The map I have (not the one uploaded by someone from Montgomery County) was taken from that same map. It was printed in The River Counties Quarterly, probably around 1970, and they printed that magazine by making the old blue stencils and running them off, etc. I'm certain that they started with that same map as the basis, drew on the stencil the parts that fit for their issue, and ignored the rest. It does not have all the elevation markings on the full map, but it does seem to have the creeks and major roads - and the names of the people living there. It's easier to read than the big map, but whoever prepared it for the magazine left out some details. If I were making those old blue stencils, I'd certainly leave out some of them! Betty At 12:25 PM 1/1/2008, you wrote: >I should explain that it was the map of 1865 by M.E. Merrill that was >mentioned by Jim Long. It shows most of Tennessee and was drawny up for the >US Military at the end of the Civil War. I'm not sure it's the same map >showing only Stewart County. > >Gerry > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1206 - Release Date: >1/1/2008 12:09 PM

I subscribed to the River Counties Quarterly in the 70s and have all issues. I also made memeograph (blue stencil) copies of my family tree (with many crossed-out mistakes since you can't erase, even though they had a fluid to cover up holes) and sent them out to cousins. Of course it was incomplete and inaccurate then, but started our family searches. Someone even posted it on the internet before I started searching the internet. In those days, you had to write archives and wait for months to get information/application forms back. The internet has certainly changed things. Gerry Parchman