Isn't Putnam Mountain, near Scottsville, in Jackson County? Apparently around the turn of the previous century, some land was being opened up for homesteading, as my great-granduncle Christopher Columbus Judd and his family homesteaded Putnam Mountain, named after Putnam County, TN. My great-grandfather William A. Rice wrote a letter in 1908 saying he "was going to look at that land that was opening up in Alabama...." to his brother-in-law, John Denton Brown of McMinnville, Warren County, TN, and would stop by their house to stay on the way down there and on the way back. So, a great many families apparently moved down there from the Upper Cumberland, and not just from DeKalb County. I'm wondering if the Thomas Pittman family moved to Alabama between 1850 and 1860 or if they moved to Texas? They lived in Cannon County, where their son Thomas Pitman Jr. married Martha G. LaFevers in 1852. They're gone by 1850. Will --- Marie Beckman <[email protected]> wrote: > --=======47E317FF======= > Content-Type: text/plain; > x-avg-checked=avg-ok-30901AFD; charset=us-ascii; > format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > In tracing the Pittmans and their neighbors from > Dekalb Co. TN I've found > that several of their neighbors had ties to Jackson > Co. AL. I wondered if > anyone else on the list had ran across a Jackson Co. > AL connection. > > --Marie > Marie's Genealogy Homepage at Rootsweb > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rmbeckman/index.html > > --=======47E317FF=======-- > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== 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 learn more about my world visit > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ============================== > 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 > ===== Greetings from the People's BANANA REPUBLIC of TENNESSEE. Osama Bin Sunquist, Governor __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com