Sandra, I am a descendant of Jacob and Millie Hollingsworth Watts, and I live about a mile from where they lived in Clay County, AL. Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debra Crosby" <poohbos@poohbos.com> To: <ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 1:35 PM Subject: [17] Fw: Casey/Hurst/Freeman/Watts/Hollingsworth/Patterson & Allied Families Of Clay County > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: sisters > To: ALCLAY-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:25 PM > Subject: Casey/Hurst/Freeman/Watts/Hollingsworth/Patterson & Allied Families Of Clay County > > > I am searching for ancestors/descendants/relatives of > > William Hurst & Nancy Elizabeth Scruggs > > Hezekiah Edwin Carr Hurst & Sara Ann Freeman > > Jacob Watts & Permilia 'Millie' Hollingsworth > > Thomas Arthur Patterson & Louisa Jane Watts > > Robert Williamson Taylor Casey & Ann Powell (1st) wife - Martha Almanda > Mellon (2nd) wife. > > Robert Campbell Mellon & Aramitta Frances Sims > > I have a few photos and considerable research to share. > > > Sandra Hurst > Glendale, AZ > "My Dear Departed Family > by Tracey Ann Prior" > > "The years roll on relentlessly and clouds obscure my memory > But beloved faces come to me; my dear departed family. > > Their struggles are now history compiled upon my family tree. > Their skeletons for all to see, laced richly with humanity. > Their tears and wars and harmony. Their ignorance and illiteracy, > Intelligence and decency. Their wisdom, wit and courtesy. > > A large assembly watches me and whispers from eternity. > Somehow I feel they're close to me anticipating eagerly. > > I cannot stem my welling pride for those who cried and tried and died. > Who persevered unsatisfied and now in bliss reside" > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== > Check out Alabama maps at > http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/ > there are some really neat ones here!!! >

Hi Pam: I have been trying to reach you for some time and your email have returned to me. I will attach the returned email to the bottom of this one. My grandparents are Artimisia Patterson Hurst (daughter of Louisa Jane Watts & Thomas A. Patterson) and James Layafette Hurst (son of Hezekiah Edwin Carr Hurst & Sara Ann Freeman). I have a few Watts family photographs you may find interesting. Your research, I am sure is much more detailed than mine. I did start back in the 1970's when my cousin Eva Hurst Gillespie (daughter of Mandy Patterson & John F. Hurst) got me hooked. I retired a few years back and have been working on this project in earnest. I would be very interested in your research. Recently, I have been contacted by several Watt's researchers via message boards on ancestry.com. One Watts researcher referred me to this link http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cwdill&id=I1689 He believes "our" Jacob Watts is the Jacob Watts on this page - see marriage number 2. I would be interested in what you think. Regards, Sandra Hurst Glendale, AZ This is my original email they keeps returning: Return-Path: <sisters@qwest.net> Received: (qmail 81114 invoked by uid 0); 12 Nov 2003 15:07:05 -0000 Received: from mpls-pop-10.inet.qwest.net (63.231.195.10) by mpls-qmqp-02.inet.qwest.net with QMQP; 12 Nov 2003 15:07:05 -0000 Received: from vdsl-130-13-174-225.phnx.uswest.net (HELO qwest.net) (130.13.174.225) by mpls-pop-10.inet.qwest.net with SMTP; 12 Nov 2003 15:52:47 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:52:49 -0700 Message-ID: <3FB25751.6010207@qwest.net> From: "sisters" <sisters@qwest.net> To: pamshirey@acs-isp.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: ALCLAY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Pam: I am related to the Patterson's and have talked to my cousins Joyce and Jerry recently. They have told me what they could remember regarding Artie Ruth Patterson & Lonzo Gamorse Sewell. Joyce gave me the names of their children Lilly Gay and Audrey Fay, but I need a bit more information if you have it. Also, I have in my FTM Gladys Swell that married Roy Lenord Casey. Again I have the names of their children not much else. Also, I am connected to the Shirey's though my Daddy's first cousin Millie Rebecca Watts wife of Marion Shirey. Regards, Sandra Hurst Glendale, AZ Pam Shirey wrote: >Sandra, >I am a descendant of Jacob and Millie Hollingsworth Watts, and I live about >a mile from where they lived in Clay County, AL. > > Pam > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Debra Crosby" <poohbos@poohbos.com> >To: <ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 1:35 PM >Subject: [17] Fw: Casey/Hurst/Freeman/Watts/Hollingsworth/Patterson & Allied >Families Of Clay County > > > > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: sisters >>To: ALCLAY-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com >>Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:25 PM >>Subject: Casey/Hurst/Freeman/Watts/Hollingsworth/Patterson & Allied >> >> >Families Of Clay County > > >>I am searching for ancestors/descendants/relatives of >> >>William Hurst & Nancy Elizabeth Scruggs >> >>Hezekiah Edwin Carr Hurst & Sara Ann Freeman >> >>Jacob Watts & Permilia 'Millie' Hollingsworth >> >>Thomas Arthur Patterson & Louisa Jane Watts >> >>Robert Williamson Taylor Casey & Ann Powell (1st) wife - Martha Almanda >>Mellon (2nd) wife. >> >>Robert Campbell Mellon & Aramitta Frances Sims >> >>I have a few photos and considerable research to share. >> >> >>Sandra Hurst >>Glendale, AZ >>"My Dear Departed Family >>by Tracey Ann Prior" >> >>"The years roll on relentlessly and clouds obscure my memory >>But beloved faces come to me; my dear departed family. >> >>Their struggles are now history compiled upon my family tree. >>Their skeletons for all to see, laced richly with humanity. >>Their tears and wars and harmony. Their ignorance and illiteracy, >>Intelligence and decency. Their wisdom, wit and courtesy. >> >>A large assembly watches me and whispers from eternity. >>Somehow I feel they're close to me anticipating eagerly. >> >>I cannot stem my welling pride for those who cried and tried and died. >>Who persevered unsatisfied and now in bliss reside" >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== >>Check out Alabama maps at >>http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/ >>there are some really neat ones here!!! >> >> >> > > > >==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== >Check out Alabama maps at >http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/ >there are some really neat ones here!!! > > > > >

----- Original Message ----- From: sisters To: ALCLAY-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:25 PM Subject: Casey/Hurst/Freeman/Watts/Hollingsworth/Patterson & Allied Families Of Clay County I am searching for ancestors/descendants/relatives of William Hurst & Nancy Elizabeth Scruggs Hezekiah Edwin Carr Hurst & Sara Ann Freeman Jacob Watts & Permilia 'Millie' Hollingsworth Thomas Arthur Patterson & Louisa Jane Watts Robert Williamson Taylor Casey & Ann Powell (1st) wife - Martha Almanda Mellon (2nd) wife. Robert Campbell Mellon & Aramitta Frances Sims I have a few photos and considerable research to share. Sandra Hurst Glendale, AZ "My Dear Departed Family by Tracey Ann Prior" "The years roll on relentlessly and clouds obscure my memory But beloved faces come to me; my dear departed family. Their struggles are now history compiled upon my family tree. Their skeletons for all to see, laced richly with humanity. Their tears and wars and harmony. Their ignorance and illiteracy, Intelligence and decency. Their wisdom, wit and courtesy. A large assembly watches me and whispers from eternity. Somehow I feel they're close to me anticipating eagerly. I cannot stem my welling pride for those who cried and tried and died. Who persevered unsatisfied and now in bliss reside"

Dear List members, Patsy McCoy has found a wonderful site in Florida which has many World War 1 service cards. Though it is in Florida what she has discovered is that there are many of our Alabama men who are listed there. If you have family from Alabama that may have gone to Florida,, this site might be worth researching. Please be sure to check it out at http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/WWI/index.cfm Debra Crosby

I have some information on Richard A Cole. autigers@prodigy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Williamson" <billw9@farmerstel.com> To: <ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:28 AM Subject: [17] Roll Call : Researching: Willliamson, Martin, Toland, Powell, Cole, Garthright, Street, Wheeles, Parsons, and Harwell, family lines of Clay Co AL > Ancestors include: > > > (1) William T. Williamson 9/5/1810 (GA)--8/25/1899 Clay Co., AL > (2) Elizabeth A. Brooks Williamson Abt 1823 (GA)--2/25/1899 Clay Co., AL > (3) Benjamin Jabus Mathison Williamson 11/14/1860 Clay Co., AL--3/17/1942 Clay Co., AL > (4) Mary Jane Cole Williamson 3/13/1869 -- 8/26/1926 Clay Co., AL > (5) Richard Alex Cole Abt 1850 Clay Co., AL--Unknown ? Clay Co., AL > (6) Martha Garthright Cole about 1856 (Unknown) --Unknown, ? Clay Co., AL > (7) John W. Martin 11/23/1838 (GA) --6/1863 Lynchburg, VA > (8) Mary Jane Harwell Martin Abrams abt 1844 (GA)-- Unknown, ? Clay Co., AL > (8) Dotson Harwell 2/14/1794 (NC)--9/23/1863 Tallapoosa Co., AL > (9) John W. Martin 7/11/1863 Clay Co., AL--2/9/1939 Clay Co., AL > (10) Mary Virginia Manassa Toland Martin 7/27/1861 Clay Co., AL--8/20/1927 Clay Co., AL > (11) James Toland: 6/27/1816 (SC) --7/25/1903 Clay Co., AL; > (12) Sarah Elizabeth Powell Toland 2/27/1835 (GA)--1/30/1901 Clay Co., AL; > (13) Nathaniel Powell abt 1800--Unknown, Clay Co, AL, > (14) Mary Long Powell about 1800--Unknown, Clay Co., AL > > And any related or allied families descended from these individuals,. > > Willing to share information. > > Best Regards, > > Bill Williamson > > > ==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== > The Alabama Civil War site of the AlGenWeb is at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcwroot/

