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GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES SMITH COUNTY, TENNESSEE: PLEASANT SHADE
This Photo Graciously Submitted by Tom Dickerson. <t o m d i c @ h o t m a i l . c o m> PLEASANT SHADE, TENNESSEE This aerial view of Pleasant Shade was made by Tom Dickerson in April 1989. The view is to the south toward Carthage with Highway 80 extending diagonally across the picture. Highway 80 north extends to Macon County and the Russell Hill community. Near the bottom left is the Sanderson Branch and Sanderson Branch Road with the white building at the extreme left being the old Sanderson Presbyterian Church. Sanderson's Cemetery is located about one quarter mile east of the old church building and across the Sanderson Branch. Paralleling Highway 80 and intersecting the Sanderson Branch from the north is the Boston Branch. The road between the Boston Branch and Highway 80 is old Highway 80. Left center is the Sloan Branch and Sloan Branch Road which ends at Highway 80. The Sloan Cemetery is located on this road a few hundred yards from the Highway 80 intersection. The Sloan Branch Road east crosses the Green Hill and later ends in the Difficult community. Peyton's Creek enters Pleasant Shade from the northwest and is shown in the right center of the picture where it crosses under Highway 80. Little (Peyton's) Creek Road parallels Peyton's Creek and ends at Highway 80. Little Creek Road extends northwest from Highway 80 into Macon County and the Ebenezer community. Scabtown lies in the right center of the picture where Towtown Branch and Towtown Road run side by side. At that point, Towtown Branch empties into Peyton's Creek. Calvin Gregory resided for about fourteen years (1916 -1930) in Scabtown. Towtown Road begins at Little Creek Road, crosses Porter's Hill and extends west to the Mace's Hill community. With so many of the streams converging in Pleasant Shade, it is no wonder that it has seen some significant flooding in the past. During the first half of the last century, Pleasant Shade was a bustling community, sporting a bank, hotel, post office, school, three churches, a resident doctor, three or four general stores, a blacksmith shop, three garages, a sawmill, two cabinet / furniture shops, a restaurant and pool hall, a barber shop and even a dance hall in the early 1950's. Over the years, however, Pleasant Shade arrived at the same fate that many small rural communities have suffered - it dried up! Only one grocery store remains in addition to the school, post office and Cumberland Presbyterian Church. SLOAN
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This Photo Graciously Submitted by John Waggoner Jr. <J C W J r 0 2 1 5 @ a o l . c o m> BURIALS
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page duplicates what can be found at TNGenWeb: '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' RETURN: Descendants of Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1674) RETURN: Archibald Sloan (1772 - 9 October 1836): Portrait Miniature RETURN: Smith County, Tennessee: Soan - Oldham Cemetery GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES: TABLE OF CONTENTS GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES: HOME This web site is always under construction. For entries preceded by an asterisk (*), further information is forthcoming. Persons wishing to contribute information to this web site, or who wish to make inquiries, may do so by addressing their email to:
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