In a message dated 6/9/2002 1:37:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, SolveigMB@aol.com writes: > > Ok, I got curious and searched Mulberry Gap District, Hancock Co TN > 1860 census for occupations other than farming and housekeeping to get an > idea of what was going on in the area at the time. This is what I found: > Spinning ... 5 persons > Weaving ..... 3 persons > Carpenter/cabinet work . 5 persons > Tanning........ 1 person > Miller .... 1 person > Surveyor ... 1 person > School mistress ...1 person > B.P. Clergyman ... 1 person (Primitive Baptist???) > Tailoring ... 1 person > Merchant ... 1 person (Jackson Quillen age 34) > and very close to him "my" Andrew MARTIN .."grocery" > Now we know the people that were there and the jobs they had, and how long there was a post office. This has been very intresting. People that had ancestors from there this would look good in your genealogy. Sometime spicing up the family line with a few notes that are facts makes it more pleasurable to read. Shirley