I get copies of all revelant information on most Davis' in the se Tn. area. I have a copy of the pension application for John N. Davis b. 10/10/1839 Meigs Co., Tn. and am just wondering if anyone out there knows anything about his parents or siblings. Heres what I have from the application. He enlisted in Capt. W. O. Martin's Co. B 2nd Bat. Cav. (which was later the 5th Tn. Reg.) 11/1/1861 in Decatur, Tn. While in service in early 1862, he contracted measles and was blinded in one eye and the other was severely impaired. He was discharged from duty in Sept 1862. He was 6', fair complexion, black hair, blue eyes. At the time of his enlistment, he was 23. When applying for the pension, he had a wife and 4 children - 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived until at least 1906. As I said earlier, I'd be interested in knowing which Davis line is his. Thanks Donna

For an electronic map of Tennessee beginning 1800 thru the present. Surf around the entire site. A few good historical tidbits here. http://www.lib.utk.edu/cic/ Joyce G. Reece

http://160.36.208.47/Cnat.htm What a web site for Cherokee and Tennessee researchers!!! If thi e above link doesn't work go to http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/catsearch.htm

I'm hoping someone can help with the following folks: 1850 Meigs Co., Tn. Federal Census 10/11 Sarah Martin, 45, cannot read or write Mary A., 21, cannot read or write Susan, 19, attends school John, 18, no occ., attends school Hannah, 13, idiot Martha J, 11, attends school Sarah, 8, attends school 1860 Meigs Co., Tn. Federal Census 66-170 (Byron & Sistler) Decatur, 3rd Dist. 479/479 Martin, Sarah, 54 Mary, 30 Susan, 27 John, 26 Hannah, 21 Martha, 19 William F., 14 Albert T., 6 Franklin, 4 Allice, 2 1880 Meigs Co., Tn. Federal Census FHL Film 1255272, pg 482a Sarah Martin, invalid f, w, w, 74, Tn., NC., NC Susan, keeping house, dau, f, s, w, 47, Tn., Va., Tn. Hannah L., insane, dau, f, s, w, 43, Tn., Va., Tn. William F., farmer, gson, m, s, w, 23, Tn., Tn., Tn. I'm interested in anything at all about this family. I have some stray Martins I'm trying to connect to other Martin families in the Meigs area. Does anyone know who was the father of this bunch? I also suspect that the last 3 children in the 1860 census are not Sarah's. Suspect they belong to one of the older children, but don't know which one. Any help appreciated. Donna Barnes

Today I am receiving an enormous number of bounces because of the latest two mass mailing virus'es. Please rest assured that you cannot received these virus'es thru any rootsweb mail since they will come as attachments to an email. Rootsweb cannot accept attachments. BUT, they can come in a package disguised as a rootsweb email or an email from someone you know and believe is safe. PLEASE, update your virus protection program very frequently and make sure your program is as current as possible. It is for your safety (sanity) and ours too. For further information you can contact your virus program provider. Joyce Gaston Reece

Although this clipping doesn't specifically mention McMinn and the counties of SE TN it is describing one of the epidemics that did hit us. I found this in the Ancestry Daily News. I thought someone might be interested. Sharon Clipping of the Day >From the "New York Times" (New York, NY), 18 August 1878, page 1: THE SCOURGE OF THE SOUTH. NO ABATEMENT OF THE DREAD FEVER Whole Families Swept Away at Grenada---The Death-List Still Long---Peculiarities of the Disease and its Treatment---Twenty-Seven More Deaths at New-Orleans---The Fever Increasing at Vicksburg---Nine Deaths at Memphis. Grenada, Miss., Aug. 17.---The story of the fever is quickly told. One week ago tomorrow morning yellow fever was declared epidemic here by the Board of Health. Assistance was immediately telegraphed for in the way of experienced yellow fever physicians and nurses. Special trains were at once dispatched and Monday found three physicians and 30 nurses beside the stricken, ministering with untiring and unselfish devotion; but the demon of the plague had the advantage in the start and the race has been to him. Picture a town of 2,200 inhabitants reduced in one short week to 200, with only 30 or 40 well ones, and the scene is before you. Men who during the late war won a justly earned reputation for bravery and unflinching nerve, upon seeing the first one of their dear ones hurried to the grave gave up and wept like children. . . . THE WEEKLY OFFICIAL REPORT An Abstract of the Reports Made to the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service. . . . Washington, Aug. 17. . . New Orleans.---Since last report, 471 cases of yellow fever and 121 deaths, making a total of 902 cases and 232 deaths, of which 108 cases and 29 deaths occurred during the 24 hours to noon yesterday. Port Eads.---Thirty three cases of yellow fever and five deaths during the week to yesterday evening. Grenada, Miss.---The first case of yellow fever occurred July 25. To noon yesterday there had been 125 cases and 47 deaths. Mobile.---One death from yellow fever yesterday--a colored woman--who, it is reported, had been on an excursion to Biloxi, Miss., July 24. EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece goes on with reports from Cincinnati, Memphis, Vicksburg, Havana, Cardenas and Sagua la Grande, Cuba, Matanzas, and cholera deaths from Calcutta and Bombay. The article also includes more information, but has been edited for size. The epidemic referenced in this article lasted until the first frost in October, which killed the mosquitos that carried it. It has been estimated that between 13,000 and 15,000 lives were lost to yellow fever in the Mississippi Valley that year.

I found my grandparents 1880 marriage license info and the Meigs Co. address to write for a copy. Does anyone know the cost so that I will send the correct amount? Also does anyone know what information I will get from the license? Mary F. Anderson

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/2hB.2ACI/111.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Popular Baptist Church name!!!! There is also one in Cumberland Co.!

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/2hB.2ACI/111.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I miss read your last post as unmarked graves, sorry. The Mt Pisgah that I know of in McMinn Co is a Baptist church. Not sure about Meigs. Also some of Charity's family is listed in Roane Co under the Hiwassee Baptist Association Minites. It was probably Baptist but I supposed some of them could have been Methodist. My gg-grandfather Hugh L Hackler was a Church of God Minister and traveling Evangelist.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HAGLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/111.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: If in unmarked grave, there will be no way of finding the site. However, I WILL look. Perhaps there are others of the HACKLER surname interred at Mt. Pisgah, which would be at least a little assurance that she might also be there. Do you know what religion was practiced by the family? Mt. Pisgah sounds like a Methodist church that belonged to the old Holston Conference that I transcribed annual meeting records from several years ago. Could be wrong, but can cross reference that in one of the Meigs history books and see if it is listed with credentials, etc. Sometimes they gave obituaries to the quarterly or annual meetings of the various and sundry lost to "God's Home", since the last meeting.

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/2hB.2ACI/111.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I know that you are just overjoyed to have your grandson home. My prayers go out to all the families who still have someone over there. And to the ones who did not make it home. I know several people who have family over there. Tell your grandson Thank you. That he is greatly appriciated as all our Armed Forces should be. Our rights are a gift given to us by people like him. Those willing to make the sacrifice for others. I would appriciate you looking them up in those records. If you would not mind while you are looking it up could you also look up Charity Hackler? I think she is in an unmarked grave at Mt Zion Cemetery in Meigs Co. That is what my Grandmother says. She was born abt 1816 and died Sept 1859?. Charity was my gggg-grandmother. I appriciate this so much.

> America's Civil War > All-Girl Rhea County Spartans > Begun as a lark, the all-girl Rhea County Spartans soon attracted the attention of unamused Union officers. > by Charles Rice > "I must tell you about a candy stew that they had at Uncle Frank's last night," young Mary Paine of Rhea County, > Tennessee, wrote to her Confederate-soldier brother in January 1863. "Miss Jennie and Manurva had been up to town on a visit and > came back there and asked if they might have one there. She told them she did not care if Uncle Frank was willing [,] so they waited > till he came home and begged him until he agreed that they might have one there. So they went on home and came back that night with > several other girls and had a fine time they say. But I will tell you who was there and then you can guess what a time they had. > There was Miss Jennie, Manurva, Scrap, Ann Gillespie, Jane Locke, Molly Kelly, and Isabel Cunnyngham. [Colonel Onslow] Bean was the > only gentleman there." > Unbelievable as it might seem, most of these carefree young ladies would one day be "captured" by the Union Army and > find themselves held as full-fledged prisoners of war. The story of the adventuresome Rhea County girls and the "cavalry company" > they formed is an undeservedly forgotten incident of the Civil War. > The Rhea County Girls' Company was created in the summer of 1862 through a combination of boredom and the desire to be a > part of the war for Southern independence. Almost all of the "sidesaddle soldiers" had fathers or brothers in the Confederate > military, and the young ladies evidently felt frustrated because their gender prevented them from enlisting. Since they could not > actually join the Confederate Army, they did the next best thing: They created an army of their own. > Rhea County, located on the northern bank of the Tennessee River in east Tennessee, was one of the most pro-Confederate > counties in the politically divided mountain region. Rhea County provided seven companies for the Southern army against only one for > the Union--something of a record for east Tennessee. When their fathers and brothers marched off to war, the young ladies refused to > be left out. Instead, the all-girl company came into existence. Mary McDonald, one of the oldest of the group, was duly elected > captain. Caroline McDonald, evidently her sister-in-law, became first lieutenant. Anne Paine was picked for second lieutenant, while > Rhoda Tennessee Thomison completed the commissioned list as third lieutenant. > Named as noncommissioned officers were Jane Keith, first sergeant; Rachel Howard, second sergeant; Sallie Mitchell, > third sergeant; and Minerva Tucker, fourth sergeant. The girls elected no corporals, and the remaining members of the company had to > be content with the humble rank of private. These included Barbara Allen, Josephine Allen, Martha Bell, Mary Crawford, Kate > Dunwoody, Martha Early, Ann Gillespie, Jennie Hoyal, Kate Hoyal, Maggie Keith, Jane Locke, Louisa McDonald, Mary Ann McDonald, > Sidney McDonald, Mary Paine, Mary Robinson, Sarah Rudd and Margaret Sykes. Like their male counterparts, the ladies chose for > themselves an appropriate martial name--the Rhea County Spartans. All the young women came from prominent local families. The > average age was 18, although the 1860 U.S. census lists Mary McDonald and Caroline McDonald as both being 25, which would have made > them about 27 when the company was formed. > At first, the Rhea County Spartans contented themselves with simply visiting their soldier sweethearts and relatives > among the three companies stationed in the area, presenting them with useful gifts of food and clothing. In mid-1863, however, Union > troops entered the area, and the girls' activities necessarily became more circumspect. The lady soldiers continued to hold > clandestine meetings, if only to keep up their spirits and to exchange news of the war. Rural churches in the Washington area were > their most common rendezvous. > Almost certainly, the ladies must have engaged in at least a small amount of spying and information-gathering for the > Confederate Army. What had started out as a lark became decidedly more serious. > The Spartans never had any official connection with either the Confederate Army or the state of Tennessee. Nevertheless, > at least one Union Army officer obviously took them quite seriously. > After Confederate General John Bell Hood led the Army of Tennessee to disaster at the Battle of Nashville in December > 1864, Union troops gained uncontested control of Rhea County for the remainder of the war. Among the units active in the region was > the 6th Tennessee Mounted Infantry (Federal). Formed in Chattanooga in October 1864 to serve one year, the 6th Mounted Infantry was > a ragtag regiment composed of a few genuine Tennessee Unionists combined with an unsavory assortment of Confederate draft dodgers > and deserters. Its primary purpose was to combat the small band of Confederate irregulars who still roamed the Cumberland Mountains > of east Tennessee and north Georgia. In the spring of 1865, Captain John P. Walker of Company B decided that the Rhea County Girls' > Company was just such an organization. > Walker, a 38-year-old Rhea County farmer, was a typical Tennessee Unionist. Even though he owned real estate worth an > impressive $1,000, Walker was "land poor." In fact, the 1860 census listed his personal estate at a mere $180--scarcely more than > the value of a top-quality horse. Dodging the Confederate conscript officers until the Union forces gained the upper hand, Walker > hastened to join the Union victors and share in the spoils. He quickly acquired a reputation for harshness toward Southern > sympathizers, using his authority to pay them back for such indignities as he felt he had suffered. > Walker certainly justified his reputation when he returned to Rhea County, for one of his first acts was to order the > mass arrest of the girls' company. As far as Walker was concerned, it was high time to teach the rebellious Southern ladies a > lesson. Somehow he persuaded his commander, Lt. Col. George A. Gowin of Hamilton County, to go along with his plan. > On April 5, 1865, while Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was making the final desperate march that would end at > Appomattox, Walker sent out his men to round up the Rhea County Spartans. As a native of Rhea County, Walker knew not only who the > troublesome ladies were but also where to find them. First Lieutenant William B. Gothard accordingly proceeded to the area south of > Washington, where the Spartans' officers lived. > Armed with a list of names, Gothard was ordered to arrest the women and report with them by noon the next day at the > two-story house of William P. Thomison, a discharged Confederate soldier and the father of "Lieutenant" Rhoda Thomison. Other men > from Walker's company marched to apprehend the disloyal women in the countryside around Smith's Cross Roads (now the town of Dayton) > and Dunwoody's Mill. A few of the Spartans managed to elude their pursuers, but some 16 of the young women were arrested at gunpoint > and brought before Walker. > When they learned that they were to be sent to Chattanooga, the prisoners became understandably apprehensive. Mary > McDonald penned a hasty note to the 6th Tennessee's commander. She urged that Gothard, rather than Walker, be the one to accompany > them. "Doubtless the girls would prefer him," she said. "We all know him." Gowin refused to agree, however, writing that Walker, "a > married man, will go with your company." Interestingly, the 6th Tennessee seems to have been alone in viewing the Spartans as a real > military unit. It was an honor the unfortunate ladies could have done without. > Gothard and his mounted men did escort seven of the female Rebels five miles from the Thomison house to Smith's Cross > Roads, where Walker's home was located. The Union horse soldiers rode, while the women tramped along as best they could. At Smith's > Cross Roads, the footsore Spartans were joined by six more of their number. All 13 then began the long march to the Tennessee River > and Bell's Landing. It was dark and rainy, and the women frequently stumbled through unseen puddles. Just before they arrived at the > landing, the final group of three prisoners joined them. The crestfallen Confederates were made to wait on the flooded riverbank, > the clammy mud oozing into their shoes and adding to their discomfort. Finally, their transportation arrived--a crude little > steamboat called USS Chattanooga. Their ordeal, however, was far from over. > Chattanooga was the first of a series of vessels built by the Union Army at Bridgeport, Ala., to supply the besieged > Union garrison at Chattanooga. Major General Ulysses S. Grant's victories at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge had made that > role unnecessary, and the no-frills steamboat had since enjoyed a somewhat checkered career. The steamer had engaged in so many > foraging expeditions that citizens along the Tennessee River nicknamed the boat the "Chicken Thief." Clearly not meant to carry > passengers, Chattanooga contained only one small room suitable for the ladies--an enclosed area normally used for dining. The table > and chairs were removed, and the 16 exhausted young women were crowded inside. Armed guards at both doors ensured that none of the > "dangerous" enemies of the Union would attempt to escape. Many of the women had walked 10 or more miles to the landing, and the > tired Spartans arranged themselves in rows on the floor and soon fell fast asleep. > When the boat paddled up to the wharf in Chattanooga, Walker rousted out his prisoners and marched them under guard up > muddy Market Street to the provost marshal's office on the corner of Seventh Street. Captain Seth B. Moe of Ohio, assistant adjutant > general of the Union Army's Department of the Etowah, took in the spectacle and promptly sent for his commander, Maj. Gen. James B. > Steedman. Steedman already viewed Gowin and his "hogback cavalry" with contempt; Walker's latest escapade must have strengthened > that feeling. > If Walker expected to be congratulated on his victory, he was quickly disillusioned. Steedman sharply reprimanded the > captain for taking up his time with such foolishness. He then ordered Moe to escort the ladies to the Central House hotel, where > they were allowed to refresh themselves and were treated to the best meal the hotel could offer. While the Union general (a Northern > Democrat with many Southern friends) went out of his way to demonstrate that not all Yankees were barbarians, he did require the > women to take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Now Walker would have no further excuse to harass them. > After the women had been fed, Moe dutifully saw them returned to Chattanooga for the journey back to Rhea County. The > ladies' accommodations were unchanged--no chairs, no beds, and only the scant comfort of the bare wood floor. This time, however, > there were no armed guards watching over them. Still, Walker had one last bit of revenge in mind. Even though Steedman had ordered > him to escort the women to their homes, Walker simply abandoned them at the landing to make their way back as best they could. > An irritated Steedman wrote to Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas at Nashville recommending that the 6th Tennessee Mounted > Infantry "be turned over to > the State authorities of Tennessee and replaced with good cavalry." Union Colonel Lewis Merrill was even more blunt. > "The Sixth Tennessee and First Georgia [Union Regiments]," Merrill told Thomas, "are, in General Steedman's opinion, utterly > worthless. My own observation of the first named confirms this opinion. They are simply cowardly thieves--useless, except to keep a > community embroiled and encourage guerrillas by running whenever attacked." > The company disbanded when the Spartans arrived back in Rhea County. The war was nearly over, and the Spartans soon > returned to the conventional role of 19th-century women. Weeks later, Walker was discharged from the Union Army and used his > experience to gain a few appointive offices during the Reconstruction years. Then he, too, drifted into obscurity. By the time > William G. Allen wrote an account for Confederate Veteran magazine in 1911, the girls' company had been all but forgotten. Only > three of the Spartans were then still living: Mary McDonald, Mary Ann McDonald and Rhoda Thomison. The aging male veterans, North > and South, often met to relive their youth, but the Rhea County Spartans never held a reunion. That is regrettable, for the ladies > had a fascinating story to tell. In a sense, they, too, had "seen the elephant" and done their patriotic duty as they saw fit. > Joyce Gaston Reece

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Duckworth Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2hB.2ACI/90.1 Message Board Post: I am the Great Great Grandson of Doctor Franklin Duckworth and have some information to share. If interested feel free to e-mail me and share what you have as well. Dana

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dyer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/111.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You might be in luck here - MAYBE! There has been at least one Cemetery Survey book done several years ago, of all marked grave sites, suplemented with family info and other resources. Maybe someone will pick up on this and have access to that. We have a copy of the original one in the RCHS collection. Be patient with me, and I will try to look at it next week. My eldest grandson is within an hour or so of landing at Ft. Stewart, GA - been in Iraq since last Winter. I couldn't make the trip, but I probably will sleep better tonight than I have in months!! His Dad is there to greet him, haul him to a motel, and let him stand in the shower to his hearts content!

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/2hB.2ACI/111.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: In 1830 McMinn Co, Tn that is the same James Dyer. Also the same 1840-1870.The reason that I am sure is by the neighbors. He has pretty much the same neighbors with in a few houses or so every year even though there were different variations of his name. Uriah Kyker is one of my ancestors and that is why I noticed. He is alway very near. That would put him in the same area, right near the Meigs Co line. One neighbor is also Rev David W Beaver. James Dyer's son Elijah married Sarah Beaver. David was her father. What you said about Roane Co is interesting. Don't quote me on this but I think that I found a record some time ago that James Dyer bought land there. I think it was near the time of 1830-1840. When ever it was, I found it in the McMinn Co records. About the distortion of the names. It is very possible that the name you mentioned could be something else. In 1870 James was listed as Dier. The census taker just wrote down what they heard. It was how ever they decided to spell it.So many could not read and write. But I don't know how they got Tolitha out of Florantha. It was definately her because the age matches up with the next census year. I have a record of James Dyer's coffin being made. My ggg-grandfather made the coffins in the area that James lived in. I have never found a record of where James or Florantha were buried though. I think that it would be in Meigs Co. The churches in that area that I can think of were Pisgah, Concord and Mt Zion. Though most likely they were unmarked. They lived almost on the boarder of where the county lines are now. I am not sure about the bounderies then.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DYER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/111.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Glad YOU found him! Not even listed under "v's" in Sistlers efforts for 1850. They have a James VYSE, 56, Tolitha, 38, Japser, 16; Newton, 16; Ephraim, 14; Abigail, 12; Louisa, 10, Algerina DYCE, 1, He b. VA, Mom b. TN, McMinn Co. 1061/597. Is this close to the area you found them in your searching? Could be related somehow. I know it is difficult to work on Census records prior to 1850, but there IS a James DYER living in McMinn Co. in 1830. He was ? in 1850, so should be 20 years younger in 1830. This one is listed with 1 male under 5, 3 10-15, 1 30-40/1 female under 5, 1 5-10, 1 10-15 & 1 20-30. Depending on where birthdays fell, and when enumerator "walked" the assigned area is the clue to postives in any of the earlier Census records. There are two James in Grainger. One is 30-40 (p. 366, and living next to a Charlton, a George two houses away, and a OIlder man, Joseph, 80-90 years old 5 houses away. There are also 2 James on p. 359. 1 is 20-30, the second is next door and 50-60. The interesting thing about all this, is that I am finding a goodly number of names sprinkled among the others listed, that definitely are found among those that migrated to Roane Co. after the Native American Treaty was signed in 1817, and the lands not given as reservation being sold at the "Court House Door" at the Federal Court in Knoxville. (We also have families living "South of the River" named VIAR - wonder if transcribers have gotten entangled with that name!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRANDON, ABBOT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/110.2 Message Board Post: To give you a short, sweet answer - Sweetwater is in Monroe Co. It is close to Loudon, recogized in 1870, from portions of Roane, Blount and Monroe, and also to McMinn. Of the two, I would be tempted to chase the name in 1870 through Roane Co. There is a BRANDON, John, 35 and family listed in Roane 1870 - only ones of that surname. In District 1, excluding the City of Kingston, there is a D.C. ABBOT, 33 & family, an L.L., 20, and young family. In District 2, S.N., 59, wife Sarah, 55 and son Columbus, 23. In District 4, there is an R.H., 59, b. VA, Mollie, 38, b. TN and 10 Children, all b. TN. The reason for finding folks in a county other than Loudon, was that they were too busy setting up a County Government, so people were enumerated in their "old" county that one last time.

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/2hB.2ACI/111.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for all the info. I finally found him but only after looking pg by pg. He was listed as Vyar in 1850. I have him from 1830-1870 in McMinn Co. The marriage that you found for James Dyer and Florantha Vaughan is the right one. She was his 3rd wife. Though I don't understand why I found this. A record of he and his wife Florantha giving up power of attorney to (if my memory serves me right) John France in Meigs Co. Where they lived was very close to the Meigs/McMinn Co lines. From what I am told around the Pisgah area. I wish I could get more info on Florantha. I actually come from her daughter Elizabeth Ann 'Bettie' Vaughan. James Dyer was her step father but listed as her father on her death certificate. Her father was Cherokee. Elizabeth first married Campbell Davis. After his death she married Hustion Davis, Campbell's brother.I believe Campbell and Hustion's parents were Edward W and Mary Davis.After Hustion's death she married William B Hackler. But what you were saying about Grainger Co is probably right. From everything I have read on those who research this Dyer family, he married his first 2 wives in Grainger Co. Though I have not followed up on any of that yet. I don't know how to get any further back due to the census listed only head of household. Thank you for looking everything up.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GREEN/GREENE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/115.1 Message Board Post: He is listed as ROTEN GREEN in the 1850 Census as transcribed by Sistler. He is 20, Rebecca, 18, Thomas, 1, Meigs Co. 665/797. Something is amiss here. Henry T., age 38, & family are living at Wrightsville, 6th District, House # 926/855. The person - as transcribed - living next door - is Rowlen GOEN, 45 & family. However, Roten GREEN, 25; Rebecca, 22; Geo. W., 7 Sarah E., 5 and Wm., 3, are living 8th District, P.O. Erie , House #1191/Family # 1113. These from the Roane Co. 1860 Census as reissued by the Roane Co. Genealogical Society from the original done by Marilyn McCluen and the late Mabel Thornton. Possibly some kinship here, but they were not living next door to one another.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DYER, VAUGHN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/111.2 Message Board Post: Have Sistler's 8 volume effort covering the state of Tennessee. Find no James with wife Flora or variation listed. Under the spelling DIE, there is a David, 22, Arty, 22, Elizabeth 2. Both David and Arty stated to be b. NC, McMinn Co., 320/489. James whould have been ca 76 yrs. of age. There is a concentration of this surname in Grainger Co. in 1850, including a James, age 76, Emeline T., 62, Sarah Elkins Dyer, 38; Leroy, 13. James b. VA, Emeline b. T. (This abstraction only lists birthplace of first two people listed.) I spotted the marriage record of James to Florantha VAUGHAN, 4 June 1838 in McMinn, which complicates the other find! Grainger Co. MAY hold some answers. There is also an interesting article in "Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 30 East Tennessee Counties." Under an article about a William Dyer of Monroe Co., s/o John and Mary B. (BARNES) DYER,. b. Washington Co., TN, 14 Sept 1818, but family moved to Sullivan Co. DYER family were from Ireland.....William m. Sara J. VAUGHN, native of Monroe Co, 23 Jan 1850..., d/o James and Sarah VAUGHN, and sister of General John C. VAUGHN. This couple had 11 children - 10 still living when this was published in 1887. It also states that the father was b. 10 April 1782 - first generation American. Among the male children listed are: John, James V, William E.,Hugh B., Robert L. & Joseph M. There may be absolutely no connection, but Monroe and McMinn are so close together - ????