My friends - Tonight, I am going back to our exploration of cemetery records. In our first segment, we looked at a couple of cemeteries in Calloway County that were on the TVA list of grave removals due to the Kentucky Lake Project in the late 1930's and early 1940's. I am going to do the same sort of thing tonight, except this segment will cover some small graveyards in Marshall County. If you see a name below that is one of interest to you, and you would like the complete data set(which can include the age at death, the year of death, the cause of death, and where the graves were moved, and, in some cases, who gave the information), let me know and I will get that to you. It is unusual to see a cause of death given, for the obvious reason that some of these graves were very old, even in 1940. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Marshall County Cemeteries - TVA Graves Removals Petway Cemetery:(range of burial years: 1880 - 1893 - numerous unknown dates) Ryan, John Ryan, Delia Hodges, Winnie 2 infants - Hodges Infant Petway Petway, Jane Petway, William O. Infant Petway ~~~~~~~~ Lone Grave Cemetery: Birdwell, George, age 60, died in 1890 of unknown causes, said to be a pauper farmhand for a man named Henson. ~~~~~~~~ Collie Cemetery: (range of burials - 1865 - 1916) Thomas, Cedlia Moore, Hyman Moore, Henry Thornton, Polly Collie, Sarah Ellis, Hilman Demmik, Eveline Collie, Ebbie Koger, Nannie J. Hubbard, Rhoda ~~~~~~~~~ Biggs Cemetery: (both known burials in 1895) Biggs, Sarah B. Biggs, Joseph ~~~~~~~~~ McDonald Cemetery:(range of burials - 1877 - unknown) Edwards, Rody Gregory, Jane Gregory, Calvin Gregory, James McDonald, Enos ~~~~~~~~~ McLeod Cemetery:(range of burials: 1858 - 1921) Infant McLeod McLeod, E.W. Colie, Lochin Collie Elizabeth Beggs, Betty Infant Beggs Collie, N.W. Collie, Elizabeth Pierce, Mary Jane Pierce, Jack Pierce, Mary A. Pierce, Lizzie Smith, Florence McLeod, C.C. McLeod, Rosetta McLeod, Elizabeth McLeod, E.W. McLeod, George McLeod, Joseph Pierce, Lucinda Infant Thorp Smith, Reuben ~~~~~~~~~ ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

My friends - I now have another JP land grants text file available. This one continues with more of the surnames beginning with the letter "C". This group includes the following surnames: Craddock, Crabtree, Crawford, Craig, Cravens, Crane, Clayburn, Cland, Cranfill, Cashow, Casinger, Champion, Charlton, Cavander, Catham, Clanahan, Chester, Creel, Cleaver, Creekmore, Cheek, Chenault, Crenshaw, Cresson, Crider, Crill, Childress, Clifford, Criss and Cillehay. If you would like a copy of the file, let me now and I will get it to you. I will send it as a e-mail attachment, unless you request it by straight e-mail(which often will skew the columnar alignments). The following JP land grants text files are now available: Smith Jones Brown Adams & Adair Allbritton Carter Copeland Farmer Helm Lovelace Parker Adkins - Alexander Alderson - Andrews Staton & Misc."S" Surnames(Part - see original post) "G" Surnames(Part) - see original post for exact surnames "C" Surnames (Part), including Cochran, Cocke, Cook and Cooper "P" Surnames (part) "L" Surnames (part) - 2 files (see original post for names) "R" Surnames (Part) - see original post for exact surnames. "C" Surnames (Part) - shown above Please bear in mind that any given surname within an alphabet classification(such as those beginning with "C") may show up again in later files, since the alphabatizing was generally only by the first letter of the surname, although surnames usually did appear together in semi-complete groups. -B ============================================================

My friends - I am dropping by today to let you know that I have two additional text files ready for land grants in the JP. These cover some of the "L" surnames. The first file includes the following surnames: Langdon, Larkin, Larkins, and Lassiter/Lasseter. The second new file covers the following surnames: Lawton, Lamb, Lawson/Lauson, Latta, Lamm, Laffoon, Langston, Lawrence, Larrick, Larimer, Lander, Lashlie, Lattea, Lewis and Lee. These two additions are added to those currently available: Smith Jones Brown Adams & Adair Allbritton Carter Copeland Farmer Helm Lovelace Parker Adkins - Alexander Alderson - Andrews Staton & Misc."S" Surnames(Part) "G" Surnames(Part) - see original post for exact surnames "C" Surnames (Part), including Cochran, Cocke, Cook and Cooper "P" Surnames (part) "L" Surnames (part) - 2 files (shown above) If you need any of these text files, let me know and I will get it to you. It will be sent as a text file attachment, unless you specify that it should be sent as a straight e-mail message(which has a tendency to skew the columnar alignments). Please remember that you can take this land grant data and go to the JP Images web site and locate, in most cases, exactly where the individual resided, especially in Calloway, Marshall and Graves County. For the other counties, you will need to over the overall JP grid map, which is a much larger scale and not as easy to read and follow the grid lines, but still usable. In case you need it, the URL for the Images Page is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygraves/temp/JPL.htm If you are new to land research and feel a little unsure about the rectangular survey system, you may wish to go over to my US Land & Property Research course, which is one of the free on-line educational courses offered at the International Internet Genealogical Society University. There is a full lesson on the rectangular survey system. It can be found here: http://users.arn.net/~billco/uslpr.htm -B ============================================================

My friends - As I have done in the past, I have been going through the hundreds of floppy disks on which I have dozens of files stored(back before ZIP drives). I come across some occasionally that I think may be of interest to our List members and I offer them here. I am dropping by this evening to let you know that I have found 4 text files that may be of interest to some of you. Most are relatively short, while one is very long. These files are: The Diuguid Family (about 3 printed pages) African Americans on the Kentucky Frontier (about 3 pages) Oak Level Christian Church - Marshall Co. (one-half page) The Pettypool/Poole/P'Pool's of Colonial Times and in KY (very lengthy - 28 - 55 printed pages, depending on font) These are files which people have sent to me over the years, or that I have put together myself. Except for those which I authored, I do not vouch for the accuracy of any of them, but they might provide a clue that could send you in a new direction if you have a relationship to any of these surnames. The Oak Level Christian Church history noted above is very short, but has some names of early members of that Church. If you need any of these, let me know. -B ============================================================

My friends - I am dropping in today to let you know that I now have another text file ready for more land grants in the JP region. This file will cover some of the surnames beginning with "P". Those surnames which are included are these: Page, Padgett, Phelps, Peay, Pea, Percifield, Penny, Pennybaker, Peck, Preston, Petty, Peter, Peebles, Petmore, Peeler, Pearce, Prewitt, Perkins, Pipkin, Pile, Phillips and Pirtle. The above surnames all come with the file - I cannot break it down into individual segments. If you need a copy of this file, let me know. I will send it by e-mail attachment unless you request it as a straight e-mail(which may often cause the column alignments to become skewed in transmission). Please remember, also, that some of these same surnames may appear again in other text files as I prepare them - we may run into more Phillips surnames, and we will likely see the name "Pile" appear again as "Pyle". So bear that in mind as you look at these. The current list of JP land grants text files is as follows: Smith Jones Brown Adams & Adair Allbritton Carter Copeland Farmer Helm Lovelace Parker Adkins - Alexander Alderson - Andrews Staton & Misc."S" Surnames(Part) "G" Surnames(Part) - see original post for exact surnames "C" Surnames (Part), including Cochran, Cocke, Cook and Cooper "P" Surnames (part) - shown above If you need any of these others, let me know about those, too, and I will get them to you. -B ============================================================

My friends - I am dropping by to let yo know that I have yet another text file now ready in the series I am doing for land grants in the Jackson Purchase area(the "Grants West of the Tennessee River" series). This file will cover some of the surnames beginning with "C". Those surnames that it reflects are: Cochran, Cocke, Cook, and Cooper. All of these surnames are contained in this one file. If you need a copy of this file, let me know and I will get it to you. I will send it via e-mail attachment, unless you indicate that you wish it to be sent as a straight e-mail message. I think that the columnar groups tend to stay more aligned when it comes as an attachment, but I know some of you have difficulties with attachments. To recap again, the following JP land grant text files are now available: Smith Jones Brown Adams & Adair Allbritton Carter Copeland Farmer Helm Lovelace Parker Adkins - Alexander Alderson - Andrews Staton & Misc."S" Surnames(Part) "G" Surnames(Part) - see original post for exact surnames "C" Surnames (Part), including Cochran, Cocke, Cook and Cooper Let me know if you need any of these files........ -B ============================================================

My friends - I am dropping by today to let you know that I have another land grants text file ready. This one covers some of the "G" surnames. Included in this file are the following "G" names: Gough, Goodwin, Gordon, Gore, Goode, Goad, Goff, Glover, Godsey, Goid, Glore, Golden and Grubbs. If you would like a copy of this file, let me know. I will send it as an e-mail attachment unless you request that it be sent as a straight e-mail message. The list of currently available test files on Jackson Purchase land grants include the following: Smith Jones Brown Adams & Adair Allbritton Carter Copeland Farmer Helm Lovelace Parker Adkins - Alexander Alderson - Andrews Staton & Misc."S" Surnames(Part) "G" Surnames(Part) If you need any of the above files, let me know. -B ============================================================

My friends - Our good friend, Oleen Pollard, has advised me today that the new book on Pleasant Hill Cemetery is now finished and is expected to be available by March. A web site has been set up which gives more information on the book, and on Pleasant Hill, and also includes a complete listing of the people buried in that cemetery, which has people from southwest Graves and eastern Fulton and Hickman counties. I invite your attention to this site, which can be found here: http://www.hallmarkpublishers.com/ph/ph.htm Those of you with family in these areas may wish to look at the families who are buried in that particular cemetery. -B ============================================================

Fellow listmembers, I am researching the following surnames in the KY Jackson Purchase area: BEARD, BOYD, BRISTOW, COOMER, CRAWFORD, HART, LAMBERT & RAY. Also have the following related surnames: BALLENTINE, BEAN, BOSWELL, BRISTOE, BROOMFIELD, BRUMFIELD, CASEY, CROSS, DOWNING, DUNNAWAY, DuPRIEST, MANLEY, McBRIDE, & McDANIEL. These associated surnames may or may not be from the JP. All, however, are from KY. Larry D. Bristow

My friends - Tonight, we will resume our look at the Marshall County Vital Statistics Birth Records. We had, in previous posts, worked our way up to 1854, and we will continue with that year tonight. As always, if you see a birth which is of interest to you, and you would like the full dataset on that birth(which includes the date of birth and the name of the father and maiden name of the mother), let me know and I will get that information to you. We have 7 new subscribers who have come to the JP List in the past 48 hours, and I want to welcome them and invite them to post their surnames and research needs to the List so that we can all try to assist them in their ancestral hunt. I would also suggest that if any of our subscribers have general questions about the Jack Purchase, they may wish to go to the JP FAQ Page at: http://users.arn.net/~billco/jacksonfaq1.html before posting a question to the List - many of the usual questions have an answer on the FAQ page. New subbers may also wish to go the JP searchable List Archives, which contain all of the posts to this List for the past 13 months, including my 275+ data posts. You may find some good clues there. It can be found here: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=KYJacksonPurchase-L I should probably also remind our newer list members of something that our tenured subscribers already know - we should always remember that the vital statistics records in KY in the 1852-59 time frame are woefully incomplete and inaccurate. Only about 40%-50% of the births, marriages and deaths that occurred in that time frame found their way into the VS records. So use VS records with caution, and try to find other, more reliable corroboration for such records, if possible(and it often is not possible, of course). -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Marshall County Vital Statistics Records - Births - Part 10 m=male f=female Furgeson, Rebecca J. Booth, W.L. (m) Eley, J.L. (m) Larrimer, L.H. (m) Gatlin, Mary J.J. Smith, Burton A.B. Simmons, Martha C. Fowler, Martha A.N. McManus, Nancy E. Vaughn, B.M.N.(m) Hunt, J.L. (m) Cole, Sarah E. Roach, George Treas, Caleb C. Smith, W.J. (m) Park, Charlotte G. Quarles, Lenora Isedore Creason, ------ (f) Wyatt, Marinora Smith, Robert L. Waggoner, G.P. (m) Liles, Martha E. Smith, Polesa Bourland, Susannah O. Brazelle, Ursula N.E. Ford, Nancy J. S[C]yres, James Cross, Nancy A. Brewer, Margaret J. Hodge, ------ (m) Cochran, James N. Riley, J.W. (m) Treas, ------ (m) Baker, J.C. (m) Byerly, Mary A.E. Reed, ------ (m) Cross, Eliza J.N. Perry, Sonora Chapman, Lurenah C. Rose, Nancy J. Peterson, Noah Barnheart, John W. Copeland, Ellender Jones, Mary Darnall, Rebecca Ann Jones, David Jones, Mary A. Thweatt, Amanda Darnall, Amanda R. Rivers, Sarah E. York, ------ (f) Brazel, Mary J. Dowdy, Nancy E. Coats, Nanna E. Clayton, Leander C. Green, C. (f) ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

P. Beauregard wrote: > > Hi, > I am researching these family surnames in Marshall, McCracken, & Muhlenberg > Co.s in KY; Henry Co., TN; & Monroe Co., MS. > Please email any information you can share. > Paul > > Surnames: DALTON, STEPHENS, HARPER, KALER, STOCKTON, FUQUA, TUBBS, > CARTER, CORLEY, JORDAN. > > Related by marriage: BEVEL, BARRETT, CHAPMAN, CHATMAN, CANNON, COPE, > HOWARD, FOOKS, FRALEY, HILL, SIRLS(sic), STORY, WALKER. > ---------------------------- > **ed names indicate oldest known individuals. > ----------------------------- > James DALTON* 1850s m Mary STEPHENS*(she married BEVEL, HOWARD, then > DALTON) > -George W. DALTON b 1879 m Rachel HARPER b 1880 > > (Mary Stephens sister was Belle STEPHENS m Bill CANNON.) > (Mary Stephens DALTON’s kids: Charlie m Betty HILL, Belle m Horace POWELL, > Rachel) > > --------------------------- > Henry KALER* G.A.R., b ca 1820s? m MRS Henry KALER* > -Mary KALER m Warren HARPER(he married Mary FOOKS(of ILL.) and then > Mary KALER) > --Rachel HARPER b 1880 m G. W. DALTON > > (Warren & Mary HARPER’s kids: Henry, Geo., Frank, Johnny, Belle Zada, > Nellie, Rachel.) > > -------------------------------- > Franklin Stewart STOCKTON*, b ca 1870s? m Amanda Candace JORDAN* > -Isaiah Franklin STOCKTON 6-18-1872 m Edna Earl FUQUA > > (F. S. STOCKTON kids: Zammon, Ellen, Leander Cazetta, Sarah, Erin; 9 girls > and 2 boys) > > -------------------------------- > George TUBBS*, b ca 1830s? m Martha CORLEY/CORLY* > -Rhoda E. TUBBS m Robert M. FUQUA > --Edna Earl FUQUA 7-12-1873 m Isaiah Franklin STOCKTON > > ------------------------------------ > Nathan FUQUA*, b ca 1800 m Millie CARTER* > -Everline FUQUA m Robert FUQUA** > --Robert M. FUQUA b ca 1845 m Rhoda E. TUBBS > > Dear Paul: If you would like a GEDCOM on the Harpers, let me know. Van A. Stilley

Hi, I am researching these family surnames in Marshall, McCracken, & Muhlenberg Co.s in KY; Henry Co., TN; & Monroe Co., MS. Please email any information you can share. Paul Surnames: DALTON, STEPHENS, HARPER, KALER, STOCKTON, FUQUA, TUBBS, CARTER, CORLEY, JORDAN. Related by marriage: BEVEL, BARRETT, CHAPMAN, CHATMAN, CANNON, COPE, HOWARD, FOOKS, FRALEY, HILL, SIRLS(sic), STORY, WALKER. ---------------------------- **ed names indicate oldest known individuals. ----------------------------- James DALTON* 1850s m Mary STEPHENS*(she married BEVEL, HOWARD, then DALTON) -George W. DALTON b 1879 m Rachel HARPER b 1880 (Mary Stephens sister was Belle STEPHENS m Bill CANNON.) (Mary Stephens DALTON�s kids: Charlie m Betty HILL, Belle m Horace POWELL, Rachel) --------------------------- Henry KALER* G.A.R., b ca 1820s? m MRS Henry KALER* -Mary KALER m Warren HARPER(he married Mary FOOKS(of ILL.) and then Mary KALER) --Rachel HARPER b 1880 m G. W. DALTON (Warren & Mary HARPER�s kids: Henry, Geo., Frank, Johnny, Belle Zada, Nellie, Rachel.) - ------------------------------ Franklin Stewart STOCKTON*, b ca 1870s? m Amanda Candace JORDAN* -Isaiah Franklin STOCKTON 6-18-1872 m Edna Earl FUQUA (F. S. STOCKTON kids: Zammon, Ellen, Leander Cazetta, Sarah, Erin; 9 girls and 2 boys) - ------------------------------ George TUBBS*, b ca 1830s? m Martha CORLEY/CORLY* -Rhoda E. TUBBS m Robert M. FUQUA --Edna Earl FUQUA 7-12-1873 m Isaiah Franklin STOCKTON ------------------------------------ Nathan FUQUA*, b ca 1800 m Millie CARTER* -Everline FUQUA m Robert FUQUA** --Robert M. FUQUA b ca 1845 m Rhoda E. TUBBS

Hi folks, I currently have in my possession, for a short time, a "History of Marshall Co" put together and published by the Marshall County Genealogical and Historical Society in 1984. This book has many family histories, submitted my residents of Marshall County. I would be glad to do some "look ups" to help you find those elusive ancestors. If I'm not overwhelmed by requests, I will get back to you. Larry D. Bristow

My friends - Today, we will resume our look at the Marshall County Early Marriages series. This series covers marriages which occurred in Marshall County in the 1848-1852 time frame. As always, if you see a marriage of interest to you, and you would like the complete data set on that marriage(which includes the date of marriage, consents in some cases, witnesses, surety and who performed the marriage), let me know and I will get it to you. -B BTW - hotmail users have been having problems receiving digests over the pas few days. Hopefully, that has been - or soon will be - corrected. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Marshall County Early Marriages - 1848-1852 - Part 2 Austin, Walter C. Peay, Sarah Helm, Littleton, Jr. Miller, Elizabeth F. Littlejohn, Charles Jenkins, Orilla Purnell, George Price, Margaret Burpoe, James Travis, Elizabeth M. Wyatt, George W. Baker, Melissa Smith, Alexander Cole, Martha Jane Matilda Hamilton, Joseph A. Nanney, Eliza Lindsay, James, Jr. Dycus, Harriet W. Rose, Henry W. York, Margaret Thorn, Thomas Lee, Matilda Clark, Anderson P. Williams, Dulcena McKinney, Dudley Williams Satterfield, Betsey Ann Brandon, John W. Lee, Sarah Baker, James D. Ray, Sarah Melinda Hodges, Newton J. McElrath, Joannah Williams, Bowery W. Henderson, Sarah Ann Evans, Richard G. Egner, Elizabeth Ann Ford, Dillen Craddock, Mary Pace, Thomas, Hurt, Mehala Liles, Zacharriah Ray, Kiziah C. Ford, Littleton G. Craddock, Mary Ann Scallion, Wm Station, Nancy A Cooper, Bedford C. Tinnen, Laura C. Hendricks, T.L. Spinks, Mary Ann Manning, Wiley D. Gregory, Mary Butler, Matthew Staton, Jane ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Happy to oblige - and this address is also available at the www.rootsweb.com address, also you have to go into another page to find it: Snail mail donations can be sent to: RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative P.O. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 And here is the precise URL on which the above address can be found, for further information on donating: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html#mail Let's all do what we can - RootsWeb is our "golden goose" that lays a golden egg each day in the form of the vast amount of genealogical data that is being shared among the 4000 mail lists and 2000+ web pages. Let's not let that golden goose die due to lack of support. -B ============================================================ At 10:45 AM 12/20/98 -0800, you wrote: >To Bill and all on our list; Melva Hancock-George is right about all of >us giving a little. Bill will you please give us an address where we >can send donations. I know we did our memberships with credit cards >online, but may need a place to send a check. Also, let me take this >opportunity to encourage all who are using this great service to join in >it's membership. The basic membership is only a dollar a month. Thanks, >Dave Ray ============================================================

My friends - I generally do not bring you news about RootsWeb, whose servers house some 4000 mail lists, including this one, because I know you all get the RootsWeb Review about once a week, which pretty well covers what is going on within RootsWeb. However, on one of the lists which we list hosts use to discuss list problems and other items of mutual interest, a discussion was started by a few people concerning the tiny salaries paid to a few people who give practically all of their time to the RootsWeb Cooperative(they were complaining - if you can believe it - about them getting paid at all). As most of you know, RootsWeb was created by, and is "owned" by Dr. Brian Leverich and his wife Karen Isaacson, both superb computer people and genealogists. They created RootsWeb and they have funded 90% of it out of their own pockets since its creation. This means that they have a houseful of computer equipment, as well as other equipment in a hub elsewhere, that runs all of these lists, as well as web pages and other items for the USGenWeb - the effort is huge and growing by leaps and bounds. However, their corporate sponsor, Palladium, has disappeared into a merger with another company, and that funding has evaporated. It seems unclear whether any other corporation will step forward to help underwrite these huge costs. In the message which Brian sent to the listowner list, he makes the first mention of danger to the whole RootsWeb concept. He is rarely pessimistic, and if he is concerned, then we all need to be concerned. He finds it particularly depressing that only a small percentage (2%-6%) are helping to support RootsWeb in any way, even though there are literally hundreds of thousands of people regularly using the mail lists and the other web pages and items which RootsWeb hosts. You can see that he has taken out a $25,000 loan just to try to keep the equipment growing with the needs of RootsWeb. The bottom line is that if we, as users of these RootsWeb services, cannot help with a few dollars(and it does not have to be much at all, if we all get involved)in support of this fine group, we are in very real danger of losing these mail lists and literally hundreds of web pages of genealogical material(including the JP Images Page and many, many others)that is today available. Please give this some thought, and see if you can find a few dollars that you could donate to RootsWeb to keep this effort alive. I have long said that Brian and Karen cannot forever continue to incure financial hits in the range of ten of thousands of dollars at a time, and still be able to keep RootsWeb alive. Take a look at: www.rootsweb.com and you can see how to donate if you wish to do so. I urge you to consider it. It is a great investment. Brian's message follows. Let's see if we can make it a merrier Christmas for Karen and him. My apologies for the lengthy message, but I think it needed to be said. -B ============================================================ >Karen and I are in the hole on RootsWeb; not only have we not been >paid anything, we've been paying out of our pockets for the >privilege of working here night and day without weekends or holidays. > >(Just *today* Karen and I took out a $25,000 loan to cover the fact >that the Palladium sponsorship has apparently died with their >acquisition by TLC, and to pay for the hardware we're going to need >to handle the new users we expect to have after Christmas.) > >Just so you fully understand what I've told you above, you should be >aware that in terms of traffic RootsWeb is one of the *top 25* or so >sites on the whole Internet. Folks who can run these sorts of >facilities are absurdly rare (there are a few hundred of them in the >whole world), and senior system administrators at the other "Top 25" >sites generally have salary+benefits+option packages that run in the >$200,000-500,000 per year and up range. > > ### > >Folks should be clear on the concept that the administration staff >at RootsWeb is making a huge contribution to the genealogical >community by essentially donating our time. The fact that each of >us is personally donating services worth tens or even hundreds of >thousands of dollars a year is part of the reason we find it so >depressing that only about 2-6% of our users are choosing to support >RootsWeb at all, and that even among our supporters the average >contribution is only one-third of what "tens of thousands of >genealogists" (the Wall Street Journal) are spending at Ancestry.com. > >I don't think RootsWeb is going to fold anytime soon. But I'd be >lying to you if I didn't tell you that the staff is seriously >wondering whether the community values our efforts enough that >continuing on with RootsWeb makes sense. > >The admin staff wants to give the genealogical community a great >online genealogical library, but we can't do it if only 2-6% of our >users will voluntarily choose to support us. Without more support, >RootsWeb can't afford to buy the servers and bandwidth and scanners >and such that we need to bring online the whole US Census and the >British Birth/Marriage/Death records and all the other resources >we'd like to make freely available to the entire community. > >Maybe Ancestry has it right. Lock up the resources and charge the >users through the nose. Oh well. -B >============================================================

Greetings, On 13 December I asked Bill Utterback if he would be willing to assume the responsibility for the two mail lists, KYHICKMA-L@rootsweb.com and KYMARSHA@rootsweb.com, I established in the Jackson Purchase. He agreed immediately. I am confident he will do a great job. Please give him your support. Pat Oliver (Willis P. Oliver) woliver@hiwaay.net *************************************************** * * * Visit these Western KYGENWEB Pages: * * * * http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/caldwell.html * * http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/crittenden.html * * http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/hickman.html * * http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/livingston.html * * http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/lyon.html * * http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/marshall.html * * * ***************************************************

Happy Holidays Kentucky researchers! Is anyone out there researching descendants of Denson DEES (b. 1785/d. ca.1850) and his wife Rachel HOLLAND (b. 1793)? I am a descendant of their son Andrew (b, 1820) and Mary BELL. Am also interested in the Denson's brother Luke DEES and his children by first wife Elizabeth ARRICK (there were 8 children and only one I know is daughter Alpha). Here's wishing everyone out there a safe and happy holiday and best wishes for the New Year!! L.C. Dees Plano, TX

Hello folks, I thought I'd throw this one out and see if I get any nibbles. I'm looking for anyone that has any information on this couple. Nathaniel McDANIEL born about 1848 in Arkansas and his wife, Rilda A. LAMBERT born about 1852. They were married in 30Oct1870 in Marshall Co. KY. They were both still alive as late as 1920 as the are in the Marshall Co. census along with a "sister"(?) Phroney J. Nat was 72 and Rilda 68 at the time of the census. No age given for Phroney. I do not have any information on any children this couple might have had. Rilda was the older sister of my GGrandmother, Melvina (LAMBERT) RAY. Their father's name was Crition and the mother may have been M. J. DUNNAWAY. I hope this rings a bell with someone. Season's greetings, Larry D. Bristow

I had forgotten that i was subscribed to this list, there has been so little activity on it. Welcome, Bill. I have benefited greatly from the KYJP list for the past several months both from the data listings and from contacting people who were also researching my surnames. My major stumbling block continues to be my ggrandfather James WASHBURN of Marshall County. On the 1880 Graves County census he is listed as head of household with wife Mary E. age 24. son Walter S. age 2, and son Jasper, age<1, born in May. Jasper is my grandfather. I have been unable to determine if James is the 7th son of Gabriel (1810-1895) and Susanna Emmaline Thompson (1815-1859) or if he is the son of John W. (b. c1828-) and Margaret A. Radford (c1834 - aft 1880). He says on the 1880 census that both his parents were born in North Carolina. I am looking for any information that would eliminate or indicate one of these two James' as the one who moved to Graves County to raise his family. I believe his wife Mary E. was Mary E. POTTS, b. 10 Aug 1853 in Graves County to Elijah POTTS and Elizabeth VICUS. I have not been able to find any record of either James or Mary after the 1880 census. Hopefully someone in Marshall County has a solution to my dilemma or can head me in the right direction to find a solution. My other JP surnames are DOWDY, DUFFELL, GORE, HOBBS, JACKSON, PEERY, SIBERT and STEPHENS. I will gladly share any information I have. Merry Christmas to all!! Sandy