Chambers County AlArchives Photo Place.....Lett, Thomas J. House ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don L. Clark http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00014.html#0003384 July 13, 2005, 7:18 am Source: Don L. Clark Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/chambers/photos/lettthom596ph.jpg Image file size: 93.3 Kb Thomas J. Lett Home Buffalo, AL Built ca. 1913 Thomas J. Lett (1847-1921) and wife Louisa B. Abernathy Lett (1849-1917) are pictured in this photo as they stand in the front yard of their new home constructed at Buffalo, AL, in 1913. The house was located less than 1/2 mile south of Buffalo on the west side of the LaFayette-Roanoke Hwy. (now US Hwy. 431). The Letts moved to Buffalo from western Chambers County near Rippville. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/photos/lettthom596ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

I discovered in reading an article about my family that my family's old homeplace, from 1908 until 1954, is in the book "Pine Log and Greek Revival" on page 231. While it was my great grandfather, then grandfather, who lived there with their families, my dad was born there, and I played there as a toddler (and still heat my house with two beautiful antique gas space heaters from there and still use a rugged old GE floor fan from there) it is likely listed in the book as the Harrell House. Anybody have a copy of the book that can look it up and scan me a copy? It would certainly be appreciated. I have no information on the house other than my slight memory of it and several old pictures. Tim Kemp -- Tim Kemp Amateur Radio Station WB4BAH AOL Instant Messenger - Tim D Kemp The Kemp Family Homepage http://www.mindspring.com/~tkemp Genealogy info on KEMP, STROTHER, MURPHY, and allied families.

Chambers County AlArchives Photo Person.....Meadors, Mary Elizabeth Webb ca. 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don L. Clark http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00014.html#0003384 July 12, 2005, 7:00 am Source: Don L. Clark Name: Mary Elizabeth Webb Meadors Date Of Photograph: ca. 1893 Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/chambers/photos/meadors595ph.jpg Image file size: 15.9 Kb Mary Elizabeth Webb, photographed ca. 1893 aka Mrs. Dr. Willis H. Meadors Mary Elizabeth Webb Meadors’ Letter “Open letter to Rock Spring Baptist Church, read before the church during the afternoon program of homecoming day, July 21st, 1957” June 11th, 1957 Mrs. Elizabeth Webb Meadors 212 N. 60th St., Apt. A Birmingham 6, Ala. Rock Spring Baptist Church Dear Friends: I am thankful that the Lord has given me the strength and courage to live and be fairly active and have the use of all my faculties. While my mind is active and my memory is good, I am typing this letter to show the influence of the Rock Spring Baptist Church on three generations of the Webb Family. I am eighty-two and one-half years old (the third generation). I am the oldest living member of the Webb family. My grandfather Abner Webb and his wife, Nancy Dedryler (Deadwyler) were neighbors in Elbert County, GA., married and had four children there, two girls and two boys, Margaret, nine, Elizabeth, six, Joseph Claiborne, three and his twin, Marcus, who passed on (as) an infant. In 1835, the Webb family moved from Elbert County, Ga., in a covered wagon with oxen to draw them over the Indian Trail from Elberton, Ga., to LaFayette, Ala. and lived in LaFayette a year. He planted cedar seed also on both sides of the lane from the trail to the house and some have grown there one hundred years and a few are there now. My grandfather bartered with the Creek Indians for a section of land six miles west of LaFayette, Ala., built a two-story house and dug a well there. He planted Crape Myrtle seed in front of his house and they lived and bloomed over one hundred years and a few are blooming there now. Relatives and friends of the Webb family moved from Ga. to Ala. and some settled in Chambers County. Grandfather helped to organize a church northwest of LaFayette, Ala. and built the first Rock Spring Baptist Church on a hill where the Webb family cemetery is used now. Below the hill there was a spring that furnished water for a pool to baptize all young member of the church. It was used for over fifty years and all the Webb relatives were baptized there. My father, Joseph Claiborne Webb, and his wife, Annie Ruth Turner had five children, three boys and two girls: Henry, William, John, Margaret and (me) Elizabeth. We were baptized in that pool. A new church was built on the tr___ and my father bought the lumber of the old one and added two rooms to our home. In 1882, there was a school building on the north side of the hill from the spring and pool, where my brother William taught all the grades. My sister, Margaret and I walked the three miles to that school with my brother twice a day, five days a week. I learned all the words in McGuffy’s Blue Back Speller and was given a new copy of it as a prize. I learned the multiplication tables to the twelves, which were the foundation of my education. As soon as the new church was built (in 1881), my father, James Claiborne Webb, was made Clerk of the church and remained in that office as long as he could attend the services. I was baptized in 1890, by our beloved Pastor, Dr. W. C. Bledsoe. My sister, Margaret, passed on in 1882 and was laid in the Webb cemetery, where my mother planted a gardenia (cape jasmine from our yard) and it lived for over fifty years, without any special care. The Baptist Association met with our church and my parents kept fifteen of the preachers at night. I never saw so many intelligent men together before and some had charge of Rock Spring Church. I feel sure that the training I had at Rock Spring Sunday School laid the cornerstone of my religious experience all these years. In 1882 my brothers, William and John Webb, took me to school with them and then my mother passed on and I took the examination for a scholarship to Peabody Normal at Nashville, Tenn., where I graduated in 1893 and I taught in Ala. twelve years and in Texas three. Married Dr. W. H. Meadors in 1908 and enjoyed his care and companionship for forty seven years. He passed in 1955. Having no children of our own, we helped feed, clothe and teach our nieces and nephews how to support themselves and their children will have scholarships to Howard College (now Samford University). The boys from Chambers County get scholarships to Howard College also. We cared for our old folks and laid them away as they desired. We have a lot in LaFayette Cemetery where I go and take flowers to Dr. Meadors’ grave and have a space for me to be laid there also. Sincerely, Mary Elizabeth Webb Meadors Note - Tombstone epitaphs from LaFayette Cemetery: Dr. Willis Henderson Meadors, February 21, 1874 – July 19, 1955 *Elizabeth Webb, wife of W. H. Meadors, December 23, 1874 – January 14, 1958 *Mrs. Meadors lived less than six months after this letter was written. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/photos/meadors595ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.9 Kb

Chambers County AlArchives History .....McGinty Alabama July 10, 2005 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com July 10, 2005, 10:27 am Book Title: File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jerry McGinty mcgintyboy@aol.com July 2005 McGinty, Alabama McGinty Crossroads (also referred to as McGinty Station and McGinty Crossing) was part of the early McGinty family property. Wiley Patterson McGinty, Sr., built his home at one corner of the crossing in 1891, and, later in life, operated a general store on the other corner. His maternal grandfather, Levin Moore, was one of the original owners of the land and he acquired it well before his death in 1855. His daughter, Ann M. Moore, was Wiley’s mother. Wiley’s father was William Pitts McGinty who lived up the road and, in 1863, had purchased 275 acres of land, including that where the Fairview cemetery is located. Wiley McGinty was a builder and sometime around 1941, built several “row houses” along the railroad tracks, south of the intersection. This area became known as McGinty, AL. It is located very close to RiverView, AL and was an important landmark in the area. Shawmut, Fairfax, Langdale and RiverView were combined into what has been known as Valley, AL in 1980. McGinty, AL appears today on the official AL map and the original “Crossroads” are at the intersection of River Road and Columbus Road. There is now a paved bicycle path that crosses the intersection. This path was once the Chattahoochee Valley R.R. railroad track. A loading platform was said to have been constructed just south of the crossing. In the early days, cotton was loaded on railcars here for transportation to the cotton gin in West Point. This loading area was known as McGinty Station. The house that Wiley McGinty, Sr., built in 1891, was still located at the crossroads in 2003. Later in life, Wiley moved a few blocks down from the crossroads to 1025 River Road. The writer visited this River Road house many times as a young boy and it was still occupied in 2003. The first school constructed from sawed lumber was also built at the "Crossroads" on the northwest corner. After the Civil War in 1865, when most of the south was in shambles, this area received some good news. A cotton mill was going to be built both at Campbell's gristmill and Trammell's mill further up the river. Confederate money was worthless, but a few men were fortunate enough to have the financial means to invest in these mills. The Huguley family was the primary investor. It is said that they had considerable cotton in their possession and were able to sell it to British buyers and ship it before it was conscripted by the north. At the time cotton prices were up to $1.00 lb. The Huguleys were said to be from northeast GA and SC and were familiar with the potential that cotton factories held. In 1853, George and Amos Huguley purchased 1,920 acres of land from Milton M. Marcus for $17,000. In 1865, they purchased an additional 143 acres from James Campbell for $2,430, which included three islands in the Chattahoochee River. Part of this land was in GA and is the site where the Riverdale mill was built in RiverView. Prior to the coming of these textile mills, this entire area of AL was strictly agricultural and cotton was the most important crop. There were several gristmills for grinding corn and wheat, cotton gins and sawmills all using waterpower from the river and creeks to turn the mill wheels. After the war, when these large textile mills were built, the economy quickly converted to textile manufacturing as the chief industry and major employer. RiverView had one of the first large mills at this time named the Alabama-Georgia Manufacturing Co. The plant was given this name because it actually spanned the state line, with part of the plant in AL and the other in GA. The plant was four stories high, 50 feet wide and 250 feet long. Manufacturing of “course fabrics” such as osanburg and single filling duck began here in 1866. Osanburg is an unbleached cotton cloth that was heavy and course. It was used for goods such as farmers clothing, overalls, sacking and bagging. Single filling duck was also a course fabric used for such things as tents, awnings, boat sails, tarpaulins and belts for machinery. One of the old timers, D. W. "Uncle Dan" Simms, who arrived in RiverView in 1879, as a young boy, gives an excellent picture of life there around 1880, when my grandfather, Wiley P., Sr., was fifteen years old. He remembers that the RiverView of 1880 had no school in the village, "But there was a little schoolhouse at the cross-roads (McGinty), where the railroad crosses the dirt road. This school was operated only three months in the year. After the public funds were exhausted, parents would pay one dollar a month for each child. There were very few families that could afford to pay this tuition." By 1880, the population in RiverView was about 175 with most of the people in town living on mill property and working in the mill (note that most of the early McGintys, prior to the mill being built, were farmers in the outlying areas around RiverView). Exceptions were older people and children under seven years of age. "The mill used only waterpower from the river. There was no electricity, and it operated sixty-six hours per week. There was no sprinkler system. Water was kept in large barrels in each room in case of fire. The floors were made from pine boards and were full of splinters. The children went barefooted, so the foreman carried a sharp pocketknife to cut splinters out of their feet. Children were paid around $.60 cents a day for the menial jobs that they could fill such as sweeping. Top pay, for the more skilled weavers, etc. might be $6.50 per week. A colored man brought the drinking water in cedar buckets to the workers from a spring. Everyone drank from the same dipper. It would take the "water man" about three hours to make his rounds. The "hands" would get pretty thirsty, especially during the hot summer months. Cotton and other supplies for the mill were brought in from West Point by large mule drawn wagons (drays). Manufactured cloth goods were then returned to West Point on the same wagon. West Point was the shipping center for the entire area. Workers would go to West Point (seven miles away) on Saturday afternoon after they got out of work at 4:00pm. They would purchase their dry goods and groceries, then carry their supplies home in their arms and across their backs. On Saturday afternoon and night, the road would be filled with friendly, happy, congenial people that knew little about the outside world. Columbus, GA was thirty miles away, an all day trip, and seemed like a faraway country. The main forms of entertainment were swimming, fishing, marbles, town ball, fox and hounds, hunting and square dancing. Sometimes an entertainer would come to the village with something like a magic show. In 1880, there were no bicycles, no gasoline automobiles, no telephones, no short dresses, no bare legs, no powder and paint, no boy-and-girl going out at night alone, no girl's smoking, no bobbed hair and no "mixed" swimming pools. No young man stayed at his girl's house after nine o'clock. None of the girls wore silk stockings; they were "all cotton”. There were no cold drinks and no "bought bread". The farmers raised their own wheat and the flour was very dark, but very good. Lighting was from kerosene lamps and water from a well. People raised much of their own meat and poultry. Eggs sold at three dozen for twenty-five cents, butter was .10 to .12 cents per pound, and bacon was .04 to .05 cents per pound. Coffee sold for .10 cents per pound, it came in bulk, green, and the housewives had to parch and grind it. Flour was $4.00 per barrel. The women and girls made their own clothes or had help from the village dressmaker." Life was simple but good. Another venture in the area was the John Howard Parnell cotton and peach farm. Parnell was a low, heavyset, true Irishman. He was from a very wealthy family in Avondale, Wicklow Co., Ireland and came to the area in 1867 to purchase a "plantation." The 1870 and 1880 census of Chambers Co. (pg. 21/203) shows that he was born ca. 1845 and would have been about twenty-two years old at the time of his arrival. However, the book, Charles Stewart Parnell, A Memoir, that he wrote around 1905, shows his birth date as 1843. His mother, Delia Tudor Stewart, an American, was the daughter of Admiral Charles Stewart, U.S. Navy, who had served in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and was Captain of the USS Constitution, known as "Old Ironsides," from 1813-1815. He was also referred to as the "American Nelson." John Parnell's uncle Charles Stewart, who lived in America, told him after the Civil War was over that great fortunes were to be made there, and advised him to come. Parnell had just inherited some money and his uncle thought that he had the chance to double it. He decided to come and purchased 1,482 acres of land from Col. George W. Huguley on July 11, 1867 for $12,000, after seeing it advertised for sale in the New York newspapers. As the story goes, he took a train from New York to West Point and found Col. Huguley seated on the front porch of his home. After about five minutes of conversation, he bought the land on the spot. This land was located on the old Columbus-Berlin road, about eight miles south of West Point, near Glass, AL. According to his book, he purchased this land for growing cotton. Later, he started a peach-growing venture on part of the property. The 1870 and 1880 census also shows that William "Billie" Merna came from Ireland and was the supervisor of Parnell's farm, which was later named the Sunny South Peach Farm (some accounts called it Sunny Side). Merna is listed as age twenty-five and his wife, age twenty in the 1870 census. His wife was Parnell's housekeeper. They show four children in this census, all born in AL. They are also shown in the 1880 census. They are credited with founding the first Catholic church in the area. There is also a Martin and sister, Kate Linahan from Ireland listed in the 1880 census. They were also involved in his business. These census entries show that Parnell was not alone in America. He brought along these employees from Ireland to operate the farm. He is said to have ultimately planted up to 700 acres of peach trees, and after they started bearing fruit, shipped them to various markets by train. This was said to be one of the largest orchards in America at the time. Special barrels, that Parnell developed, were used for shipping iced peaches by rail. He was one of the first growers to ship peaches from the south to eastern cities (the peach industry was young, but already established in Georgia by then). He was also the first to later import frozen fruit and meat from America to Ireland. Shipping was a problem because the fruit ripened so rapidly that spoilage was a big issue. Some of the peaches were used locally to make brandy which was sold by the barrel to local customers. He devoted much time to peach cultivation methods, endeavoring to produce a species combining the advantages of freestone and the clingstone varieties. Parnell was a man of culture and education and was a devoted chess player. He frequently went to the chess club in Atlanta for games. Later in life, he was a member of a chess team representing the British House of Commons against a team from the U.S. House of Representatives. The moves were played over the lines of the transatlantic cable, each move being telegraphed across the ocean. He also made frequent trips to New York and back to Ireland. His first residence was a log house located about 1/2 mile from McGinty Cross Roads that was the former residence of Rev. Tyre Freeman, primitive Baptist minister. He later purchased a larger home from the Huguleys with columns across the front, and lived there for the balance of his stay. He remained single while in AL. In 1872, his brother, Charles Stewart Parnell, came over from Ireland, and visited him for three weeks. Charles was a famous Irish agitator that was later president of the Home Rule Conference and the Irish League. He was also a member of Parliament. He was sometimes referred to as "the uncrowned king of Ireland.” He visited John when he was younger, around twenty-five years old, and before his political career started, and being used to the life in metropolitan London, found it difficult to accept the "primitive" ways of early Alabama. He is said to have been shocked to find his brother living in a two-room log cabin and associating with the "common folks." However, it is said that while he was in Chambers Co., he enjoyed his contacts with the larger plantation owners. He shot quail, caught catfish and hunted fox. He tried to persuade his brother to return to Ireland, but John was in the middle of establishing his plantation and refused to go. After setbacks such as a crop failure in 1883, Parnell sold his plantation for $5,068 and left AL. However, he continued to spend much time in America, had a fruit business and was investing in other American fruit farms as late as 1891. An article in the February 17, 1892 LaFayette Sun reads, "Mr. Lanier of West Point now owns the once famous Parnell peach orchard and is having the trees cut down and the soil is being prepared for corn and cotton. So, the peach business, which brought many dollars to this community for a number of years, is a thing of the past. It was a great help to the needy in this country and Mr. John Parnell will be greatly missed by that class." Today, the West Point Mfg. Co. stands on his original land. He died May 3, 1923 and his obituary in the New York Times reads: "Dublin, May 3 (Associated Press) John Howard Parnell, brother of Charles Stewart Parnell, the famous Irish statesman died today. He was born in 1843 and spent many years in the United States, engaged in fruit and cotton growing. From 1895 to 1920 he was Member of Parliament for South Meath. He was married to Olivia Isabella Smythe in 1907 and is survived by one son." His obituary in the Irish Times reads: "Parnell, May 2, 1923, at his residence, Sion House, Glenageary, after three day's illness, John Howard Parnell, City Marshall. Deeply regretted by his sorrowing widow and relatives. Funeral private. No flowers by request." He is said to have sat in the House of Commons as a member from Meath, under his brother's leadership. Despite the failure of this early peach growing venture in Alabama, he is credited with being one of the pioneers of the peach industry that later flourished in the south. The soil and growing conditions were ideal. The lack of refrigeration at the time was the main obstacle to success. During his stay, he was a very influential and important citizen in the area. In 2001, several members of the Charles Parnell Society from England visited Valley, AL and were shown the land where John Parnell's farm was located. The West Point Stevens Co. mill and warehouse now occupy this area. A line of peach trees was planted on the original land, along River Road, in front of the warehouse, in memory of the Parnells. It is named The John Parnell Memorial Park. Rev. Basil B. McGinty, son of William Levin McGinty, said that as a young girl, his mother, Laura Viola Spikes McGinty, picked peaches on the Parnell farm. NOTE: The last McGinty family living in River View, Chambers Co., is that of Douglas Clairfield McGinty, b. October 2, 1922. I visited him in February 2003, and enjoyed the hospitality of his family. He is the son of William Grover McGinty and Era Waller McGinty and the grandson of William Levin McGinty. Doug is a young eighty-year-old and his memory is excellent. He worked in the local mill for eighteen years. Later, he repaired watches and for forty-five years, operated a television repair business, McGinty TV Repair. He claims to know where all of the "secret" fishing holes are in the river. He can tell one interesting story after another about the old days in RiverView. His daughter, Teresa Ann McGinty Williams and her husband, Denny live with Doug at 1205 California St. This article is submitted from the book, "Our McGinty Family in America" by Gerald K. McGinty, Sr., and is reproduced here with permission from the author. Additional Comments: Debra, Please replace the current "McGinty AL" with this one. There were some changes/additions that needed to be made. It is in the History section. Thanks, Jerry File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/history/other/mcgintya32ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 17.0 Kb

Chambers County AlArchives Biographies.....McGinty, Rev. Basil Beasley June 19, 1890 - June 29, 1975 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com July 4, 2005, 4:48 pm Author: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. Rev. Basil Beasley McGinty Submitted by Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. Basil was born June 19, 1890. There is disagreement as to where he was born. Some records say that he was born in McGinty, Chambers Co., AL but other records show that his father and family were living in Dudleyville, Tallapoosa Co., AL until 1900, when they relocated to the farm owned by his grandfather, William Pitts McGinty in Chambers Co. Economic conditions at this time were such that Basil started working as a floor sweeper in the Riverdale cotton mill at age ten. He continued to work at the mill for fifty-six years, retiring in late 1955. At the time of his retirement, he was office manager, personnel director and paymaster. He studied in his spare time and earned his high school diploma later in life, after he was already a father. Despite his lack of formal education, he was known as one of the most learned men in the area and was also a fine speaker. He was twice married, the first time to Etta B. Suggs of Thomaston, GA in 1910. They produced two children, Elmo Leon and Mildred Shanks. Elmo, born in 1911, joined the Navy in WW II and died in Seattle of a heart disease in 1944 (Elmo left two baby girls, Laura Jeannette and Mary Maxine. Later in life they both became PhD's). Mildred was born in 1915 and recently died in Mississippi. Wife, Etta died in 1922 and is buried in the First Christian Church cemetery in River View. In 1924, Basil married Mary Melissa Hand of Gold Hill, Clay Co., AL. They produced two daughters, Mary Sue, born in 1927 and Jane Berry, born in 1933. Sue Newberry lives in Columbus, GA and Jane Alford lives in North Carolina. I am very fortunate to have acquired some of his original notes and research from his daughter, Sue Newberry. Basil studied the Bible from a very young age. He used to take a page to work with him so that he could study it when the boss wasn't looking. In 1914 he became an ordained minister at the Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church. He began to serve rural churches as their pastor in addition to his full time position at the mill. These churches included Cussetta, Farmville, Rock Springs, Antioch and Waverly. He also served as moderator of the East Liberty Baptist association for seventeen years. Few men have been more successful as a pastor. He wrote a wonderful book, History of the East Liberty Baptist Association, and was a long time column writer in the Valley newspaper. In the 1950's, Basil purchased part of the old McGinty land that was then known as the Scales farm. This included the home site where his grandfather, William Pitts had lived. He rebuilt a new, modern brick home on this site, using some of the original, hand hewn timbers. The house still stands today and his daughter, Jane, owns the property. The house has been unoccupied since Mary's death in 1994. Basil's notes show that he and Mary had to borrow $4,000 to finance the construction of the new house. He got a loan at 4% interest from Fred Finch. There was no formal mortgage, only a gentleman's agreement. To pay off the loan, Miss Mary bought some more milk cows and milked from five to seven of them everyday for seven and one half years. Basil would deliver the milk on his way to work every morning. They paid off every dollar right on schedule. While Basil was frequently found in the house reading and studying, Miss Mary would be out in the field on her tractor, both doing what they enjoyed the most. I visited this house in June 2003. I was particularly impressed by the row of huge and very old cedar trees in front of the house. It takes three men, holding hands, to circle one of them. Because of their size and age, they would have been planted by William Pitts or perhaps were there even earlier. This site is steeped in McGinty history. Basil felt a deep responsibility to his ancestors and in 1973, had the grave marker of Levin Moore, his maternal great grandfather, moved from what had become a junkyard behind the property owners house, to the McGinty plot at the Fairview cemetery. After his death in 1975, and as one of his final wishes, wife Mary also placed a grave marker by an old cedar stump in Fairview Cemetery where Basil's paternal great grandfather, George Washington McGinty was said to be buried. This grave had never had a marker. Basil died June 29, 1975 and wife, Mary passed away August 21, 1994. They are buried, together with son Elmo, in the McGinty plot at Fairview cemetery, just down the road from their home. Recognition from one of his churches in 1953 reads, "When God called B. B. McGinty to his gospel ministry, he seemed to have endowed him with a heart big enough and a love broad enough to include a greater field and a larger constituency than that afforded most ministers. No association of churches, or brotherhood of preachers, ever had a more faithful friend, leader, counselor and pastor than this brother-beloved." Basil McGinty was a loved and respected man. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/bios/mcginty25bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.6 Kb

Chambers County AlArchives Military Records.....McGinty, Sr., George Washington Indian - Enlistment Georgia Militia ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com May 31, 2005, 10:57 am Seminole War In 1818, at the age of thirty-two, George Washington McGinty, Sr., later a Chambers Co. pioneer, was drafted to serve in the Seminole Indian War in FL. He served as a private in Swinney's Co. of the Douglas Bttn. of GA Militia in the unit commanded by Capt. David Childs (Index to Volunteer Soldiers in Indian Wars and Disturbances, 1815-1858, vol. II, Virgil D. White). There were actually three Seminole wars, and he served in the first one. It was short, beginning in December 1817, when Gen. Andrew Jackson received orders to move into the area of Spanish-owned FL where fierce Seminole Indians, some discontented Creek (referred to as Red Stick Creeks) and groups of escaped slaves and vagabonds had been raiding settlements north of the FL/GA border. Jackson’s army of backwoodsmen fighters, which included Washington, pursued them into northwest FL all the way to Pensacola. The war was over in 1818. Washington was honorably discharged on April 7, 1818. On November 11, 1850, when he was sixty-four years old, he made a declaration for the purpose of obtaining Bounty Land under a recent “Act Granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in military service of the United States,” passed on September 28, 1850. He received forty acres in Chambers Co., AL. On October 27, 1855, at age sixty-nine, he applied for additional bounty land under the act approved on March 3, 1855. He was granted an additional 120 acres for a total of 160 acres. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/military/indian/enlistment/mcgintys198mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb

Chambers County AlArchives Military Records.....McGinty, Franklin Alexander ww2 U.S. Navy ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com May 31, 2005, 10:52 am Awarded Navy Cross John Franklin McGinty, of Chambers Co., AL, had a grandson (son of John Roy, Sr.), Franklin Alexander McGinty, b. November 22, 1911, in Atlanta, GA, d. August 5, 1943 (photo). Frank was a musician and scholar. Music, books and the fine arts were his chief interests. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1941 and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity. He taught for one year at Lavonia High School before entering the service. He was an accomplished organist and was offered, after his basic training, an opportunity to become assistant to the chaplain where he would have arranged the music for religious services for the sailors. He declined, saying that he "wanted to be where he could sink a submarine." Frank was a soundman (listened to sonar), third class in the U.S. Navy Reserves. He was killed in action aboard the USS Plymouth, which, while on convoy duty, was hit by a torpedo as she prepared to depth charge the German submarine, U-566. One account says that they were off Cape Charles about ninety miles east of Elizabeth City, NJ. An article in the New York Times, August 16, 1943, says they were off of the North Carolina coast. According to accounts, as she swung left to bear on the target, a violent underwater explosion occurred just abaft the bridge. She took a heavy list to port with her entire port side forward of amidships in flames. She sank quickly. Rough seas and sharks hampered rescue operations. An article in the New York Times, October 8, 1943, shows that a Coast Guard cutter rescued sixty of the approximately 160 members of the crew "from stormy waters." Frank was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross on October 21, 1943. His citation reads: “ For heroism and outstanding performance of duty during the sinking of the USS PLYMOUTH on August 5, 1943. Soundman McGinty attempted to rescue a man who was trapped in the flaming ship’s armory. He was seen to enter the armory, but he also was trapped there, and thus lost his life. Such action reflects great credit upon the Naval Service.” Later in the war, a new destroyer escort, DE-365, the USS McGINTY, was named in honor of him (photo). His name is included on the monument, Tablets of the Missing, in Battery Park, New York City. This ship was built at the Consolidated Steel Corp. shipyard in Orange, TX. On August 5, 1944, the anniversary of his death, it was christened by his stepsister, Mrs. Perrillah Malone, who broke the traditional bottle of champagne over its bow. The ship was then launched and glided down the ramp into the Sabine River. His mother and father were in attendance at the ceremony along with his brother and several other dignitaries. This ship was active in WW II, first based at Pearl Harbor. She performed escort duty between Guam, Eniwetok and Ulithi, later making runs to Okinawa and Tokyo Bay. After the war, she returned to San Diego and was made part of the reserve fleet in 1947. In March 1951, she was brought back into active service in the Korean War where she received three battle stars. From May - July 1956, she participated in "Operation Redwing" at the pacific proving grounds. These were a series of at least seventeen nuclear detonations, testing various aspects of the weapons. The tests were held at the Eniwetok and Bikini atolls. The USS McGinty's role was in measuring radiation fall-out, etc. At this time her homeport was at Pearl Harbor. In 1959, she was decommissioned and berthed at Portland, Oregon. Then in 1961, when the Berlin Wall went up, she was reactivated and traveled the Sea of Japan and South China Sea. Crewmembers who served on the ship say that she could out steam the newer DE's because she had two screws and most of them only had one. She was decommissioned the final time in August 1962. In September 1968, she was taken off the Navy records and sold to American Ship Dismantlers of Portland, OR who cut it up for scrap. I have a U.S.S. McGinty Navy shoulder patch from one of the uniforms. (Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center, Washington Navy Yard, DC, and Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, vol. IV and V. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/military/ww2/other/mcginty197mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb

Chambers County AlArchives Military Records.....McGinty, Pinckney Harrington Civilwar 14 Alabama Infantry, Company A ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com May 31, 2005, 10:39 am Service Record Pinckney or “Uncle Pink” as his nephews and nieces called him was one of three McGintys that enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 14th AL Volunteer Infantry Regiment (photo). His enlistment date is shown as April 7, 1862, in Yorktown, VA. This date is after the 14th had already moved to VA. It is possible that he actually enlisted at an earlier date, with the other two McGinty boys, and that the date of April 7, 1862, is actually the date when the 14th AL was accepted into the Confederate army. At this time, his uncle Capt. William D. Harrington, was the commanding officer of Co. A. He had been commissioned May 9, 1861. Capt. Harrington was the son of Jepta Harrington and the brother of Elizabeth Harrington McGinty, wife of Washington McGinty. Capt. Harrington resigned from the unit on August 2, 1862, reason unknown. The Harrington family came to Chambers Co. in 1836 and joined the Bethlehem Baptist church. William Harrington, a minister, was ordained there in 1839 and served several churches in the area, both before and after the war. He died June 17, 1871, at age fifty- one. This regiment was known as the “Cusseta Grays”; named for Cusseta, AL (pronounced Cu-seet-a) which is the district where he lived in the 1860 census. Before the war, he had probably inherited his father's rather large farming operation and shows real estate worth $2500 and a personal estate of $10000. The 14th AL infantry regiment, in which Pinckney, James and Joshua McGinty were members, was organized at Auburn, AL, in 1861. It was raised under the call of the Confederacy for volunteers to serve three years or for the duration of the war. The unit was ordered to Richmond, VA, in October 1861. From there, they moved to Evansport, VA, where the real service began. In January 1862, the unit was transferred back to Richmond to recover from health problems described as “camp sickness.” Then in March 1862, orders were received to move to Yorktown. They fought with distinction at Williamsburg, May 5, 1862. At Seven Pines and during the seven-day fight with McClellan before Richmond, the company suffered severely in killed and wounded. At the opening of the seven- day fight at the end of June 1862, the company had forty-seven men for duty. During the seven-day fight, the surgeon sent eight men to the hospital. Thirty- eight were killed or wounded, leaving only one man, W. A. Prather, to answer roll call. The company went from this fight and through the battles of Second Manassas, Sharpesburg and Booneboro without any commissioned officers. In 1863, the company was in all the important battles of the Army of Northern Virginia. It was part of the small force that fought at Salem Church, driving General Sedgewick across the river, and preventing his flank movement towards Richmond. At Gettysburg and Deep Mine, Co. A did its part. During the fall of 1864, and into 1865, until the retreat from Petersburg, the company fought daily. In January and February 1865, the company was in several engagements on the right of Lee’s army. The duties from January till the surrender at Appomattox was very difficult and said to “try men’s constitutions as well as their souls.” At Appomattox, Company “A” surrendered her arms and afterward took the oath of allegiance to the country. [This from the records of Stephen Hodge, 3rd Sergeant. Elected to 1st Lieutenant, October 8, 1862, and promoted to Captain, June 2, 1864. He was still living in AL in 1901]. It is interesting to note that James Judge Havis was elected 1st Lt. in Co. A. He was one of the builders of the Riverdale mill in River View after the war in 1866, and his name shows on the cornerstone. Havis was postmaster at Oakbowery, AL in 1858 and owned a store there. He was also a surveyor in 1840 and built a home near McGinty Crossroads. Pinckney was captured April 6, 1865, near High Springs, VA, as Lee’s army retreated from Petersburg and was imprisoned in Newport News, VA. He was released July 2, 1865. According to his personal statement, he participated in twenty-one battles from Yorktown to the siege of Petersburg. He also claimed to have taken care of Robert E. Lee’s horse, Traveler, at some point during the war. The 14th AL was always near to Lee, and he is said to have been very fond of his “Alabama Boys.” As long as Pinckney lived, he kept a framed picture of Lee’s horse near him. After Lee died in 1870, Traveler was taken on tour through the South for the veterans to gaze at once more. Pinckney told many “war stories” to his family. He would laugh and say “how we made those Yankees run with our Rebel Yell.” His records are in the National Archives, M374, roll 30. (It is interesting to note that, according to war records in the National Archives, there were over one hundred McGinty men who fought in the Civil War, both for the north and the south. By 1860, there were McGinty located in many parts of the country.) File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/military/civilwar/other/mcginty196mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.6 Kb

Chambers County AlArchives Military Records.....McGinty, William Pitts Civilwar - Enlistment 4th Alabama Reserves ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com May 31, 2005, 10:36 am Service Record Civil War records in the National Archives show William Pitts McGinty, as a private in Capt. H.F. Dunston’s 4th Alabama Reserves. This unit included about eighty men from the area. This company subsequently became Co. E, 4th Reg., AL Reserves. William Pitts mustered into this unit August 5, 1864, in Opelika, AL. His enlistment documents give us his description as 45 years old, five feet ten inches tall, blue eyes, dark hair and fair complexion. His service records do not show his active duty in this unit. However, at the time, there was a crisis in Mobile which was under attack by Adm. Farragut and all available AL reserves were ordered to report there. The 4th AL was on post in Mobile by November 20, 1864. On February 7, 1865, they were ordered to Montgomery to help defend that area and arrived on February 20, 1865, 150 present for duty and according to the CSA records, were "very much disorganized." File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/military/civilwar/enlistment/mcginty195mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb

Thanks for the help.. Joe Cotton Jr.

Chambers County AlArchives Obituaries.....Lanier, Marie (Lamar) January 19, 1987 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Valerie (Johnson) Freeman http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00009.html#0002248 May 23, 2005, 10:46 pm Unknown (possibly LaGrange Daily News - Troup Co., Georgia) - January 1987 Mrs. George H. Lanier [nee Marie Lamar] LANETT, Ala. - Mrs. George H. Lanier, 103, died Monday at her home in Lanett. A graveside service will be 3 p.m. today at West Point Cemetery in West Point, Ga., according the McCarthy Funeral Home, West Point. Mrs. Lanier was born Sept. 26, 1883, in Americus, Ga., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lamar. She was the widow of George H. Lanier, who was president of the West Point Mfg. Co., today the West Point Pepperell Co. Mrs. Lanier was a member of the Spring Road Christian Church for 80 years. She was the founder of The Chattahoochee Valley Girl Scout Council, and served as the council's first president. She was the chairman of the Juliette Lowe (sic - should be Low) Girl Scout Camp in north Georgia. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Joe L. Jennings of West Point, two sons, Joe L. Lanier, Sr. and Bruce Lanier, both of Lanett; 15 grandchildren; 19 great- grandchildren; a great-great grandchild. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the George H. Lanier Memorial Hospital in Langdale or to charity. Additional Comments: Mrs. Lanier was my husband's Great-grandmother who lived to be 103 1/2! He remembers going to her house and being offered Coke and cheese straws (yum). Her birthplace is wrong in the obituary. She was born on the plantation of her Grandfather, Harrison Nichols, near Snow Spring, Dooly Co., Georgia. She and her parents later made their home in Americus, Georgia. Descendants of Charles Winn Lamar 1 Charles Winn Lamar b: Feb 1852 in Americus, Sumter Co., Georgia d: 7 Aug 1912 in Americus, Sumter Co., Georgia Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery - Americus, Sumter Co., Georgia +Josephine Elizabeth Nichols b: 13 Feb 1862 in Worth Co., Georgia m: 3 Mar 1880 in Dooly Co., Georgia d: 20 Sep 1915 in Resident of West Point, Troup Co., Georgia Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery - Americus, Sumter Co., Georgia Father: Harrison Nichols Mother: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Freeman ~ 2 Marie Lamar b: 26 Sep 1883 in Nichols Plantation - Snow, Dooly Co., Georgia d: 19 Jan 1987 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama Burial: Jan 1987 Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia ~~ +George Huguley Lanier, Sr. b: 22 Aug 1880 in West Point, Troup Co., Georgia m: 20 Feb 1904 in Americus, Sumter Co., Georgia d: 17 Sep 1948 in "Clovernook" - Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama Burial: Marseilles Cemetery, West Point, Troup Co., Georgia Father: LaFayette Lanier, Sr. Mother: Ada Alice Huguley ~~~~ 3 Marion Lanier b: 1904-1905 d: Abt 1905 in Infancy - Jackson, Butts Co., Georgia ~~~~ 3 Joseph Lamar Lanier, Sr. b: 12 Feb 1906 in Jackson, Butts Co., Georgia d: 28 Nov 2000 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama Burial: 29 Nov 2000 Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia ~~~~~ +Lura Brown Fowlkes b: 22 Nov 1909 in "of Birmingham, Alabama" m: 1931 d: 12 Oct 1997 in (Chambers Co., Alabama) Burial: Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia Father: Mother: ~~~~ 3 George Huguley "Uncle Bubba" Lanier, Jr. b: 25 Oct 1907 d: 25 Oct 1982 Burial: Moultrie, Colquitt Co., Georgia ~~~~~ +Rosalind Vereen b: 24 May 1911 m: Nov 1936 d: 7 Jul 1997 Burial: Moultrie, Colquitt Co., Georgia Father: Mother: ~~~~ 3 Marie Lamar Lanier b: 19 Sep 1909 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama d: 28 Jun 1994 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Burial: 30 Jun 1994 Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia ~~~~~ +Joseph Leslie Jennings, Sr. b: 26 Jul 1901 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama m: 31 May 1935 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama d: 7 Jul 1971 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama Burial: Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia Father: Reuben William Jennings Mother: Sara Frances Burdette ~~~~ 3 Lucy Janet Lanier b: 11 Jan 1912 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama d: 21 Jul 1981 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Burial: Jul 1981 Shadowlawn Cemetery - LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia ~~~~~ +Otis Florence "O. F." Nixon, Jr. b: 23 Feb 1911 in Senoia, Coweta Co., Georgia m: 25 Sep 1937 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama d: 21 Jun 1994 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Burial: 23 Jun 1994 Shadowlawn Cemetery, LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Father: Otis Florence Nixon, Sr. Mother: Dollie Bob Hardy ~~~~ 3 Bruce Nichols Lanier, Sr. b: 11 Jun 1913 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama d: 9 Dec 2002 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama Burial: 11 Dec 2002 Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia ~~~~~ + (living) File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/obits/l/lanier371gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.2 Kb

Cotton is listed several times in the index, but unfortunately every entry appears to be about the material or a mill, not a person. JCotton685@aol.com wrote: >Hi, > Could you check and see if there is any Cotton`s in the book, thank >you... > > > Joe Cotton Jr. >

Chambers County AlArchives Obituaries.....McGinty, Ann Moore February 5, 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com May 22, 2005, 5:59 pm Gospel Messenger Ann Moore McGinty was the wife of William Pitts McGinty. She was born March 3, 1830 in Jones Co., Georgia and was the daughter of Levin and Penelope Patterson Moore, early Chambers Co. settlers. She died in 1898 of acute bronchitis, and her son, James Madison McGinty wrote her epitaph, which was published in the Gospel Messenger, in 1898, pg. 326. It reads as follows: “With a heart full of sorrow and deep affliction, I write to inform our relatives, brethren, and sisters of the death of our dear mother. Mrs. Ann M. McGinty, who died at her home near RiverView, Chambers Co., AL, Feb. 5, 1898, sixty-eight years old less twenty-six days. She was the daughter of Levin and Penelope Moore. She was born in Jones Co., GA in the year 1830, and in early life moved with her parents to Chambers Co., AL; and on the eleventh day of April, 1846, she was married to W. P. McGinty, and to this union were born eleven children, nine of whom, with her aged husband, mourn her death. She was a faithful and true wife, a kind and good mother, always ready to administer to the wants of her family. She was a great sufferer for a number of years, but bore her afflictions with great fortitude. She was a strong believer in the doctrine of salvation by grace, having joined the Primitive Baptist church at Ephesus, Chambers Co., AL, in the year 1846, which church sustains a great loss.” File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/obits/m/mcginty419ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb

Chambers County AlArchives Obituaries.....McGinty, Mollie Hinton Redd October 31, 1931 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com May 22, 2005, 5:51 pm LaFayette Sun and Chattahoochee Valley Times Her epitaph was published in the LaFayette Sun and reproduced on the front page of the Chattahoochee Valley Times on November 11, 1931. It reads, " Mrs. W. P. McGinty Passes at Riverview Saturday, Oct. 31. Mrs. Mollie McGinty, age 58 years, died at her home in Riverview Saturday morning, October 31st, at 1 o'clock, following a heart attack early last Friday night. The beloved Riverview woman had been suffering for some time with high blood pressure which resulted in the attack last Friday. Funeral services were held from the family residence last Sunday afternoon at three o'clock…the deceased was a member of the Baptist church and had lived a useful life in that community…internment was in the McGinty cemetery." File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/obits/m/mcginty418ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb

Hi, Could you check and see if there is any Cotton`s in the book, thank you... Joe Cotton Jr.

Chambers County AlArchives History .....Textile Towns Of The Chattahoochee Valley 1949 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Valerie (Johnson) Freeman http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00009.html#0002248 May 21, 2005, 9:20 pm Book Title: The cover says: The Six Textile Towns of the Chattahoochee Valley RIVER VIEW, ALA. FAIRFAX, ALA. LANGDALE, ALA. SHAWMUT, ALA. LANETT, ALA. WEST POINT, GA. COPYRIGHT MCMXLIX BY CURT TEICH & CO., INC., CHICAGO U.S.A. Inside: "THE VALLEY" A long the banks of the Chattahoochee River in east central Alabama and west central Georgia, lies the industrial community widely known as THE VALLEY. It is comprised of six inter-locked towns, located within a radius of three miles: Lanett, Shawmut, Langdale, Fairfax, and River View, Alabama; and directly across the state line from Lanett, West Point, Georgia. The total population of the six towns is approximately 35,000. Cotton textile manufacturing, dyeing, bleaching and finishing are the principal industries. Historically THE VALLEY had its beginning as one of the many settlements in this section of the Creek (Muscogee) Indians. Trading posts were established here as early as 1800. In 1831 a group of settlers from Georgia founded the town of Franklin, changing its name the following year to West Point. It was in West Point that the battle of Fort Tyler was fought - the last important military engagement in the War Between the States east of the Mississippi River. Following this war, when former President Jefferson Davis was passing through West Point, his daughter, Winnie, was introduced to the public here as "the daughter of the Confederacy," from which phrase the U. D. C. later took its founding name. Sidney Lanier's famous poem, "The Song of the Chattahoochee," written for his local kinswoman, Mrs. W. H. Lanier, was published first in a West Point newspaper. The cotton textile industry of THE VALLEY dates from 1866, when two groups of local merchants and planters built the original mills here: the Alabama-Georgia Manufacturing Company, as present Langdale. In 1880, under the leadership of Lafayette Lanier, the West Point Manufacturing Company was organized, when it purchased the properties of the mill at Langdale. Today the West Point Manufacturing Company operates mills in each of the five Alabama towns of THE VALLEY. The Lanett Bleachery and Dye Works, one of the largest industries of its kind in the country, is also located in Lanett. THE VALLEY is the home of the nationally advertised Martex towels. Other mills in the West Point group manufacture a wide variety of cotton duck, drills, twills, sateens, and sheetings, which are used extensively by the rubber, automotive, electrical, oil, sugar, paint, and many other industries. Approximately 8,500 people are employed in the local mills. GENUINE CURTECH-CHICAGO * C. T. AMERICAN ART * CREATION (REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.) D- 8970 Additional Comments: I believe the Mrs. W. H. Lanier who Sydney Lanier wrote the poem for is Susan L. (Lawson) Lanier, the widow of William Henry Lanier. William served in Killed in battle during the Stoneman Raid on 30 July 1863 near Clinton/Macon, Jones County, GA. He was Capt. of West Point Light Guards, Co. D, 4th Regiment, GA Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A. Left West Point on 26 April 1861 for mobilization in Augusta, GA. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 9 May 1861; re-signed in May 1862. His body was brought home and buried at Pinewood Cemetery in West Point, Troup Co., Georgia. According to my personaly FTM file, William Henry Lanier and Sidney Clopton Lanier were 2nd cousin, once removed, sharing the common ancestors of James Lanier and Mary (Cooke) Lanier. William Henry Lanier was the son of Reuben Lanier and Arabella Elizabeth Crockett. He was the eldest brother of Lafayette Lanier. Lafayette Lanier m. Ada Alice Huguley, daughter of George Huguley and Gabrella (Arabella) Alice Dallis. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/history/other/textilet61gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb

Rose WELDON Margrit WELDON Maud YATES Lillie PHILLIPS Myrtle LIPHAM (probably not spelled correct) Margaret WELDON Ethel GLOVER Mae LANDRETH Arlevis MCCULLUN Mollie ADAMS Terri A. JONES Nora Lee JONES Magie MELVIN Leela COLLINS Rosa Lee JOHNSON Eva STUBBLEFIELD Elizabeth MCDANIEL Rosa LAMB Francis BRAZELL Elsa Burma WELDON Hellen JONES Ruth CRENSHAW Agnes MILLER Ida Mae DUNCAN Florence WELDON All this were listed in the 1938 roll. delilah

THanks so much for the reply. Millie Franssen

Tim Been reading your mail and wanted to let you and anyone else know that Ruth Crump compiled and wrote a book about the history of Riverview, AL. I think she had it published and there is probably a copy in the Cobb Library in Shawmut, AL. I am a native of the Valley, was born in Langdale in 1928 at home, lived in Langdale until 1944 when my Dad went to Riverview as Master Mechanic of Riverdale Mill. I lived in Riverview until 1960 when we moved to Calhoun Falls, S.C. and now live in Greenwood, S.C. I worked in the Mills in the Valley, Langdale, Riverview, The Lantuck Plant, a short time in Shawmut Mill and briefly in Fairfax Mill. My Ancestors of the Terry Family settled in Chambers County in early 1830, when John Terry moved there from Morgan County, GA. I still have a large Terry family of cousin's and relatives living in the Valley and surrounding areas. In The Book "The Heritage of Chambers County, AL."{ there is a write up of the early history of Langdale , Hughley, Fairfax, Lanett, and Riverview. There is also a write up of Valley, AL. and tells about the formation of the new city of Valley. I purchased the book from the Cobb Library at a cost of $65.00 and its well worth the price. Sidney Terry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Kemp" <tkemp@mindspring.com> To: <ALCHAMBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [ALCHAMBE-L] Mill Towns of "The Valley" > Valerie, Please let me know if you post it, and if you don't I would > love to have a copy of it. George H. Huguley was a friend of my GG > Grandfather George W. Murphy and had him come from MD to oversee the > construction and running of Shawmut Mill. My Uncle George Zachry > (married Valma Kemp) is the grandson of Eppie Huguley (1865-1940) so > he'd be some kin to your husband. > > My only Lanier connection is I was born in the George H Lanier Hospital > in Langdale. Don't count for much does it? > > > > VCJFreeman@aol.com wrote: > > >Hi All -- > > > >I have a poor quality xerox of a one of those pamplet postcards -- the kind > >that fold close. > > > >The cover says: > > > >The Six Textile Towns of the > >Chattahoochee > >Valley > > > >RIVER VIEW, ALA. FAIRFAX, ALA. > >LANGDALE, ALA. SHAWMUT, ALA. > >LANETT, ALA. WEST POINT, GA. > > > >Yes, River View is two words. > > > >It looks like the copywrite date of the postcard is 1949 -- if I am rembering > >how to properly read Roman numerals which are MCMXLIX. > > > >There is a 7 paragraph write up which I can transcribe and post the Chambers > >Co Archives if any one thinks that would be appropriate. > > > >My husband is a direct descandant of the early leaders of the Valley textile > >industry -- George Huguley and his 2nd wife, Gabrella (Arabella) Alice Dallis. > > Their daughter, Ada Alice Huguley married Lafayette Lanier, Sr., son of > >Reuben Lanier & Arabella Elizabeth Crockett. George Huguley Lanier, son of > >Lafayette & Ada Alice, was my husband's Great-grandfather. > > > >My husband was raised in here in California, so for the most he is learning > >more about his family through myresearch efforts than personal contact. > >Thankfully, he still has a Great-Aunt living in Lanett that we keep in contact with > >and visit when we make it to Georgia. She graciously shares with us many > >family stories and also sends photos, newspaper clippings, etc. as she finds them. > > > > > >Valerie Freeman > >Tustin, California > > > > > >==== ALCHAMBE Mailing List ==== > >To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to ALCHAMBE-L-request@rootsweb.com with the one word, unsubscribe, in the BODY of the message. > >If you are subscribed to the digest, send your unsubscribe message to ALCHAMBE-D-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Tim Kemp Amateur Radio Station WB4BAH > > wb4bah@arrl.net > wb4bah@mindspring.com > > AOL Instant Messenger - Tim D Kemp > > The Kemp Family Homepage > http://www.mindspring.com/~tkemp > Genealogy info on KEMP, STROTHER, MURPHY, and allied families. > > > > ==== ALCHAMBE Mailing List ==== > Send your marriage list here! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~alchambe/ >

There is an article about Wiley and Elmina. Article is writen by Carolyn Bierly, 131 Castle Church Road, White Rock, SC 29177 Tim JodieK444@aol.com wrote: >Tim, > Is there anything on the Dormans in the book? My Dormans were in Chambers >County also. I understand they lived near Lanett. Were there from the 1840s >until the 1900s. Wiley Dorman and his (2nd) wife, Elmina Jones, moved from Georgia >(Harris, Troup counties) to Chambers and raised their children and >grandchildren there. Wiley's first wife was Martha Newberry, who also lived in Georgia >in the 1820s-1830s. Wiley and Martha were in Harris Co., GA in the 1830 census. >They had 4 children: >1. Green Washington Dorman (b. 1820) who married Sarah Head and moved to >Arkansas. >2. James Monroe Dorman )b. 1824) who married Martha Sherard and moved to >Louisiana. >3. Sarah Ann Dorman (b. 1827) who married William Wilson and remained in >Chambers county. >4. Susan Dorman (b. 1830) who married Seaborn May and also moved to Arkansas. > >Martha died between 1830 (in the census) and 1832 when Wiley remarried Elmina >Jones in Troup County and they moved to Chambers and lived near Wiley's >sister, Mary Elizabeth Dorman, who married Jeff Atkins. > >Wiley and Elmina had 11 children, all of whom were in Chambers County at some >time: >5. Nancy Caroline Dorman (b. 1832) m. James M. Higgins >6. Allen Dorman (b. 1835) m. Aurilla Vickers. (Allen is my paternal GG >grandfather) >7. Jessee Fincher Dorman (b. 1837) m. Martha Ann Adeline Abernathy ( a >descendant of the Boyds of Meriwether Co., GA who are my maternal ancestors) >8. Wiley Monroe Dorman (b. 1840) who died in the Civil War. To my knowledge, >he never married. >9. William Leonard Dorman (b. 1842) m. Laura Beecher Montague Moss >10. Sanford Mitchell Dorman (b. 1844, d. 1844) who was the first person >buried in the Dorman family cemetery. >11. Edna Ann Dorman (b. 1848) m. (Capt.) John W. Bonner >12. Henry Rudolph Dorman (b. 1850) m. Pyrene C. Webb >13. Elmina Catherine Dorman (b. 1852) m. (Capt.) Henry Gaylord >14. Louisa Cordelia Dorman (b. 1854) m. Pleasant Hill (Pleas) Lawson >15. Leander (Wiley's will says "Lee Andru") Montgomery Dorman (b. 1856) who >died mysteriously in Arkansas > >I have quite a bit of information on the family already, but always welcome >more. Would love to hear from any who are connected to this family. > >Judy Kilgore >Newnan, GA >