While gathering interesting historical information for MSGenWeb pages, I thought this might interest some of you. Please be advised that it is very long and if you are not interested, please delete. Ginny Walker English Perry, Lamar & Forrest Co MSGenWeb Source: Enclyopedia of Mississippi History, Vol. II L-Z, Southern Historical Publishing Association, Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions ad Persons; Planned and edited by Dunbar Rowland, LL. D., Director Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Member American Historical Association, 1907. MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY AND THE WAR of 1812-1815. As the prospect grew of war between the United States and Great Britain, there was speculation as to the attitude of the south, particularly among the European nations which wished to see the Union divided. Luis de Onis, minister from Spain, wrote to the captain-general at Caracas, February 2, 1810: "If England should display her energy, in however small a degree, and if, on our part, some vessels should be sent to their coast, and some troops should be drawn near to Louisiana, there is reason to believe that we should see these provinces separate and divide into two or three republics, and, consequently, they would remain in a state of perfect nullity. We should soon have from the republic of the north, which would be our friend, all the supplies which are now drawn among the others, who would perish from poverty and quarrels among themselves." But the sentiment of Mississippi Territory in July 1812, was thus expressed in the letter of Governor Holmes to Secretary Monroe: "The intelligence of a declaration of war by the United States against Great Britain (June 18th) was received by the citizens of this part of the country with great satisfaction, from a thorough belief that no other course would secure the government from degradation. You may rest assured sir that the measure will meet with all the support that the people of the Mississippi Territory are able to give it. It is true that from obvious causes we cannot promise much, but we will cheerfully exert the physical force of the country as far as it may be practicable, and upon any occasion that shall be approved by the general government." The governor gave the declaration of war official proclamation at the same time, July 14, calling for a detail from each of the 13 regiments of militia (except the four drawn upon to meet the Creek danger) to form a regiment to be held in readiness for active service. The Calvary was instructed to be prepared en masse. F. L. Claiborne, recently appointed brigadier-general of militia, was entrusted with the execution of this order. To General Wilkinson at New Orleans the governor wrote that to draw any large force from the territory "might hazard our domestic safety," yet he was confident he could furnish as many men as the general thought it prudent to require. The militiamen were almost totally destitute of arms and ammunition, and the general was called upon for six hundred guns and adequate ammunition. A new order of things had just begun on the river. Wilkinson was asked to send the guns by "the steamboat." General Claiborne reported August 18 that the various regimental commanders had their detachments ready to march to the rendezvous at Washington. The counties of Wilkinson, Jefferson, Claiborne, Warren and Marion had no occasion to resort to a draft. Amite and Franklin drafted but a few privates. Adams was completed by a draft principally. All await your orders with solicitude . . . . I am confident they will march when ordered with great promptitude, and in all situations will discharge their duty with fidelity and zeal." Three troops of forty each was the limit of the Calvary force. A battalion would be organized in the Mobile District under Col. Carson as major. A company was formed at Natchez by men legally exempt from military service, who offered their services to the governor, which he accepted with hearty recognition of their patriotism. They were ordered on patrol duty. The steamboat arrived at Natchez with the arms and camp equipage Sept. 19, and the regiment began to assemble at Cantonment, Washington. About 600 men were in camp in the latter part of September, when a further detail of about 300 was ordered. The troops understood that they were called to six months service. They were formed into two battalions. Gen. Claiborne accepted the command of the regiment with the rank of colonel. Capt. A. H. Holmes of the United States army, was detailed as inspector. Lt. Benjamin Salvage was quartermaster. The Mississippi regiment began the march to Baton Rouge, November 3. It was held there, in readiness to meet an attack of New Orleans, but had no occasion for active service. Claiborne wrote from Baton Rouge, December 30, 1812 to Cowles Mead, speaker of the house, in acknowledgement of resolutions of the legislature regarding the detachment of Mississippi militia in the service of the United States: "Every citizen soldier felt as he should when the resolution were read, and . . . with one look manifested a determination to deserve well under any circumstances, and if an opportunity should occur in the field to do honor by their prowess to the standard present them, as Americans united to maintain the best interests of their country." He asked that the tanks of the Mississippi regiment be rendered to the assembly. Governor Holmes wrote of this regiment July 6, 1813: "When their term of service was near expiring a considerable number of them, with many others from the same district of country, entered the volunteer corps. This has very much reduced our militia force." The service of their regiment probably corresponded to Col. Claiborne's service, September 6, 1812 to February 28, 1813. The organization was begun in January at Baton Rouge, of the First Regiment Mississippi Infantry, U.S.V., of which Joseph Carson was commissioned colonel. There was also a Louisiana regiment, forming a brigade, to command which Col. F. L. Claiborne was commissioned brigadier-general, U.S.V., in March. This brigade was ordered, in the latter part of June, to march to the Tombigbee. There was a panic on account of the activity of the Creek Indians. (See War with the Creeks, 1813-1814.) No British fleet was in sight during 1813, and the War with the Creeks (q.v.) absorbed the attention of the people of Mississippi, except as they read with patriotic anxiety of the battles on the Canadian frontier, where Brig. Gen. Zebulon M. Pike, who had been on duty at Fort Dearborn, fell in Gen. Dearborn's ill starred campaign, and Brig. Gen. Leonard Covington, who had recently gone north from the Natchez, lost his life in the miserable campaign under Gen. Wilkinson, who had been called north because the government was afraid to trust him at New Orleans. New counties were cut off from old ones and named for Pike and Covington, and a few years later another county was named for Lawrence, of "Don't give up the ship" fame, who fell in this same mournful year of 1813. These counties lie in a crescent in southern Mississippi, commemorating a strange, unfortunate and fortunate war, now long forgotten. Mobile way, is another group of names of this period (Jackson, Harrison and Perry) amidst a galaxy of heroes of the Revolution. Toward the close of the Creek war, there was another regiment of Mississippi militia in the service of the United States, put in the field in the Tombigbee country, under the command of Col. George H. Nixon. They marched from the Alabama River July15, 1814, with a part of the 39th regulars, under Col. Thomas H. Benton, to hunt out the remnant of the hostile Creeks on the Escambia River. A few days later Jackson made a treaty with the Creeks, in which they were compelled to surrender the territory shielding Pensacola from the United States, some British war ships arrived at Pensacola, and Maj. Edward Nicholl landed, began organizing the Indians that had fled from Jackson's army, and sent out a call for the people of Louisiana and Kentucky to join him in war on the United States. Before this, Jackson had started his troops down the Alabama to Mobile, which he had learned as the first point of attack of the British fleet that had been sent to the Gulf region. Under the call of 1814 for 93,5000 militia, the quota of Mississippi was 500 infantry. Accordingly the governor called for five companies to be made up by volunteering or drat, to rendezvous at Washington, Liberty and John Ford's on the Pearl, September 25, to march to Mt. Vernon. He also promised Jackson four troops of dragoons, and infantry and Calvary were sent for in haste, September 14. The enemy's fleet was even then off Mobile Point, into which Jackson had put a garrison under Maj. Lawrence. The attack had begun when the general wrote, the ships assisted by a land force of Indians and marines. Next day, the 15th, Lawrence repulsed the enemy, destroying one of the ships, the Hermes. On the 30th of the same month Jackson wrote the governor tendering his thanks "for the promptitude with which you have assembled and marched your quota of troops. Capt. Doherty's (Jefferson) troop is composed of fine young men calculated to endure hardship . . . . I have received the degrading news of the burning of our capital by the enemy previous to the receipt of your letter, and although I, like every American, felt much mortification at an event so well calculated to show the imbecility of our military preparation, and I might add the general measures adopted for the protection of the country, as well as the general apathy which has prevailed in the greater section of the Union; yet I am well assured that it will have the happy tendency to arouse the people to a vigorous and united effort in the defense of the country; that it will render the war popular, and that such men will be selected as are calculated to, and determined on, discharging the duties assigned them regardless of interests or popular motives. We may then look forward to a termination of the war upon terms honorable and advantageous to our country and not until then. I sympathize with you most cordially in the afflicting loss of your brother, Major Holmes." The governor's twenty-two year old brother, Maj. Andrew Hunter Holmes, was killed at Fort Mackinac, August 4, 1814. He had seen his first service against the Lafitte brigands, near New Orleans. The Mobile danger passed, Jackson turned to Pensacola, which he had said was his objective of campaign, a year before. At Mims' ferry, the Mississippi Dragoons and other mounted men left their horses, to march the rest of the way on foot. The soldiers forced an entrance into the town November 7, the British fled to Jackson destroyed the remaining fort and set his army in motion for Fort Montgomery, on the perdido. The Dragoons did good work in the Pensacola campaign, and in the command of Majors Blue and Kennedy was a party of Choctaw warriors. The movements of this little army in this campaign and the return to Mobile, through a wild and almost pathless wilderness, were as well-conceived and brilliantly and rapidly executed as anything in the history of Napoleon, or the records of Jackson in the Valley or Grant in Mississippi. Yet historians have never done the campaign justice, misled by the stupid comment of bureau officials at Washington. The capture of Pensacola, defense of Mobile and battles of New Orleans, were part of one masterly campaign by militia infantry, without railroads, against British veterans transported by the British navy. What Natchez and the coast had to fear from British invasion may be inferred from the following extracts from British letters regarding the subsequent operations on the Georgia coast, captured on the ship St. Lawrence: "We had some fine fun at St. Mary's; the bombs were at the town and had plenty of plunder. How are you off for tables, chest of drawers, etc.?" Concerning the taking of Cumberland Island - "Part of the black regiment employed on this service acted with great gallantry. Blacky had no idea of giving quarters, and it was with difficulty the officers prevented their putting the prisoners to death." Jackson hastened on to New Orleans and prepared for defense calling to his assistance all who could carry a gun, militia of all sorts and conditions. Lafitte's pirates and "men of color" even from Mobile. The naval engagements at Bay St. Louis and Malheureux islands, December 13-14, left Lake Borgne exposed to the enemy's small boats from the naval station at Ship Island (See Miss. Sound.) Tennessee militia, 2,700 strong, reached Natchez, December 13, under Gen. Carroll, whom Judge George Poindexter joined as an aide. The Dragoons (q.v.), under Maj. Hinds, arrived at New Orleans just in time to take part of the first battle, December 23. The Natchez Volunteer Riflemen organized under Capt. James C. Wilkins, reached the city on the day of the battle of January 8, 1815, and took position on the field. Maj. Chotard, a gallant Mississippian, served on the staff of Jackson, and was wounded by a shell near the Villere mansion. During the great battle of January 8 Same Dale arrived after a ride of eight days, horseback, cross-country from Georgia, bearing dispatches from the war department. Dale carried back with equally remarkable speed, the glorious news of victory. The British prisoners taken at New Orleans were held at Cantonment Washington, and on Mach 1, they were marched to Natchez to embark, escorted by a company of militia under Capt. James Green. British ships were not far off, for they had made another attack on Fort Bowyer, and captured it February 11, just two days before news of the treaty of peace came from Jamaica. The British fleet sailed away in March, after having ruled the Mississippi Sound for many months. The total contribution of the Mississippi Territory to this war was as follows: Calvary: officers 44, men 442 Mounted Infantry: officers 51, men 738 Riflemen: officers 21, men 326 Spies: officers 1, men 13 For a total of 1,667. Such was the record of the war department of the United States. Of course many more performed military duty of more or less importance and danger. But the list above given exceeds that of South Carolina or North Carolina, and surpasses that of Massachusetts in all items except that a large number of artillerymen were recruited in that State. Massachusetts' total list, including 2,700 artillerymen, was only 3,350. Mississippi Territory was the principal gainer by the war of 1812-15, which nearly everywhere else was the occasion of humiliation. The Territory gained the Gulf coast; the Spaniards at Pensacola were deprived of their military strength; the Indians were thoroughly subdued. The belt of country along the south open to settlement was extended to the Chattahoochee, and the patriotism of the people was enriched by memories of the wonderful victory at New Orleans. Enclyopedia of Mississippi History, Vol. II L-Z, Southern Historical Publishing Association, Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions ad Persons; Planned and edited by Dunbar Rowland, LL. D., Director Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Member American Historical Association, 1907.

Dear list, Does anyone know whether Cherokee County supplied any troops for the War with Mexico, 1846-48? If so, how would I check to see if a specific person was among them? Rick Sherman, Kensington, CA

Dear list. James A. Maddux was listed, with his sizeable family, in the 1900 US census of Cherokee County. By September 1905, his family was in Oregon, where a son was born. James had owned a farm in Cherokee County, and must have sold it when he moved west. Could some kind soul check the grantor index to Cherokee County deeds, for this time interval, and let me know if they find a record for James? I am trying to pin down the date of the family's move. Thanks ever so much. Rick Sherman, Kensington, CA

Greetings to everyone on the list, I sent out a few inquiries to list members some weeks back and thank those who responded. I had originally written asking if anyone had information on some Wood families living in the village of Tecumseh, near the Georgia line, in the 1890's. I was trying to identify a William or Willie Wood (my ggrandfather) who also lived in Tecumseh and who was killed in a mining accident in the late 1890's. I've been trying to research these other Woods who, like William, were all from TN and were doing mining work, hoping that they might be related to him. Well, since then, I've traced the whole kit and kaboodle of them back to a single family in Lewis County, TN, the family of a Luther Wood originally from Massachusetts. However, there was one other Wood family with TN origins living there, too, but I hadn't thought to trace them back til now: the family of Levi Wood(s), M.D., who with his wife Mary Ann and at least one son is buried in nearby Salem Baptist Church cemetery. Doe! s anyone have any info on the Levi Wood(s) family? Other members of this family include children William A., Fred, Murry, and perhaps others. If I can establish that this family is also related to the Luther Wood family, I'll be closer than ever to a Grand Unified Theory of the Woods of Tecumseh! Thanks for any info you all might have. --Mark in Mobile [email protected]

Hi Fokls: I will be unsubscribing soon in order to catch up on some things that I have been neglecting. http://home.att.net/~billcovey/index.html http://home.att.net/~billcovey/Watson.html Bill Covey Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz Creator of: Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer

Can anyone tell me when Decoration Day will be at the Salem Baptist Church in Bluffton (Cherokee Co.), AL? I thought it might be sometime in May. Thanks, E. Russell

The following names make connections to my genealogy, however, the parents are unknown to me. Any additional information concerning them would be appreciated. Paralee Wallis/Wallace/Wallice, born 1875 GA, (Married (?) Agress) Victoria Wallis/Wallace/Wallice, born 1878 AL. (Married (?) Hester and Thomas Bishop) Sallie Wallis/Wallace/Wallice, born 1879 AL (Married Tom Reynolds) Uyless R. Wallace

Noticed the Hardin name and my best friend is a Hardin- gonna haveta compare data Her line finally landed in Blount County My husband is descendnat of Andrew Reece and Susan Chaney Reece found in the 1850 Cherokee co census. Andy and Susan moved from TN to the 'free' land in Alabama. Jesse Andrew Reece was son of David and Mary Donalson Reece. My line is Dawsons and Baker/Tunnell or Johnston descendants who moved over from north Georgia. John Wesely Dawson, son of Joseph Wesley Dawson and Barabara Lossiphine Hill, married LaMaggie Ann Tunnell but he thought her last name was Baker because she was raised by her older half brothers - Thomas Pinkney "Pink" Baker and Seaborn Montraville "Sebe" Baker. Their mother was Rachael Marilza Johnston Baker Tunnell Maples, daughter of Vincent Johnston and Apeacha Leavell found in the 1850 Chattooga County Ga census. Good Hunting Doris Mayer Reece Branchville Alabama

Travis, It's wonderful that you have the Hardman Cemetery survey on your website. My 3rd great grandparents are buried there - Enoch & Louisa Nicholson - and I recently visited the cemetery. I hope that a link will be added from the Cherokee Co GenWeb site to yours so that others will know that you have this cemetery survey. I'm not sure that anyone is even working on the Cherokee Co page anymore?? I sent several e-mails to Leigh Compton (the AL GenWeb coordinator) about adopting the site but never heard back from her. My Cherokee Co families are: ASHLEY, KILGORE, MORGAN, NICHOLSON, PITTS, SHAW, YOUNG I am in the process of putting family group sheets for all my familes on my rootsweb website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~famhis/ I still have a lot of work to do on it, but I do have most of my Ashley fgs on and all of my Shaws. I will be putting other info on as well - census, marriage, descendancy narratives, ect. Are you related to Emma HARDIN b: c1909, who married William R. NICHOLSON. William's father, Charles Henry, was my 2nd great grandmother's (Lura J. NICHOLSON) brother. I think everyone in Cherokee Co is somehow related! Nicole Kilgore Pinson Birmingham, AL (formerly from Gadsden) Travis Hardin wrote: > Some new and some old information about Cherokee County AL and about > Hardin-- > > Exclusively on my site http://www/mindspring.com/~travishardin/gen > > _Muster Roll of Company C, 31st Alabama Infantry (Confederate) NEW > _Letters from Confederate soldier Milton A. Hardin 1862-1863 NEW > _Survey of Hardman Cemetery, Farill > _Cherokee County precincts and georgaphical names > _Floyd County militia districts > _The George W. and Clementine Hardin Bible records > _The Eli H. Hardin Bible records > > Travis Hardin - [email protected] > 2405 Springhill Road, NW, Huntsville, AL 35810

Some new and some old information about Cherokee County AL and about Hardin-- Exclusively on my site http://www/mindspring.com/~travishardin/gen _Muster Roll of Company C, 31st Alabama Infantry (Confederate) NEW _Letters from Confederate soldier Milton A. Hardin 1862-1863 NEW _Survey of Hardman Cemetery, Farill _Cherokee County precincts and georgaphical names _Floyd County militia districts _The George W. and Clementine Hardin Bible records _The Eli H. Hardin Bible records Travis Hardin - [email protected] 2405 Springhill Road, NW, Huntsville, AL 35810

Does anyone have any further information on Andrew Reece found in the 1850 and 1860 census? Andy was born in TN to David and Mary Donalson Reece and married Susan Chaney/cheney Andy and Susan are buried in Fischer Cemetery (Dekalb County I think) David and Mary were married in 1815 Jefferson County TN and Andy and Susan were married 1836 Grainger County?? Thanks Doris Mayer Reece

I am a descendant of Margaret Jane L. SWAN, b. 1816 in Knox Co. TN. She married Daniel Ragan HOOD in Feb 1835. Supposedly she was a sister of James Denny SWAN, who married Daniel Ragan HOOD's sister Isabella Jane HOOD. Supposedly they were children of George SWAN and Elizabeth GRAHAM of Knox Co. TN, but I still haven't been able to verify this. George SWAN was the son of Joseph SWAN (1715-1806) and Catherine DENNY ( - 1818) of Letterkenny Township, Franklin Co. PA and Knox Co. TN. Margaret migrated to Cherokee Co. AL ca 1845. Her brother James died in Knox Co. TN in 1862. His widow Isabella supposedly moved to KS to live with one of her married children (not sure which one), but several of her children did move to Cherokee Co. AL and Isabella may have lived there prior to moving to KS. My descent from Margaret Jane L. SWAN is through her son William T. HOOD of Blount Co. AL. I would appreciate any help verifying this SWAN ancestry. Vickie Elam White

