Alabama African American Genealogy Would like you to make a Contribution. We are in need of a list of African American Churches for all Counties. If you can help please E-mail [email protected]

All Subscribers, SAVE OUR HERITAGE....BEFORE FEB. 5!!!!!! ANNOUNCING THE FORTHCOMING BOOK THE HERITAGE OF POLK COUNTY, GEORGIA - 2000 THE FEB. 5 DEADLINE FOR OUR NEW BOOK IS ALMOST HERE! THIS POLK COUNTY VOLUME WILL BE PART OF THE PRESTIGIOUS GEORGIA COUNTY HERITAGE SERIES! THE BOOK WILL HIGHLIGHT STORIES OF POLK COUNTY FAMILIES, AND INCLUDE COMMUNITIES, CHURCHES AND CLUBS. YOUR FAMILY IS INVITED TO SUBMIT A FREE PHOTO AND 500-WORD FAMILY STORY WHICH WILL BE PRINTED IN THE NEW VOLUME, IF YOU HURRY! FEB. 5 IS THE DEADLINE FOR ORDERING BOOKS AND SUMITTING MATERIALS. TO LEARN MORE, CALL TOLL FREE: (877) CO-HERIT D. Scott Dingler Listowner ********************************************************************** * * JESUS OUR SAVIOR WILL CARRY US ALL THE WAY !!!!!!! * * * * - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ * * * * D. Scott Dingler * * 711 Robin Court * * Woodstock, GA 30188 * * * **********************************************************************

All Subscribers, Tomorrow night, Tuesday Jan 11th, there will be a Polk County Heritage meeting at the Rockmart Library. I hope everyone will be able to attend. This is a once in a lifetime chance to immortalize you Polk ancestors for FREE! D. Scott Dingler Listowner ********************************************************************** * * JESUS OUR SAVIOR WILL CARRY US ALL THE WAY !!!!!!! * * * * - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ * * * * D. Scott Dingler * * 711 Robin Court * * Woodstock, GA 30188 * * * **********************************************************************

All Subscribers, Tomorrow night, Tuesday Jan 11th, there will be a Polk County Heritage meeting at the Rockmart Library. I hope everyone will be able to attend. This is a once in a lifetime chance to immortalize you Polk ancestors for FREE! D. Scott Dingler Listowner ********************************************************************** * * JESUS OUR SAVIOR WILL CARRY US ALL THE WAY !!!!!!! * * * * - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ * * * * D. Scott Dingler * * 711 Robin Court * * Woodstock, GA 30188 * * * **********************************************************************

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Hello everyone--Is there ANYONE who has easy access to an index for ALA for 1860. Need to know which Barkleys and Potters are on this census. If noone has access--is there somewhere I can write to obtain copies of this much needed info???? Also, is there anyone who can look up 1860 Alabama and tell me the family living with Morgan Potter, Cherokee County; 1st Division on page 237??? ANY help would be appreciated--- Thank you--Dianne in Texas

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Hello Coordinator and Friends, If you know of any African american Churches in your County let me know. I am complying a list of Churches and Counties these Churches are in Please Contact me if you have any info. Thank You, Sandy

Alabama African American Genealogy will be doing some updates. We are calling for your help. What is needed: (Alabama African American) 1.Newspaper articles 2.Info on the First Mason in each County 3. Wills 4. Inventory's mentioning Slaves 5.Family History Help us update our site: [email protected]

Research Your Resources By Barbara A. Brown, [email protected] http://www.iigs.org/newsletter/9906news/research.htm.en

All Subscribers, The Polk County Heritage Book brochures are now ready. If you would like one, please send me your mailing address and we will put one in the mail. There is also information about the Polk County Heritage Book at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gapolk/ This book is a once in a life time chance to publish your Polk ancestry for FREE! D. Scott Dingler USGenWeb Polk County Coordinator GAPOLK-L Listowner The Polk County Heritage Book is not affiliated in any way with Rootweb or USGenWeb.

