I got this info on another list and thought you may be interested... LDS CHURCH ACKNOWLEDGES GENEALOGY PLANS See http://www.lds.org/en/4_News_Update/19990304_FIGS.html <a href="http://www.lds.org/en/4_News_Update/19990304_FIGS.html">Link</a> See http://www.sltrib.com/1999/mar/03061999/utah/88438.htm <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/1999/mar/03061999/utah/88438.htm">Link</a> In an announcement of the official Church webpage, LDS spokesmen officially acknowledged plans to put genealogical information on the web. "Sometime in March or April 1999, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will conduct a brief beta test of a new genealogical service for the Internet. The Church believes this service will greatly enhance the way people trace their family history. A formal announcement and launch is expected in the spring or summer of 1999. Details will not be available until then." Rae Davis-Smith http://www0.delphi.com/sexton/ Researching: Sexton,Lay,Smith,Terry,Hicks, Davis,Matoy,Cross,Chambers,Trammell Maitland,Lauderdale

This was advertised for sale today on GEN-BOOKS-L - in case anyone is interested Gail Mynatt Zeigler "UNION COUNTY [TENNESSEE], ITS CITIES, TOWNS AND POINTS OF INTEREST AS OF 1940-UPDATED 1986)";Bonnie M. Page,1986;36pp,photos,maps and text;soft bound:$5.00 plus $2.00 P&H. FL res. add 6 a3/4% tax. Check or money order only. Please advise if ordering and I will hold for 7 days. Mary E. Mahon, President Book Shop Catalogue (130+pp) "The Genelogical Center,Inc." Available:$3.50 PPD For mail: Street Address: Phone: (813) 265-2191 PO Box 17698 14816 N. Florida Ave. Library & BookShop Hours: Tampa, FL 33682 Tampa, FL 33613 M,T,W,F: 10- 5;Th:2-5 E-mail - sfevsvig@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us

I am sending these queries to both Union and Grainger Co., since in the time period I'm searching, the two overlap. After searching almost 25 years, I am still missing a few vital poeple and dates. I will gladly share what I have with these families with anyone who is interested. NEEDED BADLY" 1 Parents of Lewis ADKINS, B 5 May 1785 (either VA. or TN.) Mar. in Grainger Co. in 1804 to Eliz. MONROE D/O Robert and Rosanne (PUCKETT) MONROE. They had 10 children who intermarried with the BURNETT, MULLENS, PHIPPS,, NEEDHAM, HILL and HUBBS> families. Both Eliz and Lewis are buried in the Adkins Cem. off Tater Rd. on the border of Grainer/Union. 2. Parents of Phoebe (Febery) HILL, B. 17 June 1814 in Grainger, and on 1 Feb. 1838, Mar. Robert (Robin) ADKINS, S/O above Lewis and Eliz MONROE ADKINS. They had 11 children who intermarried with the VANDERGRIFF, MONROE and ADKINS families. 3. Need the death date and burial place of Margaret (ELY) BEELER, B. 1829 in Lee Co., VA., D/O John T. and Margaret (JONES) Ely. She married Peter BEELER in 1850 and they moved to Grainger. He died in the Civil War at Arnwine Crossing and is buried in Liberty Hill next to his grandfather Joseph BEELER, Rev. War soldier. 4. Need proof of the parents and possible first wife of Robert MONROE. Proven wife (perhaps 2nd) Rosanna Janie PUCKETT> They moved to TN> in 1790. They had 10 children. Their children intermarried with the PETERS, ADKINS, WYRICK, KITTS, and BURNET families. 5. Need the birthplace and date for the parents of Isaac DAVIS, B. VA, C. 1760-70 Married Mary (last name unknown) and moved to TN. Only child I have proven is Nancy, B. 11 July 1795. Nancy married Marc MONROE, S/O above Robert and Rosanne MONORE. They had 13 children before she died in 1853. He was a Circuit Rider Preacher for the area. Any information on any of these problems would be most gratefully appreciated. Thanks you. Earlene Hutsell OK1WE1@aol.com

I have many family members from TN. The generation prior to the one I need to search, at this time, was from Sullivan Co. and it is believed that they were born in Nashville. So, I don't know what county to search? Please help, and if you're exceptionally kind you might be able to help me anyway. I am looking for SPURGEON, Frances Elizabeth b. 1817, TN. Must find her father and mother and her Grandfather and Mother as I have to prove my relationship to SPURGEON, Charles Haddon b. 1834 back in England, so thought if I went back 2 generations it would be easier to cross over, if you get my gist. SPURGEON, Frances Elizabeth married HILTON, James Andrew b.TN 23/03/1813. His folks were HILTON, Charles b.TN abt 1775, d. abt. 1839. His wife was YOAKLEY, Margaret. B TN 1779.

