1. The Clingenpeel Family was from Eichsfeld, a small town near Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the name itself means "bell".
2. Kyle served as a Sergeant and as a 2cd Sergeant (appointed 22 Apr 1862) in Company "K" for the Confedeacy in the Civil War from 17 Jun 1861 to at least 31 Dec 1862. He was wounded at Cedar Run on 9 Sep 1862. A bullet struck his left elbow and cut off his left index finger.
3. Kyle died from Pneumonia.
4. Noma Lee McMinn Taylor listed another name "David" as another child, but I wonder if that would be Daniel Gideon.
1. Alternate name: Nancy Elizabeth Powell according to Noma Lee McMinn Taylor.
Nancy Ann Powell according to Sandra Clinginpeel Williams.
1. Mildred never married.
Christopher Columbus WILSON "Sr"
1. Christopher was a painter/artist by trade and was still living in Asheville in 1963
2. Chris's Social Security No. 246-10-1289.
3. He was a member of the Dewey Avenue Church of Christ of Sherman, Texas.
4. His latest Operators License was issued by Texas Dept. of Public Safety...No. 2133891.
5. Chris lived in Jane's [daughter] & Earl's [son-in-law] home for a while prior to going into a nursing home in Hobbs, New Mexico.
6. At his request he was cremated at Carlsbad, New Mexico and his youngest daughter Shirley Jane delivered his ashes to Sherman, Texas for final burial.
7. He lived 85 years, 10 months, & 17 days.
1. Stella is the "favorite Mother-In-Law" of this writer, Earl L. Jones. [The only one too]
2. Much consideration was used by Stella in placing her children in The Salvation Army Bruner Home in Greenville, South Carolina...mostly lack of means to support them herself. (See copy of "Photographs & Memories" on file.
3. Stella was acknowledged as a DESCENDANT of Charter Members A.J, S.L., & R.S. McMinn of Locust Grove Baptist Church in 1898, celebrating 100 years. [She is the oldest living member of that church]
4. Stella still owned property on McMinn Road at RFD #5, Hendersonville, until health problems caused her to have to move into the Pine Park Retirement Center, prior to her moving in with a daughter, Neva Mae & son-in-law, Ed Weatherford at Orlando, Florida.
5. Sources: All family members.
6. Many family members gathered in Orlando, Florida, for Stella's 96th birthday. WOW! What a party.
7. The 97th was a "hoot" too!
8. Memories by Stella McMinn Corbett
Mother and Dad lived in a little house up the hollow from Lewis Ward's on Harper Road when I was born. Mother always said it was so far back in the woods it got dark at 4 o'clock in the evening. When she found a snake in the house, she told Dad she was leaving (one of them had to go). Dad built a cabin below Frank Sargents so they moved into it. It was there that Dad carried me and went to church at Locust Grove around 1907.
Years later Dad sold the cabin to his brother Albert McMinn and wife Grace.
When I grew up I moved away from there and stayed gone several years. When I came back I didn't know how to get to Mother and Dad's house, so I stopped at Uncle Johnny Clingenpeel's and Betty was there. She must have been about 10 years old. She walked and came to show me where my parents lived. They lived in the log cabin in the curve before you got to Glenn McMinn's. I've always loved Betty for this and that's been over 50 years ago.
In the late 40's [probably 50's]I moved back to Henderson County. My Dad didn't drive, so he bought a car and gave it to me to take him and Mother places sometime in the late 50's. I brought them to church at Locust Grove every Sunday. Dad always loved to come to church and to the mountains to see the people he grew up with. He used to say when he died he wanted to be buried on the mountain top. His wish was granted.
Our Sunday School teacher was Eunice Stepp. She was always so sweet and nice. Such a fine lady.
I especially remembber Dan and Marie Blackwell and thought the world of them. They always seemed so full of life and loved us all like family.9. OBITUARY Stella Mcinn Corbett Times-News Monday November 8, 2004
Stella McMinn Corbett, 97, of Longwood Florida, died Friday, November 5th at her residence following a brief illness. She was a native of Henderson County, living here off and on for about fifty years. She was the daughter of the late Robert S. and Sleta Clingenpeel McMinn, and the wife of the late James T. Corbett who died in 2003. Her son, James Thomas Corbett, Jr. also preceded her in death. She worked as a self-employed beautician until her retirement in 1984.
She was a member of Locust Grove Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Christopher C. Wilson of Pensacola, Florida, Robert B. Willson of Midland, Texas; five daughters, Joan Bearden of San Antonio, Texas, Donna Ellsworth of Winter Springs, Florida, Neva Weatherford of Longwood, Florida, Nannette Wilson of San Antonio, Texas, Shirley Jane Jones of Hobbs, New Mexico; one daughter-in-law Dallie Corbett of Henderwsonville; one sister, Jennie Drake of Hendersonville; nineteen grandchildren; thirty-three great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.
A funeral will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 10th at Locust Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Bill Landreth officiating. Entombment will follow at Shepherd Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the donor's favorite charity or Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, P. O. Box 2395, Hendersonville, NC 28793.10. Stella lived 97 years, 4 months, & 23 days.
11. This writer, Earl L. Jones - son-in-law, was honored to have been asked to speak at the funeral service.
James "Jim" Thomas CORBETT "Sr"
1. Jim was of Jewish descent.
2. SSN 225-09-5699
1. Stella is the "favorite Mother-In-Law" of this writer, Earl L. Jones. [The only one too]
2. Much consideration was used by Stella in placing her children in The Salvation Army Bruner Home in Greenville, South Carolina...mostly lack of means to support them herself. (See copy of "Photographs & Memories" on file.
3. Stella was acknowledged as a DESCENDANT of Charter Members A.J, S.L., & R.S. McMinn of Locust Grove Baptist Church in 1898, celebrating 100 years. [She is the oldest living member of that church]
4. Stella still owned property on McMinn Road at RFD #5, Hendersonville, until health problems caused her to have to move into the Pine Park Retirement Center, prior to her moving in with a daughter, Neva Mae & son-in-law, Ed Weatherford at Orlando, Florida.
5. Sources: All family members.
6. Many family members gathered in Orlando, Florida, for Stella's 96th birthday. WOW! What a party.
7. The 97th was a "hoot" too!
8. Memories by Stella McMinn Corbett
Mother and Dad lived in a little house up the hollow from Lewis Ward's on Harper Road when I was born. Mother always said it was so far back in the woods it got dark at 4 o'clock in the evening. When she found a snake in the house, she told Dad she was leaving (one of them had to go). Dad built a cabin below Frank Sargents so they moved into it. It was there that Dad carried me and went to church at Locust Grove around 1907.
Years later Dad sold the cabin to his brother Albert McMinn and wife Grace.
When I grew up I moved away from there and stayed gone several years. When I came back I didn't know how to get to Mother and Dad's house, so I stopped at Uncle Johnny Clingenpeel's and Betty was there. She must have been about 10 years old. She walked and came to show me where my parents lived. They lived in the log cabin in the curve before you got to Glenn McMinn's. I've always loved Betty for this and that's been over 50 years ago.
In the late 40's [probably 50's]I moved back to Henderson County. My Dad didn't drive, so he bought a car and gave it to me to take him and Mother places sometime in the late 50's. I brought them to church at Locust Grove every Sunday. Dad always loved to come to church and to the mountains to see the people he grew up with. He used to say when he died he wanted to be buried on the mountain top. His wish was granted.
Our Sunday School teacher was Eunice Stepp. She was always so sweet and nice. Such a fine lady.
I especially remembber Dan and Marie Blackwell and thought the world of them. They always seemed so full of life and loved us all like family.9. OBITUARY Stella Mcinn Corbett Times-News Monday November 8, 2004
Stella McMinn Corbett, 97, of Longwood Florida, died Friday, November 5th at her residence following a brief illness. She was a native of Henderson County, living here off and on for about fifty years. She was the daughter of the late Robert S. and Sleta Clingenpeel McMinn, and the wife of the late James T. Corbett who died in 2003. Her son, James Thomas Corbett, Jr. also preceded her in death. She worked as a self-employed beautician until her retirement in 1984.
She was a member of Locust Grove Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Christopher C. Wilson of Pensacola, Florida, Robert B. Willson of Midland, Texas; five daughters, Joan Bearden of San Antonio, Texas, Donna Ellsworth of Winter Springs, Florida, Neva Weatherford of Longwood, Florida, Nannette Wilson of San Antonio, Texas, Shirley Jane Jones of Hobbs, New Mexico; one daughter-in-law Dallie Corbett of Henderwsonville; one sister, Jennie Drake of Hendersonville; nineteen grandchildren; thirty-three great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.
A funeral will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 10th at Locust Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Bill Landreth officiating. Entombment will follow at Shepherd Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the donor's favorite charity or Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, P. O. Box 2395, Hendersonville, NC 28793.10. Stella lived 97 years, 4 months, & 23 days.
11. This writer, Earl L. Jones - son-in-law, was honored to have been asked to speak at the funeral service.
1. It is said that Callie & Sampson always had a picture of Woodrow Wilson hanging in their house, and that they both idealized Will Rogers and Jimmy Rogers.
2. Callie Tinsley Wilson of 795 Merrimon Avenue, died at age 79 in Asheville, Hospital after an illness of six weeks.
3. Funeral was held at 2:00 P.M. Sunday in Morris-Hendon-Black Funeral Home, with the Rev. Leslie G. Thomas pastor of the Church of Chirst officiating. Burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery at Brevard.
4. She lived 78 years, 11 months, & 8 days.
1. James & Ruth lived in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
1. FOLKS AT HOME SEND MORE BLOOD
____________Emil Drake, on Admiralty Islands, South Pacific
Writes in A Serious Strain____________
Here is a letter that makes one think; one that is written more in a serious strain than are the others; written by Emil W. Drake, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willim S. Drake of 103 West Thrid street who is somewhere on the Admirality Islands, not far north of New Guina, where the horrors of war are known to all our boys who have landed in that spot in the South Pacific: Admiralty Islands.
Dear Pastor and Friends:
Tonight our Island is quiet and peaceful. The smoke of the battle has drifted on. It is truly time to think of our home, church and friends. Many a silent promise was made. If only we have the strength to keep {cannot read}(courage ?).
Your encouraging letters have done a world of good. Once in a while we allow ourselves the luxury of reminiscing and among the most .....sant (?) memories are those of the church and my class of boys. Most of them are now in the service.
It seems that every day in some way an incident will happen to make us church conscious. On one occasion a Chaplain of our Division, having been wounded and losing blood fast, refused medical aid until the wounded men around him received treatment.
We also know that you folks at home are doing all you can. The blood you have given to the blood bank is helping to save lives all over the world. It is dropped from planes; carried on the backs of natives. There isn't a place too remote for the plasma to reach. Your blood goes into action with the men.
I want to extend my sympathy to the families that have lost sons and husbands. I want them to know we are dealing with ----------------------justice------------can. Justice that more than retaliates for the treachery and ruthlessness of the enemy.
Once more we are proving to the world that on the historical day, July 4, 1776, the American people were not bluffing when they closed that great document with these immortal words, "And for the support of this declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other, out lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor".
Thanks a lot Rev. Chalfant, for the kind letters and I wish your Independence Day Service all the success in the world.
Good luck and God Bless you all.Sincerely
Emil W. Drake
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2. Emil committed suicide 14 Dec 1960 at El Paso, Texas.3. MEMORIAL OBITUARY Emil W. Drake
Emil W. Drake, 47, of 514 N. Mesa St., died Thursday in a local hospital. He had been a long time resident of El Paso and was formerly employed in the City tax office. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and a veteran of World War II. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Jennie Drake, El Paso: a sister, and a brother.
Funeral arrangements were pending with the Harding and Orr Montana Avenue Funeral H ome.4. Funeral services for Emil W. Drake, 47, of 514 N. Mesa St., who died Thursday, will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in the Harding and Orr Montana Avenue Chapel with the Rev. C. M. Schindler officiating. Burial, with full military honors, will be in Ft. Bliss National Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Charles Kissell, Can Bungardt, Rex Foster, Ray Brown, H. J. Barnicort and Kenneth Cummings.
1. Alternte date of marriage: 8 Oct 1934.
2. Jennie is still living as of 27 May 2004 at 1109 North Main, Hendersonville North Carolina.
3. Jennie never had children.
4. "We Love Our Aunt Jennie".
