Once again I must say I've been negligent in my duties of informing all of you of additions to our Union County Page. We have added tons more churches at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/church/hschrch.htm Once again, if any of you have any information about these churches send it to us. And also we have added several things to the Family Section including a list of Sharp marriages sent to us by a list member. And still another list member sent us a transcription of Kelly Cemetery in Luttrell (Cemetery Section). Thanks for helping us, Chip Union County TnGenWeb

A new message, "Amos Sharp," was posted by Elizabeth A. Asimos on Mon, 27 Sep 1999 Surname: Sharp, Carter --- NAME: Elizabeth A. Asimos EMAIL: rebecca101@email.msn.com DATE: Sep 27 1999 URL: http:// QRYTEXT: I am searching for the parents of Amos SHARP b.1785 in Union County,TN. He married Sally Carter June 15, 1807 in Union County. I would also like the parents of Sally b. 1792. Any information of Amos and Sally and their children would be greatly appreciated..

In a message dated 9/27/99 6:33:48 AM Central Daylight Time, Aarah@aol.com writes: << The Brown family that I am trying to tie in with resided in 1800-1830 on Lyons Creek which is very close to Strawberry Plains in Jefferson Co, however the land is now in Knox Co, and across the river from Mascot in Knox Co. >> Regarding this area, if any of you come across the family name Lyons or Hightower in this area, I would be interested in your information. My Lyons settled there and many intermarried with Irwins. Bill Irwin has an interesting book about this area. Georgia Lyons Hamilton

Atlanta Georgia also! At 06:21 AM 09/27/1999 EDT, you wrote: >In a message dated 9/26/99 8:18:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, GANTX1@aol.com >writes: > ><< << Fixin - I don't know where it came from but seems all of us from Texas >are > "Fixin to" do something >> > >> > >They say that all the time here in Central Florida, to > > >==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== >If you live in Union County why not pitch in. Take a day and write down the tombstones in the nearest cemetery. Send it to us for others to use. You could be helping a cousin. Go to the courthouse and copy some early marriage records. Anything helps. > > Rae Smith http://www.angelfire.com/tn/sexton/index.html http://www.angelfire.com/tn/sexton/Lay.html http://www.angelfire.com/de/LawDog/index.html

Hi Floyd. I noticed that you are researching the Pierce family as one in your line. My dad, Richard (Dick) Austin Pierce is buried in Taylor's Cemetery. His sister, Satre Pierce Herron, his mother, Isabelle Pierce, and his brother the Rev. George Pierce andd his wife Sintha Russell Pierce are also buried there. I'm trying to get some confirmation that my grandfather, Joshua Pierce is buried there. I will happily exchange any info on the Pierce line with you if you are interested in any of these. Steve See Chip... all this "idle chatter" may have just put two folks in touch with each other that are researching the same line. > Yum!!!! just had a moon pie and a pepsi. My family has been eating moon pies > since the 1920's when they came from Lead Mine Bend to Chattanooga. My > ancestors came from Lead Mine Bend. They are buried at Taylor's Cemetery (It > is not Taylor's Grove Cemetery) above the Taylor's Grove Church. Researching > the following families: Owsley, Taylor, Rucker, Rogers, Shoffner, Pierce and > more. > > Floyd Owsley

Well Chip, I couldn't stand it any longer... I went to work and looked up the reference to Cole's store. According to the article in the paper, the name of the game was "Lone Nine". Game regulars were: Eugene Brewer, Junior Williams, Clarence "Preacher" Collins, Wade Beason, Sandy Lay, George Sharp, and Randolph Collins. Steve PS. Still a-waitin' on that Revenoor story <G> ----- Original Message ----- From: <Morom01@aol.com> To: <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 9:06 PM Subject: Re: Cole's Store > In a message dated 9/24/99 8:55:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > stephen.pierce@worldnet.att.net writes: > > << Do you remember > the name of that card game they used to play? >> > > Give me a few days but I'll remember what they called the game. Cole's store > was in the Sentinel when it closed. It was also featured on the Heartland > Series now featured on the Travel Channel as Appalachian Stories. Try to > watch Appalachian Stories if you can get the Travel Channel, 90% of it is > Union County. > > But the card game started out years and years ago. Two old men started > playing a game with some sort of wager. Neither knew how to play the game. > Neither would admit their ignorance and each started making up rules. Well, > the other had no idea either so he went along with the other one's rules and > vice-versa. Before long their perpetual card game turned into a game of it's > own. > > Get me started and I'll tell you about a revenuer who stopped by there one > day...So I'm told. > > Chip > Union County TnGenWeb > > > ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > How to unsubscribe. > Send a message to TNUNION-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe >

To quote Billy Bob Thornton from the movie Sling Blade... " I like the way you talk. Uh Huh!" > Steeyet - for "still yet" > Purt nyur - for "pretty near" > Rosnyur - for "roasting ear" (of corn) > Ain't got nary'un - for "don't have any" > Haint - for "haunt" or ghost > Tar for "tire" > Far for "fire" > Fair to middlin' > A right smart - any large amount, great distance, etc., as down the road a > right smart or a right smart of beans. > Fur for "for" - a "fur piece" is not animal skin, it is a significant > distance to travel. >

Man, I love this list. Finally, a place where people know how to talk. <G> I bet folks around here have 4 "tars" on their car. And when it's close to "quittin' time", folks around here probly "get ready to go to the house".. Steve > Does anyone remember a grandparent calling a grocery store sack or bag, > "poke"? My grandmother calls her grocery bags "paper pokes". My grandmother > will also be putting her dopes in a paper poke, d'rectly.

In a message dated 9/27/99 6:18:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, stephen.pierce@worldnet.att.net writes: << According to the article in the paper, the name of the game was "Lone Nine". >> Yes! Yes! Gee whiz that was bothering me! Thank you. Chip

Gee whiz, I'd say with those names it could be 50/50 Union and Grainger. Probably half don't really apply to Union County, while the Capps, Chesney, Dyer, Norris and Sharp are huge Union County names. As far as the Browns near Strawberry plains, I believe most of their ancestors came from Kentucky. There are some Browns in Union County related to them. Most of the Browns around here came from Virginia (Lee County) and North Carolina (Stokes County). There is also a set in Lafollette that I have yet to be able to place with either set. Hope this starts you in the right direction, Chip Brown Union County TnGenWeb

In a message dated 9/26/99 3:11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, smercer@bledsoe.net writes: << Ooops is right Gail, I moved to TN 27 or so yrs ago from TX.. and I had to learn lots of new words, 'you'ens' was first and formost... LOL... I now am please to be the owner of a 2nd, & 3rd, vocabulary. Around here, we don't 'I swan', we 'I declare'... >> In my family there is a cousin named Ewing (pronounced You'en) and when there was a family gathering it was a hoot to watch him jump as one after another would ask something like "You'ens leaving now?" and he would answer with something like "No,I'm not" no matter to whom the question was directed. I doubt there was ever a Yankee named "You'se Guys" with a similar problem, but who knows. Gail

Kay, I think you are stuck researching three counties. The area you describe is now near the intersection of Grainger, Knox and Union Counties. The lines were redrawn so often that I think there was confusion even back then. I have found doccuments for my folks recorded in all three counties and I know they did not move. But, I am willing to bet that the most of them will be found in Grainger and Knox. Gail Mynatt Zeigler In a message dated 9/26/99 9:07:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, garyvan@mindspring.com writes: << Could anybody tell me if they might know in what county at the present time these families might have resided. The Brown family that I am trying to tie in with resided in 1800-1830 on Lyons Creek which is very close to Strawberry Plains in Jefferson Co, however the land is now in Knox Co, and across the river from Mascot in Knox Co. The Brockus family that my Elihu Brown married into was in Grainger Co in 1799-1830. On Census list and the 1830 census from Grainger Co I see families as shown below in near to the Brockus Family. Could you tell me by the names below could this area now be in Union Co. Braden, Edward Capps, William Sellers, John Acuff, Benjamin Dennis, Thomas Dennis, Joseph more than one McMillen, Thomas Hill, Joseph Dyer, Isaac Culbyhouse, John Lane, James Dyer, William McDaniel, John Dyer, George Bowers, David Rookard, Thomas Mynatt, Milly Lane, William Norris, William Sharp. Amos Damewood, Henry Chesney, John Appreciate any help. Kay >>

In a message dated 9/26/99 8:18:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, GANTX1@aol.com writes: << << Fixin - I don't know where it came from but seems all of us from Texas are "Fixin to" do something >> >> They say that all the time here in Central Florida, too!

I have Sellers, I know some were in Union or neighboring counties, and probably some of ours, what I know about them is in Jefferson & Sevier Co's and I know very little. I have a cousin on here who has been tracking the Seller's. She is on Chip's list also. Ann P. I have Mary Sellers who married Samuel Douglass and that was a long time ago. . ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Vanderostyne <garyvan@mindspring.com> To: <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 6:09 PM Subject: Location for Browns/Brockus perhaps Union Co. > Could anybody tell me if they might know in what county at the present time these families might have resided. > > The Brown family that I am trying to tie in with resided in 1800-1830 on Lyons Creek which is very close to Strawberry Plains in Jefferson Co, however the land is now in Knox Co, and across the river from Mascot in Knox Co. > > The Brockus family that my Elihu Brown married into was in Grainger Co in 1799-1830. On Census list and the 1830 census from Grainger Co I see families as shown below in near to the Brockus Family. Could you tell me by the names below could this area now be in Union Co. > > Braden, Edward > Capps, William > Sellers, John> Acuff, Benjamin > Dennis, Thomas > Dennis, Joseph more than one > McMillen, Thomas > Hill, Joseph > Dyer, Isaac > Culbyhouse, John > Lane, James > Dyer, William > McDaniel, John > Dyer, George > Bowers, David > Rookard, Thomas > Mynatt, Milly > Lane, William > Norris, William > Sharp. Amos > Damewood, Henry > Chesney, John > > Appreciate any help. > Kay > > > ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > Got any material to submit to the website? Any kind of cemetary list that you have transcribed over the years. > >

I don't think so, I was not in high school then, late 50's? We had fun. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: Rae Davis-Smith <raedavissm@mindspring.com> To: <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 4:01 PM Subject: Re: Lights? > Back in the mid 40's when my mom was first married, she worked at a drug > store on Gay street in Knoxville...Then it was called Walgreens...She said > at that time, that was the only drug store on Gay street...is that the same > one? > > > At 01:30 PM 09/26/1999 -0700, you wrote: > > Yes on the peanuts even in coke also the vanilla cokes. I think the drug > >store/fountain on Gay St., Knoxville was also called Coles??? If we rode a > >city bus in high school & had to transfer we would hang out there? We had > >fun? > > > >Ann > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: <Cyndej@aol.com> > >To: <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 5:15 AM > >Subject: Re: Lights? > > > > > >> Hmmm. > >> > >> Well, I swanee!! I LOVE chip-chat! > >> > >> I love moon pies. And here in texas we call it R-uh Cee cola. AND we have > >> Ghost lights too, and did anyone else ever put peanuts in your coke before > >> you drank it? > >> > >> Cynde in Houston > >> > >> > >> ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > >> Got any stories to tell? The Union County TnGenWeb Site is in search of > >stories about Union County Families from yesteryear. > >> > >> > > > > > > > >==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > >Any questions or comments about the list or webpage may be addressed to > Chip at union@tngenweb.org. > > > > > Rae Smith > http://www.angelfire.com/tn/sexton/index.html > http://www.angelfire.com/tn/sexton/Lay.html > http://www.angelfire.com/de/LawDog/index.html > > > ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > If you live in Union County why not pitch in. Take a day and write down the tombstones in the nearest cemetery. Send it to us for others to use. You could be helping a cousin. Go to the courthouse and copy some early marriage records. Anything helps. > >

