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knoxcotn-digest Sunday, April 29 2001 Volume 01 : Number 152
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 05:42:51 -0500 From: "Bob L. Cunningham" <abcunn@birch.net> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] unsubcribe I want to UNSUBCRIBE ALSO abcunn@birch.net - ----- Original Message ----- From: Vickie Lomon <lomon@junct.com> To: <KnoxCoTN@rootsquest.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: [KnoxCoTN] unsubcribe
> > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:03:49 -0400 From: Rose M Hogan <rosehogan@juno.com> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Peoples Telephone and Telegraph Co. Please identify the telephone directory of the Peoples Telephone and Telegraph Co., Knox Co., June 1916, which was published on the Knox Co. List on Sunday, April 22nd. I would like to know what area this list represented, since it did not specify. If anyone knows, please reply to the list or to: <rosehogan@juno.com> Thanks, Rose Hogan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:28:58 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Offer to do lookups in Jeff Co marriages A very nice lady named Sandy <ewing807@icx.net> has offered to do lookups of marriages in Jefferson County from 1792-1870?? from Penny d'Armond's book. All that's available is dates and occasional bondsmen. If you'd like to take Sandy up on her offer, please WRITE TO HER DIRECTLY (not to this list!). Remember, she's volunteering -- don't be pushy or ask for too much all at once... :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:03:09 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Peoples Telephone and Telegraph Co. Hi, Rose -- the name of the community is Lone Mountain. I'm not an expert in geography around here, but I think that's in Union County...at least it's north of Knoxville, I think! I don't have time just now, but try going to www.mapquest.com and typing in Lone Mountain as the city and TN as the state -- it should show you if it is big enough to be on the map.
At 08:03 PM 4/25/01 -0400, Rose M Hogan wrote: >Please identify the telephone directory of the Peoples Telephone and >Telegraph Co., Knox Co., June 1916, which was published on the Knox Co. >List on Sunday, April 22nd. I would like to know what area this list >represented, since it did not specify. > >If anyone knows, please reply to the list or to: <rosehogan@juno.com> > >Thanks, >Rose Hogan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:56:11 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] I might have been wrong! Lone Mountain is in Claiborne County...not Union County, as I think I wrote earlier... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:16:31 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Biography Assistant Have you tried Genealogy.com's Biography Assistant site yet? I bought the Broderbund software that this is based on and was pleased with it. The site is actually quite useful. Check it out -- http://www.genealogy.com/bio/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:07:28 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Excellent tech article abt Ellis Island site probs http://www.internetweek.com/newslead01/lead042601.htm Snippet: The site accommodated 8 million visitors but turned away the remaining 42 million in its inaugural six hours of operation on April 17. Things got worse after that. According to site performance monitor Keynote Systems, fewer than 2 percent of attempts to enter the site were successful between April 18 and April 20. Last Monday, after some corrective measures were taken, that number rose to 24 percent of site visitors able to get in. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:12:21 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] For-real virus alert: W32Badtrans.13312@mm For those who aren't on Norton's mailing list: Virus alert: W32Badtrans.13312@mm Due to an increase in the number of submissions, the Symantec AntiVirus Research Center (SARC) has upgraded W32.Badtrans.13312@mm to a Category 4 threat. Norton Anti-Virus definitions dated April 11, 2001 or later will protect your system from W32.Badtrans.13312@mm. W32Badtrans.13312@mm is a MAPI worm that spreads by replying to all unread messages in your email message folders. The worm includes a Trojan horse program that is designed to steal information from the infected computer. For complete information and removal instructions, see the SARC Web site at: http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/vURL.cgi/nav98 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:33:01 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Lost your people? Try Burnet Co., TX I had an opportunity to look at the two-volume "Burnet County History" yesterday. I knew people moved from here to Texas, but I was amazed at the information in this set! When I teach genealogy classes, I tell my students to look for where grampaw's siblings went. The people who moved away kept the stories, named the creeks and ridges out of homesickness for Tennessee, and tenderly tucked beloved photos and letters into Bibles...often these were their only connections with "home." Well, let me tell you -- these people in Burnet County have got some history, and they have got some pictures. I found Cate, Yett, Skaggs, Sims, Smith, and other names that are "here" (Knox, Jefferson, Sevier, and Cocke) before 1850. I wish the books had an every-name and every-location index! Here's a sample: William Elliot Sims was born May 24, 1836, in Tennessee and died in 1901 in Burnet County, Texas. He was married September 16, 1865, in Sevier County, Tennessee, to Sarah Elizabeth Keeler, who was born March 27, 1844, in Tennessee, and died July 23, 1929, in Burnet County, Texas. W. E. Sims was the son of George G. and Mary ___ Sims. George was born September 10, 1813, in South Carolina, and died February 13, 1872, in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Mary was born c. 1812 in Tennessee. Sarah E. Sims was the daughter of Adam and Mary Baker Keeler. Adam was born about 1820 and died around 1855, both in Tennessee. Mary was born about 1822 in Tennessee and died in Williamson County, Texas. William and Sarah Sims came to Williamson County, Texas, sometime between 1873 and 1876. There's more on this family...but you can see what I mean! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:34:24 -0400 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] 29 Apr 2001: Sunday Afternoon Rocking It's back!!!! Yippee!!! ====================================================== Sunday Afternoon Rocking Thanks to the scores of you who wrote to tell me the messages were "missed". As one subscriber asked..."if there really is a jan", I can assure you there is, and with manner of "human attributes". Nothing was at all wrong, I simply and humanly "got over my head" with spring cleaning and family affairs. Thanks much...jan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spring Dawns in Kentucky (from the Sunday Afternoon Rocking series) Spring dawns in Kentucky. The hills are alive with fresh young yellow-green leaves, some tiny, still coiled, and just emerging from their budded nests. Others are already shining brilliant in the sunshine and softly rippling a promise of greater things to come. A week or so ago, brilliant displays of fushia peppered the landscape, redbuds announcing in startling color that the mountains were rustling their skirts, shaking out the bonds of winter. Ground squirrels make a noisy path through the fallen leaves of last autumn, chattering to warn their cousins of the trees a strange "hooman" is in their midst. A fawn peers out around a peeling birch at this strange being, then darts a bounding crooked path back to "mama", white tail bouncing like anything but a surrender flag. It never fails to amaze me, seeing this annual display, that anyone could possibly believe there was no Creator, no deeply managed plan…and then close upon the heels of that brilliant flash of redbud fushia comes the final affirmation. The dogwoods bloom, heralding in their very design, that yes indeed there was, IS a plan. Yes indeed, my thoughts on the matter were so…for there is the golden crown of thorns, the creamy petals extending to what could be nothing other than the memory of cruel nails, crimson stains about the edges. Small wonder it is that a walk in the wilderness of a springtime Kentucky is an awakening and a renewal of faith, an affirmation of life. With such a weekend, my husband and I hit the trails. We pitched our camp deep in the wilderness and nothing walled our world but that which was living. Nothing stirred the silence but that which was natural and curious about our presence. And in such a world I looked at my husband suddenly and said, "We are rich." "If I had at my disposal all the money in the world," he replied, "I would wish to be doing exactly what I am doing today, have nothing more than I have at this moment." And our eyes met in perfect understanding. Strange and comforting it is, with nature around one, with the leafy green trees the wallpaper, and the soft fall of last year's trees the carpet. Strange it is how true it seems that one could live with nothing more, could easily leave behind all the trappings of civilization simply to be surrounded by this. Strange it is, how easily one is able to wake in the morning when welcomed by the chirping birds of a forest, or how easy it is to fall asleep in the gentle enveloping world when the spangle of stars is the ceiling. And as always, when I walk the historic trails, the land untainted since the days the first ancestors walked this way…I wonder if they too had those thoughts. If the calling of that great untouched wilderness, with its living wallpaper of shimmering rustling leaves, its floor blanketed with soft browns, its ceiling a never ending display of daytime colors and star-studded nights, must have been far richer to those folks than all the fine mansions of the east… I think so, for some…else they would not have left it. And for others, they too must have recognized the promise. A good thing it is, that our country has seen fit to preserve a part of it…lest we never understand. We are rich. 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #152 ******************************
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