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knoxcotn-digest Thursday, December 30 1999 Volume 01 : Number 033
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:09:29 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Fw: Internet operators have security worries on top of Y2K Dang! Not eBay???? What will we do for a good time? <g> Forwarded for your reading pleasure. Please note that I'm math-disabled, but I do know we count from 1 to 100, so I disagree with the notion in this message that 1999 is the end of the millennium. However, I'm growing tired of fighting it. To paraphrase the US Naval Observatory site, "It's only a number anyway." I like Disney's attitude -- celebrate all year long! It will take us a year to celebrate a whole millennium.....
**************************************************************************** > Posted at 12:22 p.m. PST Wednesday, December 29, 1999 > > NEW YORK (AP) -- Web site operators and people who run computer systems > will be watching for more than the Y2K bug on New Year's Eve: They will be > on guard for viruses and other mischief spread by hackers looking for some > start-of-the-millennium attention. > > The threat has prompted several Web site operators to shut down > beginning on Friday. For some companies, security breaches could cause > greater problems than Year 2000 glitches. > > ``We are anticipating that there will be some increase,'' said Kathy > Fithen, manager of a group that monitors online security threats at Carnegie > Mellon University in Pittsburgh. ``We are anticipating some of the intruders > will try to masquerade the attack as a Y2K failure.'' > > At least three viruses are timed to hit on Saturday and could delete > files on infected computers. Five other viruses that struck earlier > pretended to be Y2K fixes or New Year's greetings. Anti-virus companies have > distributed software updates to kill those viruses, but new forms of attack > are possible. > > Security experts said many virus writers and hackers might consider the > start of the new millennium -- when the world will be worried about computer > problems anyway -- a chance to get a lot of publicity. > > Widely available automation tools could help hackers crash Web sites by > flooding them with too much traffic. Or an intruder might change a Web page > or subtly redirect traffic to a fake site that proclaims the end of the > world. > > Besides the security worries, heavy holiday traffic and isolated Y2K > outages could clog the Net. Leading Internet companies will run a command > center in Washington in conjunction with President Clinton's Y2K team. It > will watch for problems. > > The FBI will run a separate center to watch for security breaches. > > The Internet is relatively new and constantly evolving, so there is > little outdated, Y2K-vunerable equipment to worry about. And the Internet > was designed by the military to withstand attack. Even if portions go down, > traffic could still flow through other channels. > > But Barbara Dooley, president of the Commercial Internet Exchange > Association, said sporadic problems are likely. Phone and power problems > abroad, for instance, could make portions of the Internet inaccessible to > U.S. computers. > > Sites ranging from eBay to the New York Botanical Garden plan to shut > down during the century change. Some are doing so solely out of concern for > power interruptions and other Y2K malfunctions, while others cited security > threats as well. > > Broward County, Fla., will prohibit public access to its county > databases and bar employee access to internal e-mail accounts to keep > viruses from spreading. The Web site of the U.S. Office of Personnel > Management will carry only a greeting from its director. > > Not everyone shares the concerns, though. Wal-Mart picked Jan. 1 to > launch its redesigned Web site. > > > Address of original story: > http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/072068.htm > > > ************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 10:56:16 -0600 From: motesp@hiwaay.net Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Isaac SMITH - Charles Jackson HAMRICK - John FOUST - Charles HOBSON Good morning Knox County Researchers. The last time I came to the list with a "problem" I received a lot of wonderful help. So now is time for more questions. I have an Isaac SMITH, born 12 Jun 1756 in Albemarle County/Parish, VA (based on his 17 Jun 1756 baptism records). He died before 1831 in Lincoln County, TN (based on a DAR application - granted not the best of sources <G>). At some point between he married a lady named Mary and lived in Knox County, TN. Is anyone researching this particular SMITH? He was the son of Elizabeth COLLIER and Josiah SMITH - and this is a collateral line for me. Also, any clue where a CSA soldier who died in Knoxville would be buried. I have Charles Jackson HAMRICK who was born about 1842 in GA - died 6 Jul 1862 in Knoxville. He died of "fever." He was listed as Jackson Hambrick on the 1850 Carroll County, GA census. He was in the 1st Regiment, Company H, Georgia Cav. Next I have Charles HOBSON, son of Rebecca MARSHALL/MARSHILL and George