Thank you very much, Steve, for posting H. L. Davidson's address. I'm wondering if this Hugh Davidson was the father of Priscilla Davidson b. ca 1827 who married G.E. ("El") Bowden. An 1860 census entry for Coffee County identifies some of G.E. and Priscilla's children: GE Bowden (41) living w/ Priscilla (33), Margret (14), Nancy (12), William (10), Charles (9), Susan (6), John (4), and Hugh (3) in the 5th Civil District (Tullahoma Post Office) of Coffee County, Tennessee. Priscilla Bowden's maiden name and her father's name are included in the Coffee County case of Bowdon v. Rathbone, but I'm not sure if it was the same Hugh Davidson. Joan >X-Message: #2 >Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:05:35 -0600 >From: Steve Carson <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Historical Address from July 4, 1876 > >I have just scanned and converted to text the "Historical Address of Judge >H .L. Davidson at the Centennial Celebration of the Tennessee Historical >Society, July 4, 1876". This address is now posted on the Bedford County >GenWeb site and linked from the History page: > >http://www.tngenweb.org/bedford/history.htm > > >The original address is 22 pages in length and is from a book at TSLA in >Nashville. It contains a lot of interesting history and information about >the conditions in Bedford County in 1876. > >I want to thank Charles Reeves for posting it and Carolyn Smotherman for >obtaining copies of pages missing from my photocopy. > >Note: Looks like a few stray characters have made it in and I will get >those corrected shortly (some "E" with a caret over them!) > >Steve > >______________________________