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Ansearchin ' News, VOI.46, NO.3 Fa11 1999 rT THE TENNESSEE MAGAZINE THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 91 14 Davies Plantation Road on the histonc Davies Plantation Mailing Address: P. 0.Box 247, Brunswick, W38014-0247 Telephone: (901) 381-1447 5 OFFICER$ & BOARD MEMBES TGS Librarian Nelson Dickey ident JAMES E. BOB0 .or DOROTHY M. ROBERSON Dies After Extended Illness ing Librarian LORETTA BAILEY Nelson Dickey, librarian of the Tennessee Genealogical asurer FRANK PAESSLER Society for the past five years, died 23 June 1999 at a Mem- iness Manager JOHN WOODS phis hospital following an extended illness. He was 67. ording Secretary JO B. SMITH, Born 9 Oct 1931 in Jackson, Tenn., he was the son of responding Secretary SUE McDERMOTT George Hervey Dickey and Mayrne Huber Chumber of Milan. nbership Chairman SANDRA AUSTIN On 19 June 1957, Nelson rnanied Gladys Ann Ross in Milan. %tor of Sales DOUG GORDON They later moved to the Memphis area where he was vice :ctor of Certificates JANE PAESSLER president of Atlas Contractors, Inc. He was a Navy veteran ector at Large MARY ANN BELL of the Korean War, a member of the Germantown United Methodist Church choir, a Mason, Shriner, and member of ector at Large BETTY HUGHES ector of Surname Index JEAN CRAWFORD the Sons of the American Revolution. Nelson is survived by his wife; two daughters, Dara ector of Surname Index MARILYN VAN EYNDE Fields Dickey and Dawne Dickey Davis, both of Leesburg, Va.; and two grandchildren. Graveside rites were held at : Charles and Jane Paessler, Estelle Oakwood Cemetery in Milan on 24 June, and memorial Daniel. Betty Hughes, Carol Mittag, Mary Ann Bell, services at Germantown Methodist Church the following 3ela Groenhout, Jean Alexander West day.The family requests that any memorials be sent to the Tennessee Genealogical Society or Germantown United Michael Ann Bogle, Kay Dawson, Win- Methodist Church. Calloway, Ann Fain, Jean Fitts, Willie Mae Gary, n Gillespie, Barbara Hookings, Joan Hoyt, Thurman kson, Ruth 0' Donne11, Ruth Reed, Betty Ross, Jean Jm memoriam um, Jean West, Marlene Wilkinson, Charles Yates, and urday volunteers tiom the Chief Piorningo, Watauga, rmitage, River City, and Fort Assumption DAR chapters. It can truly be said of Nelson Dickey that 'he fought the good fight.' :wr illmtra,tiioof TGS Research Cenler- Estelle McDaniel Those of us who worked with him in the Tennessee Genealogical Society came to know him as a person devoted IE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY pub to histoty and genealogy, and always willing to share his ~es The Tennessee GedgiCal Magazine, knowledge with others. He was a hard worker, giving fieely searchin' News, (ISSN 0003-5246) in March, June, of his time and energy to maintain and develop the Society's ptember, and December. Yearly dues are $20, and library. Its reputation as one of the finest genealogical ~mben receive the four issues published in the libraries to be found in the Mid-South was due in no small -months period folkwing payment of their dues, For part to his efforts. ample, if your payment is received in April '99, you When he learned about two years ago that he had lung U get the June, September, and December issues for cancer which had metabolized to the brain, Nelson -- as the 99 and the March issue for 2000. Issues missed due to younger generation would say -- maintained 'his ml.' He e payment can be bought separately, if available, for was determined to do all he could to overcome the disease. .SO each, including postage. Members can run one He took radiation and chemotherapy, all the wbile continuing ery free each year and additional queries at %3 each. to show up regularly at the TGS library and wry out his on-members pay $5 each.) Members also have free duties. Nelson -- in our presence at least -- never seemed to cess to the TGS surname index fiIe. blink in the face of adversity. In fact, he exhibited such a cheerful, optimistic outlook that some of us thought he might even overcome his illness. Then he suffered a stroke and had SE4RCHIN' NEWS, USPS #477-490 is publhbed qrmrtedy to struggle to get his speech back. From then on, he was 3) d for THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC., conhed to a wheelchair and forced to give up his services as 9114 Davka Pianlation Rd,Bnmswkk, TN, a wn - pwftt librarian. It was hard for him to stay away, and one day he o~tionPeriodicah postage paid at Bnauwkk, TN 38014 and additieanl mailing offires. had his nurse bring him out to the library to see for himself how it was doing. He was impressed with the way Acting POSTMASTER: Please do not dg&rov. Librarian Loretta Bailey had been handling things in his eturn postage guaranteed. Send address corrections to: absence, and seemed gratified that his work was going on. ANSEARCHZN' NEWS From all of at TGS: Thanks, Nelson, for all you did in P.O. Box 247, Brunswick TN 38014-0247 behalf of genealogy in general and the Society in particular. We'll miss you, that's for sure.. Editorial Viewpoint by Dorothy MmRoberson The German-Swiss Migration to Franklin County in the Late 1860s by Carol (Cmighron) Mittag Margaret Reed of Wilson County Prepares to Celebrate 100th Birthday Hiwassee College Resumes Operations 6-114 Cents Reward University of Nashville Alumni Convene in 1871 Tracking Down Those Ancestors Who Worked on the Railroad by Thz~manH. Jackson A Glimpse of Knoxville in 1818 Names from 1830-1847 Account Ledger of Asa Newport abstracted by Edna Clack White County Sheriff Reports Some Unpaid 1813 Taxes For Margaret Underwood & Babies: A Long Ride Home by Edna Clack & Pauline Washington Deaths Across Tennessee Huffstutter Brothers Place Plaques at Gravesites of Their Ancestors Trips Back Home Made the News in the Late 1800's Thomas Conyers, Sr. by Jean Conyers Herndon Letters to Tennessee Lawyers in the 18409 by Cqt.Henry A. Hudson, Jr. Directors Named for Bank of Tennessee Branches in 1838 Letters to the Editor Genealogical Short Takes Train Injury Fatal to George F. Martin of Davidson County Workers Hurt in Clarksville When Trestle Collapses Family Charts Book 4 Off the Press Shelby Co., Tenn., Survey Book B by Jean Alexander West (5th installment) Book Reviews Gleanings from Here 'n There (1Mention.s of Tennesseeans in Our Exchanges) Tennesseeans in the 1850 California Census (Fifth Installment -partial El Dorado Count'y) Jefferson County Court Minutes, 1838 (Second Installmentl Cumberland University's Law Department Graduates 23 in 1871 Our Andy Ordered His Own Winchesters Stunned by the Loss of Their Young Daughter by Susan W. Scales (final installment) Marriages From Across Tennessee Queries A Reminder Index of this issue by Frank Paessler , . " Tennessee ~enealo~icalSociety BOX w - BRUMW~CXTN nso~r-~z+r- PHONE (sot, sr-r4-v These contributions are by far the most I've received during my tenure as editor, and here's hoping their number will in- crease. Did you ever stop to A TREMENDOUS TaANKS TO all those great folks out think about how distoned history there who pitched in to help make this an issue brimming over could be when it comes down to with names and family information! ordinary, law-abiding folks who MY favorite of browsing through worked hard for a living, their familie% and acted turns up a lot of story possibilities which I don't always have good citizens? They may not have been elected to public time to follow UP. Carol Mia% came to rt2scue in One office, or may not have had the money to buy space in the such instance, and the result is our lead story on Page 3, "The so-called books2~to perpetuate their surnames, but, by German-Swiss Migration to Franklin County in the Late goUy,they,re the ones who kept this country going. 1860's." Yep, folks like that may well have been on your family Much has been written about Tennesseeans going to tree ... and it may be up to you to tell their story and keep Illinois, Texas, California, and other states, but perhaps not their family history alive. pnd enough attention has been given to those who migrated to Also in this issue Frank Paessler has completed Family Tennessee and other Southern states after the Civil War and Charts Book IV and the index is on pages 32-33. helped rebuild agricultural productivity. Carol did intensive *** research on a group of farmers who came primarily from AN NOTICE was run by a black in Ohio's Stark and Tuscarawas counties to Franklin Co., T~M. the DiSfrictTelegraph ce State of Jackson, on Her work is a real contribution, and it's wonderful to have a 22 1837. Her paid notice -- which includes a volunteer like her to call on. spearean quote -- follows: UBLA<71r; LIST - Having been Thurman Jackson shares information he discovered much imposed apon by a pcies of holding about tracking down ancestors who worked on the railroad. themselves forth as entIemen in my but honed His experience in checking on one of his ancestors turned up wurtion of weher w",man, I lo follnv the far more info than he ever dreamed it would, and he tells how precedent of white people in a B~~~~ I to go about tapping this resource. commence with the name of NAjlltANIEL A. CLARK who Pauline me the long journey 'Stmttedhisbrief hour on the stage ' upon my labor, and then home to Tennessee from hfissouri that her ancestor, found it col,venient to 'go unhawn$20 in my kbt. Margaret Underwood, made after the Civil War.