Directory Links: Headrick Surname

Headrick Directory ~ Research Sites
Seeking William Headrick of Blount County, Tennessee & Murray County, Georgia

Southern Muse created this page as a convenience for researching a specific line of Headricks, including Jacob and William Mathew Headrick of Murray County, Georgia, and their descendants; and William M. Hedrick (the Revolutionary War soldier) of Sevier County, Tennessee. Southern Muse has worked for many years to establish and document the connection between the families of these two states, based on a lineage that was published in The "Connection" in East Tennessee. We have accumulated quite a lot of research and good documentation, but have had difficulty finding primary or good secondary documentation on the tie between John and Lizzie (Myers) Headrick, of Tennessee, and Jacob Headrick of Murray County, Georgia, who is said to be their son. These are links that have been helpful in our own search. While they are targeted very specifically to the Headrick family, they might be of use to anyone searching other families in East Tennessee and North Georgia.

Directory Links 

Sevier Co. Public Library
Tennessee State Library and Archives
Tenn. State Lib. & Arch. Genealogy
Index to Tenn. Death Records
Blount Co. History & Genealogy Project
East Tennessee Historical Society
Hamilton Co., Tenn. Genealogical Society
Smoky Mountain Historical Society
Berks Co. Historical Society (Pennsylvania)
Lancaster Co. Historical Society (Penn.)
The Genealogical Society of Penn.
Michigan in the War (Headrick C.W. interest)
North Georgia History Links
Earth Station 9 Search Index
Blount & Sevier County Maps
Cove Creek & Waldens Creek, Tn. (Map)
Crowson's Cove (Map/Plat Project)
Tennessee History (Pro-Union E. Tenn.)
Rejected Pensions w/Emert (tngenweb)
Headrick Obituaries (unrelated-Indiana)

Tennessee Civil War Home Page
Tennessee C.W. Sourcebook
Tennessee Death Certificates
1st Ga Inf: Forgotten Guerillas
Midwest Genealogy Library
The American Civil War
Sevier Co. Forum (GenForum)
Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
Book/Colonial Social Class Barriers
John Guin's Genealogy
Jacob & Polly (Rice) Headrick
Moffie Jane Headrick
Georgia Archives
American Revolution
US GenWeb Project
Tennessee GenWeb
Southern Archives
Blount-Sevier County Maps
Cove Creek, Tennessee Map
Greeneville, Tennessee Map
Vital Records Sites
Genealogy Research Sites
Cyndi's List
Find A Grave

Barker: Pensions [H] at tngennet.org

Ricetown Chapel Cemetery, Blount Co., Alabama

Original North Georgia Kin Page

Anna Louise Brownlow (Dunn) Headrick and her Horsehair Trunk

Testimony of Deborah K. Pritchett about her great-grandmother's horsehair trunk; how she came to hear of it and what she was able to learn about it: 

There is a family story about papers that Anna Louise Brownlow (Dunn) Headrick kept, that have something of a mystery about them. My inference, from everything I have been able to find out by asking questions, is that they were papers of "witchcraft," a type of lore sometimes passed down in Appalachian families. (Only one person specifically said "witch"—Lewis "Buck" Headrick; no others ever put a name to the "papers" or to Anna's mysterious beliefs).

  The verifiable facts are that the papers belonged to Anna and that they were burned. I have it straight from Rubye (Hammond) Burns, who burned them herself. She told me this as a kind of confession. She felt bad that "Pritchett"—my granny, Esther V. (Headrick) Pritchett—got blamed for the burning. Rubye (the day she talked to me) had slight misgivings, as the papers might belong to the family—that is, morally, maybe she ought to have left them for family, as they rightfully belonged to Anna's heirs. "But," Rubye said, "I opened that trunk and I saw those papers and I saw red! I couldn't believe that was in the house with my children. I couldn't stand the thought... so I burned them." (She had gone up to get something out of the trunk and inadvertently saw the papers.)

   Rubye did not describe the papers. The only hint I got was that she kind of softened (in her regret) and said, "Some people believe in them old potions. Pritchett did. She used to drink from a jar of vinegar every day..." However, when I expressed regret and said I wish I could have seen the papers, just to know what was in them, Rubye's manner and tone changed. She stiffened up, got kind of embarrassed and defensive, and said, "Anybody can get books [about such things] in the library. If they want to read that [or if they're of a mind to]." She wouldn't meet my eye. So, clearly, Rubye, a retired school teacher, still considered these papers to be an evil and unmentionable thing. I had to change the subject—it had made her that uncomfortable. The only thing I could infer, from her attitude and the fact that one could find books in any library, is that she meant witchcraft.

    The only other physical description I have is from Granny (Esther), who mentioned seeing the papers once, as a child. She said they were kept "in a horsehair trunk" and she "couldn't make no sense out of them—it was just numbers and circles around them." (My sister remembers, or speculates, that she said "names and numbers with circles around them").

    Granny also told me that her mother (Anna) was somebody that "people came to her to be doctored," but she couldn't remember what they called her. I didn't want to ask leading questions, but when she still couldn't recall, I threw out a few words, but she said "no" to each: nurse, healer (I think I included midwife), and finally, cautiously, I tendered "witch-doctor?" (remembering Buck's claim of "witch," which I wouldn't have dared to ask, though neither I, nor Granny, was overly religious.

   "NO!" she said, angrily. I didn't ask further. She tried a little longer, but could not recollect the term.

   The reason I knew of the papers in the first place: Mother (Granny's daughter-in-law) always mentioned, derisively, that Buck and Lawrence were always running around trying to find "them old papers," and they all jumped on Granny (Esther), claiming she had the papers, and that in reality, "Horace" (Buck and Lawrence's father, Anna's son) would "burn them old papers as soon as he'd get his hand on one." (This story is inaccurate, except that she got the right branch of the family, the fact that some old papers existed, and the fact of the papers being burnt, correct. She knew nothing of the nature of the papers or why anyone would burn them—she just found the whole squabble to be amusing. Remember, Mother is an in-law and she despised Granny.)

    So, the facts: Anna kept mysterious papers in a trunk (horsehair trunk, per Granny); the papers contained numbers, circles, possibly names, and "potions"; the papers (we all infer) should be considered morally evil and unmentionable to the ordinary person of even lax Christian upbringing; and the papers were burned—we now know, by Rubye Burns, who loved Esther, her sister-in-law; but feared the papers.

    My further speculation is that the trunk passed down in this way: Anna died; the trunk probably passed to her eldest daughter, Alice (Headrick) Burns. Alice's daughter-in-law was Rubye (Hammond) Burns; and (known fact) Rubye and Slim lived with Alice and Ben Burns for a time. That accounts for the trunk's being in the house where Rubye and her children were staying.

    I have recorded this story as faithfully as I know how. My quotes are paraphrased from my own memory. Mother's stories were from the late 1980s. The conversation with Granny was after that, in the late 1980s or very early 90s (prob. 1986-1989), when I first started my family tree; and my conversation with Rubye probably was in the late 1990s or early-to-mid 2000s—after her stroke and a number of years before she died. I'll try to remember to look up those dates.

My Testimony 

Deborah K. Pritchett

Southern Muse

North Georgia Kin Blog Author

Mary Comings (Emert) Headrick

Mary Comings (Emert) Headrick 

* Frizzell, Isora Waters and Olga Jones Edwards, The 'Connection' in East Tennessee, p.186 (individual no. 953), Mary C. Emert b. 2-5-1822 m. 9-1-1843 Blount Co., Tenn. to William HEADRICK. [Mary is listed as child of no. 946, Frederick E. Emert II. Mary's father's listing appears on page 194]. There may be slight discrepancies in dates from other sources. 

* Find A Grave Memorial 35224613, Mary C. Headrick. Birth: unknown Death: Jan. 29, 1906. Inscription: Wife Of Wm. Headrick. Aged 83 Years, 11 Months, 21 D. Burial: Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery Crandall Murray County Georgia, USA. 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35224613 ; created by: kari. Record added: 27 Mar  2009 

* Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002: Mary C Emmitt, female; listed in marriage to William Headrick. Marriage: 01 Sep 1843, Blount, Tennessee, US.

* Mary C. Emmett, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950" 

* Mary C. Emert listed as mother of W. A. L. Headrick, deceased, in "Georgia Deaths, 1914-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDX8-YLC : 4 December 2018), Mary C. Emert in entry for W.A.L. Headrick, 1922. 

CITATION:

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZYC-S3F : 12 April 2016), Mary Hedrick in household of William Hedrick, Murray county, Murray, Georgia, United States; citing family 1288, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

* "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8GJ-PYM : 11 August 2017), Mary Headrick in household of William Headrick, Tenth, Murray, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 152, sheet 416B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,159.

Note from my research: 

Property in Murray County, Georgia, was purchased about 1851. It later passed to the known offspring of Jacob and Polly (Rice) Headrick, including a portion to William Headrick. William's portion later went to Mary C. Emert and her offspring. [Later, some of it went through the hands of W.A.L. Headrick's offspring, including my granny, Esther (Headrick) Pritchett.

Mary C. Emert is listed in William Headrick's Civil War pension application (rejected ; paid as civilian scout; not due any further pay or any military pension from US); 

--William Headrick, Cohutta Springs, Murray County, Georgia: Selected pension document entitled "Invalid," stamped 9 Jan. 1892: William states that his wife is "Mary C Emert" and says: "We was married in Blount county Tennessee September the fifth 1843." [Note that the marriage date is a few days off from the document on record in Blount County, Tennessee]. William further states that "the records of our marriage was Burnt in the court House at marysville Tenn." He lists his living children as "Rhoda Headrick born Feb 1845; Jacob Headrick December 1850; Daniel Headrick bornd July 1853; John Headrick bornd December 1855; Drussilla Headrick bornd March 1861; William Headrick bornd July 1863." [The word "born" is capitalized]. 

BURIAL: 

Find A Grave Memorial: 35224613.  

Calvary Baptist Church, Murray County, Georgia

Minnie Ola (Shields) Aaron Belts, of Oregon

Minnie Ola (Shields) Belts, Oregon

Oregon Historical Records Index. Record no. 263315: Belts, Minnie Shields, (born) 09/12/1889. Record Type: Delayed Birth. Umatilla. Source: Health. Record: 385/18729.

https://genealogy.state.or.us/displayResults.php?name=SHIELD&fromdate=&category=&county=&parents=&count=&orderBy=Name

Delayed Birth: Shields. 

Name: Minnie Shields Belts. State: Oregon

First accessed: 01 September 2019; last accessed 19 February 2021

Biographical Information 

Minnie Ola Shields 

Birth: 12 September 1889, Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, USA.

Death: 06 May 1980, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA

Daughter of Jaly Lovely Headrick

and Charles Milton Shields (married 12 December 1885, Bradley County, Tennessee, US). Jaly Headrick was a daughter of Jacob Headrick, Jr., and Harriett A. Hall (married 20 October 1861, Polk County, Tennessee, US).

Marriages

Minnie Ola Shields married (1) Benjamin Harvey Aaron on 29 January 1906, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, US; later divorced.

Minnie Ola Shields married (2) James Frank Belts between 1910 and 1920. In 1920, the couple lives in Cascade County, Montana, US. 

Obituary of Jim Headrick of Cisco, Murray County, Georgia, 1937

Obituary of Jim Headrick of Cisco, Murray County, Georgia 

Publication: The Dalton Citizen 

Publication Place: Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia 

Publication Date: Thurs., 9 December 1937 

Page: 13 

Name of Deceased: Jim Headrick 

Age at Death: 70 

Date of Death (not specified): 'Saturday' 

Estimated Date of Death: 4 December 1937 

Place of Death: 'at his home,' Cisco (Murray, Georgia) 

SURVIVORS: 

Widow/Wife: Mrs. Sallie Dunn Headrick 

Son: Bryson Headrick of Rome, (Floyd, Georgia) 

Son: Lester Headrick of Cisco, (Murray, Georgia) 

Son: Luke Headrick of Cisco, (Murray, Georgia) 

