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i' f' Ansearchin ' News voi. 49, N& 2 - Summer 2002 j THE TENNESSEE -?+ MAGAZINE THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 9114 Davies Plantation Road on the histon'c Davies Plantation Mailing Address: P. 0.Box 247, Brunswick, ZV 38014-0247 Telephone: (901) 381- 1447 TGS OFFICER? & BOARD MEMBER$ EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS President JAMES E. BOB0 Contributions of all types of Tennessee-related genealogical Vice President BYRON CRAW materials, including previously unpublished family Bibles, Editor DOROTHY M. ROBERSON diaries, journals, letters, old maps, church minutes or Librarian LORETTA BAILEY histories, cemetery information, family histories, and other Treasurer LUCIUS F. WRIGHT, JR documents are welcome. Contributors should send photo- Business Manager JOHN S. WOODS copies of original documents or duplicates of photos since Recording Secretary MARY YARBROUGH they cannot be returned. Manuscripts are subject to editing Corresponding Secretary BETTY HUGHES for style and space requirements, and the contributor's name Director of Sales LORI TRENK and address will be noted in the published article. Please Director of Certificates JANE PARK PAESSLER include footnotes in the article subrpitted and list any Director at Large SANDRA AUSTIN additional sources. Check magazine for style to be used. Director at Large DOUG GORDON Manuscripts or other editorial contributions should be typed or printed and sent to Editor Dorothy Roberson, 7 150 EDITORLAL STAm. Jane Paessler, Carol Mittag, Helen Belsfield Rd., Memphis, TN 381 19, ds&mrob@,bellsouth.net Rowland, Kay Dawson, Estelle McDaniel, Jean Alexander West, Mark Williamson, Jama Richardson TGS SURNAME INDEX FILE LIBFURY STAFF: Howard Bailey, Winnie Calloway, Members can obtain information from this file by writing Harold Crawford, Kathryn Dickinson, Lena Belle Forrester, TGS. Give the full name of the ancestor you are researching, Jean Gillespie, Stewart Herron, Joan Hoyt, Thurman at least one date and one location, and enclose a self- "Buddy" Jackson, Nadine Jenkins, Sharon Kelso, Carol addressed, stamped #lo envelope. If the information is Maynard, Sandi Mattoy Terry Nelson, Sherry Nohsey, Jim available, you will receive two photocopy pages of up to 10 Overman, Ruth Reed, Susan Routon, Deborah Sandridge, surname cards of your ancestors, including the name and Juanita Simpson, Jean Thomas, Pauline Washington, Myra address of the person who submitted the information. Any Grace Wright, Charles Yates, and D. A. R Saturday other data, if available, will be supplied at 50 cents per page volunteers Judy CMn,Debra Nitz, and Angela (five cards to a page). Please limit requests to one a month, Groenhout from the Chief Piomingo Chapter; Lois Tobias and to one family name per request. Type or print on 3x5" and Lenore Gellar, the Chickasaw Bluff Chapter; Mary index cards your ancestor's narhe; birth, death, and marriage Margaret Buck, Fort Assumption Chapter; Ann Mitchell, dates and places; and names of parents and spouse(s). In the River City Chapter; and Sylvia Hams,Watauga Chapter. bottom lefthand corner, put your name,address, and the date 9 submitted. If you have not sent in your own surname data, Cmer illustmtion. of TGS Reseanh Cenier- Estelle McDaniel please do so as soon as possible. '3. TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCJETY EE ANCESTRY CER'I'EUITES publishes The Tennessee Genealogical Mag ne, Ansearchin' News, @SN 0003-5246) in March, June, TGS sponsors this program to recognize and honor the September, and December of each year. Annual dues are settlers who came to Tennessee before 1880. To place your $20, and members receive the four issues published in the ancestors in this roll of honor, request an application &om 12-months period -payment of their dues. Issues Mrs. Jane Paessler, Certificate Program Director, at TGS. missed due to late payment or unnotified changes of Complete and return it with supporting documents or other address can be bought separately, if available, for $7.50 proof of your ancestor's residency. (Family charts or com- each, including postage. Members are entitled to one free puter printouts are not considered sufficient proof.) Each query each year and may place additional queries for $3 application must be accompanied by a $10 fee. Attractive each. won-members pay $5 each.) All queries must be certificates suitable for framing are issued to each person related to Tennessee Queries that include an e-mail whose application meets program qualifications. Certificates address also will be inserted free of charge in TGS' web list the pheancestor's name, when and where he or she page at http:llwww.rootsweb.com/-m settled in Tennessee, and the applicant's name and address. B ANSE4RCHIh" NEWS,USPS M77-490 is publtshed quarterly by and for THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, MC., donated to the TGS Library should be mailed to Librarian 9114 Davies Plantatinn Rd,Blunswiek, TN, anon - profit Loretta Bailey at TGS headquarters. Ifa book review is de- o~~ Periodid postage paid at Bmwick, TN 38014 sired, please indicate and