Hi All: My ggrandfather frequented a house nearby the overpass across the tracks in Cedar Bluff. My ggrandmother was killed by a train on her way there one day to bring him home. Where can I find any information on this house (building)? Is the building there now the same one in 1890? It looks like a hotel from the outside. Was It? Thanks for any and all help Paul

I'm afraid you missed some hollows in Lee County. One especially, Belgium Hollow on rt. 421, where I was born. I believe there are about 6 on Rt. 421 between the mouth of Stone Creek to the foot of the mountain, just before the KY border. You mentioned Crusenberry which I believe is one of them. I'm trying to find out the names of the rest but two that you missed was Ely's Creek and Pucketts Creek. Puckett's creek is between the mouth of the creek and St. Charles. Ely's Creek goes off to the right at the old Dean store (if it's still there). Some of the hollows have branches on them that form other hollows. You can go through Belgium Hollow and into Brushy Mountain and out at the foot of the mountain on 421. Bev.

--WebTV-Mail-1000394183-362 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit --WebTV-Mail-1000394183-362 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhRC6ezGXUOTrLsAc9hq3eOEv5AekAIVALOwBSHUXVcw4JyT+pu0xy7/KP5n From: scotlandforever@webtv.net (Edward Boggs) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:30:11 -0500 (EST) To: BOGGS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Cherokee Boggs Message-ID: <23355-36E2FDF3-521@mailtod-172.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) IN the book "Cherokee by Blood" there was a john Boggs who lived in Tenn. He was listed as half blood cherokee, perhaps this may have been a tie to the cherokee legend in the Boggs family. He fell in love with a chief's daughter. her name tsa yeh nay nah (if I remember correctly) This is possibly where the "indian princess" tradition began in the Boggs line. John ran the ferry for the prominent cherokee of the day. Also listed was the household of a John Boggs in Tennessee cosisting of 12 or 13 fullbloods of catawba and cherokee. Does anyone know about the "catawba? --WebTV-Mail-1000394183-362--

I just wanted to share a Story that I was a part of Last Year, It is one thing to find our lost relatives that have passed on 100 of years back, but to reunite a family that had been separated for 50 years, has been one of my highlights in doing research. Upon starting to do my research with many good family members and friends on the Net, I had found back to my GGGGrandfather. Only Starting out to know who my GGrandfather was, he was suppose to have been an Orphan, but I have found information to prove who his parents were. Up on doing this my mom was very proud of me, she had told many of the progress I had made on our family names. Well to my surprise, my sister in laws, Mother, was a small child when her mom died in Letcher Co., KY. She asked me to help, through process of elimination, find out if she could remember if it were summer or winter when her mom died. I was able to find her death certificate and then from that we located the Cemetery where her Mom was buried in. But the most important thing, she told me that her Dad had never told them where her mom was buried, they had since moved away from the area in to Southern VA & WV, well she told me after her mom died and her father remarried, they had never heard from their Older Brother again. It had been over 47 years since the other siblings had seen him. I went to work, had tried for about 6 months, then Bingo, I got the clue I needed. Found him in WI, they all had a wonderful reunion last June. He had remarried, had a stroke, and the new wife, had no ideal about his family in WV, Well I think this will always be one of my Most rewarding fine. I have been able to help to reunite a Family. I found him 2 days before Christmas, They all told me this was the best Christmas Present that they could have ever received. So the next time people bug you about being on the computer and researching, just tell them, it is worth its weight in Gold. Kathy B

Dear Kathy Bemisdarfer: I have a similar tale. There are seven of us. My biological mother had three brothers. My oldest siblings kept in touch with where us younger ones were and through one of the adopted mothers was able to stay up with us and we reunited in l976. But we never knew about our biological uncles whom we thought were all dead. About 3 years ago, we found out that one of my uncles, who had been at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed, had just deceased leaving an estate of 400 to 450,000 dollars. The money was to go to the next of kin. The only relative still left alive that it could go to would be our mother. Since my cousins knew that my other two uncles were dead, they thought our mother was dead also. They were told to produce death certificates of my uncle's brothers and sister. My cousins proceeded to look for a death certificate on file for our mother. When they could not find one, they began to get excited because they wanted to reunite with our mother. When they found that she had had seven children, they really got excited. When they found my oldest brothers and learned from them that our mother was still alive, they were overjoyed. Because of one greedy brother, they never got to see my mother before she did pass away. Needless to say, all seven of us inherited the estate. But what has been even more wonderful is that I was able to meet cousins and relatives that I never knew I had. And what is even more amazing is that one of the cousins had done quite a bit of genealogical research before they began to look for our mother. A professional genealogist wanted 40% of the estate to find our mother. My cousins said no. That they would find her and they did using the one cousin's knowledge of genealogy and the family history that she had already put together. Now I am trying to put together the family history of my biological dad's side. So I say keep looking, you never know what or whom you might find.

Good Sunday morning, If you are looking for old newspaper articles, please check my web site. You will find excerpts from the Jan. 1, 1872 "Cumberland Spectator" and the first 6 months of 1888 "Cumberland Gap Progess". Both were printed in Tazewell, TN and predecessors to the "Claiborne Progress". I will be adding more articles as time allows. Your suggestions and comments are always welcome. The direct URL is: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4221/67newsandviews.htm Have fun! Sandy The Sulfridge Family: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4221/index.htm

Hello the list, I am searching for any information on my MORGAN line. I have very little clues so far, but here it what I have: Wilbur Clay MORGAN + Martha RIGGIN (?) (b. Nov.26,1869) Wilbur Clay (Flap Scales) MORGAN + Eulah May NELSON (b.March 1892 (b.Oct.4,1894 m.Jan.11,1910 d.Feb.17,1937) d.May 1951) I have looked at many records of MORGANs in Delmarva area but can't connect them to these MORGANs. Family members say Wilber Clay Sr. travelled alot. Wilber Clay Jr. never met his father until he was a grown man. He was said to have some sort of "power" because of this, and was accused of using it to "break up" families.There are some interesting stories about Martha RIGGIN too. She was paid by folks for services unknown. They came to the house and when they left she had money. Family has made a few guesses ie: she was either a prostitute or a seer. Thanks for any clues, Regina ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

The following is NOT an appropriate post for this List. This List is for genealogy and related topics to share information. Posting rumors or jokes or Y2K alerts are prohibited. Thanks you. -sysop To: "Edgar A. Howard" <ehoward@conknet.com> Subject: Tech support > > Tech Support Request > > > > Last year I upgraded Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and noticed that the > > new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of > > space and valuable resources. No mention of this phenomenon was > > included in the product brochure. In addition, Wife 1.0 installs > > itself into all other programs and launches during system > > initialization where it monitors all other system activity. > > Applications such as Pokernight 10.3 and Beerbash 2.5 no longer run, > > crashing the system whenever selected. I can not seem to purge Wife > > 1.0 from my system. I am thinking about going back to Girlfriend 1.0 > > but un-install does not work on this program. Can you help me? > > > > - Jonathan Powell > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Dear Jonathan Powell- > > This is a very common problem men complain about but is mostly due to > > a primary misconception. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 1.0 to > > Wife 1.0 with the idea that Wife 1.0 is merely a "UTILITIES & > > ENTERTAINMENT" program. > > > > Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and designed by its creator to run > > everything. WARNING DO NOT TRY TO: un-install, delete, or purge the > > program from the system once installed. Trying to un-install Wife > > 1.0 can be disasterious. Doing so may destroy your hard and/or > > floppy drive. Trying to un-install or remove Wife 1.0 will destroy > > valuable system resources. You can not go back to Girlfriend 1.0 > > because Wife 1.0 is not designed to do this. Some have tried to > > install Girlfriend 2.0 or Wife 2.0 but end up with more problems than > > the original system. Look in your manual under Warnings- > > Alimony/Child Support. Others have tried to run Girlfriend 1.0 in the > > background, while Wife 1.0 is running. Eventually Wife 1.0 detects > > Girlfriend 1.0 and a system conflict occurs, this can lead to a non- > > recoverable system crash. Some users have tried to download similar > > products such as Fling and 1NiteStand. Often their systems have > > become infected with a virus. I recommend you keep Wife 1.0 and > > just deal with the situation. > > > > Having Wife 1.0 installed myself, I might also suggest you read the > > entire section regarding General Protection Faults (GPFs). You must > > assume all responsibility for faults and problems that might occur. > > The best course of action will be to push apologize button then reset > > button as soon as lock-up occurs. System will run smooth as long as > > you take the blame for all GPFs. Wife 1.0 is a great program but is > > very high maintenance. > > > > Suggestions for improved operation of Wife 1.0 > > -Monthly use utilities such as TLC and FTD > > -Frequently use Communicator 5.0 > > > > -Tech Support "No One Polled Me!"

Hello all, Can someone help me connect to the following folks : according to the book "John Counts of Glade Hollow", Millie Harris, daughter of Adeline Harris of Tazewell Co VA, at age 17 (16 Apr 1884) married John M. Rasnake (age 19).   He was a son of Gabriel Lafayette Rasnake. Any and all help will be appreciated. Thanks. Linda in Tampa Genealogy - Always looking for HUNNELL , CRUEY , PUCKETT , LAMBERT , DUFF , MCGUIRE , HARRIS , HARRISON , TATUM , & STEEL(E) in SW Va .

Pam, These things are NUTS!!! It is technically impossible. Please don't post things like this again. I don't care if the world is going to end, or the sky is falling. DO NOT POST IT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 -sysop Date forwarded: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:39:01 -0800 (PST) From: Pam Moehling <moehling@mc.net> Subject: Re: WARNING Date sent: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:43:02 -0600 To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com Forwarded by: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com Hi Everyone, I'm so sorry Eddie if this in inappropriate but just heard about it from our Pastor yesterday and wanted to help everyone out there... It came from IBM to his computer...If you get an email with the subject title "It Takes Guts To Say Jesus"..DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY... once accessed if will erase everthing that's on your hard drive...and screws everything up that's on your computer..they explained it's a terrible virus and can cause a lot of headaches... Don't know alot about this stuff but maybe if anyone happens to see this it will help them BEFORE it's too late... Pam ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #8 Anyone interested and researching SW VA and Appalachian history might be interested in the Fincastle History Forum list. Contact Edgar at ehoward@conknet.com or swvaroot@swva.net for a copy of the rules. "No One Polled Me!"

Members, I made it!! I went thru HELL (it is just north of Harrisburg, PA <g>) but I got here. Everything that could go wrong did. The apartment I got is great. It is a Garden here. The large Wolf Creek is out the back window and I feel like I'm living on a houseboat. <g> I have 56 msgs to go thru and 56 boxes to unpack but I should be up to speed in a few days. I owe some people maps. I saw a sign MOOSIC. Everything I see, I think in terms of genealogy. -sysop "No One Polled Me!"

Anyone heard of ANY McReynolds from Tazewell Co., VA. My g-grandfather lived there around 1898. He was in the Spanish American War. I've been unable to find anything on any McReynolds. If anyone knows anything or has suggestions I would appreciate it. Thanks. Becky beckyb5@ibm.net

Can anyone tell me which map of Wash. co Va Eddie is selling? Thanks. Danny

-----Original Message----- From: NMorri3924@aol.com [SMTP:NMorri3924@aol.com] Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 11:36 AM To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: Myths/HOAXES/etc,etc,etc Hi guys! Am sending some URLs where you can go to check out these 'myths,' or HOAXES, such as the 'Jesus,' one. First let me state, that opening an e-mail can NOT do anything to your computer. DOWNLOADING something could possibly do so. That is why you NEVER download anything from anyone that you don't know. And you should never send anything on that you have not PERSONALLY checked even if it comes from your mother or your pastor! <grin> There are some people out there who have too much time on their hands and they really need to get a life!!! Maybe they should take up genealogy. I never have enough time! :-) Let's not encourage them to perpetuate frauds and take away the precious time that we have by worrying needlessly. Here are some places that you can check on hoaxes. http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/hoax.html http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html You can download some virus protection from this site. Hope this is helpful. Nancy S ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #9 As of 2/27/1999 we have 485 members. Traffic can get heavy so check your mailbox often. We should regulate traffic so it don't get out of hand. There is an average of ten members coming and going each week. -sysop [Pam Moehling] Thank you Nancy for posting this information....they say "you learn something new everyday".. and I sure have...hope it's o.k. to pass this along....and as earlier stated I'm sorry about any inconvenience my earlier posting might have caused...but those of us that are new to the net have to learn..sometimes the hard way...I appreciate your help on this. Pam

After seeing Eds posting of the maps he had, I thought I would reley this information. I ran across this last year and thought maybe some of you may be interested. You key on the city closest to you and if you live in the suburbs, just follow the road to your destination. http://terraserver.microsoft.com Good luck CARL

Would appreciate someone who has access to the 1910 Lee Co Census to do a lookup for Preston Justice & Family. Thanks Roy/Ala

Hi guys! Am sending some URLs where you can go to check out these 'myths,' or HOAXES, such as the 'Jesus,' one. First let me state, that opening an e-mail can NOT do anything to your computer. DOWNLOADING something could possibly do so. That is why you NEVER download anything from anyone that you don't know. And you should never send anything on that you have not PERSONALLY checked even if it comes from your mother or your pastor! <grin> There are some people out there who have too much time on their hands and they really need to get a life!!! Maybe they should take up genealogy. I never have enough time! :-) Let's not encourage them to perpetuate frauds and take away the precious time that we have by worrying needlessly. Here are some places that you can check on hoaxes. http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/hoax.html http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html You can download some virus protection from this site. Hope this is helpful. Nancy S

>Resent-Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 05:21:35 -0800 (PST) >X-Sender: sgorin@mail.glasgow-ky.com SEARCH@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: KYRESEARCH-request@rootsweb.com > >TIP#230 THE DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS > >THE DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS: What are they? Where are they? We've all heard >about them; will they help us in our Kentucky research? > >The Draper Manuscripts (often referred to as the Draper Papers) were >compiled by Lyman Copeland Draper. He had planned to do a book which he had >named "Sketches of the Lives of the Pioneers". The book was never realized. >But, his collection of interviews does exist. The collection is a series of >interviews which he conducted, many in person, some in letters, about the >old pioneers. The time frame is expansive - from the 1740's through the War >of 1812 time frame. The territory covered is just as impressive - 21 states >east of the Mississippi River, Iowa, Missouri and parts of Canada! The >papers also include documents, 575 early maps and manuscripts. His >interviews ranged from the heroes of the time to the unknown little >settler. And, bless his historical heart, he sensed that we in later years >needed more than a list of their names. He included their names, parents >and grandparents; sometimes more. > >When Draper died in 1819, he had been working on the manuscripts for over >50 years. Draper himself, a New York man, was so intent on his research >that he caught the attention of his cousin's husband, Peter Remen. Having >the finances to help, Remen was a strong supporter of Draper's quest. > >The original collection is housed at the State Historical Society of >Wisconsin, Madison, WI. You are allowed to see the originals there, but >cannot photocopy them. Some of the information contained is absolutely a >gold mine of information and includes information such as color of hair and >eyes, where the individual was born, military service and much more. > > How many manuscripts are there? 491 volumes on 123 reels of microfilm >which are divided into 50 separate series. The series are labeled A through >ZZ (with the letter I and II not used). The George Rogers Clark Papers are >Series J and are 65 volumes on 15 reels alone. The Joseph Brant Papers, >Series E contained 22 volumes on 6 reels. > > A Guide to the Draper Papers was published by Josephine L. Harper, she the >Curator of the Draper Manuscripts, gives a description of each series, an >index to the people named and places cited; it includes 4 appendices. There >are also Calendars to 11 of the series in the collection which give an >over-view of the documents by date and an index to the actual documents. >Five of these Calendars are in print and may be ordered from McDowell >Publications, of Utica, KY. Printed Calendars include the Calendar of the >Kentucky Papers of the Draper Collection, Calendar of the Tennessee and >King's Mountain Papers of the Draper Collection, and The Preston and >Virginia Papers of the Draper Collection. See their web site at: >http://members.aol.com/sammcpub/cat3.htm > > These Calendars can be found on microfiche and may be ordered from., 623 >Martense Ave., Teaneck, NJ 07666 (1984 address): Calendar of the George >Rogers Clark Papers of the Draper Collection; Calendar of the Frontier War >Papers; Calendar of the David Shepherd Papers; Calendar of the South >Carolina Papers; Calendar of the South Carolina Papers in the Revolutions >Miscellanies and Calendar of the Thomas Sumter Papers. (Unable to locate a >web site). > > The State Historical Society of Wisconsin will loan their film out of >state. You might want to check their web site. The Newberry Library in >Chicago have complete collections but will not loan out the film. The Allen >County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN will not loan. > >(c) Copyright 4 March 1999, Sandra K. Gorin, All Rights Reserved, >sgorin@glasgow-ky.com > > >TIP OF THE WEEK! Remember not to open any attachment with Happy.exe as the >subject! > >Col Sandi Gorin 205 Clements,Glasgow, KY 42141 (502) 651-9114 >PUBLISHING: http://members.delphi.com/gorin1/index.html >SCKY: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/BarrenObits >TIPS: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/Tips >KYBIOS: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/Bios >ARCHIVES: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >

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Eddie, while there were a lot of "Andrew Jackson's", I also see a lot of Grover Cleveland's too. Peggy