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knoxcotn-digest Sunday, July 30 2000 Volume 01 : Number 122
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:23:40 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Our Robert's a celebrity! Knoxvillians listen in... WRJZ Radio (www.wrjz.com) at 620-AM has asked Robert McGinnis, our list's resident Knox County history guru, to do a live, call-in show about Knox County and area history every other Friday from 5 pm to 6:30 pm. I will do my best to tape it for those who don't live in the area. Those who do live here, TUNE IN and CALL IN! The more people who call in, the more likely they are to keep this going. They have an e-mail link -- I wonder if they'd take e-mail questions? Hmmmm.... Now I have to figure out how to make the sessions available to Robert's fans without violating all kinds of copyright laws. Off to consult the lawyers <boo>. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:28:30 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] A couple of virus-related questions... Some of our list members have written me personally to say their system caught the virus-encoded message and dumped it. Once that's occurred, you should still do whatever dumps the deleted messages from your mail program (in Eudora, it's called "Empty Trash") -- you can still go in and retrieve messages from the trash bin on most mailers. Then, go to your desktop and right-click on your recycle bin. Empty it. Once that's done, you should be free from any possible contamination inside your own machine. BTW -- it's a good idea to empty your recycle bin once or twice a week, just to keep your "house" tidy. Otherwise, it will just continue to grow and consume your drive space.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:34:24 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] DIGEST subscribers IMPORTANT Do NOT open today's digest. Delete it. Contact me for missing messages. Today's digest got out before we could delete it. It has a virus-encoded message in it, and you won't recognize it before you open it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:34:58 -0700 From: Peg Winkel <pwinkel@swnebr.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] unsubscribe unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:10:53 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] A tale of log cabins, Cherokees, and a rescue mission In 1793, Robert Gentry built a log cabin in the Southwest Territory. Since then his cabin has kept watch over the French Broad River in what is now the Oak Grove Community of Jefferson County near the Cocke County border. The cabin survived the Civil War, economic development, termites, and tornadoes. TVA didn't flood it when Douglas Dam closed. US Highway 25 and Interstate 40 both spared it. Sadly, the new owners of the Douglas Lake Campground, within which the cabin is located, want to build a house right on the cabin spot. Enter Tom Gentry (yay!), publisher of the Standard Banner newspaper in Jefferson County. Tom, who doesn't believe he's related to pioneer Robert, rescued the cabin from destruction by purchasing it from the campground's owners. But, the cabin had to be moved quickly -- that was the big issue. In a wonderful stroke of divine intervention, Knoxville's James White Fort Association voted to acquire the cabin from Tom Gentry and move it to the fort's site in Knoxville. JWF is the commemoration of the settlement of Knoxville. It is full of period cabins and other artifacts. Robert Gentry's cabin is the perfect answer to a wish that JWF has had for a long time. The fort site wants to construct a cabin in the style that a Cherokee cabin would have been built and furnished about the time of Tennessee statehood. The logs from Gentry's cabin will work beautifully. Heritage Log Homes (hurray for them!) has donated some replacement logs, and they are going to help JWF tear down the cabin and prepare it to move. The cost to JWF for procuring this cabin will be around $3000-5000. It must be done quickly in time to meet the landowners' deadline. Then there is the cost of furnishing the cabin so it's in keeping with the pre-statehood Cherokee style. Now you're wondering -- why is Billie telling me all this? Well, I want to see how many of us are really dedicated to preserving Tennessee's pioneer history. If you can spare $1 or $100 (or more <g>), please help fund this effort by sending a donation to James White Fort Association 205 E. Hill Ave. Knoxville, TN 37902 Donations to JWF are tax-deductible. If your company has a matching gift program, please be sure to let them know of your donation. If you'd like your gift kept anonymous, be sure to let them know -- I plan to put up a "thank-you" web site with all the donors' names on it. And, please feel free to forward this to any surname or geographic discussion list where it is appropriate. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:25:53 EDT From: Smith1977@aol.com Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Smiths of Knox Co. Hello everyone, My name is Barry F. Smith. I have lived in Chattanooga, TN all of my life and I have been searching my family tree for 1 year. I have been able to trace my family to Knox Co. before 1795. I have a copy of the Knox Co. will of my gggg-grandfather, John Smith, dated that year. His wife's name was Jan e, and his children were, Nancy, Sally, Joseph, John, Robert(my line), William , David, Jesse, Henry, and Betsy. They lived on Beaver Creek near the present day community of Karns. As you can imagine, it has been difficult to find some additional info on these individuals. Henry it seems became a Mormon, so his decsendants are a little easier. Robert and Mary had, at least, three sons, George, John, and Adam Franklin(my line). Adam married Jan e Smith (I am really having fun!! Honest), daughter of Alexander Smith and Ca therine Lowen. There is an younger A. F. Smith listed in several census lists and as Justice of the Peace for several weddings. A. F. Smith and his wife Fanny are buried in Beaver Ridge Cem. I know A. F. is related, I just haven't made the connection yet. Robert married Annie Elkins in 1834 after the death of Mary. They had two sons, Robert Jackson, and James, I am also looking for Tindells, Garrisons, Pyatts, Elkins, Kirkpatricks I would love to trade info with anyone who may recognize any of these names. Thanks In Advance Barry F. Smith ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:45:28 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Small correction to the tale of log cabins, etc. I was so excited at the news that I made a booboo in my earlier message. It's not Heritage Log Homes that's donating the logs and helping with the move -- it's HOMESTEAD, which is right across the river from the cabin. So, hurray for Homestead! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 11:20:35 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] This will make your day! Robert McGinnis transcribed about 300,000 Knox County burials in the late 1970's and early 1980's. He's continued to update and add to the listing. Many of you may be familiar with the card file at the McClung Historical Collection in Knoxville, which contains the bulk of Robert's work. Well....strap yourself in so you won't jump out of your chair <g>. With the kind assistance of Mr. Jerry Dill, system administrator of the server where the Knox County TNGenWeb site is housed, we are now able to begin making an index to the transcriptions available on-line. Yep, you read that right: ON-LINE. We have almost 19,000 of the 300,000 inscriptions indexed so far. Please bear with us -- it's a time-consuming effort! When you search, you will be given the surname, given name(s), and cemetery. You can order the full transcription of the cemetery from Robert via a link on the site. After you use this search engine, please send a note to Mr. Dill to thank him for his assistance in getting this up. He can be reached via the server's website: http://www.rootsquest.com Are you chomping at the bit yet? <g> Here's the URL for the Knox County Cemeteries Website: http://www.knoxcotn.org/cemeteries/ And, feel free to spread the word as far and wide as you can! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 13:39:48 -0500 From: Marian Dunlap <mdunlap@effingham.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] (no subject) unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:35:31 -0500 From: "Jeanne M. Bornefeld" <jeanneb@fwi.com> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Re: Say Hello Thank you for your post. I am interested in your Hawkins line. I am trying to find anyone who is related to my Hawkins line. I first find my ancestor in Anderson Co. in 1811 serving as a Sworn Chain Carrier in the survey of land for Edward Hawkins of the same place. The land is registered in the 4th surveyors district, Roane Co. Also, there is an older man in the same place as Edward and Aaron, and that is Mathew. Have you heard of these people? Thanks, Jeanne. > ball2mm wrote: > > Hello: > > I have been doing genealogy since the 1996 First Families BiCentennial > Celebration Project. I knew the family had never lived anywhere else > that they talked about, only East TN. What an enjoyment to find > ancestors and meet family I never knew had existed. I am not an > expert in any field, but love to share what I have been able to > locate. > > Moser, Mathes, Lane, Brown, Maskall, Howard, Donohoo, Weir, Glenn, > Poindexter, Pettitt, Eakins, Jenkins, Hawkins, and Givens in > Washington, Jefferson, Greene, Grainger, Sevier, Cocke, Blount, and > Monroe. We are newcomers to Knox County but have been here since the > late 1800's and early 1900s. > > My husband has Jefferson and Sevier County lines of Ball, Atchley, > Mount, French, Cate, Koontz, Williams, Hodge/Hodges, Sasseen, > Rutherford, Duggan, Campbell, Fine, McNabb. Most of these lines are > from the Jefferson and Sevier Counties and were in the area when it > was NC. Our primary location is Dumplin Valley and Piedmont. > > Williams ancestors are my newest discovery. Clementine Williams > married William O Mount and they are buried in Dumplin Cemetery. I > have just discovered her parents Elisha Houston Williams and Martha > Hodges. The Williams are Welsh. > > I hope someone will recognize some of these names and write to me. My > address is Ball2mm@msn.com > > Marilyn > ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #122 ****************************** |