Judith, Please send me the names of the Browns on the voter list. Thanks a million, Marietta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Rascoe" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: [TNHENRY] FISHER NEAL letters, a voter list, and other Henry County items - > > While settling my mother's estate here in Idaho I came across some > papers, in storage for almost fifty years, with a lot of Henry County > relevance. Mostly they're letters from an attorney named Fisher Neal, > who practiced in Paris, Tennessee. My uncle Burton Rascoe had written > an autobiography, in 1938, that touched on his father's family in > Paris, and Fisher Neal had done some research and had information to > share. In 1957 Uncle Burton sent us the whole file of correspondence. > > Besides the letters there is a seventeen page typed document titled "A > Census of the Voters of Henry County, Tennessee Taken in the months of > May and June 1833 by James W. Taylor. Number of Voters 2243." It's a > list of names only, in three columns per page, and the columns are cut > off at the bottom of several pages and a there are some blank spots (it > seems to be a hasty carbon copy). Does anybody know the origin of this > list or where the original is now? > > The letters and papers raise a lot of interesting questions as well as > solving a few puzzles. At the moment I'd like to know if anybody knows > anything about Fisher Neal and his descendants. The letters suggest a > lively two-way correspondence, and I wonder what became of Uncle > Burton's letters to Fisher Neal. In his day Burton Rascoe was a fairly > well-known writer, and it seems possible somebody might have kept his > letters - or given them to a local library. Fisher Neal also mentions > a couple of photographs of my great-great grandmother, Margaret "Peggy" > Hastings Davis that he can lay hands on. Naturally I long to know what > happened to those. > > Some of the people whose names turn up in the letters are - in > alphabetical order - > > Alexander, Margaret > Bomar, Will > Davis, Lewis > Dunlap, James > Dunne, Minnie Nance > Freeman, Captain > Frensley, Ora Davis > Green, William Fisher > Hill, C.H. > Jenkins, Margaret > Lilly, Tom > Moody, Mary Pierce > Pierce, Pinckney > Rascoe, Mark > Rascoe, Mary > Tombs/Toombs, Wiley/Wyley > > Do they ring any bells with the members of this mailing list? > > I'm happy to do look-ups in the Voter list if you need to know if > somebody was in Henry County, and voting, in 1833. > > > ==== TNHENRY Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, politicalannouncements, current events, items for sale, personal > messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be > grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett > [email protected] > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

Mariettea, here are the Browns: William M, Benjamin Henry, Robert L, Henry W Lewis William, Leonard, William Judy On Jan 28, 2005, at 11:51 PM, Marietta Sexton wrote: > Judith, Please send me the names of the Browns on the voter list. > Thanks a million, > Marietta > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Judith Rascoe" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 4:02 PM > Subject: [TNHENRY] FISHER NEAL letters, a voter list, and other Henry > County > items - > > >> >> While settling my mother's estate here in Idaho I came across some >> papers, in storage for almost fifty years, with a lot of Henry County >> relevance. Mostly they're letters from an attorney named Fisher Neal, >> who practiced in Paris, Tennessee. My uncle Burton Rascoe had written >> an autobiography, in 1938, that touched on his father's family in >> Paris, and Fisher Neal had done some research and had information to >> share. In 1957 Uncle Burton sent us the whole file of correspondence. >> >> Besides the letters there is a seventeen page typed document titled "A >> Census of the Voters of Henry County, Tennessee Taken in the months of >> May and June 1833 by James W. Taylor. Number of Voters 2243." It's a >> list of names only, in three columns per page, and the columns are cut >> off at the bottom of several pages and a there are some blank spots >> (it >> seems to be a hasty carbon copy). Does anybody know the origin of >> this >> list or where the original is now? >> >> The letters and papers raise a lot of interesting questions as well as >> solving a few puzzles. At the moment I'd like to know if anybody >> knows >> anything about Fisher Neal and his descendants. The letters suggest a >> lively two-way correspondence, and I wonder what became of Uncle >> Burton's letters to Fisher Neal. In his day Burton Rascoe was a >> fairly >> well-known writer, and it seems possible somebody might have kept his >> letters - or given them to a local library. Fisher Neal also mentions >> a couple of photographs of my great-great grandmother, Margaret >> "Peggy" >> Hastings Davis that he can lay hands on. Naturally I long to know what >> happened to those. >> >> Some of the people whose names turn up in the letters are - in >> alphabetical order - >> >> Alexander, Margaret >> Bomar, Will >> Davis, Lewis >> Dunlap, James >> Dunne, Minnie Nance >> Freeman, Captain >> Frensley, Ora Davis >> Green, William Fisher >> Hill, C.H. >> Jenkins, Margaret >> Lilly, Tom >> Moody, Mary Pierce >> Pierce, Pinckney >> Rascoe, Mark >> Rascoe, Mary >> Tombs/Toombs, Wiley/Wyley >> >> Do they ring any bells with the members of this mailing list? >> >> I'm happy to do look-ups in the Voter list if you need to know if >> somebody was in Henry County, and voting, in 1833. >> >> >> ==== TNHENRY Mailing List ==== >> NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, > politicalannouncements, current events, items for sale, personal >> messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and >> will be >> grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen > Burnett >> [email protected] >> >> ============================== >> Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and >> the >> areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >> Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >> > > > ==== TNHENRY Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Henry Co., TN Mailing List, send > only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] or if you are on the > Digest List to > [email protected] > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your > ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. > Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx? > sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >