JP, Would you please ask Michael Bates if he would email me about the Pruett Family who had the Plantation now under Smith Lake. Also would you advise me on how to locate "overseers" of plantations. My brick wall is a Robert Jones Ward whom I recently found out was an "overseer" but I have no idea on what plantation or even what county. Thank You Inga Ward
Inga, This has been forwarded to Michael Bates. As far as overseers, I would assume the best ways to locate information about overseers would be to locate records from the plantations (of which few to none are likely available except in rare instances) and to check the census data. I would expect that overseers would live on the property of or nearby to the plantation owner. The agricultural census data would likely give you more information would likely give you more information about the farms in that area, what life on those farms was like, etc. I would also recommend you touch base with Bob Davis -- I am forwarding this to him as well. John Paul Myrick ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [ALCULLMA] Decoration - Pruett > JP, > Would you please ask Michael Bates if he would email me about the Pruett > Family who had the Plantation now under Smith Lake. Also would you advise me > on how to locate "overseers" of plantations. My brick wall is a Robert Jones > Ward whom I recently found out was an "overseer" but I have no idea on what > plantation or even what county. > Thank You > Inga Ward > > > ==== ALCULLMA Mailing List ==== > Please contact me [email protected] for any additions to this list [email protected] I will also help with email problems. Just Remember this may not be your only list subscription. You must UNSUBSCRIBE to each list separately. email me at [email protected] if you are having problems unsubscribing. You may be on the list twice. > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/clusters/adoptcounty.html > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >