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knoxcotn-digest Wednesday, December 8 1999 Volume 01 : Number 023

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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 16:10:24 -0800

From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>

Subject: Bridges family artifact

This is on eBay as a military dogtag, but it looks more like a luggage tag

to me! Anyway, if you've got Bridges kin, you'd probably want to know

about it:

DOGTAG: Samuel D.Bridges,Harvey J.Bridges,RT.20 Ball Rd.Knoxville Tenn.7-4-54

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=212745038

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 08:11:50 -0600

From: "Pat" <pat@internetpro.net>

Subject: Poor Farm

Has anyone heard of a "Poor Farm" or "County Farm" in Knox Co. TN.

Pat

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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 16:20:40 -0800

From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>

Subject: Special request from your list mistressses

OK, this is slightly unethical, but I hope you'll forgive me -- it's for a

good cause!

There's a Knoxville history book for sale on eBay. It's one of the books

that Rose-Anne and I have been scanning and converting for the Knox County

website, but we have to use a library copy. If you are an eBay browser and

run across it and feel compelled to purchase it, we'd appreciate it if

you'd hold off bidding against us. I'd hate to get into a bidding war with

a fellow list subscriber!

When we're done, if someone's just dying to have the book, we won't be stingy.

Thanks....

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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:25:31 -0800

From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>

Subject: Fwd: Brooks/Ramsey/Haynes/Helton

Received this personal note with a request to forward it here. If you have

an interest in this family, please correspond directly with Ms. Taggart.

>From: PilgrimsPa@aol.com

>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:46:03 EST

>I am seeking information on a John R. Brooks who married first a Nancy Ann

>Ramsey and second a Mary T. Haynes. John was born Sept. 10, 1826 in TN. He

>married Nancy, June 12, 1844 and married Mary, Sept. 12, 1867 in Knox County.

> I understand from oral history that John was a circuit riding preacher. He

>is buried in the McCampbell United Methodist Church Cemetery on Old Dandridge

>Hwy. in Jefferson Cty. However, I understood him to be a Baptist. His

>tombstone is there. To the right of his tombstone is two headstones and I

>was wondering if these might be the wives. Does anyone know of his preaching

>in any of the local churches? Or who the parents of Nancy Ramsey or Mary

>Haynes were?

>John's father was a Thomas Brooks who married a Susan Helton. Thomas was b.

>1794 in VA and married Dec. 24, 1817 to Susan in her father's home in

>Grainger Cty., TN and died July 24, 1871 at Henry Cross Roads, Jefferson

>City, TN. Thomas served in the War of 1812. I know nothing else on Thomas

>Brooks. Any help would be appreciated. Susan was the daughter of Alexander

>Helton.

>Other brothers and sisters of John are:

>Thomas A(lexander)E. Brooks (b. 1858) married Francis Cordelia Milligan

>William

>Samuel - married Adaline Elder, Sept. 15, 1869

> Elijah

>Caroline - married Ashley Miles who was a Justice of Peace and also signed

>the papers for Susan to get a widows pension from Thomas's participation in

>the War of 1812.

>Susanna

>Margaret

>Children of John R. Brooks:

>John R. Brooks, Jr.( b, 1857) married first,Margaret Rutherford, second Bertha

> D.

>Cordelia E. (b. 1869)

>Berry (b. 1871)

>Rachel Lovenia ( b. 1874) married James Deadrick Milligan

>James M. ( b. 1877)

>Samuel ( b. @ 1879)

>Luther (b. 1883) married Birdie Pittman

>If you connect with this line please email me at Pilgrimspa@aol.com.

>Gail Taggart

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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:28:20 -0800

From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>

Subject: Re: Poor Farm

Oh, yes, Pat. It was still in existence when I was a child. The county

farm/poor farm was on Maloneyville Road, near the present-day county penal

farm in northeast Knox County. After it stopped being the poor farm, the

buildings became Hillcrest Nursing Home. My mother worked there when I was

young, and I remember thinking how depressing a place it was. It was

eventually torn down.

At 08:11 AM 12/3/99 -0600, Pat wrote:

>Has anyone heard of a "Poor Farm" or "County Farm" in Knox Co. TN.

>Pat

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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 01:44:35 -0800

From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>

Subject: OK, all you Walker researchers....

Who was Penitentiary Walker, who lived on Bay's Mountain sometime between

1850 and 1975?

A friend of ours has a deed to property on Bay's Mountain that mentions the

lands of Penitentiary Walker in the surveyor's metes and bounds. We're

just curious who he was, and why he was called that. There could be buried

treasure on this land! <g>

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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:54:02 -0800

From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>

Subject: Fwd: NORTON ANTIVIRUS EMERGENCY NEWS BULLETIN - VIRUS ALERT!

Just as I suspected, Norton's Antivirus Research Center predicts that the

remainder of 1999 will see us flooded with virus iterations. What is it

with these hackers? There has to be a special pit in Hell just for virus

code writers! This is NOT what I wanted for Christmas....

The real pooper about this announcement is that we've got a

mIRC-transmittable version now. I'm glad I don't accept files from other

users via mIRC.....

>December 7, 1999

>_____________________________

>THIS IS A VIRUS ALERT ON W95.BABYLONIA and on W32.HLLP.Soft6.

>W95.Babylonia should be considered DANGEROUS!

>W32.HLLP.Soft6 is of lesser risk.

>Monitor the site

>http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/vURL.cgi/nav25

>for notice when the virus definitions have been updated and for full

>details on W95.Babylonia. Updating for one will protect you from BOTH

>viruses!

>**** PLEASE NOTE:

>SARC anticipates that the rest of 1999 will be rife with new, highly

>destructive viruses. Please be aware that Symantec will continue to

>post notices of the most destructive viruses so you may better

>protect yourself. The best protection is to update your definitions

>at least weekly, if not daily. ****

>DESCRIPTION OF W95.BABYLONIA

>W95.Babylonia was discovered on Dec 6, 1999. The virus was created by

>a member of the 29A virus writing group. It was originally posted to

>an Internet news group as a Windows Help file named serialz.hlp, and

>appeared to be a list of serial numbers for commercial software. When

>this Windows help file is launched, it will introduce the virus into

>the computer system. Symantec AntiVirus Research Center (SARC) has

>received over 20 submissions of this new virus as of Dec 6, and

>believes it to be spreading rapidly worldwide.

>W95.Babylonia is a very complex virus that propagates mainly to other

>computer users via MIRC. MIRC is a text based communication

>application used to chat over the Internet. When an infected user

>logs onto MIRC, it will automatically send the virus to everyone

>within the same MIRC chat room as the infected user. The virus will

>be sent as a Y2K bug fix. Once this file (Y2K bug fix) is executed,

>it will infect other 32-bit EXE program files as well as Windows Help

>files.

>The virus will try to modify the system to display the following

>message when booting the infected computer:

> Greetz to RoadKil and VirusBuster

> Big thankz to sok4ever webmaster

> Abracos pra galera brazuca!!!

> ---

> Eu boto fogo na Babilonia!

>The virus will also send an email to babylonia_counter@hotmail.com to

>track infected computers.

>The most interesting part of the virus is the ability to download the

>viral components of the virus from the Internet. When the virus is

>executed, the virus will wait for an Internet connection. When it

>detects that the computer can access the Internet, it will download

>several files from a web server in Japan. Because the virus has such

>capability, it is possible for the virus writer to update the virus

>centrally.

>RECOMMENDATIONS/PROTECTION:

>* Download new definitions set. This will be available late

>December 7, 1999, through Symantec's LiveUpdate feature or from the

>Symantec Web site at www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html.

>****

>DESCRIPTION OF W32.HLLP.Soft6

>W32.HLLP.Soft6 is a Windows NT specific worm that propagates over

>Windows NT networks and displays a large message "Hi 2000!" on the

>screen. This message is very large and very noticable. SARC believes

>this worm probably cannot spread to different corporations quickly

>because it only spreads via network and does not spread via email.

>Remember, monitor the SARC site for info on W95.Babylonia. When

>updates are ready, updating for one protects you from both.

>****

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