There was a Gee Plantation in Wilcox County, AL. The area was known as Gee's Bend and it's history has been fairly well documented. If you're mainly interested in African American Gee history, you'll find lots on the Wilcox County page http://www.prairiebluff.com/algenweb/wilcox/. A search on Gee will turn up census listings and voter's lists among other resources. In addition to the Gee surname, search for info on the Pettway and Bendolph surnames. The Pettway family purchased the Gee plantation. The Will of Mark Pettway lists many of his slaves by name. Also see the will of Josiah Irby wherein he bequeaths property to Emeline Gee a freedwoman. A must see is a video produced by Auburn Televsion (1993) called Fields of Promise about the descendants of the slaves of Gee's Bend which is now known as Boykin, AL. You also have to take a look at Arthur Rothstein's 1930's WPA photos of the Gee's Bend sharecroppers. You'll find them in the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection. Go to http://www.loc.gov/ then to American Memory and search under images using keywords Gee's Bend, ilcox County Alabama, Pettway and Bendolph. I also have references on Gee Family history and to Gee plantations in Wilcox County and in other states. Just follow the links from my page to the excellent, excellent GEEnealogy website. BTW, I maintain a list of African American Gee's Bend and Gee, Pettway, Irby and Mixon researchers. Can I add your name to the list? B.J. Smothers Wilcox County, Alabama Genealogy http://www.prairiebluff.com/algenweb/wilcox/ - -------------------------------- At 07:00 AM 1/21/00 -0500, S.J. wrote: >Have anyone ever heard of the Gee Plantation. >Please let me know. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ruffingee@cs.com [mailto:Ruffingee@cs.com] > > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 12:20 PM > > To: ladyd@dnaco.net > > Subject: Re: [AL-AfricaAmer ] Genealogical Education - Part I > > > > > > I apologize if I seemed a bit confused. What I'm trying to do is > > locate info > > on my surname Gee. Like most AA, there's a gap in my history. I have been > > putting the pieces together for over 20 years. Ala.,Miss.,Ks. and > > maybe Ark. > > are states that I research. I hope that I can be helped and I will do > > whatever I can to help others. Anything on (Gee)plantations in the above > > states would help.

Have anyone ever heard of the Gee Plantation. Please let me know. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ruffingee@cs.com [mailto:Ruffingee@cs.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 12:20 PM > To: ladyd@dnaco.net > Subject: Re: [AL-AfricaAmer ] Genealogical Education - Part I > > > I apologize if I seemed a bit confused. What I'm trying to do is > locate info > on my surname Gee. Like most AA, there's a gap in my history. I have been > putting the pieces together for over 20 years. Ala.,Miss.,Ks. and > maybe Ark. > are states that I research. I hope that I can be helped and I will do > whatever I can to help others. Anything on (Gee)plantations in the above > states would help. >

Hi everyone! I need some assistance from anyone!!!!!!!! I have been trying to find a record of marriage for my mother's only sister who passed away when I was about 7 years old. She and my Uncle Fred were divorced at the time and we didn't see much of him before his death in 1989. My mothee wasn't living in this area when my aunt married but thinks she was in Mobile when she got married. Is there anyone in the Mobile area or that has access to marriage records between 1953 and 1955 for AL willing to do a lookup for me? If they didn't marry in Mobile, where in Mississippi from Mobile would they possibly have gone to get married? Their names are Fred Barnes and Annie Eugene Windham Lygia Dawkins Cutts Cuttstree@Net1inc.net 881 Weaver Road Brewton, AL 36426

Greetings, I have finally been able to upload some more files. Seems every time I get even close to catching up, my computer acts up. Must be the water!! Lygia Cutts, former Alabama Archive File Manager, has been very busy. She has contributed the following: Covington County: Mobley Creek Baptist Church Cemetery ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/covington/cemetery/mobleycrk.txt Carter Cemetery ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/covington/cemetery/carter.txt Escambia County: Cannan Cemetery ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/escambia/cemetery/cannan.txt Wallace Methodist Church Cemetery ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/escambia/cemetery/wallace.txt Pinky Davis, p8330@aol.com, has submitted from the Estate of Elizabeth Browning, Russell County, and Inventory and Appraisal ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/russell/probate/ebrownng.txt Ted Findley had contributed yet another file. This is a cemetery listing for Sardist Baptist Church in Escambia County. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/escambia/cemetery/sardisbap.txt David Morgan reports the following files added: CHAMBERS COUNTY Knight-Gauntt Burials in Chambers County Submitted by Suzanne Gizzi, segizzy@peoplepc.com ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/cemetery/k5230001.txt Marriage of Hugh Wilson to Martha A. Wall Submitted by Jeanette Cuthriell, jcuthriell@worldnet.att.net ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/vitals/marr/w4250001.txt Estate of Dr. John L. Wilkins (includes his will) Submitted by Glenda Brack ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/court/w4250002.txt Account Book of Dr. John L. Wilkins Submitted by Glenda Brack mailto:UCMEGEEBEE@aol.com ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/court/w4250003.txt Letter from Robert J. Kellam to his mother in Chambers CO. Al - 1863 Submitted by Gerry Buchanan glb@worldramp.net ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/military/civilwar/k4500001.txt Suicide of William A. Allen Submitted by Don L. Clark donlc_99@yahoo.com ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/obits/a4500001.txt Estate of Elizabeth Wilkins Submitted by Glenda Brack UCMEGEEBEE@aol.com ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/court/w4250001.txt Suicide of William A. Allen Submitted by Don L. Clark donlc_99@yahoo.com ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/obits/a4500001.txt Estate of Elizabeth Wilkins Submitted by Glenda Brack UCMEGEEBEE@aol.com ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/court/w4250001.txt Will of Thomas Fullilove Davis Submitted by Jeantte Cuthriell jcuthriell@worldnet.att.net ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/wills/d1200001.txt Letter from Robert J. Kellam to his mother in Chambers CO. Al - 1863 Submitted by Berry Buchanan glb@worldramp.net ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/military/civilwar/k4500001.txt TALLAPOOSA COUNTY Franklin Farrow to James Hines Submitted by Helen Pate Ross, ross@iw.edwpub.com ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/tallapoosa/deed/f6000001.txt James Powers & Lucinda Powers to Franklin Farrar Submitted by Helen Pate Ross ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/tallapoosa/deed/p6200001.txt That's all for now. As it turns out, we may have to move. That will cause things to be slow still in getting these files uploaded. I must say, the assistants help very much. Thank-you to all for all your help and contributions. Keep it coming!! Carolyn Golowka ALGenWeb Archives File Manager

Hi, y'all! Just thought I'd let you all know about the cemeteries I've added to the ALGenWeb archives: Dale County: Pinckard Memorial Cemetery (pinckard.txt), by William G. Harris GHarrisJr@aol.com Colbert County: Rutland Cemetery (rutland.txt), submitted by Joni Collopy collopy2@gte.net Choctaw County: Boswell Cemetery (boswell.txt), by Thomas E. Van Ness tevanness@juno.com This was the FIRST cemetery contributed for Choctaw County! Jackson County: Pierce Cemetery (pierce.txt), submitted by the awesome Jane Nichols ren@Hiwaay.net Marengo County: Nanafalia Cemetery (nanafalia.txt), contributed by Sarah Mozingo Dekalb County: Killian Cemetery (killian.txt), Green Cemetery (green.txt) and Freeman Cemetery (freeman.txt), submitted by Ross Summerford rsummerf@peop.tdsnet.com And Cagle Cemetery (cagle.txt) and Fuller Cemetery (fuller.txt) by Charles E. Austin charleseaustin@earthlink.com Perry County: Ivey's Chapel (iveys.txt) and Pine Flats (pineflats.txt) Cemeteries, submitted by Dr. Judy Travis. Hope I haven't forgotten anything--any questions, don't hesitate to message me. Y'all take care! Pamela Hosey Long Mobile, Alabama dpdklong@worldnet.att.net Alabama Tombstone Project Manager http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/alabama.html Listowner, The Popwell Family Mail List POPWELL-L-request@rootsweb.com Pam's Genealogy Page http://home.att.net/~dpdklong/Genealogy.html Pam's Cemetery Page http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/3853/

Hi, all, I am currently working very slowly on changing all of the Alabama Archives to URL's that are in the US GenWeb Archives. As it stands now, every file I receive has to be uploaded into the ftp location. Then each URL is added to the respective county archive Table of Contents (TOL) page under the appropriate subject, such as cemeteries. Each URL is also added to the appropriate subject TOC, such as cemeteries for Lowndes County (which is my connection to Alabama, but I digress). Each of the TOC pages is uploaded not only to the USGenWeb archives but also to the Alabama GenWeb Archives location. This sounds very confusing. But, what it means is that I have to upload TOC's twice and this is twice the work and takes up twice the space in rootsweb's computers. To save wear and tear on me and wear and tear on the server (rootsweb) I am deleting the AL GenWeb Archives and going with strickly the USGenWeb Archives URL. The following is one I changed today. Please change the link for Covington County, AL's GenWeb archvies to: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/al/covington.htm I will notify the county coordinators personally when I do a change and will post it on this list. I hope this will be painless, but somehow I don't think it will. I will be doing this change as time permits and it will take quite a while. All of these URL's exist already. If you wish, you can change your own county's link now to match the archive address above, substituting your county for Covington's. This will make things go much faster for me. If you decide to do this, let me know. Otherwise, wait until you hear from me and make the change then. What ever works for you. Thanks for all your help and understanding, Carolyn Golowka Alabama GenWeb Archive File Manager

Carolyn, Perhaps I'm just dense this morning, but I don't have, or can't find any broken links on my pages that apply to either the US or AL GenWeb sites. I do have a link to the ALGenWeb ARCHIVES - but not specifically to Lauderdale County. Are you telling me I have to link to just that one? If so, are you going to link back to my county pages? Pat M. Mahan CC Lauderdale Co ALGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~allauder/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: Carolyn Golowka <CGolowka@prodigy.net> To: ALGEN-L@rootsweb.com <ALGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: January 13, 2000 11:01 AM Subject: [ALGEN-L] Lauderdale County >Pat, > >The URL address for the Alabama GenWeb Archive site for Lauderdale >County has been changed to: > >http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/al/lauderdale.htm > >Please update your webpage for Lauderdale to show this change in the >link. > >Thanks, > >Carolyn Golowka >Alabama Archives File Manager > > >

Pat, The URL address for the Alabama GenWeb Archive site for Lauderdale County has been changed to: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/al/lauderdale.htm Please update your webpage for Lauderdale to show this change in the link. Thanks, Carolyn Golowka Alabama Archives File Manager

Here is your (un)weekly Census Upload Report brought to you by the helpful folks at: (((((((((( THE USGENWEB CENSUS PROJECT ))))))))))) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AL / St. Clair / 1860 Dist/Twp/City: "Complete" Transcribed by: Barbara Gilliland <bhg@bellsouth.net> Proofread by: <Not Proofread Yet> Microfilm Roll # M653-23 Source: Microfilm ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/census/al/stclair/1860 <!-- snipped -->

Let me try this gain! The message was gone from the first post!! UGH!!! CAn anyone help? Thanks! Lygia From: "Paula Doggett" <pdoggett@getaway.net> To: <Cuttstree@Net1inc.net> Subject: Rocky Mount Cemetery near Highland Home in Crenshaw County Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 22:24:57 -0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 I am attempting to determine who the caretaker/custodian in for this rural cemetery. Do you have this information? Thanks! Paula Doggett Lygia Dawkins Cutts Cuttstree@Net1inc.net 881 Weaver Road Brewton, AL 36426

Can anyone help? Thanks! Lygia >From: "Paula Doggett" <pdoggett@getaway.net> >To: <Cuttstree@Net1inc.net> >Subject: Rocky Mount Cemetery near Highland Home in Crenshaw County >Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 22:24:57 -0800 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 > > Paula Doggett Lygia Dawkins Cutts Cuttstree@Net1inc.net 881 Weaver Road Brewton, AL 36426

Dear Folks: Just a reminder about the Alabama Tombstone Project: We are another a part of theALGenWeb/RootsWeb project to put genealogical information in the Internet, so that researchers around the world may find their Alabama roots. Our records at the Tombstone Project are in the form of cemetery surveys, which have aided untold thousands of researchers to connect their family lines to particular places, to find one's ancestors' birth and death dates, and even to find missing spouses and siblings of known ancestors. I've been the state Tombstone coordinator for a year and a half now, and I'm proud that the Alabama Tombstone Page now contains links to more than twice as many surveys as it did in the summer of 1998 when I took over. (Some counties, such as Jackson, Marshall, Escambia, have had so many submissions that I've had to break them out onto their own pages!) Some of these links are to RootsWeb archive pages, some are to private web pages. We have a wonderful community of cemetery surveyor volunteers, who have contributed an incredible amount of new information to our knowledge of Alabama and her past. This is an effort for which I am truly grateful, and I'm very proud of the work done by our volunteers, some of whom have risked life and limb to do this work. What I would encourage all county coordinators to do is to request submissions of cemetery lists from your contributors (perhaps via your mail lists), and to upload copies of the surveys to the Archives, so that those lists may be searchable from the ALGenWeb search page. Many of you have elected to make web pages for the surveys you've received, which is certainly more visually appealing than plain text pages, but this practice does not add to the searchable archive data. Please remember that many researchers have ANCESTORS from Alabama, but have never set foot in the state, and have little idea about our geography--I have had so many questions about cemeteries from people who don't know what county their ancestors are from, yet know the name of the cemetery they're buried in! The ALGenWeb search engine may be the first stepping stone for those researchers, who, once they have a clue to the county, will come back to your County Index page for more information. The work done for the Alabama Tombstone Project is copyright protected--submittors may place a tag at the end or beginning of their texts such as "Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by John Q. Public (jqpublic@aol.com(). (c) Copyright 1997, John Q. Public" Not only that, but you can be assured that your work will be seen and appreciated by other surveyors, who are zealous about protecting genealogists' hard work--recently a fellow "ripped off" two of my surveys and put them on his own web page without giving me credit, only to be inundated by RootsWeb researchers who recognized my work. His ISP forced him to remove the pages!! You've been very patient to read through this long treatise, and I thank you for that. I would just encourage everyone who has cemetery surveys on their county sites to do two things: 1) Please always notify me of any Alabama cemetery surveys you receive, whether you upload them to the archives or whether you elect only to place them on web pages, so that I may make links from the Tombstone Page to the surveys; 2) Consider uploading another text-only version of the surveys to the Archives for search purposes. Happy hunting, y'all, and here's a New Year's toast to all our ancestors who not only LIVED in Alabama, but to those who DIED here as well!! Pamela Hosey Long Mobile, Alabama dpdklong@worldnet.att.net Alabama Tombstone Project Manager http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/alabama.html Listowner, The Popwell Family Mail List POPWELL-L-request@rootsweb.com Pam's Genealogy Page http://home.att.net/~dpdklong/Genealogy.html Pam's Cemetery Page http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/3853/

It is now possible for all USGenWeb volunteers to subscribe to the BOARD-L mailing list, where discussion of USGenWeb business by the AB takes place. If you subscribe, you will receive copies of all posts sent to the list by board members, but you'll be there on a "read only" basis, and will be unable to reply/post to the list. However, you may reply directly to board members if there are any concerns you may have, and I certainly welcome this. I invite you all to take advantage of this easy way to keep informed about what the Board is working on, without editorial slant or embellishment. Please join us by subscribing either in "List" or "Digest" mode - List mode: BOARD-L-request@rootsweb.com - with the word subscribe in the body OR Digest: BOARD-D-request@rootsweb.com - with the word subscribe in the body Thanks! SCs - please feel free to pass this on to your state lists. Shari Handley SE/MA SC Rep shari@klondyke.net

Can anyone help? Thanks! Lygia >Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 16:38:42 -0600 >From: Ted Elston <telston@nehp.net> >Reply-To: telston@nehp.net >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: Cuttstree@Net1inc.net >Subject: Elston Cemetery > >I would like to have the location of the Elston cemetery in Calhoun >County. >Thank you, >Ted Elston >telston@nehp.net > Lygia Dawkins Cutts Cuttstree@Net1inc.net 881 Weaver Road Brewton, AL 36426

Please be advised that the Butler County ALGenWeb site is undergoing some updating. During the remainder of tonight, the site will not be uploading correcting during the maintenance. It should be up and running properly by morning. Thank you. TIME IS SHORT! MAIL YOUR HERITAGE BOOK ARTICLES TODAY! Mildred Stinson Brown Butler County Co-Ordinator from Gatesville, TX <A HREF="http://geocities.yahoo.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/8924/index.htm">Butler County, Alabama</A> - ALGenWeb Site http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/8924 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/heartland/ranch/5448">Families of Butler County, Alabama</A> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/ranch/5448 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/heartland/estates/7696">Kenneth Brown's Genealogy Page</A> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/estates/7696 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/33rd.htm">In Memory of The Seventeen - 33rd Ala Vol</A> http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/33rd.html <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/">The Open Gate�</A> http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/

Happy New Year to you all, I have returned from a very warm and wonderful holiday in California to the snow, ice, and cold of Minnesota. What a shock to the system! I also return to many files that have been contributed to the Alabama Archives. Much work and much pleasure. Thanks go to the following and their contributions: Pat Greathouse <PGreatho01@aol.com> has contributed the following for Pike Co. Obit of Gladys B. Norton ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/pike/obits/gbnorton.txt 1.80kb Ted & Kathy Findley <tdfindl@frontiernet.net> have contributed another cemetery listing for Escambia County ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/escambia/cemetery/bowman.txt 10.1 Kb Jeff Thomson <cpq11h2e@bellsouth.net> contributed a cemetery listing for Lacy Cemetery in Madison County ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/cemetery/lacy.txt 1.08 Kb Ronald Bridges, Bridgesrd@worldnet.att.net, contributed the marriage of Thomas Leroy Murphy to Sula Mae Patterson in Coosa County. I may have already thanked Ron for this, but with the holidays and all, I just want to make sure he know how much we appreciate his good work. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/coosa/vitals/marriage/tlmurphy.txt 2 Kb Thelma "Susie" Jackson Hartman, susieh@Zebra.net, has made another installment in her transcription of Will Book 3, Mobile Co. Keep it coming, Susie! ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/mobile/wills/mobwillbk3pt2.txt 18.94 Kb There are many more files to be uploaded. I am working as fast as I can. Be patient and it will be done, at least that is what my mom always said!! Carolyn Golowka Alabama Archives File Manager

Can anyone help Randy with this one? Carolyn Golowka ----- Original Message ----- From: Randal B. Wiginton To: cgolowka@prodigy.net Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 3:53 AM Subject: can you help? john wesley bowling was born on the banks of the paint rock river and briar creek. do you or anyone in jackson co. might know where this is? it is possibly on the madison side? thank you for the time you spend putting together info on jackson co. randy wiginton

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Members of 33rd who were killed in Cleveland, TN train wreek in Nov 1862 are listed below. Since not all of these were from Butler County, I have no way of contacting relatives. I ask the help of County Coordinators who might recognize some the these names. I need informaton on all the those listed except from Lt. Charles B. Scott, PVT John Hughs/Hughes, William M. Smith, Lovet M. Bush and Mathis Noblin. This information is needed for a web site that I have built in honor of these 17 men. Cpt. Rueben J. Cooper Co G. enlisted 3/8/62 in Daleville AL at age 44; Killed 11/4/62 Cleveland TN.; Decease Claim Sarah A. Cooper Widow 12/15/63 LT Charles B. Scott, Co. E, enlisted as 1 SGT 3/14/62 in Ramer AL at age 34; Appointed 2 LT 7/22/62; Decease claim 12/6/62 by Flora A. Scott widow. William M. Watson, Co. H; Private, enlisted at age 23 T. A. Pritchard, Co. H; Private Clinton Evans, Co. E; Private O. M. Broxton, Co. H; Private Zachariah Chandler, Co.�H; Private 3/17/62 enlisted in Greenville AL at age 18; Decease Claim 4/3/63. John Hughs, Co. H; Private; enlisted at age 21. T. Z. Nichols, Co. C; Private G. L. Smith, Co. C;��Killed in train wreck near Cleveland TN 11/4/62. William M. Smith, Co. C; Private enlisted 5/11/62 in Greenville AL; Killed in railroad accident near Cleveland TN 11/4/1862; Decease claim filed Butler CO AL by Julia A. Smyth widow; Witnesses to claim: Samuel Adams and Alexander McKellar. (correct spelling Smyth). Nix, Edward, Co. C; 4th Corporal Lovet M. Bush, Co. C; Private; enlisted 3/8/62 in Daleville AL at age 20.� J. G. Lewis, Co. H; Private H. T. Clark, Co. H; Private; Died 11/6/62 as result of injuries sustained in train wreck;��Personal Effects Receipt Mathias Noblin, Co. H.; Private; enlisted at age 36 B. Lloyd, Co. H.; Private If you have information on any of them, or know someone who does, please ask them to contact me. Thanks in advance. Happy New Year! Mildred Stinson Brown Butler County Co-Ordinator from Gatesville, TX <A HREF="http://geocities.yahoo.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/8924/index.htm">Butler County, Alabama</A> - ALGenWeb Site http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/8924 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/heartland/ranch/5448">Families of Butler County, Alabama</A> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/ranch/5448 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/heartland/estates/7696">Kenneth Brown's Genealogy Page</A> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/estates/7696 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/33rd.htm">In Memory of The Seventeen - 33rd Ala Vol</A> http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/33rd.html <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/">The Open Gate�</A> http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/

It was great to know that I survived Y2K with more power outrages or lost of other utilies. My computer survived just fine as it was busy uploading new information for the Butler County site. A few new names have been added to the surname list. You will see some web site addresses attached to some of the names. I still have few to go. If you have a web site with a Butler County connection please let me know so I can add it to the list. A big thanks to Jerry Simmons of Century, FL for his contributions during this New Year's weekend. He sent the minutes from the <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Slope/5940/spbapt.htm">Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church</A> which is located in the Manningham area. He also contributed a survey of the <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Slope/5940/shilohcem.htm">Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery</A> with a partial listing of those in the Old Shiloh Cemetery. You will find the addition of information on <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Slope/5940/manningham.htm">Manningham , Alabama</A> which includes a photo of the Dr. W. C. Simmons homestead, also compliments of Jerry. Links for information on <A HREF="http://geocities.yahoo.com/bourbonstreet/canal/8924/pineflat.htm">Pine Flat</A> and <A HREF="http://geocities.yahoo.com/bourbonstreet/canal/8924/foresthome.htm">Fore st Home</A> have also been added. A link has been added for the USGS cemetery list for Butler County. This will give you pretty acurate directions to the cemeteries in the county. They also feature a map. In addition a section has been added for cemeteries that have surveys online. As others become available they will be added. If you haven't visited during the last week, a few other family homes pages have been linked. These include links to <A HREF="http://www.diard.com/genealogy/">Karen's Genealogy</A> [Diard], <A HREF="http://www.lakemartin.net/~ehend/wgasurs.html">Elaine's Genealogy Surname List</A> [Hendricks], <A HREF="http://vidas.rootsweb.com/families.html">Our Family Legacies</A> [Kay Anderson, and <A HREF="http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/i/m/William-G-Simmons/index.html" >William Cleveland Simmons Family</A> [Jerry Simmons]. I still have a few more to list and hopefully will get them on the list shortly. It has been a fairly busy day but a lot of new information has been added. Again, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Happy hunting, Happy New Year! Mildred Stinson Brown Butler County Co-Ordinator Gatesville, TX <A HREF="http://geocities.yahoo.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/8924/index.htm">Butler County, Alabama</A> - ALGenWeb Site http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/8924 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/heartland/ranch/5448">Families of Butler County, Alabama</A> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/ranch/5448 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/heartland/estates/7696">Kenneth Brown's Genealogy Page</A> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/estates/7696 <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/33rd.htm">In Memory of The Seventeen - 33rd Ala Vol</A> http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/33rd.html <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/">The Open Gate�</A> - a civil war story http://www.geocities.com/paris/cathedral/3174/