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Subject: Re: [TNMONROE-L] Dica Ann GILES- was Re: Are there any death records in Monroe County before 1850?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:05:36 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <005901c4287d$a1482760$251f4ed8@betdean>
Betty and all of you who are helping me with this -
thanks so much. Here's the latest:
We've located the grave, but we can't locate the
grave.
Kamy has been terrific. She's found the listing in the
cemetery books: DA Giles d 2 Sep 1895 is interred in
the New Hope Methodist Church Cemetery in Monroe Co.
The dates and such match. We are happy dancing over
getting the cemetery named.
HOWEVER:
Since Kamy wrote, a current research partner and I
have been going nutso trying to find out the actual
location of the cemetery. Maybe even if it even exists
any more. We are coming up empty-handed in our
exhaustive searches - even using geo sites - GNIS,
Tiger, and such.
The only Monroe Co cemetery with New Hope in it that
we've "found" is New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian, but
we don't think that's it. Besides, they've got a
pretty comprehensive-looking listing online that
doesn't include anyone who sounds remotely like her
(http://newhopecp.org/cemetery.htm). The New
Hope Church in Roane County also seems to be a
Cumberland Presbyterian church.
Can anybody help with *this* dilemma, now? Anybody
know anything about the cemetery in question? I live
in the metro DC area, but east TN family members have
parked their tennies by the door....
--- Betty Guider <> wrote:
> I can't say for sure, but alot of my family is
> buried in the areas you
> mentioned. I swear that the name Dicey Giles rings
> a bell. I will be
> visiting several of our old cemeteries during
> mothers day and decoration.
> I'll look again and be in touch.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:25 PM
> Subject: [TNMONROE-L] Dica Ann GILES- was Re: Are
> there any death records in
> Monroe County before 1850?
<snip>
> > Well, I really need some help and hope the offer
holds for me, too. I want so much to find the location
of the gravesite of Dica Ann "Dicy" GILES/JILES
wholived "near Paint Rock," Tennessee, according to
the crumbling obituary we own. She died about 1895.
> > As for where she's buried exactly, here's what
we've got left from her obituary:
"The interment took pl[missing] Hope Church, Rev
[all else missing]."
> > Now, I know that there was an historical Paint
Rock that was innundated by TVA and that there is a
Paint Rock area in Roane. I've also seen the name
associated with both Loudon and Monroe Counties - so
that's partly why I'm asking for a lookup via this
list.
> > We have found Dicy in both Roane and Monroe
Counties. She may have lived in Rhea, as well. The
whole family frequently slipped over county lines, and
the county lines frequently slipped over them.
> > Dicy's husband James C., I've just learned, is
buried in the Spring City Cemetery in Rhea, but he
outlived her by over thirty years.
> > I'd really appreciate any help in locating her
grave. Thanks very much.
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