>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

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]

Hello Steve Jackson, What Grier family do you tie into? I have Greer in Bibb County, Alabama. They are two sisters who married Stewart brothers. My husband goes to the Greer family in Randolph County, Alabama. Are you related to either of these lines? Connie Parnell-Beverly "Steve W. Jackson" <[email protected]> wrote: >Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:07:05 -0500 >From: "walterboswell" >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 . 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 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search