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knoxcotn-digest Sunday, March 26 2000 Volume 01 : Number 075
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:41:15 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Hardwood mill near Knoxville? Hi, Tracy! Welcome to our list. We had a number of mills operating in Knox County prior to the Civil War. I have recently completed transcription of a directory of some Knox County businesses in 1860-61, but I don't have the HTML done and ready to upload. Watch for it to appear on our website soon. This appears to be something you paid to be included in. Y'all should bookmark and periodically check out our Knox County TNGenWeb Updates page to see what we've added recently. We don't always remember to make an announcement! <g> The URL is http://www.knoxcotn.org/updates/ Back to indexing....<g>
At 04:07 PM 3/22/00 -0800, Tracy Bretz wrote: >Hello, > >I am new to the list, and am hoping that someone can help me. > >First of all, my question of the day is this: Does anyone have any >information on the existence of an Oak Hardwood Mill near Knoxville before >the Civil War? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:51:44 EST From: VEWhite@aol.com Subject: [KnoxCoTN] SWAN - PA to Knox Co. TN I am a descendant of Margaret Jane L. SWAN, b. 1816 in Knox Co. TN. She married Daniel Ragan HOOD in Feb 1835. Supposedly she was a sister of James Denny SWAN, who married Daniel Ragan HOOD's sister Isabella Jane HOOD. Supposedly they were children of George SWAN and Elizabeth GRAHAM of Knox Co. TN, but I still haven't been able to verify this. George SWAN was the son of Joseph SWAN (1715-1806) and Catherine DENNY ( - 1818) of Letterkenny Township, Franklin Co. PA and Knox Co. TN. Margaret migrated to Cherokee Co. AL ca 1845. Her brother James died in Knox Co. TN in 1862. His widow Isabella supposedly moved to KS to live with one of her married children (not sure which one), but several of her children did move to Cherokee Co. AL and Isabella may have lived there prior to moving to KS. My descent from Margaret Jane L. SWAN is through her son William T. HOOD of Blount Co. AL. I would appreciate any help verifying this SWAN ancestry.
Vickie Elam White ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 01:12:46 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Exciting updates! We have a bunch of wonderful ladies on this list, and I want to thank them and let you all know what they're doing for you. They're transcribing a mountain of material for our Knox County TNGenWeb site....and doing it faster than I can get it scanned to send to them! If my schedule permits, you'll see some new and wonderful info on-line very soon. Also, we've been converting burial info to a database format for on-line searchability. The data is from Robert McGinnis' cemetery transcriptions, which are available for purchase. What you'll get on-line is the ability to search for a name and find out what cemetery the individual was buried in. It will be a few weeks before that's functional (we have a database person working on it for us, and she has a real job that keeps her busy at times). But, we know you'll just love it! Eventually, we estimate that there will be 285,000-300,000 people in the database. Completion of the conversion will take several months, but we'll be adding to it almost daily once it's up-and-running. Off to do some more work now.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 06:45:39 -0500 From: Linda <doyi@mailhub.icx.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] How can we get Cem Trans. How do we go about purchasing a copy of Mr. McGinnis' cemetery transcriptions? Thanks, Linda ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:16:20 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] A big "thank-you" to each of you I've recently seen samples of all the yuck going on on many mailing lists right now. The only analogy I can think of is that, if they were driving down the road in their cars, they'd be shooting at each other out the windows. For some reason, the appearance of anonymity that comes with e-mail makes some people say things they would never say in person or on the phone to others. All that makes me very proud that our list is filled with polite, caring, and helpful people who want to promote local and family history research, not get into a whizzing contest or hurt others' feelings through selfish behavior. I often wish we had more activity on the list; otherwise, I think it's perfect! And that's because of you. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:35:20 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] 25 Mar 2000: Sunday Afternoon Rocking Yesterday I saw two quilts that left me speechless. One was a beautiful, old, "crazy" quilt that had odd shapes, colors, and patterns all fit together like pieces of stained glass -- much like the one described below. The other was "new" -- each symmetrical, square block contained a screened photograph from the photo album of a rightfully proud couple, showing the progression of their lives during nearly 51 years of marriage. Both of them were extraordinary in their own right, and each one moved me just as much as the other. Jan's musings today are particularly well-timed for me. ================================================================== From: "j" <unicorn@sun-spot.com> Bound by Common Threads (from the "Sunday Afternoon Rocking" series) Afternoon All, There hangs upon a wall of my home a quilt, sewn with tiny stitches by hand so many years ago I have no idea how long it was. It was created by my own grandmother and because she has been gone more than half a century and began her days as a wife and mother early in the 1900's I can put a forty year span on when it may have been created. It is carefully stitched, and only by hand, and because I know her circumstances, I know that many of those stitches must have been made by the light of an oil lamp...for she never lived with electricity. That in itself is a source of awe for me, imagining this young chestnut-haired woman bent over the bits and pieces of fabric on long winter evenings, imagining a slight frown now and then, or a slight smile as she looked over what she had completed. But the bits and pieces of the quilt itself are yet another source of wonderment, for as I look at them, I realize that what I am seeing is far more than the practical coverlet originally intended...and I wonder if that thought crossed her mind as she made it. My grandmother began her marriage in Victorian days, and photos of that time period show her in skirts to her ankles, modest and "proper" blouses that buttoned at her throat and wrists. She lived to raise five children, and she lived to see styles very different. I am well aware that none of those bits and pieces that make up this quilt were "store bought" for that purpose, but instead salvaged from what little clothing the family had as it became unwearable, or likely, from the tiny bits and pieces left from making that clothing. And what I am looking at as I see that quilt with all of its tiny pieces, is in actuality as surely a documentation of a family's history and past as any deed, marriage record, will...and perhaps more so. Nothing on the tiny scraps tells whose clothing each piece was cut from, or what that person may have experienced while they wore it....but each scrap is evidence of a piece of daily living that is not documented and no longer survives in any other way but that quilt. I look at this plaid and wonder if it was from a grandfather's shirt as he worked and sweated over the livestock and planting on his meager farm. I look at this faded but sky blue fabric and wonder if it once swaddled a newborn infant nestled in a big iron bedstead in the family's "birthing room". I look at this floral pink and wonder if it were cut from a feedsack that was used to make a daughter a dress to wear to the church house down the road. And could this red polka dotted fabric have been worn in a spirit of lively fun to a barn dance? This black fabric...might it have been worn to bury an elder in the cemetery on the hill above the homestead? ... and so the wonderings can go on for hours...each small piece an invitation to explore the past, an invitation to try for just a space in time to understand the years that are gone...and each one a tangible evidence of something this family lived with intimately in the daily mundane activities of their lives that are not recorded in any courthouse, any church minutes, any family Bible....but were, just the same as familiar to them as my own tablecloth is to me. If these days I were to create a quilt (and although I fully admit the skill will not be an easy one for me, I intend to do so), I would as I stitched each tiny piece, think lovingly of when it was a part of a piece of clothing worn by a family member. I would as I stitched each bit of fabric, see pictures in my mind of the person who wore it...and when. Much more than just careful attention to the length of each stitch, the care that there were no puckers...I think many stories would unfold in my mind, and my heart would both sing and cry as I stitched. And so, I think, it was the same for my grandmother. Within that faded and somewhat ragged quilt she must have stitched many loving thoughts, many caring memories as she worked. She was a mother and a wife...and because I too have known that experience...I suspect that quilt is much more than just a practical coverlet, and for her if for no other of her immediate family, always was. As it would have been for your own ancestors who created those quilts. And too, I believe, it is evidence that we all, no matter when in time we lived, like quilts...are bound by common threads. just a thought, jan c2000janPhilpot ________________________________________________ (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: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 09:25:16 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Fwd: New Knox Co. info on-line >From: "Ron Evans" <rpevans@att.net> >To: <knox@tngenweb.org> >Subject: Knox Co. info >Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 09:44:56 -0500 > >Hi Billie, > >Just uploaded "History of Powell" and "Tombstone - Glenwood Cemetery" to my >web site (still proofreading the tombstone files a little). Thought you >might want to link these to the Knox Co. GenWeb page. >http://rpevans.home.att.net > >Didn't see any links to local Genealogy Societies, but if you add any, >please consider the Pellissippi Web site. I've been hosting it for almost a >year. http://pghs.home.att.net > >Look forward to seeing your presentation at the Pellissippi Workshop. > >Thanks, >Ron Evans >Powell, TN ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #75 ***************************** |