This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holloway -Spears and Hail Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UiB.2ACI/1397.2.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: There are no Tippett families There are Spears and Hail p 262 Mrs John Spears Under the heading Northern routes of travel and communication it quotes Mrs John spears " Oakland is located about six miles from Lebanon on the coles Ferry Pike. Mrs. John Spears who attended school there, thinks it was so named for the large oak trees near and on the premises." p 389 says Lt. Charles H Gerhardt was assigned as instructor of a military company at Cumberland University and resided here from about 1891 until called to another post just before the Spanish-American War; he built he residence now owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Spears Sr. at 319 East Spring Street p. 213 Under "The Newspapers " Roydon E. Hardaway died then the next paragraph reads; "After Hardaway's name was taken from the masthead on May 13 1926, it was replaced by that of the general manager, John A. Spears, who for the greater part of the 52 years from 1898, when he first took a job with the newspaper, until December, 1950, when he retired because of illness, was affiliated with The Democrat. NOW FOR HALE There is too much for the Hale family to include it all in typing but I can make pictures of the pages and email them to you. but this one is too good not to type it out. Heading: "Wilson Countians in the war of secession" after a long letter written by T. J. Holloway to his parents the paragraph says this: " And the battle came. At Seven Pines, General Hatton fell. Thomas Holloway and Wiseman Davis are said to have been the soldiers who carried the body of the fallen general from the field. At Gettysburg, the Seventh Tennessee was first into action, and Henry Raison of Company B was the first soldier killed in the great battle. At Gettysburg the Seventy Tennessee carried its Stars and Bars to the fence at the crest of Cemetery Ridge and over the fence. There at the farthest advance of the Confederacy Tom Holloway and Jim Hale lay side by side, a shower of shot, shell and ball passing over them. "Let's surrender,' suggested someone nearby. Brave Tom Holloway lifted his head and said 'Let's never surrender,' and a bullet came crashing into his brain and there he died. Next J.R. Hale Reuben Hale T.L. Hale Will A Hale Will T Hale (many pages on him)