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Date: 2/21/99 TNSMITH-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 51
Today's Topics:
#1 [TNSMITH-L] Difficult question ["Douglas" <[email protected]>]
#2 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Difficult question [[email protected]]
#3 [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery look-up [cabarry <[email protected]>]
#4 [TNSMITH-L] Wallace/Wallis ["Douglas" <[email protected]>]
#5 [TNSMITH-L] Lee/Lea, Smith County, ["Jack & Kathy Lee" <[email protected]]
#6 [TNSMITH-L] Ron Logue/Hugh Bradley ["Harold Steiner" <[email protected]]

X-Message: #1  Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999
From: "Douglas" <[email protected]>
Subject: [TNSMITH-L] Difficult question

I'm new to the list, having just found info on a pension record that my GGma was born in Difficult in 1871/72. Could someone direct me on where to look to find her family??Her name was Sarah Palestine Wallace, possible father Franklin Wallace. I have been unable to find them on a census.
Thanks,
Kay

In a message dated 99-02-21 09:55:28 EST, you write:
<< I'm new to the list, having just found info on a pension record that my GGma was born in Difficult in 1871/72. Could someone direct me on where to look to find her family??Her name was Sarah Palestine Wallace, possible father Franklin Wallace. I have been unable to find them on a census.
Thanks,Kay >>

Who did she marry?
Do you have birth dates on her?
Perhaps some of us have her listed in a marriage but don't have a maiden name for her. If we had more info, perhaps we might could find her & it would help both of us.

Carmelita
[email protected]

Can anyone that has a Smith Co. cemetery book do a look up for me. I am searching for the graves of William A. Barry, his wife Elizabeth Mercer Barry, his son James M. Barry, and his wife Mary Parker Barry. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Alberta Barry

I am loking for info on a Sarah Palestine Wallace, born in Difficult, TN in 1871/72. I believe her fathers name was Franklin Wallace, but have never been able to find a mention of her mother or find the family on a census. She married a Henry Marcum, had a daughter Doshie in 1901, and Henry died soon after.In 1904 she married Thompson Denham in Monroe Co. KY.Any help you can give, or ideas where to look next are welcome!!
Kay

Hi,
We are searching for the family of William T. Lee/Lea, who was born in the early 1820's in Tenn. He married in Wilson County in 1840 to Sina/Sarah Davis and in 1857 to Elizabeth Oakley. He lived in the Watertown/Commerce area of Wilson County, not far from the Smith County line. It is possible that his family came from Smith County, so we are trying to sort out the Lee/Lea families that were there around this time.
If any one has any information about Lee/Lea's in Smith County we would appreciate your help. Just figuring out how they are all related might help us narrow down the search. We are hoping to plan a trip to that area, as well as the State Archives, this summer, but in the meantime are trying to get some work done. Thanks.
Kathy Lee
[email protected]

I have tried to re-establish a line of communication with Ron but cannot find an E-mail or snail-mail address. Does any one have contact with Ron Logue?.

As an aside I am anxious to contact any one who is descended from Hugh Bradley Austin, born Smith County, 25 July 1857.

Hal Steiner [email protected]

Date: 2/22/99 TNSMITH-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 52
Today's Topics:
#1 [TNSMITH-L] Re: TNSMITH-D Digest V [[email protected]]

X-Message: #1  Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999
From: [email protected]
Subject: [TNSMITH-L] Re: TNSMITH-D Digest V99 #51

I am looking for information on the Sandersons that were born in Smith County in the 1800's. I believe Luther B. Sanderson and Luther Noah Sanderson were born there and proable many others.  

Today's Topics:

#1 [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [cabarry <[email protected]>]
#2 [TNSMITH-L] Replies to LIST inquir [[email protected]]
#3 [TNSMITH-L] Census Books ["Harold Steiner" <[email protected]]
#4 [TNSMITH-L] LYON [[email protected]]
#5 [TNSMITH-L] Roberts > early 1800's [[email protected]]
#6 [TNSMITH-L] Wakefield > early 1800 [[email protected]]
#7 [TNSMITH-L] King > early 1800's Sm [[email protected]]
#8 [TNSMITH-L] Thomas > early 1800's [[email protected]]
#9 [TNSMITH-L] Sanderson > early 1800 [[email protected]]
#10 [TNSMITH-L] Kent > early 1800's Sm [[email protected]]
#11 [TNSMITH-L] Jones>Smith Co TN earl [[email protected]]
#12 [TNSMITH-L] LOCK family > Smith Co [[email protected]]
#13 [TNSMITH-L] John G. Cardwell [[email protected]]
#14 [TNSMITH-L] Jenkins>early 1800's S [[email protected]]
#15 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Jenkins>early 1800 [Patty <[email protected]>]
#16 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Sanderson > early [B&B West <[email protected]>]
#17 [TNSMITH-L] HARPER > early 1800's [Jim Arnold <[email protected]>]
#18 [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [[email protected] (Geraldine Miller]
#19 [TNSMITH-L] Dixon Springs [[email protected]]
#20 [TNSMITH-L] Brushy Creek or Brush ["Char Coats-Siercks" <coats@hotmai]
#21 [TNSMITH-L] Anyone searching Piper [[email protected]]
#22 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Dixon Springs [Linda Lewis <[email protected]>]
#23 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Brushy Creek or Br [Linda Lewis <[email protected]>]
#24 [TNSMITH-L] 1860-1870 Look-ups [Elizabeth Deihl <[email protected]]
#25 [TNSMITH-L] Re: HARPER Family ["Theola Walden Baker" <bakermail@a]

X-Message: #1  Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997
From: cabarry <[email protected]>
Subject: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book

Does anyone have the Smith Co. Cemetery Book. I have been trying to purchase one for several months. If anyone has this book and would be willing to do a look-up, would you please e-mail me privately. Thank you,
Alberta Barry

Recently I was in Salt Lake and saw that the Smith County Historical Society or some member thereof had extracted and published several of the Smith County censuses ( years 1860, 1870, 1880, etc).
I would like to know the price and availability of these publications.
Harold Steiner [email protected]
POB 12354
Las Vegas, NV 89112-0354
702 458-1723

Does anyone know any ROBERTS who married a KING or a LOCK?
Carmelita
[email protected]

KENT:
Nathan - bought stuff at the estate sale of Robert Harper, deceased 9 & 10 Oct 1807.
Soloman - bought stuff at the estate sale of Matthew Harper, deceased 15 & 16 Oct 1807.

Is anyone researching the HARPER families or the KENTs? I wonder if these are two seperate men? It also makes you wonder if there was some type of disease that went through Smith Co TN during the Fall of 1807.
Carmelita
[email protected]

JONES:
Andrew
Edmd.
Henry
James
John
Leonard
Moses, Jr.
Moses, Sr.
Stephen
Thomas
Willis

Anyone researching these families? Hope this helps someone!
Carmelita
[email protected]

LACY
Amos

Anyone researching these families? Does anyone have a Lock who married a KING or a ROBERTS?
Carmelita
[email protected]

Is anyone researching the Harper family?
Carmelita
[email protected]

Anyone researching these folks?  Hope it helps someone!
Carmelita
[email protected]

Hello Carmelita- My g-g-g-g grandfather, James Martin Jones (b. abt. 1774 inVA), married Elizabeth Blankinship (b.abt. 1780 in VA), on 15 Nov 1792 in Franklin Co. VA. They moved to Smith Co. TN in the early 1800's.
Ch: James
Nancy Anne
Jonathon
Abraham
Isaac C.

If this is your line let's do some "name dropping".
Bobby L. West
> ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ====
> Visit our Smith County Home Page:
> http://www.tngenweb.org/smith/

At 04:53 PM 2/22/99 EST, you wrote:
>The following KENT's were mentioned in the Smith Co TN Court of Pleas and
>Quarterly Sessions Minutes. There may be more Kent's listed but so far these
>are the ones I've gotten to. The time period of this microfilm covers 1799 to
>about 1825 then skips to the year 1835.>
>KENT:
>Nathan - bought stuff at the estate sale of Robert Harper, deceased 9 & 10 Oct
>1807.
>Soloman - bought stuff at the estate sale of Matthew Harper, deceased 15 & 16
>Oct 1807.>
>Is anyone researching the HARPER families or the KENTs? I wonder if these are
>two seperate men? It also makes you wonder if there was some type of disease
>that went through Smith Co TN during the Fall of 1807.>
>Carmelita
>[email protected]>

Hope this helps.
Elizabeth

I am researching the HARPER family. Looking for parents/siblings of Mary M. Harper, b abt 1831, m Braxton Peter S. Bailey Nov 3, 1852 in Smith Co., d bef 1900. From naming patterns of their children, I've thought her father's name might be Franklin Harper, but don't know. I believe her father of gf was a REV WAR pensioner in Smith Co.
Also searching for additional info on my Baileys, particularly Braxton Peter S.'s father, Wyatt Bailey, b VA. Wyatt was elected to 3 terms as sheriff of Smith Co, 1836-1842, but that is all I know. I need birth and death dates, and cemetery. Wyatt is the son of William T. Bailey of VA, d in Smith Co. Also need dates, etc for him.
Can anyone help?
Theola
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 2:38 PM
Subject: [TNSMITH-L] John G. Cardwell
>The following was found on microfilm. It is the Smith Co TN Court of Pleas
>and Quarterly Sessions Minutes.>
>Page 156
>15 and 16 Oct 1807>
>Inventory of the estate of Matthew HARPER, deceased.
<snip, snip.>
>Is anyone researching the Harper family?>
>Carmelita
>[email protected]>

Today's Topics: #1 [TNSMITH-L] RE: Anyone researching [Elizabeth Deihl <[email protected]] #2 [TNSMITH-L] Re: TNSMITH-D Digest V [[email protected]] #3 [TNSMITH-L] Fw: Failed mail ["Terry & Lynn Smith" <twsmith@norc] #4 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Fw: Failed mail [Joy King <[email protected]>] #5 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Brushy Creek or Br [Billy Pettross <[email protected]>] #6 [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [cabarry <[email protected]>] #7 [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book ["Francie" <[email protected]>] #8 [TNSMITH-L] New Middleton [Emma Lou Tabor <[email protected]] #9 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Brushy Creek or Br ["Jim Moore" <[email protected]>] #10 [Fwd: [TNSMITH-L] Fw: Failed mail] [Joy King <[email protected]>] #11 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [Joy King <[email protected]>] #12 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [Lucy Barron <[email protected]] #13 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [[email protected]] #14 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [Charles Gregory <charlesg@bellsout] #15 [TNSMITH-L] RE: Cemetery Books [Elizabeth Deihl <[email protected]] #16 [TNSMITH-L] Smith Co TN Cemeteries ["Nona Williams" <[email protected]>] #17 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book ["Sam Cottrell" <[email protected]] #18 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [Alton Jenkins <[email protected]>] #19 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [Joy King <[email protected]>] #20 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [Dave Zoller <[email protected]>] #21 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Brushy Creek or Br ["Char Coats-Siercks" <coats@hotmai] #22 [TNSMITH-L] Pipers ["Harold Steiner" <[email protected]] #23 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Smith County Histo [Charles Gregory <charlesg@bellsout] #24 [TNSMITH-L] Re: TNSMITH-D Digest V [[email protected]] #25 [TNSMITH-L] cemetery books [[email protected]] #26 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Smith County Histo [Joy King <[email protected]>] #27 Re: [TNSMITH-L] RE: Cemetery Books [Gwendolyn Melton <pengwen@thegrid.]

X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999
From: Elizabeth Deihl <[email protected]>
Subject: [TNSMITH-L] RE: Anyone researching Pipers
Carolyn-

Here are bits and pieces I have re a Nancy Piper:

Smith Co TN Wills 1803-1896: James M Ballow gdn/of Lewis and Nancy Piper (Benjamin Piper former gdrn) Feb 1831 . 51 (heirs of James Piper)

Benjamin Piper gdn/of James piper Feb 1831 p.50.

Early East TN Marriages: Brides: Nancy Piper wed James Johnson 9 March 1833

Smith Co TN Court Minutes: Benjamin Piper appointed guardian of James L and Nancy Piper 1 Mar 1830. Securities were John and James Piper.

This may just muddle up your mind but thot I would pass them on to you. I am researching Pipers from Smith Co from 1800 till around 1830 when my line moved to KY.

Hope this may help in some small way.

Elizabeth

Charlotte,
My father grew up between New Middleton and Grant where his family had lived since the early 1800's. We had to go through Brush Creek everytime we went to New Middleton as we were coming from McMinnville, southeast of Smith Co. We went back through there in November and they have straightened out the old road (which we children enjoyed so much when Dad would fly through at a good rate of speed! All the swaying and hitting "dead men", ie. small raises in the road, that our tummies would turn over the way they do on roller coasters) that I hardly recognized Brush Creek. Many people on this list refer to this area as Brushy Creek and that may have been a really old Tennessee familiar term for the area, but in 46 years I have never heard locals from my family call it anything but Brush Creek. Just south of Brush Creek is Alexandria. You turn off the highway between Smithville and Lebanon at Alexandria and take the road through Brush Creek. This leads to New Middleton. If you go east from this point you go to Gordonsville. If you go west and then a little north you are in Grant. Further north you can get to Rome, near the river. East of Rome is Carthage, also along the river. Interstate 40 slices east to west through Smith Co. between New Middleton and Grant. The rest area on the Interstate there is just below my family's old home. You can find a lot of these small places by going to the following and putting in your information:

http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html
USGS Mapping Information: GNIS United States and Territories Data Base Query Form

Just put in the state, county, feature (populated place) and name of what you are looking for. This will bring up a table, but there is a link below that will provide you with a map. You can also enter cemetery names on this URL. Even better maps are available online, some through Digital City and I used our Streets Plus program to give me maps to work off of when we went back last year. So much has changed that they were a big help. Good luck...
Karen Moore Waugh

Terry & Lynn Smith wrote:
> Does this look familiar to any one? John Randall was the brother of my > husbands gg granfather Henry R. Smith that went to Franklin Co. IL. > Lynn > > 1 James Shepherd Born: in From IL > |.. +Lucinda Hutchinson > |......... 2 Mary Elizabeth Shepherd Born: 1835 in Macon Co., Tennessee > Died: June 1919 in Bethany, Macon Co., TN > |............. +John Randall Smith, Dr. Born: July 1841 in Red Boiling > Springs, Macon Co., TN Died: December 28, 1924 in Bethany, Macon Co., TN > Married: 1865 in Macon Co., TN

> -----Original Message----- >
From: Joy King <[email protected]> >
To: Terry & Lynn Smith <[email protected]> >
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> >
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 11:35 AM >
Subject: Re: [TNSMITH-L] Fw: Failed mail >
> |Lynn, do you have any other info on this James Shepherd? Does your entry about
> |his birth mean that he was born in IL? > |Joy > |

> |Terry & Lynn Smith wrote: > | >
|> Does this look familiar to any one? John Randall was the brother of my >
|> husbands gg granfather Henry R. Smith that went to Franklin Co. IL. >
|> Lynn > |> >
|> 1 James Shepherd Born: in From IL >
|> |.. +Lucinda Hutchinson >
|> |......... 2 Mary Elizabeth Shepherd Born: 1835 in Macon Co., Tennessee >
|> Died: June 1919 in Bethany, Macon Co., TN >
|> |............. +John Randall Smith, Dr. Born: July 1841 in Red Boiling >
|> Springs, Macon Co., TN Died: December 28, 1924 in Bethany, Macon Co., TN >
|> Married: 1865 in Macon Co., TN

Francie wrote:
> Hi Alberta, >
I'm sorry I don't have any specific info on a Smith Co. "cemetery" book;
> however, I'm surprised that the Carthage library doesn't have copies of 2
> books that I know have been published. I found copies of these books on my
> travels, but can only tell you that 1 volume is entitled something like:
> Cemeteries North of the Cumberland River, and the 2nd volume is: Cemeteries
> South of the Cumberland River.
> I haven't a clue as to the author, but the "south" book was excellent as I
> recall and listed many of the "family" cemeteries with detailed directions on
> how to find their location.
> Francie >

> ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ====
> Visit our Smith County Home Page:
> http://www.tngenweb.org/smith/

At 10:22 AM 2/23/99 -0800, cabarry wrote:
>Hi List:
> Well, I was told yesterday by the Libarian at Carthage, Tn. that they
>had no Cemetery books and had no plans of producing any of them. I guess
>there is no one on the list that has one of these books. I never got a
>reply to my request. This is sad.
> Alberta Barry >

[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
http://www.rof.com/gene <http://www.rof.com/gene> (web site)
Nona Williams PO Box 3793 Santa Cruz, CA 95063

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Gregory <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book
>Yes they did a reprint to help finance the expansion of the smith county
>archives ...i was not aware they sold out ...they also reprinted the smith co >history book ....i wonder if they all sold ? How many folks would like a copy
>of these books ? I will forward this on to the society! >
<snip, snip>

Charles Gregory wrote:
> Yes they did a reprint to help finance the expansion of the smith county > archives ...i was not aware they sold out ...they also reprinted the smith co > history book ....i wonder if they all sold ? How many folks would like a copy > of these books ? I will forward this on to the society!

