Dear List Members, I promised many of you what I found out about the records and this is the reply I have received today from the son of Mr. Cunningham on the sad fate of the funeral records. Guess we are back to digging up another source. Gwen ********************** Message From: James W. Cunningham Date: Thu, Apr 20, 2000, 1:26pm To: wheelbarrowfarm@webtv.net Subject: Funeral Records Gwen, I'm sorry, but I can't help you. My parents bought the funeral home in Tracy City in 1942 and sold it in 1950. The previous owner was a Norvell--I don't know the first name. Whether Norvell owned the funeral home back as far as 1925 when your great-grandfather died, I can't say. My mother, who is still living, says that she and my father never had the Norvell funeral records. According to her, they were probably burned by Mrs. Norvell. I think she is just guessing about that. As a genealogy buff, I recoiled in horror! But, she said that the records told who had paid and who had not paid for funerals and what people had died of, both kinds of information that should not have been released to the general public. So, I guess I can understand it a bit, but I wish the records had been donated to the Archives in Nashville or somewhere like that. Of course, I don't know for sure that they weren't. Sorry, I can't help you. Jim Researching G.R.A.H.A.M/N.U.N.N.L.E.Y/B.O.S.T/ M.Y.E.R.S./H.A.N.S.F.O.R.D. /S.T.A.N.B.A.C.K/S.T.R.E.E.T/