Summary
of 1999 Changes To TheScott Co, TN Homepages
Summary
of 1999 Changes To The
This
page was created by Timothy
N. West and is copyrighted by him. All rights
reserved.
26 Dec 1999 Changes
Corrections
Corrected URL for Sextons buried in various Scott Co, TN cemeteries on the Scott Co, TN Cemetery Records page
Corrected James Clinton Slaven obituary to reflect pallbearer's correct name is Rocky Watson and not Rocky Slaven. (Correction comes from Rocky's brother)
New pages
FNB Chronicles Index
Provides an index to the FNB Chronicle from its birth ten years
ago until the present. I have also been given permission to
publish the past articles here as well. (This is an evolving
project and will be updated over the months as I add more index
information and add more articles.)
The
Thomas Family of Scott County, Tennessee
(from the FNB Chronicle) Describes the descendants of Abner Thomas and
Rebecca Brown from where they first settled on Paint Rock in the 1820s
to the early 1990's.
The rest
of the story . . . about the Civil War Giant
(from the FNB Chronicle)Bruce Bates, of Helenwood, relays a story about
the Civil War era giant Martin Van Buren Bates. Martin was
7'11" tall and weighed 525 lbs.
Anna
Louise Carson
(from the FNB Chronicle) A brief biography.
Added Richard Newport, His Book: The Lineage of Richard Newport, Minister of the Gospel; Linda Shay; 1999; Linda Shay, 420 Ellenhurst Drive, Anderson, Indiana 46012; 450 pages with index; describes the ministry and lineage of Richard Newport, a Baptist Minister and ancestor of the Scott County Newports. The book traces the earliest verifiable ancestors of the Newports, and follows the travels of Richard Newport from Virginia into North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee as he, his family, and associates helped to establish pivotal Early American Baptist Churches. The book also includes associated lines of interest to Scott Countians.
Added 1953 death of Sophia Craig and obituary
Added 1965 death of Millard E. Childers and obituary
Added 1965 death of Jesse S. Collins and obituary
Added 1965 death of Joseph Melvin Duncan and obituary
Added 1966 death of Thomas Bond and obituary
Added 1966 death of John Bridges and obituary
Added 1966 obituary for Herman Jack Carson
Added 1966 death of Ollen Chitwood and obituary
Added 1966 death of J. A. Crabtree and obituary
Added 1966 death of Tabitha Slaven Duncan and obituary
Added 1966 death of Johnny Lee Forbis and obituary
Added 1966 death of Commellia Johnson and obituary
Added 1966 death of Sherman Tucker and obituary
Added 1966 death of Sarah Belle Walker and obituary
Added 1967 death of Cinda Abbott and obituary
Added 1967 death of Nancy Adkins and obituary
Added 1967 death of Mable Thompson Babb and obituary
Added 1967 obituary for Henry Morgan Bird
Added 1967 death of Alma Pearl Long Botts and obituary
Added 1967 death of Lavern Allred Bridges and obituary
Added 1967 death of Edward Burchfield and obituary
Added 1967 obituary for Cordelia Chambers
Added 1967 death of Sinclair Chambers and obituary
Added 1967 obituary for Sterling Cross
Added 1967 obituary Edward Joseph Duncan
Added 1967 obituary for James Harrison Duncan
Added 1967 obituary for Orlena Byrge Duncan
Added 1967 death of Sherman Duncan and obituary
Added 1967 death of John Franklin Ellis and obituary
Added 1967 death of Bessie Ely and obituary
Added 1967 death of Alma Christine Jeffers and obituary
Added 1967 death of Martha Ann Sexton Jeffers and obituary
Added 1967 obituary for Lydia Kidd
Added 1967 death of Leonard "Dock" Kimbrell and obituary
Added 1967 death of Bertie "L.T." Lawson and obituary
Added 1967 obituary for Billy Harrison Lay
Added 1967 death of James Harvey Layne and obituary
Added 1967 obituary for John Mabe
Added 1967 obituary for Lemuel Marcum
Added 1967 death of Nella B. Marcum and obituary
Added 1967 death of Jesse Murphy and obituary
Added 1967 death of Betty Newport and obituary
Added 1967 death of L. C. Phillips and obituary
Added 1967 obituary for Josephine Strunk Phillips
Added 1967 death of Garfield Richardson and obituary
Added 1967 death of F. R. Silcox and obituary
Added 1967 obituary for Louvernia Dolen Stephens
Added 1967 obituary for Luther Terry
Added 1967 obituary for Martha G. Terry
Added 1967 death of Ollie Terry and obituary
Added 1967 death of Sylvester Thomas and obituary
Added 1967 death of James Willard Trammell and obituary
Added 1967 death of Litha Elsie Acres Tucker and obituary
Added 1969 death of Melvin Acres and obituary
Added 1969 death of Lowell Bridges and obituary
Added 1969 death of Robert D. Crabtree and obituary
Added 1969 death of Frank A. Duncan and obituary
Added 1969 death of Walter Duncan and obituary
Added 1969 death of Rachel Lay Hutson and obituary
Added 1969 death of Lindsay L. Lay and obituary
Added 1969 death of Cicero G. Lewallen and obituary
Added 1969 death of Meredity Owens and obituary
Added 1969 death of Nora Jeffers Phillips and obituary
Added 1969 death of McKinley Reed and obituary
Added 1969 death of Alma Ellis West and obituary
Added 1970 death of S. A. Adkins and obituary
Added 1970 death of Easter Cox Baker and obituary
Added 1970 death of Jordan Boyatt and obituary
Added 1970 death of Will Hade Burke and obituary
Added 1970 death of Delmus Byrd and obituary
Added 1970 death of Billie Chambers and obituary
Added 1970 death of Iva Lee Baird Chambers and obituary
Added 1970 death of Julia Chambers and obituary
Added 1970 death of Nannie Bridges Chitwood and obituary
Added 1970 death of Goldman Chitwood and obituary
Added 1970 death of John Gordon Douglas and obituary
Added 1970 death of Scott Foster and obituary
Added 1970 death of Emerson Harness and obituary
Added 1970 death of Johnny Harness and obituary
Added 1970 death of Ellen Loy and obituary
Added 1970 death of Lizzie Meredith and obituary
Added 1970 death of Marion Murphy and obituary
Added 1970 death of George M. Phillips and obituary
Added 1970 death of Lora Phillips and obituary
Added 1970 death of Luvierne Grant Ross and obituary
Added 1970 death of Jesse Elmer Ryan and obituary
Added 1970 death of Freeda Layne Sexton and obituary
Added 1970 death of Thomas A. Stephens and obituary
Added 1970 death of Clell Strunk and obituary
Added 1970 death of John Martin Terry and obituary
Added 1970 death of Eva West and obituary
Added 1970 death of Zora West and obituary
Added 1970 death of Relda Edith Wright and obituary
Added 1980 death of Ida Sanders Hamby and obituary
Added 1980 death of Maudie Jane West and obituary
Added 1994 death of Clyde Phillips and obituary
Added 1999 death of Hoyle E. Crabtree and obituary
Added 1999 death of Howard "Buddy" Davis and obituary
Added 1999 death of Audney Lloyd and obituary
Added 1999 death of James D. Pemberton and obituary
Added 1999 death of Rachel Slaven and obituary
Added 1999 death of Elizabeth Irene West and obituary
Added copy of 17 Feb 1869 Pleasant Winferd Phillips and Emily Clemens Cecill marriage bond
Added copy of 13 Mar 1869 G. L. Chambers and Helen M. Sharp marriage bond
Added copy of 11 May 1869 D. W. S. Trammell and M. [P.] Murphy marriage license
Added copy of 27 Jan 1870 John A. Marcum and Arleana Phillips marriage license
Added copy of 25 Aug 1870 Josiah Phillips and Rebecca Reed marriage license
Added copy of 31 Aug 1870 Alvin Laxton and Samantha Jane Pennington marriage license
Added copy of 8 Sep 1870 William West and Cresiann Sexton marriage license
Added copy of 16 Feb 1871 Peter Slaven and Margaret Boyatt marriage license
Added copy of 7 Sep 1871 Ephragm Phillips and Winny West marriage license
Added copy of 28 Dec 1871 G. W. Crafte and Emerine Slaven marriage license
Added copy of 2 Apr 1872 Issac Thomas and Emiline Thompson marriage bond
Added copy of 29 Aug 1872 Ewell Chambers and Pherby Byrg marriage license
Added copy of 18 May 1873 Sampson Reed and Sarah Phillips marriage bond
Added copy of 4 Aug 1873 William Riley Cecill and Lucinda Thomas marriage bond
Added copy of 21 Aug 1873 Reuben West and Elizabeth Ellis marriage bond
Added copy of 24 Sep 1873 Plesant W. West and Emily David marriage bond
Added copy of 31 Oct 1874 R. C. West and Malinda Smithers marriage bond
Added copy of 13 Dec 1874 Daniel Chambers and Polley West marriage bond
Added copy of 31 Dec 1874 Sampson Reed and Angenetty Phillips and marriage license and marriage bond
Added copy of 19 Nov 1875 John Slaven and Rachel Slaven marriage license and bond (combined document)
Added First
Families of Rugby, Tennessee
On Labor Day weekend 2000 Historic Rugby, Inc. will host a reunion for
the descendants of Thomas Hughes founder of the Rugby Colony. To help
celebrate the event a major effort is being made to gather information
on early settlers in the colony. HRI will issue a certificate
commemorating First Families of Rugby to any applicant who directly
descended from an original Rugby Colonist. The information gathered will
become a permanent part of the Rugby archives and made available to
future researchers.
