Some left after the Civil War to settle in the Civil War and avoid Union authorities in Tennessee. These were the Confederates. Others left around 1889 to get the free land in the Oklahoma Territory land rush. A family can only divide its land so many generations before it runs out and the next generation has to leave. That is the case with most Tennesseans leaving for the promise lands. Gary D. Norris > From: "Eunice Chapmond - Kilgore" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:14:28 -0600 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [TNOVERTO] Sarah Winningham (FLOWERS) > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:16:45 -0700 > > Some of the Windle's that are in this cemetery are also from Overton County. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:03 AM > Subject: Re: [TNOVERTO] Sarah Winningham (FLOWERS) > > >> I found 16 WINNINGHAMS in 1930 Greer OK Census..No DG WINNINGHAM. Do you > need >> the 1920-1930 census for Millard? If your SARAH E FLOWERS was married (per >> 1930 census) she would have been born around 1872. >> >> WINNINGHAMs buried in Greer Co Cemetery. I believe they are yours >> >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgcghs/granit-u.html#w >> >> Winningham, Alfred G.,Jun 9, 1906 - Apr 7, 1991 Cpl US Army WWII,Row 8 >> Winningham, Anson,May 8, 1930 - Nov 2, 1956 TN S/Sgt USAF Korea,Row 27 >> Winningham, Arnel,1904-1938,Row 26 >> Winningham, Barbara Ann,Jul 23, 1946 - Jul 29, 1946,Row 7 >> Winningham, Dewey Clovis,May 19, 1902 - Feb 13, 1996,Row 26 >> Winningham, Georgia M.,May 5, 1917 - w/o A.G. m. Oct 5, 1940,Row 7 >> Winningham, Haskell D.,Dec 22, 1913 - Jan 27, 1944 OK Pfc 15 Inf 3 Div >> WWII,Row 25 >> Winningham, John A.,1876-1948,Row 25 >> Winningham, Johnson,Jul 9, 1882 - May 14, 1959,Row 25 >> Winningham, Lue Ella,1884-1960 w/o John A.,Row 25 >> Winningham, Mary Etta,Aug 11, 1892 - Jan 3, 1972,Row 25 >> Winningham, Millard J.,July 25, 1867 - July 5, 1959,Row 25 >> Winningham, Rosco,1892-1985,Row 25 >> Winningham, Sarah E.,1858-1943 w/o D.G.,Row 25 >> Winningham, Sarah E.,Mar 23, 1874 - May 15, 1953,Row 25 >> >> >> I did neighbors of MILLARD WINNINGHAM were from Tennessee. Here are their >> names >> >> SELLS JESSE >> CLAYBURN BLAIN C >> CLERRY CLIDE W >> HICKS ESKE (?) J >> SMITH BEN B >> RUSH GRANVILLE >> >> Wonder why they chose OK? Did they all leave at the same time? All were >> farmers..Hope this helps some. Maybe you could order a death certificate > and find >> out who her parents were. Sometimes the info is on it. Not always though. >> >> Milly WARD Piros >> List Rootsweb Administrator for Anderson Co Tn~Campbell Co Tn and Fentress > Co >> Tn >> >> http://www.geocities.com/millyella/listofpages.html >> >> Genealogists live in the PAST Lane >> >> >> ==== TNOVERTO Mailing List ==== >> OVERTON LIST ADMINISTRATOR: >> [email protected] >> >> ============================== >> To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> >> > > > > > ==== TNOVERTO Mailing List ==== > ADDRESS OVERTON LIST MESSAGES > TOT: [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Gary It might be added that the a lot of the area around Overton, Jackson, Putnam, etc was probably devastated by the Union armies and their sympathizers. It was probably difficult to sustain a living. I can remember one my elementary school teachers in Cookeville [who incidently also taught my mother] relating stories of the hardships resulting from "Mr Lincoln's War". This was in the mid-1940's. I am sure that she had heard the stories from those who experienced them and stayed. I have researched other relatives of my ancestors who went first to Arkansas, then to Oklahoma, as you said probably of the opportunities there. Dave Masters