We are having a Whing Ding... a Shin Dig, a Marathon Lookup weekend... I have resources for Dickson County....others have other counties.... lets see if we can crack some mortar in the walls and maybe make a few actually BREAKDOWN!!! In your request please be succinct... and keep it to only TWO queries...per email. WE do this regularly in the winter.... there will be other times! Remember you may be able to help too... so keep an eye out... this is not a Cher show... we are all pitchin in ... k? I know a lot of us are going to be away from the screen this weekend...but we will just have to to have fun with out them!! Look what they are missing! You lurkers? Jump in and help.... Cher

--WebTV-Mail-16544-758 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Beth, Did you know there was a quite prominent Baptist Minister of the Gospel in Dickson County's early years named David Gray?? Also, My uncle Pernel GRAY was born in 1899 and was married to Alma Blanche BROWN,(still living- age 96), from Burns, Dickson, TN. FYI....... Mike in Bakersfield, CA. Michael David Brown Bakersfield Brigade --WebTV-Mail-16544-758 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-101-5.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.30) by storefull-233.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 06:34:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtpin-101-5.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) id C7701159; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 06:34:24 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by smtpin-101-5.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) with ESMTP id E23471A9; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 06:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e95DSsu31771; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 06:28:54 -0700 Resent-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 06:28:54 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Thu Oct 5 06:28:54 2000 X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhQrH4j5fq1+IMassnRr87x89qN5GQIVAMo2RIS8vkpqKu+z+RSzLmoqXJx2 From: [email protected] (Beth Lackey) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:28:55 -0500 (CDT) Old-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DC] Yellow Creek Message-ID: <[email protected]> In-Reply-To: j <[email protected]>'s message of Wed, 04 Oct 2000 21:41:07 -0400 Content-Disposition: Inline Old-Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; Boundary=WebTV-Mail-18451-40 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/13530 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] --WebTV-Mail-18451-40 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Polly Ann Rye Born in 12/3/1865, was my 3ed g-grandmother. She married David Monroe Gray. Her sister married into the Gray family also. Sarah Rye, She married David's brother Joseph William Gray, both Gray's were born in Ala. Are these the same Rye's in the Yellow Creek book? I would love to know. Beth form Missouri Thank You, Beth Lackey Surnames= Langley, Casteel, Shields, Nally, Nelson, Gray --WebTV-Mail-18451-40 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.121) by storefull-175.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) id ABA8319B; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) with ESMTP id B354A216; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e951Pru27398; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:25:53 -0700 Resent-Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:25:53 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Wed Oct 4 18:25:52 2000 Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 21:41:07 -0400 Old-To: [email protected] From: j <[email protected]> Old-Cc: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [DC] Yellow Creek Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/13529 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Since my story about Aunt Lillie, Mama has been reminiscing about Yellow Creek (which is where that story really took place), and so I thought this was a great time to plug that book our OWN Cher saw to it landed back in print. Cher may be too shy to say it, but I am going to tell the real story behind it even being available. SHE is the one that got William J. Nesbitt to reissue Primal Families of Yellow Creek, and if you do not have the book it IS a dandy, it IS still available. Cher does NOT make any money for the sales of this, nor did she ever, even though she did all the legwork, arranging for re-publication, contacts, etc., so please don't think I am trying to pad my pal's pocketbook. Taint so! The author and the publisher are the only ones to make anything, and it isn't much. It is just a great book, and someone was asking about it the other day...so here is tis. This has a LOT about families of the Dickson area in it, and I have found it really fun to read the stories in as well as the genealogy info. I am trying to think: Adams, Mathis, Bishop, Coleman, Murray, Thompson, James, Balthrop, Baker, Cooksey, Reynolds, Rye names among others. If you want one, here is the contact info for the publisher: Robert Stewart http://www.pathcom.com/~rstewart (Book Production Services) Stewart Publishing & Printing 17 Sir Constantine Drive Markham, Ontario, Canada L3P 2X3 Tel: (905) 294-4389 Fax: (905) 294-8718 ==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== What do you mean my Birth Certificate expired ??? --WebTV-Mail-18451-40-- ==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== My family tree must have been used for Firewood !!! --WebTV-Mail-16544-758--

Note: Because I will be offline most of the weekend, the Sunday Afternoon Rocking column is being delivered early. Thanks, jan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Photographs (from the "Sunday Afternoon Rocking" series) I see her every day. She gazes out at me, clear eyed, her lips parted in a half smile, just a hint of expectation and excitement in her manner. Her youthful face is clear, her light hair waved in a forgotten style, and gently cupping her face. She wears a strand of shimmering pearls, and the dress she wears I would know was clearly of 1930's vintage, even if the mat surrounding the photograph did not bear the imprint "My Graduation: 1930". I had no idea who this young lady was when I first found it in a box of family photographs, and yet it captured me...held my imagination, and I could not bear to part with it. She is Eula Mae Goodin, but I would not know that had my 89 year old aunt who remembered her in her youth not identified the cousin. To me, she is more than a cousin my aunt has not seen in seventy years. She is more than a cousin my aunt cannot tell me what became of. She is a symbol of all the youth I have seen in ancient photographs and tintypes, a symbol of even more...of youth itself. The young lady is forever young. She may not live today, and if she does, no doubt bears little resemblance physically to the girl who is captured forever looking expectantly into a future she knows as little about as we do the past that she had. One shining day in time is as it was, and for her the future holds all manner of possibilities. Nearly seventy years separates her youth from that of my own eldest child and yet she is no different. There are the same clear eyes looking toward a world that has not yet unfolded, the same hesitant expectant smile wanting to hope the world will unfold great surprises. Time, pain, sorrows...none of this has etched a line under an eye, about a mouth yet. She will live through a Depression, endure the worries of a World War. She will know the sorrows of raising a family, and the joys too. She will learn to say good-bye a hundred times and she will learn to say hello just as many...and yet she is far too youthful to know what all of that can mean. How many times do we look upon a box of old photographs, often never able to identify the people in them...and yet recognize them? How many times have we seen a face, and thought "I know that person!" And yet it is impossible...we could not possibly know that person. He died thirty years before our birth. She is dressed in clothing of a vintage our great grandmother would have worn. "And yet...," we think, "If she were dressed in today's clothing...she would look like someone I know, someone I have met somewhere..." Yes, we know them. And should we not? They may have lived a hundred years in the past...but the expressions are our own, the dreams are not so different, the basic needs the same, they share with us all of the emotions of the human condition. They are ourselves. This is why I love the photographs, why I cannot part with them, even when I cannot place a name on them, even when I am not sure they wound up in the family collection because they were actually family or not at all. They are a tangible reminder that life has always been, and the basic nugget of the needs, the dreams, the pain, the hopes inside each of us are the same. Each generation records the same stories over and over...the celebrations of weddings and gatherings, the sorrow and tears of pain and loss, the expectation of youth, the lines life etches on the faces of the elders. Had photography been born a hundred years, two hundred years before it was...the story would be the same. The styles might differ, the technology record with a different element of clarity...but the same stories would have been recorded. They are ourselves. We are them. One endless chain capturing the same things we have always held important to remember. just a thought, jan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Note: Afternoon Rocking messages are meant to be passed on, meant to be shared...simply share as written without alterations...and in entirety. Thanks, jan) Sunday Afternoon Rocking columns are distributed weekly on the list Sunday Rocking. This is not a "reply to" list, and normally only one message per week will come across it, that being the column. 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Jeanne, Welcome! This weekend we will be doing a major lookup for everyone...on Danville Crossing and TnDickson! You wont find better or more helpful folks on or off the web.. There are a lot of great lists and this is the GRANDPAW of all the good ones! Be patient, if we cant help you this week.... maybe next! Cher ----- Original Message ----- From: Raymond Millman <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 7:40 AM Subject: [DC] Re: Coakley new to list > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Raymond Millman > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 4:02 AM > Subject: Coakley new to list > > > Hi, List > I'm a newbie at this gen stuff. My grandfather was born 1879 in Dover Stewart Co Thomas William COAKLEY and his wife Etta Veonie AVERITT said she was born in Erin Houston Co. 1886 > > Hoping to find info on them on this list to help solve mystery of who the parents were of my grandfather and his bro. of course but also hope I can help others. I live in Los Angeles area and am hr away from large LDS library. so maybe can help w/ lookups for others. > > In the mean time as a new member peace offering I thought I'd mention Find or ctrl + F. > > Maybe everyone already knows this. but I didn't when I started in Aug until someone mentioned it on another list. You pull down find from Edit or hold down ctrl + F and then type in name to search page displayed. hit find next if you think there is more than one entry on page for that name. Great timesaver! > > Looking forward to following msgs on this list as I learn about Tn. I'm coming to Tn end of May for cousin reunion in Nashville and anticipating visiting places of my ancestors (in the meantime I have to gather gen info to share).May will be here before I know it! > > Jeanne Coakley Millman > > > ==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== > My genealogy software won't accept "spaceship" > as a "Place of Birth"..... Now What ???? >

