-----Original Message----- From: boxerb <boxerb@aol.com> To: tndavids <tndavids@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 5:58 pm Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Columbus Prather/Prater I have received the information concerning the 1900 census for Columbus Prather. They are found in Butler Co KY in 1900. Many thanks to all who helped. Columbus L Prather b 3 Apr 1842 Warren/Simpson Co KY d 3 Mar 1917 in Davidson Co TN buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Married: Georgia Ann Phelps 25 Oct 1865 in Warren Co KY d 28 Sept 1808/09 in Davidson Co. George W b 10 Sept 1866 d Davidson Co 12 July 1935 Married: Minnie Taylor Nobia b 25 Dec 1871 Warren Co Married #1 Grant Cohron #2 Oscar J Hess d 5 May 1949 in Davidson Co Katy C b 1877 Married: Henry C. Odom???? F Lee b Jan 1880 (apparently died in infancy) William Hurt b 17 May 1883 d 28 Apr 1943 in Davidson Co Buried: Mt Olivet Never married. Some of this info is from the death certificates of those who died in Davidson Co TN and most are buried at Mt. Olivet. Since the census says that Georgia was the mother of 6, 4 living, one must have been born between 1866 and 1871. Columbus L was the son of John Prather and Agnes Harris. Georgia Ann was the dau of William C Phelps and Sarah Ennis. Columbus was a brother of my great grandmother Eliza Jane Prather who married Granville Monroe Morris in Warren Co. She and Granvills are buried at the Plano Church Cemetery in Warren Co. Mary June Foulk Knoxville Tennessee -----Original Message----- From: Betty Brown <betty524@hotmail.com> To: tndavids <tndavids@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:05 pm Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Columbus Prather/Prater Mary June...Some dates and names of the children might help... Betty Brown > To: kywarren@rootsweb.com > From: boxerb@aol.com > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:57:14 -0400 > CC: kysimpso@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TNDAVIDS] Columbus Prather/Prater > > > I have been unable to find Columbus L Prather and his wife, Georgie Ann (Phelps) in the 1900 census. They are in Warren Co Ky in 1880 and in 1910 they are in Davidson Co TN. They are buried in Mt Olivet Cemetery. The 1900 census would give me valuable information on one of their children, F Lee, b Jan 1880. > They lived near the Warren and Simpson line. > > Mary June Foulk > Knoxville Tennessee > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNDAVIDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNDAVIDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

-----Original Message----- From: boxerb <boxerb@aol.com> To: kywarren <kywarren@rootsweb.com> Cc: kysimpso <kysimpso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 10:59 am Subject: [KYWARREN] Columbus Prather/Prater I have been unable to find Columbus L Prather and his wife, Georgie Ann (Phelps) in the 1900 census. They are in Warren Co Ky in 1880 and in 1910 they are in Davidson Co TN. They are buried in Mt Olivet Cemetery. The 1900 census would give me valuable information on one of their children, F Lee, b Jan 1880. They lived near the Warren and Simpson line. Mary June Foulk Knoxville Tennessee ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYWARREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have been unable to find Columbus L Prather and his wife, Georgie Ann (Phelps) in the 1900 census. They are in Warren Co Ky in 1880 and in 1910 they are in Davidson Co TN. They are buried in Mt Olivet Cemetery. The 1900 census would give me valuable information on one of their children, F Lee, b Jan 1880. They lived near the Warren and Simpson line. Mary June Foulk Knoxville Tennessee

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-----Original Message----- From: boxerb <boxerb@aol.com> To: kywarren <kywarren@rootsweb.com> Cc: kysimpso <kysimpso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Fri, Jul 20, 2012 2:59 pm Subject: [KYWARREN] James T or F Prather Looking for info on James T or F Prather b ca 1837. Son of John Prather and Agnes Harris. I have a suspicion he was killed in the Civil War. I have not been able to find any record of him in the census records of Simpson and Warren. Mary June Foulk Knoxville Tennessee ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYWARREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Looking for info on James T or F Prather b ca 1837. Son of John Prather and Agnes Harris. I have a suspicion he was killed in the Civil War. I have not been able to find any record of him in the census records of Simpson and Warren. Mary June Foulk Knoxville Tennessee

-----Original Message----- From: boxerb <boxerb@aol.com> To: kywarren <kywarren@rootsweb.com> Cc: kysimpso <kysimpso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Jul 5, 2012 4:51 pm Subject: John C Matlock Anyone have info on John C Matlock whose marriage to Eliza Jane Prather took place in Warren Co KY on 30 Sept 1841. In the 1850 Warren Census there is a John C Matlock age 34, wife, Alpha age 44. Susan 8 years and twins Sarah F and James M. Who is this MASKED man? FamilySearch has two marriages for him: Jane Pratin, same date as the marriage for Eliza Jane Prather in Mrs. Rabold's Marriage book. Second marriage to Mary J Odele 11 Feb 1868 in Warren. I have not seen this in the original Warren marriages. Supposedly, and certainly not proven to me is that Eliza Jane was the daughter of William Prather/Prater. And sister to my ancestor John Prather who married Agnes Harris in Warren. Mary June Foulk Knoxville Tennessee

Anyone have info on John C Matlock whose marriage to Eliza Jane Prather took place in Warren Co KY on 30 Sept 1841. In the 1850 Warren Census there is a John C Matlock age 34, wife, Alpha age 44. Susan 8 years and twins Sarah F and James M. Who is this MASKED man? FamilySearch has two marriages for him: Jane Pratin, same date as the marriage for Eliza Jane Prather in Mrs. Rabold's Marriage book. Second marriage to Mary J Odele 11 Feb 1868 in Warren. I have not seen this in the original Warren marriages. Supposedly, and certainly not proven to me is that Eliza Jane was the daughter of William Prather/Prater. And sister to my ancestor John Prather who married Agnes Harris in Warren. Mary June Foulk Knoxville Tennessee

There has been a monument put up where the town use to be.  My mother was born their 93 years ago and is the last living child of Bailey Peyton and Callie Beatrice Climer Cassity.  Their are Cassity/Cassetty/Cassada/Cassaday, Kirby, Marrow, Massey and many others listes at the 1st families in this community   I also have a picture of the Kirbytown school.  I am posting this because our Cassity etc spelling of name moved into Monroe, Allen, Simpson, Logan, Warren, Barren Edmonson Counties in KY. Jeannie in KY kymonore@rootsweb.com www.trailstothepast.org

-----Original Message----- From: boxerb <boxerb@aol.com> To: kysimpso <kysimpso@rootsweb.com> Cc: kywarren <kywarren@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, Jul 1, 2012 2:19 pm Subject: Prather Family I am descended from Agnes Harris, dau of George O Harris Jr and his wife Elizabeth, Betsy, Holland. Agnes married John Prather 25 Apr 1832. In the 1850 Simpson Co KY census John 43 SC (he died aft 1880 Simpson census series T9 roll 442 pg 413 He was 73 years old. A Prather 37 KY Wm H 17 KY G S 15 KY J H 13 KY EJ 11 KY Married Granville Monroe Morris (my line) E A 9 KY Married a Matlock C S 7 KY This is Columbus who married George Ann Phelps moved to Davidson Co TN J M 5 KY R H 2 KY Who is G S? I have never found anything on him. Columbus is sometimes found as Columbus S and sometimes L. His Tennessee Death Certificate gives L. b 3 Apr 1842 d 2 Mar 1917 buried in Mt Olivet Cemetery in Nashville. George Ann also in Mt Olivet as well as some of their children. Any information on any of John and Agnes children appreciated. Mary June Foulk Knoxville Tennessee

I am descended from Agnes Harris, dau of George O Harris Jr and his wife Elizabeth, Betsy, Holland. Agnes married John Prather 25 Apr 1832. In the 1850 Simpson Co KY census John 43 SC (he died aft 1880 Simpson census series T9 roll 442 pg 413 He was 73 years old. A Prather 37 KY Wm H 17 KY G S 15 KY J H 13 KY EJ 11 KY Married Granville Monroe Morris (my line) E A 9 KY Married a Matlock C S 7 KY This is Columbus who married George Ann Phelps moved to Davidson Co TN J M 5 KY R H 2 KY Who is G S? I have never found anything on him. Columbus is sometimes found as Columbus S and sometimes L. His Tennessee Death Certificate gives L. b 3 Apr 1842 d 2 Mar 1917 buried in Mt Olivet Cemetery in Nashville. George Ann also in Mt Olivet as well as some of their children. Any information on any of John and Agnes children appreciated. Mary June Foulk Knoxville Tennessee

Milus Pierce and Oshie W Climer Soyars lived there with two children,.  Milus went into the bedroom to build up the fire to keep the one sleeping child warm.  Went back to the kitchen to where Oshie was feeding the other child.  The room caught on fire and burned the child.  Does anyone have information on this fire.  children born 1912/1913.  Jeannie In KY

Ms Gregory - A most interesting report very well presented. Thank you. Jim McGoodwin

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some speculated they were descended from Portuguese explorers, or perhaps from Turkish slaves or Gypsies. Now a new DNA study in the Journal of Genetic Genealogy attempts to separate truth from oral tradition and wishful thinking. The study found the truth to be somewhat less exotic: Genetic evidence shows that the families historically called Melungeons are the offspring of sub-Saharan African men and white women of northern or central European origin. And that report, which was published in April in the peer-reviewed journal, doesn't sit comfortably with some people who claim Melungeon ancestry. "There were a whole lot of people upset by this study," lead researcher Roberta Estes said. "They just knew they were Portuguese, or Native American." Beginning in the early 1800s, or possibly before, the term Melungeon (meh-LUN'-jun) was applied as a slur to a group of about 40 families along the Tennessee-Virginia border. But it has since become a catch-all phrase for a number of groups of mysterious mixed-race ancestry. In recent decades, interest in the origin of the Melungeons has risen dramatically with advances both in DNA research and in the advent of Internet resources that allow individuals to trace their ancestry without digging through dusty archives. G. Reginald Daniel, a sociologist at the University of California-Santa Barbara who's spent more than 30 years examining multiracial people in the U.S. and wasn't part of this research, said the study is more evidence that race-mixing in the U.S. isn't a new phenomenon. "All of us are multiracial," he said. "It is recapturing a more authentic U.S. history." Estes and her fellow researchers theorize that the various Melungeon lines may have sprung from the unions of black and white indentured servants living in Virginia in the mid-1600s, before slavery. They conclude that as laws were put in place to penalize the mixing of races, the various family groups could only intermarry with each other, even migrating together from Virginia through the Carolinas before settling primarily in the mountains of East Tennessee. Claims of Portuguese ancestry likely were a ruse they used in order to remain free and retain other privileges that came with being considered white, according to the study's authors. The study quotes from an 1874 court case in Tennessee in which a Melungeon woman's inheritance was challenged. If Martha Simmerman were found to have African blood, she would lose the inheritance. Her attorney, Lewis Shepherd, argued successfully that the Simmerman's family was descended from ancient Phoenicians who eventually migrated to Portugal and then to North America. Writing about his argument in a memoir published years later, Shepherd stated, "Our Southern high-bred people will never tolerate on equal terms any person who is even remotely tainted with negro blood, but they do not make the same objection to other brown or dark-skinned people, like the Spanish, the Cubans, the Italians, etc." In another lawsuit in 1855, Jacob Perkins, who is described as "an East Tennessean of a Melungeon family," sued a man who had accused him of having "negro blood." In a note to his attorney, Perkins wrote why he felt the accusation was damaging. Writing in the era of slavery ahead of the Civil War, Perkins noted the racial discrimination of the age: "1st the words imply that we are liable to be indicted (equals) liable to be whipped (equals) liable to be fined ... " Later generations came to believe some of the tales their ancestors wove out of necessity. Jack Goins, who has researched Melungeon history for about 40 years and was the driving force behind the DNA study, said his distant relatives were listed as Portuguese on an 1880 census. Yet he was taken aback when he first had his DNA tested around 2000. Swabs taken from his cheeks collected the genetic material from saliva or skin cells and the sample was sent to a laboratory for identification. "It surprised me so much when mine came up African that I had it done again," he said. "I had to have a second opinion. But it came back the same way. I had three done. They were all the same." In order to conduct the larger DNA study, Goins and his fellow researchers – who are genealogists but not academics – had to define who was a Melungeon. In recent years, it has become a catchall term for people of mixed-race ancestry and has been applied to about 200 communities in the eastern U.S. – from New York to Louisiana. Among them were the Montauks, the Mantinecocks, Van Guilders, the Clappers, the Shinnecocks and others in New York. Pennsylvania had the Pools; North Carolina the Lumbees, Waccamaws and Haliwas and South Carolina the Redbones, Buckheads, Yellowhammers, Creels and others. In Louisiana, which somewhat resembled a Latin American nation with its racial mixing, there were Creoles of the Cane River region and the Redbones of western Louisiana, among others. The latest DNA study limited participants to those whose families were called Melungeon in the historical records of the 1800s and early 1900s in and around Tennessee's Hawkins and Hancock Counties, on the Virginia border some 200 miles northeast of Nashville. The study does not rule out the possibility of other races or ethnicities forming part of the Melungeon heritage, but none were detected among the 69 male lines and 8 female lines that were tested. Also, the study did not look for later racial mixing that might have occurred, for instance with Native Americans. Goins estimates there must be several thousand descendants of the historical Melungeons alive today, but the study only examined unbroken male and female lines. The origin of the word Melungeon is unknown, but there is no doubt it was considered a slur by white residents in Appalachia who suspected the families of being mixed race. "It's sometimes embarrassing to see the lengths your ancestors went to hide their African heritage, but look at the consequences" said Wayne Winkler, past president of the Melungeon Heritage Association. "They suffered anyway because of the suspicion." The DNA study is ongoing as researchers continue to locate additional Melungeon descendants. ___ Associated Press Writer Cain Burdeau contributed to this story from New Orleans

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Born 10/1912 Parents Miles Soyars Mother Oshie/Ocie Climer/Clemer Simpson County KY Last know living in Wayne County MI 1930 Census with Mary Rose Soyars Price and Uncle Ambrose. They had children and a border. She was a Clerk Typist in an insurance company. Parents got a divorce in 1921. Oshie marrie Carl D Harton 1922 in RObertson County, TN. They went back to Detroit MI and then went to Starke Bradford Florida. They bought a resort Motel and lived their Until their deaths. He died in 1972 and she died in 1973 in a auto accident in Alushia County, Her shoffer was driving. I have not been able to locate the obit for her death. Have search many places for it. Oshie was born in Macon County TN. Her parents Viola and Jim Climer are buried in Auburn, Logan, Kentucky Miles Soyars remarried in 1922 and in 1923 his wife Rose Basham lost a son in Jefferson County KY and in 1924 they Had a dauhter named Virginia. Miles died in 1970 In Hardin County, Ky. Have not been able to locate his obit either. I know that he and Rose are buried in Logan County. Miles was born ibn Logan County KY. His daughter married a Morgan but have not found her. She had two sons and her husband died and remarried went to bowling green. Do not know her new married named. She finish school in Elizabethtown KY Hardin County. This is one piece of the puzzle that I am trying to find the answer for me and my Climer Cousins. My mother is her Cousin. Oshie was my Grandmothers sister. If she is still alive she has many 1st cousins in Murfreesboro TN living. They are Climers and ask me to do this search. Jeannie Thanks God Bless God Speed

I was living in Bowling Gren Kentucky on Forest Avenue between the Mills family and the Fitzpatrick Family. It was in Forest Park area of town Could see Western on the hill and the train track ran to the back of our house. We started going to a small church at the Mills attended and Later became charter members of the Forest Park Baptist Church. We had no pastor in that small building of a mission that was started however a young sailor came his name was Bobby Lively and his father was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bowling Green KY. The Mills had a daughter named Diane. Our other neighbors were Ruth and Doug Fitizpatrick and they had a daugher named Betty. Betty and I were the same age. They attended the church of Christ and Ruth was a Vaughn from Macon County Tn Area. My dad Samuel Isaac Gregory became the Training Union Leader of the Young People and worked with them a lot. We played softball went on outings and cookouts and had lots of fun. The Millers were charter members also and owned a store there in Forest Park. I attened with Betty Warren County High School the 1st year it opened it is now Warren Central. At that time it had 12 Grades. Betty one of the few to attend that school 12 years when she graduated in 1962 By then she had a brtother an so did Diane. Mr Mills Taught School also. My dad worked for Bewley/Buelly Machine shop. It was on Adams Street accross from where the trains came in. Cant remember how to spell his name right however everon call him Mr Jess. He had two son I remeber Ralph becase he had a daughter I use to go and play with. I remember my dad help weld and help build the pool at Beech Bend. I remember him working on race cars that ran out there. I liked the figure 8 racing best of all. Went Roller Skating there a lot. Oh did I mention that Bobby Lively became our pastor at Forest Park and later he went to Louisville and then to Richmond to the home office of the home mission board. He baptisted my mother while we lived there. Viola Betty Cassity Gregory. It was in the basement of another church we had no where at that time to Baptist someone. I was in the childrens choir and dad sang in the choir. I remeber Mr Betts was the Principal of the School. My dad help fight the fire on the Square the Butler Dime Store. Fire trucks came from everywhere. I watched with my mother as they fought the fire. Three trucks came from Louiville to help but had to return because the federal building caught on fire. They were afraid the square would burn. They were hosssssing down the the other building and throwing stuff from the upstairs windowns and trhowing out the doors on ground level. They were fighting with firetruck hoses and andthing they could get hooked to water from other buildings. I remeber Sears and hardware stores opening up and letting them have anything they needed to firght the fire with. The show was on that side of the Square also. My 1st and 2nd grade teacher was Mrs Elliott. She was a good teacher. Lots of Patients but strick. I liked her. Beacuse of her I liked school. We moved from Forest Park to Glynn Lillie Pike and lived there till we moved to Louisville ky in 10/1952. My mother's sister and husband had a farm on Morgantown Road. Grafton and Olean King. They had Bail, Raymond, Bess, Nell Martha, Mary and Charles. Aunt Olean and Uncle Grafton are buried there in Bolwing Green Near the Airport. I use to watch the circus unload off the train when it came to town. It was so much fun to see the anmials up close as a kid. My mothers other sister and huband owned a farm out towards Richardsville. Louis and Aline Cassity Scurggs. They had no Children in 1951 they Moved to Louisville later to Detriot and then back to Simpson County and bought another farm. They are buried in the Green Lawn Cemetery in Franklin. My grandther Bailey Peyton Cassity and wife Zora Barton Fisher Tuck Hargis Cassity (2wife) live in Warren County for a while on the West Farm and then moved to Simpson County. They are also buried at Greenlawn Cemetery in Franklin. Her sister Hester Cassity Hughes and John Henry Hughes had a 300 acrer farm on the north side of the south branch of red river in Logan County on 765. It was part of the old Conn Place right next to Duke Burrors place. I loved to visit there. Uncle Bill and Mammy Margret lived there in A house on the place till Uncle Bill died. That was Uncle John's Parents. William Jefferson Hughes and Margret Isdora Duke Hughes of Jackson County, Tennessee. My