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| Montgomery Bell State Park(May 2016) |
Just a few interesting cases found while reading thru the records--
- Cases involving the settlement of the estate of Joel Childress(father of Sarah Childress Polk, wife of James K Polk). The Childress family lived in Murfreesboro.
- Case involving Montgomery Bell who played a big part in Middle Tennessee industrial history especially here in Dickson County where I grew up and where there is a state park that bears his name.
Thoughts
The Childress case is one of several brought by Anderson Childress who is attempting to settle his father's estate. The things that interested me were that one of them involved a John W Cooke who had bargained for a home for his sister-in-law to live. This would be the wife of William W Cooke and it does mention his name within the records. The sister-in-law declines to live there and it goes down hill from there. You can read more about it here.(You'll need to log in to FamilySearch to view the link but registration and viewing is free)
The Rucker name also comes up in the Childress case. Since the Granville Co NC Cookes have Rucker ancestry and my Cook(e) line shares Y-DNA with descendants from that Cooke line, seeing the two surnames in the same place or document always peaks my curiosity.
Our ancestors did more traveling than we might imagine. Too, if they lived near the county line or lines there may also be records in that surrounding county or counties just waiting to be discovered. The Childress case mentioned, Davidson, Henry, Maury, Rutherford and of course Williamson(the county in which it was recorded) This stresses the important of reading thru the records for the area and surrounding areas as well as time span in which your ancestor lived
The Montgomery Bell case entry is here
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