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Isaac Timms Pilgrim Bio |
Pilgrim, Isaac Timms After Hannah passed away in September of 1878, Isaac married Sarah Emmaline Powell, a daughter of Benjamin James
Lucas Powell and Anna Adams, in March of 1879. The Pilgrim home stood where the north gate of Willow Oak Cemetery
is located today. At some point in the 1880's they sold the land at Willow Oak Community and moved a few miles northwest to Pine in
Camp County. Isaac served as a deputy sheriff of Camp County. He and a son-in-law, Thomas Jefferson 'Tobe'
Sworfford, who had married Isaac's daughter Florence Rebecca Pilgrim, operated a cotton gin in the late 1880's. The
exact location of the gin is unknown but it is believed to have been near and south of the Willow Oak Baptist Church.
In November of 1891, the gin house and all of the cotton ginned for that year was lost in a fire (Pittsburg Gazette,
November 1891). Apparently Tobe had had enough and shortly thereafter he and Florence Rebecca moved to Duncan,
Arizona where they resided until their deaths. Issac died in Pine in 1906 at the age of 63. Another of Isaac's daughters, Annie Lou Pilgrim, who was born in the Pilgrim house at Willow Oak Community,
married Dr. William Thomas Efurd. She was a charter member of the Pine Baptist Church, serving as church clerk
for thirty five years. Dr. Efurd owned a grocery store at Pine and was a Postmaster there. Compiled by: Billy King Pilgrim
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