On that 1860 census, is there James D. Arnold enumerated with mother and father. What are their names? --- Janice Able <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jessie, > > I've just completed the 1860 transcription for > Sullivan County, TN. Have > just had hand surgery so I can do a head count for > you if you want children > included in that number. > > I can tell you there were 695 Dwellings. One or > two of those housed > railroad workers, two or three were small hotels, > one was a poorhouse and > most of the others were homes with one to three > families living in them. > > Let me know if you want a complete count. As soon > as I can do the > corrections I'll be sending this in to be posted > online. > > Janice > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > inal Message ----- > From: "Jessie Blalock" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:11 PM > Subject: Sullivan Co population in 1850 and 1860 > > > > Hello. I'm looking for census information about > Sullivan Co. in 1850 > > and 1860, but not the usual sort that is discussed > on these > > genealogy lists. Rather, I'd like to find out if > someone could > > provide me with the population of Sullivan Co in > 1850 and 1860, and > > if there has been any more complex demographic > statistical > > analysis then I'd also be interested in that. > > > > Thanks > > Jessie Blalock > > > > http://users.rootsweb.com/~tn4cav/index.html > > > > > > ============================== > > Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: > > Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at > > http://resources.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > > ============================== > Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: > Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/ > ===== Terry Wikstrom Billheimer 10541 E. Sunnywood Drive Tucson, Arizona 85749 home (520) 760-0140 fax (520) 749-5683 email [email protected] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

I am still looking for Samuel P. and Nancy Jane Barker Willis. They were living in Sullivan County, TN and are on the 1900 census. Saumel was 57 and Nancy was 53, their children were Sarah, William and Lula E. "Nannie". I have looked in records that I have been able to find about Sullivan Co., TN but have not been able to find them after that time. I am trying to find where and when they died or anyone in their line. My gg grandmother, Martha Willis Wood from Washington Co., VA is sister of Samuel P. Willis. Samuel and Martha were children of John and Nancy Willis. Nancy married Allen Fleenor of Washington Co., VA after the death of both of their spouses. Marguerette Powell

Hi Jessie, I've just completed the 1860 transcription for Sullivan County, TN. Have just had hand surgery so I can do a head count for you if you want children included in that number. I can tell you there were 695 Dwellings. One or two of those housed railroad workers, two or three were small hotels, one was a poorhouse and most of the others were homes with one to three families living in them. Let me know if you want a complete count. As soon as I can do the corrections I'll be sending this in to be posted online. Janice inal Message ----- From: "Jessie Blalock" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:11 PM Subject: Sullivan Co population in 1850 and 1860 > Hello. I'm looking for census information about Sullivan Co. in 1850 > and 1860, but not the usual sort that is discussed on these > genealogy lists. Rather, I'd like to find out if someone could > provide me with the population of Sullivan Co in 1850 and 1860, and > if there has been any more complex demographic statistical > analysis then I'd also be interested in that. > > Thanks > Jessie Blalock > > http://users.rootsweb.com/~tn4cav/index.html > > > ============================== > Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: > Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/ > >

Hello. I'm looking for census information about Sullivan Co. in 1850 and 1860, but not the usual sort that is discussed on these genealogy lists. Rather, I'd like to find out if someone could provide me with the population of Sullivan Co in 1850 and 1860, and if there has been any more complex demographic statistical analysis then I'd also be interested in that. Thanks Jessie Blalock http://users.rootsweb.com/~tn4cav/index.html

Wanda, Could you please do a look up for me for the name of Emelia or Emily Eastridge. I certainly appreciate your kind offer, and I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks, "PJ" at [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:47 PM Subject: Re: Nicholas and Susan Cline > Thanks for the kind offer. > > Wanda > > > "A wolf that will not howl will never find it's pack."...Anonymous > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 6:59 PM > Subject: DID I MISS ANYONES REQUEST? > > > > I am a little new and disorganized at the look up business, and I think I > > lost a few request. If anyone asked for a look up from The Lost Children > of > > Wythe County, Virginia 1790-1878 Poor School Children Orphans And > Apprentices > > From County Records compiled by MAry Kegley and have not heard back from > me > > yet, then I have lost your request and I apoligize. Just resend if you > have > > not heard from me and I will try again. Put name in subject line please, > and > > I have learned a lesson as well, Please no all of one name ( example all > the > > Doe names in index, be specific and ask just for Jane & John Doe). Willing > to > > help all I can. Thanks for your patients. > > > > > > ============================== > > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >

Thanks for the kind offer. Wanda "A wolf that will not howl will never find it's pack."...Anonymous ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 6:59 PM Subject: DID I MISS ANYONES REQUEST? > I am a little new and disorganized at the look up business, and I think I > lost a few request. If anyone asked for a look up from The Lost Children of > Wythe County, Virginia 1790-1878 Poor School Children Orphans And Apprentices > From County Records compiled by MAry Kegley and have not heard back from me > yet, then I have lost your request and I apoligize. Just resend if you have > not heard from me and I will try again. Put name in subject line please, and > I have learned a lesson as well, Please no all of one name ( example all the > Doe names in index, be specific and ask just for Jane & John Doe). Willing to > help all I can. Thanks for your patients. > > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >

I am a little new and disorganized at the look up business, and I think I lost a few request. If anyone asked for a look up from The Lost Children of Wythe County, Virginia 1790-1878 Poor School Children Orphans And Apprentices From County Records compiled by MAry Kegley and have not heard back from me yet, then I have lost your request and I apoligize. Just resend if you have not heard from me and I will try again. Put name in subject line please, and I have learned a lesson as well, Please no all of one name ( example all the Doe names in index, be specific and ask just for Jane & John Doe). Willing to help all I can. Thanks for your patients.

----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 2:08 PM Subject: Look ups subject line > Please put your surname in subject line for me, it will be easier for me to > write you back with a reply. And no thank you e-mails, none necessary I thank > you all for helping me. > > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/

Please put your surname in subject line for me, it will be easier for me to write you back with a reply. And no thank you e-mails, none necessary I thank you all for helping me.

I have purchased The Lost Children of Wythe County, Virginia 1790-1878 Poor School Children, Orphans And Apprentices From County Records. Compiled by Mary B. Kegley, 1995 and to try and pay back the kindness given to me will do look-ups for people. I hope to in the future purchase more books for myself and to share in look-ups. E-mail private with request so the list want be overwhelmed with request please. I thank Mrs. Kegley for permission to do this, and will try my best to follow her rules on how to do it, so as not to break copyright laws.

Hello I am new to this list and I am searching for the parents of Lovisa/Levicy Christian. She married Frederick J Combs in Sullivan Co. Nov27, 1865 COMBS, Frederick J. to Levicy CHRISTIAN (Sullivan Co TN Marriage Books to 1899) Her name on her stone was listed as Lovisa. They moved to Morgan Co KY where they raised their family. Does anyone have information on the Christian Families in Sullivan Co for this time period? Carter Versailles, KY

Hi, I have never seen any parents listed on the marriages in the Blountville TN Courthouse, so I don't think that would help. Kathy

Hello fellow researchers, I had grandparents named George C. Johnson and Myrtle Richmond Johnson and know they were married in Bristol, TN, 28 Dec. 1917. When I knew them, they lived in Pax, WV. Does anyone recognize these names and know their parents or siblings? Thank you in advance for your help. The information I have: George C. Johnson (a twin) b. 27 Apr 1891, Leban, VA; d. 1965; s/o Harve Johnson and Magie Fields. Myrtle Richmond Johnson b. 9 May 1901 Letcher, KY; d. 7 May 1973, Fairfield, CN. I have a partial list of their siblings but no dates or places. Skoney. Did you know Jesus prayed for His disciples? See John 17:6. Are you one of His?

What you need to do is get a copy of their marriage license from the court house in Blountville, Tennessee and see who there parents were. The try and find those families in the 1910 census. Good Luck to you, Truman At 11:39 PM 8/17/00 -0700, you wrote: >Hello fellow researchers, > I had grandparents named George C. Johnson and Myrtle Richmond > Johnson >and know they were married in Bristol, TN, 28 Dec. 1917. When I knew >them, they lived in Pax, WV. Does anyone recognize these names and know >their parents or siblings? > Thank you in advance for your help. > >The information I have: >George C. Johnson (a twin) b. 27 Apr 1891, Leban, VA; d. 1965; s/o Harve >Johnson and Magie Fields. >Myrtle Richmond Johnson b. 9 May 1901 Letcher, KY; d. 7 May 1973, >Fairfield, CN. >I have a partial list of their siblings but no dates or places. > >Skoney. >Did you know Jesus prayed for His disciples? See John 17:6. Are you one >of His? > > >============================== >Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. >RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: >http://pml.rootsweb.com/

I am a SUSONG researcher. I'm out of town today but will be at home this weekend and will contact you about your SUSONG connection. Other Sullivan Co Surnames: COUNTISS, COWAN, DULANEY, DELANEY, RUTLEDGE, SENEKER, BARGER. leslie c foster [email protected]

Hi Everyone, I am looking for info on my Ggrandmother born in 1870 in AL. Married Otis S. ROGERS they lived and both are buried at Dogwood Cemetery in Griffithville, Ark. They lived in Dogwood Township back then. She died at age 32 yrs old in 1902. This info was taken off her headstone. Please if you are a LATTUE/LaTOUR or have any info I really need your help Arkansas has know death certificate on her. Thank You So Much, Theresa Rogers Griffiths

This is the last of what I have to share from Bud Phillips book, Bristol Tennesse,Virginia. There was much more in the book about town history and some fine old photos, but I only had about an hours visit in the library with this wonderful book. By the way I am not promoting the book and have no connections to Bud Phillips, just sharing what I read. I did find a couple of cemetery mentions in a pamphlet I purchased through the historical society and I have an index to High on A Windy Hill. I can do look ups from the index, but I think there are many people out there with the whole book that can do better service. I have sent away for Mary Kegley's book Lost Children of Wythe County and E-mailed her for permission to offer look ups from it when it arrives and she said that was fine and sent me a list of how to rules on doing it without breaking copywrite laws. I hope I follow and do those things correctly. I sure don't want to do that! Any way here is some info on monuments and some names, etc., for you. Gen. Evan Shelby was most likely the first in town to have a grave marker (the iron slab placed over his grave).It was made at the King Iron Works at Holly Bend plantation. Thomas W. Farley became a local agent for the Caddess Monument Company of Lynchburg,Va.and placed some of the earliest markers at East Hill. Mr. Phillips writes that he used to haul the heavier monuments in a 2 wheel cart, pulled by an ox named Black from the depot to the cemetery, and some of the small light ones carried on his shoulder. There was a Marble Shop in Abingdon during the 1850's that supplied stones too. A. T. M. Provence set up Bristol's 1st monument works around 1860 and Mr. Phillips states at the writting of his book it is still there on the corner of State and Second Street. Provence closed during the war, but re-opened in 1866. Mr. Phillips tells with humor this story: Business must have been slow or money scarce, for a year or two later he was advertising he would cheerfully accept farm produce as payment for grave markers. Mr Phillips writes; and I quote " A story handed down through the Parrott family tells of a marker bought from Provence and paid for with a calf and a pig." It may truly be said that he ate up the profits!" W. A. Ray had a marble works on a lot across Main from the First Baptist Church about the same time period for several decades. It was common practice in those days to print in tiny, discreet letters near the bottom of the stone the name of the stone maker. The earliest monuments were usually thin, and almost always white marble. They become heavier and taller and more elaborately carved through the 1870's and 1880's. The soaring obelisk style of monuments in that time period mark several prominent local citizens including J.R. Anderson, John Crowell, James P. Lewis, Isaac A. Nickels, W.S. Minor, andCyrus King. There are a few unique hollow bronze monuments in East Hill. These were expensive and had to be ordered from Baltimore and took time for delivery. These people listed has a hollow bronze monument: W. W. James, Ben L. Dulaney, and Hal H. Haynes. A decent marker would cost $12.50, small ones as little as $6.00. Long after the Civil War a fine stone could be bought for $25.00 and a $50.00 stone would designate the affluent of the town. Some families put iron fences around their burial plots. Many of these fences were made and erected by the Dixon and Smith Foundry, and others had pickett fences, but neither remains today.. Around 1880 the father of Nellie Gaines ( first letter, first person buried at east hill) returned to Bristol from Texas and hired a carpenter to erect a little house over his daughter's grave, and put a pickett fence around it. He hired G.B. Smith to photograph it so his wife (at that time an invalid) could see what had been done. It has not survived time and does not remain today. Thank you all for letting me do this, I enjoyed very much all the Thank you notes and stories you have sent to me. Everytime I try to give to you good people I get 10 times more than I ever give. You are remarkable people. God Bless you all.

I'm interested in the name SUSONG..........Alexander to be exact. He married Margaret Longacre (my 3rd cousin 4 times removed) on 14 Feb 1867 in Sullivan County. I have not been able to find any children or information on Alexander's parents. Can anyone help with this family? Barbara in Wilmington, NC http://sites.netscape.net/geneslady/homepage [email protected] wrote: > One of the e-mails had a cemetery called Flat Hollow Cemetery which was a > slave cemetey in the mid 1830's in a place known as Flat Hollow. Slaves from > the Susong and King family were buried there and after the Civil War it > become a burying ground for the Black population of Bristol, Va. The Bristol > Land Company purchased the land and offered the Colored Cemetery Association > land at what is now called Citizens Cemetery and the offer accepted and the > bodies moved from Flat Hollow to Citizens Cemetery. > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/

Mr. Phillips in his book, Bristol,Tn./Va. descibes a wonderful thing that the townspeople did in older days, and it would be so terrific to see it done today so our cemeteries would stay in good condition. Mr. Phillips writes that for many years it was the custom of the townsfolk to gather at the cemetery on a Saturday in May to clean off the grounds and make ready for a memorial service. There was a great turnout of citizens, rich,poor,young,and old who would for long hours cut brush,grass,straighten stones, and repair fence lots. They would plant flowers and roses, and pull weeds. Some of the local business men worked at the task as well and hired help by offering to people who helped a chance to pay off debts in this way. It was an all day affair where picnic lunches were brought and eaten under shade trees and the people visited with one another. For years it was custom to hold a memorial service for the town's dead. A crowd would assemble at the First Baptist Church, and laden with wreaths and bouquets they would march up the hill to the cemetery and assemble under the giant cherry tree near the King lot and hear the sermons by the town's clergy or a eloquent speech by a local orator which was usually a lawyer, and a bit of poetry reading. Lovely idea to me and I can just picture this in my mind of something so nice that happened so long ago.

One of the e-mails had a cemetery called Flat Hollow Cemetery which was a slave cemetey in the mid 1830's in a place known as Flat Hollow. Slaves from the Susong and King family were buried there and after the Civil War it become a burying ground for the Black population of Bristol, Va. The Bristol Land Company purchased the land and offered the Colored Cemetery Association land at what is now called Citizens Cemetery and the offer accepted and the bodies moved from Flat Hollow to Citizens Cemetery.