Doris Williams-Keefer MADE IT By the Deadline! And so can you! Thressa: Sounds like you have a legitimate emgergency. Indeed, send it today, May 1st, via UPS Priority Mail! OK? Lets call this our "MAY DAY". (pun intended). Most large Post Offices are open til noon today! Anyone else with an emergency or crisis should do the same. We won't ask for a Doctor's note or anything like that (big grin). The Committee will be working on the stories for several days...so don't give up! Click on: http://www.tncountyheritage.com/ for last minute details! The address is; LCT Heritage, P.O Box 226 Fayetteville, TN 37334 In addition to Priority Mail (use the flat rate envelope for $3.85), spend a few more cents for "delivery confirmation". OK? Any others out there with a MAY DAY emergency? Do the same. We won't trash any articles for the sake of a day or two. We are human and have empathy for you. As I sit in front of the computer, I am reminded of my humanity. One month ago today, I fell off the roof and broke my back! It is painful, but I get by with my nurse wife and nurse daughter! Cheer up, you can do it! Lets make this the best book ever! If there are others with extenuating circumstances, please email, and we'll help you work it out! Proceeds from the sale of the books benefit the Lincoln Co. Genealogical Society, Lincoln Co. Historical Society, and other preservation projects in Lincoln County! Don and Becky Mills Proud Publishers of the new Heritage of Lincoln Co., TN - 2004 ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thressa Paplanus" <tpaplanu@swbell.net> To: <TNLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [LCT] I MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the Deadline!!!!!! > I didn't make it. An emergency came up and my article is still in the envelope, waiting to be mailed. > > Jmolitz@aol.com wrote: CONGRATULATIONS DORRIS!!!! > > Will look forward to all of your articles as well as all the others from this > list and across the country. Just can't wait but will have to. > > Julia > > > ==== TNLINCOL Mailing List ==== > Please support the LCT Genealogical Society :-) > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > Thressa > > My son hardly ever makes the same mistake twice, but he makes a new one at every opportunity!:::::g::::: > Karen > > > ==== TNLINCOL Mailing List ==== > Search the USGenWeb Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm

Does anyone know if the "Delayed Birth Certificate" listing for any other county of Tennessee is available? About a year ago, I was able to obtain copies of the Cannon County births (S250). I would be most interested in obtaining same for Hamilton, Warren, Coffee and Grundy counties. Where would I write for this same information with regards to Walker County, Georgia? John@Sissom.org

Where there land lotteries in TN? When were they? Is there an index of lottery winners online? Lee Anne

Hello to all who have asked for more information on the Lincoln Co., TN Heritage book. Please click on: http://www.tncountyheritage.com/ The deadline is April 30 for stories, pictures and book orders! Click on any of the brochure page links for further details http://tncountyheritage.com/Lincoln%20Co.%20p2.pdf http://tncountyheritage.com/Lincoln%20Co.%20p3.pdf Be sure your material is postmarked by April 30. Send to: Lincoln Co. Heritage Book PO Box 226 Fayetteville, TN 37334 See you in the book! Don and Becky Mills ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyndon and Gay Nix" To: <eaglesnestmtn@mindspring.com> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 11:06 AM Subject: Lincoln County History Book > Have had a computer problem and have lost the address for sending my > story > in. Could you please send me the address. Also what is the price of the > book > and whom do I send money for on that part. Thanks very much. > > Lyndon Nix > > >

Does anyone know of a web site that has any 1800s maps with the names of land owners on the sections? I'm most interested in Manchester (District 6). The time period I'm most interested in is 1820 - 1870. The area I'm interested in is probably Manchester (District 6. Lee Anne County Formation: Davidson Co. - formed 1783 by an Act of North Carolina Rutherford Co. - formed 1803 from Davidson, Williamson, and Wilson Bedford Co. - formed 1807 from Rutherford and Indian Lands Coffee Co. - formed 1836 from Bedford, Warren, Franklin

Does anyone on the list know of monument businesses that were in business during the 1868-69 time period? Lee Anne

