Frederick Hugh Heiskell

Frederick Hugh Heiskell was the son of Joseph Brown Heiskell, and the grandson of Frederick Steidinger Heiskell. Frederick married Sarah Augusta Lamar (b: 15 AUG 1860 d: 1926) on 5 May 1880 in Oxford, Lafayette County, MS. He was born July 31, 1851, Rogersville, Hawkins, TN, and died 1933. He was an alumnus of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., (1870-72). Frederick Hugh Heiskell was Chancellor of Chancery Court and Judge of Court of Appeals, Shelby County, Tennessee.

The following is from a biographical entry:
HON. FREDERICK HUGH HEISKELL.

Hon. Frederick Hugh Heiskell, for the past twenty-three years judge of chancery court No. 1 at Memphis, was born in Rogersville, Hawkins county, Tennessee, July 31, 1851, and is a representative of a family of lawyers. Fortunate is the man who has back of him an ancestry honorable and distinguished and happy is he if his lines of life are cast in harmony therewith. In person, in talents and in character Judge Heiskell is a worthy scion of his race. His father was General Joseph Brown Heiskell, a distinguished member of the bar, who served as attorney general of Tennessee from 1870 until 1878 and there are twelve published volumes of the Heiskell reports of the Tennessee supreme court. Joseph Brown Heiskell was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was a son of Frederick S. Heiskell, a newspaper man, who was once editor of the Knoxville Register, and who married Eliza Brown, whose family name became a part of the Christian name of her son, Joseph B. Heiskell. Another son of her family who achieved distinction at the bar, is the Hon. Carrick W. Heiskell, who still resides in Memphis.1

Another biographical entry:

F. H. Heiskell is a member of the prominent law firm of Heiskell & Heiskell, his father, J. B. Heiskell, being the senior member of the firm. In 1874 the firm of Heiskell, Weatherford & Heiskell was formed, but in 1883 Mr. Weatherford withdrew, leaving the firm as it is at present. F. H. Heiskell is a native of Rogersville, Tenn., and was educated at Washington-Lee University, Lexington, Ky., and began the study of law in this city in 1872. He was admitted to the bar in 1874, since which date he has been associated with his father in the practice of his profession. In 1880 he was joined in marriage to Miss Gussie L., daughter of Secretary L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, and this lady has presented him with three children, all of whom are living. Mr. Heiskell is a member of the K. of H. His father is a native of Knoxville, Tenn., where he was educated and admitted to the bar in about 1843. He practiced at Madisonville, Tenn., until about 1850, and at Rogersville with Col. John Netherland until 1860. He was a member of the Confederate Congress, and at the close of the war came to Memphis where he has since practiced his profession. He was a member of the State constitutional convention of 1870. In 1846 he married Miss Sarah A. McKinney, who bore her husband seven children, of whom five are still living. The grandparents of our subject were Frederick S. and Eliza (Brown) Heiskell. Frederick S. Heiskell edited and published the Knoxville Register from 1816 to 1836, and was State printer from 1820 to 1836. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1847-48. His death occurred in 1882, his wife preceding him in 1854.2

Frederick was President of the Tennessee State Bar 1906-1907. He was a member of the Southern Sociological Congress (1914).

Children of Sarah Augusta Lamar and Frederick Hugh Heiskell are:

Joseph Brown Heiskell was born 1881(died as a child).

Lucius Lamar Heiskell was born in Shelby County, Tennessee on 3 February 1882; died 2 September 1929 .
     Heiskell, Lucius Lamar, public official; born in Shelby Co., Tenn., Feb. 4, 1883; son of F. H. and Augusta (Lamar) Heiskell; father's occupation, chancellor; paternal grandfather Joseph B. Heiskell, maternal grandfather, L. Q. C. Lamar; educated in public schools, Memphis University School and University of Tennessee, graduating from latter, B.S., 1904, LL.B., 1905; entered the practice of law in early life; member S.A.E. fraternity, Knoxville, Tenn., Chickasaw Club, Memphis Country Club and University Club, Memphis, Tenn. Democrat; appointed Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Shelby Co., Tenn., 1906, and is the present incumbent; member of Presbyterian Church; director in Mercantile Natl. Bank of Memphis, Tenn. (Source: Men of 1914 (Chicago, 1915)

Lucius studied law, and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1904 from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), having written a thesis entitled: The Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. He won a scholarship for the highest standing in the junior class by the Law Department. While at University he was Third Lieutenant of Company B, Cadet Infantry Battalion (source: The University of Tennessee record, Volume 7: 1904).

Lucius Lamar Heiskell married Ruth McCall on 25 OCT 1911. Ruth MCCALL b: 1 OCT 1891, d. 2 SEP 1929. They had two children: John McCall Heiskell and Adeline Heiskell. John McCall Heiskell married Margaret Bond Winchester. Their son, Major Lucius Lamar Heiskell (b. 3 February 1940), was shot down over Vietnam on 6 February 1967. His name appears on The Vietnam Memorial Wall Memorial (panel 14E, line 129) in Washington DC.

Virginia Longstreet Heiskell was born 1885. She married William Forman Dunbar 1905.

Augustus Longstreet Heiskell was born 1890. He practiced law in Memphis, Tenn. He married Ardeane McNeil. They had two daughters Ardeane Heiskell and Ann Longstreet Heiskell. Ann married Albert Clifton Rickey on 21 Feb 1948 in Memphis, Shelby Co, TN. Ann Heiskell Rickey was the author of the book: Bugs and critters I have known (1998). Her daughter, Mary Lamar Rickey was born in Knoxville, and reared in Memphis. Her stage name is "Lara Parker". She played Angelique, the witch in Dark Shadows (TV) and MGM's Night of Dark Shadows.

Hugh McKinney Heiskell was born 1888.

Mary Loretta Heiskell b: 27 JUN 1894 d: MAY 1987

William Weatherford Heiskell b: 16 FEB 1900 d: 1 JUL 1989.

1 Tennessee the Volunteer State 1769-1923: Volume 3 [p.191]
2 Goodspeed's History of Tennessee (1887)