Today I checked out my updated Ancestry Composition at 23&me. No real surprises. I have loads of Colonial American ancestry on both sides of my family. Still, it's entertaining to see what locations my ancestors may have lived.
Wednesday, October 01, 2025
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Petition for Settlement: Estate of William Cook
Newspaper notice 27th Dec 1845 of the Greensborough Patriot(NC)
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions October Term, 1845.
Joseph, adm'r
of William Cook
vs.
David Cook & others Petition for settlement
In this case it appearing to the satisfaction of the
Court that David Cook, Lydia Norvell, Martha and Coaly Hornsley, William P. Cook, defendants in this case, are not inhabitants of this State-- it is therefore ordered by the Court that publication be made as to them for six weeks in the Greensborough Patriot, for them to appear at the next term of this Court on the Fourth Monday of January, 1846, at the Court House in Carthage, and plead, answer or demur to the petition filed in this case or the same will be taken pro confesso and set for hearing, and heard ex parte as to them.
Witness, Alexander C. Curry, Clerk of our said Court at office the 4th Monday of October, A.D. 1845.
A.C. Curry, Clerk
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
More on the Bedford Co TN and Franklin Co NC connections
The Fall 2025 edition of the Bedford County Tennessee Quarterly is out and has an article about Revolutionary Veterans who were in Bedford County. I was happy to see such a listing. The article mentioned my 4th Great Grandfather, William Harrison noting that the info for his listing came from Texas DAR Roster. I am baffled by the year of death they are showing as 1816 so I'm trying to find the listing in the Texas DAR. I found several who had joined under his service but they were all showing 1833 as the date of death. There has been some confusion whether the month was Jan. or Jun., his year of death is 1833(given in widow, Elvira's pension file.) William Harrison is enumerated in the 1830 census in Bedford Co. TN's District 9 surrounded by family. He is mentioned on the 1835 listing of pensioners but as having died in 1833. His listing is under Rutherford County but the age would imply that it is him since he was born about 1749. Rutherford County was over the county line just north of where he was in 1830. Since this was from a file
WILLIAM HARRISON
RUTHERFORD COUNTY LIEUTENANT NORTH CAROLINA CONT'L LINE $240.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $2,424.66 AMOUNT RECEIVED OCTOBER 6, 1820 PENSION STARTED AGE 84 DIED JUNE 22, 1833
Source: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/statewide/military/warof1812/pensions/pen1835.txtThe is a deed between Thomas Callen and Jackson Lile in Bedford County TN Deed Book FF page 159 in October of 1834 that mentions Harrison in the land description in reference to a nearby tract. Specifically it says "beginning at a Black Oak & Dogwood near South of the place old man Harrison lived & died." I'd really like to get this all figured out and find out where he is buried as well.
It's also worth noting that Jackson Lyle/Lile mentioned in the deed likely is connected to the Jackson Lyle who was in the Franklin Co NC Tax lists.
I need to look further into the females within the families as their might be a connection. Also need to work the deeds for Franklin Co NC.
Sources:
Bedford County Tennessee Deeds v. EE-GG Sep 1834-Apr 1838, images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-13CW-W : accessed 16 September 2025), IGN 8150803, image 361 of 819; citing Bedford County TN Deed Book FF page 160.
Carolyn Smotherman, “Revolutionary War Veterans in Bedford County, Tennessee,” The Bedford County Historical Quarterly 51, no. 3 (2025): 80–91.
Saturday, September 06, 2025
My Memories of Living in Charlotte, Tennessee in the mid-1970s
I don't have a lot of memories from my childhood. I probably used a good bit of that space to store 1980s song lyrics. When I started first grade in the fall of 1974, my family was renting a home from Ray and Rebecca Taylor on Liberty Road in Charlotte, Tennessee. At that time, kindergarten was not required, so I went directly into first grade.
The house we rented no longer exists. It was torn down around 1976 when the Taylors built their new home farther back on the same lot. The property is now addressed as 1171 Liberty Road. The older home sat to the right of the driveway near the front of the property, shaded by a few trees.
I remember several details about that place. A drain or gully ran along the yard, carrying off wash water. Wild apricots grew there, and my family planted a small garden to the right of the house. I loved running through the garden rows. Feral cats roamed the property—we named them Sluggo, Nancy, and Rare-Back. To the left of the driveway stood a tree with moss at its base. I used the moss to build tiny towns and lawns, with acorns serving as cars.
Because the house was surrounded by fields, ticks were a constant problem. We also heard mice and flying squirrels stirring around in the attic.
I was in Ms. Rachel Weaver’s first grade class at Charlotte Elementary, where Bill Caldwell served as principal. I rode Mr. Petty’s bus to school—possibly bus number 37.
In the fall of 1975, we moved from Charlotte to a house in the Spanish Oaks subdivision located in the Pomona community. At the time, I was in Mrs. Elliot’s second grade class at Charlotte Elementary. Since Pomona was then part of the Burns school district, I transferred to Mrs. C Richardson’s 2nd grade class at Burns Elementary. In that class they used a color coded reading program which I think was called SRA. I really loved these.
About two years later, the school district lines were redrawn, and Pomona was placed in the Dickson district. From that point on, I attended Dickson Elementary, James E. Sullivan Middle School, Dickson Junior High School, and Dickson County Senior High. We remained in Spanish Oaks until the fall of 1986.
Saturday, August 23, 2025
W G Cook Rutherford Co TN--District 10 1912-1944
This is part of my research of William Green Cook, my great-grandfather, that I have published to my Ancestry Tree and is included in his Gallery. This is a listing from the Tax books of Rutherford Co TN for the years 1912-1944. Since anyone who is not a subscriber can't see it despite it being a PUBLIC tree, I'm publishing a copy of it here on my blog for others who are interested in the Wm Green Cook & Jane Bell King family. I blogged about the process I used to create it several years back. You can find that post HERE
W G Cook Rutherford Co TN--District 10 1912-1944
Notes & observations:
1915,1916 No tax books were found for these years
1918-1920 Cowan should be Currin verified with a check of the district that shows no Cowans Abe Currin shows Cook as his north bordering neighbor..
1920: Property value likely $250 and not 550.
1921 & 1922: Coursey should be Currin verified by checking Abe Currin’s entry
1921: Tmis should be Thomas as the Ida Thomas Heirs are listed with Cook as their west bordering property.
1943 & 1944: Not sure why the land acreage changed for these years. The value remained the same.Possible typo? In the tax book?
Sources:
Description-----------------------Film------IGN
Tax books District 1-25 1912-1913 421410 8663749
Tax books District 1-25 1914, 1917 421411 8663750
Tax books District 1-25 1918-1919 431412 8663751
Tax books District 1-25 1920-1921 431413 8663752
Tax books District 1-25 1922-1923 431414 8663753
Tax books District 1-25 1924 431415 8663754
Tax books District 1-25 1925 431416 8663755
Tax books District 1-25 1926 431417 8663756
Tax books District 1-25 1927 431418 8663757
Tax books District 1-25 1928-1929 431419 8452271
Tax books District 1-25 1930-1931 431420 8663758
Tax books District 1-25 1932 431421 8663759
Tax books District 1-25 1933 431422 8663760
Tax books District 1-25 1934 431423 8663761
Tax books District 1-25 1935 431424 8663762
Tax books District 1-25 1936-1937 431425 8663763
Tax books District 1-25 1938-1939 431426 8663764
Tax books District 1-25 1940-1941 431427 8663765
Tax books District 1-25 1942-1943 431428 8663766
Tax books District 1-25 1944-1945 431429 8663767
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