Please send information re Ramey, James and Fulcher, Virginia W. Thank you.

My friends - Tonight, we will be resuming data posts with another installment in our series on Early Calloway County Marriages - one of our most popular series. In the prior 30 posts in this series, we have moved forward from 1823 to 1839. We will finish the year 1839 in this post, and begin the year 1820. If you see a marriage which interests you, and you would like to have the full dataset for that marriage(which usually 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 help in not resending this entire message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. Our good friend, Sam Tarry, has reminded me that the DeLorme Atlases are superb tools for any genealogist, as they show all of the country roads, streams, creeks, and other topographical data which are invaluable for use in locating the area where an ancestor may have lived. These atlases by DeLorme are available through amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com on the Internet. They do not yet have all of the states available, but Kentucky and Tennessee are now offered, and, as DeLorme completes other states, they will be added to the list of offerings. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Early Calloway County Marriages - Part 31 Cox, Jesse Manley, Hannah Edwards, David Edwards[sic], Sarah Caroline Holland, William Miller, Martha Jane House, Robert Harrel, Elizabeth Butler, Thomas Massa, Eda W. Fennall, William A. Ballance, Katherine Ramey, James Fulcher, Virginia W. Thompson, Cornelius Harrell, Delilah Hodge, Ervin Griffith, Mary Bond, Caleb Woodall, Elizabeth Beuer, Ezekiel Watson, Mary Ann Morris, Henry G Jones, Elizabeth Adeline Tucker, William H. Sullivan, Sarah Martin Reuben J. Williams, Harriett Pritchett, Thomas Brooks, Laura Ann Duvall, Radford C. Jones, Adaline Parker, Jesse Lewis, Mary Ann Frizzell, Richard M. Chester, Zilpha Peterson, Morton Swift, Phoebe Briggs, John J. Jackson, Louisa Thweatt, James M. Rose, Fathe Kirkpatrick, James Tucker, Margaret Cross, Jacob Miller, Nancy Ann Goodin, Adam Mahan, Mary L. Gardner, John S. Hamilton, Elizabeth Crass, Elisha Ross, Sarah Watkins, Robert Miller, Sitha Watson, James Lassiter, Mrs.Narcissa Ellison, Lewis McQuaid, Eliza Caldwell, Andrew P[reston] England, Mary P. Beale, Andrew J[ackson] Bonner, Mary Jane Armstrong, Matthew Maxwell, Polly Wilkins, A.C. Jetton, Violet L. ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Is anyone researching the COOK families of McCracken County, KY? Pat Ray Scheele http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4375/cookmain.html http://www.co.saunders.ne.us/mead.htm Come surf with us!

I am searching for info. on the following sir names, in KY. In the following Counties>> .>>>CALLOWAY CO., McCRACKEN CO. AND JACKSON CO. 1700's TO PRESENT DAY... . HODGES, WILLIAM JESSE B. 1807 OR JOHN ( WILLIAM''S FATHER) B. 1875. (BOTH CALLOWAY CO.) MATLOCK, (ANY MATLOCK FIRST NAMES, ESPECIALLY JOHN). FLINT, WILLIAM B. 1874 OR CHARLES (WILLIAM'S FATHER) B. (UNKNOWN). ( BOTH McCRACKEN CO.) GULLEY, DELMAR EUGENE B. 1913 (McCRACKEN CO.) FLEMING, JACOB WESTLEY (FATHER OF JIMLU) B. 1864 OR JIMILU B. 1892 (BOTH IN McCRACKEN CO.) BOND, ELIZABETH WINFREY B. 1812 (CALLOWAY CO.) WHEELER, LUCY LAVANNA THREASEA OR EDWARD (DATES UNKNOWN) (COUNTY UNKNOWN). Any help or responce is deeply appreciated. Thank you. LYNDALUE@AOL.COM

I just received LDS films for the 1900 Federal Census of Kentucky for Fulton and Graves County. If you have a specific name from the 1900 census index and would like more information let me know and I will look it up for you. You must have the name, county, enumeration district and household number. Jennifer Pursell

I am researching the following: MELTON-McCracken Co. MAYER- Calloway Co. COLLEY- Graves Co. I have sent newspaper articles about Hazel to the Calloway Co. GenWeb Archives, and I have a web page at: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Shores/9291">Frank Melton's Family Files</A> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Shores/9291 I will be glad to correspond about these families. Frank Melton

I AM RESEARCHING THE POWERS FAMILY LINE. THY LIVED IN GRAVES, BALLARD, AND ARE BURIED IN CARLISLE CO. THANK YOU JARARD POWERS DEVINE TEXAS

I am researching the Hughes family that lived in Muhlenberg Co., died in Ballard Co. - primarily William, b. abt. 1760, d. Spencer Co. m. Mildred Bland and his son, Jesse, b. abt. 1785, d. in Ballard Co. m. Sarah Cross. Does anyone know who the children of Jesse and Sarah were? I have only two: - Mildred B. Hughes, his daughter who was b. March 24, 1818 in KY, d. Oct. 29, 1900, Decatur, TX m. William Alfred Miller of Hopkins Co., KY - Elijah Hughes, b. 1824, KY, m. Sarah J. Drake in Muhlenberg Co. Are there any records in Ballard Co. that might show where and when Jesse Hughes was buried? Any information on this family will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Betty E. More

I am needing directions for Smith Cemetery. I believe it to be located near Golo. kmathis@apex.net

I am searching for information on the above families. All are from Graves, Calloway, and Hickman Counties.

My friends - I have been away from the computer most of the day and will again be away most of the evening. As a result, there will be no data post today. We will resume tomorrow. In addition, I owe several of you a response to requests for data, and I will get those to you within the next 24 hours. Until tomorrow........ -B ============================================================

Since we have so many new subscribers to this list over the past several months, I thought it would be a good time to reintroduce my research list. If any of you have info on these families I sure would like to hear from you. Thanks. Garrison Bynum - Bynam - Baynahm - Buynam Robertson Milam Thanks again, Daryl.

Please send LG859 file for "P" land grants. Thanks!

My friends - I hope your holiday has been pleasant thusfar. Rather than posting data today, I am going to send out another in the "Tips" series. Over the 21 months that the JP List has been on-line, I have been asked a number of times about what sorts of general reference materials might be useful for a genealogist to own. I am also asked about more specific items pertaining to the Jackson Purchase region. In the area of general reference works that would be useful to any genealogist, whether novice, experienced, or professional, I suggest the following: Everton Publishers: The Handy Book for Genealogists Greenwood, Val: The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy. Mills, Elizabeth Shown: Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian Kemp, Thomas Jay: International Vital Records Handbook Stevenson, Noel: Genealogical Evidence Sperry, Kip: Reading Early American Handwriting Looking at Kentucky in particular, I suggest: Hogan, Roseann: Kentucky Ancestry Kleeber, John E.[editor]: The Kentucky Encyclopedia Sutherland, James F.: Kentucky Householders Sutherland, James F.: Kentucky Landholders Battle, Perrin & Kniffen: Kentucky - A History of the State In the Jackson Purchase region: Various county histories offered by the county genealogical and historical societies. For those with an interest in the Civil War period in the JP, the following would be of interest(some are journal articles, and are noted as such): Ash, Stephen V.: When the Yankees Came: Conflict & Chaos in the Occupied South Coulter, E.Merton: The Civil War 7 Readjustment in Kentucky Barton, Lon Carter: The Civil War in the Purchase[journal article] - Journal of the Jackson Purchase historical Society - V17, pp 79-91 Caldwell, Robert W.: The Civil War in Murray, Calloway County, Kentucky[journal article]. Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society: V17, pp.113-123 Daniel, Larry & Bock, Lynn: Island # 10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley Shuffett, Chuck: The Second Battle of Fort Heiman. [journal article]. West Kentucky Montage, May 1995, pp.7-14 Those journal articles may still be available through PERSI. The book items are probably available, if still in print, through amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com There are undoubtedly other resources which could be on this list, and anyone who can add a good resource to the list, please do so. There may or may not be a data posting tomorrow, as I must be out of town for a part of the day. I'll give a more definitive report on whether tomorrow on whether a data post will occur. -B ============================================================

My friends - I am dropping by today to give you the solution to the latest Skills Puzzler, which was concerned with grave markers, and what we can read from them. We had a good response to this one - 38 folks sent their thoughts on this to me, and everyone was able to spot at least one of the clues. As you will recall, we had a scenario in which a researcher had found a marble grave marker for Rupert Dinwiddie in one cemetery, and then, as she researched further, she found a limestone based marker, sitting on a cement base, in another cemetery for the same man - the birth dates were identical, but the death dates had different years. Both markers appeared to have weathered about identically. Our task was to determine which marker would be the more likely one to be correct. The really definitive clue to this Puzzler is in the fact that the limestone marker had a cement base under it. Cement(not concrete) was not used in this country until after 1823, as its components were not discovered until about 1820. That being the case, we know that the marker with the cement base was erected much later than the other stone, and, even though the weathering of each stone appeared to be about the same, limestone based markers will usually wear much faster than those of marble or solid granite. So the marble marker is the one we would feel is the more accurate of the two. In fact, it turned out to be that way, as the researcher did more digging. She found a lady descendant of Dinwiddie who told her that her grandmother had put up that later stone around the turn of the century. There was a Dinwiddie or two buried in that other cemetery, and the grandmother thought that one of the graves, which had no marker, was that of Rupert, who was her great-grandfather. She had a marker placed there, and gave the stone carver the wrong information on his death date. Its useful for us to know about these various components which surround grave markers - sometimes the most unusual sorts of knowledge will help solve a puzzle. -B ============================================================

My grandmother Verba HUGHES of Graves Co. KY and McCracken Co., KY had a picture of a gentleman taken probably in the 1800's, but maybe in the very early 1900's. The back says MILTON LEWIS's papa age 57. Verba father was from Robertson and Sumner Co., TN. All the pictures found with this were pictures of relatives to the Hughes or Hodges. Does any one know Milton Lewis and maybe his father? Anyone interested I will send a copy to you, if you will email me directly at mhodge@apex.net

Hello All, Is anyone related to Asa Ruby or has info on his family, love to hear from you. Judge Asa Sam "Acey" RUBY was born in 1833 in Paducah, Henderson Co, KY. jess

My friends - In my earlier posting about the new land grants text file, I gave an incorrect URL for the JP Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) page. It should read: http://users.arn.net/~billco/jacksonfaq1.html I inadvertently omitted the back slash before the tilde. My apologies. -B ============================================================

My friends - I am dropping by today to let you know that I now have another segment ready in our continuing review of land grants made in the Jackson purchase region. This file contains more of the "P" surnames; specifically Piper, Price, Philly, Priest, Pitt, Pickett, Pitman, Prior, Pettypool(P'Pool), Poole/Pool, Porter, Polk, Powell, Polsgrove, Pointer, Potts, Ponder, Puntney, Plumlee, Purdom, Punctney, Puryear and Pirtle. If you would like a copy of this file, let me know and I will send it in your direction. Please request *File LG859*. It will be sent as a plain text attachment to an e-mail messages unless you specify that you need to have it by straight e-mail(which often will skew the columnar alignments). You will receive the full file - time constraints will not allow me to extract data from these files on a single surname. The web site with other available JP land grants can be found here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygraves/JPGrants.htm The Jackson Purchase FAQ Page has been updated and redesigned. It is available at: http://users.arn.net.~billco/jacksonfaq1.html For those on the JP List, I'll be back later with the solution to the latest Skills Puzzler - we have had a lot of good responses to this one. -B

Mary, You have until November 15 to place your order for a book. Thanks, Nancy