Elgin, Texas

I came across Nankipoo on an obscure link from a friend I\'ve never actually met on facebook. But the name stuck with me. Its just too good to be true. But truth is stranger than fiction. I hope to visit someday soon. I hope I don\'t miss it while driving through. Is it on the map?

(from webmaster) Yes its on the map, and its on the Tn display map outside the Tn capital building. :)

Nankipoo

My whole life is a Nankipoo Story, since 1943... lol... I was in Gibson Co for 20 years, raisin' my sons and teaching school... but came 'home to roost' in 1980... right here at 'telegraph hill' as it was called when that was the communication of the day.... we've come a L o N g W a Y , Baby! to the internet tower now in Nankipoo!
Along with Hilliard's I am related to all the Cates and Olds . hi, cuz!
Ruth and Roy Hilliard, Jr. were my parents, Roy and Oma Cates Hilliard were my grandparents, and also N A and Thresa Arwood Bryan.
I remember Sunday School and Bible School at Enon... my grandmother, Oma Cates Hilliard taught at Nankipoo School.
I remember Willie and Grady Cook's store the most, I used to walk there through the woods..... but, there was another store at the crossroads ..... the Edith-Nankipoo/Curve Nankipoo crossroads..... and In my memory is a blacksmith across the road from Willie's store....

Memphis (Originally) - Covington (Now)

Lowell (Sr.) Tillman used to work with my daddy (Derrick Tillman) and I would go to work with daddy and ride home after work with Lowell to Nankipoo and stay with my grandparents. They lived behind the cemetary behind Enon Baptist Church. My fondest moments of growing up are in Nankipoo!!!!!

I still visit my cousin, Lowell, occasionally - not often enough since I've been having grandbabies and staying busy with them! But love coming to see all my cousins and kinfolks there! Kay, Ray, Lowell (Jr.) and (Sr.), Cheryl and Glen.....and remember going to Miss Willie's store growing up, too! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, GREAT memories!!!! LOVE Nankipoo!!!!

Covington TN

I lived 21 years of my life at Nankipoo. I went to school 1-8 and then went to high school at Halls. My dad was Robert (Sonny) Wright and he and my mother Katherine lived there until there deaths. My fondist memories are of growing up in the small community and going to Cook's store where Mr. Cook always had a piece of candy for us. I was a member of Melville Methodist Church and remember many dinners on the ground there. I have begun painting and some of the painting reflect the old house we lived in with the out house and cloths line. Love to read the quest book.

Went to school at Nankipoo along with my 2 older brothers. These were the best times of my life!!!!! Kay Hansford was my 1st teacher along with Ms. Georia Smith, Ann Smith and Ann Lazure. I also took piano lessons from Velma Chisholm and Bro Reilly was the principle.

Born in Ripley, grew up in Nankipoo.

Attended Nankipoo School in grades 1-3 back when teachers could use bibles as well as text books in the schools. Ms. Georgie Smith, Ms. Ann Lazure, and Ms. Ann Smith taught me well and set me on the right path in life.

Related to the Dunaways, Steelmans, Olds, and Halls in Lauderdale County. I left in 1986 and joined the Air Force. I retired last year after 22 years and now live in Huntsville, AL working for the Department of Defense.

Nankipoo

No matter where I live, I'll always call Nankipoo home!!!!! My grandparents, H.C. (Happle) and Nettie Cavness lived and farmed just up the road from Nankipoo toward Jackie Walker's service station and restaurant. My father, the late Rev. Ray Cavness, was pastor at Enon Baptist Church when I was a child and have fond memories of playing in the yard at the house and church and, yes, in the cemetery!!!! Putting a sheet over your head and running around in the cemetery is quite entertaining!!! I attended Nankipoo school in first and second grade and again in the sixth grade after returning to the area from Baxter, TN, where daddy had been pastoring. I attended junior high and high school at Halls. Go TIGERS!! Daddy would bale hay around the community and often worked with Lowell Tillman, Sr., Clydie Cates, Tab Tillman, Raymond Belton and many others!!! Family names, like Ward, Bowie, Collins, Davis, Steelman, Stanley and many, many others are all like a part of my own family!!! Nankipoo may be be a tiny community, but my memories couldn't be bigger! I currently live in the Fowlkes community of Dyer County, but Nankipoo is home!!

Anybody with ideas about how to keep the Nankipoo community alive and recognized for its past, please contact me!!! I would love to be a part of the effort!!!

Bartlett Tn.

I grew up in Nankipoo. When I was 5 or 6 we moved from the Halls Air Base when it was closed. My dad (James M. Pickard) was employed at the air base during World War II. (Mother was Nellie Pickard.) We lived in a small white house just to the left of Cook's Grocery. Nankipoo was a great place to live and attend school. I had a lot of good times the 13 years that I lived there.

Over 3 generations of the Langley family are buried there. Can anyone tell me were the cems are? Or who maintaines them?
Thanks for the help
Fred

Ripley, Tn.

Are you sure that two story building is Nankipoo School when it a single story building now.


:Ans from webmaster:
The building there now is not the original building. (I am unsure when it was built)

The photo is the original.

Arkansas

My mother was born in Nankipoo. Her name was Theo Miller. I remember my aunt talking about nankipoo and once I came up for the Hinton Family reunion and was able to visit with alot of people that knew my mother. It was nice.

Jasper, Alabama

My family lived at Nankipoo when I was born in 1954. I was 3 years old when we moved to Obion Co. I remember returning on visits to my dad's family (Richard and Mollie Ward and family) and also my mom's family (Raymond and Christine Hinton). I remember the school and playground and the country store.

This is a nice site. I enjoy reading other's stories. I remember many of the names in the stories I have read on this site that my parents knew many years ago.
Thank You,
js

horn lake ms

Joe and Nettie Cates are my grandparents they had 3 sons Wendell (Buck), Bernie and Joe Sr, (my dad) and he tells us a lot of stories about his growing up days there in Nankipoo

Horn Lake Miss

This is a very interesting webpage--because my dad is from Nankipoo, Joe Cates Sr, so I have heard a few stories about this great little town.

Guam for now

My grandmother and her sisters, the Langley girls were raised @ Nankipoo. Some were there is a cematery full of Langleys'. I woul give a great deal to locate it when I return to the states. My grandmothe father, mother and her grand parents are buried there.
You have a great information site here.