| 10. |  James Earl CHASTEEN was born on 23 Sep 1909 in Kentucky, USA (son of James Raymond CHASTEEN and Ida Belle PHELPS); died on 26 Feb 1962 in Burrville, Morgan, Tennessee,USA; was buried in Mount Vernon Burrville, Morgan County, TN. Notes:
1910 United States Federal Census Name: Jame E Chatun [Jame E Chasteen] [Jame E Chateen] Age in 1910: 7/12 [0]
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1910 [1910] Birthplace: Kentucky Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Birth Place: Kentucky Mother's name: Ida Chatun Mother's Birth Place: Kentucky
Home in 1910: Magisterial District 4, Campbell, Kentucky Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age Ida Chatun 33 [23] Chester A Chatun 1 8/12 [1] Jame E Chatun 7/12 [0] 52380891
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Magisterial District 4, Campbell, Kentucky; Roll: T624_466; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 0050; Image: 556; FHL Number: 1374479.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, U
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1920 United States Federal Census Name: James E Chasteen Home in 1920: Indianapolis Ward 1, Marion, Indiana Age: 10 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1910 Birthplace: Kentucky Relation to Head of House: Son Father's Name: James R Father's Birth Place: Kentucky
Mother's Name: Ida B Mother's Birth Place: Kentucky Marital Status: Single Race: White Sex: Male Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes
Household Members: Name Age James R Chasteen 36 Ida B Chasteen 44 Chester A Chasteen 11 James E Chasteen 10
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1930 United States Federal Census for James Chasteen Home in 1930: Warren, Marion, Indiana Age: 21 Estimated birth year: abt 1909
Relation to Head of House: Son Father's Name: James R Mother's Name: Ida B Household Members: Name Age
James R Chasteen 47 Ida B Chasteen 55 James Chasteen 21
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abt 1935 I lived in Burrville, Tennessee with my twin brother, John T., my grandmother, Ida Belle, and my uncle, James Earl. John and I went to the first grade in a small school house . One teacher had four grades in one room. One of our teacher was Reba Goff. She later married my Uncle Jim. My uncle Jim drove the school bus from Burrville to Sunbright to the high school there. I recall walking to school which was about half mile down the road. My grandmother's sister, Lizzy, lived about two miles down the road. Her husband, John B. Peters was the preacher in Burrville. I'm told that he married couples in his front yard. My Great Aunt Lizzy I later learned was named Sara Elizebeth. Her daughter, Orpha Jacks lived a short distance from our house which was refereed as the Mathuew house. I'm told he owned the lumber yard in Sunbright. Orpha had seven children. Burrville had a general store owned by the Greer family. We did not have electricity or phone. We had an outside privey a short distance from the house and a well on the back porch. My uncle Jim drove grandfather's car from Indiana that had wooden spoke wheels. He parked it in a small shed up on blocks. Grandmother baked biscuits or corn bread almost every day in a wood burning stove. We used kerosene lamps for light. We played games like marbles, mumbly-peg and hop scotch. Another game we played used a small box with a small hole in it. The object was to take a small hickory nut holding it near your nose and drop it so it went into the hole.
Years later Uncle Jim bought the Greer General Store. He and Aunt Reba lived above the store. They had three daughters. Carol Anne , was still born. Janis Lynn, and Judy Elaine are the other two daughters. Loretta and I visited him in 1949 when I was discharged from the army. We had a 1-ton 1940 panel truck full of all our belongings. We were moving from Biloxi, Missippi to Beach Grove. I was twenty years old. We had just gotten married six month earlier. Several years later Grandmother and Grandfather Chasteen bought a small 2-bedroom, shotgun, house across the street from where I lived in the Matthew house. Grandmother passed away in 1954 while I was in Triese, Italy . Uncle Jim, Aunt Reba, Grandmother and Grandfather are buried in Burrville, Tennessee..
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1940 United States Federal Census Name: James Chastine Age: 32 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1908
Gender: Male Race: White Birthplace: Kentucky Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Lodger Home in 1940: Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee Street: Broadway
Inferred Residence in 1935: Milligan Col, Carter, Tennessee Residence in 1935: Milligan Col, Carter, Tennessee
Resident on farm in 1935: No Sheet Number: 1B Household Members: Name Age Nanas Campbell 68
Clarence Krone 36 Ruby Krone 38 Billie Dixon 17 James Chastine 32 Quinton Cooper 21
Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee; Roll: T627_3956; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 97-3.
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MARRIAGES and MARRIAGE LICENSE 1941 - From the MORGAN COUNTY NEWS James Chasteen to Reba Goff - m 6/1/1941
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In 1942 my twin brother John and I took a train trip with our grandmother, Ida Belle, from Jeffersonville, Indiana to Knoxville, Tennesee to visit our Uncle Jim and Aunt Reba. Uncle Jim owned a small grocery store there. I was thirteen years old and grandmother had never allowed us to go to the movies. At the Tennessee Theater the movie "Mrs. Miniver" was showing with Greer Garson and Walter Piegon. Uncle Jim intereeded and we allowed to see the movie. The highlight of that event was the pipe organ that rose up from the Orchaster Pit. The music played after the movie filled the entire theater. Years later in 2006 we moved to Knoxville and attended the Tennessee Theater for several organ concert. That theater was built in 1928. Its interior was designed by Chicago architects Graven & Mayger in the Spanish-Moorish style, although the design incorporates elements from all parts of the world: Czechoslovakian crystals in the French-style chandeliers, Italian terrazzo flooring in the Grand Lobby, and Oriental influences in the carpet and drapery patterns. The theatre also featured a beautiful Wurlitzer Organ.
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Between 1953 and 1962 James Earl Chasteen owned and operated the general store in Burrville.
Before that he operated the Broadway Food Market about 1941 . Not sure when he moved back to Burrville. When he was in Knoxville he drove a taxi cab, taught school, operated a small store. Reba, his wife taught school and worked at Alco Company.
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abt 1960 TOM YOUNG FROM BURRVILLE FURNISHED THE INFORMATION BELOW:
I don't remember a lot about James. He led the singing in the church. and furnished the gas for the lawn moweres that Adam Miller and I used to mow the church lawn. The summer I worked for him was a good experance. It helped me to deal with the public. He taught me a lot about the store buisness. He was a very good person. i used his truck a lot hauling off the trash, delivering groceries. etc. and no drivers license he! he! . His dad stayed at the store a lot. He would talk to people while they were shopping, Mom helped take care of his wife and clean his house and do his washing, When he got very sick I drove him to the hospital in Crosville while mom worked with him trying to keep him alive. He was in the hospital a few days before he died. When james got sick i visited him in the hospital in Knoxville, He got better and got to come home but he would make a lot of errors giving people change when they got groceries. i went to Ohio for a couple years and when I got back to Tennessee Jame got sick again but I wasn't around him very much as I was sick, that is about all on him.
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Burrville, TN history
1800s-1900s , Morgan Co TN
Researched by Paul Chasteen. Paul's Uncle James Earl Chasteen owned the Chasteen store mentioned in the last paragraph. His uncle bought it from Mr .Greer. James is Ida Belle Phelps Chasteen's son.
BURRVILLE, TN
The following is from the book, "A History of Morgan County Tennessee" written by Ethel Freytag and Glenna Kreis Ott.
BURRVILLE
This community was originally called Mount Vernon and its settlement dates back to about
1830. At that time settlers from North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky came in and obtained
one thousand acre grants from the state. Among these early settlers were John GALLOWAY
and James PETERS; who took grants joining and covering what is now the community of
Burrville. The ten children of the Peter's and Galloway's married and settled near their
homes. Other families came in and the settlement grew. Some of these older settlers were:
THORTON, JONES, HULL, DAVIS, CROMWELL, HURT, McCORMICK, JOHNSON and ALEXANDER.
Probably about 1860, the Mount Vernon Methodist Church was organized and a log church was
built on the site of the present church. The first grave in the cemetery was that of the child
of Mr. and Mrs. William DAVIDSON, who was buried during the Civil War. The first Sunday
School was organized about 1881 by Mrs. Phenie BABCOCK. In the early days the church
services were held when the circuit rider, who had many churches widely scattered, would
arrange to come. Among those early preachers were Rev. A. B. WRIGHT and Rev. A.C.
PETERS. They were identified with the early church work at Burriville.
The people of the Burrville Community have always stood for education and progress as is
shown by the oustanding educational institution. Students came from all parts of the county
to the A.B. WRIGHT Institute in 1900.
The first post office was established in 1881 with Charles SKEEN of Scotland as postmaster
and the post office was named Skeen. Later it was named Burrville [The people of Burrville
wanted to name the post office Mount Vernon but found there was already a Mount Vernon
post office in Tennessee]. The mail was carried on horseback from Sunbright once a week.
About 1895, James GREER opened a general store in Burrville.
A 1919-1920 school bulletin gives the following description of Burrville:
"Burrville is a prosperous county town on a good pike west of Sunbright. It was at one time
the seat of the A. B. Wright Institute named in memory of Rev. A.B. WRIGHT, a faithful
minister of the gospel, who spent his life in the Master's service throughout the mountain
sections of Tennessee and Kentucky. Rev. A.C. PETERS, a citizen of Burrville and a minister
for forty years or more did more perhaps in his day than any other person for the upbuilding
of the church and school at this place. There is a splendid school building large and well
furnished. The present high school being established the latter part of the last year, is in the
infancy but we have great hopes for its prosperity with the support of the excellent people of
this community who have so faithfully stood by the schools of past years".
Burrville is still a small country town. It has an elementary school of 123 pupils and 4
teachers. Two churches - the Methodist and the Church of the Nazarene are located in this
town. Burrville has a post office. Merchants licenses were issued this year to: Chasteen's
Store, Ashley Store, E.D. McCURRY, one beer license was issued to Ernest FROGG.
James married Reba Oneida GOFF on 01 Jun 1941 in Morgan, Tennessee, USA. Reba was born on 10 Dec 1913 in Oakdale,Morgan, TN. USA/Morgan, Tennessee, USA; died on 05 Sep 1976 in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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