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The Tennessee Magazine Ansearchin'News, VOI.~~,NO.~Winter 1999 THE TENNESSEE MAGAZINE THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 9114 Davies Planrarion Road on rhe hisroric Davies Plantarion Maling Address: P. 0. Box 247, Brunswick, TiV 38014-0247 Telephone: (901) 381 -1447 TGS OFFICERS & BOARD MEMBERS President JAMES E. BOB0 Editor DOROTHY M. ROBERSON TGS Officers Elected For 2000-200 1 Acting Librarian LORETTA BAILEY Elected at the October 1999 meeting of the Tennessee Treasurer FRANK PAESSLER Genealogical Society were the following officers: James Business Manager JOHN WOODS E. Bobo, president; Bob Dunagan, vice president; John Recording Secretary JO B. SMITH, Woods, business manager; Dorothy Roberson, editor; Corresponding Secretary SUE McDERMOTT Loretta Bailey, librarian; Frank Paessler, treasurer; Ruth Membership Chairman SANDRA AUSTIN Director of Sales DOUG GORDON Reed, recording secretary; Betty Hughes, corresponding Director of Certificates JANE PAESSLER secretary; Doug Gordon, director of sales; Jane Paessler, Director at Large IMARY ANN BELL director of ancestry certificate program; Sandra Austin, Diector at Large BETTU HUGHES director at large. All were elected to two-year terms to Diector of Surname Index JEAN CRAWFORlD begin 1st Jan 2000. Director of Surname Index M VAN EYNDE EDITORIAL STAFF: Charles and Jane Paessler, Estelle McDaniel, Betty Hughes, Carol Mittag, Mary Ann Bell, Angela Groenhout, Jean Alexander West Contributions of all types of Tennessee-related gen- Michael Ann Bogle, Kay Dawson, Win- ealogical materials, including previously unpublished family nie Calloway, Ann Fain, Jean Fitts, Willie Mae Gary, Bibles, diaries, journals, letters, old maps, church minutes or Jean Gillespie, Barbara Hookings, Joan Hoyt, Thurman histories, cemetery information, and other documents and Jackson, Ruth 0' Donnell, Ruth Reed, Betty Ross, Jean articles are welcome. Contributors are requested to send Tatum, Jean West, Marlene Wilkinson, Charles Yates, and photocopies of printed materials or duplicates of photos Saturday volunteers from the Chief Piomingo, Watauga, since they cannot be returned. Manuscripts are subject Hermitage, River City, and Fort Assumption DAR chapters. to editing for style and space requirements, and the con- tributor's name and address will be noted in the publish- Coz~erillustration of TGS Research Center- Estelle McDaniel ed article. Please include footnotes in the article submitted or list sources. Check magazine for style to be used. Manu- scripts or other editorial contributions should be typed or TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY pub- printed and sent to Editor Dorothy Roberson, 7150 Belsfield lishes The Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, Rd., Memphis, TN 38119-2600. Ansearchin' News, (ISSN 0003-5246) in March, June, September, and December. Yearly dues are $20, and members receive the four issues published in the TGS SURNAME INDEX FILE 12-months period followinp, payment of their dues. Issues missed due to late payment can be bought Members can obtain information from this file by writing separately, if available, for $7.50 each, including postage. TGS. Give your ancestor's full name, at least one date and Members are entitled to one free query each year and one location, may place additional queries for $3 each. (Non-members envelope. If the information is available, you will receive two pay $5 each.) photocopy pages of up to 10 surname cards of your ances- tors, including the name of the person[s] submitting the information. Any other data, if available, will be supplied at 50 cents per page (five cards to a page). Please limit requests to one a month, and to one family name per request. If you haven't sent us your own surname data, please do. Type or ANSEARCHIW NEWS,USPS #477-490 is pubhhed quarterly by and for THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCmTY, INC., print on 3x5"index cards your ancestor's name; dates and 9114 Davies Plantation Rd., Brunswick, TN, anon - profit places of birth, death, and marriage; and names of parents and organization. Periodicals postage paid at Brunswick, TN 38011 spouse(s). In the bottom lefthand corner, put your and additional mailing ofEces. name,address, and the date submitted. POSTMASTER: Please do not destroy. Return postage guaranteed. Send address corrections to: BOOKS DONATED TO TGS LIBRARY FOR REVIEW ANSEARCHIP NEWS should be mailed to Mrs. Loretta Bailey, Librarian, Tennessee P.O. Box 247, Brunswick TN 38014-0247 Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 247, Brunswick, TN 38014.. Editorial Viewpoint by Dorothy Marr Roberson The Name Is Jones ... VGTeddings Reported in Tennessee Newspapers The Side-Saddle Cavalry of East Tennessee Southern Claims Commission Sends First Report To State hlfouse Unclaimed Mail in Fayertteville in 1814 King Family Holds Reunion in 1890 Edward and Lucy Nunnelee by Kay Parrish Hudson Tennessee Comings & Goings Rebecca Erwin (McLemore) Welborn by Frankie ('TKelbom) Lindsey Rebecca's Journal, 1864 (Frst Iristallment) Some 1867 SheriWs Land Sales in Davidson County Deaths Across Tennessee Letters to the Editor Jefferson County Court Mnutes, 1838 (Thirdlnstallment) Eli Henry Demonstrated Some East Tennessee Ingenuity Fayette Co., Tenn., Wrriages [Nov 24,1881 - Dec 31,18811 Some Polk County Tombstone Inscriptions Shelby Co., Tenn., Survey Book B by Jean Alexander Vest (Final installment) '79 Yellow Fever Scourge Adds 30 New Residents to Memphis Orphanage War of 1812 Pensioners Noted in Maury, Williamson Counties Gleanings from Here 'n There (2Me11tiot1sof Tennesseeans in Our Exchanges) Tennesseeans in the 1850 Calilbrnia Census (Seventh Installment - remainder of El Dorado County) Mt. Moriah Cemetery Fund Established in Bedford County Some 1870 Girl Graduates (Montgomery County) More Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Robert 6. Malone Dies As Result of Accident Madison County Unpaid 1837 Taxes Peytons Take Charge of Denmark Academy Puzzle Pieces Queries Genealogical Short Takes This Was Elizabethton, Tennessee ... 1838 University in Clarksville Confers Degrees in 1887 Tennessee Supreme Court Upholds Freer Access to Adoption Records Index of this issue by Frank Paessler I Tennessee Genealogical Society SOX 247 - BRUNZWICK,TN 380144247 - PHONE (901) 381-1447 journal along with an introductory genealogical background THE EDITORIAL VlWmlNT beginning on Page 18. **** BY SKEER COINCEDEN(CIE, while browsing through John Brayton's newest output, Colonial Families of Surry AMONG the many good books contributed to the TGS and Isle of Wight Counties, Va., for a book review in this Library from the collection of the late Virginia Walton issue, I came across some of Rebecca's ancestors and was Brooks is a gem entitled Virginia Word-Book. It was written especially intrigued with Atkins and Sarah (Jones) by B. VV. Green of Richmond and published in 1899. McLemore. If you've been wondering if some of your ancestors came Sarah, the daughter of Edward Jones and Abigail from Virginia, this is the place to look. I picked it up Sugars, was born in Isle of Wight ca. 1733. Under terms of expecting to find a lot of quaint old words and phrases I had her father's will, she was to receive -- among other things -- a never heard of. Instead, it was chockfUl of words and phrases a mare named Swabtail on the day of her marriage or on her I grew up hearing. 18th birthday, whichever came first. [I think I would have We used to tease my mother because she pronounced eloped at a tender age just to become the owner of a mare rinse as rench. Actually, she was reflecting the standard named Swabtail.] Sarah made double-sure she got Swabtail, speech of her Virginia ancestors who spoke Middle English apparently marrying Atkins the same year she became 18. or Mercian. Some other pronunciations Green cited as being The McLemores, who lived in Warren Co., N.C., were Middle English were sut for soot, aufis for office, mauth for just about as adept as the Joneses when it came to naming mouth, cazrJL for coffee, close for clothes, and yee-a for year. their mares. Atkins' will -- written in 1788 -- mentions one All of which leaves me to wonder: how else would you mare named Pleasure .. one by name of Polly Crackup .. and pronounce them? one called Swinge Cat. [That should be an eye-opener to Green went on to say that the language spoken in those of you who thought the term 'swing cat' originated in Virginia (when he wrote his book a century ago) cannot be the 1940s!] called a dialect, but old English that had undergone few **** changes since it was brought from England in 1607. **** KAY PAWSH HUDSON also has provided us with an informative and interesting story about using what the DAR BEGINNING in this issue is a journal written by a young calls "preponderance of evidence" to prove a relationship. It's Gibson County woman over a six-month period during the a procedure that may come in handy for some of you seeking Civil War. Her name was Rebecca Erwin McLemore and at , to establish a kinship not readily apparent. Check it out, the time she began keeping her journal - June, 1864 - she was ' beginning on Page 15. a 32-year old widow with six children (including a stepson). **** She &as married when she was only 14 to William Joseph IN OTHER FEATUIRES, there's one starting on Page 11 Nelson Welborn, Sr., who was fatally wounded at the Battle about a group of young women in Rhea County who went of Shiloh. As indicated in her journal, Rebecca apparently all-out to support their fathers, brothers, and sweethearts was able to get to Corinth, Miss., and be with him shortly during the Civil War ... and in the process were arrested and before he died. Rebecca was a remarkably well-read young sent to Chattanooga on a cattle boat. Another story tells woman given to deep thought, and holding firm to her what happened when I tried to keep up with the Joneses -- religious beliefs through all the tragedies and sorrows that genealogically speaking.
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