Not from Alabama that I'm aware of...they went to Tippah county from Tennessee... -----Original Message----- From: MSTIPPAH-L-request@rootsweb.com [mailto:MSTIPPAH-L-request@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of E&JP Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:01 PM To: MSTIPPAH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MSTIPPAH-L] Re: Tippah Co, MS research Hi! Sandy I was just thinking. Did any of your Mercers come from St. Clair Co, AL. or anywhere in AL? My Jesse Mercer was supposedly born in AL and if his mother's name was Brown, possibly in St. Clair Co. I wonder if the Perkins Cokers, Browns and Mercers were all friends Elaine Sandy Boyd wrote: >Thanks for the reply...my mercers/messers were just outside of ripley in >blue mountain... > >-----Original Message----- >From: MSTIPPAH-L-request@rootsweb.com >[mailto:MSTIPPAH-L-request@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of E&JP >Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:04 PM >To: MSTIPPAH-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [MSTIPPAH-L] Re: Tippah Co, MS research > >I sure wish I knew where Jesse Mercer Perkins got his name. I have also >thought Mercer might be his Mother's name but I have been unable to find >anything on his parents. It is believed his Mother's maiden name might >have been Brown. We do not believe his parents came to Tippah Co. > > > >Sandy Boyd wrote: > > > >>I have bunches of mercers/messers from Tippah county...do you know where >>jesse got his middle name from?...possibly his mother's maiden name? >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: MSTIPPAH-L-request@rootsweb.com >>[mailto:MSTIPPAH-L-request@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of eperk@texas.net >>Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:22 PM >>To: MSTIPPAH-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: [MSTIPPAH-L] Re: Tippah Co, MS research >> >>This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >> >>Surnames: Perkins >>Classification: Query >> >>Message Board URL: >> >>http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/990.1.1 >> >>Message Board Post: >> >>My Jesse Mercer Perkins lived about midway between Ripley and Walnut. He >>bought 1/4 of a section adjacent to Gideon Shands and also married Gideon's >>daughter. He two brothers - John and possibly Thomas. He died about 1884 >> >> >and > > >>was buried in the county cemetery between Marlow and Walnut. The family >> >> >left > > >>soon after his death for Texas. >>All I know about Willliam Perkins is what I have been able to get from >>census records. >>I would be glad to correspond with you to see if maybe there is some >>connection. >> >> >>==== MSTIPPAH Mailing List ==== >>Send in your old photographs of Tippah County to include on our new >>communities section. >> >> >>==== MSTIPPAH Mailing List ==== >>"The past is not dead. It isn't even past." >>William Faulkner >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > >==== MSTIPPAH Mailing List ==== >"Our defeat and subsequent impoverishment and occupation and general >humiliation at the hands of Yankees marks us still". >Julia Reed - Queen of the Turtle Derby. > > >==== MSTIPPAH Mailing List ==== >Send in your old photographs of Tippah County to include on our new communities section. > > > > ==== MSTIPPAH Mailing List ==== "The South--where roots, place, family, and tradition are the essence of identity." --Social historian Carl N. Degler