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knoxcotn-digest Thursday, August 10 2000 Volume 01 : Number 124
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 23:10:10 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Brummett Cleaning out mail boxes -- forgive me if this is a duplicate. Correspond directly with James, if this is your family!
>From: "James Pederson" <jhpeder@soback.kornet.net> >Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 19:03:36 +0900 > > I'm researching the Brummett (All Spellings) family of Knox and = >Anderson County. My 5G-Grandfather was John Brummett and his wife was = >Mary. They had 5 children that I know of including Caswell Carroll (m. = >Charlotte Harless), Stacy (m. John Bookout, Moses Bryant), Alfred, = >Louisa (m. Callaway Alderson), and my 4G-Grandfather The Rev. Calvin = >Brummett (m. Martha Goins, Cindarella Moore). > >James Pederson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 23:08:49 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Perry Cleaning up mail boxes -- if this is a duplicate, please forgive me! Send responses to Margaret.
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:03:41 -0700 >From: Bob Freemon <"freemon@ili.net"@ili.net> > >Hi, >Is there anyone out there that has information on the >Perry family of Knox, Claiborne and Union Counties. >I have just found my g-aunt Mossie who married Hawkinks >Johnson in Knoxville in 1913. Her Father was Andrew born >about 1849 in Union.Had children Emma,Henry, Ester Edith, >Lou Verna,Mossie, Isaac Lonzo and James >I would like to know when Mossie died and where. >Does anyone know this family. >If so please get in touch. >Thank You >Margaret---freemon@ili.net if reply might have to use >freemon@ili.net@ili.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 23:10:52 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Johnson Cleaning up mail boxes -- if this is a duplicate, please forgive me! Send responses to Margaret. >Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 19:10:21 -0700 >From: Bob Freemon <"freemon@ili.net"@ili.net> > >I am trying to find if a Mossie and Hawkins Johnson >are listed in the Knox census for 1920. >Margaret ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 10:30:29 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] 06 Aug 2000 Sunday Afternoon Rocking With all the rattling in my own family closet, this one was particularly pertinent! Remember, Jan does not mind if you want to forward her messages to others, as long as you forward them intact and with credit to her. ============================================================== "Skeletons in our Closet" (from the Sunday Afternoon Rocking series) Afternoon All, I have been thinking these days a great deal about the "skeletons in our closets". Most of us, as we walk the paths of adulthood, learn of more than a few of these. And most of us, who have delved into genealogy long, learn of a few more that perhaps even our elders did not know of. I have remembered, with some humor and a trace of sadness at the reaction, how I first uncovered a "family skeleton". I could have been no more than eight years old, but old enough to add and subtract. At a family gathering, listening to the elders reminisce about first one relation of long ago and then another, it occurred to me that something simply did not make sense. And in the innocent, but open frank way of the young, I pointed out that if a father died shortly before the birth of a first child...then how on earth did he have a second several years later? To this day I can remember the hush that accompanied my question, the red face of more than one elder, a few stammers, and an abrupt change of subject. One would have thought I had said the words "toilet paper" in mixed company! Many years later, I would ask one of these elders, abruptly and with no warning, who the father of that second child really was, and because the elder was taken by surprise, I received the answer...later again denied. Oh my! Delving into genealogy has been quite an experience. In the way of most who begin this journey, I was not only looking for a past to connect to, but also wondered what illustrious folks might be hidden along that journey. I found a few. I also found more than a few who were less than illustrious. Most were simple pioneers or dirt farmers, who left nothing on the written pages of history, nor even a marker to prove they had ever been. Some were those who left things behind that were less than something to be proud of. Some were committed to causes that built a country, more than a few gave their lives for that cause. Some were wealthy, most were poor. Some were educated, most were not. Some were of "society", most knew no society other than hard work and hard living, and neighbors who knew only the same. I can point to no American history book and say, that is the name of a grandfather or a grandmother of mine, but I can point to almost every event in an American history book and say "my folks were there". And typically, as do most who begin the journey of searching for family past, I have come to the point of embracing them all, truly believing that the illustrious of the family tree are no more important to the march of civilization and my own identity than the less than illustrious, and even the infamous. The vestiges of skeletons we may find, their bones bleached and lying in the closet of our family past...but the flesh of them we will never know. What made a person act as he did, react as she might....what made an event unfold as it seems...but may not be at all, those are questions that will not be answered and are not ours nor history's to judge. The voices that could speak for them, lend substance to their errors, or pronounce those not errors at all, are at best echoes, and perhaps even that has died away. And so we take what we find, and we try to flesh it out with what we know, or can imagine. And perhaps we turn from the result and slide it under our piles of notes and records, unwilling to let it be known again or passed on through the generations. Perhaps those yet live who can be hurt by this, and so, understanding the secret is not ours to choose to reveal or not, we hold it sadly, but in silence. Or perhaps we take what we have made from brittle bones of secrets, and pass it on as yet another story, yet another lesson, that may in its own way serve to provide a foundation for a history yet unfolded. Whatever...they are ours, the skeletons. They are ours as surely as the illustrious, the well lettered, the well mannered, those of whom society sanctions the right to be proud. They are ours, and whatever it was that happened in a long ago past did not fail to touch those who lived the times, nor those who were touched by those who lived the times. And so it is, I embrace them all, some in silence recognizing the secret has not yet become one that belongs collectively, and some openly, for they can no longer harm. Embrace them all. They are all ours. We are what all of them have given us the chance to be, and what all of us have chosen to retain. just a thought, jan Copyright ©2000JanPhilpot .________________________________________________ (Note: Afternoon Rocking messages are meant to be passed on, meant to be shared...simply share as written without alterations...and in entirety. Thanks, jan) Sunday Afternoon Rocking columns are distributed weekly on the list Sunday Rocking. This is not a "reply to" list, and normally only one message per week will come across it, that being the column. To subscribe send email to Sundayrocking-subscribe@egroups.com _________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 06:38:49 EDT From: KAT3946429@aol.com Subject: [KnoxCoTN] DAVIS If anyone in Knox County is researching the DAVIS family, would you please let me know. I haven't been able to find my great grandmother's family and I'm hoping someone might have some information. Elizabeth Jane DAVIS was born May 02, 1855 in either Claiborne, Knox, Anderson, Union or surrounding counties and died January 15, 1909. She is buried in Milan Cemetery (Union County, I believe). Thanks so very much. Nina (kat3946429@aol.com). To unsubscribe, send message TO majordomo@rootsquest.com with this text: unsubscribe knoxcotn ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #124 ****************************** To unsubscribe, send message TO majordomo@rootsquest.com with this text: unsubscribe knoxcotn |