I have just spent 3 days reading the archived messages and thought I would enjoy this list. I have been on the Smith Co. site for a few months now. Both mine & my husband's families are from Macon Co.(some starting in Smith). Some of the names are: Cothron, Gregory, Smith, Beasley, Wilburn, Burrow/Burrus, Gifford and of course many others. Truman Gregory was a 2nd cousin and so a lot of my Gregory and Cothron information came from him and of course Br. Cal's column. I have a lot of the "facts, dates, etc. but I really like personal stories that have been passed down. What I am working on now is information on Ebenezer Church & School. That is where my mother's family "Gregory's" all went. If anyone has dates on when the church was started, early preachers, deacons, members and same for the school and of course would LOVE pictures. Thanks in advance for any help and I will gladly share any information that I have as of now. My "stuff" is not on line but I do have a ! scanner and have no problem using regular mail. Shirley Smith Cothron

Diann Thank you for taking the time to look. Catherine > > From: "Diann & Joe" <[email protected]> > Date: 2002/06/21 Fri AM 10:47:20 EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [TNMACON] Macon County History book lookup > > Hi Catherine, I have the Macon Co History book and there are no Hunter's > listed only Hunt. Diann > > > > > If anyone has the Macon Co. History book I am requesting a lookup. I am > interested in the Hunter family. > > Robert Hunter b. 1837 moved there from Jackson or Sumner Co. > > Thank you. > > > > Catherine > > > > > > > > ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== > > Connect to distant cousins! > > <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE > WEBPAGE!</A> > > > > > ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== > This list is for sharing Macon County, TN. Genealogy! > <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE WEBPAGE!</A> > >

Could anyone tell me where you can buy a Macon Co.History book or Smith Co. History book .These books sound like they have some very good reading material. Especially since my familys are from these two areas. Pat

Hi Catherine, I have the Macon Co History book and there are no Hunter's listed only Hunt. Diann > If anyone has the Macon Co. History book I am requesting a lookup. I am interested in the Hunter family. > Robert Hunter b. 1837 moved there from Jackson or Sumner Co. > Thank you. > > Catherine > > > > ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== > Connect to distant cousins! > <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE WEBPAGE!</A> >

If anyone has the Macon Co. History book I am requesting a lookup. I am interested in the Hunter family. Robert Hunter b. 1837 moved there from Jackson or Sumner Co. Thank you. Catherine

I just found two files on my computer with the Exploit-MIME virus; I use McAfee Clinic and it caught both of them. The virus came to my computer through a message about the 'TNMACONhistory books'. I feel certain that I didn't open an attachment beginning Re._R_[TNMACON]historybooks- [1].dat That was the name of the file. I just wanted to warn others who are on the Macon County list. Please run your virus scans and be sure that it didn't come to you also. Billie Holt

Mr. Fred Smoot posted the following on the TN-All List. Thought you good people would find this interesting, I did. Shelta Press release of the Melungeon Heritage Association Kingsport, Tennessee, June 20, 2002 - Some of the veil of mystery surrounding the "mysterious" Melungeons was lifted today when the results of a two-year DNA study were announced. New questions have been raised, however, concerning females potentially from Turkey and northern India who are a part of the Melungeon ancestry. The Melungeons are a group of people of unknown origin first documented in the mountains of Appalachia in the early 19th century. Many believed they were of mixed racial ancestry and the Melungeons faced legal and social discrimination. As a result, they tended to live in remote areas, most notably Newman's Ridge in Hancock County, Tennessee. In the 1940's and 1950' s, sociologists and anthropologists labeled the Melungeons and other similar groups as "tri-racial isolates." Over the years, numerous myths, legends, and theories evolved to explain the Melungeons' mysterious origins. These legends often involved sailors and explorers from Spain, Portugal, Carthage, or Phoenicia who were stranded on the American continent and intermarried with Indians. The Melungeons themselves often claimed to be "Portyghee." Most researchers believed they were a product of intermarriage between English and Scots-Irish settlers, Indians, and free African-Americans, and discounted their claims of Mediterranean origin. The DNA results announced today confirmed that the Melungeons have European, African, and Native American ancestry, as well as genetic similarities with populations in Turkey and northern India. More surprising, however, is the fact that some of these Turkish- and northern Indian- like sequences have been passed through the Melungeons' maternal lines, indicating that their overseas ancestors included not only male sailors and explorers, but females as well. The results were announced today at Fourth Union, a Melungeon conference in Kingsport, Tennessee sponsored by the Melungeon Heritage Association (MHA). MHA is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting research and understanding about Melungeons and other multi-racial groups in the United States. Dr. Kevin Jones, a biologist at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, conducted the study. The presence of Turkish and northern Indian haplotypes within the mitochondrial DNA samples taken from modern-day Melungeons indicates that women of European/Asian origin were a part of the original mixture that made up the Melungeon ancestry. Mitochondrial DNA comes from the female side of an individual's ancestry. Previous researchers had assumed that European males intermarried with Native Americans and African-Americans to produce the Melungeons. Although Native and African genes are definitely a part of the Melungeon genetic mix, women were among the overseas settlers who contributed to the Melungeon gene pool. Dr. N. Brent Kennedy speculated that the Melungeons were of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ancestry and published his theories in a book entitled The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People, published in 1994 by Mercer University Press. Dr. Jones, a native of London, England, studied at the University of Reading, and did post-doctoral research at Louisiana State University. He is currently a professor of biology at UVA-Wise, teaching courses including cell biology and genetics. Dr. Jones undertook this DNA study in 2000 at the suggestion of Dr. Kennedy, then vice-chancellor at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Kennedy asked Jones to analyze DNA samples taken from members of known Melungeon families. Such a study would utilize technology not available to earlier researchers. "Brent Kennedy... explained the controversy that surrounded the origins of the Melungeons [and] realized that I had the DNA expertise to look at that," Jones related in an interview with Wayne Winkler, president of the Melungeon Heritage Association and author of an upcoming book about the Melungeons. "The subjects were largely chosen by Brent Kennedy on the basis of pursuing as many of the known Melungeon lineages that existed in the area and taking advantage of his genealogical expertise. People were then asked to donate samples to the study, and in the majority of cases they kindly did so." Single hairs were taken to study the mitochondrial DNA which traces the maternal lines of the subject. In other words, the samples represented DNA, which could be traced to the subject's mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and so on. "We also have a smaller number of samples which are cheek cells for looking at male inheritance," said Jones. "What we get from those is a DNA sequence which we can think of as being about an 600-long letter code, and we can take that string of 600 letters and compare those to what now is literally thousands of samples from around the world. We're interested both in the number of different sequences that we get from the population and also how they appear to relate to other samples worldwide." About 100 hair samples were studied for mitochondrial, or maternal, DNA, and about 30 samples of cheek cells were taken to study the Y-chromosome, or male, DNA. While more samples might have been taken, Jones said, "That's the beauty of science: one can always subsequently refine and extend the analyses." The technology available to Jones allowed him to study only the mitochondrial DNA samples; the Y-chromosome samples were sent to University College in London, England, for study. "The 'Y' is technically far harder to do, and indeed, relies on expertise in some other labs in the world to do it, so we're partly dependent on their cooperation and collaboration." Such testing is not perfect, of course, and does not tell researchers everything about an individual's inheritance. For example, neither test will give genetic information about a subject's paternal grandmother. However, the study was not particularly concerned with individual genealogies. "We're looking for patterns that exist in the population as a whole," according to Jones. "Now, obviously, each individual sample contributes to that, but I think that for an individual you can say relatively little. Looking at the patterns that occur throughout the population becomes important. And that means the number of samples that are looked at is also significant, and we've tried to do as many as is reasonably possible." Jones compared these samples to the thousands available through GenBank, an international genetics database, published scientific literature and the Mitochondrial DNA Concordance, databases containing DNA sequence information. Looking at the maternal lines of the Melungeons who were tested, Jones found considerable variation in ethnicity among the samples. "It's comparatively straightforward to link particular sequences to particular ethnic groups and different Continental areas of the world," he noted, "and the majority of those Melungeon-derived sequences were European in origin. Within those European samples, though, there is significant diversity, and some seem to reflect areas outside the traditional northern European sphere. "The ability to tie a sequence to a particular area is dependent upon the historical occurrence of any given haplotype somewhere, and the places that are easy to track are where we've had populations existing for a long time, and not being affected by a lot of different people coming in. So some, perhaps more isolated, areas of Europe are easier to track than more cosmopolitan [areas]." While the Melungeons are predominantly European in their genetic backgrounds, they are indeed tri-racial. "The appears to be a small percentage of both Native American and African-American sequences in there, too," Jones stated, "although they are certainly both in the minority. They' re both in there in about equal levels of representation as well." The long-held belief that the Melungeons originated in Portugal is neither borne out nor negated by Jones' research. "To date we've found no sequences that can be definitively traced back to uniquely Portuguese sequences. That doesn't mean that they don't exist. A large number of the European sequences are now widely spread throughout Europe, and if one of those genetic sequences happened to come from Portugal we would not detect that. We can't dismiss that theory at the moment, but we can't provide additional support for it." _______________________________ For genealogy publications for Northern Middle Tennessee and South Central KY See: Ridge Runner Publications http://ridgerunnerpublications.50megs.com <http://ridgerunnerpublications.50megs.com>

