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.

Judith, Could you check the voter list for the surnames WALL and HARDER? Thank you for your kind offer! Sallie Hobbs Judith Rascoe wrote: > <snipped> > > 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." > > <snipped> > > 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. >