Hi list, My name is Greg Keeling. I'm V.P. of the Coffee Co. Historical Society, and was apparently lucky enough to be the first "non-contractor" to find the gravestones that have been the concern of many list readers. Since I am a list member, concerned party, and was in on this situation from the beginning, I was asked to relate a bit more about the whole thing. First, and most importantly, I am very glad to tell you first hand that this situation is *not* one of a graveyard nor of gravestones being abandoned or neglected, at least not in the usual sense. I found the stones several months back, apparently the same day the contractor did. The contractor stopped work immediately and had already reported the find and the Manchester City folks in charge of the work being done. It seems an old monument company once existed by the Duck River where some new work was being done improving Manchester's City Park; a Greenway was being built for walkers, bikers, hikers (etc.). The contractor found the stones as they began to bulldoze the brush and small trees near the river, clearing what would become the new Greenway. I knew the work was going on and decided the opportunity was too good to pass up; I was curious to see what "history" (arrowheads, any old artifacts, etc.) might have been uncovered by the dozing. As I walked the bulldozer's path, I began to find gravestones knocked over, pushed aside, and broken. A bit further along the dozer's path, I found a few standing and lying, apparently undisturbed for many years. This was *not* the artifacts and history I thought to find! As has been related in a previous message to this list (by Mr. James A. Jones), the gravestones turned out to be the "mistakes," broken stones, and old stones from where family members replaced loved ones' stones with new stones. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis (owners of this Coffee Co. list) have researched Coffee Co. and Cannon Co. cemeteries and have done much work in several surrounding county cemeteries, so they had the means at hand to investigate the names and dates we found on the gravestones. Over the course of the next couple days, the above explanation was proven to be the case: Mr. Lewis was able to locate new and correctly inscribed stones in local and nearby cemeteries, even though some turned out to be outside Coffee Co.! I hope this information serves to alleviate the concern so many have shown regarding this situation. I will follow-up by again getting in contact with the Manchester City Recreation Department and will make them aware of this continuing issue, the need to somehow permanently correct the situation, and of the concern it aroused among so many people. Neither local folks nor visitors to our lovely city and beautiful new park additions need be faced with what can be a very shocking and unexpected "discovery" while they are simply out for a walk by the river! Best regards, Greg Keeling

I hope that if this is really Mr. Crawford's gravestone that it is returned to the cemetery. My condolences to his family if that is the case. But believe it or not, not all monuments belong in cemeteries. When I was in high school I got upset when my friends and I found many gravestones on a river bank and in a river. As it turned out, we were canoeing behind the monument engraver's shop and they just put the mistakes out back. If someone replaces a monument because the old one is unreadable, what happens to the old one? It's possible that stones used for fill might have been obtained legitimately. When I die, please bury me in Deadman Park. TK, from Muncie, now in TX wolfman wrote: > The grave marker for > CLAYTON CRAWFORD - born Nov 30, 1898 died May 31, 1944 is lying in > Deadman Park next to the new foot bridge over the Little Duck River. > It was dumped there as solid fill (and apparently as were other > monuments) when the new greenway was built. > > In the 1900 Coffee County census, household 161-163, 7th Civil > District, page 276B I find this information: > > CRAWFORD, Joseph A. Feb 1862 MO > Bettie Nov 1864 > Allie (F) Jan 1887 > Dessie C (F) Nov 1888 > James H. June 1890 > Ella Oct 1893 > Vennie I (F) Feb 1895 > HENRY C Nov 1898 > > Henry C. Crawford is probably Henry CLAYTON Crawford. If so, where > would this monument have come from? It needs to be retrieved and > returned to the proper cemetery. I do not have the equipment to do > so. > > This is something that needs to be seriously investigated. It is a > criminal offense to destroy a monument. There are other bits and > pieces of gravestones on the other side of the river on the left of > the foot path before going under the U.S. 41 bridge. > > Someone please contact me regarding this matter. > > Thank you, > > Will Smith > Hillsboro, TN > ================================= > My online Civil War gallery at Camp Chase Gazette > http://www.campchase.com/WillSmith.htm > > My homepage: > http://web.infoave.net/~wolfman > > ==== TNCOFFEE Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Coffee Co. list, send mail > to.. > TNCOFFEE-L-request@rootsweb.com ,with subscribe or unsubscribe > in the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

