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Last of the Pioneers:
Or Old Times in East Tenn.;
Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney
(Aged 120 Years):
Electronic Edition.
Chesney, Pharaoh Jackson, b. 1781?
Webster, J.C. (John Coram), b. 1861.
CONTENTS.
- A Narrow Escape. . . . .96
- A Remarkable Negress. . . . .18
- A Year with No Summer (1816). . . . .75
- Clarksville--Home of My Childhood. . . . . 23
- Conclusion. . . . . 129
- Early Methods, Manners and Customs. . . . . 43
- Early Roads. . . . . 69
- Harvesting and Threshing. . . . . 57
- Hiding the Knives. . . . . 88
- House Raisings--The Corn Husking--The Quilting Bee, Etc. . . . . .51-53
- Instances of Longevity. . . . . 16
- Introduction. . . . . 7
- John Chesney, Pharaoh's Last Master. . . . . 93
- Last of the Pioneers--Pharaoh Chesney--Illustration.
- Mills. . . . . 61
- Old Time Workings--Fire Hunting. . . . . 49-50
- Pharaoh's Age--Bill of Sale. . . . . 127
- Pharaoh's Master--Practical Jokes--Free Masonry. . . . . 87
- Polk and Jones Debate at Blain's X Roads. . . . . 89
- Preface. . . . . 5
- Railroads. . . . . 74
- Salt. . . . . 64
- Sarah Jenifer, of Washington, D. C.. . . . . 21
- School and Church--Teacher and Preacher. . . . . 55
- Slaves and Slavery. . . . . 97
- Special acknowledgment. . . . . 4
- Superstition. . . . . 116
- The First Steamboat on the Roanoke and Dan. . . . . 27
- The Home of Pharaoh Chesney--Illustration
- The Indians--Traditions--Praraoh's Recollections of Old Toka. . . . . 31-40
- The Old-Time Tavern, or Ordinary. . . . . 72
- The Old Time Wagon--Stage Coach. . . . . 70-71
- The Underground Railroad. . . . . 119
- The Wild Turkeys. . . . . 66
- Trip to the Western District. . . . . 77
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(title page) Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life
and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years).
(cover) Last of the Pioneers.
Chesney, Pharaoh Jackson, b. 1781?
Webster, J. C. (John Coram), b. 1861.
130 p.
Knoxville, Tenn.
S. B. Newman & Co., Printers & Bookbinders
1902.
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