THE guy who opened PENN Hamburgers??

My grandmother started researching her family tree. She was a Mitchell from the Spring Valley Mitchell's of Colbert County. She found out her ancestry (Mitchell side) stopped at her grandfather during the Civil War. He was badly injured with a GSW to the leg. He was in line for an amputation at a Chattanooga Rebel field hospital when Sherman came through on his way to Atlanta. The field hospital was abandoned and he was left to die. There is no record of his existence past that time. Grandmother said she knew he had a wooden leg, but never heard why.

Found this headstone. Enlarge the bottom picture to read the inscription.
This is the tracker who was my ancestor.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi...=109674880&

And this is my Great- Great- Grandfathers' Confederate military headstone with his unit info.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29655400

Here is a short story about my family.

OVER THE MISTY BLUE HILLS
The Story of Cocke County, Tennessee
by RUTH WEBB O’DELL
New Material Copyright 1982
By: The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr.
This volume was reproduced from an original edition in the Stockley Memorial Library, Newport, Tennessee, through the courtesy of Mrs. E. R. Walker, Librarian
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL PRESS c/o The Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr. P.O. Box 738 Easley, South Carolina 29640
ISBN: 0-89308-276-7
The Fine family were Holland Dutch. However, the name came from the word “fen,” the name for low marshy lands, and is sometimes spelled “Fenn” or “Finn.” These Fines were a part of a settlement in 1700 of Johannis Fine, who bought land at Hempstead, Long Island. Before the Revolutionary War, the Fine family was located in Shenandoah County near the Newman, Denton and Thomas families from Long Island, on the waters of the Shenandoah River near New Market. In the First Independent Company of Dunmore County of 1775, the Fine signatures included Thomas Fine, Sr., Peter Fine and Vinott Fine. In the Dunmore County Militia in 1775 under command of Captain Jacob Holeman were Andres Fine, John Fine, Peter Fine, Philip Fine and Winenot Fine. By the census of 1783, Thomas Fine was still residing there with four in family, near his sons, Vinott and John, but soon thereafter, John and Vinott Fine, joined their brother, Peter, who had married Patience McKay and removed to the French Broad River, near Fine’s Ferry, which became an early landmark.
The father of these Fine brothers was Philip Peter Fine, Sr., of Maryland, 1764 to 1804, who served in the Virginia Army during the Revolutionary War. There was a daughter, Elizabeth. (Data furnished by Sam E. Leming, Waldron, Arkansas, who has a photostatic copy of land grants to this family in Virginia.)
John Fine also served in the Revolutionary War with Philip. In 1804, the latter moved into Frederick County, Virginia, just across the Potomac River. near the present site of Washington D. C. There he married the widow Catheryne Parrott, who had two sons and two daughters. It is possible that these came with the Fine family to Cocke County.
Major Peter Fine represented the Big Pigeon Baptist Church in 1794, in the Holston Association and was the first, or one of the first, deacons of that Church after its organization in 1787. His daughter, Sally Fine married Abraham Job, born in 1775, the son of David Job. (Same as Jobe.)
John Fine was born January 2, 1782 and died January 26, 1857. His wife, Nancy, was born on November 10, 1782, and died February 18, 1859. He came from Cocke County and helped organize the Baptist Church on Fork Creek, later called the Baptist Church on Sweetwater, the first Sunday in June, 1820. The members of the Church met at his home the first Saturday in August, 1821.
John had a grant, No. 686, from the State, dated, September 7, 1827. The present fair grounds are located on this tract of land. (Sweetwater, Tenn.)
The stage road from Philadelphia to Athens went by the Fine home, which was a “stand” and stopping place. Their children were John, Polly, Abraham, Sarah, Mahala, Minerva, Martha, and Nancy.
(Lenoir’s History of Sweetwater Valley, page 147, which conflicts some with other records.)
John Fine, son of Major Peter Fine, was in the War of 1812 and married Nancy Lee in 1800. She was the daughter of John and Agnes Jennings Lee. Their children were Peter Lee, Minerva, who married Jobe Taylor, John M., Sarah, and Elizabeth, who married Isaac Hill, all moved to Ashland, Oregon.
In 1833, Abraham Fine was made a Ruling Elder of the Pisgah Presbyterian Church of Newport, of which Mrs. Elizabeth Fine was a charter member in 1823.
The original family that came to Cocke County had also two other members, Wenden and Euphemeas Fine. Wenden died ten years before Cocke County was known as such, and nothing is known of what became of Euphemeas.
The entry of Peter Fine and wife, Patience McKay Fine, was opposite and above the first town of Newport, on the banks of the French Broad River, and included Fine’s Ferry and the large island opposite the old homeplace of George I. Thomas, son of George and wife Katy (Lowery) Thomas. Peter Fine died here. He had several children who migrated to various sections of the country. One son, Abraham Fine, remained in Cocke County, where he became Elder in the Presbyterian Church, and also High Sheriff. While Sheriff he raided and broke up an organized band of counterfeiters that operated near Wolf Creek.
Captain John Fine located at what is now known as the Rutherford Farm on Sinking Creek, where he died.
Vinett Fine entered and located on the land known as the Swaggerty Farm and now owned by the Unaka Tannery and James A. T. Wood.
Colonel John Sevier attacked a party of Indians on Indian Creek in the summer of 1781. The place was near the County line, on the farm of William Phillips. Seventeen Indians were killed. Peter, John and Vinett participated in this battle. (This battleground was pointed out to W. R. Fine by his father, Isaac, a son of Vinett.)
In the spring of 1783, Colonel William Lillard and Major Peter Fine raised a company of thirty men and crossed the mountains to the Overhill town of Cowee and burned it because from this town had originated the aggressions upon the Big Pigeon and French Broad Rivers. Captain John and his brother Vinett Fine were members of the company. Such action antagonized the Indians who in the winter of 1783 began to steal horses and cattle from the Big Pigeon settlements.
Major Peter Fine and Captain John McNabb raised a company of men and followed the Indians across our mountains into North Carolina, where they killed one Indian and wounded another, but recovered the stolen horses. The Indians fired upon him, killing Vinett Fine, and wounding Thomas Holland, and a man by the name of gingham.
Because there was not time for grave-digging and apparently no safety in trying to escape with the body, the ice in the creek was broken and the body placed there. Before the men could return for it, the creek became flooded by a sudden change in temperature, the body was washed away and never recovered. To this day, the creek is known as Fine’s Creek. (The “i” in Vinett pronounced as in “mine.”)
Vinett Fine had several sons and daughters; Isaac, the father of W. R., who in 1857 married Nancy Wilson, granddaughter of Major William Wilson for whom Wilsonville was named. A daughter, Emma Fine Gray, became the mother of Jasper Gray. There were four other daughters and five sons. (Data from Jasper Gray.)
In the law office of William M. Crawford, of Newport, a descendant of the Fine Family, is the account book belonging to Major Peter Fine, in which he began keeping records in 1790. These are recorded in English pounds, shillings, pence. The birthdays of his twelve children are recorded as follows: Lidgard, September 2, 1775; Aron, July 5, 1777; Jonathan, May 22, 1779; John, January 2, 1782; David, August 12, 1783; Peter, September 18, 1786; Elizabeth, January 22, 1788; Abraham, March 24, 1789; Aron, June 7, 1792; Mariann, May 5, 1794; Rebecah, August 25, 1796; Pattey Tirevelan, September 10, 1799.
Peter’s first wife, Rebecah, died September 7, 1802, aged 46 years. He married Ann Murrel, September 6, 1803. She died September 15, 1815. aged 67 years.
FROM THE APPENDIX (the appendix is not indexed)
On page 316 there is a section titled “REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS WHO

Hey, Squad, that was a good read.

That must have been mortal Hell researching all that into a concise, linear story.
Never mind the bibliography!

Really interesting.

Just a bunch of coal miners and moonshiners for me. That'll do. I did have a relative that survived the Bataan Death March.

Here is another ancestor.

Among all the maps produced at the turn of the 16th century portraying an
Antarctic continent, there are probably none more remarkable than those produced
by French mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé. Contrasting greatly with
the Piri Reis World Map, Finé's maps not only present Antarctica as an
independent landmass, but also render the continent with amazing accuracy.
Finé's 1534 World Map is rendered on a standard cordiform
projection, a grid of latitudes and longitudes conforming to a singular
heart-shaped frame. It is a colorful highly detailed map with Eurasia, Africa
and the Americas highlighted in white while the Antarctic continent, splayed
across a large portion of the map's lower perimeter, is rendered gold. The gold
toned continent is also distinguished from the rest with a Latin inscription
spanning its width, "Terra Australis nuper inventa, sed nondum plene
examinata," translated "Southern land newly discovered, but not yet
fully explored." Had it been fully explored it would have been found to be
a rather small landform which we know today as Tierra del Fuego. Twelve years
prior to the creation of this map, Ferdinand Magellan discovered the strait allowing passage from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and Finé was one of many attempting to predict the size
and shape of the unexplored land forming the strait's southern coast. Hence, the
massive continent positioned just a few miles off the tip of South America to
allow for Magellan's strait.



- Oronce Finé 1534 World Map. An early cordiform
projection which features the Antarctic continent splayed along its southern
edge some 300 years before it is believed to have been discovered. An
inscription spans the width of the continent, "Southern land newly
discovered, but not yet fully explored."

Cool.

http://findgrave.org/marion-roberts-mississippi-3617932/ here's my Great-Great-Great (Pretty sure it's 3 lol) Grandfathers grave. No pics but still pretty neat..

James, try your search in findagrave.com NOT findagrave.org

.org is not familiar to me.


-Woody-

Sir Francis Drake

here ya go!

Good lick, Trlrdave. You was all over that like a cheap suit, son.

James - Trlrdaave found your headstone in record time!

Cool Thanks..

Yep

First governor of washington and surrounding counties. They did exceptionally poorly after leaving Virginia to come here. Probably was an omen.