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