Archived Queries
April 2004

 

 

The message was posted by deb 4/4/04
Subject: Riley Dudley Smith
Email: dmcdo22480@aol.com

Message:
Looking for info on Riley Dudley Smith, married to Maggie dooley
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The message was posted by MC GUIRE, Robert V.  4/4/04
Subject: MC GUIRE Family Search
Email: mcdot@oregonfast.net

Message:
I am searching for any information on my Great-Grand Father, James W, MC GUIRE's Parents and their origin. James was born 16 July 1826 in TN., the 17th child of 25 {Two marriages}. He was wed 22 Jan 1846 to Nancy AMYX{?}, they had five children, all born in TN. My Grandfather, Robert, was born 22 May 1853 in Smith's Crossroads{now
Dayton}, Rhea County, TN. The family relocated to Kansas in 1871. If anyone out there has any information on James' father and mother{including her maiden name} and country of their origin, you would be extremely helpful in aiding my attempts to finalize my family tree. Thank you very much, Robert McGuire
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The message was posted by Dee Reynolds 4/7/04
Subject: William Spencer & Ida Gertrude Harris Reynolds
Email: bdjreynolds@midviewdsl.com

Message:
I am looking for any information on my husband grandparents. They were William Spencer Reynolds & Ida Gertrude Harris Reynolds. He died Oct 12, 1914 & she died Oct 14, 1914. They are buried in
Chattanooga Tennessee. I anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. She was born in Sevier co. Tennesse and he was born in Knox co. Tennessee. Please Help.
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The message was posted by Byrom Wehner 4/8/04

Subject:

Parents of Thomas Taylor Wilson (WILSON & RAGON)

Email:

wehnerbt@att.net

Message:
Looking for information about the parents of Thomas Taylor (T.T.) Wilson, who was born in
Hamilton County (near present-day Summit) in 1847 or 1848 and died in Chattanooga in 1921 (a long-time resident). T.T.'s death certificate shows his parents to be father Thomas Wilson and mother surnamed Ragon, both born in Tennessee. T.T. was married to Lou Ellen Cate, daughter of Alfred M. and Louisa Walker Cate, and was also a Chattanooga city alderman during the two terms of Mayor George Ochs.
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The message was posted by EVELYN 4/9/04.

Subject:

HAROLD D. KEITH

Email:

DUNN1254@JUNO.COM
Message:
I AM LOOKING FOR HAROLD D.KEITH D.O.B.3-4-58 FROM DAYTON TENN. HIS MOTHER WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM AGAIN. THE LAST SHE HEARD WAS HE WAS IN FLA, SOME WHERE. IF ANY ONE CAN HELP PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT DUNN1254@JUNO.COM
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The message was posted by Sally Martin 4/13/04

Subject:

Re: cedar chest

Email:

samartin@nycap.rr.com

Message:
I have a cedar chest that I believe was made in
Chattanooga around the same time as yours. It was made by the Cavalier Corporation. There is a card in it that looks like a mail-in Warranty card, and the address of the company on that card is "Cavalier Corporation, Chattanooga, Tennessee," with no street name or number. The card was provided as an offer to order an engraved plaque or to purchase "Moth Insurance Coverage." To obtain the latter, one had to fill in the two numbers stenciled underneath the chest. The card says "Chest No." and Serial No.," but the stencil under my chest says "Pattern No." and "Serial No." There still remains an advertising banner inside the lid, boasting that it is "The Gift for a Lifetime of Happiness!" and "made of the finest Tennessee Aromatic Red Cedar." The chest I have is longer (in comparison to the front-to-back measurement) than most chests I've seen. Or maybe it's the same length, but shallower from front to back. It has the "waterfall" front, and a small shelf attached to the inside of the lid by hinges. I don't know if any of this helps you at all, but it's all I've got. I know that when I found this cedar chest at an apple stand on a country road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I called my father in Chattanooga, and he said that yes, he did remember that company, and that one of my mother's cedar chests was also made by them. (They were married in 1940.) Yours, Sally
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The message was posted by Sally Martin 4/13/04

Subject:

Re: CHADWICK FAMILY ON SIGNAL MOUNTAIN

Email:

samartin@nycap.rr.com

Message:
There was a Chadwick family that I went to school with when I attended
Signal Mountain Grammar School, but I can't remember much about them. I do have pictures (somewhere!) of my classmates in each grade, and if there's a Chadwick named on one of those, I'll get back to you when I find it. We recently moved, and everything is still in boxes. At any rate, I attended SMGS from 1955 through 1960. I'll see what I can find out for you. – Sally
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The message was posted by Jami Weaver 4/15/04

Subject:

Foust-Thomas

Email:

jweaver@totelcsi.net

Message:
I am looking for any info on my ggggrandparents. They are: William Henderson or Henry Thomas Born: 11/05/1823 in Tennessee Died: 03/31/1908 in Washington County, Arkansas Married: 09/17/1852 I believe in Hamilton County Sarah Rebecca Foust, (daughter of John Foust and Matilda Hawley) Born: 12/27/1833 in Sullivan County Tennessee Died: 07/13/1881 in Washington County, Arkansas I have found in the Early Hamilton County Tennessee Marriages a marriage of William Henderson Thomas to Sarah R. Foust on 09/16/1852. How do I get a copy of their marriage license or record of it? I have traced the John Foust Family to Hamilton County Tennessee around the 1840's. Before that they were living in Sullivan County, Tennessee. My family oral history tells me that William H. Thomas was a Civil War Veteeran CSA (Confederate). Any info anybody can give me on these ancestors of mine would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance for your time and help. Sincerely, Jami A. Weaver
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The message was posted by Melissa Cooke 4/17/04

Subject:

Hatfields of Signal Mountain

Email:

mommymissy2003@hotmail.com

Message:
I'm in search of a relative. My ggg-granddad was Absalom Riley Hatfield. He had a son named Absalom Riley Hatfield the II or Jr. Ab, jr. had a son John David Hatfield (which is my grandpa) He married a woman by the name of either Peggy or Bettye Fredrick O'neil. I need info on this woman. Where she was born and died. Also, any info on if Absalom Jr. remarried. Thanks so much. Please email me at mommymissy2003@hotmail.com
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The message was posted by Teri Miller 4/17/04

Subject:

Cunningham/Ball Families - Chattanooga

Email:

wmille5@tampabay.rr.com

Message:
Looking for info on this family: Margaret Mae Cunningham, born Sept 1900 in
Chattanooga to Ida Ball and Thomas Lysander Cunningham. Ida Ball died around 1904, Margaret Mae and her brother, Eugene Cunningham, were raised by their grandfather, Calvin Cherry Ball. Margaret married William Johnson abt 1915. They lived in Ohio, Knoxville, TN, and moved to Miami, FL in the 1940's. Does anyone know this family? Thanks! Teri Johnson Miller
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The message was posted by Sandra ARLEDGE Turner 4/17/04

Subject:

Mose Eligah Arledge

Email:

sam1944@bellsouth.net

Message:
I am trying to find information on my grandfarther, Mose Eligah Arledge and wife, Mallissie Jane Akins Arledge. Beard Lafayeet (B. L.) Arledge was his brother. My grandfarther birth per ceme. records 1854. per death certificate 1870. His parents were James Arledge and wife, Sarah. If anyone has any information or can provide me with leads it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Sandra ARLEDGE Turner
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The message was posted by Jack Goins 4/20/04

Subject:

1872 Hamiliton County chancery Court trial

Email:

jgoins@usit.net

Message:
Hello I am a member of the Hawkins County Genealogy Society and will pay someone for copies of the minutes to, or of the preecedings of a Hamiliton County Charcery court case tried in 1872. This case was over land which two half sisters of a man named Barton tried to get his fortune because Barton married a Melungeon and the half sisters claimed his wife was colored and therefore their only child a daughter named Betsy being free colored was not entitled to her fathers fortune, her name was probasbly Elizabeth (Betsy)Barton, Betsy case was argured by attorney Lewis Shepard, who later became a Judge. This above information came from: S.L. Shepard; Memoirs of Judge Lewis Shepard,
Chattanooga, ca 1914 (Romatic Accounts of the Celebrated Melungeon Case.) If anyone can send me court copies of the above i will gladly pay you, thanks very much, Jack Goins