Added link to Pension
Records for Tennessee
Tells how to obtain Union as well as Confederate Pension applications.
Includes a transcription of the 1891 TN Act that established the
Confederate Pension and the 1905 TN Act that established the Widow's
Pension. Also included is a transcription of questions that appeared on
Confederate soldier's and widow's applications.
Corrections and housekeeping
Updated numerous email addresses
New pages added
Scott Co, TN Cemetery Queries This page is intended to present queries about unmarked graves in Scott Co cemeteries.
Scott Co, TN Census Information
Added link to online index for Scott Co, TN 1850 Federal Census
Added 1952 death of G. B. Baird and obituary
Added 1964 death of Alice Baird and obituary
Added 1964 obituary for Porter Bond
Added 1964 obituary for Gorman Jeffers
Added 1965 death of George Allen Bond and obituary
Added 1965 obituary John Quincy Chitwood
Added 1965 death of Mary Jane Chitwood and obituary
Added 1965 death of Katherine "Kay" Clifton and obituary
Added 1965 death of Sedley S. Davis and obituary
Added 1965 obituary for Lindsay Harness
Added 1965 death of Minnie Jeffers Harness and obituary
Added 1965 death of Richard Jeffers and obituary
Added 1965 death of Martha Duncan King and obituary
Added 1965 death of Frank Lay and obituary
Added 1965 obituary for Patrica Ann Meyers
Added 1965 death of John L. Phillips and obituary
Added 1965 death of Bertie Roberts and obituary
Added 1965 obituary for A.M. Rosser
Added 1965 obituary Byrd Thompson
Added 1966 death of John Lewis Acres and obituary
Added 1966 death of Nellie E. Ryan Anderson and obituary
Added 1966 death of Perry Huston Branim and obituary
Added 1966 obituary for Ovia Burk
Added 1966 death of Augfie Chambers and obituary
Added 1966 death of Joe Chitwood and obituary
Added 1966 obituary James Cross
Added 1966 obituary for Thomas Nathaniel Daniel
Added 1966 death of David Forest Duncan and obituary
Added 1966 obituary for Bertie Reed Ellis
Added 1966 obituary for John Freeman Ellis
Added 1966 death of Delmar Epperson and obituary
Added 1966 death of Ernest Gibson and obituary
Added 1966 death of John Marion Honeycutt and obituary
Added 1966 death of Nervia Jones and obituary
Added 1966 death of Charlsie Harness Lawson and obituary
Added 1966 obituary for Ruby Loudin Mays
Added 1966 obituary for Mack Loyd
Added 1966 death of Charles Muse and obituary
Added 1966 death of Burt D. Newport and obituary
Added 1966 death of Jack Padgett and obituary [he was 108 when he died]
Added 1966 death of Arlie D. Pike and obituary
Added 1966 death of Roger Troy Sims and obituary
Added 1966 death of Elzabeth Lula Slaven and obituary
Added 1966 death of Fillmore Strunk and obituary
Added 1966 death of Roy Strunk and obituary
Added 1966 death of Shelby Strunk and obituary
Added 1966 death of Roger Keith Terry and obituary
Added 1966 death of Celia Jane Jeanette McKinley Thompson and obituary
Added 1966 death of Houk Trammell and obituary
Added 1966 death of Rebecca Yancey and obituary
Added 1971 death of Josephine Adkins and obituary
Added 1971 death of Reason Calvin West and obituary
Added 1974 death of Carrie Belle Phillips and obituary
Added 1987 death of Betty Thomas Slaven and obituary
Added 1994 death of Alton P. Slaven and obituary
Added 1999 death of Cloria Coffey and obituary
Added 1999 death of Claude Hammock and obituary
Added 1999 death of Masle M. Lance and obituary
Added 1999 death of James S. Parnell and obituary
Added 1999 death of Hazel Ruth Pennington and obituary
Added lookups for West-Murley Funeral Home Records (1949-1964)
Added lookups for Cooper Funeral Home Records (1932-1942) and (1948-1953)
Added lookups for Cooper Funeral Home Records Vol. II (1927-1932 and (1943-1947)
Added copy of 28 Dec 1854 Rialy Jeffers and Polly Chambers marriage license and bond (separate documents)
Added copy of 24 Feb 1855 Jeremiah Chambers and Rebecca Willhite marriage license
Added copy of 1 Feb 1857 John West and Margaret Crabtree marriage license
Added copy of 9 Nov 1858 William West and Rachel Due marriage license
Added copy of 27 Oct 1859 Elbert S. Loyd and Margaret Chambers marriage license
