James Tanner wrote My Top Ten Genealogy Programs for Now on his Genealogy's Star blog on 14 August 2016. He included Google, online genealogy database and family tree sites, WorldCat, photo programs, cloud storage programs, presentation programs, a scanning program, and RootsMagic. James used the word "programs" to mean applications that perform a specific task on the computer. I'm going to confine my list to actual genealogy-oriented "programs" that I use most often: 1) RootsMagic (a genealogy software program residing on my computer) - this is my master genealogy family tree database. RootsMagic provides Web Hints for my tree persons on FamilySearch, MyHeritage and Findmypast, but they have to be entered manually into RootsMagic. I put everything (events, sources, media, notes) I learn about my ancestral families into RootsMagic as I find it. 2) Ancestry (a subscription genealogy website with genealogy records) - I start almost all of my research for specific persons using Ancestry. If I find a record, Ancestry often finds other records for the same person. Ancestry provides leaf Hints every day for persons in my personal Ancestry Member Tree. I have to enter this data into RootsMagic manually. 3) FamilySearch (a free genealogy website with genealogy records) - this site is usually my second site for researching a specific person. If I find a record, FamilySearch often suggests other records for the same person. The FamilySearch Research Wiki is very useful for background information about localities, methodology, etc. The FamilySearch Books section has published and unpublished family history books. I add content and sources to the universal FamilySearch Family Tree frequently using the RootsMagic FamilySearch Person Tools. 4) Find A Grave (a free genealogy website with cemetery records) - this site often has unique records for 19th and 20th century persons. 5) MyHeritage (a subscription genealogy website with genealogy records) - this site has records for specific persons, including in Europe. It has a free set of published genealogy books. A user can upload a personal family tree, and MyHeritage provides Record Matches for persons in the tree, which I have to enter into RootsMagic manually. 6) GenealogyBank (a subscription genealogy website with newspaper and other records) - this is my go-to site for historical newspaper records and recent obituaries. 7) Findmypast (a subscription genealogy website with genealogy records) - this site has records for specific persons, especially in the British Isles, and some USA records, including access to the NewspaperARCHIVE historical newspapers. I have to enter this data into RootsMagic manually. There is a personal family tree available, but it is difficult to use. Findmypast finds Record Hints for persons in my tree. 8) AmericanAncestors (a subscription historical society website with genealogy records) - this site has records for specific persons, mainly in New England, with several digitized periodicals. 9) Family Tree Webinars (a subscription genealogy education website) - this site has weekly webinars and over 400 webinars in their archive. This is my primary education website. 10) Fold3 (a subscription genealogy website with genealogy records - this site has American military records and some other record sets, including selected newspapers and city directories. I also use WikiTree (a free universal family tree) and Geni.com (a commercial universal family tree) on occasion. I don't have a subscription to Archives.com or to Newspapers.com or any other subscription sites. What other genealogy "programs" do you use (always or occasionally) to help you find records and information for your ancestry families? ============================================= The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2016/08/my-top-ten-genealogy-research-programs.html Copyright (c) 2016, Randall J. Seaver Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email at [email protected].

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Since 1996, Archive.org has been quietly building one of the best online FREE libraries in existence. I'm fairly certain they've got the Google books database

When I was first told that much of the online content for FamilySearch wasn't showing up by filtering by state I didn't realize you can filter your search for online content alone. I've been filtering by Family History library recently. I've been looking for films located at the Orange Family History Library, and the Los Angeles Family History Library. When doing this I noticed a filter for online content. (In the past you could search the Catalog on CD's and find out if a local Family History Center had a film you needed in their permanent collection. I miss that.) To search for only what's available online click on search these family history centers on the FamilySearch catalog page. Click the second choice at the top of the menu, online. Now that I know how to filter for online content I've searched using various jurisdictions. You can search the following jurisdictions for US: United States State County Township Town City You can also search records localities for foreign Countries filtering by online records. I've also searched for tax lists by using the filters listed above the search box. I used the keyword search for tax. This brought up over 5,000 titles online. When you filter further by state you can eliminate a few thousand. You can filter by century and decade also. I am interested in finding a marriage bond for an ancestor who probably married in Virginia in the 1780's. I don't know which county these ancestors married in? I'm using keyword search to find all marriage bonds available for Virginia online. I would like to find marriage bonds for a John Thurman married to a Sarah. I don't have Sarah's maiden name and hope to find a marriage bond in order to discover it. It looks like their eldest child was born in 1784? Their youngest was born in 1798. I can make a guess as to when they may have married based on this timeframe. I will look at the online marriage bonds for any marriages in this timeframe. marriage bonds online Virginia I found filtering doesn't always bring up all titles with online films. Filtering by county seems to bring up the most complete list of online content. I found a Tax list for Washington County, Tennessee that didn't come up when I filtered for Tennessee tax 1700's. You have to search by various filters to find everything online. This 1779 tax list didn't come up filtering by Tennessee and year  Many of the films that have been digitized have either been indexed, and are searchable at FamilySearch, or the film has an index in the front or back of the book appearing on the film. I knew my ancestor William McPike appeared in a Court Order book, for Washington County, Virginia, when he was ordered to do road work. I didn't have the page number. I found the court order book online with no index. I really wanted a copy of the original entry. I searched for my copy of the transcription, I had, in order to get the page number. I was then able to get the original copy. I found I sometimes need to find an index elsewhere if it's not available through FamilySearch. I wanted the original copy to verify the name Holloway also appeared in this road work order. Holloway is supposedly Obedience, William's wife's maiden name Everything isn't online or searchable through an index yet. Since many of the films that have been digitized have indexes, or indexes can be found elsewhere, this hasn't been a serious problem. Even though a small fraction of the holdings of the Family History Library are now online it's still enough to keep me busy for a long time.

As part of its two-year World War I digitization project, the State Archives of North Carolina has recently completed a project to scan and make available online a collection of World War I North Carolina county military induction lists.

The original Buncombe County included those areas presently known as Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Madison, Transylvania and Counties, and the western part of Yancey, McDowell and Polk Counties. Macon, Clay, Cherokee, Graham, & Swain were still Cherokee Indian Lands until 1819 and 1835. For our purposes, however, we consider them a part of Old Buncombe ...

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Slave Market, Fayetteville, NC, Sept ember 1938. Photo taken by Baker. From the North Carolina Conservation and Development Department, Travel and Tourism Division photo files. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.

One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information, and sometimes more importantly - information about the relatives of the deceased's family and extended family. This family name information is often not

When most of us think of Ancestry.com, we think of paid resources. And, of course, the vast majority of Ancestry's billions of records are behind a pay wall. However, you might be surprised to hear that

Using a search filter is a way of excluding unwanted content from your online searches. Genealogists can benefit from using a variety of different search techniques to focus their searches on pertinent information about their ancestors using basic filtering and other search techniques. To get started, you might want to review the content of the Google Help Center, https://support.google.com/. There are some simple ways to get started with using filters in your searches. To begin using the first level of filters provided by Google, you need to a search. Here is a screenshot of the results of searching for the term, "genealogy." You may be able to see that there are over 171 million results, far too many to be of any particular use. However, there are some ways to filter the results that appear near the top of the page. Here is a screenshot of the filtering tools. By making a selection, you can begin to filter out those results that do not apply to your search. However, in this case, I should have started my search with more specific search terms. Here is a link to a short video from Google showing you some basic ways to enhance your initial searches. Simple Google Search tips What the video basically advises is to focus your searches on specific topics by modifying the initial search terms. Searching for a term such as "genealogy" is certain to produce a huge number of irrelevant results. But if you search for a specific ancestor or relative and perhaps add some modifiers or filters then your searches will become more accurate. The Google filters are found in the "Tools" link shown above. By clicking on the Tools link, you get a drop-down menu that lets you filter the results by time or by results. Here are the results options. The term "Verbatim" means exact or in the same words as used. You can do the same thing when making a search by putting the search terms in quotation marks. Here is an example of a search for my Great-grandfather, Henry Martin Tanner. I have also added a qualifier or filter by adding the word, "Arizona." There are still a large number of results, but the first few are specifically about my Great-grandfather. In fact, the first item is a biography of my Great-grandfather written by his son. I often suggest that researchers do a specific Google search for each person in their family tree and use every iteration of their name including nicknames and abbreviations. The qualifiers or filter words can include occupations, the places associated with events in their lives and other descriptive words. Varying these terms will also find additional results. There are some specifically written books on doing genealogical searches but I have found that repeating the searches multiple times using a variety of possible search terms is usually faster and more effective than composing elaborate, specific search functions. In my next installment, I will discuss the more specific search functions built into Google Search. Stay tuned. Here is the first article in this series. http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2017/01/how-to-do-custom-searches-with-google.html

Using a search filter is a way of excluding unwanted content from your online searches. Genealogists can benefit from using a variety of different search techniques to focus their searches on pertinent information about their ancestors using basic filtering and other search techniques. To get started, you might want to review the content of the Google Help Center, https://support.google.com/. There are some simple ways to get started with using filters in your searches. To begin using the first level of filters provided by Google, you need to a search. Here is a screenshot of the results of searching for the term, "genealogy." You may be able to see that there are over 171 million results, far too many to be of any particular use. However, there are some ways to filter the results that appear near the top of the page. Here is a screenshot of the filtering tools. By making a selection, you can begin to filter out those results that do not apply to your search. However, in this case, I should have started my search with more specific search terms. Here is a link to a short video from Google showing you some basic ways to enhance your initial searches. Simple Google Search tips What the video basically advises is to focus your searches on specific topics by modifying the initial search terms. Searching for a term such as "genealogy" is certain to produce a huge number of irrelevant results. But if you search for a specific ancestor or relative and perhaps add some modifiers or filters then your searches will become more accurate. The Google filters are found in the "Tools" link shown above. By clicking on the Tools link, you get a drop-down menu that lets you filter the results by time or by results. Here are the results options. The term "Verbatim" means exact or in the same words as used. You can do the same thing when making a search by putting the search terms in quotation marks. Here is an example of a search for my Great-grandfather, Henry Martin Tanner. I have also added a qualifier or filter by adding the word, "Arizona." There are still a large number of results, but the first few are specifically about my Great-grandfather. In fact, the first item is a biography of my Great-grandfather written by his son. I often suggest that researchers do a specific Google search for each person in their family tree and use every iteration of their name including nicknames and abbreviations. The qualifiers or filter words can include occupations, the places associated with events in their lives and other descriptive words. Varying these terms will also find additional results. There are some specifically written books on doing genealogical searches but I have found that repeating the searches multiple times using a variety of possible search terms is usually faster and more effective than composing elaborate, specific search functions. In my next installment, I will discuss the more specific search functions built into Google Search. Stay tuned. Here is the first article in this series. http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2017/01/how-to-do-custom-searches-with-google.html

Three tricks for census records you might not yet have in your ancestry toolbox that can help you find that one person

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Using a search filter is a way of excluding unwanted content from your online searches. Genealogists can benefit from using a variety of different search techniques to focus their searches on pertinent information about their ancestors using basic filtering and other search techniques. To get started, you might want to review the content of the Google Help Center, https://support.google.com/. There are some simple ways to get started with using filters in your searches. To begin using the first level of filters provided by Google, you need to a search. Here is a screenshot of the results of searching for the term, "genealogy." You may be able to see that there are over 171 million results, far too many to be of any particular use. However, there are some ways to filter the results that appear near the top of the page. Here is a screenshot of the filtering tools. By making a selection, you can begin to filter out those results that do not apply to your search. However, in this case, I should have started my search with more specific search terms. Here is a link to a short video from Google showing you some basic ways to enhance your initial searches. Simple Google Search tips What the video basically advises is to focus your searches on specific topics by modifying the initial search terms. Searching for a term such as "genealogy" is certain to produce a huge number of irrelevant results. But if you search for a specific ancestor or relative and perhaps add some modifiers or filters then your searches will become more accurate. The Google filters are found in the "Tools" link shown above. By clicking on the Tools link, you get a drop-down menu that lets you filter the results by time or by results. Here are the results options. The term "Verbatim" means exact or in the same words as used. You can do the same thing when making a search by putting the search terms in quotation marks. Here is an example of a search for my Great-grandfather, Henry Martin Tanner. I have also added a qualifier or filter by adding the word, "Arizona." There are still a large number of results, but the first few are specifically about my Great-grandfather. In fact, the first item is a biography of my Great-grandfather written by his son. I often suggest that researchers do a specific Google search for each person in their family tree and use every iteration of their name including nicknames and abbreviations. The qualifiers or filter words can include occupations, the places associated with events in their lives and other descriptive words. Varying these terms will also find additional results. There are some specifically written books on doing genealogical searches but I have found that repeating the searches multiple times using a variety of possible search terms is usually faster and more effective than composing elaborate, specific search functions. In my next installment, I will discuss the more specific search functions built into Google Search. Stay tuned. Here is the first article in this series. http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2017/01/how-to-do-custom-searches-with-google.html

Three tricks for census records you might not yet have in your ancestry toolbox that can help you find that one person

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The LDS Family History Library has over 2.5 million microfilms of records on every conceivable type of historical record, including land and probate records for almost every county in every state in the United States. 1) Land Records on FamilySearch There are land records for only four states (Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Washington, and some individual counties for other states) on FamilySearch, and they are all browsable collections (meaning there is no index for them). Those collections are waypointed by counties and then by record book titles. The grantor and grantee indexes are part of the digitized collections, are can be used to find individual deeds for a specific person. Why aren't there statewide, or even individual county, land record collections on FamilySearch in browsable collections? Those records are very useful, and we know they have the microfilm images. Perhaps they need approval from the individual counties or states to digitize them and publish them on FamilySearch. Are there projects to digitize and index those land records - especially the grantor and grantee indexes that provide information for individual records? I hope so - the indexes are name-rich, while the actual deeds are not that name-rich, although having an index of the witnesses and neighbors mentioned in a deed would be very useful. 2) Probate Records on FamilySearch: The situation is better for Probate Records. There are statewide (or individual county) probate or estate record collections on FamilySearch for 31 states the last time I checked. These are not indexed, but are browsable. They are usually waypointed by county, and then by the probate record book titles. They can be efficiently used by finding index entries in the probate indexes that define either/and an estate file name or entries in the probate court clerk record books. Why aren't there statewide (or individual county) digitized probate record collections on FamilySearch in browsable collections for the other states? These records are very useful to researchers, and we know they have the microfilm images. We know that there are statewide collections of probate record images, taken from the microfilms, because they provided statewide collections to Ancestry.com back in 2013, and Ancestry indexed them (albeit poorly) and put them online as statewide databases in September 2015. 3) My view has been that "many 'brick wall' problems will be solved once land and probate records are available to researchers in digitized record collections." I appreciate that we have so much digitized now, but there is so much more almost there. I'm just impatient, I guess. ================================ The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2016/09/land-and-probate-records-on-familysearch.html Copyright (c) 2016, Randall J. Seaver Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email at [email protected].

Your Guide to Yancey County, NC family history research. Find links to record collections, facts, history and genealogical resources to help you trace your ancestors

This week's Tuesday's Tip is to check out digitized genealogy and family history books to find books or articles about your ancestors. There are a number of websites that have digitized genealogy and family history books, such as compiled surname genealogies, locality history and records, etc.: 1) Google Books (https://books.google.com) - has over 30 million digitized books free to access. 2) Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) - has over 10 million digitized books free to access. 3) HathiTrust Digital Library (https://www.hathitrust.org/) - has over 14 million digitized books free to access. 4) MyHeritage Books and Publications (https://www.myheritage.com/research/category-8020/books-publications) - has over 447,000 genealogy-related digitized books free to access. 5) FamilySearch Books (https://books.familysearch.org/) - has over 280,000 genealogy-related digitized books and manuscripts free to access: 6) Genealogy Gophers (https://www.gengophers.com/#/) - has over 80,000 genealogy-related digitized books free to access. 7) Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com) - has over 23,000 digitized genealogy-related books, not free to access). 8) GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com) - has over 14,000 digitized genealogy-related books, not free to access). Each site has a different set of search fields and search options (e.g., wild cards, exact matches, included words, excluded words). There are other digitized books websites with significant genealogy and family history hol;dings - which ones should I add to this list? ============================================= The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2016/09/tuesdays-tip-check-out-digitized.html Copyright (c) 2016, Randall J. Seaver Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email at [email protected].

Check out the cranial nerve mnemonics! The twelve cranial nerves are: I: Olfactory II: Optic III: Oculomotor IV: Trochlear V: Trigeminal VI: Abducens VII: Facial VIII: Acoustic IX: Glossopharyngeal X: Vagus XI: Spinal Accessory XII: Hypoglossal After watching the cranial nerve video presented by Joe B, answer the following questions below: Which cranial nerve

No matter how many years you’ve spent building your family tree on Ancestry, there’s always something new to learn. Here are 7 tips and tricks the experts use.

Chances are you have some paper files in your genealogy records. But how can you organize them? Here’s one method of getting that paper under control.

Finding out about your family’s history can be an exciting endeavor. Keeping track of all the information and placing it all into some kind of organized fashion however, can be quite a task. There are so many Genealogy websites, software programs and ways to store your findings that it can become overwhelming. It is sometimes hard to determine what should be included in your Family Tree and what isn’t necessary...

I received the August 2016 issue of the RootsMagic Newsletter yesterday - you can read it at http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8e85643d5218349ea32bc4f19&id=1bd2682a44. The Archive of RootsMagic newsletters is at http://www.rootsmagic.com/Newsletter/Archive.aspx. The first article is "When Will RootsMagic Sync with Ancestry?" The article says: "When will RootsMagic sync with Ancestry? - The RootsMagic / Ancestry sync is scheduled to be released by the end of this year. "What does this "sync" include? - RootsMagic will let you share data (in both directions) between your RootsMagic tree and your personal Ancestry online trees. This includes people, events, notes, sources, and media. In addition, RootsMagic will be able to display WebHints from Ancestry, and allow you to download and attach those documents to individuals in your RootsMagic file. "Will the Ancestry sync features require me to buy an upgrade? - If you are using RootsMagic 7, the Ancestry sync features will be a free upgrade. If you are using an older version of RootsMagic (6 or older), you will need to upgrade to RM7 to use the new Ancestry sync features. "Will I need an Ancestry subscription when RootsMagic's sync is released? - You will need an Ancestry account to use the new sync features in RootsMagic. Some features will work with the free Ancestry account, but other features will require you to have a paid Ancestry subscription. The features and records available to you will depend on your subscription level." There are two key issues regarding RootsMagic synchronization with an Ancestry Member Tree here: * Sharing data between RootsMagic and your Ancestry Member Tree. Apparently, this includes people, events, notes, sources and media. I believe that this will work in a similar way that RootsMagic currently shares data with the FamilySearch Family Tree. The user matches a person, then adds content (people, events, notes, sources and media) from one file to the other so that both files have the same information. I don't believe that this will work like Family Tree Maker 2014 syncs with an Ancestry Member Tree, whereby pushing one button makes the information for every person in the FTM file the same as is in the Ancestry Member Tree file. Of course, I may be wrong. We will have to wait until the end of the year to find out. * RootsMagic will display Ancestry.com WebHints, and users will be able to download and attach documents from Ancestry to RootsMagic persons. This may work like Family Tree Maker 2014's Web Merge feature wherein the record is brought into the database for an event and with a source citation and media item. Again, we will have to wait until the end of the year to find out. I think that this is all good news. RootsMagic has been consistent in their statements all year, and, hopefully, will succeed in making the sync and download/attach document features work efficiently and logically by the end of 2016. I'm looking forward to be able to do these tasks in early 2017. Stay tuned. ============================================= The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2016/08/rootsmagic-provides-more-information.html Copyright (c) 2016, Randall J. Seaver Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email at [email protected].

Prior to the Revolutionary War

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My great-great grandfather was John Tipton (1830-1863). John died while recruiting for the Union forces during the civil war in the mountains that border western North Carolina (where he lived with his family) and eastern Tennessee where he was stationed. The following is an accounting of his death when he was ambushed by a Confederate Calvary led by Confederate Colonel Wichter. Colonel Vincent Addison Witcher Commander 34th Virginia Cavalry The man responsible for the death of my great-grandfather John Tipton in 1863 I have taken this information out of the book "Toe River Valley Heritage - North Carolina, Vol. X" which was compiled by Professor Lloyd Richard Bailey of Duke University. Professor Bailey is a relative of John Tipton's wife, my great-great grandmother Martha "Patty" Bailey Tipton. Professor Bailey has given me permission to put this information on my blog. If anyone seeks more information about this subject or wishes to contact Professor Bailey his address follows: Lloyd Bailey 4122 Deep Wood Circle Durham, NC 27707 [email protected] www-toevrivervalley.com John Tipton, Union Recruit Death of a Union Soldier in the Appalachian Mountains John Tipton, (ca. 1828/1830-11/18/1863) was the son of Joseph Tipton (whose wife may have been named Sarah) who lived in the vicinity of Bee Branch, near Relief in Yancey County, North Carolina. Martha E. "Patty" Bailey Tipton Cooper - my great-great grandmother and widow of John Tipton, my great-great grandfather who died in the Civil War fighting for the Union Cause He married Martha E. ("Patty") Bailey (9/22/1830-12/22/1915), daughter of John ("Yellow Jacket") Bailey. They were married on October 19, 1848, at the home of her brother, Ansel Bailey (who soon thereafter moved to Fannin County, Georgia). John and "Patty" lived in the vicinity of the village of Relief, North Carolina in the mountains bordering Tennessee. Green Mountain Road, the area near Bee Branch Road where my great-grandparents lived in 1863 Photo taken last spring when Bill and I visited the area 2011 John joined the Union Army about September 15, 1863, by going across the mountains into Tennessee to the 8th Tennessee Regiment (Company M) that was then located near Greenville, Tennessee. Soon thereafter he was furloughed and sent back to his home area to see if he could recruit other volunteers to the Union Cause. Those who were willing to do so "hid out" (from the Confederate Home Guard?) until it was time to leave for the Regiment, some of them staying at John Tipton's house during the night before departure. His wife cooked "thin rations: for them and they set out on the morning of the 18th. The North Carolina - Tennessee state line - where my great grandfather probably crossed in 1863 while recruiting for the Union forces - photo take last year 2011 during our annual visit south They apparently traveled through the Hollow Poplar Settlement, then through Indian Grave Gap, and descended into Tennessee into the "Greasy Cove" by means of Rock Creek. There, they were spotted by a Confederate Cavalry command but Colonel Vincent Addison Witcher (34th Virginia Cavalry-CSA) who apparently was on the lookout for Union recruits that might take this well known route. Colonel Witcher's command brought a bout the so-called "Bell Massacre" in the nearby Limestone Cove about three days later. One of the many trails still intact up in the mountains where my great-grandfather rode to recruit of the Union forces in 1863 In the following skirmish, John Tipton was shot twice in the left side and immediately died. Four others of the Union recruits were killed. Archibald Bennett was wounded in the head, recuperated at the home of John Tipton's widow (Martha "Patty" Bailey - my great-great grandmother), and later jinxed the Union Army (3rd NC Mounted Infantry). Curtis, Calvin and Dobson Bailey, along with their father Hiram, Sr., were also present at the skirmish. (Note: John Tipton's young son Hiram was my great grandfather.) Curtis (who had formerly served in the 39th KY Regiment, Union Army and deserted) was killed. Calvin, Dobson and Hiram escaped, and the sons later joined the Union Army ) Dobson in the 13th Tenn.; Calvin, formerly in the 39th KY and deserted, joined the 13th Tenn. Regiment, Co. B. Confederate Cavalry in the mountains 1863 I was told (by elderly Charles Hughes, now deceased) that Jason and Jim Hughes (brothers of Confederate soldier Jeremain Hughes) were shot and left for dead by Witcher's Cavalry. Relatives came and carried them home. Jim, shot in the throat, survived. The cavalry commander had ordered that he be shot again but he response from one of this soldiers was "Ain't no use wasting shot on a dead man." The wound never healed, and Jim would remove the bandage eat morning to let the wound "drain." He is buried at the Hughes Cemetery "at the mouth of Big Creek." As for the fatally wounded Jason, he was buried at Huntdale Memorial Cemetery. ONe other person, taken alive by Witcher's Cavalry, was made to ride with them to the gap between Rock Creek and Poplar (Indian Grave Gap). At that point, they decided to shoot him and ordered him to march ten paces ahead of them. At the count of nine, he dived into a laurel thicket, amidst a hail of bullets and escaped. John Tipton's body was taken to the home of Dr. Perry, some 13-14 miles from Tipton's home. HIs wife was notified and the next day, she (along with Mrs. Eliza Presley and her son) went with a wagon to retrieve his body. He and his brother-in-law Curtis Bailey were buried in a double-grave. "about a half mile from his house." [The cemetery, nmow known as the "Yellow Jacket" John Bailey cemetery, is located just above the bridge over Toe River at Relief, North Carolina, on the Yancey County (now Mitchell County) side. When widow Martha Bailey Tipton applied for a pension (see previous blog posting on this subject), she was initially denied on the grounds that John's name was not on the Company Muster Role. On appeal, it was pointed out that no muster-forms were available at the time and John was sent back to his home in the mountains of North Carolina to recruit before the forms arrived. AS the result of several sworn statements, including by his commanding officer, pension was finally approved in 1891 in the amount of $8.00 a month. At the end of the War, the family apparently moved to Jonesboro Tennessee at which place Martha lists her address. Pension appellations were filed there in 1865 and1867. She is listed in Yancey County, North Carolina, in the 1870 census. John left his widow with ten children, nine of whom were under sixteen years of age. Baxter Stephen Tipton - born 7/26/1849 Sarah Ann Tipton - born 11/15/12850 Hiram Tipton - born 3/5/1852 - my great-great grandfather Loucinda Tipton - born 3/24/1853 Elizabeth Tipton - born 11/5/1854 Temperance Ann "Tempe" Tipton - born 12/25/1855) Willian Nelson Tipton - born 7/27/1857 Martha Tipton - born - 12/26/1858 Curtis Tipton - born 7/29/1860 Tricia Tipton - born 5/6/1862 Hiram Tipton, my great grandfather and son of John Tipton Baxter Stephen Tipton, son of John Tipton - my great grand uncle Curtis Tipton, son of John Tipton and my great grand uncle There is much more to write about this interesting and fascinating period in the history of our county in which I am proud to say my great-great grandfather courageously played a part.