Permelia Haggard (1853 - 1891)

Born 1853 in Putnam, Tennessee, United States

Wife of James Campbell Sutton — married 1872 in Putnam County, Tennessee, USA

Descendants

Died 1891 at about age 38 in Putnam Co, Tennessee, United States

Biography

PERMELIA HOGGARD AND HER FAMILY By Burton F. Whited ^[1]

Not long before the year of 1860 a farmer with a large family moved into Buffalo Valley in Putnam County, Tennessee, and began a residence there that continued for about 30 years. This man, WILLIAM HOGGARD, appears to have been returning from a brief stay in Lawrence County, Arkansas, where his brother, JOHN HOGGARD, was putting down roots with his family. Originally, however, both of these men had travelled from Knox County in Tennessee where they had been living evidently since childhood. In March of 1850 William’s first wife, JANE OGLESBY HOGGARD, had died and left him with ten children (six girls and four boys) ranging in age from 18 to a small child. After some nineteen months, however, William married again—to a widow named PARTHENA SLATE. The subject of this article, PERMELIA HOGGARD, was the first child born to this union. Neither the exact year of her birth nor the specific location are known. The census records (not noted for their great accuracy) would fix her birth in 1855, which would have been in the fourth year of her parents’ marriage. Whether they were living still in Knox County, Tennessee, or in Lawrence County, Arkansas, (or even somewhere else) cannot now be determined. Permelia first appears in the 1860 Census of Putnam County. Besides the parents, the others in this family were Permelia’s half-brothers ROBERT HOGGARD (age 20) and JOHN HOGGARD (age 18) and her half-sister MARY HOGGARD (age 12). P.W. SLATE (age 17), a half-brother through her mother, was also present. An unidentified NANCY AUSTIN (age two years) completed the family. Permelia’s next appearance in extant records is in the 1870 Putnam County Census, when she was about 15 years old.

By this time all her half-brothers and sisters had left home, but a couple of full sisters had been born to take their place. MISSOURI TENNESSEE HOGGARD was already about 13, ELIZA ANN HOGARD was about 10, and a third sister even, PARTHENA HANE HOGGARD was about 3 or 4.

In 1873 (Putnam County marriage records in this period were lost) Permelia was married to a man from the Roaring River area of Putnam County whose name was JAMES SUTTON. Because of this identification he became known in the Buffalo Valley community as “Roaring River Jim.” James was born in June, 1849, and was about 24 years old at the time of the marriage. This couple made their home in Buffalo Valley where James supported their growing family by farming. When the 1880 census was taken,This Sutton home in that years had already grown to the number of six, for four children had been born by that time. WILLIAM D. SUTTON, the firstborn, had arrived in October of 1874. Then, in 1876, JAMES HENRY SUTTON had come, followed on 24 May 1878 by GEORGE WASHINGTON SUTTON. The fourth child (and first daughter) was born in September of 1879 and named SOFRONIE A. SUTTON. Shortly after 1880 James and Permelia evidently moved up from Buffalo Valley into the Boma-Baxter area where two more children were soon born, MINNIE SUTTON and ROBERT LEE SUTTON. While the family resided in the Boma-Baxter area, Permelia’s life came to an untimely conclusion. Sometime in the years 1891 or 1892, when she was no older that her mid-30’s, Permelia died from causes that have long been forgotten. She was buried in a cemetery not far from State HWY 141 that passes through Baxter on the way to Silver Point. This burial ground has variously been called the Comb, Tallent, and Apple Cemetery, although the latter name is its present appellation. At the time of her death Permelia left behind the six children: William (age 17), James (age 15), George (age 13), Fronie (age 12), Minnie (age 9), and Robert (age 8).

About a year later James married again, this time to Martha Brown Mars, a widow with one child. Martha was born in February, 1852, in Tennessee and was this about 40 years old when she married James. Her child, Smith Mars, was born in April of 1890. In March of 1893 James and Martha had a daughter, Ova, born to them and was to be their only child. In the Census of 1900 they were still living in the Baxter-Boma area, although Permelia’s three oldest sons were no longer at home. Fronie, however was a young lady prime for marriage at age 21. Minnie (age 18) was still a few years away from the altar, while Robert (age 17) was doubtlessly valuable to his father in the work on the farm. We wonder about their acceptance of their step-brother, Smith Mars, (age 10) and of their half-sister Ova (age 7). In 1888 Permelia’s parents migrated to Grayson County, Texas, along with her sister, Missouri Tennessee Duke, and her family and also her half-sister, Lucinda Miller, and her family. Although he was only 14 years old, William Sutton, Permelia’s oldest child was allowed to go with the other. It would interest us today to know something of the circumstances under which this lad gained permission from his parents to venture into the “Wild West” without them. At any rate it seems that he did not return to his parents, for in 1897 he was married there in Grayson County to a woman named FANNY T. (last name unknown). Why Permelia’s second child, James Henry Sutton, was not still at home in 1900 is a mystery to us now. Nor do we know where he was at that time. In fact, this son disappeared from sight to most of us for many years until 1982 when J. Hobart Bartlett made contact with one of his descendants, a granddaughter, JESSIE TRAVIS, of Dayton, Tennessee. Mrs. Travis has supplied us with the rest of the information that we have on James Henry and his family. In Putnam County, on 2 June 1902, at the age of 26 he was married to MARY CINDY THOMAS. She was born in 1883 and was the age 19 at marriage. They later moved to Rhea County, near Dayton, Tennessee, and remained there for the rest of their lives. The time of this move, however, is not known. James Henry and Mary had nine children; five of whom are still living: (1) HARVEY SUTTON (b. 1904, d. 13 June 1963), (2) ARTHUR STTON, (3) WILLIW SUTTON (b. 1911, d. 1974), (4) ESTEL SUTTON, (5) ELVERET SUTTON, (6) LINNIE SUTON, (7) WINNIE SUTTON, (8) VIRGIL SUTTON (b. 1923, d. 1976), and (9) a girl (name unknown) who died at the age of 2. All these children lived (or are still living) in Rhea County. (1) Harvey never married. (2) Arthur had eleven children, ten of which are living. (3) Willie had one son, who is living. (4) Estel had five children, all of which are living. (5) Elveret had fourteen children, thirteen of which are living with Nettie Shotlz. He also had 1 son Roy Woodrow Sligh (By Myrtle Smith Hunter while married to Nettie) Mrs. Travis is one of Elveret’s children. (6) Linnie had five children, all of which are still living. (7) Winnie had five children, all of which are living. And (8) Virgil had three children, of which all are living. Thus the grandchildren of James Henry and Mary cindy surron The third child of James and Permelia Hoggard Sutton, George Washington Sutton, moved from Putnam County to Davidson County, Tennessee, In any case, on 7 December 1898, he was married to MARY LOU COWLEY who was born on 30 December 1882. They lived their lived in the Madison-Donelson area of Davidson County and had a family of seven children: (1) JIM SUTTON, (2) BOB SUTTON (a twin), (3) HERBERT SUTTON (a twin), (4) GEORGE OLLIE SUTTON, (5) WILLIAM SUTTON, (6) ARTHUR LEE SUTTON, and (7) CHADWELL SUTTON. The only one of these seven of which this writer has any information is Arthur Lee, who was born on 2 September 1908 and died on 9 August 1978. He had three children, all of which are still living. George Washington Sutton died on 7 May 1915 at the age of only 37 and was buried in the cemetery at Donelson Church of Christ. Mary, his wife, lived to be about 65 years old, dying about 1947, and is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Madison. Sofronie Sutton, the fourth child of James and Permelia Hoggard Sutton, was married on 1 September 1901 in Putnam County to JOHN GEORGE LINCOLN ROBERTS. John was born on 6 April 1870 and had already been married once (to Winnie Miller) before his married to “Fronie,” as she was called. In Putnam County Deed Book H there is the record that James Sutton, Fronie’s father, made a gift of eleven acres to her and her husband “in consideration of his love and affection for them.” This bears the date of 9 July 1903. Later in that year Fronie gave birth to a daughter, IDA ROBERTS, and then died shortly thereafter. She was buried in the Apple Cemetery at Boma. The following years little Ida also died and was buried by her mother. Thus Fronie has no descendants. Minnie Sutton, the fifth child of James and Permelia Hoggard Sutton, was born in February of 1882 (or 1883). She was married on 18 May 1907 at the age of about 25 to G.B. LEWIS. There were no children born to this marriage, which did not long endure. Whether it ended by death or divorce is unknown to this writer. In either case Minnie was married again on 31 December 1911 there in Putnam County to J. LAVASHER BROWN, who had also been previously married. To this union four children were born: (1) MARVIN BROWN, (2) CARLOS BROWN, (3) EZRA BROWN, and (4) MGUERITE BROWN. Nothing is known about these children or about the life of their father. Minnie, however, lived to be about 87 years old and died in Alexandria, Louisiana, in 1970. The last child of James and Permelia Hoggard Sutton, Robert Lee Sutton, was married on 1 January 1911 in Putnam County to MARTHA ELIZABETH MAYNARD. She was a local girl, born in about 1892. This couple lived at Baxter and had four children: (1) AUDA LUNELL SUTTON, (2) GRACE SUTTON, (3) HOWARD CAMPBELL SUTTON, and (4) JESSIE MAE SUTTON. All of these children were born at Baxter: (1) Auda on 22 November 1911, (2) Grace on 29 August 1913, (3) Howard on 22 July 1916, and (4) Jessie in about 1918. Martha Sutton died in 1919 and was buried in the Apple Cemetery. She lived to be only 27 years old. Robert later married a widow who had eleven children and whose name was ANNIE CHAFFIN MARTIN. They had no children, however. On 22 July 1933 Robert was killed by a self-inflicted shotgun blast and was buried in the Apple Cemetery. He lived to be about 50 years old. The Apple Cemetery at Boma, Tennessee, therefore contains eleven known members of the Hoggard family. On one of his genealogical trips to Tennessee, on 5 October 1934 J. Hobart Bartlett was directed to this cemetery by an elderly local resident named Jim Brown who was very knowledgeable of the people buried there. He pointed out to Hobart a single row where the eleven Hoggard family members were interred in this order: (1) Ida Roberts (Fronie’s baby), (2) Sofronie Sutton Roberts, (3) Parthena Hoggard Patton, (4) Eliza Hoggard, (5) not named, (6) not named, (7) Permelia Hoggard Sutton, (8) James Sutton (Permelia’s husband), (9) unnamed, (10) Martha Maynard Sutton, and (11) Robert Sutton. There were no markers on these graves, only field stones. Source: "The Hoggard Link" Fall 1984 - Vol. 2, No. 4

1870 United States Federal Census^[2] Name: Premelia Hoggard [Permelia Haggard] Age in 1870: 17 Birth Date: abt 1853 Birthplace: Tennessee Dwelling Number: 111 Home in 1870: District 11, Putnam, Tennessee Race: White Gender: Female Post Office: Buffalo Valley Cannot Write: Yes Inferred Father: Wm Hoggard Inferred Mother: Parthenia Hoggard Household Members Age Wm Hoggard 58 Parthenia Hoggard 46 Premelia Hoggard 17 M T Hoggard 13 Liza A Hoggard 11 Parthenia Hoggard [Permelia Haggard] 4

1880 United States Federal Census^[3] Name: Permela Sutton Age: 25 Birth Date: Abt 1855 Birthplace: Tennessee Home in 1880: District 11, Putnam, Tennessee, USA Street: 94 House Number: 103 Dwelling Number: 158 Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Wife Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: James Sutton Father's Birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee Occupation: Keeping House Neighbors: View others on page Household Members Age Relationship

• James Sutton 26 Self (Head)
• Permela Sutton 25 Wife
• William D. Sutton 6 Son
• James H. Sutton 4 Son
• George W. Sutton 3 Son
• Frany A. Sutton 9/12 Daughter

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79360677/permelia-sutton

Name: Permelia Sutton

Birth Date: 1855

Death Date: 1891

Cemetery: Apple Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Baxter, Putnam County, Tennessee, United States of America

Has Bio?: Y

Father: William Alexander Hoggard

Mother: Parthena Haggard Hoggard

Spouse: James Sutton

Children:

James Henry Sutton

Robert Lee Sutton

Sofronie Roberts

https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/26023811

Gravesite Details

W/O James Sutton M/O Lola Sutton all in Apple

Sources

1. ↑ posted on find-a-grave Permelia Hoggard and Her Family Contributed By Janet B Moravec · 26 May 2016
2. ↑ 1870 United States Federal Census: Year: 1870; Census Place: District 11, Putnam, Tennessee; Roll: M593_1554; Page: 192A
3. ↑ 1880 United States Federal Census: Year: 1880; Census Place: District 11, Putnam, Tennessee; Roll: 1275; Page: 169B; Enumeration District: 105

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Haggard-117 created through the import of Sutton Family Tree Dayton, Ten.ged on Jan 6, 2012 by Lisa Evitt.