mothers family was from Kirbytown, Macon, Tennessee. Uncle John and Aunt Hester were 2nd Cousins. My grandmother Callie Beatrice Climer Cassity mother Viola Virginia Hughes-Thomas was William Jefferson Hughes sister. They were the children of William Riley(Darb) Thomas and Nancy S Huses/Hughes Holeman Thomas they split up and the kids went by both names. She later married a Kent also. they split up also. their was a third child named at birth Isaac Newton Thomas he later bcame Thomas Hugh Hughes. He married Alta Cora Ramsey. They lived in Jackson County Tennessee on Funns Branch. William Jefferson an wife are buried in Adairville KY Cementary so are Uncle John and Aunt Hester and one child Mildred Josephine Hughes Green. My mothers brother also had a farm in Simpson County Kentucky Oakley Lovell Cassity and Edith Mae King Cassity. They are buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Franklin KY. Edith Mae King Cassity is the sister of Grafton King the husband of my mother's sister Olean. Uncle Doke his nickname was married 1st to Otto Elizabeth Knight of Macon County Tennessee and they had one son Paul Gray Cassidty This is how the military spelled his name and he IS deceased. Otto died in the early 30's. Allof Doke and Eidith children are still living. Mother had another sister name Mary Mason Cassity Welch married to Charlie Wheeler Welch of Cookeville, Putnam Tennessee. They moved to Pascagoula during ww2 and worked in th shipyards there and then back to cookevill and worked at oakridge and then to Detroit where they lived till death. They are buied at Greenlawn also in Franklin. Did I mention that Uncle Doke and Aunt Edith are at Greenlawn also and so is my Dad Samuel Isaac Gregory. All of the welch children are still liveing Their was two other children Lauret Etta Cassity. In the late spring of 1932 some before 06/21 she fell under the wagon of the wheel ran over her. She never got well and died in July of that year. In 1928 Callie miscarried around the 1st of March and died from blood posing a few days later from the doctor not using clean instructments on her. My grandpa hatred that man till the day her died. She is buried in the Aubie Wakefield Cemetery along side of her child. Laura Etta is buried there also with her mother and no marker Otto is buried there also with a rock for a market. Aunt Anne put the rock there for her marker. Bailey had 2 sisters and one brother, Hester Bell Cassetty Massey, Annie Leota Cassetty Marrow and Edjar James Cassetty. We calle him Uncle Bug and lived and died at Pleasant Shade Tennessee and was married to Bassie Kemp. They had 3 sons, Ernest, bernest and fredrick We went back to Macon County a lot and Ray Kenneth Smalling was the Grandson of Hester Bell Cassity Massey and he aquired the land where the Cassity and Kirbys lived. He was married to Cozella Patterson and no children. Grandpa Mark C Cassetty was born in 1856 according to the bible I have and died 12/31/1952. He was Marton C Cassetty/in the bible Casity and wife was Mary Elizabeth Kirby (Mollie). She is Buried in the Kirby Cemetery in What was Called Kirbytown Macon Tennessee. Grandpa Mark is buried in Red Boiling springs Tenneessee. I hope I have not bored anyone with my writtings. Jeannie Sammie Jean Gregory Fairchild God Bless God Speed http/trailstothepast.org free genealogy web site kymonroe@rootsweb.com list admin On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Doug Moore <dougmoore12@gmail.com> wrote: > The blizzard of 1951 was a disaster too in Tennessee: > > http://www.tn.gov/tsla/exhibits/disasters/blizzard.htm > > Doug Moore > > ps: The blizzard was not the only show premiering on Jan 28, 1951. > This > was also the date of the start of the Jack Benny TV series. > Probably > no connection. > > > > > On 1/2/2012 10:19 AM, dean hunt wrote: > > My wife was going through some old boxes of photos and things, trying to > > clean up our basement, when she found, among many other things, this > > newspaper clipping. I don't know the date, or the writer, but I am quite > > sure the paper was The Glasgow Daily Times. I remember this winter very > > well. > > > > > > > > Article... > > > > "FILE THIS AWAY FOR DEBATE THAT IS CERTAIN TO DEVELOPE WITH THE PASSAGE > OF > > YEARS > > > > _________________________________ > > > > The results of the great sleet and snow storm that began > Sunday, > > January 28, 1951, will be of interest to later generations. "The big > snow > > of 1951" had six inches of ice covered with four to seven inches of snow. > > File this for future arguments as to what did happen here and when: > > > > All city and county schools were closed, leaky roofs and > damp > > walls inside the house were common all over the county; roofs caved in, > no > > trains were in operation, and outside telegraph and telephone services > were > > cut off; there was no mail, no traffic on the highways, electric lights > and > > power were off; water pipes froze, there were no newspapers, birds > starved > > by the thousands, the thermometer registered 21 below, and limbs and > trees > > crashed because of a heavy weight of snow and ice; highways and sidewalks > > were damaged, stores were closed, both city and rural mail deliveries > were > > restricted for several days; motors of autos would not start, radiators > were > > frozen, and business, the courts and public schools were closed down; > > ill-tempered folks with frost-bitten ears and noses were common, and > danger > > from falling icicles four feet in length, and from crashing trees and > slick > > sidewalks was the rule. > > > > Several broken arms, legs and hips were reported, and stock > > perished in the fields and the barns because of the intense cold; hunger > > from food shortage > > > > Threatened in some areas, and there was widespread suffering on the part > of > > the underprivileged; no buses were in operation for four days, motors > burned > > out when the electric current became weak, no garbage was collected, and > all > > light and power went off when the lines broke; there was no social; > > activity, gas and oil furnaces and refrigerators were dead, church > > attendance was low and all sports programs were cancelled, and many > > basements were knee deep in water, the town clock froze, parking meters > were > > useless, and candles were in great demand for lighting all over town. > > > > The storm began Sunday, January 28. The worst period was > the > > following Wednesday through Monday, February 5, when it became a bit > warmer. > > At present the going is still rough, with no sign of melting ice and > snow. > > The weatherman reports colder weather is due." > > > > > > > > As I said...I remember this winter very well, and it was bad! But I do > > think the reporter was engaging in a bit of hyperbole. > > > > > > > > M. 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Thanks for answering. I am a researcher and descendent of the Prather family of Simpson and Warren Co. Gary is also a researcher and I do not know how to contact him but hopefully he might be a subscriber to Warren and Simpson email lists. Mary June -----Original Message----- From: Jim McGoodwin <uigin2@tplaza.org> To: kysimpso <kysimpso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 4:19 pm Subject: Re: [KYSIMPSO] Gary Benton Prather I send you this note because I don't know why I got it - but _more_ I ant to let you know that it does not seem to have gone the way you ntended.... JiMcGoodin On 2/2/2012 11:36 AM, boxerb@aol.com wrote: If Gary is a subscriber to Warren or Simpson list, please email me at oxerb@aol.com. Mary June Foulk Knoxville TN Any additional questions may be addressed to: &lt;a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyschs/> http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyschs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYSIMPSO-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message Any additional questions may be addressed to: lt;a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyschs/> http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyschs/ ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYSIMPSO-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message

If Gary is a subscriber to Warren or Simpson list, please email me at boxerb@aol.com. Mary June Foulk Knoxville TN

I send you this note because I don't know why I got it - but _more_ I want to let you know that it does not seem to have gone the way you intended.... JiMcGoodin On 2/2/2012 11:36 AM, boxerb@aol.com wrote: > If Gary is a subscriber to Warren or Simpson list, please email me at boxerb@aol.com. > > Mary June Foulk > Knoxville TN > Any additional questions may be addressed to: > &lt;a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyschs/> > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyschs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYSIMPSO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >