For subscribers interested in the current situation concerning the Bradford-Berry house in Hendersonville, there is an article in the New Examiner at the following web site: _http://www.gallatinnewsexaminer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050617/MTCN0 401/306170036/1309/MTCN04_ (http://www.gallatinnewsexaminer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050617/MTCN0401/306170036/1309/MTCN04)

I need to have a current email on Sherry Falcon. Please contact me privately. Thanks, Brenda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HiB.2ACI/2797 Message Board Post: need info on a george renfro listed in sumner deaths in 1910 # 88939. if possible need his full name, age and names of survivors. you can post a message or email me direct [email protected] thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HiB.2ACI/2796 Message Board Post: Can someone out there help me try to locate Alan Alford RR clerk lived in Memphis 1908-1910 any help/suggestions much appreciated thank you jackie stegeman

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beall Alford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HiB.2ACI/2795 Message Board Post: Can someone out there help me locate a Birth certificate Grace Marie Alford was born 9/27/1908 in Memphis,TN to Grace Beall and Alan Alford. I am hoping that there is someone out there that can help me find a birth certificate for her and also a marriage record for her parents also in Memphis area! Any and all help/suggestions appreciated! thank you Jackie Stegeman

This obituary appeared in the Nashville Tennessean on Wednesday, 15 June 2005: Pastor Elder Floyd Eugene SHAW Sumner June 10, 2005 Of Hendersonville, TN, departed this life on June 10, 2005. Left to cherish his memory are wife of 34 years, Linda Kay Shaw; sons, Mark Anthony Shaw and Floyd Eugene Shaw II and daughter, Yolanda Denise Heath. Services will be held at Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church, Orlinda, TN. Visitation, Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Wake, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Funeral Services, Friday, June 17, 2005 at I1 a.m. Interment Mt. Pleasant Church Cemetery. JOHNSON & COLEMAN FUNERAL HOME, 615-452-2060.

This obituary appeared in the Nashville Tennessean on Wednesday, 15 June 2005: Jasmin M. HARRIS Sumner Age 17 June 10, 2005 Age 17 of Gallatin, TN. June 10, 2005. Survived by devoted mother, Teresa Harris; father, Tony Harper; brother, Jerome Manning; sister, Ja Kisa Manning; grandparents, Will C. & Carolyn Harris, and Allen Debow. Services will be Wednesday, June 15, 2005. Family visitation 11 a.m., funeral to follow at 12 Noon, at the JOHNSON & COLEMAN FUNERAL HOME, 615-452-2060.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ashlock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HiB.2ACI/2776.1 Message Board Post: Amanda Emmadine Ashlock was sister to Thomas. She married John West. One of the children, Leatha Bertha West married William Brady Simpson. I am Great Granddaughter of Leatha and Mr. Brady. I would love to add a picture of Thomas to My collection of photos. Thank you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HiB.2ACI/2794 Message Board Post: Does anyone know who built the house named Springhaven in Sumner Co TN? When it was built? My Henry Turney was the first owner of the property, but he did not build the house. I understand at one point a Greer family lived next door Mary

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pugh Pew Grimes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HiB.2ACI/524.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: more info on our Nancy. She was born in IN 12 Sep 1819 to John Pew & Elizabeth Grimes. As far as we know she never married though she had 3 sons and was close to her siblings [there were 11]. She died 26 Oct 1900 in Cedarvale, Chautaugua, KS where she is also buried. Her sons were named Preston G, John Wesley [our line], and Hiram Wiley. All of her sons went by Pugh or Pew. I have never heard of a Joseph Nance. Would appreciate your info. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pugh Nance Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HiB.2ACI/524.1.1.1 Message Board Post: What?? Please send me whatever documentation you ahve for the marriage of the above! Are you sure this is the right Nancy Pugh? Do you know where &/or when they were married? Do you know why her sons never took his name? What do you know about Joseph Nance? Thank you so much! - C Clark

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HiB.2ACI/524.1.1 Message Board Post: Nancy Pugh was married to Joseph Nance.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pugh Grimes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HiB.2ACI/524.1 Message Board Post: HI we have a Nancy Pugh born NC, died in KA - father John, mother Elizabeth Grimes. She had three sons. We sure hope you are searching for the same Nancy! Please respond. Thanks - C Clark

Are you sure the last name was Russell???? I have a Russell Mayes married to Nettie Maybelle White. Her parents were John Richard Berry White and Annetta Poole. And I am searching for his Parents. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 6:43 PM Subject: [TNSUMNER] family history > I am trying to find any information on my ggg grandfather and his wife: James or Jim Russell and wife (I only have maiden as last name) White. I know they had my gg grandmother in Monroe County,Tennessee in 1863. Any help would be sincerely appreciated. > Thank you, > Johnnie J. >

I am trying to find any information on my ggg grandfather and his wife: James or Jim Russell and wife (I only have maiden as last name) White. I know they had my gg grandmother in Monroe County,Tennessee in 1863. Any help would be sincerely appreciated. Thank you, Johnnie J.

Since someone recently had questions on the Turner family I thought I would throw my query out again with hope someone new might see it. Have had not luck with finding the family of Mary (Polly) Turner b. ca 1780 NC d. 1863 , Paris, Henry Co. TN m. 1 Dec 1800 Davidson Co. TN John C. Hamilton who became the First Attorney General of TN b. 5 May 1774 d. 9 Mar 1833 in court at Charlotte, Dickson County, TN Records for the Hamilton family are in Sumner Co. but cannot prove his family on paper either. They had 10 children and I have proof of them and some of their families Would love a clue from anyone Thanks Joy Bland

This obituary appeared in the Nashville Tennessean on Friday, 10 June 2005: Ethel MCMURTRY Sumner Age 85 June 9, 2005 Age 85 of Gallatin. June 9, 2005. Survived by sons, William (Patricia) McMurtry, James E. McMurtry, Gus McMurtry; daughters, Marla (Rick) Gregory, Perry McMurtry; 9 grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 2 p.m., at Spring Hill Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor Mike Hancock officiating. Visitation Friday, 3 til 8 p.m.. Interment Spring Hill Cemetery. Services arranged by SPRING HILL FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY, 5110 Gallatin Rd. at Briley Pky., Madison, TN 615-865-1101

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HiB.2ACI/2793 Message Board Post: I am looking for an obituary for Walter Sanford Dunlap McGhee b. 12 May 1895 d. 6 Sep 1981 m. 24 Dec 1916 Villa Elsie Allbright b. 16 Dec 1895 d. 19 Sep 1973 Last residence was Portland, Sumner, TN according to SSDI any help would be greatly appreciated, Terry

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Jackson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:22 AM Subject: [TNSUMNER] D-Day 6 Jun 1944 > Hi ALL: > > Some dates and events are meant to be remembered for a long-long > time today is one of those dates were events made the day > unforgettable............ > > Today is 6 June 2005, 61 years ago the armed forces of The United > States, Great > Britian, France, Canada, and a Polish Batalion Landed on the coast of > Normandy, > France. As a part of that invasion The 2nd Ranger Battalion, U. S. > Army, 225 young > Army Volunters, was assigned the mission of assaulting Point du Hoc. > Point du Hoc rose some 100 feet up a rocky cliff overlooking the > entire invasion > beach. Of the 225 Army Rangers who started the assault on Point du Hoc > only 99 > survived the Battle of Normandy. > On June 6th 1984, President Ronald Reagan, gave a speech, marking > the 40th > Anniversary of D-Day. The speech was delivered on top of the promontory > > "Point du Hoc" - Present were some three dozen surviving members of the > 2nd Ranger > Bn, their wives, children and some grandchildren, among some 5000 > guests. The > President spoke directly to and at the Rangers - below is what he said > -read it - and > apreciate what those brave men accomplished some 61 years ago as they > assaulted > Point du Hoc................... > > > Uncle John in Falco > > > Pointe-Du-Hoc > President's Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of > the D-Day Invasion at Normandy > > Pointe-Du-Hoc, Normandy, France, June 6, 1984 > > > We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in > > battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, muchof > > Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews > cried > out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was > enslaved, > and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. > Here > the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking > unparalleled in human history. > > We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. > The > air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with > smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of > rifle > fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June > 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the > bottom > of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring > of > the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the > enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these > > guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the > Allied > advance. > > The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers -- at the edge of the > cliffs shooting down at them with machine-guns and throwing grenades. > And > the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the > face of > these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, > another > would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another > and > begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. > Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in > seizing > the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the > continent of Europe.Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After two > days of > fighting only ninety could still bear arms. > > Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were > thrust > into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them > there. > > These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the > cliffs. > These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the > heroes > who helped end a war. > > Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's > poem. > You are men who in your 'lives fought for life...and left the vivid air > signed with your honor'... > > Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You > were > young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than > boys, > with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet you risked everything > here. > Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to putaside the instinct for > self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What > inspired > all the men of the armies that met here?We look at you, and somehow we > know > the answer. It was faith, and belief; it was loyalty and love. > > The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, > faiththat > they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them > mercy > on this beach head or on the next. It was the deep knowledge --and pray > God > we have not lost it -- that there is a profound moral difference between > the > use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were > here > to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt > your > cause. And you were right not to doubt. > > You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is > worth > dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most > deeply > honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved > liberty. > All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of > your > countries were behind you. > > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PERRY, SMITH, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HiB.2ACI/2792 Message Board Post: I need parents and siblings for Benjamin Franklin Perry, born circa 1831 in Sumner Co., TN. He married Almira C. Smith, daugher of Edmund D. Smith and Sarah Hargroves, in Dec. 1852. He doesn't show up on 1850 census with anyone in Sumner Co. WHERE WAS HE? He and Almira had 7 known children; Thomas E.(married Helen Frances Bransford Jones;widow with 3 children) Sarah A (married a Lassiter), Minnie J (died young teen) Ida V (married Asa McMurtry) Samuel Lee (my grandfather) Lula Elizabeth (married a Lassiter) and Nora Belle (married a Combs). Anyone with any information on this PERRY please e-mail me at [email protected] Thanks. P.S. I've been looking since 1990. I started at Gallatin Archives and from there I've been down all roads and cowpastures. No luck.