At 06:28 AM 1/30/00 -0800, you wrote: >TNGILES-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 18 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [TNGILES-L] A Special Prayer for a ["theshadow" <theshadow@glade.net>] > #2 [TNGILES-L] John A. Gordon - 1870 [CBStark@aol.com] > #3 [TNGILES-L] BELLEW, SHIRLEY, JOHNS [RMewbourn@aol.com] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from TNGILES-D, send a message to > > TNGILES-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:01:10 -0600 >From: "theshadow" <theshadow@glade.net> >To: TNGILES-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <013d01bf6a8b$37d57e40$91b14c3f@robertb> >Subject: [TNGILES-L] A Special Prayer for a Listowner >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello Folks, > I want to veer off the subject for a long minute. I am sending this to >my Surname lists because Cher Adams' (who is a Rootweb listowner for several >counties in TN) dad, Kenneth Adams, has a brain tumor which was discovered >just this week. > When someone has a problem in our church we form a prayer chain. I >would like to do that here for Cher's dad, Kenneth Adams and for Cher. I >want to suggest that each of us, in our own way, say individual prayers and >that we also ask others in our genealogical circles to add a prayer for them >too. Each of you will know whether other lists will allow such on the list, >but with Cheryl being a Rootsweb list owner of several lists, I think that >most of the lists would indulge us. We are all in this together, and if we >can't add a prayer for those who gave us life to the One who gave all of us >life, then, perhaps, we don't know what genealogy is all about. > If you feel that such as this deserves "flamming", then please do so to >me privately, and not on the list. > Thank you for your prayers and indulgence, > Jean Hancock > I would like to start with this prayer: > Dear Lord, > Please be with Kenneth Adams as he under-goes this new trial in his >life. If it be Thy will, please grant him good health and a positive >outcome. Also, we would ask that You be with Cher and hold her in Thy >comforting Presence and let her know that we are all with her and Mr. Adams. >As always, we remain Thy obediant servants and trust that Thy will be done. > If you want to email her privately, sen it to Cher Adams and her address >is ace1125@ne.infi.net >Please send lots of positive thoughts and prayers to this family... -------------------- I would like to add "Amen". gladys > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 16:14:00 EST >From: CBStark@aol.com >To: TNGILES-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <34.c869e5.25c4b218@aol.com> >Subject: [TNGILES-L] John A. Gordon - 1870 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Is anyone researching any Gordon family in Giles Co., TN from the time of >first settlement there until after the War Between the States? > >My John A. Gordon disappears from Robertson Co., TN following the 1860 census >where, at age 23, he was living with his wife, M. J. Williams and one year >old son W. L. Gordon. There is no further record of him in Robertson Co., >but there was a John A. Gordon, age 33, on the 1870 Giles Co., TN census >living with a wife named Mary and one year old son Jeneral. > >I have a service record of a John A. Gordon who enlisted in Co. E, 1st Reg't, >Tennessee Cavalry at Nashville on 17 May 1861. He was captured at Oxford >Miss on 5 Dec 1862 and exchanged 1 Apr 1863. He appeared on the muster rolls >of E Co, 1st Reg't, 6th Cav. (Wheeler's) Tenn from 1 Sept to 31 Dec 1863 but >was reported absent on 1 May 1863 and listed as deserted on 11 July 1863. > >This unit was made up largely of men from Giles County, but no John Gordon is >listed on the roster of men serving in Wheeler's Cavalry unit as posted on >the Giles County GenWeb Page. That could be a simple oversight or it could >support my hope that the John A. Gordon in Robertson Co. in 1860 is the same >man as the John A. Gordon in Giles Co. in 1870. Since this John A. Gordon >enlisted at Nashville and not in Giles Co., it would be assumed that he was >not from Giles Co. > >I would like to correspond with anyone researching Gordons in Giles Co., TN >or someone familiar with the Confederate cavalry unit known as Wheeler's. > >Joyce > >______________________________X-Message: #3 >Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:42:08 EST >From: RMewbourn@aol.com >To: TNGILES-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <9f.128092a.25c4c6c0@aol.com> >Subject: [TNGILES-L] BELLEW, SHIRLEY, JOHNS, RUTHERFORD, GOLDEN, WATERS, CHAMBERS, POTTER >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Would love to hear from anyone researching these names..... > >R. H. Mewbourn >