Gordon Justice has furnished a list of Obituaries for the period 1880 to 1921 which are in church records of the Primitive Baptist Church - Eastern Association. They are for Hawkins, Hancock, Claiborne and apparently some seem to be for familiar Lee Co VA names. The listing is <A HREF="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tnwash/PBAobits.html"> Primitive Baptist Church - Eastern Association Obits 1881-1921</A> < http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tnwash/PBAobits.html > In this listing are the assignments of the ministers for 1884. Gordon has the Obits and can type them and send them to you. Lonnie

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------344758B22326 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This was on the Orangeburgh, SC mailing list and I learned a lot from it and found it interesting. Hope it helps someone. Teri Oaks --------------344758B22326 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <ORANGEBURGH_SC-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com ("port 2931"@[204.212.38.30]) by InfoAve.Net (PMDF V5.1-12 #23426) with ESMTP id <01J8EX4FCTPU9N5ANR@InfoAve.Net>; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 01:12:54 EST Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02041; Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:17:34 -0800 (PST) Resent-date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:17:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:06:32 -0500 Resent-from: ORANGEBURGH_SC-L@rootsweb.com From: David L Hamiter <chicora@netside.com> Subject: German Names Resent-sender: ORANGEBURGH_SC-L-request@rootsweb.com To: ORANGEBURGH_SC-L@rootsweb.com Reply-to: ORANGEBURGH_SC-L@rootsweb.com Resent-message-id: <"CizCbB.A.qf.t8d32"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> Message-id: <36DDC077.7AC69A8D@netside.com> Organization: Carolina Cousin Genealogy Research MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Old-To: Orangeburgh Listserve <Orangeburgh_SC-L@rootsweb.com> X-Mailing-List: <ORANGEBURGH_SC-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/4232 X-Loop: ORANGEBURGH_SC-L@rootsweb.com Hello All, Found the data below on a website. I thought some of you might find it interesting. GERMAN NAMING CONVENTIONS 1. At baptism, if two given names were given to the child, the first given name was a spiritual, saint's name, originally developed from Roman Catholic tradition and continued by the Protestants in their baptismal naming customs. The second given name was the secular or call name, which is the name the person was known by, both within the family and to this rest of the world. The spiritual name, usually to honor a favorite saint, was usually repeatedly given to all the children of that family of the same sex. Thus the boys would be Johan Adam Kerchner, Johan George Kerchner, etc., or Philip Peter Kerchner, Philip Jacob Kerchner, etc. Girls would be named Anna Barbara Kerchner, Anna Margaret Kerchner, etc., or Maria Elizabeth Kerchner, Maria Catherine Kerchner, etc. But after baptism, these people would not be known as John, Philip, Anna, or Maria, respectively. They would instead be known by what we would think of now as their middle name, which was their secular name. Thus these people would be known respectively as Adam, George, Peter, Jacob, Barbara, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Catherine in legal and secular records. For males, the saint's name Johan or John was particularly heavily used by many German families. The child's secular name was really John, if and only if, at baptism he was named only John, usually spelled as Johannes, with no second given name. The name John spelled as Johannes is rarely seen spelled as Johannes as a spiritual name, i.e., you rarely will see the name at baptism recorded as Johannes Adam Kerchner, etc. It is generally always found spelled as Johan or Johann when used as a spiritual name. Thus, you find the spiritual name of John recorded as Johan Adam Kerchner or Johann Adam Kerchner, not Johannes Adam Kerchner. Many researchers, new to German names, who find a baptism of an individual with a name such as Johan Adam Kerchner, thus mistakenly spend a lot of time looking for a John Kerchner, in legal and census records, when he was known after baptism, to the secular world, as Adam Kerchner. Also when reading county histories, etc., especially those written by individuals in the 20th century, and the author is referring to someone as John Kerchner, and you are not looking for a John Kerchner, but the history sounds otherwise familiar, further research may turn up that this person was really not a John Kerchner, but instead was someone else such as a Johan George Kerchner. You would thus find all his 18th century records recorded under the name George Kerchner and not John Kerchner and therefore after checking the data and correlating the facts you may find this is really a story about your missing George Kerchner. Classic examples of this error are seen in a work titled "Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County PA", It was published in 1911 by J.L. Floyd & Company of Chicago IL. One specific example of this misnaming error in that work is on page 659 in the paragraph in the upper left column which begins, "John Wetzel ...". This person is not a Johannes or John Wetzel but is instead a Johan "George" Wetzel and is known secularly in all legal records as George Wetzel. He was married to Eva Elizabeth Kerchner. There are many more examples in this work and other county histories written by people unfamiliar with 18th Century PA German Naming Customs. 2. The term "Senior" and "Junior" following a name did not necessarily imply a father and son relationship, as it does now. It could have been an uncle and nephew who had the same name and lived near each other. It could be a grandfather and a grandchild living together, where the father has died. It could even be two unrelated individuals with the same name but of different ages who lived near each other. So to help friends and business associates keep track of who-was-who in their discussions and records, they added on the "Sr." or "Jr." which merely meant the older and the younger, respectively. 3. The term cousin was widely used to mean an extended family, not the specific legal definition we understand it to be today. 4. It was a common practice in some German families to name the first born son after the child's paternal grandfather and the second born son after the maternal grandfather. Here are several more detailed naming patterns practiced by some families. Pattern A 1st son after the father's father 2nd son after the mother's father 3rd son after the father 4th son after the husband's father's father 5th son after the wife's father's father 6th son after the husband's mother's father 7th son after the wife's mother's father 1st daughter after the wife's mother 2nd daughter after the husband's mother 3rd daughter after the mother 4th daughter after the father's father's mother 5th daughter after the mother's father's mother 6th daughter after the father's mother's mother 7th daughter after the mother's mother's mother Pattern B The pattern B for the sons is the same as the above but this pattern for daughters was different 1st daughter after the father's mother 2nd daughter after the mother's mother 3rd daughter after the mother 4th daughter after the mother's father's mother 5th daughter after the father's father's mother Pattern C 1st son after the father's father 2nd son after the mother's father 3rd son after the father's oldest brother 4th son after the father 1st daughter after the father's mother 2nd daughter after the mother's mother 3rd daughter after the mother's oldest sister 4th daughter after the mother Whenever a duplicate name occurred in these patterns, the next name in the series was used. If a child died in infancy the name was often reused for the next child of the same gender. A rare twist occurred sometimes. A child's name would be reused when a spouse died and the surviving spouse remarried and had more children with the next spouse. I found this happened when a spouse had children in Germany and then his spouse died. He left his children behind in Germany, possibly with the grandparents, and then emigrated to Pennsylvania. Sometime after arrival he remarried and named his eldest son born in Pennsylvania by his new spouse with the same name as the son still living in Germany. This results in two adult children with the same name. If you are lucky enough to find a family with a lot of children, who strictly followed one of these naming patterns, then it may give you useful clues to determining the possible names of family members in earlier generations. 5. An "in" or "en", added to the end of a name, such as Anna Maria Kerchnerin, is a Germanic language name ending suffix denoting that the person is female. Thus the correct spelling of the last name in the example would be Kerchner, not Kerchnerin. 6. An "er" or "ner", added to a surname based on the name of something, denoted that the person worked with that object or at that occupation, if the main portion of the name was an object or an occupation, or that the person was from that geographic location or city, if the main portion of the name was a geographic location. Examples: Forst is German for a forest, thus Forster is one who worked in a forest or with woodlands or was from a forest. Berlin is a city in Germany, thus Berliner is one who is from Berlin. Since English is a Germanic rooted language we do the same thing in English, i.e., painnt(er), Garden(er), New York(er). The suffixes mentioned in 5. and 6. above are compounded in many cases. The nouns Kirche and Kerche are German words for church. Thus for the surname Kerchnerin, i.e., Kerch(ner)(in) we thus have a person who worked in or near a church who is female. 7. Frequently the secular name given to the child was also the same as the secular given name of one of the baptismal sponsors for the child. Said baptismal sponsors frequently were close relatives but also could be close and trusted friends and neighbors. -- David L. Hamiter chicora@logicsouth.com WEB SITE: http://www.logicsouth.com/~chicora/index.shtml ==== ORANGEBURGH_SC Mailing List ==== OKTOBERFEST XIX will be on October 15th and 16th, 1999 at the First Baptist Family Life Center, Orangeburg, South Carolina --------------344758B22326--

I had promised someone I would visit the Little Valley Cemetary to get info. They thought it was in Union Co. but the one I knew about is in Grainger Co. I went there today and got the info on the Gaines graves and took pictures of the church and the cemetary. Please contact me because I lost your e-mail. IMsMickey@aol.com

Here are some of the URL's floating around about the upcoming LDS (and other) rollout. Sent to me by raedavissm@mindspring.com http://lds-online.com/family.htm Sent to me by Mwhit2632@aol.com www.familysearch.org (won't officially launch until mid-April) Have a nice day, Chip Union County TngenWeb

Margie. The Ellis Island web site is fabulous. My husband's grandparents are listed on there -- Joseph and Catherine Tomosieski. We have a gorgeous Ellis Island Certificate because Mike and I and two other cousins had their names included. It is so marvelous!!! Nina MORTON T.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_920516562_boundary Content-ID: <0_920516562@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Could not resist sharing this wonderful news with all my fellow-TN researchers..... I have visited the Ellis Island website and it is very interesting, as is the updated info on the LDS on-line efforts. Margie in FL --part0_920516562_boundary Content-ID: <0_920516562@inet_out.mail.anu.edu.au.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <INDECATU-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yd01.mx.aol.com (rly-yd01.mail.aol.com [172.18.150.1]) by air-yd01.mail.aol.com (v56.26) with SMTP; Wed, 03 Mar 1999 20:29:32 -0500 Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by rly-yd01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id UAA04345; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 20:29:27 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21919; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:23:04 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:23:04 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: a101170@anugpo.anu.edu.au Message-Id: <l03130301b3039d3dc389@[130.56.16.44]> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:29:39 +1000 Old-To: indecatu-l@rootsweb.com From: John Ballard <john.ballard@anu.edu.au> Subject: more re LDS online Resent-Message-ID: <"KokAhD.A.VWF.3Be32"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: INDECATU-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <INDECATU-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/57 X-Loop: INDECATU-L@rootsweb.com To: INDECATU-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Errors-To: INDECATU-L-request@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: INDECATU-L-request@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Genealogy bounty coming to Web Mormons set to bring part of vast collection of records online By Margie Wylie NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE - Much to the delight of genealogists, the Mormons are preparing to make some of their vast holdings of family records available on the World Wide Web for the first time next month, if not sooner. THE NEW WEB SITE (www.familysearch.org) won't officially launch until mid-April, but it is expected to "go live" for testing any day now. Church officials originally planned to leave the site open to all during the test period. But for fear of being swamped, they now may limit access to official testers with assigned passwords. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints collects genealogical records of all kinds because the Mormons believe it is important to perform religious rites on behalf of dead ancestors. It has the world's largest collection of such data. Genealogy is one of the most popular subjects on the Internet. As more information goes online, it seems to create more genealogists. About 100 million Americans have at least dabbled in it, and 19 million actively research their family history, according to a 1995 Maritz Marketing Research study for American Demographics magazine. Rootsweb (www.rootsweb.org) has more than 200,000 subscribers to 3,000 e-mail lists about genealogy. The number of subscribers is growing rapidly, according to John V. Wylie, a professional genealogist from Grand Prairie, Texas. Wylie is a co-founder of GENTECH (www.gentech.org), a non-profit society to help genealogists use technology. Mormon Church officials are vague about what Web surfers can expect to find on their new site, but that hasn't dampened genealogists' enthusiasm. "I think the reaction is probably going to be unanimously, 'Wow! It's about time!"' said Marthe Arends, editor of the newsletter Pioneers Online (www.eskimo.com/~mnarends), based in Bellevue, Wash. The newsletter helps genealogists use the Internet. With 2 billion rolls of microfilm, 700,000 microfiches and 280,000 books, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (www.lds.org) is the ultimate source for many genealogists. Anyone can use the materials at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City free of charge. They may also borrow materials for a small handling fee at any one of the library's 3,200 branches. A tiny, but important portion of that is available by computer. In 1978, the church began computerizing some of its records in a program dubbed FamilySearch. The program is currently only offered at libraries and branch libraries. The church won't sell FamilySearch to individuals because it can't afford to offer everyone support for DOS, the older operating system the program requires. That makes it the perfect candidate for putting on the Web. One of the first FamilySearch databases expected to be offered on line is Ancestral File. The simple database lets surfers type in names and find family trees compiled by other researchers, mostly amateurs. "As useful as that can be, the information is only as good as the person who submitted it," said Arends. "I'd personaly like to see more primary sources being put online." The International Genealogical Index, also part of FamilySearch, lets researchers search millions of marriage, death and birth records taken from records in the United States and abroad. The church won't say if the index will be offered on the Web site. Even with thousands of church volunteers typing the information from original records into computers, "We can digitize only a tiny fraction of what we capture each year," said David Rencher, manager of public outreach for the Family History Department of the Mormon Church. Still, the output is impressive. Over the past year, the church not only updated FamilySearch, but also released five sets of CD-ROMs reaching back 450 years and ranging from Australian Vital Records to the 1851 British Census. In 1999, it will release the full 1880 U.S. Census and the 1881 British Census, both on CD-ROM. Church volunteers are also working on a 17 million-person database of Ellis Island immigrants that will be released on CD-ROM by the church, posted online by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (www.ellisisland.org) and made available at the new American Family Immigrant History Center due to open late next year on Ellis Island. "There's no doubt the interest in genealogy is very high out there," said Peg Zitko, director of public affairs for the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. "Our Web site has gotten 67 million hits in 14 months, and we get hundreds of e-mails every week. Ninety percent of them are looking for genealogy records." "Certainly computerization and the Net have made it easier to do genealogy," said Rencher. "You get on a browser and there's a link to a genealogy site and you just go with it and before you know it, you're up all night searching." Raymond Stallcup knows just what Rencher means. More at home driving the West Texas desert in his pickup truck than sitting in a library, this "old oil hand" from Monahans, Texas, figures he has logged hundreds of hours researching his family name on the Internet over the last year. "I don't know that I would have done any of it if I'd had to look it up in the library," he said. Still, the Net has its drawbacks. "The bad information gets around as fast as the good," Stallcup said. "Everything you look at ain't necessarily true." The pros couldn't agree more. Many bemoan the messes created by sloppy family trees and bad research posted and reposted on the Web. But some figure that the only antidote to all the bad information floating out there is good information, and lots of it. "As important sources become easier to find and easier to access, we see better work by more people," said Wylie. "That is the payoff for opening the (Mormon) databases to the Internet." John Ballard, Decatur Co IN genweb co-ordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~indecatu/indecatu.html --part0_920516562_boundary--

The East Tennessee Historical Society presents an African American Genealogy Workshop on March 13, 1999. (9:30 am- 4 p.m.). ---------- Getting started in and overcoming the obstacles of African American genealogical research will be the focus of an all-day workshop, Saturday, March 13, at the East Tennessee Historical Society (600 Market Street, Knoxville, TN). The program is *free* and open to the public. Seating is limited, so pre-registration is required. Call ETHS at 423-544-5732 to reserve space in this workshop. The workshop will be presented by nationally-known lecturer Tony Burroughs, a genealogy instructor at Chicago State University. He is a former president of the Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago, Inc., and past curator of the African American Genealogical Collection at the Avalon Branch of the Chicago Public Library. Mr. Burroughs was recently featured in the PBS series _Ancestors_ for his expertise in the field of African American genealogy. ---------- Sessions include a tour of the McClung Historical Collection-- a department of the Knox County Public Library System and the region's largest genealogical research library, plus: "Black Roots: Tracing the Family Tree" -- a fun, inspirational talk for beginners and people with no knowledge of genealogy research. It contains humorous stories of research and how an important 100 year-old riddle was solved, mending bad family feelings. "Black Biographies, Autobiographies, and Family Histories" -- A growth in the number of African Americans researching family history, coupled with a growth in technology, has led to a new awareness and availability of older works. Learn tips for a more thorough search of published works. "Locating Obituaries for African Americans" -- Obituaries paint pictures of ancestors' lives, often provide the names of other relatives, and are fun to research. A five point strategy will make the task of finding an obituary for an African American much easier. "Creating Order out of Chaos: Putting It All Together" -- Have you searched in every courthouse, every library, and every archives and still haven't solved your riddle? Sometimes the pieces are there, we just need to look at them in different ways. To register for the workshop, contact the East Tennessee Historical Society at 423.544.5732 or by e-mail at ancestors@east-tennessee-history.org When registering, be sure to include a name, mailing address and phone number for each participant. The workshop is presented by the East Tennessee Historical Society and co-sponsored by Beck Cultural Exchange Center and Appalachian African American Arts. Additional sponsorship and support are provided by Kimberly-Clark, Inc., and WBIR-TV. -----------------------

I thought some of you might be interested in this. http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html Go to the above URL and search for Tennessee and see what you get. Very interesting stuff. Chip Union County TnGenWeb

We've added some more odds and ends to the webpage. Some cemetery stuff and best of all more pictures. We did some more pictures of cemeteries. We hope to include a picture with each cemetery we do from now on. As well we will be taking pictures of cemeteries on the page right now. So to see the new pictures go to the picture server on the main page and look around. Chip Union County TnGenWeb

Martin Luther Miller was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1758. He died in what is now Claiborne County, TN in 1838. He was a revolutionary war, and war of 1812 soldier. He has literally thousands of decendents. He was also my 3rd Great Grandfather. If you are one of Martin's decendents, or are researching this tree for someone else, please visit the Martin Luther Miller Website at http://finfan.columbia.total-web.net/mmiller. Thanks! Tim

Hi Margie. Did Alexander HAMILTON, Sr. have a sister named Nancy? Nancy HAMILTON married John WARWICK and had Delia, William, Nancy Elizabeth, Willia, Mercy and John, Jr. I do not have Nancy's parents name. Delia was born in 1777. Thanks so much. Nina MORTON T.

Info on this woman could be in Grainger, Claiborne, or Union Co. Hence, the message is sent to all three counties. Sorry if you subscribe to all and must see it three times! Looking for info on RACHEL ARRESTA HAMILTON dau William Alexander (b 1819) and Malinda (b 1821) LAY HAMILTON who married a JOHN SEYMOUR (parents unknown). Wm Alexander HAMILTON was son of William and Susanah WILLIS HAMILTON --- Malinda LAY was dau of John and Nancy COOK LAY. Especially trying to i.d. parents of this JOHN SEYMOUR/SEYMORE. THANKS for any info at all..... Margie in FL

Looking for details on eldest son of Larkin and Sally BRUCE SEYMOUR -- specifically, their son James SEYMORE , born 1787, married to Margaret HAMILTON (b. 1800, dau of Alexander (SR) and Susannah Adamson HAMILTON), with children born to James and Margaret: Coleman, Suzanna, Margaret, Louisa/Levicy, John H./James H., Rachel M., George, Anna, Robert William Alexander, and Henderson L. Seymore/Seymour. Place of this SEYMORE/HAMILTON marriage is unknown - could be either Grainger or Claiborne County (Unoin was not yet formed but the HAMILTON family also lived there later) and somewhere between 1818-1823. ANY info at all welcome. THANKS....... Margie in FL

Can someone with the marriage books/index verify the date of this marriage which occurred in either Grainger or Claiborne Co (Union was not formed yet)? In the 1850 census (Adair Co, MO), Nancy is listed as 43 years age and William as 46, both born in TN as was their 24 year old son. The subsequent children were all born in MO. If you know the parents of this couple, that information would be gratefully accepted. THANKS. Because many of my other LAY relatives lived in Grainger, Claiborne, and Union Counties, I am sending this request to all three counties. Margie in FL

If anyone has a Clayton GODDARD in their family tree, would you please send me an email (kat3946429@aol.com). I'm working on someone else's tree and I could use a nice starting point. I think they were from the TN area and originally from WV (although not positive about WV). Thanks so very much. Nina MORTON T.

Neeed information of the BROWN family. James BROWN mar Martha CHAPPELL. Both were born in Knox/Union County, TN, Only child I can prove is Josiah Washington BROWN, B. 14 Spe 1821 in Knox Xo., Mar to Martha WEAR in 1841 and to Nancy COFFEE in 1862. Moved to McMinn County, where he had large land holdings. Died there in 1870. Thanks and Good HUnting. Earlene