Please do not send e-mails to this address. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sims, Bobbie A" <basims@duke-energy.com> To: "Brenda Whitfield" <jbwhitfield@e1w.com>; <mstishom@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [MSTISHOM] Shook, Hallmark, Gann, Gentry, Clark > Please do make the album available to those of us who have ancestors > from Tishomingo County during that time period. > > Thanks, > BSims > > -----Original Message----- > From: mstishom-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:mstishom-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Brenda Whitfield > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:41 AM > To: mstishom@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MSTISHOM] Shook, Hallmark, Gann, Gentry, Clark > > Richard, how interesting! I am sure that you will receive some requests > for > sharing; this is a gold mine!! > > If you ever decide to make a CD of the pix, our Tishomingo County > Archives > would be most gracious to receive one in order to share with those who > visit > the Archives here. > > Thanks again, and please continue on the list! > Brenda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <OKNEW@aol.com> > To: <mstishom@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:40 PM > Subject: Re: [MSTISHOM] Shook, Hallmark, Gann, Gentry, Clark > > >> Brenda: Thank you for your tireless efforts in a demanding, thankless > job. >> I >> monitor the site in hopes of uncovering more of what is really a depth > of >> information on my Vaughan family there. I noticed Sandra's mention of > the >> name >> Shook; one J.H. Shook was a among a number of Tish CO residents who >> vouched for >> my g-grandfather's Civeil War pension applied to the state of Texas in > >> 1923 >> (which was ultimately approved). I have also noted the name of one > C.C. >> Shook, >> listed as first mayor of Belmont. >> For your information, my late mother left me with a quaint little > "Pixie >> Album" compiled by James T. Vaughan, a younger brother of my g-gf > Samuel >> A. >> Vaughan containing mostly Tish CO family members, but several > apparently >> unrelated >> locals intrigingly including one E. W. Carmack. As near as I can > ascertain >> this >> Carmack founded in 1844 the Euclid Academy south of Jacinto which was > in >> 1870 >> relocated to the courthouse once it was closed. I believe James T. was > a >> school teacher in Belmont, which would explain a possible friendship > with >> Carmack? >> Other family names (and photos or tintypes in the album) includes > McRae, >> Reagan, Moody, plus Wells and Roland. Carmack, McRae, Moody and > Vaughan >> were names >> found at the UMiss library as members of CO A, 2nd Miss Inf. Reg. >> In addition, several of the other signatories on the pension petition > crop >> up >> in local Tish history. >> If anyone is interested in these and other names or care to see the >> pictures >> from the album, I will be happy to put them on line. >> Two of my cousins have made direct contact with remaining Vaughan >> connections >> down your way, but I haven't yet ventured east of Oxford. >> Richard Ramsey Hefton (OKC) >> >> >> >> ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new > AOL >> at >> http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MSTISHOM-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 > MSTISHOM-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 > MSTISHOM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >