Boyd, Ada Cora (b. 7 MAR 1888, d. 29 MAR 1939)

Note: Ada Cora was the grandmother I wish I had memories of for she no doubt was a very important influence in the lives of her children who were all reaching to be young adults when she passed away. If one can be remembered by only the results of the next two generations then all is well and well she did.

Death: 29 MAR 1939 Rutherford Co., TN, buried in Coleman Cemetery

Note: Aunt Kathleen always was able to tell what was one her mind about any subject that might come up. She was noted for her keen knowledge about the Good Book. She was always faithful in her beliefs. I can remember that gentle smile on the corner of her lips when she had just delivered a zinger of a comment.

Death: 4 AUG 1995 Lebanon, Wilson Co., TN

Note: Obituary:
Lebanon Democrat - Thursday Jan. 22, 1970

Mr. Jamison
Thurman Hall Jamison, 58, Lebanon, died Wednesday at McFarland Hospital. Services will be at Ligon and Bobo Chapel at 10 A.M. Friday. Burial will be in Springhill Cemetery.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Marguerite Ormes Jamison, Lebanon; one daughter, Mrs. Norman Pryor, Gallatin; three brothers, Fred Jamison and Ralph Jamison, Lebanon; Vervie Jamison, Camden, Tenn.; one sister, Mrs. Hobert Rodgers, Lebanon, and two grandchildren, Suzette Lynn and Richard Pryor, Gallatin.
Jamison was the son of Robert Taylor and Ada Cora Boyd Jamison.
He was a 42-year employee of Genes co.

Like all of the Jamison boys, he too had within him a special sense of inspiration in his eyes. He was a successful manager for Genesco for many years and I still remember his special kindness to our family over the years. He was taken before his time and yet his influence even in my life still remains. He was a strong man in spirit but very easy to love. I still remember the wisdom of his speech which cause me as a young boy to want to listen in hopes that something might rub off. I think it did.

SSN - 408-07-6925

Death: 21 JAN 1970 Wilson Co., Lebanon, TN buried in Springhill Cemetery, Nashville, TN

Note: I never knew Uncle Aubry for he was gone before I was old enough to have such memories in 1943. I do know that he must have been a special person for I can remember my father always having a special word of him when we passed near his grave at the Coleman Cemetery near Murfree. I hope that all is well with his soul so that they might have seen one another again.

Death: 1943

Note: Uncle Fred was a grocer deep to the core. He seem to live and breath the grocery business. I remember his keen eye for a neat way to sell products and his special recipes for BBQ and homemade sausage that he sold in the Lebanon Food Center for many years. He would sell peaches and watermelons by the truck load and had a special building built just to keep sweet potatoes fresh. I can still remember the panic he caused in the town by selling chicken for 19 cents a pound which was at that time well below cost. I can recall that he once got in a spot of trouble for selling pork chops by the dozen rather than by the pound like the government wanted. He got around that by selling packages by the pound with twelve chops in a package.

He served in WW II in General Patton's 3rd Army. He was a cook, i.e. learned quickly in life that the army travelled on it stomach and used that concept for the remainder of his life.

He served as a deacon for many years of the College Street Church of Christ.

Death: 6 MAY 1994 Rutherford Co, Tennessee, buried in Coleman Cemetery

Note: Ralph H. Jamison, S SGT US Army WW II, served in Europe under General Patton in the 3rd Army and after the war was over, was stationed in occupied Germany in Z? He returned to Germany to the same house in which he was stationed a few years before he died. It is told that when the Allied Toups occupied Germany they literally could occupy any house that was suitable to serve an area while there. It is said that he was put in charge of one such house which was owned by a very nice family. The people who lived in the house had to leave and find other quarters while the area was occupied. It is said that the lady would on occasions return to the house to visit and ask to pick up dishes or some other personal item. He would always treat her kindly and took good care of the home while his men were stationed there. Upon return to that house a few years before his death, the people now living there gave him a soldier's helmet they found in the basement of the home. He was able to go to the room that he called home while serving in occupied Germany.

Probably the most unfortunate thing that happened in his life was the experience that he had worked with for many years, i.e. K. O. Lester of Lebanon, Tennessee. About 6 months before his retirement, they laid him off. We have often heard of companies that treated their life long employees with such regard but it is a rare thing to actually know of such a personal situation. Several other employee who knew of the situation resigned the company after that event. It is a far better thing to have principles than the love of money.

Uncle Ralph was a kind and gentle person. He loved God, the church and lived a life which blessed many that he came in contact with. He always had a funny story to tell and a smile that could wipe away any sorrow. Those of us who knew him and loved him shall always remember his love of live and joy he brought to each of us.

Death: 23 DEC 1990 Wilson Co., Lebanon, TN

Note: Record of filling for marriage in records to his first wife Martha Arnette on July 29. NO. 215.

From CSA Records: William Robert Jamison served in the Confederate States Army, PVT CO C 45 TENN INF. under Capt. Johnson, Maj. Roy, Col. A. Hall, Lt. Col. Hall.

On record in Rutherford Co., Tennessee p. 148

William Robert Jamison did not have a will and thus his property was divided among the children by state law. The farm was not divided but all of the children agreed to sign the farm over to Mose Boyd, Sr. and Caroline Emily Jamison Boyd since they could not afford it. It remains the Boyd family until this day. It was passed on the Mose Jr. after the death of Mose Sr. after the death of Aunt Emily. The family farm is now in the hands or Mose Jr. who has no descendants. Bobby was killed in Viet Nam). The farm is noted for several reasons. It was the passage way of the Pioneer Train which lead from Georgia to on to the West. This trail later is called the "Trail of Tears". The farm has a cave near the creek which it was believe that gold was hid at one time but never found. The farm sustained the Jamison family during the depression by providing a source of wood which could be cut and sold.

The following is the record or William's estate:

W R Jamison, Estate.
Whereas it appearing to the court that W B Jamison qualified as administrator of the estate of W R Jamison on October 31, 1923, and executed a bond in the sum of Four Thousand Dollars with the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. of Baltimore, MD. by Rion & Fox, agents, as surety. Now it appearing to the court that the said W B Jamison has made a final settlement of this estate and has exhibited to the court receipts in full for all the heirs in the estate, it is hereby ordered by the court that the said W B Jamison, and his bondsmen on said administrators bond are hereby released from all further liability by reason of said administratorship.
Receipt of heirs as follows:
We the undersigned heirs of the estate of W R Jamison, deceased, hereby acknowledge the receipt in full of all money due us from said personal property from the said estate from the administer W B Jamison and hereby as the court to release said administrator and his bondsmen from all further liability by reason of said administratorship.

Emily Boyd S A Jamison
J C Jamison Ann Jamison
B T Jamison Alta Benson
A M Jamison T E Jamison

Death: 6 OCT 1923 Readyville, Tennessee, buried in Jamison Cemetery

Note: Mary Jane Shelton lived next to the Jamison family when she was 6 years old and William Robert (Bud) was 12 during the same census record.

Death: 13 SEP 1910 Rutherford Co., TN at age 67

Burial: Jamison Cemetery, Rutherford Co., TN

Note: John Calvin's memorial at the Coleman Cemetery is marked J. C. Jamison 1864-1933.

Death: 1933 Fell off bridge near Jamison home place and Coleman Cemetery.

Death: OCT 1905 Clark Co Cemetery, Dyers Branch, Smith Co. TN

Death: 4 DEC 1948 Rutherford Co., TN buried in Jamison Cemetery near Knob.

Note: Mary's memorial at the Coleman Cemetery is marked Zettie Jamison.

Death: 15 AUG 1923 Coleman Cemetery, Rutherford Co., Tn

Note: Aunt Ann lived to be 104 years old who the oldest living Jamison in the known family.

Death: 28 NOV 1984 Rutherford Co., TN, buried in Coleman Cemetery

Death: 1974 Rutherford Co., TN, buried in Coleman Cemetery

Death: 6 JAN 1952 buried in Coleman Cemetary

Note: On Thomas Allen Jamison's grave stone is the following inscription:

Remember friend as you pass by.
As you are now so once was I.
As I am now you soon shall be.
Prepare for death and follow me.

The record is not clear where Allen was born. Census records disagree between Ohio and Kentucky. Allen is shown in the 1840 census in Wilson Co. TN already married with children at age 30 on page 326. It should be noted that the original Wilson Co. was later divided and Rutherford Co. was created. Records indicate that his name was Thomas Allen Jamison which is consistent with the family using the middle name or a nick name derived from the middle name. This can be assumed to be true since Allen Jamison is his name according to his tomb stone and other records and since he was in Rutherford Co., in 1850, and is recorded as Thomas Jamison and no Allen Jamison anywhere (Wilson or Rutherford) then the 1850 census index of Thomas provides his first name. In addition, the Thomas Allen was used latter in the family of William Robert Jamison.

The 1850 Census of Rutherford Co., McCrackin District, records Allen as Allen Jemmison 34 M Ohio. The 1860 census states born in Tennessee and the 1870 indicates Ohio. Caroline is listed in household of Calvin in the census taken on June 9, 1880 at age 63. No record or tradition has been found prior to 1840 of Allen Jamison. There is a possibility that Allen may be related to William Jameson who married Nancy Emeline Bell in Cannon Co., June 18, 1840. William is said to appear to be born in Kentucky c.1823. Some believe that William and Nancy were Thomas Allen's were parents but Nancy's (if this is the right Nancy) mentions Thomas H. and wife Catherine which makes this unlikely. Apparently the name is Jamison in Rutherford and Jameson in Cannon Co.

There are records of a John C. Jamison born in Kentucky on March 12, 1814. John C. Jamison's father and family moved to Searcy Arkansas between 1830 and 1840. John's father was John Jamison, Sr. born in 1784 in Virginia and married Susanah who was born in 1795 in Virginia. They had 12 children of which John, Jr. was 2nd.

Unknown if any relation to Thomas Allen who was born in 1811 in either Ohio or Kentucky:
Robert Jamison is listed on the 1850 Washington county, Iowa Census with his family. He is listed as a farmer, 40 years old and born in Ohio. His wife is Ann ??? 33 years old and born in Ohio. Their children are listed as Martha J. age 16, b. Ohio; Susan, age 14, b. Ohio; Nancy, age 13, b. Ohio; Jonathan (my great grandfather), age 12, b. Ohio; Elizabeth, age 11, b. Ohio; William, age 7, b. Missouri (not sure of state as was not clear letters); Martha, age 6, b. Missouri; and Eliza, age 1, b. Iowa. There were clearly two Martha's on the list. According to this they moved to Iowa between 1844 and 1849. I have ordered the 1860 Census for this area to see if they are still there then. Jonathan joined the Union Army in Arkansas in 1863 according to his discharge paper, military records and pension papers.
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Of interest but no know relationship:
No known connection to the Jamison's of Rutherford County but of general interest: The Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, "Ansearchin" News, Vol 43, No. 4, Winter 1996 issue:
"Items from The National Banner, 1826 (Published in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tenn, and microfilmed by the Tennessee State Library and Archives)
February 24, 1826
HORRID MURDER -- Died at his residence in Jackson, Tenn., on Thursday morning the 16th inst., Mr. Francis Sanders aged about 50 years of wounds received by the hands of an assassin on the Thursday evening preceding. The circumstances are precisely these: on Wednesday evening the 8th inst., whilst engaged in looking over his farm, he was shot at by some villain in covert. Fortunately at this time he received no injury. On the evening following about dusk, as he was returning to his house from a piece of new ground where he had been superintending his Negroes, he suddenly received a blow, without knowing at the time from whence it came, on his head which instantly brought him senseless to the ground. A repetition of blows appears to have succeeded. He was found shortly after and brought to his house where he languished until last Thursday A.M. about 5 o'clock when he died having previously recovered his senses. The villain who committed the atrocious act and whose name is THOMAS JAMISON has confessed and is now in close confinement in Jackson jail together with a Negro fellow belonging to Mr. Sanders who has also made a full confession. Jamison is a young man about 21 or 22 and resided with his father on land of Mr. Sanders. The deceased emigrated to this section from Davidson Co., Stones River, where he had resided many years."
The age and time would have put his birth at about 1804.

Death: 6 MAR 1873 Rutherford Co., TN buried in Jamison Cemetery/Pilot Knob

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Text: Date of Import: Jan 3, 2003

Note: Tom Bell's FULKS line is from Cannon Co. His 3rd great Aunt married William Jameson. Her name was Nancy Emeline Bell. Her niece married a Fulks. Most of these families moved on to Missouri and Arkansas in the 1840's.

Tom's research files indicates: Children of Levisa Tennison and Samuel Fulks:
Caroline m, Allan Jamison
Elizabeth bc 1815 and m. a Bragg
Samuel bc 1810 m Sarah Bell.

Levisa was the daughter of Abraham Tennison. She was born in Edgecombe Co., NC circa 1783 mc 1808 in Rutherford Co., TN. Samuel was bc 1772 in NC and died 8 Aug, 1860 in Readyville, TN.

Nancy Emeline Bell married William Jameson in Cannon Co. June 18, 1840. William appears to have been born circa 1823 in Kentucky. His Sarah Bell who married Samuel Fulks in Shelby CO. on July 23, 1838. Tom has this also recorded in Cannon Co. in which case this would. make her Nancy Emeline`s niece. There are other allied families in this area. James Bell, David Hollis, and James Berry married Lewis sisters from Madison Co., Ky. Brothers and sisters of Nancy Bell Jameson married into Tennison, Russells(3), Hollis, and Burgie families. Lastly, Esther Lewis, my 4th gg grandmother, was a Todd, related to the Todds of Cannon Co., according to Tom Bell.

Death: --Not Shown--

Death: 10 AUG 1923 buried in Coleman Cemetery, Rutherford Co., Tn

Note: Some reports have Nancy confused with Ester Sis Brandon as first wife, however, this is incorrect. Ester was the wife of one of Nancy's brother, Joseph Andrew Jamison.

Death: MAR 1877 Rutherford Co., TN, buried in Jamison Cemetery at Readyville

Note: Mrs. Elvis Rushing reports Joseph A. married to Lucinda Burns on Feb 18, 1869?