----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Rascoe" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 7:02 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 > >

I'd appreciate a look-up for CRAWFORD, WIMBERLEY, AND COLEMAN if and when you can. THANK YOU !! ----- - > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Judith Rascoe" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 7:02 PM > Subject: [TNHENRY] FISHER NEAL letters, a voter list, and other Henry County > items -> > > > 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. > > > > > > > ============================== > > 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 ==== > 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 >