To Gay Nix, You might also enjoy the Hale/Hail/Haile information at this web site http://home.flash.net/~coley/ Click on the Hale/Hail/Haile link and you will find Mead J Haile is @7 on that site. He is the one with the son named Christopher Columbus. Click on the "Link More about Mead J. and Livy Ann Haile" to view a picture of Mead J Regards, Lila Coley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyndon & Gay Nix" <warpaint@texoma.net> To: <TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [TNBEDFOR] Livy Ann Cavin Haile > I find your post about the Haile family interesting. > Would you happen to know about a Finetta Hale or Haile who lived close to > the Lincoln, Bedford and Marshall County line in Tenn. > Parents unkown. > Married John Nichols ca 1835. > Had a son named Moses Carroll Nichols. > John Nichols had a brother Henry who named a child Christopher Columbus. > Course I know they use Christopher in famlies quite ofton. > But using the Carrol name is a good lead for anyone to go by. > The Nichols family left Tenn and went to Fannin, Collin and Grayson Counties > in Texas. Which you know borders Cooke County. > Some even went to Montague County which borders to the west of Cooke. > Anyway like I said I know nothing about the Haile line. > If you can help I sure would like to hear what you may know. > Who is the Mary Louisa Nichols who md Leeford Hudson? And where did they marry? > Hope you have a nice and rewarding reunion. > > Gay Nix > Grayson Co, Texas > > > > >Livy Ann Cavin & Mead J. Haile Decendants > >To Meet At Hibbitt Cemetery, Cooke County, TX > >June 15, 2002 > >Many distant Haile cousins met over the internet while researching the > >Mead J. Haile family who lived long ago in Bedford County, TN, Stone > >County, MO, and Cooke County, TX. These meetings have led to shared > >research, to friendships, to ancestor write ups for the Bedford County > >Tennessee History Book soon to be released, and finally to a new > >tombstone for their Great-Great Grandmother Livy Ann Cavin Haile who died > >in Cooke County in 1882. The 120 year old tombstone was found broken in > >half, and the cousins feared the grave would be lost. The cousins will > >meet one another for the first time on June 15 at Hibbitt Cemetery in > >Cooke County, Texas to dedicate the new headstone. > >Mead J. and Livy Ann Cavin Haile moved to Texas from Missouri around the > >end of the Civil War with eight of their twelve children. Two of the > >children, Jackson Overstreet and Eliza Jane, stayed in Missouri with > >their new families, and two sons, William Carrol and Christopher > >Columbus, were killed in the Civil War. The following children moved with > >them to Cooke County: Leeford Hudson married Mary Louisa Nichols and > >lived in Collin County and Cooke Co, TX as well as Oklahoma Co, OK, James > >Thomas married Mary Beaver Hodges lived in Spur, Texas and is buried in > >Utopia, Texas, Mary Elizabeth married James K. White and lived in Cooke > >County, Milly Ann lived in Gainesville and is buried in Fairview Cemetery > >along with her daughter Elgie Haile, Virginia Catherine married Lorenzo > >Dowell Young and is buried in Bailey County, Texas, Sarah Locky married > >John C. McDaniel and both are buried in Hibbitt Cemetery, Josephine Pearl > >married Charles M. Coe, lived in Dexter and both are buried at Hibbitt > >Cemetery, Joel Basket married Nancy Susan Overton resided in Dexter and > >later moved to Whitney, Hill County, Texas > >Anyone who has ties with these families is welcome to come to the cousin > >meeting at Hibbitt Cemetery in Cooke County, TX on June 15 at 10:00 a.m. > >This group always enjoys finding new relatives. > > > > > >============================== > >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 >