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knoxcotn-digest Thursday, September 14 2000 Volume 01 : Number 129
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:35:06 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Join us in doing something nice for this man... A friend of mine who forwarded this to me confirmed with the VA Medical Center that this is legitimate. The man's party is Sunday, the 17th. So, time's a-wastin'! Tell everybody you can...and remember it requires that we involve the US Snail...no point and click <g>. ========================================================== I received a message from the Community Relations Resource Center at the Biloxi, VA Medical Center, Biloxi, MS about a disabled veteran's upcoming birthday. What's so special about a disabled veteran having a brithday? Normally, it just goes to prove the theory that the disabled veteran is still entitled to his earned compensation from the Veterans Affairs. But in this case, he is a very special disabled veteran, as on September 20th, 2000, he will celebrate his One Hundred Twelveth. Yep, you seen those numbers correct. . . 112, that's a one followed by a one and a two (also called a twelve)! I was just thinking how great it would be if everyone would take a moment and send this long surviving veteran a special birthday card to brighten his day. So, how 'bout everyone sending a birthday card to: John Painter c/o Administration Service136BC Alvin C. York Medical Center 3400 Lebanon Pike Murfreesboro, TN 37129 . . . AND, how bout sending this on to your family and friends so they can join in the celebration. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:36:15 EDT From: RMcgi81640@aol.com Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] FW: Weekly site search report Hi List, I have just finished another volumne of Funeral Home Records for the Knoxville Area and will have a search database on-line by the middle of October. This book is for the Carl R Roberts Funeral Home 1914 - 1919 and contains over 2,000 listings. It is available for purchase by writng me at 1425 Glenoaks Drive, Knoxville TN 37918 at a cost of $12.00 including shipping and handling. A database for the Hall & Donahue Funeral Home should be available around the first of October. Also I have decided to take a two week vacation away from my computer from Saturday September 16 through Monday October 2. I will not be reading or answering e-mail during this time and will stay off the computers as much as possible, (They have consumed my life lately). Thanks to all of you! Robert McGinnis ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:23:29 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Is this Corryton School? I've uploaded a picture that I'm trying to identify. It might be Corryton School around 1910-1920. Please take a look and see if you can help us figure it out. Feel free to pass this along to anyone who might be able to help. http://www.knoxcotn.org/schools/wyrickpic/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:52:48 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Corryton School, 1915 I have uploaded a photo of Corryton School taken in 1915. If you can identify Grandpa, Gramma, or Aunt Sallie, please let me know... http://www.knoxcotn.org/schools/corryton1915/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:01:28 -0400 From: Daffadil <daffadil@alltel.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] RE: REMOVE MY NAME FROM LIST Please remove my name and addy from your list.. I have not been able to do it.. Thanks, ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:28:03 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Thanks to Robert...again! Our Robert McGinnis and Mrs. Ruby Zachary Coram, the Corryton historian, identified the possible Corryton school photo. Not only that, Mrs. Coram has graciously agreed to give us some history of the school and a list of all the people in the photo -- except for nine who are unidentified! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:01:26 -0400 From: Keith and Paula Griffin <dwec@charlotte.infi.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] schools in Corryton My grandfather, Paul Clapp, was born in 1909, and raised in Corryton on Washington Pike Road. He died in an accident when my mother was 12. Would he have gone to this Corryton School? What high school would he have attended? Paula ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:28:28 EDT From: Rosiemae@aol.com Subject: [KnoxCoTN] FOUST family from Knoxville TN Looking for info on the William Bartley Foust family from Knoxville TN. William was born 05/01/1890 and married Della Hall born 06/13/1883 in Knoxville 08/08/1909, I am lookign for information on Della's parents and siblings. Is anyone else researching this family? Thanks, Sharon E ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:49:09 EDT From: RMcgi81640@aol.com Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] schools in Corryton Paula, Yes your Grandfather would have probably attended Corryton Elementary School, both at the one in the picture and at the present school building on Corryton Road. The building in use now was built in 1922. The Clapp family is very old in this section. If he went on to High School he would have most likely attended Gibbs High which still serves the community today. Robert McGinnis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:40:08 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] If you're in Knoxville October 14... Please plan to go hear our Robert McGinnis in a friendly debate with Jack Neely, the author of Knoxville history pieces for Metropulse magazine and a couple of books. The debate will be downtown. I hope Robert will post details when they're available. Sadly, I won't be able to be there! I'm planning to attend the first-ever get-together of Ramey researchers that day. <pout> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:15:11 -0400 From: Keith and Paula Griffin <dwec@charlotte.infi.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] schools in Corryton Thank you, Barbara, Billie, Robert and the other person who answered me (I don't have your name). My mother looked through her things last night and found a 1911 textbook that belonged to my Uncle Clyde (who died at age 92 this past May in Corryton) with GHS written in it, so he and my grandfather must have gone to Gibbs High School. She does remember that her family lived in Knoxville two times, around 1939 and 1950. In 1939, her father was a teacher at Gibbs High School, and she thinks also the basketball coach, although he was only about 5'5" tall. And in 1950 he was the principal at Mascot School. The doctors did not realize my grandmother was pregnant with twins in 1939, and kept restricting her diet so she wouldn't gain much weight. As a result my mother only weighed 4 pounds at birth, and then caught pnuemonia at 6 weeks. She was the first person given sulfa in Knox County - the doctor had to have it brought in and took it to her at home. (He said no use taking her to the hospital - she could live or die at home.) I have sent her and my aunt the picture of Corryton School to see if my grandfather or great uncle are in it. Thanks again for all the help. Paula ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #129 ******************************
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