A Tribute To Evan & Luviney
Southerland
By Connie Davenport
1030 Hwy 1804
Evan
Marion Southerland was born In the community of Black Fox In Union Co,
Evan
grew up and learned and loved working with wood so his job of choice was working
in timber.
Evan
met and married Dicy Luviney Earle on November 22, 1916. Luviney’s parents were
Eliza Jane Hammock and David F. Earle.
Although
little is known about David F. Earle, It is believed that David was born In Missouri,
and that his Parents were David and Susan Earle, both born in the early 1830s and
both were from Tennessee.
David
Sr. was as Carpenter and traveled all around the
David
& Susan’s children were born in several different states and had settled in
Arapahoe Co,
Eliza
Virginia Hammock was born in 1872 In Grainger Co, Tennessee, she was the
daughter of John Hammock and Elizabeth Carter of Grainger Co.
Eliza
died shortly after the 1900 Census and by the 1910 Census Luviney was living
with her Grandparents, John & Elizabeth Hammock. David had disappeared and
was no longer a part of his daughter Luviney’s life.
John
and Elizabeth Hammock and their Children Jonathan, Eliza Jane, Nancy, Mary, Joseph
and Jasper lived on the Farm of “Uncle” Sam Atkins in the community of Washburn
In Grainger Co,
Luviney’s
life is much of a mystery. Little is known about her younger years growing up
in Washburn other than she was raised by her Grandparents After she married Evan M. Southerland they
continued to live with Luviney’s Grandparents John and Elizabeth Hammock,
Evan
and Luviney had six daughters, Lillie Mae, Della Dorie, Sarah Jane, Nancy Ann,
Isabell Martha Luviney and Retha May.
Retha
was said to have died In her older sister Lillie’s arms at their home in
Washburn.
In
1925 Luviney became
Loosing
Luviney at the age of 29 years, 4 months and 29 days was a heartache Evan would
never get over, for the rest of his life his heart had room only for Luviney
And
one can only Imagine the heartbreak that
Luviney must have felt knowing that her life was growing short and that she
would have to leave her beloved Evan and her small Daughters being in age from
4 to 12, how It must have broke her heart to look into each one of their faces
knowing she would never be there to calm their fears, wipe their tears and
watch them grow into young ladies that would have their own battles to face
without The benefits of a Mother to tell their troubles to.
After
the Death of Luviney, Evan, seeking to find a substitute Mother for his
daughters had a brief marriage to Eva Ollis which produced a son Named John
Cepus Southerland. After the failure of that marriage Evan brought his
Daughters and raised them In Whitley Co,
It
was always Evan’s desire to preach the Gospel, even after he got so disabled
that he was no longer able to go to Church anymore, he would sit on his Porch
and have the church house window’s raised so he could hear that Sunday’s
Message.
Evan
Passed away on a cold winter’s night on January 13, 1964. The last thing he did
in this world was raise is hand towards Heaven and say “Wait Right There
Luviney, I’m coming To Join You.
So
we all can get comfort from knowing that Evan’s Precious Luviney came to take
him home to Jesus and that they are together, forever In Heaven.
These
two wonderful Souls are our Grandparents, Great Grandparents, Aunt, Uncle, or
just our Friends
For
those who never knew them here on this Earth, Evan was a great story teller and
loved writing songs He can still speak
to us through his songs and he loved us all because we were his own. And we will meet him and his beloved Luviney
in Heaven and we can sit with them and they will tell us of their great love
for us and we will be with them forever with Jesus in Heaven.
For
all of us who were lucky enough to have known Evan, we can count ourselves very
fortunate, maybe our only regret is that we just never took the time to know
him as well as we could have, maybe we never took the time to sit and listen to
his stories and maybe we let that turn into regret.
Evan
loved the simple things in life, he loved wild flowers, his favorite flower
Bush was a Crate Mertal Bush.
Evan
Loved us all in his own special way, he loved us for who we are and not for
what we did or have . He was proud of us and all he
ever wanted from us was for us to Love the Lord and Love each other. Evan would
never say a bad word against anyone. Anyone that ever said hurtful things to
him, he would just say “Pray For Them”
Evan
was a Poor, humble Man, he never owned a home or had great wealth in this world.
Evan’s only thought was to lay his treasure up in Heaven,
And
now, Evan and Luviney’s Family are once again complete, never to be separated
by Illness and Death. They are reunited with all of their children. Once again
they are together, united in an everlasting embrace. They are once again whole
as a family, never again to be separated. And Love surrounds them and the Lord
is with them and Hand in Hand they walk the streets of Gold and Love abounds
them, binding them all together.
Evan,
Luviney and their Children waits at the Heavenly Gates made of Pearls for our
arrival, longing to take us by the hand and welcome us home.
Connie Davenport
Mother’s Day,
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