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Ansearchin News in Lincoln County

Ansearchin News in Lincoln County

Ansearchin’ News Our young friend and occasional contributor, T. W. Bullock Esq., has returned after ruralizing nearly two weeks out in Marshall, Bedford, and Lincoln counties, looking about as usual. He reports all right in these counties. Everybody is at work, wing wheat, picking cotton, and gathering in the crops. He reports all young folks gay and lively and marrying. He was perfectly delighted with the concert given by young ladies at Fayetteville for the purpose of repairing their churches….

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Letter From Philip Cruse to Nephew

Letter From Philip Cruse to Nephew

  See The Fine Looking Women Here Fayetteville ~ 1834 Copyright © 1998, Julie Hampton Ganis. All Rights Reserved. From Philip Cruse to his nephew, Allison Stirewalt ~ 1834 LINCOLN TN 2 Folded letter sheet, stampless. Circular postmark: Fayetteville, Te Aug 28 Addressee: Allison Stirewalt, North Carolina Rowan County, Salisbury P. Office Tennessee Lincoln County August the 25th 1834 Dear Nephew I take the pleasure of writing to you again to inform you that I received your letter you wrote to me some…

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Letter From E. Hill to Daughter

Letter From E. Hill to Daughter

A Bell Tolls in Fayetteville ~ 1848 Copyright © 1997, Frederick Smoot. All Rights Reserved. From Ebenezer Hill to his daughter, Emily Ann Hill ~ 1848 LINCOLN TN 1. Red circular postmark: Fayetteville, Tenn Jan 16, and blue manuscript rate Paid 10 Addressee: Miss Emily Ann Hill, Care of Mr. B. W. Merriam, 130 Chatham, New York. At Home. January 15, 1848 My Daughter It is rather to gratify your Mother than because I have anything to write, that I…

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THE GOWEN PAPERS

THE GOWEN PAPERS

Notes copied from a paper lent by Albyne Gowen Blythe, wife of Rees Blythe, Fullerton, California. Rees is a grandson of James Blythe, brother of my grandfather, Joseph Blythe. Albyne’s brother, Tom Gowen, had the complete group of notes duplicated for Albyne. I have copied only those parts applying to the Crocketts and the Blythes and a few excerpts which reflect the early times. What a memory for people he had! Ruth Blythe Walker Genealogy (circa 1964) ____________________________________________________ Notes and…

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Goodspeed Biographies “W – Z”

Goodspeed Biographies “W – Z”

John WARDEN was born in North Carolina in 1826, son of Robert and Elizabeth (PILCHER) WARDEN. His early education was very limited, he never having received more than six months’ schooling during his life. At the age of six years he was brought to Tennessee by his parents, and made his home with them until he was twenty-one years old. October 27, 1847, he married Rachel ASHBY. She was born in Lincoln County December 1, 1825, daughter of Alex ASHBY….

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Goodspeed Biographies “P – R”

Goodspeed Biographies “P – R”

B. S. PAPLANUS, a merchant of Petersburg, Tenn., was born in Hungary, Europe, and being left an orphan at an early age, he resolved to make the New World his home, and accordingly came to the United States in 1871, landing in New York, but only resided in the metropolis a short time, when he went to Ohio, and peddled in that State about one year, and then came to Tennessee in June, 1872, where he pursued the same vocation…

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Goodspeed Biographies “S – V”

Goodspeed Biographies “S – V”

D. M. SANDERS is a native of Lincoln County, Tenn., born in 1846, and his early days were spent in attending the district schools and assisting his parents on the farm. After attaining man’s estate he was married to Mrs. Martha J. WATSON in December, 1865. She was born in Lincoln County in 1842, daughter of James and Betsy BOWLES, and their union was blessed with the birth of two children: John B. and Arena. In 1882 Mr. Sanders purchased…

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Goodspeed Biographies “L – O”

Goodspeed Biographies “L – O”

William J. LANDESS, farmer and tanner of the Sixth District, was born October 9, 1852, in Lincoln County, Tenn. The father of our subject, John LANDESS was born in Kentucky, November 11, 1799, and was of Dutch extraction. He acquired a good business education and was a tanner by occupation. He located in the Sixth District, where he soon established a lucrative business. April 5, 1831, he married Mary H. STONE, and became the father of eleven children, ten of…

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Goodspeed Biographies “H – K”

Goodspeed Biographies “H – K”

Pleasant HALBERT‘s birth occurred in Williamson County, Tenn., in 1811. His parents, James and Elizabeth (SMITH) HALBERT, were born in North and South Carolina in 1771 and 1788, and died in 1833 and 1813, respectively. The father was a farmer, and in 1795 immigrated to Tennessee, but remained only four years, when he return to his native State. September 9, 1801, he returned to Tennessee. He was married in 1810, and in 1813 came to Lincoln County, where he spent…

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Goodspeed Biographies “D – G”

Goodspeed Biographies “D – G”

Hon. Isham P. DISMUKES (deceased), one of the leading members of the Fayetteville bar, was born in Lincoln County, Tenn., April 19, 1832, son of Marcus L. and Delia (WADKINS) DISMUKES. He received a thorough literary education in the Fayetteville Academy, his preceptor being Prof. F. A. DICKINSON. He began teaching school, and during his leisure moments was an earnest student of Blackstone. In 1855 he entered the law department of the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn., and graduated in…

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