Whoops! I forgot to add the address: http://www.ciscofuneralhome.com/ On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:02 PM, marilyn E B <marilyneb@gmail.com> wrote: > This one is from the Cisco Funeral Home and if it does not seem to be right > check on Obituaries in the upper left corner and then scroll down the page > that comes up. > > There are some slight differences in the two obituaries. > > Marilyn > > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:51 PM, marilyn E B <marilyneb@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Try this one and if it does not work I will send you another site to try. >> >> http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20101218/OBITUARIES/12180324/1023 >> >> <http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20101218/OBITUARIES/12180324/1023> >> Marilyn >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Middleridgefarm < >> middleridgefarm@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Bill, I'm having trouble finding the obituary. Can you post the actual >>> obituary? Thank you so much! >>> >>> Judy >>> >>> The May Sexton McGlothin Foundation is now online at maymcglothin.org! >>> Help us >>> keep the dream alive! >>> >>> Laus Deo >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ---- >>> From: bill campbell <soup_babe@att.net> >>> To: tnoverto@rootsweb.com; Fentress County <TNFENTRE@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Sat, December 18, 2010 9:34:48 AM >>> Subject: [TNFENTRE] Avo A. Padgett ,92, dies >>> >>> Hi list >>> This is in the Muncie ,Star Press newspaper. >>> She died Wednesday,12-15-2010 in Celina,Oh. >>> Born in Wilder,Tn. to Dewey Todd and Sadie Dodson, >>> Md. 6-28-1933 to A.G.Padgett,deceased 11-2-1990. >>> Burial today(saturday) in Elm Ridge Cmt,Muncie,In. >>> >>> Bill n Lois >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in >>> the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not >> appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, >> and it starts your day differently." >> >> Johnny Cash >> >> >> > > > -- > "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not > appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, > and it starts your day differently." > > Johnny Cash > > > -- "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, and it starts your day differently." Johnny Cash

This one is from the Cisco Funeral Home and if it does not seem to be right check on Obituaries in the upper left corner and then scroll down the page that comes up. There are some slight differences in the two obituaries. Marilyn On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:51 PM, marilyn E B <marilyneb@gmail.com> wrote: > Try this one and if it does not work I will send you another site to try. > > http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20101218/OBITUARIES/12180324/1023 > > <http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20101218/OBITUARIES/12180324/1023> > Marilyn > > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Middleridgefarm < > middleridgefarm@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Bill, I'm having trouble finding the obituary. Can you post the actual >> obituary? Thank you so much! >> >> Judy >> >> The May Sexton McGlothin Foundation is now online at maymcglothin.org! >> Help us >> keep the dream alive! >> >> Laus Deo >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: bill campbell <soup_babe@att.net> >> To: tnoverto@rootsweb.com; Fentress County <TNFENTRE@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sat, December 18, 2010 9:34:48 AM >> Subject: [TNFENTRE] Avo A. Padgett ,92, dies >> >> Hi list >> This is in the Muncie ,Star Press newspaper. >> She died Wednesday,12-15-2010 in Celina,Oh. >> Born in Wilder,Tn. to Dewey Todd and Sadie Dodson, >> Md. 6-28-1933 to A.G.Padgett,deceased 11-2-1990. >> Burial today(saturday) in Elm Ridge Cmt,Muncie,In. >> >> Bill n Lois >> >> >> >> >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not > appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, > and it starts your day differently." > > Johnny Cash > > > -- "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, and it starts your day differently." Johnny Cash

Try this one and if it does not work I will send you another site to try. http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20101218/OBITUARIES/12180324/1023 <http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20101218/OBITUARIES/12180324/1023> Marilyn On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Middleridgefarm <middleridgefarm@yahoo.com > wrote: > Bill, I'm having trouble finding the obituary. Can you post the actual > obituary? Thank you so much! > > Judy > > The May Sexton McGlothin Foundation is now online at maymcglothin.org! > Help us > keep the dream alive! > > Laus Deo > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: bill campbell <soup_babe@att.net> > To: tnoverto@rootsweb.com; Fentress County <TNFENTRE@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sat, December 18, 2010 9:34:48 AM > Subject: [TNFENTRE] Avo A. Padgett ,92, dies > > Hi list > This is in the Muncie ,Star Press newspaper. > She died Wednesday,12-15-2010 in Celina,Oh. > Born in Wilder,Tn. to Dewey Todd and Sadie Dodson, > Md. 6-28-1933 to A.G.Padgett,deceased 11-2-1990. > Burial today(saturday) in Elm Ridge Cmt,Muncie,In. > > Bill n Lois > > > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, and it starts your day differently." Johnny Cash

Hi Judy  I cant post the obit . try this    www.thestarpress.com   Bill --- On Sat, 12/18/10, Middleridgefarm <middleridgefarm@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Middleridgefarm <middleridgefarm@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE] Avo A. Padgett ,92, dies To: tnfentre@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, December 18, 2010, 5:54 PM Bill, I'm having trouble finding the obituary.  Can you post the actual obituary?  Thank you so much! Judy   The May Sexton McGlothin Foundation is now online at maymcglothin.org!  Help us keep the dream alive! Laus Deo ----- Original Message ---- From: bill campbell <soup_babe@att.net> To: tnoverto@rootsweb.com; Fentress County <TNFENTRE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, December 18, 2010 9:34:48 AM Subject: [TNFENTRE] Avo A. Padgett ,92, dies Hi list This is in the Muncie ,Star Press newspaper. She died  Wednesday,12-15-2010 in Celina,Oh. Born in Wilder,Tn.  to Dewey Todd and  Sadie Dodson, Md. 6-28-1933 to A.G.Padgett,deceased 11-2-1990. Burial today(saturday) in Elm Ridge Cmt,Muncie,In.   Bill n Lois         http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Bill, I'm having trouble finding the obituary.  Can you post the actual obituary?  Thank you so much! Judy   The May Sexton McGlothin Foundation is now online at maymcglothin.org!  Help us keep the dream alive! Laus Deo ----- Original Message ---- From: bill campbell <soup_babe@att.net> To: tnoverto@rootsweb.com; Fentress County <TNFENTRE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, December 18, 2010 9:34:48 AM Subject: [TNFENTRE] Avo A. Padgett ,92, dies Hi list This is in the Muncie ,Star Press newspaper. She died  Wednesday,12-15-2010 in Celina,Oh. Born in Wilder,Tn.  to Dewey Todd and  Sadie Dodson, Md. 6-28-1933 to A.G.Padgett,deceased 11-2-1990. Burial today(saturday) in Elm Ridge Cmt,Muncie,In.   Bill n Lois         http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi list This is in the Muncie ,Star Press newspaper. She died  Wednesday,12-15-2010 in Celina,Oh. Born in Wilder,Tn.  to Dewey Todd and  Sadie Dodson, Md. 6-28-1933 to A.G.Padgett,deceased 11-2-1990. Burial today(saturday) in Elm Ridge Cmt,Muncie,In.   Bill n Lois        

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Thank you for your service. Marilyn On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:07 AM, bill campbell <soup_babe@att.net> wrote: > hi all > > on this day 69 years ago (day After Pearl Harbor) ,I enlisted in U.S.Navy > for 6 > yrs. Any thing to get out of school, > > I was in my senior year. > > Bill from Muncie in. > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, and it starts your day differently." Johnny Cash

Thank you for your service, young man! I enlisted for 4 years in 1969. hi all on this day 69 years ago (day After Pearl Harbor) ,I enlisted in U.S.Navy for 6 yrs. Any thing to get out of school, I was in my senior year. Bill from Muncie in. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Happy Anniversary, Bill. Thank you for your service!! I too served in the Greatest Navy in the world. I miss it every day, but I'm sure your sea stories are much better than mine. Your time in was much more turbulent than mine. I had the pleasure of serving a tour of duty in Hawaii, and witnessed at least one Pearl Harbor reunion. It was a tearful day, but one I wouldn't have missed for the world. God bless and thank you again. Tonya Archey USN RET -----Original Message----- From: tnfentre-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tnfentre-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of bill campbell Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:08 AM To: tnoverto@rootsweb.com; Fentress County Cc: pickett county Subject: [TNFENTRE] not genealogy ??? hi all   on this day 69 years ago (day After Pearl Harbor) ,I enlisted in U.S.Navy for 6 yrs.  Any thing to get out of school,   I was in my senior year.   Bill from Muncie in. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

hi all   on this day 69 years ago (day After Pearl Harbor) ,I enlisted in U.S.Navy for 6 yrs.  Any thing to get out of school,   I was in my senior year.   Bill from Muncie in.

Hi Ron and all:  I would appreciate any additions or corrections to the following:   Descendants of Lloyd Graves   First Generation         1. Lloyd Graves  was born about 1950 in of Allardt, Fentress, Tennessee. Lloyd married Judy Darlene Garrett  daughter of Emmett Alexander Garrett and Oma Luvena Hull on 17 Sep 1973. Judy was born on 26 Jul 1955 in of Allardt, Fentress, Tennessee. They had the following children:   +          2 M        i.  Jason Loyd Graves  was born on 19 Nov 1974.                3 M        ii.  Michael Alexander Graves  was born on 22 Aug 1977. +          4 F        iii.  Amanda Lorene Graves  was born on 14 Feb 1979. +          5 F       iv.  Melinda Arlene Graves  was born on 27 Mar 1981.                6 M       v.  Travis Charles Graves  was born on 12 May 1983.   Second Generation         2. Jason Loyd Graves  (Lloyd) was born on 19 Nov 1974. Jason married Elizabeth Marie Goodman  daughter of Loren W. Goodman and Marta Daily on 2 Sep 1995. Elizabeth was born about 1978. They had the following children:                7 M        i.  Zachary Loyd Graves  was born on 8 Nov 2001 in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee. He died on 8 Nov 2001 in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee. He was buried on 10 Nov 2001 in Crest Lawn Memorial Cemetery. Obituary in Fentress Courier 14 Nov 2001 page 21.                8 F         ii.  Victoria Elizabeth Graves  was born on 24 Apr 2003.                9 M       iii.  Garrett Loren Graves  was born on 30 Nov 2005.         4. Amanda Lorene Graves  (Lloyd) was born on 14 Feb 1979. Amanda married Jason Lynn Frogge  on 29 May 1999. Jason was born about 1971. They had the following children:              10 M        i.  Justin Tyler Frogge  was born on 4 Oct 2002.         5. Melinda Arlene Graves  (Lloyd) was born on 27 Mar 1981. Melinda married Chad Brent York  son of David Ray York and Cheryl Luallen on 25 Nov 2000. Chad was born about 1974. Spoke with Chad on the telephone 6 Jul 2008.921-879-1510. Chad and Melinda had the following children:              11 F         i.  Kelly Lynn York  was born on 19 Nov 2002 in , , Tennessee.              12 M        ii.  Trevor Brent York  was born on 13 Jul 2006 in Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee.  

I need their children's info & their spouses, I believe they had five children. Ronald Ward Garrett rgarret@sugardog.com

Hi list I am trying to reach Les ,his old e-mail addy dont work. Any help?? Thanks Bill n Lois P.S. 4 inches of snow here in Indiana

There is a little more about the incident of Champ Ferguson in History of Fentress Co by Albert R Houge page 17.. Milly WARD Piros My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff It's gone

Here is a paragraph from a book Civil War Letters by Hattie Caldwell Davis. It is a nice little book. She did good. The paragraph is about Champ Ferguson. The information was written by William Williams Stringfield, . He wrote::I stopped in Wytheville VA to see my mother and sisters on October 6 1864. A Kentucky partisan ranger or guerrilla chief with fifteen to twenty armed men, visited the hospital which was Emory & Henry College before the war, where they murdered several wounded Federal Officers who were being cared for there. The Champ Ferguson Affair Champ Ferguson, who was the leader of guerrillas left guards at the bottom and top of each flight of stairs so he would not be interrupted. I had on my officer's uniform but no arms. I had considerable difficulty in passing the guards. All sorts of threats were hurled at me and a gun stuck in my face, but thanks to Providence I did not get shot. I confronted Ferguson myself, ordering him to stop his murdering work. He looked like a tiger at bay, then abruptly turned on his heel and rushed down the stairs. I had no arms and could not arrest him. That night he guarded the hospital. Next morning we sent a train load of wounded from the hospital. After the war Professor Langley and I were summoned to Nashville Tennessee to testify against Ferguson. He was hanged. I bought the book at the Smokey Mountain gift shop a few years ago... Milly WARD Piros My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff It's gone

Thanks,I love to read about the history of Fentress County. I was born there. ew -----Original Message----- From: MPiros1120 <MPiros1120@aol.com> To: TNFENTRE <TNFENTRE@rootsweb.com> Cc: DELk <DELk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, Nov 30, 2010 6:34 pm Subject: [TNFENTRE] Trial of Champ Ferguson from Tami Thought this might be of interest to someone. Tami Delk Longino http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B15F6395A1B7493C7A81783D85 418684F9&pagewanted=2 THE TRIAL OF CHAMP FERGUSON.; Details of Atrocious Barbarities. ublished: August 15, 1865 he notorious desperado, CHAMP FERGUSON, is now on trial in Nashville. etween fifty and sixty murders are charged to him personally. The following estimony is no worse than that which has been given daily during the last hree or four weeks: ohn Huff, a witness for the prosecution, testified as follows: Am a son f Mrs. Patsey Huff, of Fentress County, Tenn.; was at her house when Wm. elk, John Crabtree and John Williams were taken from there; Ferguson, Hans oles, John Gregory and Thomas Riley were all I recognized out of the party f thirteen or fourteen who came to the house; it was at night, I think, at ne o'clock, as near as I can recollect; they surrounded the house, and aid for some one to get up and strike a light; I started to do so, and they sked who I was; I told them; don't know who it was asked me that; they old me if I got up they would kill me; some one then ordered me to get up and ake a light, which I did; Hans Moles ordered me to do this; some asked ho were in there; I told them I didn't know; then they asked if Preston Huff nd Andrew Huff were present, and said they were going to kill them it hey were there. They asked me then who all were there that night. I told them illiam Delk, John Crabtree, John Williams, William Huff and Preston Huff ere there, and that Andy Huff was not there. Then they ordered those in he house to surrender; they hadn't seen them yet; here Delk walked out to the crowd and asked what they were going to do with them; they replied that hey were going to take them to Albany, to headquarters, to have their trial; he other boys, Williams and Crabtree, surrendered themselves, and the arty all came into the house, and went to searching it; then they took the traps off their guns and tied the prisoners; Delk begged them not to tie him o tight, that it hurt him; Ferguson said: "D -- n you, that is what we ant to do -- we want to hurt you;" Delk aimed to give my sister some money o give his mother, and Thomas Riley grabbed the money; Crabtree started to ive his mother a knife, which they grabbed for, but she got it. Champ then ot a negro girl, saying she belonged to Eli Hatfield, and he had orders o take her. The girl belonged to Hatfield, who is a brother-in-law of mine. y mother had raised the negro. They then went to taking things from the ouse -- bed clothing and wearing apparel. Ferguson told the men to take hat they pleased, when the money was taken from Delk. Ferguson told him he Delk) would have so further use for money. They chopped up the floor and hreatened to burn the house. They chopped up two planks of the floor. erguson then told the prisoners that he was going to kill them. He drew his nife nd told Crabtree that he was going to cut his throat. Crabtree's mother aid to Ferguson, when they started. "You ain't going to kill him, are you?" nd Ferguson said they were. Then they started and took Crabtree, Delk, illiams, and the negro girl with them. They got about one hundred yards from he house, and I saw the light of two or three guns, whereupon I went into he house, and there heard about twelve or thirteen guns. Heard some one ay two or three times, "run." Between half and three-quarters of an hour rom the time they left the house, I went to Piles place and found Delk, illiams, and Crabtree