Dock Lewis Conner was born 29 August 1868 to Mack Conner and Margaret Gross Conner, and was the Grandson of Maximilian Haney Conner and Martha Palmer Conner.

Dock Lewis was one of nine children: Jake, Mary Jane, Mattie, Tinnie, Thomas, James, Franklin and John Silas.

Dock married Martha Elvira Stinett 13 January, 1897 in Meigs County, TN.

Dock died 18 February, 1930 and Martha Elvira 8 August 1934. They had six children:

Nellie Mae, born 4 March, 1898 in Meigs County TN,

Died 25 May 1982 in Marshall County AL

John Mack, born 19 June, 1903 in Meigs County TN,

Died 9 February, 1980 in Marshall County AL

Frank Norwood born 9 January, 1905 in Meigs Couny, TN.

Died 10 Dec. 1992 in DeKalb County AL

William Elmer born 1 June, 1908 in Marshall County, AL,

Died 30 Dec. 1960 in Marshall County AL

Lucille born 22 March, 1910 in Marshall County AL,

Died 18 May, 1911 in Marshall County AL

Mary Elizabeth born 30 March, 1915 in Marshall County, AL

Sons of Mack & Margaret Conner (l to r) (front row)

Frank, Jimmy, Tommy. (back row) D.L. (Dock)

Jake, and Johnny

Mary is the only one living and resides in a nursing home in Guntersville, AL.

I am the eldest daughter of John Mack and Mary Ethel Keylon Conner and since I was only

going on six years of age, I remember very little about my grandfather. But I was told they

moved to Guntersville, AL from Tennessee with all their farming tools and household goods on

a barge down the Tennessee River. They left Tennessee because the rent became so high. It

must have been in the fall of 1904 for my Grandmother Conner was pregnant with Norwood

and had to stay with her mother, my Grandmother Stinnett, until after the baby was born.

They settled on a farm of just over 200 acres in Marshall County Alabama and my

grandfather and the boys cleared the land. I remember cutting brush on some of the new ground

after I was old enough. My father would grow strawberries on the newly cleared ground.

My Grandmother Elvira Conner is a fond childhood memory of mine. We lived within

hollering distance of her and I loved to spend the night with her.

The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) came into Marshall County in the mid-thirties and

built Guntersville Dam which took our farm. By that time both grandparents had died and the

farm had been divided among the children. The children scattered, but all were within fifty

miles of each other.

I remember in the early forties Uncle Frank Conner, brother of my grandfather Dock, would

come down from Tennessee and stay several weeks after his wife died. I enjoyed his visits

because he reminded me of my Pa (Dock) Conner. He would visit among the Conner children

and when he was at our house my Mom would give him the royal treatment. We all loved him

and we remember that he liked to fish and always took one or two of the children with him. He

was a soft spoken gentle man who was so sweet and congenial.

Note added by Chuck Gross from his records)

Dock left Tennessee, about 1904, because the rent became so high. They settled on a farm, of

just over 200 acres, and Dock and his sons cleared the land. The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

came into Marshall County, AL in the mid-thirties and built Guntersville Dam, which

took the farm. By this time both Dock and his wife, Martha Elvira, died and the farm had been

divided among the children. The children scattered but all were with in fifty miles of each

other.