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knoxcotn-digest Friday, February 11 2000 Volume 01 : Number 058
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 16:35:44 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Rule's Standard History of Knoxville going on-line The nearly 600-page book, Standard History of Knoxville..., edited by noted journalist William S. Rule and published in 1900, is being transcribed for the Knox County TNGenWeb site. The first installment, "Transportation," is complete. Please visit http://www.knoxcotn.org/history/rule/ Rule's history includes a lot of regional, and even interstate, historical information. We are adding lots of material to the Knox County site almost daily -- come visit us often! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:39:32 EST From: VEWhite@aol.com Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Knox Co. TN records Have the Knox Co. TN tax lists been published in book form yet? If so, does anyone here have access to the book? I'm interested in the period from 1792 to 1822. Also, have Knox Co. TN will abstracts or at least an index been published? I have Greene Co. and Blount Co. books and would be willing to do lookups in exchange for help.
Vickie Elam White ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:20:18 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Knoxville in Olden Time, from Harper's Weekly We've added another short historical sketch of Knoxville/Knox County, dated about 1880, to the Knox County TNGenWeb site. Please visit http://www.knoxcotn.org/history/harpers.html We are adding lots of material to the Knox County site almost daily -- holler if you have anything you'd like to share! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:33:45 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Knox Co. TN records Hi, Vickie! Some have, but many haven't. Some were done in book form, and some were done in the publications of the East Tennessee Historical Society and other organizations. You won't find a complete list of tax records for Knox County from the early years. As a matter of fact, a handful of lists from the mid-1850's has just recently been uncovered. Thanks for sharing the lookup offer! At 05:39 PM 2/9/00 -0500, VEWhite@aol.com wrote: >Have the Knox Co. TN tax lists been published in book form yet? >If so, does anyone here have access to the book? I'm interested >in the period from 1792 to 1822. > >Also, have Knox Co. TN will abstracts or at least an index been >published? > >I have Greene Co. and Blount Co. books and would be willing to >do lookups in exchange for help. > > > >Vickie Elam White > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:41:55 EST From: VEWhite@aol.com Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Knox Co. TN records In a message dated 2/10/2000 1:36:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, knox@tngenweb.org writes: > Some have, but many haven't. Some were done in book form, and > some were done in the publications of the East Tennessee Historical Society > and other organizations. You won't find a complete list of tax records for > Knox County from the early years. As a matter of fact, a handful of lists > from the mid-1850's has just recently been uncovered. > Thanks for the info.
Vickie Elam White ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:08:48 -0500 From: iwells <iwells@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> Subject: [KnoxCoTN]Researching Wilkerson, Pearson, Cline, & Givens Hello everyone, I am Imogene Givens Wells and live in east Knox County. I have been researching my family roots since 1997. My Knox County families are: Wilkerson (Major, father of Claiborn) Pearson (Thomas & Frances Flin, mother & father of Lucy Ann who married Claiborn) Harley & Luster Sharp Cline (father & mother of Margaret, Edward & Otis) Thomas Givens & Caldonia Lydia Mize, father & mother of Raymond, James, John, Samuel, Arthur & Julia(Bivens)and Walter Mize (half brother to Givens). Any help would be appreciated. I haunt the McClung collection quite often. Thank you, Imogene Wells ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:59:48 -0500 From: "Sandy Fine" <sandy12035@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN]Researching Wilkerson, Pearson, Cline, & Givens Hi Imogene, I'm not related but my gg-grandfather, James Liles, is listed close to a Major W. Wilkerson on the 1850 Roane County Census. Both are buried at Hickory Creek Cemetery, in West Knox Co. Is this your Major Wilkerson? Sandy
- -----Original Message----- From: iwells <iwells@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> To: knoxcotn <knoxcotn@rootsquest.com> Date: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:26 AM Subject: [KnoxCoTN]Researching Wilkerson, Pearson, Cline, & Givens
>Hello everyone, > >I am Imogene Givens Wells and live in east Knox County. I have been >researching my family roots since 1997. > >My Knox County families are: > >Wilkerson (Major, father of Claiborn) >Pearson (Thomas & Frances Flin, mother & father of Lucy Ann who married >Claiborn) >Harley & Luster Sharp Cline (father & mother of Margaret, Edward & Otis) >Thomas Givens & Caldonia Lydia Mize, father & mother of Raymond, James, John, >Samuel, Arthur & Julia(Bivens)and Walter Mize (half brother to Givens). > >Any help would be appreciated. I haunt the McClung collection quite often. > >Thank you, >Imogene Wells > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 01:33:36 -0800 From: Knox County Roots <tnknox@wdbj.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Invitation to new subscribers (and quiet old ones <g>) A while back, we had a great time sharing our research brick walls on the list. Please take a few minutes to write a message to knoxcotn@rootsquest.com and let us know yours. You never know who might be out there waiting to read it! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:01:12 -0500 From: doyi@icx.net Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Brick Wall Mine crumbled just a bit thanks to our wonderful cemetery historian, Mr. McGinnis! Mine are Cox and Jackson: John Cox ba 1862 in Tn., d 1928 in Knox Co. Tn. Parents unsure. Married Mary Catherine Jackson on Apr. 19, 1894 in Knox Co. Tn. Mary was b 1865-1870 in Tn.? and died in 1950 in Knox Co. Tn.. Mother unknown and father is John A. Jackson. Children of John and Mary: Pearl b 1895, Bula b 1897 (died young), Joe b 1899, Crit b Jan. 1903, Charles b Dec. 1903, Luke, Ella, Jennie S., and Maggie. Thanks, Linda ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:45:37 EST From: Tenc@aol.com Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Hopson, Bunch, Wells My Knox County lines came to the county from Claiborne, Grainger & Union in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Would love to hear from any HOPSON, we are clearly kin. My earliest known in this line are Harrod HOPSON and wife Sarah BUNCH who came to East Tennessee about 1800. My brick wall is Martha "Patsy" Wells, b. about 1824, married James Hopson in Claiborne Co on Oct 24, 1844. They are my great great grandparents. I believe that I have proved that this Martha doesn't belong to any of the Wells families who were in Claiborne from 1830 on. She may have come from Lee Co VA, or, although only 20 when she married James, she may have been married before, in which case Wells would have been her first married name. Some transcripts of the Claiborne Co Marriage records call her Wills or even Mills. I've looked at the original record and I do believe that it's Wells, just bad handwriting and ink blots. My great grandfather's death certificate, evidenced by my grandfather, says his mother was Martha Wells. P G Fulkerson, early historian of Claiborne County, says that James Hopson's wife was Patsy Wells, but unlike some of his accounts he doesn't name her parents. This may mean she was not a 'local'. Nancy ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #58 ***************************** |