O'siyo, I just recently came into some info that may or may not ring someone's bell. John Benjamin REDDEN, B:22 Apr 1883, had a brother named Horace, who was married to a Lettie HEFLIN. Lettie was apparently born in Graves cty., Kentucky and her mother's name was Nettie May WEB, B: 1858. Nettie's mom was Mary Jane DUNBAR, Stewart cty, TN., B: 1831. Mary Jane's mom was Sara (aka Sally) RUSHING, B:1804 in TN.. John Benjamin REDDEN's father was John Wiley REDDEN, B:1846 in Dickson, TN.. Horace & Lettie had twin boys, named (don't laugh) Roy Redden & Toy Redden. Any help is going to make my day. Wado, patti

They both come from Gibson but meet in Mo. Here is how mine goes. 1st family : John HOWELL b 10 Dec 1870 Tn., marrried 1 Sept 1892 Gibson Tn. to Bettie Elizabeth KING b 7 Aug 1871 he died 27 Dec 1924 Payne, Clay , Ark. They had several children. 1st Kittie b 1894 Tn., Acy & Allie ( twin boys ) Jan 1897 Tn., Roy Robert b 12 Dec 1899 Gibson Tn., Laura Elizabeth 16 May 1903 Middle, , Tn., Lily 18 Aug 1906 Tn. two more children were born both in Missouri ps John HOWELL's parents were Houston ( ??? ) and Katherine __?__. 2nd family William Walter GILMER b 9 Nov 1894 Tn married 15 Aug 1908 Tn Jimmie Eugene HALL b 20 Aug 1889 Dyer, Tn., died 22 Nov 1966 Cooter, Pemiscott , Mo. William died 30 Mar 1945 Cooter, Pemiscott, Mo. They had 4 children. The last of the 4 was Willie Geneva GILMER b 7 May 1924 Frog Jump Comm., Gibson, Tn. She married RC Jernigan 9 Nov 1940 Tn. William Walter's sister Gracie GILMER married a WILLIAMS and I also believed lived in Gibson. William Walter's father is Newton Cass GILMER. William has a brother named John Leslie GILMER married to a Maggie Dunn JOHNSON. Gaylon is their son. My line connects with Oma Lee HOWELL ( one of the 2 children born in Mo.) and Gaylon GILMER ( Newton Cass' grandson ) . They married 15 Nov 1934 Caruthersville, Pemiscott, Mo. Thanks for any help and sorry if I thoroughly confused everyone. Lorraine

Hey All, Have a look at the following site. Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Ryden <jryden@rogue.cc.or.us> To: <CARR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 9:41 AM Subject: [CARR-L] Making of America Series > You're going to love this! > > Cornell University has put the entire collection of War > of the Rebellion on line--over 60 volumes!!! They have > scanned every page of every volume. I checked a few > of them out and they are superb. Definitely a site to > bookmark! It includes scanned images of reports, > correspondence, seizures of Southern property, etc. > sent to the War Dept. during the Civil War. It includes > both Union and Confederate accounts. It is in chrono- > logical order but there is no online index. > > http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/MOA-JOURNALS2/WARO.html > > Tip for how to know where to look in it for something: > > Many libraries have the index. Find the volume and page > number for your subject in the index at your local library. > Go to the website and you're in business. > > - -------------------------- > Judy > jryden@rogue.cc.or.us > > The real art of conversation is not only to say > the right thing in the right place, but also to > leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting > moment. > > > ______________________________

