Rootsweb has started new classified pages. There are "For Sale" and "Wanted to Buy" boards. They are linked on the new cluster boards. The Rootsweb Classified is located toward the bottom of the page at this URL: http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/TN/Gibson/ So if you know of books for sale or have a book for sale, don't hesitate to use these boards. Also post to the Wanted To Buy board if you are looking for a book(s). These should be really interesting boards once some posting has been done. My apologies, as I just noticed this afternoon that the DEEDS link was NOT on the main GIbson page. I have no idea how long it has been missing. I added it so.......POST THOSE DEEDS! I'm really sorry about this. Vicki Gibson Co. TN CC

HAPPYDI@aol.com wrote: > Family lore is that my BOYKIN family was instrumental in getting the RR into > Madison/Crockett/Gibson Co. But, the story stops there. Which Boykins and > how instrumental goes unanswered. Can anyone enlighten me? > Phil Di Matteo Phil, I can't help you on your specifics, however, according to Charles Edmundson in his family history book called "Colonists and Pioneers," page 25, he tells of a Robert Tinkle who owned the 1000 acre track of land where Rutherford now sets. He traded some land, I've heard 500 acres, to the Railroad to guarantee that the RR would pass through his land and not near Pond Hill as originally planned. Mr Edmundson saids, "It was a good thing for my relatives, but a sad day for the population of Rutherford. The railroad was routed just at the edge of the river bottom, ideal for mosquitoes and malaria, whereas Pond Hill was on an upland where the mosquitoes would have been far less pestilential. As a boy I myself paid the price with recurrent bouts of malaria and the ingurgitation of endless capsules of quinine." I'm sure several folks and/or events help persquade the routing or some other aspect of the railroads through Gibson Co. I just thought folks might be interested in this. Take care everyone, Eddy G. Clark

Adam McCartney gave me some updates today on some cemeteries. You might look at the updates on Patterson and Chicken Hill cemeteries. The additions are apparently known burials with no markers. Read the addition at the bottom of Pratt cemetery of Mary Jane McCartney. http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngibson/cemeteries/pratt.txt Anyone else have a story like this? Is so, let's hear it! Vicki Gibson County TN CC

Dear Vicki and Adam, Thank you for adding Nancy Parsons Butler to the Patterson Cemetery listing. You guys are great. Karla Butler Everett

Family lore is that my BOYKIN family was instrumental in getting the RR into Madison/Crockett/Gibson Co. But, the story stops there. Which Boykins and how instrumental goes unanswered. Can anyone enlighten me? Phil Di Matteo

The "jersey wagon" was first built in 1817 as a conveyance designed especially to carry Hassler's instruments, books, and personal gear from station to station. It was a peculiar rig; very large, low to the ground, mounted on easy springs to cushion the motion of the instruments, and boxy in appearance. It was designed with many compartments that allowed Hassler to reach needed instruments and books without disturbing the others. It attracted much attention wherever it went, which Hassler seemed to enjoy immensely. for more information go to: http://www.lib.noaa.gov/edocs/HASSLER3.htm Randy Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: Compu <madlee@compu.net> To: <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [TNGIBSON-L] Let's talk wagons? > Now that we all enjoyed talking trains so much , let's take a shot at > "Wagons". On a 1840ish estate sale there was listed a "Jersey Wagon". > What is a Jersey Wagon? Webster doesn't have it neither does the computor > search engines. HELP! Madelon > -----Original Message----- > From: Red & Pat Anthony <redpata@hypertech.net> > To: TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 10:15 AM > Subject: [TNGIBSON-L] Trains and farming > > > >Thanks everyone for the notes I received on the trains and farming. Its > great to hear from so many with Gibson County roots. A happy 4th and good > luck in your searching. Red Anthony > >ony > >

Randy, Thanks for the info. Now the family just has to try to figure out what our relative was doing with such an expensive, specialty wagon. He was not a surveyor. Maybe it was for a smoother ride with the wagon train going thru MS. Hmmmm??Madelon -----Original Message----- From: Randy Martin <jrmartin@pdq.net> To: TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [TNGIBSON-L] Let's talk wagons? >The "jersey wagon" was first built in 1817 as a conveyance designed >especially to carry Hassler's instruments, books, >and personal gear from station to station. It was a peculiar rig; very >large, low to the ground, mounted on easy springs >to cushion the motion of the instruments, and boxy in appearance. It was >designed with many compartments that >allowed Hassler to reach needed instruments and books without disturbing the >others. It attracted much attention >wherever it went, which Hassler seemed to enjoy immensely. > >for more information go to: http://www.lib.noaa.gov/edocs/HASSLER3.htm > >Randy Martin > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Compu <madlee@compu.net> >To: <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 10:44 AM >Subject: Re: [TNGIBSON-L] Let's talk wagons? > > >> Now that we all enjoyed talking trains so much , let's take a shot at >> "Wagons". On a 1840ish estate sale there was listed a "Jersey Wagon". >> What is a Jersey Wagon? Webster doesn't have it neither does the computor >> search engines. HELP! Madelon >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Red & Pat Anthony <redpata@hypertech.net> >> To: TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 10:15 AM >> Subject: [TNGIBSON-L] Trains and farming >> >> >> >Thanks everyone for the notes I received on the trains and farming. Its >> great to hear from so many with Gibson County roots. A happy 4th and good >> luck in your searching. Red Anthony >> >ony >> >> >

Now that we all enjoyed talking trains so much , let's take a shot at "Wagons". On a 1840ish estate sale there was listed a "Jersey Wagon". What is a Jersey Wagon? Webster doesn't have it neither does the computor search engines. HELP! Madelon -----Original Message----- From: Red & Pat Anthony <redpata@hypertech.net> To: TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 10:15 AM Subject: [TNGIBSON-L] Trains and farming >Thanks everyone for the notes I received on the trains and farming. Its great to hear from so many with Gibson County roots. A happy 4th and good luck in your searching. Red Anthony >ony

Thanks everyone for the notes I received on the trains and farming. Its great to hear from so many with Gibson County roots. A happy 4th and good luck in your searching. Red Anthony ony

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----- Original Message ----- From: Red & Pat Anthony <redpata@hypertech.net> To: <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 4:00 PM Subject: [TNGIBSON-L] Farming from yesterday > In my recent notes with Charles McCollum about "gathering corn", I asked him if he knew what the term "suckering and tying" referred to. He didn't know, I wonder if there's anyone out there that knows. If you were raised around the Fruitland area you should. Red Anthony > thony > > I'm not sure what that referred to in Gibson Co. but "suckering and trying" refers to breaking off the suckers that grow on tomato plants at junction of the stalk and the branches and you have to tie the stalks to poles to keep the plants from falling over under the weight of the fruit. Randy Martin

You bet they raised lots of cotton. The Tomatoes and Cabbage were the early summer "money crop". If they could get an early crop ready, an acre of ground would grow several hundred dollars worth. The rich bottom ground where the cabbage was grown, could later be planted in corn, but You had to have the rich bottom ground for the cabbage and tomatoes, they wouldn't do any good on hill ground. l ground.

Hey you all While we are talking farming, isn't Gibson Co. cotton country? Elise

I believe Randy has been around a tomato patch. In the 1940s the farmers around Fruitland raised lots of tomatoes and cabbage for shipment to the northern markets. There were 3 large "pack sheds" there at the time where the farmers brought the vegetables to be crated and loaded on railroad cars for shipment. The tomato plants were started in large hot beds and then set out in the fields after the weather warmed. A "stick" was drove by each plant, and as the plant grew, the workers would then go thur the field and break the suckers from above the limbs that grew the tomatoes. They would also tie the plant to the stick with twine. By keeping the suckers off the plants, the tomatoes would all be ready to pick about the same time. When they got about the size of a baseball, or maybe a little larger, they were picked green. I guess they ripened on the long train ride. The suckering and tying in the hot weather of June was quite a job, and by the end of the day, you were as "green"! as the plants. Man, I miss those good old days, lol. Red Anthony days, lol. Red Anthony

In my recent notes with Charles McCollum about "gathering corn", I asked him if he knew what the term "suckering and tying" referred to. He didn't know, I wonder if there's anyone out there that knows. If you were raised around the Fruitland area you should. Red Anthony thony

My grandfather, Jesse Stewart, was born in Humboldt, TN in 1889. (His birth name was Lewis, but we can't find any evidence of that. He was adopted in 1893 by William Thomas and Barbara Jane [Walters] Stewart.) He told us that he rode the train from Gibson Co., TN to Lamar County, TX. If you could share any information about the trains from that region, I would appreciate it. Thanks. Betty Vaughan kvaughan@hal-pc.org -----Original Message----- From: DSHopmann@aol.com <DSHopmann@aol.com> To: TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 3:55 PM Subject: [TNGIBSON-L] Train >George White Moore sent his younger children in 1878 via a train (railroad) >to meet their older brother, Jesse Thomas Moore in Hood Co., TX, according to >family tradition of a descendent. He lived in the Rutherford area. I have >never followed up to see if trains really did exist at that time. > >Diane > >______________________________

Hi, I have a question. All my info on my geocities website is from public records except for a few family photos. Would y' all change servers and why? 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

Robert W. Crenshaw Jul 18 1889-Jan 22 1979.... ------- When I visited Gibson Co, with camera in hand, I went a little crazy in cemeteries. Since my maiden name was Crenshaw (and have no history of Crenshaws in TN..mine are in SC/TX) I took a photo of a tombstone just because! Bessie Hunt Crenshaw July 7 1897-Oct 24 1982 and same stone as Robert W. Crenshaw Pvt US Army World War I July 18 1889-Jan 22 1879. Also Mary E. Crenshaw 1865-1935 on same stone as Willie V. Crenshaw 1861-1932. Just to let you know there are still Crenshaws in Gibson Co! Cathy

When I visited Gibson Co, with camera in hand, I went a little crazy in cemeteries. Since my maiden name was Crenshaw (and have no history of Crenshaws in TN..mine are in SC/TX) I took a photo of a tombstone just because! Bessie Hunt Crenshaw July 7 1897-Oct 24 1982 and same stone as Robert W. Crenshaw Pvt US Army World War I July 18 1889-Jan 22 1879. Also Mary E. Crenshaw 1865-1935 on same stone as Willie V. Crenshaw 1861-1932. Just to let you know there are still Crenshaws in Gibson Co! Cathy Subject: [TNGIBSON-L] CRENSHAWs in Gibson Co., TN >Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm researching my CRENSHAW family roots in >Gibson County. I've been searching the web site at >www.rootsweb.com/~tngibson/ and have found a small amount of info >there. I noticed that there is a Crenshaw-Wyatt Cemetery, but it >hasn't been transcribed, yet. Any additional information about them >will be appreciated. > >Thanks, >Curtis Lathan >Colo Spgs, CO

Vicki, The train ride was great. Anyone with ties to Gibson Co. should take it. Dorothy >The Train Ride on the main page has gotten longer. If you get time, try to >take a quick ride! > >Vicki >Gibson Co. TN CC >http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngibson > > >