamison was treated by Doctor Enos McAvley.
As a result of the above injury, on July 12, 1889 Lewis Chesterfield Jamison received a pension from the U.S. Government for a "Right Inguinal Hernia" in the amount of $4.00 per month, under certificate # 440-440.
ght Inguinal
He was pensioned on July 12, 1889, Certificate number 440-440, for right inguinal hernia, at $4.00 a month.
d on July 12, 1889, Certificate number 440-440, for right
The 1870 Milan, Gibson County, Tennessee, Census list the following;
Lewis Jamisonage24
Jane24
George 1
Caroline60 (Probably his mother)
4
Lewis Chesterfield Jamison is believed to have moved to Arkansas about 1872 or 1873.

Note NI19863 :

Individuals : Jamison William
Murdered and scalped by Indians, October 16, 1778, near the Buttonwood Bridge, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Note NI19866 :

Individuals : Jamison Samuel
Samuel died in 1787 accidentally drowned in the Susquehanna River near his home in Hanover, Luzerne

Note NI19868 :

Individuals : Jamison Joseph
Joseph, who never married lived many years in Salem, his pleasant, attractive manner, willingness to help in amusing, and also in instructing younger people, are remembered by many. he lived more than ninety years, beloved and respected.

Note NI19869 :

Individuals : Jamison Alexander
Notes from JamisonForever.com:
CONT
Alexander Jamison moved to the Wyoming Valley, near the Susquehanna River with his parents in about 1776. He was 14 years old when he survived the Wyoming Valley massacre at the Wilks-Barre / Plymouth Fort on July 3 1778; and hew about 16 when he was the only survivor of the later Indian ambush which killed his brother John Jamison and their neighbor Asa Chapman. In both instances it would seem that his life was possibly saved by the actions of his older brother John. Alexander fought against the British, the Indians and the soldiers of William Penn's descendants. Three of his brothers were killed by Indians. After living, fighting, and defending the family home stead near Hanover which was only several miles from Wilkes-Barre. Alexander settled in Salem Township, Luzerne County along the Susquehanna River just North of Bewick and South of Shickshinny at or very near the present location of the Nuclear plant and owned large tracts of land, for which his family had paid dearly in defending the claims of the Connecticut Susquehanna Company in the Wyoming Valley. His nearest neighbor and good friend was Nathan Beach for whom Beach Haven was named. Appropriately Alexander and many of his family are buried at Beach Grove Cemetery. When the North Branch of the State Canal was being dedicated on the 4th of July 1828 at Berwick a large ceremony attended by all. it was Alexander who "Broke Ground" by driving his splendid oxen before the crowd. The plow was held by his good friend and neighbor Nathan Beach, Esq.
28 at Berwick a large ceremony attended by
Alexander fought in the Pennamite Wars between Connecticut settlers and Will Penn's settlers as well as in the Revolutionary War. he became a leader of the Salem Township community of Pennsylvania and it's spokesman for many years. he held a number of different offices and acted as a lawyer and judge / approved magistrate. Alexander became quite wealthy and died peacefully in 1859 after the loss of most of his family in settling the early frontier in Pennsylvania

Note NI19871 :

Individuals : Jamison Benjamin
Benjamin was a member of Captain Mason Alden's Company, Luzerne Militia, and died of Consumption after driven from Wyoming.

Note NI19885 :

Individuals : Jamison Daniel
Reported to be born on December 17, 1812, however, his mother died in 1806 making this or her date of death wrong.
wrong.
Daniel was reported born in 1812 in Beach Haven, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Daniel was the grandson of Captain Lazarus Stewart, the leader of the "Paxtang Rangers". AKA the "Paxton Boys" who was killed at the Battle of Wyoming Valley after advocating and leading a perhaps unwise charge against a numerically far superior force of Indians and British. Daniel Jamison married Judith Bomboy. He was a well known farmer and businessman and lived for most of his life in the Village of Centre ( aka Lime Ridge ), Columbia County, Pennsylvania, just a couple of miles South of Berwick, Pennsylvania. He owned and operated the well known Half Way House (an Inn and Tavern) which was midway between Berwick and Bloomsburg until he "got religion" and shut the place down. Daniel Jamison died in 1900.

Note NI19896 :

Individuals : Jamison Benjamin Franklin
Notes from JamisionForever.com:
Benjamin F. Jamison lived his whole life in the Berwick, Pennsylvania area. Little is known about his wife, but she is belived to have been Mary C. Glasmoyer or Glassmeyer or Glasmer. Benjamin enlisted in the 35th Regiment of the 6th Pennsylvania Volunteers under his older brother Albion B. Jamison who became a Captain of his unit, Company A. (note: at times the unit is referred to as Co A 6th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves Infantry (35th Volunteers). Benjamin fought in every major engagement during the Civil War including New Market Cross Roads, Bull Run, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness Campaign, Antietam, and at Gettysburg. The two brother's unit served in support of Col. W. Wallace Ricketts unit in most battles. Col Ricketts had been the original Commander of the 6th Regiment when it was organized in June or July of 1861. However, Albion was severely wounded in the leg at Antietam and after his recovery, he was semi-crippled and could not return to his unit. Albion then enrolled in medical school at the University of Georgetown from which he graduated and became a doctor on March 5, 1867. Later Albion was prominent in the GAR ( Grand army of the Republic ) and an original signer of documents in Philadelphia swearing allegiance to the United States after the death of Abraham Lincoln ( MOLLUS ). After the Civil War he was appointed to a high Government position settling Civil War accounts. It is believed that Benjamin's unit at the Battle of Gettysburg fought in the line of battle directly against the Confederate unit of Louisiana Tigers which contained one Victor D. Braud of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who would later switch sides in the war after he was captured the second time, changed his name to George C. Duke, and become the maternal great grandfather of Richard A. Jamison. In fact, the possibility exists that Benjamin's company was the unit that captured Victor Braud, along with a dozen or so other Confederates at Falling Waters during Lee's retreat from Gettysburg on July 14th. If in fact this is the case, the descendants of Richard A. Jamison should be eternally grateful that his paternal great grandfather didn't shoot his maternal great grandfather, but rather allowed him to surrender, otherwise, they would not exist. At the Battle of Gettysburg, the 6th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment was part of the 5th Corps ( Sykes Commanding ), 3dr Division ( Crawford Commanding ). 1st Brigade ( Col. William McCandless Commanding ). The first Brigade also included the 13th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment which was known as the Pennsylvania Bucktails. In any event, Benjamin fought with his unit until it was disbanded at the end of the war and he returned to the Lime Ridge, Pennsylvania area. he had many children, including Albert Brittain Lynn Jamison and eventually died in Shickshinny in 1926.

Note NI19899 :

Individuals : Jamison Harold Clyde
Harold Clyde Jamison's second wife was Ruth E. Duke of Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, and they lived in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania until their divorce. Harold moved to Snohomish, Washington in about 1951 and married Martha Harmon, by whom he had two children, Robert and Elizabeth. Harold returned to Pennsylvania in his later years and died in Berwick in 2002.

Note NI19911 :

Individuals : Jamison John
Some Records report name as Jemison.
CONT
Came to America in 1718, landed at Boston, Mass. where he and his second wife Roseanna Irvin lived for one year. In 1719, they settled in Voluntown, Windsor County, Connecticut.
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Emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts and arrived on 4 August 1718 with his family and brother William and William's family. 1719 John and family moved to Milton, Norfork County, Massachusetts. John bought land in Voluntown, Connecticut in 1725 and moved there with his family. He presumably engaged in his trade , which was the manufacture of linen by the use of a hand loom, or spinning wheel.
his trade , which was the manufacture of linen by
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Note NI19927 :

Individuals : Jamison William
From JamisonsForever.com:
CONT
Moved in about 1685 to Omagh, Tyrone County, Providence of Ulster, Ireland, due to persecution as he was a Protestant Covenanter. He was very religious, at least, in his support if the Covenanter ( Presbyterian ) philosophy and he is said to have been a Scottish Highlander. He had four male children: Robert, Henry, William and John. Robert and Henry emigrated from Ireland to America in 1708 and landed in Philadelphia. William and John (with their families) emigrated to America in 1718.
illiam and John (with their families) emigrated to America in 1718.
William emigrated from Ireland to America and landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1 CONC Pennsylvania.
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Marriage Record from TORREY:
rom TORREY:
JAMISON, William (-1714) & 2/wf Sarah/Mary? [PHILLIPS] (1649-1710); aft 1691; Charlestown
from TORREY:

Note NI19929 :

Individuals : Jamison Henry
Henry and his brother Robert came to America, landing in Philidaphia, Pennsylvania, in 1708
n 1708
The Jamisons were in Warwick several years before the township was formed,
and the names of three of them are attached to the petition asking for its
organization. The family, of Scotch origin and Presbyterian in faith, was
among those who immigrated from Scotland to Ulster in Ireland, and was part
of the great flood of Scotch-Irish which peopled this state the last century.
Henry Jamison, the head of the house, came to America with his family about
1720 or 1722, and probably settled shortly afterward in this county. He
bought 1,000 acres in various tracts, in Warwick and Northampton, but lived
in the latter township. The deeds show these purchases were partly made of
Jeremiah Langhorne, who conveyed 500 acres to Jamison February, 27, 1724.
This was part of the 5,000 acres which Penn's commissioners of property
conveyed to Benjamin Hurley, September 13, 1703, subject to quit-rent from
1684. John Henry Sprogel bought 1,000 acres of it, and in 1709 he conveyed
the same to Thomas Tresse, and from Tresse to Joseph Kirkbride and Jeremiah
Langhorne, March 23, 1714. In 1734 Henry Jamison conveyed 250 acres of this
land, lying in Warwick, to Robert Jamison, and the remainder to his other
children. It is related that Jean Jamison, afterward the wife of Robert
Jamison, was shipwrecked in coming to American, on the island of Bermuda, and
was left in a destitute condition ere she could get a passage to Philadelphia.
The father returned to Ireland, but whether he died there we are not informed.
Two hundred acres of the Jamison estate still remain in the family, the same
which the progenitor bought of Langhorne in 1728. Robert Jamison, born in
1698, son of Henry, was the father of John Jamison, a captain in the
Continental army, who married Martha, sister of the Reverend James Grier, of
Deep Run, of Robert, who was a soldier in the Revolution, and long an elder
in the Neshaminy church, and also of Henry Jamison, who kept the tavern at
Centreville, called Jamison's in 1767, and the father of the first wife of
the Reverend Nathaniel Irwin. Henry, a son of Captain John Jamison, drew a
$50,000 prize in a lottery. At his death, in 1816, at the age of thirty-five,
he left $500 to the Neshaminy church, and with the remainder enriched his
relatives. James Jamison, of Buckingham, who was killed by an explosion in
his lime quarry in 1837, at the age of fifty-eight, was a son of deacon
Robert. Members of this family have immigrated to other parts, and the name
is now found in various sections of this state and country. Henry Jamison
went to Florida, as early as 1765, where he died.

Note NI19933 :

Individuals : Jamison Robert
The unorganized territory lying between Warminster, what was erected into
Warrington in 1734, Northampton, Buckingham, and New Britain, was called
"Middlebury" for several years, and as such elected overseers of the poor and
of roads. February 13, 1733, twenty of the inhabitants of this region, namely:
Robert Jamison, Benjamin Walton, William Ramsey, Alexander Breckenridge,
Thomas Howell, Hugh Houston, Samuel Martin, William Miller, Jr., Valentine
Santee, James Polk, Robert Sibbett, John McCollock, Arthur Bleakley,
Alexander Jamison, Henry Jamison, Andrew Long, Joseph Walton, and Joseph
Roberts, petitioned the court of quarter sessions to organize it into a
township to be called Warwick, "to extend no further in breadth than from ye
north-west line, or Bristol road, to Buckingham, and in length from
Northampton to New Britain." The draft which accompanied the petition makes
Middlebury, or Warwick, of the same size and shape as Warminster and
Warrington. The petition was allowed the next day after it was received, and
there can be no doubt that the township was organized under it. As to what
time the name Middlebury was dropped, and the township took that it now
bears, with the boundaries that covered the unorganized territory, the
records are silent. It was called Warwick in 1736. The Dyer's mill road, now
Doylestown and Willow Grove turnpike, was opened in 1733 by Robert Jamison,
"overseer of the roads of Middlebury." The same year Benjamin Walton was
appointed constable for Middlebury, and Robert Jamison supervisor of
highways. At the October sessions, 1727, William Miller was appointed
overseer of the York road between the two branches of the Neshaminy, from the
bridge above Hartsville to Bridge Valley. The petitions for the organization
of the township belonged to the first generation of actual settlers, or their
immediate descendants, and the names remain in this and neighboring townships.
The population at that time cannot be given, but at the first enumeration of
taxables that we have seen, made in 1759, when the township embraced a much
larger area that at present, they numbered 138. Before it lost any of its
territory it contained 11,883 acres. Its present area is 10,731 acres. Since
Doylestown township was organized there has been one or two immaterial
changes in its territorial limits.

Note NI19938 :

Individuals : Jamison James
Jamison is interchangeable with Jemison, Jameson or Jemyson
CONT
From JamisonsForever.com:
:
Came to America in 1718, landed at Boston, Mass. where he and his second wife Roseanna Irvin lived for one year. In 1719, they settled in Voluntown, Windsor County, Connecticut.
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Emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts and arrived on 4 August 1718 with his family and brother William and William's family. 1719 John and family moved to Milton, Norfork County, Massachusetts. John bought land in Voluntown, Connecticut in 1725 and moved there with his family. He presumably engaged in his trade , which was the manufacture of linen by the use of a hand loom, or spinning wheel.
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Note NI19941 :

Individuals : Jamison John
Via JamisonsForever.com
CONT
1. Title: World Family Tree Vol. 40, Ed. 1
Author: The Learning Company, Inc.
Publication: Release date: September 1999
Media: Family Archive CD
Page: Tree #0585
Text: Date of Import: Mar 5, 2000
xt: Date of Import: Mar 5, 2000
2. Title: World Family Tree Vol. 32 (Disk #2), Ed. 1
Author: The Learning Company, Inc.
Publication: Release date: January 11, 1999
Media: Family Archive CD
Page: Tree #0264
Text: Date of Import: Mar 27, 2000

Note NI19965 :

Individuals : Jamison Isabel 'Bell'
Plot: Lot 267

Note NI19971 :

Individuals : Jamison Velma
Plot: The Abbey Mausoleum, Section Y, next to Column 35
GPS (lat/lon): 35.09488, -90.02452

Note NI19997 :

Individuals : Deason Ellen Muriel 'Kitty Wells'
"Kitty Wells":
CONT
Singer, Songwriter. Born Ellen Muriel Deason, her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts. She recorded the song just as she was intending to retire from the business to devote herself to her family full time. She learned to play the guitar at 14 and made her singing debut on the radio in 1936, appearing on some of the biggest radio hoedowns of the day, including "Louisiana Hayride" and the weekly Grand Ole Opry broadcast. Her husband, Johnnie Wright, who she married in 1937, suggested that she adopt the stage name Kitty Wells, drawn from an old folk ballad. Wells recorded for RCA Victor in 1949, but all of her major hits were made after that for the Decca label and several of her early records were duets with country stars like Red Foley and Webb Pierce. During her 27-year recording career she placed 84 singles on the country charts, 38 of them in the Top 10, earning her the title "The Queen of Country Music". She had her own syndicated television show in 1968 and made a country-rock album with members of the Allman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker Band in 1974. She was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1976, and was presented the lifetime achievement award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 1991, becoming only the third country musician to receive that honor. She died at her home from complications of a stroke. (bio by: Louis Mata)
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Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American country music singer who broke down a female barrier in country music. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s.
k Angels", made her the first female country
Wells ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of Billboard's country charts, according to historian Joel Whitburn's book The Top 40 Country Hits, behind Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, and Tanya Tucker. In 1976, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1991, she became the third country music artist, after Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, and the eighth woman to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Wells' accomplishments earned her the nickname Queen of Country Music.
and Tanya Tucker. In 1976, she was inducted into
Early lifeWells was born Ellen Muriel Deason in 1919 in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the few country singers born in Nashville.[2] She began singing as a child, learning guitar from her father, who was a brakeman on the Tennessee Central Railroad. Her father, Charles, and his brother were musicians and her mother, Myrtle, was a gospel singer. As a teenager, she sang with her sisters, who performed under the name the Deason Sisters on a local radio station beginning in 1936.
singing as a child, learning guitar from her father, who was a brakeman
At the age of 18 she married Johnnie Wright, a cabinet-maker who aspired to country-music stardom (which he'd eventually achieve as half of the duo Johnnie & Jack).
ager, she sang with her sisters, who performed under the name the
Music careerWells sang with Wright and his sister Louise Wright; the three toured as Johnnie Right and the Harmony Girls. Soon Wright met Jack Anglin, who married Louise and became part of the band, which became known first as the Tennessee Hillbillies and then the Tennessee Mountain Boys.
ic careerWells sang with Wright and his sister Louise Wright; the
Wright and Wells performed as a duo; it was at this time she adopted "Kitty Wells" as her stage name. Johnnie Wright chose the name from a folk song called "Sweet Kitty Wells". When Anglin returned from the Army, he and Wright formed the Johnnie & Jack duo. Wells would tour with the pair, occasionally performing backup vocals. Before Wells' rise to stardom with "Honky Tonk Angels", Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys toured with Wright and Wells for a time. Acuff advised Wright not to make his wife his show's headliner, because he thought women could not sell country music records.
he
On Louisiana Hayride, she performed with her husband's duo. Wells, however, did not sing on their records until signing with RCA Victor in 1949 releasing some of her first singles, including "Death At The Bar" and "Don't Wait For The Last Minute To Pray", neither of which charted. While these early records gained some notice, promoters still weren't keen on promoting female singers, and therefore Wells was dropped from the label in 1950.
1 CONC however, did not sing on their records until signing with RCA Victor in
1952:
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"In 1952, Paul Cohen, an executive at Decca Records, approached Wells to record "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels". Wells was disenchanted with her career prospects and was considering retirement, but agreed to the session (at Owen Bradley’s studio on May 3, 1952) because of the $125 union scale recording payment. "I wasn't expecting to make a hit," said Wells later. "I just thought it was another song."[3] "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" was an answer song to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life", and its lyrical treatment of seductive, wayward women. Wells' single retorted, "It's a shame that all the blame is on us women."
CONC Bradley’s studio on May 3, 1952) because of the $125 union scale
The record's message was controversial at the time, and was banned by many radio stations. NBC, in particular, was troubled by the lyric, "It brings back memories of when I was a trustful wife". Wells' slight alteration of "trustful" to "trusting" lifted the network ban on the song. It was also temporarily banned from the Grand Ole Opry. Nevertheless, audiences couldn’t get enough of it. The single took off during the summer of 1952, and sold more than 800,000 copies in its initial release. It became the first single by a female singer to peak at No. 1 in the eight-year history of the country music chart, where it remained for six weeks. (Certain female country songs, notably Patsy Montana's million-selling "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" predate the creation of Billboard's country chart in 1944.) "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" also crossed over to Billboard’s pop charts, hitting No. 27. Because of her major breakthrough, Wells received a membership to the Grand Ole Opry, which had originally banned the single.

Writer Bill Friskics-Warren has argued that part of the song's appeal came from its combination of a modern message with a familiar tune, a melody drawn from the Carter Family's "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" (as were "The Wild Side of Life" and Roy Acuff's "The Great Speckled Bird"). Practically anyone could hum along with "Angels" the first time they heard it.
llboard’s pop charts,
1969: Career peak
Ad featuring Kitty Wells and husband Johnnie Wright's first joint album, We'll Stick Together"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" was followed by "Paying For That Back Street Affair", a response to Webb Pierce's "Back Street Affair". The single reached number six in the spring of 1953, helping to establish a lasting place at the top of the charts for Wells. Between 1953 and 1955, she was popular on the country charts, and was the only female solo artist at the time to be able to maintain her success. In 1953, Wells had two Top 10 hits with "Hey Joe" and "Cheatin's A Sin". The next year, Wells partnered with country star Red Foley for the duet "One By One", which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart, and became her second chart-topper. The song led to a string of hit singles from the duo within the next two decades, including 1954's "As Long as I Live", which peaked at No. 3. As a solo artist in 1954, Wells had two major hits with the No. 8 "Release Me" and the Top 15 hit, "Thou Shalt Not Steal" (written by Don Everly of the Everly Brothers).
he was popular on the country
Record companies were reluctant to issue albums by country's female artists until Wells proved that women could sell.[13] She became the first female country singer to issue an LP, starting with 1956's Kitty Wells' Country Hit Parade, which consisted of her biggest hits. She released her first studio album in 1957 with Winner of Your Heart. Soon other female country singers released LPs in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
hit singles from the duo within the next two decades,
"Making Believe" and "Lonely Side of Town" became chart-toppers for Wells, however not on Billboard magazine. "Making Believe" is widely regarded as one of the greatest songs in country music history and Wells' as the definitive version of the song despite scores of covers over the years. Wells' later 1950s releases included "Searching (For Someone Like You)", "I Can't Stop Loving You", and "Amigo's Guitar", which she wrote with John D. Loudermilk. In 1957, Wells issued Winner of Your Heart. This was followed by a string of LPs released from Decca Records between 1957 and 1973. She also partnered with Webb Pierce the same year for two duet singles, including the Top 10 hit, "Oh So Many Years". The duo didn't record together again until 1964 with the Top 10 hit, "Finally". In 1959, Wells had two Top 5 hits with "Amigo's Guitar" and "Mommy For A Day". Wells was later awarded a BMI award for writing "Amigo's Guitar." Although not known much for her songwriting, Wells has won two BMI awards, including one for "Amigo's Guitar". She has published more than 60 songs.
g despite scores of covers over the
Wells' 1956 LP album, Country Hit Parade. She was the first female country singer to release an LP of her own.She continued to put much of herself into her songs throughout her career, inspiring other female country singers to record risky material as well. Loretta Lynn was one of her followers in this sense, when she recorded "Don't Come A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)" in 1967. Dolly Parton's 1968 recording "Just Because I'm a Woman", like "Honky Tonk Angels", questioned the male-female double-standard.
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Wells entered the 1960s on top with songs like "Heartbreak U.S.A." and "Day into Night". "Heartbreak USA" peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and became her third and final No. 1 hit. The follow-up, "Day Into Night" was a Top 10 hit the same year. Owen Bradley took over as Wells' producer in the 1960s. While Bradley did produce some of the biggest-selling country crossover singers of the time period, including Patsy Cline, he did have to record some of what Nashville then called "The Old-Timers," or the "Honky-Tonkers" from the 1950s, including Webb Pierce, Ernest Tubb, and Wells. With these singers, including Wells, he steered them all into the new contemporary sound without pushing them out of their limits. Wells' sound changed slightly due to Bradley's influence, incorporating some of the new Nashville sound into her material. The well-known Nashville Sound vocal group, The Jordanaires, can be heard backing Wells on her big country hit from 1961, "Heartbreak USA".
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In the early '60s, her career dipped slightly, but she continued to have Top Ten hits frequently.
became her third and final No. 1 hit. The follow-up,
In 1962, Wells had three Top 10 hits with "Will Your Lawyer Talk to God", "Unloved Wanted," and "We Missed You". Beginning in 1964, Wells' albums began to chart the Top Country Albums chart, starting with the LP, Especially for You. Some of Wells' albums peaked within the Top 10 on that chart. That same year, her singles began to return to the Top 10 with "This White Circle on My Finger" and "Password", both of which peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Country Chart. In 1965, Wells had her last Top 10 hit with "Meanwhile, Down At Joe's" and in 1966, Wells then had her final Top 20 hit with "It's All Over But the Crying", which peaked at No. 14 on the country charts.
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The Lonesome, Sad and Blue album (Decca, 1965) During the late '60s and '70s, Wells' streak of hits evaporated, but she managed to have a string of minor hits and remained a popular concert attraction. She continued with a string of Top 40 hits nearly until the end of the decade with her last Top 40 single, "My Big Truck Drivin' Man" in 1968. In 1968, Wells recorded a duet album with husband Johnnie Wright called, We'll Stick Together. Wells also reunited with Red Foley at the end of the decade for a studio album. Her albums continued to chart the Top Country Albums chart until 1969 with Guilty Street.
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Wells was popular enough to start her own syndicated television program with her husband in 1969. The Kitty Wells/Johnnie Wright Family Show also featured appearances by their children, including actor Bobby Wright, and stayed on the air for several years. She became the first female country star to have her own syndicated television show, but the program could not compete against shows starring more contemporary male artists like Porter Wagoner and Bill Anderson and only ran for one year. Wells became the second female country singer to be elected (Patsy Cline was the first to be honored as a solo act in 1973). In the late 1970s, Wells and husband formed their own record label, Rubocca (the name was a composite of their three children's names: Ruby, Bobby, and Carol) and released several albums. In 1979, at age 60, she was back on the Billboard charts with a modest hit, "I Thank You for the Roses".
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Despite her waning popularity, Wells remained a successful concert attraction at smaller venues throughout the country and was still performing on the summer resort circuit as late as the mid-1980s. In 1987, she joined fellow Opry legends Brenda Lee and Loretta Lynn on k.d. lang's "Honky Tonk Angels Medley", nominated for a Grammy award in 1989. Wells' 1955 recording "Making Believe" was included in the soundtrack of the film Mississippi Burning.
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In 1991, Wells was awarded from the Grammy Awards a Lifetime Achievement award. She, along with Johnnie and Bobby, joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night CD “Christmas Time’s A Comin’” performing "Jingle Bells" with the cast on the CD released on Sonlite and MGM/UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers. In 1993, Wells appeared on Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette's collabotation, Honky Tonk Angels, joining in on their recording of the title track.
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Wells and her husband opened the Family Country Junction Museum and Studio in 1983 in their hometown of Madison, but stopped running it on their own in 2000. Their grandson, John Sturdivant, Jr. has kept the Junction Recording Studio at its present location which also houses Junction Records and Music Entertainment.[19] Wells and her husband-singing partner of 53 years performed their final show together on December 31, 2000 at the Nashville Nightlife Theater; they had announced their retirement earlier that year.
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Wells was ranked No. 15 on CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002.
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An exhibit honoring Wells at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville ran from August 2008 through June 2009.[20][21] On May 14, 2008, Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" was added to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress, along with Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman".
ming "Jingle Bells" with the cast on the CD released on
Personal life
MGM/UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991
Wells married Johnnie Wright (1914–2011) in 1937. They had three children: two daughters, Ruby ((1939-10-27)October 27, 1939–September 27, 2009(2009-09-27) (aged 69))[22] and Carol Sue( (1941-06-12) June 12, 1941 (age 71)) and a son, Bobby( (1942-03-30) March 30, 1942 (age 70)). In addition, Wells has five siblings: Jewel, William, Orville, Raymond, and Mae. Her parents were Charles Cary and Myrtle Deason. She and Johnnie also have 8 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and 5 great-great grandchildren. She was also a fantastic cook and learned this skill from her mother Myrtle. Johnnie died 33 days before their 74th wedding anniversary.
tner of 53 years performed their final show together
Carol Sue released a single with Wells in the mid-'50s titled "How Far Is Heaven", which peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Country Chart. Wells' other children have both had tries as country music singers, but neither had any bigger success. Ruby recorded an album for the Kapp label, while Bobby recorded albums for both Decca and ABC Dot. Wells and her husband – lifelong members of the Church of Christ - celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary in 2007, a rare achievement for any couple and one of the longest celebrity marriages in history. Ruby died in 2009 at the age of 69 and Johnnie died in 2011 at the age of 97.
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Death
CONT Wells married Johnnie Wright (1914–2011) in 1937. They had three
Kitty Wells died on July 16, 2012 in Madison, Tennessee, from complications of a stroke. She was 92.
7) (aged 69))[22] and Carol Sue( (1941-06-12) June 12, 1941
Honors
71)) and a son, Bobby( (1942-03-30) March 30, 1942 (age 70)). In
NARAS Governor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Recording Industry (1981)
Academy of Country Music's Pioneer Award (1985)
NARAS Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1991)
The Music City News Living Legend Award (1993)

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