MY GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS JOHN WALLACE ABEL, A BROTHER TO ROBERT MCHENRY ABEL. I DESCEND THROUGH HIS DAUGHTER, JULIA VICTORIA ABEL WHO MARRIED THOMAS LANDO GURLEY. MY FATHER WAS PAUL LEROY GURLEY. I'LL BE HAPPY TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION ON THE ABEL'S DENNIS GURLEY ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Lieby" <gensolutions@charter.net> To: <ALCULLMA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 4:47 PM Subject: [ALCULLMA] Tidmore, Garren, Abel, Griffith, Clayton, McHenryy,Ratliff, Sutton, Spencer... Families >I just joined this list and am wondering if I have any cousins out there. > > My grandmother was Mary Jane TIDMORE, daughter of William (?) TIDMORE and > Ethel ABEL. Mary Jane was born 1920 in Nectar, Blount County. > > Ethel ABEL is the daughter of Moses ABEL and Leatha GARREN; both died in > Nectar. > > Moses ABEL is the son of Robert McHenry ABEL and Susan CLAYTON. > > Robert McHenry ABEL is the son of Moses ABEL and Elizabeth MCHENRY. > > Susan CLAYTON is the daughter of Littleberry CLAYTON and Sarah RATLIFF. > > Leatha GARREN is the daughter of Thomas Burgen GARREN and Mary GRIFFITH. > > Thomas Burgen GARREN is the son of Absolom GARREN and Winifred SUTTON. > > Mary GRIFFITH is the daughter of John Wiles (Wiley) GRIFFITH and Hannah M. > SPENCER. > > I have more on these lines and would love to trade information with any of > you!!! If you have any corrections, I'd love those also! > > I'm looking for information on my TIDMORE line as I am trying to either > prove or dispel the story I have been told. I really know nothing of my > particular TIDMORE line- although I have done extensive research on the > TIDMORE family in general and am in the process of entering the > documentation I've found so far. Please let me know if you're interested > and I'll be happy to share the census and other information I've been able > to gather. > > My grandmother, Mary Jane TIDMORE, died in 1966 and her mother, Ethel > ABEL, > died in 1984 so my sources for information are limited to those who might > have known them or the family. From what I've been told, my grandmother > didn't really know her father. We were told that his name was William > TIDMORE and he apparently died either right before her birth or shortly > thereafter. I can find no records for a marriage for Ethel and William > (assuming they were married). I can't find a death record in that time > frame for William either. We were told that his family owned a sawmill or > logging company and that he was killed in a logging accident. I've been > comparing census records from 1900 to 1920 to see if I can find any > dissappearing William's, but I have found nothing yet. (I just began this > project). > > I was told by Mary Jane's half-sister that after William died, the TIDMORE > grandparents offered to care for Mary Jane, but Ethel refused. Instead, > she > answered a classified ad and ran off to San Francisco where she married a > man named John Charles SCHNELL. Mary Jane was raised as a SCHNELL and I > don't believe she ever was able to meet her TIDMORE side of the family, > which is unfortunate. In doing the research I have and from the online > relationships I have developed, I have come to really love this line! > > Does anyone know a TIDMORE family that was involved in the LOGGING > industry > around 1920, possibly located in or around Blount County? I know there > were > some TIDMORE's in Hanceville that operated a COAL mining industry of some > kind (TIDMORE COAL), but the name of the company and an old newspaper ad > is > all I have on them. I wonder if my aunt might have confused the story > and > it might have been a coal mining accident instead. (Or perhaps my > great-grandmother didn't want the truth to be known so my grandmother > wouldn't try to find her father. She has been known to be a little > impetuous- but I love her anyway!) > > I do have more on some of the other lines (especially SUTTON and GARREN) > that I would love to share/compare with any cousins. I look forward to > hearing from you all. > > Have a GREAT day!!! > > Linda Lieby > > > > I am administrator of this list on a volunteer basis. I will attend to > problems as soon as possible. > Jayne Holland > you can email me at > jholland "at" coralwave.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALCULLMA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >