fyi saw these 2 pieces in the TNROOTS-L Digest today > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: East Tn Surnames > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:57:26 -0000 > From: Mary Anne Kbel <Kuebel@T-ONLINE.DE> > > Hello! Searching for roots before 1860 in Eastern Tennesse (primarily in > Bradley, McMinn, Rhea, Blount, Roane, Cocke, Polk and Hamilton Counties) > for the following surnames in my own family line: BURKHART/BURKETT, > SCHMIDT, HARPER, COLLINS, PHILLIPS, FORRESTER, KANUT/KANUPP, TYNER, > RIDER/RYDER. Appreciate contact and exchange with others. Mary Anne > Burkhart Kuebel, Trommstr. 25A, 69483 Wald-Michelbach, Germany, phone: > country code+6207-3314, fax: country code+6207-3385. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: MINOR -COLLINS > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 09:58:57 -0500 > From: Jerrie Craun <jcraun@EROLS.COM> > > Hello, > I was advised that MINOR-COLLINS are both common surnames in the Newmans Ridge area > of Hancock Co. Tenn. > Im trying to find the names of my maternal g.g.grandparents.Its reputed he was > Indian.According to Anderson Co.Kansas 1880 census,he was born in TENN,and his wife > in IND. (no names) > This is the info I have on his son my g.grandfather: > > SAMUEL MINOR b.1844 Kankakee La Porte Co.Indiana > d.Wyandotte Kansas > 2 wives,16 children > Married: MARY FRANCES COLLINS b.1850 MO. > d.c 1886 KS > Her parents were JAMES THOMAS COLLINS > LOUISA JANE HARRIS > They lived for a while in Tenn. > > There is a SAMUEL MINOR in the 1860 La Porte Ind.census.Would that be my > g.grandfather (aprox age 16)or my g.g.grandfathers name? > > Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. > THANK YOU > Jerrie > jcraun@erols.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >