• steveclapp/Gen/Thomas%20Clapp/b9138.htm#P9138 Special to the Knoxville Sentinel Corryton, May 26 (1923) - Remains of James M. Clapp familiarly known as Uncle Jimmy were Thursday laid to rest in the Troutt cemetery four miles south of Corryton. The funeral was conducted the day previous, but on account of the inclement weather it was well nigh impossible and impractical to have the burial service on the same day. Born 83 years ago most of his life had been spent around Graveston and Corryton except during his service in the Union army. While passing through a severe spell of fever at that time, his comrades thought it impossible for him to recover but he rallied and lived almost three score years. His last sickness was a lingering one, but he showed the same remarkable power of endurance as before. Stricken with the flu and pneumonia combined more than two months ago from both, but other complications set in which he was not able to overcome. He lived a very active life, was a carpenter by trade and almost a score of years ago when it seemed impossible owing to various discouragements to erect a new building for Little Flat Creek church possibly the oldest religious organization in this community, being at present 123 years old Uncle Jimmy did the work himself gratuitously and saved the organization. Recently, largely through his instrumentality and that of his children, a handsome new church has been erected where the two former ones stood and there is not a more zealous or more consecrated body of worshippers anywhere to be found than they. They have a live Sunday school and good music and are loyal to their pastor, Rev. T. J. Carr who conducted the last sad rites over all that was mortal of this untiring, zealous, valiant old soldier of the cross. Deeds like that need no comment, they are more enduring than the costliest marble, more lasting than any eulogy ever pronounced. Six grandsons of the deceased served as pall bearers. Ten children survive him; Rev. William Clapp and Mrs. Erma Harris of Knoxville, Mrs. J. A. Coram, Mrs. B. F. Cleveland, Mrs. J. P. Miller, and Miss Laura Clapp, Sam Daniel, Jesse and Fred Clapp of Corryton. He was married twice. Both of his wives preceded him to the great beyond. He was buried on 24 May 1923 in Troutt Cemetery, McGinnis Road, Corryton, TN. At the outset of the Civil War, James M. Clapp enlisted into the Third Tennessee Infantry Company F. on 12 Feb 1862, at Flat Lick, KY. While in the service of the Union Army, James was wounded. He was wounded by a gun shot on or about the month of December 1863. While in the service of the U.S. and while in the regular discharge of his duties at or near Strawberry Plains, TN, he fell off of a foot log while crossing Roseberry Creek and his gun went off and the shot went through his left arm. James was discharged on 23 Feb 1865 and applied for a pension due to the wounds he had received. According to his application, James was five feet six inches tall, he had a fair complexion, and blue eyes. After his return home, James took up farming and was quite a skilled carpenter. James Maynard CLAPP and Margaret Emaline DEVAULT were married on 18 December 1861 in Knox Co., TN.327,336,943 Married by Joseph S. Grubb, M. G. Walker has 8 Dec in his book.Margaret Emaline DEVAULT, daughter of Solomon DEVAULT and Mary Ann TROUTT, was born on 1 September 1844. She died on 27 August 1875 at the age of 30 in Knox Co., TN.946Buried in the Troutt Family Cemetery.
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