Hello everyone, I am looking for the family members (ancestors and descendants) of Joseph Allen Hurst and Alice A. Gear. At the time of the 1860 Mobile Census, Joseph GEAR (33 yrs old, born in PA) is shown with wife Sarah (Harris), daughters Alice and Anna. Alice (also known as Addie, possibly her middle name was Adeline?) was born in Mobile Alabama April 28, 1859. There are Gear families listed in the 1850 CHEROKEE CO AL census but have not had access to same: GEAR 82B-83A-112A Joseph and Alice married December 1880 in Clarke County MS (per IGI). Joseph died February 27, 1924 and Alice on March 19, 1935. Both are buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Ellisville, Jones County, Mississippi. Joseph Allen HURST born March 16, 1858 in Clarke County MS is the son of William Hurst and Mary Steinwinder. William Hurst and his family are shown in the Choctaw County Alabama 1860 census. It is interesting that William and Mary's older children were born in Choctaw County Alabama, Joseph Allen in 1858 in Clarke County MS, but in 1860, the family was once again in Choctaw County. Joseph's and Alice's children were reportedly born in Choctaw County, Alabama. Children of JOSEPH HURST and ALICE GEAR are: 3. i. ADDIE OPHELIA5 HURST, b. February 11, 1883, Choctaw County, Alabama. 4. ii. HANNAH REBECCA HURST, b. September 02, 1887, Choctaw County, Alabama. iii. JOSEPH WILLIAM HURST, b. April 18, 1892; d. 1965; m. MATTIE C. SCROGGINS; b. 1896; d. 1947. 5. iv. RUFUS HARRIS HURST, b. December 03, 1898. v. HENRY GRADY HURST, b. February 10, 1889, Choctaw County, Alabama; m. LENA SWEENY. vi. GEORGE HAMILTON HURST, b. June 21, 1885, Ararat, Choctaw County, Alabama; d. 1936; m. HATTIE MAE SHEPPARD. 6. vii. LENA PEARL HURST, b. January 28, 1895, Choctaw County, Alabama; d. September 05, 1985, Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi. LENA PEARL5 HURST died September 05, 1985 in Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi. She married (1) ELLIS BUSH (who was killed in a train wreck). She married (2) JOHN MILTON ENGLISH February 06, 1919, son of LEONARD ENGLISH (son of William W. English and Lavinia Donalson, who was the son of Green English and Sarah Burson) and NANCY BENTON (dau. Of Hezekiah Benton shown in the 1860 Milton County GA and 1870 Forsyth County Georgia Census). He was born May 10, 1877 reportedly in Columbus, Georgia, but possibly Jones County, Mississippi, and died August 26, 1958 in Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi. Siblings of John Milton English include: Elby, Rubirl, William, Ollie, Cornelia. After John Milton and Lena Pearl's marriage, the English family lived in the Pendorf Community of Jones County Ms. In the 1917 WWI Registrants, John Milton English was working in Muscle Shoals Alabama. The English family later migrated to Lamar County, Mississippi, where they raised five children: Children of LENA HURST and JOHN ENGLISH are: 7. i. SIBYL MABLE6 ENGLISH, b. February 06, 1921; d. June 12, 1999, Forrest County, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 8. ii. MILTON BENTON ENGLISH, b. October 29, 1923, Lamar County, Mississippi; d. Little Rock, Arkansas. 9. iii. STANLEY GEAR ENGLISH, b. February 26, 1929, Lamar County, Mississippi. 10. iv. ALICE REBECCA ENGLISH, b. December 28, 1932, Lamar County, Mississippi. 11. v. JOANN PEARL ENGLISH, b. May 10, 1934, Lamar County, Mississippi. Thanks in advance, Ginny Walker English

Hi Patsy, There have been several fires at the courthouse so many records were destroyed. The Gadsden Public Library http://library.gadsden.com/genealogy.html has a good collection of Cherokee Co resources: Cherokee Co newspapers on microfilm, census records, cemetery books, ect. Check their online catalog. Also, the Anniston Library has Cherokee Co resources. You might want to visit the Cherokee County Museum while you are there. It is located next to the Courthouse. They have some records there (I found my great grandparent's marriage license there). Nicole Kilgore Pinson Birmingham, AL Patsy Davis wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to plan a trip to Cherokee Co. to do some research and am > wondering what is available there. I've tried the genweb page for > Cherokee Co but didn't find the answer there. Perhaps someone who has > done research there can give me some tips. I'm trying to find anything > on the TANNER families that were in the county from at least 1840 to > 1900. Thanks, Patsy Spradley Davis > -- > HOMEPAGE: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davisdwd/ > SURNAMES: > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patsydavis

