| 723 | i. | Vivian6 Whitaker, born October 22, 1902; died Unknown. | ||
| 724 | ii. | Clyde Whitaker, born August 18, 1904; died Unknown. | ||
| 725 | iii. | Maxie Lee Whitaker, born March 19, 1906; died October 05, 1944. |
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Notes for Maxie Lee Whitaker: Never married. |
| 726 | iv. | Claude Whitaker, born February 24, 1908; died Unknown. | ||
| 727 | v. | Fred Weldon Whitaker, born Private. | ||
| 728 | vi. | Bonnie Marie Whitaker, born Private. | ||
| 729 | vii. | James Prophet "J. P." Whitaker, born Private. | ||
| 730 | viii. | Robert Lynn Whitaker, born Private. |
| 731 | i. | Verna6 Stamper, born March 04, 1898; died January 26, 1971. She married James Belt Taylor December 25, 1916 in Letcher County, KY574; born January 11, 1884; died December 07, 1982. | ||
| 732 | ii. | Herma Stamper, born September 01, 1899; died September 23, 1968. She married Harrison Fields December 25, 1917; born July 17, 1897; died February 20, 1972. |
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Notes for Harrison Fields: Harrison was a merchant in Whitesburg, Letcher County, KY, for many years. |
| 733 | iii. | Martha Mae Stamper, born March 08, 1902; died December 06, 1984. She married Robert Fields May 30, 1919; born May 08, 1901; died July 22, 1978. | ||
| 734 | iv. | Hayes Stamper, born April 28, 1906; died July 27, 1963. He married Mary Crase December 21, 1924; born February 08, 1908; died July 28, 1963. |
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More About Hayes Stamper: Burial: Unknown, Stamper Cemetery, Linefork, Letcher County, KY |
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More About Mary Crase: Burial: Unknown, Stamper Cemetery, Linefork, Letcher County, KY |
| 735 | v. | Forrester Stamper, born March 29, 1908; died August 27, 1933. |
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More About Forrester Stamper: Burial: Unknown, Stamper Cemetery, Linefork, Letcher County, KY |
| 736 | vi. | Hassel Stamper, born May 01, 1910 in Roxana, Letcher County, KY; died April 05, 1981 in Whitesburg, Letcher County, KY. He married Lora Anderson Private; born Private. |
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More About Hassel Stamper: Burial: Unknown, Stamper Cemetery, Linefork, Letcher County, KY |
| 737 | i. | Dr. Fred Weldon6 Caudill, born March 18, 1900 in Blackey, Letcher County, KY; died January 10, 1947. He married (1) Minelle Pulson; born Abt. 1907; died August 10, 1928 in Letcher County, KY. He married (2) Edna F. Snyder Private; born Private. |
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Notes for Minelle Pulson: Minelle died during the childbirth of Fred, Jr. |
| 738 | ii. | Lawrence J. "Larry" Caudill, born August 13, 1901 in Blackey, Letcher County, KY; died September 07, 1966. He married (1) Mary Irma Copeland; born October 31, 1902; died Unknown. He married (2) Opal Banks Private; born Private. |
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Notes for Lawrence J. "Larry" Caudill: Larry attended Stuart Robinson High Schol and Centre College. He was a journalist and newspaperman in Louisville, KY. |
| 739 | iii. | Arch Caudill, born May 07, 1905; died June 02, 1965. | ||
| 740 | iv. | Helen Caudill, born Private. | ||
| 741 | v. | Lucretia Marie Caudill, born Private. |
| 742 | i. | Effie Dean6 Dixon, born Private. | ||
| 743 | ii. | Elma Dixon, born Private. | ||
| 744 | iii. | Sophia Dixon, born Private. She married Bruce Back Private; born June 12, 1909; died Unknown. | ||
| 745 | iv. | Hermie L. Dixon, born Private. | ||
| 746 | v. | Wilma C. Dixon, born February 03, 1916; died April 07, 1955. | ||
| 747 | vi. | Charles Glenn Dixon, born Private. He married Ruby Dorleen Atwell Private; born Private. | ||
| 748 | vii. | James Andrew Dixon, born Private. He married Faith May Private; born Private. | ||
| 749 | viii. | Taylor Dixon, born Private. He married Dorothy Lee Turner Private; born Private. | ||
| 750 | ix. | Martha Dixon, born Private. | ||
| 751 | x. | Mary Elizabeth Dixon, born Private. | ||
| 752 | xi. | Thomas A. Dixon, Jr., born Private. |
| 753 | i. | Vina6 Whitaker, born May 20, 1905 in Letcher County, KY; died Unknown. She married Joseph Oscar Patterson June 02, 1923; died Unknown. | ||
| 754 | ii. | Annie Whitaker, born November 05, 1906; died November 18, 1911. | ||
| 755 | iii. | Ruth Whitaker, born Private. She married Joseph Back Private; born December 13, 1904582,583,584,585; died May 1978. | ||
| 756 | iv. | Charlie Haskel Whitaker, born June 26, 1910; died July 28, 1910. | ||
| 757 | v. | J. Keller Whitaker, born Private. He married Bertha Slone Private; born Private. | ||
| 758 | vi. | Corsie Whitaker, born Private. She married Cleo Hale Private; born August 05, 1907 in Cody, Knott County, KY; died Unknown. | ||
| 759 | vii. | Nancy Scofield Whitaker, born April 09, 1915; died September 05, 1940. | ||
| 760 | viii. | William M. Whitaker, Jr., born Private. He married Hazel Dean Hicks Private; born Private. |
| 761 | i. | John Paul6 Back, born July 06, 1922; died August 18, 1928. | ||
| 762 | ii. | Walton "Walt" Back, born Private. | ||
| 763 | iii. | Isaac D. "I.D." Back, born Private. He married Ina Rose Hamilton Private; born Private. |
| 764 | i. | Mariam Gaynell6 Caudill, born Private. She married Joe Taylor Begley Private; born February 23, 1919 in Floyd County, KY; died March 27, 2000 in Letcher County, KY. |
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Notes for Joe Taylor Begley: The following obituary is from the Floyd County Times dated March 29, 2000: Joe Taylor Begley Age 81, of Blackey, formerly of Floyd County, died Monday, March 27, 2000, at his residence. A Navy veteran of World War II, Begley helped mount the first organized opposition to strip mining in eastern Kentucky. He helped found the Citizens League to Protect the Surface Rights. A gas company worker in Kentucky and West Virginia for many years, he and his wife returned to Letcher County in the 1960s to run his late father-in-law's store at Blackey, the C.B. Caudill Store, now a museum. He was born February 23, 1919, and lived in the Maytown area as a young man. He attended Maytown High School. He is survived by his wife, Gaynell Caudill Begley; one daughter, Jane Dixon of Blackey; three sons, J.T and Joe T. Jr,, both of Knoxville, Tennessee, and James C. of Blackey; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services were Tuesday at 7 p.m., at the Letcher Funeral Home in Whitesburg, with Tom Currie officiating. Graveside services will be today (Wednesday) at 11 a.m. at the Caudill Cemetery at Blackey. Memorial contributions may be made to Appalshop, Madison Avenue, Whitesburg. The following article is from the March 29, 2000, issue of the Mountain Eagle newspaper: Begley Considered Himself Point Man For His Community By: Phil Primack To most folks from Letcher County, the C.B. Caudill Store was the place to go to get some gas, groceries, pipe fitting or other supplies. Included in any transaction was the chance to talk about the weather, family, friends or anything else in the Blackey breeze with storekeepers Gaynell - C.B.'s daughter - and Joe Begley. To most folks not from Letcher County - touring college students, reporters, federal poverty warriors, foundation funders and community activists - the C.B. Caudill Store was the front - porch stage for Joe Begley to rail against strip mining, oil and gas exploitation or any of the other causes for which tall Joe stood. Gaynell would generally sit on the swinging chair or hold the fort behind the counter, full of her own wisdom but content to defer to Joe's determined outspokenness. Some people - I'm lucky enough to be one of them - could live in both worlds, able to know Joe Begley as the photogenic, outspoken, looks - like - Lincoln advocate as well as the Blackey guardian and storekeeper who, with Gaynell, was daily proof of all that is so rare and so right about eastern Kentucky. More than 30 years ago, I was one of those outsiders drawn to Letcher County because of its problems, which were as clear and visible as a strip mine bench or a black lung scarred miner or a school without books. Joe and Gaynell willingly - sometimes wearily - explained such problems to visitors, but they would do so only in the context of local positives. It's too bad so many visitors missed those positive things, which were as apparent as the store's long porch and the genuine bonds of friendship, family and community that quietly played out there every day. To Joe Begley, and to Gaynell, that sense of community and place was the fuel that drove the outrage. When I first met Joe, I was a Yankee newcomer, fotched - on, as it were, come to write for the Mountain Eagle. But during that first visit, Joe decided not to switch into his interview mode, enthralling reporters with perfect quotes, perfectly delivered with a fine mix of details and anecdote. No, on that first real encounter 30 years ago, Joe said hello and then suggested, well, sort of commanded, that I just get in the red jeep with him. He had a Saturday square dance in Carcassonne to get to. Rather than a tour of strip mines or pipelines, my first jeep ride with Joe was a nighttime drive past Elk Creek and Bull Creek and up the steep, dirt road to Carcassonne which I would eventually grow to enjoy but which at the time seemed little more than one endlessly long blind curve. Joe looked at the road occasionally, but mostly pointed out who lived where, adding color and commentary, at least some of which turned out to be true. At Carcassonne, he made a point of introducing me to Dixons and Caudills and Fugates and others, many of who I still count as friends. Then he was off to the dance floor, happily cajoling and organizing circles within circles. And that was the point: Joe Begley certainly enjoyed the national soapbox role and the cameras and notebooks, but not for his own notoriety. Joe saw himself as the point man for a cause, and the cause was a culture and community he felt was under corporate, governmental and economic assault. I lived in the little house behind the store. Joe would of course keep me duly informed of newsworthy developments, but I also remember his boots thudding on the porch early one morning so that he could drag me outside to point out a hawk he had just spotted soaring over the river. To Joe, it was just as important for Mountain Eagle readers to know that a hawk had returned to Letcher County as it was for them to know that yet another delegation was visiting from Washington. As an Eagle reporter, living in the little house kept me literally in the middle of many of the news stories of the day, from meetings of the Citizens League to Protect Surface Rights, organized by Joe, to more local stories, such as the fire that destroyed Blackey's school. That blaze also burned up the little bit of community fabric that held together Blackey as a viable town. Until the library was built -- and more recently the water and sewer line -- about the only glue left was the C.B. Caudill Store. Joe and Gaynell Begley became not just keepers of a country store, but keepers of a community. As much a wooden-plank wire service for strip mining and other coalfield developments, the store and its porch became my own center. Driving back just before dawn after delivering the Eagle from the printer, I would see the store just after that last broad curve before Blackey bridge. Sometimes Pascal Dixon was already sitting there in the winter darkness, waiting for his ride to work. We'd talk a little, soon to be joined by Joe or Gaynell as they began their own day. "Be good, buddy," Joe would say as I headed off to Whitesburg, or wherever. I later moved to Ice, where my new neighbors were Clarence and Sara Ison, who still writes a regular community column for the Eagle. Last year, after visiting Joe in the hospital, I drove Gaynell to visit with Sara and Clarence. I just sat back and listened - as they talked about old times and good ways of life. For me, this wasn't just nostalgia or some kind of quaint exercise in oral history to observe. This was the kind of connection, the kind of values and positive tradition which make folks like Sara and Clarence so special and which were the core of what drove Joe and Gaynell Begley to stay and persevere. Countless mountain people, many of whom don't know it, owe a special thanks to Joe Begley for making it possible for them to stop worrying that a bulldozer might suddenly strip the hill above them. But I'm grateful for something else. I'm glad that Joe chose not to launch into an eloquent and quotable tirade against strip mining that night I met him three decades ago. Being chauffeured by Joe Begley in his red Jeep made me understand what really made this fine man tick. And it made me appreciate once and forever why eastern Kentucky matters. "Be good, buddy." |
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More About Joe Taylor Begley: Burial: March 29, 2000, Caudill Cemetery, Blackey, Letcher County, KY |
| 765 | ii. | Infant Caudill, born Private. | ||
| 766 | iii. | Martha Carolyn Caudill, born Private. She married (1) David Cheatham Private; born Private. She married (2) Esley Brown Private; born Private. | ||
| 767 | iv. | Charlie Ann Caudill, born Private. She married Cramer Mullis Private; born Private. |
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