This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/398 Message Board Post: Searching for parents and siblings of Robert E. Clawson, b. abt 1803, d. abt 1883, Carter Co. TN. He married Elizabeth Dugger 5 Dec 1878. He also married 1) Sarah Burns Jan 1845. Did he have another marriage in between Sarah and Elizabeth?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/397.1 Message Board Post: I think your Elizabeth Campbell was related to John Rankin Campbell born about l798 who lived near the Clawsons in Johnson County, TN. He married Elizabeth Grindstaff about l829 and had a large family but he may have had a former marriage. Elizabeth may have been his daughter by a former marriage. John R Campbell and a younger John Campbell, probably his son, are the only Campbells in Johnson County in l840. We are distant cousins through the Duggers for I descend from Benjamin Dugger of Cove Creek, your ancestor.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CAMPBELL HARMAN CLAWSON DUGGER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/397 Message Board Post: Trying to break down the proverbial brick wall on the question of who my 3rd g-grandmother's parents might be. Elizabeth Campbell b. 7/10/1824 TN d. 11/30/1851 Watauga Co., NC. She married David Tucker Harman abt. 1844. Elizabeth died 8 months after the birth of her fourth child, a daughter, who subsequently died when only 3-1/2 months old. I checked the 1830 census records for Carter, Johnson and Ashe counties, searching for possible Campbell families, in which there was a female of the right age group. Carter county seems most likely, due to the presence of other family names that fit my family heritage, as well as the fact that one of David T. Harman's brothers also married a Carter county resident in 1846. David remarried to Rebecca Elizabeth Clawson, daughter of Robert E. Clawson, who was living in Carter County in 1830. Robert's wife was a Dugger and so was David Harman's mother. There are three Campbell families listed in 1830 that have a daughter in the correct age range, Elisha Campbell, Isaac Campbell and Nathaniel Campbell. Are there any Campbell researchers on this list that have an Elizabeth Campbell that fits the 1824 birth date? Any information would be greatly appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/393.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Jim, thanks for your help. I just didn't think of "Family Search" myself, and your assistance is greatly appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/388.2 Message Board Post: WILLIAM P DAVIS SPOUSE-MARGARET LYNONS-MARRIED JAN.15,1871 CARTER CO.TN.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burrow Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EeB.2ACE/396 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on Robert Burrow of Carter Co., TN. He was born abt 1791 in Virginia. He reportedly got married in Sullivan Co., TN. about 1822. I find him on the 1830 and 1840 Census in Carter County. I need to know the names of his wife, children, grandchildren etc... Any info at all would be very helpful.

Hello list members, I am looking for someone in the Limestone Cove or Erwin area to take a photo of a gravesite/headstone. The information printed in the cemetery book doesn't seem to be complete and there is a possibility of an error in transcription. The gravestone is in the O'Brien cemetery on Davis Lane near J.S. Head Rd. The gravesite is for Esther S Leonard. There is supposed to be a line on the stone that says "mother of Julia Ann O'Brien" that some of us researching that family would like to verify as it doesn't make sense. Is there anyone who would be willing to check this out for us and/or take a photo? If so I can email a map from "Cemeteries of Unicoi County Tennessee". Thanks for any help on this issue. Jacque Baker San Diego, CA

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Manning, Ray, Tanka, Waycaster, Lyons Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/395 Message Board Post: Individuals listed below were living in Carter County TN in Feb. 1953. I am looking for Obits, and gravesites. The below had a sister and half sister Sarah Manning Bass whom I am attempting to locate.Any help would be greatly appreciated Rosie Manning Ray living in Shell Creek Carter County TN Belle Manning Shell " " " " " " " *Jack Manning Living in Johson City TN* *Helen Manning Tanka living in Greenville TN* Mary Manning Waycaster living in Hampton TN Florence Lyons living in Hampton, TN

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/393.1.1 Message Board Post: THOMAS O'DELL WHITE-ABT 1855 CARTER CO.TN. DEATH-1931 SPOUSE-FRANCES PLEASANT-1860-61 DEATH-1917 FATHER-ROBERT L WHITE-OCT.9,1817 BOTETOURT CO VA. SPOUSE-SARAFINA BARTEE-MARRIED- JUNE 10,1837 CARTER CO.TN. FATHER-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WHITE JR.-DEC 27,1790 VA DEATH-JAN 3,1877 TEXAS SPOUSE-FRANCES ''FANNY'' LAVENDAR-MARRIED-JUNE 6,1811 BOETOURT CO.VA DEATH-1825 SULLIVAN CO.TN. BURIAL-1825 BEALERS CEM. NEAR BLUFF CITY,TN. SPOUSE-SUSAN ''SUKEY'' BARTEE [BORTIE]-MARRIED-OCT.8,1786 FRANKLIN,VA.-FOUND IN MORMON CHURCH FILES-NO RELATION -JUST TRYING TO HELP

I appreciate your comments regarding Daniel Ellis, Joan. You should know that there is a bit of controversy regarding his authorship of Thrilling Adventures, which I address in my article, "The Lost Adventures of Daniel Ellis," in The Journal of East Tennessee History no. 74 (2002): 58-68. Your library can probably get you a copy through their Interlibrary Loan service, if you're interested. Also, there are a number of people who maintain that Thrilling Adventures is a pack of lies. As I progress with my book on Ellis, I am finding that such individuals seem to be long on opinion and short on evidence. Still, I want to assure anyone who reads this that I am striving for a fair and balanced appraisal of Ellis, and am interested in all viewpoints. Largely because of the surreptitious nature of his activities, there is little formal documentation of Ellis and his activities. There is, however, much yet to be uncovered from diaries, letters, newspapers, and other works in archives and private hands. No matter how Ellis is portrayed, I want to see it. Please spread the word, folks. I will, by the way, be in Carter County in a couple of weeks conducting research and interviews. Regards, Allen Allen W. Ellis Professor of Library Services W. Frank Steely Library Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY 41099-6101 859-572-5527 Fax: 859-572-5390 E-mail: [email protected] Captain Daniel Ellis Web Site http://www.nku.edu/~ellisa/danielellis ________________________________ From: Gary Williams [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thu 10/6/2005 9:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [TNCarter] "Thrilling Adventures" Thank you for introducing this book by Daniel Ellis. I was able to get it from my local library and have spent several intriguing hours reading. I was struck by his articulate writing and knowledge since his education was as he put it "basic" English. Either he enjoyed learning and pursued more than the basic or he had better teaching than he realized. I have mentioned in past messages that I haven't been able to find any information on my Cross family in Elizabethton, Carter Co. so this piece of History gives me a better understanding of the atmosphere of the times. My ggrandfather joined the Union Army and the family story is that his father and brother(s) joined the rebels. He said he didn't believe in the Southern cause. He never returned home after the war, but settled in Ky. where he met my grandmother. He was a blacksmith by trade. I have a posed picture of him in later years with a Civil War pin in his lapel. It's too blurry to read. We don't know what unit he fought with. His birth year was 1847, so he was young when the war began. We don't know when he joined, either. He was very closed mouthed and apparently had a mean streak. My father is 85 and he and I have been trying to get a break through for several years on the line. Joan Williams, Miami, FL. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Thank you for introducing this book by Daniel Ellis. I was able to get it from my local library and have spent several intriguing hours reading. I was struck by his articulate writing and knowledge since his education was as he put it "basic" English. Either he enjoyed learning and pursued more than the basic or he had better teaching than he realized. I have mentioned in past messages that I haven't been able to find any information on my Cross family in Elizabethton, Carter Co. so this piece of History gives me a better understanding of the atmosphere of the times. My ggrandfather joined the Union Army and the family story is that his father and brother(s) joined the rebels. He said he didn't believe in the Southern cause. He never returned home after the war, but settled in Ky. where he met my grandmother. He was a blacksmith by trade. I have a posed picture of him in later years with a Civil War pin in his lapel. It's too blurry to read. We don't know what unit he fought with. His birth year was 1847, so he was young when the war began. We don't know when he joined, either. He was very closed mouthed and apparently had a mean streak. My father is 85 and he and I have been trying to get a break through for several years on the line. Joan Williams, Miami, FL.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EeB.2ACE/394 Message Board Post: I have a copy of Sistler's Index to Early TN Wills and Administrations 1779-1861. Here is a description of the book: This work is an attempt to name all wills and most administrations found in the 62 Tennessee counties where such records, through 1861, have survived. Each entry is as follows: Name of deceased; year of probate; or of first mention of the estate; where the original record can be found; county symbol. I will gladly lookup any surname, but please email me directly at [email protected] Thanks, Kristi Moffitt

[email protected] wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/388.1.1.1.1.1.2 > >Message Board Post: > >It appears that my great uncle Thomas Batey Campbell is the same as your T. B. Campbell. > >It may be that Thomas Batey/Bady Campbell and Lucy Herrell's son, Albert, may have been named for Thomas's father, Albert E. Campbell? > >The child Mary Frye...the name fits with this family as Albert married an Elizabeth "Fry". > >The children of Albert and Elizabeth that I am aware of were: >Elizabeth C. Campbell >Eli (Elijah) Jackson Campbell, and >Thomas Batey Campbell. > >Although Albert and Elizabeth were born in NC, I have the place of their death as the Limestone Cove area of TN. >I have their children's birth and death places being in Limestone Cove, TN. > >Will check out the Mitchell Co. NC site. > >Thanks so very much for your help! [email protected] > > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >In the Cemeteries of Unicoi County there is an unmarked stone for Thomas Batay Campbell age 87, died Feb 24 1941. Son of Evans & Betsy Frye Campbell in the Woodby Cemetery located on Simerly Creek Road, near junction w/Piney Grobe Road, up a dirt road at junction. > Phyllis White > > > >

Dorothy - You may obtain a copy at Amazon.com. Here is a direct link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0932807232/qid=1128175310/sr=12-3/104-8936288-9817555?v=glance&s=books There is no mention of a C.T. Honeycutt. Regards, Allen Allen W. Ellis Professor of Library Services W. Frank Steely Library Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY 41099-6101 859-572-5527 Fax: 859-572-5390 E-mail: [email protected] Captain Daniel Ellis Web Site http://www.nku.edu/~ellisa/danielellis ________________________________ From: Dorothy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sat 10/1/2005 8:49 AM Subject: Men Killed in Ambush in Carter co.- I would like to obtain the "History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Calvary, U.S.A." Where would be the best source? Also, as a descendant of Captain C.T. Honeycutt, I am interested in his role in the war. Is he mentioned in the book? Dorothy

I would like to obtain the "History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Calvary, U.S.A." Where would be the best source? Also, as a descendant of Captain C.T. Honeycutt, I am interested in his role in the war. Is he mentioned in the book? Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allen Ellis" > Daniel Ellis describes the November 1863 Limestone Cove Massacre (or Bell Massacre, or Witcher's Massacre, as it is sometimes called) on pages 329-335 of his Thrilling Adventures of Daniel Ellis. This is also recalled by Samuel W. Scott and Samuel P. Angel on pp. 338-340 of their History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U.S.A. > > Ellis describes further Limestone Cove violence in March, 1864 (pp. 348-349), naming Ely and John Fry as victims. Scott and Angel address this on their p. 361. > As a storyteller, do you have anything about Dan Ellis? >> Regards, > Allen > > Captain Daniel Ellis Web Site > > http://www.nku.edu/~ellisa/danielellis > ________________________________ > > From: G. Lee Hearl > > To All: > I have read somewhere that some men were ambushed and killed near Limestone > Cove? during the Civil War. I believe one was named Frye can anyone > enlighten me further on this story? I believe a man named Albert Frye who > died 1864 may have been one of these and I am in contact with a person who > is possibly a descendent and a cousin of mine. Thanks for any Information, > Discussion or Clues on this story. > G. Lee Hearl > Authentic Appalachian Storyteller > Abingdon, Va. >

October 01, 2005 Second post on the 19 November 1863 Limestone Cove Massacre Chapter XXXVIII pages 329-335 The rebel murderers now went back to the house, taking James BELL who was an old bachelor, and considerably over the conscript age, away from the house about one hundred yards, where one of the rebels prepared to shoot him. When the old man perceived that the villain was going to shoot him, he ran up to the monster and placed his arm around his neck, which prevented him from shooting; but soon another rebel murderer ran up and shot him. The old man fell upon the ground, and his murderers caught hold of him and laid his head upon a rock. They then took another rock and beat his brains out with it; and not being yet content, they got rocks and threw them upon his body. Mrs. BELL, the wife of David BELL, seeing they were going to murder her brother-in-law, went out and commenced interceding for him. Two of the ruffians approached her, and began to punch her with their guns, drove her back to the house, threatening to shoot her if she offered to speak again in his behalf. William SPARKS also belonged to the company of stampeders; but being sick, he was in the house when the excitement occurred in the yard, and asked Mrs. BELL to conceal him. She immediately raised a plank from the kitchen floor, and he crept under the kitchen, where he remained until the rebels had finished their bloody work, and returned to burn the house, which they first commenced by piling up clothes in the centre of the floor, and setting them on fire just over the cellar where the sick man had been concealed. The clothes not burning well enough, they procured a straw bed, and placing it on the floor, they put a chunk of fire into it; the smoke began to ascend in clouds, when they were compelled to go out into the front yard to obtain fresh air. There were two doors to the kitchen, and the wind passing through, closed the door next to the rebels, which gave SPARKS an opportunity to make his escape from the house. He crept out from the cellar through the smoke, and w! ent through the back yard about ten steps from the house, and concealed himself under some dry weeds and vines in the garden, where he remained until the buildings were consumed, suffering intensely from the terrible heat of the fire. The rebels now went up the valley among their murdered victims for the purpose of stripping them of their clothing. Miss Elizabeth MORRISON, who lived in the neighborhood, and was at BELL'S house during the whole time of the dreadful excitement, procured a lady's dress, took it to the garden where SPARK'S was concealed, and told him to put it on. She then gave him her own bonnet, which he put on, and thereby most admirably disguised his sex. She then told him to walk along slowly across the fields and go to her father's house, and she said to him, "When you get to the house, my father will at once know my bonnet, and that will furnish them sufficient evidence that you are not a traitor." SPARKS went on as the kind young lady directed him, and was concealed and saved; but he had been so terribly frightened that he did not recover his proper faculties of mind for several days. The horrid scenes he witnessed on that dreadful day surely can never be erased from his memory until death shall have closed his earthly existence. A man by the name of MADISON had been badly wounded in the beginning of the affray, and the rebels, thinking he was dead, left him lying in the yard; and when the house was burning, some clothes were thrown on him, and saved him from any further notice. When the rebels went off to rob the dead bodies of the men whom they had slaughtered, Miss MORRISON, Mrs. BELL, and one of her little boys, and a small girl, carried the wounded man off about one hundred and fifty yards. When they saw the rebels returning they laid him down, and started back to the house, stopping on their way back at a mill-branch to wash the blood off of their hands, which had got on then while they were carrying the wounded man. The rebels came along, meeting them, and asked them where they had taken that man. Miss MORRISON told them, and started on with Colonel WITCHER toward the place where they had laid MADISON down, begging eloquently for his life all the way. WITCHER asked her if the wounded man wanted water. She told him he did. WITCHER then told his men not to kill him, as he would soon be in hell any how. The rebels now left him, and when they left the neighborhood MADISON was carried to Thomas GREEN'S house, which was close by, where he remained for four months until he recovered from his wound. He was then captured by the North Carolina Home Guards, his hat, boots, and coat were taken from him, and he was then made to walk barefooted through the snow to the town of Asheville, in North Carolina, where he was detained for four months, when he was released by the Yankees, and returned home. A man by the name of HARRIS was wounded in the thigh of one of his legs, and in the knee of his other leg. He crawled to a log, and burrowed under the leaves, pulling some brush and a large "poke-bush" over him. Here he remained until the neighbors collected in the evening to look upon the scene of the dreadful slaughter and houseburning, when he called to them. They immediately went to him, assisted him in leaving his dreary abode, and kindly took care of him. After the horrid massacre, the rebels returned to the smoking ruins of BELL'S house, and exhibited the butts of their guns to the women, which were covered with blood and the brains of their slaughtered victims up to the gunlocks. They also displayed their bloody bayonets, saying "We are the fellows to kill Lincolnites and Yankees." They boasted amazingly, and seemed to be in the finest sort of spirits at the idea of having murdered a parcel of innocent and helpless men. After they had completed their work of murder and houseburning, they held a council with the rebel citizens, who told them that they were in a strong Union country; and for fifteen miles to the Watauga River, where the rebels were then going, these citizens told them they would pass through a section of country altogether inhabited by Union people. The rebels determined to take no prisoners, but to kill all they captured, and this determination they strenuously adhered to; for when they arrived at the house of a man by the name of Commodore SLONE, who was fifty-six years of age, they shot him down in his own yard. They shot him twice, and then run their bayonets through his body. Some of these fiends then struck him on the head with the butts of their guns until they mashed his head in a horrible manner. They went on to the house of William M'KINNEY, where they found a man by the name of William BIRD. They took him out of the house into the yard, and shot him twice in the breast. When BIRD fell, they beat out his brains, and then went on in their bloody march, killing every man, old and young, that had the misfortune of falling into their hands, just because they had been represented as Lincolnites by a parcel of vile rebel citizens. Many men were badly wounded, but succeeded in making their escape by getti! ng into the woods. When WITCHER arrived at Elizabethton, like an accomplished and brutal murderer as he was, he boasted of the infamous exploit that he and his ruffian followers had killed twenty-one Union men in the course of one day and night. I would like to say that because of Daniel ELLIS several of my direct ancestors were able to flee over into Kentucky to join the Union army. One of them being Captain William McNeeley GOURLEY who became the first Captain of Co. A ., 13th Regiment Tennesse Volunteer Cavalry. Captain GOURLEY was killed on 16 Dec 1864 during Gen. STONEMAN'S RAID into Southwest Virginia to destroy the King Saltworks. at Marion, Virginia. I think it was fitting that Daniel ELLIS succeed Capt. GOURLEY as Captain. I am sure that Capt. GOURLEY would have approved. I know from his journals that he held Captain ELLIS in high regards. I honor all of our ancestors who died and suffered in that horrible war. I was going to post about the FRY"S but since someone else has I will not bore you with another post. Gloria

I just noticed a scanner error in the part I sent earlier. The name Rugger, should be Dugger. HISTORY OF THE I3TH REGIMENT Page 338 THE MASSACRE AT LIMESTONE COVE. This occurred at an earlier date than other tragedies already mentioned, November, 1863, but we have written this chapter as the events were brought to our minds without regard to their sequence. One Col. Witcher, of Virginia, had just arrived in Carter county to try his hand in subduing the "Lincoln-ites" and "Thugs," and he proved a fitting successor to the bloody-handed tyrants who had come and gone, and predecessor of those that were to come. Between them all it was a question of ability to devise the most shocking methods of murder and rapine. In the case of Witcher it would appear that behind him must have been an unseen Beelzebub in spirit-form directing and aiding him in his atrocious work, as well as men in the flesh so lost to justice and human sympathy as to go with him and point out their neighbors as his victims. We suppress their names for humanity's sake. While in the army the murders and house-burnings perpetrated by this man reached our ears and filled our men with unspeakable rage. In a charge near Mount Airy, Va., some rebel prisoners were captured, and being Page 339 asked to what command they belonged they said they were Col. Witcher's men. A half dozen men grasped their carbine's to shoot them, but officers interfered. We are informed that there were two Confederate officers named Witcher who held the rank of Colonel in the C. S. A., one, Vincent A. Witcher, Sr., of Pittsyvania county, Va., the other one's name was also V. A. Witcher, Jr., a nephew of the former. It is said to have been the latter who operated in these counties. James and David Bell were well-to-do and well-known citizens of Carter County. The latter was a reputable physician, and was a man of family, and his brother James was a bachelor past the conscript age. Their home, like that of every loyal man in Carter county, was a place of refuge for Union people and they fed and cared for them with unstinted hands. The morning of the tragedy a company of refugees, about 50 in number, making their way from North Carolina to the Federal army had arrived at the Bell home and expected to secure the services of Dan. Ellis to pilot them through the lines. They had traveled all night and stopped in the yard waiting to get something to eat which the family was preparing for them, and to take a rest before proceeding on their journey. It was probably not known there that Witcher, with his regiment, had come into Carter county, and they did not expect to fall in with a large force of rebels, Witcher, piloted by rebel citizens, came on to them unexpectedly and as was always the case, being unprepared to fight, they tried to save themselves by flight. The soldiers pursued them on horseback and shot them down without mercy. Eight or ten men were killed, and one or two wounded. The following are the names of the killed and wounded as far as we have learned them: Calvin Cantrel, John Sparks, Wiley Royal, Elijah Gentry, Jacob Lyons and B. Blackburn. Preston Pruitt was seriously wounded, as was a man named Madison who was cared for by the family of a Union man named Thomas Green, who lived close by, until he recovered from his wound. 340 They shot and killed James Bell, and it is said that after wounding him his head was laid on a stone and his brains beaten out until they bespattered the ground all about his body. One other man, named William Sparks, was sick and had gone into the house and lain down and was in there while the shooting was going on. After killing James Bell, Witcher ordered the house, a large brick residence, to be set on fire which was done. Sparks made his escape through the smoke and was concealed and finally saved through the efforts of Miss Elizabeth Morrison, who lived in the neighborhood, and was at Bell's house through all that scene of horror; she did many brave and helpful deeds that morning. The story of the inhumanity and cruelty practiced upon this family and these men should bring a blush of shame to a Comanche Indian if one-half is true that ha's been