Daughter: Mrs. Frank Dunn of Conasauga, (Polk, Tennessee) 

Daughter: Mrs. Beulah Wilson of Cisco, (Murray, Georgia) 

Daughter: Miss Ruth Headrick of Cisco, (Murray, Georgia) 

Daughter: Mrs. Lillie Hilliard of Cleveland, (Bradley, Tennessee) 

Daughter: Mrs. Maggie Howard of Vero, (Indian River, Florida) 

Daughter: Mrs. Annie Calhoun of Old Fort, (Polk, Tennessee) 

Brother: Will Headrick of Old Fort, (Polk, Tennessee) 

Brother: Marion Headrick of Cleveland, (Bradley, Tennessee) 

Brother: Clifford Headrick of Chattanooga, (Hamilton, Tenn.) 

Brother: Alic Headrick of Hensford, (??), Alabama 

             [*I cannot identify this town; listed in obit. 

               as Hensford, Ala.] 

Sister: Mrs. Cass Colwell of Eton, (Murray, Georgia) 

Funeral Services: Sunday (est. 5 December 1937) 

Place of Funeral: Libert Baptist church (Tennga, Murray, Ga.) 

Time of Funeral: 2:00 p.m. 

Funeral Director: Kenemer Brothers (Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia) 

Officiator: Rev. Sam Melton of Cleveland, (Bradley, Tenn.) 

Officiator: Rev. J. W. Dooley of Chatsworth (Murray, Georgia) 

Burial (town not specified): 'in the local cemetery' 

              Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery 

              Tennga, Murray, Georgia 

              (Note: same cemetery often appears in 

               Polk County, Tennessee, cemetery lists; 

               it is very close to the Tenn.-Georgia state line) 

Obituary Extract by D. K. Pritchett ('Southern Muse') 

             08-03-2020.

[Note: The obituary mentioned the city of residence for each survivor; I have added the concluded county and state for convenience.] 

Swilling and Headrick mention, North Georgia Citizen

This Swilling and Headrick mention in North Georgia Citizen shows a mother-daughter relationship.

[Quote]: 'Mrs. John Swilling spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Henry Headrick, of Fairy,' in 'McCamy's Chapel (community column), North Georgia Citizen (Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia) 1868-1924, Thurs., 13  January 1916, page 2 (digital image 2), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (Gallileo). 

https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85034046/1916-01-13/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_603x817_from_2334,3789_to_3149,4893/ 

(clipping, of page accessed 04 Mar. 2010). 

Headrick and Bell

Headrick and Bell...

I have no idea what I meant to write when I started this post eight months ago. Considering the names, it must be an old name. I think Headrick bought or sold property to/from a Zoilus Bell. It would be fairly early in Murray County, Georgia.

Deed Search, Negative for Headricks (Specified Books)

Murray County, Georgia
Reverse Deeds Search

Books where no Headricks were indexed: H, M, N, O, P, Q, (X, Y, Z)

(I don't know why I have "X,Y,Z" in parentheses. Also, I have another little odd note under this one. It says, "10, 13 ? only 1 in #27, 28, 29. I think this might be Headricks indexed in Deed Books 10 and 13, but I don't know!)

Murray County Superior Court Minutes, 1859-1866, Selected Indexings for 1867

Murray County, Georgia
Superior Court Minutes, 1859-1866

This is my search of the above Index or Docket. Note that I only pulled names of interest to my own genealogical and history searches. There would have been many other names drawn.

Page 498

Grand Jurors drawn to serve at April Term 1867, Superior Court:

#25 Thomas Leach
#27 Jeremiah Crowson
#33 A.T.? Weaver

Page 499

#2 John Headrick
#8 W.J. Holcomb
#14 L.E.R. Young (appears in several things throughout book).

W.A.L. Headrick Estate in Administrators and Guardian Bonds

Murray County, Georgia
W.A.L. Headrick Estate, with H.J. Headrick

This genealogy scrap is from a search of Murray County, Georgia, Probate Court Records. I copied this from a book of Administrators and Guardians Bonds.

Administrators and Guardians Bonds
Book 2, page 89

H.J. Headrick and H.H. Headrick and Cal Fowler as securitys (bound) unto J.M. Campbell, Ord., for [Murray] County for $1,500.

Condition: 

(My own summary of the bond condition): 
If H.J. Headrick makes inventory of the W.A.L. Headrick estate which the heirs will come into (etc.) and the estate is administered according to law (etc.) and makes a just and true account (etc.), then this bond is void; otherwise to remain in effect.

Signed: 
H.J. Headrick (illeg.) LS
H.H. Headrick, sec LS
Cal Fowler, sec LS

(Note: my illegible scribbling noted above by Horace's signature could be "srs" or something. Maybe it stands for "swears" and the other two must second his oath or something. Sorry about that, I am a messy note taker.)

21 October 1931, affidavit:
H.J. Headrick swears that W.A.L. Headrick died intestate. (Signed by H.J. Headrick).
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[My Knowledge: H.J. Headrick is Horace J. Headrick, son of W.A.L. Headrick (that is, William Abraham Lincoln Headrick.]

Headrick Wills, Selected, Murray County, Georgia.

Headrick Wills.
Murray County, Georgia

This is just a scrap from one of my searches of record books at the probate court in Murray County, Georgia. I didn't keep good notes as to what I was searching. This is probably in the Index to Wills. 

Emily Vest Headrick. 6-2-78.  8-27-79.
[These are 20th-century date references: 1978-1979].

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Ottis Headrick. 2-1-65. (1968 probated).

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An Older Headrick Will:

Polly Headrick will
Will Book 2 (1872-1922), pages 146-147.

Will made 30 January 1884; sworn by John Smith 7 December 1896.
Will filed 7 December 1896. Will Recorded: 13 January 1897.

Death of Mrs. Headrick, Mother of Brother J.E. Headrick (a Deacon), Walker County, Georgia

The death of "Grandma Headrick, mother of J.E. Headrick, is mentioned in the Walker County Messenger of 28 October 1910.  She was buried at Gladden. J.M. Coley, author of the column, mentions that he was her pastor, and mentions that her son, J.E. Headrick, was a deacon of the church. (I found a cross-reference--see other notes).

Coley, J.M., 'Death of Mrs. Headrick' in 'Confederate X-Roads' (column), \Walker County Messenger\ (Lafayette, Walker County, Georgia), 28 October 1910, in Georgia Historic Newspapers (via GALILEO). [Walker County messenger. (LaFayette, Ga.) 187?-current, October 28, 1910, Image 3] https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053488/1910-10-28/ed-1/seq-3/#index=1&rows=12&proxtext=headrick&sequence=0&region=north&words=Headrick&page=1 (accessed 18 April 2019).

Link to Walker County Messenger article

Note: The link above might be a dynamic link; the site no longer seems to offer a permanent link.

Obituary of Grandma Headrick, or Narcissa Catherine (Waters) Headrick

Death of Grandma Headrick, Mother of J.E. Headrick

The death of "Grandma Headrick, mother of J.E. Headrick, is mentioned in the Walker County Messenger of 28 October 1910.  She was buried at Gladden. J.M. Coley, author of the column, mentions that he was her pastor, and mentions that her son, J.E. Headrick, was a deacon of the church. (I found a cross-reference--see other notes).


Citation: 
Coley, J.M., 'Death of Mrs. Headrick' in 'Confederate X-Roads' (column), \Walker County Messenger\ (Lafayette, Walker County, Georgia), 28 October 1910, in Georgia Historic Newspapers (via GALILEO). [Walker County messenger. (LaFayette, Ga.) 187?-current, October 28, 1910, Image 3] https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053488/1910-10-28/ed-1/seq-3/#index=1&rows=12&proxtext=headrick&sequence=0&region=north&words=Headrick&page=1 (accessed 18 April 2019).

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My identification of Grandma Headrick: Narcissa Catherine (Waters) Headrick, wife of Jacob B. Headrick, of Walker County, Georgia. Jacob and Narcissa were the parents of John Enoch L. Headrick (the J.E. Headrick mentioned in the obituary). See also, posts about J.E. Headrick as a deacon of Naomi Baptist Church in Walker County, Georgia.

