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knoxcotn-digest Tuesday, January 25 2000 Volume 01 : Number 051
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:59:56 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] 100 years ago My gene cyberbuddy, Judy Phillips, shared this: A Hundred Years Ago -- (From a book called "When My Grandmother Was a Child" by Leigh W. Ruttledge, which begins, "In the summer of 1900, when my grandmother was a child...") The average life expectancy in the United States was forty-seven. Only 14 percent of the homes in the United States had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars. There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was ten mph. Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the twenty-first most populous state in the Union. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower. The average wage in the US was twenty-two cents an hour. The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year. A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2500 per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5000 per year. More than 95 percent of all births in the United States took place at home. Ninety percent of all US physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard." Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound. Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo. Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason, either as travelers or immigrants. The five leading causes of death in the US were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza, 2. Tuberculosis, 3. Diarrhea, 4. Heart disease, 5. Stroke. The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet. Drive-by shootings -- in which teenage boys galloped down the street on horses and started randomly shooting at houses, carriages, or anything else that caught their fancy, were an ongoing problem in Denver and other cities in the West. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty. The remote desert community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families. Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered yet. Scotch tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day. One in ten US adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school. Some medical authorities warned that professional seamstresses were apt to become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm, hour after hour, of the sewing machine's foot pedals. They recommended slipping bromide, which was thought to diminish sexual desire, into the women's drinking water. Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of caffeine. Punch-card data processing had recently been developed, and early predecessors of the modern computer were used for the first time by the government to help compile the 1900 census. Eighteen percent of households in the United States had at least one full-time servant or domestic. There were about 230 reported murders in the US annually. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:25:25 EST From: DCMowery@aol.com Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Joseph H. Crockett Joseph H. Crockett was a Knoxville alderman in 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864. Does anyone know if there would be a book or someplace of record that might have info on aldermen or public officials of that period? Had to ask! Donna ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:50:50 -0800 From: pcosta@pacbell.net Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Joseph H. Crockett "Heart of the Valley" Published by the East Tennesse Historical Society DCMowery@aol.com wrote: > Joseph H. Crockett was a Knoxville alderman in 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864. > Does anyone know if there would be a book or someplace of record that might > have info on aldermen or public officials of that period? > > Had to ask! > > Donna ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:41:45 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Brickwall: Liles Family - 1800's - NC -> Roane/Knox County For some reason, this message bounced -- please respond directly to Sandy at <sandy12035@prodigy.net>. (Ocasionally, your ISP will add something hidden to your e-mail address when you're writing to a list server -- that causes messages to bounce and gives you trouble unsubscribing later.)
What a great idea. My Knox County Related Brick Wall is: Who are my grandfather's parents? Who are my gg-grandfather's parents and where in North Carolina is he from? I would also like to know if Eliza is the daughter of Adam Huffman and if she is buried at Hickory Creek also but I will settle for the first two for now. Otherwise I would love to hear from anyone who is related to these families. My gg-grandfather, James Liles was born in North Carolina in 1803. He was in Roane County in 1830 with wife Mary "Pollie" Kimbell and daughter Rebecca Liles. Mary died in or before 1842 because James married from for the second time to Eliza Huffman in 1842. James died in 1881 and is buried in Hickory Creek Cemetery in west Knox County. My grandfather was Sanders Leeper Liles and he was born in 1870. He was on the 1880 Knox County Census in James' household and listed as James's grandson. I don't know who his parents are. He told a son that his mother was Sallie Liles and his father was a Brooks. I don't know who James Liles parents are. There was a James Liles living in Knox County in 1830 and 1840. From the names listed around him, I believe this James Liles lived in what is now west Knox County, maybe close to Everette Road, or Smith Road off Kingston Pike. This would put him close to Hickory Creek where my gg-grandfather James and his family ended up. I haven't found anything on the Knox County James after 1840. There was a John Liles who married Nancy Soward in Anson County in 1790 and moved to Roane County about 1812 that I feel is also related to my gg-grandfather but I can't find any proof. Nancy had children by her first husband, William Soward that moved to Knox and Roane County when they came to TN. Some of her descendents either attended what was then Hickory Creek Baptist Church or are buried in the cemetery there and they are listed next to my gg- grandfather of several Census. Children of James Liles One daughter, Rebecca, married before 1850. She married a Ralph Purkyhill on October 21, 1847 in Knox County. They moved to Blount County after 1850. Rachel Miverva Liles married Richard Yarnell on November 25, 1852 in Anderson Co, Tennessee. Buried in Zion Baptist Church Cemetery. Elizabeth Liles may have married David N. Ward on December 28, 1858 in Blount County, TN. Amanda Caroline Liles married John Luttrell Mead on August 18, 1851, in Kingston, Roane Co, TN. They migrated to Missouri. Louisa Clementine Liles married David Kather Bunn on October 30, 1854 in Roane County, Tennessee. They moved to West Virginia. Mary Margaret Liles married first Wiley Beets and second Elijah Bishop. She is buried in Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, TN. Peterson M. Liles married Mary Elizabeth Ross on March 17, 1880 in Anderson County, Tennessee. They lived in Clinton and he was a doctor and had a drug store. Young children buried at Old Clinton Baptist Church Cemetery in Clinton. He may be buried there also. Benjamin Liles I believe died in 1863 the Civil War in Nashville. William Elbert Liles married Malinda Dever and they moved to Missouri Sarah Liles - I have no information after 1880. James S. Liles married Miverva Overton and raised my Grandfather and his two sister, Martha and Nerva. Theodosia "Cordie" Liles - I have no information after 1880. Listed as idotic on the census.
1880 Census Knox County: Liles, James (76) farmer NC; Eliza (68) TN; Sarah (38) daughter TN; James S. (27) son TN; Manerva (20) daughter-in-law TN; Cordie (16) daughter TN; John (5) grandson TN; Fennette (1) granddaughter TN; Sanders (7) grandson TN. (K-376 )
Sandy (Liles) Fine Loudon Co, TN ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:46:45 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Roddy, Haston From another list (guess she didn't realize there's a text file of Knox County marriages on-line for anyone to download!):
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:17:50 PST From: "sherry mirkovic" <sherrylynn90@hotmail.com> does anyone on this list have access to Knox Co marriage records and would be willing to do a lookup? I have an ancestor named Margaret ( Peggy) Roddy who was born in NC 28 Sep 1785.According to one of my cousins, she married David Haston in Knox Co TN on 5 May 1800. Since some of his facts have been incorrect so far, I really want to check this one out. Thanks, Sherry ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #51 ***************************** |