Ansearchin ' News vol. 48, NO.4 - Winter 2001 THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 9114 Davl'es Plantarion Road un the h~stonkDavl'es Plantation MaZng Address: P. O. Box 247, BrunswicG, ?N38014-0247 Telphone: (901) 381 -1 447 TABLE OF CON'TENTS Winter 2001 / Vol, 48. No. 4 Editorial Viewpoint by Dorothy Marr Roberson McLean Boulevard ... Named For 'A Man Whose Like 1s Seldom Seen' Bedford County Vital Statistics (Installment 2) Robertson 'Monument' in Hamblen County Tennessee Marriages Whereabouts of 5th Tennessee Regiment's Co. H by 1891 John Barger & Wife Observe 62 Yean of Married Life Lucy Holcombe Pickens by Caro1 Y. Miítag Tennessee Comings & Goings An Unusual Tribute of Respect (Capt. John Doss) Tennessee Obituaries Rev. Marshall Celebrates 87th Birthday Some Madison County Legal Notices of 1830s Did You Know ... Hancock County Natives Buried in Arkansas Hawkins County Widow's Pension Application Rejected 1825-1828 Marriages from Madison County Newspapers by Helen Rowland Famiiy Sumame Changed From Pye to Clark Starr Made Full-Fledged Tennessee Citizen Four Tennesseeans Died At Sea in 1836 Long-Time TGS Member Bradford Jarratt Dies A Social Security Clue Officers Elected for 1836 Western Brigade Caution Ramsey Divorce Petition Fonner Tennesseeans in 1850 MarshaU Co., Miss., Census (rnstallment 6) Devastating 'Cyclones' Sweep Through Mississippi, Tennessee Some Sites To Behold Josiah Martin's Will Predates Tennessee Statehood McLemore Presbyterian Church 1s Organized in Memphis Jackson County Land To Be Sold for Taxes in 1802 Notice Regarding Samuel NeaU A Request by Leah Perkins $100 Reward Gleanings From Here 'n There Some Tombstone Inscriptions in Polk County Book Reviews Letters to the Editor Blount County Court Elects 1795 Officers Ebenezer Jones' Death Ruled Suicide CD Reviews Rowan Gives Power of Attorney to Houston Queries Pro.1800 Blount County Apprenticeships Sumame Searching Partings of 2 Centuries Ago Mero Superior Court Metes Out Stiñ Sentences State Legislators Elected from Mero District in 1801 No Spring Bonnet for Elizabeth Snoddy Dickson County Land Soid for 1813 Taxes Two Revolutionary Vets Apply for Pensions in McMinn County in 1820's Index of This Issue by Jane Paessler A Reminder Special Offer on Shelby Cemetery Books Page 1 - THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE 1 ANSEARCHIN'NEWS - Winier 2001 er that one for a bit. Couldn't ñnd it arnong EDITORIAL V IEWPOINT old rnedical terms. Finally BY it dawned on me that the Dorothy Marr Roberson deceased did not die fiom I a protracted illness but fiom lengthy over-indulgence. Recordkeepers of the early ONE OF THE SWEET SMELLS of the 1940s was a 1900s minced no words and spared no feelings. perfume cailed "Evening in Paris." Like Tangee lipstick, it *S* signified the arrivai of teenhood for young women growhg SPECIAL THANKS go to Carol Mittag for contributing a up in Temessee. We smeared the lipstick on our mouths and highly interesting story on Lucy Holcombe Pickens whose dabbed the perfume on our wrists and behind our ears -- the fither, Beverly Holcombe, came to LaGrange, Tenn, in more daring girls of our crowd dabbing it behind their knees about 1829 ...and whose mother, Eugenia Hunt, came to -- and thought we were as glamorous as any ma'mselle in ail Hardeman County about the same time. Carol, with her usual of France. expert root-digging, has provided us with a weU-done, imagine my disillusionment recently when TGS' resident information-packed feature on the Temessee-bom beauty researcher and historian of note, Betiy Hughes, told me that whom some called "the Queen of the Confederacy." "Evening in Paris" perfume did not come fiom Paris, France H- thanks aiso to Helen Rowland for patiently -- as 1 and thousands of other teen-age girls envisioned -- but scmtúiizing hard-to-read microfilm of Madison County's fiom Paris, Tennessee! No offense to anybody who calls earliest newspapers and recording aü the maniages and Henry County home, but when you spend aU of your 25-cent deaths reported therein ... The marriages are carried in this ailowance on "Evening in Paris," you feel better about it ifthe issue, and the deaths wiU be in the next one. item came fiom across the ocean and NOT from just up the By coincidence, Helen collected most of the data fiom road a piece. The Jackson Gazette, which Charles D. McLean -- the Well, Betty proved the perfume's origin by introducing subject of the feature beginning on Page 3 -- established in me to a smail book in the TGS library that was written by 1825. A name and address in the McLean folder at Elmwood Henry County's historian W. O. Inman in 1976. [It's entitled Cemetery led me to contact EUen M. McLean who proved Pen Sketches, Paris, Tennessee, in case you want to look it to be Charles D.'s great-great granddaughter. A native of up.] Refening to a 1910 issue of the local newspaper, The Memphis, she now lives in Lexington, Va. By coincidence, Parisian, Inman said an Amerícan-French Perfumery when 1 taiked with EUen on the phone, her brother, Bob -- Company had been organized with a capital of $50,000 to who lives in Arliigton, Va., and is the family historian -- manufacture "perfumes, toilet waters, tooth paste, and happened to be spending the weekend with her and we had a necessary toiiet requisites of the very highest class." An three-way conversation about the family. As invariably experienced perfume chemist fiom Bulgaria, which was said happens, 1 had already done extensive research and dena to be the land of the famous Attar of Roses, was to manage draft of my story when 1 found Ellen and Bob ... even so, in the lab. The building was erected on Azariah Hancock's the exchange of comrnunications that followed, they fiUed in farm, a raiiroad spur was built to it, and beautiful blue some blanks for me and vice versa. perfume bottles were imported to hold the exotic Paris, A similar experience occurred whiie working on an Tenn., product. account of the devastating 1900 tomado that hit Maury What happened to "Evening in Paris"? Well, it seems that County and killed four members of the AydeIotte family, it was a case of spontaneous combustion. [I aiways knew that among others. A random browsing on the Internet led me to was potent stuñ?] The factory went up in flames, takuig with Lynda Moreau, an Aydelotte cousin who kindly shared it all the equipment and perfume. There was no insurance to information she had gathered. When we ñrst made contact, cover the loss, and aü that was left was a faint scent of a Lynda had to attend a meeting that night but promised to dig heavenly perfume. into her files and send me some Uifo when she got home. She *** did, too -- sendiig me an e-mail at 11:57 p.m. Now that's IF YOU HESITATE about volunteering to read and going the extra de.It's people like Lynda, EUen, and Bob transcríbe microfilm for Amearchin' News, you might be who make genealogy a hobby that leads to meeting a lot of missiig out on an experience that can be edifjk~gas well as kind foiks you wouldn't have hown otherwise. If you've any entertaining. Aydelottes in your line, contact Lynda (4009 Green Acres In plowing through early 1900 Vital Statistics of Bedford d., Metairie, LA 70003, dustbuny~ix.netcom.coni)and for County, for instante, 1 learned that severai individuais at McLean Uifo, check Bob (1805 Crystai Dr., #804, Arlington, various times had died of a "brake down." Figure that one out VA 22202, (703) 979-0609), and 1 guarantee you'U be glad ... was it mental or physical? Did the deceased slow down on you did. activities ... or did the driver of the vehicle in which the Also in this issue and greatly appreciated is the deceased was riding put the brakes on too hard and send his McLemore Presbyterian Church history contributed by Jean passenger sailing through the window? Another person's Alexander West. The church was established in 1906 at what cause of death was listed as "protracted spree." Had to pond- was then known as Williams Station in Memphis.. Page 2 - THE TENNESSEE GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE /ANSEARCHIN'NEWS - Wnter 2001 M~LeanBoulevard ... Named in Honor Of 'A Man Whose Like Is 5eldom 5een' It was in 1844 that Coi. Charles Durrell McLean chose a 110-acre site in Shelby County for his home place. He was said to have had his pick of sites in the county but chose this particular one because of its good iand, forest of trees, elevation, and fíne spring.' The fact that the tract was about two miles east of Court Square may have been another attractive feature. Today the west end of the property is marked by a busy boulevard in Midtown Memphis that bears the fdyname.2 Over the years, the McLean property was the setting for some interesting events in Memphis and Shelby County history. 1.celebration of the Fourth of July 1856, a gala barbecue was held there with food being served fiom a stand put up under a giant oak tree especiaiiy for the occasion. Water for the attending crowd was supplied by the spring which the McLean family had used tbrough the yas. Coi. McLean made a brief address and read the Deciaration of Independence. Describing the event, a local paper reporte. "The elite of Memphis attended and there was dancing and feasting until the shades of evening caused al to depart." Jn about 1858 a church called Edgewood Chape1 was built on the property. It was a &ame structure with a brick basement that housed a school which McLean's sons and other boys of the neighborhood attended.