Jacob Enoch L. Headrick, Deacon of Naomi Baptist Church, Walker County, Georgia; also Other Records and Notes

J.E. Headrick is mentioned as a deacon of the church in the death mention (brief obituary) of his mother, Mrs. Headrick (or 'Grandma Headrick). [Ref.: J.M. Coley, 'Death of Mrs. Headrick,' in 'Confederate X-Roads' (column), \Walker County Messenger\ (Lafayette, Walker County, Georgia), 28 October 1910 (via GALILEO).]

Here is a cross-reference for J.M. Coley as a presbyter of a church (Naomi Baptist) and J.E. Headrick as a deacon of that church, apparently at the time of its organization in 1898. However, Mrs. Headrick is not mentioned among the charter members listed.

Citation: Coley and Headrick (mentioned), 'Naomi Baptist Church,' History of Walker County (n.d., n.p.), page 369 (via GaGenWeb on USGenNet.org). The church was organized in 1898, and Coley and J.E. Headrick was a deacon. URL: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/fulton/walkerhistory/pg%20301-400red.pdf (accessed 18 April 2019).

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My identification of J.E. Headrick: Jacob Enoch L. Headrick, born 23 March 1862, Georgia; died 16 December 1944. Lived in Walker County, Georgia. Jacob was the son of Jacob B. and Narcissa Catherine (Waters) Headrick.

Jacob Enoch L. Headrick married Flora Lowry on 6 December 1891, Walker County, Georgia.

Wedding Announcement of Raymond Bell and Mattie Headrick, 1910, Walker County Messenger

Wedding Announcement of Raymond Bell and Mattie Headrick
Walker County, Georgia

Humorous wedding announcement.

Well, Billy, on Thursday of last week I was trying to rake and haul hay and there was some dissatisfaction about the way some folks were living. So I was summoned up to Bro. J. E. Headrick's home and I went with wagon and hay frames and met Mr Raymond Bell, of High Point, armed with the necessary papers fresh from the Ordinary of Walker county, and in a very brief space of time I settled all their dissatisfaction between him and Miss Mattie Headrick, the oldest daughter of Bro. Headrick, and they left for Chattanooga man and wife. May supreme happiness be their lot through life and never a trouble cross their path. Mr. Bell semed to be a very nice young man. I have known Miss Mattie all her life. She is a charming bright young woman that any young man ought to be proud of.

(It goes own about hopes for the future, etc.)

Citation:
'Bro. Coley Officiates at Another Wedding Boosting the Fair,' in 'Confederate X-Roads' (column), \Walker County Messenger (Lafayette, Walker, Georgia), Friday, 14 October 1910 (online via Galileo). Since the wedding occurred 'Thursday of last week,' that was probably October 6th.

Note: So far, I cannot find the marriage on Family Search.

Headrick, Hughes, and Gentry Kin in an Appalachian Folk Song Project

I had some old notes from Mrs. Amanda Winkler (Headrick-Young researcher) among my genealogy scraps about a 1938-1939 folk-song project, in which some of the descendants of Mary "Polly" (Rice) Headrick took part. She had taken some notes from the research of the teacher who had been involved in the project. The teacher mentioned the Headrick-Young kin as part of an old folk-song project. The Headrick granddaughter and several great-granddaughters were mentioned as rich sources for old Appalachian songs and ballads they had learned from their parents and grandmother. Winkler quoted the teacher as saying,

"They learned the songs as small children sitting on their father's knee or seated on a stool at the feet of their grandmother or great-grandmother, watching them weave. I have never heard anything like the wealth of old songs stored in their memory, and the amazing thing is that they are all right at their tongue's end, ready to be sung. It is by them more than any other family, that I have been able to see how the songs are handed down through the years by oral transmission."

I'm sorry that I can't give more specifics about the source. This was just something another researcher sent me by email, and didn't share the name of the teacher or the circumstances--whether she had read this old material in an archives, or had attended a lecture, or what.

According to Winkler's email to me, the teacher had not specifically mentioned by name the great-grandmother (Polly), grandmother (Martha "Moffie" Jane), or mother (Georgia Ann), but did mention Georgia’s daughters and granddaughters by name--among them, daughters, Rosa Hughes, Ethel Welch, Exona Hughes, and Mollie Green; and granddaughters, Pearl Green Gentry and Ella Hughes.

Mrs. Winkler’s note to me said that the teacher had called the family (Headrick-Young-Green) a rich source of songs and ballads, and said that the women sang the songs. (So, I infer that the teacher listened to their versions of the ballads and wrote down the lyrics).

I decided to do a search on some of these family names in connection to Appalachian music, and was able to find a nice reference on a website. The site just gives a long list of cataloged song titles. Unfortunately, it doesn't cite any recordings, though the women did actually sing songs during the project. But the list does give the titles for which the women contributed text versions of the old songs. Possibly, their text versions might be found in some library archives--that would be nice!
The website cites a 1946 article which lists the titles and the names of contributors:

"A Check List of the Titles of Tennessee Folksongs," by Edwin C. Kirkland. The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 59, No. 234 (Oct. - Dec., 1946), pp. 423-476.
Edwin C. Kirkland was with the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 

Bluegrass Messengers

http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/a-check-list-of-ternnessee-folk-songs--1946.aspx

To understand the list on that website:

The researcher apparently collected as many versions he could of all the Appalachian songs he could find, so there are sometimes several contributors of the same song--in other words, the same song was perhaps handed down orally in several different versions, with differences in text or music, and the researcher collected each different version. In some cases, he has only the text. In others, he has the text and/or a recording. For the Headrick descendants, he only cites text versions.

You may find other songs or family members mentioned in the list. It's a pretty long list. haven't had time to really give it a complete going-over.

Pearl Green Gentry, of Sale Creek, and Mrs. Rosa Hughes, of Flat Top, were listed as two contributors of text versions of "Gypsie Laddie" to the project.

Pearl Green Gentry also contributed a text version of "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard," "Pretty Cold Rain," and "A Pretty Fair Maiden."

Kirkland's Bibliographical Citation

Kirkland cites the following as his source for the collection in which the Headrick song contributions appear: 

Duncan, Ballads. Ruby Duncan, Ballads and Folk Songs Collected in Northern Hamilton County (Knoxville, Tenn., University of Tennessee, Master's thesis, I939). Play Party. Ruby Duncan, The Play Party in Hamilton County (Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 6: I: I-I5, March, I940).

I believe this probably would have been part of the 1937-1938 Federal Music Project (FMP), one of the "New Deal" projects of the Great Depression era. Sure wish they had recordings of our kinfolk!

An Idea of the Sound of One Folk Ballad

I was able to find a solo, a cappella, folk version of the ballad, Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, as sung by Jean Ritchie. It is really long. (The audio file is about halfway down the following webpage):

Singout.org: Matty Groves, Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
https://singout.org/2012/02/20/matty-groves-little-musgrave-and-lady-barnard/

Deed, Murray County, Georgia, 1905: John E. Headrick sells to J. F. Gilbert, and J. F. Gilbert then sells to A. S. Dunn.

Murray County, Georgia, Deed Book U, pages 472-473:

John E. Headrick, of Bradley County, Tennessee, sells 38 acres of Land Lot 57 in the Tenth District, 3rd Section, of Murray County, Georgia, to a J. F. Gilbert, of Murray County, Georgia, for $80. [Murray Co., GA, Deed Book U, page 472-473; witnessed by Cas Dunn; and by D.C. Dunn, NP & JP; recorded 2 Feb. 1905.]

Very soon after the original sale, on 24 Jan. 1905, J. F. Gilbert resells the land to A. S. Dunn, of Murray County, Georgia, for $200. [Murray Co., Georgia, Deed Book U, page 473; witnessed by John Caylor; and by N.H. Henry, J.P; recorded 2 Feb 1905.]

[Possibly, some time went by between the two sales, but "officially," John E. Headrick sold the land on 17 January 1905, and J. F. Gilbert resold it on 24 January 1905 to A.S. Dunn, of Murray County.

