Hi to all you on the list, I'd love to help Joanne get this on the net, but I have no idea how to set it up either. Are there any volunteers to put this data on a web page? I agree with Joanne that this would be a great addition to Elmore, and also Coosa, counties, as I believe the school was established before 1866. J J > [Original Message] > From: Joanne Gokey <rolltide@inetgenesis.com> > To: <jjg6808@earthlink.net> > Date: 8/6/02 7:33:45 AM > Subject: Re: [ALElmore] Central Institute P.O. of Elmore County, ca 1870 > > Hello everyone! > > I have some of the account records of Prof E. Smith Walkley who was the > Administrator of Central Institute. I checked through the record and found > no student name "Evans". > > Prof Walkley had a sawmill, store, large farm in operation in addition to > the school. There are names mentioned of people who were paid wages, > charged goods, or paid for student tuition. > > A native of Haddam, Connecticut, Prof Walkley was educated at Cambridge. > (Not Harvard as previously reported) He came south because of his health > and founded private schools in other sites of central Alabama. He was > married to Mariah Elizabeth Hall, who is alleged to be a niece of Bolling > Hall. She was married in his home, Ellerslie. > > Central Institute was under the auspices of the Baptist community. There > was a lower (elementary) school at union, and an institution of higher > learning at Central. There is no account of its operating as an orphanage.. > > As for the question of residents, "Central Institute" was an official census > beat at one time. One of my ancestors in another line lived in the area and > was listed as "Central P O"... Apparently there were many people who were > employed in the enterprises in areas near the school. > > If someone will volunteer, I will assemble all the names and corresponding > information from the account book and some can enter it on the web. I have > never done a web page. I think this would provide information which is > valuable as to who may have attended the school, or who may have been > employed in one of the enterprises.. > > Joanne W. Gokey > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <jjg6808@earthlink.net> > To: <ALELMORE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 3:55 AM > Subject: RE: [ALElmore] Central Institute P.O. of Elmore County, ca 1870 > > > > Hello All, > > From what I have learned, there was a post office for the community > > around the school called Central Institute and it was known as Central > > Institute Post Office. In one of the census reports, the Central > Institute > > post office is one of the designations for giving the location of the > homes > > visited. I don't think that the reference to the school means your > > ancestor was enrolled at the school. Could have simply been living in > that > > vicinity. There is still a location on AL maps which is now called > > "Central". > > J J > > > > > > > [Original Message] > > > From: <yellowpossum@sprintmail.com> > > > To: <ALELMORE-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Date: 8/5/02 4:05:07 PM > > > Subject: [ALElmore] Central Institute P.O. of Elmore County, ca 1870 > > > > > > 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/647 > > > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > > > > > > > > > Would like any information regarding the Central Institute of Elmore > > County, ca. 1870. > > > > > > Was it an orphanage or a private school? > > > > > > Have found a possible ancestor listed in the 1870 census of Elmore > > County with Central Institute named as the > > > P.O. > > > > > > Any help appreciated. R.L. Evans > > > > > > > > --- jjg6808@earthlink.net > > --- Genealogists--We Confuse the Dead & Irritate the Living ! > > > > > > > > > --- jjg6808@earthlink.net --- Genealogists--We Confuse the Dead & Irritate the Living !

Hi, Elmore County has a Genweb site and I'm sure the coordinator would be delighted to help. Write at: alelmore@ev1.net Mary Ellen -- e-mail: mewexler@buffnet.net Sponsor: Okaloosa County FLGenWeb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~flokaloo/Okaloosa.htm EDGE/HARVEY family page: http://www.buffnet.net/~mewexler