Posted on: Obion Co. Tn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Obion/1425 Surname: Coker ------------------------- I too am looking for the Coker family. The last known was my grandfather, Obye Diah Coker born in Union City, Tennessee...Obion County. His father was Burl Coker and his mother was BertieTillman Coker. Obye was the middle child having an older sister Thelma, and a younger brother Archie Lee. Bertie died not too long after the birth of Archie. Burl died around the time Obye was 9 years old of spinal meningitis. I am interested in any information anyone can give me. Thank you, Janet E. Paterson

Posted on: Obion Co. Tn Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Tn/Obion/1424 Surname: ------------------------- I am trying to find info on Mary Cox Adams (2 Jan 1848-10 March 1904). She was married to B.F. Adams. One of her daughters was my grandmother Rachel Lee Adams Boshears. e-mail reply to: [email protected]

Some people, at a brick wall in their search, have found clues at RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees, Fraternal Organizations, http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson18.htm Genealogy Speaking Jane Norton Powell, [email protected] Obion Co TN Pedigrees & Jane's Connections http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jane1 TNGenWeb http://www.tngennet.org/ Obion Co. TNGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnobion/ Haywood Co. TNGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnhaywoo/

To our Obion and Haywood Faithful Mail List followers. Many of us don't have obits for our deceased ancestors --- but do have death records we have abstracted from microfilm, etc. One such has just been posted on Obion Obits .. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/ObionObits and it occurs to me that this is a good place for such records ... as you have noticed the page says --- NO QUERIES ... but this isn't a query, it's as equal to an obit that some of us will be able to find. So you may post such records and they will not be removed! Genealogy Speaking Jane Norton Powell, [email protected] Obion Co TN Pedigrees & Jane's Connections http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jane1 TNGenWeb http://www.tngennet.org/ Obion Co. TNGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnobion/ Haywood Co. TNGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnhaywoo/

Posted on: Obion County, Tennessee, Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/ObionObits/623 Surname: Douglas, Douglass, Carter ------------------------- Death Certificate of William Pierce Douglas: State of Tennessee State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics County: Obion Civil District: 1 Registration District No. [No Entry] Primary Registration District No. [No Entry] File No. 11 Registered No. 46701 City: [No Entry] Unidentifed Number Stamped at Upper Right Page: 6296 Full Name: William Pierce Douglas Sex: Male Color: White Marital Status: Married Date of Birth: 20 Oct 1853 in Obion County, TN Age: 77 years / 3 months (best guess due to mark] / 8 days Occupation: Farmer Father: Joe Douglas -- born in Middle TN Mother: Margarett Carter -- born in Smith County, TN Death Date: 9 Mar 1931 Interred: 10 Mar 1931 in Shady Grove Cemetery Informant: Mrs. W. P. Douglas, Harris Sta, TN. Filed [No Entry]

Posted on: Obion County, Tennessee, Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/ObionObits/622 Surname: Douglas, Douglass, Carter ------------------------- Death Certificate of James Richard Douglas: State of Tennessee State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics County: Obion Civil District: 13th Registration District No. 673 Primary Registration District No. 26713 File No. 62 Registered No. 64 City: Union City Full Name: James Richard Douglas Sex: Male Color: White Marital Status: Married Date of Birth: 20 Aug 1858 in TN Age: 61 years / 2 months / 3 days Occupation: Carpenter Father: Joe Douglas -- born in TN Mother: Margarett Carter -- born in TN Death Date: 23 Oct 1919 Interred: 24 Oct 1919 in Salem Cemetery Informant: Chas Douglas, Humboldt, TN. Filed 25 Oct 1919