Concerned list members, A telephone message was WELL received from our list owner's wife explaining the mystery stone. This particular stone/fragments had been seen months earlier..and reported. It was found out that the landfill used which contained the "Crawford marker and other fragments" came from a Manchester monument business which had closed and these "findings" were engraver mistakes and broken pieces which had been discarded. I was assured that the marker of Crawford was still in place at the cemetery in Hillsboro. Thank you Joanna!!! Jimmy Manchester, TN ----- Original Message ----- From: "James A. Jones" <1grouch@charter.net> To: <TNCOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [TNCOFFEE] CRAWFORD gravestone found!!!! > This is yet another example of continuing destruction of our cemeteries and > family history! Yes, it is a criminal offense to willingly destroy a grave > and/or cemetery in most any state. If this is what truely happened...It is > totally unexcusable!! The contractor/sub-contractors involved in this > illegal removal and "dumping" of grave markers/burials definitely needs to > be investigated. > > How could anyone be so void of family values and respect to our dead to > execute and conceal such an unforgivable act like this?? > > Hopefully, someone local on the list will know what appropriate steps are > needed or who to notify to find those inconsiderate person(s) and to make > them responsible for their callous act. > > Jimmy > Manchester, TN > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "wolfman" <wolfman@blomand.net> > To: <TNCOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:09 AM > Subject: [TNCOFFEE] CRAWFORD gravestone found!!!! > > > > The grave marker for > > CLAYTON CRAWFORD - born Nov 30, 1898 died May 31, 1944 is lying in Deadman > Park next to the new foot bridge over the Little Duck River. It was dumped > there as solid fill (and apparently as were other monuments) when the new > greenway was built. > > > > In the 1900 Coffee County census, household 161-163, 7th Civil > District, page 276B I find this information: > > > > CRAWFORD, Joseph A. Feb 1862 MO > > Bettie Nov 1864 > > Allie (F) Jan 1887 > > Dessie C (F) Nov 1888 > > James H. June 1890 > > Ella Oct 1893 > > Vennie I (F) Feb 1895 > > HENRY C Nov 1898 > > > > Henry C. Crawford is probably Henry CLAYTON Crawford. If so, where would > this monument have come from? It needs to be retrieved and returned to the > proper cemetery. I do not have the equipment to do so. > > > > This is something that needs to be seriously investigated. It is a > criminal offense to destroy a monument. There are other bits and pieces of > gravestones on the other side of the river on the left of the foot path > before going under the U.S. 41 bridge. > > > > Someone please contact me regarding this matter. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Will Smith > > Hillsboro, TN > > ================================= > > My online Civil War gallery at Camp Chase Gazette > > http://www.campchase.com/WillSmith.htm > > > > My homepage: > > http://web.infoave.net/~wolfman > > > > > > ==== TNCOFFEE Mailing List ==== > > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Coffee Co. list, send mail to.. > > TNCOFFEE-L-request@rootsweb.com ,with subscribe or unsubscribe > > in the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ==== TNCOFFEE Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Coffee Co. list, send mail to.. > TNCOFFEE-L-request@rootsweb.com ,with subscribe or unsubscribe > in the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

That is Henry Clayton Crawford. My notes state he died in Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. His wife, Johnnie Blanche (Taylor) Crawford died October 1987. Last residence according to the SSDI was Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee. Henry Crawford's parents were Joseph Alexander Crawford and Elizabeth "Bettie" Cunnyngham. Both were buried in the Hillsboro Methodist Cemetery. Does the Hillsboro Methodist Cemetery still exist? Is it possible that this was the cemetery that was destroyed (or partially destroyed)? Unfortunately, I live in Oregon. Maggie

