Hi Rena I see that you are researching a JOHN BAXTER. I don't know of him but am researching CHARLES BAXTER who was suppost to have come from Mass. Do you happen to know of him. Thanks, Corinna SW_VA-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > SW_VA-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 116 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: GHOSTS [jfmcs@geocities.com] > #2 Re: Expressions [jfmcs@geocities.com] > #3 Re: SW_VA-D Digest V99 #115 [libslane@webtv.net (Elizabeth WADE] > #4 RE: Appreciation [Pam Moehling <moehling@mc.net>] > #5 Meals [Pam Moehling <moehling@mc.net>] > #6 Re: Hamlin's in Lee County ["L. Carlyine Ritter" <jessee@harbo] > #7 Re: MEALS [B4solong@aol.com] > #8 Re: MEALS ["G. Lee Hearl" <glh@naxs.com>] > #9 Lost website [amoore@networksplus.net (Ann Moore] > #10 MEALS [scotlandforever@webtv.net (Edward ] > #11 TOGETHER [scotlandforever@webtv.net (Edward ] > #12 Appreciation for Storytelling ["Pat Oneal" <peon@icx.net>] > #13 Belcher Family [Love4023@aol.com] > #14 Tellin' stories~~~ ["Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.n] > #15 School Lunches [Bill and Sue McNaught <pp02570@ema] > #16 Maps [NSieck@aol.com] > #17 Jewell Ridge ["RENA WORTHEN" <doreatr@rbnet.com>] > #18 Re: Bluegrass music... [Talley Duncan <duncant@znet.groupz] > #19 Lee Co. VA [DreamSun39@aol.com] > #20 Re: Jewell Ridge [Barbara <barbiluv@erinet.com>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from SW_VA-D, send a message to > > SW_VA-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK THE SPELLING OF THE WORD: UNSUBSCRIBE > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: GHOSTS > Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 02:35:14 -0500 > From: jfmcs@geocities.com > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > My mother lived in a house in Draper Virginia in the late 1930's/early > 1940's that had been built from other houses from the area. The door > that led to my mother's bedroom was from another room in another house > where a woman and her two children had been locked in and they > supposedly starved to death. The door could be locked, but would unlock > itself and open a few inches. She says that you could HEAR it unlock > but you couldn't WATCH it. All the members of my mothers family went > outside and left the door locked inside...theya ll went in together and > the door was unlocked. Strangely enough they weren't afraid, but just > learned to leave the door unlocked. > Anybody else got any ghost stories--so that I don't feel so silly??? :-) > ________________________________________________________ > NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? > Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at > http://www.netzero.net/download.html > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: Expressions > Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 02:35:19 -0500 > From: jfmcs@geocities.com > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > As far as I know...it came from The Wizard of OZ, in the scene where > they go into the Emerald City and everyone gets a makeover....they all > get into a cart/buggy pulled by the horse of a different color which > they say is the only one of his sort. I don't know if Frank Baum made > it up, or if he borrowed an expression more commonly known. > jfmcs@geocities.com > ________________________________________________________ > NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? > Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at > http://www.netzero.net/download.html > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: SW_VA-D Digest V99 #115 > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:19:49 -0600 (CST) > From: libslane@webtv.net (Elizabeth WADE Carden) > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Cecil, I grew up in BSG also CADET I remember that give away food as my > grandma called it. I used to stand in line with her when she went to get > it. I just wish I had some of that meat. ,First in the 1 lb. cans then > in the big round ones. It would make my day. I remember those good ole > days. Elizabeth > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: RE: Appreciation > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:08:57 -0600 > From: Pam Moehling <moehling@mc.net> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi Sue and List Members, > > I printed this post Sue and added it to my "Genie" workbook..because it "covers it all in a nutshell""...and I know > it's been stated before by several of us but we do appreciate it Eddie..I think you keep us in line pretty good..we now have a new saying in our house.."I know honey, your just gonna go and check your email".<g> ..I thank God for husbands with > patience and understanding...and good mailing lists..I have learned so much from all of you and I thank you for > sharing what you do..sometimes I laugh till I cry...sometimes I just cry..but it's all wonderful just the same..in some ways > I feel like we all buddies... > > Aynbody heard: The blind leading the blind..they all fall in a ditch.. > Eddie, margin problem should be fixed soon ( as soon as I can get my son out of bed this morning) <g> > Pam > > Researching the following surnames: BURKE, CARTER, PATRICK, WINGO, McGRADY, WIMBERLEY, WITT/WHITT, HENSLEY, ROBERTSON. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill and Sue McNaught [SMTP:pp02570@email.kcc.edu] > Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 4:00 PM > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Appreciation > > Dear Eddie and List, > I, too, want to thank you for allowing the diversity of subjects on this > list. I have unsubbed several others as this list meets all my needs. > You are providing a forum for our cultural heritage. This is the WHO we > are, WHAT we did, WHY it was the way it was. This is just as important as > the WHERE and WHEN. > Thanks to all the contributors who are sharing such wonderful stories and > interesting facts. Somehow I feel we are all related. If not by blood, it > must be through our common culture. > I'm glad you are enjoying your new home. I came "back home" to NE KY > seven years ago and found that the fellow who said "you can't go home > again" must have been from some other part of the country. > > Sue McN. > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #7 "Roll Calls" or such by other names are to be called > by the SYSOP ONLY. NO WARNINGS!! Each member is free to post their > SURNAMES anytime they please. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Meals > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:36:50 -0600 > From: Pam Moehling <moehling@mc.net> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Gosh I love this list..speaking of meals in a little different way..there were things I remember growing up that > we could not and never were supposed to eat.. > One was Lamb...my Mom said her father taught her you never eat Lamb..because Christ was the Lamb..sounds > funny but I have never to this day tasted any kind of Lamb chops or Lamb anything.. > another one I remember was never eat anything with "webbed feet"..such as duck or goose, etc., when I asked Mom > why..she just said he fahter said it was in the Bible..so don't do it..??? I have had duck and my mother-in-law's > house and really liked it (but didn't tell my Mom till a long time afterwards) ....don't care much for squirrels tho... > > Another thing that comes to mind..at least in our family..chickens were used, all types of pork...but we never had > Beef until we came to live in Chicago..folks down home where we came from didn't eat beef...anybody else have > the same or similar things in your families..??? > > Pam > Researching the following surnames: BURKE, CARTER, PATRICK, WINGO, McGRADY, WIMBERLEY, WITT/WHITT, HENSLEY, ROBERTSON. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: Hamlin's in Lee County > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 08:52:50 -0800 > From: "L. Carlyine Ritter" <jessee@harborside.com> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > FamileeMom@aol.com wrote: > > > The following information came from James Hubert Hamblin in the form of > a > > Hamblin Newsletter and from the "History of Scott County" by Robert Addington, published in 1977 the Baltimore Regional Publishing Co. > > > > Henry Hamlin, my 4th GGrandfather, married Marry/Polly Dickenson. Mary/Polly was a sister to Henry Dickenson ( Deligate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention) (snip) > > > I am going next month to Lee County area. I would very much like to find > > something of their past while I am there. (snip) > > -------- > Dear Friends, > > This post, with questions about county history, reminds me of a question > I've been meaning to ask of the more experienced of you regarding what's > available on the Net: > > You know that "Genealogist's Handy Helper" book that's available in > virtually all LDS Family History Centers and gives a complete history of > every county in America, along map which locates each county within its > state? Is its equivalent available on the Net? If you know of such a > site, I'd surely appreciate learning of it. > -- > - - - > Carlyine Ritter > Jessee@harborside.com > ICQ #9189377 > JESSEE, BROWNING, HABRON/HAYTON - SW VA > BLACK/SCHWARTZ, PARSONS - Ashe Co NC > RITTER, MEIER, VANDER HEIU, SE IA, WA > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: MEALS > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:53:01 EST > From: B4solong@aol.com > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > I remember thoise biscuits with jam - blackberry and by lunch time you had > purple biscuits. I promised myself that when I grew up, I would never eat a > purple biscuit again. :) > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: MEALS > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:23:52 -0500 > From: "G. Lee Hearl" <glh@naxs.com> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Boy! That message made me feel GOOD!!....I thought I was the ONLY person in > the United States who had to take BLACKBERRY BISCUITS to school!! In a JFG > coffee "poke" they really turned PURPLE! Mama couldn't afford enough sugar > to make jelly or jam and the juice would run halfway up my arm when I ate > them!! > I also took a lot of "tater cake" biscuits to school and when I opened that > coffee poke the odor seemed to fill the whole room..I still like tater > cakes!! > Boy! do these little stories bring back memories of "The Good Ole' Days" ! > If it had not been for my Ancestors I wouldn't be reliving those > days..So..Ancestor..where ever you were....I'll find you! Researching: John > HERRELL of Yancey and Mitchell co. N.C... > G. Lee Hearl Abingdon, Va..... > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Lost website > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:42:19 -0600 > From: amoore@networksplus.net (Ann Moore) > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Could someone please tell me how to get to the website that lists the > surnames that have lists? I had it in my bookmark but I somehow lost it. > Thanks. Ann Moore > Ann Moore > 5209 SW 32nd Ter. > Topeka, KS 66614-4014 > amoore@networksplus.net > > ---------- > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: MEALS > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:45:20 -0500 (EST) > From: scotlandforever@webtv.net (Edward Boggs) > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > I don't mean to get off the subject boundaries, Eddie, sometimes these > subjects help to jog our memories for things that might help in our > search. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: TOGETHER > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:56:30 -0500 (EST) > From: scotlandforever@webtv.net (Edward Boggs) > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Just a comment. I am glad there is a unity here among us too! > (REMEMBER; THE OPPOSITE OF UNITED IS U N T I E D! > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Appreciation for Storytelling > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 14:17:45 -0500 > From: "Pat Oneal" <peon@icx.net> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Eddie and All, > Since I subscribed to this website, it has become my favorite. Although > we may get off track a tad, I find the material so valuable, especially for > those who don't know the backgrounds of their ancestors, their daily lives > and traditions. That, too, is the memorable part of our family history. > Don't ask me to remember a birthdate, what year it was, or who begat who, > but ask me to tell you their stories, the very few I know, that I can do!! > Isn't that what we're about? > I've heard some of the best stories in the last few weeks and I'm making > a file of them. When we get through, we'll all know what it was like to > live back then. We'll feel like neighbors from CA to IL to TN and back to > VA. In a way, I feel related to all of you. > I just called a distant cousin in Michigan about the Carmack Reunion to > be held in April. Never met the man in my life. Never talked to him > before. But, he was able to tell me about my grandmother who I never knew, > and my grgrandmother. What a thrill that was. When I described my > grandmother as my mother had said she was, the man began to cry. I offered > my awkward apologies, but he merely replied, "So many memories, so many > wonderful memories." > I am learning so much about my family through all of you. Thanks, so > much! Pat O'Neal > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Belcher Family > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:03:04 EST > From: Love4023@aol.com > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > I am searching for Anna and Jim Belcher information. They raised their family > of 12 children in Jewell Ridge Virginia. If anyone has any information it > would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Tammy > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Tellin' stories~~~ > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:10:52 -0500 > From: "Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.net> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > <<I don't mean to get off the subject boundaries, Eddie, sometimes these > subjects help to jog our memories for things that might help in our > search.>>> > > I too have enjoyed the conversations and stories. I don't mind the stories > getting a little off subject but not all member agree. Some are on many list and > get large volumes of mail and it takes time to sort thru all the post. > > So let's exercise some restraint. Use the correct SUBJECT! If you are > telling stories say so and other can decide accordingly. Don't tell every little > story you know about your brother-n-law's dog. > > Limit yourself to three or less post per day. Thanks. > > -sysop > > "Toto, I don't think we are in NH any more." > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: School Lunches > Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:34:53 -0500 > From: Bill and Sue McNaught <pp02570@email.kcc.edu> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Speaking of smelly lunches, my older sister loved paw paws better than > anything. She said they must have been the strongest smelling food there > was, for when she carried her Bob White Syrup pail in the kids would say, > "Teacher, Fern's got them stinkin' paw paws again." > > My mother went to grade school to her older sister. Mom said she would > sometimes get so hungry she couldn't stand it. One day she took a chestnut > from her pocket and ate it in class. Sister spanked her, then told her > parents and they spanked her too. She said it was years before she could > have a good feeling toward the sister again. And she still remembers the > incident each time she has a chestnut......eighty-some years later. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Maps > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 17:15:45 EST > From: NSieck@aol.com > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Dear Eddie, > I have seen several people thank you for the maps and saying they have > located folks on them. I am curious!!! Can you tell us about the maps? > I am new to the list and really enjoying all the stories. They bring > back so many memories. I grew up in Middlesboro, KY and every Sunday we drove > to Lee CO, VA to visit my Grandmother in Ewing. We sat on the front porch, > rocked and told stories! Of course that was after a BIG Sunday dinner. I > seen the older I get the more I enjoy the memories. > I was especially interested to see the lists of mountain saying. Only the > week before I had made of list of ones our family said. My favorite is "What > your reared on you hanker after." Isn't it the truth. One we always said but > I never understood, was "Amen Brother Ben--shot a goose and killed a hen". I > have even seen that written in a letter! Blessings to all > Nini Sieck > Researching: MCDANIEL, MORLEY, SUTTON, RAMSEY, DICKENSON, DUFF in SW VA. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Jewell Ridge > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 18:23:53 -0500 > From: "RENA WORTHEN" <doreatr@rbnet.com> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > I am intrested in hearing more about Jewell Ridge. Who it is names after > where it is . are there any cemeteries there with Jewell relatives and if > so what is the names of the cemeteries. What County. and last but not > least directions from Roanoke. Thank you for any Help. I am looking for > the siblings of Thomas Jewel and his Parents. Thomas was born about 1764. > thank you everyone for all the good stories. Love the down home cooking > too. Rena > > Researching ThomasJEWELL,William HATCHER, AndrewHOWARD, AsaHALL, Sarah > FARLEY, James GRAHAM, George BOOTHE, any HICKLIN, William GREEN,Thurman > BAXTER,John "the settler" BISHOP, Ezra COLLINS, William CUNNINGHAM, > Clarence SMITH, Pierce BOYER, Christopher TYNAN, Georg (Dresher)THRASHER , > Sarah COX, anyOBENCHAIN,any AKERS, Emra ALTIZER,Henry VANOVER > doreatr@rbnet.com rena@genealogy.org > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/3798/index.html > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapatric > http://members.bellatlantic.net/~scotnroa/Barb/floyd.html > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: Bluegrass music... > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 18:34:06 -0500 > From: Talley Duncan <duncant@znet.groupz.net> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > And don't forget good ole Tennessee Ernie Ford who grew up in Bristol, a few > years later I guess. > > G. Lee Hearl wrote: > > > Bristol, TN-Va has been designated by Congress as the "Birthplace of > > Country Music". > > The Carter Family of Scott County, Va., Jimmy Rogers, The Stoneman Family > > of Fries, Va. and many others recorded in a make-shift studio in Bristol in > > 1927. During the past few days a country music museum opened in the Bristol > > Mall.. > > One of my "Cousins", Kelley Harrell, recorded the "Wreck of Ole' 97" a few > > years before the Bristol recording sessions. He was from Fries, Va... > > G. Lee Hearl Abingdon, Va... > > Carter and Ralph Stanley, Flatt and Scruggs, Mac Wiseman, Charlie Monroe > > and others performed on radio in Bristol during the forties and fifties.. > > G. Lee Hearl Abingdon, Va... > > > > ==== 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 > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Lee Co. VA > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 18:45:41 EST > From: DreamSun39@aol.com > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi, > I finally found my Ggrandmother, Cornelia Napier and sisters in the 1870 Lee > Co. VA census. Cornelia aka Nelia and sister Marium aka Mary, married Shelton > brothers in Patrick Co. VA circa 1835. Anyone connect or have info on this > Napier family? > Deborah > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: Jewell Ridge > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 19:15:57 -0500 > From: Barbara <barbiluv@erinet.com> > To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com > > Rena, > > Jewell Ridge is in Tazewell County. Here is what I have on the cemeteries. > > FAMILY DISTRICT > > Ball Cemetery Honaker > Barns Cemetery Broadford > Billips Cemetery Tiptop > Billips Cemetery Tiptop > Billips Cemetery Tiptop > Billips Cemetery Tiptop > Bowen Cemetery Tiptop > Bowman Cemetery Bramwell > Bowman Cemetery Tiptop > Bowman Cemetery Tiptop > Brown Cemetery Saltville > Brown Cemetery Tiptop > Brown Cemetery Garden Mountain > Buchanan Cemetery Hutchinson Rock > Burkes Garden Central Cemetery Garden Mountain > Caldwell Cemetery Chatham Hill > Carter Cemetery Tiptop > Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery Richlands > Company Cemetery Jewell Ridge > Compton Cemetery Bramwell > Crabtree Cemetery Chatham Hill > Crabtree Cemetery Hutchinson Rock > Dickenson Cemetery Tiptop > Dickenson Cemetery Tiptop > Dillon Cemetery Tiptop > Dudley Cemetery Bramwell > Earls Cemetery Tiptop > Epperson Cemetery Tiptop > French Cemetery Tiptop > Graham Cemetery Tiptop > Grandview Memory Gardens Cove Creek > Green Cemetery Bramwell > Green Cemetery Tiptop > Green Hills Memorial Gardens Richlands > Hankins Cemetery Richlands > Harmon Cemetery Tiptop > Harmon Cemetery Tiptop > Harper Cemetery Tiptop > Hayes Cemetery Tiptop > Herts Cemetery Tiptop > Holmes Cemetery Broadford > Ireson Cemetery Tiptop > Keister Cemetery Broadford > Lester Cemetery Saltville > Lowe Cemetery Jewell Ridge > Maple Hill Cemetery Cove Creek > Maplewood Cemetery Tazewell North > Martin Cemetery Chatham Hill > Mathena Cemetery Tiptop > Mays Cemetery Tiptop > McDowell Cemetery Tiptop > McMullen Cemetery Tiptop > Mitchell Cemetery Chatham Hill > Mohawk Cemetery Bramwell > Moore Cemetery Tiptop > Morton Cemetery Tiptop > Mullin Cemetery Bramwell > Music Cemetery Bramwell > Necessary Cemetery Chatham Hill > Osborne Cemetery Broadford > Page Cemetery Bramwell > Peery Cemetery Tiptop > Perdus Cemetery Bramwell > Pocahontas Cemetery Bramwell > Ratcliff Cemetery Broadford > Saint Lukes Cemetery Cove Creek > Sanders Cemetery Tiptop > Sawyer Cemetery Jewell Ridge > Sinkford Cemetery Tiptop > Sluss Cemetery Tiptop > Smith Cemetery Jewell Ridge > Stevens Cemetery Tiptop > Swim Cemetery Bramwell > Tabor Cemetery Bramwell > Tabor Cemetery Bramwell > Taylor Cemetery Broadford > Taylor Cemetery Tiptop > Thompson Cemetery Hutchinson Rock > Thompson Cemetery Hutchinson Rock > Thompson Cemetery Tiptop > Thompson Cemetery Garden Mountain > Valley Vista Cemetery Cove Creek > Wagner Cemetery Bramwell > Wagner Cemetery Bramwell > Wagner Cemetery Tiptop > Wallace Cemetery Tiptop > Ward Cemetery Broadford > Watts Cemetery Tiptop > Wilburn Cemetery Tiptop > Wilburn Cemetery Tiptop > Witten Cemetery Tiptop > Yates Cemetery Tiptop