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Genealogies/Family Pages - T surnames

Decatur and Henderson Counties, Tennessee

• Talley: Descendants of James Kincade, Bridgette Jansen Cohen (use index to find Martin W. Talley whose family was in Decatur Co. in the 1880 census)
• Tarkington: The Tarkingtons, Tarkington/Tarkenton/Tarkinton Family History (includes family of Jefferson White Tarkington and Mary Helen Goff who were in Lexington in 1850)
• Tarrant: Descendants of Leonard Tarrant, Amy Bishop Flowers (look for Edward Hampton Tarrant 1796-1858 who lived in Henderson Co. from 1829 into the early 1830s before moving to Red River Co., TX)
• Tate: George W. Tate, unattributed (from The History of Decatur County Past and Present, by Lillye Younger); Tate Family, Jerry T. McDaniel (these Tates in Carroll Co. and Parker's Crossroads)
• Taylor: Descendants of Joseph Skiles Cowan, Rick G. Cowan; George Bailey Taylor and Margaret (Maggie) Isabele Middleton Family History, unattributed (from The History of Decatur County Past and Present, by Lillye Younger) (with photograph);
• Temple: Temple and Related Lines in America, L. Parker Temple III (find William S. Temple [1820-] in index)
• Terry: Keeble Terry Family, Fran West (in Terry Family Historian, January-February 1999)
• Thomas (black): Dorothy J. Kizer Thomas, Doris Jarrett (with photograph)
• Thomas (white): Branches of Peggy Riggs Kopp's Family Tree, Peggy Riggs Kopp; James Harrison Thomas (with photograph); David Donahue's Thomas Family;
• Thompson: My Tennessee Genealogy Home Page, Melissa Aldridge
• Threadgill: Early Threadgills in West Tennessee, Elton A. Watlington (part of online book Watlingtons of West Tennessee
• Tillman: James Thomas Tillman (photographs), Millie Ester Moore Tillman (photographs); Thomas Elihu (Hugh) Tillman (photographs); Willie Hugh Tillman (photograph)
• Timberlake: Descendants of Francis Timberlake and Timberlake Family Research [malfunctioning 01/02], Barbara Timberlake LeMay; Descendants of Francis Timberlake, Anne K. Stiller; Descendants of James Jones, Rebecca J. Pacey; Farrar/Timberlake Family, Kenneth D. Farrar; InterneTree, Sally J. Campbell, has a Timberlake line; Orton Family Papers, Ralph W. Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University (description of holdings only)
• Tinker: Tinker Family, unattributed (from The History of Decatur County Past and Present, by Lillye Younger) (with photograph)
• Todd: Lewis Bevil Todd Family (photograph); My Tennessee Genealogy Home Page, Melissa Aldridge; Todd Family, Jerry Cary; Todd Family, Jerry T. McDaniel
• Tolley: Descendants of Felix Wesley Tolley (requires Adobe reader), Nadine Tolley; Jesse and Hattie Rushing Tolley (photographs); James Ernest and Grace Tolley Wilkins (photograph), Belinda B. Bowman; Mr. Tolley Recalls World War I, Lillye Younger (poor photograph); Photographs Brought to the 2001 Tolley Reunion (photographs); David Donahue'sTolley Family; Tolley Family, unattributed (from The History of Decatur County Past and Present, by Lillye Younger) (with photograph); The Tolley Family, Javan Michael DeLoach (mostly Yancey Co., NC Tolleys but provides access to Tolley queries and mail list); The Tolley Family Records/The Research of Margaret Heinek, Javan Michael DeLoach (note Margaret Heinek background information about the family in KY); The Tolleys of Carroll Co., TN, Dianne Barksdale Henry
• Townsend: Townsend Family, Hobart Townsend, Sr.; Mr. and Mrs. Max L. Townsend Family, Judy Townsend
• Trout: J. P. Trout Family, unattributed (from The History of Decatur County Past and Present, by Lillye Younger)
• Tubb/Tubbs: Ancestors of Judy Arlene Strahan, Judy Peitsmeyer (has ancestors of Jeremiah Tubb b. ca. 1765 who died bef. 1838 in Decatur Co., TN)
• Tucker:  Dunbar Community History, Mrs. A. H. Taylor;  unknown group of men (please help identify), Brenda Kirk Fiddler;  Descendants of Alexander Blandon, Joe Blanton (some descendants of Frances "Fannie" Tucker 1880-1915 who married Eber Blanton 1883-1955, she is buried at Simmons Cemetery, Decatur County); The Jobe Family of Pennsylvania, Carol Cannon Queen (family of Thomas Waters 1881-1964 who married Rilda Hexana (Hexie) Tucker in Decatur Co.); Our Family, Beatrice Tucker Taylor; Postcards from the War (Robert Coy Tucker); for Descendants of Alexander Lafayette Tucker see A Family in Photographs: John Jasper Ivey Family
• Tull: Tull Family, Tull On-Line Research Group (family of John Nicholas Tull VI 1775-1867 who lived in Jack's Creek area)
• Turnbo: The Turnbo Manuscripts, Silas Claiborne Turnbo 1844-1925 (from Springfield-Greene County Library, Missouri)
  • Note: This is not genealogy but these five stories mention people from Decatur and/or Henderson Counties, including one giving Turnbo ancestry. The entire site is a very pleasant read.
  • An Old Letter
  • The Men Made Eyes Were Cut Into Two Parts
  • Something About Writer's People
  • Taking a Dear Deer Home on a Jack an How a Bear Captures a Bee Course
  • A Wolf Persuades a Hunter to Climb a Tree and Lively Fight with a Wolf

  Descendants of John Andrew Turnbaugh, Marianne D. Turnbeaugh (family of Gracie M. (Turnbough) Turnbaugh 1819-1890 who married Martin Harrison Johnston in 1842 in Maury Co.; family in Decatur Co. in 1850 before moving to Marion Co., AR); Holder Family, Dan Bruce (has Descendants of Hugh Turnbough, mostly Wayne County lines; Turnbo material begins about 1/3 of the way through the document)

• Turner: Diamond Wedding Anniversary, Gordon H. Turner (booklet about his parents Jonathan Sampson Turner and Mary Frances Austin; also list of descendants of Benjamin Franklin Austin);  Elisha Turner, William J. Nesbitt
• Tuten: Almon Clifford (Bud) Tuten (photograph)
• Tyler: Coy Tucker and Alsie Tyler (photograph)