My lines of research in Cherokee County, AL are Hagood, Cooper, Winslow & Powell. Boice Burns Houston, TX

Can anyone provide any information on these Clarks who were in the 1850 census for Talladega County, AL: Samuel Clark age 52 born 1798 in GA Louisa Clark age 35 born 1815 in NC D. Ann Clark age 12 born 1838 in GA Marion Clark age 10 born 1840 in GA Rebecca Clark age 8 born 1842 in AL Sarah Clark age 6 born 1844 in AL Jasper Clark age 4 born 1846 in AL Israel Clark age 1 born 1849 in AL The child Sarah here was my GGGM who in 1859 married William Meredith Ponder in Talladega County. They migrated into Pike County, AR after the Civil War. She died there in 1882. Any help will be gratefully accepted. Boice Burns Houston, TX

My Cherokee County families are: ASHLEY SHAW NICHOLSON KILGORE PITTS YOUNG (George & Mollie TRANTHAM YOUNG) Nicole Kilgore Pinson

Hi! Guess that title got your attention! I have several different families that are giving me a similar story as to what happen to a soldier during the civil war and I was wondering if any one else had heard a similar story. The first version was about a not so young soldier that just could not pass up a challenge or a bet. The company had a very stubborn mule, that would not let anyone shoe it. This soldier said there was never a mule born that he could not shoe. Well somehow while trying to shoe the old mule the soldier got kicked in the head and died. The second version was that while crossing a stream, a young soldier was having trouble with a mule that did not want to cross the stream and somehow got kicked in the head by the mule. The third version was about some scouts for the "army" that had a few too many drinks and were betting about taming a mule. Whenever anyone would come near the animal it would buck and try to harm the men. The more they drank the braver they got, until one of the men was kicked in the head and killed. I have heard these stories from my Whitten and Clark and Nichols families. Has anyone heard similar stories about their civil war soldiers? Doris

Hello Everyone--This is my Civil War Story about my gg grandmother--Margaret Jane Starling Arthur. She married Barnabas Arthur who died in the War and is buried in Shelbyville, TN in Confed Natl Cemetery--His story in a complete separate story but here is hers: BOILING THE STONES When Barnabas Arthur left to fight in the Civil War (1861), his wife, Margaret Jane Starling Arthur was left on their farm in Chapel Hill, Ala with 8 children. The eldest was 17 at the time. Since the Confederacy needed food and fiber almost as much as it did soldiers, Barnabas came home 2 yrs later to 'lay a crop'. Once the crops were harvested in the fall of 1862 and delivered to the Confederate Army, he prepared to re-enlist in the Army. He left in November of 1862 taking his eldest son, William Houston Arthur, with him. But, this is not his story, this is the story of how Margaret survived after Barnabas and William left. At some point, the Union Army 'confiscated' the Arthur farm for their use. Margaret and the children were forced to flee to the woods in Chapel Hill. She was not allowed to take any household goods, clothes, food or much of anything except the closthes on their backs. She did manage to take the black iron pot with a ladle and dutch oven. After s! everal days she came to the realization that help was not on the way and she had to keep 7 children alive. With no education to help her; she knew that she had to live off the land and she had the presence of mind to take the black iron pot and sneak down to the creek and fill the bottom of it with stones from the bottom of the river. She knew that they would contain minerals and vitamins needed to survive. She then filled the pot with water from the creek and took it back to the woods. She left the children there and found the closest smoke house which was empty now. The Union Army had taken all of the contents. She scraped up dirt from the top layer of soil that the pork, turkeys and other meat had dripped on and placed it in the pot. She took the pot back to where the children were hiding. At first light, she built a fire and boiled this mixture for an unknow amount of time. She then removed the pot from the fire and allowed the dirt to settle to the bottom of the ! pot. When it was cool enough, each child got a ladel full fo the liquid which now contained minerals, vitamins and meat drippings. She saw to it that the children were all fed before whe drank what was left of the 'soup'. Thie process was repeated nightly. She and the children managed to survive until William returned with the news that, father and husband, Barnabas had been killed on June 27, 1863. In approx 1887 Margaret Jane and her daughter and her husband, Mary Elizabeth Arthur and Burrell Scales Lewis moved to Comanche, Texas where she lived out her life and died 1902. We just don't realize how hard times were during and especially after the War. This story has been passed thru the family for years but is unpublished. My sister still has the black iron pot used for 'Boiling the Stones' Have a GREAT day--- Dianne in Texas

