Seeking info on the Woolseys of Tennessee. Also the Ragans of Blount County, TN.

Hi Margaretann, I notice you have a JAMES in your research list. We are researching Reason Isham believe that his wife Suzanne's maiden name was JAMES. The lived in Coffee Co., Tennessee.

Looking for information on Barner's from Tennessee. Thanks, Tammy

Looking for information on Gunter's in Gibson Co. and Davidson Co.
Also, looking for Walden's in Gibson Co. and Wilson Co.

I am looking for information on Waitman Frazier b.1810 Hawkins Co. I can locate him on the cenus up until 1850, would like to know where and when he died. Who were his parents?

I would love any information of the Ogles (Sevier county) and Bardills (Morgan County) of Tennessee

Tennessee State Library & Archives added a new obit listing Friday - obits from Nashville papers 1855-1907 - http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/vital/nd01.htm

I am Looking for info on John McGown. May be spelled McGowen or McGowan. He was born in Tn I think in Franklin co. Not for sure of the date or year. He started having children in 1833 but wasn't living in Tn then. He didn't get married when he lived in Tn. unless she died or they divorced. He married in Ky. Wondering about his parents and siblings.

I am looking for information on John Jones, b. ca. 1795 TN and made the trip west to NW Arkansas with a group from White/Warren, TN in about 1832 or 1833. His daughter Caroline (Jones) Whiteley was b. 1831 Tennessee. She was my g-g-g-grandmother. A brother, James LeRoy Jones, was b. 1834 in Arkansas.

Looking for any Gwaltney Lines in Tennessee...thanks..

Lots of Tennessee Ancestors.. My dad even went to Castle Heights Military School in Lebanon, Wilson Co, TN.

Wilson Co from 1800 - Martin, Eason, Chambless, Ausburn
Overton-Pickett-Fentress- Huddleston, Ledbetter, Stinson
Knox to Bedford - Reagor, Brock, Shook, Frost, Lawler. Wilson
Stewart & ?? - Pryor, Tubbs, Trammell

Do you know anyone that has access to death records in Perry, Decatur, McNairy and Hardin counties in TN?

Does anyone have an Adkins connection? My gggrandfather was Adam Adkins (m. Bertha McDaniel). He was born in 1885 in Fentress County. As far as I can tell, his parents were Ewell Adkins and Sarah Cross, but I don't have any documented proof of it.

I am the new administrator for the Hankins group. My family came from New Jersey, through North Carolina, and made their way down to Tennessee, where they made there home. My great grandfather Benjamin Harden Hankins donated the land that had a school built on it. If you would like to know more please visit The Hankins Group. I am new to both the site, and to genealogy wise. Please have a little patience with me. Thank You---Jeanne

My interest lies in the Carothers clan who lived in Hickman County, Tennessee. The family began when William Howell Carothers moved to Tennessee from Georgia about 1828.He was married first to Sarah Lacy who died in her 20s about 1833. William then married Sarah Mariah Barr. From William and these two ladies, came the Hickman County Carothers. Phillip

I am mostly searching Tennessee for Harpole and Elrod, although I am finding more of my Satterfield family coming from Tennessee also.

I'm looking for Goodrum, Gauldin, House, and Scott in Dyer County.

I am researching the descendants of Josiah Thornton & wife Ester Ferguson?. Both were born in Spartanburg Co., SC. They traveled with their family to TN & settled in Hickman Co. abt. 1813. Many of their descendants continue to live in Hickman Co.

I am also researching other family lines who traveled through TN prior to settling in Tishomingo Co., MS & other states. The TN counties I am researching are Blount, Grundy and Warren.

I research Reagan and Huskey in Sevier County, and Pigg and related families in Warren County. My families had moved on before the Civil War.

I would like to find my correct Williams and Brown. I have information on them in Missouri in the 1800s, but I have not found their records in Tennessee.

Rosemary,

One line that I am working on is Thomas Williams who was born in NC about 1757 and was living in TN by 1803. He was some how connected to or traveling with a band of Cherokees led by Chief Bowls who took his band from NC to TN to Missiouri then down to Texas by 1819.
Thomas Williams had two sons, Leonard & William, who married Cherokee and were translators and Indian Scouts later in Texas.
Thomas lived in Rusk Co, TX and died the at William's Settlement in 1835.

I have research on Henry Williams, b. c1822 KY or TN. In 1860, Madison Co., Missouri he was living next-door to an older man named James Williams, c 1797 TN. Family stories say the Williams were Indians. When Henry Williams moved to Kansas shortly after the Civil War, his land was actually located in what was then Indian Territory, but a surveying error moved him into Kansas. One of his sons was named Thomas. I know who Chief Bowls is.

I have another family of Williams in Tennessee. Elizabeth Williams of Coffee County who married Squire Brown, b c 1795 Pickens Co SC., moved from TN to Texas Co., Missouri in I believe it is the 1860 census. Their daughter married Smith in the 1850s probably in Missouri, and died young, but he moved to near Paris, Texas after the Civil War. They had some kind of ties to Texas and Indian Territory. I have often wondered if my two Williams families were related farther back.

Betty, Thank you for the information on Williams.

I am looking for information in both east and west: Smiths in Scott County, Tennessee and Cushmans in Cheatham and Montgomery County. Both families were dirt poor and information dries up in the mid-1800s.

In the early years, groups of families often traveled together from one area of the country to another. My Ewings, Cusicks and a number of other families traveled from VA to Sevier/Blount Co., TN in early 1800's. The families continued to lived in close proximity.

The census indexes proved helpful when searching for a particular individual. This was especially true when I hit a dead end. I would research a member of a neighboring family only to discover he/she married a member of the family I was originally researching.

I have the following Blount Co. books:
Blount County, Tennessee Marriages 1795-1865 by Will E. Parham
Blount County, Tennessee, Deeds Deed Book 1 1795-1819 Abstracted by
Mrs. Jane Kiser Thomas
History of Blount County, Tennessee From War Trail to Landing Strip
1795-1955 Revised ny Inez E. Burns
Blount County Tennesse Cemetery Records Including Blount Section of Loudon and Monroe Counties by Edith B. Little.
I would be willing do look up info.
Judy

This is true in several of my lines that have resided in the Overton, Pickett, and Fentress County area since around 1813. Then I have another line that came from Pennsylvania into the Fentress County around 1850-60, actually two lines that had inter married long before reaching Tennessee. Except for my father's paternal line which was from Georgia/South Carolina, my lines have been in that area of Tennessee for so long that I have retired to Tennessee in order to work on my genealogy.

I have hit a brick wall! Since last December, I have been looking for a Finest Estell Walker, b: 1 August 1880... somewhere in Tennessee (some documents sayt 1883, but death record says 1880). He married Carrie Calline Hamilton on 21 October 1900 in Jack Co, TX. I can't locate his parents at all, and the living family members dont know either. Very special project for my Mother-in-law...

I am researching the George and Perry families from Lincoln County, Tennessee. Particularly William George who married Nancy Perry. Would love to share information with others from this line.

Robin--I found Estel living with his sister Mollie Combs in 1900 census in Jack Co Texas---the age is right--then on Public family trees on ancestrycom I found Finest and Mollie listed as the children of Samuel H Walker b 1847 in Tenn and Rose Bostick b 1854 in Alabama, which matches the census info. This tree was posted by a Robin Inge. If you don't subscribe to ancestry, I can send her a message if you want.

Thanks Marti... That is me, I added it about 3 am this morning.... another friend located it for me. My subscriprtion has run out, need to renew it so I can search... Thanks

Robin!!! I always have said that if God had given me a brain, I would USE it! I don't know why I didn't note this..am glad you found your family...

LOL Marti....! Well, that is one good thing, but still dont give me all the answers. I found that one census, but nothing else. Dont tell me where exactly she was born... but at least it is one link closer.

hi shirley:
long time no talk. just dropped by to say hello. Then
see your photo. I am not posting one of mine.
Love e. Tn. , but I can only talk ifn yuin speak E. Tenn.
just a few words :
moe tail ---motel , hee yull--hill , rat fur piece--far, holler--small community. Ok you all pass.
Regards : S. Chief Rainbolt
washata lily washata

1st test Q. In what exact holler did joseph Rainbolt
sr. die 1799 in
A. carter co. Tn. at the Watuaga River
B. washington co. Nc. at Roans creek
C. Old butler Tn. at the Watauga river & Roans
creek.

Hey would love to stay and have a good southern/Texas conversation but I gots to go warsh the dishes and wrench them. See Ya!!
Betty Jo

I am researching many families who lived in Tipton County Tennessee. I made a discovery in the 1860 US Census that indicated that one of my ancestor families had several children, previously unmentioned.

James McLister [spelled McLeaster in the 1860 Census record] and wife Margaret are listed as having a male child, A. McLeaster, age 10 (1850) born SC ... and daughter H McLeaster, age 3, (1857) born TN.

The only child of James and Margaret McLister that i have on record is William Alexander McLister (1864-1919) who is my great-grandfather. I hope someone else may have some indication of these other children. If they survived would have been 20 and 13 respectively in the 1870 Census, but they are only listed in the 1860 Census.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

Letting anyone that is interested there is a website called titlesearcher that has all the deeds (almost) from Washington County, Tn scanned in. There is a 7 day free trial period, then the website costs $35/monthly. There is a cost of about $2.00 for copies/page I think. I will know more later when I try it out. I have 16 deeds in that county and have copies of about 9 in Sullivan County. Hunting hard for a man who was suppose to be Scotch-Irish but think he is Scot and may have come into the country in Charleston???

Looking for families that are related to Robert Cowan b. 1744. He lived in Sullivan County, Tn until 1826 and is buried in the Old Delaney Cemetery (which I understand has a different name today). Will take about any information. DNA makes him not a member of any of the Philadelphia Cowans in the same area. He is more like a McDonald in dna. His wife was a daughter of General George Rutledge. Her name was Nancy. I have the line all the way back to him and it has been reproven for 30 years but the dna threw us a loop.

Would love to talk to someone who knows a little about Weakly Co., Tn. I am looking for my line of White's. We have Thomas Jefferson White b. abt.1820 in Weakly Tn. but have not been able to find him for sure. Any help would be great..

This post is for everyone !!!

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just type any last name if you want or type in what you have.
You will be amazed at what come up.

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Regards S. Chief Rainbolt

AS for early tennessee settlers, I only work on The Rainbolt's and the
Dugger's. Which is Carter co. , Johnson co, Giles co. Tn.

Which is northeast Tn. Today. In 1700's it was Washington co. Nc.
one of the fisrt to pass thru was Daneil Boone and then
the Duggers. S. Chief Rainbolt

Just created a group for the Descendants of the Watauga Association that includes some resources. Check it out!

I am trying to find out about my GGGrandfather Jasper Atchley who was born in East Tennessee about 1825. I find no record of him till 1847 when he married Elizabeth Wells, also from East Tennessee. They were married in Madison County Alabama. I have found her lineage all the way back to England and France. I have reason to believe that Jasper's first name might have been James but I'm not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

HI i am trying to find out more information about Jacob b rollins and The Bible (Biebel) family

I'm researching the Jason Patrick Brooks (1834-1915) family. I would be glad to exchange info.

Hello to everybody, I'm looking for any info on Alonzo Washington Williams (b.14 May 1880 Al). He married Ada Jane Marsh (b.27 Mar 1884 Tn). Not on his father but maybe it's Jones R. Williams (b.1860 Ga.) and his maybe mother is Laura Alice Granger (b.28 Dec 1863 Ga.) Alonzo and Ada lived in White County, Tn.

I am in search for my great great grandmother. I believe she was born in tennessee. Her last name was lumpkin. She had a mother named Maggie lumpkin and a father R Ezekiel Boyd. Any info is greatly appreciated. Julie.code@gmail.com

I would like to exchange information with anyone researching the Aikman and Hicks families in Meigs CountyTennessee. I believe John L Aikman lived in Blount County at one time. George and Ira Aikman left Tennessee in the early 1900's and went to Oklahoma.

I am looking to see if anyone on here maybe knows who I would need to talk to about the possibility of taking over the Litton Historical Society that was located in Scott County, Tennessee? Any info would be awesome!! Thank you!!!