This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg//ZAB.2ACI/660.5 Message Board Post: Thank you for such a wonderful offer to help so many people. Would you happen to have any Calloway Co. death records from between 1865 and 1872? Maybe even Methodist or Presby. church records? Looking for Arrena A. (Gream) TAYLOR. Also knon as Irene.
I am looking for the family of Jasper Ann Tennessee (Tennie) Lamb b.1872 I know her father was Giles Hasting Lamb Aunt Tennie's family never heard who her mother was but they do know there is a Smotherman connection, either her mother was a Smotherman or Giles's mother might have been Smotherman I found an old email that said she had a Tennie Lamb living in home in Calloway Co but her address is no longer working. Can anyone help?? Thanks, Joy Bland, TN
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My friends - Today, I am bringing another of the delightful essays written by Dr. Gordon Wilson in his little book, "Passing Institutions". Dr. Wilson, as our tenured subscribers are aware, was born and raised in New Concord in Calloway County. He was, for 32 years, the Head of the Department of English at Western Kentucky University. He was a well known ornithologist and folklorist. Born in 1888, he was 81 at the time of his death in 1970. Those who would like to see a photograph of Dr. Wilson can find one here: http://www.wku.edu/news/images/300/wilson.jpg Although people's appearances are usually not what I imagine them to be, somehow Dr. Wilson looks exactly as I thought he might, with his twinkling eyes and imaginative facial features - the face of a great story-teller. As is now customary, there will be no data posts tomorrow or on the weekend, although, if time permits, I will drop by with a miscellaneous file offering. -B ========================================================================== TREATS -Dr. Gordon Wilson "Passing Institutions" Some of the institutions that have passed have left adequate successors, but no successor has yet been found for the old-time treat. Boys and girls of our time, who are used to having ''apples, oranges, and candy whenever they wish, can never know the rare and wonderful joy we experienced when the last day of school came and the teacher gave a treat. There were a few indications, even in those remote days, that the institution was passing, for some teachers in districts adjoining ours were said to be failing in their duty toward their pupils. We of our school frankly suggested that such teachers should not be allowed to keep school any longer. No matter how bad the weather, every child appeared on the last day of school and was fully able to eat, though he may have been kept at home for a week or two previously on account of illness. Sometimes the parents and younger brothers and sisters appeared on the last day. Usually there was a sort of closing exercise, such as the saying of pieces, but nobody paid any attention to pieces, for the whole school was consumed with hunger. While some of the Friday afternoon classics were being given, the teacher gave a knowing wink to two of the larger boys, who forthwith disappeared out the door, while children and visitors craned their necks after them and left the poor little boy who was saying his piece to butcher Mary's little lamb or take some of the twinkling out of the equally famous little star. By the time the last piece was said, the boys returned with a candy bucket or a box or a sack or two. Wiggling youngsters could hardly wait until the packages were unwrapped. As I remember it now, there were three time honored things in a treat: stick candy, candy in small bits, and apples. Not all appeared at any one time, but one of these had to be present to keep up the tradition. The candy was passed around by two boys, who had previously been instructed how many sticks or pieces each pupil might have. Peppermint was the commonest flavor of the stick candy. The small bits were of many varieties: gum drops, mint hearts with sayings and verses stamped in red on them, peppermint chunks, caramels, and kisses wrapped up in oiled paper and containing a small slip of paper with a very exquisite verse on it. Candy kisses deserve a whole essay or even a whole volume, for they were remembered long after the treat was eaten up; the little verses were kept in the front room and often helped in the Sunday afternoon entertainment of Sister's beau. The sentiments were as sweet as the kisses themselves, the very best one being, of course: The rose is red, The violet blue, Sugar's sweet, And so are you. The apples, to come back once more to the treat, were small and knotty, judged by present standards, but no ambrosial food served on Mount Olympus to grace a gathering of Greek gods ever tasted as they did to us. My, how those gumdrops stuck to a fellow's teeth! And how easily the candy was crunched! And how I wanted to murder the rowdy boys who took more than their share of the treat! The happiest faces present were those of small children who were not old enough to come to school. No doubt many of these youngsters right then and there resolve on a life of learning if its course were to be punctuated with treats like this. After the treat had been served, and while belated ones were munching their last apple cores, it was the conventional thing for the teacher to make a brief speech of goodbye, telling how much she hated to give up the children, how good they had been, and how it was highly probable that some of them might become President or Governor. We pupils, still smacking our mouths over the treat and also still as starved as when we came to school, believed every word and forgot the whippings and the stayings-in and the standings-up, which had all been so poignant the day or even the hour before, However, though we shed a few furtive tears when the teacher's voice trembled, probably because it seldom did in the regular days at school, that did not keep us from yelling like Indians the minute the school was dismissed, for we all pretended that we were glad the school was over. Since those days I have tasted all sorts of candy: home-made, store-bought, and other sorts, but nothing has ever had the flavor of stick candy, and kisses, and gumdrops. Other candy melts in the mouth; good old gumdrops, or "toothpullers," as we called them, had a way of staying put for a long time. And I have eaten bushels of Grimes' Golden and Stark's Delicious apples, but apples of all sorts are tasteless beside those knotty ones we used to get on that last day of school. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
My friends - As we ease into this new year, I am resuming posts today with a return to our review of some early newspaper snippets from Calloway County in the 1906-1909 time frame. These snippets can cover a whole range of topics, from weddings, to death notices, obituaries, visitations, criminal activities, and a variety of other subject areas. I should also note the definition of "visitation". Someone inquired recently if this term referred to a ghostly or spirit visitation. In this context, it refers to a note in the newspaper that an individual is either visiting a relative in Calloway County, or a Calloway countian is visiting a relative outside the county. Subscribers to the JP and Calloway lists can obtain the text of a snippet shown in the list below by sending a request to me. On snippets, there is a request limit of three(3), due to the lengthy nature of some of the items. As always, your continuing assistance in not resending this entire message back to me with the request is appreciated. Tomorrow, we will move to Graves County. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Calloway County - Early Newspaper Snippets - Continued Wells, Halen (relocation) Odie Crass (death memorial) Stubblefield, Nathan B. (injury) Ragsdale, Porter (surgery) McNutt, Mrs. J.R. (death) Stephens, Oatman (relocation) Story, Wesley (illness) Fuller, Roberta (relocation) Morris, Daniel W. | Allen, Pocahontas |Wedding Cooley, Jesse (Murdered) Ballance, Ide (Accidental Death) Waldrop, Ottie (relocation) Witty, W.W. (death) Risenhoover, B.B. (Illness) ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Good News: NGS GENTECH 2004 is less than a month away. Even Better News: The hotel rate is $99, not the higher figures your might have seen in other notices Here are the Particulars about the Conference: NGS GENTECH 2004 will be in held in St. Louis on January 22-24. Since 1993, GENTECH has been THE national conference for people interested in GENealogy and TECHnology. Now, as a new division of the National Genealogical Society, NGS GENTECH will sponsor conferences that continue to meet the needs of advanced users and those new to using technology in research. Each year the conference has featured a panel of nationally known speakers who have addressed themselves to every aspect of the use of computer and Internet technology to support genealogical research - to meet the needs of advanced users as well as those just beginning to use technology in their research. This year there will be a Librarians' Pre-Conference at NGS GENTECH on Thursday, January 22, 2004 which will feature talks by Cyndi Howells, Ruth Ann Hager and Matt Helm. Details of this special Pre-Conference are at: www.slcl.lib.mo.us/slcl/sc/gentech04/precon-schedule.htm. In addition to the Librarian's Pre-Conference, Thursday will feature two-hour tutorials on four important topics: * Building a Family Genealogy Web site * Mapping Workshop * Federal Web Sites * Digital Photography. See the full NGS GENTECH 2004 program at: www.eshow2000.com/ngsgentech/register_now.cfm or at the St. Louis Genealogical Society website: www.stlgs.org/gentech2004. If you have not attended a GENTECH conference, please consider making this your first. Our professional development depends upon finding and using the right tools to accomplish your clients' goals, and the sessions at this conference can help. Remember, you can register on line at: www.eshow2000.com/ngsgentech/register_now.cfm We look forward to seeing you in St. Louis in just a few weeks! NGS GENTECH 2004 promises to be a sellout and a highly successful conference. John Konvalinka, CGRS(sm), CGL(sm) NGS GENTECH 2004 Publicity Chair www.konvalinka.com
My friends - I had planned on posting another of Dr. Gordon Wilson's essays on this New Year's Eve. However, a subscriber asked recently if I had any information on lynchings(as opposed to legal hangings, as related in a post of several years ago about the hanging of Pud Diggs) in the JP region. The earliest lynching of which I am aware occurred in Calloway County on 8 May 1870. There were probably others that occurred before or after this date(and during the years of the War Between the States, associated with guerilla activity), but the story of this one appeared in the Murray Herald in the period 1888-1890. A note of caution - this story is a graphic one. Here is the text of the story: "On Sabbath night, May 8th [1870], nine men in disguise made their appearance in this county, in the neighborhood of Mr. T.J.Chandler's, coming from no one knew where. They visited the houses of Mr. Chandler and Mr. Jones Matthews, staying at each place for just a few moments. They next proceeded to the house of Mr. John Childress, where they found Mr. George Barnett, whom the took into custody and carried away with them. They made no threats nor alleged any cause for their act. Five days after this, nothing having been heard from Mr. Barnett, his brothers, five in number, instituted a search for him in which they were joined by numerous friends of the family. On Monday, May 11th, the body of the missing man was found in the woods, about three miles from Mr. Childress' home. The body was in a state of decomposition, but still had marks of abuse the most outrageous. Coroner Miller held an inquest over the body, but no evidence was deduced as to who were the murderers. The remains were interred in the family grounds at Sage Hill. The most utter indignation and excitement prevails throughout the county." The Coroner's notes indicated that Mr. Barnett had been stabbed, hanged, castrated, his tongue cut out, and his eyeballs gouged out. About two weeks later, Mrs. Barnett and her mother were murdered, apparently by the same group of men, and their bodies placed in burlap bags and thrown in the Tennessee River, where they washed ashore near Paducah some days later. Mr. Barnett's wife was Mary Collier by maiden name and her mother, Mrs. Collier, was an Owensbey by maiden name. The possible cause put forth for this grisly set of murders was a feud between the elder Mrs. Collier and her niece Polly Minter, over who was entitled to land in Baxter County, Texas, which had been used as pay for the service, in the Mexican War, of William "Bill" Owensbey, brother of the elder Mrs. Collier and Mrs. Minter. No one was ever brought to justice for the lynching and the other associated murders. Since tomorrow is New Year's Day, I will not send a data posting. We are approaching the 7th year of operation of the JP List. We have had about 3500 posts from all sources in that period of time, and my postings number about 1900. My impression is that we have done well over those years, establishing a network of subscribers who are ready and anxious to assist those in their research in the JP region. We carried out the JP Homecoming event in 2000, which was a success in most aspects, and, perhaps most importantly, we have done a good deal, I believe, to carry forward the generational history of both the families in the region, as well as the region itself. I send my best wishes to all of our wonderful subscribers for all good things to be yours in the year 2004. -B =====================================================================
My friends - Today, we are looking at another of the little narratives which Professor Gordon Wilson included in his 1940's book, "Fidelity Folks", which is a remembrance of the era in which Professor Wilson grew up( about 1880 - 1910) in New Concord, in Calloway County. "Fidelity Folks" was the sequel to his earlier word, "Passing Institutions", from which we draw from time to time. Professor Wilson also wrote a column for a newspaper for a period of time, which contained these same sorts of delightful memorabilia. Today's selection is entitled 'Our Uncle Remus'. It reminds us, by some of its wording, of how far we have come in the area of race relationships, even since Professor Wilson wrote these words in the middle 1940's. On another subject, I am declaring a Christmas holiday recess, insofar as my posts to the lists are concerned, until 27 December. E-mail traffic, as you have probably noticed, is already falling off, as we prepare for the celebration next week. I will be monitoring the lists I host, and may drop by with a small post now and then, but I expect to try to refrain from postings next week. I hope we will keep each other in our thoughts over the next several days, and especially those who must travel to other places. This List cannot spare any of you just yet<g>, so do be careful. A special train of thought goes to those who have loved ones in the service of the nation in foreign countries and who will not be able to be at home with their families. We pray for their continued safety and for a return soon to their homes. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OUR UNCLE REMUS -Prof.Gordon Wilson Fidelity Folks Uncle Charlie was one of the patriarchal darkies at Fidelity whom everybody knew and unconsciously elevated into a sort of dusky oracle. I might say that "Uncle" was a term of respect and was applied to older people of either color. In no sense was it apologetic or condescending in nature, as it so often is in its present day use, Our Negro uncle pretended to be more ancient than he was, even though he was old enough by the calendar. He said that he had been the nurse of Marse Jerry, who looked old enough to be Santa Claus's grandfather. He would allow nobody, white or black, to dispute his dates, which had a way of being wobbly at times. Though we knew when the Purchase was settled--for Uncle John Hawkins had hunted there, and Uncle John's word had never been found false--Uncle Charlie told of things that happened at Leavenport, his name for Fidelity, long before 1819, the official opening of the land. His only competitor in remembering things that had never happened was Aunt Nicey, who stoutly maintained that she had come from Africa, had served Marse George Washington, and had "nussed" Marse Jefferson Davis. Marse Jerry said that he was a good-sized boy when Charlie was born, but we youngsters preferred to believe the colored rather than the white uncle, especially since both were forgetful and seemed fully as ancient as the Revolutionary War. According to Uncle Charlie, the whole area around Fidelity had been infested with bears, wolves, catamounts (panthers), and wild turkeys. He had enough hair-breadth escapes to tell about to equal the life of a modern comic strip character. To his credit be it said, he rarely told of slaughter of wild animals; he ran away with great rapidity or cat-like stealth, We children, half amused and more than half scared, afraid that some of his monsters might return to our own woods, heard his wonderful yarns and wished that we could have lived when life was more exciting, Uncle Charlie, like most of his fellow slaves, could read a moral lesson that sometimes seemed pretty large for one so ignorant, He felt very deeply the gulf between master and man and saw to it that the children of both sexes learned the dignity of staying in one's place. His white folks, of course, had been of the quality. His old mistress had taught him his philosophy, and to quote her closed any argument. He had been a soldier, so he said, but the hard-hearted elderly white people somewhat spoiled this dream of his by asserting that he had never smelled gunpowder in his life, He met this affront by saying that he signed up in this fashion: "Charlie Stubblefield, in at any time and out at any time," Since some of our white CSA friends had had rather doubtful connections with the Confederate army, we laughingly said--behind their backs, of coursethat some of them had probably joined like Uncle Charlie. Though he was a gray-bearded patriarch when I could first remember, he seemed to get no older, even if some of the children whom he had grown up with, like Marse Jerry, grew feeble and tottery, Aunt France, his venerable wife, kept the same hold on life, though he often teased her about how he would be setting out again as soon as she died. And then, just after I had left the hill country around Fidelity, our colored philosopher and yarn-spinner could no longer keep a tight grip on life, The last thing I ever heard about him was the rather elaborate funeral given him by his brethren of Mt. Zion and his burial in the little graveyard up Tan Branch, In true Negro fashion, his friends balanced a pick and a shovel across his grave in the form of a cross and left them there for days. I fear there is no tombstone other than the crude bit of pudding stone that was stuck up as a marker to his grave - but there ought to be, as here, at least one tear of remembrance is shed for one who opened up so many worlds of unreality to so many credulous youngsters. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Below is from the 1840 census for Calloway County, KY. These four WOOD heads were all found together on the same page with their families. Two of them, William and Thomas, are my ancestors with very little doubt, but I don't know if the other two, Bazel and John, are, yet logically they may/must be some how connected. Is anyone researching any of these WOOD families? >From the 1840 Calloway Co. Census: p. 102 Wm. Wood 1 m. 20 - 30 1 f. 20 - 30 2 f. 0 - 5 Bazel Wood 1 m. 30 - 40 1 f. 30 - 30 1 m. 5 - 10 2 m. 0 - 5 John Wood 1 m. 30 - 40 1 f. 20 - 30 1 m. 5 - 10 1 f. 5 - 10 1 m. 0 - 5 Thomas Wood 1 m. 20 - 30 1 f. 15 - 20 1 f. 0 - 5 The only Wood in the 1850 Census is Susan Wood as noted below. District. 1 #199-199 Wood, Susan E. 27 f. 320 TN S. J. 5 f. M. M. 3 f. Smith, E. W. 19 m. farmer on the same residence Any info, please. Thank you, LuAna Drake Craig
Re: Josiah Wood, Thomas Wood, William Wood, Peay or Seay Greetings Listmates, I am researching the following WOOD ancestors in Marshall County, KY. Is anyone else researching these same WOOD ancestors, or may connect in some way? Marshall County KY deeds: Deed Book 2: pg 198 - WOOD, Thomas, (wife, Frances), NW 1/4 Sect 8-T4N-R3E pg 5 - WOOD, Josiah, pg 5 Deed Book 4, pg 148 (1855) - WOOD, Wm to Nathan WALLIS, SE1/4 S8-T5N-R3E (this is the very same land description that Wm bought in 1840, except at that time it was in Calloway County (Deed Book D, pg 95). As I understand it, Marshall Co. was formed in 1842 from the northern half of Calloway county.) Deed Book 4, pg 33 (1854) - WOOD, J. (Josiah) from PEAY (not sure of spelling - could be SEAY) pt of SE1/4 S27-T5N-R3E Any info please. Thank you. LuAna Drake Craig
Please, I need marriage lookups for Sisters, Martha A.(Allie) Black and Sarah J. Black...Have been told Martha A. married a Magness & Sarah married a Haneline/Hainline....I think they would have married in 1880's?....Need census lookup for 1900-1930 for them, if possible.too?? . THANKS, Judith
My friends - Today, we are moving over to Calloway County to continue our review of early newspaper snippets from that county. These snippets are in the 1906-1907 time frame. The subject matter of these snippets can range from marriages, death notices, visitations and obituaries to court actions and criminal activities. They are always a bit of a glimpse into an earlier time. Subscribers to the JP and Calloway lists can obtain the full text of a snippet shown in the listing below by sending a request to me. Because of the lengthy nature of some of the snippets, I would ask that no more than three (3) items be requested. As always, your continuing assistance in not resending this entire message back to me with the request is appreciated. Tomorrow, we will have another selection from the Gordon Wilson essays. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Calloway County - Early Newspaper Snippets - Continued Melton, Ellie | James, Maudie |marriage Brown, Harry (visitation) Utterback, Pate [Charles Peyton] (visitation) Stewart, Zebulon A. | Hay, Jessie B[rown] |marriage McNeilley, Frank (Death) Moorman, Myrtle (Visitation) Randolph, Thomas Webb | Holland, Mayme |marriage Hay, A[lexander] I[rvan] (Occupational Change) Hudspeth, Mrs.---- (Committed to insane asylum) Meloan, Perry G[raves] (Return to Murray) Story, Mrs. S.J. (Death) Anderson, Trout (Visitation) Wells, Pearl (Visitation) Darnell, Jim (Death) Parker, Burgess (House fire) ~to be continued~ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
My friends - Today's posting is another essay from Professor Gordon Wilson's delightful little book, "Fidelity Folks", published in the middle 1940's, as a remembrance of the place in Calloway County where Professor Wilson was born and raised. We know Fidelity now as New Concord, and it was know in Professor Wilson's early days by that latter name, but he chose to use the former name of Fidelity to title his work. This selection is titled, 'A Village Oracle'. We can only wish that we might have had the opportunity to talk to a JP pioneer settler, as did Professor Wilson. He describes the man in this narrative. As is now customary, there will be no data post tomorrow or on the weekend. Since Thanksgiving is next week, we will observe a holiday recess throughout next week insofar as data posts are concerned. My wife and I will be leaving immediately after Thanksgiving for the JP region for a week's visit, as we continue to inch forward toward our relocation to Calloway County next year. I will be monitoring the List, of course, and, if time permits, I will drop by with a file offering or two before we leave. I will, as usual, have my laptop with me for communication while I am gone. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A VILLAGE ORACLE -Fidelity Folks -Gordon Wilson Every village has its wise man or oracle. Our wise man in Fidelity was an elderly gentleman, Uncle John Hawkins, who lived to be almost a hundred. He was born some time before the Jackson Purchase was open to settlers and said that as a small boy he had hunted on the prairie where Fidelity was later to grow up. But it was not age that made him an oracle, however much we children loved to hear him tell of ancient days. He was a rustic philosopher, far ahead of his time. He had picked up a knowledge of law that made him respected by the licensed lawyers of the county seat. For several terms he had served as magistrate and thus acquired the title "Squire." From the earliest days he had been noted for his fairness in settling difficult questions. But there was nothing soft in the old man, even when he was getting old. He kept his fine physique and was able to walk five or six miles a few days before his death; he wanted to go to see one of his children and disdained the use of the family horse and buggy. I have seen him walking down our country road with all the vigor of one of his grandsons. I walked with him sometimes and quizzed him about early days in the Purchase. He loved to tell of his experiences and in no way magnified them. Life throughout his ninety-odd years was a great adventure; he never pined because time passed and youth with it. Besides law, he knew many other things. In our community he lost caste for a while by voting wet when everybody else of any consequence voted dry. He stoutly maintained that a regulated open saloon was to be preferred to the evils of moonshining and boot-legging. You can imagine how bitterly many of the village people opposed this idea, but the worth of the old man soon restored him to his old place in our homes, for the dry forces won by a big majority anyway and could afford to be forgiving. Like Goldsmith's schoolmaster in "The Deserted Village," he loved to argue about politics, or religion, or what have you. I cannot remember what faith he professed; that matters little, for he could argue for or against any position so well that the younger generation were provoked; they could not afford to get angry with him because of his age, but they could not down him in a fair argument, the only kind he ever indulged in. Since he was in early middle age when the Civil War came on, the events of that tragic struggle were as vivid to him as our experiences of the preceding day. Though a Southerner in sympathy, he was never known to say bitter or prejudiced things about the North or the reunited country. Sage experience had taught him that in every war there are good and bad things on each side and that war itself is an unmixed evil. In 1904, when he died, I did him the honor of writing his obituary for the county paper and actually made it a little less stiff than the ones I usually wrote. Forty years later I am glad to add these few words, since our village oracle was typical of the wise men that, almost miraculously, appear in every generation, showing that genius is not a monopoly of any age or race. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
My friends - Our colleagues at the Calloway County Genealogical Society are in need of a microfilm reader that could be obtained inexpensively or as a donation. If any of our subscribers can help on this need, please contact Roger Cooper directly(not through the List, please) at cfarm@wk.net -B ===========================================================================
Trying to establish contact with anyone who would be researching Simeon BERRY, listed on the Calloway tax lists 1831-1833 (One year he is listed as John). Married Sarah WALLIS in 1849, Marshall Co. Jeff jeff.a.campbell@comcast.net
My friends - Today we are returning to Calloway County and our review of early 20th century newspaper snippets. These snippets are in the 1904-1908 time frame. These snippets can contain anything fro a visitation notice, to deaths, marriages, criminal activities and just about anything else that was deemed interesting and newsworthy in this era. Subscribers to the Calloway and JP lists can obtain the text of a snippet shown below by sending a request to me. As with all snippet offerings, I would ask that no more than three (3) snippets be requested, due to the length of some of them. And your continuing assistance in not resending this entire message back to me with the request is appreciated. Tomorrow, we will have another selection from the Gordon Wilson narratives. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Calloway County - Early 20th Century Newspaper Snippets - Continued Henson, Dr. F.A. | Lamb, Mrs. Mollie |Marriage Bell, Tom (Relocation) Harding, Strother (Death) Radford, J.M. (Illegal Mail Charge) Starks, Edward J. (Death) Duckett, Thomas (Death) Parker, Ben (Murder Charge) Scruggs, Casper (Relocation) Jackson, Emma (Death) LaFevers, Nolan | Talley, Lola |Elopement Parham, Eugene (Visitation) Ward, Rufus (Illness) Adams, Arthur (Death) Evans, Walter W. | Thomas, Jettie |Wedding Ward, R.K.,Jr. (Death) Harris, Ola (Death) Reed, Marion (Rape Charge) ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Good afternoon! I am writing to inform any of you who correspond with Danny Hatcher on a frequent basis that on Monday, October 20th, he suffered a massive stroke at his home in Nashville. He is currently at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the Neurology Floor. For the severity of stroke that Danny experienced his prognosis is great, however he does have a long road of recovery ahead of him and will be away from his computer indefinitely. Please keep him in your thoughts. Thanks and have a great day! Hillary Hatcher (Danny Hatcher's youngest daughter)
Hi, I am trying to get a tombstone photo of a Flippo family member buried at Sinking Springs Baptist Cemetery at Murray. If there is anyone who could help me with this, please contact me at the address below to discuss your charge. Patsy 2pats2cats@cox.net
Please send information on the name Booker which appeared on Mr. Utterback's list of Calloway County deaths recently. Thanks!
Hope there are still some GREAM families in Calloway Co. who can help me locate my great grandmother. Looking for Arrena A. GREAM, b. abt. 1832. I believe in Warren Co., TN. Her parents are George W. and Nancy W. GREAM. Siblings include: Martha C., Elizabeth M., Pinkney C., George Wesley, Nancy Emiline, Newton A., and Benjamin F. Perhaps there were others. Arrena was also known as Irene. She married Theophilus TAYLOR in 1857, Trigg Co., KY, and they moved to Calloway Co., where their four children were born. Arrena died sometime after December 1865, when her son, my grandfather, was born. When did she die, and where is she buried? Can anyone help me on this? Sandy