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From: "Stephen" <>
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] Graves Co. (was Dickson Cty Relatives)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:36:30 -0500
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Hi, My family also migrated from Houston, and I think Stewart Counties to
Graves County. My mom's family was John Pickney Sutherland married to Sina
Totty. We can't find anything about John's father and mother, or Sina
Totty's family. They had 10 children, the youngest boy was my grandfather,
Berry Richard Sutherland who married Nina Bettis and settled in Graves
County. (Wingo) I am curious too, that many left for Graves County.

Nina Cunningham

SUTHERLAND, BETTIS, CUNNINGHAM, TOTTY
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Subject: [TNDICKSO] Graves Co. (was Dickson Cty Relatives)


> Billy Jones,
>
> Excuse the interruption but I am very interested in your discussion about
> Dickson County residents moving to Graves County, KY. I also have several
> branches who went to Graves County, KY. I think they went back and forth.
> My Sullivans are found in both places.
>
> Here's a timeline of Owen Sullivan:
>
> 1820-1855 Dickson/Williamson Co.
> 1858-1860 in Graves Co.
> 1865 Dickson Co.
> 1868 Graves County
> 1878 Dickson Co.
>
> In wondering once out loud at a library why Owen's family moved back and
> forth between Graves County, Kentucky, and Williamson County, Tennessee,
> every five to seven years, I was asked whether he was a tobacco farmer.
> The person who asked was a retired farmer who informed me that land for
> tobacco crops had to lie fallow every few years. He suggested they were
> following the routine practice of rotating crops. However, in the Review
> Appeal's Who's Who column, Owen's grandchildren claimed their long lives
> were due to avoidance of such vices as tobacco, so I hesitate to suggest
> that crop was their main product. Our family lore has that Owen raised
> corn. Maybe they raised both. News reports made in the Review Appeal do
> state, though, that tobacco was the principle business in 1899. In one
> report that same year, an R.G. Buttrey (a family intricately tied with
> the Sullivans) is reported to have "plowed up his tobacco patch and
> replanted corn" because grasshoppers destroyed it.
>
> So perhaps, because tobacco was a principal crop, our ancestors were just
> working each others land while the other's land was lying fallow?
>
> What do you think?
>
> BTW, I have been lurking but have been reading with much interest your
> connection to the Jones and Robinsons. I believe my line is somehow
> connected to the John Jones who's will was posted on this list
> previously. Owen Sullivan's mother-in-law was Mary Elizabeth (Robinson)
> Lampley. The Lampleys are very intertwined with the Whites, who seem to
> be affiliated with the Jones. In the will of John Jones, witnesses are
> Joshua White (his wife is sister to my Elizabeth Lampley), Simon Myers
> (husband of Elizabeth Sullivan, possible sister of Owen), and William
> Morris (husband of Susanna White, sister of Joshua and William White.
> Susannah's first husband was James Carter. They had several children who
> married into the Sullivan's line and moved to Graves Co.) These Lampleys
> marry Underhills also. Its a very intertwined puzzle indeed.
>
> April
>
> >Do you are anyone on the list know why the exodus from Dickson Co.Tn. to
> >Graves Co. Ky?
> >
> >Billy Jones
>
>
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>
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