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Queries Posted June, 1998 – September, 1998

Queries Posted June, 1998 – September, 1998

These queries were posted many years ago on an old TNGenWeb system.  Please note that e-mail addresses are likely defunct, and other contact details are possibly outdated.  Some individuals may be deceased. We have not edited the text in any of the queries. Our purpose in posting these old queries is to provide current and future researchers with clues from researchers in the past. If you have a corrected e-mail address, please let us know so we can update. Good…

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Queries Posted January, 2002 – February, 2002

Queries Posted January, 2002 – February, 2002

These queries were posted many years ago on an old TNGenWeb system.  Please note that e-mail addresses are likely defunct, and other contact details are possibly outdated.  Some individuals may be deceased. We have not edited the text in any of the queries. Our purpose in posting these old queries is to provide current and future researchers with clues from researchers in the past. If you have a corrected e-mail address, please let us know so we can update. Good…

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Lawrence County Courthouse

Lawrence County Courthouse

Courthouse Offices with Genealogy Material Register Of Deeds Office All Deeds and Land Entries, 1818 thru present Some Wills and Naturalization Records County Clerk’s Office Wills, 1818-present Marriages, 1818-present Estates Settlements, 1818-present Minute Books, 1818-present Administrator, Guardian & Executor Reports & Settlements Probate Court Records Chancery Court (Clerk & Master) Office Delinquent Tax Cases, 1840-present Some Divorces, 1818-present Civil Court Cases, 1840-present Minute and Docket Books, 1840-present Address for all the above: Lawrence County Courthouse 240 West Gaines St Lawrenceburg, TN…

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History of the TNGenWeb

History of the TNGenWeb

It is impossible to discuss the history of the TNGenWeb project without discussing our parent project, USGenweb. USGenWeb began in 1996, as a group of genealogists who organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project, known as the KYGenWeb Project. It began as a discussion group on the mailing list, KYROOTS-L, hosted by the University of Kentucky and coordinated by Roseann Hogan of Frankfort, Ky. Roseann Hogan is the author of “Kentucky Ancestry.” The KYGenWeb was designed to provide a single…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Augustus Jones White

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Augustus Jones White

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Augustus J. White, M. D., is a son of George O. and Mary A. (Cole) White, who were born in Massachusetts and New York October 23, 1817, and February 27, 1820, respectively. The father came to Tennessee in 1837 and started the Sycamore Cotton Mills and built the Sycamore Powder mills. After living alternately in Massachusetts and Tennessee until 1854, he took up a permanent residence…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of George King Welch

Goodspeed’s Biography of George King Welch

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 George K. Welch, merchant, is a Tennessean, born in 1843 [see sketch of J. W. Welch for parent’s biography], and resided with his father on a farm until eighteen years of age, at which time he enlisted in the Confederate service and was in some of the hardest fought battles of the war, Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Murfreesboro being the principal ones. He served through the entire…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. John Wesley Welch, M. D.

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. John Wesley Welch, M. D.

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John W. Welch, M. D., was born in Tennessee in 1829, son of John L. and Rachel (Archer) Welch, born in South Carolina and Georgia, respectively. John L. Welch came to Tennessee with his parents in 1806. He was a farmer and lived in Lawrence County until his death in 1876. His wife died in 1873. After residing on the farm for some time John W….

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Theodore D. Vaughn

Goodspeed’s Biography of Theodore D. Vaughn

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Theodore D. Vaughn, farmer and native of the county in which he resides, was born 1840, son of Thomas and Mary A. Vaughn, who were Tennesseans by birth and died in 1863 and 1862, respectively. Our subject was reared in his parent’s farm, and resided with then until 1861, when he entered the Confederate service and participated in the battle of Fort Donelson. He was the…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Thaddeus Kosciusko True

Goodspeed’s Biography of Thaddeus Kosciusko True

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 T. K. True is a son of David H. and Ellen (Glasscock) True, and was born in Maury County, Tenn., June 16, 1839. The father was a Virginian and came to Tennessee when quite young with his father, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. David H. was a farmer and followed merchandising and stock trading for many years. He died in 1871, and his…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Darling Moses Tidwell

Goodspeed’s Biography of Darling Moses Tidwell

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Darling M. Tidwell is a son of Vincent and Phoebe (Rackley) Tidwell. The father was born in the Palmetto State, and was an early pioneer of Tennessee. Of their twelve children eight of them lived to be grown, and six served in the Confederate Army. Vincent Tidwell and his wife died in 1783 and 1883, respectively. Darling M. Tidwell was born in Tennessee in 1832, and…

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