> Fellow Rooters, Net Cousins and Researchers: > > Forwarded with the permission of Juleigh Muirhead Clark, who says, "We are > trying to reach as many as possible." Please forward to any list I haven't > reached yet! -Carol > > ROCKEFELLER LIBRARY UNVEILS NEW WEBSITE > > The John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library has unveiled a greatly expanded section > on the Colonial Williamsburg website (http://www.history.org), offering > individuals interested in the Colonial Chesapeake the opportunity to search > the library's vast collections. New features include PATRIOT, the > Rockefeller Library's online catalog listing the 68,000 titles in the > Library, and guides to manuscript, microfilm, selected photograph and other > research collections, such as the Shirley Plantation Collection of over > 18,000 manuscript items. Previously, individuals had to physically visit > the library or be connected to an internal network to access these > resources. > > "We have electronically opened the doors to our major collections by adding > finding aids and the Library catalog to the World Wide Web," says Public > Services Librarian Juleigh Clark. "Now, when researchers come to the > Library, they will have a better idea of what we own, and we can serve them > more efficiently." Other features on the website include a virtual exhibit > of some of the treasures from the Rockefeller Library's rare book and > manuscript collections and special indexes to articles in The Colonial > Williamsburg Journal and The Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter. > > Of special interest is an index to the several hundred research reports > written at Colonial Williamsburg over the last sixty years. Early > American History Research Reports are distinguished for the significant > amount of primary source material in them and for their time and place > specificity: eighteenth-century Virginia. > > The John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library is a research library specializing in > the history and culture of the colonial Chesapeake. It is located near the > Historic Area at 313 First Street and is open to the public. Library hours > are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. > > Contact: > Juleigh Muirhead Clark > Public Services Librarian > John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library > Colonial Williamsburg Foundation > Williamsburg, Virginia 23815-1776 > jclark@cwf.org > 757-565-8511 > 757-565-8518 (fax)

Dear Craig, Saw your post in JP mailing list. I am researching ORR's, particularily Alexander ORR of Christian/Livingston/Caldwell Co. In his 1817 will he mentions daughter Peggy Craig (LDS- IGI record states birth of 1786 from an 'endowment for the dead' file), grandson William Craig, and son-in-law John Craig. I haven't researched the Craigs, however do wonder if these would belong to your Craigs. Sincerely, Nancy Orr-Erb

Bill, Please send me the following files: Graves Co Marriage Consents Part 1 - 1889-1900 Copeland Cemetery & Jenkins Cemetery - Graves Co McGuire Cemetery - Graves Co Thanks! Bobbie

My friends - I am dropping by to give you the solution to our latest Skills Puzzler which was on the subject of divorce records. You will recall that our scenario involved Asa and Agnes Spratt. Asa, according to the family story, left home on business one day and never returned. A couple of years later, we found Agnes remarrying, using her maiden name. Our task was to find a divorce record document that established that Agnews divorced Asa, and was given the right to return to her maiden name, prior to remarrying. Research in the court records in her home county and in the surrounding counties produced nothing. The question, at that point, is "Where can we go next to search for this divorce?" Only 4 people responded to this Puzzler, and several of those hit upon the answer. In KY, prior to the overall reorganization of the State legal structure in 1850, divorces were granted primarily by the KY State Legislature. By 1821, the State had given the circuit courts the right to hear such cases, but, until 1850, these circuit courts routinely passed such cases on to the State Legislature, at which point, a "Special Act" was introduced by the appropriate representative, and the divorce was usually granted. By researching the "Legislative Acts" reports of the 1826-1828 legislative sessions, a divorce was found for Agnes, as well as the declaration that she was allowed to resume the use of her maiden name. Realistically, finding divorces granted by the State Legislature is difficult at best, very time consuming and often frustrating. As one of our very astute subscribers pointed out to me yesterday, these divorce cases turn up just as often in some unindexed court case file bundle in the counties. In 1850 and later, these cases became a matter of equity in many instances, and were therefore presented in the chancery court. It is, nevertheless, good for us to know where we can go to research these divorces. I will be posting something on KY divorces as part of the "Tips" series in the near future. -B ============================================================

Looking for information on the following Families in the Jackson Purchase Area, from 1830 on. Greenberry Elliott / Mary (Polly) Watson William Virgin / Sarah Watson Dock, Doc or Doctor, S or L, WATSON / possibly married to Sarah Frances Hughes All the above are from the Nelson Co., KY area. ANY HELP GIVEN WILL BE APPRECIATED. Thanks joe MAILTO:edwards.salinas@bigfoot.com Edwards, 160 Pine Canyon Road, Salinas, California 93908-8743 Telephone - (831) 455-1385 . Forbidden fruit creates many jams \\|// (o o) ------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------------------------------------

I have just got to tell all my JP friends about this web site. http://www.highschoolalumni.com/ It has every high school in the US on it and contacts. I just got this in an email and checked out Hickman Co. High in Clinton. I scrolled down to 1954,,, ( I know Hickman Co. didn't have a main HS in 1954, but that is the only choices you get.) They didn't list Fulgham, where I went. You have to register, and I will do that later. Just wanted to get this out to everybody. Janice Watts Lester Nashville, Tn. Go Titans! On to the Superbowl!

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My friends - Since we have had a good many new folks join us here in the JP List in the past few weeks, plus the fact that I have not done so in quite some time, I am not going to offer a new file this week, but will recap below some of the items in the "Miscellaneous Files" category that I have announced on the List over the past 18 months. These vary, going all the way from registers of practising physicians in various counties, to cemeteries, biographical sketches, etc. Subscribers to the lists I host can request a copy of a file by sending a message to me requesting it by name. The files are all in plain text format and will be sent to you as an e-mail attachment unless you specify that you need it as "straight e-mail"(which tends to skew columnar alignments). I will not be able, due to time constraints, to list all of the surnames contained in these files, but my original announcement of the availability of these files will be in the searchable JP List Archives, and those surnames will be shown in detail in the original announcement. The Archives URL is: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=KYJacksonPurchase-L Please do not request that I extract data from these files on a particular surname, or that I "check to see if such-and-such surname is there". Again, time constraints would prevent me from being able to fulfill those types of requests. I will return shortly with the latest Skills Puzzler solution. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Miscellaneous Jackson Purchase Region Files (Excluding Land Grants Files) Bowman Cemetery - Calloway Co. (Holt, Bowman, Quisenberry, Scott, Stubblefield, Thompson & other surnames) Brandon Cemetery - TVA Graves Removal Project - Calloway Co. (All Brandon with one Lassiter surname) Broach Family Bible Records (Ewing, Wm Robert, George and Sidney Broach Bibles) Copeland Cemetery & Jenkins Cemetery - Graves Co. Diuguid Family History Narrative Frizzel Family History Narrative David M. Galloway Biography Hooper Cemetery - Calloway Co.(Cook, Downs, Garland, Hooper, Hale, Jerden, Miller, Skaggs Warren, Weston and others) "African Americans on the KY Frontier " Narrative by Marion B. Lucas Madrid Bend Family Cemetery - Fulton County (Cross, Everett, Whitson, Spear, Watson, Adams & others) McGuire Cemetery - Graves Co. Mt.Zion Negro Cemetery - Calloway Co. Nathaniel Hill Ryan Bible Record - Calloway Co. Brief History of Oak Level Church - Marshall Co. Parker Cemetery - TVA Grave Removal Project - Calloway Co. "Colonial Pettypool Families" (*Very* large file) Practising Physicians' Register - Calloway County (late 1880's time frame) Trevathan Cemetery # 1 - Calloway Co. William Holland Biography - Calloway Co. Graves County Marriage Consents - Part 1 - 1889-1900 Marshall County Medical Register - 1888-1900 Fulton County Yellow Fever Epidemic Deaths - Aug.-Nov 1878 ~~~~~~~~~~~

Craig - I am researching a WATSON (David Watson born 1797 and his brother Greenberry Watson)line that came out of North Carolina and settled in Madrid Bend, Fulton, KY. I don't think our lines are related and I don't have any info on the names you showed, but who knows? Fred At 01:59 AM 1/23/00 , Craig Beeman wrote: >"Hello again Cousins!" > >Am finally to the point that I'm willing to stick my next out and >state that James WATSON's wife was indeed far more likely being >Jean CRAIG, sibling in "Our CRAIG Family," than Jean HOUSTON. > > > Name: James WATSON Sex: M > Birth: 1738 Place: ,Franklin,PA > Chr: Place: > Marr: Spouse: Jean CRAIG-1512 > Marr: Spouse: > Marr: Spouse: > Death: 5 Dec 1802 Place: ,York,SC >Burial: Place: ,York,SC > >Father: David WATSON-64181 Mother: Hannah-64628 >Notes---------------------------------------------------------------- >Of York Co., SC. Died in his 64th year. Buried Beerseba Cemetery. > > > >My primary reasons for so believing are not founded solely on the >applications of four ladies who joined the D. A. R. between 1900 and >1950, stating that relatives had Bible records indicating that she was >Jean CRAIG. > >1. Samuel CRAIG was a signatory to the estate of Gilbert WATSON. > >2. WATSON families went to the same area of western KY (Calloway, >Graves, Livingston, etc.) that "Our CRAIG Family's" Margaret (CRAIG) >WATSON KIRKPATRICK DODDS' descendants were to go, and if not at >the exact same time, not far removed from same. > >3. Gilbert WATSON went to Madison Co., IL, by 1820, at likely the same >time as did Robert CRAIG, brother of my family's John CRAIG. > >4. WATSON family descendants went to Pike Co., MO, by 1816, at likely >the same time as did John BRYSON, husband of Elizabeth CRAIG, sister >of my family's John CRAIG. > >5. Some of Margaret (CRAIG) WATSON KIRKPATRICK DODDS' descendants >would also go to Pike Co., MO, at a later date, and intermarry with WATSON >family descendants. > >6. Have come across but a single researcher who backs the Jean HOUSTON >attribution of the Joe HART Genealogical Collection, and she has stated that >she has not tried to follow up on the Rowan Co., NC, estate to verify Joe >HART's >attribution. > >7. Have yet to come across a single WATSON family researcher of the Rowan >Co., NC, WATSON families who claims that James WATSON of York Dist., SC, >was ever in Rowan Co., or knows of any Rowan Co., NC, WATSON family in that >time frame who was to go to York Dist., SC. > >8. Have yet to come across a single HOUSTON / HUSTON family researcher >who knows anything substantive of this, and only one to date that had even >heard of this "controversy". > >9. In so far as naming patterns for descendant families, I am not aware of >any first or second born descendant, whose birth order and middle name >having been HUSTON or HOUSTON, would best suggest that Jean, wife of >James WATSON, was a HOUSTON. To this end, I contend that it might be >just as easy to build a case for either Hannah, wife of David WATSON, to >have been Hannah HOUSTON, or for (Martha?), likely mother of "Our CRAIG >Family" to have been a Martha HOUSTON. > >Item: James Houston WATSON, b 1792, was either the second or third >known child born to David WATSON and Mary McCORD. Might Mary >McCORD have been a HOUSTON family descendant? > >Item: Levina Houston WATSON, b 1799, was second known child born to >John WATSON and Margaret BYERS, but logic would suggest to me that >if she were being named for her grandmother, she would have likely been >named Jean Houston WATSON. Might Margaret BYERS have been a >HOUSTON descendant? > >Item: David Huston HEMPHILL, b 1810, was the fifth known child born >to Robert HEMPHILL and Ann WATSON. > >Item: David Huston HEMPHILL, b 1830, was the third known child of >Alexander HEMPHILL and Margaret WILSON. > >10. As the researcher who volunteered to go to the Rowan County, NC, >court house and try to locate a probate packet for Mary (MORRISON) >HOUSTON, failed to find one, I really don't know whether none exists, >or whether only that he failed to locate same. > > > >To this end, I am now prepared to: > >1. Try to obtain photocopies of any and all documentation for all four D. >A. R. >applications stating that she was Jean CRAIG. > >2. Try to make contact the D. A. R. chapters where those ladies' applications >were processed to see if the local D. A. R. chapter might possibly have >something >in their chapter libraries to help provide clarity to this situation. > > >Please shoot me down, if you have come across anything, or might know of >anyone who has provided a single shred of evidence contributing to the >possibility that she was Jean HOUSTON, other than the assertion of the Joe >HART Genealogical Collection, and the previously mentioned occurrences >of Huston or Houston as a middle name. > >Still keeping my fingers crossed that someone, a far better family researcher >than I, might have discovered something far more substantive than the case >that I've laid out above. If I were fortunate enough to know as much about >WATSON and HOUSTON families, as I know about CRAIG family, perhaps >there could be an even better case built for Jean being Jean CRAIG, or Jean >HOUSTON, but for now, my money is on James WATSON's wife being Jean >CRAIG, sister to the other siblings in "Our CRAIG Family!" > >Will go to the corner of the room and hide should any of you be able to shoot >down every single point that I've laid out above! <G> > >TTYL > >Craig > >"Always looking for Cousins!" > > >==== KYJacksonPurchase Mailing List ==== >Have questions about the Jackson Purchase? Visit the Jackson Purchase FAQ >site at: >http://users.arn.net/~billco/jacksonfaq1.html