told. On this same raid Witcher and his men killed two other Union men, namely, Commodore Sloan, fifty-six years of age, and William Bird, the latter at the house of William1 McKinney, and the former in his own yard and in the presence of his family. It is said he boasted that in the brief space of twenty-four hours he had rid the world of twenty-one Lincolnites. He was soon called to other fields of usefulness and it was perhaps well for him for Dan. Ellis and his lieutenants had his case under consideration, and had he remained it would have been a wonder if he had escaped the fate of Young and Parker. We have omitted some details of cruelties in the foregoing account, it being bad enough in the mildest form we are able to relate it. Jackie and Dawn Peters http://www.tngennet.org/carter/ - Carter County Tennessee Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwag/index.htm - Watauga Association of Genealogists

This was taken from History of The 13th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Calvaly, by Samuel Scott and Samuel Angel There is another part to the story in the book that I will post next. Page 357 TWO MEN SHOT AND TWO OTHERS HANGED. "Next to the massacre in Limestone Cove, Carter county, in shocking cruelty, comes the shooting of James Taylor, a Federal recruiting officer who had ben captured and escaped from prison, and was trying to make his way to the Federal lines, and Samuel Tatem, and the hanging of two other Union men at the same time and place Alfred C. Kite and Alexander Dugger. The circumstances were about as follows : "These men had made preparations to go through the lines and collected together in the hills on the Watauga river, near Fish Spring, but across the river from that place, on the Johnson county side, the river being the line between Johnson and Carter counties at that point. They had been detained there for several days on ac- 358 count of the river being swollen. A company of rebel soldiers passing along the road on the opposite side of the river saw them, and crossing the river, surounded the hill where they were, and closing in, commenced firing on them. Taylor was killed first, and Tatem soon afterwards, the other three ran some distance before they were captured. Two of them were hanged with ropes the soldiers had with them to get forage for their horses, the third, was released after the rope had been placed around his neck. It was said some worthless arms were found on some of them but it is not known that they made any attempt to use them. "This occurred in January, 1863, and the men engaged in it were Colonel Folk's men, assisted by the Johnson county 'home guards.' Many stories were related in regard to this affair immediately after its occurrence, some of them undoubtedly true, while others were at least exaggerated. The facts are bad enough and we do not wish to give them any false coloring. We have heard, on what seemed to be good authority, that Samuel Tatem, when shot, fell and remained perfectly still, feigning death, and that he was left for dead but finally recovered from his wound and was known as the 'dead Yankee.' "One incident related to us by Mrs. Allan C. Carriger, who with her husband, now resides near the scene of the tragedy, shows a degree of moral turpitude that would be almost incredible were it not vouched for by this lady who is of unquestioned integrity. Alexander Dugger, one of the men who was hanged, was related to and had been raised by Mrs. Margaret Dugger, a widow, who owned the farm on which the killing and hanging were done. She was a highly respected old lady, was a land holder and had been a slave-owner. She belonged to a prominent family and was noted for her kind and charitable disposition and was loved and respected by all who knew her. The writer was the recipient of her motherly care when but a small boy, and knows whereof he speaks. At the time of the tragedy she was far ad- 359 vanced in years, and was known as 'Aunt Peggy' Bugger. She was greatly attached to her foster son, Alex. When these soldiers got everything in readiness to hang him one of them rode down to her house only a short distance away and invited her 'to come and see her Lincolnite son hanged!' We forbear comment. 'One other incident: We were told that Daniel Shuffield, (afterwards a member of Co. G, Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry) was captured with the others, and that the rope was placed around his neck when he was recognized by a young rebel home-guard, Martin Moore, of Johnson county, who had known him at some time, and Moore demanded his release. "One cannot help but think that if the crimes for which these men gave up their lives was only such as might be set aside by a casual friend, or acquaintance, was it not a pity that the other four men had no rebel friend there! Samuel McQueen, another prominent Johnson county rebel citizen, was killed by a squad of men in command of Captain Dan. Ellis, near the close of the war. Since writing the foregoing notice of the death of Samuel McQueen the following particulars of that tragedy have been made known to us, and coming from a trustworthy source will be of interest to our readers : "McQueen had been one of the most active of the Johnson county 'home guards' and his name was associated with the killing of a number of Union men and when these two counties were finally occupied by the Federal forces in April, 1865, he left his home and crossed over into Ashe county, North Carolina. It chanced that a Johnson county man who knew McQueen, and who was then a Federal soldier, was passing through the country and saw the latter and arrested him and brought him back to Johnson county and turned him over to a Federal officer who was in command of colored troops. That officer told him if what he had learned of his cruelty to the Union people was true he deserved hanging, but as the war was now about ended he would only send him to the jail 361 the preservation of the American Union, which we believe is, and is to be, the hope and beacon light of mankind struggling to be free, and to enjoy the blessings of religious liberty, "from earth's remotest bounds." A Union man by the name of Gentry, a native of Carter County, and another, a stranger, were both killed on the same day on Stony Creek. William Blevins was shot down near his home also on Stony Creek by Confederate soldiers. William Waugh, a prominent secessionist of Johnson County, was shot down at his home by Lafayette Jones. Green Moore was a prominent rebel citizen who lived in the 2cl Civil District of Johnson County. He was killed by a man named Alvin Taylor, who, we are told, was at first a rebel, but later joined the unprincipled gang of robbers and murderers who infested the mountains toward the close of the war. Timothy Roark was a Union man who was killed by the rebels in the 3d Civil District of Johnson County. We are not advised as to the cause or manner of his death. Isaac Younce was an old man killed near the Walnut Mountain by Captain Bozen's men in January, 1864. It is alleged he was first hanged to make him tell where the scouter's camps were, but either not knowing, or refusing to tell, he was finally killed and stripped of his clothing. Four other men were killed in the Limestone Cove by this same company in March, 1864. Their names were: John Campbell, Robert Dowdel and John and Eli Fry. It was said they were most cruelly and inhumanly treated one of them, being run through with a bayonet and pinned to a tree and then shot. Andrew Taylor, a well known citizen of Carter Coun'y, a true Union man, was called out of a house where he was visiting and foully assassinated. One word more by way of apology for the disconnected manner in which these: stories have been told, and this for the benefit of the fastidious reader who may be partial to order and sequence in all things, and this chapter will be closed. 362 Our time for gathering up and verifying these tragedies was limited, and while we might have given more time to arranging them in consecutive order and less to their verification we have preferred to sacrifice the former to the latter, and present our readers with a chapter of facts that we have every reason to believe are such, than take the chances of substituting fiction even in a more polished and readable form. It was our design to give in this chapter a "brief outline" of the tragedies that were enacted in Carter an' Johnson counties during the civil war. We have only mentioned a sufficient number of them to show the state of feeling that existed at that time. We might continue the recital of similar horrors until they would form a good sized book in themselves, but we assume that our readers, like ourselves, are satiated with these scenes of blood and will be more than pleased to consign the remainder to silence and oblivion, but we may remember that these are only a part of the terrible scenes that were enacted in two small counties of East Tennessee, and that similar tragedies were taking place at the same period all over the beautiful, historic but blood-stained mountains and valleys of the remaining twenty-nine counties of that devoted land. Jackie and Dawn Peters http://www.tngennet.org/carter/ - Carter County Tennessee Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwag/index.htm - Watauga Association of Genealogists

September 30, 2005 I thought that since there was interest in the Limestone Cove Massacre (or Bell Massacre( or Witcher's Massacre) that I would post some text from Daniel Ellis's book as referenced above. I will post the second part tomorrow. Gloria Chapter XXXVIII pages 329-335 On the 19th of November, 1863, a most notorious and miserable scoundrel by the name of WITCHER landed in Carter County from the State of Virginia, having under his command four hundred men, who were as mean and reckless as the devil himself could have desired them to be. I think that their leader's name was either James or Samuel WITCHER, but I do not know which was his correct name. I wish his name to be correctly known, and justly execrated, for a more blood-thirsty and desperate villain never disgraced the world's history! They camped the first night they came into Carter County near the Carter Station, and the next day they moved on up Buffalo Creek to the Greasy Cove, and camped near the residence of Benjamin SWINGLE the next night. Witcher said that he and his men had come to give Carter and Johnson