Thanks for the "Liberty Herald". I've read them all and really enjoy it. I have a question about a story in April 19 issue. Bill Ferrel killed Bill Caldwell near Smithville. In rsearching my great grandfather Alexander Page, s.o. Andrew Page, I have been puzzled by the reason why he sold the farm at Capling and moved to Warren Co. I've asked several people and haven't gotten any answers. My 84 year old aunt, granddaughter of grandpa Alex said that there was a land dispute with the Ferreel Family and something happened to cause the Page's to pull up stakes and move. (my aunt married a Ferrel related family member and there was opposition from the Pages to the marriage) anyway . . . I am searching for more info about this story and looking for a connection. Can you help me? a great, great grandson of Alexander, Charles Page ----- Original Message ----- From: "Athol K. Foster" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:47 AM Subject: [TNDEKALB] The Liberty Herald > I have just uploaded another eight issues of "The Liberty Herald" to the > DeKalb County page. They are issues of Jan. 11, Feb. 1 -8, Mar. 8 -15 -29, > and Apr. 5 - 19, of the year 1899. > > Athol > > Athol K. Foster > DeKalb Co. Coordinator, TnGenWeb > www.tngennet.org/dekalb > > My Fosters in DeKalb Co., Tn. > www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/3627 > > > > ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Dekalb Co., TN list, use > [email protected] or [email protected] if > you are on the Digest list. > > ============================== > 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 >

There has been three more issues of "The Liberty Herald" added to the DeKalb page. They are issues of May 3, 10, & 31, 1899. Athol Athol K. Foster DeKalb Co. Coordinator, TnGenWeb www.tngennet.org/dekalb My Fosters in DeKalb Co., Tn. www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/3627

In a message dated 05/02/2002 6:13:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Thank you for your note. The James H. [Horace] Fuson and his second wife > Paralee C [Cathcart] buried in Salem Cemetery are my distant cousins. > Their > names are similar to those of my gg-grandparents: James Roland > Fuson/Fuston > and Paralee Cubbins. > > If you have access to a DeKalb County, TN cemetery book, please do me a > favor and see if my James Roland Fuson or Fuston [he used both surnames] > and > wife Paralee Cubbins are listed in the Braswell or Fuston cemeteries at > Keltonburg in DeKalb County. According to my grandparents, these persons > were buried there, but I have not been to the cemetery to look for them. > Thank you. > > Jerry > > Jerry, In the DeKalb County Cemetery Book there are two Paralee Fus(t)on's listed. John J. Fuson November 19, 1891 - October 20, 1965 Pairlee R. Fuson October 30, 1894 - March 29, 1978 buried in DeKalb Memorial Gardens Paralee C. Fuson February 19, 1851 - February 26, 1890 James H. Fuson September 1, 1847 - July 7, 1903 Buried in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery There are no Fus(t)on's listed in the two Braswell's Cemeteries and listed in the Fuson Cemetery is O.M. Fuson July 6, 1885 - January 30, 1916 Tishie Fusson December 20, 1885 - December 16, 1915 (not a spelling error) Elizabeth Forrester August 26, 1812 - August 9, 1875 J. J. Forrester August 17, 1833 - January 13, 1858 One unidentified grave has a rock fence around it; made from large, cut rocks. The top rocks were pushed onto the grave. Located on the Walter Vandergriff Farm, off Old Dry Creek Road near Dowelltown, Tn. Copied by Robert Wall. Then in the Fuston Cemetery there are many graves and I shall list the Fus(t)on graves only. Nannie w/o J.M. Fuston October 18, 1883 - June 23, 1901 There is only one.....interesting since it was named Fuston Cemetery. Last but not least Fuson or George Cemetery >From Hwy. 70 one mile east of Dowelltown, turn south onto Dry Creek Rd., go about 2 miles. Turn left (east) and go up Possum Hollow Rd. about 2 miles to a hollow on the left (north) where Lon Baliff and Paul Baliff lived. The road up the hollow may not now be passable. Go about 1/2 mile to the end of the hollow. Behind the last house about halfway up the hill on a small level spot is the cemetery. It contains 4 or 5 graves marked with fieldstones and has rosebushes growing around it. Those buried there are known to be of black families and were probably buried between 1880 and 1910. They are thought to be either the families of Stephen or Milas George, born 1864, who lived on this farm; or they could be the Wood Fuson family, born about 1850, who lived on the ridge just above the cemetery. (See 1900 DeKalb County census, District 9, Nos. 33 & 40). Information from Fannie Tramel Mullican and Jesse Baliff Fuson, May 1990. Hope this helps and if there are any other names I can look up for you, let me know. Cheryl Davis-Holman [email protected] Researching....... Davis, Vogt/Fite, Duncan, Laurance, Scott of TN Wilson, Saylors/Sailus of Ireland/Scotland/GA Holman, Walter/s, Meador of Missouri/CA Crespo, Sanchez, Martinez, Garcia of Spain/CA

I have just uploaded another eight issues of "The Liberty Herald" to the DeKalb County page. They are issues of Jan. 11, Feb. 1 -8, Mar. 8 -15 -29, and Apr. 5 - 19, of the year 1899. Athol Athol K. Foster DeKalb Co. Coordinator, TnGenWeb www.tngennet.org/dekalb My Fosters in DeKalb Co., Tn. www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/3627

Thank you for your note. The James H. [Horace] Fuson and his second wife Paralee C [Cathcart] buried in Salem Cemetery are my distant cousins. Their names are similar to those of my gg-grandparents: James Roland Fuson/Fuston and Paralee Cubbins. If you have access to a DeKalb County, TN cemetery book, please do me a favor and see if my James Roland Fuson or Fuston [he used both surnames] and wife Paralee Cubbins are listed in the Braswell or Fuston cemeteries at Keltonburg in DeKalb County. According to my grandparents, these persons were buried there, but I have not been to the cemetery to look for them. Thank you. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [TNDEKALB] ROLL CALL: BRAY, CUBBINS, HENDRIX, HOLLINGSWORTH, MURPHY, SQ... > In a message dated 04/18/2002 10:26:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > > WILLIAM EMERY CUBBINS (abt 1820 - 1848). He married Unicey Cubbins (1818 - > > 1890, dau of Sampson Braswell and Priscilla Williams of Dry Creek). Their > > children were: John Emery Cubbins (b. abt 1840), Paralee (3 Mar 1841 - 26 > > Feb 1915), and Jane (b. abt 1845). [Paralee and her husband James Roland > > "Red Jim" Fuston were my gg-grandparents.] I can find nothing about > > William > > Emery Cubbins except a record of the court's making provision for his > > widow. > > > > > > Good morning JParker, > > In the DeKalb County Cemetery Book there is a Paralee C. Fuson b. 2/19.1851 > d. 2/26/1890 and James H. Fuson b. 9/1/1847 d. 7/7/1903 buried in Salem > Baptist Church Cemetery. Is this the same Paralee you have in this query? > > Cheryl Davis-Holman > [email protected] > > Researching....... Davis, Vogt/Fite, Duncan, Laurance, Scott of TN > Wilson, Saylors/Sailus of Ireland/Scotland/GA > Holman, Walter/s, Meador of Missouri/CA > Crespo, Sanchez, Martinez, Garcia of Spain/CA > > > > ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > > ============================== > 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 >

>WILLIAM EMERY CUBBINS (abt 1820 - 1848). He married Unicey Cubbins (1818 - 1890, dau of Sampson Braswell and Priscilla Williams of Dry Creek). Their children were: John Emery Cubbins (b. abt 1840), Paralee (3 Mar 1841 - 26 Feb 1915), and Jane (b. abt 1845). [Paralee and her husband James Roland "Red Jim" Fuston were my gg-grandparents.] I can find nothing about William Emery Cubbins except a record of the court's making provision for his < widow. Was "Red Jim" an ancestor of Robert L. Fuston that married Effie Lee Robinson? Bob Good morning JParker, In the DeKalb County Cemetery Book there is a Paralee C. Fuson b. 2/19.1851 d. 2/26/1890 and James H. Fuson b. 9/1/1847 d. 7/7/1903 buried in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery. Is this the same Paralee you have in this query? Cheryl Davis-Holman [email protected] Researching....... Davis, Vogt/Fite, Duncan, Laurance, Scott of TN Wilson, Saylors/Sailus of Ireland/Scotland/GA Holman, Walter/s, Meador of Missouri/CA Crespo, Sanchez, Martinez, Garcia of Spain/CA ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html ============================== 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

When the county was organized in 1837 district 6 was the Belk area. Still is. At one time there were many little Post Offices. Belk was one of them. Probably for the last 100 years the Belk area has been on a rural route out of Smithville. In 1920 it was Route 9. That is about as long as I can remember. Belk was named for Mary Louise Belk who the wife of Nathan Wall. They ran a country store at a crossroads and when they put a Post Office in the store Nathan named it for his wife. Nathan was from that area and as Soldier in the Civil War he had married Mary Louise in Atlanta, She was from Marion Co. GA. Bob Census listing 10:50 AM 4/30/02 -0400, you wrote: >Which district is this listing for? Smithville is in the 9th. District. >The 6th. District is Belk. While District 6 may very well have been the Belk area, on the 1860 &1870 census, District 6 is listed only as District 6 with the P. O. as Smithville. Below is how it was listed at the top of the 1870 Census page Schedule 1.--Inhabitants in District No. 6, in the County of DeKalb, State of Tennessee, enumerated by me on the 18 day of August, 1870. Post Office: Smithville James M. Lee, Ass't Marshal. Can anyone on the list provide any further insight? --Marie B.

Have the libraries in Tennessee received the 1930 census microfilms as yet? I live in Coffee County and am wondering how soon these will be available for us to research? Thanks Will

My William Gleason BRYANT was also an early settler, though not with the original group; also my DODD, ADAMSON, WILLIAMS families. RE: from Maryland: does anyone have any info on an ANN or ANNE, b. MD abt 1795, who m. a WILLIAMS in DeKalb Co? They were parents of my James Monroe WILLIAMS. Thanks, Cousin Mary in OK Mary Bryant Park [email protected]

In a message dated 04/18/2002 10:26:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > WILLIAM EMERY CUBBINS (abt 1820 - 1848). He married Unicey Cubbins (1818 - > 1890, dau of Sampson Braswell and Priscilla Williams of Dry Creek). Their > children were: John Emery Cubbins (b. abt 1840), Paralee (3 Mar 1841 - 26 > Feb 1915), and Jane (b. abt 1845). [Paralee and her husband James Roland > "Red Jim" Fuston were my gg-grandparents.] I can find nothing about > William > Emery Cubbins except a record of the court's making provision for his > widow. > > Good morning JParker, In the DeKalb County Cemetery Book there is a Paralee C. Fuson b. 2/19.1851 d. 2/26/1890 and James H. Fuson b. 9/1/1847 d. 7/7/1903 buried in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery. Is this the same Paralee you have in this query? Cheryl Davis-Holman [email protected] Researching....... Davis, Vogt/Fite, Duncan, Laurance, Scott of TN Wilson, Saylors/Sailus of Ireland/Scotland/GA Holman, Walter/s, Meador of Missouri/CA Crespo, Sanchez, Martinez, Garcia of Spain/CA

Which district is this listing for? Smithville is in the 9th. District. The 6th. District is Belk.

At 10:50 AM 4/30/02 -0400, you wrote: >Which district is this listing for? Smithville is in the 9th. District. >The 6th. District is Belk. While District 6 may very well have been the Belk area, on the 1860 &1870 census, District 6 is listed only as District 6 with the P. O. as Smithville. Below is how it was listed at the top of the 1870 Census page Schedule 1.--Inhabitants in District No. 6, in the County of DeKalb, State of Tennessee, enumerated by me on the 18 day of August, 1870. Post Office: Smithville James M. Lee, Ass't Marshal. Can anyone on the list provide any further insight? --Marie B.

<I don't suppose that Tommy Webb has recently acquired an email address?> According to the Horses' mouth ==NO==. Bob

Hi Cousin! I have read where your James and my John Reynolds were brothers (or at least there were brothers John, James, Gay & Josiah) who were among the earliest settlers. The Reynolds research gets complicated since somewhere along the line, LDS records have parents as John David Reynolds/Mary Martha Gay and also lists a sister Elizabeth, I think it was and gives her husband's name. However, when I checked Guilford Co. NC (which is where LDS records list them), the David Reynolds I found who listed this Elizabeth as his daughter, doesn't seem to possibly be the papa of the Reynolds brothers who settled in TN very early 1800's. I don't remember offhand why I came to that conclusion - I think because in David's will which lists daughter Elizabeth, no mention was made of any sons with the right names - or if there were sons with those same names, they are accounted for in Guilford Co. records. All this research was eons ago and I haven't worked on the Reynolds line much since then -- it is a source of MAJOR frustration... As for the Tubb line, there is tons of information on these DeKalb Co. lines which is posted on at least one website that I know of. I had a computer glitch that lost my bookmarked sites - but I know it was one of the Yahoo Club surname websites... you can find it by going to yahoo.com and then figuring out how to get there... Good luck! LaVerne

Some of these Drivers are in my line. Most of mine are from DeKalb Co. I am not familiar with the location, either. My grandfather was Thomas Franklin Driver from DeKalb Co. His wife was Nora Frances Askew and his father was Daniel Driver. Rose Driver Crenshaw ([email protected])

Hey, Ed. Not kin to them(don't think), but from this census listing and the numerous Drivers,must be in the location of the Driver place. I believe that the Driver family cemetery is on the Smith County site. Check it out.------Good luck. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Marsh <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: [TNDEKALB] Early Settlers - DRIVER Neighborhood, Etc. > Hi, I posted earlier about my CANDLERs in Smith/DeKalb that lived among > certain other early settlers. This is a page from the 1840 Smith County > US Census that lists Winston Candler and neighbors (love those > house-to-house census pages - Alphabetical stinks). > > I don't know exactly where this location was, so if you can help me, > that would be appreciated. > > Clarion McClain > John Cliborn > James Freeman Jr. > Winston Candler > Richard Freeman > James Freeman Sr. > William Crecy > Lewis Meador > William Cooper > Frances McMurry > H M Cook > Joseph White > James Cook > M L Pamplin (?) > Dabney Cooper > Dempsey(?) Driver Sen. > Joel Driver > Ezekiel East > Jesse Driver, Jr. > Thomas Driver Sr. > James Driver > Edmon Crecy > Mathew Akers > Jacob Driver > James Driver Jr. > Jesse Erps > Pleasant Bartram > Thomas Driver Jr. > Jesse Driver Sr. > Alvin Driver > > > ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > > ============================== > 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 >

Hi, I posted earlier about my CANDLERs in Smith/DeKalb that lived among certain other early settlers. This is a page from the 1840 Smith County US Census that lists Winston Candler and neighbors (love those house-to-house census pages - Alphabetical stinks). I don't know exactly where this location was, so if you can help me, that would be appreciated. Clarion McClain John Cliborn James Freeman Jr. Winston Candler Richard Freeman James Freeman Sr. William Crecy Lewis Meador William Cooper Frances McMurry H M Cook Joseph White James Cook M L Pamplin (?) Dabney Cooper Dempsey(?) Driver Sen. Joel Driver Ezekiel East Jesse Driver, Jr. Thomas Driver Sr. James Driver Edmon Crecy Mathew Akers Jacob Driver James Driver Jr. Jesse Erps Pleasant Bartram Thomas Driver Jr. Jesse Driver Sr. Alvin Driver

Hi all, the family I am researching must have lived right on the boundary of Smith/Wilson because they had land in both and appeared on census in both (from one time to another - not both at once). Example: Zedekiah Candler was in Smith for the 1820 census. His son John Candler was on the Wilson tax rolls in the 1820's, but he had land in Smith (Smiths Fork, Dry Creek). Zedekiah's son Winston Candler appeared on Wilson tax rolls in the 1820's but was in Smith for the 1820 census. Winston's neighbors were many of the names that I have seen mentioned in this string. I especially remember how many DRIVERs were in his neighborhood. Winston married a girl named MARY (last name unknown). I wish I could figure out who Mary's parents were. Surely she was a neighborhood gal.

ALL of these familie you mention except the Drivers, were my ancestors. I'm descended from John Fisher Sr., the Tubbs, Cookseys, and Reynoldses (through James Reynolds, bro. of the John Reynolds who married Mary Driver). Don't know a lot about the Tubbs or Reynoldses as yet. Will ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:58 AM Subject: [TNDEKALB] Early Settlers > Couldn't resist adding my 2 cents on the subject. Among those early > settlers joining the early MD settlement were my Tubb and Reynolds folks who > had been in NC/SC for quite some time before heading west. Same with the > Drivers who had (along with Reynolds, Gay and related lines) been in VA > before NC... The Tubb line I THINK was also in VA before heading to NC/SC > and then TN - I know the Fishers who were linked with this Tubb family were > in Halifax Co. VA mid 1700's... > > > ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Dekalb Co., TN list, use > [email protected] or [email protected] if > you are on the Digest list. > > ============================== > 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 >

looking for information on Benjamin Cantrell who died in DeKalb County around 1848.....Thanks