Posted on: Bullock County, Al Query Forum Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Al/Bullock?read=219 Surname: Cantey ------------------------- Bullock county, James Cantey I jotted down some notes a few years back when visiting the Alabama Archives & History in Montgomery. Unfortunately they are rather cryptic notes, and I am uncertain at this point what the original source of information was, but here they are. Hope it helps... Fifteenth Alabama Infantry, organized Fort Mitchell Summer 1861. James Cantey - Russell. John F. Treutlen - Barbour. William C. Oates - Henry (wounded Brown's Ferry). A.A. Lowther - Russell (wounded Fussell's Mill). Lt. Colonels: J.F. Treutlen, Isaac B. Veagan - Barbour (wounded - Gettysburg) Majors: J.W.L. Daniel - Barbour, A.A. Lowther (wounded - Wilderness) Adjutants: Locke Weems - Russell, De B. Waddell James Cantey recruited 15th Ala. at Fort Mitchell July 1st 1861. "For the war". Went to Manasses 23rd Aug., report to J.E. Johnston. Brigaded under Crittenden. Later Trimble's brigade comd. by Ewell under Jackson in Valley. Front Royal, Winchester, Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Hazel Rivers, Bristow Station, Boonsborough, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Petersburg, Fussell's Mill, Appomattox. Oates, Govn. Ala. 1894

Hi folks. I have made some changes on the Bullock Co Home page to incorporate the new features at GenConnect. We can mow post queries, Obits, land records etc on special pages. These items can be cross searched making research a little eaiser. Also, I have tied in the AlGenWeb Archives pages. Check them out. They are pretty neat. Also, make some submissions. It all helps. I will not accept any more surname listing on the surname page after March 31, 2000. It has gotton too much to keep up with. I have seven county/parish pages and mail list to keep up with. Please submitt your surnames and queries to the query page. Your surnames then can be cross searched. This should be better. I will keep the page open for about a year to give people time to post their queries to the query page. Whenever anyone enters a query etc on these pages, the query is automatically entered on the Bullock-L mail list. So, if you have requested that you receive notice each time a query is posted, you will now receive two notices. I suggest that you go to the query page and remove your request for notification of every posting. Thanks for your participation in this project. I hopt that all of this has been of some help to you. Good luck with your research. John and Jan Radford johnjanr@intersurf.com Baton Rouge, La

--part1_42.3417102.260fc334_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_42.3417102.260fc334_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <NCCUMBER-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zc03.mx.aol.com (rly-zc03.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.3]) by air-zc02.mail.aol.com (v70.20) with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:42:24 -0500 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [209.85.6.27]) by rly-zc03.mx.aol.com (v70.21) with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:42:15 1900 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA26197; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:41:22 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:41:22 -0800 (PST) X-Original-Sender: JNorman578@aol.com Sun Mar 26 08:41:20 2000 From: JNorman578@aol.com Message-ID: <96.2acb5d7.260f9790@aol.com> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:40:48 EST Old-To: NCORANGE-L@rootsweb.com Old-CC: NCCUMBER-L@rootsweb.com, GRAHAM-L@rootsweb.com, dpurcell@the-link.net, LowryLines@aol.com, ALMACON-L@rootsweb.com, BULLOC-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 67 Subject: [NCCUMBER] Seeking Graham Family Manuscript Resent-Message-ID: <S3uPJB.A.-YG.x2j34@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: NCCUMBER-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: NCCUMBER-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <NCCUMBER-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/469 X-Loop: NCCUMBER-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: NCCUMBER-L-request@rootsweb.com Fellow Researchers: We need your assistance. According to Doug Purcell, a Graham family member and researcher, there is a manuscript on the Graham family by J. McNeill Johnson of Aberdeen, N.C. It is referred to on page 242 of "Correspondence and Documents of Highland Families of North Carolina" compiled by Lt. Col. Victor Clark in 1987. The letter mentions the manuscript is dated 1937. In the 1950's and 1960's a lady named Ruth Graham Blue Barnes was researching her Graham ancestors. In 1961 she printed out a summary of her research on this family. A note on page one of the manuscript reads as follows: "There is a manuscript written by J. McNeil Johnson of Aberdee, N.C., some years ago and is in possession of Mrs. Virginia Graham Smith, Laurel Hill, N.C. (died. Her daughter, Mrs. Ed Yarbrough-Mary Graham Smith Yarbrough - is now in possession. She is ill and will not allow it to be examined [1959 RBS]". Doug continues: The manuscript was also in the hands of a lady named Virgie Graham of Montrose, N.C., a cousin of William A McLeod (see pages 232, 242 and 243 of "Correspondence and Documents" for this reference. This would be a valuable document to find regarding our Graham family research. I was wondering if any information concerning the manuscript or the family history may be in the papers of Frank Porter Graham at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He was a member of this Graham family. (Alexander Graham and Christian Munn) Any help or suggestions to locate this manuscript would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. JoAnn Please contact: JoAnn Graham Norman at JNorman578@aol.com and/or Doug Purcell at dpurcell@the-link.net --part1_42.3417102.260fc334_boundary--

Dear Alabama County Lists, I am involved in a web project encompassing the names of ELLIS, FRIZZELL, O'NEILL, and CLOUD. We are trying to locate and identify the descendants of these families which resided in the Pike, Bullock, Barbour and Montgomery Co. AL areas. Some may have drifted to other counties and states from there. We know a number migrated to Texas. Some of the alternate spellings for these names are O'NEAL, FRIZZLE, FRIZEL, FRIZZEL, FRIZLE, etc. Some of the FRIZZELL siblings married into these names: KILLEN, CALLOWAY, JONES, JACKSON, PLAYER, PENN, ALFORD, SELLERS, OZIER Some of the O'NEILL siblings married into these names: THOMPSON, McMIllin/McMillen, NIX, NORMAN, OWEN, SELLERS, SMILIE and possibly WINDHAM. If you are researching any of these names in the PIKE, BULLOCK, BARBOUR, MONTGOMERY Co. AL area and think there may be a connection please email me. If you have the surames of O'NEILL-O'NEAL or any spelling version of FRIZZELL in your lineage from anywhere in AL that may link back to this this geographic area or connected to it please email me. There may be a link. Thank you, Cynthia SIMS Kirkland

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Hi, Would someone be willing to look up cemetery transcriptions for George W. Champion, born ae 1845 and his wife Mary Jane Cogburn Champion? Thank You. Karen

Would someone look for a cemetery transcription LUCY CHAMPION, Union Springs area, about 1852 or before. Her husband's obit said they lived at Union Springs and she died before he moved back to GA 1852. I understand this part of the County was in Macon in this time frame, but was cut into Bullock CO AL, is this correct? Thanks very much in advance. Karen Smith

Do you have any information on where any Trussell family members are buried? I understand that some are buried in Union Springs. Sincerely, Dovie Parker

