Monthly Archives: October 2011

PAT CLEBURNE: Boat 4398 Way’s Packet Directory page 363. (Named after Confederate General). Side Wheel Packet, wood hull, built Cincinnati Ohio 1870. A fair sized boat, dimensions not at hand.  Engines 20’s – 7 ft. Four boilers each 37” by … Continue reading →

PHIL ALLIN: Boat 4476 Way’s Packet Directory page 370. Side Wheel Packet, wood hull, built Memphis Tenn. 1871, 463 tons, 181 x 38 x 6. Engines 22’s – 7 ft. Three boilers. Ran Memphis – Friar’s Point. Capt. James Lee. … Continue reading →

These spoons were dug up by my friend Ed Provine who along with a gang of diggers dug large numbers of old privets, cisterns, and wells in the downtown area of Memphis when urban renewal removed hundreds of old homes … Continue reading →

The Memphis Commercial Appeal Mid-South Memories Saturday October 22, 2011 reported 125 years ago October 22, 1886 the following: “Cottenmen are confident now that Memphis will receive more than 600,000 bales of cotton this season.”  On October 22, 1911 the Commercial … Continue reading →

James Lee Sr and Penniah Gibson descendants James Lee Sr. born in 1808 died in 1889 married Penniah Gibson in 1830 together they had 3 sons two who lived into adulthood. James Lee Jr born in 1832 and Samuel Stacker … Continue reading →

The Memphis Commercial Appeal Mid-South Memories section reported that on October 20, 1886  the following:  “More cotton was received in Memphis yesterday than any other city in the country, New Orleans and New York not excepted.  The CHICKASAW (Lee Line) alone … Continue reading →

RUTH: Boat 4880 Way’s Packet Directory page 406. 160 x 31.5, 5 x 5. Stern Wheel, Packet, Wood Hull, built Paducah Kentucky 1888. Built for Capt. W.P. Hall, Memphis and ran Vicksburg – Greenville. Crew in 1900: Capt. Charles Nichols, … Continue reading →

 CHICKASAW: Boat 1010 Way’s Packet Directory page 85. Sternwheeler, Packet, wood hull, built Pittsburgh, Pa. 1883, 185 x 38 x 6. Engines, 16’s – 7 foot, three boilers each 48” x 26 ft, seven flues. Designed to carry 1650 bales … Continue reading →

  This serving dish is in the collection of the Woodruff Fountain House 680 Adams Ave. Memphis Tennessee. Likely there are only few of these serving dishes in existence since the Lee Line wharf boat burned sometime in the mid 1920′s … Continue reading →