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Publirhod by Tho Tonnorroo Gonoalogical Society - Quarterly - Mrs. Vivian L. Briggs , Editor VOLUME 23 ~TMMER- 1976 NUMBER 2 CONTENTS THE PRESIDENTS'S LETTER ~%-1 NOTES FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK ~2 NEWS AND NOTES FROM OTHER PUBLICATIONS d WESTBROOKS FAMILY &-3 BOOK REVIEWS ~4 CANTER BIBLE RECORD -Z 9 PARR - CARNELL - SALISBURY CEMETERIES, Lauderdale Coanty, Tenn. LO3-0 a WILLIAMS FAMILY INDEX TO THE 1865 CENSUS OF MEMPHIS SHELBY COUNTY TE-$SEE 64-35% ABSTRACTS FROM THE CASSVILLE DEMOCRAT, Cassville, Mo. 'F MARRIAGE LICENSE RECORD - DYER COUNTY TENNESSEE .q 4 ** TENNESSEANS AND DIRECT TENNESSEE DESCENDANTS IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS fl 27 MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY C 1ST TENNESSEE MOUNTED INFANTRY UNZON $0 LETTER OF WILLIAM BROWN TO BROTHER, COLONEL JOSEPH BROWN 81 MEMBERS OF THE GRAND JURY, Abstracted from the Cassville Democrat 82 VICTORY CEMETERY, Rutherford County, Tenn. INDEX TO 1840 CENSUS OF CANNON COUNTY TENNESSEE REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS IN CANNON COUNTY TENNEBSEE Iq 1840 -4a PENSION APPLICATION OF CLEMENT MCDANIELS ,) ROLL OF COMPANY B 4TH REGIMENT TENNESSEE CAVAL V. WAR. 43 TENNESSEE EMIGRANTS TO SULLIVAN COUNTY MISSOURI QUERIES gf* THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY / ,, 3 Post Office Box 12124 - Memphis, Tennessee 38112 OFFIERS AND STAFF FOR 1976 President Mrs. Charles R. Barham Vice-president Mr. Charles A. Speed Recording Secretary Mrs. C. C. McKitrick Correspondence secretary Mrs. Hayes Carmical Librarian Mrs. John D. Tyus Assistant Librarian Mrs. Dan West Surname Index Secretary Mrs. M. J. Cravens Treasurer Mr. Caya Phillips Editor Mrs. Vivian L. Briggs Associate Editor Mrs. Gene F. Davis Director Mrs. Laurence Gardiner Director Mrs. Charles R. Gilley LIBRARY STAFF BUSINESS STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF Mrs. Robert Louis Cox Mrs. Gene F. Davis Mr. Herman L. Bogan Mrs. M. J. Cravens Mrs. Charles R. Gilley Mrs. Robert Louis Cox Mrs. John McDonald Mr. J. E. Nichols Mrs. James W. Hamer Mrs. J. E. Nichols Mr. Thomas P. Hughes, Jr. Mrs. F. H. O'Neal Mrs. J. E. Nichols 1 Miss Jessie Webb Miss Myrtle Webb Mrs. T. Rivers Young Miss Jessie Webb Mrs. Charles West Mrs. William R. Blair Mrs. Jefferson D. Upshaw "ANSEARCHIN'" NEWS is the official publication of the Tennessee Genealogical Soc- iety. Published quarterly. Annual subscription $7.00. All subscriptions begin with the first issue of the year. Non-delivery of any issue must be reported to "ANSEARCHIN'" NEWS within one month of date of usual delivery, if a second copy is to be supplied free of charge. All subscribers are requested to send queries for free publication. Every effort will be made to publish accurate material, however, The Tennessee Genealogical Society, "ANSEARCHIN'" NEWS, nor the editor can assume responsibility for errors on the part of the contributors. Proved errors will be published. Books donated to our library will be reviewed in the earliest possible issue of the quarterly. Contributions of all types of genealog- i-cal information will be accepted. All material for publication is subject to editing to conserve space. We publish previously unpublished Tennessee connected data, preferably with most dates pre-Civil War. Publishable and nonpublishable contributions are put on file in our library for the use of our members. \ Dear Members, Woops! We thought the Editor's new grandbaby would be the only thing to make our first issue a little lake. We hadn't planned on a truck strike. They lost our blue covers and everything had to be reordered. We cried a little, but it still made our issue later. We apologize and hope it doesn't happen again. We are looking forward to our July 19th Society night meeting, as we have Mr. Clinton I. Bagley, Historian of the Mississippi State Archives, as our speaker. He is going to tell us what their holdings are and how best to use them. You would be surprised how much more you can accomplish in an Archive, if you have done some homework. A Seminar is planned for October 30th, a one day meeting, which Mr. Richard S. Lackey of Forrest, Mississippi will conduct. He is Co-editor of the Mississippi Genealogy Exchange Quarterly, annually lectures at the National Genealogical Archives Institute in Wash- ington D. C. and has written several books on genealogy. He plans to speak on Mississippi and Alabama genealogical sources. Plan on being with us. We know it will be a highlight in your genealogical research. More details of cost and location later. Send in your cards for the Master Surname Index. If we don't have your names, we can't put others researching the same names in con- tact with you. Remember you get a 10 % discount if you order 5 or more of our back publications at a time. A good opportunity to obtain a complete set of our magazine. Have a "Happy Vacation". How many courthouses can you make in a day? Sincerely, President