Pickering Family Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2024.045

Content Description

This collection includes photographs, genealogical research, personal papers, and legal documents belonging to the Pickering family and other families from Montgomery County and the surrounding areas.

Scope and Contents

The Pickering Family Photographs Collection houses photographs, documents, and papers belonging to the Pickering family and other families from Montgomery County and the surrounding areas. The collection, which dates from 1856-1970, consists of bank books, deeds and bills of sale, Army records, genealogical research, a yearbook, photographs, two photo albums, and personal notebooks, journals, and writings.

Dates

Creation: 1856-1970

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

While the Montgomery County Archives houses an item, it does not necessarily hold the copyright on the item, nor may it be able to determine if the item is still protected under current copyright law. It is the user’s obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other case restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the collections.

Biographical / Historical

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William Geraldus Pickering (1813-1908) was a farmer and tobacconist in Clarksville, TN, and a member of the Elks Fraternity. In 1846 he married Nancy Connell Pickering (1814-1886). They had seven children: Mary F. Pickering Elliott (ca. 1842- ca. 1870); William T. Pickering (ca. 1843- ca.1863); Elizabeth (Bettie) Ann Pickering Rosson (1845-1869); John S. Pickering (1847-1871); Charlotte Carolyn Pickering (1849-1943); Robert Geraldus Pickering (1851-1921); George Hiram Pickering (1856-1945).

Robert Geraldus Pickering was a farmer and tobacconist in Montgomery County, TN. In 1876, he married Lillian Harriett Wilkerson (1853-1926). They had eight children: Benna Pickering Ellis (1877-1951); Angie Pickering (1879-1882); Marticia Hope Pickering Sibley (1881-1931); Robert William Pickering, Jr. (1884-1960), a tobacconist in Clarksville, TN; Nancy Louise Pickering Peebles (1886-1981); Bessie L. Pickering James (1889-1961); Mary West Pickering (1891- unknown); Eva Caldwell Pickering Edwards (1894-1948).

George Hiram Pickering was a Southwest Presbyterian University graduate and tobacconist in Montgomery County, TN. In 1888, he married Elizabeth “Lizzie” West Walton Pickering (1864-1931), who attended the Clarksville Female Academy and Green River College and was a piano and voice teacher. They had four children: Nancy Louise Pickering Jarratt (1889-1984), a McNeil and Edwards Company saleslady; Emma Cooke Pickering Davis (1893-1970); Virginia Pickering (1898-1967), a member and corresponding secretary for the William Edmiston Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Charles Robert Pickering (1901-1953), a U.S. Army radio technician and WWII veteran.

Dr. Isaac Baker Walton (1826-1907) was a physician who served the Cumberland River Valley from Davidson County to Clarksville, a Southern Methodist preacher, Captain of Company G, 42nd Tennessee Regiment of the Confederacy, and, at the time of his death, a third term County Register in Cheatham County, TN. In 1849 he married Mariah Louisa Cage Walton (1833-1890). They had four children: Dr. William Alva Walton (1858-1910); Dr. James Robert Walton, Sr. (1862-1906), dentist and graduate of the Dental Department at Vanderbilt University; Elizabeth “Lizzie” West Walton Pickering (1864-1931); and Dr. Charlie Montgomery Walton (1866-1920).

Dr. William Alva Walton was a physician in Ashland City, TN. In 1881 he married Bettie/Betty Hunter Walton and had one son, Julian Baker Walton (1883-1976).

Dr. James Robert Walton, Sr. was a graduate of the Dental Department at Vanderbilt University and a dentist in Ashland City, TN. In 1895, he married Annie Majors Walton (1871-1946). They had four children: Charlie Walton (1897-1910); Mariah Louisa Walton (1901-1927); Isaac “Ike” Baker Walton (1903-1929); Elizabeth Bell Walton (1905-1937); James Robert Walton, Jr. (1906-1928).

Ludlow Littleton Cooke (1813-1881) was a grocer in Bowling Green, KY. In 1846, he married Mary Cathrine Walton Cooke (1820-1892). They had seven children: Giles W. Cooke (ca. 1847- unknown); William W. Cooke (ca. 1849- unknown); Amanda M. (Mallie) Cooke Dye (1851- 1929); Emma Cooke Hassell (1853-1923); Isaac Baker Cooke (1855-1921), a businessman who was in the fire insurance and real estate business; Leonadas L. Cooke (1857-1857); Anna Cooke (ca. 1859- unknown).

Dr. John Williams (1868-1901), a physician in Montgomery County. In 1894,he married Lula Rosson Williams, a schoolteacher in Springfield, (daughter of Elizabeth Pickering Rosson and granddaughter of William Geraldus Pickering) (1868-1945). They had two daughters: Carloyn Williams Overcash (1895-1963); Johnnie Williams (1901- unknown), a music teacher in Springfield, TN.

William Green Elliott (ca.1839- ca.1871) married Mary Pickering Elliott (ca.1842- ca.1870) in 1865 and had one daughter, Ada Green Elliott (1866-1927).

Dr. Alva Douglas Cage (1806-1879), was a physician in Cheatham County, TN. In 1832, he married Rebecca W. Moody Cage (1814-1905). They had four children, including: Mariah Louisa Cage Walton (1833-1890); Dr. James Edward Cage (1837-1913), Confederate officer of Company B, 42nd Regiment and physician in Montgomery County, TN; Bettie A. Cage (1850-1859).

Full Extent

2.7 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection has been arranged in four series by subject. The four series are: Personal and Family Papers, 1883-1907; Financial and Legal Documents, 1856-1970; Photographs, 1870-1920; Virginia Pickering Genealogical Research ca. 1915-1967.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Montgomery County Public Library, May 2018. Gift of Edward Black, September 2024.

Processing Information

Each photograph was cleaned and placed in acid free sleeves, foldered, and boxed. The photo albums were cleaned and placed in acid free boxes. Photographs that were grouped together were kept in original order; loose photographs were arranged and foldered by person/family and chronologically. All papers and documents were cleaned, foldered, and boxed, with acid free paper inserted between documents as needed.

The Pickering Family Photograph Collection was donated by Edward Black in September 2024. The black photo album, Virginia Pickering's genealogical research, and Charles Robert Pickering's Army records were donated by the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library in May 2018 and were orignially part of the Library Genealogical Materials Collection; they were moved into the Pickering Family Photographs Collection in January 2025.