This is from the Birmingham (AL) Public Library's online catalog (http://www.bham.lib.al.us/ ): Title Visiting our past : a history of Cherokee County / by Dixie C. Miller. Publisher [S.l.] : D.C. Miller, 1986 Maybe you can get this book through interlibrary loan (not from the B'ham library though). Ask your local library if they can find it for you. Perhaps the Cherokee Co AL Library has a copy available to check out?? The one at the B'ham library can't be checked out. Nicole Kilgore Pinson Melba J Clark wrote: > Who published the book you mentioned in this post? and When? Where could > one find a copy? Is it in a library? > Melba > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicole Pinson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 8:56 PM > Subject: [ALCHEROK] Yankee Soldiers in Cherokee Co AL (1863?) > > >Does anyone know when the Yankees came through Cherokee Co? Was it > >during Streight's raid in Apr/May 1863? > > > >The following is from "Stories of Cherokee County and some of the men > >and boys that served in The War Between The States Sometimes called the > >Civil War" by Dixie Clifton Miller > > > >"George ASHLEY [1890-1982], grandson of William ASHLEY who married Jane > >SHAW relates that William ASHLEY who served in the War Between the > >States was wounded in the battle at Chickamauga and died. George ASHLEY > >said that he recalls his mother, Mrs. Joseph (Ella CHANDLER [1866-1956] > >) ASHLEY telling about the Yankees camping at JORDAN's Grist Mill (some > >may know as NEWBERRY Mill) for two weeks. The Yankees were enroute to > >Rome in Georgia. Joseph ASHLEY [1857-1911] was eight years old. The > >Yankees destroyed the grist mill and everything that was left by the > >Confederate soldiers for their women and children was stolen or > >destroyed. The Yanks killed a two year old heifer of Jane ASHLEYs and > >cut the hind legs off and left the rest for the birds to eat. > > > >When the Yanks left their camping place, they left one morning about > >daylight. Some, those on horseback rode close to the road in the woods > >and those on foot took the road. Jane ASHLEY had cooked bread for her > >children that morning and had a pitcher of milk on the table when the > >foot soldiers came by and ate the bread and drank the milk not leaving > >the children a bite to eat. Jane ASHLEY saw what was going to happen > >and she got some of the food they had to cook and put it in a box and > >sat down on the box until they passed through which was dark. But when > >the next bunch came she wasn't so lucky. They took the pillow cases from > >the pillows, sifted corn meal from the barrel into the pillow cases. One > >soldier hung his sword up near a door while he sifted meal. Whit > >[1858-1928], Jane ASHLEY's little boy, climbed up the door and was > >reaching for the sword when Jane ASHLEY saw his intentions and ran to > >grab the sword. When she pulled him away, the lad was sobbing, "I was > >goin' cut his durn head off." > > > >Since the Yankees had destroyed JORDAN's Grist Mill and stolen all the > >corn Jane ASHLEY had to take a hammer and beat the corn into meal. So > >scarse was meal that she did not sift it. > > > >Wash ASHLEY [George Washington 1857-?] and his sister, Mary Jane (Molly) > >[1858-1939] children of Aaron ASHLEY had some pet chickens. The Yankees > >when they came by the Aaron ASHLEY place took a stick which they split > >in the middle, but didn't split to the end, they pulled the split open, > >stuck the chickens feet through the slit then released the split closing > >the chickens feet inside the split place. Wash and Mary Jane cried so > >and pleaded for their pet chickens that the Yanks told them to show them > >their pet chickens. Wash did and the Yanks let their chickens go free. > >They kept the rest. The other Aaron ASHLEY children, Jim [1864-1928], > >John [1859-?], watched the goings on. [note: I don't think this can be > >correct as James " Jim" ASHLEY was born at the end of the Civil War and > >would have been too young to watch what was going on. nkp] > > > >Thanks! > >Nicole Kilgore Pinson > > > > > >==== ALCHEROK Mailing List ==== > >ALCHEROK-L Mailing List Archives. Search by by name, etc. > >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=alcherok > >Cherokee County Alabama Web Page: > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcherok/ > >Listowner's Email address - [email protected] > >

Who published the book you mentioned in this post? and When? Where could one find a copy? Is it in a library? Melba -----Original Message----- From: Nicole Pinson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 8:56 PM Subject: [ALCHEROK] Yankee Soldiers in Cherokee Co AL (1863?) >Does anyone know when the Yankees came through Cherokee Co? Was it >during Streight's raid in Apr/May 1863? > >The following is from "Stories of Cherokee County and some of the men >and boys that served in The War Between The States Sometimes called the >Civil War" by Dixie Clifton Miller > >"George ASHLEY [1890-1982], grandson of William ASHLEY who married Jane >SHAW relates that William ASHLEY who served in the War Between the >States was wounded in the battle at Chickamauga and died. George ASHLEY >said that he recalls his mother, Mrs. Joseph (Ella CHANDLER [1866-1956] >) ASHLEY telling about the Yankees camping at JORDAN's Grist Mill (some >may know as NEWBERRY Mill) for two weeks. The Yankees were enroute to >Rome in Georgia. Joseph ASHLEY [1857-1911] was eight years old. The >Yankees destroyed the grist mill and everything that was left by the >Confederate soldiers for their women and children was stolen or >destroyed. The Yanks killed a two year old heifer of Jane ASHLEYs and >cut the hind legs off and left the rest for the birds to eat. > >When the Yanks left their camping place, they left one morning about >daylight. Some, those on horseback rode close to the road in the woods >and those on foot took the road. Jane ASHLEY had cooked bread for her >children that morning and had a pitcher of milk on the table when the >foot soldiers came by and ate the bread and drank the milk not leaving >the children a bite to eat. Jane ASHLEY saw what was going to happen >and she got some of the food they had to cook and put it in a box and >sat down on the box until they passed through which was dark. But when >the next bunch came she wasn't so lucky. They took the pillow cases from >the pillows, sifted corn meal from the barrel into the pillow cases. One >soldier hung his sword up near a door while he sifted meal. Whit >[1858-1928], Jane ASHLEY's little boy, climbed up the door and was >reaching for the sword when Jane ASHLEY saw his intentions and ran to >grab the sword. When she pulled him away, the lad was sobbing, "I was >goin' cut his durn head off." > >Since the Yankees had destroyed JORDAN's Grist Mill and stolen all the >corn Jane ASHLEY had to take a hammer and beat the corn into meal. So >scarse was meal that she did not sift it. > >Wash ASHLEY [George Washington 1857-?] and his sister, Mary Jane (Molly) >[1858-1939] children of Aaron ASHLEY had some pet chickens. The Yankees >when they came by the Aaron ASHLEY place took a stick which they split >in the middle, but didn't split to the end, they pulled the split open, >stuck the chickens feet through the slit then released the split closing >the chickens feet inside the split place. Wash and Mary Jane cried so >and pleaded for their pet chickens that the Yanks told them to show them >their pet chickens. Wash did and the Yanks let their chickens go free. >They kept the rest. The other Aaron ASHLEY children, Jim [1864-1928], >John [1859-?], watched the goings on. [note: I don't think this can be >correct as James " Jim" ASHLEY was born at the end of the Civil War and >would have been too young to watch what was going on. nkp] > >Thanks! >Nicole Kilgore Pinson > > >==== ALCHEROK Mailing List ==== >ALCHEROK-L Mailing List Archives. Search by by name, etc. >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=alcherok >Cherokee County Alabama Web Page: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcherok/ >Listowner's Email address - [email protected] >