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 hundreds of libraries across the US. You can check the On-Line Computer Library Center's WorldCat database in Dublin, Ohio (OCLC) with the help of your local college or university reference librarian to determine which of its 69,000 member libraries in 110 countries have the University Press of Mississippi book, published spring 2003. Or by clicking on author's name you will be able to select a state or country for a library list direct from OCLC.Writing from Boston University, C. Stuart Chapman made Chotankers: A Family History (1982) by Avon Edward Foote, professor emeritus, University of North Alabama in Huntsville-Decatur-Florence TV Market (DMA), the primary reference source for Northern Virginia history of Shelby Foote's ancestors in "Chapter I, Roots". When his book published in 2003, Chapman was press assistant to US Congresswoman Barbara Lee, representing 9th California District including Oakland, 108th Congress. A kinsman of Shelby's family, Mississippi Senator and Governor Henry Stuart Foote lived with his first wife Elizabeth Winter, whom he married in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and their children at Oakland, California, before returning to Mississippi on the eve of the American Civil War. She died in Oakland and is buried there. Governor Foote married in Nashville a second time, and the couple's home is the oldest building on the Vanderbilt University campus. Both Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life and Chotankers: A Family History, featuring Henry Stuart Foote's genealogical research, are in the Vanderbilt University Library. UNA Professor Foote believes that Henry Stuart Foote would have prepared the genealogical history of the Footes at his Nashville home. The house has been a part of Vanderbilt from the University's beginnings as a Methodist Episcopal Church School, that was named "Central University" when founded. The home, part of the original Vanderbilt campus, is known fondly by faculty, students and alumni as "Old Central". The family genealogical summary by Senator Foote is Appendix I on page 281 of Chotankers. Henry S. wrote the short history before 1880 using research and records of William Hayward Foote of Hayfield in Virginia near Mount Vernon. In the record on Samuel Foote, Henry wrote "SAMUEL, b. Jan. 25, 1659-60; d. Mar. 27, 1697; buried at Windsor." Of George Foote, Henry wrote, "Moved to So. Carolina and d. there." Both Avon Edward Foote and Shelby Foote traced their ancestory to George Foote of Chester County, South Carolina, who is the son of George Foote and Frances Berryman Foote of BrentTown in Virginia. Shelby's ancestor is William and Avon's ancestor is Gilson, his brother. The two brothers lived in South Carolina in 1810 before Gilson left the state to avoid charges of theft. Gilson ran off to New Orleans taking Gilson, Jr. and Sarah with him. Gilson, Jr. married Nancy Crowder, and his wife and children bought land in Tishomingo County, Mississippi in 1845 after Gilson Jr.'s death. Sarah's daughter Lucinda married John Milton Massey.
Henry S. Massey, Iuka, Mississippi And their son, Henry S. Massey, was a next-door neighbor of Lila Frances Broughton Foote when she was growing up in Iuka, on the very same homesite where she lives on 15 November 2009. Because Massey had been a teacher in rural school in his 20's, his extensive library greatly enhanced her study in Iuka High classes. She was given personal encouragement in her plans for college after graduation. Her father, Edgar Hulett Broughton, shot the photo and added later processing and printing to back of picture postcard in his Iuka-home, photo laboratory. Charlotte Foote Grisham was Lila's great-grandmother. The Grishams, Footes and Masseys all knew of their Foote ancestors. Shelby's ancestor, the son of Gilson's brother, moved from South Carolina to Macon, Mississippi nearly ten years before Gilson, Jr.'s death. Douglas Southall Freeman, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, wrote: "Family history is the only history made or written in Chotank."When Eddie Foote, age eleven, lived with his parents in new house on North portion of Broughton homestead, the old Henry S. Massey house was flanked on its east by the Ellis Johnson family residence. Ellis is uncle of famous musician Jimmy Johnson, world-renowned Muscle Shoals Music Producer. Eddie remembers the neighborhood's Bobby Johnson, son of Ellis and first cousin of Jimmy. "I spent the weekends of my youth in Iuka," says Jimmy. His Grandpa Lewis operated the fish market out Eastport Road at fork with Snowdown Road, and his cousin L.R. Lewis was managing projectionist at Majestic Theater in downtown Iuka. Eddie's grandfather Edgar had arranged and produced still picture features for the Majestic in the early years of movie shows in Iuka. He printed his pioneer Iuka photos to glass, 3-by-4 inch slides which were shown on the big screen for the whole community to enjoy and admire. The local silent lantern-type features were known as "Brought Views". Family members believe that Edgar could enhance the photo features with music, playing banjo with young woman on piano in the traditional silent film style.
Edgar at Iuka Home from c1910 Postcard When Eddie began pirate radio broadcasts in 1950's he extended a receiving/transmitting antenna along the North/South tree line from his parent's home at 308 North Wilmuth Street. Previously, the single copper wire had terminated near beginning of the property line between the old Henry S. Massey property and his grandfather's home. It was very near the ending anchor for Edgar's 1900s crystal radio connector, a 25-foot, copper-wire routed on baked-clay signal insulators.
Above Image from New York Public Library shows catalog entry for Chotankers In Land o' Goshen "We ain’t one-at-a-timin’. We’re mass-communicatin’" |
The Ohio State University, 1970;
married March 15, 1960, 
Ohio Educational Broadcasting (OEB) Network Commission, Columbus, 1972 to 1974 with Richard Hull, executive director of OEB. [The System had become an ARC | Appalachian Regional Commission demonstration project before Foote took over management]; faculty and coordinator graduate studies, School of Journalism and Mass Communication,
University of Georgia, Athens, 1974 to 1980; associate professor
of Broadcasting, University of North Alabama, Florence, 1980
forward; professor, UNA in England, University of London, 1990 and 1991; instructor, UCLA/UNA joint certificate in film, 2004-2006. Awards judge,
Ohio State Awards, 1968 to 1973; chairman, faculty screening
committee, George Foster Peabody Radio-TV Awards, 1976 to 1979.
Board of directors, Florence YMCA, 1982 to 1986. NDEA fellow,
1967; National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences Memorial fellow,
1970; recipient Community Service award Florence Civitan Club,
1990, for Shoals CP Telethon hosting; first place award, Corporate Video Competition, National
Broadcasting Society, 1991; regional first and national third
place award College Emmy, Hollywood Academy TV Arts and Sciences,
1984; honorable mention, comedy awards, National Broadcasting
Society, 1987. Providing image for history brochure, Johns Hopkins University Press (oldest in US), 2002; Industry-Faculty Seminar fellow, International
Radio-TV Society, New York, 1987. Member, Radio-Television News Directors Association, 2001-04, Alpha Epsilon Rho (founding advisor, North Alabama Chapter, 1981 and advisor 2002-03), BBC Networking Club (1994
to 1996). Republican. Anglican. Club: Exchange (board of
directors 1984 to 1986). Collection developer: 
Grand Hyatt Hotel, September 18, 2003; Editor: The Challenges of Educational
Communications, 1970; CBS and Congress: The Selling of the
Pentagon Papers, 1972. Contributor, Broadcasting and Bargaining, edited by Allen E. Koenig at Ohio State, 1970; Chotankers, 1982.
AVA JEWEL FOOTE
Great-granddaughter of
Lila Frances Broughton Foote
Reviewed . Revised . Refreshed 20 May 2016
Our 20th Anniversary in November 2015