Saw on your web site the pictures of Big Springs Church as it looks today.
Thought you might want to add this picture of how it looked years ago, probably
in the 20's.
Left to Right: #1 Charles Majors, #2 Ethel Dunsmore, #3 (?), #4 Sarah Dunsmore,
widow of Nathan and Mother of #2 and #5, #5 Verna Dunsmore, #6 Claude Hurst,
others not identified.
It's been years since I had any contact with you. I surely do admire your site!
Lots of work. Good for you. Phyllis Cotter
Hello! I took these pictures
just because I was there. I am sorry it was not in
my head to do them to share with other genealogists. Shame on me! I was just so
excited to be there at all! I am sending them all to you as someone might find
them interesting. I do not know if you are in the area. They are putting thru a
new highway, straightening and widening and they just missed taking this church
out. It may have been saved because of the new church across the street, closer
to the highway. I am not sure how access will be when it is done in the next
year. There are numerous places (brown circles in the grass) where stones used
to be and are just nubs, broken off at the ground. I tried to do a site map and
show what direction I was pointing the camera when I took the pictures. There
is more than you want to know I am sure. The
interesting thing is when I stopped at the gas station across the hwy to ask if they knew where it was, no one did. A woman
happened to come in and overheard and pointed across the Highway. You could see
it from the counter. I was lucky she stopped by! If you have any contacts in
the area I would love a picture of the Hurst mill, and a picture of the area. I
have a number of them from the Highway up the Little Sycamore
road but I didn't know Bailey drive was the road I took to get to the
Hurst Mill. My Miller's Daniel Jr and Thursie Ann
Miller Jones and various other family members married many of Tazewell founding
families. I have found that when Daniel Sr. died in 1837, Hugh Jones, Thursie's husband bought the acreage from all of Thursie's siblings. In
those documents they use the Hurst land as a boundary, and I would like a
picture of the mill (or where it was) to give me a feeling of what the land
they settled on looked like. Anyway that is my
Christmas wish list :-). It may mean another trip from Colorado some year to
get one but I thought I would ask, just in case. You
may use these pictures anyway you wish. I regret not thinking about doing a
more thorough job of photographing the Springdale (Big Spring) Primitive
Baptist Church. I will probably have to send these in a
number of emails as AOL hates big files and refuses to send them. If you
use any on your site could you send me the link? Thank
you for all the work you do for those of us that had family in the area years
ago. Robin Landgren GGGGrandaughter of Daniel G.
Miller, Sr. and Sally/ Sarah (possibly Tobler) Dlandgren@aol.com
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Hurst mill is Identified on the map. It may be a
copyright thing, they add so they know if someone
else is using their maps. I am hoping Hurst mill is really
there. Up Little Sycamore and down Bailey lane.
If you use the aerial, the pictures are a couple of years old but you can see something there. Just can't get
right down on top of it to see. I remember going by Bailey
lane but didn't have this map with me or I would have checked it
out. Not sure where my Miller's place was from Hurst's
but I know it was next to it somewhere. The documents of land transfer to
Hugh Jones from Herrold, Hiram, Daniel and
Leander were 500 acres + each and I know the Hurst's had a large presence
in Big Spring too. They must have owned quite a chunk of what I could see
from the highway by the church and as I went on up. It was pretty emotional for me to be there. Those people were a
hardy lot! There are stone vaults at the Big Spring Baptist
and I imagine with a little water you might be able to see who they belong
to. There may have been another marker I missed but I think I got most of
them. If you are related to the Hursts then I guess we are distantly
related too. I remember a Miller marrying a Hurst further down the line.
Thank you for your love of Tazewell and the area and your site! Robin
Landgren Dlandgren@aol.com
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This
picture is of Big Springs, Tennessee and is from an old Postcard and is
stated that on back of postcard. I am hopful
someone will email me the conformation of this being on Little Sycamore
Creek. Courtesy of Tina Lephew, Union County.
Tina also says this is of Springdale in the early days. She also has a copy
of this postcard, but this one I purchased on eBay.
Joe Payne
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The following pictures and information is from Kelly Parks – a descendant of James
M. Payne through his daughter Martha
Ann Payne
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