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knoxcotn-digest Wednesday, April 25 2001 Volume 01 : Number 151
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:53:08 -0400 From: Vickie Elam White <102657.1616@compuserve.com> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Article about searching the Ellis Island records Message text written by "Billie R. McNamara" >If I had a wish, it would be to be able to search for residence location. I'd love to know how many people from the tiny village from which my grandparents-in-law came migrated to the US during the period covered by the records.< I agree 100%!! I think that being able to search by residence is much more useful than by age, which is an allowed category. I have written to suggest that, but who knows what will happen. I also agree with you that the similar name search is bizarre. It would be much more useful to select exact name, close name, or similar at the very beginning of the search rather than after. And the transcribers seem to have had lot of trouble reading handwriting, or understanding old style handwriting. Something very simple like an L and an S looking similar threw them for a loop! I looked for records I have actually seen myself, so I know what the original document looked like. Definitely poor transcriptions in most cases. I found a woman who was probably my great-grandmother but not her husband. I don't know if she came over alone or with family, but it seems unusual that she'd come over before her husband. I didn't find anyone who could be him until about 5 years after, so he may have gone back to the homeland and was returning to America on that trip. Anyway... I'm glad we have this database, but it does need some fine-tuning.
Vickie Elam White ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:51:56 -0000 From: "Mark B." <markb222@hotmail.com> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] "Confederate burying ground," Knoxville? <html><DIV>Dear List Members,</DIV> <DIV> Wondering if someone might be able to help me locate a cemetery transcription, if one is available, for CSA soldier John Price, first husband of my gggrandmother Sallie Tabitha (maiden name unknown), whose compiled military service file I recently found. According to the file, he was a member of the 25th Alabama Infantry, Co. I, and died on October 26, 1862 in the "Court house hospital" in Knoxville. The pension file of her second husband adds that this John Price is "buried in the Confederate burying ground at that place" (Knoxville). I notice from the Knox County website that there is a Confederate cemetery on Bethel Ave. Could this be the "Confederate burying ground," and does a transcription of its headstones exist? Also, if anyone has any thoughts about what other records may have been generated by his death and burial in Knoxville, I'd be delighted to hear from you. Many thanks!</DIV> <DIV>Sincerely,</DIV> <DIV>--Mark</DIV><br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p></html> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:09:55 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] "Confederate burying ground," Knoxville? Mark -- Robert McGinnis has done a transcription of the military cemeteries in Knoxville. He's taking care of his mom right now, so he's not on-line a lot. You can write to him at rmcgi81640@aol.com, and he'll write back when he gets some free time.
At 06:51 PM 4/24/01 +0000, Mark B. wrote: >Dear List Members, > Wondering if someone might be able to help me locate a cemetery > transcription, if one is available, for CSA soldier John Price, first > husband of my gggrandmother Sallie Tabitha (maiden name unknown), whose > compiled military service file I recently found. According to the file, > he was a member of the 25th Alabama Infantry, Co. I, and died on October > 26, 1862 in the "Court house hospital" in Knoxville. The pension file of > her second husband adds that this John Price is "buried in the > Confederate burying ground at that place" (Knoxville). I notice from the > Knox County website that there is a Confederate cemetery on Bethel > Ave. Could this be the "Confederate burying ground," and does a > transcription of its headstones exist? Also, if anyone has any thoughts > about what other records may have been generated by his death and burial > in Knoxville, I'd be delighted to hear from you. Many thanks! >Sincerely, >--Mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:51:04 -0400 From: "J. C. Tumblin, OD" <sleepy6@icx.net> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] "Confederate Cemetery" > >At 06:51 PM 4/24/01 +0000, Mark B. wrote: >>Dear List Members, >> Wondering if someone might be able to help me locate a cemetery >> transcription, if one is available, for CSA soldier John Price, first >> husband of my gggrandmother Sallie Tabitha (maiden name unknown), whose >> compiled military service file I recently found. According to the file, >> he was a member of the 25th Alabama Infantry, Co. I, and died on October >> 26, 1862 in the "Court house hospital" in Knoxville. The pension file >> of her second husband adds that this John Price is "buried in the >> Confederate burying ground at that place" (Knoxville). I notice from >> the Knox County website that there is a Confederate cemetery on Bethel >> Ave. Could this be the "Confederate burying ground," and does a >> transcription of its headstones exist? Also, if anyone has any thoughts >> about what other records may have been generated by his death and burial >> in Knoxville, I'd be delighted to hear from you. Many thanks! >>Sincerely, >>--Mark Dear Mark: My wife is a docent at Mabry-Hazen House Museum which manages the Bethel Cemetery. I have the Alabama burials before me and your ancestor John Price is entered as follows: Jo. Price, Co. I, 25th Alabama There is also R.M. Price, Co. I, 45th Alabama. The Cemetery is open by appointment by contacting the Mabry-Hazen House. Under a very progressive Tennessee Governor, Gordon Browning, and at the behest of Ms. Mamie Winstead, who managed the cemetery with honor for many years after her father died, four bronze tablets were installed around a 30 foot tall obelisk with a Confederate Soldier at its pinnacle (facing North). These bronze tablets will list soldier Price but the location of the graves is not indicated. Ms. Winstead's father had managed the cemetery since the late 1860s. He had been wounded at Gettysburg. The two Winsteads presided over the sacred grounds for over 100 years. Those who died attacking Fort Sanders in November 1863 were buried in mass graves at Bethel after they were removed from the battlefield sometime after the battle. Although a number of the members of the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable have sought records of the various Knoxville Civil War Hospitals for years, they have never been found. The Court House Hospital is unfamiliar. Most were in the Asylum Hospital which commands downtown Knoxville even today (by another name). It appears to be a court house and did house Knoxville City offices, later TVA offices, but was never a court house. Mabry-Hazen House Museum 1711 Dandridge Avenue Knoxville, TN 37915 The Museum has a website but there is no Bethel Cemetery information there: http://www.korrnet.org/mabry/ Good luck! I'm glad you are honoring your Civil War ancestor. Jim Tumblin Past-President Knoxville Civil War Roundtable
Remember the 136th Anniversary of the Sultana Disaster (April 27, 1865) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:27:11 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] "Confederate Cemetery" Thanks, Dr. Jim -- you're always so FULL of great information! At 05:51 PM 4/24/01 -0400, J. C. Tumblin, OD wrote: >Dear Mark: > >My wife is a docent at Mabry-Hazen House Museum which manages the Bethel >Cemetery. I >have the Alabama burials before me and your ancestor John Price is entered >as follows: <snipped> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 22:37:20 -0500 From: "Vickie Lomon" <lomon@junct.com> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] unsubcribe
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:18:14 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Campbell in Sevier/Knox Counties I'm trying to find someone who's kin to Ferrell Campbell, who was born probably in Kodak (Sevier County) in 1898, then moved to Knoxville after World War I. He was living in Knoxville in 1977, but I reckon he's deceased now. Does anyone know of him? ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #151 ******************************
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