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From: "Billy Jones" <>
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] Graves Co. (was Dickson Cty Relatives)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:32:47 -0500


Staci - The civil war was 1861-1865 so I do not see a connection to the war in the 1850's. Let's hope someone comes up with the answer.

Billy Jones

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From: StaciK
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 8:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] Graves Co. (was Dickson Cty Relatives)

I thought I would jump in here.My Duncan's where from Hickman Co and moved
to Graves Co Ky and then back to Hickman Co.In a letter I have From a gggg
aunt she says that they moved to Graves Co Ky about 1857/58 because of the
Civil War.Could this also be the reason for people leaving Dickson? Just a
thought.

Staci
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Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 5:10 PM
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
>
>
> A cousin a day, that's all we ask! http://heycuz.cjb.net
>
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