Dear friends and cousins: This is a query sent to me by Richard Graham, who is seeking information on his Ratliff and Deason relatives of Chilton County. His email address is listed in the message. Y'all take care! Pamela Hosey Long Mobile, Alabama dpdklong@worldnet.att.net Check out our Web page! http://home.att.net/~dpdklong/ Alabama Tombstone Project Manager http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/alabama.html Listowner, The Popwell Family Mail List POPWELL-L-request@rootsweb.com Pam's Genealogy Page http://home.att.net/~dpdklong/Genealogy.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Graham <rtgraham@flash.net> > To: dpdklong@worldnet.att.net <dpdklong@worldnet.att.net> > Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 4:33 PM > Subject: George and Lula (Deason) Ratliff > > >Thanks for posting your cemetery listings for Sardis Baptist Church, > >Maplesville, Chilton County, Alabama on the internet. It has helped me > >to find "missing" relatives and information that I didn't have. > > > >I saw the following listing and was wondering if you know about the > >inscription for George Ratliff: > > > >Ratliff, Columbus Jefferson Nov. 13,1905-May 1972, son of George & Lula > > > >Since I didn't see a George Ratliff listed could the listing below, > >referring to Welsey Ratliff, actually be George and Lula (perhaps his > >name was George Wesley Ratliff, or Wesley George Ratliff)? > > > >Ratliff, Lula March 9, 1885-Oct. 31, 1961 [w/o Wesley Ratliff] > >Ratliff, Wesley Feb. 2, 1880-March 7, 1949 > > > >A little further down the list is an inscription for: > > > >Ratliff, son Elzie March 27, 1918 > >Ratliff, daughter July 2, 1922 ("Infant children of G.W. & L.B.") > > > >If Wesley's name was George Wesley, could this inscription be referring > >to the infant children of George Wesley and Lula B. Ratliff? > > > >I have a George Ratliff that married Lula Deason and they had a son, > >Floyd George Ratliff, Sr.(who married Zelpha Ann Turner - one of my > >great uncle's daughters from Chilton Co.)who named one of his sons Lee > >Wesley Ratliff. > > > >I know that the following inscriptions are my kinfolks: > > > >Chambers, Angles Oct 2,1908-Nov. 3,1938 ("Just in the morning of his > >day, in youth and love, he died.") > >Chambers, Martha Anna Jan. 9, 1881-Oct. 5, 1948 ("How great the loss > >when one so loved is taken.") [w/o James Oliver] > >Chambers, James Oliver May 23, 1876-June 14, 1960 ("How great the loss > >when one so loved is taken.") > > > >James Oliver Chambers is my great uncle, but I don't know who Angles was > >- I don't have him listed in my family file. > > > >Chambers, Betsey Jane March 9, 1852-Jan. 18, 1946 ("Having served her > >generation, she now sweetly rests.") [w/o James Thomas] > >Chambers, James Thomas Oct. 6, 1848-June 30, 1939 ("UCV. Kind father of > >love, thou art gone to thy rest") > >Chambers, Gladys Graham March 9, 1923-June 24, 1968 ("In our hearts, she > >still lives.") > > > >James Thomas and Betsey Jane Chambers are my gg-grandparents. I don't > >know who Gladys Graham Chambers is though - I don't have her in my file. > > > >Chambers, Noah Dyer May 7, 1888-Feb. 3, 1951 > >Chambers, Calvin Nov. 7, 1918-Dec. 18, 1979 ("In our hearts, he still > >lives.") > > > >Noah Dyer is another great uncle. Noah and James Oliver were brothers, > >sons of James Thomas and Betsey Jane (I have her as Elizabeth Rebecca > >Jane McFarland) Chambers. > > > > > >Ratliff, Emma S. May 12, 1873-Nov. 17, 1949 [w/o S.B. Ratliff, Jr.] > >Ratliff, S.B. Jr. Sept. 2, 1871-April 17, 1927 > >Ratliff, Sara L. Chambers Oct. 19, 1846-Sept. 27, 1918 [w/o S.B. > >Ratliff, Sr.] > >Ratliff, S.B., Sr. Sept. 6, 1843-June 4, 1920 ("Pvt. Co. K. 11 Regt. > >Alabama Inf. C.S.A.") > > > >Sara L. Chambers (Sara Libra Chambers) is my gg-aunt, sister of James > >Thomas Chambers. Do you happen to know what the initials S. B. stand > >for? > > > >Turner, Sam. W. July 15, 1878-May 19, 1955 > >Turner, Zella C. Oct. 19, 1884-June 12, 1955 [w/o Sam W. Turner] > > > >Zella Chambers is another daughter of James Thomas Chambers, sister of > >James Oliver and Noah Dyer Chambers. Sam could possibly be one of my > >Turner relatives as well, I am not certain. > > > >If you have any additional information on the above people or know > >someone who wouldn't mind sharing their information I sure would > >appreciate the info.