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knoxcotn-digest Sunday, February 4 2001 Volume 01 : Number 173

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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:15:39 EST

From: Jbtroy1@aol.com

Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Bush Genealogy -- First Families

Would some kind soul please help me by pointing me to the source or elaborating on a recent message indicating that President Bush is descended from the "First Families of Tennessee?" I am curious.

[Doesn't matter what your politics are when you're sniffing out genealogy! (or does it?)]

gratefully,

Joan

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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:25:43 -0800

From: BaggyGenes <bagygenz@napanet.net>

Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Need Census Look-up

Does any kind soul out there have the Knox Co. 1910 and/or 1920

censuses? If so, I'm checking for two families:

1) Guinn (Gwinn, etc), Margaret Elizabeth (Maggie)

2) Kimsey, Joseph Pinckney

Any help most appreciated.

Regards,

Judy

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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:37:26 EST

From: Xx2sjd@aol.com

Subject: [KnoxCoTN] census or birth lookup

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Would there possibly be some one who would be willing to do a lookup for my

brickwall for me? Would really appreciate.

1880 Census KNOX Co, Tn forElizabeth Ann Haynes about 6 years old....

Or Birth30 June 1874 Knox, Tn both mother and father(no names) born in

Tennessee. Thanks so much

S. DeHart ~Shawnee, Ok.

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<HTML>Would there possibly be some one who would be willing to do a lookup for my

brickwall for me? Would really appreciate.

1880 Census KNOX Co, Tn forElizabeth Ann Haynes about 6 years old....

Or Birth30 June 1874 Knox, Tn both mother and father(no names) born in

Tennessee. Thanks so much

S. DeHart ~Shawnee, Ok.</HTML>

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:55:24 -0500

From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>

Subject: [KnoxCoTN] E-mail gremlins

Most of you can hit delete now...<g>

If you've gotten a weird e-mail, or series of e-mails, from this list or

someone who is a subscriber to this list, in the past week or so, please

let me know. We've heard some rumblings that things may be going haywire

- -- misdirected mail, repetitive mail, and personal information mysteriously

appearing on-line.

Rose-Anne and I are trying to research this, but we need more

documentation. If you'll write to me, I'll let you know what we need

specifically to continue.

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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 06:46:12 -0500

From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>

Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Need Census Look-up

Judy -- your best bet is to borrow the film from your nearest LDS family

history center. Alternatively, the McClung Collection in Knoxville does

research like this for $15.00 per search -- and they'll check other

resources besides these censuses for that price, if you request

it. http://web.utk.edu/~kizzer/ethisctr/

At 04:25 PM 1/30/01 -0800, BaggyGenes wrote:

>Does any kind soul out there have the Knox Co. 1910 and/or 1920

>censuses? If so, I'm checking for two families:

>1) Guinn (Gwinn, etc), Margaret Elizabeth (Maggie)

>2) Kimsey, Joseph Pinckney

>Any help most appreciated.

>Regards,

>Judy

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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:39:48 -0500

From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>

Subject: [KnoxCoTN] 04 Feb 2001 Sunday Afternoon Rocking

Many of you have written to me to comment on Jan Philpot's great "Sunday

Afternoon Rocking" essays. I forward your messages on to her. If you'd

like to correspond with Jan, please note her e-mail address at the bottom

of this message.

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Sunday Afternoon Rocking

Valentines Through the Generations (from the "Sunday Afternoon Rocking" series)

The story goes that she was fifteen, he sixteen. They married not for the

sake of love, but to give his younger siblings a home. So it was that two

mere children took up housekeeping to raise a house full of children. They

grew to love one another, to become old together and to have twelve

children of their own. They were my great grandparents.

Pa said he and my grandmother married in 1910, when her family was about to

migrate to Texas. She had been smitten by Cupid's arrows and did not wish

to leave her beau. Making their decision, they set out down the road, and

on the way met the preacher. They married, he said, in the very buggy that

sat for all of my memory in the shed out in the pasture. They were my

grandparents.

A wonder the marriage of the next generation ever came about. He had come

to the city to work in a factory, and took his lunch in the same tiny

corner diner that many of the time did. She was the daughter of the owner

and did not much cotton to the attitude of the handsome cocky young man who

swaggered in, took his seat on a barstool and told her to get him a

hamburger and "not to cremate it in the process". Without a word, she

flipped it on the grill, flipped it over, plastered the raw meat between

two buns and then asked if it was raw enough to suit him. They were my

parents.

I have my own love story. Two of them actually. And although the first had

not an entirely happy ending, it had a wonderful beginning, one I clasp in

my heart and remember looking at my children, I am very glad happened. And

were it not for a washing machine, a Chicken Little bookmarker, a Scrabble

game, the definition of "serendipity" and a shooting star, the second could

not be told. And told they will be, both of the stories, to the

grandchildren that ask the same questions I asked the generations that

preceded me.

So it goes through the generations, a story for each of them, a story that

is the beginning of descendants that follow. And perhaps that is the

reason they find it of such interest...had Cupid's arrow not found its

mark, they would not have been. Or perhaps…it is just that all the world

loves a love story.

Behind each of those faces looking out at us from pictures and in memory is

a story, behind each scrap of paper we find that proves an ancestor married

an ancestress, is a story. The stories are not documented in dusty old

marriage records with their crumbling yellowed pages. They are not

recorded on the pages of a family Bible, and they are only to be guessed at

looking at the gray hair and lined faces of old photographs. But for those

of us who have known our own stories, however they may have ended or began,

there is an understanding that the story is there. If those eyes in a

photograph could come to life just for a minute there would be a faraway

dreamy look within them as they told the story of how it came to be that

you are, and I am.

Happy Valentine's Day,

jan

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