This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pR.2ADE/832.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: YOU'RE WELCOME. THE FREDERICK RAST 1770-1865 BURIED AT INDIAN FIELDS CEM. WAS A BROTHER OF MY WIFE'S G.G.G. GRANDFATHER. HAVE HEARD MENTION OF THE PRATTVILLE DRAGOONS. SOME OF MY WIFE'S RELATIVES SERVED IN AUTAUGA CO. UNITS, DANTZLERS, RASTS & WHETSTONES.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wadsworth, Burket Thompson, Mathis (Abram Mathews) Mixon. Burkhalter, Daniel, Dorough, Danzler, Whetstone Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pR.2ADE/832.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Ron for your note. The Sarah Wadsworth buried there is my gggrandmother. She was the wife of Daniel Wadsworth who migrated to Autauga Co, Al in the 1830`s from Moore Co, NC. I think that possibly Daniel is buried there without a headstone but I am not sure. The two Wadsworth children buried there were children of Daniel and his second wife, Martha Adelaide Norris who was the daughter of Patrick Norris. I descend from Daniel`s first wife Sarah (Sallie) Mathis. She and Daniel had son`s Malcolm and William. Both fought in the Civil War in the Prattville Dragoons. William was my direct ancestor. Thanks for your help. I still hope to go back there when the vines are dry and the snakes are not out and maybe I can find the Wadsworth graves on my next visit.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pR.2ADE/832.2.1 Message Board Post: 3 WADSWORTHS ARE LISTED AS BURIED AT INDIAN HILLS CEM. SALLIE E.M. 1853-1866. SARAH 1820-1846 & ANNIE E. 1861-1866. NO DANIEL WADSWORTH LISTED IN ANY OF THE COUNTIES CEMETERIES.

Karen, At about that time Prattville was the world's largest producer of Cotton Gins. A business that was begun by city founder Daniel Pratt. There was also a large textile mill in downtown Prattville. Unfortunately that mill, a downtown landmark, burned to the ground this past fall. You can find a history of Prattville and Autauga County that includes much about these mills at the Autauga Genealogical Society website. The address is http://www.rootsweb.com/~alags/ On the homepage, click on "History" highlighted within the text. John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 10:59 PM Subject: [ALAUTAUG-L] cotton/textile mills > My grandfather, John Arthur Bridges, was listed in 1910 census as "weaver in > a mill". > > does anyone have general information on what cotton mills or textile mills > were in Autauga County during that time period? > > Are there any websites you can recommend for information about the textile > industry in Autauga County early 1900's? > > Thanks! > > > ==== ALAUTAUG Mailing List ==== > This list is maintained by Tom Richardson, [email protected] > >

In a message dated 4/21/2003 11:00:48 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > My grandfather, John Arthur Bridges, was listed in 1910 census as "weaver > in > a mill". > > does anyone have general information on what cotton mills or textile mills > were in Autauga County during that time period?

My grandfather, John Arthur Bridges, was listed in 1910 census as "weaver in a mill". does anyone have general information on what cotton mills or textile mills were in Autauga County during that time period? Are there any websites you can recommend for information about the textile industry in Autauga County early 1900's? Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHEPPARD, STEVENS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pR.2ADE/894 Message Board Post: Seek information on David Franklin SHEPPARD, born Newberry, SC about 1828 to William Sheppard and Priscilla Stevens Sheppard. Last notice from 1850 census in Wetumpka, AL.

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mills Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pR.2ADE/893 Message Board Post: I am searching for any info or relatives of my grandfather, Columbus Melton Mills. He moved around alot so am checking everywhere. He died in 1972 in New Brockton. Any info appreciated.

BARRY: A CO-WORKER HERE IN KINGSPORT WHO IS ORIGINALLY FROM TUSCALOOSA LENT ME A CD BY THE 5TH ALABAMA INFANTRY REGIMENT BAND. IT IS CALLED "MUSIC OF THE OLD SOUTH VOLUME 3" AND ONE OF THE SONGS IS TITLED "PRATTVILLE LIGHT DRAGOONS". I HAVE NOT YET BEEN ABLE TO LISTEN TO IT BUT I WILL TONIGHT AND REPORT ON THE MUSIC. YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT SGT. RICHARD W. NORTHINGTON 12TH TENNESEE CAVALRY CO. B Richard W. Northington Day & Zimmermann International (423) 224-0857 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

Thanks to all on the lists who helped me when I needed the locations to Towns and Counties. Thank you all who have emailed me on and off line. It never fails when I ask for one name, it opens up doors to other names and making new friends. These List makes friends out of strangers. Some times these Lists make cousins out of strangers. This is what the Lists are all about us helping one another. I'm in Georgia, if I can be of any help to anyone, please let me know. You all have certainly helped me and been there when I have needed you. I have taken pictures in my area of homes other people ancestors lived in and pictures of graves with names and dates in my area. And others have done this for me. Once I had a friend on one of the Lists who was a Waldrop ,( my maiden name) in Mississippi and he said he had passed a marker on a highway with the name Waldrop on it. He said he would take a picture of it for me I I would like for him to. I told him I would love to have it. I received the picture and for years it didn't meant anything to me. But a couple of years ago I found out what my gr gr grandpapa's name was, and he was listed on the marker. Rev. G. B. Waldrop was one of the Ministers mention on the marker in Pontotoc , Mississippi. If this friend on the list had not taken the time to stop and send me this picture I would not have headed in that direction of Mississippi.( I am so glad I kept the picture in my file.) The Lists have help me many times and I Thank each and every one of you . Sandra maiden name Waldrop Georgia

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pR.2ADE/892 Message Board Post: I'm looking for My grandfather Raymond Sanford.He married my grandmother Thelma Strength around 1930 or 1940.They had three kids,my father Donald Ray Sanford,who was born 1/8/1944 and died in march 1997,and Shirley and Betty Sanford.My grandfather left my grandmother when my dad was 5 or 6 yrs old.They never heard from him again.I have never met any of my Sanford line.If anyone knows this family,please contact me at [email protected] Thanks

The Autauga Genealogical Society will host an "Ancestor Swap Meet" on Saturday, April 5, 2003, at the Prattville Public Library from 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. There is no charge and the event is open to the public. The Swap Meet provides a way to research family history with others and browse the family folders that have been collected by the Genealogical Society. Please remember to bring an extra copy of family information that can be added to a current folder or placed in a new folder. The library has a copier that will be available for use. Bring your family and friends as well as family records and pictures, laptop computer, camera, cemetery maps and directions, history books and other items of interest.

>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:09:01 EST >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [ALAUTAUG-L] Chestnut Creek Cemetery >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >Sandra, >There is still an active church at Chestnut Creek and quite a large cemetery. >It is a few miles north of Verbena not far from Highway 31 to the right. I >hope this helps. >Bertha Little More precisely, Chestnut Creek Baptist Church is in a community known as "Coopers" by most old-timers, though the signs say "Cooper". My Culver Great Great Grandparents are buried there, as are a number of their children. This and numerous other Chilton County cemeteries are enumerated at Bruce Glenn's web site at <http://www.bruceglenn.com/cemetery.htm>. = Steve = -- Steve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama Surnames: Jackson, Kincaid, Culver, Wingard, Thornton, Grier, Wise, Smith, Gray

Chestnut Creek is at Cooper's, AL. Between Verbena and Clanton. This is Highway 31 North from Prattville. The Chestnut Creek Baptist Church Cemetery is at Cooper's on a road that runs parallel to Hwy 31.

For the person who asked about Chestnut Creek, I just found this reference in: From the book, DEATH AND MARRIAGE NOTICES FROM AUTAUGA COUNTY, ALABAMA NEWSPAPERS 1853 - 1889, compiled by Larry E. Caver, Jr., page 11, THE SOUTHERN SIGNAL, Issue of May 8, 1885: "Andy COOPER of Cooper's Station, formerly known as Chestnut Creek, died a few days ago." Irma J. Roy

I have the following "tid bit" to add concerning the Liverman Family of Autauga County. The information comes from the first deed book here in Autauga County: "In consideration of the love and affection which I (Mathias LIVERMAN) bear to my grandchildren, James and Mary LIVERMAN, heirs and minors of Brown LIVERMAN, deceased, and Ellender PIERCE, being the daughter of the said Brown LIVERMAN... (he gave them slaves). Dated: november 8, 1821" Source: Autauga Co., AL Deeds & Mortgages, Book A, Vol. I, pg. 16-17

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pR.2ADE/891 Message Board Post: Searching for Rillis Dolphus Oates and Catherine Gibbons of Autauga County, Alabama. Rillis was the son of John W. Oates and Lainie Oates. Do not know who Catherine's parents? Need the names of their children. THey may have had a Rillis D. Oates Jr. Thanks a lot for considering this request.

Sandra, There is still an active church at Chestnut Creek and quite a large cemetery. It is a few miles north of Verbena not far from Highway 31 to the right. I hope this helps. Bertha Little

1850 Census in Autauga County , Alabama Where is Chestnut Creek and what is located near? Thank you, Sandra