Hello, I'm trying to plan a trip to Cherokee Co. to do some research and am wondering what is available there. I've tried the genweb page for Cherokee Co but didn't find the answer there. Perhaps someone who has done research there can give me some tips. I'm trying to find anything on the TANNER families that were in the county from at least 1840 to 1900. Thanks, Patsy Spradley Davis -- HOMEPAGE: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davisdwd/ SURNAMES: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patsydavis

It has been awhile since I asked about my Hiram Wilcox born 1806 Blount Co. TN died 1883 in Cherokee Co. Alabama. Hiram was married twice. first to Mary Ann Smith born 1813 in TN and second to Lucretia? I am wondering if a JOHN WILCOX who was born 1815 in TN. and married Mary A. ? could be a brother of my Hiram. I wonder that because this John also died in Cherokee Co. Al. This John and Mary A. Wilcox had a daughter named Martha Ann Wilcox who married DANIEL HILL MORGAN. Both HIRAM and JOHN Wilcox named their children many of the same names. You may check out my surnames on my new page. Mary Harkey Russell [email protected] http://www.scrtc.com/~bird/index.htm

Greetings to everyone on the list, I spent a few days last week up in Cherokee County during a break from work doing research on my mother's WOOD family. Specifically, I'm looking for a William Wood, originally of Tennessee, husband of Becky (Rebecca) NIBLET. I had found her earlier in the 1900 census, Cherokee County, village of Tecumseh, precinct #3. She was widowed, living with her mother Sallie and her two children Myrtle and Dennis, so when I arrived in Cherokee County last week, I set immediately to work trying to find other Tennessee Wood families living in Tecumseh who might be siblings or even parents of this Wm. Wood. I found three neighboring Wood families from TN: (1) Egie F. Wood, (age 48, wife Malinda, age 36, no children listed); Liddie Wood (a widow, age 60 with son Lonnie, 18 years old); and John Wood (age 31, wife Susie, age 26, and their three children Fred, Mamey, and Millie P., ages 7, 5, and 5 mos, respectively). There's also a Levi Woods family living there, but their son William ! A. appears to be married to someone other than a Becky, so I have ruled this William out. I also found a William Niblet, very probably father of Becky, in a nearby cemetery. Do any of these names sound familiar to anyone? If I can just establish that one or some of them are siblings (Egie or John) or a parent (Liddie, maybe), then I might be able to locate my William Wood and trace him and his family back farther. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read this! Sincerely, --Mark in Mobile [email protected]

I have a M A COX who married John Christopher LEDBETTER, I believe was from that area. Could this be the same person? I'm afraid I don't have much on her except a son and her Husband and his family. Let me know if you want what data I have. Debbie Chauncey Barnes Webster, NY In a message dated 3/7/00 10:47:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:46:12 -0700 From: "Curt & Marilyn Rohrer" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [ALCHEROK] Mary Ann Cox Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I'm researching MARY ANN COX, b. 3/30/1860 in Center, Cherokee County, AL, d. 12/5/1920, daughter of ANDREW W. COX, b. bet. 1830-1831. Anybody else working on these names? Does anybody know parents and siblings' names, birth, and death dates? I have information to share. >>

I have a couple of McCanless/McCandless/McCandlis families that lived in the area that is now Cherokee Co within the time frame of 1820-1859. I'm looking for any grave with a sound alike name or any information concerning this name in that area and time frame. Ron McCandless

The following names make connections to my genealogy, however, the parents are unknown to me. Any additional information concerning them would be appreciated. Paralee Wallis/Wallace/Wallice, born 1875 probably Cherokee Co., Al. Victoria Wallis/Wallace/Wallice, born 1878 probably Cherokee Co., Al. Sallie Wallis/Wallace/Wallice, born 1879 probably Cherokee Co., Al. Uyless R. Wallace Descended from Wallace, Murphy, Dacus, Bowman, and McNew