If anyone has access to the 1880 Hickman County census and wouldn't mind doing a lookup for me I would be very grateful. I am looking for any and all information I can find about Robert T. Chandler and who was living in the same household at that time. Thanks very much. Nadene Chandler Johnson

I hope someone can help me with information on my gggrandparents. Joseph Spurlock Nunley, b. ? Dec 1856 in Tennessee. Family story says that he was one half Cherokee. Laura Ellen Wilmoth, b. Oct. 1858 in Kentucky, supposed to be born in Mayfield, Kentucky. Family stories say her parents were killed by carpetbaggers and she was raised by an uncle, Jim Bradley. Their first child John Riley Nunley was born in Paducah, Kentucky. I was able to find their marriage record in Belmont, Mississippi Co., Missouri. I cannot find any other evidence that they lived there. They are said to be in Paducah, KY in 1880, but are not shown on my census. Any information would be a great help in breaking my brick wall. I would appreciate it very much. Thanks Beth

Hello KYJP list, I need your help. I'm running into dead ends with my KYJP maternal line. I'd always been told that my great grandma was Mary Retta NANNY. (However, I HAD to upset the apple cart and reveal that NANNY was, in all likelyhood, the step mother of my grandmother, Pearl Ruth OUTLAND and that her natural mother was a woman named Elizabeth, whose surname I don't know.) In 1900 John David OUTLAND was living with his wife ELIZABETH and their one child, Pearl Ruth OUTLAND. However in 1910 John David OUTLAND was living with Mary Retta NANNY, and they more children. I considered, briefly, that they were the same woman and that perhaps Mary or Retta was a nickname for Elizabeth, however, the birth years ruled that out. I suspect that Elizabeth died very early, John David remarried, and that Mary Retta raised the children as her own. Mary Retta had a major role in the childrens lives, and I have chosen to research both women. Descendants of John David Outland 1 [1] John David Outland b: Aug 15, 1875 Calloway, KY +Elizabeth 2 Pearl Ruth Outland b: Apr 25, 1900 Calloway, KY +William Grady Miller b: Sep 25, 1894 Murray, Calloway, KY *2nd Wife of [1] John David Outland: . +Mary Retta Nanny b: 1881 TN 2 Siddie M Outland b: Bet. 1902 - 1903 2 Neville C Outland b: Jun 24, 1904 2 Newton Outland b: 1909 +Modelle Miller b: Jul 21, 1908 Calloway Co, KY 2 Carlton Mason Outland b: Aft. 1910 2 John David Outland b: Aft. 1910 +Sue Johnson 2 Wilma Josephine Outland b: Aft. 1910 +Grogan Roberts Who was Elizabeth, and what happened to her? Any suggestions? Your help is appreciated. Merilee Blaine (If anyone is researching OUTLAND, I've more information on that line since my original posting last spring.)

My friends - As we resume data posts for this week, we are going to return to our review of early marriages in Fulton County. In earlier installments in this series, we have worked our way up through 1848. In this post, the years 1849 and 1850 will be covered. If you see a marriage in which you have an interest, and you would like the full set of data for that marriage(which, unfortunately, generally consists of only the date of marriage, although there is the occasional consent or witness shown), please let me know and I will forward that to you. As always, your assistance in not sending this entire message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. Just as a brief comment to the full List, we have now formed the Planning Committee for the Jackson Purchase Homecoming 2000 event next year, and the Committee will be meeting via chat room as soon as I can get the facilities set up and a mutually agreeable day and time can be arranged. I will, in the near future, also have a simple web site available for our subscribers, through which they can watch the progress of the planning for this event. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Early Fulton County Marriages - Part 4 Bynum, Eli Noonan, liza Brown, Hiram R. Dorris, Mary A. Wall, H.S. Campbell, Mary Woodall, Alex Gore, Malinda Polsgrove, James Whitaker, Elizabeth Roper, John Easley,Nancy D. Pierson, James Hazelwood, Martha E. Poland, Jacob Thomas, Louiziana Shaw, Sylvester Ayers, Elizabeth Riley, David T. Chapman, Arlemitia Robert, Daniel L. White, Susan H. Wade, Jeremiah Jr. Browder, Margaret Shaw, Arthur L. Tyler, Rebecca P. Sams, Zacariah Stephens, Mary Toms, Joseph Jesse Sudmet, I. Ferrill Veatch, Jeremiah Dudley, Martha Webb, Watkins, Barnes, Mary B. Wade, Wiley W. Davis, Katherine Washburn, Wm Douglas, Elizabeth Mobley, W.H. Atteberry, Margaret J. Wright, Davis L. Greenwood, Carolina Noonan, Wm T. Edmonston, Martha Jane Lynch, john H. Apperson, Margaret M. Kimbro, Asariah G. Morris, Martha Kerr, W.J. White, Elizabeth Kennedy, William Powell, Patsy Bell Howard, Wm A. Roden, Louisa Jones, Andrew G. Kearby, Susan Mary Kennedy, James C. Goodwin, Guntha Humphrys, Harvey Scott, Ann Hill, Uriah Wall, Elizabeth Hobby, W.H. Atteberry, Margaret[sic] Hodges, Eli P. Bard, Martha Jane Hutchinson, Wm D. Ramsey, Rebecca E. Fowlkes, Joseph A. Hughes, Catherine Everett, William Bynum, Lucy E. Easley, B[enjamin] F[ranklin] Tyler, Isabela Cline, Aaron Pickle, Mary Case, Elephalet Holt, Sarah A. Douglas, Edward Ellis, Caroline Dunn, John L. Allen, Matilda E. Daugaday, Thomas F. Fomville, Elizabeth Crawford,James Graham, Mary E. Childers, John Baldridge, Elizabeth Clayton, Benjamin Ring, Catherine Baker, Ephraim Tylor, Caroline Brown, Wm C. Simmons, Reminah A. ~to be continued~ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Looking for info about David CAMPBELL in Henry Co TN 1850 according to the 1890 Veterans census pg. 101, ED 69 TN 2834025 in1860 Henry Co TN Federal Census - pg 36 4 - District 5 - TNSa52265154 in 1850 Henry Co TN Federal Census - pg 280 - District 5 - TNS5a265203 Also Isaac CAMPBELL 1860 Henry Co TN Federal census - TNS5a265929 Could this be the same Isaac and David who appeared in the 1870 Graves Co KY (Farmington Precinct ) Federal Census ? My 2nd great grandmother was Mary Jane (CAMPBELL) SIFFORDb. abt 1842 (mis spelled as Gifford in Don Simmon's transcription of the 1870 Graves Co KY Federal Census (Farmington Precinct) which gives her birthplace as TN. She md. Oliver SIFFORD b. 1835 of Stoddard Co MO. abt 1858. Oliver and Mary had 2 children there and after serving in the Civil war they moved to Graves Co KY (I 've been told that she had relatives there) They lived in Graves Co KY and had more children there and Oliver died there abt 1877-78. Mary then moved with her children and possibly a brother John CAMPBELL to Oregon Co MO.where they settled permanently. Does anyone have access to the 1850 Henry Co TN Federal census ? If so could you look for a Mary Jane Campbell abt. 8 years old. There was a Mary Jane in the Stoddard Co Mo 1850 census age 5 , dau. of William (b. KY) and Josephine CAMPBELL(b. IA) but that may not be my Mary Jane. There are so many Marys and CAMPBELLS that I'm having trouble pinpointing my Campbell ancestors. Is anyone doing CAMPBELL research in the W.KY & W.TN area? I would really appreciate any help anyone could provide. Thanks, Vonda Clark P.S. I got the census numbers above from Ancestry.com

Does anyone know of the families of Stephens, Hall, Lyons or Watson kin to the Coleman family pre1850? I know that there was a connection but I was a child and wasn't listening that good to the family stories. Also I have discovered there are several Jesse Colemans in my family in the 1800's, any help on these men is welcome. I have Jesse Coleman b. 1818 in Flat Creek, Bedford CO. TN d. 1891, buried Shook Cemetery, Flat Creek, TN. This is the Coleman family I am kin to but can't connect him to William Samuel Coleman b.1848, Flat Creek. WS parents were Jack? Coleman and Sarah Ann Boone( my great grandparents) Jack's mother was Sarah ( Sallie) Bird/Byrd D. 1850, then her widower m. Eliza Floyd and ??? HELP!!!---Alicia

Hello, I am looking for a young man named William G. PRATHER, he would have been about 13 in the 1850 census. William G.(pos.GARRETT) was born in KY abt 1837. William G. married Melissa (pos.CLARK) abt 1865/1868. I would greatly appreciate any leads if this family sounds familiar. Thanks so much for your time. Debbie rose@ccountry.net

I need two obits: The first is for Nora Robey Collins, died 9-15-1920, lived in Paducah (left Fulton 8 years earlier - I have the Paducah obit but it doesn't tell much about her Robey family), buried in Fulton (where her family lived), services were at the Methodist Church in Fulton, cemetery unknown (but I would like to find her grave). The second is for Dewitt Collins, died 8-2-1937, lived in Fulton, owned a restaurant in downtown Fulton. I attended his funeral when I was 8 years old. It was a military funeral. How can I find obits in the Fulton or Union City newspapers? Where do they keep them. Dick

My friends - Greetings from Bowling Green, KY. We stopped here today so that I could visit Western Kentucky University's Manuscript collection. hey have had, for some years, a an original docket book from the 1830's for Calloway County - an item which does not exist either in Calloway County, or in the KY Archives. I spent about an hour perusing the contents of this group, and found it to be a ledger of sorts, showing the plaintiff and defendant in certain cases and how the judgement was rendered and paid by one or the other of the parties. How this came to be in the holdings of WKU is a mystery. There is nothing of great genealogical import in this material, and it is too fragile to be photocopied, except in the case of a few pages. I will have to go back and copy the entire book by hand at some future date. But, we do now know what this item contains. I thought we would end this week's data postings with a "relationship puzzler" - this is not a "regular" Skills Puzzler - it is just a little item with which to have some fun and to see if we can determine the exact relationship in some of the cases we see in which families married and intermarried over several generations. What follows is an actual family situation, from my own line, and all of the names in the case of this scenario are the actual ones. My ggg-gf, Richard Skaggs(1792-1855), married, in 1811, to Elizabeth Wells, daughter of Samuel Wells and Anna Hamilton. Richard's elder brother, William Skaggs, had married, in 1809, to another Elizabeth Wells, daughter of Philip Wells, who was the aunt of the Elizabeth Wells who married Richard, even though they were only a few years apart in age. Richard and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs had a number of children, one of whom was Manerva Jane Skaggs, who married, in Calloway County, to Elias Meshach Skaggs, son of William and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs. Another of Richard and Elizabeth Skaggs daughters, Polly Ann, married Isham Charles Wells, son of Isaac Wells and Betsey Ann Skaggs, daughter of William and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs. Isham and Polly Ann had a son, William Hamilton Wells, who married Selina Ann Skaggs, a great-granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs. The question we wish to tackle is this: what is the relationship of William Hamilton Wells to his wife, Selina Ann Skaggs? If you want to give this one a try, you can send your thoughts to the List or to me. I'll return sometime over the weekend with the solution. As is customary, we will not have any data posts per se over the weekend, especially since I am away from my resource materials. Have a good weekend. -B ============================================================

Bill and others: I know this is not exactly KYJackson Purchase but though it would be useful to you. The address below will take you to the cemetery listing for Henry County Tennessee. For those of you with relatives that migrated "across the line" this is a great tool. There is a search engine so that you don't have to look through every one. I sent this to myself first to make sure it worked. http://www.rootsweb.com/~tndigs/henry/cemetery/index.htm Marsha

Hello, I have just recently began looking for my JACKSONS AND STATHAMS. John JACKSON b. 16 Oct 1827 d. 16 Oct.1898 married Sarah Evaline STATHAM in Obion Co. TN 13 Mar 1865 (no dates for Sarah) This was John's second wife, his first, Sarah MARSHALL died 1865. John and Sarah STATHAM had three or more children: Solomon Byrd b 1866, Harriet Belle b. 1873 d., Sally Jane b abt 1878. I would love to here from anyone who recognizes this family. Thanks so much. Debbie rose@ccoutry.net

Vonda, (Correction to prior message) Something strange here. Perhaps Don mis-read Sifford for Gifford. Farmington Prec. begins census p. 56 Household #19 Adison Sheridan family Adison age 40 b TN Martha 35 b TN Children b KY Living w/Adison was Nathan Gifford [sic] age 20, b MO HH #22 David Campbell family David 46 b TN Minerva 39 b MO Children b MO & Ky HH#122 Oliver Gifford 35 b MO Mary 28, TN Andrew 11 John 9 Francis 7 Alfred 5 Isaac 3 Wm. 5/12 b Feb., KY (Other children b MO) > No Sifford in index GRAVES COUNTY, KY CENSUS OF 1870 by Don Simmons, 1983, Simmons Hist. Pub. > I saw no William Campbell as head of household 1870 Graves Co. peggy b chapman ********** If anyone has access to the 1870 federal census for Graves Co KY may I > > have 2 lookups? My great great grandfather moved from Stoddard Co MO. to > > Graves Co KY after the Civil War and lived there until he died abt. > > 1877-78. His name was Oliver SIFFORD b. 1839 MO. According to > > Ancestry.com the only SIFFORD in Graves Co in 1870 was Nathan SIFFORD. I > > wonder if possibly Nathan was a first or second name. > > Ancestry.com has this info for 1870 > > Nathan SIFFORD - Graves Co KY - page 057 - Farmington Precinct - > > ID# KY013177769 > > If I could see the name of other family members it would help a > Vonda Clark > > >

veecee1@juno.com wrote: > > If anyone has access to the 1870 federal census for Graves Co KY may I > have 2 lookups? My great great grandfather moved from Stoddard Co MO. to > Graves Co KY after the Civil War and lived there until he died abt. > 1877-78. His name was Oliver SIFFORD b. 1839 MO. According to > Ancestry.com the only SIFFORD in Graves Co in 1870 was Nathan SIFFORD. I > wonder if possibly Nathan was a first or second name. > Ancestry.com has this info for 1870 > Nathan SIFFORD - Graves Co KY - page 057 - Farmington Precinct - > ID# KY013177769 > If I could see the name of other family members it would help a lot. > > Also lookup William CAMPBELL P.O Mayfield Graves Co. 1870 census. > > Sure would appreciate your help so much > > Vonda Clark > No Sifford in index GRAVES COUNTY, KY CENSUS OF 1870 by Don Simmons, 1983, Simmons Hist. Pub. I saw no William Campbell as head of household 1870 Graves Co.

My friends - Greetings from Nashville. We arrived here about 6 PM and will say overnight, then proceed into KY and work our way toward the JP. Tonight, we will have another in the group of "The Best of..." items that I am reposting while I am away from home. This one had to do with the Southern Claims Commission. The JP Homecoming 2000 Planning Committee had an excellent meeting last evening via chat room, and some really excellent brainstorming occurred insofar as arrangements for hotels, state parks, program plans and other preliminary planning. We will meet again in one month to receive reports from those Committee members in the JP area concerning their research into costs and housing arrangements. This is a fine group of people who have volunteered to do this work, and I take off my hat to each of them. If you sent a request for data to me late yesterday, or today, I will not be able to respond to it until I return home next Thursday, but I do have them, and I will respond. -B ============================================================ The Southern Claims Commission Today, I want to visit with you about the Southern Claims Commission and the Commission Relative to Captured & Abandoned Property. Those of you who have been researching your families for awhile may be aware of these two resources, but I would not be surprised if many of you have not heard before of these commissions. During the Civil War, it was common for Union soldiers to ride through the states of the Confederacy and take what they needed from the residents, by force if necessary, and usually in disregard for whether the people from whom they were taking these goods were loyal to the Union or not. Even in cases in which the citizen of a Confederate state had been given a letter of protection by a Union officer, which was supposed to serve to alert any other officers commanding troops which might be about to commandeer items from that citizen that he was to be left alone, there was no guarantee that the protection letter would be respected. As a result, when the War was concluded, those citizens of the Confederate states who were loyal to the Union felt that they should be compensated for their losses. In the 1870's, the federal government responded by creating the Southern Claims Commission for those states who were actually a part of the Confederacy. The Commission was charged with looking at the claims of these citizens and making restitution where justified for the damages incurred. There were some 20,000 claims which were ultimately filed with the Southern Claims Commission. The petitioner had to prove that he was loyal to the Union, and had to be able to put some reasonable value on the property which was looted or stolen. This caused the Commission to send out agents to interview neighbors, relatives, former slaves, and others who knew the petitioner to try to determine if his claim was justified. It was not uncommon for these claims to be drawn out over many years, sometimes over several generations of a family. When that occurred, the next generations had to prove their relationships to the original petitioner, and you can imagine the wealth of genealogical information that might be present in such a claim file. Some of these files have over a thousand pages in them - just for one claim. The depositions and other materials are intact and can be fascinating to read. If you have an ancestor or a family that lived in any of the Confederate states, but were loyal to the Union, and may have suffered losses at the hands of the Union forces, there is a chance they may have filed a claim with the Southern Claims Commission. Dr. Gary B. Mills has indexed the claims of the SCC by county and state and his book, "The Southern Claims Commission" is available in most good libraries as well as for sale from the Genealogical Publishing Company. But what about the people in the Jackson Purchase area of Kentucky, since Kentucky was a border state and not a part of the Confederacy? In border states especially, citizens also suffered losses at the hands of Union forces, who, again, took what they needed, by force when necessary. These people, also, felt that they were entitled to reimbursement for their losses if they were loyal to the Union. As a result, the Commission Relative to Captured & Abandoned Property was set up with the same basic charge as the Southern Claims Commission. This entity is of prime interest to us, because there were instances of Union abuses in the JP in KY. An example might be drawn from my own family. In 1864, a troop of Union soldiers who were coming through Calloway County, fired some shots through an upstairs window of my gg-gf Samuel Meshach Skaggs' home, and they proceeded to burn one of his barns down. He later sought - and received - some restitution from the government for his loss, by way of the Commission. In his case, the file contains only six pages, but he was fortunate enough to actually get a written statement from the Union officer commanding the troops in which the officer said that they burned down a barn "by accident". These files can be gold mines of data, especially if the claim process was drawn out over more than one generation. I recommend this avenue of research for your consideration. These records are available via microfilm or by photocopy. An inquiry should be addressed to: Record Group 56 Legislative, Judicial & Fiscal Branch National Archives & Records Service 8th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20408 The search request should show either the Southern Claims Commission file or the Commission Relative to Captured & Abandoned Property file, the name of the possible claimant, the state, the county, and, if you have access to Dr. Mills book and your request concerns the SCC, the file number of the claimant from his index. As I said above, there are 20,000 claims in the SCC files, and over a half million pages in the CRCAP holdings. You may or may not find a claim for your ancestor, but it is worth the effort to check into it.

Can anyone explain the difference between a land grant and a land warrant? Stuart Armstrong mail to: stuarta@aros.net web page: http://cgi.aros.net/~stuarta

If anyone has access to the 1870 federal census for Graves Co KY may I have 2 lookups? My great great grandfather moved from Stoddard Co MO. to Graves Co KY after the Civil War and lived there until he died abt. 1877-78. His name was Oliver SIFFORD b. 1839 MO. According to Ancestry.com the only SIFFORD in Graves Co in 1870 was Nathan SIFFORD. I wonder if possibly Nathan was a first or second name. Ancestry.com has this info for 1870 Nathan SIFFORD - Graves Co KY - page 057 - Farmington Precinct - ID# KY013177769 If I could see the name of other family members it would help a lot. Also lookup William CAMPBELL P.O Mayfield Graves Co. 1870 census. Sure would appreciate your help so much Vonda Clark

The following are from rough drafts of letters written by Aunt Pauline to various places seeking information about our family. "My name is Pauine Gibson born in MO 1916. My father was George F. Gibson born in KY in 1854. My grandfather was Thomas Henry Gibosn born in KY in 1822. My great grandfather was Johnson Gibson born ? abt 1797. Great Great Grandfather was Henry Gibson abt 1770. and the next generation GG G grandfather.... married to Susanna Gibson, she first shows up in KY 1804 on tax list)" "Johnson Gibson married Rebecca Edwards 1820. The book "Statistical Handbook of Trigg Co KY" their marrage was listed and it listed (H and N) as Johnson's parents. We find Henry living on some of the same land as Johnson at different census. Henry is shown as a land owner in 1799 under "Grants South of Green River" in book 6 Christian Co Ky, 1799. He is listed in 1800 "tax list" also John Gibson. In "1804 Tax List" Susanna Gibson also showed (rents from ponds) which Henry was listed on the same place, at an earlier date, (rents from ponds) so I thought Susanna might be the mother of Henry and John. Can you help me if she is their mother. Also where they came from to KY and Susanna's husbands name and how or where we can find information on Henry and Susanna. If they are mother and son? also Nathan might be a brother-in-law to Susanna Gibson. " "Henry could be Johnson's father? We have gotten a deed from Christian Co. where a John Gibson willed his son Henry some land in (1803-1806). Also in an earlier KY tax records 1800-1810) shows where Henry and John lived on the same lands and also an older lady Susanna. Before Susanna shows up on the land in 1803 there was a Henry Gibson in 1800 on the land. I think he might have died either in 1802 or 1803. He might have been Johnson's father." >From another letter: "This is what I already know. The 1810 census here, also on the Todd Co census of 1820 Henry, John and others but Johnson Johnson Gibson shows as a young man with a family. Again in 1830 census of Todd Co Henry and Johnson are on it. I found where Henry and Johnson both have "grants west of Tenn River:. Henry has NW qr Section 22-T-3R-1W. Johnson has NW qr Section 23-T-3R-1W. I believe Henry to be Johnson's father because of the ( H-N) listing Johnsons marriage and because they have lived near each other and Johnson named his first son Thomas Henry Gibson. But I don't have any real proof. I also think maybe Susannah might have been Henry's mother . But again I have no proof. I do not know where they came from to KY. I have always been told they came from VA but have nerver known what part. I can't find any more information on them in KY. The other things were a bad copy of John Gibsons will. and a letter from Mary Wiles. "Alexander Vinson who married Lucy Gibson was my late husband's 2ggparents." "I have not found parents for Johnson Gibson but I am still looking" and in reply Pauline wrote, "In checking the 1800 to 1830 tax records of Christian Co I find two older John Gibson. They are also in the 1810-1820 census. Your John Gibson was the one that had land in tax records on Triade (not sure of spelling) Water in Christian CO 1806 and the other John who died in 1811 had land on Rent Frows Pond in Christian Co. and gave his son Henry Gibson 200 acres in 1803. I'll send you a copy of the deed we have it. I think that it is the same Henry that shows on the 1810 -1820 census of Christian and Todd Co. I think that Johnson might be the son of that Henry. But as yet I have not been able to find out who Henry's children are." "Do you know where the John Gibson who is Lucys father came from?" "In the early tax records of Christian Co 1800 there is only one Gibson and it is Henry Gibson on the Spring Creek. But must have died because he doesn't show up any more in the 1801-1802 or 1803 but in 1804 Susannah shows up on Spring Creek." The letters were written 1980-81. Any one with any additional information would love to hear from you. Sincerely, Pat Mata

My friends - I am stopping by to let you know that I now have another in the continuing series of JP Land Grants text files ready for distribution. This file contains more of the "T" surnames, including, specifically, Talbert, Tankersly, Talkington, Tackett, Traylor, Thalen, Trabue, Tabscott, Terrell, Trease, Theveatt, Theatt, Tinsley, Tisdal, Trigg, Tipton, Titsworth, Trimble, Tilford, Tittle, Tins, Tilman, Tibbs and Thompson. If you would like a copy of this file, please request file # LG879. I will send it as a plain text attachment to an e-mail message, unless you specify that you must have it as a *straight* e-mail message(which tends to skew the columnar alignments). You will receive the complete file - time constraints will not permit me to go into the file and extract individual surnames. Earlier JP land grant text files which are available are shown on this web site: www.rootsweb.com/~kygraves/JPGrants.htm -B ============================================================

Please send Calloway Co. newspaper snippets for John Wells, T.L. Wilcox, and Mary S. Smith. Thanks!

Hi- Please send along file #LG879. Looks very interesting. Thanks much. Cherilyn Trusty