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Kincaid: A Sprightly Root Narrative
In Powell's Valley, Tenn near the end of the 19th century, Bessie
Kanero Kincaid and her cousin, Sarah Jane Hughes, would sit on the wooden railing fence and talk excitingly of the daily events, exchange secrets, and express dreams that girls have dreamed for ages. Grandfather Edmund Kincaid had stayed with the Kincaid Children after their mother, Tennessee Emily Jane died.
Their father John Edmund Kincaid Jr. died earlier, resulting from a fall that "burst the rim of his stomach". Soon after the death of the grandfather, The Kincaids--Mossie, Maggie, Sarah, Bessie, Paris, and Ernest--crossed the mountains and moved to Bryson,Tenn. They lived with there oldest sister, Mossie and her Husband Jim Smith. Soon thereafter, Maggie Kincaid Married Samuel Robinson from Newport,Tenn. Bessie Kanero Kincaid married
her cousin William (Will Monroe)Epps, and they moved to Knoxville, Tenn. Her Cousin Florance A. Kincaid married James
Hughes and lived in Claiborne County, Tenn. The Families lived in Tenn., experiencing the joys, sorrows, thrills of childhood and adulthood, surviving the dangers and anxieties of the mining industry, in closely knit caring communities with the Robinson, Hughes, Epps, and Langhan's relativies and friends. The influences of Rev. Madding, Proffessor Williams, The Smiths, Mrs.James Gaither,The Mitchell's, The Englands or Pressley and so many others. In the late Twenties other mountains were crossed into West Virginia and the Sprightly Roots continued....
We are looking for the family of James Hughes, Can You Help???
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