HOBSON. Charles is said to have been born in Knox County on 1 Jan 1809. I don't know what happened to him. George and Rebecca may have married in Knox County in 1802 - again I have no credible source. Other children in the family were Thomas, Sarah, and Anna - probably older than Charles - I have no information about them. Then there's Joshua, b. 23 Feb 1812 in Knox County. Finally there were Jesse, George, Rebecca, William, and Margaret. The Hobson parents moved to Henry County, IN where they died in 1846 and 1851. I'm really curious about how long they lived in Knox County. Finally, I have John FOUST, b. 26 Mar 1744 in Berks County, PA. He is said to have died in Knox County in 1818; I cannot document this and would like to find a source. According to the book "Faust-Foust in America" he married Anna Maria Eulis, but this book isn't well documented and provides few sources. I've never found evidence of this marriage (so clues there would also be helpful). Another source claims he married Anna Maria CLAPP in 1765 in Orance (now Alamance) County, NC. They are said to have immigrated from NC to TN in 1788. Now, there is very little in common with these folks - except me. George HOBSON was the son of Sarah BECK and Charles Hobson. Their daughter, Hannah, married Jonathan McMASTERS. Hannah and Jonathan McMasters had a son named John who married Charity FOUST, the niece of John Foust listed above. So those do sorta tie together (in what my husband laughingly refers to as "a Pat sort of way"). I am the great great great great granddaughter of Hannah Hobson and Jonathan McMasters of Randolph County, NC/Lawrence County, TN and great great great granddaughter of Charity Foust and John McMasters. Pat motesp@hiwaay.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:26:24 -0500 From: "J. C. Tumblin, OD" <sleepy6@mailhub.icx.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Re: Charles Jackson HAMRICK, Burial Site >Also, any clue where a CSA soldier who died in Knoxville would be buried. >I have Charles Jackson HAMRICK who was born about 1842 in GA - died 6 Jul >1862 in Knoxville. He died of "fever." He was listed as Jackson Hambrick >on the 1850 Carroll County, GA census. He was in the 1st Regiment, Company >H, Georgia Cav. Look at the Bethel Cemetery UNDER the Mabry-Hazen House in Knoxville... ...their WebSite is under KORRNET (which your browser will find), then "Culture" or "Historic Sites," then Mabry-Hazen. You can get the address there (Dandrige Avenue) and write or call them (ask for Elizabeth). They have the roster by states/regiments/name and can see if he was buried there. Many who died of disease in Knoxville were buried there. Sometimes they were in Cummings or Asylum Hospital at time of death, but no one has found rosters of those hospitals. I will help more if this doesn't do it for you! Jim Tumblin Past-President Knoxville Civil War Roundtable ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:25:18 -0600 From: "W & J Germann" <wgermann@flinthills.com> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] My Knox County Family - Love Dear listers, I am searching for more information on the family of Samuel Love Sr, who died in Knoxville in April 1826, "an old and respected citizen" per the newspaper. His second wife was Mary (Polly) Smith. Who was his first wife? Was she a Perry? Samuel listed 7 sons in his will, all of whom were by his first wife. He and Polly had no children. In his book on the Lyle and Wear families, Oscar Lyle showed a son of John Love and Nancy McSpadden as the son of "Samuel Love and Miss Perry." We know for certain he was son of John and Nancy. Did Lyle make a mistake and list the grandparents by accident? If so, who is "Miss Perry?" Could her first name have been Margaret or Rebeckah? In Samuel's will he left to several granddaughters named Margaret and Rebeckah (although, there were other granddaughters with those names who were not so favored, and a lot of other granddaughters who were not mentioned at all.) Is this a clue that those names had special meanings? (We believe Samuel is son of Joseph Love and Mary Teas so they are not named for his mother.) Samuel's son Isaac Love, born 1782 in TN (Possibly Knox Co?), married Phoeba/Phoebe Connelly/Conley about 1810. Where did they marry, and whose family is she from? I find Isaac in Rhea county in several records until the mid 1820s. In 1830, believe he was in Vermillion County IL, and by 1840 was in (present day) Maries County, MO (then Pulaski County MO). Both died and are buried there. The only reference I find to her family is in a Goodspeed's history on one of her grandchildren which says her "father was a wealthy East Tennessee slaveowner." Not much to go on! There is an Olivia/Olivey Conley who married Robert Rhea in Knox County ca 1809. Some years later Isaac and Phoebe had a granddaughter living with them named Olive. Is this a clue? Are Phoebe and Olivey sisters? I'm hoping for a "millenium miracle" - that someone out there will recognize them and be able to break down this wall for me. Happy new year to all of you -- Judy Germann ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #33 ***************************** |