If you have had any PRIVATE e-mail correspondance with me, please return this message. My e-mail was upgraded recently and ALL info was lost. If I'm supposed to be doing research for you, please resend your requests. First come first served at this point. Again- ALL SAVED MESSAGES WERE LOST. I'll tell you I had about 50 requests. If you were down the list, here is your chance to move up!!! PS: Karen's note about "SOMETHING EXCITING" on Marshall County genealogy sounds great. Can't wait to see it!!! Christopher C & M Taylor Marshall Co., TN "Amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic" --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karen in Ky <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 10:46:12 -0800 Subject: [TNMARSHA] Website Updates! Message-ID: <[email protected]> Hi All, I am so excited! There is something **BIG** brewing in Marshall County Genealogy!!!!! A huge new project is in the works and soon as we get the kinks worked out it will be online!!! Christmas brings lots of new computers and lots of new cousins online! If you have marriage records, group sheets, photos or anything else you've been meaning to submit, now is a good time to send them on in. You can send them directly to me at [email protected] , or use the forms page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmarsha/form/form.html Good Hunting, Karen ___________________________________________________________________ Why pay more to get Web access? Try Juno for FREE -- then it's just $9.95/month if you act NOW! Get your free software today: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

Hi Researchers... I've been a long time looking for the Davis family in Marshall Co., or Lincoln Co., Tn with daughter Margaret Jane m. Thomas J. Cummins in 1841. Margaret died by 1846 after birth of her 2 children, William & Lucy Easter Cummins m. Anderson Cole 1858. Margarets sister, Charlotte Davis m. William Beavers 10/29/1847 in Lincoln Co.Tn. Wm Beavers was appointed guardian to William Cummins 4 children, Epsy, Haley, Wm., Margaret. Other guardians were A.P. Clift & James C. Epps, Nov.5th 1866. James was m. to Julia Ann Taylor, 1860. I would sure appreciate connecting with anyone familiar with these names & families as I'm dead-ending in all directions. Can't sort out the familys prior to 1850 when these girls were married as No census info. I will happily share any & all info I have. Thanks. LaVonne Gould Remai

Hi All, I am so excited! There is something **BIG** brewing in Marshall County Genealogy!!!!! A huge new project is in the works and soon as we get the kinks worked out it will be online!!! Christmas brings lots of new computers and lots of new cousins online! If you have marriage records, group sheets, photos or anything else you've been meaning to submit, now is a good time to send them on in. You can send them directly to me at [email protected] , or use the forms page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmarsha/form/form.html Good Hunting, Karen

This is a little story written by my father, that I wanted to share with all of you. If you have memories of the holidays or the winters season please join in and share them with us! - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I guess what I remember most of Christmas as a child in Marshall County is..... Mother would gather us kids up and off to the woods we'd go. We would search the woods for that "special tree." We cut it down and together we'd all drag the tree home. We made a stand out of whatever was handy and put up our decorations. We spent hours and hours making paper chains and stringing popcorn to decorate our "special tree." Looking back, I'm sure there wasn't a pretty tree in those woods and by the time we drug it home, I'm sure it was beat up pretty good.... but to us kids it was the most beautiful tree in town. One other thing I remember about those times...we always had oranges and tangerines during Christmas. I think that might have been the only time of the year we had those treats. We had lots of fun and lots of company during the holidays and we visited most of the kinfolks...had to see what our cousins got for Christmas! Christmas was a time all the Uncles brought out there best homemade whiskey and most all of the grownups shared a drink on Christmas Day. November or December was always the time for hog killin', I think all the boys helped with hog killing, it was a lot of work. It was always ccccccccold, it had to be to kill the hogs. You always knew Christmas was close. A tradition was to save the tails, wrap them up real pretty and give them to whomever you didn't like... or one of your sisters! copyright 1999 William Davis Posted with permission.

Sorry, Bobby that is all the pictures I have. I have been on the lookout for what ever I can find but so far not any luck. I wish I could turn up some of those Tally Station School pictures. If any one has a picture and does not have a scanner I will scan it in and return the picture to them. I am sure they will turn up one by one, and another thought I had was I wonder if the newspaper would consider putting them on line at one time or another they have been published in the local paper. ---Frances Beard Roberts

Hi Bobby! I'll repost this for anyone else who didn't get a chance to read it. It was written by one of the great ladies that hosts Stewart County, Tn. Its probably one of the most touching stories I've read in ages. "Today I am going to step into the shoes of someone else. I live in and nearby the mountains many of our ancestors crossed to settle Middle Tennessee...I don't think about it much until I drive out or in, and then it never fails to cross my mind and I am in total awe. What kind motivation did it take for folks to set out on a journey over mountains that unwelcoming and that daunting, in danger of natives, nature itself....KNOWING full well they may never see the end of it, and that if they did they were more than likely to lose half their family in the process? What kind of thoughts crossed their mind when they made that decision? What kind of inner strength and fortitude did they possess that many of us today do not? Well...bear with a bit of a reverie here...may not totally be historically accurate, but I think the thoughts of a mother and a wife are...I stepped into the past and into the shoes of someone who might have been one of those folks: "Johnny is decided. I reckon I have but one choice and it ain't an easy one. He says we have no choice, that we have to move on west and that now is the time to do it. There is land waiting in Tennessee he says, land that can be ours. He says any citizen of North Carolina now has a right to what ain't taken. He says there is nothin here for us anymore, and I am reckoning that is right too. But my heart is twisting in the inside of me and that is so as well. I got three babies buried out back there to leave behind. The fever got Jakie... buried him at the age of two and like to broke my heart. Big strong boy, was sure he would make it...but the fever got him. Lizzie died at two months and Johnny never knew her name. He told me plain she wasn't healthy and not to get attached to her, to leave off the name so I wouldn't until we knew would she make it or not. But I couldn't stand putting her down in the ground without a name. I called her Lizzie in whispers and the day we buried her I whispered in her ear hopin somehow she would hear me, "Yore name is LIZZIE...Elizabeth Jane Clark, after your grandma, you hear? I named you after the mama I loved and that is yore name cause I love you too." I knew full well how it is to bring youngins into the world and knew I would be burying them too, but I couldn't stand that baby nameless. Ain't no marker there, but I know it is Lizzie...nobody else does and when I leave here won't nobody know. Mattie is the third and I don't know how Johnny can not think of that...I reckon he does but does no good to be dwellin on it...a man's way. Mattie lived to be twelve. She was Johnny's pick. Yes, it twists my heart the thought of leavin those babies out back there, worse even than it twists my heart I am leavin my mama's grave and those of my three brothers and two sisters. Won't nobody know my babies are there, won't nobody else pass by and stand a minute to remember. I won't never be back. I done decided before I go I am gonna go out back there and lay some big stones where they are, gonna scratch their names in it if I can, gonna lay some flowers there and tell them good-bye. I know it don't make no sense, but somehow I feel like I am deserting my babies, even if I cain't talk to them nor they to me. That ain't all the thinkin and heart twistin I am doin about leavin here...Papa has my brothers that are livin, and my sister Jane, but I know the day I tell them goodbye is the last time I am gonna see them. I know Papa will die and I won't be here to bury him, nor any of the others either. There is somethin comforting about washing and dressing your dead...about lovin em gentle-like one last time and doin all you can for them before you send them on to the next world, and I won't get to do that...won't even know when it happens...will live all my days wondering if Papa is gone yet, or the others, and when they went, and how. I won't watch my neices and nephews grow up and I won't have Jane no more to talk to. Maybe I can send them word somehow along the way we are all right, maybe sometime they can send me word...but don't see how as things are now. They don't show no notion of following us to Tennessee. Only Johnny's brothers going to do that. All I will be able to do is look up at the stars at night and think "well Papa and Jane might be looking up at these same stars...might not be together, but we in the same world with the same roof...that is something". And the heart tuggin just goes right on too....I pitched an everlovin fit when Johnny come up with this. I looked at my livin youngins, all six of them, looked at their eyes a 'shinin as Johnny told em what was waitin out there for the takin, the times we would have, the future they had ahead...and I tell you my heart broke like somebody took a hammer and crushed it, over and over six times and no mercy. Those blue eyes shinin, those bright heads dancin up and down in excitement....and not a one of em old enough or with sense enough to know that they all wouldn't make it. We'll wind up burying some of em on one of those mountains loomin up like walls that reach to the clouds, or beside the river..I know we will and there ain't no two ways about it...and I know if my heart is breakin now it is gonna break even more then...Johnny won't have no time to let me stay there a spell and grieve..we will just have to leave them behind where ain't nobody, not even Jane, gonna know or drop on by and stay with them a spell now and then...I won't even know for sure where it is I left my babies on the way. Don't know how we will even go about buryin em right, puttin them away like a mama ought to have the right to lay her babies to the final rest. And taint no sense dwellin on it. I know good and well could be none of us gonna make it, and for sure, if we stayed here neither there ain't no guarantee ...whole families I watched wiped out by first one thing and then the other. Caint vouch that the natives won't get us, nor a sickness, nor bad water, nor a piece of bad blood waiting to ambush us on the trail. Cain't vouch that river won't get us, have heard about that river and the places in it. Cain't vouch how long what supplies we have will last, nor for sure we can get more. Caint vouch for nothin much at all, cept Johnny is right. Ain't nothin much for us here, gettin less and less all the time, and what of our babies make it, if any of em do, well they will have a better chance for it. They may can own their own land this way, get by easier in the world once that place is settled in. Maybe they can have things someday me and Johnny never dreamed of. But it shorely is a high price to pay. It shorely is. And I reckon I'll follow Johnny even if my heart is twisting and bleedin inside of me to where I don't know how I am gonna keep on keepin on. Johnny is decided and I reckon he is right."

My nam is Nancy Hall Anderson and I am rearching the Hall family and Walls from Marshall Co. Tenn. 1850 Marshall Co. Tenn. Census Ann Walls 45 Elizabeth Walls 25 Henry M Walls 22 William Walls 19 Caroline Walls 18 Martha Walls 18 these may be twins James 1 may be Elizabeths son 1860 William H.Hall 28 Elizabeth 35 James 10 Joseph L. Hall 7 Henry M. Hall 5 Martha J. Hall 2 William Hall was killed by bushwaker around 1863 and in 1869 Elizabeth married Henry Haislip. William Hall had 40 acres of land. The family was to have been taken by Union soldiers to a Fort and they were to have stayed ther untill the end of the Civil War. My grandfather shows up in Missouri late 1800s. Any one having records for land, and information as to William Halls parents or Ann Walls, Thank you, Nancy Hall Anderson [email protected]

Bobby, Fletcher Sanders of Little Rock has several old pictures of the Belfast area. His e-mail address is <[email protected]> I know he'd enjoy sharing. Wanda in Tallahassee At 04:24 PM 11/30/99 -0600, you wrote: >First of all I would like to say that I enjoyed the story that Karen had on >The Tennessee Pioneers coming across the mountains from North Carolina, but >I can not find it on my computer now, does anyone have it, if so would you >please foward it to me. I made a hard copy and carried it to our >Thanksgiving day feast at my daughters but as I made it I must have deleted >it. Can anyone in the Marshall Co. area tell me if they have heard of a >Sullivan's Rock? Was this an old homeplace of The Sullivan Family? I believe >that it may be somewhere around The Petersburg area close to The Marshall / >Lincoln Co. line. Also does anyone from The Marshall co. area know anything >about the early Johnston Family of Marshall Co? Could we get Frances Roberts >to posting more pictures of Belfast and does anyone else have pictures of >interest? Does anyone have the history of the small community Post Offices >in the earlier times working out of Marshall Co? I have knowledge of a >Robert Johnston being a postmaster at Luna, but I am not able to link him to >my Johnston ancestors although I believe that he could very well be my great >great grandfather. I would like to hear more about the early times of >Marshall Co. > > > > >

First of all I would like to say that I enjoyed the story that Karen had on The Tennessee Pioneers coming across the mountains from North Carolina, but I can not find it on my computer now, does anyone have it, if so would you please foward it to me. I made a hard copy and carried it to our Thanksgiving day feast at my daughters but as I made it I must have deleted it. Can anyone in the Marshall Co. area tell me if they have heard of a Sullivan's Rock? Was this an old homeplace of The Sullivan Family? I believe that it may be somewhere around The Petersburg area close to The Marshall / Lincoln Co. line. Also does anyone from The Marshall co. area know anything about the early Johnston Family of Marshall Co? Could we get Frances Roberts to posting more pictures of Belfast and does anyone else have pictures of interest? Does anyone have the history of the small community Post Offices in the earlier times working out of Marshall Co? I have knowledge of a Robert Johnston being a postmaster at Luna, but I am not able to link him to my Johnston ancestors although I believe that he could very well be my great great grandfather. I would like to hear more about the early times of Marshall Co.

A few weeks ago I posted a query on this list searching for information on my Ring ancestors. Nothing happened for two weeks and I was not expecting to get any information. But then I had a query to me asking what Rings I was looking for. I answered that query from one of the nicest people I have met on line. She sent me over thirty pages of information on my family. It has not only opened a door, but windows too. Thanks for sharing! Kenny Ring [email protected]

Corrections and additions always welcomed. (Sometimes the coumpute makes mistakes.<grin>) In Marshal County in 1860 were the following McGaugh families: McGaugh, Elliot H 30, Rebecca (Haislip) 38, Mariah F 16, John M 14, Andrew J 12, Wm F 10, Haislip A 8, Amanda 4, Hickory J 1, (Ms 54-19) Elliot McGaugh married Rebecca Haslip Oct 14, 1841 Marshal Co TN I believe that this Andrew J is the one who married Mary Ann Poarch/Porch in 1869. He is the right age and in the right place. McGaugh, F R 47, Susanna 47, Wm M 20, Mary A 16, James L 9, Allen 41 (Ms 55-20) McGaugh, George 25, Benj 25, Celia 34, Newton 22, (Ms 36-10) McGaugh, Lidda 50, Wm W 18 (Ms 52-18) McGaugh, Robert 48, Drusilla 46, Nancy C 19, Sarah S 17, Mathew W 15, Albert ? 13, Felix L 11, Robert J 8, Drusilla 4, (Ms 41-13) McGaugh, Thos J 22, Matilda 17, Wm James 1 (Ms 52018) Other Marshal Co TN marriages: McGaugh, Allen to Mary E Caudle Oct 1, 1847 G W to F A Oliver Feb 7, 1861 James A to Mary Ann Green Oct 17, 1849 James H to Hannah B Daugharty Mar 13, 1842 Matthew W to Harriet J Coble Aug 30, 1864 T J to M H Horton Feb 22 1858 Thomas to Susan C Daugharty Mar 29, 1842 Lincoln Co TN Marriages McGaugh, Thomas H to Mary V Houston sep 7 1848 Felix Grundy to Minerva Jane Whitaker Jul 11, 1838 Abe to Alcy Todd Aug 8 1866

Do you know about the book, Josephus Gregory, Centenarian, by Josephine Gregory Spears? Carolyn Smotherman T. or L. Briggs wrote: > > Hello, > I am new to this list.. Looking for Wakefield and Gregory information..Especially interested in Alexander Gregory's family. The Wakefield family with interest to finding Margaret F. or S. Wakefield. > > Thank you, > MaggieB.

Hello, I am new to this list.. Looking for Wakefield and Gregory information..Especially interested in Alexander Gregory's family. The Wakefield family with interest to finding Margaret F. or S. Wakefield. Thank you, MaggieB.