This is a story of a brick wall I am up against. I am searching for the final resting place for several BOYKIN family members. Most important are William Osborne BOYKIN and his mother Mariah MOORE Boykin. I know that Lizzie Jones of Trenton, daughter-in-law to William Osborne Boykin lived in Chattanooga with her daughter Cassandra Burton. I have their obits from the Chattanooga Times. Cassandra had one child named Sandra who married Calvin KNAPP. Based on the obit they lived in Tacoma, WA. I wrote to all the KNAPPs in Tacoma with family first names. No results. The reason I am obsessed with this family is because I have a letter written in 1934 by the Solicitor General of GA, John A. BOYKIN, to the Honorable R. L. BOYKIN in Washington, D. C., in which he mentions getting much useful genealogy data from Elizabeth Jones Boykin in Chattanooga. I am hoping that this data was passed down from Lizzie to Cassandra to Sandra to her children. Cassandra "Cassie" Boykin had a sister Georgia Clymetra Boykin who married James Marion Riddle. They had had at least 3 children. They moved to Chicago. There are too many Riddles in Chicago to just start writing. They too may have the data. If anyone knows these names or knows how to contact their descendants I would love to hear from you. Paul, Cassandra and Clymetra went to Peabody High School in Trenton in 1899-1902. Paul and his mother Lizzie are buried in the Jones family plot in Oakland Cemetery. Although I have much information I want to know where the two people mentioned above are buried. Any help will be appreciated. Phil Di Matteo

1880 Census Gibson County. Nancy Palae (Patae) is living with John Lawrence She is listed as Mother-in-Law. Would like to have any information on her or John Lawrence or any of the family. Thank you. Wilburn Mausey (wmausey@mail.orion.org)

My grandfather, R. Howard Tucker, had a half sister named Nellie Blake (born 7/2/1881). According to the information provided by my mother's cousin, Nellie married Charles STUTTS, date unknown. According to the vital statistics index and her death certificate, there was a Nellie STULTS who died in Neboville, Gibson Co. on May 10, 1923 and was buried in Rehobeth Cemetery in Dyer Co. To complicate matters further, there is a C.R. STUTTS who died Dec. 13, 1921, and was buried in the Fairview cemetery. I am trying to decide if these are the right people, what the real last name is and I would love to know why they are buried in different cemeteries. There is a family legend which might explain it, but these dates are all wrong. I would appreciate any assistance from the list. Paula TUCKER, HOLLAND AND CHITWOOD IN TN GILL, FLAHERTY&KENNEDY IN IOWA

I can transcribe a news story regarding the death of Mrs. Luther Cooper, who died in Nov 1909 at age about 22 or 23. Father was John McKinney. Karla

In the 1870 Federal Census for Gibson County, I found the following Stewarts Stewart, P.A. 35 M W brick mason 500 TN Stewart, Martha 33 F W K HOUSE TN Stewart, Nancy 10 F W at home TN Stewart, William 9 M w at home TN Stewart, Mary 7 F W at home TN Stewart, George 5 m W at home TN Stewart, Sarah 3 F W at home TN This William would be the right age to be my g-grandfather William Thomas Stewart, who married Barbara Jane Walters. Does anyone have any leads on this Stewart line? What does the P.A. stand far? I would appreciate anything anyone might have. Thanks. Betty Vaughan kvaughan@hal-pc.org

Contact me if you have Ruby Tolle b. 1903 - d. 1909. Karla

Does anyone have an Alma Glisson who died in late November - early December 1909 in Gibson County? He was about 17.

Any of you with FRAZIER, NEILL, NORTHCOTT, POWELL, CROCKER, ROBINSON, PITTMAN, GOODMAN, CANTRELL, FORD, or BROWNING interests in NE Gibson Co. may want to check out Walnut Grove Methodist cemetery on the Gibson Co. Site. Just some advice. Adam ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

dunagan wrote: > Hi Folks, > I need some help and/or advice. A man asked me for help yesterday on what I > think would be a very worthwhile project, but I have not the faintest idea > of where to start. > He has 50+ hours of interviews on cassette tapes of Gibson County WWI, WWII > and Korean War vets telling their tales of home life and experiences in the > service. He is wanting to have it put together as a book for the libraries. Barry, I have several tapes which were recorded back in the 1970s of my aunts, uncles and a grandfather and misc friends. I have a sound card in my PC as well as a CD-Recorder. With the Adaptec software which came with my CD-R, along with the necessary cable, I hooked up a cassette deck to my sound card and digitized the tapes to create Wave files. Since I wanted to place the tapes onto CDs, I had to digitize using the stereo 44.1Khz sampling rate (which was a major overkill) but the result is a CD that will play on any musical CD player. Going this route, I was limited to about 65-70 minutes per CD. The process is quite simple - record one side of the tape and create one large Wave file (you need a about 1-GB of free HD to do this) and then edit the Wave file by splitting it up into the appropriate number of Wave files (i.e. one Wave file per interview). The Adaptec software will take the 44.1Khz stereo Wave files and convert them to "music" tracks on the CD-R. If you wanted to make a CD which could only be played on a computer, that opens several other options. Two options I'm aware of is by recording Wave files in "mono" at a rate of about "22Khz." This would allow you to place up to 4X times more audio onto a CD, but it would have to stay as Wave files - thus played only on a computer. Another option is to create MP3 files from the 44.1Khz stereo Wave files. MP3 is a compression technique used in "MPEG" DVD type movies to compress audio. Using MP3, you can usually place about 10 hours of CD-quality audio onto a single CD - however, again, you can only play the audio back by using the computer. Hope this helps. Take care, Eddy G. Clark

