Thanks Ted. Linda At 08:51 AM 7/25/99 -0500, you wrote: >Linda, > >The newspaper accounting will not come out until 30 July edition. I will >make a copy and send to you. > >Ted > > > >==== Mailing List ==== >GENEALOGY is like Hide & Seek: >They Hide & I Seek !! > > > > > **********************************************************************Linda G. Hayes P.O. Box 148 Brownsville, TN 38012-0148 ----------------- Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnstewar/genkin.htm

Linda, The newspaper accounting will not come out until 30 July edition. I will make a copy and send to you. Ted

Does anyone remember the drums made from Oatmeal boxes and the telescopes from toilet paper rolls. Grandma in Idaho made all kinds of "Gifts" for her 19 grandchildren from castoffs in the house. Toni

Thank you for this beautiful heartfelt thought for the day. Yes this is probably the truest thoughts of the mothers of past and let us mothers of today forget what they did to give all of us better lives. Hug you child and grandchild today and tell them your stories so that they can remember the hardships and pass them on to the future generatons. You both make genealogy exciting and imagitive. Thanks Toni

My Dad taugt us to make a whistle with a blade of grass and our cupped hands... i had not thought of that in years! Cacky

I remember my dad did that but not in so much detail as your dad . But did some of it ,Maybe not so much talent as your dad .I had not thought of that for a long time must of our toys was hand made or make belleave. Connie C

Hi Keith: Go to the USGenWeb. Go under research helps. There is a list of epidemics and Wars on NA Soil. Hope this helps. Marsha -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Womack <Ken-Womack@worldnet.att.net> To: DanvilleCrossing-L@rootsweb.com <DanvilleCrossing-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, July 25, 1999 12:07 AM Subject: Disease Time Frame >Does anyone have the website which shows the years in which certain >epidemics occurred. Had it, now can't find. Probably right under my nose! >Thanks, Glenda > > > >==== Mailing List ==== >GENEALOGY goes on... and on... and on... > > > >

Does anyone have access to the obituary or newspaper accounting of the accident in which John Garland was killed on July 23, 1999 in McEwen? I would appreciate a copy. My address is below. Thanks----Linda H. **********************************************************************Linda G. Hayes P.O. Box 148 Brownsville, TN 38012-0148 ----------------- Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnstewar/genkin.htm

Does anyone have the website which shows the years in which certain epidemics occurred. Had it, now can't find. Probably right under my nose! Thanks, Glenda

Howdy Cuz Jan! Thanks loads...........found exactly what I was looking for. You are a doll! (be sure and tell your husband that). Cuz Carolyn from w..a..y..out west in Albuquerque

Walter, Thank you very, very much! Am going to copy and paste your message and send it on to my cousin. Know she will appreciate your help. Thanks again. Carolyn Whitford - way out west in Albuquerque

Hi, I am new to the list and writing this for my son who is working on his Genealogy Merit Badge in Boy Scouts. (I wonder why he decided to do that particular one!) Anyway, he decided to ask his grandfather information on his side, GRAVES. We are in AL and our library doesn't have TN census records. Could anyone provide some additional information on the following? Census records, marriage date, etc. Ollie B. GRAVES, born in Westmoreland, TN; died 1952 in Paris, TN. Father was Arthur GRAVES (no dates), died in Westmoreland, TN. Minnie M. WATSON (wife to Ollie) born Murfreesboro, TN; died 1983 in Paris, TN. Parents were George WATSON (No dates), lived Murfreesboro, TN and Ida Ivey ? (no dates), lived in Murfreesboro, TN. Ollie and Minnie 8 children, 4 still living, 1 missing. Any information would be appreciated. There is a story behind Ollie and Minnie: Ollie ran away from home at the age of 8 and joined a circus and traveled with it several years. He met Minnie when he was 15 and she was 13. They ran away to get married. They traveled with a carnival and then joined a group of gypsies. They lived in a tent and traveled from place to place until WW2 began. They finally settled down, at which time, my son's grandfather, Bob Steele Graves, Sr., was able to start school. Keitha Kirk in AL

Does anyone know of a Terrall Underwood in the Vanleer area that died in 1922/23 that had wife or mother's madien name Bledsoe? Lola

Thanks guys, I needed a good cry this morning. You guys should submit that to be printed in the new Stewart County Book as a foreword or an afterword. Its extremely good. Sorry, gotta get my second cup of coffee and my extra box of tissue. Thanks again. Marsha sha

Jan wrote this Friday before she went to Tn to take care of some family business....We hope you enjoy it... Today I am going to step into the shoes of someone else. I live in and nearby the mountains many of our ancestors crossed to settle Middle Tennessee...I don't think about it much until I drive out or in,and then it never fails to cross my mind and I am in total awe. What kind motivation did it take for folks to set out on a journey over mountains that unwelcoming and that daunting, in danger of natives, nature itself....KNOWING full well they may never see the end of it, and that if they did they were more than likely to lose half their family in the process? What kind of thoughts crossed their mind when they made that decision? What kind of inner strength and fortitude did they possess that many of us today do not? Well...bear with a bit of a reverie here...may not totally be historically accurate, but I think the thoughts of a mother and a wife are...I stepped into the past and into the shoes of someone who might have been one of those folks: "Johnny is decided. I reckon I have but one choice and it ain't an easy one. He says we have no choice, that we have to move on west and that now is the time to do it. There is land waiting in Tennessee he says, land that can be ours. He says any citizen of North Carolina now has a right to what ain't taken. He says there is nothin here for us anymore, and I am reckoning that is right too. But my heart is twisting in the inside of me and that is so as well. I got three babies buried out back there to leave behind. The fever got Jakie... buried him at the age of two and like to broke my heart. Big strong boy, was sure he would make it...but the fever got him. Lizzie died at two months and Johnny never knew her name. He told me plain she wasn't healthy and not to get attached to her, to leave off the name so I wouldn't until we knew would she make it or not. But I couldn't stand putting her down in the ground without a name. I called her Lizzie in whispers and the day we buried her I whispered in her ear hopin somehow she would hear me, "Yore name is LIZZIE...Elizabeth Jane Clark, after your grandma, you hear? I named you after the mama I loved and that is yore name cause I love you too." I knew full well how it is to bring youngins into the world and knew I would be burying them too, but I couldn't stand that baby nameless. Ain't no marker there, but I know it is Lizzie...nobody else does and when I leave here won't nobody know. Mattie is the third and I don't know how Johnny can not think of that...I reckon he does but does no good to be dwellin on it...a man's way. Mattie lived to be twelve. She was Johnny's pick. Yes, it twists my heart the thought of leavin those babies out back there, worse even than it twists my heart I am leavin my mama's grave and those of my three brothers and two sisters. Won't nobody know my babies are there, won't nobody else pass by and stand a minute to remember. I won't never be back. I done decided before I go I am gonna go out back there and lay some big stones where they are, gonna scratch their names in it if I can, gonna lay some flowers there and tell them good-bye. I know it don't make no sense, but somehow I feel like I am deserting my babies,even if I cain't talk to them nor they to me. That ain't all the thinkin and heart twistin I am doin about leavin here...Papa has my brothers that are livin, and my sister Jane, but I know the day I tell them goodbye is the last time I am gonna see them. I know Papa will die and I won't be here to bury him, nor any of the others either. There is somethin comforting about washing and dressing your dead...about lovin em gentle-like one last time and doin all you can for them before you send them on to the next world, and I won't get to do that...won't even know when it happens...will live all my days wondering if Papa is gone yet, or the others, and when they went, and how. I won't watch my neices and nephews grow up and I won't have Jane no more to talk to. Maybe I can send them word somehow along the way we are all right, maybe sometime they can send me word...but don't see how as things are now. They don't show no notion of following us toTennessee. Only Johnny's brothers going to do that. All I will be able to do is look up at the stars at night and think "well Papa and Jane might be looking up at these same stars...might not be together, but we in the same world with the same roof...that is something". And the heart tuggin just goes right on too....I pitched an everlovin fit when Johnny come up with this. I looked at my livin youngins, all six of them, looked at their eyes a 'shinin as Johnny told em what was waitin out there for the takin, the times we would have, the future they had ahead...and I tell you my heart broke like somebody took a hammer and crushed it, over and over six times and no mercy. Those blue eyes shinin, those bright heads dancin up and down in excitement....and not a one of em old enough or with sense enough to know that they all wouldn't make it. We'll wind up burying some of em on one of those mountains loomin up like walls that reach to the clouds, or beside the river..I know we will and there ain't no two ways about it...and I know if my heart is breakin now it is gonna break even more then...Johnny won't have no time to let me stay there a spell and grieve..we will just have to leave them behind where ain't nobody, not even Jane, gonna know or drop on by and stay with them a spell now and then...I won't even know for sure where it is I left my babies on the way. Don't know how we will even go about buryin em right, puttin them away like a mama ought to have the right to lay her babies to the final rest. And taint no sense dwellin on it. I know good and well could be none of us gonna make it, and for sure, if we stayed here neither there ain't no guarantee ...whole families I watched wiped out by first one thing and then the other. Caint vouch that the natives won't get us, nor a sickness, nor bad water,nor a piece of bad blood waiting to ambush us on the trail. Cain't vouch that river won't get us, have heard about that river and the places in it. Cain't vouch how long what supplies we have will last, nor for sure we can get more. Caint vouch for nothin much a tall, cept Johnny is right. Ain't nothin much for us here, gettin less and less all the time, and what of our babies make it, if any of em do, well they will have a better chance for it. They may can own their own land this way, get by easier in the world once that place is settled in. Maybe they can have things someday me and Johnny never dreamed of. But it shorely is a high price to pay. It shorely is. And I reckon I'll follow Johnny even if my heart is twisting and bleedin inside of me to where I don't know how I am gonna keep on keepin on. Johnny is decided and I reckon he is right." And that is what I think might have gone through a mother's mind two hundred years ago. Have a great day! Jan and Cher

