In a message dated 4/12/01 5:35:26 AM Mountain Daylight Time, sharonmc2002@aol.com writes: << I'm looking for my great great Aunt Lydia Riggs and her husband Jacob T Jake STewart. She was my grandfathers sister. She went west around the turn of the ceentury. I'm trying to find out anything I can about her family, when and where she died etc. Basically I'd like to reestablish a connection between that line and ours. SharonMc/Athens TN >> I'm a bit confused by the subject line -- so will go into a bit more detail than usual. My FRIEND line was in O.T. in 1889, had spent brief periods in both KS & NE, a number of years in Gentry Co., MO before that. I've traced them on back to KY, but not to TN. Haven't run across either RIGGS or STEWART in this line. My COLE/CROCKETT line came to O.T. about the same time and settled just a few miles from the FRIENDS. They, too, had lived in KS, MO & KY -- before that, they spent some 40 years in Obion Co. TN. Tradition has it that there were several families from Obion Co. who ended up in the Luther area. I've been able to identify the SIMMONs & WHEELERs, still searching for others. That's where the STEWART connection may come in. There were STEWARTs in Obion Co. during that period, and evidence on the 1860 census that one of them married a SIMMONS. Lots of STEWARTs in the Luther area by 1900 -- but that's a 40-year gap in the records and I really haven't tried to unscramble them because I haven't yet found a family member to work with. I'll look for Jacob/Jake -- can you give me any other names? Even approximate dates? Sharon McAllister

Sharon.... I know a Wilma (I think that's her first name) FRIEND in Ks. I don't know if that's her married name or what, but her sister married my paternal grandfather. If your interested, I can find her addy for you. Alli ----- Original Message ----- From: <Smcbox@cs.com> To: <OKGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [OKGEN ] FRIEND...SharonMc > In a message dated 4/12/01 5:35:26 AM Mountain Daylight Time, > sharonmc2002@aol.com writes: > > << I'm looking for my great great Aunt Lydia Riggs and her husband Jacob T > Jake > STewart. She was my grandfathers sister. She went west around the turn of > the ceentury. I'm trying to find out anything I can about her family, when > and where she died etc. Basically I'd like to reestablish a connection > between that line and ours. > SharonMc/Athens TN >> > > I'm a bit confused by the subject line -- so will go into a bit more detail > than usual. > > My FRIEND line was in O.T. in 1889, had spent brief periods in both KS & NE, > a number of years in Gentry Co., MO before that. I've traced them on back to > KY, but not to TN. Haven't run across either RIGGS or STEWART in this line. > > My COLE/CROCKETT line came to O.T. about the same time and settled just a few > miles from the FRIENDS. They, too, had lived in KS, MO & KY -- before that, > they spent some 40 years in Obion Co. TN. Tradition has it that there were > several families from Obion Co. who ended up in the Luther area. I've been > able to identify the SIMMONs & WHEELERs, still searching for others. > > That's where the STEWART connection may come in. There were STEWARTs in > Obion Co. during that period, and evidence on the 1860 census that one of > them married a SIMMONS. Lots of STEWARTs in the Luther area by 1900 -- but > that's a 40-year gap in the records and I really haven't tried to unscramble > them because I haven't yet found a family member to work with. > > I'll look for Jacob/Jake -- can you give me any other names? Even > approximate dates? > > Sharon McAllister > > > ==== OKGEN Mailing List ==== > OK Surname Registry - added yours? http://www.rootsweb.com/~oknames/ > Search 4 surnames - http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/search.htm > >