March 20, 1996. Aunt Kitty (Katy Belle Stafford Farrell) called from South Carolina regarding our recent letters (we sent 9 letters down there months ago) inquiring about our relatives on the Stafford--Babb side of the family. She weighs 88 lbs now and is in a wheelchair. Naomia is paralyzed on her left side from her recent stroke and is in a wheelchair. Bill has lung problems and skin cancer. Mae (L.D.'s widow) has had eye surgery as recently as last Thurs. March 15. Cancer. It will take 6-8 wks to heal.
Aunt Kitty sounded real good, says she drinks Ensure every day. Her daughter, Dell Rose Pye has a kidney infection. Dell passed papers around to all of the cousins at the Christmas gathering on Dec. 3, 1995 asking them to fill in all of their children's names, bithrdates etc.
Naomia's papers that Kitty has been waiting for for years ("the ones we made copies of in Ky (Fulton Ky/Martin Tn) when we went on a visit to some of Will D's cousins who had a lot of papers and we went to a Library or something").
Kitty is told Jerry Buchanan has those papers at his home in Louiville, Ky. His phone # is 1-502-893-0230. His wife's name is Karen.
Aunt Kitty remembers her maternal grandfather (Albert Newton Babb - ("did you know I named one of my babies (d.) after him? Johnny Albert.") she remembers Albert N. Babb living out in the country, 3 miles from town when they (the six Stafford children-after their father died) had to go live with him. She remembers having to walk 3 miles to school and 3 miles back. There was a lot of land. He was known to have owned a big farm. There was a house way at the back of the land, she thinks it was probably the original house on the property and she is pretty sure her Mama and Papa (Lula & Will D.) lived in that house when Naomia and L.D. were born. Also on the road to Pappy's (Albert) house about a mile away was a little white house where she (Kitty) was told she was born. Bill was born in the house in town that Lula died in.
Kitty remembers Albert's mother, but doesn't know her first name or her maiden name. "She was just called great-grandmother Babb and was a very tiny woman who was bedridden and had a lot of silver hair." She used to let Katy Belle brush her hair. Kitty remembers her potty chair that was padded and had a curtain-like skirt around it. This lady would be great-great grandmother to Nancy,Danny & Judy and great-great-great grandmother to Steve Griesinger, Brian Griesinger, Barry Griesinger, Daniel Stafford, David Stafford, Joe Mann, Melissa Mann, Kathryn Mann and great-great-great-great grandmother to Ben Stafford, Chris Griesinger, Summer Griesinger and Brianna Griesinger, Matt Griesinger and Nicolette Griesinger.
Lula and Will D. did live in a number of different houses. Will D. had sisters who lived in Dyersburg, Tennessee and Willard used to go visit some of his cousins that lived there. These were cousins that Katy Belle didn't know. So Will D. might have come from Dyersburg. Might have been born there. Also Lillian, Finas, Dewey and Nancy, Danny & Judy's father Willard might have been born there. The reason I say that is that on my (Nancy's) birth certificate it says my father (Willard) was born in Middleburg, Tn. When I asked Aunt Kitty if she knew of the truth of that, she said, "No...not Middleburg...but it could have been Dyersburg."
She tells me she remembers her grandmother Katy Penelope Adams Babb as having two sisters. They were called Aunt Jane and Aunt Julia, but she doesn't think they ever married. She remembers Katy Adam's father as being named Arder Adams. She says that Katy Adams Babb died before World War I ended because her two sons Raymond and Herbert went to war and she died before they came home. When they came home Herbert was what they called "shell-shocked" and was in bed most of the time. She remembers he was in an upstairs bedroom at Pappy's (Albert) house and that she used to take water and food up to him and that's when she decided she wanted to become a nurse. "Of course I changed my mind later," she giggled, "but that's what I thought at that time."
She read me a wedding announcement of Pearl Halfacre and Albert N. Babb. "Miss Pearl Halfacre and Mr. Albert N. Babb were married on Thursday, June 24, 1920 in Clinton Kentucky. They reside in their home in Martin Tennessee." Aunt Birdie and Aunt Lamon were still at home. They were teenagers. Kitty was born in 1921. So that disputes what my father (Willard) always said. That Albert only married Pearl in order to have someone to help take care of the six orphaned children. Lula didn't die until July 19 1926 and Will D. on July 16 1927.
Eunice Babb Davis is a sister to Birdie Mae Babb Phillips and Lamon Babb (?? married name), also a sister to the twins Lula Babb Stafford & Beula Babb Higgs. Eunice is also a sister to Raymond Babb, Herbert Babb and Charlie Babb. Eunice has passed away. She had two daughters: Sue and Hazel. They married brothers. Sue Bell used to own a restaurant in Martin Tenn called "The Hearthside". Naomia's daughter Patsy Buchanan Green (103 Spike Point Ct. Goose Creek S.C.29445) may have Sue's address because there was a picture she had that Patsy wanted. Hazel Bell has gone to Memphis Tennessee to live near her two children. Hazel is the age of LD & Naomia. Sue might be able to give us Hazel's address. Birdie Mae Phillips died in 1995.
Now on my maternal side. William Dewey Huggins (father of my mother Doris) was one of nine children. I'm not sure what order, but the names are: Edna Huggins Tuck
Lucy Huggins Sanders
Maimie Huggins McKelvy
William Dewey Huggins
Elora Huggins Wren
Viola Huggins Gearin
Lois Huggins Danner
Charlie Huggins
Leota Huggins
William Dewey Huggins married Mattie Lue Terry.
Joe McKelvy & Mattie Terry Huggins married 20-30 years after their spouses died.
Elora and Viola were twins. Elora married Tom Wren. Viola married Jack Gearin.
Lois married Grady Danner.
Charlie Huggins' wife's name was Lucy I think.
Leota was a midget/dwarf. She never married. She was called a "change of life baby."
Now info for my paternal side: Thomas Stafford married Sara Victoria House. They had: Will D. Stafford
John Stafford
Isam Stafford
Lucy Stafford King
Becky Stafford Usman
Sara Victoria House Stafford's brother was A.V. House. He had a son named Frank House??
Sara House and Thomas Stafford's son Will D. Stafford married Lula Babb and had 8 children: Dewey Stafford (d 3da)
Lillian Stafford Collins
Finas Stafford (d 3yr)
Willard Houston Stafford
Naomia Stafford Buchanan
L.D. Stafford
Katy Belle Stafford Farrell
Will D. Stafford Jr.
Lillian married C.R. (Clarence) Collins and had Barbara Ann Collins Rowe Grant and Tommy Collins. Barbara had two children: Kevin Rowe and Kim Grant. Kim had a son about 1993. Tommy Collins married Faye ? and had Donna and about 4 other children. He married Mary ?.
Willard married Doris Huggins and had Nancy Stafford Griesinger; Danny Houston Stafford; Judy Stafford Mann.
Naomia married Carleton (C.B.) Buchanan and had 6 children. Patsy, Jerry, David, Carol, Gail, Joy.
L.D. married Mae Truitt and had 4 ? children: Pamela, Ronnie, Larry
Katy (Kitty) married Charles Farrell and had 4 children: Kenneth, Kay, Dell, Sylesia.
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