Effective immediately, the username portion of my e-mail address has been changed: It will read: gtomlinson Thus the complete address should be: gtomlinson@gmi.net It should appear correctly in the message heading and you will be able to use the message command "add to address book." I appreciate your patience in this busywork. Have a great weekend. It is lovely in the Mid-South--much prettier than I ever expected after the drought. I haven't succumbed to the word "foliage." I still say the LEAVES are pretty. Gail S. Tomlinson Senatobia, MS

Hello All, Has anyone come across this book "Kentucky Brights and their Kin" I don't have the author's name. Thanks, jess

My friends - Our friend Barbara Denny George passed this little request along to me, and I am sending it on to the lists. It is a little "outside our jurisdiction", so to speak, but I am always sensitive to scholars who are working on these sorts of projects, and I felt that there might be some possibility that some of you might have material that would be of interest to this gentleman. If you do, please convey it via private e-mail to the address shown. -B ============================================================ >I have been asked to help Dr. Karl Raitz, Dept. of Geography, >University of Kentucky, with research from the first >explorers to the present for a book about the Wilderness Road >and the Limestone Road, which provided access to the 18th- >century Trans-Appalachian frontier. Dr. Raitz characterizes the >Wilderness Road as "a poor people's road" and the Limestone >Road as "the route of the wealthy." If you have information you >are willing to share for this project, such as diaries, letters, >maps, or oral tradition, please e-mail Dr. Raitz's research >assistant, Marianne Brennan <mbbren0@pop.uky.edu>. ============================================================

On 10/27/99, at 22:44, Diane103@aol.com wrote: <snip> >Source: Graves Co Cemetery Book, Vol 2, pp 118-120 I have literally hundreds of relatives who were buried in Graves and Calloway Counties. I have Judith Maupin's compilation of Calloway County Cemeteries, which has been invaluable, but no source for Graves County. Who is the author of the Graves Co Cemetery Book and do you know if it can still be purchased? Stuart Armstrong mail to: stuarta@aros.net web page: http://cgi.aros.net/~stuarta

Dear Fellow Jackson Purchase Researchers, I have recently found a "Class of 1946" reunion list among my mothers papers. The list is not dated and it does not indicate which reunion. However I discovered that both my siblings and I used the back of it to write some notes. So...useing the scribbles as a guide, I estimate the list to be generated for a 1966 20 year reunion. The value as I see the list is in locating siblings of ancestors, especially the female line, because it lists the full maiden name, the married name, and the "present" address. There are 80 persons listed. Of the names, thirty six persons were living outside Kentucky, and four were listed as deceased. Fictional EX's: Smith, Jane (Mrs. John Doe) 123 Made-up Lane, Anytown, CA Sprat, Mr. Jack 456 Pickup Sticks, Slimtown, Maine Marry, Miss Never Willi 789 Street, Singletown, NY I will try to provide a new set of surnames each night. The surnames listed in the post may be the students original surname, or if female, a married surname. If you see a surname that interests you, please e-mail me personally and I will provide you both original surname, and when applicable, the married name. (In the interest of privacy for those listed, I will not provide the address.) The first set of surnames are: Allen, Alsobrook, Souder, Orr, Basden, Bizzle, Brandon, Miller, Blaine, Blane, Brumbaugh, Cavitt, Clapp, Brown, Clark, Smith Merilee Blaine mlblaine@earthlink.net

Please send information re Benjamin W. FULCHER and Susan C. REDDIN. Thank you very much.

My friends - I returned very late last night from my week long sojourn to KY and the Jackson Purchase region. It was an enjoyable visit, and I hope to get back on my regular schedule for future visits. We are returning today to our regular data posts, which were suspended while I was away. I have finished responding to the requests that were pending(some 111 of them)upon my return, so if you had a pending data request, and you have not yet received a response, please resend it, so that I can get an answer back to you. Today's data post is another in the continuing, very popular, series on the early marriages in Calloway County. In prior posts, we have worked our way from 1823 up to 1841, and we will continue with that year today. If you see a marriage which is of interest to you, and you would like the complete dataset for that marriage(which normally includes the dates of license and marriage, who performed the ceremony, and the consents if required), please let me know and I will forward that information to you. As always, your assistance in not resending this entire message back to me with your request is appreciated. We will close out the week tomorrow with another in the "Tips" series. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Early Calloway County Marriages - Part 34 Smith, Woodward Shotwell, Catherine Biggs, Allen G. Ligon, Martha Ann E[lizabeth] Faris, John W. Farrow, Rachel O. Castleberry, Westley Lenner, Isabella Shirley, James D. Watkins, Nancy Whitlock, John Smith, Alsey Dunn, William P Stubblefield, Mary Duncan, Solomon Mills, Perlinda Cockran, Thomas B. Parkhill, Juliann Williams, Joseph Jameson, Martha Ann Faughn, Eli Harrell, Elizabeth Faughn, Isaac S. Faughn[sic], Maria Fulcher, Benjamin W. Reddin, Susan C. Reaves, George Wyatt, Emily Adeline Bass, James M. Sperry, Tabitha Boyd, John Brandon, Sally S. Waterfield, James G. Doores, Elizabeth A. Brown, William S. Brien, Eliza Ann Barnett, Richard McNutt, Rachel Mathis, Clerinder Moss, Mariam M. Nugent, William J. Martin, Sarena [Skaggs] Hurt, Benjamin F[ranklin] Moss, Catherine Norsworthy, Thomas Head, Joanna J. McDaniel, William R. Wise, Nancy Castleberry, William Hill, Jane McCarty, William H. Hale, Precilla C. Strate, Briggs Bridges, Harriet Bridges, James Shadwick, Annazetta Fox, Titus Hicks, Sitha Bunch, Enock B. Spillman, Lucy Ann Henson, Nicholas Merrell, Elzira Eliza Canup, Jacob Banks, Laurany ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hello All, I have been working on a family tree web site. My father's family is from Marshall Co. and surrounding counties. Please check it out at http://home.att.net/~my_tree If you have a family connection or can supply helpful information please write. Thanks, jess

I have received several replies from JP listers to my query about Bean Cemetery. I wish to thank all who responded and extend an apology. I have been running behind and am trying to clear up e-mail backed up for several days and have not yet been able to reply to those who responded. Therefore, I give all of you the following "generic" reply. The Bean Cemetery to which I refer is in Graves County, near Farmington. I have relatives buried there. I believe my dad told me that some of our MILLER line was buried there. He also told me that the BEAN name is in the family line but was uncertain as to the exact connection. Dad also told me that he had visited the cemetery a few years ago. He said that you could no longer drive all the way up to the cemetary and had to walk the last part. He also felt that it is not being kept up very well. Can anyone provide any additional information? Thanks again, Gary

BEAN CEMETERY also known as: CAVITT-FLOOD-GALLEMORE-BEAN CEMETERY Located: 3 miles north of Farmington, KY. At Jones School house on Farmington-Golo Road, go West 1/2 mile. On the east side (all alike and all in one line) are 9 (nine) homemade-concrete mix monuments. names there on are faintly etched, nearly all illegible. Given names are apparently "Eddy", "Ivy", "Sant", "Gant", Catherine", Harry". No date...ELLIOTT as Surnames. Source: Graves Co Cemetery Book, Vol 2, pp 118-120 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx There are two MILLER graves: FRANK 1860 - 1947 SUSAN 1863 - 1934 other surnames listed: BEAN-GALLEMORE-CAVITT-FLOOD-MELVIN SMITH-CROSS-HUBBARD Hope that helps. Regards, Diane diane103@aol.,com

I found that an ancestor of mine whose sons migrated to Nelson Co. was a trooper in an Irish regiment in St Augustine, FL. In 1783 this area was to be handed over to Spanish control (temporarily as we know now). The Spanish conducted a census of all non-Spaniards. These people would not be permitted to remain unless they became Spanish subjects and converted to Catholicism. Someone has posted about 1/3 of the census under St. John's Co. FL. under Spanish Census. I was unable to find my ancestor, but I did find a Youngblood. I know there are Youngblood descendants in JP, so I'm posting what I found here as it may be of interest to others: YOUNGBLOOD, S. Carolina farmer married wishes to leave the Jesse country; he owns 2 slaves and lives in a house on his property on Amelia Island.

Does anyone have any information on Bean Cemetery in Graves Co.? Thanks, Gary

My friends - As I continue my trek here in the JP area, I want to drop by to bring you the next installment in "The Best of" series that I am using while I am away from home. Tonight's reposting has to do with the "8870 Formula". I will be in Fulton, Graves, Hickman and McCracken counties tomorrow. I'll check in again tomorrow evening. -B ============================================================ ========== All of us who have been involved in genealogical research for very long at all will have run into grave markers in cemeteries which may read something like this: John J. Parkenfarker Died 15 July 1877 Age 75 years, 10 months, 3 days How do you find the exact date of John's birth, without sitting down and placing marks on a piece of paper and "counting back" until we reach the date? Some of you may have run into a technique popularly known as "The 8870 Formula", which basically has you line up the date of death in this order: 18770715, then subtract from that 751003. When you have that result, you subtract the constant figure 8870 and the result should be your exact date of birth, such as 18010842(in this case) - born August 42, 1801??? No, I think not. This old formula only works in certain cases, and, hopefully, by now, almost everyone knows it is faulty and stays away from it. So, what CAN you use, in lieu of doing it all "manually", so to speak, by counting backward? Many of us use the computer to make these calculations, but here is another approach, and we'll use the case of the Parkenfarkers grave marker as an example: Show the death date in this order: 15-7-1877 Subtract the age, in this manner: 3-10-75 You cannot subtract "10" from "7", so borrow 12 months from the year of death(1877), making the year 1876 and the month 19. So you now have the following: 15-19-187 Subtract 3-10-75 Subtracting from the right, we find that the year of birth was 1801 (1876 minus 75), and that by subtracting 10 from 19, we see that the month was "9", or September, and the day of birth was the 12th - September 12, 1801. That formula works properly. If you have to "borrow" days from months, always use 30 days, even if the month had 31. I used this approach for some years, before computers. I used to check it each time I used it, but, after about 50 checks, I detected no errors. It takes a few tries to get used to it, but after you do, I think it is unlikely that you will return to calculating birth dates by the hand-count method. Of course, you will want to be wary of birth years back in the early 1700's when the calendar was changed, but we do that in any event. ============================================================ =======

Bill, A lady contacted me tonight to see if I had any information on the Paducah Friendly Home. One of the matrons there was a woman named Anna Manning and this lady thought I might know of her connection to the "home". I told her I would ask the readers on the mail list if anyone knows where the records of the "home" are. The library here has no record or book related to the home. This lady's name is Evelyn Futral and her phone # is (270) 4429962. She gave me permission to post her name and phone # in the hope that someone would have information to share with her. The old building is going to be reopened and they are planning a celebration honoring anyone connected with the old home either as residents or care givers. Can anyone help her? Shirley Sorry about the length of this post....

(The message below was originally sent last night, but was returned for reasons I have not yet determined - so here it is again...-B) My friends - Greetings from the Jackson Purchase. We arrived here earlier today and I will be traveling around the area until noon Wednesday, at which time we will be returning home. I want to take a moment and give you the solution to the little "fun" puzzler that I left with you on Friday. We had 17 folks who tried their hand at it and almost everyone spotted the fact that Selina Ann Skaggs and William Hamilton Wells were first cousins once removed by virtue of their shared ancestor, Richard Skaggs. Only one individual, however, noted the two other relationships that existed: 3rd cousin, by virtue of William H. Wells descent from Wm. Skaggs, and Selina Skaggs descent from Wm's. brother, Richard Skaggs; and 3rd cousins, once removed, by way of descent from the brother and sister Elizabeth Wells Skaggs(wife of William) & Samuel Wells. Elizabeth Wells Skaggs was William H. Wells great-grandmother, and Samuel Wells was the great-great-grandfather of Selina Ann Skaggs. I did not really give *all* of the relationships in the original puzzle narrative, in that we can go even further. Isaac Wells, who married Betsey Ann Skaggs, daughter of William and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs, was the son of Lewis Wells, a son of Philip Wells and a brother of Elizabeth Wells Skaggs, wife of William Skaggs. Therefore, Isaac Wells was both the nephew and the son-in-law of Elizabeth Wells Skaggs, wife of William. But there is more: Lewis Wells married Martha Hamilton, who was a sister of Anna Hamilton, wife of Samuel Wells(father of Elizabeth Wells, wife of Richard Skaggs). Still not confused enough? Then add this to the mix: Charles Skaggs, a first cousin once removed to Richard and William Skaggs, married, in 1815, to Rebecca Hamilton, daughter of Thomas Hamilton, who was a brother of Anna and Martha(all were children of David Hamilton). And, beyond that, Elias Meshach Skaggs, a son of William and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs, married, in 1842 in Calloway County, Manerva Jane Skaggs, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs. Elias and Manerva were first cousins, and their son, David Crockett Skaggs was both a grandson and a great-nephew of his grandmother by way of his descent from the two Elizabeth Wells women. There are other relationship possibilities in all of this for which space and time will not permit a longer explanation. Over 20 years were required to put all of this together, and I am not certain that I have all of it even yet. Tomorrow, we will return to "The Best of..." series, in use while I am away from home. -B ============================================================

Hello all, I am looking for info on these fords, either ancestries or decedents. Jesse J. Ford Sept. 11 1894 - March 1976 SS# 405-22-6261 Jesse E. Ford Feb. 12 1921 - Jan 1976 SS# 406-12-6784 John W. Ford Dec. 1 1934 - Feb. 14 1994 SS# 403-42-3433 All lived in Paducah, McCracken, KY. Thanks, jess

Bill, Please send info on Roach, E. A. - F. Thanks.

Hi Bill, Please send marriage information on James Riley/Minta Fulton, John R. Hamby/Lucinda F. Hiett, and Aaron Riley/Emeline Schroader.

Dear Bill: Please send information on the following: Calloway Co.VS Records 1852-Surnames D thru K Caleb (p) B. Galloway Calloway Co. VS Records 1859-Births Elizabeth Jane Adams Sapronia Jane Adams James Pastell Adams Thomas J. Chambers As a new subscriber, I can't believe what you've done with this site! Thanks a million. Malinda Hawthorne

Hi Gang, I have received a lot of questions about the pictures on : http://www.zing.com/cgi-bin/album.cgi?album_id=4294860083 If you look at the top of the page you will see a link to "BevyNTexas". Click on the name and you will get the name and e-mail address for Beverly Massey who along with her husband, Lyndon, gave us this wonderful site. She says she has many more pictures to post and that if you have any KILLEBREW or related pictures please contact her about putting them on the page. Also, if you can identify any of the unnamed people in the pictures she would love to be able to add their identity to the caption. Their is a saying about "a teacher never knowing how far their influence will go". I think the same can be said for genealogist. One reply to a query posted on GenForum has brought us this site and now we have a chance to add to it. Never think that some little unrelated tidbit you found in searching your roots means nothing. Jennifer Jennifer