Got it, Sherry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark & Sherry Finchum" <finchums@usinternet.com> To: <TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 7:06 PM Subject: [TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS] Another Test > --=======1C2542DB======= > Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-39D318B7; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > For some reason messages are not getting through my filter. Would everyone > please reply to this message please! > > Thanks, > Sherry > Admistrator > Jesus is my rock! > If you would like to know him also, visit: > http://www.godssimpleplan.org/gsps.html > > Visit my webpage! > http://www.sorrellsgenealogy.com > > Middle TN Cousins visit: > http://www.chestnutridgecousins.org > > Our hobby: > http://www.indiancreekproductions.com > > Searching:ALEXANDER,ALLEN,ANDERSON,BLALOCK,BOURLAND,BRADBURN, > BRENTS,BROOKS,BROWNE,BURNES,CLARK,CLAIBORNE,CLAYTON, > COLEMAN,CONNALY,CONWELL,CORDING,COX,CRITTENDEN,CRONDAS, > DAVIDSON,DAWSON,DICKSON,ELLEDGE,EVANS,FARMER,FREEMAN, > GALLAGHER,GILBERT,GLIDEWELL,HARRELL,HAWKINS,HAYES,HILL,HODGE/S, > HOLLAND,INGLE,JAMES,KING,LAMBERT,LANDIN,LINN,LORD,MARSH,MAXWELL, > MCADAMS,MCINTIRE,MCKNITT,MCWHORTER,MEALER,MILLINGTON, > MORECROFT,NASH,PAINE/PAYNE,RANDLES,REDD,REESE,RHODES,ROBERTS, > RUSSELL,RYALLS,SANDRIDGE,SCOTT,SIMPSON,SMITH,SORRELL/S, > TEAGUE,THURMAN,TOLLY,WAGSTER,WALLACE,WHITE,WHITLOW, > WHITSETT,and WILSON > > > --=======1C2542DB======= > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-39D318B7 > Content-Disposition: inline > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.521 / Virus Database: 319 - Release Date: 9/23/03 > > --=======1C2542DB=======-- > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

received in Missouri Rich King ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark & Sherry Finchum <finchums@usinternet.com> To: <TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 7:06 PM Subject: [TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS] Another Test > --=======1C2542DB======= > Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-39D318B7; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > For some reason messages are not getting through my filter. Would everyone > please reply to this message please! > > Thanks, > Sherry > Admistrator > Jesus is my rock! > If you would like to know him also, visit: > http://www.godssimpleplan.org/gsps.html > > Visit my webpage! > http://www.sorrellsgenealogy.com > > Middle TN Cousins visit: > http://www.chestnutridgecousins.org > > Our hobby: > http://www.indiancreekproductions.com > > Searching:ALEXANDER,ALLEN,ANDERSON,BLALOCK,BOURLAND,BRADBURN, > BRENTS,BROOKS,BROWNE,BURNES,CLARK,CLAIBORNE,CLAYTON, > COLEMAN,CONNALY,CONWELL,CORDING,COX,CRITTENDEN,CRONDAS, > DAVIDSON,DAWSON,DICKSON,ELLEDGE,EVANS,FARMER,FREEMAN, > GALLAGHER,GILBERT,GLIDEWELL,HARRELL,HAWKINS,HAYES,HILL,HODGE/S, > HOLLAND,INGLE,JAMES,KING,LAMBERT,LANDIN,LINN,LORD,MARSH,MAXWELL, > MCADAMS,MCINTIRE,MCKNITT,MCWHORTER,MEALER,MILLINGTON, > MORECROFT,NASH,PAINE/PAYNE,RANDLES,REDD,REESE,RHODES,ROBERTS, > RUSSELL,RYALLS,SANDRIDGE,SCOTT,SIMPSON,SMITH,SORRELL/S, > TEAGUE,THURMAN,TOLLY,WAGSTER,WALLACE,WHITE,WHITLOW, > WHITSETT,and WILSON > > > --=======1C2542DB======= > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-39D318B7 > Content-Disposition: inline > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.521 / Virus Database: 319 - Release Date: 9/23/03 > > --=======1C2542DB=======-- > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

SHERRY: All is well in Dickson, TN. prossergenealogy@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark & Sherry Finchum" <finchums@usinternet.com> To: <TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 7:06 PM Subject: [TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS] Another Test > --=======1C2542DB======= > Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-39D318B7; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > For some reason messages are not getting through my filter. Would everyone > please reply to this message please! > > Thanks, > Sherry > Admistrator > Jesus is my rock! > If you would like to know him also, visit: > http://www.godssimpleplan.org/gsps.html > > Visit my webpage! > http://www.sorrellsgenealogy.com > > Middle TN Cousins visit: > http://www.chestnutridgecousins.org > > Our hobby: > http://www.indiancreekproductions.com > > Searching:ALEXANDER,ALLEN,ANDERSON,BLALOCK,BOURLAND,BRADBURN, > BRENTS,BROOKS,BROWNE,BURNES,CLARK,CLAIBORNE,CLAYTON, > COLEMAN,CONNALY,CONWELL,CORDING,COX,CRITTENDEN,CRONDAS, > DAVIDSON,DAWSON,DICKSON,ELLEDGE,EVANS,FARMER,FREEMAN, > GALLAGHER,GILBERT,GLIDEWELL,HARRELL,HAWKINS,HAYES,HILL,HODGE/S, > HOLLAND,INGLE,JAMES,KING,LAMBERT,LANDIN,LINN,LORD,MARSH,MAXWELL, > MCADAMS,MCINTIRE,MCKNITT,MCWHORTER,MEALER,MILLINGTON, > MORECROFT,NASH,PAINE/PAYNE,RANDLES,REDD,REESE,RHODES,ROBERTS, > RUSSELL,RYALLS,SANDRIDGE,SCOTT,SIMPSON,SMITH,SORRELL/S, > TEAGUE,THURMAN,TOLLY,WAGSTER,WALLACE,WHITE,WHITLOW, > WHITSETT,and WILSON > > > --=======1C2542DB======= > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-39D318B7 > Content-Disposition: inline > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.521 / Virus Database: 319 - Release Date: 9/23/03 > > --=======1C2542DB=======-- > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

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it was a pleasure meeting everyone, and enjoying the wonderful scenery and weather. here's a suggestion re the cemeteries.....perhaps at next reunion, we could pick one and all go out there and pitch in. I think a stem cleaner would do wonders for some of the headstones, and we could hire a high school boy to do the yard work. If I were back there I'd do it myself! See you sson. Joanna Bledsoe. also....I think someone needs to get a mailing list of all the Bledsoes...)(Savages, Muses, Lockes, etc, and send out invitations for the next "do")

Cousins: It has been a good past weekend, seeing all of you. Our program was great. I owe many thanks to the following: Donna Prosser, Sherry Finchum, Carolyn Crowley and Alice Parks for putting things together. Donna, Sherry and Carolyn worked together to see that things went well in the communication end of things. Ms. Alice Parks did a great job on the Fayetteville end. It was great walking down the streets of Fayetteville and seeing the store front signs welcoming the Chestnut Ridge Cousins. The assembly hall at the church building fit our needs. John Foster worked on the Petersburg end and finding an alternative site for us to meet was most appreciative. Polly Dodson worked hard on getting the monies and registrations in to take care of all the financial needs. Thanks to Billy Joe Prosser for getting the copier that was used at the church building. Janice are copies of the tape going to be available should a cousin desire a copy? Our speakers were great with Dr. Bradley on Saturday evening. The Saturday day speakers were most informative. It was great to have Mr. Jack Towry and his wife; Ms. Dora M. Whisenant and Ms. Mable Tucker all from the Lincoln County Genealogical Society. We appreciated their presentation and their being at the society building on Saturday afternoon. I appreciated Alben Simmons's presentation from the Bedford County side of "The Ridge." I am excited about Moore and Lincoln County putting out a heritage book. Hopefully we can get something together for both counties from our Ridge. Maybe we need to put together a committee and put some of our material together for a book corner if these counties will allow it. It would be good to have as many surnames that were of our pioneers that settled in the area and the names that we are researching today. Sherry: I got home and checked the registration book and found that we had 11 states represented again. They being this time: Arkansas, California, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Florida, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, Tennessee, Texas. NOW FROM OUR MEETING LET'S GET BUSY ON SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT FACE US. I think our number one priority is the destroyed and the abandoned cemeteries. What can and may we do about these? Billy Joe Prosser tells me that the idea that was put out last year about the scouts is not permissible. I do not know if the Sheriffs Department's of the four counties have inmate work crews that would do this or not. There was mention that one of the school's history club had taken on a project of working on one of the local cemeteries. Do we try to set up workings during the cold weather months [snakes, ticks, and chiggers are not the best friends in the world] or do we start some type of restoration fund [for hiring people to work on them] or do we have a combination of both? Carolyn has mentioned that there is some grant money also available, do we meet the criteria for these monies? Any thoughts are appreciated. I would like to see the King / Harkins cemeteries worked on. I see one pro! blem with the Harkins Cemetery and that is the large trees that are in the middle of it. Thanks to all and it was enjoyable. Fayetteville was a great host. Bobby Prosser prossergenealogy@comcast.net

--=======5BE64D3======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-605A4D78; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is an administrator's test. No need to reply. -Sherry Jesus is my rock! If you would like to know him also, visit: http://www.godssimpleplan.org/gsps.html Visit my webpage! http://www.sorrellsgenealogy.com Middle TN Cousins visit: http://www.chestnutridgecousins.org Our hobby: http://www.indiancreekproductions.com Searching:ALEXANDER,ALLEN,ANDERSON,BLALOCK,BOURLAND,BRADBURN, BRENTS,BROOKS,BROWNE,BURNES,CLARK,CLAIBORNE,CLAYTON, COLEMAN,CONNALY,CONWELL,CORDING,COX,CRITTENDEN,CRONDAS, DAVIDSON,DAWSON,DICKSON,ELLEDGE,EVANS,FARMER,FREEMAN, GALLAGHER,GILBERT,GLIDEWELL,HARRELL,HAWKINS,HAYES,HILL,HODGE/S, HOLLAND,INGLE,JAMES,KING,LAMBERT,LANDIN,LINN,LORD,MARSH,MAXWELL, MCADAMS,MCINTIRE,MCKNITT,MCWHORTER,MEALER,MILLINGTON, MORECROFT,NASH,PAINE/PAYNE,RANDLES,REDD,REESE,RHODES,ROBERTS, RUSSELL,RYALLS,SANDRIDGE,SCOTT,SIMPSON,SMITH,SORRELL/S, TEAGUE,THURMAN,TOLLY,WAGSTER,WALLACE,WHITE,WHITLOW, WHITSETT,and WILSON --=======5BE64D3======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-605A4D78 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.521 / Virus Database: 319 - Release Date: 9/23/03 --=======5BE64D3=======--

From: Karen Combs, Marshall County Rootsweb List > > I have a pal that lives in Delina who transcribed some of the cemeteries > right around there. I asked her to submit the transcriptions to the > USGenWeb Archives for Marshall. Feel free to link to any of them. I > would be happy to send you my photos from the Peter Luna Cemetery for > your site too. I took pics of all the graves. > New Hope: > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/marshall/cemeteries/newhope.txt > Talley: > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/marshall/cemeteries/talley01.txt > Sowell: > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/marshall/cemeteries/sowell.txt > Meadows: > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/marshall/cemeteries/meadows1.txt > Horton: > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/marshall/cemeteries/horton01.txt > Ezell: > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/marshall/cemeteries/ezell01.txt > Caruthers-Duckworth: > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/marshall/cemeteries/carduck1.txt > > I typed up all these wills, > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/marshall/wills/ and you are > welcome to link to any that relate to the surnames for Chestnut Ridge. > > My main lines in the area are Hammonds and Owen/s. Also Childers of > Madison Co., AL who came to the area. I'm also kin to the Stephens and > the Luna's. The last year I've been concentrating on Owen/s and > Childers. But my main focus now is in Franklin County on my Davis > steel-reinforced brick wall. <grin> > > Till later, > Karen > > > > > > > > > > > > >

----- Original Message ----- From: "Debi" <debip@bellsouth.net> To: <TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [TNBEDFOR] Humor > Here ya go, Al, hope you enjoy. > > Debi > > From Genealogy For Dummies 1.1 > ============================== > > My family coat of arms ties at the back ... is that normal? > > My family tree is a few branches short! All help appreciated. > > My ancestors must be in a witness protection program! > > Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall! > > My hobby is genealogy, I raise dust bunnies as pets. > > How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE?! > > I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap. > > I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged. > > I'm searching for myself; have you seen me? > > If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help ... > > Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem leads to two more! > > It's 2002 ... do you know where your G-G-Grandparents are? > > A family reunion is an effective form of birth control. > > A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots. > > A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away. > > After 30 days unclaimed ancestors will be adopted. > > Am I the only person up my tree ... sure seems like it. > > Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts, and a few bad apples. > > Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree? > > FLOOR: The place for storing your priceless genealogy records. > > Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease but I love it. > > Genealogists are time unravelers. > > Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide ... I seek! > > Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people. > > "Crazy" is a relative term in my family. > > A pack rat is hard to live with but makes a fine ancestor. > > I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand. > > I should have asked them BEFORE they died! > > I think my ancestors had several "bad heir" days. > > I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNEflower. > > Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards, as progress. > > Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality. > > Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools! > > It's an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening or a > > thief. > > Many a family tree needs pruning. > > Shhh! Be very, very quiet ... I'm hunting forebears. > > Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors! > > That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN! > > I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes. > > Genealogists live in the past lane. > > Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots! > > Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree > > Alright! Everybody out of the gene pool! > > Always willing to share my ignorance ... > > Documentation ...The hardest part of genealogy. > > Genealogy: Chasing your own tale! > > Genealogy ... will I ever find time to mow the lawn again? > > That's the problem with the gene pool: NO Lifeguards > > I researched