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The Tennessee Magazine Ansearchin ' News vol. 4% No. 3 - 2001 j( / THE TENNESSEE MAGAZINE THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 91 14 Davies Plantation Road on the histonk Davies Plantation Mailing Addess: P. O. Box 247, Bruns wick, E'? 38014-0247 Telephone: (901) 381 -1 447 WSOFFZCERS & BOARD MEMBERS EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS President JAMES E. BOBO Vice President PMIE MORGAN Contributions of al1 types of Tennessee-related genealogical Editor DOROTHY M. ROBERSON materials, including previously unpublished farnily Bibles, Librarian LORETTA BAILEY diaries, joumals, letters, old rnaps, church rninutes or Treasurer FRANK PAESSLER histories, cemetery information, family histories, and other Business Manager JOHN WOODS documents are welcome. Contributors should send photo- Recordig Secretary RUTH REED copies of original documents or duplicates of photos since Corresponding Secretary BETTY HUGHES they cannot be retumed. Manuscripts are subject to editing Director of Sales DOUG GORDON for style and space requirements, and the contibutor's name Director of Certificates JANE PAESSLER and address wili be noted in the published article. Please Director at Large BYRON CRAIN include footnotes in the article submitted and list any Director at Large SANDRA AUSTIN additional sources. Check magazine for style to be used. Manuscripts or other editorial contributions should be typed EDITORIAL STAFF: Charles & Jane Paessler, Estelle Me or printed and sent to Editor Dorothy Roberson, 7150 Daniel, Caro1 Mittag, Jean Alexander West, Kay Dawson Belsfield Rd., Memphis, TN 38 119, [email protected] STAFF. Loraine Trenk, Carolyn WW,Billie TGS SURNAME INDEX FILE Arnold, Winnie Calloway, Billy Cm, Kay Dawson, Lena Forrester, Jean Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hanis, Amelia Members can obtain infonnation from this file by writing Hawk, Barbara Hookings, Joan Hoyt, Thurman Jackson, TGS. Give your ancestor's full name, at least one date and Sharon Kelso, Benjamin McDow, Eugene Mathas, Pixie one location, elosea self-addr-tamped #lo Morgan, Ruth Reed, Bobbie Rennie, Deborah Sandridge, gnvelo~eIf the information is available, you wili receive two Pauliie Washington, Charles Yates, and Saturday volunteers photocopy pages of up to 10 suniame cards of your ances- from the Chief Piomingo, Fort Assumption, Hermitage, ton, including the name of the person[s] subrnitting the River City, and Watauga DAR chapters. information. Any other data, if available, will be supplied at 50 cents per page (five cards to a page). Please ümit requests Cover illuslralion of TGS Research Cenler- Esdelle McDaniel to one a mon* and to one fhily name per request. Ifyou haven't sent us your own suniame data, please do. Type or print on 3x5"index cards your ancestor's name; dates and THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY places of birth, death, and maniage; and names of parents and publishes me Tennessee Genealogicul Magazine, spouse(s). In the bottom lefthand comer, put your Ansearchin' News, (ISSN 0003-5246) in March, narne,address, and the date submitted. June, September, and December of each year. Annual dues are $20, and members receive the four issues published in the 12-months period followiqg payment of theu dues. Issues missed due to late TGS sponson this program to recognize and honor the payment or unnotiñed changes of address can be settlers who carne to Tennessee before 1880. To place your bought separately, if avaiiable, for $7.50 each, ancestors in this roll of honor, request an application from Mrs. Jane Paessler, CeríScate Program Director, at TGS. including postage. Members are entiíied to one free Complete and return it with supporting documents or other query each year and may place additional quenes proof of your ancestor's residency. (Family charts or for $3 each. (Non-members pay $5 each.) AU quaies computer printouts are not considered su5cient proof.) must be related to Tennessee Queries including an Each application must be accompanied by a $10 &e. e-mail address will be inserted in TGS' web page at Attractive certificates suitable for firaming are iscued to //www.rootsweb.com/-t~gdfree of charge. each person whose application meets program qualifica- tions. Certificates are inscribed with the prime ancestor's name, when and where he or she settled in Tennessee, and the applicant's name. ANSEARCHIN' NEWS, USPS #477490 is pubbhed quaiieriy , by and lor THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC., 9114 Davies Phuibtkn Rd., Bnmswiek. TN, a non - profit BOOKS. MICROFILM. AND COMl'UTER DISKS orgnnizaHon Periodiaia poatage paid at Bnmswick, TN 38014 donated to the TGS Library should be mailed to Mrs. Loretta and addithd mailing officen. Bailey, Librarian, Tennessee Genealogical Society, P.O. Box ANSEARCHIN' NEWS 247, Brunswick, TN 38014.If a book review is desired, P.O. Box 247, Brunswick TN 38014-0247 please indicate the cost of the book and where readers can place orders. We also welcome memoriams.i . * nsearchin News THE TEN NESSEE Genealogical MAGAZ lN E Fa112001 / Vol. 48, No. 3 Editorial Viewpoint by Dorothy Marr Roberson When Polk Stopped by Memphis After Leaving the White House ... An 1828 Deed of Gift Cherokee Mother Betsy Walker Makes Provisions for Her Daughter Tennessee Comings & Goings Gen. Abraham Trigg of Virginia & Franklin Co., Tenn. by Zñurman (Bid&) Jackson Public Lotteries Authorized in Tennessee in 1809 Jefferson Politely Declines Offer to Dispense Lottery Tickets Legislation Allows 1817 Real Estate Sales Ten Made 'Notaries Public' by 1819 Legislature Additional Trustees Named for Academies Across the State It7sA Matter of Records Local Government Archives in Tennessee Gallaher Estate Suit in McMinn County Is Information Storehouse Tennessee Marriages Gleanings From Here 'n There Letters to the Editor State's 'Springs Fever' Slowly Subsides (Part II - Conclusio~~ Former Tennesseeans in 1850 Marshall Co., Miss., Census (7nstallment 5) Columbia Water Company Trustees Named in 1809 Steamboat Passengers Escape After Snag Hit Some Surnames Changed by 1822 Legislative Action 6-114 Cent Reward for Runaway Some 1832 Letters Left at Calhoun Post Office Did You Know ... Book Reviews Tennessee Obituaries About Researching Those Irish Ancestors ... Some Useful Definitions for Irish Researchers by Dr. Brian Trainor Are These Pieces of Your Puzzle? 1846 Church Pew Renta1 Ad Bedford County Vital Statistics (Deaths recorded 1908-1911 - Part I) Partings (Divorces & Name Changes) Some Civil War Happenings As Reflected in the Press Que ries Surname Searching Kershaws Remarry After 30-Year Separation An 1890 Lankford Family Reunion in Henry County Yarbroughs To Convene in Nashville Sheriff Announces Unpaid 1809 Taxes in Bedford County Index of This Issue by i+aílk Paessler R.S. V. P. Sound Off graciously supplied cur- rent names, street ad- dresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of Dorothy Marr Roberson local archives now operating in Tennessee. That list appears on Page IT SEEMS to have become the custom in geneaiogical 19 of this &sue ... and I've already made use of it, getting a magazines, corporate annual reports, and virtualiy every other quick response fiom the Metro Archives in Nashviiíe. publication to explain any blank page that appears. The *** explanation invariably states,"This page intentionally left TGS MEMBER Buddy Jackson shares some highiy blank." interesting infonnation about his Virginia ancestor, Gen. Doesn't it rnake you wonder WHY it was lefi blank? Abram Trigg, who -- contrary to some misstatements of fact Did the printer goof and the editor's trying to cover it in some published biographies -- came to Tennessee about up? 18 13 and lived here the rest of his liie. His findings appear on Did the editor have nothing further to say? Page 1 1. Had he or she already said too much? *** Or was the editor too tired or too lazy to dig out more EVEN THOUGH quite a bit of time has elapsed, we ido? 1 could probably answer "yes" to all three of the last would be remiss if we didn't report the passing of James questions, but wiil restrain myself and get on with it . .. Piper Taliaferro Goodbread who died in Tulsa on 17 Jan *** at age 90. He was a long-time contributor of geneaiogical THE EDITORIAL WE 15' especially grateful to Ted information to Ansearchin' News as well as numerous other Brooke of Cumming Ga., and the Oriental Phüatelic House of publications. In the Spring 1999 issue [Vol. 46, No. 11, we Huntington, N.Y., for providing us with an 1828 document canied a feature story about his mother, Nettie Moore that took us through some lengthy but fascinating research Goodbread, who was reared in Pocahontas, Hardeman Co., over the last few weeks. Tenn., in the late 1800s, and later settled in northem Florida In the process, we increased our knowledge of the where she died in 1932. Cherokee Nation and people who lived in the Hiwassee area James, who was born on election day and was named of what became southeast Tennessee ... and hope our hdings for one of Florida's U. S. senators, also provided us with data wili provide some clues and sources to help those of you fiom the family Bibles of his other Hardeman County doing Cherokee research in this part of the country. If you're ancestors, Wiley Jarrett Davis and Mary Ann Tedford, and not into Cherokee research, perhaps you'll learn a little. William A. McDonald and Frances Caroline Davis. (Pages 6-9). The remarkable thing about Goodbread was that *** although he spent most of his life working in the construction WE ALSO wish to thank Dr. Brian Trainor of the business in West Asia, he stiil rnanaged to pursue his hobby of Ulster Historical Foundation for supplying us with a wealth of genealogy. Voluminous correspondence and a stateside rel- tips on researching Irish ancestors during a recent seminar he ative who shared his enthusiasm were the keys to his success. conducted for TGS (pp. 42-44). Thanks to the efforts of TGS Goodbread, who never ma~ie.4was survived by a sister, President Jim Bobo, our Society continues to be the only Thelma Flanagan, Tampa, Fla.; two nieces, and a nephew.
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