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- Research Notes:
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- This may be the William Culbert found in 1880 U.S. Federal Census: Roll 1247, p. 335D, Jackson Brooks household, Carter's Furnace, Carter County, Tennessee, U.S.A.
- Email to: kwalker@smyth.net http://www.usgennet.org/usa/va/county/smyth/; Dec 2011 - no response
- Email to: U.S. GenWeb site for Carter Co., TN: "Dawn" jzpeters@comcast.net; 168 Laurel Ridge Road, Jonesborough TN 37659 (423) 913-0133, Dec 2011 - there are no govt. birth records in Carter Co. bef. 1908.
1870 U.S. Federal census search:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD8K-3ZG
[Are any of Jackson's sisters possible mothers for William F. Culbert?]
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Household Gender Age Birthplace
Elizabeth Brooks F 55 Tennessee
Permelia Brooks F 31 Tennessee
Catharine Brooks F 25 Tennessee
Jackson Brooks M 27 Tennessee
Margaret Brooks F 24 Tennessee
Nancy Brooks F 22 Tennessee
Household ID: 4 , Line Number: 15 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: M593 , GS Film number: 000553017 , Digital Folder Number: 004276505 , Image Number: 00180
1880 U.S. Federal Census, Roll 1247, p. 335D, d/f30, Jackson Brooks household, 10th Civil District, E.D. 14, Carter's Furnace, Carter County, Tennessee, U.S.A., enum. 3 Jun
[This may be William Culbert (I15443). If he is truly a nephew of Jackson, then either William's mother was Jackson Brooks' sister, or Rhodica Brooks was William's father's sister. These Brooks likely married c. 1873. See 1870 census search results, above.]
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- Jackson Brooks, W, M, 36, Self, M, Farmer, cannot w, b. TN, p.b. TN
- Rhodica Brooks, W, F, 27, Wife, M, Keeping House, cannot w, b. TN, p.b. TN
- Clerrie Brooks, W, F, 6, Dau., S, b. TN, p.b. TN
- William Culbert, W, M, 18, Nephew, S, Works on Farm, cannot r/w, b. TN, p.b. TN
Seek out: Virginia Chancery Records, Library of Virginia, http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/chancery/
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- Index No. 1870-030, Smyth County, G.G. Goodail, Plaintiff, W.S.[sic] Culbert, Defendant, Library of Virginia Microfilm Reel No. 98, Local Reel No. 57, Image No. 218
- Index No. 1909-030, Smyth County, T.F. Main, Plaintiff, W.F. Culbert, Defendant, Library of Virginia Microfilm Reel No. 266, Local Reel No. 223, Image No. 454
- In 1896, W. F. Culbert, the "Rock Man," came to Smyth and went into the quarrying of limestone on a commercial scale. He soon began supplying chemical limestone to the Mathieson Alkali Works and until the quarries in Rich Valley with adequate bucket lines were developed to eliminate the haul from Marion, he shipped thousands of tons from his Marion quarries to the great chemical plant at Saltville. His firm, W. F. Culbert & Sons, Denny C. and Guy Thurston being the sons, has marketed many a truck and train load of lime, powdered limestone for fertilizer, and crushed stone for railroad ballast, macadam roads, and concrete work. Mr. William Francis Culbert, born [c. 1859] in Carter County, Tennessee, has had a varied and interesting career. While a boy on the home farm he furnished iron ore and charcoal to nearby furnaces. When twenty-one [c. 1880] he left home to seek his fortune and spent a number of years in railroad construction work at various places in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Southwest Virginia. Then he started for California [c. 1887], but stopped at Tombstone, Ariz., and walked nine miles to get a job in a copper mine. Here he found employment at good wages, but the wild life of the camp did not appeal to him, so after a short time he went on to California, where there was a considerable work in railroad construction. He was given charge over about fifty Chinese laborers. They were so treacherous that he found it necessary to carry a revolver for protection. Murder was very common, and conditions exceedingly unpleasant. After a year of this he decided to leave California for the gold and silver mining sections of the Northwest Territory. He went by boat from San Francisco to Portland, Ore., thence by rail to Butte City, Mont. Near here he found work in a gold mine, but shortly afterwards was crushed under a fall of stone and was confined in a hospital about six months. Having spent three years in the West, he returned home and found employment on a railroad construction job in Clinch Valley, Va. It was here that he met Miss Evelyn Jessee of Russell County and was married to her May 28, 1891. Railroad construction work did not, he considered, fit in with married life, so he went from there to Big Stone Gap, Va. where he furnished iron ore to another furnace. But this did not last long. He then returned to Big Stone Gap, where he thought it would be possible to keep the iron furnace in operation, but after a short period it closed. Then he made his last move. From 1896 to the present time [1932] he has lived in Smyth County. He at last found a place he felt was unexcelled as a home place for his family. His business in Smyth County has continued almost interrupted from 1896 to the present time. He has in the meantime conducted business in Georgia and Florida, but his home has always been in Smyth County. He would never consider any business opportunities that would in any way interfere with his maintaining his home in Smyth County.
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- Sheffey, John P., 1907, General Resources and Advantages of Smyth County: in the most attractive section of Appalachian Virginia, Minerals, p. 49
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"In addition to the minerals already mentioned, a large amount of limestone is quarried in Smyth County, for use at Saltville and in iron furnaces in Southwest Virginia. As already stated, the Mathieson Alkali Works maintains its own quarry for this product, and Mr. W.F. Culbert has operated two large quarries near Marion for several years, shipping annually about seventy-five thousand tons of limestone for use in manufacture of iron. This stone is of first-class quality and suitable for the making of Portland cement."
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