This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ruff, Jefferies Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iJB.2ACE/950 Message Board Post: Olie Ruff, d/o James Redman Ruff and Frances B. Estes m William Jefferies December 17,1894 in Marshall County, MS. Anyone recognize this couple?? I would love to know more about their Family. Who were william's parents? Did they have children. Hope some one can help me with this family, Marie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/949 Message Board Post: I would like to know when Isaac "Ike" Mauney and Miss Cartwright were married. I feel sure it was in Tippah Co.Ms. I need the exact date and what Miss Cartwright's given name. Thanks Margaret

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iJB.2ACE/185.1 Message Board Post: Can anyone help me with Emma Jean Price who married James Henry Cappleman. My father Purvis Elton Cappleman tried to find out about this side of the family. Was she related to General Sterling Price? Dad thought that she was born in AR. Thanks for any information, Kathy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/948 Message Board Post: I am looking for anything on Richard and Narcisse Cartwright. Found them on the 1880 Tippah Co. Ms. census. I can't seen to go back any further. also, I would appreciate a cemetery look-up. Where are they buried and when did they die? Any help would be so appreciate, Margaret Ripley, Ms.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: loving Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iJB.2ACE/879.2 Message Board Post: Do you have other info. on lovings .I am looking for info. on Walker lovell loving. or other spellings. He was born abt. 1830. Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: loving Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iJB.2ACE/879.1 Message Board Post: Do you have other info. on lovings .I am looking for info. on Walker lovell loving. or other spellings. He was born abt. 1830. Thanks.

Hello. I am new to this list. I am researching my grandmother's father's side of the family. The surname is SIDES. Leona Wade Sides b. 04 July 1912 Cherry Valley, ARK dau of Holden Wade Sides b. about Sept 1873 Mississippi and Tisha Lambkins b. Jan 1879 Mississippi Holden W. SIDES son of William J. Sides and Lusinda? Any information would be helpful. I know nothing of this side of the family. I only knew my grandmother Leona W. (Sides) Foster. I have a couple of pictures of her and that is about it. Thank you, Carrol (Paul) Mick carrolmick@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now.

I would love to see the transcript of the trial. I guess they burned in the courthouse. I believe they published McCannon's life story in the papers at the time. Melissa -----Original Message----- From: Gloria Frazier [mailto:glofra@earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 10:09 PM To: MSTIPPAH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MSTIPPAH-L] For Gloria; re: murders of ADCOCK Family Thank you, Becky. Melissa McCoy-Bell had typed "From SON OF SORROW, THE LIFE, WORKS, AND INFLUENCE OF COLONEL WILLIAM C. FALKNER, 1825-1889, dissertation by Donald Philip Duclos, University of Michigan, 1961" Both items give me a good amount of information altho I still don't have the names of the rest of the family. What a gruesome murder. I would love to have a copy of that pamphlet Mr. Falkner was selling for $1 each at the hanging. With all that were sold. you would think one would have survived. Thank you both for helping. If I can help any in Macoupin County IL, holler. Gloria At 12:35 PM 10/30/2004, you wrote: >Hi, Gloria -- > >This may not answer your specific questions but it's another bit of >information regarding the murders. It came from Joel Williamson's very >interesting book, "William Faulkner and Southern History," page 17. The >book is basically about author William Faulkner, great grandson of Col. >William C. Falkner of Ripley, Tippah Co, MS and contains interesting >genealogical information on the FALKNER/FAULKNER family. > >William C. Falkner "read law with his uncle John Wesley Thompson and other >attorneys while he earned his living working in the county jail. In June >1845, an ax murderer named A.J. McCannon escaped from the jail. He had >befriended a migrating family, then decapitated them all while they slept >and fled with all their possessions. The crime was discovered when hogs >uncovered the shallow grave of one of the children. William C. Falkner >joined in the pursuit of the fugitive, which led the posse well into >Tennessee. William was twenty years old at the time. They returned to >Ripley with McCannon and a crowd wrestled him away from the guards and was >about ot lynch him when McCannon talked his captors into sparing him for >due process of law in exchange for his telling them the story of his life >and how he came to commit this crime. > >"William C. Falkner wrote down the account and had it printed: "The Life >and Confession of A.J. McCannon, Murderer of the Adcock Family." > >"Fifty years later, a longtime friend of William's said tht William had >deposited a stack of pamphlets about the story on the gallows on >McCannon's execution day and sold them to the gathering crowd at $1.00 >each. By the end of the day, after McCannon had died 'spinning like a >top' he had renewed his stock several times, and was never again without >money in his pockets." > >I hope this is of interest to you or someone else. > >Becky Smith > > > >==== MSTIPPAH Mailing List ==== >Send in your old photographs of Tippah County to include on our new >communities section. ==== MSTIPPAH Mailing List ==== "The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will. War suits them. They are splendid riders, first rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace." General W. T. Sherman

Thank you, Becky. Melissa McCoy-Bell had typed "From SON OF SORROW, THE LIFE, WORKS, AND INFLUENCE OF COLONEL WILLIAM C. FALKNER, 1825-1889, dissertation by Donald Philip Duclos, University of Michigan, 1961" Both items give me a good amount of information altho I still don't have the names of the rest of the family. What a gruesome murder. I would love to have a copy of that pamphlet Mr. Falkner was selling for $1 each at the hanging. With all that were sold. you would think one would have survived. Thank you both for helping. If I can help any in Macoupin County IL, holler. Gloria At 12:35 PM 10/30/2004, you wrote: >Hi, Gloria -- > >This may not answer your specific questions but it's another bit of >information regarding the murders. It came from Joel Williamson's very >interesting book, "William Faulkner and Southern History," page 17. The >book is basically about author William Faulkner, great grandson of Col. >William C. Falkner of Ripley, Tippah Co, MS and contains interesting >genealogical information on the FALKNER/FAULKNER family. > >William C. Falkner "read law with his uncle John Wesley Thompson and other >attorneys while he earned his living working in the county jail. In June >1845, an ax murderer named A.J. McCannon escaped from the jail. He had >befriended a migrating family, then decapitated them all while they slept >and fled with all their possessions. The crime was discovered when hogs >uncovered the shallow grave of one of the children. William C. Falkner >joined in the pursuit of the fugitive, which led the posse well into >Tennessee. William was twenty years old at the time. They returned to >Ripley with McCannon and a crowd wrestled him away from the guards and was >about ot lynch him when McCannon talked his captors into sparing him for >due process of law in exchange for his telling them the story of his life >and how he came to commit this crime. > >"William C. Falkner wrote down the account and had it printed: "The Life >and Confession of A.J. McCannon, Murderer of the Adcock Family." > >"Fifty years later, a longtime friend of William's said tht William had >deposited a stack of pamphlets about the story on the gallows on >McCannon's execution day and sold them to the gathering crowd at $1.00 >each. By the end of the day, after McCannon had died 'spinning like a >top' he had renewed his stock several times, and was never again without >money in his pockets." > >I hope this is of interest to you or someone else. > >Becky Smith > > > >==== MSTIPPAH Mailing List ==== >Send in your old photographs of Tippah County to include on our new >communities section.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Duncan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/907.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't have any information on the kincades, but I do know a little about the Duncans. Rufus N. Duncan was my Great grandfather,Edwin Ruthvin Duncan's, brother. I have some pictures of that graveyard I will try to e-mail them to you. Karen Duncan Cummings

Hi, Gloria -- This may not answer your specific questions but it's another bit of information regarding the murders. It came from Joel Williamson's very interesting book, "William Faulkner and Southern History," page 17. The book is basically about author William Faulkner, great grandson of Col. William C. Falkner of Ripley, Tippah Co, MS and contains interesting genealogical information on the FALKNER/FAULKNER family. William C. Falkner "read law with his uncle John Wesley Thompson and other attorneys while he earned his living working in the county jail. In June 1845, an ax murderer named A.J. McCannon escaped from the jail. He had befriended a migrating family, then decapitated them all while they slept and fled with all their possessions. The crime was discovered when hogs uncovered the shallow grave of one of the children. William C. Falkner joined in the pursuit of the fugitive, which led the posse well into Tennessee. William was twenty years old at the time. They returned to Ripley with McCannon and a crowd wrestled him away from the guards and was about ot lynch him when McCannon talked his captors into sparing him for due process of law in exchange for his telling them the story of his life and how he came to commit this crime. "William C. Falkner wrote down the account and had it printed: "The Life and Confession of A.J. McCannon, Murderer of the Adcock Family." "Fifty years later, a longtime friend of William's said tht William had deposited a stack of pamphlets about the story on the gallows on McCannon's execution day and sold them to the gathering crowd at $1.00 each. By the end of the day, after McCannon had died 'spinning like a top' he had renewed his stock several times, and was never again without money in his pockets." I hope this is of interest to you or someone else. Becky Smith

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOPKINS, SMITH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/947 Message Board Post: I have recently learned that my son-in-law's gg-grandparents were from Tippah Co., MS. I found some information on Worldconnect that indicates John W. Hopkins was the son of Lewis Hopkins, who was the son of Benjamin Hopkins. I found out about Delance and John through their son's application for a Social Security number. He was Andrew Jackson Hopkins. If anyone know anything about this family, please contact me. I know so very little about them, so I won't be able to help anyone right now. Thank you. Sharon clarksha@swbell.net

Beverly Adcock was on Pontotoc Co MS deeds with a brother and two brothers in law. Beverly was a brother to my gggrandfather Edward Adcock. Then I found a power of atty for his estate in 1846 in Pontotoc. Then I found an estate packet in Pontotoc showing he had been murdered by A J McCanon. And, men from Tippah Co were turning in charges to the estate for apprehending McCanon. ---- Tonite I browsed the Tippah MSGenWeb site and found: ADCOCK FAMILY, deceased (SENTINEL, May 30, 1901). Noah Frazier suggests a monument be erected to the graves of the Adcock family murdered by McCannon in 1845). ADCOCK FAMILY, deceased (TRANSCRIPT July 5, 1845), Andrew J. McCannon, murderer of Mr. Adcock, Mrs. Adcock, and their two children, has been captured in Madison County, Tennessee, and returned to Ripley. ---- I didn't have anything on this ancestor but gaining quite a bit quickly. I wished I would have known earlier about the murder. I could have dug more in Pontotoc Library. Anyway, my question(s) are: Does anyone have more on this murder or could do a lookup for me on this information. I am looking for Beverly Anderson Adcock's death date (the earliest I got from the estate packet was 23 Jun 1845 so I conclude he was murdered before 23 Jun 1845. Is there a stone? I don't know where he and his family were buried. I didn't know he had a family until the note above from the Tippah county site. Is there any information on his family in the history of this murder? Thank you to anyone who could help me on this family. Gloria Frazier (Note - don't know of any relationship to the Noah Frazier mentioned)

I have a copy of the marriage record for Johnson Adcock and Cynthia Lucinda Collier who were married 15 December, 1842, in Marshall Co., MS. The marriage record was found in the basement of the Marshall County courthouse by a member of a CSA Camp. We later went to Holly Springs hoping to find an 1838 marriage for my Crain gg grandparents--but it was not to be found. We could not even find the record of the Adcock/Collier marriage and were firmly told in a courthouse office that NO marriage records existed that early. Elreeta Weathers

> We all want to thank you for your hard work. I don't have any >marriages to report, but have been looking for years for a divorce action >that was filed in Tippah in about 1862. Could the records on this have >survived, and do you know anyone who could do a lookup? The county clerk >says they do not have the staff to search. Thanks Frank. I know some have servived and are in the Tippah County Death Notices that can be found on the Tippah Co. page. If you haven't checked there please do. There probably were more than can be found there. My guess is they are located on the (in)famous books and packets on the dusty, hot upper floor of the courthouse. Unfortunately I don't know of anyone who is willing to do lookups there. The only time I was there I found nothing although I had found a book indexing the records and knew the exact packet numbers I was looking for. None were where they were suppose to be. I wouldn't want to hire someone by the hour to search for me there! Hopefully someone on this list will read your message and help you. Good luck. By the way, I did get one more marriage from my message yesterday. We are up to 207! Fred _________________________________________________________________ Get ready for school! Find articles, homework help and more in the Back to School Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04backtoschool.armx

Walter: We all want to thank you for your hard work. I don't have any marriages to report, but have been looking for years for a divorce action that was filed in Tippah in about 1862. Could the records on this have survived, and do you know anyone who could do a lookup? The county clerk says they do not have the staff to search. Thanks, Frank

Good morning. I am sending this to the Benton and Union County lists as well as the Tippah List since both were partially formed from Tippah so it applies to them too. The Tippah Co. Courthouse was burned by the Yankees in 1864 and a lot of records were destroyed in the fire. The clerk, W. W. Robinson knew the Yankees were coming and took all of the land records and the then current marriage book that started at July 28, 1858 and buried them on a farm until the war ended. All marriage records prior to that date went up in smoke with the courthouse. We have an ongoing project to try to recreate the burned marriages from whatever sources we can find. Since we want them to be as accurate as possible, we do not accept "about" dates such as "their first child was born in 1843 so they were married about 1842". The number of reconstructed marriages has been stuck at 189 for a couple of years now since no new submission have come in. I found out the Tippah Co. Historical and Genealogical Society page is back up http://ww2.dixie-net.com/tlcc/genealog.htm and ordered the Tippah County Hertiage Vol. I book on CD ($30) and ordered it. I have spent the last two days searcing on "married" (11,937) and found 17 new (old) marriages so now the total is 206. That means I made 11, 920 unfruitful clicks and now suffer from corpal tunnel of the right hand. :-) While I was adding these new records, I got a message telling me that the Artemus Johnson Casey on the list was really Artemus Jasper Casey along with census records to prove it so that one has been corrected. I even found a Mohondro marriage for Melissa. The purpose of this message is not only to inform you of the new additions but to ask those of you who don't know about it to look through your records for Tippah county marriages for those that occurred prior to July 28, 1858 and submit them. Not only will it help those who may need the information but your name and email address will be included so that you can make new contacts. You may have an old Bible that no one else has access to. As you know this could be a real jewel for some. Please do not submit records after the above date. Many have done so and I hate to telll them I can't use them, that they are or should be in the official records. I will do as much checking as I can to insure any submission is valid so if you have doubts, submit it and let me decide. I had already added one record of a Pottsville marriage since I had checked Marshall Co. and did not find it, but later I checked Hardeman Co. TN and found it there so had to go back and delete it. One marriage from Vol I the submitter said "May" have occurred in Tippah Co. I included it because the couple was liiving in Tippah Co. at the time and I did not find it in Marshall nor in Hardeman Co. and thought it probably did in fact take place in Tippah. Some did not have enough information to make it clear to me that it did take place in Tippah so I did not include them. Each entry on the page is included twice, once forward indexed and the other reversed and in alphabetical order to make it easier to search. Click on the surname at the start of the line and it will show you additional information such as parents of the bride and groom if it is known, the source of the information so you can determine if it is good enough for you to use, and who submitted it so you can contact them. In these new additions I did not include who submitted it but did add to the source the name of the person who submitted the article in the book. The reconstruced marriage page has been a popular page since the hit counter shows well over 29,000 hits. The more entries on the page the more useful so keep the submissions coming and enjoy the page. I will also be looking through information on the CD for additional Civil War info for the Tippah County Confederate page where I am also looking for any information you may have including biographies and pictures of soldiers. This page supports not only Tippah Co. but Benton and Union counties as well (the original Tippah Co.). http://www.rootsweb.com/~mscivilw/ Fred _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/

My Adair family was in the Chester County, SC area. They immigrated from County Antrim, Ireland abt. 1760's, settling in Chester Co., Penn, then to Chester Co., SC by the Revolution. The DAR chapter there is named after my 4th great grandmother, Mary Adair Nixon McCalla. Her brother was John Adair, Governor of Kentucky. My Mary's daughter, Catherine, married Daniel Paden in SC. This family, along with many other associated families from Chester, Greenville, and Spartanburg Counties in SC, settled in Tishomingo County, MS in the 1840's. Actually they left SC in 1833 and were in Fayette Co., TN for a few years before coming to MS. Some of this same group left SC earlier, to GA , Ala and Kemper Co., MS. Some of those later came also to North MS and in between. Seems I remember a Reed/Reid connection in the Paden/Peden family in Alabama. If you find a connection to this family I can provide more sources for info. Rebecca Bruton Moss rebbmoss@msn.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iJB.2ACE/946.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Robert Adair was the 5th child of Joseph Adair, Jr. and Sarah Dillard. There is some disagreement on his actual birth date but after communicating with several researchers we put 1772 on the grave marker we erected several years ago. He died in 1846 and was buried in an unmarked grave beside his daughter-in-law (Elisha Garland's first wife Mary H. Bibb) and grandson (I. J. Adair) in "old" Paul's Chapel Cemetery on the Tippah and Prentiss County line in MS. According to a photo copy of the marriage record in Greene County, GA, his wife's name was Babsey Reid. I believe the census showing Sebron Adair being born in SC is an error. Robert moved from SC to GA sometime before his marriage in 1800 and, as far as I can determine, remained there until the family moved to Franklin County, TN in 1820. Babsey (Reid) Adair died in Franklin County, TN in 1835. Robert and sons Sebron, William Elbert and Elisha Garland moved to MS in 1845. Daughters Emily and Mary Belle married and! probably stayed in TN. Julia is in the 1850 Franklin County, TN census. I have no further information on Patsy Adair.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adair, Reed, Reid, Ellis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iJB.2ACE/946.1.1 Message Board Post: Robert ADAIR b.1770 (son of .................?) d.1845 Tippah Co, Ms m. 28 Aug 1800 Babsy (Betsy ?) REID (Reed ?) b.1785 d.1835, issue - 1. Sebrem Scott ADAIR b.18 Dec 1804 d.17 Jul 1866, m. 1824 Mary Reed EMERSON b.13 Jan 1805 d.22 Aug 1868. 2. William Elbert ADAIR b.1807 (refer 1850 census, which noted he was born in SC - where ???? ) d. 3 Jun 1873 m. Linney V. b.1811 3. Elisha Garland ADAIR b.7 Nov 1810 d.5 Feb 1885 m. Mary H. BIBB. 4. Julia ADAIR b.1812 5. Patsy ADAIR b.1814 6. Emily ADAIR b.1821 m. 1836 Ephraim ELLIS b.1817 7.Mary Belle ADAIR b.1823 m. 4 July 1838 Jonathan ELLIS ------------------------------------------------ 1850 census Tippah Co. MS, p.405b ADAIR surname - America J. 4 yrs Miss Caroline 14 (born) Ten Elisha Garland Adair 39yrs, born Ga (bc1809) Emila 12 Ten Jane Ann 8 Miss Janushia 19 Ten Julia 6 Miss Lavona P. 16 Ten Linney V. 39 Ten (wife of Wm Elbert Adair) Lucinia 2 Miss Margaret 8 Ten Mary 18 Ten Mary H. (nee Bibb) 30 Ala (wife of Elisha Garland Adair) Thos. H. 1 Miss Walker M. 2 Miss William 12 Ten Wm. Elbert 44yrs, born SC (bc.1805 SC) Any Adair corrections and additions welcome. Thankyou.