Bill - Would you mind sending me the following information: >From the 1999 listings: 1) File # 382 Graves County, Wingo Methodist Church Cemetery Send file for CRASS extraction purposes. 2) File # 46 Misc. Records - Graves County Guardians - 1886-1900 CRASS Thank you so much for posting the site for reviewing all the past listings. I am not brand new but somehow have not found my way there previously, though I know you have posted it. There were 13 hits for my CRASS'! Many, many thanks for all you do. Chris Cassidy Schutz Port Orchard, WA goindigo1@aol.com

Please send the following Misc. files: Copeland & Jenkins Cemetery - Graves County Hooper Cemetery - Calloway County McGuire Cemetery - Graves County Graves County Marriage Consents - Part 1 Thank you, Mary Matthews MMATTH1053@aol.com

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"Hello again Cousins!" Am finally to the point that I'm willing to stick my next out and state that James WATSON's wife was indeed far more likely being Jean CRAIG, sibling in "Our CRAIG Family," than Jean HOUSTON. Name: James WATSON Sex: M Birth: 1738 Place: ,Franklin,PA Chr: Place: Marr: Spouse: Jean CRAIG-1512 Marr: Spouse: Marr: Spouse: Death: 5 Dec 1802 Place: ,York,SC Burial: Place: ,York,SC Father: David WATSON-64181 Mother: Hannah-64628 Notes---------------------------------------------------------------- Of York Co., SC. Died in his 64th year. Buried Beerseba Cemetery. My primary reasons for so believing are not founded solely on the applications of four ladies who joined the D. A. R. between 1900 and 1950, stating that relatives had Bible records indicating that she was Jean CRAIG. 1. Samuel CRAIG was a signatory to the estate of Gilbert WATSON. 2. WATSON families went to the same area of western KY (Calloway, Graves, Livingston, etc.) that "Our CRAIG Family's" Margaret (CRAIG) WATSON KIRKPATRICK DODDS' descendants were to go, and if not at the exact same time, not far removed from same. 3. Gilbert WATSON went to Madison Co., IL, by 1820, at likely the same time as did Robert CRAIG, brother of my family's John CRAIG. 4. WATSON family descendants went to Pike Co., MO, by 1816, at likely the same time as did John BRYSON, husband of Elizabeth CRAIG, sister of my family's John CRAIG. 5. Some of Margaret (CRAIG) WATSON KIRKPATRICK DODDS' descendants would also go to Pike Co., MO, at a later date, and intermarry with WATSON family descendants. 6. Have come across but a single researcher who backs the Jean HOUSTON attribution of the Joe HART Genealogical Collection, and she has stated that she has not tried to follow up on the Rowan Co., NC, estate to verify Joe HART's attribution. 7. Have yet to come across a single WATSON family researcher of the Rowan Co., NC, WATSON families who claims that James WATSON of York Dist., SC, was ever in Rowan Co., or knows of any Rowan Co., NC, WATSON family in that time frame who was to go to York Dist., SC. 8. Have yet to come across a single HOUSTON / HUSTON family researcher who knows anything substantive of this, and only one to date that had even heard of this "controversy". 9. In so far as naming patterns for descendant families, I am not aware of any first or second born descendant, whose birth order and middle name having been HUSTON or HOUSTON, would best suggest that Jean, wife of James WATSON, was a HOUSTON. To this end, I contend that it might be just as easy to build a case for either Hannah, wife of David WATSON, to have been Hannah HOUSTON, or for (Martha?), likely mother of "Our CRAIG Family" to have been a Martha HOUSTON. Item: James Houston WATSON, b 1792, was either the second or third known child born to David WATSON and Mary McCORD. Might Mary McCORD have been a HOUSTON family descendant? Item: Levina Houston WATSON, b 1799, was second known child born to John WATSON and Margaret BYERS, but logic would suggest to me that if she were being named for her grandmother, she would have likely been named Jean Houston WATSON. Might Margaret BYERS have been a HOUSTON descendant? Item: David Huston HEMPHILL, b 1810, was the fifth known child born to Robert HEMPHILL and Ann WATSON. Item: David Huston HEMPHILL, b 1830, was the third known child of Alexander HEMPHILL and Margaret WILSON. 10. As the researcher who volunteered to go to the Rowan County, NC, court house and try to locate a probate packet for Mary (MORRISON) HOUSTON, failed to find one, I really don't know whether none exists, or whether only that he failed to locate same. To this end, I am now prepared to: 1. Try to obtain photocopies of any and all documentation for all four D. A. R. applications stating that she was Jean CRAIG. 2. Try to make contact the D. A. R. chapters where those ladies' applications were processed to see if the local D. A. R. chapter might possibly have something in their chapter libraries to help provide clarity to this situation. Please shoot me down, if you have come across anything, or might know of anyone who has provided a single shred of evidence contributing to the possibility that she was Jean HOUSTON, other than the assertion of the Joe HART Genealogical Collection, and the previously mentioned occurrences of Huston or Houston as a middle name. Still keeping my fingers crossed that someone, a far better family researcher than I, might have discovered something far more substantive than the case that I've laid out above. If I were fortunate enough to know as much about WATSON and HOUSTON families, as I know about CRAIG family, perhaps there could be an even better case built for Jean being Jean CRAIG, or Jean HOUSTON, but for now, my money is on James WATSON's wife being Jean CRAIG, sister to the other siblings in "Our CRAIG Family!" Will go to the corner of the room and hide should any of you be able to shoot down every single point that I've laid out above! <G> TTYL Craig "Always looking for Cousins!"

KYJacksonPurchase Mailing List ==== Share the surnames you are researching in the Jackson Purchase region with the List - you may find a long lost cousin or someone who is researching the same lines. If this is it Janice , you've made your point. I am researching the following names....Reason,Riley. that is the starting point and I am at the end of the 1860s.......when I get my info together I'll put it out there for everyone.I have lots of early 1900 photos to be identified yet.so far theres Burgess,Dunaway,Poat,King,Turner,Allegood,Morris,Hayden.Worth,and a few others I Have yet to identify..Thanks for the little reminder I haven't told anyone what I have been looking at or what I have (1863 bible)(loads of pics)But not too knowlegable in the subject of researching the Family tree. Bills little quizs really throw me for loops....but I enjoy the tips and all the help you guys give me through your e-mails. Dave Reason sr. Benton KY

Hello All, Is anyone working on the Lofton Family? I have Ellen Lofton married to Jacob Ford on July 27, 1893. They had atleast one son Jesse J. Ford. Jocob born January 7, 1873 died young on July 27, 1893. Ellen might have remarried. Thanks, jess

Janice, I was on the KY genweb last night a I found a placed called unknown KY Counties and I found a site that list a whole bunch of KY Divorce Records. I don't have the address but thought if you go to Kentucky genweb you might find it. Thanks, Janet Brown ----- Original Message ----- From: <Janicewatts@aol.com> To: <KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 10:52 AM Subject: [KYJP] Divorce in JP Area, 1915 or so > Got a big surprise yesterday when a uncle called me. It seems that my gg > grandfather and grandmother got a divorce. Good grief, who knew? He was the > only person out of probably 50 or so that I have talked to in the last > several months that blurted out that little piece of info. So now I am > wondering how to get a divorce record. I checked Ky. vital records, > (searchable) and all they have is from 1973-1998. It would have been in > either Hickman or Fulton Ky. about 1910-1925. Any suggestions? > Thanks > Janice Watts Lester > > > ==== KYJacksonPurchase Mailing List ==== > Check out the Jackson Purchase Images Page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygraves/temp/JPL.htm > for landowner survey maps of portions of the Jackson Purchase, plus other images. > >

Researching, BALLENTINE HOLT BOYD HOOK COOPER PHIPPS DRUMFIELD POE DEAN STEINBECK DULIN Will be glad to exchange information. mailto:ed.boyd@prodigy.net

I just wanted to let everybody know that I appreciate the handy, dandy little tips that are at the bottom of each email that I get. I don't know how it is done, but for us "newbys" , I have found something that is interesting on each one of them. Scroll to the bottom of each email and there it is! Thanks Bill, Janice Watts Lester Nashville, Tn.

McGee Family - Mecklenberg Co., NC - Sumner Co., TN - Christian Co., KY - Graves Co., KY I have two brick walls within the first two generations that I have for George Henry McGee, b. June 30, 1833, Christian Co., KY. He married Mary Jane Buckingham, Sept. 30, 1852 in Christian Co. They raised eight children in Graves Co., KY: Thomas, William, Mary F., Sophia Jane, Catherine A., Susan, Eliza M., and Samuel Jackson. My biggest wall is finding George Henry's parents. There were two McGee families that claimed kinship but I cannot find the connection other than through marriage. James Madison McGee married Mary Jane's sister Eliza. If the two McGee's are connected, and I really believe they are, the following are the clues that I have to go on. George H. and James M. both came to Graves County from Christian County. It is known that James had a brother George but the middle initial is W. When looking at the census for Christian Co. for 1820, 1830 and 1840 and working back from George H.'s birthday, it appears that they should be brothers. Could the initial W been misinterpreted from an H? It is known that James' parents were married in Sumner Co., TN and that his father, James, was born in Mecklenberg Co., NC. My second wall is the only thing I can find on George's sons Thomas and William are that Thomas married Margaret and William married Alice. It seems that William left the area around 1908 and Thomas 1912. Does any one know where these two families went? Both were Baptist ministers. I have pictures of each with their children but do not know the names of the children. Does anyone know if Christian Co. kept birth records in 1833? Any assistance anyone can give me on this family will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Diane McGee

thanks to all who sent replies to me. I now have my answer. Amelia