I suspose it would help if I added the link. So here it is. http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/jediknight6 ----- Original Message ----- From: Karl Knight To: Anthony 2 Knight ; Anthony Knight ; Apostalon Daniel J Contr AFRL/VSSV ; Barbara Burdett ; Chris Whitaker ; Dexter Abing ; Diane Fuller ; jeanette siegrist ; John Knight ; Regina Alleman ; Mary Knight ; Shelta Shrum ; Teresa Prater ; Warren Chang ; Warren H. Chang, Jr. ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:56 PM Subject: Invitation to view Macon county Knight Morrow family history web page. I would like to take this opportunity to point out many new updates, storys, and pictures on my family history web page. If you are so inclined, check it out. I will be making updates on a regular basis as informaton trickles in and time permits. Thanks, Karl Knight

I would like to take this opportunity to point out many new updates, storys, and pictures on my family history web page. If you are so inclined, check it out. I will be making updates on a regular basis as informaton trickles in and time permits. Thanks, Karl Knight

Lorraine, Please contact me at your convenience. I need to ask about a marriage record in your Volume 1 Macon County TN. marriage book. Thanks, Brenda Edwards Nashville, TN.

This is my web page. www.angelfire.com/theforce/jediknight6/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Whitaker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:21 PM Subject: Unidentified subject! > A Borden Family Reunion will be held at Barren > River State Park, KY, 1100-1600, 30 June 2002, at > Shelter 31E. > > See family file ctw_1 at rootsweb.com for the > known geneology of this family. > > > > ===== > Chris Whitaker > Cairo, Egypt > [email protected] > (Whitaker/Hayes/Borden/Mullinix and associated) > ICQ: 5438767 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com > > > ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== > Are your Ancestors from Macon County, TN? You may still have some connections there.... > <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE WEBPAGE!</A> >

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Shelta Email at my private email [email protected] thank you SammieJean ----- Original Message ----- From: Shelta Shrum Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TNMACON] Fitts family The Fitts cemetery is awfully small isn't it? There are five burials listed in the Trousdale County, TN Cemetery book. William P. Fitts, Dr. T.W. Fitts son of Sanford (Sam) and Tabitha Hughes, H.L. "Harriett L. Bell" Fitts, J.B. Fitts (infant grave d. 1902) and Isabel Fitts (infant grave c. 1900) If you are interested in this book I believe you can find ordering information at http://ridgerunnerpublications.50megs.com or you might try contacting Betty M. Scott who may be able to give you more information. E-mail me off list for her address. Shelta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenda K. Campbell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 5:30 PM Subject: [TNMACON] Fitts family > Does anyone have any information about the two childrens graves that are > in the Fitts Cemetery in the Templow Community of Trousdale county? The > 3 other people that are buried there, Dr. Tandy Walker Fitts, his wife > Harriet L. Bell Fitts and their son William Pierce Fitts, are my > relatives. The two smaller graves I assume belong to children but don't > know for sure. They are marked as Isabel Fitts 1900 & J.B. Fitts 1903. > I do not know who these children belong to and would appreciate any help > I can get. Contact me at your convenience. > Thank you, > Glenda Sheppard Campbell > > > > > ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== > Are your Ancestors from Macon County, TN? You may still have some connections there.... > <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE WEBPAGE!</A> ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== Shelta Shrum and Barbara Hutchinson invite you to -- <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE WEBPAGE!</A>Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

i do little on msn anymore send me an email on [email protected] I hve given my msn to my son michael and i amgetting aol thru the company i work for at a discount ----- Original Message ----- From: Shelta Shrum Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 10:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [TNMACON] Jean Fairchild Jean, E-mail me someone is trying to contact you to add information to your website. Shelta _______________________________ For genealogy publications for Northern Middle Tennessee and South Central KY See: Ridge Runner Publications http://ridgerunnerpublications.50megs.com <http://ridgerunnerpublications.50megs.com> ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== Are your Ancestors from Macon County, TN? You may still have some connections there.... <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE WEBPAGE!</A>Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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I am looking for Samuel/Sam Hughes of Ky he was married to Nancy Hughes They are the parents of Thomas Hughes born 09/05/1868 died 05/10/1924 I am also looking for James M Climer husband to Viola Ollie Hughes Climer I know they are buried in the Auburn Cemetery in Logan County TN I know Viola is from Jackson County TN I am tring to trace the Climer history Thank you Jeannie

Jean, E-mail me someone is trying to contact you to add information to your website. Shelta _______________________________ For genealogy publications for Northern Middle Tennessee and South Central KY See: Ridge Runner Publications http://ridgerunnerpublications.50megs.com <http://ridgerunnerpublications.50megs.com>

You really need to contact Lea Head. I just passed this along thinking some of you might be interested and I was right. Shelta _______________________________ For genealogy publications for Northern Middle Tennessee and South Central KY See: Ridge Runner Publications http://ridgerunnerpublications.50megs.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 7:01 PM Subject: Re: [TNMACON] Shrum... From the Jackson Clay and Overton Co. List > > Hey Shelta~ > > I'd love to have a scan of this article. Annnnnd Melrose DOES > still exist on Highway 60 in New Mexico, it's down the road a piece from a > place called... "VAUGHN" !!!. Two of my Shrum uncles (okay great-uncles) > farmed north of Tucumcari in Mosquero. For a short while in the early 1900's > my Shrum gr-grandparents were in New Mexico as well, I believe in that > easternmost section as well. > > > Tim Cohea > > In a message dated 6/13/02 6:28:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] > writes: > > > This relates to the surname SHRUM and I thought that some of you folks might > > be interested. > > > > Shelta > > > > From: "Lea Head" <[email protected]> > > > Hello, > > > > > > I recently ran across an article in our local paper (Herald Democrat, > > > Sherman, TX) that included a reference to a Shrum family back in what > > > sounds like late 1800's in an area of New Mexico near the town of Melrose > > > (does it still exist.?.I don't know). What's fun about the article is > > that > > > this particular Shrum family was apparently more affluent than most folks, > > > ran a sheep operation, had a daughter named Maude and the article relates > > > some of the day to day life of the Vaughan family as it related to the > > > neighboring Shrum family. The article is derived from a tape recording > > > done in 1967-1968 of the author's mother, Annie Armilda Hendrix Vaughan > > > recounting events, people and places in her first 35 years. > > Unfortunately, > > > there is no mention of the given Shrum names except Maude, the > > > daughter. Samuel Benton Vaughan is mentioned as Annie's husband. > > > > > > I will save this article and if anyone is interested in reading it, I'll > > > happily scan it to them. > > > > > > > > ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== > Are your Ancestors from Macon County, TN? You may still have some connections there.... > <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE WEBPAGE!</A>

Hey Shelta~ I'd love to have a scan of this article. Annnnnd Melrose DOES still exist on Highway 60 in New Mexico, it's down the road a piece from a place called... "VAUGHN" !!!. Two of my Shrum uncles (okay great-uncles) farmed north of Tucumcari in Mosquero. For a short while in the early 1900's my Shrum gr-grandparents were in New Mexico as well, I believe in that easternmost section as well. Tim Cohea In a message dated 6/13/02 6:28:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > This relates to the surname SHRUM and I thought that some of you folks might > be interested. > > Shelta > > From: "Lea Head" <[email protected]> > > Hello, > > > > I recently ran across an article in our local paper (Herald Democrat, > > Sherman, TX) that included a reference to a Shrum family back in what > > sounds like late 1800's in an area of New Mexico near the town of Melrose > > (does it still exist.?.I don't know). What's fun about the article is > that > > this particular Shrum family was apparently more affluent than most folks, > > ran a sheep operation, had a daughter named Maude and the article relates > > some of the day to day life of the Vaughan family as it related to the > > neighboring Shrum family. The article is derived from a tape recording > > done in 1967-1968 of the author's mother, Annie Armilda Hendrix Vaughan > > recounting events, people and places in her first 35 years. > Unfortunately, > > there is no mention of the given Shrum names except Maude, the > > daughter. Samuel Benton Vaughan is mentioned as Annie's husband. > > > > I will save this article and if anyone is interested in reading it, I'll > > happily scan it to them. > >

Jean Ann Your very welcome, I hope you all enjoy it, So many people helped so much to make this a wonderful success. Tina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Ann" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:48 PM Subject: [TNMACON] Macon Co. Family History Book > Tina, > > That's for your History Book our Graves Co. Genealogical Society has > purchased it for our Library in Mayfield, KY. > > Jean Ann > > > > > ==== TNMACON Mailing List ==== > This list is for sharing Macon County, TN. Genealogy!! > <a href="http://www.tngennet.org/macon"> VISIT THE MACON COUNTY, TENNESSEE WEBPAGE!</A> > >