Helen Mayes CARNEY

Family/Spouse: Robert Clement EVANS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Moved to Memphis in Shelby County in 1940 for job oppty's. He became a partner in a CPA practice.

Robert married Helen Mayes DODD. Helen (daughter of G.W. DODD and Effie Zora MAYES) was born on 4 Jan 1909 in Grant, Choctaw, Oklahoma; died on 3 Feb 1995 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Robert S. Carney:
of the sons, my grandfather JM farmed the family property in Haywood Co and another farm in a county north of Ripley. He also had a general store and a minor elected position, clerk of court. Another son Claude Shannon Carney (C.S. Carney Sr.) had one son C.S. Carney Jr (used initials only) who was a successful lawyer and judge on the TN state supreme court. The third son Hiram Spencer Carney is pretty much a blank for me.

Joseph married Saritha Young HARDING. Saritha was born on 17 Jul 1875 in Henry County, Tennessee; died on 6 Dec 1899 in Henry County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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FROM Bob Spencer Carney:
G.W. Dodd (born 1867) was the baby of a family with 11 children. The Dodds had moved from South Carolina and Georgia to west Tennessee in the 1820's when west Tennessee and west Kentucky were open to large-scale white settlement. G.W.'s father, James M. Dodd, had a substantial wholesale nursery operation in Gibson County, Tennessee. Many Dodd relatives were born and died in that county, especially in the small town of Brazil.

Three brothers seemed to have participated in the nursery, and maybe other merchant businesses, with their father '96 James B. (born 1852), Charles G. (born 1862), and G.W. (born 1867). I have a couple of press clippings somewhere recounting that Charles was killed, 1892, in extreme southeast Arkansas or northeast Louisiana, while traveling to sell trees. The second clipping said that the Dodd family recovered the body for burial back in Tennessee and accepted a local decision that the shooting was accidental. G.W.'s wife, Effie Mayes, may have originally been Charles G.'s girl.

There was a lot of settlement from Tennessee into Texas and Oklahoma (Indian Territory). I found that G.W.'s uncle, Benjamin Loy Dodd, died 1901 in Roxton Texas, so some westward movement in the family had begun the generation before G.W.

G.W. and older brother James B. operated a retail store under the name Dodd Brothers. I've seen advertisement for the store in Monett / Cassville, Missouri. My mother told me that the store had also been in St. Louis. I guess that along with the Bayless family, they were following the railroad and hoping to end up in a future boomtown. Cassville seems to be a common stop on that speculative path. Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas, is not far away. Those 1900 merchants were on to something but only half a century too soon!
I have to assume that the families [both the Baylesses and Dodds were bankers who had lived in Cassville, Missouri] knew each other ? business-wise if not socially. I'll have to dig into the stack of letters postmarked "Indian Territory."

G.W. Dodd's first stop in Indian Territory was in Grant with a pretty quick relocation to Hugo when a rail route was changed. G.W. was quite an entrepreneur ? lumber, banking, some farm ownership and still, a nursery. He was also a land agent for the Frisco Rail selling parcels of right of way to settlers. Somewhere around here is a little brochure he put out, promising potential buyers rapid return on their investment.

Grandmother's full name was Effie Zora Mayes. Like the Dodds, the Mayes family started in southern coastal colonies and moved into the newly opened land of west Tennessee and Kentucky. The Mayes settled mostly in Kentucky. Effie and her older sister, Lena Mayes Web, remained very close through life. Combined, the female children of Aunt Lena and Grandmother Effie formed a pretty solid "sorority" throughout their lives, with my mother, Helen, being one of the babies.

G.W. married Effie Zora MAYES. Effie and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Robert Spencer Carney:
My Gt Grandfather John Spencer Carney was a country doctor and farmer who died in 1901, about 50 (52) years old. He did not have a medical degree but was licensed on the basis of apprenticeship. Oral tradition was that he was a medical aid or something similar for the Confederate Army. If true, he would have just been a young teenager. Most medical people in the South were civilians, not in the military, and not strictly veterans. Thus, documentation is absent. Sometime after the war he moved from Cheatam Co west to Haywood Co TN. My Aunt Ruth told me that he had a farm and had his medical office in his home on the farm. After Dr Carney's death his widow and 3 sons (Joseph Monroe, Claude Shannon & Hiram Spencer) moved slightly west to Ripley in Lauderdale Co.

Explaining west Tn geography. That part of the state was only opened for white settlement in 1820's. Lauderdale Co is on the Mississippi River. Ripley was a thriving farming town... mostly cotton. John Spencer settled just to the east in Haywood Co. Tn. Modern maps show his farm's location (Carney Road) as in Lauderdale Co. The closest cross-roads town is Nutbush Tn. It's most notable as the singer Tina Turner's hometown.

John married America Jane GARDNER. America was born on 10 Oct 1851 in Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee; died on 16 Nov 1926 in Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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