Virginia, This would be wonderful!! I look forward to your info. Once I receive it and if I can add anything to it, I will let you know. My great aunt, Evelyn Dora Finch is still alive and I visit her once a year. She was my grandfather, Everett's, twin sister. Once of my brick walls has been the FINCH and SNOW side. Thanks, Tammy ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 5:44 PM Subject: Re: Re: [TNHENRY] McEvoy Funeral Home Records > Yes, we do have connections here. > > I have many records on the FINCH, PIERCE, GATELEY families. I, too, have researched the self-inflicted shotgun story and have found nothing to dispute this story. > > Unless there are others on the list that are interested in more history of these families, I will write you off-line and share the info that I have. > > It will take me a bit of time to put the info into typewritten form, as I have it all handwritten on genealogy pages. While I do the transcribing, if there are others that would like to see this compliation, just drop a note to the list and I will post it accordingly. > > Just off the top of my head, though, I would say that you and I share the same ggg grandparents, who were John PIERCE b. ca 1792 in VA, d. ca. 1880 in Henry Co TN and was married to Margaret BROOKS. > > > Their children were William Bedford PIERCE, John Worrell PIERCE, Robert PIERCE, Stephen PIERCE, Reubin PIERCE, Nancy PIERCE and Noah Richard PIERCE. > > Robert married Mary SNOW > Stephen married Sally HOLLIDAY > > Stephen and Sally PIERCE were my gg grandparents > They had a daughter named Sarah PIERCE who married Thomas WEAKS. > > Sarah and Thomas WEAKS had a daughter named Lula WEAKS who married Lawrence JONES. Lula WEAKS and Lawrence JONES were my maternal grandparents. > > Robert and Mary SNOW-PIERCE had a daughter named Savannah Alabama PIERCE who married James Gateley....as you know. They also had several other children. > > Savanah and James GATELEY had twelve (12) children that I have located. > > If there were more children, I haven't located them yet. > > One of their daughters, Jimmy Dora GATELEY did, indeed, marry Stephen Horton FINCH. And they had six (6) children that I have found. > > I personally knew several of the FINCH's and this, too, I have in my records. > > I'll dig all of this out and forward the info to you off-list. > > Virginia > > > > From: "Tammy Griffiths" <[email protected]> > > Date: 2005/01/09 Sun PM 09:47:50 GMT > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [TNHENRY] McEvoy Funeral Home Records > > > > I too am researching FINCH, PIERCE and SNOW. My grandfather was Everett > > Horton Finch. His parents were Stephen Horton Finch, born September 29, > > 1876 and died October 23, 1923; Dora Jimmy Gateley, born March 22, 1889 and > > died February 4, 1981. Dora's parents were James Henry Gateley born June > > 24, 1862 and died July 20, 1907 (story is he shot himself with a shotgun) > > and Savannah Alabama Pierce born June 22, 1865 and died June 29, 1909. > > Savannah's parents were Robert Pierce and Mary Snow. Unfortunately, I have > > no other info. Any connections? > > > > Thanks, > > Tammy > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 1:23 PM > > Subject: Re: [TNHENRY] McEvoy Funeral Home Records > > > > > > > I purchased the McEvoy book as soon as it became available, as well as the > > book from Ridgeway. They have both been extremely helpful, however, here > > and there a few mistakes appear, but nothing that is impossible to get > > through. > > > > > > The first thing I did was to read each book from cover to cover and > > highlight names that were my family names - WEAKS, PIERCE, HOLIDAY, SNOW, > > HASTINGS, FINCH, JONES, to name a few. > > > > > > While reading the books, and for those of you who have the McEvoy Book, I > > found my great grandmother, Amanda German Hewgley JONES, and she is buried > > in Bethesda Cemetery in Paris...along with the majority of my family. I > > knew she was there, as I've visited the cemetery on many occasions, however, > > I found that she is listed in the book with the surname of GERMAN, which was > > her middle name. > > > > > > I went to the funeral home and asked for a copy of her burial records and > > noted that someone, for whatever reason, had crossed through her surname > > JONES. These things happen....we're only human, of course, but no one had > > an answer as to why this happened. > > > > > > I'm not issuing a complaint here. Both books are absolutely marvelous. > > However, I would suggest that sometimes there are minor mistakes that can > > cause one to wonder what happened to a family member. > > > > > > I spent the last two days filling out genealogy forms using the McEvoy > > book. I found this to be extremely helpful. For example, I found that one > > of my cousins married a WEBB.....so I'm also remotely connected to that > > particular family. > > > > > > I'm more than happy to do look-ups in either book. > > > > > > Virginia (JONES) Long > > > (in St. Louis where the sun is shinning...thank you, Lord.) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: "Janis Mundy" <[email protected]> > > > > Date: 2005/01/09 Sun PM 05:17:16 GMT > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: [TNHENRY] McEvoy Funeral Home Records > > > > > > > > Dear List: > > > > > > > > Happy New Year from Snowy (30± inches) Reno, Nevada!!! > > > > > > > > Are the McEvoy Funeral Home Records in alphabetical order or do you need > > to > > > > know the date of death? > > > > > > > > I am looking for the following people: > > > > > > > > WEBB, URBAN > > > > WEBB, JOHN HOLLAND > > > > WEBB, TEDDY > > > > WEBB, ROBERT GENE > > > > > > > > I greatly appreciate any and all assistance with this. > > > > > > > > Janis SNOW Mundy > > > > Reno, NV > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== 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. 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