Hello Wayne Co. Listers. At one time David TOOMBS had written to me regarding some info. I "thought" I had. Wasn't able to help him. But the following info. came in from the TNHenry Roots Web list I belong to. At the very bottom it mentions a Wylie TOOMBS.as being on the 1833 Henry Co. TN Voters List. Don't know if it will help David, but thought I would send it. Elaine Suhre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Rascoe" <boise@well.com> To: <TNHENRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 6:02 PM Subject: [TNHENRY] FISHER NEAL letters, a voter list, and other Henry County items - > > While settling my mother's estate here in Idaho I came across some papers, > in storage for almost fifty years, with a lot of Henry County relevance. > Mostly they're letters from an attorney named Fisher Neal, who practiced > in Paris, Tennessee. My uncle Burton Rascoe had written an autobiography, > in 1938, that touched on his father's family in Paris, and Fisher Neal > had done some research and had information to share. In 1957 Uncle Burton > sent us the whole file of correspondence. > > Besides the letters there is a seventeen page typed document titled "A > Census of the Voters of Henry County, Tennessee Taken in the months of May > and June 1833 by James W. Taylor. Number of Voters 2243." It's a list of > names only, in three columns per page, and the columns are cut off at the > bottom of several pages and a there are some blank spots (it seems to be a > hasty carbon copy). Does anybody know the origin of this list or where > the original is now? > > The letters and papers raise a lot of interesting questions as well as > solving a few puzzles. At the moment I'd like to know if anybody knows > anything about Fisher Neal and his descendants. The letters suggest a > lively two-way correspondence, and I wonder what became of Uncle Burton's > letters to Fisher Neal. In his day Burton Rascoe was a fairly well-known > writer, and it seems possible somebody might have kept his letters - or > given them to a local library. Fisher Neal also mentions a couple of > photographs of my great-great grandmother, Margaret "Peggy" Hastings Davis > that he can lay hands on. Naturally I long to know what happened to those. > > Some of the people whose names turn up in the letters are - in > alphabetical order - > > Alexander, Margaret > Bomar, Will > Davis, Lewis > Dunlap, James > Dunne, Minnie Nance > Freeman, Captain > Frensley, Ora Davis > Green, William Fisher > Hill, C.H. > Jenkins, Margaret > Lilly, Tom > Moody, Mary Pierce > Pierce, Pinckney > Rascoe, Mark > Rascoe, Mary > Tombs/Toombs, Wiley/Wyley > > Do they ring any bells with the members of this mailing list? > > I'm happy to do look-ups in the Voter list if you need to know if somebody > was in Henry County, and voting, in 1833. > > > ==== TNHENRY Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, > politicalannouncements, current events, items for sale, personal > messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be > grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen > Burnett > kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >