I do not know where the list or map is but back in the 1950's (I think) my uncle William "Bo" Harris, working for the Corps of Engineers, mapped many private cemeteries several miles on either side of the Mississippi River from Cairo, IL to Greenville (?) MS. Patrick

Those of you with interest in Lawrence Co TN research will be glad to know their archives is reopening. The details are below, but if you have more questions, please contact the Lawrence County Archives Thanks, Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: Lawrence County Archives To: mahan123@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:11 AM Subject: Law. Co. Archives reopening Hi Pat, How are things going? Still keeping those grandchildren? I wish all of mine had not moved away this past summer. I looked keeping them and miss them dearly. Would you please post the info below on the reopening of the Lawrence Co. (TN) Archives on April 3rd so I can reach as many people as possible? Thanks Kathy Lawrence County (TN) Archives Officially Reopens The Lawrence County Archives has finally completed the move to their new location in the conference room on the "east" end of the Lawrence County Library on East Gaines St. The environment is much better, which will benefit both staff and researchers. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held Monday, April 3rd at 8:30 a.m., to celebrate the reopening of the archives. Following the ceremony, the Lawrence County Archives will open to the public at 9:00 a.m. The staff of the archives wishes to thank all those who help with the sorting, packing and moving. As those who helped well know, this was not an easy feat. Hauling seven to eight bus loads, two moving vans, and several cars and trucks packed full of furniture, equipment, boxes and large record books up a flight of steps was hard work. The archives address is 524 Gallaher St., Lawrenceburg, TN 38464, with their entrance on the south side of the library by the handicap ramp. The archives new hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., in order to accommodate those who can only use the facility's resources on weekends. The phone and fax numbers remain the same - phone 931-766-1576; fax 931-766-1558. Currently the web page < http://home.lorettotel.net/~lcarchives/archives.htm> and email address are the same <lcarchives@lorettotel.net>, but may change at a later date. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/296 - Release Date: 3/29/2006

Quite a sad situation. Unfortunately, a circa 1910 decision by the Catholic church in St. Louis resulted in removal of all monuments and headstones, none of which were made available to family members. There was no attempt to map the gravesites for future generations. That wiped out any record of my GGF's burial site and he was a Civil War Vet who had been in the military in Germany prior to coming to the US. Fortunately, it appears that my ancestors in Mhoontown Cemetery are safe: for now anyway. Bob Mhoon Arlington, TX -----Original Message----- From: Geannie42@aol.com [mailto:Geannie42@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:43 AM To: ALCOLBER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALCOLBER] Forwarded from another list I found this very interesting and disturbing. Maybe it will be of interest to some other list members as well. More Family Cemeteries Dying Away in the South By Theo Emery The Washington Post Monday 27 March 2006 As rural land is developed, ancestral graves are relocated, bulldozed or encircled by construction. Lebanon, Tenn. - At the end of Bettis Road, across a padlocked gate and up a grassy hillside lane, generations of James Jordan's ancestors lie buried atop a wooded knoll - for now. A rusty fence encircles the cemetery, and tilted headstones point skyward amid the leaves. Walking among the locust trees, Jordan points out graves of long-dead kin, including the Chandler family matriarch who left instructions and money for preserving the cemetery. "It's a shame," said Jordan, 51. "She died thinking that she had preserved the cemetery." The hilltop, about 25 miles east of Nashville, won't be Jordan's ancestral resting place much longer. Green flags mark the Chandler cemetery, which includes graves of Revolutionary and Civil War veterans, slaves and generations of a sprawling Colonial family. They will soon be moved so that a factory or warehouse - the developer is not yet sure - can be built nearby. Throughout the South, family cemeteries pepper the landscape. But as cities from Atlanta to Memphis radiate rapidly outward, the growth is swallowing rural land that swaddles the graves. In Tennessee alone, dozens of long-hidden cemeteries appear each year - sometimes in mid-construction - creating headaches for builders and heartaches for families of the dead. Some cemeteries are moved at landowners' expense. Those that stay sometimes become forlorn islands of green amid parking lots and suburban developments. Others are paved over or bulldozed. The conflict between growth and graves in the region has long been cause for concern among preservationists, who worry that development endangers a cultural heritage buried in the soil and chiseled in its headstones. Ian W. Brown, an anthropology professor at the University of Alabama, described family cemeteries as "outdoor museums" that are threatened throughout the South. "A lot of the land has been sold, abandoned, come under forest, things like that," he said. "People are concerned with them in a general fashion, but unless it's your family, no one's tending them." In Tennessee, as in other Southern states, farm families in centuries past tended to bury their dead on their own land, allowing for quick interment and easy oversight of graves. In the Northeast, by contrast, families were more likely to use public burial grounds and church cemeteries. "The Southern pattern was that every farm or plantation would have their family cemetery," said Charles Reagan Wilson, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Over the years, many families dispersed, undergrowth overtook the headstones and deeds changed hands. Some cemeteries - particularly those where black families buried their kin - used fieldstones as markers and are difficult to spot. State archaeologist Nick Fielder estimates that there are 20,000 family cemeteries in Tennessee, but there's no way to know for sure. There's no central inventory, and most documentation is done by historians and volunteers who scour records and trudge through meadows in search of graves. Fielder says about 100 family cemeteries fall in the path of development in Tennessee each year, about two times as many as a decade ago. Under state law, he said, there's nothing sacred about sites. Relatives of the deceased have no legal leverage over family plots they don't own, and landowners who can pay to move a cemetery need only a judge's approval. "You get to rest in peace - unless someone wants to do something where you rest," he said. >From the Chandler cemetery hillside, the future isn't far. Traffic rumbles past on Highway 109. Shoemaker Genesco Inc. has a distribution center up the road, and Dell assembles computers at a factory a few miles away. The relocation to a spot near the property line is moving forward despite the plans that Jordan's great-great-great grandmother left in her will for the cemetery. The family has no choice, because a deed that left the cemetery land to Chandler descendants was lost, as was family control over the plots. Tom White, a lawyer who represents the landowner, said the move will put the graves closer to the road and away from what probably will be a large building in the middle of the property. "I don't know how you could do it much more ideally than this," he said. In nearby Mount Juliet is an example of what can happen when development overtakes cemeteries. At Nashville Auto Auction, a chain-link fence encircles thousands of cars and trucks on a 265-acre lot. Behind another fence and surrounded by a sea of asphalt is a low hill with a tiny family cemetery on top, nearly buried under tree limbs and oak leaves. There are other examples. North of Nashville, a cemetery is tucked in a highway cloverleaf. There's a family cemetery on the grounds of the city zoo. One family cemetery south of Nashville is on the grounds of a hotel, next to a parking lot. Today, local history buffs often keep an eye on cemeteries. After a Whites Creek resident e-mailed about one, Fielder headed north on a recent afternoon. Just past the post office, he drove over a partly bulldozed field and stopped beside a mound set off with markers. On top were two tilted headstones and two more that were flat on the ground. The graves lay on a lot line of the 26-unit subdivision, which was mapped out on a billboard for passing motorists. Fielder took a long metal rod out of his truck and began plunging it into the ground. He muttered "yup, yup" as the rod sank easily into the earth, indicating that there probably were graves outside of the staked area. A pickup truck pulled off the road, and David Martin - the man who had e-mailed Fielder about the graves - got out. Martin, 47, said he drew attention to the cemetery because he was eager for it to be taken care of. "I think it's important that we honor these people. This is their final resting place, and just because someone wants to put a house or a bridge or a shopping center on top of it doesn't mean that you have the right to do that," Martin said. Richard Binkley, who's building the subdivision, said he feels responsible for the dead on the property, but is torn about what to do. He bought and sold another property that had graves on it, and said he thinks his own family's cemetery was damaged by a careless developer. "It's hard to buy a piece of property now that's on the outskirts of town that doesn't have a grave on it of some kind," he said. "It's come down to the point now where we're running out of space." ------- ==== ALCOLBER Mailing List ==== Pat M. Mahan, mahan123@comcast.net CC Colbert Co AL and List Administrator http:/www.rootsweb.com/~alcolber/ ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx

I found this very interesting and disturbing. Maybe it will be of interest to some other list members as well. More Family Cemeteries Dying Away in the South By Theo Emery The Washington Post Monday 27 March 2006 As rural land is developed, ancestral graves are relocated, bulldozed or encircled by construction. Lebanon, Tenn. - At the end of Bettis Road, across a padlocked gate and up a grassy hillside lane, generations of James Jordan's ancestors lie buried atop a wooded knoll - for now. A rusty fence encircles the cemetery, and tilted headstones point skyward amid the leaves. Walking among the locust trees, Jordan points out graves of long-dead kin, including the Chandler family matriarch who left instructions and money for preserving the cemetery. "It's a shame," said Jordan, 51. "She died thinking that she had preserved the cemetery." The hilltop, about 25 miles east of Nashville, won't be Jordan's ancestral resting place much longer. Green flags mark the Chandler cemetery, which includes graves of Revolutionary and Civil War veterans, slaves and generations of a sprawling Colonial family. They will soon be moved so that a factory or warehouse - the developer is not yet sure - can be built nearby. Throughout the South, family cemeteries pepper the landscape. But as cities from Atlanta to Memphis radiate rapidly outward, the growth is swallowing rural land that swaddles the graves. In Tennessee alone, dozens of long-hidden cemeteries appear each year - sometimes in mid-construction - creating headaches for builders and heartaches for families of the dead. Some cemeteries are moved at landowners' expense. Those that stay sometimes become forlorn islands of green amid parking lots and suburban developments. Others are paved over or bulldozed. The conflict between growth and graves in the region has long been cause for concern among preservationists, who worry that development endangers a cultural heritage buried in the soil and chiseled in its headstones. Ian W. Brown, an anthropology professor at the University of Alabama, described family cemeteries as "outdoor museums" that are threatened throughout the South. "A lot of the land has been sold, abandoned, come under forest, things like that," he said. "People are concerned with them in a general fashion, but unless it's your family, no one's tending them." In Tennessee, as in other Southern states, farm families in centuries past tended to bury their dead on their own land, allowing for quick interment and easy oversight of graves. In the Northeast, by contrast, families were more likely to use public burial grounds and church cemeteries. "The Southern pattern was that every farm or plantation would have their family cemetery," said Charles Reagan Wilson, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Over the years, many families dispersed, undergrowth overtook the headstones and deeds changed hands. Some cemeteries - particularly those where black families buried their kin - used fieldstones as markers and are difficult to spot. State archaeologist Nick Fielder estimates that there are 20,000 family cemeteries in Tennessee, but there's no way to know for sure. There's no central inventory, and most documentation is done by historians and volunteers who scour records and trudge through meadows in search of graves. Fielder says about 100 family cemeteries fall in the path of development in Tennessee each year, about two times as many as a decade ago. Under state law, he said, there's nothing sacred about sites. Relatives of the deceased have no legal leverage over family plots they don't own, and landowners who can pay to move a cemetery need only a judge's approval. "You get to rest in peace - unless someone wants to do something where you rest," he said. >From the Chandler cemetery hillside, the future isn't far. Traffic rumbles past on Highway 109. Shoemaker Genesco Inc. has a distribution center up the road, and Dell assembles computers at a factory a few miles away. The relocation to a spot near the property line is moving forward despite the plans that Jordan's great-great-great grandmother left in her will for the cemetery. The family has no choice, because a deed that left the cemetery land to Chandler descendants was lost, as was family control over the plots. Tom White, a lawyer who represents the landowner, said the move will put the graves closer to the road and away from what probably will be a large building in the middle of the property. "I don't know how you could do it much more ideally than this," he said. In nearby Mount Juliet is an example of what can happen when development overtakes cemeteries. At Nashville Auto Auction, a chain-link fence encircles thousands of cars and trucks on a 265-acre lot. Behind another fence and surrounded by a sea of asphalt is a low hill with a tiny family cemetery on top, nearly buried under tree limbs and oak leaves. There are other examples. North of Nashville, a cemetery is tucked in a highway cloverleaf. There's a family cemetery on the grounds of the city zoo. One family cemetery south of Nashville is on the grounds of a hotel, next to a parking lot. Today, local history buffs often keep an eye on cemeteries. After a Whites Creek resident e-mailed about one, Fielder headed north on a recent afternoon. Just past the post office, he drove over a partly bulldozed field and stopped beside a mound set off with markers. On top were two tilted headstones and two more that were flat on the ground. The graves lay on a lot line of the 26-unit subdivision, which was mapped out on a billboard for passing motorists. Fielder took a long metal rod out of his truck and began plunging it into the ground. He muttered "yup, yup" as the rod sank easily into the earth, indicating that there probably were graves outside of the staked area. A pickup truck pulled off the road, and David Martin - the man who had e-mailed Fielder about the graves - got out. Martin, 47, said he drew attention to the cemetery because he was eager for it to be taken care of. "I think it's important that we honor these people. This is their final resting place, and just because someone wants to put a house or a bridge or a shopping center on top of it doesn't mean that you have the right to do that," Martin said. Richard Binkley, who's building the subdivision, said he feels responsible for the dead on the property, but is torn about what to do. He bought and sold another property that had graves on it, and said he thinks his own family's cemetery was damaged by a careless developer. "It's hard to buy a piece of property now that's on the outskirts of town that doesn't have a grave on it of some kind," he said. "It's come down to the point now where we're running out of space." -------

In a message dated 2/24/2006 7:23:05 A.M. Central Standard Time, mahan123@comcast.net writes: I have just put the WPA survey of Oakwood Cemetery, Tuscumbia, on the Colbert County website, and the website has been re-indexed. Thank you so much. Found some relatives there. Really do appreciate all the help. Betty.

Good Morning All, I have just put the WPA survey of Oakwood Cemetery, Tuscumbia, on the Colbert County website, and the website has been re-indexed. You can get to the cemetery from "new items" and from the cemetery master list. http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcolber/cem-oakwood-tuscumbia.htm Please keep in mind that this survey was done in 1933. You should not find any death dates after that year. [If you do, it's a typo :^( - please let me know.] Many, many thanks to Martha Wilson for proofreading this. Enjoy! Pat

Hello, I am looking for information on these families: John Sargent born ca 1837 who married Martha A. Hooper Their daughter Josephine (Josie) who married W. G. Goins Their daughter Nancy who married Gorden Johnson Their daughter Dona who married William S. Dowdy Rueben Sargent who married Martha Byrams and moved to Hot Springs Co. Arkansas Edward who i know nothing about James L. who i know nothing about There was also a Richard J listed on one of the census's but he was born same year as James L. so i am not sure if they could be the same since a lot of people had four names. William who was my gggrandfather, who i do know about. These families lived in and out of Tishmingo Co. Miss, Franklin Co. Alabama, Colbert Co. Alabama, I would also love to connect with someone that connects to this family. Any help would be greatly appreciated Carol

Elaine, Here is some website to get you started on the Native American search. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/alabama/ http://www.allthingscherokee.com/ http://www.tngenweb.org/cherokee_by_blood/ http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eitcherok/genealogy/roll-found.htm Hope helps. Crystal Elaine Wilkinson <jwilkinson3@triad.rr.com> wrote: this is my first time doing research in AL. My niece, Heather, thinks Maggie A. Middleton Thorton is half Cherokee. Any idea how records are kept on that fact? 1920 census Colbert co Sheffield AL # 159/198 Thomas Thornton 29 MS Maggie 20 TN (Middleton) Edward 1+ Evelyn 1+ (twins) #160/199 John Middleton 55 AL Bettie 54 TN (Beasley) Vernon 16 1930 census Colbert co Sheffield AL #62/69 Thomas E. Thornton 39 MS England NC Maggie A. 30 TN AL TN Edward 11 Evelyn 11 James D. 7 Lily M. 4 Mary A. 2 Nothing on any census Right? Elaine --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? With a free 1 GB, there's more in store with Yahoo! Mail.

1920 census Colbert co Sheffield twp AL #86/89 Henry Stanfield 29 AL Sussie 26 TN Rufus 7 Charles 2 Ruth J. 1/12 1930 census Lauderdale co Florence city AL #172/189 Henry Standfield 38 Susie 36 Rufus 17 Charles 12 Jaunita 10 Correlli 4 hunting info spouse, death dates for Henry Stanfield, son Charles 1917-1974 is the one I'm interested in married to Wilma Evelyn Thornton 1918-2004. Elaine

this is my first time doing research in AL. My niece, Heather, thinks Maggie A. Middleton Thorton is half Cherokee. Any idea how records are kept on that fact? 1920 census Colbert co Sheffield AL # 159/198 Thomas Thornton 29 MS Maggie 20 TN (Middleton) Edward 1+ Evelyn 1+ (twins) #160/199 John Middleton 55 AL Bettie 54 TN (Beasley) Vernon 16 1930 census Colbert co Sheffield AL #62/69 Thomas E. Thornton 39 MS England NC Maggie A. 30 TN AL TN Edward 11 Evelyn 11 James D. 7 Lily M. 4 Mary A. 2 Nothing on any census Right? Elaine

This is being forwarded from the Colbert Co AL Message Board. If you can help, please contact djbwain@yahoo.com http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/486 and, of course, the list. Thanks, Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <djbwain@yahoo.com> To: <ALCOLBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 9:35 AM Subject: George Family of Cherokee, AL > 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/QS.2ADI/486 > > Message Board Post: > > I am researching my grandmother's line of George's. She was Emma Evelyn > George. Her parents were Arthur George and Sarah Elizabeth Holcomb. I > know several George's are buried in the Barton Cemetery. > > Arthur had a twin brother named Oscar. Arthur died around 1927 after > contracting typhoid fever from a well. If you know anything of this > family, please email me privately at djbwain@yahoo.com. > > Thanks! > Darlene Childers Franco > >

Good Morning All, I'm wishing each of you a very Merry Christmas, and a Joyous New Year! May each of you unravel at least one of your genealogical mysteries. Pat Pat M. Mahan CC Colbert County, AL www.rootsweb.com/~alcolber/

I ran across this cemetery yesterday in Colbert County. I didn't know that the transcription was on the Colbert County website and never looked since my ancestors last name were not on it. My transcription differs some, but Charlotte Borden's may be more correct. Several families are buried there and probably more. It appears that the last burial in this cemetery was about 1919. I found my 2nd great grandfather JJ Davis buried there, Mar 30 1877. Would be interested if anyone knows about these family connections. Hope this helps someone. Sam Abernathy Cemetery-- Located at NE corner of 6th street and County line road, Colbert County AL. Cemetery in woods behind yellow farmhouse and beside chicken houses. Very grown up and in bad shape. Family names in cemetery are ABERNATHY, GALBRATH, WOOTEN, WALDRAN, MAYS and DAVIS. (Transcribed Dec 2005, Sam Austin, austin64@bellsouth.net) John Galbrath, born in the parrish of Leck County of Donegal Ireland, June 1819, died at Leighton AL June 14 1899, age 80 years. Margaret P. daughter of GS and Prissila Norwood, b April 5 1845, d May 5 1848 David B. Abernathy, b Aug 3 1829, d July 6 1835 John T. Abernathy, b June 30 1836, d Nov 6 1838, Laura Abernathy, b Nov 11 1838, d Aug 14 1839, double tombstone Richard E. Abernathy, b Mar 1 1826 OR 1836 ?, d July 26 1841 Sarah Abernathy, daughter of RE??????? and consort of JE Abernathy, b Mar 13 ????, married 19 Dec ????, d Dec 26 18?? John T. Abernathy, b Dec 8 1799, d July 27 1869 Eliza Wright, wife of John T. Abernathy, b Aug 19 1819, d May 28 1895 Lavinia Abernathy, consort of David Abernathy, b 1776, d Mar 13, 1848 David Abernathy, b 1779, d Sept 5 1845 Little Baby, infant son of JC & Hattie Wooten, b Oct 10 1885, d June 10 1886 Emmet Abernathy, b Feb 21 1857, d Sept 5 1872 William W. Abernathy, b Dec 11 1851, d May 13 1857 James W. son of JC & Hattie Wooten, b Jan 15 1873, d Jan 27 1873 James Marshall, son of JC & Hattie Wooten, b Jan 1 1879, d May 22 1880 Mary L. White, b June 28 1833, d Nov 11 1918, James N White, d Aug 24 1878, age 51 years. Nerrie Abernathy, b June 5 1852, d July 1880 Martha E. Waldran, b July 31 1831, d Nov 9 1901 JT Mays son of BW Mays, b Mar 2 1813, d Dec 1 1858 Maude, wife of FN Cameron, b July 23 1878, d Oct 5 1919 J J Davis, d March 30 1887, age 64 years old

This is being forwarded from the message board. If you can help, please reply to wstruve@frontiernet.net , http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/484 , and, of course, the list. Thanks, Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <wstruve@frontiernet.net> To: <ALCOLBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:49 AM Subject: Richard Haake > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Haake > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/484 > > Message Board Post: > > I am looking for information on Richard Haake, born abt 1865 in Germany, > immigrated abt 1892 to Winona Minnesota, married Martha ? and is listed on > the 1900 Alabama Census as living in Allsborough (Allsboro) Alabama, on > 1910 Census he is listed but: living in Dickson, Colbert Co., Alabama, > married to Lou ?, no children, general farmer. Lou Haake died on > 2.July.1957. Any information is greatly appreciated. He is the brother > of my grandfather. > >

This is being forwarded form the Colbert Co AL message board. If you can help, please contact here2stay68@yahoo.com , http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/481 and, of course, the list. Thanks, Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <here2stay68@yahoo.com> To: <ALCOLBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 4:57 PM Subject: Yearbook photos > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Thomas > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/481 > > Message Board Post: > > Does anyone have yearbooks from Colbert Heights School (years between > 1956-1966)?Looking for ANY photos of my mom and uncle,Ruby and Steve > Thomas.Will be glad to pay for copies.Thank you! > >

This message is being forwarded from the Colbert Co AL message board. If you can help, please reply to here2stay68@yahoo.com , http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/482 , and, of course, the list. Thanks, Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <here2stay68@yahoo.com> To: <ALCOLBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:57 PM Subject: Melrose School #2 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Thomas > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/482 > > Message Board Post: > > Does anyone have any pictures of this school or of the kids who went > there?I heard my grandpa went to that school,Leslie Thomas, and would love > to get a picture of him as a boy.I am willing to pay for copies.Thank you > so much. > >

This message is being forwarded from the Colbert Co message board. If you can help, please reply to djbwain@yahoo.com , http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/480 and, of course, the list. Thanks, Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <djbwain@yahoo.com> To: <ALCOLBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 5:35 AM Subject: Lookup Request: Arthur/Lizzie (Holcomb/Thorn) GEORGE > 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/QS.2ADI/480 > > Message Board Post: > > My great-grandparents were Arthur and Lizzie George from NE Alabama and > believed to be buried in Cherokee, AL. They had four children: William, > Bessie, Edna, and Emma Elizabeth (my grandmother). > > If you have any information on the George family or their children, please > email me privately. Bessie married a SMITH, Edna married a MARTIN (lived > in Memphis), and Emma married my grandfather, William Oscar "Bill" > CHILDERS. They lived in Rienzi, MS and Kenosha, WI. > > Thanks! > Darlene Childers Franco > >

This is being forwarded from the Colbert Co AL message board. If you can help, please reply to Maypow@aol.com , http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/479 , and, of course, the list. Thanks, Pat Pat M. Mahan CC Colbert County, AL www.rootsweb.com/~alcolber/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <Maypow@aol.com> To: <ALCOLBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 9:24 PM Subject: William Oliver Holsombeck and Linnie Martin Holsombeck > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Martin, Holsombeck > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/479 > > Message Board Post: > > We believe the parents of William Oliver to be James E. and Belle > Holsombeck of Cherokee County, Al. They were in the 1880 Census and by > 1900 Census in Polk County, GA. 1910 Census Oliver was on the Tillman Co.. > Okla. Census and then we found Linnie in the home of her family the Wm. > Martin family at 109 N. Water St. William Oliver claims that address on > his WW1 card. But we need a marriage record to put it all together. Can > anyone help? Thanks for any information. Maelene > >

Good Evening All, Just a quick note to wish each of you and yours a very safe, if you're going out of town, and happy Thanksgiving. I'd appreciate it if those of you with your e-mail address posted on the Colbert Co AL web site would check it to be sure that it is correct. If not, please let me know. Thanks, Pat

This is being forwarded from the message boards. If you can help, please reply to hldnds@aol.com http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QS.2ADI/475 and, of course, the list. Thanks! Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <hldnds@aol.com> To: <ALCOLBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 7:51 PM Subject: Smith graves, north of Leighton > 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/QS.2ADI/475 > > Message Board Post: > > I recently found three graves in woods maybe a half mile from the river > and a half mile from Town Creek, near what was Hennigan's Store. All have > the surname Smith but first names were difficult to make out. I believe > one was Eliza. These are old stones with no dates. I have photos but the > inscriptions can't be read. I am curious about whose graves these are. > >