include the cost of the book and and additional mailing offi- where readers can place orders. Memoriarns are welcomed .m ANSEARCHIN NEWS P.O. Box 247, Brunswick TN 38014-0247 azi The Tennessee Genea/o_aica/Ma_aazine,Vol. 49, NO. 2 - Summer 2002 Editorial Viewpoint by Dorothy Marr Roberson If the Walls of the Old Dulaney Home Could Talk(Sullivan Counv} Tennessee Obituaries Crockett County Deeds, 1872-1874 (I~~slallment2) Prominent Memphian Drops Dead After Welcoming President Mexican War Veterans Meet the President Tennessee Marriages Tennessee Comings & Goings Decatur County Vital Statistics (mstallment 2) Some Dickson County Property Subject to Double Taxes in 1814 James Salmon's Citizenship Rights Restored Wayne County Marriages 1890 Bedford County Vital Statistics insf fall men^ 4) George Barnett Emancipated in 1812 Some 1881-1882 Perry County Deaths Chester County Wills, 1898-1904 Qnstallrnenf 2) Old Tombstones in Chester County May Yield Valuable Data Former Tennesseeans in 1850 Marsha 11 Co., Miss., Census (Sorrt/wnr Drvision, concluded Some 1801 Letters Unclaimed in Sumner County James Monroe McKenzie McKenzie's Big Day in the National Spotlight by Marlha McKenzie Carpe~~ter Book Reviews Long-Lost Letters Raise Questions for Nathan Robinson's Descendants Gleanings (Mentions of Tennesseeans in Our Exchanges) War Comes to Tennessee - The Tone of the Times 1874 Tennessee Items Samuel Hampson Boren Four Tennesseeans Die in Virginia Train Wreck Boiler Explodes on Steamboat En Route to Nashville in 1821 Family Bibles Published in TGS Magazine Since 1954 Childress Heirs Ask to Divide Henry County Estate Union County Petition Names Malone Heirs Monroe Heirs Seek to Emancipate Slave Did You Ever Wonder About Those Wolf Scalps? Twelve Good Men and True ... ? Three Allowed to Build Mills in Biount County Washington Family Reunion Set Land for Exchange in 1800 Queries & Surname Searching Some Patents Granted Tennesseeans Some 1858 Hotel Arrivals at Union Hail, Trenton TGS Research Fee Raised Letters to the EditorlDrumheller Obit Reminder Learn How To Use Online Research To Avoid Confusion by LloydBoc~~ck Index of This Issue by Jane Paessler Lost Records: Courthouse Fires & Other Disasters in Tennessee Page 1 - THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE I ANSEARCHlN'NEWS -Summer 2002 of help to her in her efforts to learn what became of her EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT Tennessee ancestors. by Anyone with relatives in that area of Tennessee would benefit £?om reading these letters which are full of interesting Dorothy Marr Roberson information about events there in the 1880's.... from flood waters to economic hardships. Many names appear, and in THE GHOST of President Grover Cleveland snuck up on one letter in particular, Sarah updates her brother about the me in this issue and was I ever surprised An article in an old numerous marriages, births, and deaths that have occurred. Memphis newspaper about his wsit to the city in 1887 caught Sarah emerges as a person with a good sense of humor ... as my eye and I thought it might provide some good information do her father and brother. During the hard scrabble days of for folks whose ancestors were involved the 18801s,James indicates to his son that he maintains his The story got even bigger when further research re- trust in the Lord: vealed that the occasion was marked by the sudden death of "i%e sun to me is dark for a living b~rtwe will trust to a prominent resident, Judge Henry Ellett, shortly after he God above for he@ as he is the only soorce that I hzaw to gave the official welcoming address to the President in Court look to, and when na look to him arife, we ought not to say it Square is dark. '" The story begins on Page 37. In this case, one thing really did lead to another *** strictly by accident Some weeks later, I was in conversation with Martha WITH THIS ISSUE we also begin a new series, McKenzie Carpenter about a story on her great - "Tennesseeans Turned Texans." The first one focuses on grandfather, James Monroe McKenzie, for whom the town Samuel Hampson Boren who left Bedford County for Texas of McKenzie was named In checking through some infor- in 1858 .... and soon made his mark in Nacogdoches and later mation about the area, I noticed reference to a hotel that had Tyler. I happened to come upon an old book at Memphis' been built there in the 1800s by a Monroe McKenzie. When new Central Library that was printed in 1900 about the I asked Martha if that Monroe was her great - grandfather, history of Tyler and some of its early settlers. A surprising she affirmed that it was and casually mentioned that number of them came from Tennessee ... and that was all I President Cleveland had made an appearance there while needed to be catapulted into the research mode. Others will follow ... and if you had a Tennessee relative "gone to campaigning for reelection As it turned out, that had been his n next stop after leaving Memphis It developed that his de- Texas -- didn't we all? -- please send us the particulars and we'll be happy to add his or her biography to our series.
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