John Reed "Jack" Clinkingbeard & Dinnah Rimmer

1813-1893 1827-1875

C

James Madison and

Margaret Lucinda Pugh

Old Athens Cemetery

Baxter Co. Arkansas

Cora and brother Bill

Mary Evelyn Clinkingbeard-Dihel

Andrew J. Willis and Leah Crook-Willis

Elizabeth Stewart-Crook

mother of Leah Willis

Cora & Adlie

Laura Byrd -Willis

wife to Hardy O Willis

Mother to Cora Byrd

Jim & Billie at the store

Dec. 1955

Jim and Billie Clinkingbeard

Bruce Clinkingbeard, his cousin Mike Phillips and his dad Jim Clinkingbeard

Wayne Clinkingbeard Floyd Graves & Mary Rhonda, Mary and Trisha

Bob Clinkingbeard and wife Pam

Bonnie Rayner-Clinkingbeard

1934-2006

Jim, Wayne and Charlie Clinkingbeard

413 S. Foster

Mountain Home, AR

Charlie, Wayne and Cora Clinkingbeard

Margaret and her Aunt Clara

Clinkingbeard 1889-1950

A.B Clinkingbeard and baby Vera Sue 1939-1941

Jim, Bruce, Karen Crawford-Clinkingbeard 1958-2003 and Billie

Margaret Julianne Clinkingbeard-Phillips

"Dickie"
Ola Mae

Floyd, Mary and Duane Graves

Charles Cantrell Clinkingbeard

1931-1962

Cora and Margaret

Wayne, Margaret, Jim

A.B. Clinkingbeard

Gertrude Davis (Margaret's cousin) and her daughter Mary Carolyn

came for a visit May 2014

C

Wayne and Janice Clinkingbeard

Jim Clinkingbeard Margaret

family

Greg, Diane, Max and Courtney.

Jacob Wolf family decendant

Nancy Iseabelle Wolf-Hutcheson
this is grand dad AB's grandmother
on his mother's side

Major Jacob Wolf is the eleventh name on the Post Civil War listing of burials in the Wolf Cemetery , 7th Regiment, AR territorial Militia in 1825.

Major Jacob Wolf came to the area where the present day town of Norfork, AR is located. He brought with him his grandfather and his father and mother along with 8 of the 9 siblings and their spouses with the exception of Margaret who remained in KY. Major Wolf was married 3 times and had 14 children.

Jacob Wolf was an Arkansas pioneer, territorial legislator, county official, militia officer, post master, and community leader. In 1825, he established the first permanent courthouse for Izard County, and it still stands as the oldest public structure in Arkansas.

Bob Clinkingbeard &
Pam Klug-Cinkingbeard

Charles H Byrd 1843-1908

Margaret Honeycutt-Byrd 1858-1937

Laura Byrd-Willis parents

Laura is the mother of Cora Etta Willis-Clinkingbeard.

Buried at the Byrd Branch Cemeteriy

in Burnsville, Yancey CO. N.C.

Margaret Honeycutt married Charles Hutson Byrd. Charles Hutson parents were Charles Avery Byrd and Virgina Jane Hampton. Jane's parents were Ezekiel Hampton and Susannah Durham. Ezekiel Hampton Sr. was married to Jenny Jane Griggs. His father was Andrew Hampton, he had married Sarah Kuykendall.

Charles Avery Byrd & Virgina "Jane" Hampton

Bonnie

Polly Rimmer is A.B.'s great grandmother

Col. Andrew Hampton

Charles Avery Byrd

Karen

5 generations

* Cora

* Margaret

* Mike

*Shannon

* Brian &

Isabel

5 Brad Clinkingbeard family

Byron Clinkingbeard family

Greg

Charlie Clinkingbeard

Amber and Amanda

Melody and Mary

Mary, Wayne, Margaret and Jim

Floyd Graves

Clara and brother Adlie

Harold Eugene Hasbrouck married Clara Chrisman Clinkingbeard much later in life. She moved to Idaho and continued with the care of his mother.

Benjamin- Sarah- Margaret-

as well as Clara are all A.B.

Clinkingbeards siblings

James M Clinkingbeard

Margaret L Pugh- Clinkingbeard

Florence Clinkingbeard died at 6 mo

Baby Clinkingbeard died at birth

Mary Evelyn Clinkingbeard-Dihel

John R Clinkingbeard

William E Clinkingbeard

Margaret D Clinkingbeard-Case

Madison R Clinkingbeard

Marvin R Clinkingbeard

James P Clinkingbeard

Sarah E Clinkingbeard-Williams

Benjamin F Clinkingbeard

Clara C Clinkingbeard-Hasbrouck

Charlie C Clinkingbeard

Adlie B Clinkingbeard

Cora's 80th birthday

George William Byrd, born about 1730 and died about 1825 Jacks Creek, Yancey Co as attested by his estate decided by the N. C. Supreme Court, a matter of inheritance regarding a deceased dauther and her children (24 NC 72, 1841). He served in the Revolutionary War, and was present when the British commander at York town surrendered. Evidently he met his wife to be Annie Hutson in Virginia, but her family disaproved of the notion and sent her to schoole in Charleston, South Carolina. He followed and they were wed possibly at her Aunts house, but there is no record of the marriage (Lloyd Bailey).

They moved several places before settling first to Dandridge, Tennessee, then in 1782 to Washington or Sullivan Co (NC?), then Madison County, and about 1796 to Jacks Creek, Yancey County, NC.

Margaret Julianne Clinkingbeard-Phillips her son Mike Phillips and daughter Melody Ann Phillips-Mulkey

son of Jack and Dianah

Cora Margaret Byrd

1879-1960

"we love him because he first loved us" 1 John 4: 9-10

Trisha and Cora

Elisha Honeycutt son of Moses

Moses Honeycutt

Jesse Honeycutt ~1735-1767
Rachel Lyles~
parents to Moses

Jim and Billie Clinkingbeard family

Byron

Mike and Melody

Margaret age 5

Wayne, Jim, Charlie and Charles H.

Margaret and Mary

Jim and Margaret

Clinkingbeard

Wm Schrable

Bill & Mary Willis

Cora's 1/2 brother

Melody, Maggie and Ruth

Wm. Alex Lowrance

Robert Elder Clinkingbeard

daughter Esther Catherine

married John Newton Lowrance

their son is William Alexander

and his family is to the left

Robert Shrable son of Wm and Mary E. Clinkingbeard-Shrable.

Birth: Jun. 30, 1890

Death: Sep. 11, 1936
ARKANSAS
PFC 15TH COAST ARTILLERY
WORLD WAR I

Burial:
Shrable Cemetery
Vidette
Fulton County
Arkansas, USA

daughter of Wm & Mary

sister to Robert

Richard a son

Wm James Shrable married

Mary Elizabeth Clinkingbeard

Anne Clinkingbeard-Demoise

William Case and Maggie Clinkingbeard-Case family

Isaiah 30:8

And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.

Notes for Samuel J. Byrd:
Samuel J. BYRD Rev. was born about 1788 in VA. He died on 5 Apr 1865 in Jacks Creek, NC. Served in the NC State Assembly on four occasions (1835-36, 1836-37, 1842-43, and 1858-59. Murdered at his home by a group of Union soldiers. One report states he was murdered by Confederate draft dodgers.

"The Reverend Samuel Dallas Byrd was a Baptist Circuit Preacher in the small Jack's Creek Community of Yancey County, North Carolina. Born in Virginia, Samuel D. Byrd moved with his family to Yancey County where he later built a two story log home, and had a Grist Mill on Jack's Creek. Samuel D. Byrd was a fairly affluent man during his time, and even had three or four slaves. He was also known as a staunch Secessionist and was killed at his own home because of this. It is reported that Samuel had cached a small supply of arms and ammunition at his home, and word of that fact spread throughout the community. Samuel Bennett who had been a ward of Samuel D. Byrd and was reported to have probably been his illegitimate son, and a strong Union Sympathizer came calling on the old man to (as he put it in a later statement to the local authorities) "just to borrow" the guns and ammunition. Samuel D. Byrd was warned of the approach of the Union folks by one of his slaves, went upstairs to where he had a gun hole and pointed his gun on the Union men. Samuel D. Byrd ordered them not to come throught the gate, but Bennett dismounted his horse and started through the gate saying, "Now, Uncle Sammy..." at that point in time Samuel D. Byrd shot Bennett in the side, eventually killing him. The other men in the procession led by Bennett (a total of 22 others) shot and killed Rev. Samuel D. Byrd. As my cousin, and good friend Dr. Lloyd Bailey said when we visited the graveyard on Mose Anglin Branch where Samuel D. Byrd is buried, "There lies old Samuel D., with probably about 22 bullet holes in him".

"The Rev. Samuel J. Byrd (1789-1865), who married Mary ("Polly") Briggs, lived on Jacks Creek, and is buried in a marked grave with his parents. This distinguished gentleman, who represented Yancy County four times in the State Legislature and held a number of other county offices, was murdered at his home by Union soldiers (a story which I related at length in the Yancy Journal newspaper 6/14/1984). A large number decendants survive in most of the states of the U.S."

Rev. Hardy O. Willis

Laura Byrd's husband

Cora Willis-Clinkingbeards parents

Andrew Jackson Willis

Leah I. Crook

parents of Hardy O. Willis

Hughes Cemetery
Cainsville
Harrison County
Missouri, USA

William M. Willis (1813 - 1871)
Mary Ann Seymour Willis (1827 - 1902)

An entire new side to the Clinkingbeard genealogy has opened to me after a visit with a distant relative. After seeing my web site I recieved a call from Jane Case-Defreese from LA. Jane was a wealth of information and so interesting. I was able to pursue the Rimmer, Bilderback, Case, Luallin and many other family names. Jane 's great, great, great grandmother is Mary Polly Whitaker-Rimmer. John and Mary Rimmer's daughter is Dinah Rimmer-Clinkingbeard, Dinah is A.B.'s mother and A.B. was Mike and Melody's grandpa, thus the link! As over-whelming as this search can be a times it is so interesting to see where our family goes!

1. FRANCIS1 PUGH was born Abt. 1630 in Wales, and died in Virginia.

Notes for FRANCIS PUGH:
The son of a Welsh squire who lived at "Glendower Hall", Francis emigrated, with brothers Daniel and Thomas, to Jamestown, Virginia in 1666. Francis, the eldest, settled near Suffolk, Va. in Nansemond Co. and built a "commodius" brick (imported from England) residence he christened "Jericho". Daniel Pugh and his family moved to SC. Thomas and family moved to West Va. and the Ohio region.

From the E.W. Pugh collection, circa 1884 , he states:

"... it is implicitly believed by the older members of the famiy that the name was originally 'ap Hugh'
(Welsh),.. 'son of Hugh', eventually corrupted into the English name Pugh .. the older members also believe that we descended from SIr Owen Glendower through a son of his, Hugh Glendower"

Child of FRANCIS PUGH is:

2.i. FRANCIS2 PUGH II, b. Abt. 1667, Virginia; d. Virginia. from family tree maker

Margaret Lucinda Pugh-Clinkingbeard

Alexander Stephen Luallin and wife Mary Bilderback

H.O. Willis is buried at the

Willis Cemetery Batesville, AR

Bruce and Pam Clinkingbeard

Thomas Bilderback, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Union township, Laclede county, Mo., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1822, and is a son of Daniel and Sarah (Castleman) Bilderback, natives respectively of Virginia and Pennsyl- vania, the former born March 17, 1797 and the latter February 27, 1794. The parents were married in Pennsylvania in December, 1817, and in December, 1824, they moved to Licking county, Ohio. They lived in Ohio until 1834, when they went to Fountain County, Ind., remaining there until May, 1836, when they settled in St. Clair county, Ill. Early in the year 1837 they settled in Laclede county, Mo., where Daniel Bilder- back died October 16, 1863, and his wife in November, 1865. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the first sermon preach- ed in the western part of Laclede county was at the residence of Daniel Bilderback. He devoted his whole life to the pursuit of farming and stock raising, at which he was very successful. In the early history of the county he was associate judge for a number of years. There were ten children born to Daniel and Sarah Bilderback, of whom six are supp- osed to be living, viz.: Margaret (wife of J.L. Rimmer, a farmer of Wayne county, Iowa, who is also engaged in the hotel business at Con- fidence), Susan (the widow of Alva Benson, is living in Laclede county), Hester (married S. S. Lowrence, and is now living in Hill county, Tex.), Daniel (went to California in 1852), Henry C. (is a merchant and farmer in Hill county, Tex.) and Elizabeth (became the wife of P. M. Stewart, and it is not known whether she is living or not.) Since his twenty- first year Thomas Bilderback has been engaged in farming, and has been very successful in his chosen occupation. September 27, 1846, he married Sarah J. Rimmer, who was born in South Carolina, and is a daughter of John Rimmer, who came from Tennessee to Missouri about 1845. Mrs. Bilderback died in Laclede county, July 4, 1880, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, and a loving wife and mother. Of their seven children, five are now living, viz.: Henry L. (who married Sarah L. Cossey, is living near his father), Sarah J. (now Mrs. Alexander S. Luallin, a prominent farmer of Laclede county was September 9, 1851), Stephen W. (was born December 29, 1852), Thomas J. (born May 7, 1855), Margaret E. (at home, was born January 19, 1862). Those deceased were Mary E. (born July 28, 1848, died December 21, 1869; she was the wife of A. S. Luallin). The other child died in infancy. During the late war Mr. Bilderback served six months in the State Militia. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years. He is a Republican in politics, and is an enterprising citizen of Union township.

T.J. Bilderback is the son of Thomas B. and Sarah (Rimmer) Bilderback.

Bilderback Cemetery
Conway
Laclede County
Missouri, USA

Sarah Judson Bilderback-Luallin the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Rimmer-Bilderback and wife of Alexander Stevenson Luallin

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Bob, Dickie, Charlie Clinkingbeard

Hardy O. Willis

3rd wife Rebecca Sams

below is Rebecca's parents

William A and Sarah E Gillis Sams

John Gillis and wife Ruth Tilson parents of Rebecca Gillis-Sams

Gervas William Davis

husband to Mary Gertrude Parker whose mother was Lizzie Willis-Parker

Benjamin Franklin Willis and Elizabeth Elvira Mull-Willis both born 1828

below are Willis family pics I have been able to copy from ancestry.com

Rev. Thomas Stephen Willis 1812 brother to Benjamin Franklin Willis

David Frank Willis Samuel Pickney Willis

Martha D. Willis 1827-1895

Thomas R. Willis & brother Henry L. Willis

1836-1865 1835-1862

Kisha Willis 1854

1753-1848

Margaret Lucinda "Maggie" Pugh Clinkingbeard

William K. Pugh, Sr. was born as the son of John M. and Mary Polly Donelson Pugh and the grandson of Dr. Joseph Hill and Elizabeth C. Foley Pugh. He married Elizabeth D. Hutcheson and became the father of three daughters and a son in the few six years they were married before his death.

It is true that it can not positively be proven where he is buried but the most likely place is in the Hutcheson Cemetery located on his wife's father's property. If this is proven not to be fact then it can be changed when the exact place is discovered. He is being given this memorial so he can be linked to other family members.

Daughter, Amy Jane, married Archibald Cook Anderson and she died in 1936 and is buried at Yellville, AR. Daughter, Nancy Eveline, married William Thomas Evans and she died after the 1880 census with burial record unknown to me. Daughter, Margaret Lucinda, married James M. Clinkenbeard and she died 13 Nov 1902 in Baxter County.

LIVE

LAUGH

LOVE

James Madison Clinking-beard

Dickie,
Billlie,
and Jim
Clinkingbeard

Elizabeth D. Hutcheson-Pugh Sarah Cameron-Pugh
wife to Doc. Walter J Pugh

This line up is just a few of Wm K. Pughs aunts and uncles

David Brian Walter J. Alice Robert Mary W. Elizabeth B.

Thomas Whitmell Pugh and wife Elizabeth Foley, they are the parents to Wm K. and above siblings

Amy Jane Pugh-Anderson mother of Matta, Katherine

& Cora

Katherine Elizabeth "Betty" Anderson-Estes-Cantrell

Ellen Eustis Haven-Pugh wife of David Bryan Pugh

Emma Pugh-Grima Thomas Pugh Llewellyn Pugh Eliza Catherine Pugh

four of the seven childern fo Doc Walter J. and Sarah Cameron-Pugh

I love it when someone's laugh is funnier than the joke.

George Cantrell

William Kenner

Lawrence Estes

Wlliam Kenner Estes Jr & wife Marie Cardin below: sister Euna Lou Estes-Pennington

Mary Clinkingbeard-Shrable 1854-1919

married William J. Shrable

Roy was born in 1904. Roy Shrable ... He passed away in 1984. Wife is Ora Ova & son of jonathan SHRABLE & Ada Carolyn WARE

David E. Willis

Willis Cemetery

Coffee Ridge, TN

John Willis1630-1685

married Martha Filmer

St. Pauls, London England

descendant John I Filmer 1278-1355

England

Elizabeth Elvira Mull-Willis

1829-1901

married Benjamin Franklin Willis

and the couple had 11 children

Benjamin F. and Elizabeth Willis

daugher:

Ellen Rosa Willis-Stuart

1862-1945

daughter:

Amanda Willis-Mull

1868-1953

daughter:

Caldonia "Callie"

Willis-Clark

1870-1960

Laura Julianne Byrd-Willis 1878-1909

Daughter Cora Etta Willis-Clinkingbeard

1905-2000 lost her mother at 4 yrs old

photos with a were siblings to Laura.

Minnie Belle Byrd-Honeycutt

Cora Margaret Byrd

William Oscar Byrd

William C Byrd

Martha Byrd

Mary Byrd

We don't remember the days,

only the moments...

Bruce Clinkingbeard and grandsons

Karen Crawford-Clinkingbeard

Amanda Clinkingbeard-Browning

Vatisha Hathcock

Benjamin Clinkingbeard

brother of A. B.

Sarah Clinkingbeard-Williams

sister of A.B.

Leo Pat son of Benjamin

Floyd & Mary Graves
1981
A.B. & grandson Mike

Rebecca Sams-Willis

step mother to Cora Willis

Leo Pat "Shorty" Clinkenbeard, 90, a resident of Yermo for 47 years, died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003. Born May 1, 1912 in Henderson, Ark., he was a heavy duty mechanic for the USMC Logistics Base. In his younger days he drilled wells. He liked vegetable gardening and harvesting his pecan tree. He was a former member of Barstow Masonic Lodge #682 F&AM.He was preceded in death by his parents B.F. and Muncy, his brothers, Cleo, LeeRoy, Burlan, Arlan, Charlie and his sister Martha. Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Susie Clinkenbeard of Yermo; son and daughter-in-law, Dean and Arlye Clinkenbeard of Missoula, Mont.; son and daughter-in-law, Don and Lynne Clinkenbeard of Yermo; son and daughter-in-law, Dennis and Diann Clinkenbeard of Yermo; daughter and son-in-law, Coleen and Joseph Mintun of Yermo; daughter, Cheryl McKinney of Florence, Mont.; brother Gene Paul Clinkenbeard of Oakdale, Calif.; sisters, Mamie Taylor of Oakdale, Calif., Clara Orton of Oregon and Lucinda Lawrence of Northern Calif.; eleven grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Joe and Amanda Willis-Mull

