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From: Monte Neece <>
Subject: Re: Migrations
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 17:39:46 -0500

Gosh, Margaret, you LIVE in Lincoln County! Do you know Russ and Dora
Ellen (Neece) O'Neal, and Wayne and Joe Neece?

If you have connections to Ezekiel Norris, your REALLY go back to
Lincoln County's roots! It must be fun to live there and be able to
trace your roots in the same county for 200 years.

I have not seen the McMillen name associated with my Jefferson County
move, but I will watch for it. I'm going to guess he may have arrived
with an earlier group, though. Are you sure his marriage in 1814 was
his first? That would make him 30 years old, unusual for a first
marriage. Was the land bought after his marriage the earliest land
deeds you find? Were there any in Jefferson County? Did his parent
make the move? Any brothers or sisters? Did they make the move? If
so, look at birth dates/places of his sibling's offspring to try to pin
down the dates.

Thanks for the note. Let me know if any of these suggestions turn up
anything.

Monte Neece
Fort Worth TX

John Shutt wrote:
>
> Monte --
>
> I don't have answers to any of your questions -- who, why etc. -- but I have a
> family name that just might have been in that group.
>
> Family records say that Joseph McMillen was born near Knoxville 25 May
> 1784. That "near Knoxville" seems to be Strawberry Plains. That little town
> is on U. S. 11 E and in Jefferson county.
>
> Joseph came to LCT before 1814 because that is when he married (on August
> 18th) Rachel Norris, d/o Ezekiel Norris, Fayetteville's first settler (in 1806).
> They lived in Fayetteville for a while, then bought land between the village of
> Howell and Petersburg, where he died 28 June 1865.
>
> Have you found the McMillen name before? Joseph was my gg/grandfather.
>
> Margaret Harris Shutt
> Fayetteville, TN
> email:

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