Do you have any information on the railroads that was laid through Marshall Co in the 1880's? I have reason to believe that was why my great grandfather Lawrence Lawler was there. I'm not sure when Lawrence arrived in Marshall Co, but he was present in LA in 1892. Margaret [email protected]

Hi All, Updates have been made to the Deeds and Land grants database, lots of new additions! Two new maps have been added, one of the Silver Creek area that includes surnames, the other showing the evolution of Marshall County from its parent counties. Family group sheets have been added for BRINTLE, William Henry and WHITE, Serrul. Also the marriages will be updated some time later tonight! Good Hunting, Karen http://tnmarshall.virtualave.net/

Corrections and additions always welcomed. Mary Ann Poarch/Porch married Andrew Jackson McGaugh (McGaw) Jan 14, 1869 in Giles Co TN or March 2, 1868????? 1870 Census Marshall Co TN, A J McGaugh 22, Farmer b TN, M E (Mary Ann Elizabeth) 20; A F female age 6 months. Mary Ann and A J also had Lee and Tom They moved to Arkansas. Thanks to Robert, a new cousin, we have new information from a descendant of Mary Ann & A J McGaugh: another son, Luther Jerome McGaugh was born Jan 23, 1873 in Fayetteville Ark. He married Della Louise Henderson. Luther died Aug 5, 1954 in Corsicana TX and Della Louise born Sep 5, 1879 died July 15, 1935. Any information on these families would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Robert for sharing. [email protected]

David- Please e-mail me privately. I can't find your e-mail address! Christopher C & M Taylor in TN [email protected] "Amateurs built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic" ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

The NOVEMBER meeting of the M.C.H.S. was held on Nov. 6 at the county museum. I told the list that I intended to go to the meeting and report on it. Well, I did intend to go, but forgot. HOWEVER, I have made some calls and found out the topic and an exciting upcoming event. Gilbert Hunter, of the Marshall County Farm Bureau, spoke about the changes in farming over the past century. Some statistics he reported were that in 1900, 50% of people in Marshall Co lived on or operated a farm. In 1950 that number had dropped to 12%, and today it is less that 2%!!! According to the local news and the Marshall County Historical Society, the following report is being made: "The Smithsonian traveling exhibit "BARN AGAIN: CELEBRATING AN AMERICAN ICON" will be on display at the Marshall County Historical Museum, 230 College Street, Lewisburg, Beginning November 20, 1999 through January 16, 2000. Our local "companion" exhibit must be ready for display before that date." I have not heard details about the exhibit, but I'm still trying to find out more. I'll keep you posted. For those who are wondering about your membership and subscriptions to the Hist. Quarterly, I still don't have answers. I have been told that those responsible are "behind" and are trying to catch up. That seems obvious. Happy Hunting, and watch for more from Lewisburg!!! Christopher C & M Taylor in TN [email protected] "Amateurs built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic" ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

WILLIAM MASSEY wrote: > > Hey, Virginia! > > I don't know whether you noticed or not, but in the family history you > have the death of Lucinda C. Massey as Feb. 16, l911, but in the request > that you sebt to TNGILES, her date of death was Feb. 16, l90l. > > Thanks for the effort. I thought I'd point that out to you. > > Thanks again, > Bill Massey > > In F. C. & L. > Most sincerely, > William R. (Bill) Massey > > THANKS, sometimes my fingers do their own thing. The correct year is 1911> Lucinda Caroline Massey Poarch or Porch died Feb 16, 1911. Virginia

Hey, Virginia! I don't know whether you noticed or not, but in the family history you have the death of Lucinda C. Massey as Feb. 16, l911, but in the request that you sebt to TNGILES, her date of death was Feb. 16, l90l. Thanks for the effort. I thought I'd point that out to you. Thanks again, Bill Massey In F. C. & L. Most sincerely, William R. (Bill) Massey