Chiggers and Fleas ca 1890 "Hyposulphite of soda is frequently used for chigger bites. It can be purchased at most drug stores, and is not expensive. Dissolve it in water, making a nearly saturated solution, and bathe the spots where chiggers have burrowed. In order to ward off chiggers on the arms, feet and other parts of the body likely to be exposed should be bathed in the solution and allowed to dry without wiping. Having taken proper precautions in this manner one can traverse the worst infested thickets with impunity. It is well to renew the wash every day or two. Fleas can be drive out by sprinkling salt on ground and other places where they gather." Edna

As Nancy hasn't kicked me off the list yet for straying off subject, I'll slip this one in. This is taken from an advertisement for Dr. J.H. McLean's Strengthening Cordial, Strengthens the Nervous System. Based on the paper, it appears to date back to ca 1870-80 era, but I could be wrong. Superstitions Cut your nails on Monday, cut them for news; Cut them on Tuesday, a pair of new shoes; Cut them on Wednesday, cut them for health; Cut them on Thursday, cut them for wealth; Cut them on Friday, cut them for woe; Cut them on Saturday, a journey you'll go; Cut them on Sunday, you'll cut them for evil. For all the next week you'll be ruled by the devil. Marry Monday for wealth, Marry Tuesday for health, Marry Wednesday, the best day of all; Marry Thursday for crosses, Marry Friday for losses, Marry Saturday, no luck at all. (There is nothing listed for Sunday-EC) Born on Monday, Fair of face; Born on Tuesday, Full of God's grace; Born on Wednesday, Merry and glad; Born on Thursday, Sour and sad; Born on Friday, Godly given; Born on Saturday, Work for a living; Born on Sunday, Never shall want; So there's the week and the end on't. (sic) Edna Clack

Pre-1900 formula for making black ink: "Take 2 ounces Extract Logwood, 1 gallon soft water, boil slightly or simmer in an iron vessel 15 minutes; dissolve in a little hot water, 24 grains bichromate of potash, 12 grains prussiata potash, and stir into the liquid a few minutes while over the fire. Take off and when settled, strain it twice through common muslin or sheeting cloth. The above ink is jet black from the first, flows beautifully from the pen and also indellible that even oxalic acid will not remove it from paper." Edna Clack

Anyone on this list researching Tom Gillespie of Rhea? Have an interesting newspaper article about his divorce in 1899 if you're interested. I know they had children so there are probably descendants around somewhere and I don't want to publish this article without their approval. They got nasty in the newspapers back then. Edna Clack

I'll list a few names here of obits that have turned up and if anyone is interested, let me know and I'll send to you. I'll have more later. Hattie Bowen Hoffman d. 1893, (27 years old) in Indiana, father died when she was a baby. Does not name father or mother, was from Rhea County. William B. McGee b. 1896, d. 1921 James C. Wilson b. 1804, d. 1888 Mrs. Minerva J. Martin, daughter of Gen. T.J. Coulter, 49 years old. Name of newspaper missing, no dates available. Rev. R.T. Howard b. 1826, d. 1891. Nellie Heiskell, dau of H.B. Heiskell, 27 years old, died 1898. Julia Pickel Ewing, wife of E.B. Ewing, married 1896, no other dates available. E.B. Ewing 65 years old, no dates available, names his children. C.G. Johnson d. 1901 in Texas Archibald McCaleb, no dates available, left wife but no children. Edna

Well, Folks, instead of writing individual replies, permit me to just post the directions for mixing the soap on this list. It will save me a lot of time. (We'll get something stirred up on this list yet) I've already given you the ingredients so here's how to make the soap. "First, cut the soap up in small pieces, then pulverize the Borax, Rosin and Sal Soda, and put in the vessel in which the compound is to be boiled. For soft soap boil about 35 minutes. For hard soap boil one hour, not longer. It can be perfumed to suit the manufacturer, using 1 ounce of perfume to every 25 pounds of soap. For perfuming, use Oil Sassafras, Oil Cloves, &c." Do you think maybe I owe the heirs of McCampbell $25 for releasing this information?:):) Hope they don't adjust it for inflation (since 1879). Additional instructions hand written on back: "Boil slow and stir while boiling. Keep soft soap in a covered vessel. Boil until about as thick as molasses, then pour out and let cool, It thickens and hardens in cooling." If you don't know how thick molasses are, it's about twice as thick as heavy syrup. Edna

In case any of you want to go back to the old days and make your own soap, here's the directions for making the above: To make 25 pounds, use 26 pints of water, 2 ounces of Borax, one quarter pound of English Rosin, 1 pound Sal Soda, and 3 pounds common bar soap. Seems my Gr-grandfather's sister bought the rights to make this soap in Rhea County in 1879. She had to sign an oath that bound herself, her heirs and assigns in the sum of $25 not to divulge or make known any of the ingredients composing the soap. Won't surprise me any if a bar shows up in an old box around here. Just received 3 shoe boxes full of old letters, obits, marriage announcements, etc., of which I will probably post the obits for the readers of this list as they are about people connected to Rhea County. By the way, the Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer of the above soap (the man who sold my aunt the formula) was D.A. McCampbell of Greeneville, TN. If anyone wants to know how to make the soap, let me know and I'll send the mixing directions:):) Edna Clack

Hi all. I am looking for information on Isabella GIST born 13 May 1819, died 30 Dec. 1895 in Rhea Co., TN. Her gravemarker lists her as Isabella GIST Wilson, wife of William Miller CLACK. The way it reads would lead me to believe that she was a GIST at birth and married a WILSON after the death of William CLACK. She is buried in Rhea Co., TN on the old William Miller CLACK farm. In more recent years this graveyard has been referred to as the EWING Cemetery. I would appreciate any info on William Miller CLACK and Isabella GIST. Rex Bertram NO CREDIT CHECK! NO DOWN PAYMENT! Late Model Auto's here! http://www.angelfire.com/in/bertram/badcredit.html My GIST/GUEST/GUESS/GASS Home Page http://www.angelfire.com/in/bertram/Gist.html My BERTRAM/BUTRAM Home Page http://www.angelfire.com/in/bertram/bertram.html My CROSS Web Page http://www.angelfire.com/in/bertram Researching, BERTRAM, BUTRAM, CROSS, GIST, BRANNUM, FLOWERS, PIERCE, PAGE, YORK, CATRON, PARSON, STOCKTON, FERGUSON, GUFFEY, YOUNGS, PARMLEY, KEMMER

<< I am looking for information on Isabella GIST born 13 May 1819, died 30 Dec. 1895 in Rhea Co., TN. Her gravemarker lists her as Isabella GIST Wilson, wife of William Miller CLACK. The way it reads would lead me to believe that she was a GIST at birth and married a WILSON after the death of William CLACK. >> Rex, No, Isabella was born a Wilson with the middle name of Gist. And no, she didn't marry after the death of W.M. Clack, she died 15 years before William. It is just one of those tombstones that lists the full maiden name of the deceased. The Wilsons were a proud family of Rhea and Roane counties. Extensive research has been done on her line by one of her descendants, Tommie Clack, but so far we haven't been able to get her nephew to share her documentation. Edna Clack

I am trying to piece together facts during the late 20's and early 30's I guess during the time of the depression.I know that some of my people were sleeping in tents on their own lands..Does anyone know how people managed to live during that time..I know there were farmers,still makers,and who knows what else.My people are from Evensville,Pen nine,Spring City will some one please share some history thank you Flora

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:43:57 -0400 From: Mitzi Freeman <SETraveler@freeman.usit.com> To: TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TNGEN-L] Tennessee and the Civil War Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 06:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com The "Tennesseans and the Civil War" Site has changed. The uploads from the book have now become a part of a larger project that I am calling "Tennessee and the Civil War." You can see the new site at http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/ The index page for "Tennesseans in the Civil War" is linked from the main page and is now located at http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/tncwindex.html So if you have a link to this site, you will want to update your link. The locations of the Military Histories have not changed. I have finished uploading ALL of the Federal Military Histories and hope to have the Confederate Histories complete by Christmas. Yesterday's upload is included at the bottom of this message. I had uploaded many pages right before my drive crashed, but my upload log was lost in the crash. I've just opened up a new mailing list called TN-CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com for discussing Civil War and TN. Right now, it is pretty much just "me and my shadow," and my shadow is pretty boring to talk to. I hope that you will pass this new list along your mailing lists or add the information to your pages. I've also created a "Civil War Military Links" page that indexes per county the Civil War resources at TNGenWeb. I've visited several counties and put up links to get the page started. If you have Civil War information in your pages, please send me the URLs and the name so that I can add it to these pages. This page is located at http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/cwmillink.html Thanks, Mitzi Recent Uploads: Name: 7TH TENNESSEE INFANTRY REGIMENT, U.S.A. URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa7inf.html Counties Mentioned: Weakley, Henry, Carroll, Gibson Name: 7TH TENNESSEE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT, U.S.A. URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa7vinf.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 8TH TENNESSEE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa8inf.html Counties Mentioned: Anderson, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Scott, Sullivan, Union, Washington Name: 9TH TENNESSEE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa9inf.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 10TH TENNESSEE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT, U.S.A. URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa10inf.html Counties Mentioned: Wayne, Davidson, Bedford, Rutherford, Hardin Name: 11TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa11c.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 11TH TENNESSEE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT, U.S.A. URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa11inf.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 12TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa12c.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 14TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa14c.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 15TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa15c.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 16TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa16c.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 40TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa40c.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 42ND U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa42c.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 44TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa44c.html Counties Mentioned: Hamilton Name: 59TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa59c.html Counties Mentioned: Fayette, Hardeman, Shelby Name: 61ST U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa61c.html Counties Mentioned: Madison, Fayette, Shelby Name: 88TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa88c.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: 101ST U. S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa101c.html Counties Mentioned: None Name: MISCELLANEOUS FEDERAL ORGANIZATIONS URL: http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usamisc.html Counties Mentioned: Fentress, Henderson, Campbell, Cocke, Knox, Morgan, Scott, Sevier ==== TNGEN Mailing List ==== Be sure to send your updates to this mailing list to be included on the "What's New" page.

I've added several more links to my genealogy page at: http://www.ficom.net/members/ Folks, please excuse my mentioning this because it's an off-topic subject, but this is such a tragic story that I'm really emotionally upset and angry about right now. I must share it with you and hope that you will contact these folks and help if you can. It involves a Coffee County man here who lived in his car and died because of the extremely hot conditions we experienced a while back. Anyway I won't go into detail here because its an off-topic subject, but please go to the link for Shepherd's House: Citizens for Homeless Relief. I'm really ashamed of some of the so-called "Pastors" in my area! Will

Hi ya'll I just stumbled onto something I didn't realize before. In the wake of the late unpleasantness (the unnecessary gibberish and arguing that went on yesterday), I've found that messages from these people can be blocked by going into "tools", then clicking on Inbox Assistant, adding the e-mail address of the offending party, click on the bottom "delete from server", and VOILA! No more gibberish! So, whenever someone tries to use our genealogy and history lists as a "bully pulpit", we can DELETE them beforehand! What do you think? This should be the same thing, basically, for Netscape. I have Internet Explorer Just a thought! :-) Will Smith

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If you have Mexican War links I can add, send these to me as well! Oh, my ISP is experiencing problems with their server. Several people have e-mailed me to let me know that they get a time-out message when they try to access my site. I've e-mailed Dieter at Ficom to tell him about this. It's happened twice today already. In other news, here is another link I've found that will interest us all as we surf the internet looking up dead relatives and traipsing through cemeteries, courthouses, etc...Why not get paid while we're doing it? AllAdvantage.com is the name of the internet company and this is pretty cool! I'm going to try this just to see what happens. It should be quite an adventure! Just go to http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=dwd-179 Members who use the Viewbar are paid for their own Web browsing and for referrals. Please tell as many of your friends about this program as possible. Be sure to enter my ID# (dwd-179) when you join. Remember, it's easy to sign up and it will never cost us a dime!

I have found several interesting websites. One is to the Library of Virginia where you can download actual copies of old records (tiff files), another leads to a link where you can obtain thousands of various source documents dealing with early American history, and another link marked "Never Before in History", which I strongly recommend. Please get a copy of this book! Also, please send me links to your websites so that I can post them from mine! The URL to my primary page is: http://www.ficom.net/members/wolfslayer/ I want as many links dealing with Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Seminole War, Creek War, Mexican War, Civil War, etc...that my server can handle! Thanks! Will Smith

Am trying to find where my g-grandparents' family might have been located in Rhea County and it seems to be a major brick wall for me. Any deed information found might be of some use. My gg-grandfather was William Brock (sp: Love Brock), with children of Willie, Andrew and James (for certain). James is my g-grandfather; he was born in June 1857. Much thanks, Donna (Brock) Strong

A William Rice born about 1770 moved from Hawkins County, TN to Rhea County about 1824 with sons Alexander and William S. Rice. I would appreciate a lookup for deed records on these men, and to see if there is any mention of the older William dying in either Rhea or Meigs County before 1850. He was in Meigs in 1840 and probably died there before 1850, when William S. Rice shows up in Overton County, TN. I need to see if these Rice's lived anywhere near Shelton's, since there seems to be a strong Shelton connection with these Rice's in Overton County, and possibly also in Hawkins, where a John Rice died in 1811, and mentioned a son, Shelton Rice, in his will. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you Will Smith

Dear Members of the TNRHEA Mailing List I am a new member of your group and would like to post my first inquiry. My mother was Hazel Stanley, born 1910 in Dayton, TN. She died suddenly in 1967 before I had a chance to find out more about her genealogy. She would have been 15 years old at the time of the Scopes trial, but I'm not sure that she was in any of his classes. Her parents were: John B. STANLEY, b: 1878; d: Feb. 13, 1955 Belle H. STANLEY, b: 1870; d: May 17, 1957; Widow of J. B. Stanley Belle H. STANLEY: The death record of my grandmother (Belle) appears to be her nickname, she was known as that all her life. Her proper given name is Mary Isabelle. Her maiden name was COKE. I believe that she was married before marrying my grandfather and her first married surname was HOOD. An IGI record in FamilySearch.com shows a Mary Isabelle COKE, b. Abt 1870, Rhea Co. Her father was listed as Jim or James COKE and her mother was Margaret Rebecca EMERY or EMORY. There was no additional information about her parents lineage. John B. STANLEY: My grandfather (John B) was a farmer and lived on Blythe Ferry Road, Dayton, TN. I have verified that he was born in 1878 and his death date is accurate. I was not able to find any information in FamilySearch about his parents. However, Edna Clack did a search for me and found that there was a Stanley family living in Rhea Co. in the 1900 census. This is what she found: There was one John Stanley, b. June 1878, in the household of Mary Stanley born May 1844, widow, she had 4 children, 3 still living - in the 1900 Census of Rhea County. The only marriage she found for John Stanley is to Edna Secton Sept 21, 1900. The other family members in that 1900 Census were Stanton 19, Susan 17, and William C FRALEY 39. If anyone has any information about any of the people on this list, I would appreciate hearing from you. Yours truly, Paul Stanley Puente Basel, Switzerland Email: paulpuente@balcab.ch

lemons,dye,reese,shaswick,chadwick. thank you tennanny