Dear Carrie, I'm researching Gilmores in Bullock Co. see below. Any connection? - ------------------------------------------------- You wrote: >If there is someone who could do a death look-up for me I would greatly >appreciate it. I am looking for a James and Mary THOMAS in Perot, >Pike/Bullock, AL between 1860 and 1880. I do not find him with any of >his children once they moved on to AR, where they appear on the 1880 >census. Children of James and Mary also living in Perot ,neighboring >them(according to census) are: > >John F. THOMAS m. Martha Jane Gilmore >William THOMAS m. Sarah(Hearn)COPE >James D. THOMAS m. Catherine (?) >Wade Hampton THOMAS m. Mary F. BOSWELL (ROSWELL). > >It is believed, from looking at census records (Pike Cty.) that James >arrived ca. 1830 (there is a James THOMAS on this census-but not sure if >this is him) The microfilm available to me was almost too dark to read >the name much less the rest of the details. > >Thank you in advance for your assistance. Anyone who has connections >with this THOMAS line I would love to hear from you...especially >surnames: MORRISON, GILMORE > >Carrie THOMAS-DOMINGUEZ >Transcribing 1880 Sebastian Cty, AR >Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (Kansas)- ><http:raogk@rootsweb.com> > - ------------------------------------------------- William GILMORE b. about 1805 in GA m. Matilda ? b. about1808 SC William and Matilda show up in the 1840 Pike Co. AL Census and the 1850 and 1870 Bullock Co. AL censuses. William and Matilda had 9 children: William, Mary (my gg grandmother), Elizabeth, Eliza, James, Sarah, Joseph, Frances, and Jasper. An elderly woman, estimated to be born about 1776 making her about 74 years old, named Martha PASEY is living in the GILMORE household in the 1850 Bullock Co. AL census. Both Martha and Matilda show their birth state as SC. Martha is most likely to be Matilda's mother, making her Matilda PASEY. A William PASEY, age 26, is living not too far away in the same county in this census. A William PASEY and an Allen PASEY also hold Alabama Land Grants in the Tuscaloosa Land Office in 1852 (just two years later), the baseline of their adjoining properties (about 40 acres each) is Huntsville. In all the searches I have done, the name PASEY seems extremely rare, so I will also go so far as to assume that William PASEY and possibly Allen PASEY are somehow related to these women. I have tried looking at them as POSEY but it just never seems to fit. Besides they are always very clearly spelled as PASEY with an A. If anyone is searching the name PASEY in AL, GA or SC and GILMORE in AL and GA who might think these people are connected to them, I would very much like to hear from you. Sincerely, Cynthia SIMS Kirkland

If there is anyone on this list that has the index to either the 1870 or 1880 Bullock County census, I would appreciate if you could check for a name for me. According to her death certificate, Sallie BIGGERS was born in Union Springs in 1866. While I can not read the name of her father, his given name begins with an "S" Thanks for any help anyone can offer!!! Charles Larkins, Jr. Researching: LARKIN/S, BIGGERS, WYLIE, NEDAB, COWART, BYRD, APPLIN, GREEN, MITCHELL. All from Alabama, Pike & Bullock County.

If there is someone who could do a death look-up for me I would greatly appreciate it. I am looking for a James and Mary THOMAS in Perot, Pike/Bullock, AL between 1860 and 1880. I do not find him with any of his children once they moved on to AR, where they appear on the 1880 census. Children of James and Mary also living in Perot ,neighboring them(according to census) are: John F. THOMAS m. Martha Jane Gilmore William THOMAS m. Sarah(Hearn)COPE James D. THOMAS m. Catherine (?) Wade Hampton THOMAS m. Mary F. BOSWELL (ROSWELL). It is believed, from looking at census records (Pike Cty.) that James arrived ca. 1830 (there is a James THOMAS on this census-but not sure if this is him) The microfilm available to me was almost too dark to read the name much less the rest of the details. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Anyone who has connections with this THOMAS line I would love to hear from you...especially surnames: MORRISON, GILMORE Carrie THOMAS-DOMINGUEZ Transcribing 1880 Sebastian Cty, AR Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (Kansas)- <http:raogk@rootsweb.com>

I and my husband are in the process of building a website on states in the southeast. I'm going to have basic information on records and links. If someone familiar with the records available for this county could take a look at it and correct me on information or can add info (especially county history), I would really appreciate it. Also any feedback from anyone is also helpful. The address is http://www.segenealogy.com then go to the state and county page. Thanks in advance. Tracy - ------------------------------------------------------------ come visit SouthEastern Genealogy Online www.segenealogy.com - ------------------------------------------------------------

Do you have any information on the cemetery at Union Springs or any near by?

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BF7CAA.A78A3380 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Fellow Researchers: I have just returned from a trip to Bullock County, 1 mile outside Midway where Fellowship Cemetery is located. I enumerated this cemetery 17 years ago and it appears on the Bullock County USGENWEB page. Unfortunately the loggers have just about demolished it. They have run their trucks through the cemetery and even into the protective family wrought iron fences, over tombstones. I found a CSA marker in the middle of the road. If anyone has a CSA ancestor out there by the name of James A. McLeod, Co. B, 15 AL Vol. Infantry, I have a picture of the tombstone I can e-mail. Does anyone know if the Bullock County Historical Society is still in existance? I would like to contact someone there to see if anything can be done to clean, fence, repair this very old cemetery. Families such as FEAGIN, PRUETT, MOSELY, TAYLOR, DICKSON, HARRIS, etc are buried in this cemetery and birth dates back into the 1780's. Fellowship Church was located near the cemetery and is now gone.. The cemetery is located on what was once FEAGIN land. It is located less than one mile from Midway city limits on Bullock County Highway 89 going toward Hurtsboro. If anyone knows who I can contact in Bullock County to see what can be done, please let me know. Thank you. Mary Norman ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BF7CAA.A78A3380 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; name="HD Norman.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="HD Norman.vcf" BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Norman;HD FN:HD Norman URL:http://pages.prodigy.net/pinetucket/index.html URL:http://pages.prodigy.net/pinetucket/index.html EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:pinetucket@prodigy.net REV:20000222T023138Z END:VCARD ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BF7CAA.A78A3380--

Seeking info on families of the following: BARBOUR CO AL MARRIAGES: Anna J. WILLIAMSON/Walter T. G. COBB Feb 28 1867 Catherine F. WILLIAMSON/J. W. SMITH Aug 29 1865 Eli WILLIAMSON/Frances WELDEN Mar 2 1863 Frank M. WILLIAMSON/Loucrecy FAULK Jan 11 1869 Green WILLIAMSON/Mary E. BROWN Mar 30 1865 H. J. WILLIAMSON/Mary BISHOP Dec 14 1869 James A. WILLIAMSON/Elizabeth STEWART May 6 1869 Josiah J. WILLIAMSON/Catharine F. ADAMS Aug 15 1861 Leana Jane WILLIAMSON/Samuel SANDERS Sep 9 1866 Miss M C WILLIAMSON/Hiram W. GURLEY Dec 3 1865 Manerva A H WILLIAMSON/William T. SHELLY Apr 7 1861 Simeon WILLIAMSON/Caroline SPIRES Dec 7 1865

Dear Alabama Genealogical Enthusiast, We are pleased to announce the availability of the Historical Atlas of Alabama, Volume II: Cemetery Locations by County. The atlas may be purchased as a single volume covering all 67 counties, or on a county by county basis. If you choose to purchase individual counties, we will also include material from the Historical Atlas of Alabama, Volume I: Historical Locations by County. Individual counties will be comb-bound and customized for each order. The price structure is as follows: For County by County Material: $5.00 for the first county $3.00 for each additional county Entire Volume: $60.00 Note: If your interests exceed 19 counties, it would be more economical to purchase the $60.00 volume. All prices include shipping and handling. You may read more about our book on our web site: http://www.as.ua.edu/geography/cart_lab/. Our printable order form is available at: http://www.as.ua.edu/geography/cart_lab/order.htm. Regards, Craig Remington

