Individual Details
Nancy Emeline Sherrill
(6 Oct 1839 - 1 Jan 1882)
Nancy Emeline Sherrill, second child of Samuel Wilson Sherrill and Eliza Ann Bomar and some of her descendants
The following information was recorded by W.A.S., May 18, 1967. It was obtained from the Will of Samuel Wilson Sherrill, Headstones in Sherrill Cemetery, Gladeville, TN, Jim Huddleston, Wanda Clark and Nancy Huddleston Packer.
Nancy Emeline Sherrill, second child of Samuel Wilson Sherrill and Eliza Ann Bomar, was b. 6 Oct. 1839 in Wilson Co., TN. She became the second wife of Joseph Franklin Huddleston, son of George Huddleston and Harriett S. Cummings. Joseph m. (1) Victoria Spickard and had one child, a son, Joseph Huddleston. (Joseph, who was born in 1865 grew to adulthood and married Barbara Hass.) When Nancy Emeline died 1 Jan 1882, Joseph m. (3) Elizabeth Barrett. Nancy Emeline Sherrill was buried in the Sherrill Cemetery, Gladeville, TN. The children of Nancy Emeline and Joseph Franklin were:
1. May Huddleston, b. 1867. M. Robert B. Baggerly.
2. George Samuel Huddleston, b. 11 Nov 1869. He dropped the "Samuel" in his name in 1891. m. in 1917 in Bessemer, AL, to Bertha L. Baxley. D. 29 Feb 1960.
George Huddleston, father of Joseph Franklin Huddleston, married Harriett S. Cummings in 1824 in Wilson Co., TN. She was a daughter of George Cummings. He had at least three other children: William LaFayette Huddleston, G. Perk Huddleston and a daughter, name now unknown, who married Major David Cavender Singleton, C.S.A. George Huddleston was one of the developers of Huddleston's Cross Roads Community. George was the son-in-law of George Cummings who settled on 1000 acres of land.
George Huddleston built a store house and shop at the point where Hurricane Road ran east and Flatwood Road west from the road to Lebanon and Murfreesboro shortly after 1800.
By 1832 this place was the trade center of a large region and had a Post Office on the 55 mile long mail route from Nashville to Liberty, receiving weekly mail from each direction.
Major David Cavender Singleton, C.S.A., a native of Campbellsville, Kentucky, had come to Huddleston's Cross Roads during the war on a mission of buying horses for the Confederate Army. The Yankees surprised and almost captured him. George Huddleston, although a Union sympathizer, shoved the Major into the attic and sent a slave hurrying away on the suspicious black horse hitched at the store porch. Major Singleton later married a daughter of George Huddleston.1
George Huddleston, Sr. was reared and educated by his grandfather, Samuel Wilson Sherrill. George's father died when he was a child. He was educated at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. He moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where he established a law office. He represented the Ninth Congressional District (Birmingham, Alabama) in the U. S. Congress for 25 years in Washington, D. C.2
There is a letter from his uncle, Samuel Burdon Sherrill, Sr. who was a cotton broker in Jackson, Mississippi, dated May 20th, 1891 and addressed to:
George Huddleston,
Cumberland University,
Lebanon, Tennessee.
Dear Nephew:-
I received your welcome letter a few days ago, and was glad indeed to hear of your continued welfare- When I arrive in Nashville, I will do my very best to find you a place and in addition I will consult with those qualified to know what course it will be best for you to pursue, and when I get home I will lay all of the facts before you-
I believe any boy can succeed provided he has fully made up his mind to succeed. Success like all good things hangs on a high limb and it requires constant and patient climbing to reach it. Impatience and a lack of industry wrecks the career of many young men.
A man should aim high, and then learn to "labor and to wait" and though slow at first, perhaps for months, even years, he may wait, success invariably comes.
To succeed in any avocation, requires industry, patience, morality and last but not least economy.
It is absolutely important that a young man avoid the association of wild and dissolute associates and be able to say NO! A thousand temptations will be thrown in his way and unless he knows what is right, and dares to do it, he will fail.
Learn the habit of close patient thought - to think, to reason from cause to effect and to see results in mind, before they practically take effect. Most of the errors in life, result from a lack of thought -- How often have you heard it said "I never thought! - if I had thought, I would not have said or done it." It is by thought, these errors and mistakes are to be avoided in life ----
Try to "Know thyself" and cultivate and strengthen when strength is needed. If I have had any success at all it is because, I have learned to "think" and in whatever sphere of action, circumstances or choice has placed me, I have always done my best.
I have faith and confidence in your ultimate success, and whatever will contribute to the attainment of this, is well advised ----You must do your very best at Commencement--Prepare yourself thoroughly, and go out into the woods and practice your speech often--Study your gestures and your attitudes well--Remember practice always improves-- In other words so your best, try to excel ---- Send me a program of your exercises by June 3rd to Nashville, C/O Nicholson House.
With the kindest wishes of both your Aunt Maya & myself - I remain, affectionately,
Your uncle Dick (sic)
I am in receipt of a letter today from home, telling me that father is improving.
George Huddleston, Jr. died September 14, 1971, in Washington, D.C., according to the Alabama Legion. He like his father represented Alabama's Ninth Congressional District, doing so after the retirement or death of his father.
The following information was recorded by W.A.S., May 18, 1967. It was obtained from the Will of Samuel Wilson Sherrill, Headstones in Sherrill Cemetery, Gladeville, TN, Jim Huddleston, Wanda Clark and Nancy Huddleston Packer.
Nancy Emeline Sherrill, second child of Samuel Wilson Sherrill and Eliza Ann Bomar, was b. 6 Oct. 1839 in Wilson Co., TN. She became the second wife of Joseph Franklin Huddleston, son of George Huddleston and Harriett S. Cummings. Joseph m. (1) Victoria Spickard and had one child, a son, Joseph Huddleston. (Joseph, who was born in 1865 grew to adulthood and married Barbara Hass.) When Nancy Emeline died 1 Jan 1882, Joseph m. (3) Elizabeth Barrett. Nancy Emeline Sherrill was buried in the Sherrill Cemetery, Gladeville, TN. The children of Nancy Emeline and Joseph Franklin were:
1. May Huddleston, b. 1867. M. Robert B. Baggerly.
2. George Samuel Huddleston, b. 11 Nov 1869. He dropped the "Samuel" in his name in 1891. m. in 1917 in Bessemer, AL, to Bertha L. Baxley. D. 29 Feb 1960.
George Huddleston, father of Joseph Franklin Huddleston, married Harriett S. Cummings in 1824 in Wilson Co., TN. She was a daughter of George Cummings. He had at least three other children: William LaFayette Huddleston, G. Perk Huddleston and a daughter, name now unknown, who married Major David Cavender Singleton, C.S.A. George Huddleston was one of the developers of Huddleston's Cross Roads Community. George was the son-in-law of George Cummings who settled on 1000 acres of land.
George Huddleston built a store house and shop at the point where Hurricane Road ran east and Flatwood Road west from the road to Lebanon and Murfreesboro shortly after 1800.
By 1832 this place was the trade center of a large region and had a Post Office on the 55 mile long mail route from Nashville to Liberty, receiving weekly mail from each direction.
Major David Cavender Singleton, C.S.A., a native of Campbellsville, Kentucky, had come to Huddleston's Cross Roads during the war on a mission of buying horses for the Confederate Army. The Yankees surprised and almost captured him. George Huddleston, although a Union sympathizer, shoved the Major into the attic and sent a slave hurrying away on the suspicious black horse hitched at the store porch. Major Singleton later married a daughter of George Huddleston.1
George Huddleston, Sr. was reared and educated by his grandfather, Samuel Wilson Sherrill. George's father died when he was a child. He was educated at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. He moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where he established a law office. He represented the Ninth Congressional District (Birmingham, Alabama) in the U. S. Congress for 25 years in Washington, D. C.2
There is a letter from his uncle, Samuel Burdon Sherrill, Sr. who was a cotton broker in Jackson, Mississippi, dated May 20th, 1891 and addressed to:
George Huddleston,
Cumberland University,
Lebanon, Tennessee.
Dear Nephew:-
I received your welcome letter a few days ago, and was glad indeed to hear of your continued welfare- When I arrive in Nashville, I will do my very best to find you a place and in addition I will consult with those qualified to know what course it will be best for you to pursue, and when I get home I will lay all of the facts before you-
I believe any boy can succeed provided he has fully made up his mind to succeed. Success like all good things hangs on a high limb and it requires constant and patient climbing to reach it. Impatience and a lack of industry wrecks the career of many young men.
A man should aim high, and then learn to "labor and to wait" and though slow at first, perhaps for months, even years, he may wait, success invariably comes.
To succeed in any avocation, requires industry, patience, morality and last but not least economy.
It is absolutely important that a young man avoid the association of wild and dissolute associates and be able to say NO! A thousand temptations will be thrown in his way and unless he knows what is right, and dares to do it, he will fail.
Learn the habit of close patient thought - to think, to reason from cause to effect and to see results in mind, before they practically take effect. Most of the errors in life, result from a lack of thought -- How often have you heard it said "I never thought! - if I had thought, I would not have said or done it." It is by thought, these errors and mistakes are to be avoided in life ----
Try to "Know thyself" and cultivate and strengthen when strength is needed. If I have had any success at all it is because, I have learned to "think" and in whatever sphere of action, circumstances or choice has placed me, I have always done my best.
I have faith and confidence in your ultimate success, and whatever will contribute to the attainment of this, is well advised ----You must do your very best at Commencement--Prepare yourself thoroughly, and go out into the woods and practice your speech often--Study your gestures and your attitudes well--Remember practice always improves-- In other words so your best, try to excel ---- Send me a program of your exercises by June 3rd to Nashville, C/O Nicholson House.
With the kindest wishes of both your Aunt Maya & myself - I remain, affectionately,
Your uncle Dick (sic)
I am in receipt of a letter today from home, telling me that father is improving.
George Huddleston, Jr. died September 14, 1971, in Washington, D.C., according to the Alabama Legion. He like his father represented Alabama's Ninth Congressional District, doing so after the retirement or death of his father.
Events
| Birth | 6 Oct 1839 | Wilson County, Tennessee, United States | |||
| Death | 1 Jan 1882 | Wilson County, Tennessee, United States | |||
| Burial | Sherrill Cemetery, Gladeville, Wilson, Tennessee, United States | ||||
| Reference No | 4501 |
Families
| Spouse | Joseph Franklin Huddleston (1834 - 1908) |
| Child | Annie May Huddleston (1867 - 1947) |
| Child | George Samuel Huddleston Sr. (1869 - 1960) |
| Father | Samuel Wilson Sherrill (1813 - 1895) |
| Mother | Eliza Ann Bomar (1819 - 1897) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Jane Sherrill (1837 - 1914) |
| Sibling | William Anderson Sherrill (1841 - 1880) |
| Sibling | Samuel Burdine Sherrill (1854 - 1895) |
| Sibling | Lillard Legrand Sherrill (1854 - 1937) |
| Sibling | James Edgar Sherrill (1856 - 1887) |
| Sibling | Joseph Thomas Sherrill (1860 - ) |
| Sibling | Robert Hatton Sherrill (1862 - 1898) |