Hi Listers, I am trying to find information about Ralph Lemaster. It seems to me that there are a lot of Lemasters running around Chambers County without parents. I am trying to link my bunch with Ralph - somehow. Does his 'will' exist? If so, then I would like a copy. Or an abstract. Or even a citation would help. I want some way to get my hands on it. My line is from Mariah Ann Lemaster (b. MAR 1836?), who married John J. Jones. She is seen variously as Ann Jones, M. A. Jones, Marian Lemaster, etc. She had at least a brother, Thomas G. Lemaster (b. JAN 1833, married Clarissa (maiden name unknown)), and a sister, Virginia Caroline Lemaster (b. MAR 1840?), and maybe another brother, William Lemaster (b. ABT. 1830). Their mother seems to have been Harriett (maiden name unknown). I cannot find a suitable LEMASTER man to marry Harriett. I can only guess that it was an elder son of Ralph who died fairly young. I would also like to know where the name Temperance Reason comes from. Is there a marriage record of some sort? Any help is greatly appreciated :) Cheers, Gregg

Hello, I noticed your name was John Leverett. Any relation to the Leveretts of Chambers County? Briskey/Brisky family is connected with Leveretts and there are some of the Leveretts buried in Briskey family cemetery. There is a Briskey reunion in Milltown, Chambers County, AL The 2nd weekend of October. you'd be welcome to attend. Sandel BRISKEY-L@rootsweb.com Seattle Surnames; Briskey,Brisky,Brisque,Demastus,Sutton,Meadows,Hodnett,Moore,McIntosh,Leverett willing to share and trade

Hi Debra, That's great news, how goes the research? My cousin in Alabama just got 41 more pages of family history from Lafayette court house, hope to have copies soon. If I ever get some more time to put stuff on line. My mother hasn't been well. Had two emergency calls last week. So I'm kind of exhausted right now. Keep in touch. Keep up the fantastic work your doing. Sandel BRISKEY-L@rootsweb.com Seattle Surnames; Briskey,Brisky,Brisque,Demastus,Sutton,Meadows,Hodnett,Moore,McIntosh,Leverett willing to share and trade

Once in a while we really get a gem to come along for researchers! Thanks to Barbara Taylor we have just such a gem online now for Tallapoosa and Chambers Co. She has very generously shared with us the Langley Funeral Home records which covers Tallapoosa and Chambers Co. as well as deaths recorded in Lee, Russell & other counties. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/tallapoosa/vitals.htm Thank you so much Barbara!!!! Debra Crosby

No John I havent ran into any. But I would like you to contact me if you have time to compare the Leverett line and see if I have it straight and maybe we could share Judy jimmy4cb@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Leverette" <johnl2@ev1.net> To: <ALCHAMBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 9:01 PM Subject: [ALCHAMBE-L] Mexican American War Muster Roll for Chambers Co. Vets > Does anyone know whether there is any Mexican American War muster rolls > online for Chambers County veterans? Or, if there is any book that lists > all the veterans of that war that enlisted from Chambers Co., AL? > > John > > > ==== ALCHAMBE Mailing List ==== > Donate to the USGenWeb Archives! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/chambers.htm > >

Does anyone know whether there is any Mexican American War muster rolls online for Chambers County veterans? Or, if there is any book that lists all the veterans of that war that enlisted from Chambers Co., AL? John

Hi Sharon, In my Heritage of Chambers County book by Heritage publishing Co is Smedley Family on page 264. Many familys like my Briskey family lived in Abbeville, SC andseems many migrated together to GA and then to Chambers County. Many inner married in the groups. Anyway your smedley family is descended from John Smedley c1745-1790 of edgefield Sitrict South carolina. John Smedley's eldest son was Thomas Smedley who was born in SC on Sept 10, 1767. Thomas Smedley married Naomi Melton on Jan 14,1790, and they had the following children: John Smedley, Thomas M Smedley, Nancy Smedley,Lucy Smedley,Elizabeth S Smedley, Naomi Smedley,James Milledge Smedley, Bulah Smedley and Armsted B Smedley. Thomas Smedley and Naomi Melton moved first to Greene County, GA and then to Putnam County, GA. In the 1830's they moved to Troup County, GA, where they both died. (Hey we have a couple baby Melton's in family cemetery we are trying to find that family) they are all alone burried under a dead tree. 1850's. Anyway if this sounds like yours please email me seperately. Can try to give mroe information mention Smedley/Melton and page 264. Glad to help Sandel BRISKEY-L@rootsweb.com Seattle Surnames; Briskey,Brisky,Brisque,Demastus,Sutton,Meadows,Hodnett,Moore,McIntosh,Leverett willing to share and trade

Hey James, See you caught onto this one too. Pat Garret is in the Heritage of chambers County book also. Sandel

Yes it is. He is in the Hertiage of Chambers County Book published by Heritage Publishing. The Real McCoys, and many other's also famous back then we're born in Chambers County. I was very surprised myself to find how rich in history it is. So much being lost. Sandel BRISKEY-L@rootsweb.com Seattle Surnames: Briskey,Brisky,Brisque,Demastus,Sutton,Meadows,Hodnett,Moore,McINtosh,Leverett willing to share and trade

My goodness where does the time go??? My Miles Smedley was born 1846 and died 1913, he lived in Troup County, GA and Chambers County, AL. He is buried in the churchyard of Canaan Missionary Baptist Church in Welch, AL. I was told the family came from one of the Carolina's, to GA then AL. My Miles is listed as Mulatto on the census and it is told he was the only son of the Slave Holder. I haven't confirmed this yet. Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynda S. Eller" <deller@mindspring.com> To: <ALCHAMBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 6:43 PM Subject: [ALCHAMBE-L] Smedleys > Sharon, > What are the dates on your Miles Smedley? I have a Middleton Milledge > Smedley who married Mary Jane Smith. There was a whole family grouping that > came from South Carolina to Troup Co., GA and over to Chambers Co. by 1860. > There are several people working on these families. > One of the men was a War of 1812 soldiers and his father who came with them > was old enough to be Rev. War possible. > There is still an area known as the Smedley farm down here. > Lynda > > > > ==== ALCHAMBE Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com/~alchambe/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/chambers.htm > List-Admin is Lynda Eller deller@mindspring.com > >

I told you my memory was bad. I should have looked before I spoke. This time I looked. Joe Lewis Barrow was born on Buckalew Mountain and I should have made that connection. Now I've got to try and figure out why I said LaGrange. GARRETT, PATRICK FLOYD JARVIS (1850-1908). Pat Garrett, lawman, was born on June 5, 1850, in Chambers County, Alabama, the son of John Lumpkin and Elizabeth Ann (Jarvis) Garrett. In 1853 the family moved to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, where Garrett received an elementary education. In 1869 he left home for the buffaloqv range in Texas. He and a friend, Skelton Glenn, hunted buffalo from Fort Griffin to Lubbock; the partnership dissolved in 1877, when Comanches destroyed their camp. Garrett then drifted west to Fort Sumner, New Mexico. In 1877 he married Juanita Gutiérrez, who died a few months later. He married her sister Apolinaria in January 1880. The couple had nine children. In November 1880 Garrett, running as a Democrat, was elected sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico. He set out immediately to track down Billy the Kid (Henry McCartyqv). After killing the Kid's cronies Charles Bowdre and Tom O'Folliard, Garrett captured Billy and brought him to trial in Mesilla, New Mexico, on a charge of murder. While awaiting the hangman's rope at Lincoln, however, the Kid escaped, only to be killed by Garrett in Fort Sumner on the night of July 14, 1881. To Garrett was subsequently attributed The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, published in 1882, although Garrett's closest friend, Marshall Ashmun (Ash) Upson, claimed to have written every word. In 1884, after failing to be elected a state senator, Garrett became captain of the LS Texas Rangers, a group of rangers sent by Governor John Irelandqv to the Panhandleqv to protect ranchers from rustlers. He served only a few weeks and then moved to Roswell, New Mexico, where he devised irrigation plans. He had insufficient funds, however, and was forced out and moved to Uvalde, Texas, where he lived from 1891 to 1896. In 1896 New Mexico governor William T. Thornton asked him to become the Dona Ana County Sheriff. Thornton wanted Garrett to find the abductors of Albert J. Fountain,qv a former Texas state senator, who had disappeared near what later became the White Sands Missile Range. In 1899 Garrett brought ranchers Jim Gililland, Bill McNew, and Oliver Lee to trial in Hillsboro, New Mexico. All were defended by Albert B. Fall and acquitted. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Garrett customs collector in El Paso in 1901 but did not reappoint him in 1906. Garrett returned to his ranch in the San Andres Mountains in southern New Mexico. On February 29, 1908, a cowboy named Wayne Brazel allegedly shot him in the back of the head while they rode a lonely road between Organ and Las Cruces, New Mexico. Garrett was originally buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Las Cruces. In 1957 his body was reinterred in the Masonic Cemetery across the street. He was a Democrat and agnostic. JOE LEWIS BARROW was born May 13, 1914, near LaFayette, Alabama, in a tenant shack on Buckalew Mountain. He became Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber. On June 22, 1937, Joe KO'd Jim Braddock to become the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. He had lost to Max Schmeling in June of 1936. In 1938, at Yankee Stadium, Louis got vengeance 2:04 into the first round. He retired March 1, 1949, with a record of 68 wins, 3 losses and 54 knockouts. He had defended his title on 24 occasions. Joe tried to come out of retirement twice; Ezzard Charles prevented it in 1950, and Rocky Marciano stopped him in 1951. Joe died April 22, 1981, in Las Vegas, Nevada. President Ronald Reagan presented to Joe posthumously the American's Award on May 11, 1984. James "Lee" Weaver A Certified, "Son of the South." My Home Page: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&ext=1&groupid=105670&ck= All outgoing email and attachments are scanned by Norton AntiVirus 2002!

My memory isn't what it used to be but I think it was Troup County, near LaGrange. James "Lee" Weaver A Certified, "Son of the South." My Home Page: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&ext=1&groupid=105670&ck= All outgoing email and attachments are scanned by Norton AntiVirus 2002!

Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was born in Chambers County, June 5, 1850, the oldest son of John Lumpkin Garrett and Elizabeth Ann Jarvis. He was born on Buckalew Mountain near Lafayette, Alabama. He died February 28, 1908 near Almeda Arroyo, New Mexico and is buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is in my family line. Betty McVey Denney ----- Original Message ----- From: "joshua" <snakeforce@bellsouth.net> To: <ALCHAMBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:11 AM Subject: [ALCHAMBE-L] pat garret > i have heard pat garret was born in chambers county al. is this true?

hey thanks for all the info,its amazeing how much history this area has. ----- Original Message ----- From: <AngelSandel@aol.com> To: <ALCHAMBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [ALCHAMBE-L] pat garret > Hey James, > See you caught onto this one too. Pat Garret is in the Heritage of chambers > County book also. > Sandel > > > ==== ALCHAMBE Mailing List ==== > Who is your MOST WANTED? > Visit the USGenWeb Archives for Alabama > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm > >

lagrange? wow iwork in lagrange ----- Original Message ----- From: <wi4r@earthlink.net> To: <ALCHAMBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 3:01 AM Subject: RE: [ALCHAMBE-L] pat garret > My memory isn't what it used to be but I think it was Troup County, near > LaGrange. > > James "Lee" Weaver > A Certified, "Son of the South." > My Home Page: > http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&ext=1&groupid=105670&ck= > All outgoing email and attachments are scanned by Norton AntiVirus 2002! > > > > > ==== ALCHAMBE Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com/~alchambe/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/chambers.htm > List-Admin is Lynda Eller deller@mindspring.com >

i have heard pat garret was born in chambers county al. is this true?

I have seen the surname BRISKEY mentioned several times on this list. While going thru the 1870 census for Tallapoosa County, AL, I found this and am passing it on. 156/157 Reeltown Beat, Notasulga, Tallapoosa County, AL, page 18 BRISAY, James, 36, male, white, Black Smith, VA BRISAY, Sarah, 35, female, white, Keeping House, VA BRISAY, Maggie, 4, female, white, Blank, Alabama The surname was hard to read but I think this is the way it was spelled. Curt _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Hi, I have a copy of Heritage book I don't see a Howard, But there is a couple of Jones families. Oak Bowsery's Rev sam P Jones Renowned Methodist Evangelist. October 16,1847. it is on page 179, 180 is a William Jones of Bossier parish, Louisiana. Wiliam Will Washington Jones 1860-1927 . You might get a copy to look at through your inner library loan dept at your local library. Tell them its the Heritage Publishing Company in Chambers County,AL and other wise it cost $60.00. 1-800-568-1611 Heritage Publishing Consultants Inc PO BOX 67 Clanton, AL 35046 Good luck. Let me know if these are any of yours by seperate email. Will try to send more information to you. Sandel BRISKEY-L@rootsweb.com Seattle Surnames; Briskey,Brisky,Brisque,Demastus,Sutton,Meadows,Hodnett,Moore,McIntosh,Leverett willing to share and trade

Hello, I have a book on Heritage of Chambers County, AL on page 63-64 is a Family of Dr. Isham W. Andrews. Could probably be kin to your Andrews. Because my Briskey family came from Abbeville, SC and then to GA and to Chambers County, And many families seemed to migrate together. Dr. isham W Andrews probably MD b about 1810-1875) founder of Fredonia United Methodist church (1833). Don't know if any relation but thought I would pass this along to you. If you email seperate mention name and pages I can give you further information. Sandel BRISKEY-L@rootsweb.com Seattle Surnames: Briskey,Brisky,Brisque,Demastus,Sutton,Meadows,Hodnett,Moore,McIntosh,Leverett willing to share and trade

Jim, Thanks, my cousin didn't know of a connection either, but I will pass this along to him. Pam Jim Andrews <jla01@mindspring.com> wrote:Pam: Know of no connection between your Thomas and Dr. Isham Williams Andrews. Isham was born Montgomery Co NC 1810, died Fredonia, Chambers Co AL 1875; his parents were Sterling Andrews and Elizabeth Williams Andrews; 4 brothers James Lawrence (my gg gf), John Golightly, Calvin J., William Archibald; 5 sisters Frances Williams, Nancy, Caroline (Lily), Mary Culpepper, Eliza Amanda; Isham married Sarah Elizabeth Lassetter Troup Co GA 22 Sep 1841; 11 children John Golightly, Mary Frances, Joseph Eave, Nancy Emma, William Alfred, Sarah Elizabeth, Ada Caroline, Isham Walter, George Jefferson Davis, Leonidas Henry, Ernest Lassitter. Jim At 02:42 AM 2/28/2003 -0800, you wrote: >Yes, this is the correct Thomas. We have information from Thomas forward, >but don't know who his parents/siblings were. We are also interested in >the Isham Andrews mentioned by Angel, but have yet to find a connection to >Thomas. >We certainly appreciate all the lookups. >Pam ==== ALCHAMBE Mailing List ==== http://www.rootsweb.com/~alchambe/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more