Powell Spring
Spring and ford · left bank · about mile 42.6 · Plate A13
Powell Spring comes out at the mouth of a short hollow on the left at about mile 42.6Lewis 1980, PDF p. 74 (“at the mouth of Jim McCabe Hollow”), map PDF p. 77 (north bank, between Andy P. Bales Hole and Jones Bluff Hole); the river centerline.. It was once the Andy Chilton Spring, and the old Barnesville RoadLewis 1980, PDF p. 75; map PDF p. 77 (“Ford”). forded the river here. By one account Alex Chilton killed two Union soldiers near the spring during the war, and on March 25, 1879, his uncle Andy Chilton gunned him down at the same spot. Faced with having killed a local hero, Andy Chilton had to leave the country, and he settled in Whitney, TexasLewis 1980, PDF p. 74, the only source.. He was probably not the Alexander Chilton killed on the Rolla road in 1862Lewis 1980, PDF p. 74 (the 1879 Alex Chilton was Andy Chilton’s nephew); see Chapter 6 (an Alexander Chilton among the prisoners killed on August 30, 1862). (Chapter 6).
A Shannon County man remembered walking with his grandfather, as a boy of eight or nine, down to the mouth of Big Shawnee and “back up Jack’s Fork about a mile to Powell Springs,” where they set sycamore polesGibson 2000, 42; see Chapter 19. along the bank and slept beside them all night (Chapter 19). Someone who grew up in Eminence lists “Powell Springs (River split)”Jacks Fork Oral History, record SV-15. among the river’s names that outsiders might not know.
Jones Bluff
Bluff and pool · left bank · about miles 42.7 to 43.2 · Plate A13
Below Powell Spring lies Jones Bluff Hole, under Jones Bluff on the left, which rises about 110 feetmeasured on the flood-mapping terrain (Heimann, Atkinson and High 2025; Map 13), the face on the left at about miles 43.20 to 43.25, the only face on the left between Powell Spring and Shawnee Creek.. It is named for Henry Clay Jones (1845–1916Shannon County cemetery readings (Chilton Cemetery: Henry Clay Jones, June 7, 1845–November 8, 1916, “Married; (Susan Chilton)”).), who married Susan Chilton, Joshua Chilton’s daughter. A small spring flows out at the river’s edge along the Bluff. A cliff along the river, usually on the outside of a bend, where the river has cut sideways into the hill. In this sense the word was first used in North America (Chapter 2; Chapter 18). Glossary →. An old photograph shows the Hole. Any pool deep enough to swim or fish in, named or not, the basic unit of the river in local speech; also “hole of water” (Chapter 18). Glossary → in winterLewis 1980, PDF p. 78 (“The Jones Bluff Hole during winter”)., a long sheet of water under a wooded bluff. Below the bluff the river runs southeast for the last quarter milethe river centerline (about miles 43.25 to 43.48). to Shawnee Creek.