CALL NUMBER US/CAN FILM AREA 0590007 item 2.
AUTHOR Bass, Paul Bridgeforth.
TITLE Smith County, Tennessee cemeteries / compiled by Paul Bridgeforth Bass. PUBLICATION INFORMATION Nashville : Tennessee State Library and Archives, [196-?]. FORMAT on 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
NOTES Microreproduction of ms. and typescript.
THIS RECORD FOUND UNDER 1. Tennessee, Smith - Cemeteries

CALL NUMBER US/CAN FILM AREA 0024828 item 9
TITLE Bible and cemetery records of Smith County, Tennessee / prepared by the Historical Records Project.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1939. FORMAT on 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
NOTES Microfilm of typescript at the Tennessee State Library in Nashville, Tennessee. CONTENTS Contains bible records for the following families: Allen, Colbert, Hale, Hubbard, Ligon, and Stallings. Contains information from the following graveyards: Bell, Allmon, Carter, Second Carthage, Chestnut Mound, L.B. Craig, Dixon Springs, Dyer, Polly Gibbs, Glover, Hailey, Hickman, Hodges, West Hughes, Knight, Mayfield, McClures Bend, Old McDonald, Poendexter, Ridgewood, Robinson, Sayle, Thompson, Timberlake, and others.
THIS RECORD FOUND UNDER 1. Tennessee, Smith - Bible records 2. Tennessee, Smith - Cemeteries I. Historical Records Project (Tennessee)

CALL NUMBER US/CAN BOOK AREA 976.852 V3k
AUTHOR Key, F. C. (Finnis Carmack).
TITLE Smith County, Tennessee, cemeteries south of the Cumberland River / compiled by F. C. Key, Sue Woodard Maggart, Jane Coward Turner.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION Carthage, Tenn. : [F.C. Key], 1984.
FORMAT 343 p.
CONTENTS Contains some records from church minutes, newspapers, and county mortality records, along with tombstone inscriptions. Includes index. 16
THIS RECORD FOUND UNDER 1. Tennessee, Smith - Cemeteries I. Maggart, Sue Woodard II. Turner, Jane Coward

CALL NUMBER US/CAN BOOK AREA 976.852 V3Á
AUTHOR Lynch, Louise Gillespie.
TITLE Cemetery records of Smith County, Tennessee / published by Louise Gillespie Lynch. PUBLICATION INFORMATION Franklin, Tenn. : Lynch, [1978].
COPYRIGHT DATE 1978 FORMAT 152 p.
NOTES Also includes cemetery records gathered by Paul Bass.
CONTENTS Includes index.
US/CAN ADDITIONAL FORMATS FILM AREA Also on microfilm. Salt Lake City : Filmed by the ---------- 1320513 Genealogical Society of Utah, 1987. on 1 item 19 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
THIS RECORD FOUND UNDER 1. Tennessee, Smith - Cemeteries

CALL NUMBER US/CAN BOOK AREA 976.852 V3s
TITLE Smith County, Tennessee, cemeteries north of the Cumberland River / compiled by Smith County Historical and Genealogical Society and Caney Fork Chapter, DAR , Carthage, Tennessee.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION Owensboro, Ky. : McDowell Publications, 1981. FORMAT 420 [i.e. 210] p.
CONTENTS Includes index.
US/CAN ADDITIONAL FORMATS FILM AREA Also on microfilm. Salt Lake City : Filmed by the ---------- 1697926 Genealogical Society of Utah, 1994. on 1 item 7 microfilm ; 35 mm. THIS RECORD FOUND UNDER 1. Tennessee, Smith - Cemeteries I. Smith County Historical and Genealogical Society (Smith County, Tennessee) II. Daughters of the American Revolution. Caney Fork Chapter (Carthage, Tennessee)

Francie wrote: > > Hi Alberta, > I'm sorry I don't have any specific info on a Smith Co. "cemetery" book; > however, I'm surprised that the Carthage library doesn't have copies of 2 > books that I know have been published. I found copies of these books on my > travels, but can only tell you that 1 volume is > entitled something like: Cemeteries North of the Cumberland River, > and the 2nd volume is: Cemeteries South of the Cumberland River. > I haven't a clue as to the author, but the "south" book was excellent > as I recall and listed many of the "family" cemeteries with detailed > directions on how to find their location. > Francie > >
====
TNSMITH Mailing List ==== >
Visit our Smith County Home Page:
> http://www.tngenweb.org/smith/

What a great bunch this is....and although I am only researching the name Coats in the TN area...would like to let you all know that I do a lot of land records and those land records often show adjoining land owners...the records I get go online in the Coats Family Archive...together with other research info I find...it is all downloadable...which means if you find something there you want or need by all means don't hesitate to take a copy...

http://www.rootsquest.com/~coatsfar

God Bless you all....
Charlotte

----Original Message Follows---- Reply-To: "Jim Moore" <[email protected]> From: "Jim Moore" <[email protected]> To: "Char Coats-Siercks" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TNSMITH-L] Brushy Creek or Brush Creek Area Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999
Dear Charlotte,
Among towns & communities in the Brush Creek area are Alexandria, New Middleton, & Gordonsville.
Jim

A Mary Ann Austin married first John Ballard in Smith County in 1859. For some reason this marriage terminated and she married second ______ Piper and they moved to Illinois.

Does this ring a bell with either off you. Need the forename name of the Piper she married and where in Illinois they settled..

Hal Steiner
[email protected]

Charlotte,
It occurred to me later that you might also want to know what the land looks like, and although it is always difficult to put a picture into words I did remember something. My father's siblings always talked about all the activity around Smith County just before and during the war years. I don't know if this happened everywhere, but there were Army maneuvers and tanks rolling all over the place. Some of the locals were upset that the roads lined with limestone rock fences were run over with little thought to the impact on history or livestock. The sound of guns played havoc with egg production. It was said that Smith County was selected because it so resembled the European Theaters that these men were soon to face. The hills are strewn with limestone rock, a fact which always made me wonder why my ancestors were so fond of the land. But then these people came from Scots Irish stock, so stone farming was nothing of consequence. The hills were high, but not mountains and the terrain broken by limestone fence "hedgerows". My father remembers one prominent hill west of New Middleton and northwest of Brush Creek that the locals called "Tommyhawk" because of the many Indian arrowheads to be found there. Trees, farms and streams were plentiful and the roads were narrow and winding. Some of that still remains. Cattle, sheep and produce have always been plentiful. Good tobacco country, moderate in climate. I don't know if this is what you were looking for, but for what it's worth...
Karen Moore Waugh

Sorry Charlie, the index listings are only by surnames, no given names, and there are 42 listings for Oldham.

> On another subject: Have you ever attended a meeting of the H & G Society?

No Charlie, I live in South Carolina, that's why I bought the History book when it was first published in 1987. It's a wonderful book, full of pictures, descriptions of all of the different communities, churches, cemeteries, etc., and 840 compilations of Smith County's Families. I highly recommend it to everyone that has roots in Smith Co.
Joy

Elizabeth Deihl wrote:
> Alberta- > Hold on, when I go to the library Thursday I will look and see what we > have. I have your Barry names on my list to see if I can find them. We > have several Smith Co books and who knows - maybe we have cemetery books > also. > > Thanks for setting your date correctly. > > Elizabeth >

Date: 2/24/99 TNSMITH-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 55
Today's Topics:
#1 [TNSMITH-L] Re: Pipers [[email protected]]
#2 [TNSMITH-L] Smith Co Books [cabarry <[email protected]>]
#3 [TNSMITH-L] Hawkins Family ["joyce link" <[email protected]>]
#4 [TNSMITH-L] T.J. Shepherd Family [Larry Jolly <mt_larmar@madisontelc]
#5 Re: [TNSMITH-L] T.J. Shepherd Fami [Joy King <[email protected]>]
#6 [TNSMITH-L] Smith County video?? [[email protected]]
#7 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Smith County video [Joy King <[email protected]>]
#8 [TNSMITH-L] Smith Co History Book [[email protected]]
#9 [TNSMITH-L] (no subject) [jeholmes <[email protected]]
#10 [TNSMITH-L] Pipers in Smith & Illi ["Harold Steiner" <[email protected]]
#11 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Smith Co History B [Joy King <[email protected]>]
#12 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book [Lucy Barron <[email protected]]

X-Message: #1  Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999
From: [email protected]
Subject: [TNSMITH-L] Re: Pipers
Hal
Sorry...but your Piper is "too late" for "my Piper." My Piper, Nancy, was born about 1812 in Smith County, was put under the guardianship of first Benjamin Piper, then L. Ballew in about 1830. Nancy married Burrel Smith (born in Wilson Co, TN) in Morgan County, IL, in 1832.
There might be a connection farther back, but the names you mentioned are not familiar to me.
Carolynn

The family left for Southern IL in the 1850's. One son may have stayed--John Hawkins--Also Mary Ann Who married Sammuel Ford.
Any information is greatly appreciated -- thanks for a reply.
Joyce

Marlene, there are 12 entries for Uhles, 2 for Jolly, 108 entries for Allen.
Joy

---Original message---
<<From: Joy King <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TNSMITH-L] Cemetery Book
Charles, I have a copy of the Smith Co., TN History book, but I would very much like copies of the Cemetery books.  
The Society's latest Newsletter, Winter 1999, says they have some copies of the History left ($100.00 + $3.00 postage), but no mention of the Cemetery books. They also have a few copies of the Smith County Video ($19.95 + $3.00 postage).
Their address is: Smith County Historical and Genealogical Society -
P.O. Box 112 - Carthage, TN 37030. Phone: 615-735-1326.
Joy >>

A Mary Ann Austin married first John Ballard in Smith County in 1859.
For some reason this marriage terminated and she married second ______
Piper and they moved to Illinois.

Does this ring a bell with either off you. Need the forename name of the Piper she married and where in Illinois they settled..

[email protected] wrote:
> I would appreciate la lookup in Smith County History Book for:
> Presley ASKINS
> Robert William and Celina Robinson WILSON
> Allen Green and Elizebeth ASKINS WILSON>
> Thank you so much!
> Phyllis Wilson Carpenter

Sorry Phyllis, I really don't have the time for full name lookups. As I said before, the index only has surnames, no given names. There are no Askins in the index, but there are 72 entries for Wilson.
Joy

At 07:18 PM 2/23/99 -0500, Joy King wrote:
>Charles, I have a copy of the Smith Co., TN History book, but I would very much
>like copies of the Cemetery books.>
>The Society's latest Newsletter, Winter 1999, says they have some copies of the
>History left ($100.00 + $3.00 postage), but no mention of the Cemetery books.
>They also have a few copies of the Smith County Video ($19.95 + $3.00 postage).>
>Their address is: Smith County Historical and Genealogical Society - P.O.Box 112
>- Carthage, TN 37030. Phone: 615-735-1326.>
>Joy>

>Charles Gregory wrote:>
>> Yes they did a reprint to help finance the expansion of the smith county
>> archives ...i was not aware they sold out ...they also reprinted the smith co
>> history book ....i wonder if they all sold ? How many folks would like a copy
>> of these books ? I will forward this on to the society!>
>==== TNSMITH Mailing List ====
>Visit our Smith County Home Page:
>http://www.tngenweb.org/smith/>

Lucy Barron (617) 495-2446
Senior Serial Cataloger e-mail: [email protected]
Widener Library, Rm. 87
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Date: 2/25/99 TNSMITH-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 56
Today's Topics:
#1 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Brushy Creek or Br ["Char Coats-Siercks" <coats@hotmai]
#2 [TNSMITH-L] Re: TNSMITH-D Digest V [[email protected]]
#3 RE: [TNSMITH-L] Smith Co Books ["Hope, Regenia A" <Regenia.Hope@We]
#4 [TNSMITH-L] CUNNINGHAM [Mary Jones <[email protected]>]
#5 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Smith County video [[email protected]]
#6 [TNSMITH-L] Smith Co History Book [[email protected]]
#7 [TNSMITH-L] Marriage records [Larry Jolly <mt_larmar@madisontelc]
#8 [TNSMITH-L] (no subject) [[email protected]]
#9 [TNSMITH-L] (no subject) [[email protected]]
#10 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Smith Co History B [Joy King <[email protected]>]
#11 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Marriage records ["Cora Ann Brown" <ajobebrown@hotma]
#12 [TNSMITH-L] Thank you [cabarry <[email protected]>]
#13 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Brushy Creek or Br ["Jim Clark" <[email protected]]
#14 [TNSMITH-L] Some LDS Microfilms [[email protected]]
#15 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Some LDS Microfilm [[email protected]]
#16 [TNSMITH-L] Re: Joseph J. Taylor [Alton Jenkins <[email protected]>]
#17 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Some LDS Microfilm [Joy King <[email protected]>]

