He's dead, Jim.
About a month ago, I found Tennessee Death Certificates which offers several services including copies of TN death certs from 1908-1954 for only $4 each ($6 cheaper than the TN State Archives). So far, I've received certificates for Martha Minton, Thomas Jefferson Gamble, Minnie Wiggins, Billie Bivens, and James Richard Presley. Those are now added to my first record, that of Clarissa (or Clarissy) Bowles Minton.
What information did these give me? Martha Minton's record gave me a specific date for her death. Prior to that, I only had the year from her gravestone at Fairview Cemetery.
Thomas "Jeff" Gamble's record gave me dates that I'd only previously had from the report put together by my great Aunt Sue and Charles E. Gambell. The birth date is different on the certificate, so I included both on his record in the tree.
On the certificate for Minnie Wiggins Gamble, first wife of Jeff Gamble, her father was listed as A. T. 'Riggons' and her mother as Miss Jackson. So it adds the Jackson name to the tree, but I'll need to do a bit more digging on the Wiggins line. My grandmother and her sisters all know their grandmother as a Wiggins, so 'Riggons' looks like a mistake. In any case, I haven't been able to find any of the Wiggins family in the census (probably because I just don't know where to look).
Billie Bivens record gave me his exact birth & death dates as his gravestone only listed the years, but unfortunately, his parents' names weren't listed.
James Richard Presley's record finally gave me a concrete source for his parents' names. My father had talked with my great-great grandmother, Lumey Smith Presley, and sketched out as much of the family tree as she knew, and since then I'd been hunting for some documentation for the information on there.
What information did these give me? Martha Minton's record gave me a specific date for her death. Prior to that, I only had the year from her gravestone at Fairview Cemetery.
Thomas "Jeff" Gamble's record gave me dates that I'd only previously had from the report put together by my great Aunt Sue and Charles E. Gambell. The birth date is different on the certificate, so I included both on his record in the tree.
On the certificate for Minnie Wiggins Gamble, first wife of Jeff Gamble, her father was listed as A. T. 'Riggons' and her mother as Miss Jackson. So it adds the Jackson name to the tree, but I'll need to do a bit more digging on the Wiggins line. My grandmother and her sisters all know their grandmother as a Wiggins, so 'Riggons' looks like a mistake. In any case, I haven't been able to find any of the Wiggins family in the census (probably because I just don't know where to look).
Billie Bivens record gave me his exact birth & death dates as his gravestone only listed the years, but unfortunately, his parents' names weren't listed.
James Richard Presley's record finally gave me a concrete source for his parents' names. My father had talked with my great-great grandmother, Lumey Smith Presley, and sketched out as much of the family tree as she knew, and since then I'd been hunting for some documentation for the information on there.
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