This is what Jane has on this family Descendants of James W. Jim Jones 1 James W. Jim Jones b: 1846 AL d: 1905 b: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN Burial: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN . +Adeline M. Killion b: 1850 Obion Co., TN d: 1907 b: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN m: December 6, 1869 Obion Co., TN Burial: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN 2 Christina S. Jones b: November 1, 1871 2 John W. M. Jones b: Abt. 1874 2 James Edward Jones b: February 18, 1876 2 William C. Jones b: October 8, 1879 d: 1945 b: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN Burial: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN 2 Henry Homer Jones b: September 10, 1882 d: May 27, 1951 b: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN Burial: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN ... +Laura Frances b: July 21, 1882 b: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN Burial: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN 2 Nellie S. Jones b: April 3, 1884 2 Charlie D. Jones b: July 18, 1886 2 Mandie Mae Jones b: May 7, 1887 2 Katie Jones b: February 9, 1893 2 Thomas Bernice Jones b: January 29, 1895 d: 1972 b: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN Burial: Antioch Union Cem., Obion Co., TN Genealogy Speaking Jane Norton Powell, [email protected] Obion Co TN Pedigrees & Jane's Connections http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jane1 TNGenWeb http://www.tngennet.org/ Obion Co. TNGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnobion/ Haywood Co. TNGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnhaywoo/ -----Original Message----- From: Marilyn "Mel" Nickless <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [TNOBION] Killion family >Johanna, > >Thanks for sharing the info re Adeline's middle name. I will add it to my >Killion file. > > >Mel > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: 1darice1 <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 5:46 PM >Subject: [TNOBION] Killion family > > >> To all of my Killion friends...with the help of another I have the middle >> name of Adeline Killion the daughter of John B Killion and Christenia >> Snyder. Per the death record of her son William her full name was Adeline >> Matilda Killion Jones---she married James W Jones >> thought fellow researchers would like to know her middle name >> Johanna >> >> >> >> >> ============================== >> Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! >> http://searches.rootsweb.com/ >> > > > >============================== >Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > >

Thank you for that link! I knew that my husband's ancestor, Ephraim SAMPSON, from Essex County, NY, had supposedly fought during the Revolutionary War, but had no other information. By going to this link I was actually able to find him! He enlisted in September of 1777 at the age of 18 and remained until the following year. I now have all the military information on him - rank, Regiment, Brigade, Division, etc. I would have never thought to have looked for him there. Thank you! Lyn McIntosh-Sherwood Winter Park, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 8:17 AM Subject: [TNOBION] American Revolutionary War link If you have ancestors who were encamped at Valley Forge Pa in winter 0f 1777-78 the National Park Service has just developed a computerized list of these Patriots. The site is: www.nps.gov/vafo then go to the IN DEPTH button and you will find Division and Regiment breakdowns. T.Bailey [email protected] ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

The one of the Obion Co Early Marriage book you are talking about covers the years 1838-1845 and it is not indexed, so you will have to look by the page. Also, need to clarify that the Birth & Death Index books covers the years 1925-1938 only. The Birth Index does give names of the parents, where born, and the date, but the Death Index only gives the names of the deceased, place of birth, where they died, what they died of, and the date. It does not state the deceased parents names. Both are alphabetically indexed. It's always a good idea to check all the book racks, yourself. You never know what you may find. I did want to say the the people that work in the Obion County Court Clerk's office & the Deed Room are some of the niciest people and they are extremely helpful to anyone that goes in there. I could not have done without their help. Gay Mathis ----- Original Message ----- From: "THEGREENES" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:56 PM Subject: [TNOBION] Obion Co records > Several people have emailed me to do marriage lookups and I have tried > to accommodate them as quickly as I could. I have the book Obion Co TN > Loose Marriage Records 1825-1860 and local access to several other old > books. I went to Union City and did lookups in the marriage books at the > courthouse about 10 days ago. Officially their marriage books start in > 1868. However, about the 3rd or 4th rack to the right, at the end of the > marriage books, there are 3 volumes. One is a birth record book, one a > death record book, and the third is a small (8x10") early marriage book. > The clerks did not seem to know it was there. So if you are doing > research on marriages either personally or for hire, make sure you take > a look at this book. > > As for records of cemetery plots, I have never tried to find that info > in Obion Co. but several years ago a lady in Calif. checked a map and > figured out that the town I live in is close to where her grandfather > was buried. She asked me to check to see if records are kept and to > photograph the grave. I made several trips to the church which adjoined > the cemetery before I found the pastor on the premises. He told me there > were no records. After further conversation he went to the basement and > brought up some boxes. He let me look through cardboard boxes of 4x6 > index cards, each one representing a 6 grave plot. On the card it was > drawn out who was in each grave with date of death, also the name and > address of the person who purchased the plot. I located the lady's > ancestor's card and copied it. Then the pastor and I went to make a > photo. Her grandfather did not have a marker but I took a picture of the > other markers and the empty-looking space. I took a transparency, placed > it over the photo, and marked the spot for her. After saying all this, > if you can locate someone at a church connected with a particular cem. > you might be surprised what records are in cardboard boxes in the > basement. > > Finally, if you need to check Obion Co Histories or the cemetery books, > they are kept behind the librarian's desk and you have to ask for them. > Old newspapers on microfilm are in a file cabinet. The earliest copies > on microfilm are in extremely poor condition. There were other old > newspapers with the loose packets that had been stored in the old jail, > but 2 yrs ago when volunteers were sorting the records so they could be > microfilmed, a man was taking all the old papers they came across. He > said he just loved to read those and took them home. Heaven only knows > where they are now. > > Good luck. > Virginia Greene > [email protected] > > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/search > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 7:26 AM Subject: DAR sucess Due in part to your help over the years and Gene Talley of Memphis my mother has successfully proven to the DAR that she is the descendant of Isham Beasley via Deborah Beasley Corum who was the wife of Robert Tilman Corum.Thanks for your help. Talley Bailey [email protected]

