Greetings to all. Marion County now has a NEW History and Genealogy Web Site. The URL to it is: http://www.noelm.com/marion/home.html Check it out and see what you think. If you have information to add such as wills, listings of family bibles, interesting letters, family stories etc let me know and I will see about adding them to the site. Still some work to do and things to add. It will be in constant refining and updating as I receive more information to go on it. If you have any comments on it let me know. Hope you like it. Cheers, Noel

> Hi Lists, Found this on a West Virginia list thought it might be of interest to some. There are lots of lists lists like this but maybe there is some thing that is old, but new? Jim Duncan in Arizona > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Old Occupations > > Accomptant - Accountant > Almoner- Giver of charity to the needy > Amanuensis - Secretary or stenographer > Artificer - A soldier mechanic who does repairs > Bailie - Bailiff > Baxter - Baker > Bluestocking - Female writer > Boniface - Keeper of an inn > Brazier - One who works with brass > Brewster - Beer manufacturer > Brightsmith - Metal Worker > Burgonmaster - Mayor > Caulker - One who filled up cracks (in ships or windows or seems to make > them watertight by using tar or oakum-hem fiber produced by taking old > ropes apart. > > Chaisemaker - Carriage maker > Chandler - Dealer or trader; one who makes or sells candles;retailer of > groceries, ship supplier > > Chiffonnier - Wig maker > Clark - Clerk > Clerk - Clergyman, cleric > Clicker - The servant of a salesman who stood at the door to invite > customers; one who received the matter in the galley from the compositors > and arranged it in due form ready for printing; one who makes eyelet holes > in boots using a machine which clicked. > > Cohen - Priest > Collier - Coal miner > Colporteur - Peddler of books > Cooper - One who makes or repairs vessels made of staves & hoops,such as > casks, barrels, tubs, etc. > > Cordwainer - Shoemaker, originally any leather worker using leather from > Cordova/Cordoba in Spain > Costermonger - Peddler of fruits and vegetables > Crocker - Potter > Crowner - Coroner > Currier - One who dresses the coat of a horse with a currycomb;one who > tanned leather by incorporating oil or grease > > Docker - Stevedore, dock worker who loads and unloads cargo > Dowser - One who finds water using a rod or witching stick > Draper - A dealer in dry goods > Drayman - One who drives a long strong cart without fixed sides for > carrying heavy loads > > Dresser- A surgeon's assistant in a hospital > Drover - One who drives cattle, sheep, etc. to market; a dealer in cattle > Duffer - Peddler > Factor - Agent, commission merchant; one who acts or transacts business for > another; Scottish steward or bailiff of an estate. > > Farrier - A blacksmith, one who shoes horses > Faulkner- Falconer > Fellmonger - One who removes hair or wool from hides in preparation for > leather making > > Fletcher - One who made bows and arrows > Fuller - One who fulls cloth;one who shrinks and thickens woolen cloth by > moistening, heating, and pressing; one who cleans and finishes cloth > > Gaoler - A keeper of the goal, a jailer > Glazier - Window glassmanHacker - Maker of hoes > Hatcheler - One who combed out or carded flax > Haymonger - Dealer in hay > Hayward - Keeper of fences > Higgler - Itinerant peddler > Hillier - Roof tiler > Hind- A farm laborer > Holster - A groom who took care of horses, often at an inn > Hooker - Reaper > Hooper - One who made hoops for casks and barrels > Huckster - Sells small wares > Husbandman - A farmer who cultivated the land > Jagger - Fish peddler > Journeyman - One who had served his apprenticeship and mastered his > craft,not bound to serve a master, but hired by the day. > > Joyner / Joiner - A skilled carpenter > Keeler - Bargeman > Kempster - Wool comber > Lardner - Keeper of the cupboard > Lavender - Washer woman > Lederer - Leather maker > Leech - Physician > Longshoreman - Stevedore > Lormer - Maker of horse gear > Malender - Farmer > Maltster - Brewer > Manciple - A steward > Mason - Bricklayer > Mintmaster - One who issued local currency > Monger - Seller of goods (ale, fish) > Muleskinner - Teamster > Neatherder - Herds cows > Ordinary Keeper- Innkeeper with fixed prices > Pattern Maker - A maker of a clog shod with an iron ring. A clog was a > wooden pole with a pattern cut into the end > > Peregrinator - Itinerant wanderer > Peruker - A wig maker > Pettifogger - A shyster lawyer > Pigman - Crockery dealer > Plumber - One who applied sheet lead for roofing andset lead frames for > plain or stained glass windows. > > Porter - Door keeper > Puddler - Wrought iron worker > Quarrier- Quarry worker > Rigger - Hoist tackle worker > Ripper - Seller of fish > Roper - Maker of rope or nets > Saddler - One who makes, repairs or sells saddles or other furnishings for > horses. > Sawbones- Physician > Sawyer - One who saws; carpenter > Schumacker - Shoemaker > Scribler - A minor or worthless author > Scrivener - Professional or public copyist or writer; notary public > Scrutiner - Election judge > Shrieve - SheriffSlater - Roofer > Slopseller- Seller of ready-made clothes in a slop shop > Snobscat / Snob - One who repaired shoes > Sorter - Tailor > Spinster - A woman who spins or an unmarried woman > Spurrer - Maker of spurs > Squire - Country gentleman; farm owner; justice of peace > Stuff gown - Junior barrister > Stuff gownsman J- unior barrister > Supercargo - Officer on merchant ship who is in charge of cargo and the > commercial concerns of the ship. > > Tanner - One who tans (cures) animal hides into leather > Tapley - One who puts the tap in an ale cask > Tasker - Reaper > Teamster - One who drives a team for hauling > Thatcher - Roofer > Tide waiter - Customs inspector > Tinker - An itinerant tin pot and pan seller and repairman > Tipstaff - Policeman > Travers - Toll bridge collection > Tucker - Cleaner of cloth goods > Turner - A person who turns wood on a lathe into spindles > Victualer - A tavern keeper, or one who provides an army,navy, or ship with > food > Vulcan - Blacksmith > Wagoner - Teamster not for hire > Wainwright - Wagon maker > Waiter - Customs officer or tide waiter; one who waited on the tide to > collect duty on goods brought in. > > Waterman - Boatman who plies for hire > Webster - Operator of looms > Wharfinger - Owner of a wharf > Wheelwright - One who made or repaired wheels; wheeled carriages,etc. > Whitesmith - Tinsmith; worker of iron who finishes or polishes the work > Whitewing - Street sweeper > Whitster - Bleach of cloth > Wright - Workman, especially a construction worker > Yeoman - Farmer who owns his own land > > Compiled by Dan Burrows > "I put these 130 items together from many sources and used it as a handout > for our local Orange County (NY) Genealogical Society. I was asked by many > recipients if the CHART could be forwarded to other lists or used in local > newsletters. The answer is yes -- please share this information." > Dan Burrows - dburrows1@juno.com

Hi List, I'm searching for a HENRY CASSIDY born ca 1840's in TN. Any help on this person would be greatly appreciated. If anyone has a 1850 census of Marion Co,Tn and could do a look -up. It would be reatly appreciated.. thanks. can email me at tennanny@webtv.net This information is by me. KAY, SMILE BE HAPPY, IT DOESN'T HURT. <(:^]>) DYE* BLANTON *CASSIDY* HUGHS *SHAW *SHADWICK * CHADWICK* SHADRICK*

East Tennessee Historical Society Hosts Genealogy Conference and Family Reunion Celebration The sons and daughters of Tennessee's pioneer founders are heading home this Memorial Day weekend. The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) is hosting a weekend-long genealogy conference and family history fair, May 26-28, in Knoxville, Tennessee. A highlight of the conference will be a "family reunion" of members of the society's family heritage project, First Families of Tennessee (FFT)the debut of a new First Families of Tennessee book. Guests attending the conference will face a wide variety of options and activities, including a two-day genealogy conference featuring national and regional experts, a family history fair and street party in downtown Knoxville, motorcoach tours of historic East Tennessee sites, and a "family reunion" dinner at the home of Tennessee's first governor, John Sevier. The genealogy conference, held at Knoxville's Hilton Hotel, May 26-27, will examine Southeastern "roots and routes" - focusing on our ancestors and their migrations into and out of East Tennessee. Guest speakers will discuss a variety of topics including Scots-Irish research, Cherokee genealogy, Tennessee land records, Tennesseans in the California gold rush, frontier religion, and more. Experts will also discuss research topics in states associated with Tennessee's earliest residents, including Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Descendants of Tennessee's first families will celebrate the publication of the East Tennessee Historical Society's newest book, First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Descendants. The book, a tribute to the ancestors enrolled in the FFT project, will include names and vital stats of the more than 2,000 ancestors enrolled in the project, along with a registry of FFT members. The book will be unveiled in a special ceremony and will be available for purchase at the history conference. Guest speakers will include Dr. George K. Schweitzer, Charles Sherrill of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Russell Baker, Robert Davis, historian Walter Durham, and other experts on a variety of genealogical and historical topics. In addition to the multi-track genealogy conference, ETHS will host a genealogy and family history fair featuring mini-workshops for beginners, vendor displays, tours of local historic sites, carriage and trolley rides in downtown Knoxville, and living history demonstrations. The fair will also include a downtown street party outside the historical society's headquarters with live music, dramatic performances, historic reenactments, children's activities and more. While the theme of the weekend will be built around a family reunion of First Families of Tennessee members, attendance at all the events is open to anyone with an interest in history and genealogy. The First Families of Tennessee was founded by the East Tennessee Historical Society in 1993 to honor the state's early residents and to recognize their descendants. The program is open to those who can prove descent from a person living in any part of Tennessee by 1796. Housed in Knoxville's Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, the First Families of Tennessee files provide a one-of-a-kind resource for historical and genealogical research. For additional information about ETHS, the First Families of Tennessee project, or the upcoming genealogy conference and First Families of Tennessee reunion, visit the historical society's website at www.east-tennessee-history.org # # #

I recieved this from another list and thought it might help some of us. Lots of names of soldiers listed, as well as other interesting information Confederate Memorial Cemetery in Chattanooga address is:. http://www.utc.edu/commdept/ConfederateCem.html Thanks ---Betty McBee macbetty@worldshare.net

This is a list of surnames from my files these came from the Marion County, Tenn area and migrated to the Mid-Missouri Counties of Osage, Gasconade, and Maries. The names in all capitals are my direct ancestors, the others are from collateral lines. If you think we a connection I'll send names or ged-coms. Beazley Berry Blevins Bowden BOYCE BRIGGS CAMPBELL Capshaw Centers COX Dinwiddle Dixon Duerksen Elrod Freeman FRITTS Fritz GREEN Harper Hawkins Hayden Henry Howell INU Jenkins Johnson Jones Kell Kellum Kincaid MATTHEWS McDaniel Menefee MIDDLEBROOKS Mitchell Moore Nabors Padgett Parkhurst Penland PHILLIPS Pinkston Pinner Pippin Plank Price Proctor Randolp Rasnick Robinson Sams Sanders SHOCKLEY Sims Smith Tabor Tatum TERRILL Thompson Tollett Vaughn Walker Weger

Is there anyone who does lookups for Marion County.

I recieved this from another list--thanks again Kathy and Bradley County!!---Betty ---Cathy's messages follows Hi, all...I found this site tonight and thought you all might be like me and not know it existed <g>... http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/revwar/KM-Cpns/AWC-KM-fm.htm Cathy Hall Grand Island, NY TNGenWeb Bradley County

East Tennessee Historical Society Hosts Genealogy Conference and Family Reunion Celebration The sons and daughters of Tennessee's pioneer founders are heading home this Memorial Day weekend. The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) is hosting a weekend-long genealogy conference and family history fair, May 26-28, in Knoxville, Tennessee. A highlight of the conference will be a "family reunion" of members of the society's family heritage project, First Families of Tennessee (FFT)the debut of a new First Families of Tennessee book. Guests attending the conference will face a wide variety of options and activities, including a two-day genealogy conference featuring national and regional experts, a family history fair and street party in downtown Knoxville, motorcoach tours of historic East Tennessee sites, and a "family reunion" dinner at the home of Tennessee's first governor, John Sevier. The genealogy conference, held at Knoxville's Hilton Hotel, May 26-27, will examine Southeastern "roots and routes" - focusing on our ancestors and their migrations into and out of East Tennessee. Guest speakers will discuss a variety of topics including Scots-Irish research, Cherokee genealogy, Tennessee land records, Tennesseans in the California gold rush, frontier religion, and more. Experts will also discuss research topics in states associated with Tennessee's earliest residents, including Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Descendants of Tennessee's first families will celebrate the publication of the East Tennessee Historical Society's newest book, First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Descendants. The book, a tribute to the ancestors enrolled in the FFT project, will include names and vital stats of the more than 2,000 ancestors enrolled in the project, along with a registry of FFT members. The book will be unveiled in a special ceremony and will be available for purchase at the history conference. Guest speakers will include Dr. George K. Schweitzer, Charles Sherrill of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Russell Baker, Robert Davis, historian Walter Durham, and other experts on a variety of genealogical and historical topics. In addition to the multi-track genealogy conference, ETHS will host a genealogy and family history fair featuring mini-workshops for beginners, vendor displays, tours of local historic sites, carriage and trolley rides in downtown Knoxville, and living history demonstrations. The fair will also include a downtown street party outside the historical society's headquarters with live music, dramatic performances, historic reenactments, children's activities and more. While the theme of the weekend will be built around a family reunion of First Families of Tennessee members, attendance at all the events is open to anyone with an interest in history and genealogy. The First Families of Tennessee was founded by the East Tennessee Historical Society in 1993 to honor the state's early residents and to recognize their descendants. The program is open to those who can prove descent from a person living in any part of Tennessee by 1796. Housed in Knoxville's Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, the First Families of Tennessee files provide a one-of-a-kind resource for historical and genealogical research. For additional information about ETHS, the First Families of Tennessee project, or the upcoming genealogy conference and First Families of Tennessee reunion, visit the historical society's website at www.east-tennessee-history.org # # #

Here's a tip for those on the list that don't know about it. The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project (GEDCOMs) has a search engine at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi Not only can you search on names, but places. Betty McBee macbetty@worldshare.com

I recieved this from the Franklin County Tn. list and thought it was pretty interesting. ---Betty McBee macbetty@worldshare.net It reads as follows: Please take a look at a web site I launched two days ago on Jonas Hill, b/1763 Granville Co., NC and d/1840 Franklin Co., TN: www.geocities.com/erayhill This web site was set up for research purposes for those searching the Hills, Barnes, Williams, Brinkley, Guinn, Reid/Reed, Spence, Perry, Tomison, Kitchens, and Kykendall families. All of these families married Jonas Hill's children, except Barnes (Mary Barnes married Jonas in 1808 in either Overton Co. or Franklin Co., TN. It is my hope that by using this site as a research tool, we can make some new discoveries about these families. If anyone has any information on any of the above families, please let me know. I will soon be posting the family data on Jonas Hill on one of the web pages at the above web site. -- E. Ray Hill Erayhill@kcinter.net Visit the Jonas Hill web site at: www.geocities.com/erayhill

Greetings to all. This note appeared on the TNMARION list. I am not sure if it was sent in error or by design. As the owner and controller of the TNMARION list, I will put in my two cents worth: We have new individuals that subscribe every day to the list. It is good to ask them, and others who might have missed the note before, about your contacts. This is OK as far as I am concerned. That is the purpose of the list, to send queries out and to receive information back. To communicate to others. Of course, sending out the same message two or three times a week is a bit much. Use a little common sence in this area. Mail lists are dynamic lists, which means that there is something happening on them all the time. It would be pretty boreing is we never read anything about others attempts to search their roots. So, feel free to post your questions, to ask for information, to say hello to someone that you have not noticed for awhile. This is YOUR list. Use it as you need to. No one will benefit if we don't use it. Lists that are not used are soon abandoned and become useless. Let's don't let this happen to ours. Cheers, Noel Matthews List owner/Administrator TNMARION Lrjwj@aol.com wrote: > > Readers: The following is a nastygram "Jess"(Jlewis@cafes.net) (list > owner?)sent to me for having annoyed his clicking finger and other > sinsibilities,by my method of genealogical posting. > It is followed with my comments to it, so scroll on. > To John > Please stop making the same "Johnson" query, over and over, on the > Tn-Coffee (and other lists). It doesn't do much good to post it every > week, it only makes people mad. I am getting complaints every day. Let > it ride, for a few weeks. > Thanks, > > Jess, > The way I read part of this is: > Youre getting complaints everyday about me posting every 2-3 weeks? Cant be! > " There are always "Whiners"about having to click off "subjects" Why dont > they start their own site that has only "subjects"of their interest. Dont > they know that everything isnt going to interest them or you? > > I place queries every 2-3 weeks to the various counties and states,where my > decendants lived from 1790-1900, I have received replies from new people each > time I send these out.( & you receive complaints every day) > Unless there are rules that restrict me from sending these same queries out > every week,2 weeks or 3weeks, and that restrict the number of counties I am > allowed to search ,as you attempt to do in your email to me,I will continue > to search in the manner in shich I am accustomed. > > If there are rules set up by the chief adm.of rootsweb and Im not following > them,then by all means I'll conform.Let me know where they are listed. > "Cant we all just get along?" > John Johnston

this is another sight that has lots of different genealogy forms and charts you can print out. Some are very interesting. http://www.cyndislist.com/supplies.htm#Online Betty McBee macbetty@worldshare.net

This is an address where you can choose the year and print out the census forms. I have paid as high as .35 a piece for these. As you know each 10 year one is different with different information on each, so just choose your year and print away. instructions are there how to do that too. :-) http://www.familytreemaker.com/00000061.html Have fun and happy hunting Betty McBee macbetty@worldshare.net

Readers: The following is a nastygram "Jess"(Jlewis@cafes.net) (list owner?)sent to me for having annoyed his clicking finger and other sinsibilities,by my method of genealogical posting. It is followed with my comments to it, so scroll on. To John Please stop making the same "Johnson" query, over and over, on the Tn-Coffee (and other lists). It doesn't do much good to post it every week, it only makes people mad. I am getting complaints every day. Let it ride, for a few weeks. Thanks, Jess, The way I read part of this is: Youre getting complaints everyday about me posting every 2-3 weeks? Cant be! " There are always "Whiners"about having to click off "subjects" Why dont they start their own site that has only "subjects"of their interest. Dont they know that everything isnt going to interest them or you? I place queries every 2-3 weeks to the various counties and states,where my decendants lived from 1790-1900, I have received replies from new people each time I send these out.( & you receive complaints every day) Unless there are rules that restrict me from sending these same queries out every week,2 weeks or 3weeks, and that restrict the number of counties I am allowed to search ,as you attempt to do in your email to me,I will continue to search in the manner in shich I am accustomed. If there are rules set up by the chief adm.of rootsweb and Im not following them,then by all means I'll conform.Let me know where they are listed. "Cant we all just get along?" John Johnston

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Excellent suggestion! Joyce

I'm sending this suggestion to several genealogical lists ~ I apologize if you receive it more than once (just think, I'll get a message for each one!). I'd like to suggest that everyone completing the 2000 census questionnaire make sure to list the MAIDEN name of any married females within the household. I sent this suggestion to the Census Bureau but am not sure if the forms reflects that question. I received a letter in Monday's mail stating that I would receive my census form in about a week. Everyone doing genealogical research knows how wonderful it would be to have the maiden name of our female ancestors. So, let's all of us do our part to help those ahead of us in their research of our generations. Donna (Brock) Strong

I saw this explanation on another list and thought not only was it so very true, it could also explain why sometimes we can't find the burial sight of Uncle or Aunt, let alone Great Grandma. So thought I would forward it on to you too. Have you ever seen one of those movies where the pioneer family has finally made it, has a nice little house under some big shade trees next to a flowing stream? But, the sweet little girl that saved the family from whatever ravages were after them finally dies from some awful disease? And the family gets all dressed up in their Sunday best and accompanies the little coffin up the hill to the fenced in family graveyard in the middle of an nice open field? I'm sure you have. We all have. But, look around at that scene. Where's the hearse? Where's the undertaker? Where's the grave digger? Oh, my. They're not there! And the grave marker is a beautifully done wooden cross with the little girl's name, dates, and some sweet words on it. Well, until embalming became a requirement, there was no need for an undertaker. And, therefore, no need for a hearse to take the body from the undertaker's to the graveyard. The father and brothers will have dug the grave. The mother and sisters will have washed and dressed the body. The father will have made the coffin (they're too far from town to get the local carpenter/coffin-maker to get it finished fast enough). Ergo, no need for papers and forms and all those things "the authorities" today require. Everyone for miles around knows the little girl has died and where she's buried so no need for an obituary either. Oh, that's OK. I can always find exactly where she is. Why, just look at that beautiful cross. That'll be real easy to find. The wind and the sun and the rain and the snow and the termites and the pine borers to say nothing of prairie fires and grazing cattle can really do a number on a pretty piece of wood in no time. Too, lots of folks scratched the name on a rock - native field stone is what they're usually called. If the rock was real hard, they may have just used the last name. After all, everyone knew where whoever was buried anyway so there was no need for anything more. That's why the marker only has the surname. That's why there's no paper trail to follow. That's why there's probably nothing more than a 3'x6' depression in the ground. And most of Arkansas (except for big cities like Little Rock or Fort Smith) was pretty much like this well into the 20th century. I know it's hard to believe, but it's a fact. Reprinted with permision of Mysty--a very nice Lady from Ark. :-)

Subject: JOHN W. HUGHES Does anyone have any information of John W. Hughes b. abt 1867? He is enumerated in 1900 in McMinn County with his wife Mary b. abt 1869 and children: Samuel b. 1890 Henry b. 1983 George b. 1895 Mack b. 1896 Danford b. 1898 I can't find them on the 1910 or the 1920 census. Does anyone know any of them or where they might have gone. John had a half/brother that was in Smith County in 1880 by the name of Rufus Calvin Hughes and he was married to a Mary Lemons. John was in Blount County in 1880 as a 15 year old boarder. Thanks Maxine Hughes Blair