1. Alternate place of birth: Woodruff, Lawrence, North Carolina, but the obituary says Enoree, S.C.
2. Lee Nora lived at Winamac, Pulaski, Indiana in 1978.
3. No children.
4. Obituary: Lee N. Gilsinger
Aug. 13, 1915 - Dec. 15 1995
WINAMAC --- Lee Nora "Pinky" Gilsinger, 80, of County Road 275 West, formerly of m\Marion, Ind., died at 1 p.m. Friday in her residence. Mrs. Gilsinger had been a registered nurse. She was born Aug. 13, 1915, in Enoree, S.C. On June 25 1942, in Marion, she married Max Gilsinger. He died March 6, 1971. Surviving are three sisters, Stells Corbett and Jennie Drfake, both of Hendersonville, N.C., and Clara Reece of Peru, Ind. She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Pulaski, a former nurse at Veterans Hospital, Marion, and a former school nurse and Pulaski County nurse. She graduated from Terre Haute (Ind.) School of Nursing.
Services will be a 1 p.m. Monday in Frain Mortuary. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery West, Pulaski.
Friends may call aftrer 11 a.m. Monday in the funeral home.
1. Edward was a shoe salesman for Robertson's Department Store in South Bend and retired after 25 years.
1. Alternate spelling of Surname: Pickerawski
William "Bill" Lowell MC MINN "Sr"
1. Bill served in the U. S. Navy...Sub. AD. T Div. Mare Island, California.
2. OBITUARY William L. McMinn
WALTON --- William L. McMinn, 48, 603 Kissel St., Walton, was found dead in the garage at his home about mid-morning Wednesday. Death was attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning. The Cass County coroner, Manfred Wolf, said Mr. McMinn was thought to have died between 6 and 8 a.m., and death was self-inflicted. The car motor had been left running.
He had spent his lifetime in the Peru and Walton area and was a conductor on the Penn Central Railroad.
He was born in Peru Feb. 26, 1921, the son of Robert and Sleta Clingenpeel McMinn. He was married to 1940 to Elma Jordon. In 1964 he married Bethel Morrison who survives.
Also surviving are two sons, William L. McMinn Jr., Peru and Michael McMinn, Topeka, Kan.; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Holland, Peru and Mrs. Carl Salter, Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.; his parents of Hendersonville, N.C.; two brothers, James Spartanburg, S.C., and C. E. McMinn, South Bend; four sisters, Mrs. James Corbett, Hendersonville, N.C.; Mrs. Max Gilsinger, Pulaski County, Ind.,; Mrs. Jeannie Drake, El Paso, Texas and Mrs. Nolan Reece, Peru and two grandchildren.
Mr. McMinn was a member of the Peru Elks and Moose Lodges and American Legion.
Funeral services will be in the Flowers-Leedy Chapel at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. The Rev. Clyde Black will officate and burial will be in Ever-Rest Memorial Park, Cass County. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Friday.
1. OBITUARY Elma D. Higgins, 77, 483 E. Sixth St.
Elma D. Higgins, 77, 483 E. Sixth St., died at 6 a.m. Thursday Dec. 5, 1996, at her residence. She formerly lived at 715 Apache Drive.
She was born on Feb 4, 1919 in Burgaw, N.C. to Walter R. and Victoria Batson Jordan. She first married William L. McMinn, Sr., in 1940, and he is deceased. She married Robert E. Higgins in 1962, and he died Jan 1, 1976.
Mrs. Higgins was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene, Peru. She retired from Southern Bell Telephone in 1966.
Survivors include two sons: William L. McMinn, Jr., Peru, and Michael J. McMinn, Peru; three daughters; Juli A. Childress, Peru; Victoria E. Richardson, Peru; Rhonda D. Allen, Las Vegas, Nev.; two sisters; Elease Player, Jacksonville, Fla.,m and Lela Gaines, Richmond, Va.; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother.
Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Church of the Nazarene, 331 W. Sixth St., with pastor Ron Shaner officiating. Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Flowers-Leedy Funeral Home, 105 West Third St., which is handling the arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to the American Heart Association.