If you have ancestors who were encamped at Valley Forge Pa in winter 0f 1777-78 the National Park Service has just developed a computerized list of these Patriots. The site is: www.nps.gov/vafo then go to the IN DEPTH button and you will find Division and Regiment breakdowns. T.Bailey [email protected]

Several people have emailed me to do marriage lookups and I have tried to accommodate them as quickly as I could. I have the book Obion Co TN Loose Marriage Records 1825-1860 and local access to several other old books. I went to Union City and did lookups in the marriage books at the courthouse about 10 days ago. Officially their marriage books start in 1868. However, about the 3rd or 4th rack to the right, at the end of the marriage books, there are 3 volumes. One is a birth record book, one a death record book, and the third is a small (8x10") early marriage book. The clerks did not seem to know it was there. So if you are doing research on marriages either personally or for hire, make sure you take a look at this book. As for records of cemetery plots, I have never tried to find that info in Obion Co. but several years ago a lady in Calif. checked a map and figured out that the town I live in is close to where her grandfather was buried. She asked me to check to see if records are kept and to photograph the grave. I made several trips to the church which adjoined the cemetery before I found the pastor on the premises. He told me there were no records. After further conversation he went to the basement and brought up some boxes. He let me look through cardboard boxes of 4x6 index cards, each one representing a 6 grave plot. On the card it was drawn out who was in each grave with date of death, also the name and address of the person who purchased the plot. I located the lady's ancestor's card and copied it. Then the pastor and I went to make a photo. Her grandfather did not have a marker but I took a picture of the other markers and the empty-looking space. I took a transparency, placed it over the photo, and marked the spot for her. After saying all this, if you can locate someone at a church connected with a particular cem. you might be surprised what records are in cardboard boxes in the basement. Finally, if you need to check Obion Co Histories or the cemetery books, they are kept behind the librarian's desk and you have to ask for them. Old newspapers on microfilm are in a file cabinet. The earliest copies on microfilm are in extremely poor condition. There were other old newspapers with the loose packets that had been stored in the old jail, but 2 yrs ago when volunteers were sorting the records so they could be microfilmed, a man was taking all the old papers they came across. He said he just loved to read those and took them home. Heaven only knows where they are now. Good luck. Virginia Greene [email protected]

I am looking for information on a Zodie or Zadie Hawkins who married a J. E. Jones in 1902 Johanna Thompson [email protected]

Johanna, this is what appears on the 1900 Obion Co, Tn Census Dist 3 page 5b. It appears that Maude M. was James & Addie Jones daughter. Hope it helps. J. W. Jones 4/1847 married 30 yrs Tn, Va, Tn Addie M. 1/1854 had 11 children 7 lived Tn, Tn, Tn Charlie D son 5/1886 Tn, Tn, Tn Maude M. daughter age 2/1888 Tn, Tn, Tn Thomas B. age 5/1895 Tn, Tn, Tn Gay Mathis ----- Original Message ----- From: "1darice1" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:31 PM Subject: [TNOBION] jones families > Does anyone have a Maude M in the family who was born 1889 and died > 1908......she is buried in a plot in Antioch Union Cemetery with other > members of my Jones family....it was first thought that she was a sister to > my gr grandfather but now we are questioning that fact. > Maude M could have been the wife of a William Colona Jones > so please if you have a Maude M who married a Jones please contact me > Johanna [email protected] > > > > > ============================== > The only real-time collaboration tool that allows you and other family > members to create a FREE, password-protected family tree. > http://www.ancestry.com/oft/login.asp > >

Johanna, Thanks for sharing the info re Adeline's middle name. I will add it to my Killion file. Mel ----- Original Message ----- From: 1darice1 <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 5:46 PM Subject: [TNOBION] Killion family > To all of my Killion friends...with the help of another I have the middle > name of Adeline Killion the daughter of John B Killion and Christenia > Snyder. Per the death record of her son William her full name was Adeline > Matilda Killion Jones---she married James W Jones > thought fellow researchers would like to know her middle name > Johanna > > > > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ >

Does anyone have a Maude M in the family who was born 1889 and died 1908......she is buried in a plot in Antioch Union Cemetery with other members of my Jones family....it was first thought that she was a sister to my gr grandfather but now we are questioning that fact. Maude M could have been the wife of a William Colona Jones so please if you have a Maude M who married a Jones please contact me Johanna [email protected]

Hello Barbara, The Obion Co. History volumes primarily contain information provided by various families regarding their particular family histories. They also contain information regarding the formation of Obion Co. itself and it's churches and institutions (including the development of various industries, schools etc.) >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [TNOBION] Obion Co. History Volumes >Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 09:55:50 EST > >What is in the Obion County History volumes exactly? > >Barbara _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

Posted on: Obion County, Tennessee, Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/ObionObits/618 Surname: Jones, Killion ------------------------- 12-20-1945 William Colona Jones, 66 a native of Obion County who had not been well since he returned from the Spanish American War, died at 12.30 this morning in the Baird-Brewer Hospital at Dyersburg from a pistol wound in the head. For many years he had lived at the home of a brother Honer Jones, near Clayton but 2 weeks ago he weint to Dyersburg to make his home with another brother Bernice Jones former clerk at the Shatz and Byer store here, who went to Dyersburg 2 months ago to take over the operation of a grocery store. Bernice Jones said this morning that his brother and he were sitting in the front room of their Dyersburg residence Wednesday night at about 10:30 when William stood up and complained of abdominal pains. "He walked to his bedroom at the rear of the house and it was bout 11p., that I heard a pistol shot" Bernice Jones said " I went to the bedroom and found him unconscious. The bullet entered his right temple and emerged from the left side of his head." The wounded man was rushed to the Dyersburg hospital in an ambulance and died at 12:30 am. William Jones had been a farmer all of his life. He was born in Obion County, Oct 8 1879, the son of Jim and Adeline Killion Jones. He was married as a young man but his wife died some 30 years ago. He was a memeber of the Reelfoot Baptist church and of the Milton Tally Post, American Legion. He is survived by 4 brothers, homer of near Clayton, Bernice of Dyersburg, Charles D of Caruthersville, Mo and Edward of Lulbourne, Mo. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Friday afternoon at the Antioch Memorial Methodist Church with Ref John R Cecil of West Hickman, Ky., officiating, and internment will take place in the church cemetery.

To all of my Killion friends...with the help of another I have the middle name of Adeline Killion the daughter of John B Killion and Christenia Snyder. Per the death record of her son William her full name was Adeline Matilda Killion Jones---she married James W Jones thought fellow researchers would like to know her middle name Johanna

Have any of you worked the 1880 census enough to discern a pattern in why the enumerator listed some in a household as mulatto and some as black? I'm beginning to get the feeling of a hidden message here --- it's almost as if the enumerator knew the family lineage ... thought's from any of you on this? How about 1870, I don't recall, offhand, any listing of mulattos. I've limited my present search to Dist. 6 and Troy. Genealogy Speaking Jane Norton Powell, [email protected] Obion Co TN Pedigrees & Jane's Connections http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jane1 TNGenWeb http://www.tngennet.org/ Obion Co. TNGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnobion/ Haywood Co. TNGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnhaywoo/