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From: "John C. Carter" <>
Subject: [TNSCOTT] RE: Scott Co, TN Website News
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:30:01 -0500


Looks good, Tim!
John


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From:Timothy N. West [SMTP:]
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Subject:[TNSCOTT] Scott Co, TN Website News

All,

I haven't put anything new for this month up yet but I have been
experimenting with a new interface to the Scott Co, TN website. I'd be
interested in hearing what you think. Try accessing the website via
this url:

http://www.tngenweb.org/scott/new_page_1.htm

Tell me what you think.

I am also looking at how to post the index to the first 72 issues of the
Scott County Historical Society newsletter. Claude Cheatham indexed
these issues several years ago and offered them to me for posting. I've
combined his entries, cleaned them up, and standardized them. Now, the
index contains over 75,000 separate name entries, in other words one
heck of a big file. The ideal way to post would be by using a database
but the TNGenWeb site uses a database system I'm not familiar with and
would require a lot of hand-coding for a web page interface. While the
coding would be fun (at least for me) I simply don't have the time to
take that task on. I could create 75 webpages with a 1000 entries per
page but that doesn't seem like a reasonable alternative either. Still
looking for an alternative.

Dave Udall has also provided scanned images of every page from the 1870
Scott County Federal Census. The images are very good. But again there
are a lot of them and figuring out the best way to load them up is
proving to be interesting. An index would be an ideal way to point to
the pages. I don't have time to create an index and we can't use any of
the existing indexes due to copyright issues. Someone could take on the
task of creating an index much like what Carla Robertson did with the
1850 Census for Scott Co and donate the effort to the website. We would
then have the index and actual images for the 1870 census.

I have also just completed Volume 3 of the "West Union Association of
United Baptist Churches: Obituaries from the minutes of 1976-1980".
This was a joint effort between Sue Posey and myself. I've turned the
book over to the publisher, B&D Etc. and the book should be available
soon. The book is 122 pages with index. A compilation of 250
obituaries taken from the minutes of the annual meetings of the West
Union Association of Baptist Churches. Entries are listed
alphabetically by the name of the primary deceased individual discussed
in the obituary. The comprehensive every-name index also lists derived
surnames. I formatted the index differently than what I did in Vol 1 &
2 in the hopes this Vol 3 index is easier to user. Part of the proceeds
from the book will go to the SCHS. We just haven't decided how much
yet.

The last bit of information also involves yet another book. Paul Roy
has just completed the Civil War book we've all eagerly anticipated. He
sent me the following:

Advance orders for a new local history book, Scott County in the Civil
War, are now being taken, according to Scott County Historian Irene B.
Baker. Pre-publication cost of the 400-page book is $40, with the price
to increase once over-the-counter sales begin, Baker said. "Advance
orders will enable us to offset the cost of publishing and will also
represent a savings for those planning to buy the book," Baker said,
adding that deliveries of pre-publication sales will be made before
Christmas. More than four years in the making, the new publication is a
compilation of data about Scott County and its people during one of the
most turbulent periods in its history. "The new book, compiled by Paul
Roy, tells the story of a sparsely populated region wedged firmly
between the North and the South, but as soon as hostilities begin, its
population overwhelmingly sides with the Union. It relates how men who
know the country soon become "pilots," guiding hundreds, perhaps even
thousands, of East Tennesseans through the rugged, mountainous region
into Kentucky where they could join with their fellow Unionists and form
regiments to fight for their country. It gives biographical sketches of
more than 400 local men and boys who fought in the war, provides
accounts of the three major skirmishes fought on Scott County soil,
tells the story of General Ambrose Burnside's Army in its march through
the county in 1863, details the hardships and atrocities local people
endured because of their allegiance to the Union, and provides a
pictorial review of the military tombstones of Scott County's Civil War
veterans. But perhaps best of all, Scott County in the Civil War is a
well organized reference book for both local history buffs and family
historians, extensively documented to point researchers to the original
source of the material presented. The book project grew out of the Scott
County Historical Society's desire to obtain copies of pension and
service records of local men who fought in the Civil War. Descendants of
the veterans who had ordered those papers from the National Archives and
Records Administration in Washington, D.C. generously allowed the
Historical Society to copy them for its files. A study of those files
revealed the names of scores of other Scott Countians who served, which
subsequently led to a search of locally and regionally published
materials about those individuals and their families, as well as
war-related events which took place in the county. Scott County in the
Civil War was compiled with the help of scores of people from all over
the United States, many of whom provided stories handed down through the
generations about their Civil War ancestor's exploits during the
conflict. Several members of the Scott County Historical Society took an
active role in gathering material for the publication, reading and
correcting the copy, and offering their ideas about how it should be
presented. The book is divided into seven sections, or chapter, which
provide: 1) an overview of the county during the war, including
highlights of the major events, principal players and personal
tragedies; 2) an up-close and personal look at the individual
participants in an extensive collection of biographical sketches of
Scott County's Civil War veterans; 3) rosters (and brief histories) of
the primary regiments in which Scott Countians served; 4) the claims
made to the federal government by Scott Countians following the war; 5)
photos of the tombstones and location of the cemeteries where Scott
County Civil War veterans are buried; 6) an in-depth look at the lives
of two civilian survivors of the war; and, 7) a section devoted to
specific accounts of hardships, derring-do and sorrow associated with
the Civil War years. In addition, the book's appendix contains such
items as a list of veterans who died during the service; men on the
county's voter registration roles in the reconstruction period by virtue
of their service during the war; a treason indictment handed down by a
Scott County Grand Jury against a Confederate soldier; an affidavit by a
former Union regimental commander to aid a Scott County woman obtain a
veteran's pension as the result of her husband's death during the war;
and a list of Scott Countians on the pension roll more than two decades
after the end of the conflict. Sprinkled throughout the book are
photographs of soldiers, sites of skirmishes, surviving documents,
historical markers and Civil War-related memorabilia. The book is being
published in an 8-1/2 x 11-inch format, spiral bound with soft cover. It
is priced at $40 plus sales tax and is available from the Independent
Herald in Oneida, and by mail from the Scott County Historical Society,
P.O. Box 7, Huntsville, TN 37756. Mail orders should include $3 for
postage and handling."

Just wanted everyone to know the Scott Co, TN website is still
functioning. I'm still collecting and formating information for
posting. But I've just been busy with some really big website projects
and my own book. I've also been coaching my daughters soccer team (two
practices a week and one game per week). Coupled with my job activities
resulting from the 11 Sep act of war, I just haven't been posting
information with the rapidity you've grown accustomed too. Hopefully
things will slow down soon and you'll see lots more good stuff on the
website.

...tim west...
Scott Co, TN Coordinator for the TNGenWeb Site
http://www.tngenweb.org/scott

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