BTRVETC-L Digest Volume 98 : Issue 50 16 Aug 1998 Today's Topics: Dead or Alive ? Mayo/Corn connection? CORN, MAYO CORN / MAYO Re: Dead or Alive ? Tidbits & Oddbits Lucille Burnett and Tarpley Slow Correction! Stories [was: Re: Slow] TURNER, Nathanial Henry~Shadrack Changing Times Enough!!!! Administrivia: for the Burnett/Turner/Ross/Via/Etc Mailing List (BTRVETC-L) Welcome to all our new subscribers; please send us a message to let us know what lines you are working on. :-) To post, send your messages to btrvetc-l@genealogy.org To unsubscribe, email btrvetc-d-request@genealogy.org with the SUBJECT: UNSUBSCRIBE. To subscribe to the regular list, email btrvetc-l-request@genealogy.org with the SUBJECT: SUBSCRIBE You can also use the web page at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/BTRVETC/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 01:08:06 -0400 From: "Mitosis" To: Subject: Dead or Alive ? Message-ID: <000401bdc678$5c9844a0$1c358acd@mitosis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Installed Win98 and haven't seen email this from this site since (Aug 6, 1998) Is this correct... no messages for almost a week ??? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 01:16:41 -0500 From: ccc@cowtown.net To: btrvetc-l@genealogy.org Subject: Mayo/Corn connection? Message-ID: <35D284C9.AC6@cowtown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Since it seems to be a slow time, maybe it's a good time to post the inquiry. I'm a newbie so please be understanding of my mistakes and confusion. I am learning that family stories are not necessarily true (lesson #1). I am looking for the Mayo/Corn family connection. I have John A. Mayo b 1819 Indiana, so of ? Mayo and Judith (Corn?) b est. 1790 Va.(from 1850 Dubois Co In census) d 1863 (from family Bible records). Would anyone be so kind as to lead me in the right direction? I have lots of descendant information I will gladly share. Thank you. Sincerely, Kaye Mayo ccc@cowtown.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:51:09 -0400 From: "Mitosis" To: "BTRVETC" Subject: CORN, MAYO Message-ID: <000801bdc70c$ddbc92e0$37358acd@mitosis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Mitosis To: ccc@cowtown.net Subject: Re: Mayo/Corn connection? Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 3:40 AM When you say "newbie", it begs the question "How new?" So if some of the following would seem to suggest an implication of "dumb", just remember the foregoing: Just in case you may have missed it, Burnett-Turner-Ross-Via-Etc/Etc have a "Homepage". http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/etc/etc.html Scroll down the page until you find this text: "Search the compilations and digests Digest 49 (Archive date:Sunday, 09-Aug-1998 09:20:27 EDT) Digest 48 (Archive date:Wednesday, 05-Aug-1998 06:10:07 EDT) ~" This is a "keyword search engine" for the compliled files, they go back to Dec. 1995. Suggest you type in "Corn", the results will be every email that contained subject keyword. A quick search by writer indicated #336 contains several "Corn" references. Or...... you can download all the compiled files,merge into one large text file (writers now at 9meg). The text file can be loaded into "WordPad" Windows95 and keyword search is available from toolbar. Would only suggest this approach if you have nailed down a "surname" mail list, and that's something you should try to find. (And a note to those who upgrade to Win98, the "wordpad.exe" file has been revised, appears to have a file size limitation and the code is as slow as smoke ~. Replace this file with "wordpad.exe" from Win95... it will make your life easier) If you need help in locating other sites etc... send email to Christine Gaunt. She's a "freshman... freshwoman ( I like dat :=) at Univ. Mich, at least that's what she tells me, just turned 18... and available! cgaunt@umich.edu Try this site for possible "surname" mailing list: http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html "Click" the one that says "Email Sites" Now... if you're "been there, done that", don't tell me about. It would make it all seem a waste of time! Now this should generate a little traffic... from Chris if no one else! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:33:24 -0400 From: "Mitosis" To: "BTRVETC" Subject: CORN / MAYO Message-ID: <000c01bdc712$c4fe97c0$77358acd@mitosis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When you say "newbie", it begs the question "How new?" So if some of the following would seem to suggest an implication of "dumb", just remember the foregoing: Just in case you may have missed it, Burnett-Turner-Ross-Via-Etc/Etc have a "Homepage". http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/etc/etc.html Scroll down the page until you find this text: "Search the compilations and digests Digest 49 (Archive date:Sunday, 09-Aug-1998 09:20:27 EDT) Digest 48 (Archive date:Wednesday, 05-Aug-1998 06:10:07 EDT) ~" This is a "keyword search engine" for the compliled files, they go back to Dec. 1995. Suggest you type in "Corn", the results will be every email that contained subject keyword. A quick search by writer indicated #336 contains several "Corn" references. Or...... you can download all the compiled files,merge into one large text file (writers now at 9meg). The text file can be loaded into "WordPad" Windows95 and keyword search is available from toolbar. Would only suggest this approach if you have nailed down a "surname" mail list, and that's something you should try to find. (And a note to those who upgrade to Win98, the "wordpad.exe" file has been revised, appears to have a file size limitation and the code is as slow as smoke ~. Replace this file with "wordpad.exe" from Win95... it will make your life easier) If you need help in locating other sites etc... send email to Christine Gaunt. She's a "freshman... freshwoman ( I like dat :=) at Univ. Mich, at least that's what she tells me, just turned 18... and available! cgaunt@umich.edu Try this site for possible "surname" mailing list: http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html "Click" the one that says "Email Sites" Now... if you're "been there, done that", don't tell me about. It would make it all seem a waste of time! Now this should generate a little traffic... from Chris if no one else! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:56:06 -0500 From: "Paula Ward" To: "Mitosis" Cc: Subject: Re: Dead or Alive ? Message-Id: <199808140217.VAA19646@tha.express-news.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I guess so. This list is just not very active any more...unless I am also not receiving the messages. Paula Paula Kelley Ward o o '-\-''-/-' On the keyboard of life, always keep /> <\ one finger on the escape key. ~~ ~~ San Antonio, Texas pward@express-news.net ---------- > From: Mitosis > To: btrvetc-l@genealogy.org > Subject: Dead or Alive ? > Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 12:08 AM > > Installed Win98 and haven't seen email this from this site > since (Aug 6, 1998) > Is this correct... no messages for almost a week ??? > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:32:52 -0400 From: "Mitosis" To: "June" , "Bea" , "Btrvetc List" Subject: Tidbits & Oddbits Message-ID: <001d01bdc859$9950dd20$2d358acd@mitosis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When my grandson visit's, there are a multitude of questions to be answered as he assaults the ole barn with zeal. More amazing is ability to find items I never see on my visits to the barn. Now none of these items are of particular note, but does remind one that time is passing... Granddad... what are these little green glass balls? Telephone line insulators... the cross bar on the telephone pole had little wooden stobs on them, the line was secured to the stob by screwing this glass ball on the stob. Granddad... what's this brass thing with arm attached that goes clickie, clickie when I hit it.? One of the last telegraph keys used on the "Virginian Railway". I inadvertly mentioned "fist", "electric locomotives" which added another hour to answering this query. Granddad... what's this can with wire (sic mesh) in it and whats the handle for? Surely they still sell flour sifters? Granddad... what's this brass dodad with the silver dish on it? Carbide miner's lamp, these prongs fit into the miners cap and held the lamp thereby freeing his hands for work. Found some carbide in a sealed can, some rocks left but mostly dust. But enough to get it started, little rock, a bit of water and we had the makens'. Sorry, had to sub a "bic" for the flint however we had "light" in short order. Couldn't explain what carbide was... don't know that I ever knew myself. Just that it "outgases" as reacton to water and the flumes do burn. "Coal seam, reddog, drift mouth, miner's knee pad he found. An old piece of slate rock with fossil fern embedded that I found when I was a kid in the slag pile.... another hour. Piece of table cover made from oil clothe, head of old turn-plow, tabacco knife, hay sickle, part of old drawbar... Yep, just "junk", but if you have a problem communicating with the younger generation ...... try taking them out to the barn. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:29:02 EDT From: To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org Cc: Debra_Eaton@fc.nms.osceola.k12.fl.us Subject: Lucille Burnett and Tarpley Message-ID: Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Folks: Received the following eMail. Can anyone help Debra? Nyla ========================================= Hi, My name is Debra Tarpley Eaton I am in search for genealogy on my father's line the Tarpleys. No one seems to be able to tell me much except they have lived in Texas and Oklahoma for the last 100 years. I do know that my grandfather had a sister named Lucille that did a lot of genealogy. She married a Burnett and lived in California. Some say they thought it was in the Bakerfield or Vickersville area. Does your line connect to Tarpley's at all? Thank you for your time in this matter. Debbie My email address is eatond@fc.nms.osceola.k12.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:15:57 -0400 From: "Mitosis" To: "Btrvetc List" Subject: Slow Message-ID: <009a01bdc8ab$0e5ed260$60358acd@mitosis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to those who replied so graciously to my "Tidbits and Oddbits" posting... so many replies, thank you all very much. You should thank or blame June (June Baldwin Bork), as the case may be, for the effort. She has encouraged me to put pen to some of my memories. However this caused me to consider the often missed chance of talking to our elders before they pass on... we've all been there and done that. Consider the transcripts of the "Packwood" letter and bibles etc. we all have enjoyed reading. Ress Chapman shared a document, better still, a warm and touching letter of his ancestories with us. I for one, always add these "Tidbits" to my notes for my family tree. They give your tree a breath of it's own! Seems to me, we are now the elders... we are the record... due to slip away. I for one would appreciate a quick glimpse thru June's eye of something from her teenage eyes. She may have even made use of a "bungeling board" ( Hope that spelling is close). I am sure other great stories and history of our families abounds, and fear it may never be recorded. Let me add... there are a lot of 50 year old, +++, people on this list, more than you might think... a lotta first hand history. While the list is slow and if Chris doesn't object, what better opporunity to pass on our own heritage... that's what Genealogys is all about, isn't it........ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:59:10 -0400 From: "Mitosis" To: "Btrvetc List" Subject: Correction! Message-ID: <00c501bdc8b9$e4318f00$60358acd@mitosis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit bungeling board... Thanks to Paula I now can spell... Bundling Board Like that gal! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 22:15:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christine E. Gaunt" To: Btrvetc List Subject: Stories [was: Re: Slow] Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Folks, I think stories about our ancestors are great; they help to flesh out the people, in my opinion. I like to know why people do what they do (or rather did), and what they saw along the way. Gordon's reference to the Packwood letter reminded me of my grandmother's diary/journal she kept of a trip from Ellensburg, WA to Upper Lake, CA back in 1907 when she was 18... It took them over a month to get to my grandma's grandparents' place. My grandma was a Packwood. :-) BTW, Gordon, I'm tickled you think I'm 18, but I've got two college age kids... Not everyone with a U-Mich email address is a student, although there *are* tons of them around (or will be come September). Chris Christine Gaunt, cgaunt@umich.edu or gaunt@genealogy.org Campbell-L and BTRVETC-L listowner Co-compiler of Genealogy Resources on the Internet Web: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/gen_int1.html File (2.4M): via autoreply from gresinet.txt@genealogy.org ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:08:00 -0400 From: "Mitosis" To: "Btrvetc List" Subject: TURNER, Nathanial Henry~Shadrack Message-ID: <003201bdc8cb$8cace7e0$84358acd@mitosis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nathanial Henry,George King, Meshack, Josiah Hunter, William, Shadrack, John, Richard NATHANIAL "NAT" HENRY TURNER b. April 23, 1877 d. July 06, 1974. married (1) Lula Belle Scott December 01, 1901. married (2) Burlie Hutcherson Tyree July 18, 1945. Children of Nathanial Turner and Lula Scott are: LETCHER HENRY TURNER, b. October 31, 1902 d. February 07, 1968. DELLA MAY TURNER, b. September 05, 1905 d. June 20,1934 HARRY LEE TURNER b. April 29, 1907 d: May 1981 Salem, VA 24153 Buried, Sherwood Cem, Salem SS# 226-12-1035 CHARLEY KING TURNER b. Oct 22, 1909 d. Nov 27, 1930 VERA TURNER, b. February 12, 1912 d. February 14, 1914. GLADYS BELLE TURNER, b. February 27, 1913. CURTIS SCOTT TURNER b. June 22, 1915 d. March 09, 1996 MORRIS JEFFERSON TURNER b. Feburary 25, 1918 d. Janurary 1987 MILDRED EMMA TURNER, b. December 19, 1920. d. Jan 1987 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 01:33:22 -0400 From: "Mitosis" To: "Btrvetc List" Subject: Changing Times Message-ID: <004001bdc8d7$6e60bf80$1e358acd@mitosis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Well, how you doing with you record Geo#292?" "It's showing promise Henry#747. Did you know they use to call records "Trees". Of course I haven't actually seen one of these trees, or any kind of tree for that matter... just those on the "Graphics Marquee Display" at the library. I guess you just had one in the backyard and hung names on it." #747> Sounds crazy as hell to me, sure you got that right? #292> I believe so, at the last "Your Record Number" sale I purchased this old metal box, it was cheap, somebody said it was a "Rail, Bell, maybe they said Dell storage box." But to continue, my wife's g-g-grandfather seems to understand how it works, and that's what he told me the box said, about the trees and all. #747> Well how old is he now...183 periods, guess he would know what it was. I like him but just can't always understand what his saying, take last week for instance... I was telling him about the "New Generation" cleansie product that automatically repairs and cleans your house... well, he just mumbles something about "snake oil" and "there's an ass for every seat." Now I ask you #292, what does that mean? Don't want to hurt your feelings #292 but believe the old fellow's grip is failing. #292> I know what you mean #747... every time the wife and I depart his home, I always say "Good Day, #091" and he always replies "Kissit" with a big smile. Strange old man... uh #747... do you know what a "Corvette" is? #747> Never heard of it... is it one of those new drugs? I tried one of those "Rainbow Getters" yesterday... wheee! #292> #091 was talking about them, all I know is it's a "Thumper" and attracts women. #747> uh... #292, have you seriously thought about having that ole man committed? To be continued??? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 02:02:41 -0400 From: "Mitosis" To: "Btrvetc List" Subject: Enough!!!! Message-ID: <004801bdc8db$82d2fba0$1e358acd@mitosis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay Chris, cousins ... I'll return your board and let you return to more serious endeavors :=) Iam sure you had enough of the Mitosis....... later -------------------------------- End of btrvetc-d Digest V98 Issue #50 *************************************