Ah, Mari, Don't worry about ANYTHING around here, it will all wait. My prayers are with you. Mine were just answered, and I pray all will be well with your husband and with you. Nancy On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mari Byers wrote: > Hi you all, > My husband had emergency brain surgery yesterday to remove a large > tumor that had formed in his frontal lobe. He had no symptoms until a few > days ago, and his doctor is hoping it's benign. He's in Nuero-ICU at > Vanderbilt, in Nashville, so he's in the best place. I'm pretty much > staying with him...hence the reason for this note. I will be afk till he > comes homme. Please excuse late query updates, etc...I will catch up asap. > Mari Byers > Rutherford Co. CC >

Hello everyone, and a million thanks to all the prayer warriors out there. Christopher is home and he is doing so well. He has oxygen, but only for a little while. He is already over 6 pounds! I don't think anything in this world will ever make me happier nor anything ever make me more proud than the way Josh and Veronica have handled these difficult times. My joy is inestimable. Nancy

Fred, Thanks for the information - that will satisfy the individual that inquired. Rsp Jim

Lost the url for the Epidemics in the US (particularly TN) in a computer shuffle. Would someone be so kind as to provide it. Many Thanks - in advance. Jim

allenjm@bellsouth.net wrote: > > Lost the url for the Epidemics in the US (particularly TN) in a computer > shuffle. Would someone be so kind as to provide it. Many Thanks - in > advance. > > Jim Sorry Jim, I don't have the URL. Will this do? In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors disappeared during a certain period in history, this might help. Epidemics have always had a great influence on people - and thus influencing, as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from records can be traced to dying during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below. 1657 Boston: Measles 1687 Boston: Measles 1690 New York: Yellow Fever 1713 Boston: Measles 1729 Boston: Measles 1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza 1738 South Carolina: Smallpox 1739-40 Boston: Measles 1747 Conn, NY, PA & SC: Measles 1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people): Measles 1761 North America & West Indies: Influenza 1772 North America: Measles 1775 North America (especially hard in New England): Epidemic (unknown) 1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu epidemics) 1788 Philadelphia & NY: Measles 1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever" 1793 Virginia: Influenza (killed 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks) 1793 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) 1783* Delaware (Dover) "extremely fatal" bilious disorder 1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown) many unexplained deaths 1794 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever 1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever 1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) 1803 New York: Yellow Fever 1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads) 1831-32 Nationwide: Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants) 1832 New York & other major cities: Cholera 1837 Philadelphia: Typhus 1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in South) 1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever 1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza 1848-49 North America: Cholera 1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever 1850-51 North America: Influenza 1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans 8,000 die in summer) 1855 Nationwide (many parts) Yellow Fever 1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease's greatest epidemics) 1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis & Washington DC: A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever 1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza 1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease) 1885 Plymouth, PA: Typhoid 1886 Jacksonville, FL: Yellow Fever 1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year) More people hospitalized in World War I from Influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps - with 80% death rate in some camps. Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned: 1833 Columbus, OH 1834 New York City 1849 New York 1851 Coles Co, IL 1851 The Great Plains 1851 Missouri

Sorry to use this list but am offering copies of the 7th and 8th Edition (the 9th is out and I need shelf space). I just need postage...so, speak up if anyone wants them. They are great reference books for the formation of counties, etc. Helen Hewitt Meigs County, TN

Thank the Lord!! ;-) Now, Grandma, get those pictures online <g> (this is the pot calling the kettle "black" <g>) Rosey ----- Original Message ----- From: Nancy Cole <ncole@coffey.com> To: <TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 12:12 PM Subject: [TNCHAT-L] YIPEE! > Thank you every one! > > Christopher is "graduating" to the nursery that he will come home > from...there is no chromosomal damage and in fact nothing seriously wrong > that they can find....just a hint that things were not handled as well as > they could have been in our small hospital. > > We don't know when he will come home...but he is on his way! > > Nancy >

Glad to hear this, Nancy. Our thoughts and prayers will continue to be with Christopher and your family. jan & Cher ----- Original Message ----- From: Nancy Cole <ncole@coffey.com> To: <TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 1:12 PM Subject: [TNCHAT-L] YIPEE! > Thank you every one! > > Christopher is "graduating" to the nursery that he will come home > from...there is no chromosomal damage and in fact nothing seriously wrong > that they can find....just a hint that things were not handled as well as > they could have been in our small hospital. > > We don't know when he will come home...but he is on his way! > > Nancy >

Thank you every one! Christopher is "graduating" to the nursery that he will come home from...there is no chromosomal damage and in fact nothing seriously wrong that they can find....just a hint that things were not handled as well as they could have been in our small hospital. We don't know when he will come home...but he is on his way! Nancy

Hi folks, Could someone contact me privately that is using MSIE newest version and I guess also the newest version of Netscape. Since I have neither and someone is telling me that are having problems with a page viewed in the newest versions (and not with the older ones -- strange) I'd like someone else's opinion. Thanks, Bridgett

Hiyas, For all the wonderful people who have been trying to cheer me up with stories of 4 lb babies who are now healthy teenagers: Christopher is in stable condition today...he ate a little and he pooped. You may not want to know that <g> but it is a very important thing to his survival. The kids get to hold him every 4 hours. I wish I was there. Nancy

Hi Folks, For those that are interested and so inclined, I would like to ask for some little prayers. My grandbaby Christopher was born Sunday night, but he was pretty little and was having some problems so last night he got to take his first airplane ride in a Lear jet to Denver, where there is better neo-natal care available. 'preciate it, Nancy

Fred et al, Hillsboro was known as "Pond Spring", in the mid 1800s. It is on the map, a bit to the east. Hey !! I know that house. Yes, that is the intersection of E. Fort St. and Waite Street. Waite Street was the main road to McMinnville, up untill about 60 years back. That is the "Little Duck" River behind it. For many years you had to "ford" the river, then finally a bridge was built. When I was a kid, it was a bit scary to drive across, as it would creak and sway. They finally replaced it a few years ago. In the 1970s, I lived on the opposite side of town, at 507 West Fort St. That was the street that connected "Stone Fort" and the mills, to Manchester, and the main road into town from Nashville and the West, during the 1800s. Union Forces camped along the road, and in what later became my garden. In the spring when I would first plow the garden, I would wait a week or so, for the next rain. Nearly every year, I would find a few "mini-balls", as they were called, shining in the sun. Actually, they were not mini-balls, but were 51 cal. black powder projectiles. These had three compression rings cast into them, as most union cartridges did. Most confederate ammo had only two. These were not deformed and apparently unused. Probably dropped accidently while in camp. -- Jess Lewis >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/ << >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/cannon.htm <<

Hi Jess et al, "Map" I thought perhaps Manchester was created new in 1836, with Michellville a wee bit to the east, perhaps closer to Hillsboro. But you live there so you should know. "etc" I have family in Manchester, Ralph and Jane Smoot, and on my first visit to TN in 1992, I visited them. They have in their backyard, an old building that they claim was an early Manchester blacksmith shop. They said an old main road ran directly in front of the shop. Today, their part of the road is their driveway. It ends at their garage. The view from the back of the blacksmith building looks down into the Duck River (or is it the Little Duck?). I believe they live at 513 E Fort St. The building is charming, and it sure shows a time back when. The blacksmith did his work in the side open area under the roof. There were even a few old blacksmith tools there. I have photo of it here: http://www.dogtrot.com/mansmith.jpg Jess, you may use the photo on you Coffee Co site, if you are able to find a place for it, but all of you may enjoy a "taste" of old Tennessee. Just click the link. <g> Fred

Make the Cannon reference "Danville" not "Danille" .. -- Jess Lewis >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/ << >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/cannon.htm <<

Ok, now I see... I didn't read YOUR letter far enough, myself. The same map is on both Cannon and Coffee sites. The Cannon page talks about Danille and Cannon stuff, while the Coffee page talks about Mitchellsville and Coffee stuff. -- Jess Lewis >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/ << >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/cannon.htm <<

Fred, You were in a hurry and didn't read the next paragraph under the map, huh ? Or did you get tired of "Rocky Top" playing ? :^>. Should I put a music on/off option near the top of the page, instead of the bottom ? What are your thoughts ? At any rate, in 1834, there was a small village called Mitchellsville, at the future Manchester site. They renamed it Manchester, when the county was organized, in 1836. Because of the abundant local water power they had hopes it would become a great manufacturing city, like Manchester, England. "Stone Fort" was located about one mile to the west, on the other side of the river junction. The existing falls were higher there, thus simplifying mill ponds, races, etc. Several mills were already in place by 1830-40. Both areas kinda grew together in the mid 1800s, but our Yankee friends destroyed much of the manufacturing facilities,(including a powder mill)in the 1860s. Much of the Stone Fort area was bought up by one or two families, with the idea of developing or preserving the Ancient Indian Ruins there. The descendants did eventually succeed in selling the area to the state, and it became "Old Stone Fort" State Park. You can see Mitchellsville and the "old Fort" on the map, but many early travel journals refer to the entire area as "Stone Fort". One of the local stopovers on the Nashville to Chattanooga stage road was named Stone Fort Tavern. -- Jess Lewis >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/ << >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/cannon.htm <<

Jess Lewis wrote: > > I've added an interesting old 1834 area map to the Cannon Co. TnGen page > at >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncannon/ << > -- > Jess Lewis >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncannon/ << Greetings, One of the interesting things about the map is that there is no "Manchester." My book on TN Post Offices shows Stone Fort in "Franklin" as being the PO for that area until the function was transferred to Manchester, Coffee Co in 1836. So the question is, did Manchester develop when Coffee Co was erected? Fred

I've added an interesting old 1834 area map to the Cannon Co. TnGen page at >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncannon/ << -- Jess Lewis >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncannon/ <<

Greetings, MIT has a "County Finder" search site where you can enter the name and it will return the present-day county and state: http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo A more comprehensive site is provided by GNIS, but it is temporarily down (often the case with GNIS): http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html Also Note: A query of the MIT search engine for Coffee and TN returned Coffee Landing in Hardin Co, TN and Coffee Ridge in Unicoi Co, TN. Fred