This is a copy of the note I received from Tom,.... He is a member of our list and may be contacted through it. Thanks, Don Sasser %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Hello Don, I must apologize for my late reply to yours. Holidays and other distractions interrupt research & correspondence. Since your message I've received e-mail from Donald K. Tilliston. In that message he gave the origins of Sasser in Germany (Palatinate). He credits you as the source of this story. The whole story was somewhat difficult to read and print as he did not use word wrap in some parts. However, it is interesting to note that Sasser originates in Germany and/or France. I am interested in joining your discussion group as I've only documented back to John SASSER, born ca 1830, in GA. His son, George Washington SASSER, born 1858, FL, died 1936, GA, was my great grandfather. Many Thanks Tom Hudson

To The List, From the e-mail message sent by Don on 6 Dec. 1997 I see two couples: Dewey Sasser b: 4-7-1900 d: 5-30-1982 married Fairy Sasser (nee ??) b:4-21-1897 d: 2-1-1985 A.W. McNair b:9-18-1916 d: 6-2-1966 married Clarice McNair (nee Sasser) b: 9-10-1922 How do they fit into our family tree??? Do they fit??? Cordially, Earl Sasser ewsass@writeme.com

Dear Cousins, A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to you all! Check out our family webpage for memories of Christmas of a Southern child. Your cuz, Robert Earl Woodham http://www.SwiftSite.com/SouthernFamilyHistory/sasnl1.htm ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== Post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com A cousins home page http://www.isource.net/~ralph/ Sasser Family National Association may be seen at http://www.swiftsite.com/SouthernFamilyHistory/sasser.htm

Next time youall are in Yellville AR.........Don :-) http://www.crl.com/~ozark/martin/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Welcome to Martin's Bakery From Yellville, Arkansas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Martin's Bakery is located at: 216 Mill Street Yellville, AR 72687 [Not a mailing address] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Country Brunch Club You haven't truly found the Ozarks until you've experienced Martin's Bakery. Step through the door and you'll find yourself engulfed in the warmth of down-home cooking and jamming country pickin'. This modest little hot spot is working it's way up to becoming an Ozarks legend from it's biscuits and gravy to it's jam sessions featuring the 'Pickers & Grinners'. If you like country music, and country food, then you'll love Martin's Bakery! Country Jamborees The 'Pickers & Grinners' are what makes Martin's special. Ray Martin strongly encourages all of the local talent, some of whom are older musicians who've tired of touring but still like to perform as long as it's close to home. According to Boots Walker, one of the regular players with the 'Pickers & Grinners', "Over the years Ray Martin has encouraged me to step up to the mike and perform the songs I've written. I can't tell you how much his support has paid off." The 'Pickers & Grinners' consist of musicians from all over who stop in to play for our jam sessions. Everyone is encouraged to join in the fun and sometimes we can even get someone from the audience to sing a bit! The 'Pickers & Grinners' Obedia Davenport (6 years): standup bass Jimmy Joe Sasser (6 years): guitar, banjo, fiddle, standup bass, vocals, song writer, member of "Sasser & Friends", a bluegrass group Clyde Hefley (6 years): guitar, vocals, song writer Harold Haase (6 years): fiddle, mandolin, guitar, mouth organ Gerald Richardson (6 years): guitar, vocals, member of "Sasser & Friends" bluegrass group Boots Walker (4 years): guitar, mouth organ, song writer Jim & Cheryl Novak (4 years): guitar, vocals Louie Cunningham (3 years): guitar, vocals Bob Haaker "Banjo Bob" (2 years): guitar, mandolin, steel guitar, banjo Bill Dromgoole (2 years): guitar, vocals Danny Argent (2 years): guitar, vocals, song writer Shorty Beaver (2 years): guitar, vocals Shawn Beaver (2 years): guitar, mandolin, member of "Sasser & Friends" bluegrass group Russ Peterson (1 year): guitar, electric bass guitar Carns McCormick (1 year): electric piano Tim Hobbs (1 year): electric bass guitar Ray Martin (6 years): guitar, vocals Judy Martin (1 year): mandolin ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com Sasser Family National Association may be seen at http://www.swiftsite.com/SouthernFamilyHistory/sasser.htm

To: The Sasser list From: Glenn E. Perry In my message titled "Nancy, widow of Jesse," I referred to Nancy's age at the time of her husband's death as 44 years. Since she was born in 1829, the correct age would have been 34 (or, more likely, 32). Sorry about my carelessness. ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) **************************************** ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== Sasser Family National Association may be seen at http://www.swiftsite.com/SouthernFamilyHistory/sasser.htm A cousin's home page http://www.isource.net/~ralph/

To: the Sasser list From: Glenn E. Perry There are a few traditions concerning Nancy Gilbert Sasser, wife of Jesse Sasser that have been kept alive in my immediate family. One pertains to the money from the pension she received because of the death of her husband, Jesse, in the Civil War. I don't know the date of the event I am referring to, but I suspect that we could figure it out if we knew the date the pension started and the amount she receivied each month, for I imagine that she saved every cent. She had saved nine hundred dollars. She kept it in a bureau drawer. And it got stolen. I wish we had some stories about her that were not so sad. The aspect of this that is a bit amusing concerns her daughter Susan (my great grandmother). During the past half century I have repeatedly heard my grandmother and mother tell how Susan--apparently with everybody gathered around to try to figure out how somebody had been able to get the money--so innocently blurted out: "Why, I think I've got a key that would open that drawer." Her husband, Isaac Taylor (my great grandfather), seems to have been irritated with her for so unnecessarily making herself a potential suspect, but he quickly turned the implications of her candid remark around with the comment that, "Suz snows how to clear herself!" I don't think anybody ever suspected my great grandmother of anything wrong. The story ends with a little gossip. Since it is unclear who it pertains to (and since so much time has passed now), I suppose it won't be improper to repeat it. And in any case I am only reporting it as gossip. The story is that one of Nancy's sisters, the one who had lived with her, moved to Lexington and bought "a fine house." I suppose that nine hundred dollars would have been enough for that. I have heard that Grandmother Nancy was a midwife. As I have mentioned to one or two members of the list, I have a quilt that--as I understand--was quilted by Grandmother Nancy. Her daughter Susan took it to Nebraska when she and her husband moved there in 1911. Their youngest daughter, Rebecca Taylor Deming, brought it back in the mid-1960s and gave it to my mother, whom I convinced in 1968 that I could take better care of it. I stored it at my wife's aunt's house in Radford, VA for the next two years, while I was in Egypt. I am glad I did this, for while I was gone a fire destroyed my parents' house. There is a tiny stain in one corner of the quilt, showing that the person who made it apparently pricked her finger with the needle. When I showed the quilt to my mother's brother, Raymond Taylor, in 1978, he related something else that he had heard about Grandmother Nancy but which none of the older generation ever mentioned to me. Uncle Raymond's response to seeing the quilt was to ask, "Did you know that she died in an insane asylum?" He continued by telling me how some of our people had blamed one of her children (whose name I won't repeat here, partly because I am not willing to accept the accusation as valid) for sending her there "just to get rid of her." I would like to believe that my uncle was confused about the whole story, for being left in 1863 as a widow at about 44 years of age with five children, to have all her savings stolen, and now, it seems, to have been disturhed in her grave would seem to be enough misfortune for anyone. There are other traditions about Grandmother Nancy's parents (Wallace and Susan Jones Gilbert) which I am saving for another message. I am told that she and her children were often at her parents' house on Big Richland Creek on the other side of the hill from Blackwater--"especially on Sundays." This would account for the extent to which a few vivid memories about them have been preserved. I am only guessing, but I suspect that Jesse's widow and her children typically rode the wagon over to the Mt. Ararat Church and then went on down the creek to eat Sunday dinner at the Gilbert place. ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) **************************************** ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com Sasser Family National Association may be seen at http://www.swiftsite.com/SouthernFamilyHistory/sasser.htm

Sue Lynn, I don't know whether Lisle said the person collected the money from others to fix up the cemetery or whether he paid it out of his own pocket. And--although she thought it was someone from "Cam's family"--perhaps it was somebody from another branch of the Sassers and from another state. In any case, the story was that he was terribly angry over what had happened. It was not anybody from Oklahoma or from your branch of the family who was said to have gone to Los Vegas. As far as I know, he still lives in the Knox/:Laurel County area. And although his last name is Sasser he is more closely related to me on another side. Actually, I thought the amount that was reported (five thousand dollars) seemed excessive. And to pay all of it before the work was done? Glenn ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) **************************************** ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== Post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com Sasser Family National Association may be seen at http://www.swiftsite.com/SouthernFamilyHistory/sasser.htm

Glenn: Very interesting reading. Thanks for the info. Each time I read accounts of the Laurel/Knox County areas, it makes me want to go visit. I have a student from London, KY, this semester, but she doesn't seem to know much about the area. Re your story of Campbell's family collecting money to restore the cemetary, I have never heard any of this before.....I'm not familiar with any funds being collected to restore the cemetary or with anyone running off to Vegas with them. If something this "exciting" had happened in the last 35 years (+or-), I'm sure I would have heard. I will remember to ask Dad if he knows anything about it. If so, he's never mentioned it. An uncle went to Vegas about 30 years ago....and he's the only one in the family I know of who has even been there, except for me. And I know I didn't do it :-) Seriously, though, I'll see what I can find out. Again, thanks for the info......your descriptions are almost as good as being there! Sue Lynn ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== Sasser Family National Association may be seen at http://www.swiftsite.com/SouthernFamilyHistory/sasser.htm Post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com http://www.isource.net/~ralph/ a cousin's home page

Does anyone have information on these Sasser's? Adrian -----Original Message----- From: TanyaDee <TanyaDee@aol.com> To: kee46@EMAIL.MSN.COM <kee46@EMAIL.MSN.COM> Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 10:20 PM Subject: Re: [NC-SC] Bastard Warrants >Hi, >Do you have the following names in your files: Susannah Sasser ca1796 NC & >Wiley King ca 1790 maybe NC. >Tanya TanyaDee@aol.com ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== Post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com Sasser Family National Association may be seen at http://www.swiftsite.com/SouthernFamilyHistory/sasser.htm

There is a mention of James Sasser in this Excerpt going to St. Paul, Ark. I'm not sure which James it is, but one of you might know. Doug Sherman dougsherma@aol.com

I have updated http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/a/s/Don-L-Sasser/ I have corrected 1. Nancy Catherine Sasser (dau of Abraham Henry Sasser) and John Lewis Tedders. Had Nancy C. Sasser dau of Barden Sasser married to Tedders. 2. Removed the "B" from Henry Sasser. My ggrandfather (son of Adin Sasser). I now believe his middle initial is "A"..probably Aden... still working on finding out. 3. Added a few Patience Sasser Tuttle's descendants..... 4. Corrected Clarice Sasser (dau of Arthur Sasser) and Alfred Wilson McNair b. & d. dates... Don ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== Sasser Family National Association may be seen at http://www.swiftsite.com/SouthernFamilyHistory/sasser.htm Post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com A cousin's home page http://www.isource.net/~ralph/

I have found these two records of marriage in KY. Does any one have any more information on Sarah or Thomas ? Thanks Don dlsasser@email.msn.com __________________________________________________________ Kentucky Bourbon County Craig, Richard married Sasser, Sarah on 04 Aug 1823 in Bourbon County, Kentucky _____________________________________________________________ Kentucky Bourbon County Prather, Lurena married Sasser, Thomas on 24 Feb 1824 in Bourbon County, Kentucky ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== Sasser Family National Association may be seen at http://www.swiftsite.com/SouthernFamilyHistory/sasser.htm post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com

To: The Sasser list From: Glenn E. Perry I am finally getting around to reporting on my visit--on November 28, 1997 with my brother Michael and with Lisle, Faye, and Hawk Hale--to what is now called the Sasser-Glass Cemetery at Blackwater. This is part of the farm of Jesse Sasser and is about two fifths of a mile from the Sasser-Dixon Cemetery, where his father, Henry Sasser, is buried. I wonder why the patriarch's children buried their dead in two different graveyards that were so close to each other. I was a bit surprised to hear the"road" that goes up the hollow at the Jesse Sasser place called "Sled Road," for I had always thought of that as the name of a hollow on the Knox County (Mt. Ararat) side, but this is the trail--probably no longer passable-- that connects Blackwater with Sled Road Branch just across the hill. From this visit, I gained a sense of place that I previously lacked (odd considering that my grandfather lived there until the late 1920s, that my mother was born there, and that one of her sisters owned some land there--presumably part of the Henry Sasser place--until fairly recently). If one is going along the Hale-Robinson Creek Road in the direction of Robinson (i.e., toward Highway 229), both graveyards are on the hill to the left. This is the hill that divides two counties--Laurel and Knox. The Sasser-Glass Cemetery is up on the hill behind the site of Jesse's house, where his widow Nancy continued to live after his death in the Civil War (and where their daughter Evelyn "Eb" Glass resided in later years). I could see little sign of a house having been there--in a place now taken over by small trees and bushes. But Lisle told us that until only a few years ago Grandmother Nancy's pear tree was still alive and was filled with fruit each year. I was told that Jesse's farm straddled the county line, that is, was parly in Laurel and partly in Knox County. The way to Adin's farm, I was told, was up the hollow--and apparently across the hill--on the Knox County side. (The various documents pertaining to Adin that I have seen seem to indicate that he lived in Laurel County, but I also remember one account that puts some of his children on Sled Road in Knox County.) Although this may in part be redundant for those who have copies of "Cemeteries of Laurel County," here is some of what I found at the graveyard: Nancy A. N.J. Gilbert Gilbert Feb. 6 1844 Feb. 3, 1838 Dec. 2, 1926 Aug. 21, 1902 [These are the daughter and son-in-law of Keziah Sasser and Peter Tuttle; see the top of p. 1 of "Sassers of Laurel County, Ky." Next to them is:] Samuel Lee Sasser July 31, 1937 September 27, 1995 [According to Lisle, this is also the site of Grandmother Nancy's grave; since none of us had put up a marker, I suppose there was no way of knowing that somebody was already buried there. Next to Grandmother Nancy--and with a broken stone--is her and Jesse's unmarried daughter (sister of Wallace, Susan, etc.):] Lucy J. Sasser born July 31, 1854 died April 24, 1898 Beautiful lovely She was but given a fair bud to earth to blossom in heaven Clarence Daere "Poppy" Sasser Feb. 7, 1910 Mar. 25, 1987 [The following is Uncle Wallace's first wife:] Eliza Williams Wife of Wallace Sasser Born Oct. 6, 1852 Died Jan 14 1901 God gave He took He will restore [It was very hard to read the epitaph, but this is what I finally decided it said. As for the name, I find it odd that the maiden name was used. Or did I copy it wrong? I will check next time.] I am told that originally a stone with Wallace's name, on which somebody mistakenly carved his wife's death date, was put next to hers but that he was eventually buried further over in the same graveyard in a spot that is no longer marked at all. There are some other stories that I will refrain from repeating at this point. There are two other stones--for people I cannot identify: Corpl. Sallie Muncy Jas. Murray Apr. 14, 1844 40 Ky. Inf Mar. 7, 1917 Otherwise, there are crude stones without names. And there are many other likely locations of graves that lack any sort of markers. . Although I do not recall the place being badly grown up, the conditions are deplorable. I was told--and this is something that Sue Lynn may know more about--that some of Campbell's descendants in Oklahama collected $5,000 a few years ago to have the graveyard fixed up but that the person the money was given to went to Los Vegas and spent most of it. As I heard the story, he finally came back and had some work done but did a lot of damage, cutting the old cedar tree down and putting up a fence that was supposed to enclose the graveyard but actually left a lot of graves on the outside of the enclosed area, where they are now completely lost in the woods. The people who were supposed to fix the graveyard up--who happen to be descendants of N[athan] J. and Nancy A. Gilbert--are said to have done more damage than the loggers that Rhoda Glass's sister's children--who inherited the adjacent land after her death--sold the timber to. I am only relating what I was told--and as I remember it ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) **************************************** ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com

I would like to know the children listed after Keziah Sasser. I am looking for the parents of William Pinkney Sasser b. 1822 in NC. Maureen (monrene@pacbell.net) ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com

Does anyone have any information about William Sasser coming to America from Heimersheim Germany. It was my understanding that this was never proven. My sister sent me this but I am not to sure how to answer her Thanks, Mike Sasser

A new and better method to search archives for Sasser of any list may be found at http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Don ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com

49TH KENTUCKY INFANTRY COMPANY K CAPTAIN John Goodin 1ST LIEUTENANT Henry Blendowski 2ND LIEUTENANT Thomas J. Ingram SERGEANTS William F. Collins Fuson Beth William S. Parton Larkin Webb James B. Collins Henry Schwank CORPOREALS Tyler Messer William Morrison William H. Money Joel D. Partin George T. Dunaway Harrison Sowders Charley Ross Samuel Fuller Jahn E. Mason William Smith MUSICIANS Jmes Fuson John E. Brown WAGGONER Alexander Carroll PRIVATES William Brawner James Cusacks Solomon Carter John T. Crawford Michael Dolen John Dunn Joseph Goodin Harrison Gibson William Goodin Daniel K. Gambrel Riley Gibson Joseph Gibson Hamilton Humbree William Hage Martin Hillmon Amos Ivey Alonzo Kitts James McMain Thomas Marsee Joseph Marsee Bratcher Mason Elijah Marical Sion Messeer Daniel S. Partin Joseph Partin Henry S. Partin Skelton Patterson William Partin Andrew Riley Harvey Sowders James A. Sparks Frederick Sildwall Benjamin Tudder Harmon Tudder William J. Wimen Pearcen Webb Franklin Wilson John Yonkowski James A. Johnson John S. Kontz Robert Blackman William T. Fritz Nathan Harlow John Haden Charley Marshall John McGuire Joseph Potocki John Pettet Loyd B. Ray William Slatrey Christopher Shorte Thomas H. Scott Francis Voclear Albert Williams Edward Wagner Edward S. Denson James Madon John Marsh Charley McIntosh John Kean Isaiah Collins Wesley King Edward Lawson James Mason Ingram Rains Charley Smith Joseph Swift ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com

Thanks to those of you who took the time to respond to my request for feedback re the Union Army rosters. There is only one more company left in the 49th, & a brief related comment about the 50th KY. I will also send some census data relating to these men later. I also appreciate one of you raising the issue of copyrights. I think it's OK for our private purposes, since it was compiled from public records over 100 years ago. However, the next time I am at my library, I will double check to be certain. Vietta ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com

Vietta, Please do not stop posting the lists. I find them quite interesting. I recognize so many of the family names, although I have not noticed any connections to my lines so far. Glenn ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) **************************************** ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== post a query to the list:� SASSER-l@rootsweb.com Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com