An Allen had a early grocery store in Lebanon. Any connection? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Myron E. Williams" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [TNWILSON] BELL, EDWARDS, O'NEAL, BASS, MIDGETT Watertown, TN - Williamson County, IL > Your post about Watertown residents being from North Carolina raised my > interest. My ancestor Lewis Allen was in Wilson County by 1809 and > bought land on Pirtle's Creek in 1814. In the 1800 census he was in > Buncombe County, NC; in 1790 he was in Duplin County, NC. In 1816 he > sold the land and settled in Orange County, IN. Can you offer any other > links to NC? > > Myron E. Williams > Crossville, TN > > > Debbie & Jim McArdle wrote: > > >Gary: > > > >Your BELL family was closely associated with my EDWARDS, BASS, MIDGETT and O'NEAL families. They also lived in the Saulsbury/Commerce/Watertown area along Round Lick Creek. James M. BELL married in 1838 Elizabeth O'NEAL JENKINS (b~1818), sister to my ancestor Nancy O'NEAL EDWARDS. I have never searched for the names of his parents since he is not my direct line. Some of the younger O'NEAL, EDWARDS and BASS families of this area moved to the Muhlenberg County, KY area in the 1830s and 1840s. Before 1850, some of the EDWARDS and O'NEAL families that started in Wilson County, TN were established in Williamson County, IL. I know some of the BELL family were there in the Poordo/Attila/Corinth area and I have seen some of their markers in the Pleasant Grove United Methodist Cemetery, Attila, IL. I would suggest you correspond with other Williamson County, IL BELL researchers through the Rootsweb Mail List. I have copied them in this e-mail. > > > >Hope this has been of some help. I have never found much early information in Tennessee on the folks living in the Watertown area. All I can tell you is that most of them seem to have come from North Carolina. > > > >Debbie Ward McArdle > >(Researching John EDWARDS, Theophilus BASS, John O'NEAL and Dorcas MIDGETT > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:31 AM > > Subject: [TNWILSON] Watertown, Tn > > > > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > > > Surnames: Bell > > Classification: Query > > > > Message Board URL: > > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1353 > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > Does anyone know early information of the Watertown area? My Bell family lived just North on Bell Road. Was there any early newspaper covering this area? My family lived there from 1810 to 1895. Thanks Gary > > > > > > ==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== > > You can find the directions to unsubscribe from the TNWILSON list > > at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html > > > > > > > > > > > >==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== > >You can find the directions to unsubscribe from the TNWILSON list > >at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html > > > > > > > > > ==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== > Please remember: don't post virus alerts, spam, and chain letters to this list. Thanks! :) >

-- Colleen Campbell Taylor Currently researching the following surnames: CAMPBELL, DAVIS, GATLIN, MORTON, CASHION, MANN, LOEWE, YAHNKE/JAHNKE, MOELLER, HARDING, FARRAR, STEWART/STUART, GRAY, BLACKMAN, KING, PITCOCK, MOSS, etc., etc., etc.! > Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:13:22 -0600 > From: "Sara Binkley Tarpley" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Family Tree article > > I receive any Rootsweb mailing list message that contains the surname > Binkley [through Rootsweb's Personalized Mailing List service]. I was > unhappy to see the mention of the Nashville Zoo as the location of a family > cemetery because the context of the article totally distorted the > situation. As a result, I alerted the Nashville Zoo to the Post article. > Below is the e-mail that the zoo's marketing and public relations director > sent to the paper. > > As I am not a subscriber to the list you posted to, I would very much > appreciate your sharing this with the list. I have permission from Mr. > Bartoo. > > Sara Binkley Tarpley > Nashville, TN > www.binkleytarpley.com > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jim Bartoo <[email protected]> > Date: Mar 29, 2006 9:13 AM > Subject: Please check your facts > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], Tori Mason <[email protected]>, Rick > Schwartz <[email protected]> > > > Dear Washing Post Editors. > > I must respond in protest to your March 26 article ("More Family Cemeteries > Dying Away in the South"). Though I agree that many small family cemeteries > are being overrun by development, I don't believe it is fair to include the > Grassmere Historic Home cemetery as part of your "example". (i.e. "There are > other examples.... There's a family cemetery on the grounds of the city > zoo.") > > Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is proud to include the property's history as > part of our guests' experience. We have has painstakingly restored no only > the family cemetery, but also the home (built in 1810), the family garden > and several other structures on the property. All of this in an effort to > allow our guests to see what a family farm looked like in the 1800's. We > include a plaque at the cemetery site that includes information about the > family that lived here and identifies many of the grave markers. > > Your assumption that a cemetery resting in a "city zoo" must mean rampant > development is simply uncalled for. > > Sincerely, > Jim Bartoo > Marketing and Public Relations Director > Nashville Zoo > 3777 Nolensville Road > Nashville, TN 37211 > (615) 833-1534 ext. 126 > www.nashvillezoo.org > [email protected]

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/UiB.2ACI/1353.1 Message Board Post: Contact Edsel Floyd. You'll find his name listed in the book. Nice guy and if anyone knows any history in Watertown, it is Edsel. He's probably in his early 70's and used to be the Post Master there. He's your guy I promise!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Knight Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1352.2 Message Board Post: I too am upset about the cemeteries in Lebanon. I have family buried there in the Cedars of Lebanon Park and I drove 10 hours to take pictures and no one knew where they are.The only person that they said knows was a park ranger named Buddy Ingrams and he was off duty for the week. Louise Kirby (Knight)is 96 years old in a nursing home there and all of her family is buried there but she couldn't find them either. She said the last time she went it was overgrown and she is too old to do anything about it but it really upsets her. If we could get them to make it part of the park and have them allow upkeep on them by someone but to let them become overgrown is a shame.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Knight Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1352.1 Message Board Post: I too am upset about the cemeteries in Lebanon. I have family buried there in the Cedars of Lebanon Park and I drove 10 hours to take pictures and no one knew where they are.The only person that they said knows was a park ranger named Buddy Ingrams and he was off duty for the week. Louise Kirby (Knight)is 96 years old in a nursing home there and all of her family is buried there but she couldn't find them either. She said the last time she went it was overgrown and she is too old to do anything about it but it really upsets her. If we could get them to make it part of the park and have them allow upkeep on them by someone but to let them become overgrown is a shame.

There was one cemetery in this article that I felt was unfairly mentioned. That was the cemetery on the grounds of the Nashville Zoo. The Zoo is located on the Croft estate; the Croft sisters willed their property, Grassmere, to Nashville. The zoo has preserved the Croft family home, built in 1810; and I am sure that the family cemetery has been treated with respect. The article provoked visions of a cemetery inside the animal exhibit area, which is not the case as far as I know. Sara Binkley Tarpley Nashville, TN On 28 Mar 2006 07:06:41 -0700, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Cemetery > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1352 > > Message Board Post: > > In the 03/27/06 Washington Post newspaper, www.washingtonpost.com there is > a half page story datelined Lebanon with pictures, and details the loss of > family cemeteries in the south. > > This is an interesting, but disturbing, story. It seems that our family > cemeteries are not as safe as we may have thought, and that anyone holding > the deed to the property the cemetery is located on can move these family > plots without any other approvals necessary. > > You have to register, but it is free to do so. > > > > > ==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== > You can find the directions to unsubscribe from the TNWILSON list > at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html > >

