Here's a few misc. items I found about Harris' of Union Co, NC. Maybe some are for your family. They are abstracted from the Carolinas Genealogical Society Bulletins. Names found in ledger of Solomon V. Simons, Jr. who was a merchant in what was Mecklenburg Co, NC (now Union Co). Most of the listings are store accounts from July-Nov, 1831, with some miscellaneous records dating from 1831-1847. Zachariah Harris, account for Aug 6-Oct 18, 1831 Henry Harris, account for July 26-Oct 13, 1831 Polly Harris, account for Aug 4-Sept 27, 1831 Monroe-Enquirer (Union Co, NC) Saturday, February 8, 1879 -Died in Sandy Ridge township, January 12th of Consumption, Mr. Salathiel HARRIS, after a protracted illness of about 8 years, aged 75 years. He was an Englishman by birth, and an excellent miner. Julie ---------- > From: holmes <holmes@snowhill.com> > To: NCUNION-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NCUNION-L] Harris-Union County > Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 4:23 PM > > I am Jo Holmes. I am searching for information on Henry Harris b. 1785 > about. d. 1850 abt. He had four children: > Eleanor Harris, Mary E. Harris, John F. Harris and Zachariah Harris. > Zachariah moved to Griffin, GA then to Dale county Alabama > John F. moved to Mississippi. > > Any further info would be appreciated.

I am Jo Holmes. I am searching for information on Henry Harris b. 1785 about. d. 1850 abt. He had four children: Eleanor Harris, Mary E. Harris, John F. Harris and Zachariah Harris. Zachariah moved to Griffin, GA then to Dale county Alabama John F. moved to Mississippi. Any further info would be appreciated.

Incredible!! Thanks very much, Randy. I've just been searching around that site for about an hour. What a terrific job they did. Thanks for pointing it out Joanne ---------- > From: randy@perigee.net > To: NCUNION-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NCUNION-L] Map Collections > Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 5:29 PM > > There's A great new database of Maps put online by the The Library of > Congress. It includes, Cities and Towns, Military Battles and Campaigns, > Immigration and Settlement and more. It's located at: > http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html > > Randy > > > > > > > > >

Randy, Thanks for the above. I checked it out and it is GREAT. You are truly a great webmaster!!! Anne Medlin S.

HiYa ALL: My name is Charlene Phillips living in southern CA and am researching PHILLIPS, BRADSHAW lines in Burke Co and Union Co NC ... My children descend from Alonzo Theodore PHILLIPS and Mary Elizabeth WINTERS. Thank you for your welcome and hope to make many connections. Charlene email: mihnbu@aol.com

Looking for ancestry of Alonzo Theodore PHILLIPS b 1855 Union Co NC d Apr 12, 1940 Burke Co NC m Mary Elizabeth WINTERS Dec 11, 1879 Burke Co NC. Only have one son, Cameron Moran PHILLIPS b 1890, listed as their child(ren). Need ancestry of Alonzo for the ancestry of my children. Thank you in advance from southern CA. Charlene Phillips email: mihnbu@aol.com

There's A great new database of Maps put online by the The Library of Congress. It includes, Cities and Towns, Military Battles and Campaigns, Immigration and Settlement and more. It's located at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html Randy

Announcing the New North Carolina Marriage Database developed by Marceline Beem, Elizabeth Harris and Sonya Woosley . This database already has about 5350 entries and you can search for or submit marriage records. If you have marriages you would like to submit, please do so. It's located at: http://tn-3.rootsweb.com/~marce/ncarolina/index.html

My name is Chris Reeder. I would be greatly appreciative if someone would be so kind to do a lookup for me. I am trying to find the parents of William Stanhope "W.S." LONG. According to his grave marker, he was born 1852 and died 1924. All I know about him is he was buried in Clear Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC. He was married to Henrietta Arminta ESTRIDGE who was also buried there. His death certificate was not in Union or Mecklenburg Co., NC. I imagine he died in Cabarrus due to process of elimination. My guess is he lived in the Bethel community, Cabarrus Co., NC. Any and all help would be appreciated. Chris Reeder Florence, SC http://creeder.taylordata.com/ Researching: Reeder, Pressley, Long, Estridge, Helms, Price, Blackmon, Ferguson, Lee, Baucom, Presson, Trull, Shelby, Keziah, Laney, Simpson, Whitley, DeBerry, Medlin.... several other families in the Monroe, Union Co., NC area.

Hi list, I managed to correct the problem with the Union County Census that was done by Nicki Osborne. You should be able to see it now at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/union.htm If there is any problems that you notice with the Union County Archives please notify me at Windwalker@gowebway.com Thanks and sorry for the boo-boo! Let me know if anyone has any problems viewing it. Thanks Randy for bringing to my attention. Sincerely, Cathy Cranford-Ailstock Windwalker@gowebway.com http://home.sprynet.com/gowebway/windwalker Listowner for The CRANFORD, AILSTOCK, BRUTON, HATHCOCK, and JURY Surname Lists NCGenWeb Archive Assistant Anson, Cumberland, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Stanly, Union Counties http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/ncfiles.htm

Cathy Cranford-Ailstock has also added the following items to the NC Archives page for Union County. Mary Winchester Will - 1855 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/union/wills/winche03.txt Thomas Winchester Will - 1853 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/union/wills/winche02.txt Calvin Broom Article - 1914 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/union/newspapers/cbroom02.txt

Cathy Cranford-Ailstock has notified me that a new will has been added to the NC Archives page for Union County: Sampson Doster Will - 1852. Loated at: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/union/wills/sampso03.txt Randy

Julie, Don't buy that book!!!!! The Goodspeed History of Henderson Co., TN is available on line at the Henderson Co., TN Genweb site, take the YESTERDAYS link. You will find several other histories of Henderson Co. as well, and lots of other good things. If you haven't visited this site it is worth the trip. Randy Winbush

Since so many people from Union Co and Anson Co moved to Western TN in the 19th century, here are some books for sale on eBay that may be of interest to you: Reprint of Goodspeed's HENDERSON COUNTY HISTORY of TENNESSEE http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=66767255 Reprint of Goodspeed's HENRY COUNTY HISTORY of TENNESSE http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=66770226

Here is a Belk book for sale on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=66742431

Hi, everyone. I'm Joanne Baucum and I'm new to this list. I live in Walnut Creek, California, outside San Francisco. I've been researching my family for about five years now. I am just starting to look into the North Carolina lineage. I grew up in New York, just outside Manhattan. After seventh grade, I went to summer camp at Rockbrook Camp in Brevard, North Carolina (near Asheville). I had no idea at the time just how close I was to my roots! My grt grt grt grandfather was James BAUCOM [Sr.], born abt 1759. On 30 January 1780, he married Sarah ROGERS in Johnston Co, NC. Witnesses were Green ROGERS and John Rayford. Green may have been her brother. He appears in the 1790 census in Johnston Co, NC. He appears in the 1800 census in Guilford Co, NC. On 12 November 1806, he married Sukie (Lucy) HARWARD in Wake Co, NC. Bondsman was Corie A. ROGERS and witness was Seth Jones. He appears in the 1810 and 1820 censuses in Anson Co, NC. He apparently died between 1820 and 1830 because his widow Lucy appears in the 1830 census in Anson Co, NC with a daughter. My grt grt grandfather was Asa Abraham BAUCUM, son of James Baucom and Lucy Harward. Asa was born a BaucOm in North Carolina in 1807 and died a BaucUm in McNairy Co, Tennessee in 1895. The revised spelling has stuck through succeeding generations. Asa married Linnie Bell ROGERS, who was also born in 1807 in North Carolina. Their oldest known child was Eliza Jane Baucum, who was born in August 1829 in Salem, NC (now New Salem). Based on the birthplaces of their children, they lived in North Carolina until about 1847, when they moved to McNairy Co, Tennessee. I have not been able to locate Asa in the 1830 or 1840 censuses in North Carolina. There is another Asa Baucom who does appear in the censuses, but he is an older first cousin of my Asa. (The other Asa was married to Elizabeth Pistole.) I am interested in any information about the BAUCOM family. I am also interested in identifying the family of Linnie Bell ROGERS, wife of Asa Abraham Baucum. My only clues are the apparent connection between the Baucom and Rogers families. James Baucom's first wife was a Rogers (Sarah), as was one of the witnesses at their wedding (Green). The bondsman at James' second marriage was also a Rogers (Corie A.). I know that there were a number of Rogers families in Anson/Union counties at the time. I have been unable to find any information on Corie A. Rogers. My best guess is that he might have been Carson Rogers (from adjacent Carrabus County) at the time. Corie could well have been a nickname for Carson. I am also interested in knowing anything about Sukie (Lucy) HARWARD and her family. There was a Myrick HARWARD who appears as a witness in a number of Anson Co deed records with various Baucoms at the time and I suspect that he was closely related to her. Does anyone have any knowledge of the people I've mentioned? I would be happy to share any information I have. Thanks very much for any help you can give me. Joanne Baucum

Thanks Randy: Were you ever able to determine if my Martha Godfrey (who was the 2nd wife of B.F. King aka Frank King) was related to you? Martha was taken to Baltimore by her daughter Ethel and son-in-law Lee Watt and later died and is buried there. Think I asked you this one time before...can't remember. Maybe having a Senior Moment...BWG. B.F. died in Kannapolis but is buried with the rest of the Kings in Monroe. Dawn in AZ

I wanted to let you all know,The Daughters of the American Revolution Library is now on line at: http://dar.library.net/. Randy Godfrey

Normally, any message which begins "This Is No Joke" (or words of similar import) can be accepted with the same degree of trust as those facts cited by Dave Barry prefaced by "I'm Not Making This Up." or by a lawyer who starts out by saying "Trust Me." Doug Norwood -----Original Message----- From: Julie Young <youngj2@hotmail.com> To: NCUNION-L@rootsweb.com <NCUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 9:18 AM Subject: [NCUNION-L] Internet Access- HOAX Please do not forward that message. It is a hoax Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 7:50 PM Subject: INPORTANT!!! PLEASE READ!!!!!! THIS IS NO JOKE !!! CNN stated that the Government would in two weeks time decide to allow or not allow a Charge to your phone bill equal to a long distance call each time you access the internet. The address is http://www.house.gov/writerep/ Please visit the address above and fill out the necessary form! This is not a joke....but REAL. We all were aware that the Government has been pressured by the telephone companies to consider such a charge and now it's reality..... If EACH one of us, forward this message on to others in a hurry, we may be able to prevent this injustice from happening! The irony is that similar messages warning that the government will make a decision "in two weeks" have been circulating since early November, more than two months ago. The earliest of these coincides with news reports about a ruling under consideration by the FCC (not Congress) pertaining to "reciprocal compensation" arrangements between local telephone companies. The ruling (still pending at this writing) will decide whether calls to ISPs should be regarded as interstate transactions, since Internet traffic is not, strictly speaking, local. It would only affect the rates phone companies charge each other for the use of local lines to complete such calls. In some quarters, including news organizations such as CNN, this was misinterpreted as having an impact on the rates phone companies charge ISPs, and thus on consumer access fees. As CNN ominously reported on November 7, "The cost of going online could go up significantly if the Federal Communications Commission decides that dialing your local Internet provider is a long-distance call." It was an erroneous assumption. FCC chairman William Kennard had announced the opposite just the day before: "The FCC has repeatedly stated for the past decade – and is stating again today – that it is NOT repealing the ISP exemption that [prevents] Internet service providers from paying per-minute charges to local telephone companies." Unfortunately, the rumor was well underway. Even now, in spite of plenty of information to the contrary on this site and elsewhere, people persist in believing the email alerts and continue forwarding them hither and yon with righteous indignation. Two days ago, the Arizona Republic reported that Congressman Ed Pastor had received no fewer than 85 messages of protest since November, the bulk of them during the past two weeks. Pastor's office responds to the protests by kindly denying the rumor and handing out the address of the FCC Web page listed above. Other members of Congress are doing the same, and likely will be for quite some time to come. "Internet misinformation resembles one of those fires that start up in huge piles of tires," observed the author of the Arizona Republic article. "You can knock them back, but never really put them out." The FCC can vouch for that. Come to think of it, so can I. For more information, see: •No Consumer Per-Minute Charges to Access ISPs Dec. '98 Fact Sheet from the FCC •FCC Chairman's Statement Nov. 11 speech to Regulatory Commissioners •FCC Again Says It Won't Tax Internet Reuters news coverage, Nov. 7, 1998 •Internet Access Fees (Again?) (NOT!) David Spalding's in-depth 'Hoax du Jour' feature ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Julie, thanks for exposing this hoax for what it is . I was going to send a message about it also, but had not gotten around to it yet. I would like to ask that we try to avoid forwarding such messages as this to the list. There have been quite a few such internet hoaxes circulated through the internet. The problem is when everyone starts forwarding them to everyone they know, especially within all the Rootsweb lists, it can multiply into a huge load on the servers. We've done a great job staying focused on Genealogy and History on this list, lets keep it that way. Don't be embarrassed Dennis, They are pretty convincing. Thanks Randy Godfrey Union Co. N.C. GenWeb Coordinator djdlw wrote: > Thanks Julie. I spent an hour late, late, last night because of the rumor > on my e-mail writing to my Congressman. Now I"m embarrassed. I'll try to > stay better informed. Dennis Wallace of Salina, Kansas.-----Original > Message----- > From: Julie Young <youngj2@hotmail.com> > To: NCUNION-L@rootsweb.com <NCUNION-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 8:14 AM > Subject: [NCUNION-L] Internet Access- HOAX > > >Please do not forward that message. It is a hoax that some people find > >funny. Unfortunately, many folks believe stories like this as well as > >the Microsoft e-mail offers for $1,000 & the kidney harvesting stories > >of Lousianna. This flood of warnings jam internet servers, slows your > >access time, and is just a nuisance. Please check out > >http://urbanlegends.miningco.com the next time you feel like something > >may be important before passing it along, particularly if it involves > >writing to the government. The whole story if interested is: > > > >Internet Access Rumor Won't Go Away > > > >Dateline: 01/20/99 > > > >Even though it's been debunked by just about everybody, the rumor rages > >on via forwarded email alerts: the U.S. government, we are told, is on > >the verge of enacting legislation that will raise our Internet access > >costs by allowing calls to ISPs to be charged at long-distance (i.e., > >per-minute) rates. > > > >The rumor is false, as was thoroughly explained in an FCC Fact Sheet > >released in December. > > > >It is nonetheless popular, exemplifying a genre of Internet folklore > >dating back to the "modem tax" legend of the early '90s. The rumor then > >was that the FCC was about to approve a surcharge on all phone lines > >connected to computer modems. A grassroots email campaign resulted in a > >flood of protests to the FCC, in spite of the fact that it had no such > >ruling under consideration. > > > >In similar fashion, the latest rumor has generated hundreds of thousands > >of email complaints from "well-meaning but misinformed people" over the > >past two years, says the FCC. > > > >Much like the issue of computer security, which has given rise to a body > >of lore including virus hoaxes, hacker alerts, and rumors of privacy > >invasion, low-cost access is and will likely always be a "hot button" > >topic among Internet users, hence fertile ground for rumormongers. False > >rumors often paint a true picture of a community's deep-seated fears and > >concerns. > > > >Here's a typical email rendering of the current one: > > > >Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 7:50 PM > >Subject: INPORTANT!!! PLEASE READ!!!!!! > >