I know that supposedly his mother died and he was her only child.
Then when his daddy remarried, there was a distance between the two.
I know thaat his direct kin said that in later years, he named one of
his sons in honor of his dad or something about like that.
To be honest, it was Aunt Sallie and Aunt Irma who married two Herron brothers
in the state of Arkansas.
The brothers were the children of Wm S. Herron who actually lived in later years
with Aunt Sallie Temple Herron and her husband who was his son, Tate Herron just
on the outskirts of Little Rock.
Aunt Irma was married to Phillip Herron who was a Methodist preacher and
she died rather young in the late 1930's. One of his daughters is still alive and
she remembers only always moving.
All of their children were double first cousins and all could take an excellent
education, which many did. They were also proud that their
ancestor had served with the 7th Tenn. Cav. under Forrest. It is mentioned in a
book that he was one of the men who went out to recover Jeffery (I think
that was his name) Forrest's body when he was killed.
The Herron children were my daddy's first cousins.
I have known or met nearly everyone of them, and they all have this
carriage about them that says "I am somebody" without ever being
upsetting to others. I am in close contact with two of Aunt Irma's grandchildren
and I have the phone number and means to get in touch with some of
Aunt Sallie's kids and grandchildren.
Has anyone ever done a big family history? If so, you may have missed at least
100 people.
Linda