The Greenville times., 1910-09-09

| the government in 1929. Catherine
was the widow of Maj Bayles Earl
Prince, who was with Gen. Jackson
at the battle of New Orleans | am
| going to quote from Mr. Evan Shell
| by Jeffries of Claiborn County
Mississippi, who is now an old man
of remarkable memory, having lived
much with his grandmother, Prfs-
ella Shelby Jefferies, the mother of
Sarah and Catherine, and while there
| is much that is tradition in what
he writes, I have records to bear ME
out in what he says. Speaking of
| Maj. Prince, he says: ''On his way
| to his home in Tennessee returning
| from New Orleans, he got leave of
absence to stop in Jefferson county,
Miss, where he had relatives, the
Penrices; taking fancy to the cOun-
try, purchased land. After he mar
ried Aunt Katey (Catherine) which
think was in 1917, he determined
to move to Mississippi.
My grandmother having lost her
husband, and her oldest SON, Uncle
Nat being only about Is years old,
she d -termined to move with Maj.
Prince. Grandma did not sell her
property in Tennessee, which was
near Clarksville on the Cumberland
river, until some years after she
came to Miss. They came in the
fall of 1918, coming overland, with
negroes, horses, cattle. etc, settled
in Jefferson county near the Clai-
born county line, almost mine miles
from where | am now living
think Catherine Prince was more
identified with Jefferson county than
with this, though she made her home
and a daughter. The latter, Bay
hssa, married Wilson G. Humphreys
of ClairbOrm county, and left many
sons and daughters; and the former,
William Prince married Martha Ter
ry, a rich and dashing woman, who
was celebrated even after she be-
came widowed by her munfffcent
hospitality, her gay hunting parties
her horses and her dogs, ON her beau
tiful plantation home, (Rosebank) ,
ON the YazOO river. She afterwards
married Mn. w B. Helm, who sur
vived her, with his daughter Mrs
Helm also left three Prince sons,
all these died without issue, save
Bayles Prince, who lent a large fami-
ly on the Yazoo river.
Speaking of Sarah S. Prince, Evan
Shelby Jefferies writes, her son was
born in 1924, "he was about two
years old when his father died, who
was a member of the Legislature from
Washington county, and was attend
ing a session of the legislature at
Clinton at the time OF his death.
His wife was staying with her moth
er in Jefferson county during his alb
sence, was called to his death bed
from there, she went to him riding
ON horseback, taking a negro (Jim
Cox with her, who carried her little
SON in front of him on a pillow =
So far l have not succeeded in get
ting any record of when the Princes
came to Washington county Sarah
Prince must have lived here as mar
ried woman before she was widowed,
and this would put the time almost
the early tWenties. There are now
magnolia trees growing at the Berk-
ly plantation on Lake Washington,
brought here by Sarah Prince when
sch returned from burying her hus-
band there, and planted by her
eighty-fOur years ago. Up to the
year 1880 there were growing there
ALSO. fig trees and other shrubs plant
ed by her She like all the early pio-
neers lived, at first in cabin having
dirt floor, having for diversions
the neghborhood meeting" CT am
told she was of a religious nature)
and her loved concertina were her
favorites. Those who remember her
speak of her musical talents, which
was inherited by many of her de-
| cendants, and shared by her broth
ers and sisters; often, | am told, one
aoa1l6 ibpar fps, Of oo,