my family tree ... and apparently I don't exist! > > I found all of my five fathers. Er, four fathers. Er, fore fathers, > FOREFATHERS! That's it! > > > > I've often wondered about some things: > > > >Can a first cousin, once removed, return? > > > >Cemetery: (n) A marble orchard not to be taken for granite. > > > >Crazy.... is a relative term in MY family. > > > >Genealogy: It's all relative in the end anyway. > > > >Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people. > > > >I trace my family history so I will know who to blame. > > > >It's hard to be humble with ancestors like mine! > > > >Life takes it's toll. Have exact change ready! > > > >Searching for lost relatives? Win the Lottery! > > > >That's strange; half my ancestors are WOMEN! > > > >Do I even WANT ancestors? Some I found I wish I could lose. > > > >Every family tree has some sap in it. > > > >FLOOR: (n) The place for storing your priceless genealogy records. > > > >Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate. > > > >Genealogists never die, they just lose their roots. > > > >Genealogy: A hay stack full of needles. It's the threads I need. > > > >Genealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin! > > > >Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living. > > > >Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools! > > > >I think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom. > > > >Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. > > > >My ancestors are hiding in a witness protection program. > > > >My family tree is a few branches short! > > > >Research: What I'm doing, when I don't know what I'm doing. > > > >Take nothing but ancestors, leave nothing but records. > > > >Theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we're all related > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Al Simmons" <tennref@tnco.net> > To: <TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:49 AM > Subject: [TNBEDFOR] Humor > > > > Calling all genealogists - need some good genealogy jokes, puns, or > sayings to use in presentations to a reunions, historical groups, or > "genies". Any help appreciated... al simmons > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

----- Original Message ----- From: "Martha Mendez" <MMendez930@comcast.net> To: <TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [TNBEDFOR] obituary for Ison Lane Coffee > Shelbyville Gazette - November 17, 1932 (Thursday) - page 5 (lower right of > page) > > Isom Lane Coffee > > Funeral services for Ison Lane "Link" Coffee, who died at his home near > Wartrace, were conducted from the residence, Tuesday afternoon by George > Freeman of Petersburg. Burila was in the family graveyard near by. Mr. > Coffee was born on what is not the site of Wartrace in 1848 three years > before the town was founded with the exception of a few years, he was a life > long residence of that place. He is survived by one son, P.C. and one > daughter Miss Sallie Bell Coffee both of Wartrace. > Mr. Coffee was one of the few surviving members of the Coffee Family > which had a prominent part in the making of Tennessee history. He was the > last of nine children of Henry Bradford Coffee, who was the owner of the > land on which Wartrace was built and who gave the N.C. and St. L. Railway > the right of wary fot the road through there in 1851. Mr. Coffee's great > great uncle, Gen John R. Coffee was a close friend of Gen Andrew Jackson. > _____________________ > 1860 Bedford County Census > Dist 3 - Wartrace PO > page 36 - (Hard page 100/B) > 270 - 270 - (cont) - FENCH, Elizabeth 7, Frank 6, Maggie 5. > 271 - 271 - Phillips, Geo W. 34 (farmer), Eliza 34, William 9, Sarah 7, John > W. 6, Juda (f) 4, Nancy 2, Samuel 6/12, > THOMPSON, Sam W. 24 (doctor). > 272 - 272 - Payne, Wm W. 39 (farmer) 39 (VA), Nancy 39, James C. 20, Martin > D. 18, Mary 16, > William B. 14. > 273 - 273 - Kennaird, H.C. 38 (farmer), Mary F 30, Francis (F) 8, Mary E. 7, > James M. 4. > 274 - 274 - Coffee, Henry B. 65 (farmer), Richard 24, William 22, Elivira > 19, Mary 18, Mattie 15, > Garland 13, Isom 10, Sarah 47 (27?), > EDMONSON, Nelson 14. > 275 - 275 - Stephens, Jo W. 32 (merchant) (NC), Elizabeth 28 (NC), Julia 9 > (NC), Sarah 4, Joseph 2. > 276 - 276 - McClure, William M. 23 (carpenter) (NC). > 277 - 277 - Chilton, John W. 27 (boot maker), (cont next page), > ________________________ > 1860 Bedford County Census > Dist 3 - Wartrace PO > page 42 - (Hard page 104/A) > 314 - 314 - (cont) - Holt, Charles 17, Maria 10, Kate 8, Polly 2, Sallie 1, > MILLER, Taylor 14. > 315 - 315 - West, Sarah 70 (farmer). > 316 - 316 - West, James 28 (farmer), > JONES, James 16. > 317 - 317 - Bond, William 50 (farmer), Elmira 30, Percy 20, Eliza 17, > Virginia 15, Bibb 5, William 3, > James C. 6/12. > 318 - 318 - Caruthers, James 25 (farmer), Nancy A. 26, Arch C. 10/12. > 319 - 319 - Haggard, George 32, Sarah 28, Elizabeth 1. > 320 - 320 - Coble, Neely (M) 58 (farmer), John 31 (carpenter), Martha 24, > FRASHER, Letty 60 (Georgia). > 3321 - 321 - Snelling, John 68 (farmer) (NC), Mary A. 38, James F. 65, J.B. > 28 (day laborer), > Pleasant H. 26 (day laborer). > 322 - 322 - George, Andrew J. 36 (farmer), Eliza 20. > 323 - 323 - Coffee, Abner H. 60 (farmer). > 324 - 324 - Prewit, Arcenia (F) 35 (farmer), Mary C. 50, Nannie 6, Willis 4. > 325 - 325 - Hewell, J.R. 29 (depot agent), (cont next page), > ___________________________ > > Coffee Cemt in Wartrace: > > P.C. Coffee > 1885 - 1962 > (Howell Thompson) > > Rice Coffee > Born April 1766 > Amherst Co Va > Died Jul 29, 1853 > > G.R. Coffee > Age 69 years > Died Feb 10, 1916 > > R.E. Coffee > Jun 15, 1833 > Sept 10, 1910 > > Miss Sallie B. Coffee > 1882 - 1972 > > Sallie R. Coffee > Apr 3, 1907 > Mar 31, 1892 > > William E. Coffee > Feb 26, 1838 > Mar 25, 1887 > > Mary A. Coffee > Nov 11, 1840 > Mar 1, 1901 > > Martha D. Coffee > May 18, 1845 > Oct 16, 1891 > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doyle Landers" <dclander@bellsouth.net> > To: <TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 9:09 AM > Subject: [TNBEDFOR] obituary for Ison Lane Coffee > > > > Would someone look-up please an obituary for Ison Lane Coffee d. > 11-17-1932 > > Thanks > > Betty > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Ellen: This was addressed at our Friday evening meeting and the issues involved. We still do not know anymore than before. Bobby Prosser prossergenealogy@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen Norris" <enorris4@bellsouth.net> To: <TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:37 AM Subject: [TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS] Mystery > OKAY, since the reunion is coming up and I can't be there, I am hoping that some kind soul will mention this email or even provide a copy of it to your "Mysteries Table" in hopes that someone may run with it. This has been my brick wall for years and I have posted my quest several times plus one more below. My ancestor was known as James Ambrose Norris/Joe Norris/Joel Norris and he did not have a direct connection to the infamous Ezekiel. He was on the 1836 tax list (Division One) and he was on the 1840 census and he was on a subsequent agricultural census (I believe this was 1848 or 1849). Anyway, here goes again............. > > I guess I will never give up on this although I have told myself several times that I would. As most of you have probably heard before (and are probably sick and tired of hearing about), my brick wall was shot and killed in October of 1849. He resided in Lincoln County, presumably the Chestnut Ridge area. Here is a copy of the data from the Mortality Index attached to the 1850 census. His wife Rachel and children are on that 1850 census and moved back to NC some time following his death. I have searched Lincoln County court records, periodicals, libraries, local historians, local genealogists, you name it. I have even search in all surrounding counties for news of my ancestor's demise, to no avail. If anyone has any suggestions, please email me. THANKS! > > > > Year Surname Given Name(s) County State Age Sex Month of Death > State of Birth Cause of Death Occupation ID# > > 1850 NORRIS JOEL LINCOLN CO. TN 40 M OCT NC SHOT NONE LISTED > MRT197_247353 > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

----- Original Message ----- From: "Prosser Genealogy - Comcast" <prossergenealogy@comcast.net> To: <TNDAVIDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:59 AM Subject: Fw: [TNDAVIDS] GREER > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Prosser Genealogy - Comcast" <prossergenealogy@comcast.net> > To: "leenancsa" <leenancsa@vzinet.com> > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:54 AM > Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] GREER > > > > For Your Information: > > > > GREER Research > > > > Since you mentioned Lewisburg, TN in the body of your message it caught my > > attention. The GREER name is a surname that is conducive to that area. > > > > From: A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans > > Printed 1913 > > Page # 78 > > > > Andrew Greer is one of the two earliest white men to settle south of the > > Virginia line. He was the father of Joseph Greer removed to Middle > Tennessee > > and the father of two sons who became more or less known.. In the > Nashville > > Evening Banner of August 17, 1912 there appeared a special letter from > > Fayetteville, Tennessee, referring as follows to those descendants of the > > Watuaga pioneer. > > > > "Jacob Greer, one of the twin sons of Joseph Greer, the messenger of > King's > > Mountain, has been gathered to his fathers, his death occurring the latter > > part of the week. The accompanying photograph was taken four years ago > when > > the twins were eighty four years of age. Jacob lived at the old Greer > home, > > the rear part which was built by his distinguished father on land granted > by > > the government for his services during the Revolutionary War. Thomas > Greer, > > the surviving twin brother still lives in Petersburg on his farm, about > two > > miles from his brother's home. The brothers were widely known in Lincoln > > County as the 'Confederate Twins,' having enlisted in the beginning of the > > Civil War in Company B, Forty- Fourth Tennessee Regiment, under Col. John > S. > > Fulton. Thomas Greer is still in fairly good health, is able to work in > his > > garden and occasionally rides horseback into Petersburg. He was able to > > drive to Fayetteville, a distance of thirteen miles to his brother's > funeral > > last Sunday. Jacob Greer was of a more adventurous nature than his brother > > and in 1848 went to California in search of fortune. He was successful in > > his quest for gold and came home with about $30,000 which he invested or > > loaned out and which was nearly all lost during the Civil War. He was fond > > of reading and had a remarkable memory even in his old days. The Greer > twins > > were said to be the oldest twins in the world so far as known, a careful > > inquiry having failed to lead to the discovery of another case of brothers > > or sisters living to such an advanced age." > > > > Page 190: > > Joseph Greer is listed among the first settlers of Knoxville. > > > > Page 802: > > > > [In reference to Lincoln County] > > > > Two notable men of the early days were Archibald Yell, who removed to > > Arkansas and Joseph Greer, who carried the news of the victory of King's > > Mountain to Congress, then sitting at Philadelphia. Greer had a vast body > of > > land, was a giant physically, and, as a chronicler has it, "dressed in the > > style of an old Virginia aristocratic gentleman." > > > > Joseph Greer is buried in the Greer Cemetery two and one-half miles east > of > > Petersburg, Tennessee, north of Petersburg-Chestnut Ridge Road and west of > > Hannah Gap Road. > > "Here lyeth the body of Joseph Greer, he was while living an example of > > everything distinguished. He died on 23 day of February 1831, in the 77th > > year of his age. Lamented by all who knew him." Metal Plaque" > > King's Mountain Messenger carried the message of the victory at King's > > Mountain to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, thereby turning the > > tide of the Revolution. > > > > Note: Petersburg is midway between Fayetteville and Lewisburg on the > > Lincoln / Marshall County line. There is a state historical plaque in > > Petersburg about Mr. Greer. The Fullerton name is also another name that > was > > an old surname of the same area. > > > > Bobby Prosser > > prossergenealogy@comcast.net > > http://www.chestnutridgecousins.org > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "leenancsa" <leenancsa@vzinet.com> > > To: <TNDAVIDS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 5:56 AM > > Subject: [TNDAVIDS] GREER > > > > > > > JANE F. GREER, MARTHA GREER, W.E. GREER, WILL ROB GREER, ALLENE GREER. > > 1840'S TN > > > > > > Seeking information on the parents/family of JANE F. GREER b 1854. Also > > seeking to know the date/place of her marriage & where she is buried. > > > > > > The earliest record I have regarding my great-grandmother, JANE F. > GREER, > > is the 1870 Obion County TN Census. She was 16. Her mother, MARTHA, age > 35 > > is listed as the head of household, and William age 18 is listed as son. > > All are documented as born in TN. > > > > > > > > > A younger relative was ALLENE GREER. We found a photo of an infant > with > > "ALLENE GREER" written on back. No dates. Another younger relative was > WILL > > ROB GREER. We found a photo made in LEWISBURG TN of a boy about a year > > old. Probably pre-1890. We believe Jane's brother, William was the > father > > of these children. > > > > > > JANE GREER married HUGH COOK BROWNLOW about 1872, probably in, or around > > Obion County TN. A W.E. GREER, witnessed a Brownlow family Last Will & > > Testament. The Will, dated April 03, 1882, OBION COUNTY TN, was witnessed > > by E.H. TAIDALE, W.E.GREER, THOMAS L. MOSLEY, and H.T.FULLERTON, MD. > > > > > > > > > Family legend is that Jane died after 1885 and before 1890 . About 1890 > > Hugh Cook Brownlow migrated to TX. Jane's mother, Martha, also came to > > Texas with Hugh and the 4 children. > > > > > > The children of JANE F. GREER and HUGH COOK BROWNLOW were: > > > Nettie Lorraine Brownlow, Fanny Brownlow, Henry Frank Brownlow and > Mattie > > Francis Brownlow. All born in TN before 1890. > > > > > > Thank you for taking time to read and respond if you have a link. > > > > > > Mr. Leland Carter > > > PO Box 162 > > > Fruitvale, TX 75127 > > > Van Zandt CountyTexas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > > go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Cousins: We are in the middle of a temperature drop here in Middle Tennessee. I have ask John Foster to look for an alternative back up site for Friday evening should we need it. He has secured the Cumberland Presbyterian Church building in Petersburg, should we need it. If we do we will let it be known at The Best Western in Fayetteville and also signs at the school grounds. The church building is located within close proximity on High Street in Petersburg and we will make sure all concerned know, should that change be necessary. Bobby Prosser prossergenealogy@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "John A. Foster" <n4la@cafes.net> To: "Prosser Genealogy -" <prossergenealogy@comcast.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 4:54 PM Subject: Church > Have the key in hand and arrangements made for a cleaning lady. > > John > >

OKAY, since the reunion is coming up and I can't be there, I am hoping that some kind soul will mention this email or even provide a copy of it to your "Mysteries Table" in hopes that someone may run with it. This has been my brick wall for years and I have posted my quest several times plus one more below. My ancestor was known as James Ambrose Norris/Joe Norris/Joel Norris and he did not have a direct connection to the infamous Ezekiel. He was on the 1836 tax list (Division One) and he was on the 1840 census and he was on a subsequent agricultural census (I believe this was 1848 or 1849). Anyway, here goes again............. I guess I will never give up on this although I have told myself several times that I would. As most of you have probably heard before (and are probably sick and tired of hearing about), my brick wall was shot and killed in October of 1849. He resided in Lincoln County, presumably the Chestnut Ridge area. Here is a copy of the data from the Mortality Index attached to the 1850 census. His wife Rachel and children are on that 1850 census and moved back to NC some time following his death. I have searched Lincoln County court records, periodicals, libraries, local historians, local genealogists, you name it. I have even search in all surrounding counties for news of my ancestor's demise, to no avail. If anyone has any suggestions, please email me. THANKS! > > Year Surname Given Name(s) County State Age Sex Month of Death State of Birth Cause of Death Occupation ID# > 1850 NORRIS JOEL LINCOLN CO. TN 40 M OCT NC SHOT NONE LISTED MRT197_247353

The following story was put on the Marshall County Rootsweb list a few years ago. It was originally written by a lady out of Stewart County, TN.. This may have well been our pioneer ancestors as they left North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia for "The Ridge". " Today I am going to step into the shoes of someone else. I live in and nearby the mountains many of our ancestors crossed to settle Middle Tennessee... I don't think about it much until I drive out or in, and then it never fails to cross my mind and I am in total awe. What kind of motivation did it take for folks to set out on a journey over mountains that unwelcoming and that daunting, in danger of natives, nature itself... KNOWING full well they may never see the end of it, and if they did they were more than likely to lose half their family in the process? What kind of thoughts crossed their mind when they made that decision? What kind of inner strength and fortitude did they possess that many of us today do not? Well...bear with a bit of reverie here... may not totally be historically accurate, but I think the thoughts of a mother and a wife are... I stepped into the past and into the shoes of someone who might have been one of those folks. "Johnny is decided. I reckon I have but one choice and it ain't an easy one. He says we have no choice, that we have to move on west and that now is the time to do it. There is land waiting in Tennessee he says, land that can be ours. He says any citizen of North Carolina now has a right to what ain't taken. He says there is nothin here for us anymore, and I am reckoning that is right too. But my heart is twisting in the inside of me and that is so as well. I got three babies buried out back there to leave behind. The fever got Jakie... buried him at the age of two and like to broke my heart. Big strong boy, was sure he would make it... but the fever got him. Lizzie died at two months and Johnny never knew her name. He told me plain she wasn't healthy and not to get attached to her, to leave off the name so I wouldn't until we knew would she make it or not. But I couldn't stand putting her down in the ground without a name. I called her Lizzie in whispers and the day we buri! ed her I whispered in her ear hopin somehow she would hear me, "Yore name is LIZZIE... Elizabeth Jane Clark, after your grandma, you hear? I named you after the mama I loved and that is yore name cause I love you too. I knew full well how it is to bring youngins into the world and knew I would be burying them too, but I couldn't stand that baby nameless. Ain't no marker there, but I know it is Lizzie... nobody else does and when I leave here won't nobody know. Mattie is the third and I don't know how Johnny can not think of that... I reckon he does but does no good to be dwellin on it... a man's way. Mattie lived to be twelve. She was Johnny's pick. Yes, it twist my heart the thought of leaving those babies out back there , worse even than it twist my heart I am leavin my mama's grave and those of my three brothers and two sisters. Won't nobody know my babies are there, won't nobody else pass by and stand a minute to remember. I won't never be back. I done decided before I g! o I am gonna go out back there and lay some big stones where they are, gonna scratch their names in it if I can, gonna lay some flowers there and tell them good-bye. I know it don't make no sense, but somehow I feel like I am deserting my babies, even if I can't talk to them or they to me. That ain't all the thinkin and heart twisting I am doin about leavin here... Papa has my brothers that are livin , and my sister Jane, but I know the day I tell them goodbye is the last time I am gonna see them. I know papa will die and I won't be here to bury him, nor any of the others either. There is somethin comforting about washing and dressing your dead... about lovin them gentle-like one last time and doin all you can for them before you send them on to the next world, and I won't get to do that... won't even know when it happens... will live all my days wondering if Papa is gone yet, or the others, and when they went, and how. I won't watch my nieces and nephews grow up and I won'! t have Jane no more to talk to. Maybe I can send them word somehow along the way we are all right, maybe sometime they can send me word... but don't see how as things are now. They don't show no notion of following us to Tennessee. Only Johnny's brothers going to do that. All I will be able to do is look up at the stars at night and think "well Papa and Jane might be looking up at these same stars... might not be together, but we in the same world with the same roof... that is something". And the heart tuggin just goes right on too... I pitched an everlovin fit when Johnny come up with this. I looked at my livin youngins, all six of them, looked at their eyes a 'shinin as Johnny told em what was waitin out there for the takin, the times we would have , the future they had ahead... and I tell you my heart broke like somebody took a hammer and crushed it, over and over six times and no mercy. Those blue eyes shinin, those bright heads dancin up and down in excitement... and n! ot a one of em old enough or with sense enough to know that they all wouldn't make it. We'll wind up burying some of em on one of those mountains loomin up like walls that reach to the clouds, or beside the river... I know we will and there ain't no two ways about it ... and I know if my heart is breakin now it is gonna break even more then... Johnny won't have no time to let me stay there a spell and grieve... we will just have to leave them behind where ain't nobody, not even Jane, gonna know or drop on by and stay with them a spell now and then... I won't even know for sure where it is I left my babies on the way. Don't know how we will even go about buryin em right, puttin them away like a mama ought to have the right to lay her babies to the final rest. And taint no sense dwellin on it. I know good and well could be none of us gonna make it, and for sure, if we stayed here neither, there ain't no guarantee... whole families I watched wiped out by first one thing and the! n the other. Can't vouch that the natives won't get us, nor a sickness, nor bad water, nor a piece of bad blood waiting to ambush us on the trail. Can't vouch that river won't get us, have heard about that river and places in it. Can't vouch how long what supplies we have will last, nor for sure we get more. Can't vouch for nothin much at all, cept Johnny is right. Ain't nothing much for us here, gettin less and less all the time, and what of our babies make it, if any of em do, well they will have a better chance for it. They can own their own land this way, get by easier in the world once that place is settled in. Maybe they can have things someday me and Johnny never dreamed of. But it shorely is a high price to pay. It shorely is. And I recon I'll follow Johnny even if my heart is twisting and bleedin inside of me to where I don't know how I am gonna keep on keepin on. Johnny is decided and I reckon he is right'.

From Best Western go west to the intersection. Turn right on Highway 431 and go to Washington Street. Turn right and go to N. Elk Av, turn right and the Methodist church is on your right. To get to Petersburg go to Highway 431 as before and go North 13 miles. When you get to the Y bear left and you will come to Church Street. Morgan School is at the intersection of Highway 431 and Church St. The Pavilion is on the front lawn of the school. John

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Tobin" <bobtobin@snh-homes.com> To: <TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 9:02 AM Subject: [TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS] Directions to Morgan School and UM Church > Could someone post directions from the Best Western Hotel in Fayettville to > the Morgan School in Petersburg, and from the hotel to the United Methodist > Church. I've tried Map Quest... but, can't locate either place. > > I will be flying into Nashville mid morning on Friday, and driving down to > Fayettville from there, and should arrive at the Best Western around 2:00 pm. > > Thanks, > > Bob Tobin > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

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