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knoxcotn-digest Wednesday, July 12 2000 Volume 01 : Number 108
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:30:16 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Moore and Terrell I have discovered among our paper inventory a letter from James Terrell, Jr., to his sister, Mrs. Ethel Moore, 1819 Maria St., Knoxville, postmarked 1941. Is anybody working on this family? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:36:49 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Every Day in TN History for July Uploaded One of my favorite things on the Web is James Jones' Tennessee History Resources site at http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Bluegrass/2867/ Of particular interest is the monthly installment of "Every Day in Tennessee History." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:35:07 -0700 From: "Marilyn Montgomery" <mjmontgo@worldnet.att.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] How to unsubscribe This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_00FB_01BFEA73.A9A58980 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can someone tell me how to unsubscribe to this list? Thank you! Marilyn Montgomery - ------=_NextPart_000_00FB_01BFEA73.A9A58980 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; name="Marilyn J Montgomery.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Marilyn J Montgomery.vcf" BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Montgomery;Marilyn;J FN:Marilyn J Montgomery TEL;HOME;VOICE:(480) 491-7571 TEL;HOME;FAX:(508) 664-0310 ADR;HOME:;;1530 E Beacon Drive;Gilbert;AZ;85234;United States LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=3DQUOTED-PRINTABLE:1530 E Beacon = Drive=3D0D=3D0AGilbert, AZ 85234=3D0D=3D0AUnited States URL:http://www.montbarc.com EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:mjmontgo@worldnet.att.net REV:20000710T203507Z END:VCARD - ------=_NextPart_000_00FB_01BFEA73.A9A58980-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:56:34 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] EXCELLENT land history site for TN researchers Forwarded from Fred Smoot -- this site is more than excellent. Thanks to Carole Hammett for the research. >Greetings all, > >We have added a new project to The Land of Our Ancestors. > >"Squabble State" > >http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/squabble/ > >This is "work in progress" and we expect to add more as we find it. > >Carole Hammett is the main force behind this Squabble State work. > >Fred Smoot >SC, TNGenWeb Project ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:32:01 EDT From: Ltfarmgirl@aol.com Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Jesse Knott Since this group has been more active in recent months, I thought I'd ask again: is anyone familiar with Jesse and Ellen Knott who moved around 1880 from NC to Knoxville where they raised a large family. Ellen died between 1910-1920. Jesse died in 1932. I'm looking for descendants. One son, Robert Lee Knott, moved to Bristol and then Abington, Virginia. Pattie Arwood ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:19:54 -0400 (EDT) From: TeddyB_52@webtv.net (Terri Jurca) Subject: [KnoxCoTN] John Brown and Martha Gilpen I need some help here. I have conflicting information. I had thought we had established that our John C. Brown (son of John N.Brown& Sarah Wood Brown) had married Mary (Polly) Wells Smith in Cumberland Co. Now I am seeing querys about John C. having Married Martha Gilpin in 1858 in Knox Co. I NEED to know which is correct!! Can anyone in KNOX CO. tell me anything about the Gilpens..... when did they arrive here ( on account says AFTER 1850) and then they show up in Anderson and Rhea Co's. Listers, are there anyone out there that has any GILPINS in their tree ANYWHERE. Is there anyone out there that knows anything about the Martha Gilpin/John Brown marriage ???? I suppose that I need to go to the archives and try to get that liscense and/or bond. If it/they are signed and/or wtnessed by any of my KNOWN Browns then I guess that will tell me what I want to know.... maybe........There were so MANY John Browns that I dont know if I will ever get them sorted out. Robert, ifyou are reading this....do you have ANY information on GILPINS in Knox Co. ~1858 ???? I do so need some help here.!!!!! The more I think I know the more confused I get......HELP !!!!! Need feedback NOW before I go nuts over this !!! Waiting anxiously to hear. Terri Brown Jurca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:17:29 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Fwd: Preview of Coming Attractions. >"Tennesseans in the Revolutionary War" > >http://www.tngenweb.org/revwar/ > >This Special Project is not linked from our main page yet, but it will >be as soon as Carole Hammett gets all her little ducks in a row. <g> > >Fred Smoot >SC, TNGenWeb Project ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:28:44 -0700 From: "J. C. Tumblin, OD" <sleepy6@mailhub.icx.net> (by way of "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>) Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Knox County Pest House Dear Webees: When I noticed the recent information on the Knox County Poor House, it occurred to me that someone might be wondering about the Knox County Pest House. To my knowledge there are few sources for information about dread diseases in Knox County during those early days of medicine, but Dr. Platt's History of Knox County Medicine has a number of references. Does someone have more information on the Pest House when it was located at the Senator Williams property out Dandridge Avenue? Also, those who had ancestors who were early physicians in the county might want to check the book. I will be glad to do look-ups. Dr. Platt, during his lifetime, was largely responsible for keeping the Academy of Medicine in the James Park house functional and the small museum there displayed his instruments. It is sad to read that the Park House (across from the old Post Office Federal Building in Downtown Knoxville) is for sale. The James Park who was minister of First Presbyterian during the Civil War grew up there. =======================Excerpts===================== THE PEST HOUSE (Excerpts from "Medical Men and Institutions of Knox County, Tennessee [1789-1957]", Samuel J. Platt, Mary L. Ogden, Knoxville, Tennessee 1969): P. 79a: Photograph of "Pest House, 1903-1925)" P. 89: ...There were two pest houses at the old Fair Grounds in 1883, one for white and the other for colored. They both burned in 1883. ... In 1890 the pest house was located on 118 acres at the side of Lake Ottosee (now Chilhowee Park). Smallpox was light in 1891 and no alarm was felt. Those few quarantined had nothing to do but sit around, or sing and dance until 10 o'clock at night according to the report of one guard. P. 91-92: The smallpox pest house and detention camp in 1899 were on the river below the A K and N Railroad Bridge. The railroad asked that they be removed because workmen on the bridge and the passengers in the trains passing by the camp complained of the noxious odors arising from the pest house. When the city delayed in moving the pest house the railroad threatened to take the matter to court. Dr. Coile replied to the railroad that if the suit were not pressed, immediate steps would be taken to move the site. By November, 1900 two new buildings for the pest house were completed in West Knoxville. Later four more pest houses were built and a large hospital tent was used as a laundry for the patients. Dr. J. C. Carter was in charge of the pest house. ... Four hundred persons were cared for in he pest house and detention camp for the first nine months of 1901. ... The Southern Railway in January, 1902 asked the Board of Public Works to remove the pest house and detention camp on its property west of the city. In March, 1903 another outbreak of smallpox threatened. The Sanitary Commission of the Board of Mayor and Alderman and the Health Department of the city chose a site beyond Chilhowee Park for a smallpox camp. They leased about 60 acres. Two buildings costing $1,500 were to be ready in a week. They were required to be built 100 yards or one-fourth miles from any residence. P. 94: The option on the land upon which the smallpox camp was located expired February 26, 1904. The city purchased the 61 acres for $6,000 since they had $4,000 invested in the buildings and equipment. The pest house had an excellent location one mile north of Chilhowee Park. P. 96: In June, 1911 there were complaints about the poor conditions at the hospital. Dr. H.A. Smith condemned the pest house at a City Council meeting, saying that it was no fit place to go. ... In September, 1923 a short report on the pest house with a picture of the buildings appeared in the newspaper. P. 108: There was another called meeting November 23, 1882, to discuss smallpox quarantine against Chattanooga, and the advisability of buying a place for a pest house. All present advocated buying the Jackson property (Senator Williams property?) for a hospital. P. 124: Dr. A.G. Kyle, city physician, reported on April 24, 1923 that the city pest house as a breeding place for disease and smallpox, he suggested that an annex be built to the Knoxville General Hospital for contagious disease. ... but it was not until 1928 that the contagious unit at Knoxville General Hospital was built to care for all contagious disease. Jim Tumblin, O.D. <sleepy6@icx.net> ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #108 ****************************** |