Sorry thanks for telling me. The Legal description of the post office in Sepulga Conecuh Co., AL. was on the Northwest one quarter of the Southeast one quarter of Sec 27, Township 8 North, Range 11 East. Joyce County Coordinator for Conecuh and Escambia Co., AL. Genexchange. http://www.genexchange.org/county.php?state=al&county=conecuh http://www.genexchange.org/county.php?state=al&county=escambia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Lavon Lee" <lavonlee@alaweb.com> To: "Bill King" <BillKing@houston.rr.com>; "Joyce" <mstroublejlw@bellsouth.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 2:59 AM Subject: Re: [ALCONECU] Sepulga Community or Sepulga Post Office > Mrs Joyce > You omitted a key factor in the Legal land description. > What township north? 8 or 7? > I don't mean to complain, but I know you want this to be complete. > Bill King > Assuming this Legal Land description as > NWSE sec 27 T8n R11e > That would be about 1 mile due west of Concord cemetery. > The 1886 map showing the town Sepulga does not mean that folks listed in > Sepulga beat one, lived right there. > They had to name these precincts and often there was nothing there to name > them. These Post office's were normally a store in the area. > The South Butler P.O. was in 3 or 4 different stores over time and so (South > Butler) shows on maps as being in 3 or 4 locations. South Butler, like > Lyefion, was never a town, just an area. > But I agree with Joyce that 1860 Sepulga precinct was named for the Sepulga > P.O. which she pointed out had been there a long time. > Joyce > This is real good work and I thank you for sharing. > I study the Lee's around Mckenzie. That is at the convergence of > Conecuh/Covington & Butler. The same family may have people born or died in > any of those counties. > Recently, I have been looking at the Garland, Grace area of Butler county. I > saw Joshia Ellis there, and he has a Butler county marriage. > Looking at Thomas Bennett there, Solomon Beasley, there was a unaccounted > for John Lee there with early land on Long creek. All these folks are listed > as members of Macedonia church 1846 over near Mckenzie. Later the Bennetts > moved to Garland area. > Nice to meet another Conecuh county researcher!