Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-15
June IL, 1878.
From NIcAdOO.


From McAdOO.
DEAR CHRONICLE: My continued ilI-health
has caused me to again resort TO the country,
and at this present writing 1 am domiciled
at the hospitable home of DR.. J. NJ. Gill, the
old homestead of the late lamented Wiley
BagwelI, on NIcAdOo Creek. Being too feeble
to go from point to point, 1 will have to give
you a few disconnected items as they come
to mind from this single standpoint. The
mornings and evenings are very cool for the
rosy month of June, which causes an invalid
to stay in close quarters-hOwever, see
enough to know that the wheat crop is not
much, but oats, corn and tobacco plants are
ia a very promising condition. The time
has been, within my recollection, when
farming operations on McAdoo were con-
Quoted upon the old plOdding style, chickens
and butter being the principal products for
market, society rather mixed, and the word
McAdoo was often used in derisiOn. Times
have changed greatly, and the people of this
section have kept pace with the progress
and improvement of the age. Do not under
stand me to mean that in the past there
were no good farmers or society, but simply
that here, as elsewhere, i'll these particulars,
and surroundings of most of the residents
show thrift and prosperity, and 1 could
name a score who are to-day on the road to
wealth, by dint of industry and increased
knowledge in husbandry. The people here
are prove~bial for hospitality. Our Bro.
Goodloe, the Jealous Methodist circuit
preacher, will vouch for what l say upon
this point. Speaking of DR.. GOOdloe, permit
me here to say that hope he and your other
correspondents from this section will drop
the subject OF chicken coops and pewter
quarters and give us something else from
their fruitful brain: .ley viii do so,
promise them that the GOO people on the
circuit will furnish him and them with as
many acknowledged spring chickens, which
are Just now ripe enough for use, as their
appetite may crave,and will drop a genuine
quarter in the hat the first tiIne am at their
collection. DR.. GoodIoe is doing good work
on this circuit.
Speaking of preachers, I can inform you
of some few, as l deem them, interesting
points in regard to them so far as McAdOO is
concerned. For several years past it has so
happened that some one comes along and
breaches who was born and raised here, and
mad been absent so long as to be forgotten
by the people. Some years ago family
named Kirkpatrick We're moving through
here to Missouri, and at this locality the
mother died, leaving twin boys. The boys
were taken and kindly cared for until about
grown, when they left for other parts. Not
long since one of them, Rev. j. d. Kirk
patrick, ofthe Cumberland Church, returned
and preached the gospel to his old McAdoo
friends. Not long after this, Rev. David
Morrow, who was born and raised here
came back from Arkansas, and preached at
old McAdoo Church, where so many of his
kindred and friends had worshipped the
greater portion of their lives. Next came
the Rev. Mr.. Hogan, a Methodist preacher,
and occupied the pulpit at McAdoO. He
left here when small boy, crippled for lie
by white swelling, went to a distant state,
an orphan at the time, without means; he
was taken care of and reared by some kind
Methodist people, educated, and became a
Methodist preacher of note. And only
short time since a man named Hutchinson,
who was born and raised here, returned
after long absence, and he too preached to
the people of his native McAdOO, he being
Cumberland Presbyterian minister of more
than ordinary ability. And, if we mistake
not, the Rev. Henry Morrison, nephew of
the late Charley Morrison, was born on
AGAuOO, ana atItnuCt SCHOOL, wien IA bdIt-
footed lad, at what is now known as Dixie
school house, near the residence of DIR.
Moody Bro. Morrison now occupies the
pulpit of Broadway Methodist Church in
Louisville, and stands nj the head of the list
of Kentucky preachers. He is the son of
Robert Morrison, near Paducah who is one
of the most jealous Christian men we ever
knew so you see McAdoo has furnished
her quota of ministerial talent, and the ones
pcrsonated VIII have to excuse us if they
dislike to see their names in print, as we
mention them as worthy specimens Of Nc
Adoo manhood. There are others, of other
professions, who went from these hills and
holIows, who occupy enviable positions in
the country; some of them are hOnored
citizens of our city Mt the present day.
| was gratified to see a local item in the
last CHRONICLE headed "McAdoo Ahead
giving am account of our old friend Jacob
FouSt receiving the highest price this season
for tobacco. He and MeSsrS. II. Bigger
Evans, the Browns, and Others here, are the
best handlers Of our great staple to be found
in any country.
You can tell Jim MOSeley that If every
district in the county does as wei for him
as tAis viii do, he may conclude to be Sheriff
as long rs he pleaseS. For fear ] will say
something more than ! Intended, 1 will
conclude by simply adding that the CERqN-
/ JrLE SustainS its time-honored reputation
1 i'm ti,is section Yours, JAG.