DeAnna, My grandfather called a paper bag a poke. Ann P. ----- Original Message ----- From: <DMLay@aol.com> To: <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Expand Your Vocabulary > Does anyone remember a grandparent calling a grocery store sack or bag, > "poke"? My grandmother calls her grocery bags "paper pokes". My grandmother > will also be putting her dopes in a paper poke, d'rectly. > > DeAnna Lay > Knoxville TN > > > ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > How to unsubscribe. > Send a message to TNUNION-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > >

That's exactly it Carol... LOL... but it is familiar now, it took some getting use to it though.. sandy dgarris wrote: > Next time yo'll come a calling bring the young'uns with ye. > > Young'uns are also referred to as "littluns". > > Either way you say it, we'll be proud to have 'em. > > Carolyn > > ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > If you live in Union County why not pitch in. Take a day and write down the tombstones in the nearest cemetery. Send it to us for others to use. You could be helping a cousin. Go to the courthouse and copy some early marriage records. Anything helps.

Dear Cousins, I truly do enjoy the kind of string the list is on now. Sometimes you need to give the names, dates and data a rest. Talking about the incidentals is what gives our ancestors flesh and a context. I am a transplant, a born Californian, I admit with some fear and trembling. My Union County ancestors moved to the Ozarks of Arkansas, for goodness sakes. That makes me a double hillbilly. And my Ozark daddy married an Okie! So I may be California born and bred, but my heart and gene pool are right there in Tennessee (my gene pool having been diluted by the TVA project, no doubt). I'm adopted, so it's only been in the last five years or so that I've known of this wonderful heritage. And yet, God in his mercy allowed me taste it even before I knew the legacy was truly mine. I joined a Southern Baptist church where everyone spoke "y'all." I picked it up pretty quickly. I'm now, I swan to goodness, bilingual. My closest friends were children of the Dust Bowl migrants and I was drawn to all things Southern. I gotta admit County music has been an off and on thing for me. I like that most versatile of foods, grits. I once dated a girl whose one ambition in life was to some day go to Nashville and visit the Southern Baptist Convention's Sunday School building headquarters. So I've been drawn like the proverbial moth to the flame to my Tennessee roots and everything that goes along with them: RC cola, Moon Pies. We have all of those treasures in California. Used to have Piggly Wiggly markets here too, but no more. No mystery lights, though. Bummer. Jim

Could anybody tell me if they might know in what county at the present time these families might have resided. The Brown family that I am trying to tie in with resided in 1800-1830 on Lyons Creek which is very close to Strawberry Plains in Jefferson Co, however the land is now in Knox Co, and across the river from Mascot in Knox Co. The Brockus family that my Elihu Brown married into was in Grainger Co in 1799-1830. On Census list and the 1830 census from Grainger Co I see families as shown below in near to the Brockus Family. Could you tell me by the names below could this area now be in Union Co. Braden, Edward Capps, William Sellers, John Acuff, Benjamin Dennis, Thomas Dennis, Joseph more than one McMillen, Thomas Hill, Joseph Dyer, Isaac Culbyhouse, John Lane, James Dyer, William McDaniel, John Dyer, George Bowers, David Rookard, Thomas Mynatt, Milly Lane, William Norris, William Sharp. Amos Damewood, Henry Chesney, John Appreciate any help. Kay

If I may add my $0.02: Steeyet - for "still yet" Purt nyur - for "pretty near" Rosnyur - for "roasting ear" (of corn) Ain't got nary'un - for "don't have any" Haint - for "haunt" or ghost Tar for "tire" Far for "fire" Fair to middlin' A right smart - any large amount, great distance, etc., as down the road a right smart or a right smart of beans. Fur for "for" - a "fur piece" is not animal skin, it is a significant distance to travel. And there are many more. Bailey