Re Milan Cemetery: the following are listed in Footprints: White,Pernia C. 18Jan1859/16Mar1950 White,Calvin B. 12Aug1861/Sept.1927 White,Charlie Fulton 23Apr1885/8Aug1961 White,Sarah M. Corum 5Apr1894/21July1975 Morom01@aol.com wrote: > I got an e-mail from a friend who is in special need of help. I promised not > to divulge why this is urgent but I am trying to lend a hand. If any of you > can help me help this person let me know. She has done good research and is > not just someone wanting our free help. She has hit a block wall and needs > some help. Anything you can tell us about the families named in the message > below would be great. Just send your e-mails to me and I will pass them along > to this person. > Thanks, > Chip > > Message: > > I have ALL but my grandfather's lines back to mid 1700's, some 1500's and > pretty well documented. Now the situation is this....there appears to have > been some illegitimacy on one of his parents. NO ONE in my family will tell > me anything. I couldn't care less, neither could my adult children whom I am > doing this for. Also, he had quite a bit of Indian blood, Cherokee, not as > much as me. My father was a full blood but mixed tribes. This grandfather is > my Mother's father. I have been to East TN Historical society, I TRIED to > purchase the Union County Books, but the first was out of print. I was told > his family was talked about in there. > > What I know is this: > Calvin Burton White, son of Nancy or Mary White, born 1861 in Union County. > He died ABOUT in the 1930's. He was married in the early 1800's to Pernina > Clementine Lovel, who was born on the Union-Grainger county lines, IN > Grainger county in 1859. Their children included my Grandfather, Charles > Fulton White. I have all his siblings and most descendants. I found Calvin > and Pernina on the 1900 census, I found who I think was Calvin living with a > Nancy White of a good age to be his sister, and with a Mary, who may have > been his mother, in 1870 census. The family rumor is that they were of the > WHITE family out of VA, but I have doubts about that. It MAY be. There was > one who came from NC named Nancy with a son of the appropriate age to be > Calvin. Anyway, what I want to know is... > > Is there any specific info about this family that you know of? Could you > suggest anything? I have been in contact with beaucoup WHITE researchers with > family in that area and they all say they have never heard these names. I > KNOW they were there. > I KNEW them. > They are buried at Milan Chapel. At least Pernina is. After Calvin died, she > lived with her daughter and her husband, Pleasant and Lou Vainey Monday in > Union Co. Now, if I have breached all bounds of propriety, please forgive me, > toss this away, but PLEASE wish me luck. It is galling to me to know so > little about the family of a man I loved so much.I also am unable to tie > Pernina to a specific Lovel in Grainger Co. I do NOT understand why.....I did > so well with the rest. > > ==== 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.