Source: Confederate Veteran, Vol. XVIII, February 1910, No.2, page 81 Judge Howard Van Epps Howard Van Epps was born in Eufaula, Ala., in 1847; and died at Jacksonville, Fla., in December, 1909. At the beginning of the War between the States he joined the Confederate army, where he made a splendid record. He was severely wounded in his arms and legs, and never fully recovered from the effects. After the war he graduated from the University of Georgia with high honors, and also completed his law course. He was appointed solicitor for the city court of Atlanta, and for ten years was judge of that court. After leaving the bench, he compiled several legal works that are now in constant use by the bar and bench of Georgia. He was a man of brains and much energy, and won many friends. He loved children, and in his work among the Sunday schools of Atlanta did much good. He was zealous in his business affairs, devoted to his Church and its purposes.

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Source: Confederate Veteran, Vol XXXIII, May 1925, No. 5, page 188 Warren Fillmore Dent Warren Fillmore Dent, who died in Montgomery, Ala. January 28, 1925, was born in Charles County, Md., March 3, 1855. He was the son of Dr. S. W. and Mary Catherine Dent. He spent his childhood in Maryland and was educated at Charlotte Hall School, St. Mary's County, graduating there in June, 1872. In early boyhood, he united with the Methodist Church, and always took an active interest in Sunday school work. In 1875 he moved to Eufaula, Ala., where he engaged in the drug business and in 1885 he moved to Montgomery, where he had since lived and engaged in the same profession. He was married in 1880 to Miss Mary Elizabeth Wellborn, of Eufaula, and their, happy union was blessed by five children, who, with his wife and two grandchildren, survive him. By services rendered at the age of ten years he had the distinction of being one of the youngest men entitled to wear the Cross of Honor bestowed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. He assisted his father in the secret mail service in Maryland, and in his book on "John Wilkes Booth," Thomas Jones says of him: "The Doctor had a son named Warren, a mere lad of about ten vears, who, child though he was, was as energetic, discreet, and intelligent as any agent in the Confederate service. The most important matter was often intrusted to his care, and always safely intrusted." Because of these services, he was entitled to become a member of Camp Lomax, U. C. V., and at the time of his death, he was Major and Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Gen. Hal T. Walker, of the First Brigade, Alabama Division, U. C. V. The day before he passed away, he read in a beautiful and touching manner the ritual at the grave of his friend and comrade, Col. George W. Hails. His last resting place is in Fairview Cemetery, Eufaula, Ala. "A Southern gentleman, a true Christian, he died honored and respected by all who knew him." [Paul Sanguinetti, Adjutant, Camp Lomax.]

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Homer, If you have copies of the books you listed, could you check if Capt. William N. Richardson is mentioned in any of the ones pertaining to 15th Al Inf Regt.? I know that he is in Oates' book. Capt. Richardson commanded H Co.. Thanks, TomTilton

History of C.B. (originally Pickins Planters) 40th Ala Inf, CSA; Elbert D. Willett. Men of The Forty Fifth Ala Inf Rgt, CSA; Robert C. Horn. A Sketch of the Forty Seventh Ala Inf Rgt of Vols; T.F. Botsford. Memories of the War of Secession; (47th Ala Inf); T.F. Botsford. Historical Sketches of the Forty Seventh Ala Inf Rgt; Joseph Q. Burton. Word From Camp Pollard; (59th/61st Ala Inf rgts); William H. Davidson. A History of the 60th Ala Inf Rgt; (Hilliard's Legion); Lewellyn A. Ahaver Miscellaneous: Yanke Blitzkreig, Wilson's Raid Through Ala and Ga; James P. Jones. Chickamauga, Bloody Battle in the West; Glenn Tucker. Five Tragic Hours-The Battle of Franklin; James L. McDonough and Thomas L. Connelly. Fini Deo Vindice, Homer

The following article was written by Green Beauchamp and published in the May 23, 1873 edition of The Eufaula Times: Rev. Joseph Harley was the first man that ever preached the gospel in this country. He was a Methodist. We wish we could give some further account of one whose voice was heard 'crying in the wilderness," but we have been unable to obtain any further account of one whose voice was heard "crying in the wilderness," but we have been unable to obtain any further information. Perhaps some reader may yet furnish it. The first was on the Attabbee, on the old Columbia road, near where Mr. Thomas Robinson now lives. Mr. John Bartley is said to have been the first man who ever taught a school in the country. We make these statements, in respect to Mr. Harley, and Mr. Bartley upon the information of Mr. Green Beauchamp and Mr. John Whitehurst. The latter was eighty years old on the 10th of March last. He emigrated from Twiggs County, Georgia, and settled on the 6th of January 1819. There was then a block house on the west side of the river, erected there by Jackson's army, and the settlement was known as the block house settlement. The block house stood for many years after Samuel Walden and Pillitier Whitehurst, brother of John, came together, and they were for some time the only people in that part of the county, except one Ellison, who preceded them but a few days. There was a sunken flat in the river, which had been used by Jackson's army in crossing to or from Pensacola. This flat Ellison had already raised, when the Whitehursts and Walden arrived, and it was used for many years after in crossing the river. Ellison remained in the country only about a year. In 1826 the people undertook to cut a road from about where Mr. Matthew Fenn now lives to Eufaula. About three hundred men black and white got together for the purpose. John Purifoy, who married a sister of Hon. Judge S. Williams, was the overseer. Luke Bennett's son, Ryan, a well known and highly respected citizen now living among us, was of the party, although not then old enough to be liable to road duty. Allen V. Robinson, who has taught three generations of us, "how to dance," and who can do it yet about as well as ever, was also with this company of engineers. They worked along merrily and without interruption, cutting what is now the road from Eufaula to Clayton, till they got to Barbour Creek. It was called the Baba then, which was seven years before the county got its name; but as we stated heretofore, that was an abbreviation of the Indian name, Faukababa, meaning grape vine creek. The working party struck the creek about fifty yards below where the upper bridge now stands. They dug down the bank on the other side and some blacks, and a few whites crossed over; among the latter, Noah A. Tyson and Peleg Green. They had barely got across when suddenly a frightful yell arose on this side of the creek. That yell, or war whoop some say it was, came from more than a thousand hostile Indians hitherto concealed in the level pine woods, where Rev. Mr. Reeves plantation now is. Those who had crossed over evidently thought it was the latter kind of vocal exercise on the part of the aborigines, for it is said they promptly made good time in placing themselves on the Clayton side of Faukababa. Peleg boiled out of the creek gesticulating wildly, and rushing up the bank, undertook an explanation to the astonished pioneers. But Peleg was a stutterer; and on this occasion he is said to have excelled himself in that sort of elocution. His gestures were highly animated and expressive, but as to articulation, he seemed unable to do justice to the subject, and, after five or six most energetic efforts, he just gave up and made no spoken remarks at all. Some of the whites, however, desiring to see as well as hear, crossed over and found the piney woods swarming with highly excited Indians, armed with guns and tommyhawks. They were yelling, jumping the logs, and capering about in a very unpleasant manner altogether. It seemed impossible to prevent their attacking some blacks of our party who, somehow hemmed up on this side, had their axes drawn to defend themselves. Suddenly however a chief spoke and the Indians subsided in an instant and were as mute as mice. The Linkster (Indian interpreters) then came forward from their party and said that John Winslett (a white man who lived among them near the Uchee creek) had told them that we were going to cut that road to their Eufaula town, that we must come no further unless we could show an order form the Great Father at Washington city. That order the whites could not produce; and, as they had neither guns not tommyhawks about them, and had come out not to fight but to work the roads, they concluded to withdraw. So, after one bold fellow on our side, a man named Martin Johnson, had mounted a log and indulged himself in some protracted and stentorian profanity in respect to the President, mankind in general, and Indians in particular, the whites picked up their tools and retired in disgust, expressing on their way home, no very complimentary opinions of either the enterprise or the sociability of the then inhabitants of this fair city. Soon after this a lieutenant from Fort Mitchell, where was then a garrison of the United States troops, came down and had a talk with these Eufaulians-told them the road would benefit instead of injuring them, bringing goods into their country, etc. The Indians became reconciled. Their hostility was changed to co-operation, and they joined the white party when it returned to work, helped them fix the ford on the Baba and cut the road into Eufaula town. ========================================================= Richard Price SOS 6-3

Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama; Stewart Sefaks. Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men; Willis Brewer. Confederate Military History, Vol VII; Thomas Yoseloff. History of the Prattville Dragoons; (3d Ala Cav); Wilbur F. Mims. With Sabre and Scapel (Roddey's 4th Ala Cav); John A. Wyeth. Cherished Letters of Wayman Hendricks; (12th Ala Cav); Thomas W. Hendricks. A History of Lumsden's Battert; Dr. George Littl and James R. Maxwell. Co K, 1st Ala Inf Rgt or Three years in the Confederate Service; Daniel P. Smith. History of the 1st Ala Vol Inf, CSA; Edward Y. McMorries. Scraps from the Prison Table at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island; (1st Ala Inf); Joseph Barbiere. History of the 3d Ala Rgt, CSA; William S. Hoole. Three Months in the Confederate Army; (3d Ala Inf); Henry Hotze. The Mobile Cadets, 1845-1945; (3d Ala Inf) William S. Coker, Editor. Ruben Baughn Kidd, Soldier of the Confederacy; (4th Ala Inf); Alice V.D Pierpoint. Family War record and Reminiscences; (5th Ala Inf); William F. Fulton. A Glance Backward; or some evnts in the past history of my life; (11th Ala Inf); George A. Clark. Sketch of the Twelfth Ala Inf of Battle's Brigade; Robert E. Park. History of the Fourteenth Ala Vols; Marshall V. Hurst. The War Between the Union and the Confederacy; (15th Ala Inf); William C. Oates. Recollections of War Times; (15th Ala Inf); William A. McClendon. Some Events and Incidents During the Civil War; (15th Ala Inf); William C. Jordan. >From That Terrible Field: The letters of James M. Williams, Twenty First Ala Inf Vols; John K. Folmar. Tattered Volunteers: The Twenty Seventh Ala Inf Rgt; Harry V. Barnard. Hold at all Hazards; (29th Ala Inf); William A. Zorn. A Revised History of the 33rd Ala Vol Inf Rgt; L.B. Williams. Autobiography of James Robert Maxwell of Tuscaloosa, Ala; (34th Ala Inf); James R. Maxwell. Confederate Echoes, A voice from the South in the days of Secession and of The Great Southern Confederacy; (35th Ala Inf); Albert T. Goodloe. Deo Vindice, Homer

Would very much appreciate hearing from anyone on the Barbour County list with any information on my ancestor, Larkin Armstrong. He moved to Barbour County from Houston County Georgia in 1836; served as a deputy quartermaster for the Alabama militia serving in Eufaula (then Irwinton) in 1836 and 1837. He was still living in Barbour County with his family as of the time of the Census of 1850; that year he moved to Randolph County Georgia. His first wife died during the time he was living in Barbour County and I would really love to know her name. His family is as follows: 1 Larkin S. Armstrong b: Abt. 1807 in Probably Clarke County, Georgia d: Aft. 1870 in Probably Clay County, Georgia .... 2 John Ludwell Armstrong b: August 22, 1833 in Georgia; probably Houston County d: November 06, 1905 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama ........ +Arabanrion Magruder aka: Arra B. or "A.B" b: December 09, 1839 in Pulaski County, Virginia d: February 23, 1904 in Hartford, Alabama m: November 07, 1861 in Clay County, Ga .... 2 Robert S. Armstrong b: Abt. 1832 in Probably Houston Co., Georgia d: Aft. 1870 in Clay County, Ga. ........ +Annette b: Abt. 1836 in Georgia .... 2 Eliza Armstrong b: Abt. 1838 in Alabama .... 2 Elizabeth Armstrong b: Abt. 1840 in Alabama .... 2 Nancy Armstrong b: Abt. 1842 in Alabama .... 2 James Armstrong b: Abt. 1844 in Alabama . +Martha Ann Freeman m: January 04, 1852 in Randolph County, Georgia

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Does anyone know anything about Jerusalem Church in Barbour (Black Church). Was it always a Black church, or was it a white church at one time? When was it founded? Are there any white burials in the cemetery there? Has anyone done a cemetery survey of Jerusalem? I would like to know the history, and have a list of *all* burials there. Thanks, Terri

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Terri, I have always assumed that Jerusalem was a black church and had always been. It is listed as Jerusalem Holiness in the "Historical Atlas." It has been two years since I was there so I can't say for certain. I didn't survey it. Richard SOS 6-3

Margie, I think the price of that CD probably reflects the fact that it was originally published in a multi-volume book form. My local library has the book set. Terri Title: The roster of Confederate soldiers, 1861-1865 / edited by Janet B. Hewett. Publication info: Wilmington, NC : Broadfoot Pub. Co., 1995-1996. General Note: Compiled from the microfilm set (535 reels) of Consolidated index to compiled service records of Confederate soldiers, M253, located in the State Library of North Carolina. Contents: v. 1. A--, R.K. to Bell, G.W.R. (M253-1--M253-30) -- v. 2. Bell, H. to Buett, Thomas (M253-31--M253-61) -- v. 3. Buff, Aaron to Coirrier, E.F. (M253-62--M253-92) -- v. 4. Coit, David Gardner to De Querhouent, A. (M253-93--M253-123) -- v. 5. Deraberry, W.A. to Flago, John (M253-124--M253-155) -- v. 6. Flaharty, John to Greshan, Wiley (M253-156--M253-187) -- v. 7. Gresholm, Jesse to Hill, F.W. (M253-188--M253-220) -- v. 8. Hill, G. to Jones, N.W. (M253-221--M253-254) -- v. 9. Jones, O. to Lofftus, Archibald (M253-255--M253-288) -- v. 10. Loflan, F.B. to McMillark, A.M. (M253-289--M253-323) -- v. 11. McMillen, Andrew J. to Nytergrove, C.F. (M253-324--M253-358) -- v. 12. Oadneal, Alfred N. to Rand, William H. (M253-359--M253-393) -- v. 13. Randal, Amos P. to Shackford, W.E. (M253-394--M253-428) -- v. 14. Shackleford,---- to Sudduth, Zadoc M., Jr. (M253-429--M253-463) -- v. 15. Sudellert, James D. to Warn, R.C. (M253-464--M253-499) -- v. 16. Warnac, J.C. to Zylstra, John (M253-500--M253-535).

Richmond Enquirer Saturday Morning, March 23, 1861 The True Issue The issue to be decided by the people of Virginia is clearly stated in the following resolution, adopted by public meeting in the county of Dinwiddie: (The full proceedings will be found in another column.) “Resolved, 1st. The old Union being irreparably dissolved, there is no option left us, (the people of Virginia,) save to unite our destinies with our sister Southern States—or, to remain a useless appendage to the Northern Confederacy—the latter alternative being utterly repugnant to ALL TRUE SOUTHERN MEN.” Here is a noble platform for the Resistance Party of Virginia. The question of secession is not before the people of Virginia—it has been decided, and they have now to choose between the Confederate States of the South and the Northern Union. The old Union, the glorious Union our fathers made, has been dissolved—ruthlessly torn asunder by Northern fanaticism—against the earnest protestation of the people of Virginia. From that Union, the allies of Virginia, her truth a! nd mien have been derived, and her people have now to decide whether they will remain with the North or go with the South. The agitation of secession is the agitation of a question decided, and which can be remedied by no determination of Virginia. She did not dissolve the Union, and she cannot restore it. The North has disrupted the Union, and only the Northern States can re-construct it. The Northern States have driven the Southern States out, the Northern States must bring back the Southern States. Virginia’s ultimatum with a Border State Conference is a loss of time, a waste of paper, useless for all purposes, save those of Mr. Seward, “delay” and “wait.”—We are not without an ultimatum which will re-construct the Union; the States sought to be brought back are the only parties whose ultimatum can restore the Union. Virginia’s ultimatum may determine the conditions upon which she will remain with the North, but further than this it cannot go; if the re-construction of th! e old Union is the real object of the Convention, the adoption of the ultimatum of the seceded States will attest its sincerity and convince the people of the country that they are not scheming for party purpose, and that they have not given up to party the time and labor they were directed to bestow upon the country. The ultimatum of the seceded States is left in no uncertainty; it is to be found in the solemn action of the Montgomery Constitution and may be analyzed as follows: 1.. That African slavery in the Territories shall be recognized and protected by Congress and the Territorial Legislatures. 2.. That the right to slaveholders of transit and sojourn in any State of the Confederacy, with their slaves and other property, shall be recognized and respected. 3.. That the provision in regard to fugitive slaves shall extend to any slave lawfully carried from one State into another, and there escaping or taken away from his master. 4.. That no bill or ex post facto law (by Congress or any State,) and no law impairing or denying the right of property in negro slaves, shall be passed. 5.. That the African slave trade shall be prohibited by such laws of Congress as shall effectually prevent the same. The report made by Gov. Wise embraces all these. The Convention, in voting upon the report of Gov. Wise, will decide for or against the Northern Confederacy. Gov. Wise presents no question of secession, he accepts that as already decided, and calls upon the Convention of Virginia to declare either for the old Union upon the ultimatum laid down by the seceded States; or for Union with the seceded, or for remaining with the North. In voting down the report of Gov. Wise and adopting that of the majority, the Convention will have deliberately voted down the only plan of re-construction; they will also have voted down the Union with the South; and they will have decided, without consulting the people of Virginia, to remain “a useless appendage to the Northern Confederacy,” an “alternative utterly repugnant to all true Southern men.”“Our connection with the Federal Union” has been dissolved by the disruption of the Union, but Virginia is under the dominion and government of the No! rthern States, according to the forms of the Constitution of the once Federal Union. Shall she so remain? The Convention, by adopting the majority report, will determine this question in favor of the North. Will the people ratify such action by the Convention?The question does not involve secession or disunion, but merely whether, the Union being dissolved, Virginia will remain with the North or go with the South. Such is the issue between the resistance and submission parties in Virginia.

WOW! I cannot believe the price. I will have to go to the library. I don't know if we have it or not. I will call Dr. Johnson and see. Margie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Homer JONES" <CWBSLocator@webtv.net> To: <ALBARBOU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [ALBARBOU] Vicksburg burials > Margie, > > The CD is "The Roster of Confederate > Soldiers, 1861-1865"; pub Broadfoot; > contains, 1 million, 500 thousand > Confederate Soldiers; $450.00 post > paid; he does have it by most states, > don't know whether that is on CD as > of yet; Ala is in hard copy, three vols > at $300.00, which I have; contains > more than 180 thousand Ala men. > > > > Deo Vindice, > > Homer > > > ==== ALBARBOU Mailing List ==== > This is a closed list and only subscribers will be allowed to post. NO FLAMING, OBSCENE LANGUAGE OR DISRESPECT OF ANY KIND WILL BE TOLERATED. No virus postings will be allowed. Got a complaint then contact me not the list margie@majorinternet.com Good luck in your searches. > >

Does anyone have info on a VANCE/CROCKER marriage in Alabama or Georgia? Probably dated around 1890 or after.

no marriage listed for Vance/Crocker on the FTM marriage CDs #3, #403, or #237. Closest finding on FTM #237 was: J. R. Vance m. Cromer, M. E. on 29 Jun 1873 in Coweta Co., GA << Does anyone have info on a VANCE/CROCKER marriage in Alabama or Georgia? Probably dated around 1890 or after. >>