Well, my eyes are full of tears, but how beautiful and touching. Well done. Karen

Humphreys County Researchers Mail List. A mailing list for people researching and sharing information about Humphreys County. A great place to meet new cousins. To subscribe: click the link below and type the word "subscribe" in the body of your email message. Make sure your signature file is turned off. Subscribe to Humphreys County List To subscribe later send the word subscribe to TNHUMPHR-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com (with signature file turned off). These directions are on the Humphreys Co. page. I just subscribed and received a confirmation of my subscription. Lillie

hey that's not a bad idea! I really enjoyed it too and it is what probably was really going throught their minds! Suzanne

I've found a possible link to my BURCHAM genealogy, in McEwen TN, and I wanted to join the Humphrey's County Mailing list, but when I went to the homepage and clicked on the link, I got a message that said the server could not be found. If anyone would send me that address, I'd appreciate it. Meanwhile, I'll put a query to y'all. I'm looking for info on a Mr. E.P. LOWRY, who lived in McEwen around 1954. He may be the brother to my husbands g-gmother. If you have any info on him, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Tricia Burcham

Hello: I got Mathews/Mathius/Mathis running out my preverbial genealogy program. But the best bet for you is to do the following: http://www.familytreemaker.com/uswers/m/a/t/Gregory-E-Mathis This site starts with George Mathews 1650-1700. Also check out the http://www.familysearch.org Search for Josiah Mathis and go from there. You will find that Josiah changed his name or there is a transcriber error. Josiah is listed as Isaiah which I presume is pronounced I zah ah. But the Wife is right and so are the children. I also have information on the decendants of Leonard Mathis (Son of Josiah and Mary Harmon) through his daughter Mary Ann Mathis who married Ira Humphreys. Who are my ggg-grandparents Greg didn't have that, but once you get all the above information downloaded, Email me and I will send you the rest. Can also provide you with the burial places of Most of my bunch in Henry County, Tennessee. Sincerely, Marsha Banasiewicz -----Original Message----- From: Zojea@aol.com <Zojea@aol.com> To: DanvilleCrossing-L@rootsweb.com <DanvilleCrossing-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, July 23, 1999 1:29 PM Subject: Mathews/Mathius/Mathis > Does anyone on the list know anything about this family? Would really >appreciate some help here. > > Humphreys Co, TN Mg Records 1861-1888, US/CAN 976.837 V2i, 10/96, pg >99: "MATHUIS, William & Martha Jane BEAZLEY, no rec of sol Bond 22 Dec 1879, >Hugh TAYLOR (groom shown as MATHEWS and MATHUIS) D/164" . > > Children I have listed so far are > 1) Cynthia Eller Jane MATHEWS b 12 Jan 1881 Humphreys Co, TN, d 18 Dec >1859 Humphreys Co, TN; md ? Berryman (Humphreys Co, TN Cemetery Records >US/CAN976.837 V3a, pg 239: "Berryman, Cynthia Eller Jane, 12 Jan 1881 - 18 >Dec 1959, d/o W C & Martha Jane Beasley Mathis, McMackin Cem".) > 2) Willie Moody MATHIS b 29 Apr 1901 Humphreys Co, TN, d 21 Jan 1958 >Humphreys Co, TN. (Humphreys Co, TN Cemetery Records US/CAN976.837 V3a, pg >232: "Mathis, Willie Moody, 29 April 1901 - 21 Jan 1958, s/o Wm C & Martha >Jane Beasley Mathis, McMackin Cem"). > > Any help on this family very much appreciated. Additional children? >Parents? I am quite sure Martha Jane is the daughter of William F. Beazley >Jr., but have nothing more on William C. Mathis/Matthews. > > Jean S. > > >==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== >My family Coat of Arms ties at the back ...... >is that normal ??? >