Sandy - You give us all hope!!! Glad you found your brick wall. I have only been into searching my Jones lineage since January of this year. Thanks to you and the people at TNDICKSO I have learned a great deal about my Jones family in Dickson Co. Tn. but am still digging for more. Will be calling on you again I am sure. My brick wall is my Grandfather William Stanley Jones. He divorced his wife around 1913 ? , remarried to whom I do not know, and moved from Graves Co. Ky. to Missouri. Not sure if he remarried in Ky. or Mo. The family lost touch with him after he moved to Mo. When my mother passed away in 1998 I found a address in her address book listing Stanley Jones as 208 Cass St. Carterville Mo. Found William S. Jones listed in the 1910 Graves Co. Census so not for sure if he went by William or Stanley. Always heard the family refer to him as Stanley. A distant cousin informed me this week that a funeral home in Joplin Mo. handled his burial. I plan on writing all the funeral homes in Joplin to see if they can help me. Any other suggestions. I don't have a birth or death date for him. Again, glad you found your brick wall and again THANKS to all you great people at TNDICKSO for being so helpful. I talked to Cheryl Adams this week. She lives about 40 miles from me. Said water had gotten into her basement and had quite a mess. Hope I haven't bored you. HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!!!! Billy Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: Sandra Ellis Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:05 PM To: TNDICKSO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TNDICKSO] Brick wall crumbles after 20 years! A couple of days ago, I wondered if I was the only one "wasting time" on the computer. Well, I just have to tell you---I was will-bound and determined to find something about my ggg-grandfather! Over 20 years ago, I was told his name was Isaac Trump and he drowned in the Potomac River on his way home from the Civil War. Then, Daddy gave me a picture of this "cute" young man (Jan has it on the Stewart Co. site) in a Union uniform. His widow remarried and moved to Stewart County. His daughter Clara Alice married Theodore Baxter Hayes (son of James Washington Hayes and Mary Bartee. Bartee is my "Dickson Connection") I always said my g-grandmother and g-aunts gave a lot of family information that I can use as "clues". The information is close--but not accurate enough to document! (If you "don't sweat the small stuff", you don't do genealogy!) When I found everything I could in TN, I started having problems documenting anything. This past week, I found another "clue" that didn't match what my g-grandmother said---but it was close! Isaac's name was really Isaiah! I found a pension application for Hester Trump---a widow's pension application! That's when I contacted that man I mentioned a few days ago. Today, he pulled the file on this application and took a good look at it. He said that "everything" was just like I'd thought it was! "Excited" is an understatement---I can hardly wait to see those records! Guess I wasn't exactly "wasting time" on the computer! Sandy Ellis ==== TNDICKSO Mailing List ==== http://www.rootsweb.com/~tndickso/index.htm Join our sister list DICKSONDIGGERS@topica.com To submit your SURNAMES go to this site and fill out the form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tndickso/sursubmit.htm ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB