Purpose of This Website
My primary interest is not genealogy. Much of that research was done by others long before I got into putting what I know on the web. I try in my notes sections to give credit to the people from whom I learned what I know of the families I have researched. I have found obits, wills, and other old documents that no other researcher saw before I did. Some of these were handed down to me, others I found on microfilm, etc. My original research confirmed my suspicion that Capt. Jesse Wynne and his wife Margaret Wynne were first cousins, and I am still trying to discover whether Margaret's mother Margaret Ross was the daughter of Hugh Ross II. Another microfilm of a Confederate widow's pension turned up Capt Henry Pointer's commission, his Oath to the US, a letter written in 1885 by the Union lieutenant who found the commission on the ground in front of Pointer's tent the day Fort Donelson surrendered. It also proved that he was the same Henry Pointer who was an ADC to Nathan Bedford Forrest. I also turned up the abstracts of the court martial of Lt. Tom Pointer of the 16th Ala Inf. All that having been said, it is the old photos of these people, in three family albums, two or three cabinets, and dozens of loose pictures that prompted me to go online to discover as much as I could about these people. Among my finds were Ed Buford in 1865 as he began his decades long struggle to own his own business in Nashville, two previously unknown photos of Capt Jesse Wynne, photos of all the children of Thomas A. Falconer of Holly Springs, Sherwood Bonner's father, and several photos of Stark Young's aunts, uncles and possibly his mother. None of these pictures would have seen the light of day if I had not scanned them and posted them here. I also hope I have reminded the historically-minded people of Nashville that one of their own, Capt Eddie Buford was an "ace" in WWI, having flown with the great Eddie Rickenbacker against the Red Baron in 1918.
Tell me who those people are!
Baker, Brady, Barrett, Brown, Buford, Elliston, Ervin, Farrell, Pointer, Stith, Starks, Snodgrass Torian, Wynne and Yandell are just a few of the surnames that have good coverage here. Well, maybe not Baker, since that's my brick wall. I'm currently looking into whether the Bakers were Indians who joined the Confederate cavalry in Oklahoma. Otherwise I can only take them back to Tarrant Co Texas in 1910. As for the Brady's they came to America from Ireland in about 1838-39 and after losing their money to some scam artists in New York, they migrated down to the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. The Civil War broke them, but that's not anything to write home about. They survived, and their descendants fought in WWI, WWII and Vietnam. This is, as they say, a work in progress, and subject to revision. God bless America.