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Ansearchin ' News THE TENNESSEE CEN EALOGICAL SOCIETY 9111 Davies Plantation Road on the historic Davies Plantation Mailing address: P. 0.Box 247, Brunswick,TN 38014-0247 Telephone: (90 1) 38 1- 1447 THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY publishes The Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, "Ansearchin' " Nws, (ISSN 0003-5246) in March, June, September, and December for its members. Annual dues are $20, and members receive the four issues published in the President..................................... Mary Ann Littley Bell 12-month period following payment of their dues. (If your Vice President.............................. Kay Panish Hudson payment is received in April '97, for example, you will receive Treasurer .................................. Sandra Hurley Austin the June, September, and December issues for 1997, and the Business Manager ................................ James E. Bobo March issue for 1998. Issues missed due to late payment of Editor .................................... Dorothy Marr Roberson dues can be purchased separately for $7.50 each, including Librarian .................................. George Nelson Dickey postage.) Membership expiration dates are printed on the Recording Secretary .................................. Jo B. Smith mailing label. Please send any address changes to A~zsearchiiz' Corresponding Secretary......................... Betty Hughes News, P.O. Box 247, Brunswick, TN 38014-0247 two Membership Chairman ............................ Jean A. West months in advance of the normal delivery date to avoid a Director of Sales ................................... Doug Gordon $3.00 fee for redeeming and remailing. In addition to Director of Certificates.................. Jane Park Paessler receiving four issues of the quarterly, TGS members are Directors of Surname Index.. ............... .Jean Crawford entitled to place one free query in the magazine each year and Marilyn Van Eynde may run additional queries for $3 .OO each. Members also have Directors at Large.. .................... Brenda Evans Johnson free access to the TGS surname index file. Lincoln Johnson TENNESSEE ANCESTRY CERTIFICATE EDITORIAL STAFF: Charles Frank Paessler, Jane PROGMM Park Paessler, Estelle McDaniel, Lincoln Johnson TGS sponsors this program to recognize and honor the LIBRARY STAFF: Assistant Librarian Sue McDer- early settlers who helped shape the great state of Tennessee. mott, Bradford Livingston Jarratt, Ruth Hensley Persons wishing to place their ancestors in this roll of honor ODonnell, Jane Park Paessler, Jean Alexander are invited to submit an application with supporting doc- West, Iona Marbry, Loretta Bailey, Marlene Wik- uments or other evidence that proves their prime ancestor inson lived in Tennessee or the area that became Tennessee before 1880. Family charts or computer printouts are not considered GENERAL STAFF: Pat Elder, Howard Bailey sufficient proof. Each application must be accompanied by a $10 fee. Attractive hand-lettered certificates suitable for fram- ing are issued each person whose application meets program EDITORIAL CONTRTBUTIONS qualifications. The certificates carry the name of the prime ancestor, when and where he or she settled in Tennessee, and the name of the applicant(s). For applications and additional Contributions of all types of Tennessee-related gen- information, write Jane Paessler, Director of Certificates, at ealogical materials, including previously unpublished family the TGS address. Bibles, diaries, journals, letters, photographs, old maps, church histories or records, cemetery information, and other TGS SURNAME INDEX documents and articles are welcome. Contributors are re- quested to send photocopies or duplicates since materials TGS members have free access to information in the cannot be returned. Manuscripts are subject to editing for surname file of ancestors. Mail requests to Jean Crawford or style and space requirements, and the contributor's name and Marilyn Van Eynde, directors of the Surname Index, at the address will be noted in the published article. Please list TGS address, indicating the surname and given name of the sources or include footnotes in the article submitted. person you are searching for, and at least one date and one Manuscripts should be typed or printed if possible. location. Include a self-addressed and stamped long enve- lope. If the information is available, you will receive two ANSEARCHIN' hEWS, USPS #477-490 is published quarterly photocopy pages of up to 10 surname cards of your ancestor by and for THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC., or fellow researchers. Any additional information will be 9114 Davies Plantation Rd., Brunswick, TN, a non - profit organization. Periodicals postage paid at Brunswick, TN 38014 supplied at 50 cents per page (five cards to a page). Please ancl additional mailing offices. restrict requests to no more than one per month, and to only one family name per request. POSTMASTER: Please do not destroy. If you haven't submitted your own surname cards yet, Return postage guaranteed. Send address corrections to: please print or type vital data on 3x5" index cards and mail to TGS. Include ancestor's name; date and place of birth, death, "RNSEARCHIN " NEWS P.O. Box 247, Brunswick TN 38014-0247 and marriage; spouse and parents' names; your own name and address, and the date the card was submitted. Ansearchin ' News THE TENNESSEE Genea MAGAZINE: WINTER 1997 VoI. 44, No. 4 What's New in Genealogy Pursue Every Clue by Frances Crazg Waggener Menderson Co., Tenn., Land Conveyed in Texas Coffee County History Glass Restores A Cemetery A Year Adamson, Knight Obituaries Legal Briefs: Not~cespertarnrng to Carroll, Henderson, Obzon, Henly, and Weakley countzes 1849 Land Sales in Decatur, Carroll, and Henderson Counties 1875 Murder of Young Woman Shocks Rutherford County What's In A Name? Maybe More Than You Think by Sam K~bler New Year's Calling: A Charming Chattanooga Custom of the 1890's State Delegates Chosen To Nominate U.S. Vice President for 1836 Open House in Nashville 1810 Mail They Didn't Pick Up in Montgomery County Married ... :NzrptraZs across the state Marcus Winchester & Early Memphis Postal History by Capt. Henry A. Hudson, Jr. Land On Top of Old Smoky Sold for Taxes in 1840 Some Tennessee Confederate Graves in Griffin, Ga., Cemetery 1836-37 Bradley County Trustees Journal: An Account of Persons Fzlzng Clazmsfor Servzces Rendered How Tom Prigmore Acquired A Son-in-Law Two 1819 Deaths: Tunstnll md Gzbson Letters to the Editor Bradley County Wills 1859-1867 Some Obituaries of Civil War Solders from The Athens Post Naturalization Decrees in Shelby County Common Law & Criminal Court 1876-1899 The American Eagle, Fort nickering, Tenn. (1842) Montgomery County Happenings of 1810 Hawkins County Land Sold for 1801 Taxes Memphis School Teachers Appointed for 1857-58 Term More Letters to the Editor Asa Robertson: Hardernan County's First Settler Tipton County Wills 1824-1835 Book Reviews Gleanings A Strange But True Tale Between Censuses Thurman Jackson's Formula for Genealogical Success by Sue McDermott Chattanooga Normal University Opens With 43 Students Queries Index for This Issue by Frank Paessler Tennessee Genealogical Society BOX 247 - BWUNSWICK TN 38014-0247 - PHONE, (9011 381-1447 2 Chastain Family Association California Society Compiles Publishes Its First Volume Ancestor Charts Book The first five generations of The Hi-Desert Genealogical Society Chastains in America are featured in In GENEALOGY of Victorville, Calif, has just published Pierre C'hastain and His Descerzdnnts a soRcover book containing more than by Robert W. Leishman and Loyce 500 pages of ancestor charts of its Coolidge. Dr. Pierre Chastain, a members and associates. Some are for French Hugenot, came to America in Clopton Family To Observe four generations, and others go back July 1700 and settled at Manakin Its 912th Anniversary several hundred years. The book, Town, Va., with his wife, Susan Descendants of William Clopton of edited by Brown '. Simpson and Renaud, and their five children. Susan England and New Kent Co., Va., and priced at $37, is available from HDGS, and two of the children died during his wife, Ann Booth Dennett Clop- P.O. Box 1271, Victorville, CA 92393. their first year in Virginia, and he ton, will observe the 912th anniversary married Anne Soblet, daughter of of the family's founding with a reunion Eight Major Lines covered Hugenots Abraham and Susanne June 25-28 in Williamsburg, Va. For In Book By Christyne Barr (Brian) Soblet. Pierre and Anne had details, contact the Clopton Family "A Ai?7dou~ To Yesterday" by eight children. After her death, he mar- Association, #5 Susie Circle, Electra, Christyne Lackey Barr, Fort Worth, ried Mary Magdalene Trabue. Dr. TX 76360 or visit the family home- is a genealogy of eight major and 30 Chastain died in Manakin Town in page http://www.seanet.com/-clopton/ collateral lines. Major lines covered: 1728. The hardbound volume can be William Clopton's direct descendants Bartholomew Zant, an Austrian; ordered for $29.50 postpaid from the in Tennessee were: Edward Gulledge, Isle of Wight, Va.; Chastain Family Association, 3 12 (1) Benjamin Michaux Clopton, William Barr, South Carolina; Jo- Knight St., Sumrall, MS 39482. The son of Anthony Clopton and PUloda seph Whitson, Virginia; Reuben Lac- Association has more than 450 Woggatt, born 21 Mar 1807 in key, North Carolina; Richard Smith, a members nationwide, and holds annual Davidson County, married 15 June three-generation