----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Stackhouse" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [ALGREENE] Laura BYRD, b. c1880, Lived in Greene 1897-190 > Alice > My name is Pete Stackhouse. I lived at Strawberry Hill farm in the late > 40's and early 50's. Thornhill farm > was on the Boligee hwy. about 5 miles from Forkland. It's been a long > time > ago but I believe my Uncle Kirby > and wife Aunt Laura ran the Thornhill farm. I don't know Laura's maiden > name. I'll try to find out. I have two living Aunts that could know. > Strawberry Hill was about 1/2 mile from Forkland. It was my understanding > that the Thornton's > lived in Eutaw and Kirby ran the farm. I don't have proof. Kirby was > born > 1907 and died 1984. He was the son of > G.A. Paul my G/F. Laura died before Kirby but I don't have dates. I > believe Laura was a couple of years older than Kirby. I'll try to get more > info. > Pete > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alice Campbell" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:06 PM > Subject: [ALGREENE] Laura BYRD, b. c1880, Lived in Greene 1897-190 > > >>I apologize if I've sent this before. I just haven't gotten it back in >> my list email, so I'm trying again. >> >> I am looking for a girl named Laura Byrd (maiden name). She was >> involved in the wedding of my grandparents at St. Stephen's Episcopal >> Church in Eutaw, Greene Co, AL on 26 Apr 1906. >> >> I have letters written by my grandfather, James Daniel Webb, indicating >> that she and my grandmother, Alice Ingram Turpin, were great friends. >> My grandparents were born in 1879 and 1881, putting Laura's birth >> somewhere in that neighborhood. During the years between 1897 and 1906 >> she probably lived in Forkland and/or Eutaw. >> >> I know that Dr. Alexander H. Byrd lived in Forkland in 1880, but he >> doesn't appear to have had a daughter named Laura, at least that I can >> find. There are so many Byrds in AL that I'm not really sure where to >> look next. My grandmother would certainly know the Alexander Byrd >> family, as Dr. Alexander married her aunt and both families lived in the >> same house in Forkland (near/at Thornhill) in 1880. So I would guess >> that Laura was kin to Alexander Byrd. But my grandmother also spent >> time in Colbert Co, AL where I also find many Byrds, but no connections >> to my Byrds. >> >> Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Alice Campbell >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Alice My name is Pete Stackhouse. I lived at Strawberry Hill farm in the late 40's and early 50's. Thornhill farm was on the Boligee hwy. about 5 miles from Forkland. It's been a long time ago but I believe my Uncle Kirby and wife Aunt Laura ran the Thornhill farm. I don't know Laura's maiden name. I'll try to find out. I have two living Aunts that could know. Strawberry Hill was about 1/2 mile from Forkland. It was my understanding that the Thornton's lived in Eutaw and Kirby ran the farm. I don't have proof. Kirby was born 1907 and died 1984. He was the son of G.A. Paul my G/F. Laura died before Kirby but I don't have dates. I believe Laura was a couple of years older than Kirby. I'll try to get more info. Pete ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Campbell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:06 PM Subject: [ALGREENE] Laura BYRD, b. c1880, Lived in Greene 1897-190 >I apologize if I've sent this before. I just haven't gotten it back in > my list email, so I'm trying again. > > I am looking for a girl named Laura Byrd (maiden name). She was > involved in the wedding of my grandparents at St. Stephen's Episcopal > Church in Eutaw, Greene Co, AL on 26 Apr 1906. > > I have letters written by my grandfather, James Daniel Webb, indicating > that she and my grandmother, Alice Ingram Turpin, were great friends. > My grandparents were born in 1879 and 1881, putting Laura's birth > somewhere in that neighborhood. During the years between 1897 and 1906 > she probably lived in Forkland and/or Eutaw. > > I know that Dr. Alexander H. Byrd lived in Forkland in 1880, but he > doesn't appear to have had a daughter named Laura, at least that I can > find. There are so many Byrds in AL that I'm not really sure where to > look next. My grandmother would certainly know the Alexander Byrd > family, as Dr. Alexander married her aunt and both families lived in the > same house in Forkland (near/at Thornhill) in 1880. So I would guess > that Laura was kin to Alexander Byrd. But my grandmother also spent > time in Colbert Co, AL where I also find many Byrds, but no connections > to my Byrds. > > Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated. > > Alice Campbell > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I apologize if I've sent this before. I just haven't gotten it back in my list email, so I'm trying again. I am looking for a girl named Laura Byrd (maiden name). She was involved in the wedding of my grandparents at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Eutaw, Greene Co, AL on 26 Apr 1906. I have letters written by my grandfather, James Daniel Webb, indicating that she and my grandmother, Alice Ingram Turpin, were great friends. My grandparents were born in 1879 and 1881, putting Laura's birth somewhere in that neighborhood. During the years between 1897 and 1906 she probably lived in Forkland and/or Eutaw. I know that Dr. Alexander H. Byrd lived in Forkland in 1880, but he doesn't appear to have had a daughter named Laura, at least that I can find. There are so many Byrds in AL that I'm not really sure where to look next. My grandmother would certainly know the Alexander Byrd family, as Dr. Alexander married her aunt and both families lived in the same house in Forkland (near/at Thornhill) in 1880. So I would guess that Laura was kin to Alexander Byrd. But my grandmother also spent time in Colbert Co, AL where I also find many Byrds, but no connections to my Byrds. Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated. Alice Campbell

Alice, Can you give us any of the Thornton given names for which you are seeking information? Catherine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Campbell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 3:22 AM Subject: [ALGREENE] Thornton Family > I'm trying to find out if there was a connection, and what it was, > between the THORNTONs living at Thornhill in Forkland and the THORNTONs > living in Eutaw. Can anyone help? > Thanks very much in advance. > > Alice Campbell > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'm trying to find out if there was a connection, and what it was, between the THORNTONs living at Thornhill in Forkland and the THORNTONs living in Eutaw. Can anyone help? Thanks very much in advance. Alice Campbell

Thanks Bob, I will give her a call tomorrow and let you know. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [ALGREENE] Thornhill > Joe > Her telephone number is > 334-624-3255 > (unless the area code has changed....I input her number into my system > several years ago) > hope she is of some help to you. > Bob > > > ==== ALGREENE Mailing List ==== > This is the Message board for Greene County, Alabama > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.greene > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/381 - Release Date: 7/3/2006 > >

Joe Her telephone number is 334-624-3255 (unless the area code has changed....I input her number into my system several years ago) hope she is of some help to you. Bob

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I have forwarded this post to Jean. Regards, Linda Harris Jackson, Ms ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Herrera" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 9:16 AM Subject: Re: [ALGREENE] Thornhill > Hi Bob I'm in Florida. Would you happen to have Jean Hoggle's phone > number. Thnaks > Joe Rice > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 10:06 PM > Subject: Re: [ALGREENE] Thornhill > > >>I suggest that you contact a lady by the name of Jean Hoggle who lives >>over >> in the Havana area of Hale County. She seems to know almost everybody >> over >> that way and is very deeply involved in the history of Greene and Hale >> County and >> has visited plenty of the marked and unmarked cemeteries! >> I've walked several of the unmarked cemeteries looking for one of my >> Jackson >> ancestors. It is best to get permission first! >> Otherwise, just go to the sheriff's office and garner their help. >> Bob Jackson >> >> >> ==== ALGREENE Mailing List ==== >> This is the Message board for Greene County, Alabama >> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.greene >> >> ============================== >> Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for >> ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: 6/30/2006 >> >> > > > ==== ALGREENE Mailing List ==== > This is the Message board for Greene County, Alabama > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.greene > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >

Hi Bob I'm in Florida. Would you happen to have Jean Hoggle's phone number. Thnaks Joe Rice ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [ALGREENE] Thornhill >I suggest that you contact a lady by the name of Jean Hoggle who lives over > in the Havana area of Hale County. She seems to know almost everybody > over > that way and is very deeply involved in the history of Greene and Hale > County and > has visited plenty of the marked and unmarked cemeteries! > I've walked several of the unmarked cemeteries looking for one of my > Jackson > ancestors. It is best to get permission first! > Otherwise, just go to the sheriff's office and garner their help. > Bob Jackson > > > ==== ALGREENE Mailing List ==== > This is the Message board for Greene County, Alabama > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.greene > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: 6/30/2006 > >

If any on the list had my email saved into their address book please note that the c-gate.net address will cease to work at the end of July. I can be reached either at: [email protected] or [email protected] In Greene County my primary surnames are Robinson, Herndon, Suffrine or Sherine (sp???), Stuart, and related families. My GG-Grandfather, Edwin Robinson moved to Smith Co., MS (near the town of Trenton) in time to be on the 1860 Smith County, MS census. His first wife (Caroline Sherine, md. 20 Oct 1836) had died after 1853. He next married Mary Ann Elizabeth Ward on 13 March 1858. Edwin's parents were George Robinson and Mary "Polly" Herndon. Polly was a sister to Thomas Hord Herndon of Greene County. The Robinsons came from Spotsylvania County, VA as did the Herndons, Hords, Cox, and other related families about the 1820s. My Stuart/Stewart family may or may not have come through Greene County. My first "paper trail" is the 1850 Winston County, MS census where William Davis Stewart is listed with his wife Hannah Jones (daughter of Dudley Jones & Hannah Stainton). William's state of birth is always given as Alabama. I did match through DNA 37/37 with known descendants of James Stewart & Mary Lafferty (Scotland - Ireland - old Augusta Co., VA). James did have brothers John, William, and Robert of which little is known so they could possibly be my line also. I am always willing to discuss these and related families. George Stuart Smith Co., MS

I suggest that you contact a lady by the name of Jean Hoggle who lives over in the Havana area of Hale County. She seems to know almost everybody over that way and is very deeply involved in the history of Greene and Hale County and has visited plenty of the marked and unmarked cemeteries! I've walked several of the unmarked cemeteries looking for one of my Jackson ancestors. It is best to get permission first! Otherwise, just go to the sheriff's office and garner their help. Bob Jackson

I'm in AL for the next 10 days or so and would like to see my uncle's grave at Thornhill. The uncle in question was my grandmother's first child and died when he was around 2 and my grandmother buried him at Thornhill where she had lived with her relatives for a long time. I've never seen the grave and would like to very much. Is there somewhere or someone I can call to make arrangements? I don't know who owns it now. Do I just drive down there and roam around? Somebody give me the protocol, please! :-) Alice Campbell

Try calling Brock Jones in Tuscaloosa. He works for a stock broker but I do not know which one. This is his home phone: 205-633-8684. Sybil Phillips ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 8:11 PM Subject: [ALGREENE] Thornhill > I'm in AL for the next 10 days or so and would like to see my uncle's > grave at Thornhill. The uncle in question was my grandmother's first > child and died when he was around 2 and my grandmother buried him at > Thornhill where she had lived with her relatives for a long time. I've > never seen the grave and would like to very much. > > Is there somewhere or someone I can call to make arrangements? I don't > know who owns it now. Do I just drive down there and roam around? > Somebody give me the protocol, please! :-) > > Alice Campbell > > > > > ==== ALGREENE Mailing List ==== > This is the Message board for Greene County, Alabama > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.greene > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

I read somewhere that an original layout of the lots is in one of the deed books -- maybe one of the ladies at the courthouse can help you with that. There are old newspapers on microfilm in Tuscaloosa and the UDAH has some as well that you can order ($30 each). Here is a starting place: http://magnolia.cyriv.com/GreeneAlGenWeb/Resources/Newspapers.asp -----Original Message----- From: Alice Campbell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ALGREENE] More on Lots in Eutaw in the 1800's >There is a book you can buy from the Historic Society in Greene or look at >in the library in Eutaw called "Eutaw: The Builders and Architecture of an >Antebellum Southern Town" that has some information about lot owners and >photographs of homes. Yes, I have that one. Fortunately I inherited my mother's copy. I also have her copy of /A Goodly Heritage/, another one about Eutaw. But the drawings of the lots are so tiny that I need my magnifying glass which is in the far end of the living room with the rest of my office furniture piled in front of it while the men sand the floor and paint my office! >81 & 82: Originally purchased by Foster Kirksey in 1839, deed book J, page 873 I'd love to know when Dr. Alexander bought these from Kirksey. I guess it's back to the deed books! But Lancaster said there was no record of Alexander's purchase or the city's purchase. >89 Originally purchased by Abram F. Alexander in 1840 deed book L, pages >71-72. There is a drawing of the house that was built on this lot in the >above-mentioned book on page 137 - though the drawing may be of the house >that was built after his was torn down. Apparently the house was auctioned off after Dr. Alexander died and it was purchased by Sydenham Moore on 17 >Dec 1877. The original house was on Main Street next to William P. Webb and >no longer stands. The drawing was made by Dr. Alexander's granddaughter, my gg aunt, Carrie Bell Webb. I am sure it is a picture of his original house because I have Aunt Carrie's description of her childhood days rambling around her grandfather's house (she lived in the next block in the Alexander-Herndon-Webb-Wilson House), and the descriptions and the picture match. I have a copy of the picture and it too is labeled Dr. A. F. Alexander's House in her handwriting, so that's pretty definite. But what happened to this house is something that I'm trying to find out. Did Sydenham Moore tear it down? Or did the next owner, William Smaw? Or the next owner, James Murphy? Murphy separated an 80 ft strip at the east side and sold it to William R. Ward in 1896 and built himself a new house on the rest of the lot, implying that by 1896 there was no longer a house there. When and where did the house disappear? Dr. Alexander's father's family bible is said to have burned when his house burned. I vaguely remember hearing that his house had burned, but what house and when is a total mystery. The oldest living relative in the family, my aunt doesn't know either. So I am looking for a housefire on Dr. Alexander's property. If his father's bible burned in the fire, I'm guessing he was living in the house when it burned, so I don't really think the mysterious disappearance of the house on Main Street is what I'm looking for, but who knows? >179 I don't see this one in the book. I just found it, even without the magnifying glass. On figure 2, Finches Ferry Road (the road to Clinton) crosses something that turn into Springfield (?) when it turns north. Lot # 179 is right south of that road. >186 Originally purchased by Stephen F. Hale in 1842 deed book M page 197 Can't find that one. >On pages 87 and 88 of this book it says: > >Lot #93 was purchased for $474 by Dr. A >bram F. Alexander on 1 April 1844. >Dr. Alexander had a two-story house brought from near Finches Ferry (old >Erie) and set up here. It was a typical sort of early home, the Grassdale >type, to which was given a front portico with four colossal square piers, >the front plane of the roof raised and extended to cover it... (snipped >architectural details) > >Dr. Alexander gave the house to his daughter and her husband, Thomas E. >Herndon, for "natural love and affection" on 13 Sep 1849. Herndon sold a >strip of the back lot to his neighbor William F. Bell and in turn purchased >35 feet on the west side from him, each valued at $50, in June of 1852. It >is said that Mrs. Herndon did not like the house and it was sold back to Dr. >Alexander for $2,500 on 4 April 1856. Two years later the Herndons bought >the Catlin Wilson house on Wilson Street. Alexander in turn presented the >Main street house for "natural love and affection" to his other daughter and >son-in-law, Henry Y. Webb... > >I believe this would be the "Alexander-Webb-Wilson house" aka the >Webb-Alexander house located at 309 Main Street? There is a little bit of >info about the house on this page: > >http://magnolia.cyriv.com/GreeneAlGenWeb/Geography/Eutaw/EutawLandmarks.asp Now that house I know well. :-) My grandfather was born there, son of H.Y. Webb, and my cousin Betsy Bell lives there now. It's also where Aunt Carrie grew up. I have a several photos of it. My favorite is one with my sister as a little girl going onto the porch. >As far as the vacant lot goes, Samuel Gordon owned lot #129 and lot #128 >which is where the hotel "The Eutaw House" was. The empty lot may have been >where the gardens for the hotel were located, though it is possible Samuel >Gordon had other land. There is no mention of an O'Connor I finally crawled thru all the mess and retrieved a small magnifying glass, but I still don't see Lot #129. I do see Lot #128, however. What I would like to know is where is the original from which Clay Lancaster made all those illustrations! Hopefully it would be big enough to read! I noticed that the book mentioned at least two different numberings of the lots, but haven't read enough of the text to see what that's all about. I know I've been rambling, but one more question. Are there copies, paper or microfilm, of the Eutaw newspapers in Eutaw? or Tuscaloosa? or Birmingham? or Montgomery? I'd really like to track down this house fire report and I'm guessing that would be my best bet. Thanks, Alice ==== ALGREENE Mailing List ==== This is the Message board for Greene County, Alabama http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.alabama.counties.greene ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

I'm sure we are kinfolk, but I can't place Mr. Sturdivant, as I'm sure he couldn't place me. He left some lovely notes in the Mesopotamia Cemetery listing on many of my relatives. I'd love to contact him, but he didn't leave his address. If anyone knows him, send him my address and this note. I'm kin to the Webb's, the Alexander's, the Morgan's and lots of others from Greene County. If you are reading this, thanks so much for the note on the Rev. Nicholson Ross Morgan! Do you know where his son Witherspoon was buried? Thanks, Alice Campbell

They weren't there the other day. They are delightful. When were they made? Alice Campbell

>There is a book you can buy from the Historic Society in Greene or look at >in the library in Eutaw called "Eutaw: The Builders and Architecture of an >Antebellum Southern Town" that has some information about lot owners and >photographs of homes. Yes, I have that one. Fortunately I inherited my mother's copy. I also have her copy of /A Goodly Heritage/, another one about Eutaw. But the drawings of the lots are so tiny that I need my magnifying glass which is in the far end of the living room with the rest of my office furniture piled in front of it while the men sand the floor and paint my office! >81 & 82: Originally purchased by Foster Kirksey in 1839, deed book J, page 873 I'd love to know when Dr. Alexander bought these from Kirksey. I guess it's back to the deed books! But Lancaster said there was no record of Alexander's purchase or the city's purchase. >89 Originally purchased by Abram F. Alexander in 1840 deed book L, pages >71-72. There is a drawing of the house that was built on this lot in the >above-mentioned book on page 137 - though the drawing may be of the house >that was built after his was torn down. Apparently the house was auctioned off after Dr. Alexander died and it was purchased by Sydenham Moore on 17 >Dec 1877. The original house was on Main Street next to William P. Webb and >no longer stands. The drawing was made by Dr. Alexander's granddaughter, my gg aunt, Carrie Bell Webb. I am sure it is a picture of his original house because I have Aunt Carrie's description of her childhood days rambling around her grandfather's house (she lived in the next block in the Alexander-Herndon-Webb-Wilson House), and the descriptions and the picture match. I have a copy of the picture and it too is labeled Dr. A. F. Alexander's House in her handwriting, so that's pretty definite. But what happened to this house is something that I'm trying to find out. Did Sydenham Moore tear it down? Or did the next owner, William Smaw? Or the next owner, James Murphy? Murphy separated an 80 ft strip at the east side and sold it to William R. Ward in 1896 and built himself a new house on the rest of the lot, implying that by 1896 there was no longer a house there. When and where did the house disappear? Dr. Alexander's father's family bible is said to have burned when his house burned. I vaguely remember hearing that his house had burned, but what house and when is a total mystery. The oldest living relative in the family, my aunt doesn't know either. So I am looking for a housefire on Dr. Alexander's property. If his father's bible burned in the fire, I'm guessing he was living in the house when it burned, so I don't really think the mysterious disappearance of the house on Main Street is what I'm looking for, but who knows? >179 I don't see this one in the book. I just found it, even without the magnifying glass. On figure 2, Finches Ferry Road (the road to Clinton) crosses something that turn into Springfield (?) when it turns north. Lot # 179 is right south of that road. >186 Originally purchased by Stephen F. Hale in 1842 deed book M page 197 Can't find that one. >On pages 87 and 88 of this book it says: > >Lot #93 was purchased for $474 by Dr. A >bram F. Alexander on 1 April 1844. >Dr. Alexander had a two-story house brought from near Finches Ferry (old >Erie) and set up here. It was a typical sort of early home, the Grassdale >type, to which was given a front portico with four colossal square piers, >the front plane of the roof raised and extended to cover it... (snipped >architectural details) > >Dr. Alexander gave the house to his daughter and her husband, Thomas E. >Herndon, for "natural love and affection" on 13 Sep 1849. Herndon sold a >strip of the back lot to his neighbor William F. Bell and in turn purchased >35 feet on the west side from him, each valued at $50, in June of 1852. It >is said that Mrs. Herndon did not like the house and it was sold back to Dr. >Alexander for $2,500 on 4 April 1856. Two years later the Herndons bought >the Catlin Wilson house on Wilson Street. Alexander in turn presented the >Main street house for "natural love and affection" to his other daughter and >son-in-law, Henry Y. Webb... > >I believe this would be the "Alexander-Webb-Wilson house" aka the >Webb-Alexander house located at 309 Main Street? There is a little bit of >info about the house on this page: > >http://magnolia.cyriv.com/GreeneAlGenWeb/Geography/Eutaw/EutawLandmarks.asp Now that house I know well. :-) My grandfather was born there, son of H.Y. Webb, and my cousin Betsy Bell lives there now. It's also where Aunt Carrie grew up. I have a several photos of it. My favorite is one with my sister as a little girl going onto the porch. >As far as the vacant lot goes, Samuel Gordon owned lot #129 and lot #128 >which is where the hotel "The Eutaw House" was. The empty lot may have been >where the gardens for the hotel were located, though it is possible Samuel >Gordon had other land. There is no mention of an O'Connor I finally crawled thru all the mess and retrieved a small magnifying glass, but I still don't see Lot #129. I do see Lot #128, however. What I would like to know is where is the original from which Clay Lancaster made all those illustrations! Hopefully it would be big enough to read! I noticed that the book mentioned at least two different numberings of the lots, but haven't read enough of the text to see what that's all about. I know I've been rambling, but one more question. Are there copies, paper or microfilm, of the Eutaw newspapers in Eutaw? or Tuscaloosa? or Birmingham? or Montgomery? I'd really like to track down this house fire report and I'm guessing that would be my best bet. Thanks, Alice

My great, great grandfather, Foster Hockett Thompson, M.D., owned several of those listed lots in Eutaw. It is listed as Foster H. Thompson in the architectural listing, lots 31, 32, and 34. He later moved to Mississippi in the 1840s. His brother, John Brown Thompson, remained in Eutaw, as did his mother. I am also related distantly to the Webb family in Eutaw who owned several of those lots. Dorothy O'Neill

There is a book you can buy from the Historic Society in Greene or look at in the library in Eutaw called "Eutaw: The Builders and Architecture of an Antebellum Southern Town" that has some information about lot owners and photographs of homes. I bought my copy online from a used book seller and paid the piper for it. The following information is from that book: 81 & 82: Originally purchased by Foster Kirksey in 1839, deed book J, page 873 89 Originally purchased by Abram F. Alexander in 1840 deed book L, pages 71-72. There is a drawing of the house that was built on this lot in the above-mentioned book on page 137 - though the drawing may be of the house that was built after his was torn down. Apparently the house was auctioned off after Dr. Alexander died and it was purchased by Sydenham Moore on 17 Dec 1877. The original house was on Main Street next to William P. Webb and no longer stands. 179 I don't see this one in the book. 186 Originally purchased by Stephen F. Hale in 1842 deed book M page 197 On pages 87 and 88 of this book it says: Lot #93 was purchased for $474 by Dr. Abram F. Alexander on 1 April 1844. Dr. Alexander had a two-story house brought from near Finches Ferry (old Erie) and set up here. It was a typical sort of early home, the Grassdale type, to which was given a front portico with four colossal square piers, the front plane of the roof raised and extended to cover it... (snipped architectural details) Dr. Alexander gave the house to his daughter and her husband, Thomas E. Herndon, for "natural love and affection" on 13 Sep 1849. Herndon sold a strip of the back lot to his neighbor William F. Bell and in turn purchased 35 feet on the west side from him, each valued at $50, in June of 1852. It is said that Mrs. Herndon did not like the house and it was sold back to Dr. Alexander for $2,500 on 4 April 1856. Two years later the Herndons bought the Catlin Wilson house on Wilson Street. Alexander in turn presented the Main street house for "natural love and affection" to his other daughter and son-in-law, Henry Y. Webb... I believe this would be the "Alexander-Webb-Wilson house" aka the Webb-Alexander house located at 309 Main Street? There is a little bit of info about the house on this page: http://magnolia.cyriv.com/GreeneAlGenWeb/Geography/Eutaw/EutawLandmarks.asp The book has a better photo of the front of the house on page 89. As far as the vacant lot goes, Samuel Gordon owned lot #129 and lot #128 which is where the hotel "The Eutaw House" was. The empty lot may have been where the gardens for the hotel were located, though it is possible Samuel Gordon had other land. There is no mention of an O'Connor -----Original Message----- From: Alice Campbell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ALGREENE] More on Lots in Eutaw in the 1800's Thanks Kim! This is is great. This answers the question I had about some of the lots, but the others are further west, along Main Street, and into Mesopotamia. Dr. Abram Franklin Alexander, at his death in 1866, owned Lot #15, & Lot #27 in the town square, according to the estate papers. According to this web site he also owned, at an earlier date at any rate, Lots #17 & 21, but not Log #27. So he must have sold Lots #17& #21 and bought Lot #27. I can look this up when I get to Eutaw this summer. But I am also looking for info on * Lot #89, on which he had his house and eight acres, more or less, (400 block on Main Street, next door to the Wm. Peter Webb house) * Lots #81 & 82 across Main Street from Lot #89 * Lots #179 & 186 further west in Mesopotamia. * And a vacant lot in the Said Town fronting on the Street leading from Eutaw to Clinton about 34 feet and running back 105 bounded on the North by a lot owned by S. O. Gordon in the east by the house & lot of T. O'Connor on the South by Said Street leading from Eutaw to Clinton and on the west by the house & lot of E. W. Eckhardt. Any information on any of these lots would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Alice Campbell ** ==== ALGREENE Mailing List ==== This is the Message board for Greene County, Alabama http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.alabama.counties.greene ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx