David Donahue wrote: > I started working on Madison County TNGenWeb in August 2001. The old > web site was taken down immediately (much to my dismay) before I had > time to make a new one. There was a temporary page announcing that the > site was under reconstruction and to check back later. I remember > hurriedly copying files from my old Yesterday's Madison County web > site to TNGenWeb and linking them to the temporary page just so > something would be available to visitors. > > I received all the files from the old web site(s). When I did get a > new Madison County genweb page online in mid September, I reused a > number of files from first Madison Co. CC Laura Griffith. Her archived > queries, population, communities, and marriage bonds pages are still > online at the genweb page or at records. > > The first cemetery pages appeared while Lela Knight Ashburn was CC. > They are still online. She did one set of archived queries (still > online). I did not reuse her other pages. The present query board was > started while she was CC, as did the present maillist. > > These pages below are not functional but:: > > www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/older/index1.html > This is what Madison County TNGenWeb looked like under its second CC > Lela Knight Ashburn > > www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/older/index2.html > This is what Madison County TNGenWeb looked like under its third CC > Noel C. Matthews > > I had forgotten Noel C. Matthews was CC. He took Lela's main page and > made it colorful. Athough there are two files I cannot assign to a > specific CC, I do not think he made either. > > I never erase the files that I did not reuse, maybe it is the > historian in me. Yesterday I copied them to records. > > David > > > > ==== TNMADISO Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Madison Co., TN list, send only > the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to TNMADISO-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the > Digest List > to TNMADISO-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from > http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ > > >

www.tngenweb.org/records/davidson/ The NCAs are searchable again.

I started working on Madison County TNGenWeb in August 2001. The old web site was taken down immediately (much to my dismay) before I had time to make a new one. There was a temporary page announcing that the site was under reconstruction and to check back later. I remember hurriedly copying files from my old Yesterday's Madison County web site to TNGenWeb and linking them to the temporary page just so something would be available to visitors. I received all the files from the old web site(s). When I did get a new Madison County genweb page online in mid September, I reused a number of files from first Madison Co. CC Laura Griffith. Her archived queries, population, communities, and marriage bonds pages are still online at the genweb page or at records. The first cemetery pages appeared while Lela Knight Ashburn was CC. They are still online. She did one set of archived queries (still online). I did not reuse her other pages. The present query board was started while she was CC, as did the present maillist. These pages below are not functional but:: www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/older/index1.html This is what Madison County TNGenWeb looked like under its second CC Lela Knight Ashburn www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/older/index2.html This is what Madison County TNGenWeb looked like under its third CC Noel C. Matthews I had forgotten Noel C. Matthews was CC. He took Lela's main page and made it colorful. Athough there are two files I cannot assign to a specific CC, I do not think he made either. I never erase the files that I did not reuse, maybe it is the historian in me. Yesterday I copied them to records. David

The email address was w1little@airmail.net If it does not work (I would be surprised if it did) I have no way to contact her. She and I never corresponded. David

David, I don't know how to get this message to Martha Power Little, but some of her information is DEFINITELY incorrect. The Allen Hill family (his wife and his son Jacob and his wife) settled in the community of MADISON HALL, not MEDON. Check the history article written by Mrs. O.J. Tate in the 1940s about Madison Hall. (vertical files of Tennessee Room) Allen Hill's tombstone, which was constructed new in about the mid 1900s, and has his history literally carved in stone on it. However, his descendents didn't have the facts all straight either, but it is closer to the facts than Ms. Little's explanation at the bottom of her Bible extractions (the Bible extractions which I am not disputing). Allen Hill and his family settled just off the stream of Cane Creek which wound around the southwest side of the South Fork of the Forked Deer. Today, Cane Creek goes through Bemis, and then to the top of the big hill on the Caldwell Rd then across Riverside Drive to the hill and valley countryside where Hill settled behind the current location of Madison Baptist Church (on the Steam Mill Ferry Road) and Hall & King Cemetery. I interviewed a woman of my mother's age before she died who lived in the old log, clap-broad covered house that was the Allen Hill's homestead. It burned while she was living there with her father, a Andy Harris. She said it went up like a tender box because it was so old. It would have been about 100 or 110 years old in the 1930s when she lived there. Mrs. Tate writes about the house in her article. Now Byrd Hill, a son of Jacob Hill, lived in a house (that I remember--I am 62 years old) on the corner of Riverside Dr. (then the Old Bolivar Rd) and what is now called Britton Lane. This location was close to Medon. The Hill cemetery is located off Campbell Lane, which is considered to be in the Madison Hall Community. Cane Creek, literally now a stream, parallels the bottom of the hill where the Hill Cemetery is located today. I have hypothesized that Allen Hill and his family were the first settlers in the southwest part of Madison Co. locating there because he was a fellow warrior with Andy Jackson in the War of 1812 and knew of the pending accord to purchase the whole of W.T. from the Chickasaw Indians, which did happen in 1818, but settlement, according to the treaty, was not supposed to take place until 1819. According to the words on his tombstone, he started the Cane Creek Church in 1815 meeting in his home, and supposedly he obtained his land in this area as a land grant from fighting in the War of 1812. (We know there were no land grants given for service in the war of 1812, but there were land grants given in this area in order to populate it. He could have gotten a land grant, but it wouldn't have been for military service.) Now, if he started it in 1815, he either started it in the home where he lived in Williamson Co., Tenn (he and his son Jacob are listed in Williamson Co. in the 1820 U.S. Census) and brought the organized Baptist church already named to Madison Co. when he settled here about 1821. The building for Cane Creek Baptist Church was not built until 1822. Or, he indeed was a land squatter in Madison Co. in 1815, along with his son and family, and met in homes for church and called it Cane Creek after the small stream that he floated off the Forked Deer to the hill area where he settled. (Some individuals living in the Western Territory were counted in the U.S. Census, but were counted in existing counties' population. I don't know if this was true of Williamson County's Census or not. The original Cane Creek Church building was constructed (supposedly out of logs and built by slave labor) on the big hill or ridge that we now call the big hill on Caldwell Road. Further over the ridge and back in the woods, the black slaves were allowed to build their church, which still exists (not the original building, however) on Cane Creek Road off Riverside Dr. and off Bemis Cemetery Road. Allen Hills' family populated the southwest portion of the County. The Hudsons, the Givens, the Campbells, Harrises, and other well-known family names exist there because of Allen Hill. I have read a version of the history of Cane Creek Baptist Church which was written by a former pastor of Madison Baptist Church who had access to old records of the church from Mr. Jim Raines. Supposedly those records burned with Mr. Jim's old Victorian house in Malesus in about the late1950s or early 1960s. That history said that the church was established in 1815 when the "Red man still roamed the land." A few years ago, I called that pastor (he was living in Kentucky) and interviewed him about that statement and if he thought it was true. He said he thought it was. He was a student of history and knew of the squatters who were here before the Western Territory was opened for settlement in 1819. So that's what I know about Allen Hill. I have been in contact with some of his descendents, but not this Martha Power Little. Please send my message on to her. I feel strongly about the fact that she should NOT STATE THAT HE LIVED NEAR MEDON. Oh, yes, and what about the discrepancy, that she has in her text -- in the Bible records she shows Allen Hill died in 1830 and in her text explanation she says he died in 1857? Linda J. Higgins ljhiggins@charter.net 731-427-6681 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Donahue" <ddonahue@netease.net> To: <TNMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 5:25 PM Subject: [TNMADISO] Hill Family Bible returns after three-year absence > www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/records/madibibl.htm > > Back online after a three-year absence is the is Hill Family Bible > records (Power, Moore families included), transcribed by Martha Power > Little. The Hill family lived near Medon. Preceding the Hill bible in > the same file is Bible Records of the Mason-Bell Family, submitted by > Tami Ramsey. This family lived in the Mason Grove area (this bible was > available online elsewhere). > > The restored file was created and copyrighted in 1998 by first Madison > County TNGenWeb CC Laura W. Griffith. The entire time I had Madison > County I actually kept the files from earlier genweb pages. I was > looking at them one last time before erasing the copies from my hard > drive. The madibibl.htm file is mostly as Laura Griffith created it. I > changed the host logo (in 1998 the TNGenWeb host was usit.net), deleted > two 6-year-old email addresses, and deleted an external link to a third > bible to make madibibl.htm self-contained. I think back in 2001 I skiped > this file because of the external link and never got back to it. > > Let me mention the deleted external link -- > http://members.tripod.com/~pegasus_2/thomas.htm > This links to a web page for the Thomas Rice Warren Family Bible created > by Steven L. Rich. The link still works after six years. Exploring his > pages I found > > http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/i/c/Darlene-P-Rich-MO/PHOTO/0002photo.html > This is a May 1963 photograph of Charityann Magdalene (Naylor) Ada, > February 18, 1889 (McNairy County, Tennessee) - December 18, 1966 > (Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee) > > David > > > > ==== TNMADISO Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, 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 kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

I'm sure all of us say thanks, thanks, thanks, David. What a great help a search engine is. You're great! Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Donahue" <ddonahue@netease.net> To: <TNMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 5:20 PM Subject: [TNMADISO] Search > Madison County, Tennessee Records Repository is now searchable. > > http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/search.htm > http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/cemeteries/cemsearch.htm > > > > ==== TNMADISO Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Madison Co., TN list, send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to TNMADISO-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest List > to TNMADISO-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

History trivia The first CC of Madison TNGenWeb was Laura W. Griffith (July 1996-March 1999). The second CC of Madison Co. TNGenWeb was Lela Knight Ashburn (March 1999, last page update March 2000, probably listed as CC until August 2000). The fourth CC of Madison TNGenWeb was supposed to have been Martha Kelley and she was listed as such for a while (October 2001-December 2001). The fifth CC of Madison Co. TNGenWeb was David Donahue (January-May 2002, December 2002-April 2004) The sixth and current CC of Madison Co. TNGenWeb is Deb Haines. Do you remember the name of the third CC of Madison County? You can respond directly to me rather than the list so others can try to remember. ddonahue@netease.net To be honest I totally forgot the third person was CC of Madison Co. until this morning when I looked at the old files for Madison Co. TNGenWeb page. Although I have corresponded with the person many times over the years, I do not remember corresponding about Madison County. I do remember corresponding with Laura Griffith and Lela Ashburn. David

www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/records/madibibl.htm Back online after a three-year absence is the is Hill Family Bible records (Power, Moore families included), transcribed by Martha Power Little. The Hill family lived near Medon. Preceding the Hill bible in the same file is Bible Records of the Mason-Bell Family, submitted by Tami Ramsey. This family lived in the Mason Grove area (this bible was available online elsewhere). The restored file was created and copyrighted in 1998 by first Madison County TNGenWeb CC Laura W. Griffith. The entire time I had Madison County I actually kept the files from earlier genweb pages. I was looking at them one last time before erasing the copies from my hard drive. The madibibl.htm file is mostly as Laura Griffith created it. I changed the host logo (in 1998 the TNGenWeb host was usit.net), deleted two 6-year-old email addresses, and deleted an external link to a third bible to make madibibl.htm self-contained. I think back in 2001 I skiped this file because of the external link and never got back to it. Let me mention the deleted external link -- http://members.tripod.com/~pegasus_2/thomas.htm This links to a web page for the Thomas Rice Warren Family Bible created by Steven L. Rich. The link still works after six years. Exploring his pages I found http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/i/c/Darlene-P-Rich-MO/PHOTO/0002photo.html This is a May 1963 photograph of Charityann Magdalene (Naylor) Ada, February 18, 1889 (McNairy County, Tennessee) - December 18, 1966 (Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee) David

Madison County, Tennessee Records Repository is now searchable. http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/search.htm http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/cemeteries/cemsearch.htm

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JgB.2ACE/1096.1.1.1.1.1.3.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, no Harley here. Happy hunting.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Baker Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JgB.2ACE/1103 Message Board Post: http://www.genealogymagazine.com/tfbaker.html Biographical sketch of T. F. Baker, born in Madison Co. near Denmark, later banker in Snyder, Texas

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cook, Tomlinson Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JgB.2ACE/1102 Message Board Post: http://members.tripod.com/~records_searcher/index-33.html I was looking for something totally different when I found this marriage announcement from The Charlotte Journal, August 18, 1837 Cook, Milanda and Mr. Tomlinson on july 27, 1837 in Madison County, Tennessee dau of James Cook, formerly of North Carolina.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: O'Rourke Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/JgB.2ACE/1101 Message Board Post: Any info on any O'Rourkes in Jackson , Brownsville, Memphis etc... would be MUCH appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: O'Rourke Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/JgB.2ACE/833.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Just read the old post noting you have the Madison Co. Cemetery books... could you please look up O'Rourke? I can't find these people any where! Thanks a million!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Baker , O'Rourke Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/JgB.2ACE/1096.1.1.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Taking a long shot. Do you have a Harley Baker in your line? If so could you tell me something about him? thank you

Madison Co. materials are at www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/ The Nashville Christian Advocates are at www.tngenweb.org/records/davidson/ Carroll County cemetery books are at www.tngenweb.org/records/carroll/cemeteries/ David

The records have been moved to the following link: http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/index.html Betty Finley ----- Original Message ----- From: <cowmud@aol.com> To: <TNMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:03 PM Subject: [TNMADISO] Old Madison County Site > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Cook, Cardwell, Lamb, Martin, Caldwell > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JgB.2ACE/1100 > > Message Board Post: > > I am trying to find the old Madison County site..I am no longer able to view the works of Jonathan K. T. Smith at the new site..any ideas? > Nelda > > > ==== TNMADISO Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, 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 kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JgB.2ACE/1100.1.1 Message Board Post: To clarify my previous statement about Mr. Smith's work: Not all his work is on-line, but the work that was available on the old Madison County site should be found on the records page. http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/index.html Wanda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JgB.2ACE/1100.1 Message Board Post: Nelda: Go to the TN Gen Records page http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/index.html All of Mr. Smith's work can be found there. Wanda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cook, Cardwell, Lamb, Martin, Caldwell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JgB.2ACE/1100 Message Board Post: I am trying to find the old Madison County site..I am no longer able to view the works of Jonathan K. T. Smith at the new site..any ideas? Nelda