First of all I am not sure of the exact DOD of Amanda Long Ivy. This tombstone was mis-transcribed when the WPA transcribed the cemetery or maybe it was already unreadable at the time, the current transcription of Economy Cemetery has the same information. "Amanda Ivy, w/o J. H. Ivy Apr 15 1852, December 13 1856." <grin> Now if you think about it this is NOT possible. A helpful fellow researcher took pictures of the Ivy tombstones in Economy Cemetery and as the stones were difficult to read attempted to transcribe them. John H. is lying between his two wives out in Economy Cemetery, I could figure out that much, but I don't think that even if I ever get to Tennessee I will be able to read tthis stone. One could suppose that Amanda died 13 December 1856, but I currently have 1888. Why??? The obituary of my great uncle Bob (Robert Taylor Ivy) says his mother died when he was about 7. It has NOT been my experience that widowers with 6 young children waited four years to remarry. This is the weirdest reason of all...in looking back it seems to me that grandpa's memory of his mother is clearer than the memory of a three year old. There was a large picture of John H. (John Hamilton Ivy II) and Amanda hanging over grandpa's bed. It wasn't always there and I don't know whether he had always had it or whether somebody either out here or back in Tennessee had died and he came into it. He was showing the picture to me and my mother and talking about his mom.. Although I certainly was not into genealogical research then, I don't know why it didn't occur to me to just ask how old he was when Amanda died. Gail

Hi Gail, i have these IVYs in my files. might be of help. Ray. found this in my MOOREs of BLACKWATER,VA in LEE Co. Margaret Esther /BROOKS/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 14 SEP 1893 1 DEAT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 DATE 12 APR 1947 2 PLAC Claiborne Co., TN 1 BURI 2 PLAC Irish Cemetery, Claiborne Co., TN 1 OCCU Had Edith Ivy 1 NAME Charles D. /BURNETT/ 1 SEX M. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this 1 from BETTY DONLEY file: Edna Marie Yeatman Moore, passed away Monday morning, June 22, 1998, in Morristown, She was the widow fo P.H.(Bill) Moore and the daughter of the late william Eugene and florence Edna Ivy Yeatman. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Morristown and a former member of Central Baptist Church in Knoxville, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:39:10 -0600, "Gail Roorda" <possum2@softhome.net> said: > First of all I am not sure of the exact DOD of Amanda Long Ivy. This > tombstone was mis-transcribed when the WPA transcribed the cemetery or > maybe > it was already unreadable at the time, the current transcription of > Economy > Cemetery has the same information. "Amanda Ivy, w/o J. H. Ivy Apr 15 > 1852, > December 13 1856." <grin> Now if you think about it this is NOT possible. > A > helpful fellow researcher took pictures of the Ivy tombstones in Economy > Cemetery and as the stones were difficult to read attempted to transcribe > them. John H. is lying between his two wives out in Economy Cemetery, I > could figure out that much, but I don't think that even if I ever get to > Tennessee I will be able to read tthis stone. > > One could suppose that Amanda died 13 December 1856, but I currently have > 1888. > > Why??? > > The obituary of my great uncle Bob (Robert Taylor Ivy) says his mother > died > when he was about 7. > > It has NOT been my experience that widowers with 6 young children waited > four years to remarry. > > This is the weirdest reason of all...in looking back it seems to me that > grandpa's memory of his mother is clearer than the memory of a three year > old. There was a large picture of John H. (John Hamilton Ivy II) and > Amanda > hanging over grandpa's bed. It wasn't always there and I don't know > whether > he had always had it or whether somebody either out here or back in > Tennessee had died and he came into it. He was showing the picture to me > and my mother and talking about his mom.. Although I certainly was not > into > genealogical research then, I don't know why it didn't occur to me to > just > ask how old he was when Amanda died. > > Gail > > > ==== TNGRAING Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE please send your message to > tngraing-l-request@rootsweb.com > DNA done. STEVE MOORE a 25 marker. at family tree.com D629W. at ysearch MOORE DNA PROJECT M36142 mine a 12 marker at familytree.com FYN8F . ysearch MOORE DNA M30219 Researching: MOORE, ,MOOR. MOHR. MAYES, MAYS, MAZE, MIZE, MAISE, MAIZE, CARR, COX, COURTNEY, MYERS, TOWNSLEY, POWERS, GRUBBS, GRUBB, POE, (SMITH 4 lines) RUSSELL, LEWIS, DUNN, WHITEAKER, WHITAKER, REECE, HUNDLEY/HUNLEY, MANIS, MOLES, NEWBY. PARKER, CHEATHAM,CHITTUM, BROWN, HAUN, OGLESBY, LONG, DUNN, SHIPLEY & VOWELL & ROSS, LIPPS, MOCK, SHIRLEY, PENDLEY, JORDON. my pages: http://tippytnn.topcities.com/moore508/moore.htm Friends: PECK,LAMBERT,MEADOWS -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html