Hi all, Is the wife of the John Culver in question here the husband of Nancy Choate? I have her listed as d/o Christopher Choate and Nancy Pyburn. Anna Bertram schrieb: > Hi All! > > I'm trying to help someone else. Does anyone out there have Hogue's > book, HISTORY OF FENTRESS COUNTY, that would look on Page 137 to see > what it says there? > > Does anyone know where John CULVER, born about 1794, is buried? More > information below: > > 1860 Fentress Co., TN; Civil District 2; June 19th: CULVER, John, age > 66, TN; Nancy, age 50, NC; Stakely, male, age 19, TN; Thomas W., age 16, > TN; Lorenzo D.(D for Dow), age 14, male, TN; Ludema, female, age 13, TN; > Jacob, age 10, TN; ALBERTSON, Nancy J., age 3, TN; Marzietta, female, > age 1, TN; CULVER, Susan, age 35, domestic, TN (Next door to Solomon and > Maria ALBERTSON. > > John CULVER'S wife, Nancy, and some of his children are buried in the > ALBERTSON Cemetery in Fentress Co., TN but there apparently is not a > marked grave there for John if he is buried there. I did not find any > John CULVER listed in either Fentress Co., TN cemetery book I have. The > one book, FENTRESS COUNTY FOOTPRINTS, by Gary Denton Norris, does say > "Nancy CULVER, ??/??/1800 03/02/1901 w, of John, see page 137 of > Hogue's HFCT Albertson Cemetery". HFTC means HISTORY OF FENTRESS COUNTY. > > Thanks! > Anna Bertram > > abertram@heartoftn.net > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Carletta M. Keith > To: Anna Bertram > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:16 PM > Subject: Re: John Culver > > > I knew he was on the Fentress County census. > > I don't remember and probably don't have a record of whoever told me he > was buried in Fentress County. > > I just have this crazy idea that maybe for some reason he married > Martha Solomon to help her in some way, but I don't guess he would have > gone to the trouble of having 2 children!!! > > I need to get back down to the library and see if I can find those > children in some later census. You know, if you subscribe to every horn > and whistle that Rootsweb has, you could look all this up on the > internet. I choose not to do that. Martha would be 68 in 1900 and the > kids would be 34 and 28. The girl would probably be married by that time. > > I have found other people that went to Missouri - some of Sampson > Solomon's children went there after the war was over. Sampson was in > the next household to Moses on the 1850 census and I have always figured > they were related but couldn't prove it. After the 1860 census, neither > Sampson nor his wife (who was a Beaty) show up. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: Anna Bertram > To: Carletta M. Keith > Sent: October 04, 2005 7:44 PM > Subject: Re: John Culver > > > Carletta, > > You may already have this but just in case. > > 1860 Fentress Co., TN; Civil District 2; June 19th: CULVER, John, age > 66, TN; Nancy, age 50, NC; Stakely, male, age 19, TN; Thomas W., age 16, > TN; Lorenzo D.(D for Dow), age 14, male, TN; Ludema, female, age 13, TN; > Jacob, age 10, TN; ALBERTSON, Nancy J., age 3, TN; Marzietta, female, > age 1, TN; CULVER, Susan, age 35, domestic, TN (Next door to Solomon and > Maria ALBERTSON. > > John CULVER'S wife, Nancy, and some of his children are buried in the > ALBERTSON Cemetery in Fentress Co., TN but there apparently is not a > marked grave there for John if he is buried there. I did not find any > John CULVER listed in either Fentress Co., TN cemetery book I have. The > one book, FENTRESS COUNTY FOOTPRINTS, by Gary Denton Norris, does say > "Nancy CULVER, ??/??/1800 03/02/1901 w, of John, see page 137 of > Hogue's HFCT Albertson Cemetery". HFTC means HISTORY OF FENTRESS > COUNTY. I don't have that book but a lot of people do. Gary Norris > probably does. Write to him specifically on the Fentress Co. list and he > will help you. > > I'll be interested to hear what you learn. There is a Sally CULVER > distantly related to my husband in that area. > > Anna B. > > abertram@heartoftn.net > ----- Original Message ----- From: Carletta M. Keith > To: Anna Bertram > Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:21 PM > Subject: John Culver > > > You asked if I had come up with anything new. I don't know if I > mentioned that I found my grandfather on the 1880 census living in the > household of his oldest sister and her family in Missouri. I had always > wondered where he was for the 1880 census. I guess if I had looked more > thoroughly, I would have found him but it was only after the LDS put the > 1880 census online, that I did find him with a misspelled name. His > sister is married to a man nearly 40 years older than she, and oddly > enough a man by this same name and age was on the census in Fentress > County in 1860. I find it amazing that there are two men named John > Culver and both are born in 1793. > > However, some descendant of the man on the 1860 census says he is > buried there in Fentress County, which would lead one to believe he > never went to MO. > > I posted an inquiry on the Fentress County page. I have posted > before but never got any response. > > > > ==== TNFENTRE Mailing List ==== > Do not spam or send derogatory comments to any other subscriber to this > list. > It will happen once and then you will be permanently removed. > >