Taken from the "Jadwin Community History, written by Lois Smith 1975, pg 58
Mary Simmons relates some of the history of her family, who were early settlers in the Jadwin Community.
She says: "My great-grandfather, Enoch Simmons and my grandfather, Wiley Blunt Simmons, moved here from Tennessee. They were of Scotch-Irish, English descent. Great-grandfather Enoch was the first Baptist minister in Salem. He preached in a little log house some where near where the Depot later sat.
My grandfather and his father owned what we call the Ing Geotherol farm on Dry Valley. Two of their log rooms, the weather-boarded over, were still there, not long ago. My father, John Simmons, was born there in 1851. Later, in 1879, they sold that farm and moved to Jadwin, buying what we know as the Gus Bright Farm. My father had what was probably the first store at Jadwin. It stood just across the West Plains Road from where the old Bright house is. They lived just down the road near where the store was later moved. My dad had the store before he married my mother, Belle Cage, in 1881. She was born in 1857. Later, they sold out to Cap Mackey and dad had a store at Cedar Grove. They owned at that time, what we know as the Bill Jadwin place and quite a bit more acreage. But after selling that, they moved to Summersville and operated a store there. In a few years they moved back to Jadwin, buying our old home place and some more land nearby. They ran a store on the farm for 5 or 6 year, then in 1911, Dad moved the store to Turtle.
I went to school for two and one half years in the old log school at Jadwin. The seats were long, hard benches. I remember sitting with Ethel (Jones) Bass. Once, she tied a big red handkerchief around my head, and John Crow, the teacher made me sit on the front seat for punishment. He knew why we did it, Uncle John Pipkins and his wife, lived right in the corner, near the cemetery and his wife always wore a huge red hankerchief tied around her heard. (Fate Asbridges later lived in that same house).
Later, Bessie (Lough) McDonald and I were always seat-mates. The day that the new frame schoolhouse was opened, she and I ran the whole quater mile just as hard as we could, to be the first there, and get our choice of seats. Right in front, of course."
Mary Simmons relates some of the history of her family, who were early settlers in the Jadwin Community.
She says: "My great-grandfather, Enoch Simmons and my grandfather, Wiley Blunt Simmons, moved here from Tennessee. They were of Scotch-Irish, English descent. Great-grandfather Enoch was the first Baptist minister in Salem. He preached in a little log house some where near where the Depot later sat.
My grandfather and his father owned what we call the Ing Geotherol farm on Dry Valley. Two of their log rooms, the weather-boarded over, were still there, not long ago. My father, John Simmons, was born there in 1851. Later, in 1879, they sold that farm and moved to Jadwin, buying what we know as the Gus Bright Farm. My father had what was probably the first store at Jadwin. It stood just across the West Plains Road from where the old Bright house is. They lived just down the road near where the store was later moved. My dad had the store before he married my mother, Belle Cage, in 1881. She was born in 1857. Later, they sold out to Cap Mackey and dad had a store at Cedar Grove. They owned at that time, what we know as the Bill Jadwin place and quite a bit more acreage. But after selling that, they moved to Summersville and operated a store there. In a few years they moved back to Jadwin, buying our old home place and some more land nearby. They ran a store on the farm for 5 or 6 year, then in 1911, Dad moved the store to Turtle.
I went to school for two and one half years in the old log school at Jadwin. The seats were long, hard benches. I remember sitting with Ethel (Jones) Bass. Once, she tied a big red handkerchief around my head, and John Crow, the teacher made me sit on the front seat for punishment. He knew why we did it, Uncle John Pipkins and his wife, lived right in the corner, near the cemetery and his wife always wore a huge red hankerchief tied around her heard. (Fate Asbridges later lived in that same house).
Later, Bessie (Lough) McDonald and I were always seat-mates. The day that the new frame schoolhouse was opened, she and I ran the whole quater mile just as hard as we could, to be the first there, and get our choice of seats. Right in front, of course."
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