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knoxcotn-digest Tuesday, September 26 2000 Volume 01 : Number 134
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:45:19 EDT From: CKey558122@aol.com Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Salem Bapt Church/Beaver Dam Baptist Church Does anyone know where or if there are any church history books on the above churches in Knox Co in the mid-late 1800's. I have found much useful info in the past in some other church histories regarding some of my ancestors who were early members. Thanks for any help on this, Carol ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:12:52 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Efficient, effective Web searching This is one of the best sites I've found for a tutorial on web searching: http://www.albany.edu/library/internet/search.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:32:56 -0400 From: Greenshields <greenshields@mindspring.com> Subject: RE: [KnoxCoTN]: strange question about "Leonodis" I have a question about a given name that I had thought might be peculiar to my family (WEBSTER, QUALLS in East TN), but have recently seen pop up in other researchers' information. The name is "Leonodis/Leanodis" and I've seen it in the timeframe of the early 1900s. Any history buffs out there who might know where/how this name originated? Thanks Jeanne Rainey Greenshields ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:29:21 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Is anyone interested in a reprint? I have recently acquired a very good copy of the souvenir program book from Knoxville's Sesquicentennial (150th birthday) celebration in 1941. It's kinda interesting. It's 8.5" x 11", with 50 pages of text and photos. It's got some ads from local businesses. The cover is red, white, and blue with an aerial shot into downtown from somewhere over what's now Cherokee Bluff Condominiums on the river. If we have enough interest in this, I'll talk to someone about scanning and reprinting it. I can't tell you the cost until I have an idea how many we could print. I'd guess it will be $15-20 per booklet maximum. Eventually, I want to put the names from this booklet on-line, but you won't get the full effect in the free version...<g> If you think you'd be interested, please write to me personally so I can get a rough estimate. You won't be commiting to anything...just a handcount of those potentially interested right now. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 19:13:47 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Keener researchers This will be of interest: Our site "Ellis Keener Connections" has really grown over a few months time. We are hearing from others researching the Keener name and although we have kept our searches mostly in North Carolina and for me personally, GA. We are finding more and more ties to Tennessee, especially Knox County, that I am excited about. And you have Keener cousins? Well come on over to our web site and send them also, I hope we will find we have a definitely connection going back to Peter Keener of abt 1750 who married Susannah Lowe in 1780. A lot of this family moved to the West Coast and we don't have much on the line. particularly in source data. I think that is mostly what we need. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lynda77/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 08:25:37 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] 24 Sep 2000 Sunday Afternoon Rocking Sunday Afternoon Rocking ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For those of you who have already read this, I apologize. My mind is not on the creation of another Sunday Rocking piece today, and nothing I have written previously seems to fit. And so I share with you a tribute I wrote for an elder my family said good-bye to this week. Writing my memories seemed to help me tell her good-bye, seemed to comfort others of our family...and I hope that others of you will do the same for those elders you too must say good-bye to one day...I think you will find it healing. -jan Memories of Aunt Kay (from the Sunday Afternoon Rocking series) She was the "family glue". She was the dispenser of laughs and good humor. She was the kitchen wonder who could have a "spread on the table" faster than an unannounced visitor could walk from the drive to the back porch. She was the listening ear that all members of the family shared their secrets with, and knew those secrets would go no further. Her phone rang at all hours, and folks dropped in at any time...she knew no strangers and anyone she met she managed to turn into a friend. Hers was the home with all the little comfort nooks...great cushy chairs here, rockers there, swings here, little corners inside and out her home that invited a person to simply curl up...relax. Hers was the home so comfortable that my father, when needing a break, would come to her house and dare her to tell anyone else in the family he was in town until he had rested and was up to "visiting". She was the one who would, with sparkling eyes, tell you your visit to her was "better than a dose of medicine", when in fact, you knew it was quite the other way around. Today my aunt's laughter was finally silenced. The aunt who cuddled with me forty years ago in a great soft feather bed and lulled me to sleep with "fuzzy wuzzy bear" stories...the aunt who for years