Primary
Sources
~ Step into Yesterday by Leafing through the Old Papers and Records ~
As time permits, sources listed below and many others will be uploaded here. Click active links typed and underlined in orange to go there. Check back for additional primary sources.
AUDIOTAPED RECORDINGS
Beulah and Tommy Nipper (my parents) -- a 1975 audiotaped discussion about their memories of ancestors [1 hour]
Susie (McKeehan) Nipper Blakemore (my paternal grandmother) -- a 1975 audiotaped discussion of her memories of ancestors [1/2 hour]
Buck and Maude (Raper) Ratledge -- a 1975 audiotaped discussion about the Ratledge, Robinson, and Goins families (my husband's ancestors) [1 hour]
O. P. (Price) Wilson (my cousin) -- a 1975 audiotaped discussion about our Wilson family, pioneers who migrated into TN and settled in Monroe County [1 hour]
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
James Thomas Baker's biographical sketch (published 1889 in TX)
James "Jim" Lewis & Jemima "Mima" Lavinia (Deaton) McDonald family
Jonathan A. "John" & Catherine "Katie" (Taylor) Panther McDonald family
John Nichols Murphy's biographical sketch (published 1884 in KY)
Martin Roberts' biographical sketch (published 1884 in KY)
John L. & May Anne (Sutton) Stiles family
Thomas "Tom" & Lousia (Smith) Stiles family
The John and Eliza (McDowell) Sutton family
CERTIFICATES
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CHURCH RECORDS, PHOTOS, & DEEDS
Bear Paw Baptist Church, Cherokee CO, NC
Eleazar United Methodist Church and Cemetery, Monroe CO, TN
Mt. Nebo Baptist Church Records, Cherokee CO, NC
Oak Grove United Methodist Church, Meigs CO, TN
Old St. Paul's Lutheran Church and Cemetery, Newton, Catawba CO, NC
Peck's Chapel United Methodist Church and Cemetery, Maryville, Blount CO, TN
Prospect Methodist Church and Cemetery deed in McMinn CO, TN 
DEEDS
Samuel & Sarah (Wattenbarger) McKeehan's Washington CO, TN land deed of 1835
Obediah White's McMinn CO, TN land deed of 1834
OLD LEDGER TRANSCRIPTIONS & GRISTMILLS
Bright Hope Iron Furnace Ledger from Greene CO, TN
Clover Hill Gristmill in Blount CO, TN
Ziegler Mill Ledger from Meigs CO, TN
MILITARY SERVICE RECORDS
John Richard Baker's CSA military service record
James S. Brannon's Civil War service, Col. D. Coleman's Company, CSA
Stephen A. Goins' Civil War service official discharge
George Smith Manis' Civil War service, CO G, 2nd Cav, CSA
James Harvey Manis' Civil War service, CO G, 2nd TN Cav, CSA
James Franklin Ratledge's Civil War service, CO G, 59th TN Mounted Infantry, CSA
Lemuel Talent/Tallent's Civil War service, Corp., 2nd TN Cav, USA
3rd TN Mounted Infantry Regiment, USA, rosters and records
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Cleveland Resident Is Killed by Train, 16 July 1951
News Articles from the Civil War
Cyclone Leaves Death and Destruction in Its Wake, 1908
Memorial Service Honors Soldiers Buried in Englewood
106 M'Minn Boys Back for Two Weeks After Successful Army Induction, September 17, 1942
Thanksgiving Day Dinner 1946 at the McKeehan home
Wattenbarger Descendants Hold Family Reunion in McMinn County
PETITIONS
State of Franklin Petitioners
The Watauga Petition and Its Signers
PHOTO ALBUM INDEX
Photograph Album Index -- Access to this link is removed. Thieves targeted that list and my link to "What's New?" using both as hit lists for new things to steal. Some are "Find a Grave" members who steal and upload photos as their own contributions as well as "left-click" steal content data from this site and have posted it as their own work and research. As a result, photos are undownloadable and both left-click copy and print are disabled. Theft of photographs and other copyrighted material is a blatant copyright infringement punishable by law. All photos previously uploaded are still here as well as numerous additional pictures. Relatives will search for them, whereas thieves avoid work.
~ TO BE CONTINUED ~
This site is dedicated to the memory of my mother Beulah Cline Nipper, a beautiful product of the Knobs.
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