[1]   Their middle names and their date and place of marriage came from an online  

      genealogy of the John Anderson Conyer Family by Linda Carpenter.  It can be 

      found at:   

      http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~providence/scr_conyerja.htm

[2]   Just in case you are wondering how easy this genealogy stuff is to do, for 

      many years, the only names I had for this couple was John and Mary Smith, 

      with some indication her last name was “Conier.”  It was only with the advent 

      of Internet website searches that I was able to go outside of the regular 

      material to find who they actually were and tie them into this genealogy.

[3]   Interview of Nannie Maude Spears by Brian Reeves in July 1975.

[4]   Interview of Nannie Maude Spears by Brian Reeves in July 1975.

[5]   Papers of Nannie Maude Spears in the possession of Brian Reeves.

[6]   1860 United States Census for Sumner County, Tennessee, Enumeration District 

      15, page 274.

[7]   The last two of John and Mary’s children for whom we have places of birth 

      were born in Kentucky.  The earlier ones were born in Tennessee.  The move 

      apparently took place sometime between 1861 and 1864.

[8]   1870 United States Census for Allen County, Kentucky, Enumeration District 6, 

      page 9, family unit 63.

[9]   1880 United States Census for Allen County, Kentucky, Enumeration Ditsrict 6, 

      page 8, family unit 63.

[10]  Papers of Nannie Maude Spears in the possession of Brian Reeves.