I am searching for information on a Cornelia "Neely" STEADFORD and her mother Elizabeth (Brady) STEADFORD. They are listed in the 1880 Gibson County census. They are living with Elizabeth's daughter Sarah FRY. I would love to find any record of these people. Lola

----- Original Message ----- From: Charles R. Young <tncharles@mindspring.com> To: <TnGibson@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 9:22 AM Subject: tea pot festival - Trenton I was pleased to hear of the big doings in Trenton a few days ago when the > above took place. I understand that Peter Jennings and his wife who was a > Freed came down for the event from NY. It seems that her father collected > tea pots from many parts of the world and left them to the city of Trenton. > They are on display at city hall. You may know that the Freed family > operated a dept store in Trenton from just after the Civil War until a few > years ago. I spoke to Jay Freed by phone on last Sunday. Jay now lives in > St. Louis and is recovering from cancer surgery. He is one of the last > survivors of the Freeds at Trenton. He is a navy veteran fom WW2 and a > graduate of UT Knoxville where I knew him. Jennings wife is his cousin > from NY and is a tv producer. There is an article in one of Emily Walker's > cemetery listings in tribute to the Freeds. > >

From: Charles Gregory <gregoryc@home.com> To: <TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [TNGEN-L] What happened in 1885? > In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors > disappeared during a certain period in history, this might help. > Epidemics have always had a great influence on people - and thus > influencing, as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many > cases > of > people disappearing from records can be traced to dying during an > epidemic > or moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in > the > United States are listed below. > > 1657 Boston: Measles > 1687 Boston: Measles > 1690 New York: Yellow Fever > 1713 Boston: Measles > 1729 Boston: Measles > 1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza > 1738 South Carolina: Smallpox > 1739-40 Boston: Measles > 1747 Conn, NY, PA & SC: Measles > 1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people): Measles > 1761 North America & West Indies: Influenza > 1772 North America: Measles > 1775 North America (especially hard in New England): Epidemic > (unknown) > 1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu epidemics) > 1788 Philadelphia & NY: Measles > 1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever" > 1793 Virginia: Influenza (killed 500 people in 5 counties in 4 > weeks) > 1793 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) > 1783* Delaware (Dover) "extremely fatal" bilious disorder > 1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown) many unexplained deaths > 1794 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever > 1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever > 1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) > 1803 New York: Yellow Fever > 1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads) > 1831-32 Nationwide: Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants) > 1832 New York & other major cities: Cholera > 1837 Philadelphia: Typhus > 1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in South) > 1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever > 1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza > 1848-49 North America: Cholera > 1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever > 1850-51 North America: Influenza > 1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans 8,000 die in summer) > 1855 Nationwide (many parts) Yellow Fever > 1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease's greatest epidemics) > 1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox > 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis & > Washington DC: A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, > Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever > 1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza > 1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease) > 1885 Plymouth, PA: Typhoid > 1886 Jacksonville, FL: Yellow Fever > 1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year) More people > hospitalized in World War I from Influenza than wounds. US > Army > training > camps became death camps - with 80% death rate in some camps. > > Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned: > 1833 Columbus, OH > 1834 New York City > 1849 New York > 1851 Coles Co, IL > 1851 The Great Plains > 1851 Missouri > > > ==== TNGEN Mailing List ==== > Please make sure your links back to any project > site located on USIT has the URL > http://www.tngenweb.org/ >

Commercial Appeal, May 19, 1999 100 Years Ago May 19, 1899 TRENTON, Tenn. --- Excavations for the new county courthouse started at Trenton yesterday afternoon. Jane

Hello All! Does anyone have access to the 1880 census for Gibson Co? I need some help. Barry bcrocker@cwnet.com

These are the names I research in Gibson Co. Alford--William 1786-1835 Thomas Jefferson 1825-1894 Amanda 1848-1878 Arnold E. J. 1814-1878 Nancy C. 1842-1866 Bailey Sally Buchanan 1815-1893 Carlton Cassa 1806-1883 Dunagan John C. 1813- 188? William Thomas 1847-1905 John Calvin 1866-1913 Gentry John B. d1837 Mary E 1841-1879 Jones Washington b1811 Arthur Robert 1846-1906 Mayfield Elias b1774 Letsey 1817-1881 Patterson Carson 1804-1874 Carson 1841-1908 Lula 1873-1926 Margarett b1816 Mary 1829-1898 Randle John b1811 John F b1853 Reed Mary b1862 Richardson Agga 1821-1858 Roberts Bennett Watts 1813-1869 Nancy b1848 Summers John Frank b1859 Arthur Lee b1882 Taylor William 1816-1903 George Washington 1846-1923

Tilghman Files from Jane Norton Powell NAOMI TILGHMAN NORTON Kenton - Services for Naomi Tilghman Norton, 88, will be 4 p.m. today at Morella Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in North Union Cemetery. Mrs. Norton, a homemaker, died Saturday morning at Union City Manor Nursing Center. She was married to the late Fred Norton. They had a son, Robert NOrton of Kenton. For more information, call Karnes and Son Funeral home at 665-6167. Rebel C.Forrester, GLORY AND TEARS, p.163-164, Federal Companies, 14th TN Cavalry, Co.B, Pri. Pickney Tilghman (also, Robert C. and Joshua C. Tilghman). Louisa Norton Tilghman, from "Gibson Co. TN, - Past & Present, page 158, "One incident is worthy of note. A lady living west of Kenton had knitted a pair of woolen socks for her husband who was actively engaged in the war. Later after learning that he had been killed in battle near Columbus, Ky., she started out where the dead in battle had been buried in shallow trenches and without any surface marking of identifications. She passed by these noticing a a human foot with the woolen sock she recognized as the one she had sent her husband. She disenterred his body, placed it in the wagon and again made the long journey bringing his remains to North Union Cemetery for reburial, which the monument erected to his memory shows to be Pickney Tilghman. -----Original Message----- From: Mary M. Moss <marymoss@pacbell.net> To: TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 3:25 PM Subject: [TNGIBSON-L] Re: TNGIBSON-D Digest V99 #39 >This message is in response to a request for a roll call. My name is >Mary Moss and I live in southern California. I subscribed to Rootsweb >several months ago and have yet to figure out how to get started. I am >interested in my father's family but have very little information to >work with. My father's parents and grandparents lived in Kenton, >Tennessee and not being sure if this town straddles the counties of >Gibson and Obion, I joined both Rootsweb lists. > >Family Generations are: > (1) W. T. Moseley married Nancy Flowers on 7/1/1852 > (2) Thomas L. Moseley married Ella Tighlman in December, 1875 > (3) Edgar C. Moseley (no birth date), Katie Moseley and Gray Moseley > (4) Thomas F. Moseley (born in Kenton, TN on 10/14/1907) > >History (from Goodspeed) >W. T. Moseley was born in North Carolina and moved to Tennessee in 1833. >He served in the Confederate Army (I can't find a record of him in the >CSA rosters). He married Nancy Flowers of Gibson County in 1852 and they >had three children. > >The oldest of their three children, Thomas L. Moseley, was born on >6/9/1854. He was my great grandfather. He attended Walnut Grove Academy >in Gibson County until 1872. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and >practiced law in both Gibson and Obion County. He married Ella M. >Tilghman, daughter of R. C. Tilghman. Ella was born on 11/11/1854. >Thomas L. and Ella had three children, Edgar C. Moseley, Katie M. >Moseley and Gray Moseley. Edgar C. Moseley was my grandfather. He >married Mary Johnson (I have no dates or info on Mary Johnson). Their >only child, Thomas F. Moseley was my father. > >Ella Tilghman Moseley lived in Kenton, TN until her death. I don't have >a date of her death but family legend is that she lived a very long life >and died in the 1950's. I have searched through the online cemetery >lists without finding any record of her. > >I search for and am interested in the following surnames: > Moseley > Flowers > Tilghman > Johnson >My father has always maintained that he was related to Davy Crockett, >maybe through the Flowers family. This link would be interesting to >pursue. We were raised in San Antonio, in the shadow of the Alamo. > >I have spent a lot of time searching through the online information at >both Gibson and Obion counties. It would be very helpful to have someone >tell me if Kenton does exist in both counties. > >Thanks for the opportunity to make contact with people who follow >genealogy in Gibson and Obion. The web sites for both counties are >terrific. > >Mary Moseley Moss > >

I am researching BATTLE, DUNLAP, MOORE, GIBSON, KEELEY, EVANS, JEWELL, FLOWERS, SENTER, NOONER, VICKERS, SHANKLIN, GARRETT, WOODS, JOHNSON, TOOMS, WATSON, HUNT, COOPER, THEDFORD, TATENT. Henry BATTLE m.1) Martha DUNLAP m.2) Eleanor (Eley) MOORE Elizabeth BATTLE m. James GIBSON Louisa BATTLE m. Edmund KEELEY Thomas (Thas) BATTLE m. Martha (Mattie) EVANS John W. BATTLE m. Mary Elizabeth (Mollie E.) EVANS Dollie KEELEY m. J. A. SENTER Marvin J. BATTLE m.1) Hattie FLOWERS m.2) Mary NOONER m.3) Annie Mary VICKERS Annie B. BATTLE m.1) Wade JEWELL m.2) Broda M. FLOWERS Ernest Victor BATTLE m. Ruby L. SHANKLIN Clyde Elder BATTLE m.1) Opal GARRETT m.2) Ollie Mae WOODS Ella Mae BATTLE m. Roy JOHNSON Benjamin (B. W.) BATTLE m. ? TOOMS E. L. WATSON m. Essie UNKNOWN Cecil Husie WATSON m. Nellie COOPER Nellie COOPER m. Jessie THEDFORD Sadie Husie WATSON m. Herbert Neal HUNT Seaberry TATENT (Any info. on her would be greatly appreciated) Would love to exchange information. Tina Rahaf Al-Harbi al-harbi@rnet.net http://www.angelfire.com/tn/BattlePride http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/9656

--part1_6da7ef20.24746596_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Some info for any that are tracking the Wallingsford/Wallingford family that were in Gibson County 1840 - 1860. This is the branch that left and went to Indiana. --part1_6da7ef20.24746596_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <nbaker@dmrtc.net> Received: from rly-yg01.mx.aol.com (rly-yg01.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.1]) by air-yg04.mail.aol.com (v59.4) with SMTP; Wed, 19 May 1999 13:52:02 -0400 Received: from dmrtc.net (dmrtc.net [206.160.240.34]) by rly-yg01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id NAA01444 for <WYoung7700@aol.com>; Wed, 19 May 1999 13:52:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from default (dial-303.dmrtc.net [208.10.217.105]) by dmrtc.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA29372 for <WYoung7700@aol.com>; Wed, 19 May 1999 12:51:59 -0500 Message-ID: <007501bea220$359d3160$69d90ad0@default> Reply-To: "Nancy Baker" <nbaker@dmrtc.net> From: "Nancy Baker" <nbaker@dmrtc.net> To: <WYoung7700@aol.com> References: <1bbf8ea9.2473da7e@aol.com> Subject: Re: Wallingford/Wallingsford Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:51:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 ----- Original Message ----- From: <WYoung7700@aol.com> To: <nbaker@dmrtc.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 4:12 AM Subject: Wallingford/Wallingsford > Do you know of anyone with the surnames WALLINGFORD or WALLINGSFORD buried in > any of the cemeterys you have listings for? Hi Bill, I recorded this cemetery in 1965 for the Martin County Historical Society. As far as I know you are the first person that has inquired about it. Wallingford Cemetery - Lost River Twp. Martin Co. Charlotty Wallingford, b. 10 Nov 1854 - d. 1 Sept 1872 daug. of W. J. & T. Wallingtonford Mary A. Wallingford, 10 Dec 1859 - 25 Dec 1870 daug. of W. J. & T. Tabitha Wallingford, 24 Feb 1832 - 11 Nov 1870 daug. of W. J. & T. Laura A. Wallingford, 3 Apr 1867 - Oct 15, 1879 daug. of W. J. & T. James F. Ballard, 1862 - 1864, son of J. & M. Ballard Hiram Evans, 12 Mar 1852 - 15 May, 1865, son of H. & S. Evans Willitha E. Hall, died 7 June 1878, age 21 years & 23 days. Daug. of T. O. & T. G. Hall Silvester Hall, d. 13 Aug 1875, age 6 months & 6 days. Son of of T. O. & T. G. Hall Infant Hall, died 16 Sept 1873 - age 14 days. Son of T. O. & T.G. hall. W. J. Wallingford is listed here in Martin Co., in the 1880 census. If you need this info let me know. Nancy Baker Shoals, IN --part1_6da7ef20.24746596_boundary--

Thanks Toni! Yes, I have.. no luck yet. Though, I'm not ruling anything out. Janis >From: ROCKALL@aol.com >To: janisjs@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: [TNGIBSON-L] Roll Call >Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:06:47 EDT > >Janis, > >Have you tried the 1870 Census for Gibson County? I helped transcribe part >of it to put on US Genweb. I am a retired Detroit Public School teacher. >I >found that census more than interesting. As you know it was the first time >the great majority of African Americans were on it. ( I have transcribed a >few that were free ib the 1860 census.) One lady was 105 years old. I >kept >tring to imagine her thoughts and feelings. > >I think I recognized some of the surnames you listed. It would give you a >place to start. > >Toni > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

I am looking for info on Sam Edward ROE (Born 1899 - Died 1944)and Reba Lerline MEREDITH (Born 1899 - Died 1985) not sure when they were married. Also looking for info on Clarence Acris ALEXANDER (Born 29 Nov 1905 - Died 29 Dec 1984) and Mildred Ann HOLT (Born 27 APR 1912 - Died 19 Oct 1985) Married 30 Sep 1932. I currently live near Seattle but have the house up for sale and will be moving to south central Missouri. Will be glad to get close enough to do some research in Gibson County myself....

BERRY BAXTER HOLMAN MONTGOMERY MEDARS/MEADOWS Jesse T. Baxter and his sister, Kezziah Ann, were supposed to have been born in Gibson County, TN. They are the children of William and Sarah Berry Baxter. I would appreciate info on these families. rmont@midwest.net

I am interested in receiving information on the following people: John David and Correan McCartney David Felix McCartney Sr. Louise Edmonds McCartney Wilsie Crockett Edmonds Michael (lived her earlier life in Rutherford) Roy Mack Edmonds Sr. or Jr. I know birth and departing dates of these people. I am mainly interested in hearing stories about these people. If you know anything, I would like to hear from you. Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you, Tim McCartney

Milton --- does more of the residential area fall in one county over the other --- or is it about the same? Jane -----Original Message----- From: Milton Webb <mwebb@iswt.com> To: TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com <TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 10:40 AM Subject: [TNGIBSON-L] Kenton >The county line does indeed split Kenton. It runs E to W almost through the >center of town. Obion Co. to the North and Gibson Co. to the South. >Milton > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Volunteer of "Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness" >at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/index.htm > >

Researching the surnames of CANNON, PATE, LASATER. I believe my ancestors lived east of Rutherford in the China Grove area. Jim Prange

Take a look at the new Who Is It Photo! http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngibson/who.htm Red Anthony submitted this photo and doesn't know who this musical family could be. He found it in some of his aunt's things that lived in the Rutherford/Obion area. Anyone know who it is? Vicki PS Red, please comment if you have any more hints about this photo! Gibson Co. TN Coordinator USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngibson Vance Family Association http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~rtr89/Vance

William B. BINYON m. Lydia J. TURNER 1843 Gibson County, TN. Where's his parents and siblings and where did he really come from, IL or TN? Angela

These are my Gibson Co. names: Elijah Boyette m Martha Purvis NC>TN Cullen John Boyette m Mary Delila Watts TN>AR Malachi Watts NC>TN>AR Henry Patterson m Lavina O'Neal NC>TN>AR Pleasant Hugh O'Neal m Margaret Trout NC>TN Jacob Trout NC>TN Can anyone help with these? Sue Justice SJJTWO@aol.com

Vickie: More about the Photo. My Aunt & Uncle lived on several farms in that area from about 1921 to 1932-33 period. They moved to Humboldt about this time. The farms were in the Rutherford, Obion, Newbern area. I guess they were share-croppers or day workers, because I remember my Aunt telling about moving every year are so. The photo was probably made in the 1920s or before. They might have been the owners of a farm they lived on. I have determined they are not any of my family, but friends of my Aunt. Anyone have any ideas, please contact me. Red Anthony _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Tricia, Union Grove Methodist Church is in Obion County. From the county line sign in Kenton go north on Highway 45 3.8 miles and turn left on E. Union Grove Rd. the church is 1.1 miles down this road on the left. The county line sign in Kenton is on Hwy. 45 in front of the 1st Babtist Ch. down town. GEORGE Beulah Belle 1907 1968 Raymond L. 1905 1965 married Aug. 25, 1928 GEORGE Martha M. 1873 1963 Thomas F. 1871 1943 GEORGE Franklin son of TF & MM Aug. 26, 1894 Jan 21, 1902 GEORGE Willie son of TF & MM Aug 19, 1896 Sep 4, 1897 GEORGE E. B. Apr 22, 1873 Jul 28, 1921 Father GEORGE Ida wife of EB Feb 19, 1877 Jul 24, 1889 GEORGE Odie V. son of TF & MM Feb 10, 1910 Jan 22, 1911 GEORGE Betty Jean 1932 1933 BUCHANAN Deborah 1876 1895 BUCHANAN Wesley 1869 1954 BUCHANAN Myrtle 1878 1915 BUCHANAN Robert son of WW & MM Ma7 24, 1907 May 13, 1908 BUCHANAN TJ Sep 29, 1844 Sep 2, 1920 BUCHANAN ME his wife Feb 12, 1847 no other date BEARD Elizabethaline dau of RS & MA b&d Feb 8, 1922 BEARD Modest A. Aug 4, 1898 Nov 4, 1970 Hope this helps. Milton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Volunteer of "Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness" at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/index.htm