I know that you have this spellin a Miears, but I have it spelled Myers. I know this is incidental, but I also have Thomas and Martha buried in Chestnut Creek Church Cemetery. I have her father and mother buried in the Moore Cemetery in Chilton Co. ----- Original Message ----- From: <DBGlenn@gmail.com> To: <ALCHILTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:10 AM Subject: [ALCHILTO] Re: Miears Buried in Chestnut Creek Cemetery > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HS.2ADI/1151.2.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Not my my immediate ancestry so I might be out of line here. However, > these were members of my home community. It it believed that Martha > Popwell Miears died about 1864 due to a fever (typhoid?) and is believed > to be buried at Chestnut. It is thought that Thomas Miears and Martha > Popwell may have had 5 children. After Martha Popwell's death, it is > believed that Thomas Miears remarried on February 09, 1865 in old Autauga > County to Mary Frances Ann Baxley that is believed that Frances had been > married to a Lewis Jackson Morris that had also recently lost his life as > well. Then it is thought that Thomas Miears and Frances Baxley went to > east AL, then TN and on to the Woodland TX and Sevier County AR area. I > know I have seen Thomas Miears and wife Frances in the 1910 Clear Creek, > Sevier County, AR Census while looking for other folk of this area. It > appears that many of their children took the spelling of the surname as > Myers. So Frances Baxley Miears must have died! > sometimes after 1910 and it is believed that Thomas Miears died in 1923 > and is buried at the Nunley Cemetery in Mena, Polk County, AR. Didn't > mean to butt in. Research and check this out to your own satisfaction, I > really just wanted to say that I don't think that Thomas Miears is buried > at Chestnut Creek, but rather in Polk County AR. > Also I think you will find many marriage records of Thomas Miears' > children and Frances Baxley's (Morris) in Sevier County, AR which might > also help you in your research of your family. > www.bruceglenn.com > > > ==== ALCHILTO Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, > political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal > messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be > grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen > Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >