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A Steamboat Captain's Daughter Recalls Past
Sixty four years ago a wagon carried Sime Whitaker to Guntersville on the Tennessee river. His daughter Beulah Wie ler recalls the era, naming captains and boats that made the river famous. Her home near the old Whitaker house anchors a life steeped in steamboat lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Knox
Swearingen
Gunter’s Mountain
Puvus
Tennessee
Guntersville
S. C. Whitaker
Bert Neville
Selma
T. Cliff Almon
Steamboat Historiographers
S. C
Sime) Whitaker
Judge Almon
Sime Whitaker
Neville
Simp McGhee
Ike Lambert
John
Conway Graden
Milt Evans
Ben Woods
Jim McIntire
Paul and
Harris Underwood
Bill Hudson
Omar Huskey
Ben P. Wieler
Beulah Whitaker
Simon C. Whitaker
Grant
Parmelia Ashburn
Sime
Depen