Ancestors
The Stinnett Family. Photo taken near the turn of the century, early 1900's.  The man on the far right is my great-grandfather James Everett Stinnett. The woman standing behind him is my great-grandmother Martha Ida Cargile Stinnett.
James Everett Stinnett. He owned a timber company that bought standing tracts of timber and used its sawmill to convert them to support beams for the local coal mines, with which he had contracts.
Nelson Morgan Stinnett and his wife Marthey Lingerfelt Stinnett. They were my great-greatgrandparents. They were the parents of James Everett. Family legend says that NM's mother Meda Ball, who was purportedly full blooded Cherokee hid in the caves of Tennessee as a girl to avoid being banished to the West on the Trail of Tears. She died while her sons were off fighting the Civil War... on different sides. NM fought for the Confederates. He was a founder of 1st Baptist Church of Maryville, Tennessee, in the region of TN his family had lived for unknown generations. Later he left Tennessee and took his family to Alabama, where they established themselves in Oak Grove.
The Louis Augustus Cargile Family. Probably taken in the latter 1800's. Louis Augustus and his wife were my great-great-grandparents.