was my escape from the stresses of young motherhood and a demanding career...the aunt who listened to my secrets...who naughtily shared a smoke....who charmed my children with her "red" room and "blue" room and "lavender" room....the aunt who never forgot to have on hand my children's "favorite treats"....the aunt who was the "family glue" has moved on to another family. Typically, she handled her illness with stoicism, laughing in the face of it, refusing to accept it, never speaking of it or inviting talk of it, pushing herself to the limit and giving to her family right up until there was nothing left of her to give. Pleasant aromas drifted from her kitchen until she could no longer stand long enough to cook, and her welcome rang out to an open back door long after she was able to walk to greet visitors. My Aunt Kay's body died today. But nothing else about her did. I have no doubt her laughter is ringing as she is herself welcomed as she spent a lifetime welcoming. And there is no doubt that the many of us, family and friends, who were comforted in her warm cheerful presence will keep her alive, revisiting many times the memories she made for us. "Come in here!" she would say laughing, greeting me at the door, "And what do you mean...staying away so long??" Well, Aunt Kay, I don't suppose I was ever "away"... your presence has warmed me all of my life, whether I was physically in it or remembering it when I was away...and now you are away...and your presence warms me still, and always will. Goodbye, dear aunt...till we meet again. Love, jan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (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@topica.com Comments about the content of these messages can be sent to unicorn@sun-spot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:06:35 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Sevier County Federal Pension Recipients in 1882 I've just uploaded the table with this listing at http://www.tnhillbillie.net/tn/sevier/1882pensioners.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:50:43 -0400 From: "Fred Hagan" <fredecho@techcomm.net> Subject: [none] subscribe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:58:40 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Search inquiries on Knox County site Look at this list -- what a lot of activity this week! Be sure to put up a query on the Knox County TNGenWeb site if you've got one of these surnames and haven't entered one yet! http://www.knoxcotn.org > Top 50 Keywords > --------------- > From: Sun Sep 17 00:00:00 PDT 2000 > To: Sun Sep 24 00:00:00 PDT 2000 > (Not including common words such as "the") > > Count Keyword > ----- ------- > 17 walker > 13 william > 12 cash > 11 census > 11 harris > 9 vaughn > 8 brewer > 6 mitchell > 6 tenn > 6 king > 6 rutherford > 6 marriages > 6 george > 6 monroe > 5 grady > 5 bowman > 5 english > 5 parker > 5 cem > 5 witt > 5 family > 5 sharp > 4 kelly > 4 weems > 4 anderson > 4 crawford > 4 1810 > 4 weaver > 4 charles > 4 indian > 4 funeral > 4 islands > 4 margaret > 4 campbell > 4 seven > 4 norris > 4 evans > 4 keener > 4 bartholomew > 4 davis > 4 berry > 3 clayton > 3 clarinda > 3 genealogy > 3 cochran > 3 chumlea > 3 john > 3 walkers > 3 holliday > 3 denton > Most Recent Queries > ------------------- > > Day Time of Query Query > --- -------------------- --------------- > Mon Sep 25 11:34:38 2000 gilliam's station > Mon Sep 25 11:33:37 2000 gilliam > Mon Sep 25 11:31:10 2000 gilliam s station gilliam's station > Mon Sep 25 11:30:09 2000 gilliam > Mon Sep 25 11:01:31 2000 boaz > Mon Sep 25 10:45:14 2000 "mollie long johnson" > Mon Sep 25 10:16:44 2000 blair, william and blair, john > Mon Sep 25 10:14:08 2000 blair, william and blair, john > Mon Sep 25 09:51:39 2000 "bordelon" > Mon Sep 25 09:50:49 2000 "oscar joseph bordelon" > Mon Sep 25 09:48:22 2000 "death certificates" > Mon Sep 25 09:00:27 2000 grisham > Mon Sep 25 08:58:25 2000 gresham > Mon Sep 25 08:47:14 2000 grissom > Mon Sep 25 08:45:13 2000 mayo > Mon Sep 25 08:42:59 2000 pursley > Mon Sep 25 08:36:44 2000 barnard > Mon Sep 25 08:03:40 2000 greenlee > Mon Sep 25 07:57:34 2000 craig > Mon Sep 25 07:55:00 2000 craig > Mon Sep 25 07:54:24 2000 craig > Mon Sep 25 07:50:35 2000 craig > Mon Sep 25 05:01:18 2000 new prospect > Mon Sep 25 05:00:35 2000 cemeteries > Mon Sep 25 04:59:52 2000 cemeteries > Mon Sep 25 04:59:38 2000 cemeteries > Mon Sep 25 04:55:40 2000 cemeteries > Mon Sep 25 04:45:22 2000 henderson > Sun Sep 24 22:00:42 2000 rhea > Sun Sep 24 21:58:46 2000 rhea > Sun Sep 24 21:54:11 2000 lea > Sun Sep 24 21:48:19 2000 lea > Sun Sep 24 20:49:56 2000 lucas > Sun Sep 24 19:51:21 2000 hess > Sun Sep 24 19:49:39 2000 shadden > Sun Sep 24 19:06:56 2000 robert lucas > Sun Sep 24 19:04:14 2000 robert larry lucas > Sun Sep 24 18:34:34 2000 compton > Sun Sep 24 18:15:48 2000 sarah mcclain > Sun Sep 24 18:06:38 2000 sheridan massey > Sun Sep 24 18:04:34 2000 sarah mcclain > Sun Sep 24 17:38:09 2000 daniel baldwin > Sun Sep 24 16:33:32 2000 bristol > Sun Sep 24 16:32:03 2000 mulvany > Sun Sep 24 16:11:59 2000 robinson > Sun Sep 24 16:09:42 2000 robinson > Sun Sep 24 15:24:48 2000 archives > Sun Sep 24 14:37:50 2000 dyer > Sun Sep 24 13:31:35 2000 tipton > Sun Sep 24 13:29:37 2000 tipton > ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #134 ******************************
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