Forwarding your email to our mail list 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: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, October 30, 2000 3:39 PM Subject: SEARCHING FOR MY GRANDFATHER CREASON >i WAS ORPHANED IN 1939 AND HAVE TRACED ALMOST ALL OF MY CREASON >RELATIVES > >Still my Uncle Willimam james Creason of Myrtle Creek , Oregon told me >to my face that our grandfather's name was Rollie.H. Creason.. > >On my Grandfather Charlie L. Creason's death certificate of 1935..Sept >14,..The name Milus Creason is written with no known mother. > >I have located a MilusB. Creason iN Tennessee..with no wife's name. > >Our Father was Le Roy shelby Creson..b 1909 ov 1. > >His father was Charlie L. Creason of Mayfield,Kentucky..born 1872 and >married Jennie Booker Harris Creason in Metropolis,Illinois in 1898... > >Could you please help me. I have already spent 62 years searching and my >brother and sister whom I found after 50 years are also searching and we >are all in rather poor getting elderly type health. > >Thanks.marilyn Marie Creason..baby of Leroy Shelby Creson Aug 14, 1938 > >[email protected] > > >

Posted on: Obion Co. Tn Bible Records Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/ObionBibl/28 Surname: BALLOW, GROOMS, HELPLER, KNIGHT, LEET, RUSSELL, WALKER ------------------------- GRANDPARENTS Grandfather (Father's Side): James Allen Walker; Date of Birth: Nov. 6, 1848; Date of Death: Aug. 16, 1910 Grandmother (Father's Side): Mary Sanders Knight; Date of Birth: June 13, 1843; Date of Death: Mar 24, 1926 Grandfather (Mother's Side): Wm Campbell Ballow; Date of Birth: Nov 27, 1852; Date of Death: Feb 11, 1935 Grandmother (Mother's Side): Emmett Francis Leet; Date of Birth: Mar 4, 1858; Date of Death: Oct 13,1949 PARENTS Married DATE: Dec 19, 1900; WHERE: Mr. G. W. Grey, Obion Co., Tenn HUSBAND: Edgar Adolphus Walker; Date of Birth: Dec 1, 1876; Place of Birth: Obion Co., Tenn.; Date of Death: July 1, 1931; Where: Union City Tenn; Where Buried: Antioch, Obion Co., Tenn WIFE: Lena Maie Ballow; Date of Birth: Nov 29, 1879; Place of Birth: Henderson Co., Tex; Date of Death: May 24, 1959; Where: Union City, R#2; Where Buried: Antioch, Obion Co., Tenn CHILDREN'S REGISTER Lillian Maie Walker; Date of Birth: Dec 11, 1901; Where: Fulton Co., Ky.; Date Married: Sept 20, 1920; Where: ; To Whom: David M. Helpler; Date of Death: April 2, 1923; Where: Obion Co., Tenn Mary Emma; Date of Birth: Aug 23, 1903; Where: Fulton Co., Ky.; Date Married: Jan 24, 1926; Where: Obion Co., Tenn.; To Whom: Charles M. Russell; Date of Death: Oct. 7, 1980; Where: U.C. Clinic, Obion Co., Tenn. Charles Edger; Date of Birth: Mar 30, 1905; Where: Obion Co., Tenn.; Date Married: ; Where: ; To Whom: ; Date of Death: Aug 24, 1928; Where: Obion Co., Tenn. Lottie Evelyn; Date of Birth: Dec 26, 1906; Where: Obion Co., Tenn.; Date Married: ; Where: ; To Whom: ; Date of Death: Apr 30, 1929; Where: Obion Co., Tenn. Gertrude Allene; Date of Birth: Aug 28, 1908; Where: Fulton Co., Ky.; Date Married: May 16, 1931; Where: Hickman, Ky.; To Whom: Howard B Grooms; Date of Death: ; Where: William Thaddeaus; born: July 11, 1911; died: July 12, 1931 Dora Virginia; born: Feb 6, 1914; married: Jan 1931; died: May 11, 1932 Thomas Clifton; born: Mar 22, 1916; died: March 20, 1933 Ruth LaVerne; born: Jan 19, 1920; married: March 21, 1938 in Mississippi. [Note many of the entries appear to have been written at the same time and by someone other than the original owner.]

Posted on: Obion Co. Tn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Obion/1423 Surname: McINTOSH, RUNNELS, THOMPSON ------------------------- Need information on Jesse (J.E.) McINTOSH, b. 1820 in KY, appears on the 1850 Fulton County, KY census as age 29, has no wife, but three children: John B., b. TN, age 7, Mary, b. KY, age 4, and Laura, b. KY, age 1. I have found a marriage license for him to a Melissa Jane THOMPSON on 9/22/1841 in Obion County, TN. I would assume that she died after the birth of their last child. Jesse then turns up on the 1860 Obion County, TN census with a new wife "M," age 26, b. TN, son J.B., age 17, b. TN, daughter "J," age 5, b. TN, and another daughter "M.A.," age 3, b. TN. His two daughters Mary and Laura do not appear with this family. Yet, surprisingly enough he has three other children with the surname of RUNNELS living with him, Polly, age 14, and two boys "J" and "N" both 13. WHO ARE THESE KIDS? I checked for a THOMPSON family that might have had the two girls (reasoning that perhaps he moved back to Obion County in the first place so the maternal grandparents could help raise the young children). However, I only find one THOMPSON family, William, age 33, with a 15 year old Mary M. in his household. This is not definitive proof that she is Jesse's daugher Mary, however. Then on the 1870 Dyer County, TN census Jesse appears again as age 50, with another wife, Lucy, age 33, b. TN, children Josephine, age 16, b. TN, Maggie, age 14, b. TN, W--- (female), age 11, b. TN, May, age 3, b. TN, and Nancy, age 1, b. TN. I have found in the Dyer County, TN marriages: Laura McINTOSH to W. S. TURNER, 4/8/1867, Maggie A. McINTOSH to J. W. CRIBBS, 11/16/1875, and then Josephine McINTOSH to J. W. CRIBBS, 10/9/1878 (probably her brother-in-law). I noted on the marriage record for Jesse McINTOSH to Melissa Jane THOMPSON that John THOMPSON stood as Surety and that Arthur THOMPSON married them. Then on Jesse's marriage to Mary Malonia MALONEY/Mary NOLAN DAVIS (two marriages recorded on the same day to Jesse McIntosh - two different names) on 10/16/1850 John THOMPSON is again standing as Surety. I did find a Arther (Arthur) P. THOMPSON on the 1840 Obion County, TN census with a daughter between the ages of 15-20, this could be Melissa Jane, but no confirmation that it is and that he was her father. I did not find Arthur in any other Obion County census after this date although he married Jesse and Melissa in 1841 - perhaps he died.Sorry to be so long winded but Jesse is my brick wall on my McINTOSH side and I have just discovered the THOMPSON connection. Any help will certainly be appreciated. Thanks! :-) Lyn

>From what I have found from looking at the newspapers on microfilm, there are a few starting late 1890's, and very sketchy at best, but a more complete run starts September 1929. It's just a hit & miss until then. Early papers just didn't survive, and make it to microfilm.. Gay Mathis ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: [TNOBION] Newspapers Obion > Can someone tell me if there are Obion County Newspapers from 1863 and > where they would be. Thanks > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > >

http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnobion/library/micflm.htm has a list of the microfilm at the library as of July 22, 1997. 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: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, October 29, 2000 1:22 PM Subject: [TNOBION] Newspapers Obion Can someone tell me if there are Obion County Newspapers from 1863 and where they would be. Thanks ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

Hello Fellow Listers, I've kind of been flooded with requests for look-ups in the Obion Co. History Volumes. I hope that you'll be patient as I wade through them all! I promise to get to yours as soon as possible. Regards, Robert A. Latimer [email protected] or my work address @: [email protected] The LATIMER and SMALL Information and Genealogy Site: "http://www.robertlatimer.50megs.com" _________________________________________________________________________ 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.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [TNOBION] Nannie Polk Buried in Troy Cemetery Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 19:07:21 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Brenda, Thanks for the information. My grandmother (born in Obion County), Elizabeth Polk married George Bynum from Arkansas and later settled in West Tennessee. I am also working on the Bynum line and any information and or contacts would be appreciated. Thanks, Anna

Vol 1. of the Obion County History Book is out of print. The last that I knew, the historical society still had copies of volume 2. This and other publications available from them are listed at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnobion/library/hsociety.htm These are wonderful books, but they are not indexed ... I've had copies for a good while and only found my Jones until a few months ago ... it was hidden deep in a family by the name of "Word" that I never have suspected had any connection to us. I'm saying this to say that it's easy to do look-ups in these books if the family submitted a sketch ... but it's hard to find a "hidden" family ... you just have to luck across them. Also, the volumes contain many errors, both typo and data. This has been proven in my research of original records and by those of you who sent proof of errors. Nevertheless, they are valuable tools of research. I guess I'm saying, be cautious with any writings and make every effort to check the dates and names with official records ... and sometimes, they are wrong, too. (as anyone who has worked in census records knows. Thanks 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: Madelon Dickson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, October 28, 2000 10:31 PM Subject: [TNOBION] Obion Co. History Volumes >Posted on: Obion Co. Tn Query Forum >Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Obion/1422 > >Surname: DICKSON, FOX >------------------------- > >I have never seen the Obion Co. History Vol. 1 or 2. How may I access this >information? Thanks, Madelon > > > >============================== >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 > >

Can someone tell me if there are Obion County Newspapers from 1863 and where they would be. Thanks

Sue, I was told for the cemeteries of Cobb's Chapel & Antioch Baptist Cemeteries that there are no early plot records. Families just went and staked out what plots they wanted, and no records ever changed hands to know who had what except by word of mouth. Do not know if this applies to the cemetery you are asking about. Gay Mathis. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan H Wilson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 5:32 AM Subject: [TNOBION] Cemetery plot ownership records > Who would have the cemetery plot ownership records? And are there records > of all of the burials, and who would have them? I think this information > would be useful for all of the cemeteries. But I'm interested in one > particular cemetery. > > We have relatives buried in the Mason Hall cemetery. There are no > markers for them in the cemetery. Their names are James William (Tobe) > and Nancy A. (Hunt) Wilson. James (Tobe) Wilson died in 1935. Nancy > (Hunt) Wilson died before that (but was living in 1920). > > Sue > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > >

Anyone willing to do look-up's in these books for other folks? I am looking for any informtion on a Jesse McINTOSH, b. 1820, KY, who married Melissa J. THOMPSON of Obion County, TN on 9/17/1841, ceremony by Arthur THOMPSON (kin to her?) also shown marrying Mary MALONEY/Mary NOLAN DAVIS in Obion County, TN on 10/16/1850. Surety on both marriages was John THOMPSON. Jesse is shown on the 1850 Fulton County, KY census with no wife but with three children, John B., age 7, b. TN, Mary, age 4, b. KY, and Laura, age 1, b. KY. Melissa has obviously died. So, I assume that he then takes the children back to Tennessee to stay with their maternal grandparents, the THOMPSON's as he turns up in the 1860 Obion County, TN census married to "M" - I'm thinking here Mary, but only John is listed as living with them along with two other children a "J", age 5, and a "M.A." age 3. Obviously Mary and Laura are still with their grandparents as I find at least Laura later on as marrying in Dyer County, TN which is where the family finally ended up. Any help on these THOMPSON and McINTOSH lines would be greatly appreciated. They are my brick wall. Thanks! :-) Lyn McIntosh-Sherwood Winter Park, FL Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://raogk.rootsweb.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Latimer To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [TNOBION] Obion Co. History Volumes I have a copy of each. A distant relative of mine was involved in the compilation and publishing of them. I believe that she has a few copies of each left. As I recall, they are approximately $40.00 each. I purchased my set back in June and, at that time, she had about half a dozen copies left. Let me know if you're interested and I'll see if she still has them. >From: Madelon Dickson <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [TNOBION] Obion Co. History Volumes >Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 21:25:36 -0700 > >Posted on: Obion Co. Tn Query Forum >Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Obion/1422 > >Surname: DICKSON, FOX >------------------------- > >I have never seen the Obion Co. History Vol. 1 or 2. How may I access this >information? Thanks, Madelon > > > >============================== >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 > _________________________________________________________________________ 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. ============================== Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! http://searches.rootsweb.com/

That is pretty much the case on cemetrey plot ownership here in Obion Co on older cemeteries. The only ownership records I've found are for the big city cemetery here in Union City. Their records only indicate the buyer. Dennis in Union City©

I have copies and am willing to do look-ups. Regards, Robert A. Latimer [email protected] or my work address @: [email protected] 7733 Forsyth Blvd., suite 800 St. Louis, Mo. 63105 O - (314)754-1919 C - (314)496-4249 f - (314)746-1899 The LATIMER and SMALL Information and Genealogy Site: "http://www.robertlatimer.50megs.com" _________________________________________________________________________ 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.

Who would have the cemetery plot ownership records? And are there records of all of the burials, and who would have them? I think this information would be useful for all of the cemeteries. But I'm interested in one particular cemetery. We have relatives buried in the Mason Hall cemetery. There are no markers for them in the cemetery. Their names are James William (Tobe) and Nancy A. (Hunt) Wilson. James (Tobe) Wilson died in 1935. Nancy (Hunt) Wilson died before that (but was living in 1920). Sue ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Go to your local library and request the books through interlibrary loan. You'll need the full reference for them, which you can get from the Library of Congress catalog (www.loc.gov) Sue On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 21:25:36 -0700 Madelon Dickson <[email protected]> writes: > Posted on: Obion Co. Tn Query Forum > Reply Here: > http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Obion/1422 > > Surname: DICKSON, FOX > ------------------------- > > I have never seen the Obion Co. History Vol. 1 or 2. How may I > access this > information? Thanks, Madelon ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Posted on: Obion Co. Tn Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Obion/1422 Surname: DICKSON, FOX ------------------------- I have never seen the Obion Co. History Vol. 1 or 2. How may I access this information? Thanks, Madelon

I have a copy of each. A distant relative of mine was involved in the compilation and publishing of them. I believe that she has a few copies of each left. As I recall, they are approximately $40.00 each. I purchased my set back in June and, at that time, she had about half a dozen copies left. Let me know if you're interested and I'll see if she still has them. >From: Madelon Dickson <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [TNOBION] Obion Co. History Volumes >Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 21:25:36 -0700 > >Posted on: Obion Co. Tn Query Forum >Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Obion/1422 > >Surname: DICKSON, FOX >------------------------- > >I have never seen the Obion Co. History Vol. 1 or 2. How may I access this >information? Thanks, Madelon > > > >============================== >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 > _________________________________________________________________________ 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 Co. Tn Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Obion/1420 Surname: Culberson, Berry, Hall ------------------------- What was the mother's name you are looking for? Did you search the 2 vol. of Obion Co History for the surname?

Does anyone here recognize this William COLE? I found the family on the 1880 census for Obion Co., Dist. 108, Page 5, Dwelling #42: Descendants of William Cole 1 Cole, William b: Abt. 1840 in Tennessee d: Aft. 1880 .. +"Cole", Mary Jane b: Abt. 1840 in Tennessee d: Aft. 1880 ......... 2 Cole, Robert B. b: Abt. 1868 in Tennessee d: Aft. 1880 ......... 2 Cole, Quella b: Abt. 1870 in Kentucky d: Aft. 1880 ......... 2 Cole, Mady b: Abt. 1870 in Tennessee d: Aft. 1880 ......... 2 Cole, Richard D. b: Abt. 1875 in Tennessee d: Aft. 1880 William is the right age to be Wm. M. COLE, son of Marvel COLE and Lucinda GAMMILL, whom I have not been able to find after 1860. I had discounted the possibility of a match, because this census states that both of his parents were born in NC while the 1850 census states that Marvel was born in TN & Lucinda in AL. BUT, it just hit me that "Mady" could be a nickname for "Madison", and our elusive Wm. M. COLE had an uncle named James Madison COLE -- who went by Madison. [James Madison COLE also had a son named William, but he is accounted for.] Although I could not find a match for Wm. M. COLE on the 1870 census for Obion Co., this William obviously lived across the line in KY when Quella was born -- so if the two are really the same man that would certainly explain why Wm. M. has been "missing" And our COLEs did have a maddening habit of moving back and forth across the state line. I don't want to jump to any conclusions about this, so if any of the other COLE lines in Obion Co. can claim this family I'd be ever-so-grateful to have this piece of the puzzle put in its proper place. Sharon McAllister [email protected]

Posted on: Obion Co. Tn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Obion/1419 Surname: PEOPLES, PEEBLES, HANEY ------------------------- I've seen the spelling of this name switch from PEOPLES to PEEBLES in some families. It could have in mine. The only documentation I've found for the name of Salathiel HANEY's first wife spells it PEOPLES. I would really like to exchange information with you. Unknown PEOPLES is one of my elusive GGG Grandmothers. Thank you.