Kipp Teague's Genealogy & Family Photo Page
(last updated October 7, 2001)


My great-grandparents Kiah Goldman "Gold" Teague and Molly Ann Davis gather with their children for a family portrait near their home in Marshall North Carolina. Harrison Melvin Teague, my grandfather, is the fifth standing male from the left (beside the baby in the arms of one of his brothers). This photo was taken around 1910.

My Teague Ancestry

Edward Teague
(1655-1696)
Edward Teague (also "Tegg") was from Bristol, England, and
paid passage to America on Thomas Jones' ship in 1675.
He settled in Cecil County, Maryland where he bought 290
acres of land, naming it "Tegg's Delight."
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William Teague
(1693-1762)
William Teague sold his father's land in 1714 at age 21,
and migrated to Frederick County, Virginia in 1737, and later
to North Carolina in 1751.
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Rev. Edward Teague
(1716-1807)
buried in Antioch Cemetery, Alexander Co., NC
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John Teague
(1751-1824)
lived in Iredell Co., NC - father of ten children
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Edward Teague
(1782-1832)
father of seven;
buried in Teague's Chapel Cemetery, Madison (Old Buncombe) Co., NC
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Robert "Bobby" Teague
(1808-1864)
relocated from Iredell Co., NC to Madison (Old Buncombe) Co.;
father of fourteen;
buried in Teague's Chapel Cemetery, Madison (Old Buncombe) Co., NC
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James Franklin "Frank" Teague
(1833-1893)
father of six;
May 1862: enlisted in Company A, 5th Battalion.
July 1863: captured by Union troops in Irvine, Kentucky.;
buried in Piney Grove Cemetery, Madison Co., NC
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Kiah Goldman "Gold" Teague
(1857-1916)
farmed in Madison Co., NC - father of twelve;
buried in Piney Grove Cemetery, Madison Co., NC
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Harrison Melvin Teague
(1895-1965)
relocated from NC to Crewe, Virginia, then eventually
to Lynchburg, Va..
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Herbert Franklin Teague
(1917-1978)
grocer; commercial artist
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Herbert Franklin Teague, Jr. ("Kipp")
(1956-)
computer systems programmer/administrator

Other surnames in my ancestry include Flinchum (mother), Cassada (paternal grandmother), Gordon (maternal grandmother), Davis (paternal great-grandmother), Harbin (paternal great-grandmother), Wilson (maternal great-grandmother) and Ledbetter (maternal great-grandmother). Going back further, surnames include Hawkins, Brooks, Noland, Harrison, Payne, Surrett, Oats, Hill and Symington.
In 1913, H. Melvin Teague married Ella Clyde Cassada, daughter of John Franklin Cassada and Laura Ellen Harbin. In two years, Melvin and Ella Clyde and daughter Virginia, along with Ella's entire family (including her parents John and Laura), left Marshall, NC and moved to Crewe, Virginia, and set up a family farm.
My great-grandfather John Franklin Cassada and his youngest son Marvin. Photo taken around 1912.


H. Melvin Teague, at the grave of his father-in-law, John Franklin Cassada, and mother-in-law, Laura Harbin Cassada, in Blendon Cemetery near Crewe, Virginia.
On December 30, 1996, about 40 years after the photo to the left was taken, I visited the Blendon Cemetery and the gravesite of my great-grandparents, John and Laura Cassada.

My grandparents, Harrison Melvin Teague and Ella Clyde Cassada (photo taken around 1943). 		In 1921, Melvin, his wife, and their two children Virginia and Herbert, moved to Lynchburg, Virginia. The next year, daughter Agnes was born, but she would live just over a year before succumbing to pneumonia. In 1924, Ella Clyde gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Kathryn. By 1930, Melvin had his own business, a neighborhood grocery, which he co-managed with his son Herbert for over thirty years.
Melvin Teague in front of his grocery store at 2901 Campbell Ave. in Lynchburg.


Melvin Teague and son Herbert manning the registers at Teague's Grocery.


My grandfather, Eugene Harrison Flinchum, in his youth. 		My maternal grandfather, Eugene Harrison Flinchum began working for the Radford Foundry at the age of 14, and transferred to the Lynchburg Foundry soon afterward, where he worked until his retirement. His first wife was Ruth Anna Gordon of Lynchburg, my grandmother. Ruth Flinchum died during her second pregnancy when daughter Elizabeth was only two.
My grandmother, Ruth Anna Gordon at the age of twelve.

My father, Herbert Franklin Teague, at the age of seventeen with his first automobile (photo taken in 1934).
My mother, Hattie Elizabeth Flinchum, from a early 1920's post card portrait.

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My parents, Elizabeth and Herbert Teague, in the mid 1940's.
Herb at 42 with his son (1959).

My father and mother in New York City in July, 1973.

My mother, Hattie Elizabeth Flinchum, at the age of seven, at the grave of her first step-mother, Beulah Tuck Flinchum. Photo taken in 1923 at Lynchburg's Presbyterian Cemetery.
My mother at the Presbyterian Cemetery on December 31, 1996, standing at the graves of her natural mother Ruth Gordon Flinchum, her father Eugene Harrison Flinchum, and her first-stepmother, Beulah Tuck Flinchum.
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