Added copy of 22 Dec 1861 John Marcum and Nancy Smith marriage license and bond (combined documents)
Added copy of 27 Sep 1862 James Sexton and Mary Ann Phillips bond
Added copy of 3 Feb 1863 James Smith and Rebecca Owens marriage license and bond (separate documents)
Added copy of 29 Apr 1863 Thomas Chambers and Sarah Lay bond
Added copy of 2 Apr 1864 Robert Sexton and Elizabeth Newport bond
Added copy of 25 May 1864 Jeremiah West and Lesian Sexton bond
Added copy of 14 Jul 1864 Sampson Reed and Eliza Jane Thompson marriage license and bond (separate documents)
Added copy of 15 Sep 1864 Francis Merion Chambers and Lucinda Lay marriage license
Added copy of 20 Nov 1864 Charles West and Martha Phillips marriage license
Added copy of 11 Dec 1864 W. H. Hewet and Laka Jayne Pennington marriage license
Added copy of 29 Dec 1864 Richard Stringfield and Lucinda West marriage license
Added copy of 10 Mar 1865 Marion Hix and Malinda Pennington marriage license
Added copy of 18 Feb 1869 Pleasant Winferd Phillips and Emily Clemen Cecill marriage license
Added copy of 3 Jun 1869 George Smith and Emley Thomas marriage license
Added copy of 7 Nov 1869 Dawswell Stephens and Catherine West marriage license
Added link to the Scott County News (the oldest newspaper in Scott County, began printing in 1916)
Removed queries older than 1998 from the query index. These early queries can still be viewed by browsing the 1996 and 1997 query pages.
Added link to Scott Co, TN Cemetery Queries This new page is intended to present queries about unmarked graves in Scott Co cemeteries.
Added link to Genealogy And The Law, Legal Terms You Should Know (courtesy of Noel Mathews)
Added link to Duhaime's Law Dictionary
Added link to Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War (looks to be an excellent site with many original sources)
Added link to War of the Rebellion Journal Contents (1880 - 1901) (compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies published in 1880 through 1901 under the direction of the Secretary of War. The entire publication was published as a set of 71 volumes containing tens of thousands of pages of information. The entire series is available online.)
Corrections
Added Scott County, Tennessee Life Events From the Independent Herald (1998); Timothy N. West; 1999; Scott County Historical Society, Huntsville, TN; 276 pages
Added 1928 death of Isham Chambers and obituary
Added 1929 death of Daniel C. Chambers and obituary
Added 1938 death of Henry Cecil and death certificate (courtesy of Gloria Guffey)
Added 1947 obituary for Emanuel Duncan
Added 1947 obituary for Rebecca Newport
Added 1949 death of Katherine Blevins and obituary
Added 1949 death of Mrs. Bud Ellis and obituary
Added 1949 death of Sarah Emma Slaven and obituary
Added 1949 death of Sarah Ann Walker and obituary
Added 1953 death of Corinna Sams and obituary
Added 1958 death of Leo West and obituary
Added 1964 obituary for Julia Boyatt
Added 1976 death of Martha Belle Hicks and obituary
Added 1977 death of Sarah Amanda West Claborn Dexter and obituary
Added 1977 death of Dillard Foster and obituary
Added 1977 death of General Lee West and obituary
Added 1977 death of Laura Wilkerson Yancey and obituary
Added 1980 death of Glad Adkins and obituary
Added 1980 death of Georgie Bauswell Foster and obituary
Added 1989 death of James Rudolph Slaven and obituary
Added 1999 death of Arlie C. Hatfield and obituary
Added 1999 death of Levi Laxton and obituary
Added link to Lewallen family
Added link to the Three Grand Divisions (explains with maps and words the origins of east, middle, and west Tennessee divisions)
Added link to Ranks, professions, occupations, and trades
Added 1922 death of Barzilla Slaven and obituary (courtesy of John Carter)
Added 1931 death of Ab Slaven and obituary (courtesy of John Carter)
Added 1998 death of Rodney Anderson and obituary
Added 1998 death of Francie Margaret Bowling and obituary
Added 1998 death of Thelma Boyatt Blevins and obituary
Added 1998 death of Ida Brummett and obituary
Added 1998 death of Bryan Keith Butler and obituary
Added 1998 death of William "Buz" Butler and obituary
Added 1998 death of Vera King Carson and obituary
Added 1998 death of Germaine Phillips Chambers and obituary
Added 1998 death of Hazel Wright Chitwood and obituary
Added 1998 death of Charles H. Clark and obituary
Added 1998 death of Betty Wilda Burke Collins and obituary
Added 1998 death of Willis Dwayne Crabtree and obituary
Added 1998 obituary for Effie Cross
Added 1998 death of Katy Davidson and obituary
Added 1998 death of Bertha Claxton Elam and obituary
Added 1998 death of Artie Sloan Laytham Ellis and obituary
Added 1998 death of Lillian Marie Evans and obituary
Added 1998 death of Freddie Faulk and obituary
Added 1998 death of Charles Foster and obituary
Added 1998 death of Milford Earl Goodman and obituary
Added 1998 death of Florence Griffith and obituary
Added 1998 death of Kenneth Griffith and obituary
Added 1998 death of Alphene Hall and obituary
Added 1998 death of Timothy Dakota Hall and obituary
Added 1998 death of Martha Ann West Hammock and obituary
Added 1998 death of Hannah Lee Hill and obituary
Added 1998 death of Vestal "Buck" Hutson and obituary
Added 1998 death of Segal Jeffers and obituary
Added 1998 death of Cleo Johnson and obituary
Added 1998 death of Annie Belle Smithers Brown King and obituary
Added 1998 death of J. B. King and obituary
Added 1998 death of Robert King and obituary
Added 1998 death of Charles "Hank" Lowe and obituary
Added 1998 death of Harvey Lee Lowe, Sr. and obituary
Added 1998 death of Maria Lynn Lowe and obituary
Added 1998 obituary for Ruth West Loyd
Added 1998 death of Mary B. Miller and obituary
Added 1998 obituary for John Alexander Moore
Added 1998 death of Donald Wayne Morrow and obituary
Added 1998 death of Gilbert Patterson and obituary
Added 1998 death of Edna Pennington and obituary
Added 1998 death of Dillard Phillips and obituary
Added 1998 death of Elijah Dwayne Phillips and obituary
Added 1998 death of James Aldon "'Lil' Bud" Phillips and obituary
Added 1998 death of Lola Phillips and obituary
Added 1998 death of Nola Phillips and obituary
Added 1998 death of Robert Phillips and obituary
Added 1998 obituary for W. H. "Bill" Price
Added 1998 death of Tina Slaven Ramsey and obituary
Added 1998 obituary for Reeda Patton Rector
Added 1998 death of Claude Reed and obituary
Added 1998 death of Bertha Smith and obituary
Added 1998 death of Howard Hoyt Stonecipher and obituary
Added 1998 death of Dilmon Dank Strunk and obituary
Added 1998 death of Leroy Terry and obituary
Added 1998 death of Luke Edward Terry and obituary
Added 1998 death of Stephen C. Terry and obituary
Added 1998 death of Francis "Straw" Thompson and obituary
Added 1998 death of Luther Thompson and obituary
Added 1998 death of Mary Esther Trammell and obituary
Added 1998 death of Earl T. Walker and obituary
Added 1998 death of Donna Carol Blevins West and obituary
Added 1998 death of Eva May Daugherty Wilson and obituary
Added 1998 death of Marion Wolford Wilson and obituary
Added 1998 death of Nellie Lee Chambers Worley and obituary
Added 1998 death of Elbert Boyd Wright and obituary
Added 1998 death of Clona Yancey and obituary
Added 1998 death of Elmer York and obituary
Added 1999 death of James S. Parnell and obituary
Added 1999 death of Winifred D. Sharp and obituary
Added 1999 death of Jean Reed MacDowell Stansberry and obituary
Added link to Guffey family
Added link to Scott Co, TN Government (brand new site dedicated to providing information and points of contact for Scott Co governmental activities)
Added information on Guffey family reunion
Added link to Tennesseans in the Civil War (unit histories extracted from Tennesseans in the Civil War, Vol 1. Copyrighted © 1964 by the “Civil War Centennial Commission of Tennessee” and published here with their permission. These histories may not be republished for any reason without the written permission of the copyright owner. Remember Scott Co participation in the Civil War was primarily on the federal side rather than the confederate side)
27 Jun 1999 Changes
24 Jan 1999 Changes
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![W. [A]. West and Chiney T. Cotton](images/marriage_certificates/1892a_rom_west_cotton.jpg){kind=link}