Has anyone considered contacting the Manchester Times to see if they will write something up to make people in the area aware of this? If I lived there, I would certainly keep an eye out when I was around that area if I was aware it was going on. It is sad that people have so little respect for the dead and for the living family members that they would desecrate a grave. To me it is just as disrespectful as those people who own land around a cemetery to allow their livestock to trample the graves and headstones until the markers are destroyed. Gayle Ragland Muncie, IN -----Original Message----- From: James A. Jones [mailto:1grouch@charter.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:40 PM To: TNCOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNCOFFEE] CRAWFORD gravestone found!!!! This is yet another example of continuing destruction of our cemeteries and family history! Yes, it is a criminal offense to willingly destroy a grave and/or cemetery in most any state. If this is what truely happened...It is totally unexcusable!! The contractor/sub-contractors involved in this illegal removal and "dumping" of grave markers/burials definitely needs to be investigated. How could anyone be so void of family values and respect to our dead to execute and conceal such an unforgivable act like this?? Hopefully, someone local on the list will know what appropriate steps are needed or who to notify to find those inconsiderate person(s) and to make them responsible for their callous act. Jimmy Manchester, TN ----- Original Message ----- From: "wolfman" <wolfman@blomand.net> To: <TNCOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:09 AM Subject: [TNCOFFEE] CRAWFORD gravestone found!!!! > The grave marker for > CLAYTON CRAWFORD - born Nov 30, 1898 died May 31, 1944 is lying in > Deadman Park next to the new foot bridge over the Little Duck River. It was dumped there as solid fill (and apparently as were other monuments) when the new greenway was built. > > In the 1900 Coffee County census, household 161-163, 7th Civil District, page 276B I find this information: > > CRAWFORD, Joseph A. Feb 1862 MO > Bettie Nov 1864 > Allie (F) Jan 1887 > Dessie C (F) Nov 1888 > James H. June 1890 > Ella Oct 1893 > Vennie I (F) Feb 1895 > HENRY C Nov 1898 > > Henry C. Crawford is probably Henry CLAYTON Crawford. If so, where > would this monument have come from? It needs to be retrieved and returned to the proper cemetery. I do not have the equipment to do so. > > This is something that needs to be seriously investigated. It is a criminal offense to destroy a monument. There are other bits and pieces of gravestones on the other side of the river on the left of the foot path before going under the U.S. 41 bridge. > > Someone please contact me regarding this matter. > > Thank you, > > Will Smith > Hillsboro, TN > ================================= > My online Civil War gallery at Camp Chase Gazette > http://www.campchase.com/WillSmith.htm > > My homepage: > http://web.infoave.net/~wolfman > > > ==== TNCOFFEE Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Coffee Co. list, send mail > to.. TNCOFFEE-L-request@rootsweb.com ,with subscribe or unsubscribe in > the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ==== TNCOFFEE Mailing List ==== To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Coffee Co. list, send mail to.. TNCOFFEE-L-request@rootsweb.com ,with subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

This is yet another example of continuing destruction of our cemeteries and family history! Yes, it is a criminal offense to willingly destroy a grave and/or cemetery in most any state. If this is what truely happened...It is totally unexcusable!! The contractor/sub-contractors involved in this illegal removal and "dumping" of grave markers/burials definitely needs to be investigated. How could anyone be so void of family values and respect to our dead to execute and conceal such an unforgivable act like this?? Hopefully, someone local on the list will know what appropriate steps are needed or who to notify to find those inconsiderate person(s) and to make them responsible for their callous act. Jimmy Manchester, TN ----- Original Message ----- From: "wolfman" <wolfman@blomand.net> To: <TNCOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:09 AM Subject: [TNCOFFEE] CRAWFORD gravestone found!!!! > The grave marker for > CLAYTON CRAWFORD - born Nov 30, 1898 died May 31, 1944 is lying in Deadman Park next to the new foot bridge over the Little Duck River. It was dumped there as solid fill (and apparently as were other monuments) when the new greenway was built. > > In the 1900 Coffee County census, household 161-163, 7th Civil District, page 276B I find this information: > > CRAWFORD, Joseph A. Feb 1862 MO > Bettie Nov 1864 > Allie (F) Jan 1887 > Dessie C (F) Nov 1888 > James H. June 1890 > Ella Oct 1893 > Vennie I (F) Feb 1895 > HENRY C Nov 1898 > > Henry C. Crawford is probably Henry CLAYTON Crawford. If so, where would this monument have come from? It needs to be retrieved and returned to the proper cemetery. I do not have the equipment to do so. > > This is something that needs to be seriously investigated. It is a criminal offense to destroy a monument. There are other bits and pieces of gravestones on the other side of the river on the left of the foot path before going under the U.S. 41 bridge. > > Someone please contact me regarding this matter. > > Thank you, > > Will Smith > Hillsboro, TN > ================================= > My online Civil War gallery at Camp Chase Gazette > http://www.campchase.com/WillSmith.htm > > My homepage: > http://web.infoave.net/~wolfman > > > ==== TNCOFFEE Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Coffee Co. list, send mail to.. > TNCOFFEE-L-request@rootsweb.com ,with subscribe or unsubscribe > in the subject line. NOTHING ELSE. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

The grave marker for CLAYTON CRAWFORD - born Nov 30, 1898 died May 31, 1944 is lying in Deadman Park next to the new foot bridge over the Little Duck River. It was dumped there as solid fill (and apparently as were other monuments) when the new greenway was built. In the 1900 Coffee County census, household 161-163, 7th Civil District, page 276B I find this information: CRAWFORD, Joseph A. Feb 1862 MO Bettie Nov 1864 Allie (F) Jan 1887 Dessie C (F) Nov 1888 James H. June 1890 Ella Oct 1893 Vennie I (F) Feb 1895 HENRY C Nov 1898 Henry C. Crawford is probably Henry CLAYTON Crawford. If so, where would this monument have come from? It needs to be retrieved and returned to the proper cemetery. I do not have the equipment to do so. This is something that needs to be seriously investigated. It is a criminal offense to destroy a monument. There are other bits and pieces of gravestones on the other side of the river on the left of the foot path before going under the U.S. 41 bridge. Someone please contact me regarding this matter. Thank you, Will Smith Hillsboro, TN ================================= My online Civil War gallery at Camp Chase Gazette http://www.campchase.com/WillSmith.htm My homepage: http://web.infoave.net/~wolfman

Born maybe in TN sometime between 1840 and 1860 Married Viola Ollie Hughes of Jackson Co TN Lived In Macon Co TN Died In Logan Co TN buried Aurburn KY . Was a farmer and Railroad Worker. Any Help Welcome

Seeking info on Hence Cunningham in Tullahoma. Born April 1876.

Hi, I'm planning a visit to Coffee Co. from about July 3 to about July 10 and would like to arrange to read some original county and chancellory court records from the mid 1800's. I understand that these records are in the old courthouse in the safekeeping of the Historical Society. Is there someone in particular whom I should call or e-mail to make arrangements? Thanks! Joan

I would be very, very interested to find who the parents of William Cunningham were (as mentioned in a previous posting). There are long family ties between the Cunnyngham and Winton families in Coffee County, right back to John Winton Cunnyngham, born in 1839. I "lost" a number of male Cunnynghams between 1880 and 1900, and have long suspected that some of the Cunningham families living in Coffee County in the early 1900's are actually Cunnynghams. The only Winton I have in my file is Bettie E. Winton, born 1860, died 1951. She is buried in the Hillsboro Cemetery with her husband James Martin Warren. James Martin Warren was a Cunnyngham descendant. Maggie

please show the pictures my grand father came from coffee co.although i cant find any thing on him. his name was william cunningham and he married suzie winton.

If anyone has a response to Virginia..please share with the list as I'm sure many would have interest in such a map!! Best Regards, Kathy harris@livingonline.com When this you see, remember me Researching HARRISON, GIPSON, RUBLEY, SMITH in Coffee/Franklin Cos., ----- Original Message ----- From: <vcgreene@att.net> To: <TNCOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 2:25 PM Subject: [TNCOFFEE] early maps showing landowners > Does anyone have an early map that shows which landowners owned what > property in the county? I am looking for a plat map to help locate > land owned by Jesse Cobb, his sons and grandsons, between 1840-1880 > or thereabouts. I am especially interested in the location of Anthony's > Mill on Hurricane Creek. Thanks. > Virginia > > > ==== TNCOFFEE Mailing List ==== > Several people subscribe and unsubscribe from the list each month. > You are encouraged to resubmit your queries once or twice per year > to reach new listmembers. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > _____________________________________________________ > This message scanned for viruses by CoreComm > >

Anybody here with any info on these families from Summitville,TN? Archellas Alexander married ? Thomas Jefferson Mears married Elizabeth Alexander William Hibberd married Elizabeth Eady Herbert Hibberd married Ada Mears Clayton G. Walker married Gertrude Hibberd are my G & GG & Grandparents,also I have a few photos from Coffe county area and many are not known,If anyone would like to see them i can email them. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software