Comments on: Tiger Whitehead – III

By: Adam Pope

Adam Pope — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:44:11 +0000

I live in Hendersonville, TN. One day, while visiting my then-girlfriend in Johnson City, TN…I personally found Tiger Whiteheads grave on top of Whitehead Hill. It was an amazing experience and adventure, and just seeing both Tiger & Sally’s names on the stones blew my mind. I had heard about it on a CD I had in which Johnny Cash told of his experience on the same mountain. It wasn’t long after that, I ended up meeting John Carter Cash, who pitched a song I wrote called “I Was The Train” to an artist named Vince Mira, and got me my first sogwriter cut! I got to tell of my experience to Johnny’s son, which I found just so surreal. RIP Tiger Whitehead.

By: bow hunter

bow hunter — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:19:39 +0000

I like your site. I’m looking forward to more visits here. Thanks!

By: Brenda Wilkinson

Brenda Wilkinson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:30:20 +0000

Hello cousins

Who is Tiger Whitehead’s parents and grandparents? I am desecended from Burcher and Nancy Whitehead, their son, Floyd Lee Whitehead,
through his son. Alexander Robert Whitehead & Lucy Stratton, and their son, James Dean & Lorena Elizabeth Mahone, and their Daughter Lucy Whitehead who married Eustace Minor Wilkinson.

I just recently looked up tiger whitehead, and it is fascinating.

Sincerely
Brenda Wilkinson

By: david roy whitehead

david roy whitehead — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:04:14 +0000

andrew it looks like we must be kin i thought i was last remaining decendant of tiger grandson of roy whitehead ……….so i thought???

By: Andrew Whitehead

Andrew Whitehead — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:41:49 +0000

Besides operating a waterwheel powered grist meal near elizabethtown ,Tn Tiger having said to have killed 99 bears ,was a famous bear hunter. So the story goes that when Tiger was taken ill and very near his death , his buddies brought to his bedside a black bear they had captured and caged. They ask tiger to shoot it so he could kill his 100th bear. But Tiger replied “No ,If its not wild and running free ,then it dosen’t count.

By: Lisa Whitehead

Lisa Whitehead — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:03:11 +0000

OMG!!!! That’s so cool!! I just found out that my great great granfether is Tiger Whitehead and that there was a song about him by Johnny Cash! My grandfather was telling me some stories and came on the subect of great paw paw Whitehead and he showed me this newspaper clipping of it talking about the song Johnny Cash wrote about him. I found the song too omg!! That’s soo wild!!

By: Andrew Whitehead

Andrew Whitehead — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:58:28 +0000

I love the painting , Tiger Whitehead was my great great grandfarther. He operated a gristmill besides being a bear hunter , He was named tiger after a traveling circus lost a tiger and commisioned him to hunt it down , He broght it back from the the thickly forsted mountains of east tennessee in just a few short days alive. By the way there is one inaccuracy with the painting sally nursed a bear cub and two fawns on her very own brest. Is is written on her toumbstone.

By: suzanne

suzanne — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:59:30 +0000

That cottage look like a Yert. Its pretty and idyllic but that mother bear is making me nervous.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:58:56 +0000

Han — I don’t use mediums most of the time. I used to, but I don’t these days. To additionally accentuate the texture, I prep the canvas/wood in advance with a very heavy underlayer (which does often contain medium — as well as texturing agents). I also use “sludge” to build up that texture — http://tri-art.ca/en/products/sludge/

By: TheWomanMonster

TheWomanMonster — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:26:18 +0000

Gorgeous painting Shannon, I love it.