Thursday, September 29, 2005

The Old Unicoi Trail and Unicoi Toll Road

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If you have taken time to stop and read the inscription on the historical marker near the Nacoochee Indian mound south of Helen, GA, you wil...
Thursday, September 22, 2005

Rev. Thomas Coke Hughes

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The last column looked at the life and work of the Rev. Thomas M. Hughes (1809-1882), an early Union County settler who was associated with ...
Thursday, September 15, 2005

An early Union County Minister: Rev. Thomas M. Hughes

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For several weeks now we’ve explored aspects of the Eli Townsend family and its branches. That subject still has many avenues to explore, bu...
Thursday, September 8, 2005

Tracing more Townsend ties

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With the disaster of Katrina and that hurricane’s aftermath, the thousands dislodged from their homes, the hundreds injured and killed, and ...
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Thursday, September 1, 2005

The mystery surrounding William Townsend

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William Townsend was the sixth child and fifth son of Elisha (Eli) and Sarah Elizabeth (Sallie) Dyer Townsend. He was born in 1840 or 1841 a...
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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Patriarch of Union County Townsends, Eli, son of Edward

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From the Norman Conquest to about 1832 or shortly after is a span in history of about 766 years. When Eli Townsend came into Union County wi...
Thursday, August 18, 2005

Origin and history of the name Townsend

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James Savage wrote: “By an instinct of our nature, we all learn to love the places of our birth, and the chief circumstances in the lives of...
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