Your post about Watertown residents being from North Carolina raised my interest. My ancestor Lewis Allen was in Wilson County by 1809 and bought land on Pirtle's Creek in 1814. In the 1800 census he was in Buncombe County, NC; in 1790 he was in Duplin County, NC. In 1816 he sold the land and settled in Orange County, IN. Can you offer any other links to NC? Myron E. Williams Crossville, TN Debbie & Jim McArdle wrote: >Gary: > >Your BELL family was closely associated with my EDWARDS, BASS, MIDGETT and O'NEAL families. They also lived in the Saulsbury/Commerce/Watertown area along Round Lick Creek. James M. BELL married in 1838 Elizabeth O'NEAL JENKINS (b~1818), sister to my ancestor Nancy O'NEAL EDWARDS. I have never searched for the names of his parents since he is not my direct line. Some of the younger O'NEAL, EDWARDS and BASS families of this area moved to the Muhlenberg County, KY area in the 1830s and 1840s. Before 1850, some of the EDWARDS and O'NEAL families that started in Wilson County, TN were established in Williamson County, IL. I know some of the BELL family were there in the Poordo/Attila/Corinth area and I have seen some of their markers in the Pleasant Grove United Methodist Cemetery, Attila, IL. I would suggest you correspond with other Williamson County, IL BELL researchers through the Rootsweb Mail List. I have copied them in this e-mail. > >Hope this has been of some help. I have never found much early information in Tennessee on the folks living in the Watertown area. All I can tell you is that most of them seem to have come from North Carolina. > >Debbie Ward McArdle >(Researching John EDWARDS, Theophilus BASS, John O'NEAL and Dorcas MIDGETT > >----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:31 AM > Subject: [TNWILSON] Watertown, Tn > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Bell > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1353 > > Message Board Post: > > Does anyone know early information of the Watertown area? My Bell family lived just North on Bell Road. Was there any early newspaper covering this area? My family lived there from 1810 to 1895. Thanks Gary > > > ==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== > You can find the directions to unsubscribe from the TNWILSON list > at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html > > > > > >==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== >You can find the directions to unsubscribe from the TNWILSON list >at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html > > >

Yes, That is what TN law states. But the graves are supposed to be moved at the land owner's expense. The descendants can choose the plots if they want. Don't know who has to buy the plots though. Teresa Ghee Elliott-IBSSG TMG sentences http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG%20census%20t emplates/TMG.html -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [TNWILSON] Wilson County Cemeteries This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1352 Message Board Post: In the 03/27/06 Washington Post newspaper, www.washingtonpost.com there is a half page story datelined Lebanon with pictures, and details the loss of family cemeteries in the south. This is an interesting, but disturbing, story. It seems that our family cemeteries are not as safe as we may have thought, and that anyone holding the deed to the property the cemetery is located on can move these family plots without any other approvals necessary. You have to register, but it is free to do so. ==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== You can find the directions to unsubscribe from the TNWILSON list at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html

Gary: Your BELL family was closely associated with my EDWARDS, BASS, MIDGETT and O'NEAL families. They also lived in the Saulsbury/Commerce/Watertown area along Round Lick Creek. James M. BELL married in 1838 Elizabeth O'NEAL JENKINS (b~1818), sister to my ancestor Nancy O'NEAL EDWARDS. I have never searched for the names of his parents since he is not my direct line. Some of the younger O'NEAL, EDWARDS and BASS families of this area moved to the Muhlenberg County, KY area in the 1830s and 1840s. Before 1850, some of the EDWARDS and O'NEAL families that started in Wilson County, TN were established in Williamson County, IL. I know some of the BELL family were there in the Poordo/Attila/Corinth area and I have seen some of their markers in the Pleasant Grove United Methodist Cemetery, Attila, IL. I would suggest you correspond with other Williamson County, IL BELL researchers through the Rootsweb Mail List. I have copied them in this e-mail. Hope this has been of some help. I have never found much early information in Tennessee on the folks living in the Watertown area. All I can tell you is that most of them seem to have come from North Carolina. Debbie Ward McArdle (Researching John EDWARDS, Theophilus BASS, John O'NEAL and Dorcas MIDGETT ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:31 AM Subject: [TNWILSON] Watertown, Tn This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1353 Message Board Post: Does anyone know early information of the Watertown area? My Bell family lived just North on Bell Road. Was there any early newspaper covering this area? My family lived there from 1810 to 1895. Thanks Gary ==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== You can find the directions to unsubscribe from the TNWILSON list at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html

What's the name of the article? I have a Coats private cemetery in MO, the Nuclear Power plant bought my ggggg grandfather's farm and all the surounding land...but I must say, they didn't disturb the little family cemetery and even allow us to visit it to take photos etc...they sorta keep the grounds but don't distrube the little cemetery under the mulberry bush... It is indeed interesting to see photos of the cemetery with Nuclear power plant behind it...wonder what grandpa would say if he could see it....:) Char On 3/28/06, Teresa Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, > That is what TN law states. But the graves are supposed to be moved at the > land owner's expense. The descendants can choose the plots if they want. > Don't know who has to buy the plots though. > > Teresa Ghee Elliott-IBSSG > TMG sentences > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG%20census%20t > emplates/TMG.html > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TNWILSON] Wilson County Cemeteries > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Cemetery > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1352 > > Message Board Post: > > In the 03/27/06 Washington Post newspaper, www.washingtonpost.com there is a > half page story datelined Lebanon with pictures, and details the loss of > family cemeteries in the south. > > This is an interesting, but disturbing, story. It seems that our family > cemeteries are not as safe as we may have thought, and that anyone holding > the deed to the property the cemetery is located on can move these family > plots without any other approvals necessary. > > You have to register, but it is free to do so. > > > > > ==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== > You can find the directions to unsubscribe from the TNWILSON list > at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html > > > > > ==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== > You can find the directions to unsubscribe from the TNWILSON list > at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html > > -- Always Remember: Without documentation, genealogy is mythology! Coats Archive http://www.coatsarchive.us

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1353 Message Board Post: Does anyone know early information of the Watertown area? My Bell family lived just North on Bell Road. Was there any early newspaper covering this area? My family lived there from 1810 to 1895. Thanks Gary

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bell, dillards Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1040.1 Message Board Post: I have a George Bell that died in 1818 in Tn. His children were born in the 1790's. I only have the names of 4 sons. He could have had a daughter Rebecca, which might have made her children, Georg's heirs. Do you have any other information? Gary

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UiB.2ACI/1352 Message Board Post: In the 03/27/06 Washington Post newspaper, www.washingtonpost.com there is a half page story datelined Lebanon with pictures, and details the loss of family cemeteries in the south. This is an interesting, but disturbing, story. It seems that our family cemeteries are not as safe as we may have thought, and that anyone holding the deed to the property the cemetery is located on can move these family plots without any other approvals necessary. You have to register, but it is free to do so.

The lister is looking for information about the subject couple. I am throwing in my two cents worth as to how the researcher MAY try to solve the problem (no guarantees in genealogy). I was attempting to track down information concerning the author of a letter to my great-grandfather, who died in Texas in 1881. The letter-writer, who lived in Kansas City, MO after the Civil War, had written a detailed letter about his wife's death and funeral, but I did not know his last name!!!!. If only I knew the name of that cousin--he signed *Cousin Robert* but gave Kansas City, Missouri and a date. Somewhat later, I learned that the Missouri Historical Society had a vast collection of Missouri newspapers, some of which were filmed, and many which were too fragile to film. I wrote to the Historical Society and asked whether they could furnish me with the names of several resarchers who used their facility for research--enclosing a SASE for a reply, as we all did prior to the advent of the internet for civilians. A list of three persons was furnished. I chose the top one--a lady who later won an award for her genealogical abilities--and she was able to find an obscure newspaper from Kansas City [a legal newspaper] for the date I was seeking. She found an obituary of the young wife of the cousin because the cousin was an attorney. The obituary gave the full name of the widower, his wife's maiden name, information about their former residence--Logan Co., IL, etc. The researcher got so excited that she followed up by viewing the appropriate censuses, making my job of jumping back to Illinois and then Kentucky even easier. The two men were maternal cousins. Then a county history of Sangamon Co., IL and a biography of the cousin's brother told even more about the cousin's parents, including some genealogy of their mother's family. Wonderful! And this information clicked with other old letters we had in the extended family. We all take chances (with hope in our genealogists' hearts). If you have an ancestor--or a collateral--who lived in Missouri, you might seek the current repository which holds the Missouri newspapers, and you may discover tidbits about your ancestor--or his associates. Even if that ancestor came from Tennessee or elsewhere but went to that great attraction called Missouri, take a chance. I have found that some OLD county histories have nuggets of information--a tidbit here and a tidbit there. If the information is being given by a grandchild, however, be VERY wary. Try to prove or disprove that information. There may be one bit of truth and a lot of distortion, as I found in a good county history of a Kentucky county--but the biographies were distorted. Many of these county histories have been filmed by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and the older the better. Also, DAR Library in Washington DC has many county histories. And do not overlook genealogical periodicals for the counties in which you search. I have found some wonderful indexes--marriages, probates, land entries, etc. in some of those journals. Unfortunately, some of the county periodicals have deteriorated as the years have gone by. PERSI which is on the online genealogical database called HeritageQuest [subscribed to by many public libraries, is an index [not the images] of some of these county genealogical periodicals. We all have to be detectives. That is why dates and places are SO IMPORTANT. When online queries do not include DATES, I delete them. I don't have time to play that kind of game. E.W.Wallace

If I were a drinking woman I would say I was drunk when I submitted Wilson Co., for the parents of Charles Warren, born ca. 1783, NC, died 1829, Wilson Co., TN., not 1959, and Lena/Lina, maiden name unknown, born ca 1787 NC, died after the 1860 Christian Co., Finley Twp., Missouri census. Lina left Wilson Co., with other family Warrens, after a daughter died in 1851, Wilson Co., TN. I have searched for years and have not been able to find either set of parents. Any help will be appreciataed and I have a lot of information to share. thank you. Phyllis

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/UiB.2ACI/1351 Message Board Post: I'm looking for the obit on Sam Hopkins who died in August 1980 (don't know the day.) I was adopted in 1942 and found some of my family in 2000.Sam was a uncle and I have'nt been able to find any of his family

From My family bible records I have Sara Jane Haley married H. C. Warren on March 20th 1886. HCW died Jan. 112 1896. SJHW died Oct. 8 1908/ Joseph W. Haley III ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:17 AM Subject: [TNWILSON] CHARLES AND LENA/LINA WARREN Desperately need parents of Charles Warren, born ca.1783 NC, died 1929 in Wilson Co., TN. He settled on Hurricane Creek in 1800, and his wife, Lena/Lina, born ca 1787 NC, died after the 1860 census of Christian Co., MO. Any help will be so appreciated and I have a lot of information to share. Thanks, Phyllis ==== TNWILSON Mailing List ==== You can find the directions to unsubscribe from the TNWILSON list at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html<http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/TN/wilson.html>

Desperately need parents of Charles Warren, born ca.1783 NC, died 1929 in Wilson Co., TN. He settled on Hurricane Creek in 1800, and his wife, Lena/Lina, born ca 1787 NC, died after the 1860 census of Christian Co., MO. Any help will be so appreciated and I have a lot of information to share. Thanks, Phyllis

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WILSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UiB.2ACI/1267.6.1.1 Message Board Post: I believe Isaac was in the K company of the Union Army in a Tennessee Unit. He lived in Wilson Co. TN .

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/UiB.2ACI/1267.6.1 Message Board Post: Do you know which side he fought for? There is an Isaac Wilson who fought for the Union in the 9th and 11th Tenn. Cavalry. I don't see any pension records for either Confederate or Union soldier, Isaac G. Wilson. sorry, Kristi