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knoxcotn-digest Sunday, March 11 2001 Volume 01 : Number 125
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 20:29:54 -0500 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Tuckahoe people are driving me nuts! Today, I went with my sister to the McClung Collection and the Knox County Archives to research her husband's families. She's found Joseph and Margaret Smith, George Nathaniel King and Sarah Smith, some Doans, some Hancocks, and others in his lineage. Is there **anybody** (besides you, Phyllis <g>), who is working on these people? They were in Tuckahoe, primarily, but I saw Hancocks at Seven Islands on the 1895 map of Knox County today. We think the George King who purchased 178 acres straddling the line in Knox and Sevier Counties from Oliver Runyon in about 1868 is her guy. Does Oliver belong to anyone here? I did find some interesting little tidbits -- not her people, but others, that I plan to share. For instance, a Henry L. Smith got a Martha Smith pregnant in 1868 or so. They were hauled into Knox County Court on criminal bastardy charges. He wouldn't pay to keep the child up, so the bondsmen had to -- a John Smith testified against Henry. I wrote down the bondsmen's names, if anyone's interested. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 07:47:01 -0800 (PST) From: Imogene Wells <rwellsiwells@excite.com> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE
_______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:18:07 -0500 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] "Cookin' with the Coopers" This is an interesting article about a family history/cookbook combination that might be of interest to some of our readers: http://www.knoxnews.com/entertainment/food/24992.shtml
Subscribe/unsubscribe commands are at http://www.peak.org/cgi-bin/majordomo?knoxcotn:rootsquest.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:18:18 -0500 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Walker researchers -- wake up! <g> Have y'all seen this? http://www.brumm.com/genealogy/walkers_moyers/index.html I happened across it today. They've got Walker connections to rotcheer, including http://www.brumm.com/genealogy/walkers_moyers/certificates/19thCenturyKnoxCoTennMarriages.html
Subscribe/unsubscribe commands are at http://www.peak.org/cgi-bin/majordomo?knoxcotn:rootsquest.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:43:39 -0500 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Tennessee Genealogy Taxation -- it's possible, no joke I'm normally apolitical on genealogy lists. But, last night I attended our local community club meeting where we had a speaker on Tennessee Tax Reform. If you don't want to read on, hit delete. And, if you want to complain about this message, write to me personally so you don't kludge up the list: mailto:knox@tngenweb.org We, as Tennessee genealogists, have got a problem. The legislature is considering a bill at this time to reform our sales tax laws. If this bill is passed, we'll have taxes on professional services (like genealogical researchers, hairdressers, and morticians). We'll have taxes on services provided by local governments -- like copies or inter-library loans at the local library, not to mention your utility bills. We'll have to pay taxes on film rentals at the LDS Family History Centers. Churches, genealogical societies, and other non-profit organizations will no longer be exempt from paying sales taxes. You know the vans that take elderly people around to their doctor appointments and the grocery store? The fare paid for those trips will be taxable! Essentially, everything you consume -- direct purchase or service - -- will be taxable if this law passes. There's much more, but these are the high spots that affect us as researchers directly. Please write to the governor and legislators to express your utter disgust at this proposal. And help spread the word on your family and regional mailing lists. The Governor: mailto:dsundquist@mail.state.tn.us
Subscribe/unsubscribe commands are at http://www.peak.org/cgi-bin/majordomo?knoxcotn:rootsquest.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:08:07 -0500 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] 11 Mar 2001 Sunday Afternoon Rocking Déjà vu (from the Sunday Afternoon Rocking series) My husband and I sat in a restaurant casually enjoying an evening meal…when I saw him. My thoughts connected with those of thirty years past, and I stared in amazement at the back of the elderly gentleman passing me. He sat at a booth within my line of vision. A lady who was probably his daughter, another more than likely a granddaughter, sat with him. I fought with myself, wanting both to take a casual trip by the booth and look him in the eye, and wanting at the same time to maintain the illusion presented to me from the back of this man's head in passing, from his profile at the booth. The thin white hair was the same, the shape of the head the same. The build of the body almost exact, and the soft shuffling of feet past my table as I had so often heard it a lifetime ago. He was my grandfather…or he could so well be. When I saw him pause to publicly but quietly pray before his meal, I lowered my eyes in respect, both to his prayer and to a memory. When I saw him push a napkin into his collar before eating, tears flooded my eyes. Yes, he was indeed my grandfather, or could so well be. When we left the restaurant, I could not stand it…I had to look. No, he was not my grandfather. His eyes were brown but not the same. His smile was kind, but it was not my grandfather. I resisted an impulse to hug him, and thank him…for just a moment giving me the illusion that a long ago time had returned and a special person in my life was there again. I returned his smile, and went on my way. It has happened to me before. I have seen my "father" sitting in a hotel lobby of Chicago, glimpsed my "grandmother" strolling down a street…shamefully lowered my eyes when caught staring at "an uncle". For just a moment sometimes, strangers can unwittingly give us a glimpse of memories past and never realize that they are in fact, a mirror image in passing of a memory buried long ago in all but our hearts and minds. It has happened to me before. I have driven down a strange road, done a double take, and driven a bit more slowly past a house that reminds me of a long ago home place. For just a few moments, I could imagine I was in the same place of long ago, a place that no longer exists except in a heart. The landscape was not the same…but the house could be, and I painted the landscape around it with memory, and then was on my way. I have stood in an antique mall and run my hands gently over furniture like that I remember that beloved place. I have had my vision cloud for a space in time, and seen it sitting somewhere else, heard echoes of activity around me that took place long ago, returned to the present to slowly walk away. Sometimes the reminders are not from strangers at all. I never look at a cousin without seeing a photograph of a grandmother taken in her youth nearly one hundred years ago. I wonder sometimes if my cousin notices that at times I am slow responding to her questions or that I seem to be seeing someone else. I never see the back of my son's head without thinking of my father. He does not know I sit and watch sometimes as he crosses a room. A cousin once said to me, "Jan, you will never die as long as your daughter is in the world." and I know what they are seeing when they look at her is a long ago me. And far from being hurt by such reminders, it seems to bring a bit of comfort. Déjà vu. Just a thought, jan Copyright ©2001JanPhilpot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Note: Afternoon Rocking messages are meant to be passed on, meant to be shared...simply share though e-mail as written without alterations...and in entirety. If planned for a publication, permission must be granted by the author. Please forward sufficient information concerning the nature and intent of the publication. 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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