Cora Etta Willis-Clinkingbeard

William L. Willis / Cora's brother

Charlie Clinkingbeard

AB and Cora's son

Lela May Willis-Lively

Sandra K. Trivitt

George Williams and Sarah

Clinkingbeard sister of AB

Bernard Williams
son of Geo & Sarah

Mary Carolyn

son of john jack clinkingbeard: Henry Reed and wife Mary McCarty. They married two days before she turned 16.

Tennessee Florence Willis-Willis

When Tennessee Florence Willis was born on January 21, 1883, in Madison, North Carolina, her father, Jacob, was 23 and her mother, Ruth, was 21. She had two sons and three daughters with Jacob Lee Willis between 1907 and 1918. She died on September 1, 1970, in Del Rio, Tennessee, at the age of 87.

Birth: Jun. 21, 1883
Marshall
Madison County
North Carolina, USA

Death: Sep. 15, 1970
Del Rio
Cocke County
Tennessee, USA

Daughter of Jacob and Ruth Willis
She married her second cousin, Jacob Lee Willis {she also had a brother with the same name}.

Family links:
Parents:
Jacob Henderson Willis (1859 - 1912)
Ruth Victoria Jarvis Willis (1862 - 1923)

Spouse:
Jacob Lee Willis (1879 - 1921)*

Siblings:
Rachel Emma Willis Allen (1881 - 1966)*
Tennessee Florence Willis Willis (1883 - 1970)
James Wiley Willis (1886 - 1981)*
Willie Willis (1888 - ____)*
Anna Mae Willis Gowan (1890 - 1968)*
Ruble John Willis (1891 - 1980)*
Jake Lee Willis (1895 - 1990)*
Garl Berry Willis (1898 - 1985)*
Evelyn Willis Laws (1901 - 1994)*

W

Jake Willis and nephew Bill

Tennie and Jake had Leah, Sally,

Joe, Della, Hubert and Evelyn.

Jacob Henderson and

Ruth Victoria Jarvis-Willis

Rubel John Willis Rachel Willis-Allen sister of Tennie

Matt & Rachel Willis -Allen

Evelyn Willis-Laws Garl Berry Willis

James Wiley Willis & family

and wife Mary Jane Gowans

Mary Louise Willis-Lord

daughter of Garl Willis

Charles Hudson Byrd & Margaret M. Honeycutt

son-in-law to Charles Byrd

husband to Laura Julianne Byrd

Leah Willis daughter of Tennie

Below are the children of Henry Reed Clinkingbeard

'Lura Belle Clinkingbeard Birth 10 July 1885 in Arkansas City, Arkansas, Arkansas, USA Death 04 July 1965 in Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, USA

Emily A Clinkingbeard 19 July 1887 in Fulton County, Arkansas, USA 01 December 1947 in Prairie Grove, Benton, Arkansas, United States

Mary Arziona CLINKINGBEARD Birth 08 March 1889 in Mt. Home, Baxter County, Arkansas, USA Death 24 December 1979 in Tecumseh, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, USA

John Redmon "Homer" ClinkingbeardBirth 18 Sep 1891 in Arkansas, United States Death 8 Sep 1962 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA

Ida Francis CLINKINGBEARD Birth 06 June 1894 in Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas, USA Death 3 January 1990 in Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, USA

Bessie N Clinkingbeard Birth 23 Apr 1899 in Arkansas, United States Death 13 Oct 1901 in Salisaw, Seqoyah, Oklahoma, United States

Elpha Leona Clinkingbeard View relationship to me Birth 24 Sep 1901 in Arkansas, USA Death 1 Apr 1994 in Oak Harbor, Island, Washington, United States

Jessie Ozephra Clinkingbeard Birth 25 Dec 1903 in Arkansas Death 20 Oct 1985 in Harlingen, Cameron, Texas, United States

Willie Earnestine "BILLIE" CLINKINGBEARD Birth 24 August 1906 in Indian City, Payne County, Oklahoma, USA Death 21 October 2007 in Cushing, Payne County, Oklahoma, USA

Robert Christopher CLINKINGBEARD Birth 04 June 1909 in Salisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, USA Death 14 June 2000 in Oklahoma, USA Roberta

Reba Velva Clinkingbeard Birth 19 November 1911 in Blunt, Oklahoma, United States Death 24 October 1977 in Prague, Lincoln County, Oklahoma

Billie Ernestine

Bessie

John Redmon

Cora and Dora Willis

children to Hardy O.

C. Boren

back L-R Frances Edmonds (2nd wife of Wm Oscar Byrd) Larue Byrd, Wm. Oscar Byrd, Cora Byrd Berry Ezekiel Byrd and Cora Clinkingbeard
front L-R Frank Byrd son of Larue Byrd and Wayne Clinkingeard son of Cora
1936

Roberta C. Wisdom

Adlie B. & Cora E. Willis Clinkingbeard

Shirley, James, Jessie, Lee, Elpha

Bob Clinkingbeard

Cora, Dickie, A.B. and Bob

Bob C. with his aunt Margaret Phillips

Jim Clinkingbeard front center and his sons
L-R Matt, Frank, Charlie and Adlie (A.B.)

Charles H and Margaret J.
Clinkingbeard-Phillips

Mar 2015 after moving Margaret to a ladies home, I made her a book of pictures. It reminded me of what magic is all about. Having all her family all in one book. Tada...MAGIC!

This is Mike's 3rd great grand uncle.

Jane Byrd

John W. Willis is a brother of Hardy O.

We had the opportunity to visit Del Rio, TN in May 2015. With the help of Jimmy Morrow we found the old Jacob Willis homestead and the Willis land. This is the front & back of the house.

Hannah

Brigitta Willis

1863-1954 was the daughter of Thomas R. Willis. Wife of Leroy Treadway

Jacob Henderson Willis
and Ruth Jarvis-Willis

Billie Hart-Clinkingbeard and her daddy
William Dainel Hart

A look at the family history. Mike, his mom Margaret, her mom Cora, her father Hardy Willis, his father Andrew J Willis and his father was John A. Willis. John A had a brother Thomas

Willis. Thomas had a son Jacob Henderson Willis.

Sarah Ann Willis-Deaver the sister of Hannah and sister of Jacob Henderson Willis

youngest daughter of Sarah Deaver

William Bible and his father

Mordica Bible

Mordiecai Bible

Luther Bible is the son of William Bible and husband to Della Victoria Willis

Mordecai Bible was a school director in the old school district 13th of Cocke County,TN .He grew up in the eastern Appalachian smoky mountains on a farm in Del Rio,TN.He enjoyed teaching and playing blue grass music.The Bibles were self made people,they were very skilled carpenters and craftsmen during their time, with carpentry construction and wood carving.The Bibles could hand build construct just about anything from their houses,barns ,churches,schools,mercantile stores,water gris mill and horse drawn wagons.The Mordecai Bible family were the Original Pioneers of Del Rio,Tennessee who built the small mountain town.An 1880s train used to make a stop near Del Rio,TN along the French Broad river and the Bibles would ride the train to near by big city Newport,TN for it,s time.The old Bible home place was featured in country music video produced by actor,musician and song writer Billy Bob Thorton and was featured on CMT country music videos.The name of the video is called "That Mountain" and can be viewed on YOU TUBE VIDEOS.Sadly the Bible old home place no longer stands today,but can be remembered in the film.Mordecai Bible was a hard worker who wanted to make a better life for everyone.