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Story as told from Jernigan family history page.....
Everywhere I went and almost everyone with whom I had heard of "Uncle Needham" who must have been quite a character, A great many had also heard the "Cow in the cabbage patch" story. I was told this story at least five times in widely separated areas,... and always Needham figured in it some way or other. The latest telling was by the sprightly very young-in-heart J. Freelan "Shug" Green, although he is well past his allotted three score and ten.
When we arrived at Shug's house he was across the street, and he skipped across to meet us and literally ran up a flight of about twelve steps. Traffic on the busy street gave him no trouble "Let them wait," he said.
Shug is the grandson of Needham and I will tell the story very much as he told it to me.
Needham had a neighbor, John Burks who was given to telling tall tales. One morning he passed Needham's house and Needham called out to him, "John tell me a lie before you can think." John replied, 'Aw., I don't have time to tell you a lie now, and besides you had better go and get the cow out of your cabbage patch, cause it is eating up all your cabbages." Needham yelled, "Polly.., hey Polly..., go chase that cow out of the garden before he eats up every-thing in it." Polly ran out to the garden but there was no cow in sight. But Needham got his tall tale.
Another of Shug's stories was of John, son of Uzzell, who was called John Bull. John was a young boy and his voice was changing. One day he had some sort of accident with the wagon and it turned over on him. He could not get out from under it and lay there calling out., "Somebody COME GET me out of HERE. SOMEBODY come get ME OUT OF here."
Needham is said to have kept his money in the house, hidden in a coffee pot and he always had the pot full of gold coins."
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Needham Jernigan, born July 22, 1811 in Gossberg, Coffee County, Tennessee; died July 13, 1889 in Gossberg, Coffee County, Tennessee; married Mary "Polly"Jernigan.
................On what was once Needham's land completely hidden from the road, is a waterfall where his children must have spent many happy days. In a little valley surrounded by high ridges, this waterfall is as unspoiled as it was in Needham's day...........................
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DEED
Alexander C, Jernigan, Sr. to his beloved daughter Mary, wife of Needham Jernigan, conveyed a negro woman named Mary, 45 years old. The 29th day of August, 1861.
Sold to him by Uzzell Jernigan for 800.50 on December 28, 1857
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Mary "Polly"Jernigan, born Abt. 1811 in Tennessee; married Needham Jernigan.
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Story as told from Jernigan family history page.....
Everywhere I went and almost everyone with whom I had heard of "Uncle Needham" who must have been quite a character, A great many had also heard the "Cow in the cabbage patch" story. I was told this story at least five times in widely separated areas,... and always Needham figured in it some way or other. The latest telling was by the sprightly very young-in-heart J. Freelan "Shug" Green, although he is well past his allotted three score and ten.
When we arrived at Shug's house he was across the street, and he skipped across to meet us and literally ran up a flight of about twelve steps. Traffic on the busy street gave him no trouble "Let them wait," he said.
Shug is the grandson of Needham and I will tell the story very much as he told it to me.
Needham had a neighbor, John Burks who was given to telling tall tales. One morning he passed Needham's house and Needham called out to him, "John tell me a lie before you can think." John replied, 'Aw., I don't have time to tell you a lie now, and besides you had better go and get the cow out of your cabbage patch, cause it is eating up all your cabbages." Needham yelled, "Polly.., hey Polly..., go chase that cow out of the garden before he eats up every-thing in it." Polly ran out to the garden but there was no cow in sight. But Needham got his tall tale.
Another of Shug's stories was of John, son of Uzzell, who was called John Bull. John was a young boy and his voice was changing. One day he had some sort of accident with the wagon and it turned over on him. He could not get out from under it and lay there calling out., "Somebody COME GET me out of HERE. SOMEBODY come get ME OUT OF here."
Needham is said to have kept his money in the house, hidden in a coffee pot and he always had the pot full of gold coins."
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Needham Jernigan, born July 22, 1811 in Gossberg, Coffee County, Tennessee; died July 13, 1889 in Gossberg, Coffee County, Tennessee; married Mary "Polly"Jernigan.
................On what was once Needham's land completely hidden from the road, is a waterfall where his children must have spent many happy days. In a little valley surrounded by high ridges, this waterfall is as unspoiled as it was in Needham's day...........................
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DEED
Alexander C, Jernigan, Sr. to his beloved daughter Mary, wife of Needham Jernigan, conveyed a negro woman named Mary, 45 years old. The 29th day of August, 1861.
Sold to him by Uzzell Jernigan for 800.50 on December 28, 1857
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Mary "Polly"Jernigan, born Abt. 1811 in Tennessee; married Needham Jernigan.
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