> I'm a newbie at this gen stuff. My grandfather was born 1879 in Dover Stewart Co Thomas William COAKLEY and his wife Etta Veonie AVERITT said she was born in Erin Houston Co. 1886 Hi Raymond, I'd like to invite you to see if any of these research tools will be able to help. -- GREAT BOOKMARKS! ShipSearch http://www.obitcentral.com/shipsearch/ CemSearch http://www.obitcentral.com/cemsearch/ ObitSearch http://www.obitcentral.com/obitsearch/ Obituary Links Page http://www.geocities.com/cribbswh/obit/ Canadian Obit Links Page http://www.geocities.com/cribbswh/obit/canada.htm Thanks, Bill and Tina Cribbs HELP STOP BREAST CANCER!!! --

----- Original Message ----- From: Raymond Millman To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 4:02 AM Subject: Coakley new to list Hi, List I'm a newbie at this gen stuff. My grandfather was born 1879 in Dover Stewart Co Thomas William COAKLEY and his wife Etta Veonie AVERITT said she was born in Erin Houston Co. 1886 Hoping to find info on them on this list to help solve mystery of who the parents were of my grandfather and his bro. of course but also hope I can help others. I live in Los Angeles area and am hr away from large LDS library. so maybe can help w/ lookups for others. In the mean time as a new member peace offering I thought I'd mention Find or ctrl + F. Maybe everyone already knows this. but I didn't when I started in Aug until someone mentioned it on another list. You pull down find from Edit or hold down ctrl + F and then type in name to search page displayed. hit find next if you think there is more than one entry on page for that name. Great timesaver! Looking forward to following msgs on this list as I learn about Tn. I'm coming to Tn end of May for cousin reunion in Nashville and anticipating visiting places of my ancestors (in the meantime I have to gather gen info to share).May will be here before I know it! Jeanne Coakley Millman

Thank you Lord... for Dave and Dan who opened a new world for me, and showed me a vision that grew and grew... for sending me Cher, who has been a friend through thick and thin, through project after project, through every kind of thing a person can "live" in cyber space. for sending me Jim, who has been the "quiet strength" behind our Stewart site, generously building it and steadfastly nursing it into growth. for sending me Mary, the "Gentle Spirit" who sends quiet messages when our researchers are celebrating or in pain, who reminds them that we are cousins, who provides the "touch" that keeps us family. for sending me Tim to step in with good humor, to step in in a pinch and watch after our "folks on the porch". For sending me Pat...to keep Tim under control. for sending me Nancy to provide insight and be a "guru" when we just don't know the answers or we want someone to hold our hand while we cross the street. for sending me Debbie and Ira, for sending me a dozen, two dozen, three dozen more who generously and completely share and give as "old timers" to the site and list. The names go on and on and on... for sending me an entire family of researchers that consider themselves family, that give and give and share and share, and never a cross word between them...what a family!!!!! for giving us all the opportunity to be together under one roof, in one community again...in yet another way. Thank you, Lord. Amen. jan

Are you aware that you can "key word" search the ENTIRE Stewart County site and find any instance of your surname appearing in it *just like that*??? Go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnstewar/stewsearch.htm and have a wonderful time!!!! jan

One Word................. AMEN............................ Mollie ----- Original Message ----- From: j <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 1:06 AM Subject: [DC] A Little Thank You...Goodnight > Thank you Lord... > > for Dave and Dan who opened a new world for me, and showed me a vision that > grew and grew... > > for sending me Cher, who has been a friend through thick and thin, through > project after project, through every kind of thing a person can "live" in > cyber space. > > for sending me Jim, who has been the "quiet strength" behind our Stewart > site, generously building it and steadfastly nursing it into growth. > > for sending me Mary, the "Gentle Spirit" who sends quiet messages when our > researchers are celebrating or in pain, who reminds them that we are > cousins, who provides the "touch" that keeps us family. > > for sending me Tim to step in with good humor, to step in in a pinch and > watch after our "folks on the porch". For sending me Pat...to keep Tim > under control. > > for sending me Nancy to provide insight and be a "guru" when we just don't > know the answers or we want someone to hold our hand while we cross the street. > > for sending me Debbie and Ira, for sending me a dozen, two dozen, three > dozen more who generously and completely share and give as "old timers" to > the site and list. The names go on and on and on... > > for sending me an entire family of researchers that consider themselves > family, that give and give and share and share, and never a cross word > between them...what a family!!!!! > > for giving us all the opportunity to be together under one roof, in one > community again...in yet another way. > > Thank you, Lord. > Amen. > > jan > > > ==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== > Hi Ho! Hi Ho! Now where did my ancestors go ?? > >

Jan, Cher, Susan Copy Ms.Kay French Thanks for the reply Kay, I have gotten a copy of Leland McAulay's drawing of Stewart Depot, I am including it in the book. Hope this will let every one know how they are coming on the Cemetery Book. Thanks Again. Jan and Cher and Susan: I have had a number of requests for dates and etc. on the Cemetery Book for both Houston and Stewart Counties. Jan can you [post address of the Stewart County Society where the Stewart Cemetery book, if still available, can get obtained. Ira In a message dated 10/5/00 1:20:45 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Mr. Bell I've talked with Nina today. There is still not a projected date for publishing the revised cemetery records book. As of now, the Historical Society is working on a pictorial history and have signed the contract with a publisher and are in the rough stages for that book. It will be completed before they do the cemetery book. If anyone wants to write the Historical Society to be added to their mailing list, tell them to write to: The Houston County Historical Society, P. O. Box 401 Erin, TN 37061 Good to hear from you and looking forward to receiving the pictures of the depots when you have the chance. Thanks again, Kay French Houston County Public Library P. O. Box l83 Erin, TN 37061 [email protected] >>

Sounds like fun, Cher...if I did not have to make one of my "flying trips" to Tenn. I would do the same on Stewart lookups...but if you don't mind me "copy catting" <BBG> (like she ever does! Cheech and Chong! That is us!) We will do the same for Stewart, soon as I can stay put one weekend. And if anyone else WILL be around and wants to lead the charge, please do. WHILE we are at this, the "summer slump" has taken its toll...time to get DC going full force again and also the county lists moving! I propose a "get a new cousin" to the lists marathon as well! In fact...Cher and I will be thinking of some wonderous "Grand Prize" for the person who brings the most newbies to DC, Stewart and Dickson lists...and maybe other listowners will want to get in on this idea too! Let's get things moving now that the weather is no longer going to cooperate with fishing and picnics! We have long been reknowned for being some of the most helpful places for Middle Tennessee researchers...let's get moving again! At 08:35 PM 10/5/00 -0400, you wrote: >If any of you are Dickson County Diggers... Saturday and Sunday I am doing a >marathon Lookup... Send to me your query and make it as suscent as possible >as I get so many it is hard to read all the details.. do give me the >basics..and I will do my best to help you >I may forward your query to TnDickson for other lookers to help me... if you >dont mind. >Cher >Chief Digger >(Remember dont start sending me queries before Saturday... I am not going to >be able to answer them ) >Hope the walls at least get cracks in them!!<BG> > > >==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== >GENEALOGY is like Hide & Seek: >They Hide & I Seek !!

If any of you are Dickson County Diggers... Saturday and Sunday I am doing a marathon Lookup... Send to me your query and make it as suscent as possible as I get so many it is hard to read all the details.. do give me the basics..and I will do my best to help you I may forward your query to TnDickson for other lookers to help me... if you dont mind. Cher Chief Digger (Remember dont start sending me queries before Saturday... I am not going to be able to answer them ) Hope the walls at least get cracks in them!!<BG>

Hi-does anyone on the list have the 1880 or 1890 Stewart Co. cencus who would be willing to do a lookup for me? I am looking for Houston B. Smith age 4 in 1880 or age 14 in the 1890 cencus. I do not know his parents names. Thanks, Margaret

--WebTV-Mail-18451-40 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Polly Ann Rye Born in 12/3/1865, was my 3ed g-grandmother. She married David Monroe Gray. Her sister married into the Gray family also. Sarah Rye, She married David's brother Joseph William Gray, both Gray's were born in Ala. Are these the same Rye's in the Yellow Creek book? I would love to know. Beth form Missouri Thank You, Beth Lackey Surnames= Langley, Casteel, Shields, Nally, Nelson, Gray --WebTV-Mail-18451-40 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.121) by storefull-175.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) id ABA8319B; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) with ESMTP id B354A216; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e951Pru27398; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:25:53 -0700 Resent-Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:25:53 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Wed Oct 4 18:25:52 2000 Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 21:41:07 -0400 Old-To: [email protected] From: j <[email protected]> Old-Cc: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [DC] Yellow Creek Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/13529 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Since my story about Aunt Lillie, Mama has been reminiscing about Yellow Creek (which is where that story really took place), and so I thought this was a great time to plug that book our OWN Cher saw to it landed back in print. Cher may be too shy to say it, but I am going to tell the real story behind it even being available. SHE is the one that got William J. Nesbitt to reissue Primal Families of Yellow Creek, and if you do not have the book it IS a dandy, it IS still available. Cher does NOT make any money for the sales of this, nor did she ever, even though she did all the legwork, arranging for re-publication, contacts, etc., so please don't think I am trying to pad my pal's pocketbook. Taint so! The author and the publisher are the only ones to make anything, and it isn't much. It is just a great book, and someone was asking about it the other day...so here is tis. This has a LOT about families of the Dickson area in it, and I have found it really fun to read the stories in as well as the genealogy info. I am trying to think: Adams, Mathis, Bishop, Coleman, Murray, Thompson, James, Balthrop, Baker, Cooksey, Reynolds, Rye names among others. If you want one, here is the contact info for the publisher: Robert Stewart http://www.pathcom.com/~rstewart (Book Production Services) Stewart Publishing & Printing 17 Sir Constantine Drive Markham, Ontario, Canada L3P 2X3 Tel: (905) 294-4389 Fax: (905) 294-8718 ==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== What do you mean my Birth Certificate expired ??? --WebTV-Mail-18451-40--

Since my story about Aunt Lillie, Mama has been reminiscing about Yellow Creek (which is where that story really took place), and so I thought this was a great time to plug that book our OWN Cher saw to it landed back in print. Cher may be too shy to say it, but I am going to tell the real story behind it even being available. SHE is the one that got William J. Nesbitt to reissue Primal Families of Yellow Creek, and if you do not have the book it IS a dandy, it IS still available. Cher does NOT make any money for the sales of this, nor did she ever, even though she did all the legwork, arranging for re-publication, contacts, etc., so please don't think I am trying to pad my pal's pocketbook. Taint so! The author and the publisher are the only ones to make anything, and it isn't much. It is just a great book, and someone was asking about it the other day...so here is tis. This has a LOT about families of the Dickson area in it, and I have found it really fun to read the stories in as well as the genealogy info. I am trying to think: Adams, Mathis, Bishop, Coleman, Murray, Thompson, James, Balthrop, Baker, Cooksey, Reynolds, Rye names among others. If you want one, here is the contact info for the publisher: Robert Stewart http://www.pathcom.com/~rstewart (Book Production Services) Stewart Publishing & Printing 17 Sir Constantine Drive Markham, Ontario, Canada L3P 2X3 Tel: (905) 294-4389 Fax: (905) 294-8718

Tonight I found a letter written to my grandfather in 1897 from his uncle D. Dunlap. The Dunlaps originated in Stewart Co. with James and Malissa Clark Dunlap. James was born in Pittsburg Pennsylvania and Malissa in Wheeling WV. After the Civil War they appear in Stewart Co. I hace yet to figure out why. The family basically scattered, as near as I can tell, one sister winding up in Oklahoma, rumors of a brother in Memphis...all I can find staying in Stewart Co. is Ben Dunlap who ran a store in the Tharpe area, but then disappeared himself as an older man (my aunt says he moved to "west Tenn"???). Others seem simply to have boarded the nearest UFO. This letter I found tonight indicates that David Dunlap was in Talladega Alabama in the late 1800's. I have no clue what he might have been doing there. Has anyone else a family that followed a migration pattern from this area of Tennessee into that area of Alabama? thanks, jan

George and Sandy: Thanks Sandy for the information, I am sending it on to my cousin, possibly they can trace it through the AMilitary as you have described. It is possible since this happened before the adoption was final, they never filed for Military dependence. Hope it will be a lead. George note below, did you try this route? Ira In a message dated 10/3/00 5:45:10 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << I don't understand all of this and may have "missed" something. The 1st set of people that tired to adopt this child were "Military". The man's military records would probably mention the adoption proceedings because this child would have been a military dependant. Can they get access to the military records? (My reason for believing the military records would help is that I know a similar circumstance. I know a young man who's mother married someone that was "retired military". He started adoption proceedings on the child and the child received dependants benefits. The marriage didn't last and the man never completed the adoption but the child retained the benefits because the man never bothered to stop them! This child didn't know anything about this man until shortly before his 18th birthday when he happened to find a check made out to him. That's when his mother told him what had happened. This incident happened in the 70s) Also, depending on the woman's age, she may be drawing benefits from the man's social security or his military benefits. Just a thought--- Sandy Ellis >>

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Ira, I don't understand all of this and may have "missed" something. The 1st set of people that tired to adopt this child were "Military". The man's military records would probably mention the adoption proceedings because this child would have been a military dependant. Can they get access to the military records? (My reason for believing the military records would help is that I know a similar circumstance. I know a young man who's mother married someone that was "retired military". He started adoption proceedings on the child and the child received dependants benefits. The marriage didn't last and the man never completed the adoption but the child retained the benefits because the man never bothered to stop them! This child didn't know anything about this man until shortly before his 18th birthday when he happened to find a check made out to him. That's when his mother told him what had happened. This incident happened in the 70s) Also, depending on the woman's age, she may be drawing benefits from the man's social security or his military benefits. Just a thought--- Sandy Ellis