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The Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, "ANSEARCHIN'" NEWS ...... ...... - , ........... ... ............... ,. ............ , 0 _...- ",. ... I' .. _ , ............ -_... ...- ----- ," -,-_,fI/!'..............._.. - , ' ..--- - " -: -:::- ----- , '., : -::... -..... , ,- - --- ----------------- ~~::~~~------------------ Since 1954 ... For all of Tennessee The Tennessee Genealogical Society P. o. Box 111249 Memphis, Tn 38111-1249 Vol. 39, No.4 Winter, 1992 THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY P,O, BOX 111249 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 38111-1249 TELEPHONE 901 327-3273 1992 OFFICERS AND STAFF President Brenda Evans Johnson Vice President Harry Milton Cleveland Jr. Business Manager Lincoln Johnson Editor Betsy Foster West Librarian Douglas Kendrick Recording Secretary Elizabeth R. Tolar Corresponding Secretary Lynn Pierce Appling Treasurer Charles C. Yates Director of Surname Index Miriam Woods Dye Director of Membership Bradford Livingston Jarratt Director of Sales Sandra Hurley Austin Director of Certificates Beverly Smith Crone Director at Large Marilyn Johnson Baugus Director at Large Iona Fish Marbry EDITORIAL STAFF LIBRARY STAFF BUSINESS STAFF Gerry Byers Spence. G. Nelson Dickey. James Bobo Associate Editor Associate Librarian Elizabeth Davidson Chancellor Martha McKenzie Carpenter Margery Audas Judy Chambless Cleveland Ella Reynolds Emery Jane Cook Hollis Linda Wylie Cochran Marion Frances Graves Johnnie O. Hollis James "Chris" Columbus Mary Louise Graham Nazor Ersellee Moran Kendrick Dorothy Carter Greiner Elizabeth Riggins Nichols Ruth Hensley O'Donnell Wanda Hurley Hawkins Mary Florence Peek Ray Emma Fisher O'Neal Geraldine Blanton Holstun Margaret Norvell Sinclair Lucille Hastings Thompson William Leseur Holstun Clarence W. Spence Jean Alexander West Estelle Atkins Horn The Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, "Ansearchin'" News, is the official publica tion of The Tennessee Genealogical Society. All subscriptions begin with the first issue of the year. Non-delivery of a magazine should be reported to the Society within two months of the usual delivery date. There is a $3.00 charge for redeem ing and re-mailing any magazine returned 'for an incorrect address unless we are timely notified of an address change. Subscribers may submit one free query per year of fifty words or less; queries received by September 1 will be pUblished in that calendar year. Contributions of all types of genealogical material will be accepted. We solicit previously unpublished Tennessee connected data. preferably with pre-Civil War dates. all subject to editing for style and to save space. Every effort is made to print accurate material correctly; however. neither The Tennessee Genealogical Society. "Ansearchin'» News nor the Editor can assume re sponsibility for contributor errors. Corrections of proven errors will be pub lished. Contributions are available in the society library for subscriber use. Books donated to our library by authors or publishers are reviewed in the earliest possible issue of the magazine. "Ansearchin'» News VOL. 39. NO.4. WINTER 1992 The Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, "Ansearchin'» News, ISSN lfOOC>3-5246. is published quarterly in March. June. September and December for $20.00 per year by The Tennessee Genealogical Society. 3340 Poplar Avenue. Memphis. 'IN 38111. Second class postage paid at Memphis. Tennessee. POSTMASTER: Please do not destroy; forwarding and return postage guaranteed; send address corrections to «Ansearchin'» News. P.O. Box 111249. Memphis. TN 38111. ©1992 by The Tennessee Genealogical Society 14 NOVEMBER 1992 whr wruurssrr ~ruralngind flaga~htrl' ., fl a Mrs. Daniel E. West, Editor VOLUME 39 WINTER 1992 NUMBER 4 - CONTENTS - OVER THE EDITOR'S DESK 146 BAUGH-ROBERTS-THURMAN . 147 Related Families Who Removed From Chesterfield Co VA to Fayette Co, TN JUSTICES OF THE PEACE - 1811..... 150 INDEX TO 1840 SMITH COUNTY, TENNESSEE CENSUS 153 TENNESSEANS IN ARKANSAS .. 159 PETITIONS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF TENNESSEE. 165 Blount, C1aibourne, Davidson, Grainger, Knox, Sumner and Washington Counties FAMILY GATHERINGS .. ................ ............ 171 Hardin, Hervey/Harvey GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE 1836 TAX LIST. 175 BEDFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE DEEDS - 1808. 181 CERTIFICATE OF TENNESSEE ANCESTRY 186 INDEX TO PROBATE RECORDS IN MEMPHIS/SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE ARCHIVES 187 DURHAMVILLE COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY, LAUDERDALE CO, TN. 193 194 BOOK REVIEWS NEWS AND NOTES -A DIRECTORY OF PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 195 QUERIES ...... 196 1992 SURNAME INDEX 201 The Tennessee Genealogical Society Post Office Box 111249 Memphis. Tennessee 38111-1249 Telephone (901) 327-3273 l46i "Ansearchin'" News OVER THE EDITOR'S DESK One of the many benefits of a subscription to The Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, "Ansearchin'" News is using the Master Surname File. It is an excellent way for a researcher to contact others who may be working on the same families, but the popu larity of this department has increased to the extent that it has become necessary to place some restrictions on the number of cards we can photocopy and send to sub scribers. Guidelines for submitting cards and for requesting a search are printed on the in side of the back blue cover; none of this information has been changed. Your legal size, self-addressed, stamped envelope will be returned to you along with photocopies of any cards in the file which might be of help to you. Five cards will fit on one photocopied page; data, if any, on the back of the card will be copied on the back of the page. Our Director of Surname Files will send two of these pages (10 cards, if we have that many) in your SASE. This service is free of charge to our sub scribers who send a request and SASE. A charge of fifty cents ($.50) per page for more than two pages is needed to defray the cost of copying and return postage. As a rule, the two pages will hold all the cards which would pertain to a given family, but cards on the most common American names may number in the hundreds ...for in stance, there are approximately two hundred cards on Brown. For this reason, your request should give at least one date and one location, if we are to help you. Speaking of surname help, Jennifer A. Perkins publishes booklets on the PERKINS fami ly. She offers records, queries and information about current Perkins events all over the country. Write to Mrs. Perkins at 5803 N. Ash, Spokane, WA 99205-6807 for details. More helpful information comes from Mary Ruth Devault of Gordon Browning Museum Gen ealogical Library in McKenzie, TN. In our Volume 38 (1991) we had noted that Carroll County had suffered a courthouse fire in 1931. Mrs. Devault says that listing is misleading. "The fire ...was in only one room, the tax office; all other records are complete." This fine library is one of the best sources for research in Carroll and surrounding counties. The Mississippi Genealogical Society and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History are co-sponsoring a very worthwhile seminar in Jackson on 23 Jan 1993 with Helen F.M. Leary as speaker. Mrs. Leary is nationally recognized for her expertise. Contact the Society at P.O. Box 5301, Jackson, MS 39296-5301 for further information. The Vicksburg Genealogical Society Spring Seminar will feature John Philip Colletta, Ph.D. as speaker on 13 Mar 1993. Write the society at P.O. Box 1161, Vicksburg, MS 39181-1161 and include SASE for a reply. Ms. Billie R. McNamara, P.O. Box 61792, Virginia Beach, VA 23466-1792, offers this helpful information: (1) "I just learned that Jefferson County has recovered its missing Court Minute Book, from circa 1810. It has been returned to the Clerk's of fice in Dandridge"; (2) "In reviewing the Civil War Pension File of Spencer ACUFF of Jefferson County, Tennessee, I found a document that did not belong in the file .•.an Affidavit in support of the application of Thomas GREGORY of James County, Tennessee. The Affidavit was made by John PRIDDY, of Thatcher's Landing, James County, on April 25, 1885." Winter 1992 147 BAUGH-ROBERTS-THURMAN Related Families Who Removed From Chesterfield Co VA to Fayette Co TN by Joanne Cullom Moore, Corona, Frenchman's Bayou, AR 72338 William Decatur THURMAN and his wife, Permelia Catharine ROBERTS, came from Chesterfield Co. to Fayette Co. in 1849. In September 1849, he bought 142.5 acres in the 10th Surveyor's District of Fayette Co. William Decatur was the son of Hezekiah Bowles Thurman and Nancy MAGRUDER, the daughter of Zephaniah Magruder and Frances SUBLETT of Chesterfield. The Thurman family record from a bible has the following information. Information in parentheses is from the author. (Page 1) William Decatur Thurman and Permelia Catharine Roberts both of Chesterfield County Va. was married 18th of Febuary 1846. (Page 2) Age of William Decatur Thurman and wife. William Decatur Thurman was born April 3rd 1816. Permelia Catharine his wife was born April 8th 1826. (Page 3) Peter Aurelious Thurman was born 25th of Feb~ 1847 Junious Albert Thurman was born sunday April 30th 1848 Philip Richard Thurman was born wednesday July 3rd 1850 Laura Catharine Thurman was born wednesday Mar 2nd 1853 Mary Frances Thurman was born saturday septr 1st 1855 Lewis William Thurman was born monday Febry 11th 1857 John Roberts Thurman was born Tuesday July 3rd 1860 Martha Ann Thurman was born saturday Septr 13th 1862 Emma Elisa Thurman was born thursday Nov 24th 1864 Ida Jane Mariah Thurman was born friday Decr 6th 1867 (Page 4) David L. PERKINS and Laur~ Catharine Thurman was married Dec 26th 1871