Ancestors include: (1) William T. Williamson 9/5/1810 (GA)--8/25/1899 Clay Co., AL (2) Elizabeth A. Brooks Williamson Abt 1823 (GA)--2/25/1899 Clay Co., AL (3) Benjamin Jabus Mathison Williamson 11/14/1860 Clay Co., AL--3/17/1942 Clay Co., AL (4) Mary Jane Cole Williamson 3/13/1869 -- 8/26/1926 Clay Co., AL (5) Richard Alex Cole Abt 1850 Clay Co., AL--Unknown ? Clay Co., AL (6) Martha Garthright Cole about 1856 (Unknown) --Unknown, ? Clay Co., AL (7) John W. Martin 11/23/1838 (GA) --6/1863 Lynchburg, VA (8) Mary Jane Harwell Martin Abrams abt 1844 (GA)-- Unknown, ? Clay Co., AL (8) Dotson Harwell 2/14/1794 (NC)--9/23/1863 Tallapoosa Co., AL (9) John W. Martin 7/11/1863 Clay Co., AL--2/9/1939 Clay Co., AL (10) Mary Virginia Manassa Toland Martin 7/27/1861 Clay Co., AL--8/20/1927 Clay Co., AL (11) James Toland: 6/27/1816 (SC) --7/25/1903 Clay Co., AL; (12) Sarah Elizabeth Powell Toland 2/27/1835 (GA)--1/30/1901 Clay Co., AL; (13) Nathaniel Powell abt 1800--Unknown, Clay Co, AL, (14) Mary Long Powell about 1800--Unknown, Clay Co., AL And any related or allied families descended from these individuals,. Willing to share information. Best Regards, Bill Williamson

----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Oppenheimer To: ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:04 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} My Surnames Surnames for Clay & Tallapoosa are: Whitehorn, Truitt/Truett, and Powell. These families came from Georgia to above mentioned counties (before Civil War) and then migrated to Texas (turn of the century). Surnames for Cleburne and Calhoun Counties are: Scott, Blevins, Nunnelley. Any help appreciated. Will be back on line today as oppysgirl@satx.rr.com Ann Carlton Oppenheimer

Ralph, The Times-Journal is a weekly newspaper. The office is located in Lineville. The address is: Times-Journal P.O.Box 97 Lineville,AL 36266-0097 Phone 256-396-7414 Cost: Out of State $26.00 per year. If there is something you would like to know that is in the paper, let me know. In fact, if there is something in it pertaining to your family, I will send you a copy of it. I also subscribe to The Talladega Daily Home and The Anniston Star,so, you can see, I don't miss much that happens in the area. Did I tell you that the wife of the man who works for me is the granddaughter of Uncle Lon and Aunt Lena? I asked her if she remembered anything about them. She said the only thing she remembered was that their house was built on a hillside and the kitchen was underneath the house and did not have a stairway so they had to walk outside and around the house to get to it, and Uncle Lon slept there. Her mother was Zelda Sewell Strickland. I talked to another cousin of ours, Jerry Patterson, the son of Artry Sewell Patterson. I told him I was trying to get information on the Sewells. He couldn't remember much about them, but he told me to talk to Clayton because he lived with them until he married, and he knew more than anyone else in the family. Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Sewell" <Jlgrd68@comcast.net> To: <ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 4:13 PM Subject: [17] Ashland Newspaper > Is the Ashland Alabama newspaper available on line for current issues on a daily or weekly basis? > > Ralph Sewell > Va > > > ==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== > You may search land patents in the eastern US at > http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/Logon/Logon_Form.asp >

I don't believe the clay times journal is online. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Sewell" <Jlgrd68@comcast.net> To: <ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 10:13 PM Subject: [17] Ashland Newspaper > Is the Ashland Alabama newspaper available on line for current issues on a daily or weekly basis? > > Ralph Sewell > Va > > > ==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== > You may search land patents in the eastern US at > http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/Logon/Logon_Form.asp >

Is the Ashland Alabama newspaper available on line for current issues on a daily or weekly basis? Ralph Sewell Va

on 11/6/03 12:03 AM, William Hughes at william.hughes2@comcast.net wrote: > Is anyone researching any Merritts or Allens from Tallapoosa County. I > have Jerry G. Merritt marrying Sarah Allen in TSPA county on 15 November 1866. Not looking for Merritt or Allen, but the name "Hughes" did catch my eye. I'm searching for information about Jacob Hughes [1817-1910] and his wife Susie Hughes [1817-1916]. Both are buried at the Old Liberty Hill Cemetery in Clay County. They are my gg-grandparents, but I don't have any further information about them. Carl Thomas Knoxville, Tennessee

Which Daniel Ball are you searching for?? I've a bit of information, wish I had more, on a Daniel Ball; b. abt. 1831 in NC; married in Tallapoosa County, AL. on 16 April 1861. Wife: Mary Elizabeth Sims; b. abt. 1833 in Walton County, Georgia. Her parents: Newton Sims (c.1792-c.1846) & Isabella (Johnson) Sims (1805- ? ) The 1880 census for Wicker & Pinkneyville, Clay County, Alabama shows the following children in the household: 1) Loular Ball; dau.; age 16; b. AL. 2) Daniel Ball; son; age 15; b. AL. 3) Lizebell; dau.; age 13; b. AL. 4) Vergina; dau.; age 12; b. AL. If this is the Daniel Ball of your interest, I would appreciate anything further you have and are willing to share with me. -----Original Message----- From: TLacavera@aol.com <TLacavera@aol.com> To: ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com <ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 02, 2003 7:44 PM Subject: [17] Roll Call > >Searching for information on families of Alexander Jinks and Daniel Ball > >Tommie > > >==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== >The Alabama Civil War site of the AlGenWeb is at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcwroot/ > >

These names are not familiar. Thanks for the response. Lisa

Houston, My HARDIN line is on my maternal side. John HARDIN (born 1877) married Evie WATKINS Feb, 1914 in Clay County. They were my great-grandparents. John HARDINS parents were George W. HARDIN and Thenie PERRY. George W. HARDINS father was Hezekiah HARDIN (born 1806 in North Carolina) Is this your line of Hardins also? Lisa

I have the name Hamlin. Thomas Jefferson and his son, Robert Patmon. autigers@prodigy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <LEA1826@aol.com> To: <ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 9:09 PM Subject: [17] Surnames > I see a lot of surnames on this mailing list, but none that I am researching. > Is anyone researching HAMLIN, HARDIN, GOSSIT, COLLIER, FARROW, PERRY, > WATKINS, or SINGLETON from Clay, Cleburne and Calhoun Counties. > > Lisa > Marland,OK > > > ==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== > You may search land patents in the eastern US at > http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/Logon/Logon_Form.asp

----- Original Message ----- From: maylon l. mullins To: Debra Crosby Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 4:29 AM Subject: Re: [17] Roll Call: Love, Robinson, and others The names I am researching are: Love, Robinson, Ray, McCain, Maberry, Nappier, and Bailey. Thanks! may@webshoppe.net

Searching for Peeples/Peoples/Peebles; Golden; Shores; Sentell; Barfield in Clay and surrounding counties! Janice Hydock > > > ==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== > To search Alabama archives of Rootsweb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm >

Searching for information on families of Alexander Jinks and Daniel Ball Tommie

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi Lisa, I too have Hardins in the Randolph/Clay county area in the 1840 to 1880 time frame. Will you please tell me just a little about yours to see if we may have a match? Thanks, Houston Taylor in Birmingham ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: LEA1826@aol.com [mailto:LEA1826@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 9:09 PM To: ALCLAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [17] Surnames I see a lot of surnames on this mailing list, but none that I am researching. Is anyone researching HAMLIN, HARDIN, GOSSIT, COLLIER, FARROW, PERRY, WATKINS, or SINGLETON from Clay, Cleburne and Calhoun Counties. Lisa Marland,OK ==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== You may search land patents in the eastern US at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/Logon/Logon_Form.asp

Surnames: Hendrix, Huckaby, Ingram, Nolen, Owens, Pruett, Reaves, Smith, Stephens, Whitworth Elisabeth