X-Message: #1  Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999
From: "Char Coats-Siercks" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TNSMITH-L] Brushy Creek or Brush Creek Area
Well, that's what I'm finding out here...in the deed I have of William Coats it says his land is located on Brushy Creek...now I may have read the old handwriting wrong or the name has changed or ....
I can not thank you all enough for all the wonderful info, pictures and stories...
And yes, seeing the terraine makes one wonder how in the world they ever mannaged to get there...but it sure is beautiful country...gee whiz...one of these days I'll get back there...<g>....
Charlotte

----Original Message Follows----
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:23:56 -0800
From: Billy Pettross <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TNSMITH-L] Brushy Creek or Brush Creek Area
To: [email protected]
Hi All:
Brush Creek, Smith County, TN. is located on state route 53 between I 40 and highway 70 south. There is a Brushy Mountain in TN but I never heard of a Brushy Creek.
Hope this helps.
Billy Pettross
==== TNSMITH Mailing List ====
Visit our Smith County Home Page:
http://www.tngenweb.org/smith/

Alberta
You wrote that you had the DeKalb Book. My family of Manners and Overstreets and Robinsons were all in Smith Co but the part of the county that went to Dekalb had the Manners. Is it possible to get by fax or snail mail copies of the following(or if you have a scanner, by e-mail)
Manners, Alex page 193
Manners, C. page 200
Manners,J page 200
Manners, Mickeral page 206
I would be happy to cover any expense you might incur and would be ever so grateful
Contact me for fax or mailing address at your convience
Regenia Hope
[email protected]

> ----------
> From: cabarry[SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 10:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [TNSMITH-L] Smith Co Books>
> Hi List:
> This morning the Librarian said they still had copies of the Smith Co.
> History Book. If anyone wants a copy, you need to get it.
> I shall write them tomorrow also suggesting that they reprint. I for
> one want copies of these books. I already have one for DeKalb Co. and
> they are great.
> Thank you to everyone who wrote me concerning this.
> Alberta Barry>

[email protected] wrote:

> Would someone look up the HARDY family in the Smith Co. History Book.
> Thanks,
> Ida

Sorry Ida, there is no Hardy family listed in the index.
joy

I visited Smith Co. last October. My first visit there was in 1939 when I was five. During the 2nd World War I visited my grandmother and relatives on Hogan's Creek and Bluff Creek. It was and is a beautiful area of rolling hills that once were farm fields. Most of the farm fields have going back to scrub and trees. There is much beauty there. Many farm fields now hold three are four new homes. Few of the homes that I remember as a child, are still standing .. I did revisit Hogan's Creek and Bluff Creek last year. I played in Hogan's Creek as a child, just as my father did before me. I was greatly disappointed when electricity came through in 1946. I enjoyed the oil lamps at night and getting the water from the spring, and there really was a M. Wards catalog in the outhouse!. Back in the 20's my grandmother had a well drilled nearer to the house but all that came up was gas. I heard stories of my cousins tossing matches down the well to see how high an item would shoot up into the air. It was blocked it dirt and stone when I was a kid. Hearing my grandmother calling the pigs and cows, was something I looked forward to. I remember her making lye soap, canning peaches, and blackberry picking, and her blackberry and peach cobblers. I remember how she would feed the chickens, spot one, grab it and then ring its neck. This was our supper. To run the biscuits out that she made every morning, she would use them as the crust for the cobblers. I was a city boy and this was all new to me.. I can still see the cows coming down the hill to be milked. They bellowed to be milked. My grandmother made a quilt for each of her grandchildren. I still have mine and also one that her mother made. We went to town (Carthage) on Saturdays. I believe most farmers and their families did. The town was crowded with farmers and their families, making their purchases and visiting. Someone stopped me on the street in Carthage and asked me who I was. I told him that my father was Ernest Clark and this man then told me that he and I were cousins. It seemed that everyone was related to each other back then. Everyone on the street seemed to greet each other. During the week they were too busy and too darned tired go to town for anything. During the early part of the War the Army comprised of the Red and I believe the Blue armies held maneuvers in and around Carthage.. I remember when they were on Hogan's Creek. The young men were usually well fed by the locals who fed them biscuits and butter milk and fried chicken right on the front porch or lawn. I remember that one young soldier tried to swim the Cumberland near Carthage and he lost his life. The Army set up their water works on Hogan's Creek just below the metal bridge, near Hogan's Creek Church. Right after the war my cousin was playing with a piece of metal he found laying in a farm field. He hammered on it and it exploded .
Thankfully he wasn't injured. This was something left over from that period.
When my grandmother fell ill in the early 1950's she was taken to Lebanon, TN because that was the closest hospital. Now there is one or two in town. When she got out of the hospital and was unable to take care of herself she was placed in Johnson's Rest Home in Lebanon. Again, there were none in Carthage. Now Carthage sports a Hardee's and a Walmart. The town has grown but really not all that much from what it was during the 2nd World war period. I am aware of two cemeteries in town. Ridgewood, the oldest and Memorial Gardens I believe. is the name of the second and newest. They join each other and are located in Carthage.


Linda Lewis wrote:
> I've only been to Smith county once, last summer. The towns are very
> small by most standards. Carthage is the largest city in the county. It
> doesn't have a few regular large cemeteries. There are instead many very
> small family plots, sometimes in a cow pasture, sometimes at the end of
> a dirt or gravel road. I found one of my family cemeteries on the side
> of a small mountain. You could see deer, hawks, eagles, and we heard
> turkeys although they did not show themselves.

Jim>
>> I can't speak for the Brushy Creek area. I didn't need to go there. But
> I highly recommend taking a field trip to Smith county if you can. The
> library is closed on Wednesday. And there is a nice enough hotel at the
> turn off towards Carthage.
> Linda>
> ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ====
> Visit our Smith County Home Page:
http://www.tngenweb.org/smith/

In checking on the Smith Co, Tn, records available for review at the LDS centers, thought you'all might be interested in the following films (there are many more than these-these just interested me). You can order them for review for $3.25. Many more microfilms are available at the TN Archives in Nashville for $20 each.
Film # Contents Years Item
319168 Marriages 1838-1881 1838-1881
319183 Chancery Court 1808-1845
319184 Chancery Court 1831-1847
319244 Adm Receipt Book 1854-1877
851106 DAR Collection of Misc - County Court 1813-15, Bible Records, Marriage Book 1845-54 and 1838, Wills 1805-9, 1812-4, 1816-20
24828 Dixon Creek Baptist Church 1799-1853 item 1-4
24829 County Court Minutes 1813-1815 Item 1-2
24829 Will Books 1816-1820 item 3
24829 County Court Minutes 1799-1804 item 5-6
24829 County Court Minutes 1835 item 7
24829 County Court Minutes 1808-1811 item 8
24830 County Court Minutes 1811-1813 item 1
24830 Will Books 1805-1823 item 2-5
24831 County Court Minutes 1815-1819
24832 County Court Minutes 1819-1820
24833 County Court Minutes 1820-1824
247333 Carthages Newspapers 1808 item 1
247333 Carthages Newspapers Various Dates items 2-8
247333 Carthages Newspapers 1824-1824 items 9-11
319080 Land & Property Deeds 1804-1814 Books B-D
319081 Land & Property Deeds 1814-1821 Books E-G
319082 Land & Property Deeds 1821-1832 Books H-K
319083 Land & Property Deeds 1832-1836 Books L-M
319084 Land & Property Deeds 1836-1841 Books N-P
319085 Land & Property Deeds 1841-1845 Books Q-R
319086 Land & Property Deeds 1845-1852 Books S-U
319127 County Court-Deeds, Insolvent Est 1839-1872 1853-1866
319168 Marriages 1838-1881
319178 Will Books 1805-1833 V1, 2-5
319179 Will Books 1828-1896 V 6-8
319181 Will Books 1812-1814
319187 Circuit Court Minutes 1811-1836
319188 Circuit Court Minutes 1836-1842
319192 County Court 1799-1815
319193 County Court 1815-1820
319194 County Court 1820-1827
319195 County Court 1824-1831
319196 County Court 1831-1841
319197 County Court 1841-1853
319220 County Clerk, Inventories 1827-1840
319226 Guardian Records
520903 County Clerk, Inventories 1823-1827
520905 County Court-Judgements, Juveniles 1834-1932
570807 History of Smith Co by Bowen-1987
982096 Probate Records 1805-1809
982104 Marriages by McKinney 1838-1854 item 5
1928826 Marriages 1828-1881

Linda,
Joseph J. Taylor is my great great grandfather. Here's what I know:
He was born in 1820 in TN and died in 1898, probably in Smith Co, TN. He was married to Mary Adaline Nixon who was born in 1842 in TN. She died in 1881, also probably in Smith Co, TN. I don't know their parents. Joseph's children were: Alice (?), Tom (?), Ellen J. (1858), Sarah A. (1860), Martha Ann (May 10, 1862 - August 14, 1946), Kindred Cicero (1864), Rufus A. (1867), George T. (1869), James W. (1871), Joseph Peyton (1875), Emma E. (1878). My great grandmother was Martha Ann.
Alton Jenkins

This is the site for TN State Library
http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/intro.htm
Joy

Date: 2/25/99 TNSMITH-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 57
Today's Topics:
#1 [TNSMITH-L] Cemtery Books ["Margaret Burrows" <mjane@1starnet]
#2 [TNSMITH-L] Re: Alman/Allman [[email protected] (S Helligso)]
#3 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Re: Alman/Allman [Joy King <[email protected]>]

X-Message: #1  Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999
From: "Margaret Burrows" <[email protected]>
Subject: [TNSMITH-L] Cemtery Books

Wish they would reprint these books. I would love to have a copy of both of them.
MJ

Could someone look up in the Smith Co History book for Alman/Allman family? In 1840 Tempa Alman/Allman or sometimes referred to as Temperance was listed as head of household. I would also be interested in purchasing copies of cemetery books.
Thanks Sandy Helligso [email protected]

S Helligso wrote:
> Could someone look up in the Smith Co History book for Alman/Allman
> family? In 1840 Tempa Alman/Allman or sometimes referred to as
> Temperance was listed as head of household.
> I would also be interested in purchasing copies of cemetery books.
> Thanks Sandy Helligso [email protected]>
> ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ====
> Visit our Smith County Home Page:
> http://www.tngenweb.org/smith/

There are 2 listings for Allman, 14 for Allmon, 2 for Alman.
Joy

Date: 2/26/99 TNSMITH-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 58
Today's Topics:
#1 [TNSMITH-L] Re: TNSMITH-D Digest V [[email protected]]
#2 [TNSMITH-L] Sanford Gregory [B&B West <[email protected]>]
#3 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Sanford Gregory [B&B West <[email protected]>]
#4 Re: [TNSMITH-L] Re: TNSMITH-D Dige [Joy King <[email protected]>]

X-Message: #1  Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999
From: [email protected]
Subject: [TNSMITH-L] Re: TNSMITH-D Digest V99 #57

Could someone look up Sandersons please? There was a Thomas that was married to a Matilda, another Thomas married a Susannah, and a John who married a Mary Cannon and the 2nd. Martha Cameron. There is a Luther B. and a Luther Noah Sanderson. Any information would be appreicated.
Thank-you,
Jeannie

Are Jincy and Jane the same person? Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Bobby L. West

B&B West wrote:
> Need parents and siblings of Sanford Gregory who lived in Smith Co. TN
> in the early 1800's.
> 1850 Census for Smith Co. TN
> Sanford Gregory age 24 b. TN
> Lucy age 29 b. TN
> Sarah J. age 5 b. TN
> William L. age 4 b. TN
> Elizabeth age 1 b. TN
> Jincy age 47 b. NC>

> 1860 Census for Smith Co. TN
> Sanford Gregory age 36 b. TN
> Lucy age 36 b. TN
> Sarah J. age 16 b. TN
> William L. age 14 b. TN
> Elizabeth age 13 b. TN
> Obediah age 12 b. TN
> James age 10 b. TN
> Cornelia (?) age 5 b. TN
> Jane age 50 b. TN>

> Are Jincy and Jane the same person? Many thanks to anyone who
> can help.>
> Bobby L. West

Apparently I got caught up in the repetition. Last item in the 1860 section should have read: Jane age 50 b. NC.
Bobby L. West>>

> ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ====
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Date: 2/28/99 TNSMITH-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 59
Today's Topics:
#1 [TNSMITH-L] request lookup please [Annette Barron <[email protected]]
#2 [TNSMITH-L] Morris [betty martz <[email protected]]
#3 [TNSMITH-L] (no subject) [[email protected]]

X-Message: #1  Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999
From: Annette Barron <[email protected]>
Subject: [TNSMITH-L] request lookup please
Would someone look up the SWINK, MANN, and PHELAN surnames in the Smith Co. History Book?
thank you,
annette :)

Betty Martz, RESEARCHING FIVEASH, MORRIS, CUTRELL, REED, CLARADAY/CLARIDA, WHITED, LANGFORD, RUSSEL of Smith County

Some time ago I promised you a complete (as complete as I can read these old signatures) listing of the people who attended my grandmother's wedding in 1909.
I also have the newspaper account of the Mt. Juliet wedding held at "Oakland", the Goodall family home in Wilson Co. TN. The bride is from Mt. Juliet, the groom from New Middleton in Smith Co. TN.
I will forward this on to the Sumner, Smith and Wilson County TN Genweb officials for use as they wish. It is also going to the Sumner and Smith Co. lists to which I subscribe, and another group of Goodall researchers. If you wish to pass it along to any others, in the spirit of full and free genealogy research I encourage you to do so.
Karen Moore Waugh
Tampa, FL
************
The Invitation:
Mr. & Mrs. George V. Goodall
will give in marriage their daughter
Annie Lee
to
Mr. Gordon Moore
on the afternoon of Thursday, the seventh day of October
Nineteen hundred and nine
at half after three o'clock
"Oakland"
Mt. Juliet, Tennessee

The honor of your presence is requested.

**********
NOTE: Where it is difficult to determine just exactly which letter or name is written, the letter will be followed by an asterisk*, the name by two**.
Those who signed the wedding book:
Mrs. C. G.* Everett
Mr. & Mrs. Elbert W. Young & son
Hooper Jennings
Mrs. P.* H. Frazier
Sam Cook
Mrs. F. E. Moore
Mrs. W. S. Marks
Miss Foy Dell Carver
J. W. Grigg
Kate Moore (sister of groom)
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McFarland
W.B. Nokis**
Helen Stroud
Mr. Briut** Jennings
Mrs. J. D. Bradford (Mrs. Mary Moore Bradford, sister of groom)
Gussie Lou Lincoln
Grace Truman Betty
James Conick** Betty
Joe Eastes
J. Chas Jackson
D.* E. Seay, Lebanon
W. A. Neal, Grant
Miss Ellen Hatfield (provided piano music for ceremony)
Bettie Hatfield
Altha Everett
Duke Ward (best man)
Effie Sweatt (cousin to bride, maid of honor), of Kentucky
E. A. Elam (elder & minister who officiated)
W.W. McFarland
Mrs. F. A. McFarland
Elizabeth Wood
Mrs. Will P. Thomson
Laura F. Wallace
Lelia Bridgewater (perhaps a cousin to bride)
Carolyn Johns
Miss Annie Bridgewater (a cousin to the bride)
Miss Willette. B. Thomson, Hendersonville
Mrs. L. S. Lovelace
Jno. D. Glenn, Lebanon
Mrs. John D. Glenn, Lebanon (Martha Goodall Glenn, aunt to bride)
A.H. Goodall
Mrs. A. H. Goodall
A. Gordon Goodall
George Van Buren Goodall, Jr.
Martha Louise Goodall
Will H. Waters
Roy F. Garrette**
Loucile** Cragwall**
J. W. Cragwall
J. S. Hatfield
Katie Johnson
Mary McDaniel
Grady McDaniel
Miss May Sweatt, Mt. Juliet
Mrs. Mattie W. Touralieraclies** (honestly, this is what it looks like)
E.A. Sweatt
Ruby Garrett
Nell Bridgewater
Mr. & Mrs. W. W.* Grigg
Miss Annie Grigg
Mr. & Mrs. R.* C.* Hardison
Elizabeth Jennings
Mary Jennings
John L. Jennings
Mrs. J. B. Ward
Mrs. W.S. Haley
Mrs. W.A. Neal

X-Message: #1  Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999
From: [email protected]
Subject: [TNSMITH-L] Smith County Clerk Address

I am new to the list and I was wondering is someone could give me the address to the Smith County clerk.
Thanks ... Robie

If you have not checked out TNGENWEB's pages lately, here are a couple of links.
Lots of good stuff has been added here.......like wills, marriages, census, etc for various TN counties
USGenWeb TNGenweb Archives = Digital Library ---searchable by surname
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tn/tnfiles.htm

and check out this one too.....
TNGenWeb "The Land of Our Ancestors" Tennessee land history.
http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/

And, no, I am not affiliated with TNGENWEB......just appreciate their efforts in getting information on Tennessee public domain records online for all of us....
And if anyone has original records they want to put online.....there is a place within the TNGENWEB pages to do so.....
Nancy Goodman in TN

TNGenWeb, Tennessee, County Family Bible Project
http://www.tngenweb.org/cntylinks/tnbible.htm

TNGenWeb's Tennessee Wills and Probate Records Project
http://www.tngenweb.org/cntylinks/tnwills.htm

TNGenWeb, Tennessee County Tax Lists
http://www.tngenweb.org/cntylinks/tntaxlst.htm

TNGenWeb's Bradford 1835 Atlas Project
http://www.tngenweb.org/maps/bradford.htm

Greene County Families Migration
http://www.tngenweb.org/greene/migration/migra001.html

Return to Smith County index page:http://members.aol.com/genny1/smithidx.html