Counties a general overhauling. They were led on by a parcel of very bad rebel citizens living on Buffalo Creek, and also in the Greasy Cove, among whom I will mention Nathaniel BROWN, Alfred LESLIE, William PEOPLES, and his son, Madison Tennessee PEOPLES, whose infamous conduct inflicted a foul stigma upon the state whose name he bore.These men reported the people in the country as being all Lincolnites. The evening they reached the Greasy Cove, and the night following, several men were killed, and the next morning, still being conducted by these r! ebel citizens, this regiment of murderers set out for the Limestone Cove. They arrivedfirst at the house of James and David BELL, who were strong Union men; and, to add fuel to the already furious flame that was burning so violently in the hearts of these rebels, a man by the name of John BRYANT, from Wilkes County, North Carolina, had just stopped at BELL'S house with fifty-seven men, whom he had enlisted as recruits, and was endeavoring to pilot them into my neighborhood in order to engage me to conduct them through the lines to the Federal Army. These men had traveled all the night before, and had stopped at BELL'S house for the purpose of enjoying an hour's rest, obtain something to eat, and also to get information how to proceed in their journey, as they were all from North Carolina, and were strangers in East Tennessee. They were sitting under some trees in BELL'S yard not dreaming of any danger, while the family were preparing breakfast for them. The rebels, commanded by the aforesaid WITCHER, suddenly came into sight, and the alarm was instantly given. The poor fellows tried to save themselves by flight, being closely pursued by the rebels, who were shooting at them and charging on them with their hourses at a terrible rate. There is a small valley leading from BELL'S house to the mountain, and the fugitives ran into this valley, and would doubtless have succeeded in getting away in a piece of woods near the valley, if the rebels had not cut them off from it. The chase lasted about three quarters of a mile, and all of the men got away with the exception of eleven, ten of whom were killed, and one wounded, as they ran up the valley. The first man who I shall mention as being killed was Calvin CARTREL. He was shot in the breast; and as he lay upon he ground, writhing in terrible agony of pain, he begged them not to kill him; but seeing that they were determined to take his life, he requested them to allow him a little time to pray. They abruptly denied his request, and at once commenced beating him with the butts of their guns until they had knocked his brains out, and then thrust their bayonets through his lifeless body. John SPARKS was shot in the head with a musket ball, which completely tore the top of his head off, leaving his brains perfectly exposed. Wiley ROYAL was shot in the should and back, and when he fell to the ground, one of the rebel demons took a fence-stake and beat his head into the earth, breaking his arms and bruising his body in a shocking manner, while he continued to beg as long as he could speak for them to spare his life. Elijah GENTRY was shot in the breast, which killed him instantly. He had no time to implore for mercy at the hands of his murderers, which, of course, they would not have listened to, in their hot pursuit after his blood. Jacob LYONS was shot in the breast, which immediatley extinguished the flaming light of life. He fell into a creek, where he soon breathed his last, and his murderers left his bvody lying in the water. B. BLACKBURN was shot in the shoulder, and being badly wounded, he fell to the ground. The rebels then beat his brains out with clubs, broke his arms, and bruised his body in a terrible manner,. Preston PRUETT was shot through the breast, which wounded him severely. He begged them to permit him to pray, and requested them to send word to his wife and children, and inform them in regard to his death. But he might as well have talked to the winds, for while he was speaking to them they knocked his brains out with the butts of their guns. Second part tomorrow.......

My greatgrandmother Elizabeth Fry, daughter of Moses Lemuel Fry, married V/Vee Q Street and died 1932/1933. My grandmother was Dorothy Mae Street who married Hobart Campbell. Dorothy, daughter of Ilo Elizabeth Campbell (married Verlin Geisler of Piney Flats, TN.) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:40 PM Subject: [TNCarter] Re: Campbell-Davis Families > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EeB.2ACE/388.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I do not know who Albert E. Campbell's parents were. > > Albert E. Campbell was born abt 1834 in NC, d. abt 1864. He marriedl Elizabeth Fry 9 Nov. 1852. > > Elizabeth Fry was born abt 1825 in NC and died abt 1933. > > She was dau. of Nicholas Fry, b. 1798 NC, d. 1860 and Susannah Burns b 1800, d. 1850. > > [email protected] > > Both Albert and Elizabeth died in or around Limestone Cove, TN. > > Do you know where and for what years marriage certificates in NC can be obtained? Perhaps parents names would be listed? > > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.7/112 - Release Date: 9/26/05 > >