NOTES FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Well, it's that time again. I had hoped to have this one out before now, but at least, it is not as late as last issue. The next one should be on time. Thank you for your indulgence. We asked you to write to your senators and I certainly hope you have. The Bill to oper all census records 75 or more years old to the public with a legitimate reason for searching them is before the Senate now. We urge you to write to the President of the United States, Gerald Ford, as well as to Senator Frank E. Moss, the sponsor of the Bill S3279. Personally mite or type your letters. Be brief, writing only on one page. Tell them your are in favor of the bill which would make the Federal Census Records available for historical, medical, and genealogical research. Also, tell them you are in favor of the Census Records being placed in the custody of the U. S. Archivist, rather than the Bureau of Census. Request your Senators to use their influence in removing the bill from committee and to actively support it's passage in the Senate. Tennesseans write to: Senators Howard Baker and Bill Brock (our two senators) c/o Senate Office Building Washington, D. C. 20.310 President Gerald Ford Senator Frank E. Moss, V. Chairman The White House Post Office and Civil Service Committee Washington, D. C. 20510 Senate Office Building Washington, D. C. 20510 NEWS AND NOTES FROM OTHER PUBLICATIONS Prepared by Elizabeth R. Nichols DEWITT COUNTY GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY. Pub. by DeWitt County Genealogical Society, Box 329, Clinton, Ill. 61727. $5.00 per annum. We have just received compliment- ary copy of Vol. 11, No. T, Spring 1976 issue. A 15 page "SURNAME EXCHANGE" list, with contributors names and addresses, covers other areas as well as DeWitt Co. Should be most helpful to many. Also contains DeWitt Co. Militia Rolls, 1861-1862. If you're "lost in central Illinois", this seems a good place to search. THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST. Editor and publisher John Frederick Dorman, Box 4883, Washington, D.C. 20008. Quarterly. $10.00 per annum. Vol. 20, No. 1, Jan-Mar 1976 lists some "Virginians in California, 1856"; continuation of "British Mercan- tile Claims 1775-1801"; "Some Delinquent Taxpayers 1787-1790" for counties of Caro- line, Culpeper, Charlotte, and Cumberland. Also several other informative articles. THE SOUTH CAROLINA MAGAZINE OF ANCESTRAL RESEARCH. Editor and publisher, Laurence K. Wells, Box 694, Kingstree, S.C. 29556. $12.50 per annum. Quarterly. Vo. 111, No. 3, Summer 1976 carries continuations of the following: Marriage and Obituary Notices from the Greenville Mountaineer; Early Wills of Camden Dist.; Williamsburg Co. Will Book A; Royal Grants, Estate Partitions- Washington Dist. Court of Equity; and the beginning of Orangeburg Dist. Abstracts of Deeds. THE BACKTRACKER. Pub. by Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society, P.O.Box 362, Rogers, Ark. 72756. Quarterly. $4.00 per annum. Three free queries per issue to members; one to non-members. Vol. V, No. 1, Winter 1975, most interesting list- ing of "Sheriff's Census 1829, Washington County, Ark.", copied from Washington Co. Historical Society publication Backtracker, May 1954 issue. Also has family Bible and/or miscellaneous data on Plumlee, Lane, Rutledge, Owen, Highfill, Webber, Ellis, Alexander, Christian, Burnett, Hickman, Mann, Brock, Calvert, Skelton, and Cate families. LINCOLN CO. TENNESSEE PIONEERS. Pub. by Jane Warren Waller, 131 Woodhaven Lane, Seabrook, Texas 77586. Quarterly. $5.00 per year. All subscriptions start with Sept. issue. We have just received Vol. V, Nos 3 & 4 issues combined, and it is , priceless. The entire issue, with the exception of query pages and yearly index, is LINCOLN COUNTY TENNESSEE COURT RECORDS 1810-13. If this is your county, you're in luck. , POPLAR CREEK NEWSLETTER. Published by The poplar Creek Genealogical Society, (P.C.G.S.), Streamwood, Illinois. Will be published quarterly, Mar., June, Sept., & Dec. For membership ($5.00 per yr.) contact Clarice Eland Carman, 209 Egan Dr., Streamwood, Ill. 60103. This issue, No. 1 of Vol. 1, tells of several of their Bicentennial efforts. One very interesting is the issuance of PIONEER FAMILY CERTIFICATES to those with ancestors in Illinois in 1850. For further details, write P.C.G.S., Egan Dr. address. BY THE MILL BORN. A publication of the Milbourne & Tull Research Center, 10605 Lakespring Way, Cockeysville, Md. 21030. Willis Clayton Tull, Jr., Editor. A clearinghouse for historical and genealogical data on families with the surnames of MALBURN, MELBOURNE, MILBORN, etc. Quarterly. $4.00 per year. Another good family name looking place. THE CHESTNUT TREE. Official organ of the Pierre Chastain Family Association. Membership fees, $5.00 annually. For information and application, write to the Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Joe A. Buland, 1100 E. Teresa, Sapulpa, Ok. 74066.