Hi, I'm new to this list. How can I get a Benge book, and Eddie, how can I find out more about your maps? My gggrandfather, Tipton MARION, was born in 1824 in Hawkins (now Hancock?) Co., TN. His parents were Samuel David Marion and Eva or Ava Nancy Gibson, and their children were born alternately in Lee Co. VA and Hawkins Co., TN. Sheila >Content-Type: text/plain >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >SW_VA-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 95 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Back in Business ["Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.n] > #2 Re: Maps [MasCps@aol.com] > #3 Re: SW_VA-D Digest V99 #94 [ALICEGWOOD@aol.com] > #4 Maps [Pam Moehling <moehling@mc.net>] > #5 FHC Online? ["Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.n] > #6 Benge & Me ["Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.n] > #7 1918 Flu Epidemic ["Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.n] > #8 Fw: LDS WEBSITE Eastman's Onine Ge ["Sarah Ann Roepke" <sar@bright.net] > #9 Flu Epidemic of 1918 ["Pat Oneal" <peon@icx.net>] > #10 1918 [Cyberbay77@aol.com] > #11 re Land Patents and Grants ["Kathy Bemisdarfer" <bkpr1@netins.] > >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 >______________________________ >X-Message: #1 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:52:09 -0500 >From: "Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.net> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <199903101552.KAA02846@ctc.swva.net> >Subject: Back in Business >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT > >All, > > I'm somewhat settled in now. At least I know where the >bathroom is. <g> > > I think I owe two people maps. I mailed one yesterday. If I owe >anyone else please let me know. I may need to go to Blacksburg to >make some copies. > > I may go to the Tazewell Co. courthouse next week if it stops >snowing and being so cold. > > I got my copy of BENGE yesterday. Maybe we can have a >discussion after others have read it. I had proofread it but had not >seen the full layout with all the pictures and maps. I'm impressed. > > I hope to go soon to the VA Tech library and start going thru >their Special Collections. The Preston Papers and others. > >-sysop > >"Toto, I don't think we are in NH any more." > >______________________________ >X-Message: #2 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:56:28 EST >From: MasCps@aol.com >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <f94cc8c9.36e6b24c@aol.com> >Subject: Re: Maps >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Ed, >My maps arrived and I am delighted with them. Thank you for all of your >efforts. I even found my Litz family listed in Washington Co., Va. >Thanks again, >Cindy Pruitt Spencer > >______________________________ >X-Message: #3 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:55:30 EST >From: ALICEGWOOD@aol.com >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <a46a1722.36e6c022@aol.com> >Subject: Re: SW_VA-D Digest V99 #94 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >thanks to everyone who sent me the kinship names. Alice > >______________________________ >X-Message: #4 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:16:51 -0600 >From: Pam Moehling <moehling@mc.net> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <01BE6AF8.E38C29C0@assured-13.mc.net> >Subject: Maps >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi Eddie, > >Am glad your settling in and everything's o.k.... >Got my maps last week and was very pleased with them.. > >I can't wait for the Russell County and Tazewell County maps .....if and when >that works out... > >Thanx Much, > >Pam > >Researching the following surnames: BURKE, CARTER, PARTICK, WINGO, McGRADY, >WIMBERLEY, WITT/WHITT, HENSLEY, ROBERTSON. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #5 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:51:57 -0500 >From: "Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.net> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <199903102252.RAA16675@ctc.swva.net> >Subject: FHC Online? >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT > > Has anyone heard about the LDS FHC stuff being put ONLINE?? > > I had heard rumors months ago. >-sysop > > ><<<I was told this morning at the LDS center that their information is >NOW available ON >LINE! > >"Toto, I don't think we are in NH any more." > >______________________________ >X-Message: #6 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:51:57 -0500 >From: "Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.net> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <199903102252.RAA16697@ctc.swva.net> >Subject: Benge & Me >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT > ><<<Dear Ed. Would you please explain the BENGE book briefly.? >What is it about.? Is that a family name? Is this fiction? I recently ran >across the BENGE family name in some of my reading. >> > ><<And if you care to, tell me where you moved to. I understand that >you were living in NH? >>> > > I moved from Bennington, NH where I lived for one year, to >Narrows, Giles Co., VA on the New River. I was born and raised >(some would say, HALF) in Washington Co., VA > > BENGE is a book on the history of an Indian raider leader who >lived in SW VA. It is the story of his life and tragic death and the >many murders and gives a true view of the life of 1790 SW VA and >what our ancestors endured. Many families are mentioned, please >don't ask me to do a lookup. Thanks. >-sysop > > > >"Toto, I don't think we are in NH any more." > >______________________________ >X-Message: #7 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:53:05 -0500 >From: "Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.net> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <199903110253.VAA11944@ctc.swva.net> >Subject: 1918 Flu Epidemic >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT > > Does anyone know stories of deaths in the familes of SW VA >from the flu of 1918?? Nearly one million Americans died and 18 >million worldwide. I wondered if SW VA suffered any more or less. > >-eddie > >"Toto, I don't think we are in NH any more." > >______________________________ >X-Message: #8 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:59:09 -0500 >From: "Sarah Ann Roepke" <sar@bright.net> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <199903110455.XAA07939@sparticus.bright.net> >Subject: Fw: LDS WEBSITE Eastman's Onine Genealogy Newsletter >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Ed, > >This is the latest I have seen on the LDS WEBSITE. >This report is rather long; but should be of great >interest to all. > >Sarah Ann > > >Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 11:21 PM >Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter >Vol. 4 No. 10 - March 6, 1999 > >LDS Family History Web Site >There have been lots of rumors lately about a new LDS Family >History Web site. My mailbox has been filling up with messages >about it, and the story has even appeared on MSNBC at: >http://www.msnbc.com/news/246411.asp. The MSNBC article says, >"Much to the delight of genealogists, the Mormons are preparing to >make some of their vast holdings of family records available on >the World Wide Web for the first time next month, if not sooner." >The article continues, "The new web site ( >http://www.familysearch.org ) won't officially launch until mid- >April, but it is expected to "go live" for testing any day now. >Church officials originally planned to leave the site open to all >during the test period. But for fear of being swamped, they now >may limit access to official testers with assigned passwords." > >When asked about a possible new online service, David Rencher, >Manager of Outreach Coordination of the Genealogical Society of >Utah, made the following official statement: > >Sometime in March or April 1999, the Church of Jesus Christ of >Latter-day Saints will conduct a brief beta test of a new >genealogical service for the Internet. The Church believes >this service will greatly enhance the way people trace their >family history. A formal announcement and launch is expected >in the Spring or Summer of 1999. Details will not be available >until then. > > > >______________________________ >X-Message: #9 >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:12:47 -0500 >From: "Pat Oneal" <peon@icx.net> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <002101be6b7d$ce40f480$261352d8@pato-nei> >Subject: Flu Epidemic of 1918 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Eddie, > The story of the "Flu Epidemic" as my mother told it to me: They lived >in Lee County, VA. My oldest sister Inez was almost two. My mother was >expecting her second child in March 1919. In my mother's family all came >down with the flu except her father and a brother-in-law. (Mom, Dad, her >sisters, her mother, her nephew age 3(died), and others) Every home in the >territory had been hit by the Influenza Epidemic. > It was wintertime. My mother was too ill to care for the rest of the >family. Doctor was afraid for her and the unborn child. The brother-in-law >would come to the house every day and cut firewood. He made soup for the >family with my mother telling him what ingredients to use. One day a knock >came at the door. It was a childhood friend of my mother's. The friend, >who had just buried her own husband, heard about the hardships in the family >and had come to help until Mama was able to take over household duties. > As time passed, my dad began to recover and returned to work with the >railroad company. Mama and Inez, too, began to overcome the illness. On >March 1st, 1919, the second child was born. She was normal except that she >was a very ill little baby. Mama treated her for several weeks, but the >baby didn't seem to be getting any better. One afternoon, Mama decided to >take Inez and the baby to her mother's house in the family buggy. When she >arrived, a lady was visiting. The lady noticed the baby struggling to >breathe. She told Mama that when she returned home, before putting the baby >to bed for the night, to rub her back, chest, and feet with a mixture of >coal oil, turpentine, and hog's lard, then wrap her in warm flannel. > Mama took the lady's advice. The following morning the baby's breathing >was smooth. (I told this remedy recently when we were discussing 'home >remedies and cures.') > My mother said nearly everyone in the community had the flu and many, >like her young nephew, died. She and my dad were too ill to attend the >child's funeral. > Just another family story!! Pat O'Neal > >______________________________ >X-Message: #10 >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:42:01 EST >From: Cyberbay77@aol.com >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <cf47cc89.36e757a9@aol.com> >Subject: 1918 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >My grandfather died in 1918 in the first flu. The Dr. came to the house to >examine the whole family. He checked Roxie and said she was all right. Then >he checked GW and told him he had the flu and had to go to the hospital. GW >had cracked some ribs at work and it hurt him to breathe but the Dr. told him >it was the flu. He said he was not going without Roxie (his daughter). The >Dr. went back and checked her again and said she had the flu. They both went >to the Pennington Gap hospital and GW died and Roxie almost did. It threw my >grandmother into poverty with three children to care for. She had to "go on >the washboard" as they said back then to feed and clothe them. >Bev. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #11 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:52:57 -0600 >From: "Kathy Bemisdarfer" <bkpr1@netins.net> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <199903110557.XAA22059@ins14.netins.net> >Subject: re Land Patents and Grants >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I have been searching using > >http://198.17.62.51/Collections/LO.html > > >This is an Electronic Card Index. for Land Office Patents and Grants >in VA. some are for KY. as well. Some go back into the 1700's and some up >to the 1900's. There is an Alpabetical listing that you can go into, so >that you don't have to view all the files. > >If you don't have a tiff viewer they have a generic one you can down load. >I went in and retrieved the >files I wanted, saved them disk, then went into the program I have already >on my computer to view them >in. I was able to retrieve the actual document. It took a little figuring >out, but once I did it, it was great. Lists the actual Land they >recieved. Hope this helps someone out.