President JAMES E. BOB0 Vice President BYRON CRAm Editor DOROTEIY M. ROBERSON Contributions of all types of Tennessee-related genealogical Librarian LORETTA BAILEY materials, including previousiy unpublished family Bibles, Treasurer LUCIIJS F. WRIGET, JR diaries, journals, letters, old maps, church minutes or Business Manager JOHN S. WOODS histories, cemetery information, family histories, and other Recording Secretary MARY YARBROUGH doamems are welcome. Codbutors should seod photo- Corresponding Secretary SANDRA COOK copies of original documents or duplicates of photos since Membership Chairman WILLIAM C. WILSON they cannot be. returned. Manusnipts are subject to editing ' Director of Sales LORI TRENK for style and space requirements, and the contributor's name Director of Certificates JANE PARK PAESSLER and address will be noted in the published article. Please include footnotes in the article submitted and list anv Direct~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, 71 50 -: -: Jane and Frank Paessler, Carol Bels6eld Rd., Memphis, TN 381 19, Minag Helen Rowland, Jean Alexander West, Mark Williamson TC'3 SURNAME INDEX EIJJ2 Y STAFE; Howard Bailey, lean Belzer, Harold Members can obtain information from this file by writing Crawford, Kathryn Dickinson, Joanne Eastman, Lena Belie TGS. Give the full name of the ancestor you are researching, Forestq Shirley Gee, Jean Gillespie, Stewart Herron, Joan at least one date and one location, and enclose a self- Hoyt, Thurman "Buddy" Jackson, Sharon Kelso, Terry addressed, stamped #I Oenvelope. Ifthe information is Nelson, Sherry Nohsey, run Overman, Ruth Reed, Deborah available, you will receive two photocopy pages of up to 10 Sandndge, Juanita Sipson, Jean Thomas, Joan Vie, surname cards of your ancestors, including the name and Pauline Washington, Myra Grace Wright, Charles Yates, address of the person who submitted the information. Any and D. A R Saturday volunteers: Judy Cbafhq Debra other data, if available, will be supplied at 50 cents per page Nimitz, and Angela Groenhout from the Chief Piomingo (five cards to a page). Please limit requests to one a month, Chapter. Lois Tobias and Lenore Gellar, the Chickasaw Bluff and to one family name per request. Type or print on 3x5" Chapter; Mary Margaret Buck. Fort Assumption Chapter, index cards your ancestor's name; biideath, and marriage Ann Mitchell, River City Chapter; and Sylvia Harris,Watauga dates and places; and names of parents and spouse(s). In the Chapter. bottom lefthand corner, put your name,addres$ and the date 9- submitted. If you have not sent in your own surname data, Cover illustration of TGS Rsarch Cenier- Estelle McDnnicl please do so as soon as possible. 9 THE TEP publbhs The Tennessee Cenenlogical Magaghe, TGS sponsors this program to recognize and honor the ANeorchin'Nem, (ISSN 0003-5246) in Marcb, Jnne, settlers who came to Tennessee before 1880. To place your September, and Member of each year. Annual dus are ancestors in this roll of honor, request an application from $20, and memben receive the four bsus pubhhed in the Mrs. Jane Paessler, Certificate Program Director, at TGS. 12-months period followine payment of their dues. Luus Complete and return it with supporting documems or other missed due to late payment or uonoH~edchangs of proof of your ancestor's residency. (Family charts or wm- address can be bought sepnntely, if available, for $7.50 puter printouts are not considered su5cient proof.) Each each, including postage Members are entitled to one free application must be accompanied by a $10 fee. Amactive query each year and may place additional queries for $3 certificates suitable for framing are issued to each person each. (Non-members pay SS each.) All queries mrrrl be whose application meets program qualifjcations. Certi6cates relored fo Tennessee list the prime ancestor's name, when and where he or she settled in Tennessee, and the applicant's name and address. AND COMPV ANSURCHI~" NEHS, USPS ~n-iwb pabed qln~m donated to the TGS Library should be mailed to Librarian by lad for TRE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY,INC. Loretta Bdey at TGS headquarters. If a book review is de- 9114 hrin Phution Rd., Bmidt,TN, a mm - pmm orylhhPc.adiclL paw paid U Brmuni&. M 38014 sued, please indicate and include the cost of the book and d additid mdhgoh where readers can place orders. Memoriams are welcomed .m ANSrnRCrn NEWS P.O. Box 247, Brunswick TN 380160247 The Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 50. NO. 1 - Spring 2003 Editorial Viewpoint by Dorotty Marr Roberson 1863 Nashville Calamity: Confederate Soldiers Literally 'Go Through the Floors' Union Citizens of Memphis Prepare for Visit by Grant Tennesseeans on 1867 Voter Registration Lists in Winston Co., Ala. by Dr. BeqS. Drake Andrew Jackson Given Lock of President Washington's Hair Tennessee Obituaries Lydia Russell Bean: Frontier Woman by Carol Y. Mittag Book Reviews Clay County Marriages, Vol. A nrurscribedby Mark Williamson Tennessee Comings & Goings Doubting Thomases Was the Right Thing To Do Isaac Thomas of Maury County Isaac Thomas of Sevier County Unicoi County Marriages, March 1879-December 1880 nrurscribed by JranA. West Tennessee Marriages James M. Green...' An Honest Man' by Ruby Yolee$Pnren Crockett County Deeds, Vol. A fl~rsta/imrrr/j) Former Bedford Countian Elected Vice President of Texas Republic Columbia Suffers Growing Pains in 1817 Southerners Convey Poignant War-Time Messages Gleanings from Here 'n There Dyer County Deaths, 1908-1909 Decatur County Vital Statistics flnsm/lment 3) Joking Between Friends Ends in Bloodshed Queries Surname Searching Was Your Ancestor One of Thse? Status Report on Gold-Prospectors Received in Memphis Wyatt Advises Gold Hunters: Bring Money Capt. Garrett Dies What Became of German Immigrants Stranded On Island 65? Read All About It The Census Index by Jane & Frruzk Paerrler : Paw 1 - THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE I ANSEARCHIN' NEWS Spring 2003 member Carol Minag provided this historical genealog EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT story.) . by These are just a few of the anicles we hope will widen your horizons. Reading the footnotes and bibliographies may lead you , "' Dorothy ' ' ':' , . ,, to some research sources you may have missed. *** MARK THOSE CALENDARS! - TGS sponsor two GREATLY EXPANDED research facilities are being opened genealogical seminars this year - one in the spring one in the this spring at the new W~lliam F. Winter Archives & History fall. ~~thare designed to help you with your research and will Building in Jackson, Mississippi. According to a press release, the feature experts in their respective fields. expmded facilities will have three reading rooms. The largest, ~h~ first 4 focus on researching virginia records and the Public Reading Room will have 20.000 genealogical and be presented Saturday, 29 March, by Robert Young clay, who historical reference books compared with 2,300 formerly and will retired two years ago as senior genealogical reference provide space for 150 researchers in contrast to 40 in the past. for the Library of Virginia. Without a doubt, Clay should lolow The Archival Reading ~oomwill provide access to archival whereof he speaks, H~ spent 30 years as an archi,,jst with the materials, Mississippians, and rare books, and the Media Reading ~ib~~of virgi,,ja, what makes him for us Room will give researchers access to 35,000 rolls of microfilm in T~~~~~~ those with T~~~~~~~ is that addition to microfiche, motion pictures, sound recordings, and he's one of - a native of nixon springs in smith co., T~,,,,., elmonic records. For hrther information, contact Anne L. with degrees from both the Uivenity of T~~~~~ in ~~~xvill~Webster, head reference se~celibrarian, Mississippi and George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville. Department of Archives & History, P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS An mist and a genealogist, Clay now devotes his time to 39205-9571. doing paintings and continuing to research his Wylines which 1.1 reach into Temessee, the Carolinas, Virginia. Maryland, the THE LAMPLEY FAMILY is holding its 1 lth national reunion District of Columbia, and pans of Great Britain For his seminar beginning at 10 a.m. on 21st June at Fai~ewRecreational here, he will provide tips on delving into all types of Virgiia Center on Highway 100 in Fai~ew,Tern., outside Nashville. records - land office, coloni& county, aod state - and deal with Those attending are requested lo bring main and side dishes for research procedures, misconceptions about records, etc. The an indoor potluck luncheon at noon, along with family seminar will be from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at our usual seminar genealogies, photos, news, recipes, and announcements to share. spot, Hillwood (Hill's Bam) at 3570 Devieshire Drive, on the A group photo will be made at 11:30 a.m. An outdoor pool is historic Davies Plantation at B~mwick adjacent to the center, and indoor activities also will be provided The fall seminar will focus on researching in south carolina for children. A cemetery tour is scheduled for late afternoon. For and is slated for 23 ~~~~~t.The wiu be ~~~~t directions or other information, call Camille Men at (615) Holcombe, whose name is familiar to anyone who has ever done 368-2052. any genealogid research in the Palmetto state. Holcombe The family's unique motto goes like this: "We are not just publishes his own quanerly on South Carolina genealogy and has LamPley: we are SuUivan, Hughes, Bunrey, King, Mang~m, done numerous books on the subject. More details will be coming Lanldord, Tidwell, Green, Barnhill, Hudgins, Richardson, on that panicdar seminar but, in the meantime, do put it on your Cunningham, Stinson, Martin, Hall, Garton, Oliphant, calendar and plan to be with us.