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Merrimack Cemetery, Huntsville, Alabama, page 88
Rhoda, was the second daughter of Josiah Poindexter Payne and Martha Clementine Meek, both of Pelham community, Grundy Co., Tennessee. Josiah died in 1933, Martha Clementine died in 1919. Both are buried in Cloud Cemetery, Cloud's Cove, Madison county. Their other children were Nancy Jane, John Porter, Sara A. "Sally", Elizabeth Bell, Sophia Melinda, Joel Sidney, Archie E., Buena Viola, William Richardson Payne, and Rosa Lee Payne.
Joseph Pritchett was Rhoda's second husband. They married Aug. 12, 1889. Rhoda Pritchett died July 31, 1927 and is buried
in Merrimack Cemetery. Source: Lillian Herrin.
SARTAIN, MATTIE E., 1878 - 1932. (ROW 13)
This was Mattie Erma Banks, daughter of James Edgar and Gracie Ann (Burks) Banks. The Burks were from Manchester, Coffee Co., Tennessee. James Edgar was a son of James K. Banks and Mary Ann Darnell Banks. Grade Ann's parents were Narcissa Shelton and Robert B. Burks.
Mattie died in Dec., 1932.
The Banks were from Normandy, Bedford Co., Tennessee. Mattie married Robert Dolphis Sartain. He was born June 10, 1876, in
Grundy Co., Tennessee. Their children were Elizabeth, Dora, Hettie and James Herbert Sartain. Elizabeth married Robert Hogwood and had a son, Robert Laverne, who is buried in Merrimack Cemetery. Hettie married Dio Stephenson, and had a son, Laverne, who is buried in Merrimack Cemetery.
Sources: Minnie Lee Banks Morrow (Mrs. Hilliard G.). Movolene
White (Mrs. Ralph). Death Index of Alabama, microfilm.
SEAGROVES, JOSEPH S. NO STONE. (ROW 1) SEAGROVES, MENZY A., 1872 - 1939. (ROW 2)
Joe was the husband of Menzy (Jolly) Seagroves. He died before 1939, and is buried immediately to the east of Menzy.
Clemenza "Menzy" Jolly, daughter of Aaron and Jane (Baucom) Jolly was born in Bedford Co.,Tennessee. She married Joseph S. Seagroves about 1888. The family moved to Hillsboro, Lawrence Co., Alabama from Wartrace, Bedford Co., Tennessee, with a caravan of wagons with other families before 1906. In 1910, Joe was a slasher in the mill and four of their six children were in the home: Burl, James, Celia and Trimble. Maud and Claud were out of the home by then. Their first child, Orvil, died before 1910.
After 1910, Joe Seagroves wanted to try farming again so the family rented a farm not far from Madison. During this time Menzy earned money by buying items the sharecroppers needed and selling them in a shop on the farm. After a time the farm work did not bring in enough, so the family returned to Merrimack where the older boys worked in the mill. At one time Menzy bought a farm on Pea Ridge, an area west of Merrimack, and sold farm produce to the mill village people. Menzy died of a heart attack at the age of sixty-seven.
Sources: Celia Seagroves Bayless. Census, 1880, Bedford Co.,
Tennessee, p. 119 A, line 27. Census, 1910, Madison Co., Alabama, E.D. 145. Sh. 10 A.
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