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From: "adamscd" <>
Subject: Re: TIDWELL
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:19:07 -0500

Thanks for sharing it.. Why don't more of ya put on your thinkin caps and
share your lore and yarns... 'tween doing serious diggin?
I loved it !
Thanks
Cher
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Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 7:10 PM
Subject: TIDWELL

>Heard an interesting story today from a first cousin concerning the Tidwell
>line in the Dickson area. I had also heard this story from my uncle (that
>cousin's father) before he passed away. Please note that this story has
been
>told down through the family in the oral tradition, so I am spelling names
by
>sound. Also I am just telling it as I heard it. It would need to be
>verified. The story is told by my cousin Jerry Tidwell. I have edited for
>clarity.
>
>(Two of my aunts (DeBusks) married Tidwells. One of those was Earl
Tidwell.)
>
>Earl's father was Will, his father was Owen, his father was Francis (Fran).
>Francis was actually one of the brothers that came over from England. When
>they got here, they all went different directions, I guess so they'd have a
>better chance of surviving. One brother went to GA. Another went to KY.
>This story is concerned with Fran, who went to Bon Aqua, TN, where the old
>Tidwell home place is now. Fran married Chief Running Bear's daughter.
Chief
>Running Bear was of course a Cherokee Indian. He (Fran?) had a lot of
>offspring. A renegade band of Indians came through and grabbed Francis's
>daughter (Chief Running Bear's granddaughter) and took off with her into
the
>woods. Running Bear was a pretty old man, but he said he wanted to get her
>himself. So he took off and tracked these Indians down. The band of
Indians
>had some alcohol, and they stopped at night and started drinking and built
a
>big fire and roasted corn. When they were passing out, what they did with
>Francis's daughter was to tie her to two braves who lay down with her
between
>them. Chief Running Bear snuck in, and of course everybody was asleep from
>drinking or whatever, and Running Bear took his tomahawk and killed both
these
>Indians that were lying beside his granddaughter, and then chopped the
rope.
>He and his granddaughter took off running and got away.
>
>A side note to the Tidwell information concerns the old Tidwell home place.
>The Owen Tidwell previously mentioned had a son (sounded like Dot????
couldn't
>understand the name) and he in turn had a son named Travis who now owns
part
>of the old Tidwell home place. He doesn't own the actual two-story white
>house--they sold that to someone else--but he owns adjoining land. I'm
told
>the closest town to it is Bon Aqua, TN.
>
>I am related to Tidwells only by marriages within the family, but this was
>such a wonderful story I was sure someone would be tickled to get the info.
I
>hope it helps!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Vanessa
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>
>
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>Okay.... so I don't descend from anyone......
>Now What ????
>

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