dead in the horse-lot. Didn't hear any firing after at he Piles place. Williams was shot about the centre of the forehead, and a iece of his skull was blown off. Delk was shot once through his breast, and bayonet run through his breast -- it looked like it might have been a ayonet; Crabtree I don't think was shot at all -- he was just cut; he was cut ll over the breast, and in the forepart of his shoulder, between the neck nd collar-bone; also in the back, under the shoulder-blade; in that wound as a cornstalk stuck in and cut off; my sister (Mrs. Lucinda Hatfield) nd Crabtree's mother, and Miss Annie Piercy, went with me to the Piles lace, where we found the bodies; saw there Vina Piles, Nannie Piles and Wm. iles; didn't see Mrs. Piles, the mother of Vina Piles; think she was dead at he time. erguson gave the orders, and had control of the party while at my other's house. All this occurred about Oct. 1, 1863. They stayed at the house rom the time they came until about daylight. ross-examination by the Defence -- Q. -- How old were you at the time this occurrence took place? . -- About 16 years old. . -- Were you disturbed while the party above-mentioned were at your ouse? . -- When they first came up, I was. They made us all get up, and hreatened to kill me, and threatened to take me off with them. They said I had been in the army, and John Gregory told them I hadn't, and then they let me ff. . -- You say Preston Huff and Wm. Huff were at the house; what became of hem? . -- Why, they got away. . -- Were Preston Huff and Wm. Huff armed? . -- Yes, Sir. . -- Did you hear them shoot? Do you know what they shot at? . -- I heard them shoot; they said they shot at the men that came to the ouse; but those men shot first. . -- Did Delk, Williams and Crabtree belong to an independent company? . -- Not as I know of; they said they belonged to the Seventh Tennessee nfantry. . -- Were they in the habit of lying out, shooting at soldiers and others assing the road? . -- If they were I don't know it. . -- Did these men, Delk, Williams and Crabtree, belong to Eli Hatfield's ommand? . -- Not as I know of. . -- How long had they been in that part of the country? . -- I don't know how long; Delk came there after they were whipped at untsville; I had never seen Williams and Crabtree there before that night. . -- What instrument was used for chopping the floor? . -- An axe; they got it there at our house; I don't know who did the hopping. . -- You saw Ferguson take away a negro girl; might you not be mistaken? as it not Hans Moles and Alex. Evans that took her? . -- No, Sir, it was Ferguson. eexamination by the Judge Advocate. -- Q. -- Did you see behind whom the egro girl rode, in going from your mother's house to the Piles Place? . -- I do not know; they took her off from our house walking. rs. Lucinda Hatfield, a witness for the prosecution, testified as follows: Am the daughter of the late Alexander Huff and Mrs. Patsey Huff, and the ife of Eli Hatfield; my father was killed the 2d day of May, 1865; was at y mother's house at the time Delk, Williams and Crabtree were taken from here, but don't recollect the date of the affair. As most of the testimony of this witness was merely corroborative of the revious evidence, presenting the same facts in similar language, we omit ll, excepting such points as are new.] hamp said by G -- d he intended to burn the house, unless I would tell here my brother, Preston Huff, and my cousin, William Huff, were; the men hat were with him asked what were the orders next, and he (Ferguson) told hem to take just what they wanted; they took some five or six blankets, four overlets, some calico, and some other things; they took some of the lothes that my father was killed in, some pants, a hat and a shirt, and I on't ecollect what else; some of them pulled off their own clothes and put on he stolen clothes in the room. The coat we got back. We found it where elk, Williams and Crabtree were killed. We could have sold the blankets for ix dollars; the coverlets might have been worth eight dollars apiece. The oat that my father was shot in was shot so that it was not worth much of nything. They took an ax and broke up a table, besides cutting the floor. hey brought Delk, Williams and Crabtree into the kitchen. Crabtree's mother egged for her boy, and Champ told her it was too late now, that she ought o have made him do better long ago, and his mother said he hadn't done nything. He said that by G -- d he was going to kill them with a knife he rew. He said he had never said yet that he was going to kill a man but what e got to kill him. When he threatened to burn the house if I didn't tell here my brother was, he said if he caught him he intended to unjoint every oint in his body, and throw the pieces so far apart that we would never get hem to bury them. county twenty-eight holes cut in Crabtree's coat when we washed it after e was cut up so; I saw two cornstalks driven in his left shoulder; I knew erguson well; he stayed all night at my father's house, about four years efore the war; afterwards first saw him in Clinton County, Ky.; Ferguson as riding a horse I thought belonged to Daniel Kogier; I saw the horse hristmas, and Kogier had it then; I spent the Christmas holidays with Kogier, nd saw the horse several days; it was after that Christmas I saw Ferguson ith the horse. . -- When and where did you see the prisoner next after that? Who were ith him, and what did they do? . -- It was when he came to my father's and took him off; Galen Elliott, octor Elliot, Henry Sublets, John (Cooney) Smith, Hamp McGinnis, Jouett cGinnis, and Will Hildreth, were all that came to the house; this was on the d of May, 1862. . -- Now state what was done, and who gave orders and controlled the arty. . -- My father was sitting in the yard: he went into the house, and ouett McGinnis told my father to go out, and pushed John Smith out to shoot im; mother and myself caught hold of Smith and told him not to kill father, nd Champ said he shouldn't be hurt, for me to go back in the house and go o my work; they took my father away. . -- Where did you find your father, and how long after they took him way? . -- We found my father at the old Conrad Piles place. Jeff. Piles was aken way in the morning, and about afternoon two girls came and told us they ad killed him, and I went over and found my father dead. . -- Describe the wounds that were on your father. . -- I saw two wounds that were on his left arm, and one through his nkle, and a bullet had entered the centre of his forehead. It had gone through the skull and lodged. I could see the bullet. They said there were more on is back, but I didn't see them. djourned to 8 o'clock this morning. Milly WARD Piros My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff t's gone http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message

I wonder if anyone can help me with the people who are in the house when this all took place. Is this the account of the murder of John Crabtree, son of William "Painter Bill" Crabtree? So his mother who was present would be Emily Helm? Does anyone know who's son William Delk was, or John Williams? Sounds like they were all in this house together with their mothers present when this happened. What a truely horrifying night. > From: MPiros1120@aol.com > Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:33:43 -0500 > To: TNFENTRE@rootsweb.com > CC: DELk@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TNFENTRE] Trial of Champ Ferguson from Tami > > Thought this might be of interest to someone. Tami Delk Longino > > http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B15F6395A1B7493C7A81783D85 > F418684F9&pagewanted=2 > > > > THE TRIAL OF CHAMP FERGUSON.; Details of Atrocious Barbarities. > Published: August 15, 1865 > > > > > The notorious desperado, CHAMP FERGUSON, is now on trial in Nashville. > Between fifty and sixty murders are charged to him personally. The following > testimony is no worse than that which has been given daily during the last > three or four weeks: > John Huff, a witness for the prosecution, testified as follows: Am a son > of Mrs. Patsey Huff, of Fentress County, Tenn.; was at her house when Wm. > Delk, John Crabtree and John Williams were taken from there; Ferguson, Hans > Moles, John Gregory and Thomas Riley were all I recognized out of the party > of thirteen or fourteen who came to the house; it was at night, I think, at > one o'clock, as near as I can recollect; they surrounded the house, and > said for some one to get up and strike a light; I started to do so, and they > asked who I was; I told them; don't know who it was asked me that; they > told me if I got up they would kill me; some one then ordered me to get up and > make a light, which I did; Hans Moles ordered me to do this; some asked > who were in there; I told them I didn't know; then they asked if Preston Huff > and Andrew Huff were present, and said they were going to kill them it > they were there. They asked me then who all were there that night. I told them > William Delk, John Crabtree, John Williams, William Huff and Preston Huff > were there, and that Andy Huff was not there. Then they ordered those in > the house to surrender; they hadn't seen them yet; here Delk walked out to the > crowd and asked what they were going to do with them; they replied that > they were going to take them to Albany, to headquarters, to have their trial; > the other boys, Williams and Crabtree, surrendered themselves, and the > party all came into the house, and went to searching it; then they took the > straps off their guns and tied the prisoners; Delk begged them not to tie him > so tight, that it hurt him; Ferguson said: "D -- n you, that is what we > want to do -- we want to hurt you;" Delk aimed to give my sister some money > to give his mother, and Thomas Riley grabbed the money; Crabtree started to > give his mother a knife, which they grabbed for, but she got it. Champ then > got a negro girl, saying she belonged to Eli Hatfield, and he had orders > to take her. The girl belonged to Hatfield, who is a brother-in-law of mine. > My mother had raised the negro. They then went to taking things from the > house -- bed clothing and wearing apparel. Ferguson told the men to take > what they pleased, when the money was taken from Delk. Ferguson told him he > (Delk) would have so further use for money. They chopped up the floor and > threatened to burn the house. They chopped up two planks of the floor. > Ferguson then told the prisoners that he was going to kill them. He drew his knife > and told Crabtree that he was going to cut his throat. Crabtree's mother > said to Ferguson, when they started. "You ain't going to kill him, are you?" > and Ferguson said they were. Then they started and took Crabtree, Delk, > Williams, and the negro girl with them. They got about one hundred yards from > the house, and I saw the light of two or three guns, whereupon I went into > the house, and there heard about twelve or thirteen guns. Heard some one > say two or three times, "run." Between half and three-quarters of an hour > from the time they left the house, I went to Piles place and found Delk, > Williams, and Crabtree dead in the horse-lot. Didn't hear any firing after at > the Piles place. Williams was shot about the centre of the forehead, and a > piece of his skull was blown off. Delk was shot once through his breast, and > a bayonet run through his breast -- it looked like it might have been a > bayonet; Crabtree I don't think was shot at all -- he was just cut; he was cut > all over the breast, and in the forepart of his shoulder, between the neck > and collar-bone; also in the back, under the shoulder-blade; in that wound > was a cornstalk stuck in and cut off; my sister (Mrs. Lucinda Hatfield) > and Crabtree's mother, and Miss Annie Piercy, went with me to the Piles > place, where we found the bodies; saw there Vina Piles, Nannie Piles and Wm. > Piles; didn't see Mrs. Piles, the mother of Vina Piles; think she was dead at > the time. > Ferguson gave the orders, and had control of the party while at my > mother's house. All this occurred about Oct. 1, 1863. They stayed at the house > from the time they came until about daylight. > Cross-examination by the Defence -- Q. -- How old were you at the time this > occurrence took place? > A. -- About 16 years old. > Q. -- Were you disturbed while the party above-mentioned were at your > house? > A. -- When they first came up, I was. They made us all get up, and > threatened to kill me, and threatened to take me off with them. They said I had > been in the army, and John Gregory told them I hadn't, and then they let me > off. > Q. -- You say Preston Huff and Wm. Huff were at the house; what became of > them? > A. -- Why, they got away. > Q. -- Were Preston Huff and Wm. Huff armed? > A. -- Yes, Sir. > Q. -- Did you hear them shoot? Do you know what they shot at? > A. -- I heard them shoot; they said they shot at the men that came to the > house; but those men shot first. > Q. -- Did Delk, Williams and Crabtree belong to an independent company? > A. -- Not as I know of; they said they belonged to the Seventh Tennessee > Infantry. > Q. -- Were they in the habit of lying out, shooting at soldiers and others > passing the road? > A. -- If they were I don't know it. > Q. -- Did these men, Delk, Williams and Crabtree, belong to Eli Hatfield's > command? > A. -- Not as I know of. > Q. -- How long had they been in that part of the country? > A. -- I don't know how long; Delk came there after they were whipped at > Huntsville; I had never seen Williams and Crabtree there before that night. > Q. -- What instrument was used for chopping the floor? > A. -- An axe; they got it there at our house; I don't know who did the > chopping. > Q. -- You saw Ferguson take away a negro girl; might you not be mistaken? > Was it not Hans Moles and Alex. Evans that took her? > A. -- No, Sir, it was Ferguson. > Reexamination by the Judge Advocate. -- Q. -- Did you see behind whom the > negro girl rode, in going from your mother's house to the Piles Place? > A. -- I do not know; they took her off from our house walking. > Mrs. Lucinda Hatfield, a witness for the prosecution, testified as follows: > Am the daughter of the late Alexander Huff and Mrs. Patsey Huff, and the > wife of Eli Hatfield; my father was killed the 2d day of May, 1865; was at > my mother's house at the time Delk, Williams and Crabtree were taken from > there, but don't recollect the date of the affair. > [As most of the testimony of this witness was merely corroborative of the > previous evidence, presenting the same facts in similar language, we omit > all, excepting such points as are new.] > Champ said by G -- d he intended to burn the house, unless I would tell > where my brother, Preston Huff, and my cousin, William Huff, were; the men > that were with him asked what were the orders next, and he (Ferguson) told > them to take just what they wanted; they took some five or six blankets, four > coverlets, some calico, and some other things; they took some of the > clothes that my father was killed in, some pants, a hat and a shirt, and I don't > recollect what else; some of them pulled off their own clothes and put on > the stolen clothes in the room. The coat we got back. We found it where > Delk, Williams and Crabtree were killed. We could have sold the blankets for > six dollars; the coverlets might have been worth eight dollars apiece. The > coat that my father was shot in was shot so that it was not worth much of > anything. They took an ax and broke up a table, besides cutting the floor. > They brought Delk, Williams and Crabtree into the kitchen. Crabtree's mother > begged for her boy, and Champ told her it was too late now, that she ought > to have made him do better long ago, and his mother said he hadn't done > anything. He said that by G -- d he was going to kill them with a knife he > drew. He said he had never said yet that he was going to kill a man but what > he got to kill him. When he threatened to burn the house if I didn't tell > where my brother was, he said if he caught him he intended to unjoint every > joint in his body, and throw the pieces so far apart that we would never get > them to bury them. > I county twenty-eight holes cut in Crabtree's coat when we washed it after > he was cut up so; I saw two cornstalks driven in his left shoulder; I knew > Ferguson well; he stayed all night at my father's house, about four years > before the war; afterwards first saw him in Clinton County, Ky.; Ferguson > was riding a horse I thought belonged to Daniel Kogier; I saw the horse > Christmas, and Kogier had it then; I spent the Christmas holidays with Kogier, > and saw the horse several days; it was after that Christmas I saw Ferguson > with the horse. > Q. -- When and where did you see the prisoner next after that? Who were > with him, and what did they do? > A. -- It was when he came to my father's and took him off; Galen Elliott, > Doctor Elliot, Henry Sublets, John (Cooney) Smith, Hamp McGinnis, Jouett > McGinnis, and Will Hildreth, were all that came to the house; this was on the > 2d of May, 1862. > Q. -- Now state what was done, and who gave orders and controlled the > party. > A. -- My father was sitting in the yard: he went into the house, and > Jouett McGinnis told my father to go out, and pushed John Smith out to shoot > him; mother and myself caught hold of Smith and told him not to kill father, > and Champ said he shouldn't be hurt, for me to go back in the house and go > to my work; they took my father away. > Q. -- Where did you find your father, and how long after they took him > away? > A. -- We found my father at the old Conrad Piles place. Jeff. Piles was > taken way in the morning, and about afternoon two girls came and told us they > had killed him, and I went over and found my father dead. > Q. -- Describe the wounds that were on your father. > A. -- I saw two wounds that were on his left arm, and one through his > ankle, and a bullet had entered the centre of his forehead. It had gone through > the skull and lodged. I could see the bullet. They said there were more on > his back, but I didn't see them. > Adjourned to 8 o'clock this morning. > > > > > > Milly WARD Piros > > My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff > It's gone > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thought this might be of interest to someone. Tami Delk Longino http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B15F6395A1B7493C7A81783D85 F418684F9&pagewanted=2 THE TRIAL OF CHAMP FERGUSON.; Details of Atrocious Barbarities. Published: August 15, 1865 The notorious desperado, CHAMP FERGUSON, is now on trial in Nashville. Between fifty and sixty murders are charged to him personally. The following testimony is no worse than that which has been given daily during the last three or four weeks: John Huff, a witness for the prosecution, testified as follows: Am a son of Mrs. Patsey Huff, of Fentress County, Tenn.; was at her house when Wm. Delk, John Crabtree and John Williams were taken from there; Ferguson, Hans Moles, John Gregory and Thomas Riley were all I recognized out of the party of thirteen or fourteen who came to the house; it was at night, I think, at one o'clock, as near as I can recollect; they surrounded the house, and said for some one to get up and strike a light; I started to do so, and they asked who I was; I told them; don't know who it was asked me that; they told me if I got up they would kill me; some one then ordered me to get up and make a light, which I did; Hans Moles ordered me to do this; some asked who were in there; I told them I didn't know; then they asked if Preston Huff and Andrew Huff were present, and said they were going to kill them it they were there. They asked me then who all were there that night. I told them William Delk, John Crabtree, John Williams, William Huff and Preston Huff were there, and that Andy Huff was not there. Then they ordered those in the house to surrender; they hadn't seen them yet; here Delk walked out to the crowd and asked what they were going to do with them; they replied that they were going to take them to Albany, to headquarters, to have their trial; the other boys, Williams and Crabtree, surrendered themselves, and the party all came into the house, and went to searching it; then they took the straps off their guns and tied the prisoners; Delk begged them not to tie him so tight, that it hurt him; Ferguson said: "D -- n you, that is what we want to do -- we want to hurt you;" Delk aimed to give my sister some money to give his mother, and Thomas Riley grabbed the money; Crabtree started to give his mother a knife, which they grabbed for, but she got it. Champ then got a negro girl, saying she belonged to Eli Hatfield, and he had orders to take her. The girl belonged to Hatfield, who is a brother-in-law of mine. My mother had raised the negro. They then went to taking things from the house -- bed clothing and wearing apparel. Ferguson told the men to take what they pleased, when the money was taken from Delk. Ferguson told him he (Delk) would have so further use for money. They chopped up the floor and threatened to burn the house. They chopped up two planks of the floor. Ferguson then told the prisoners that he was going to kill them. He drew his knife and told Crabtree that he was going to cut his throat. Crabtree's mother said to Ferguson, when they started. "You ain't going to kill him, are you?" and Ferguson said they were. Then they started and took Crabtree, Delk, Williams, and the negro girl with them. They got about one hundred yards from the house, and I saw the light of two or three guns, whereupon I went into the house, and there heard about twelve or thirteen guns. Heard some one say two or three times, "run." Between half and three-quarters of an hour from the time they left the house, I went to Piles place and found Delk, Williams, and Crabtree dead in the horse-lot. Didn't hear any firing after at the Piles place. Williams was shot about the centre of the forehead, and a piece of his skull was blown off. Delk was shot once through his breast, and a bayonet run through his breast -- it looked like it might have been a bayonet; Crabtree I don't think was shot at all -- he was just cut; he was cut all over the breast, and in the forepart of his shoulder, between the neck and collar-bone; also in the back, under the shoulder-blade; in that wound was a cornstalk stuck in and cut off; my sister (Mrs. Lucinda Hatfield) and Crabtree's mother, and Miss Annie Piercy, went with me to the Piles place, where we found the bodies; saw there Vina Piles, Nannie Piles and Wm. Piles; didn't see Mrs. Piles, the mother of Vina Piles; think she was dead at the time. Ferguson gave the orders, and had control of the party while at my mother's house. All this occurred about Oct. 1, 1863. They stayed at the house from the time they came until about daylight. Cross-examination by the Defence -- Q. -- How old were you at the time this occurrence took place? A. -- About 16 years old. Q. -- Were you disturbed while the party above-mentioned were at your house? A. -- When they first came up, I was. They made us all get up, and threatened to kill me, and threatened to take me off with them. They said I had been in the army, and John Gregory told them I hadn't, and then they let me off. Q. -- You say Preston Huff and Wm. Huff were at the house; what became of them? A. -- Why, they got away. Q. -- Were Preston Huff and Wm. Huff armed? A. -- Yes, Sir. Q. -- Did you hear them shoot? Do you know what they shot at? A. -- I heard them shoot; they said they shot at the men that came to the house; but those men shot first. Q. -- Did Delk, Williams and Crabtree belong to an independent company? A. -- Not as I know of; they said they belonged to the Seventh Tennessee Infantry. Q. -- Were they in the habit of lying out, shooting at soldiers and others passing the road? A. -- If they were I don't know it. Q. -- Did these men, Delk, Williams and Crabtree, belong to Eli Hatfield's command? A. -- Not as I know of. Q. -- How long had they been in that part of the country? A. -- I don't know how long; Delk came there after they were whipped at Huntsville; I had never seen Williams and Crabtree there before that night. Q. -- What instrument was used for chopping the floor? A. -- An axe; they got it there at our house; I don't know who did the chopping. Q. -- You saw Ferguson take away a negro girl; might you not be mistaken? Was it not Hans Moles and Alex. Evans that took her? A. -- No, Sir, it was Ferguson. Reexamination by the Judge Advocate. -- Q. -- Did you see behind whom the negro girl rode, in going from your mother's house to the Piles Place? A. -- I do not know; they took her off from our house walking. Mrs. Lucinda Hatfield, a witness for the prosecution, testified as follows: Am the daughter of the late Alexander Huff and Mrs. Patsey Huff, and the wife of Eli Hatfield; my father was killed the 2d day of May, 1865; was at my mother's house at the time Delk, Williams and Crabtree were taken from there, but don't recollect the date of the affair. [As most of the testimony of this witness was merely corroborative of the previous evidence, presenting the same facts in similar language, we omit all, excepting such points as are new.] Champ said by G -- d he intended to burn the house, unless I would tell where my brother, Preston Huff, and my cousin, William Huff, were; the men that were with him asked what were the orders next, and he (Ferguson) told them to take just what they wanted; they took some five or six blankets, four coverlets, some calico, and some other things; they took some of the clothes that my father was killed in, some pants, a hat and a shirt, and I don't recollect what else; some of them pulled off their own clothes and put on the stolen clothes in the room. The coat we got back. We found it where Delk, Williams and Crabtree were killed. We could have sold the blankets for six dollars; the coverlets might have been worth eight dollars apiece. The coat that my father was shot in was shot so that it was not worth much of anything. They took an ax and broke up a table, besides cutting the floor. They brought Delk, Williams and Crabtree into the kitchen. Crabtree's mother begged for her boy, and Champ told her it was too late now, that she ought to have made him do better long ago, and his mother said he hadn't done anything. He said that by G -- d he was going to kill them with a knife he drew. He said he had never said yet that he was going to kill a man but what he got to kill him. When he threatened to burn the house if I didn't tell where my brother was, he said if he caught him he intended to unjoint every joint in his body, and throw the pieces so far apart that we would never get them to bury them. I county twenty-eight holes cut in Crabtree's coat when we washed it after he was cut up so; I saw two cornstalks driven in his left shoulder; I knew Ferguson well; he stayed all night at my father's house, about four years before the war; afterwards first saw him in Clinton County, Ky.; Ferguson was riding a horse I thought belonged to Daniel Kogier; I saw the horse Christmas, and Kogier had it then; I spent the Christmas holidays with Kogier, and saw the horse several days; it was after that Christmas I saw Ferguson with the horse. Q. -- When and where did you see the prisoner next after that? Who were with him, and what did they do? A. -- It was when he came to my father's and took him off; Galen Elliott, Doctor Elliot, Henry Sublets, John (Cooney) Smith, Hamp McGinnis, Jouett McGinnis, and Will Hildreth, were all that came to the house; this was on the 2d of May, 1862. Q. -- Now state what was done, and who gave orders and controlled the party. A. -- My father was sitting in the yard: he went into the house, and Jouett McGinnis told my father to go out, and pushed John Smith out to shoot him; mother and myself caught hold of Smith and told him not to kill father, and Champ said he shouldn't be hurt, for me to go back in the house and go to my work; they took my father away. Q. -- Where did you find your father, and how long after they took him away? A. -- We found my father at the old Conrad Piles place. Jeff. Piles was taken way in the morning, and about afternoon two girls came and told us they had killed him, and I went over and found my father dead. Q. -- Describe the wounds that were on your father. A. -- I saw two wounds that were on his left arm, and one through his ankle, and a bullet had entered the centre of his forehead. It had gone through the skull and lodged. I could see the bullet. They said there were more on his back, but I didn't see them. Adjourned to 8 o'clock this morning. Milly WARD Piros My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff It's gone

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