This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/276.400 Message Board Post: contact me Pevy os royal blood I have your roots Love cousin June Peavey

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson, Kincaid, Culver, Wingard, Thornton, Grier, Smith, Gray Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VS.2ADI/930.1 Message Board Post: Good Hope isn't actually in North Elmore. It's in Claud, which is somewhat further east. You can find info at http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.GetDetail?tab=Y&id=1730361 if you like. I'm not at home right now, so I can't check my other resource to see if there's another Good Hope not listed in USGS. I know there's a Goodship in Millbrook, but it's much newer than the date you cite. If you want to send me direct email, I'll be happy to check and see if I can find anything else in my book at home near the location you describe. = Steve =

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WALL FAMILY OF ELMORE OR COOSA COUNTY, AL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VS.2ADI/680.1 Message Board Post: In various research, has anyone come across information on Jacob Wall of Elmore/Coosa County who is classified as Mulatto in the 1880 Census. Any info in any other census (1890/1900) would be very much appreciated. (Please respond to mruthhunt@aol.com). Thanks. Ruth

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Darden/Durden--Taylor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/930 Message Board Post: I need to locate a cemetery in north elmore, elmore county, ala. .At one time part of this county was Autauga Co. and I understand could have been for a short time Baker Co. The old cemetery(if it still exists) was known as Good Hope. Would be very old. goes back to 1860. I searched today a found no trace of it. Supposed to be off Highway 14 on to highway 143, for a short distance in a wooded area. If anyone has heard of it please advise. Yhanks, Jackie

We spent several days in Wetumpka in 2 or 3 days. Linda was an invaluable source! Her books are worth every penny I paid for them. Se had records that were in the unfiled records in the basement and surprised us with records we would not have found. I have referred her to many. We have found that if you just ask to look at the ledgers to get information, and let them know you will keep track of your copies and not be a pest, that they will gladly show you how to use the copier, that you can be there all day just staying out of their way and if you have an occasional question they will work with you. We had no problem in Macon or Tallapoosa counties. The courthouses are busy with the normal day to day work and if you aren't 'a quiet mouse in the corner' you can be a problem for them to have to contend with. Let me add that we have researched courthouses for years and it's dirty work(wear old clothes), but it is so worthwhile. You'll find things they don't even know they have. The old probate papers are worth their weight in gold. However, check the conveyance records, both direct and indirect and be sure your people are there before you start going through everything. We have been througha lot of the counties and I might add several times. Macon, Elmore, Chambers, Madison, Jackson, Lee and others and felt more than welcome. The only place we have ever had problems was in Texas where they had put all births and deaths on computer and as the late ones were interspersed with the early ones, the right to privacy was their concern, so we could not check the indexes without having them get each once separately. We gave up there. Remember that the records are public records and you do have a right to check them, just don't get in their hair. Helene > The first stop for anybody going to that area for genealogy research should > be the Elmore Co. Courthouse in Wetumpka. Just ask for Linda Blankenship and > you won't be disappointed. > > Andy > > > > > The employees there should learn from the employees in the Elmore County > > Courthouse. I have never been treated nicer anywhere. They act as if > they have > > all of the time in the world for you, are very polite and very, very > helpful. > > > > Winnie > > > > > > ==== ALTALLAP Mailing List ==== > > Please remember anything posted on this list from ALArchives is automated > from forms, please look for the contributor and reply to that person. > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > > ==== ALTALLAP Mailing List ==== > Share your Tallapoosa Co. Records (and other counties): > http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ > > ============================== > 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 have an index of cemeteries in Elmore Co., AL where Rose Hill Cemetery is located. This index is fairly comprehensive and lists the persons buried in known cemeteries; it has a good listing of Rose Hill. I looked for your ancestor and did not find Benjamin Franklin Crocket listed as being buried in Rose Hill nor in any other cemetery in the book. However, he could've been missed in the listing or his stone could've been unreadable. Good luck! Diane

You are invited to a special meeting of the Autauga Genealogical Society on Sunday, August 17th, at 2:00 p.m. at the Probate Office of the Autauga County Courthouse in Prattville, Alabama. Probate Judge Al Booth has been gracious to offer the availability of the records room for us on this date. The program ("hands on") will be led by members of the Society. It will include research methods in Probate offices and use of the microfilmed "Loose Papers", now available in a number of counties in Alabama. The Probate Office is located one block north of the Courthouse on the corner of Court St. and 5th St. in downtown Prattville, across from the offices of DHR and Public Health You do not have to be a member of AGS to attend our meetings. This is a good opportunity for those with Autauga County roots to do some weekend research. Be sure to spread the word to our AGS friends and members who do not have email. Larry E. Caver, Jr. Vice-President, AGS

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The new info is great. In my notes, I have letters written early '80's stating this cemetery is on plantation land owned first by the Gray family who were in then Autauga as early as 1818. Those of us searching the Gray line in this area feel this land was originally the property of George Gray and inherited by at least one son, John who was to take care of and see to his younger brother James after George's death in 1830. The Amelia Taylor buried in cemetery was a Gray before marriage but have not proven if she is child of George or sister. I believe John and his wives ? to be buried here as well as others in family such as Jeremiah his son and also Jesse Gray, a brother to John who is "missing" from the census about the same time as John's death. Any furthur thoughts on this by anyone welcomed!!! Brenda Gray Felder

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson, Kincaid, Culver, Wingard, Thornton, Grier, Smith, Gray Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VS.2ADI/727.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: This is great to see those additional names, and some of them seem to make sense. The location of this cemetery is off what's named Crenshaw Road. And my conversation with a black lady residing in the area (on whose property the cemetery now apparently sits) indicates that the Crenshaws were an affluent white family in the area. I think I recall her telling me that her father was named Hurd and is buried there along with other family members. She tells too that some people claim there are Indians and/or descendants of Indians (possibly marrying with the local whites) buried there. = Steve =

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VS.2ADI/727.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry for the delay in responding and thanks to Steve for locating the info on the genweb - now we will have to wait for cooler weather. There is a second page in the Elmore County Cemetery Book that is not posted. I'll list the names and let me know if you would like the dates - I'll also send this info to be posted in full. Annie Laura Austin, Charlie Austin, Jr., Nathaniel Austin, Rosie Austin, Martin Austin, G.W. Crenshaw, Emma Ware Crenshaw, Mollie Cain, Joseph A. Crenshaw, L.E. Solmon, Sylvester Cottrell, Hatie Keyes, Harriett Burks, Minnie Huffman Ware, Picola C. Hurd, Willie Hurd, Laura Hurd, W.H. Herd, Rev. T. Crenshaw, Minervia Crenshaw, Thomas Crenshaw.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/926.1 Message Board Post: I do not believe that Benjamin Franklin Crockett is buried in Rosehill Cemetery. You mention that Benjamin is your great-grandfather, what is your line of descendancy from Benjamin? Are you descended from his first or second wife? Also, do you have a high speed ethernet connection, that is, DSL or cable? Please reply as it will determine how I can convey a substantial amount of information to you. Thank you. To give you a clue, I am the person who indexed both volumes of Elmore County Cemetery Inventory for the author, over 27,000 names. You may email me directly if you choose to. Carroll Deschaines

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson, Kincaid, Culver, Wingard, Thornton, Grier, Smith, Gray Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VS.2ADI/727.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't know if Caroline's book includes any more information than this, but visit ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/elmore/cemetery/hurdgrey.txt to see what it shows as contributed. Caroline and I have corresponded off the board about making a visit to this cemetery, but the weekends that one or the other of us hasn't had some other engagement keep experiencing rains that make it unwise to go into that area. I'm still hoping for an open weekend when we can visit and see if there's more than this, and just to go there because I want to see it in person. I have information that the land it's on is probably part of a larger area that was once owned by one of my own direct Gray ancestors. = Steve =

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VS.2ADI/727.1.1 Message Board Post: Caroline, Can you send me the Taylor and Gray burials in this cemetery? Thanks so much

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Still, Draper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/928 Message Board Post: I recently bought a wonderful old house in Wetumpka, Alabama's historic district. I found out that it was built by Elmore County Probate Judge Marcus Daniel Still. I know that Hamp and Ceylon Draper lived in this house after Judge Still. I would love any and all information about this house. I really would like to trace this houses history and I am hopeful to find orginal blueprints of it somewhere.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TURNER,HARDRICK Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/927 Message Board Post: HI, I AM LOOKING FOR ANY INFORMATION ABOUT FANNY TURNER, WHO WAS MARRIED TO JOHN HARDRICK. FANNY WAS BORN IN ALA. IN 1890. THANKS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/926 Message Board Post: If any of you make trips to Rosehill Cemetary or have a listing of the graves there, could you please check and see if my great grandfather Benjamin Franklin Crockett (or Crocket) is buried there. He died on March 8, 1922. I would like to know who is buried next to him on either side. He supposedly had two wives. I think my great grandmother was Mary Francis or Fanny. Missouri or Elizabeth could be the other wife. Thank you, Judith

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VS.2ADI/87.168.6 Message Board Post: Where can I purchase The Calloway Book. I`m Looking For The Calloway`s of Chambers Co.,Alabama/Lafayette 1800 - 1900

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: adams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/688.1 Message Board Post: my father was john t. adams jr also known as bub and his father was known by slim adams, my father was born and raised in elmore county, eclectic, on the lake known as slim adams slough, there is alot of adams's up around here, don't know if these are any relations to the adams's you are looking for, my name is sue but known by the adams's as susie.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wadford, Watford, Hubbard, Haven, Havin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/925 Message Board Post: I am desperately looking for information regarding my great grandfather, William Henry W(h)adford. My g-grandfather was supposedly born in Alabama on September 15th during the Civil War years and the tale told is that his family may have originally come from the Carolinas to perhaps Newton, Dale County, Alabama, where he may have been born. He was orphaned at a young age when his family may have died in a "plague" possibly on a river(house)boat and the story has it he was discovered alone after a couple of days. He possibly was sent to live with an uncle in Florida, but ran away with cousins when he was a young boy and they ended in Texas with another supposed uncle. I am able to trace him from 1885, Rains County, Texas to Delta County, Colorado where he is buried. The cousins may have been his mothers' family. The first record I can find of him is his marriage to Mary E. Havens on October 25, 1885 in Rains County, Texas where he had worked building Sulpher Springs Road. They had a son, William Henry Whadford Jr. born Oct. 15, 1886 in Sulpher Springs, Hopkins County, Texas and Mary soon died afterwards. My g-grandfather then married Sminthie Ellen Matlock (b. Sept. 4, 1874 Marlin, Falls County, Texas) on Jan. 14, 1889 at Cureo, Dewitt County, Texas. They had six children: Leona Josephine (f) b. Mar. 20, 1890 at Cuero, Dewitt County Bonnie Monroe (m) b. Jan. 15, 1892 at Edna, Jackson County Jessie Winnie (f) b. Sept. 26, 1893 at Edna, Jackson County Maude Belle (f) b. Jun. 26, 1895 at Edna, Jackson County Lillie Mae (f) b. Mar. 5, 1898 at Edna, Jackson County Charles Henry Claude (m) b. Jan. 9, 1902 at Paonia, Delta County, Colorado The found censuses of him are: The 1900 census of Montgomery County, Texas lists: William Henry Whadford, w, m, born-Sept, year-1865 age last birthday is 30 or 39 and he is a logger (possibly in the San Jacinto Range) and his unknown parents were born in Alabama. The census date is June 4th, 1900. The 1910 Delta County, Colorado census lists: William H. Whadford, m, w, age 47 (birthyear? 1863?) and as a survivor (dependent?) of the Civil War and that his father was born in Alabama and his mother was born in Florida. The census date is April 18th, 1910. The 1920 Delta County, Colorado census lists: William H. Whadford, m, w, age 56 (birthyear? 1864) and both his parents were born in North Carolina. The census date is Jan. 24th, 1920. The 1930 Delta County, Colorado census lists: William H. Wadford, m, w, age 66 (birthyear? 1864) and his father was born in South Carolina and his mother was born in Alabama. The census date is April 10th, 1930. Recently, I finally found a census listing a Willie Wadford approximately the same age as my g-grandfather would have been and I'm hoping someone may be able to provide the crack in my brick wall. It is the 1870 census of Shelby County, Hillsboro, P.O., Alabama, page 423. I cannot clearly make out Ms. Wadford's first name and I'm hoping it is recognized. The listings is: Hubbard, James D. age 24, M, W, Farmer b. Alabama. Mollie, age 20, F, W, Keeping house, b. Alabama. Walter R. or B., age 1 , M, W, At Home, b. Alabama. Wadford, ? (possibly Annie or (N)Annie), age 25, F, W, At Home, b. Alabama. Wadford, Willie, age 4, M, W, At Home, b. Alabama. I'm assuming Ms. Wadford is a sister to either James D. or Mollie, but I have found no proof. If you have any information regarding the Wad-Watfords, Havens-ins, Hubbards or recognize this story, please let me know. I would also appreciate any ideas or other contacts. Thank you! Nancy L. Compton