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Family
Tree - The Enix Family
Mommie Married Charles Enix First
When my mother
married the first time, she was married to Charles Nathan Enix, (image)
son of Harvey
and Mary (image). They were married on May 27, 1911.
Their son, Charles Roscoe Enix, (image) was
born January 9, 1913. Charles Nathan Enix died on
January 15, 1913. The baby was six days old.
Nathan was twenty-four years old when he died and was buried across the road
from the Stage Coach Inn in Rogersville, Tennessee. The cause of his
death was said to be from going outside to listen to a fox chase.
He loved to listen to the dogs howl.
When he came inside, he was so chilled that he took pneumonia.
He was born November 16, 1888. Rogersville, Tennessee
Rogersville,
Tennessee is where my great-grandparents lived. His name was William Harvey Enix and his wife was Mary
Daugherty Enix. They were the
parents of my grandmother, Nannie Victoria Enix Vermillion, wife of Tom
Vermillion. (image)
I don't remember
much about my great-grandmother (image) for she died when I was young, but I do remember
seeing her. Their home place was
the old Stage Coach Inn. Grandpa
and most of his children (image) lived at the Inn,
for there was plenty of room.
It was three stories tall besides the large basement, which was probably
the kitchen at one time. We would go down
there to celebrate grandpa's birthday on the twenty-second day of March.
That would give us a chance to see all the family. The Stage Coach
Inn was torn down "in the name of progress" several years ago.
That part of the history of Rogersville is gone forever. There were many
rooms, which the travelers stayed for the night when they came in by
stagecoach. The rooms were very large and elaborate, with a large
fireplace in each room. I believe the place was finally lost when most of
the family started moving away and there was just no way for the payments to be
made. Great-Grandmother Enix and Her Grandsons
There are just a
few things that were told about my Great-Grandmother Enix.
One time, her grandsons were playing and probably getting pretty rough
for her piece of mind. She picked
up a broom and told one of the boys she was going to hit him in the head with
it. What she meant to do was come down real close to him and
scare him. What really happened was
he tried to duck and went right under the broom handle.
He was hit very hard on his head. Poor
Grandma was scared to death; she was afraid she had killed him.
He was so hardheaded, it didn't hurt him too much.
Back to Nickelsville with Charlie
After Charles
Nathan Enix died, my mommie went back to Nickelsville to stay where she was
raised, taking her little son (image) with her.
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