The land lot is part of the old Jacob and Polly Headrick homestead. It was part of some land lots that had been subdivided in 1866 between Polly Headrick and her known offspring by Jacob Headrick (by then deceased). John must have received his share from his father, William, who had received a share in 1866 (other transactions occurred in 1885 and later, involving Jacob's offspring).

It could be that J. F. Gilbert turned a quick profit; it could also be that the deed actually changed hands much earlier without being filed, and so had to go through some red tape when J. F. Gilbert went to resell it. I believe A.S. Dunn would be Andrew Sherman Dunn.

Finding Aid for Drucilla Cathrine Headrick, a.k.a. Drucilla (Headrick) Grigsby and Drusilla (Headrick) Keith

Misspellings of the names "Drucilla" and "Grigsby" have made Drucilla Cathrine (Headrick) Grigsby hard to locate in Family Search searches. This note serves as a finding aid. Here are some of the spellings, from various indexes:

Drucilla Keith and Samuel W. Grigsby, in "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967." Married 09 Apr 1903, , Murray, Georgia.

Drucilla Headrick, household of William Headrick: US Census, 1870, 1880, Murray, Georgia.

Drusilda Headrick, household of William Headrick, US Census, 1900, Murray, Georgia.

Drucila C Grigsby, household of Samuel W Grigsby, US Census, 1910, Bradley, Tennessee.

Drucilla Grigsby, widowed head of household, US Census, 1920, Bradley, Tennessee.

Derusilk Grigsley, household of Tamas W Aaron, US Census, 1930, Bradley, Tennessee.

Drusilla C in entry for Samuel W Grigsby, US Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933.

Drusilla C Grigsby... (same source)

D C Headrick, Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002: Marriage: 09 Jul 1901, Bradley, Tennessee. Spouse: J H Keith.

Drucilla Cathrine Grigsky, Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966 (died 16 Apr 1945, Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee).

Drusilla C. Grigsby, Find A Grave Index 35223288 (1861 - 1945; buried at Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, Crandall, Murray, Georgia).

Drussilla Headrick, born March 1861, is listed as the daughter of William and Mary C. (Emert) Headrick, of Murray, Georgia, who married in Blount, Tennessee, all as stated within pension document. Source: United States, Civil War, Federal Pension Files. Headrick, William, Civilian Scout, pension file no. 725264.

Mary Headrick, aged three, died of croup in October 1849, Hawkins County, Tennessee.

Mary Headrick was born about 1846 (probably in Hawkins County, Tennessee), and died of croup at the age of three, in October 1849, in Hawkins County, Tennessee. She had been ill for four days. Her brief life is memorialized by a listing in the 1850 US Mortality Schedule for Tennessee, a record covering the year ending June 1850.

United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, Schedule 3, page 335, Hawkins County, Tennessee: Mary Headrick, aged three. Birth estimated at 1846 (indexed as 1847). Death: Oct 1849. Cause of Death: Croup. Ill 4 days. [Death place concluded as Hawkins County, Tennessee, US. Birth place is probably Hawkins County, Tennessee (but not proven so), being the place of death at a young age. Extract by D.K. Pritchett]

"United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSTN-PHW : 29 July 2017), Mary Headrick, all townships, All counties, Tennessee, United States; citing line 19, NARA microfilm publication T655 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 422,433.

James Headrick, aged two, died of croup, October 1849, Hawkins County, Tennessee.

James Headrick was born about 1847 (probably in Hawkins County, Tennessee), and died of croup at age two, in October 1849, in Hawkins County, Tennessee. He had been ill for five days. His brief life is memorialized by a listing in the 1850 US Mortality Schedule for Tennessee, a record covering the year ending June 1850.

United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850, Schedule 3, page 335, Hawkins County, Tennessee: Jas Headrick, aged two. Birth est. 1847 (indexed as 1848). Death: Oct 1849. Cause of Death: Croup. Ill 5 days. [First name abbreviated, "Jas." Death place concluded as Hawkins County, Tennessee.]

[Citation]: "United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSTN-PH7 : 29 July 2017), Jas Headrick, all townships, All counties, Tennessee, United States; citing line 18, NARA microfilm publication T655 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 422,433.