INTERESTED IN THE GILES, LINCOLN, BEDFORD, COFFEE,FRANKLIN, AND GRUNDY CO. AREA OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE!

GILES CO.,TN

ROBERT WILLIAMS, b.c. 1795 in N/C and lived and died @1867 in Giles County, TN. He married Julia A. LUCY(1802->1880) from Brunswick Co., VA, who was the daughter of Robert LUCY and Catherine ABERNATHY LUCY from Brunswick Co. VA. The LUCY family probably emigrated around 1822, along with many Huguenots/Methodists led by Aaron V. BROWN. Robert was probably the bother of Thomas H. Williams, whose descendants are numerous in the area. Who was the father of Robert and Thomas WILLIAMS. Was it Isaac WILLIAMS? Was it William WILLIAMS?

Robert WILLIAMS and Julia lived in Giles County, TENNESSEE near Mount Pisgah in a hollow called "Cucumber Hollow", named for a peculiar type of magnolia tree extant in the area. In the current times, that area is just left of I-65, south of where US 64 crosses.

LINCOLN CO., TN

Descendants of these families, and those below, settled in LINCOLN CO., TN. near the Millville/Dellrose areas and in GILES CO., TN , at Bunker Hill and Pisgah. Many of the family are buried at BeeSpring Cemetery, just inside GILES CO., TN.

My families of interest: MERRELL, SOLOMON, MULLINS, WATSON, LUCY, WILLIAMS, MINITREE, MITCHELL, GRANT, DAUGHERTY, ABERNATHY, AND OTHERS.

I am looking for information on all of the above.My 4th ggrandfather was David Minatre, we believe his wife was Elizabeth Dunnivant. On the other side of my family we have the Watsons and the Abernathys. My father was born in Giles county at the old home place at Bunker hill. My 3rd ggfather was James John Watson who married Susan Abernathy. Now I know that most of the people in Giles county with the last name of Minatre are of David and Elizabeth, and that David was born in Virginia(census records). Do you know which family of Minatre's from Virginia that they originated from?
We know that the Watsons settled on Indian Creek and I have pictures of many of the head stones as well as James Johns will dated 1832. People in the Watson family believe that these Watsons came from Nottaway Virgina but have no solid evidence of this. I know that there were 3 different Watson family's in this area in the early 1800. Which are you researching? Would love to hear from you.
Carla Watson Welburn

If your 4th ggrandfather David Minatre of Giles County TN was born about 1796 in VA (maybe Brunswick) you are related to my husband whose 3rd g-grandfather is David Menetree b. abt 1796. My husband descends from David's son William Henry Minatree, b. abt 1827; then from his son David Winfield "Tuck" Minatree, b. abt 1858; from his son Guy Minatra, b. 1833; from his son David Winfield Minatra, b. 27 Mar 1911 in Giles Co TN.

I would like very much to correspond with you regarding Elizabeth, the wife of David (b. 1796). We are not sure if she is a Dunnavant as the family who moved on to Texas think; or an Abernathy as you state in your query.

Other Giles Co TN names we study are: CARDEN (maternal and paternal), PAYSINGER, BENNETT.

Julia Savage Minatra
Rutherford County TN

Just saw your posting on the Giles Co., TN board. I am searching the Wright (Henry P.), Cowan and Loyd surnames.
On one of my trips to Giles Co., Iwas told of the old Loyd house east of Bunker Hill on Loyd Road. The house is anything but old and can't be missed on the left going east. I wasn't able to talk to anyone at this house on my visit. To the side of this house is a fairly large family cemetery. I expected to find Loyds there, but at least 90% of the graves there are Minatra.
If the Carden name was ever spelled Cardin, Larkin Cardin Sr.'
daughter Jane married William G. Loyd. William was the son of Stephen Loyd and a brother of Sarah J. Loyd who married Henry P. Wright (my gg grandparents) They are on the Giles Co. census in 1850, 60,&70 9th Civil district.
On last tidbit, Eliza Cowan married a Ben Frank Dunnivant? in 1865 in Giles Co. Eliza the younger sister of my g grandmother Josephine Cowan.
If any of this helps that is great.If it's old news sorry for the redundancy.

How did I miss this post??-----and for more than a year?? Thanks so much for your comments. Sorry it took me so long to see them.

Yes, my husband's Carden line comes from Larkin Cardin. On his father's side of the family from Giles Co TN:

Larkin Jr 1785-1863 d. Bunker Hill, Giles Co TN, m. Rosannah ________
Lewis 1819 - 1899 m. Mary Jane Abernathy
James Larkin 1849-1923 m. Ann Nancy (Nannie, Nancy D)Williams 1851-1920
Mary Myrtle Carden m. Guy Minatra
David Winfield Minatra m. Aileen Sumpter(?) Carden
Charles Lane Minatra b. Giles Co TN 1939 m. (ME) Julia Delores Savage b. Davidson Co. TN 1939

Now on his mother's side:

Larkin I Goochland VA 1740-1789 m. Jane Cason
Larkin Jr 1785-1863 m. Rosannah ___________
Larkin II b. 1827 m. Sarah Degraffenried (I think)
William Larkin Carden b. 1854 m. Ann Quintella Dugger
John Kirk Carden b. 1884 m. Myrtha Fredonia Paysinger
Aileen Sumpter(?) Carden m. David Winfield Minatra
Charles Lane Minatra m. Julia Delores Savage


Can you tell me more about the David Minatre/Elizabeth Dunnivant union which would have occurred somewhere around the early 1820s? I've come to believe that David's wife Elizabeth probably was a Dunnivant, but have no proof.

Watson and Loyd appear in various records I'm using to put my husband's history together. Would like to correspond further on these family names.

Is there any proof that David Minatre was born in Brunswick Co VA?

Has anyone put together a list of surnames of families who relocated to Giles County TN from Brunswick County VA?

...and many other questions.

Julia Savage Minatra
Rutherford County TN
jminatra@bellsouth.net

I am looking for Sarah Jane Cardin. She married Zachary Taylor Dyer, both lived in Giles County, Tennessee. This is my grandmother's line. Do you have pictures of the cardins? I am very interested in finding some. I know very little about this line!
Thanks, Sherry Taylor

No, sorry I don't have any pictures nor information on this pair.I did a quick look at the following sites, but am sure that you have probably seen them before.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngiles/tombstn/tomb002.htm#rowe3
http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngiles/records/dyer1.htm
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/TXDALLAS/2001-02/098209...
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/TXDALLAS/2001-02/098209...
http://www.geocities.com/tnconfederates/TN-dr.html
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/roots-l/messages/97apr/38471
http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngiles/cvlwar/cavalry.htm
http://www.tcarden.com/tree/ensor/CardenRollCall.html
Joe Max

I think I am in the right community. I have found two letters in a wall being demolished in a house in Giles Co., TN. They are written in 1912, at least one of them is. The other has no year on it, but they appear to be about the same age. The envelopes are postmarked Pulaski, but on one letter Bunker Hill is written on the top inside. The letters are written to an Abernathy, but I don't want to put the name on here just in case the person is still living. The letters don't give a lot of clues but there are a few names listed that might help someone find parts of their family history. So I am going to list them here and if you or anyone else on the list thinks they might be in your family, please let me know and I'll send you the translation I made of them, via e-mail.
These are the surnames listed:
Abernathy/Young/Dunavant/Mims/Sneed/Walls/Deane/Allen/
Gregory/McCrory/Tucker/Thompson/Hardy
Those are spelled as they look in the letter, so they may not be how the surnames are actually spelled.
If I can be sure that none of the people in the letter are still living, then I would like to post both letters on the internet on the Giles Co. GenWeb site. I have tried looking up the people but it is taking far too much time. So I am hoping some of you will recognize the names and can tell me, off list, whether it is all right to post them now.
One added note, the people in the letters appear to be school teachers and they mention the "Meeting", which I read about in one of the postings on Rootsweb. They mention a "candy breaking" party. They mention these places:
Elkton/Chattanooga/Nashville/Lebanon/Franklin, KY
They talk of babies being born, marrying, and passing away. So there might be info in them that some might find useful.
Please feel free to contact me about these letters.
Sincerely,
Carol Clark Elizer cecelizer@tnweb.com

This is an update on my last post, above. I have sent the transcriptions and scanned pages of the letters to Ann Jackson, the Giles Co. mailing list administrator, and I leave it up to her discretion whether they get posted online or not. I had intended to send the transcriptions to anyone who contacted me off list, but since the letters don't comply with the "100 year rule", I am waiting for Ann's advice as to whether they should be made available to the public at this time. I am hoping that she will find them suitable and that she will post them. Thus, enabling me to feel free to give out the transcriptions, without fear of invading anyone's privacy.

I am gratified that I have received several inquiries about these letters, and for the much needed advice as to what to do with them next. I appreciate that the inquiries were made off list, since I still don't know if the people mentioned in the letters, as well as the writer and the recipient are still living. Once I am assured that no one will be harmed by the letters' release, I would be more than happy for you to put the e-mails, that many of you sent to me, on this board/forum. That is the whole point of my wanting to post the letters' contents, to share the information with everyone who can use the info. on a family history quest.

In my earlier post, I left out one name that I had thought was a place name, but now I wonder if it might be a surname of a family in the Bunker Hill area. That name is "White". I also inadvertantly left out the surname "Gosnell". Each of these names are only mentioned once in the letters.

As I have already written to the people who have e-mailed me about these letters, as soon as I get the go-ahead from Ann that these letters will be put online, then I will go on and send copies to those who have made requests. That way, if there is a time delay before they are posted online, you won't have to wait so long.
Also I will post here again if we discover any more relevant info from the remodel project that turned up this "find".

Thanks again for giving me the opportunity to give back something to part of the vast genealogical community that has helped me with my own family history quest.
Sincerely, Carol Clark Elizer cecelizer@tnweb.com

My maiden name is White and my grandmother was an Abernathy. Both were from Giles Co TN. I would like to have copies of the letters when you are ready to submit them. Thank you for sharing with us. Ginny Keefer