Please don't refer questions to me - I'm just the "messenger" :) Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:08 PM Subject: [ALMONTGO-L] ALABAMA CEMETERIES Important EVENT! > Dear friends and fellow researchers, > > Important event! PRESERVING ALABAMA'S CEMETERIES - WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE! > > Subjects covered: > > "Effective Cemetery Laws and Legal Actions" > Cemetery Workshop and Conference - Nov. 1, 2003 > > Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance (ACPA) Membership > > ACPA Web Site - NEW! > > Become an ACPA County Representative! > > Please read this entire message - there is important information all > the way to the bottom for everyone! > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Effective Cemetery Laws and Legal Actions" > and Cemetery Workshop > Sponsored by: > The Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance > The Alabama Historical Commission > The Montgomery Genealogical Society, Inc > The Alabama Preservation Alliance > > Date: Saturday November 1, 2003 > Time: 9:30a.m. -3:30p.m. > Place: Alabama Archives Auditorium > 624 Washington Avenue > Montgomery, Alabama > > Important Event: If you missed the cemetery workshop last November, > don't overlook this important follow-up event!! Preservationists, > historians, > genealogists, legal advisors, county and state officials are > scheduled to participate in workshop presentations and panels on > Alabama cemetery laws and legal actions that YOU can take to preserve > your family, town or county cemetery. Help us improve and enforce > the laws - attend the workshop, join the ACPA and show your support. > Also on the workshop agenda (not to be missed) - a Monument Repair > Specialist will answer your questions about what to do and NOT to do > in repairing your ancestors' broken markers. Photographs of "before" > and "after" work conducted in both remote rural sites and city > cemeteries will be shown. > Registration: Cemetery Workshop with lunch-$25, without lunch $20. > ACPA members Cemetery Workshop with lunch-$15, without lunch-$10. Fee > includes a box lunch, complimentary morning refreshments, door prizes > and more. County/cemetery/history/genealogy books will be available > for purchase during workshop (inquire if you would like space for > your society or books). You'll even have time for research in the > reference room before the Archives closes at 5:00 p.m. Send > registration and check payable to: ACPA Cemetery Workshop, P. O. Box > 230194, Montgomery, AL 36123-0194 (or pay by PayPal). For further > information, email Joyce Nicoll, the President of ACPA: > > Email: [email protected] > > REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 24, 2003. > > PAYPAL NOW AVAILABLE: If you would like to register and pay by credit > card, the ACPA is now set up to receive Cemetery Workshop Conference > fees, and ACPA Membership dues through PayPal. If you are already > familiar with PayPal and wish to make use of this convenient service > when sending in your Conference fees and/or ACPA Membership fees, > please email me directly and I will send you brief and easy > instructions (my email address are at the bottom of the page). PayPal > is one of the most secure methods of making credit card payments over > the Internet and accepts several different cards (MasterCard/Visa, > AmX, Discover and eCHECK). If you have not used PayPal before and > would like to check it out, please go to http://www.paypal.com. > (There is no cost to you to sign up.) Then email me for the PayPal > account info to make a payment. > > If you would like me to send you a flyer all about the Cemetery > Workshop Conference (PDF), and/or an ACPA Membership form (PDF) (no > obligation to join if you wish to receive the form), (see bottom of > page for may email addresses). If you do not have the ability to read > a PDF file, you can download a FREE Acrobat Reader to view PDF's for > either PC or MAC from > http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html You may also > send in membership fees through PayPal and mail in a print-out copy > of the completed form (address is on the form). We are working on an > on-line membership form that can be completed and sent in over the > Internet, but it is not quite ready. > > ACPA WEB SITE! We are in the process of building a wonderful web site > for the ACPA, which will debut in a presentation at the Cemetery > Workshop/Conference on Nov. 1. This site will be dedicated to sharing > all kinds of material on PRESERVING, RESTORING AND CONSERVING Alabama > Cemeteries. It is CHOCK-FULL of all kinds of GREAT things. Many of > Alabama's cemeteries are being lost to the elements of mother nature, > neglect and vandalism. The ACPA is working "hand in hand" with the > Alabama Historical Commission to make sure that you have all the > information you need to help preserve Alabama's Cemetery Heritage. > One of the main missions of the ACPA is to encourage individuals, > families and community groups to ADOPT a cemetery and take steps to > help restore and preserve it. Issues on monument theft and vandalism > are covered, as well as steps to take to ADOPT a cemetery. The site > will have articles and "step by step" instructions, not only on the > techniques of preserving and repairing cemeteries and grave markers, > but also on the processes of establishing a non-profit Cemetery > Association in Alabama, including by-laws, Articles of Association, > and how and who to submit these to, so you can preserve your > cemeteries for all time. Much of this information may be adapted to > cemetery plights throughout the nation. Also a section on the Alabama > Legal Code pertaining to laws that address the protection of > cemeteries. AND VERY IMPORTANTLY, the ACPA has established an on-line > CEMETERY REGISTER - A method/form for you to REGISTER cemeteries and > burial surveys with the ACPA ON-LINE!. These REGISTERED Cemeteries > will be recorded in the ACPA database, not only as a method to > document them, but will be accompanied by a searchable database, so > the guests to the ACPA web site may search cemeteries by name and > county. It is the goal of the ACPA to REGISTER every cemetery in the > state of Alabama. Once you register a cemetery, you may return to > your original registration and up-date it with additional information > as you discover it. We will also have a BURIAL LISTING database that > will allow individuals to submit their cemetery burial surveys, also > searchable by name, cemetery and county. ALL OF THIS will be > presented at the Alabama Cemetery Workshop Conference on Nov. 1. > Meanwhile, please visit the site and sign our GUESTBOOK to be > notified when the full site will be fully operable and to receive > further information about the Conference and ACPA Membership. > http://www.alabama-cemetery-preservation.com or http://www.alcpa.net > > LAST BUT NOT LEAST! become an ACPA COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE! The ACPA is > establishing a County Representative to act as a liaison for the ACPA > in each County. We have JUST opened these volunteer positions up and > they are GOING FAST! If you have Internet access and email and live > in an Alabama county that you would like to represent, and are > interested in preserving and recording the cemeteries in your county > and would like to know more about this very important volunteer > position, please contact me, or the ACPA County Coordinator, Ted > Urquhart. > > Ted's ACPA County Coordinator email address is: > [email protected] > > My email addresses are: [email protected] > or my ACPA Web Master address is: > [email protected] > > Thank You, Cynthia Sims Kirkland (ACPA Web Master) and > Ted Urquhart (ACPA Vice President and County Coordinator) > > P.S. Hope to see you there! Please pass this on! > -- > Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance (ACPA) > "Preserve, Restore and Venerate." > Saving Alabama Cemeteries > http://www.alabama-cemetery-preservation.com > > Please visit and sign the Guest Book. >

(I attended one of Mark Lowe's seminars last year in Rowan County, NC - excellent presentation and handouts. Caroline, Prattville, AL) The Alabama Genealogical Society's Annual Fall Seminar will be on Saturday, October 18, 2003, in the auditorium of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery (note - this is a change from the previous planned meeting place.). Time is 9:00 am until 3:30 pm. The speaker will be J. Mark Lowe of Tennessee. His topics will be: "Land Barons or Dirt Farmers: Finding Land Transactions" - Learn how to trace an individual through property records and how to trace a specific property. "Finding Your Landless Ancestors" - Learn how to use Trust Deed Chattels and Tax Release Books to help locate those individuals without deeds and estates (including African-Americans). "Locating the Wanderer" - Finding that ancestor who just can't stay put. Learn the techniques that will make his path more clear. "Smith vs Jones, et al.: A Closer Look at Court Records" - Relationships are proven and circumstances stated in court. Learn how to find these court records and how to use them effectively. Cost is $35 for non-members and $30 for members. (Box lunches will be provided for those registered by October 4th). Make checks payable to Alabama Genealogical Society and send to AGS Treasurer, 1012 Southlake Cove, Birmingham AL 35244-3282. For more information or to request a registration form, contact [email protected]>. Also, please visit our website at http://www.archives.state.al.us/ags/ for information about the Alabama Genealogical Society.

Dear Connie, My Joseph Tarpelin Dorough married a Bazemore. Do you know of this relationship? Polly Clarke

I`m wondering if in all the cemetery looking that some of you do if you have found a grave for my gggrandfather Joel Nichols and his wife Sarah. Joel pastored many of the Baptist Churches in Coosa and Elmore Co. In fact, I think that he founded the Baptist church across from the Kelly Cemetery at Kelly Crossroads. He was the brother of Henry Nichols who is buried at the cemetery in Eclectic. My Joel died in April 1865 and left money in his will to buy a horse for his grandson, Josephus, whose father Jonathan had died (possibly in the Civil War). After Joel died Sarah, his wife, lived out the rest of her life with her daughter Mary Elizabeth Nichols who was the wife of my great-grandfather, Wingate Jackson. The Jacksons and the Nichols lived next door (according to the census records) near Santuck. I am also looking for the grave of Wingate Jackson and Mary Elizabeth Nichols Jackson. Any help any one of you can give will be greatly appreciated. Pauline (Polly) Jackson Clarke, Birmingham.

In a message dated 10/8/2003 4:39:23 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > > Hello O. Murphy, > Where in Coosa County are the cemeteries you mentioned? > > > Connie Parnell-Beverly > > Connie: > The Providence cemetery is about four miles west of the Coosa River just off > highwayt 22 on Coosa County highway 27. Sardis Cemetery is on highway 29 > about 6 miles west of Rockfor. The Swamp Creek cemetery is about 4 miles west > of Rockford on highway 37. All are in the southwest part of Coosa County > known as Traveler's Rest in the old days. There is a daughter of Robert Thomes Massey and Talitha Brantley Bazemore as > shown below in the Providence Cemetery. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > Descendants of Augustus Goodwyn Raines > > 1 RAINES, Augustus Goodwyn b: September 19, 1841 Ga. d: > October 24, 1904 Coosa Co., Al. b: Buried at Providence > Cem., Coosa Co., Al. > . +MASSEY, Roxanna (Roxie) A. F. b: June 28, 1850 Ga. m: December > 01, 1869 Coosa Co., Al. d: September 25, 1889 Coosa Co., Al. Father: > MASSEY, Robert Toombs Mother: BAZEMORE, Talitha Brantley F: > Tombstone inscription--Daughter of Robert and T. A. B. Massey, wife of A. G. > (Raines) > l. >

Hello O. Murphy, Where in Coosa County are the cemeteries you mentioned? Connie Parnell-Beverly BAZEMORE & SHARBUTT [email protected] wrote: Don and interested researchers: The listing of the web site is correct but was put there in 1997. I have updated it as new graves have been put in and have it on my computer but never put on the web site. In addition, I have digital photographs of all the tombstones at Providence and many at Sardis and Swamp Creek cemeteries. Ottis Murphy ==== ALCOOSA 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 [email protected] ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search

In a message dated 10/8/2003 10:56:12 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I wonder often what the area around Rockford was like when my father was born there in 1935. I've often wondered what the area around Rockford was like when my ancestors settled there in the mid-1800's. Glenn Jones (Carlton/Buzbee descendent)

>From: "Bannister, Lisa" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [ALCOOSA] Traveler's Rest, Coosa County, AL >Content-Type: text/plain > >Steve, > >It doesn't exist as it did in the mid 1800's, though. It was a much more >densely populated area then. Many small communities in Coosa County were >much more thriving little towns then. Newhope located on an off road of Hway >22 is now just a few homes and Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church, but as >recently as the 1920's had two neighborhood gracery stores which had little >trouble staying in business. > >Lisa Lisa, My grandparents were both born in the northwestern area of Elmore County known then only as "Beat 14". These days, it's called Lightwood, except to those who've always been there (the "old-timers", as it were). I visited the area last week with a cousin I haven't seen in a great many years, and he kept referring to "the beat" as we drove. He mentioned the days during his childhood (he was born in the late 1940s) and early adulthood when the area supported as many as 9 stores with ease. Things sure have changed a lot, even since I went up that way as a child to visit my Grandfather. I wonder often what the area around Rockford was like when my father was born there in 1935. = Steve = -- Steve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama Surnames: Jackson, Kincaid, Culver, Wingard, Thornton, Grier, Smith, Gray

I'd like to thank all list members who contributed to my search for the Traveler's Rest area of Coosa County. Without your help, I'd still be lost in the piney woods. A special tip of the hat to Ottis Murphy, who has been a great source of HARRIS and GLENN information for some time now. Thanks a lot, Ottis. You're the man. And that goes for the rest of you too. Walt [email protected] Montgomery, AL ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [ALCOOSA] Travlers Rest Coosa County AL > Don and interested researchers: > The listing of the web site is correct but was put there in 1997. I have > updated it as new graves have been put in and have it on my computer but never > put on the web site. In addition, I have digital photographs of all the > tombstones at Providence and many at Sardis and Swamp Creek cemeteries. > Ottis Murphy > > > ==== ALCOOSA 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 > [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

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Don and interested researchers: The listing of the web site is correct but was put there in 1997. I have updated it as new graves have been put in and have it on my computer but never put on the web site. In addition, I have digital photographs of all the tombstones at Providence and many at Sardis and Swamp Creek cemeteries. Ottis Murphy

Here is the address of the Providence Cemetery listing, thanks to Ottis Murphy. There are many Harris' listing, I was in error to the location of the link in a prior message. http://members.aol.com/coosaboy/pmbc.htm Don S.

Does anyone on this list know where William Richards, half-brother of my Irish g, g, g, grandfather, Robert Richards (born about 1776 in County Antrim, Ireland--we think) of Barbour County, Alabama is buried. A distant cousin told me it was out behind some rental property in an old field, which I feel must have been his (William's) property at some point. I would really like to locate and photograph his tombstone if anyone on this list knows or can find out for me. Thanks ahead of time for any information. Ceya Minder [email protected]

Steve, It doesn't exist as it did in the mid 1800's, though. It was a much more densely populated area then. Many small communities in Coosa County were much more thriving little towns then. Newhope located on an off road of Hway 22 is now just a few homes and Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church, but as recently as the 1920's had two neighborhood gracery stores which had little trouble staying in business. Lisa Montgomery, AL -----Original Message----- From: Steve W. Jackson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ALCOOSA] Traveler's Rest, Coosa County, AL >Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:07:05 -0500 >From: "walterboswell" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [ALCOOSA] Traveler's Rest, Coosa County, AL >Content-Type: text/plain >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I've got a lot of HARRIS kinfolk on the 1880 Coosa County Census in a place >called Traveler's Rest. Anybody know in what area of the county Traveler's >Rest was located? Is it known by any other name today? Or near the >Providence Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery? > >Any information greatly appreciated. > >Walt Boswell >[email protected] Travelers Rest is in the southwestern part of Coosa County. It's a couple miles south of Alabama Highway 22, which runs southwest out of Rockford (the county seat) over into the neighboring county. The Providence Cemetery is identified in a book I have as Proctor Creek and is said to be adjoining Providence Missionary Baptist Church. It indicates that there are some 400 graves there, but has conflicting information as to when the first interments took place. According to the map, this church and cemetery are actually closer to Schley than to Travelers Rest, although the actual distance between them isn't more than a couple miles or so. I highly recommend the USGS web site for finding places. It's at <http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form>. It can even help locate places that no longer exist. I conducted a search for "travelers" in Alabama, designated as a "populated place", with variant name checked and got just the one hit. I also knew already that Travelers Rest still existed, as I have distant relatives who lived in the area. = Steve = -- Steve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama Surnames: Jackson, Kincaid, Culver, Wingard, Thornton, Grier, Smith, Gray ==== ALCOOSA 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 [email protected] ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Walt, Traveler's Rest shown on the old census records is an area essentially the western side of Coosa County from roughly Mt. Moriah Church to the North, highway 29 on the East side and Elmore County Line (as it exists today) on the Southside. Hope this helps identify the area. Ottis Murphy

>Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:07:05 -0500 >From: "walterboswell" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <001301c[email protected]> >Subject: [ALCOOSA] Traveler's Rest, Coosa County, AL >Content-Type: text/plain >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I've got a lot of HARRIS kinfolk on the 1880 Coosa County Census in a place >called Traveler's Rest. Anybody know in what area of the county Traveler's >Rest was located? Is it known by any other name today? Or near the >Providence Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery? > >Any information greatly appreciated. > >Walt Boswell >[email protected] Travelers Rest is in the southwestern part of Coosa County. It's a couple miles south of Alabama Highway 22, which runs southwest out of Rockford (the county seat) over into the neighboring county. The Providence Cemetery is identified in a book I have as Proctor Creek and is said to be adjoining Providence Missionary Baptist Church. It indicates that there are some 400 graves there, but has conflicting information as to when the first interments took place. According to the map, this church and cemetery are actually closer to Schley than to Travelers Rest, although the actual distance between them isn't more than a couple miles or so. I highly recommend the USGS web site for finding places. It's at <http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form>. It can even help locate places that no longer exist. I conducted a search for "travelers" in Alabama, designated as a "populated place", with variant name checked and got just the one hit. I also knew already that Travelers Rest still existed, as I have distant relatives who lived in the area. = Steve = -- Steve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama Surnames: Jackson, Kincaid, Culver, Wingard, Thornton, Grier, Smith, Gray

According to my Grandmother's stories ( which I just verified with my Aunt who lives up there still) Traveler's Rest at it's center point was located a bit further west than Kelley's Crossroads Grocery toward the Coosa River. There is another road that turns right off of Hway 22 West of Rockford and west of Kelley's Crossroads that led right into Traveler's Rest Community. My Grandmother, Versie Kelley Gandy, used to tell me a story of a coon hunting trip her older brothers, Tol,Hiram and Henry, went on with some friends near Traveler's Rest, where a rabid dog came up to their campsite and started attacking their coon dogs. The boys all climbed up the tree and so many got on the same limb that it broke and they fell into the middle of the mad dog altercation. She said it kept them from coon hunting for quite a while. Lisa Bannister [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: walterboswell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ALCOOSA] Traveler's Rest, Coosa County, AL I've got a lot of HARRIS kinfolk on the 1880 Coosa County Census in a place called Traveler's Rest. Anybody know in what area of the county Traveler's Rest was located? Is it known by any other name today? Or near the Providence Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery? Any information greatly appreciated. Walt Boswell [email protected] ==== ALCOOSA Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the Coosa Co., AL mailing list, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] or if you are on the Digest list to [email protected] ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Traveler's Rest is South West Coosa County of US 22 South on CR 29 at Kelley's Cross Roads. Pre Civil War there were large plantations in the area. I believe the Providence Cemetery listing is on the USGENWEB/Coosa/ page. Don Stockdale Sylacauga AL ----- Original Message ----- From: "walterboswell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:07 PM Subject: [ALCOOSA] Traveler's Rest, Coosa County, AL > I've got a lot of HARRIS kinfolk on the 1880 Coosa County Census in a place > called Traveler's Rest. Anybody know in what area of the county Traveler's > Rest was located? Is it known by any other name today? Or near the > Providence Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery? > > Any information greatly appreciated. > > Walt Boswell > [email protected] > > > > ==== ALCOOSA Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Coosa Co., AL > mailing list, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] or if you are on the Digest > list to [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I've got a lot of HARRIS kinfolk on the 1880 Coosa County Census in a place called Traveler's Rest. Anybody know in what area of the county Traveler's Rest was located? Is it known by any other name today? Or near the Providence Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery? Any information greatly appreciated. Walt Boswell [email protected]

Sorry for the slow response; I've been out of town. For the Autauga Gen. Society go to www.rootsweb.com/~alags Thanks for asking.. Caroline Horton, Pres. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [ALCOOSA] Coosa Research > > Caroline, > > Would you please post the address/telephone number of the Autauga > Genealogical Society? > > Thanks, > Glenn Jones > Oklahoma > > ______________________________