Hi Folks, I need some help and/or advice. A man asked me for help yesterday on what I think would be a very worthwhile project, but I have not the faintest idea of where to start. He has 50+ hours of interviews on cassette tapes of Gibson County WWI, WWII and Korean War vets telling their tales of home life and experiences in the service. He is wanting to have it put together as a book for the libraries. As I said I have no idea who to contact to do this or who could give advice on how to go about it. I know someone out there does. Barry Barry Dunagan's Genealogy and History Page http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hills/4427/indexb.htm Dickey/Dunagan/Gentry/Grogan/Spence/Patterson Genealogy Confederate History of Gibson County,Tennessee

Vicki, I have been searching for the parents of William Thomas Stewart who married Barbara Jane Walters in Gibson Co., TN. Is there any connection to Abner Potts Stewart? Betty Vaughan kvaughan@hal-pc.org -----Original Message----- From: TNGIBSON-D-request@rootsweb.com <TNGIBSON-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: TNGIBSON-D@rootsweb.com <TNGIBSON-D@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, October 04, 1999 9:20 PM Subject: TNGIBSON-D Digest V99 #82

In case any of you have been snoozin' out there, there have been many updates to our site. First of all, the first 250 stones of Bradford City Cemetery are now ONLINE. There is also now the Goodman, Cobb, and Walnut Grove Methodist Cemetery online. I've done part of the 1840 census as well. Everyone who visits the cemetery site should check out the epitaphs page. (Thanks Vicki. It looks good.) Adam ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

CORRECTION***** CORRECTION ********** CORRECTION*********** The date selected is NOVEMBER 13th , not November 6th as previously reported. Please change your calendar and make plans to join us on NOVEMBER 13TH. Sorry for the ERROR! **************************************************************************** **** This November marks the 4th year we have been cleaning up at Old Shiloh. In the next few days, a notice will go out to all who have help support this effort inviting them to join us for a 4 year reunion to see how much progress we have made since 1995. This is your advance notice (since you have email) of this upcoming event and hopefully will allow you to mark your calendar, tell your family, come and bring a friend. The date selected is SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1999 (rain or shine). Since this will be our last clean up day before the year 2000 rolls in, please make a special effort to attend this clean up. Details will be forthcoming, so stay tuned!! Zach Coleman zcoleman@zcwd.bizland.com

Barry Crocker just completed a map project that shows the formation of Tennessee and the counties. It is very interesting.........lots of counties formed but never organized! It does take a while to load but it's worth it! There are 4 pages of this.......1777 through 1985. The link is located on the Maps page. http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngibson/Maps/Barry/counties.htm Enjoy! And a big thanks to Barry for creating these maps for us! Vicki PS You'll also notice that we have some early trick or treaters on the main page!

Pinpoint is temporarily down so I have substituted a "Be Seen" search engine that will search the entire Gibson site for you. It's in the same location on the main page as Pinpoint was. Try it out and let me know how if you like the results better! Vicki

Kudos to Vicki, Milton, and Catherine for their wonderful work in maintaining the Gibson County site and another round of kudos for all the volunteers who have transcribed, proofread, and looked-up to make our site one of the best. The cream does indeed rise to the top!!!! Rick

Jere While surfing the web my computer froze. I had to force quit. When I got back on line all my save e-mail was gone. Would you send me the name and email address for the fellow in the Jackson Library. Thanks Phil Di Matteo