Hi Folks. First of all, thanks for all the efforts and contributions all of you have made during 1999. I may have gotton more out of the lists and home pages than many of you. However, I hope all of you got something out of participating on the list. Thanks for those who sent in suggestions on the County and Parish home pages. The work in not done. We can add additional information about the counties to improve the pages. I want to thank Virginia Crilley for her tremendous help with Jones Co., Ga. She has done well. I plan to up grade all of the pages using Virginia's suggestions. I believe that the lists are some help to those working on the Al County Heritage books. Keep up the good work. I retired in early January and will have more time to do the things that need to be done. Some of the Counties/Parishes are more active than others. Thats' OK. All have been helpfull. Most pages at least doubled in subscription and queries. Some activity has trippled in one year. Below are some statistics followed by some timely information about RootsWeb. Nice to know information: These are the counties my wife and I work with. Number on the Number on the Number of County List L list D list Queries Bullock, Al 105 33 157 Macon, Al 105 34 234 Pike, Al 287 92 766 Tallapoosa, Al 262 76 654 Jones, Ga 132 53 555 Iberia, La 86 31 181 St Martin, La 102 49 159 RADFORD 103 28 388 Robin (Louisiana Name) 8 4 0 Surnames on the surname pages are too many to count. After scanning the pages, I think some good things are going on. Now some need to know information. RootsWeb has been providing free space to host the mail list and Gen Forum list. They also host county and state home pages. It is free to all subscribers, however it is expensive to operate. The following is a short write up by Dr Brian Leverich about Roots web. WHY DOES ROOTSWEB NEED YOUR SUPPORT? by Dr. Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Sometimes it is difficult for users to understand the costs involved in operating RootsWeb and why it is worth genealogists' time and money to support RootsWeb. For example, take the United States census. RootsWeb is currently providing server support to the USGenWeb Archives and Census Projects as they bring the U.S. census online. Our goal is to have both a searchable index to the census *AND* images of all the pages available on an open basis for all Internet genealogists. Our best estimate is that bringing the census online will require about 3.6 terabytes of data storage. That means we will need about 200 18 GB hard disks, and each of those disks costs about $1,000. That means the data storage alone is going to cost $200,000, and that doesn't include the servers and the bandwidth to make that storage accessible over the Web. Is $200,000 a lot of money? Well, sort of. Regardless of how much they want to help, Karen and Brian couldn't pay for that even if they mortgaged their house and cashed in their pension savings. On the other hand, $200,000 is only about 67 cents per user at RootsWeb. That is about 1/100 of what some commercial firms are charging for data they have locked up in members-only areas. Bringing the U.S. census online is not the only project RootsWeb supports. We are hosting literally hundreds of other data projects, some American and many for other countries (like the British FreeBMD Project). If all (or even if most) of our users were contributors, there is a lot RootsWeb could be doing to accelerate the rate at which public records are brought online and opened to the public. You can help us bring those records online. For details about support levels/benefits and payment options, visit <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html> or send e-mail to <RW-info@rootsweb.com>. The regular mail address is: RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798. (Please include your e-mail address on all correspondence and checks sent to RootsWeb.) "I AM ONE OF THE 7%" is a message we heard numerous times this week in response to Dr. Leverich's article about who supports RootsWeb. Your response has been encouraging, but growth is still painfully slow. Who are the 7% of users who support RootsWeb? To show our appreciation, RootsWeb has started a voluntary listing of current RootsWeb contributors at any level. To register: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~donors/addme.html>; to see the listing: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~donors/percent.html>. PS: If you decide to donate, please be certain to mention to Rootsweb, that you are a subscriber of the one of the above mail lists. May all of you have a happy and productive new year. John and Jan Radford johnjanr@intersurf.com Baton Rouge, La John and Jan Radford johnjanr@intersurf.com Baton Rouge, La

Hi Folks. First of all, thanks for all the efforts and contributions all of you have made during 1999. I may have gotton more out of the lists and home pages than many of you. However, I hope all of you got something out of participating on the list. Thanks for those who sent in suggestions on the County and Parish home pages. The work in not done. We can add additional information about the counties to improve the pages. I want to thank Virginia Crilley for her tremendous help with Jones Co., Ga. She has done well. I plan to up grade all of the pages using Virginia's suggestions. I believe that the lists are some help to those working on the Al County Heritage books. Keep up the good work. I retired in early January and will have more time to do the things that need to be done. Some of the Counties/Parishes are more active than others. Thats' OK. All have been helpfull. Most pages at least doubled in subscription and queries. Some activity has trippled in one year. Below are some statistics followed by some timely information about RootsWeb. Nice to know information: These are the counties my wife and I work with. Number on the Number on the Number of County List L list D list Queries Bullock, Al 105 33 157 Macon, Al 105 34 234 Pike, Al 287 92 766 Tallapoosa, Al 262 76 654 Jones, Ga 132 53 555 Iberia, La 86 31 181 St Martin, La 102 49 159 RADFORD 103 28 388 Robin (Louisiana Name) 8 4 0 Surnames on the surname pages are too many to count. After scanning the pages, I think some good things are going on. Now some need to know information. RootsWeb has been providing free space to host the mail list and Gen Forum list. They also host county and state home pages. It is free to all subscribers, however it is expensive to operate. The following is a short write up by Dr Brian Leverich about Roots web. WHY DOES ROOTSWEB NEED YOUR SUPPORT? by Dr. Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Sometimes it is difficult for users to understand the costs involved in operating RootsWeb and why it is worth genealogists' time and money to support RootsWeb. For example, take the United States census. RootsWeb is currently providing server support to the USGenWeb Archives and Census Projects as they bring the U.S. census online. Our goal is to have both a searchable index to the census *AND* images of all the pages available on an open basis for all Internet genealogists. Our best estimate is that bringing the census online will require about 3.6 terabytes of data storage. That means we will need about 200 18 GB hard disks, and each of those disks costs about $1,000. That means the data storage alone is going to cost $200,000, and that doesn't include the servers and the bandwidth to make that storage accessible over the Web. Is $200,000 a lot of money? Well, sort of. Regardless of how much they want to help, Karen and Brian couldn't pay for that even if they mortgaged their house and cashed in their pension savings. On the other hand, $200,000 is only about 67 cents per user at RootsWeb. That is about 1/100 of what some commercial firms are charging for data they have locked up in members-only areas. Bringing the U.S. census online is not the only project RootsWeb supports. We are hosting literally hundreds of other data projects, some American and many for other countries (like the British FreeBMD Project). If all (or even if most) of our users were contributors, there is a lot RootsWeb could be doing to accelerate the rate at which public records are brought online and opened to the public. You can help us bring those records online. For details about support levels/benefits and payment options, visit <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html> or send e-mail to <RW-info@rootsweb.com>. The regular mail address is: RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798. (Please include your e-mail address on all correspondence and checks sent to RootsWeb.) "I AM ONE OF THE 7%" is a message we heard numerous times this week in response to Dr. Leverich's article about who supports RootsWeb. Your response has been encouraging, but growth is still painfully slow. Who are the 7% of users who support RootsWeb? To show our appreciation, RootsWeb has started a voluntary listing of current RootsWeb contributors at any level. To register: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~donors/addme.html>; to see the listing: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~donors/percent.html>. PS: If you decide to donate, please be certain to mention to Rootsweb, that you are a subscriber of the one of the above mail lists. May all of you have a happy and productive new year. John and Jan Radford johnjanr@intersurf.com Baton Rouge, La John and Jan Radford johnjanr@intersurf.com Baton Rouge, La

Hello; Looking for information on Jesse Charlie Thompson of Macon County, circa 1860. He may have been a dairy farmer. Thanks for your time, JoAnn JNorman578@aol.com

Charlie, My HYCHE and BULLOCKS served with the South in the War between the States. Washington Hyche, Francis Marion, Thomas and J.W. Hyche. They lived in Walker Co. Cordova near the river and also Tuscaloosa. Leonard H. Bullock from Shelby Co. Al. also served. I don't know what group they served with but would appreciate any help. Bob Parker Sgtmajrp@aol.com