Betty I don't have proof of where the name Sweeten came from but we do have a book published by Jerry Blevins of Huntsville Ala that he abstracted from the original records of the Sweetens Cove Church, the original is in the rare documents of the Chattanooga library. According to the book written by Leonard Raulston and James Livingood they quote the following: The Sequatchie Valley Association of the Baptist Church was formed in 1820 and the next year the Primitive Baptist church in Sweeten's Cove was established by Elisha Blevins and John Kelly who had been called from another church up the river to help in the organization. This new church was called the Union Church. In Jerry's book he says the name was changed in 1834 to Sweetens Cove Primitive Baptist church. Euline ************** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)
Thank you Euline for clearing that up -- but don't you think over the years it got spelled more by how it was pronounced than the actual spelling -- as I know for a fact the address with the post office was spelled Swedens Cove-- On Mac's Navy records it is spelled that way too. ----- Original Message ----- From: H62833@aol.com To: tnmarion@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [TNMARION] Cemetery Where is? Betty I don't have proof of where the name Sweeten came from but we do have a book published by Jerry Blevins of Huntsville Ala that he abstracted from the original records of the Sweetens Cove Church, the original is in the rare documents of the Chattanooga library. According to the book written by Leonard Raulston and James Livingood they quote the following: The Sequatchie Valley Association of the Baptist Church was formed in 1820 and the next year the Primitive Baptist church in Sweeten's Cove was established by Elisha Blevins and John Kelly who had been called from another church up the river to help in the organization. This new church was called the Union Church. In Jerry's book he says the name was changed in 1834 to Sweetens Cove Primitive Baptist church. Euline ************** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PLEASE NOTE: This list is for queries and replies, comments, requests for help, and other genealogical related information that is of interest to researchers having a connection or a possible connection to Marion County, Tennessee. There is no soliciting or advertising of any item or service for sale allowed. Betty McBee - list administrator-- macbetty2@peoplepc.com Marion County Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmario2/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNMARION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Yes, thank you Euline. That is valuable information for those of us who have ancestors from Sweetens Cove who were also members of the Primitive Baptist Church there. Betty, I'm sure you're right about the phonetic spelling...it happened so often with surnames, I'm sure it applied to town names as well. I know on my Robertson line, the "t" gets dropped in pronunciation even today. Donna On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:56 PM, <macbetty2@peoplepc.com> wrote: > Thank you Euline for clearing that up -- but don't you think over the > years it got spelled more by how it was pronounced than the actual spelling > -- as I know for a fact the address with the post office was spelled > Swedens Cove-- On Mac's Navy records it is spelled that way too. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: H62833@aol.com > To: tnmarion@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:31 PM > Subject: Re: [TNMARION] Cemetery Where is? > > > Betty I don't have proof of where the name Sweeten came from but we do > have a > book published by Jerry Blevins of Huntsville Ala that he abstracted from > the > original records of the Sweetens Cove Church, the original is in the rare > documents of the Chattanooga library. According to the book written by > Leonard > Raulston and James Livingood they quote the following: The Sequatchie > Valley > Association of the Baptist Church was formed in 1820 and the next year the > Primitive Baptist church in Sweeten's Cove was established by Elisha > Blevins and > John Kelly who had been called from another church up the river to help in > the > organization. This new church was called the Union Church. > In Jerry's book he says the name was changed in 1834 to Sweetens Cove > Primitive > Baptist church. > Euline > > > ************** > Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking > with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. > > ( > http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > PLEASE NOTE: This list is for queries and replies, comments, > requests for help, and other genealogical related information > that is of interest to researchers having a connection or a > possible connection to Marion County, Tennessee. There is no > soliciting or advertising of any item or service for sale allowed. > Betty McBee - list administrator-- macbetty2@peoplepc.com > Marion County Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmario2/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNMARION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > PLEASE NOTE: This list is for queries and replies, comments, > requests for help, and other genealogical related information > that is of interest to researchers having a connection or a > possible connection to Marion County, Tennessee. There is no > soliciting or advertising of any item or service for sale allowed. > Betty McBee - list administrator-- macbetty2@peoplepc.com > Marion County Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmario2/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNMARION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >