Does anyone do lookups on the book/books mentioned in this post? Thanks, Marie ----- Original Message ----- From: <alblount-request@rootsweb.com> To: <alblount@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:00 AM Subject: ALBLOUNT Digest, Vol 1, Issue 41 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. "Sketches of Alabama" edited (Crop53@aol.com) > 2. Re: Davy Crockett Almost Died Near Blount County (Lamisu@aol.com) > 3. Re: Blount County Confederate Reunion, 1904 (bobwonda@hiwaay.net) > 4. Re: Blount County Confederate Reunion, 1904 (MACSTILES@aol.com) > 5. Re: Blount County Confederate Reunion, 1904 (bobwonda@hiwaay.net) > 6. Re: Davy Crockett Almost Died Near Blount County > (Barbara Buettner) > 7. Luther MORGAN (JDBein) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:36:52 EDT > From: Crop53@aol.com > Subject: [ALBLOUNT] "Sketches of Alabama" edited > To: alblount@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <546.586d8b51.325504e4@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > The Two books that Melba Clark talks about are very full of Jefferson and > Blount County History of the people. Here I found the father of Robert > Bartley > Montgomery was Washington Montgomery not his brother Francis. So I > purchased > the Edited book that Robin talks about. Brown and Nabors edited... this > book > so that it does not carry the old stories that Mary Gordon Duffee tells > of > her travels and visits in the home of the people of the times. You have > missed what we would want of the writings if you do not read the full > writing in > the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age paper that the WPA recorded in the two > books. > They are great genealogy books. > I am enjoying the writing of the list very much as avid Blount > Countian. > I am a descendant from Palmer, Cowden, Musgrove, Fowler, Stroud, West > and > my children are also, Carns, Montgomery, Gunter, Morton and more... Just > some > of their Blount County heritage. Keep it up. Nancy Carns > =============== > In a message dated 10/3/2006 9:20:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, > bobwonda@hiwaay.net writes: > > ... The long passage quoted above, Duffee had already published almost > verbatim > in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in a series of articles she submitted > to > her friend, editor Charles Hayes. These articles were published between > 1885 and 1887. These articles were collected in a book called "Sketches > of > Alabama" edited by Brown and Nabers and published by the University of > Alabama Press in 1970. On page 53 of this work, Duffee continues the > narrative... > > =============== > In a message dated 10/4/2006 12:13:49 A.M. Central Standard Time, > melbaclark@bellsouth.net writes: > > The book you mentioned, "Sketches of Alabama" is full of descriptions > of > early settlers in Jefferson and Blount Counties. I found information > about my Aaron Taylor, his brother, Jesse and some of their cousins in > it. > > There is a copy of it at the Birmingham Public Library. It has an index. > > Melba Clark > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:58:10 EDT > From: Lamisu@aol.com > Subject: Re: [ALBLOUNT] Davy Crockett Almost Died Near Blount County > To: alblount@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <583.2c72491.32552602@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Charlotte Adams Hood published a book "Jackson's White Plumes" which > detailed > the help that the Indians gave him during the Creek Indian War. It > outlines > Day Croquet's scouting trip through Blunt Co. It also relates his meetings > with > a Richard Ratliff family near present day Gadsden just east of the Blount > Co. > line. Richard had married an Indian lady and had a large mixed family that > ran a trading post. Richard had been there since shortly after the > Revolution. > Two of his sons fought with Jackson at Horseshoe Bend. This family was > later > shipped west on "The Trail of Tears." > > My Ratliff family arrived in Blount Co. about 1817. I'm still trying to > find > out how we may have been related to Richard. Charlottes book mentions a > number > of families living in the area at that time (1813-1814). > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:00:39 -0600 > From: bobwonda@hiwaay.net > Subject: Re: [ALBLOUNT] Blount County Confederate Reunion, 1904 > To: alblount@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <v04011700c149df596ad7@[71.207.217.191]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dr. Stiles, > > I'm having trouble locating the reference you mentioned. Could you please > direct me to where it was? I overlooked it someplace. > > Robin > >>Just a clarification of "Miss" M. A. Yeilding. This was Mary Amanda >>Humphries, whose first husband was Joseph Yeilding. No one really knows >>what >>happened to Joseph Yeilding except that he never returned from the Civil >>War...so >>was presumed dead. Then Mary Amanda (Humphies) Yeilding married A. J. >>Ketchum. So she was "MRS" M. A. Yeilding. >> >>Dr. H. M. Stiles >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>ALBLOUNT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:38:03 EDT > From: MACSTILES@aol.com > Subject: Re: [ALBLOUNT] Blount County Confederate Reunion, 1904 > To: alblount@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c23.5fbd84b.32559fdb@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Robin, > I think that I did not quote a source. However, this is how it goes. > Warren Weaver is a descendant of Joseph Yeilding and Mary Amanda > Humphries. And > he told me that "Joseph Yeilding ...... went off to the Civil War and > never > returned as far as can be determined". Now, from Marriages of Morgan > County, > AL 1818-1896, Book B, page 344: Joseph J. Yeilding to E. M. Humphries, > 25 > December 1857. The "E.M." should, of course be "A. M.". Then when > Joseph did > not return from the war (no one really knows why), Mary Amanda Humphries > Yeilding married Acquilla J. Ketchum, on 11 February 1872 at the "house > of the > Bride" by J. W. Moore, Probate Judge: Blount County Alabama Marriages > Records > 1871-1877, Volume A., page 44. > > Listing for J. J. (Joseph) Yeilding in Civil War Service, U. S. Archives: > Pvt., Company D, \3 Confederate Cavalry > 11 Battalion Alabama Cavalry > Howard's Battalion Confederate Cavalry > Howard's Regiment Confederate Cavalry > 11 Confederate Cavalry > 13 Confederate Cavalry > (Some men had prior service in the 2nd (Smith's) Regiment TN Cavalry. > > > Does this help/satisfy? There seems to have been some problem with the > oldest son of Joseph and Mary Amanda (George), who refused to take the > Ketchum > name. Wish I knew more about this issue; who knows, maybe one day it > will come > to light. I really have not had time to thoroughly look into this thing. > > Robin, do keep in touch. I did not go to the Four Families Reunion this > year. I personally think that there is a political body working and I do > not > like it. If you want to know more, don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks > for > ALL your good work - it is very, very much appreciated. > > Mac > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 18:56:41 -0600 > From: bobwonda@hiwaay.net > Subject: Re: [ALBLOUNT] Blount County Confederate Reunion, 1904 > To: alblount@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <v04011703c14a06469002@[71.207.217.191]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Thanks for the info. I'll have some annotations in my Confederates book > I'm working on. My own Great Great Grandfather Philip Robins (from whom > in > part I get my name), was a comrade of Mr. Yeilding in Company D of the 3rd > Confederate Cavalry. > > The Third Confederate Cavalry, which entered the service under Col. J.R. > Howard, included seven Alabama companies. It served during the greater > part of the war in Wheeler's cavalry, and fought throughout the campaigns > in Kentucky and Tennessee in numberless raids and skirmishes. It fought > at > Murphreesboro, Triune, Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, Bridgeport, Trenton, > McAfee's, Noonday Creek. After the resignation of Colonel Howard, the > regiment was commanded successively, ty Col. W.N. Estes and Col. P.H. > Rice. > It was constantly in demand for picket duty and scouting,and was > distinguished for gallantry and endurance. colonel Estes was killed near > Chattanooga, and Colonel Rice was wounded in Georgia. Lieut. Col. John > McCaskill and Capt. dan Clayton were wounded, and Adjt. N. Rothbock was > killed, at Murphreesboro.--from page 208, Confederate Military History of > Alabama, Joseph Wheeler. > > McCaskill is the commander I see most often in connection with the men > from > the Blount County area in the 3rd Confederate Cavalry. > > Robin > >>Robin, >>I think that I did not quote a source. However, this is how it goes. >>Warren Weaver is a descendant of Joseph Yeilding and Mary Amanda >>Humphries. And >>he told me that "Joseph Yeilding ...... went off to the Civil War and >>never >>returned as far as can be determined". Now, from Marriages of Morgan >>County, >>AL 1818-1896, Book B, page 344: Joseph J. Yeilding to E. M. Humphries, >>25 >>December 1857. The "E.M." should, of course be "A. M.". Then when >>Joseph did >>not return from the war (no one really knows why), Mary Amanda Humphries >>Yeilding married Acquilla J. Ketchum, on 11 February 1872 at the "house >>of the >>Bride" by J. W. Moore, Probate Judge: Blount County Alabama Marriages >>Records >>1871-1877, Volume A., page 44. >> >>Listing for J. J. (Joseph) Yeilding in Civil War Service, U. S. Archives: >> Pvt., Company D, \3 Confederate Cavalry >> 11 Battalion Alabama Cavalry >> Howard's Battalion Confederate Cavalry >> Howard's Regiment Confederate Cavalry >> 11 Confederate Cavalry >> 13 Confederate Cavalry >> (Some men had prior service in the 2nd (Smith's) Regiment TN >> Cavalry. >> >> >>Does this help/satisfy? There seems to have been some problem with the >>oldest son of Joseph and Mary Amanda (George), who refused to take the >>Ketchum >>name. Wish I knew more about this issue; who knows, maybe one day it >>will come >>to light. I really have not had time to thoroughly look into this thing. >> >>Robin, do keep in touch. I did not go to the Four Families Reunion this >>year. I personally think that there is a political body working and I do >>not >>like it. If you want to know more, don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks >>for >>ALL your good work - it is very, very much appreciated. >> >>Mac >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>ALBLOUNT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:32:59 -0500 > From: "Barbara Buettner" <buettner@hiwaay.net> > Subject: Re: [ALBLOUNT] Davy Crockett Almost Died Near Blount County > To: <alblount@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <OMEPIKPPEFLAGLGFAFBCKECAEIAA.buettner@hiwaay.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Do you know who your Ratliff ancester that fought in Revolutionary War > was? > Could have he have been this Richard Ratliff? I find it strange there is > none, absolutely no Ratliff mentioned in DAR Revolutionary Patriot Index! > > Did his sons get killed at Horseshoe Bend? > > Do you suspect the infamous "Trail of Tears" took the lives of all of > them? > Does anyone have an educated guess? Barbara in Cullman > > -----Original Message----- > From: alblount-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:alblount-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Lamisu@aol.com > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:58 AM > To: alblount@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ALBLOUNT] Davy Crockett Almost Died Near Blount County > > > Charlotte Adams Hood published a book "Jackson's White Plumes" which > detailed > the help that the Indians gave him during the Creek Indian War. It > outlines > Day Croquet's scouting trip through Blunt Co. It also relates his meetings > with > a Richard Ratliff family near present day Gadsden just east of the Blount > Co. > line. Richard had married an Indian lady and had a large mixed family that > ran a trading post. Richard had been there since shortly after the > Revolution. > Two of his sons fought with Jackson at Horseshoe Bend. This family was > later > shipped west on "The Trail of Tears." > > My Ratliff family arrived in Blount Co. about 1817. I'm still trying to > find > out how we may have been related to Richard. Charlottes book mentions a > number > of families living in the area at that time (1813-1814). > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALBLOUNT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:46:14 -0500 > From: "JDBein" <JDBein@hughes.net> > Subject: [ALBLOUNT] Luther MORGAN > To: <almadiso@rootsweb.com>, <alblount@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <002201c6e828$6da4f1a0$ec191d45@Maincomputer> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Is there anyone on this list that is researching Luther MORGAN? > > I have a record found in Blount Co., Al., it also list Samuel, Calvin and > Alexander MORGAN along with their wives. > Recorded in Madison Co., Al. ? > Was Madison at one time connected to Blount? > > Thanks for any input... > Debbie > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ALBLOUNT list administrator, send an email to > ALBLOUNT-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ALBLOUNT mailing list, send an email to > ALBLOUNT@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALBLOUNT-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ALBLOUNT Digest, Vol 1, Issue 41 > ***************************************