Kathy: I subscribe to Ancestry.com and did a search for Pearson/Person MESSER in both the 1850 and 1860 censuses, and did not find him indexed under that name. But I did find him in 1850 and 1870 by searching by his first name only - in both cases, his last name was mis-transcribed. Here's what I found: 1850 Henry County, Alabama, Southern District, p. 378B Person Messer (indexed as "Messen"), age 30, farmer, born in NC Amanda age 25, born in Ga. Alexandria age 6, born in Ala Mary A. age 4 born in Ala James M. age 2, born in Ala Caroline age 5/12, born in Ala 1870 Henry County, Alabama, Prec. 9, Abbeville P.O., p. 390 Person Messer (indexed as "Weser"), age 52, farmer, born in NC Amanda age 47, born in Ga. Polly age 21, born in Ala Emaline age 19 born in Ala Julia age 17, born in Ala Seaborn age 13, born in Ala Nora (?) age 10, born in Ala John age 8 born in Ala Jane age 6, born in Ala Mason age 1, born in Ala By the time of the 1880 census, Person had moved to Suwannee County, Florida: 1880 Suwannee Co., Florida, Dist. 146, p. 306 Messer, Person J. 62, farmer, born NC Arminda 56, wife, born in Ala. Noah 19, born in Ala. Jane 17, born in Ala. John 15, born in Ala. Martons(?) 10, born in Ala. (Arminda's birthplace was listed as Alabama, but the children's mother's birthplace was given as Georgia.) There was also a James Messer living with his family in Suwannee County in 1880. I assume this was Pearson and Arminda's son James M. (he had a 6 year old son named Pearson, most likely named after the boy's grandfather). Finally, I found the following cemetery record at www.rootsweb.com/~alhenry/Cem/pineygrove.htm (Submitted by Pat Long ) BROWN, Julia Ann - b. December 28, 1852 - d. April 4, 1927 [Died Headland Alabama the Daughter of Amanda Golder (born Alabama) and Pearson Messer (born Alabama) Informant for death certificate 6754 is Mrs. Henry Kirkland, This could be one of the 2 worn graves listed above] Hope this helps. By the way, my husband is a MESSER, whose ancestors were also from Henry County. So I assume he is somehow connected to Pearson Messer - but I have no idea how at this point, as I didn't have anyone by that name in our tree. If you know or learn anymore about Pearson's family, I would greatly appreciate your sharing that info with me. Thanks! Best regards, Janet >If someone has access to the 1850-1860 Henry County censuses, would you >please check to see if there is a Pearson/Person Messer with wife >Arminda/Amanda listed? They could possibly have children: Alexandria, Mary >A, James M and Carolina. By 1860, Julia should show up. >thanks bunches, >Kathy

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If someone has access to the 1850-1860 Henry County censuses, would you please check to see if there is a Pearson/Person Messer with wife Arminda/Amanda listed? They could possibly have children: Alexandria, Mary A, James M and Carolina. By 1860, Julia should show up. thanks bunches, Kathy _________________________________________________________________ Compare Cable, DSL or Satellite plans: As low as $29.95. https://broadband.msn.com

Hello Kathy In the 1900 Henry Co AL census, there is a couple: Peter W. MESSER, born Jan 1847 Margaret MESSER, born April 1835 They were married in 1866, and have had no children. Douglas Morris California

John W. Brown married Julia Ann Messer in Henry County, don't know when but I know they had at least two children. Minnie Mae, my ggrandmother, and John H. John and Julia are buried in Piney Grove Cemetery as well as John H. John H. was born 14 Feb 1884 and died 28 Aug 1905. Minnie was born 13 May 1886 and died 13 Nov 1915. Did John and Julia Brown have other children? Does anyone know anything about John W. Brown and Julia Ann Messer? I do know that Julia Ann was the daughter of Pearson Messer and Armanida Golden. The only info I have so far comes off of Julia Ann's death certificate. She was born 1852 and died 1927. There is a listing in the Messer Cemetery for a P W Messer b. 1-18-1847 and d. 5-17-1913 and a Margaret Messer w/o PW b. 4-24-1834 d. 7-31-1901. Could these two possibly be Pearson and Armanida? I would truely appreciate any input on this tangled web! Kathy _________________________________________________________________ Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

Mary OATES age 18, married James WAMMOCK in 1879, and Julia OATES age 10, was in the household of Ephraim OATES on the 1880 census, who are these girls. Now both these were mulattos, so is it possible they were related to Ephraim. How can I find out about these people. Julia was 10 years of age. Le

At the Tallapoosa County mail list archives you will find some more information that was sent to that list. Very interesting.

On the below list, Gee's Bend is in Wilcox Co. This is a great list. geonames.usgs.gov/geonames/stategaz/alabama Betsy

I don't know what county Gee's Bend is located, but I read an interesting article about it in a quilt magazine that had info that may apply to other places. The article was about quilter's but one of the people interviewed mentioned that people living on the Pettway place were expected to change their name from whatever to Pettway. The example given was his mother. She had married Ed O. Pettway. He was born a Williams but as long as they lived there he used Pettway. Including on the census. Ed's father was Ottoway Williams and he changed his name to Pettway also. I read this info in the June 2003 issue of Quilter's Newsletter pages 49 to 53. The article is called "Our Quilts by the Women of Gee's Bend". Sandy P - near St. Louis, MO

Looking for any info on John W. Brown who married Julia Mercer/Messer. I have no dates on them or where they were from. But their daughter, Minnie Brown was the first wife of Thomas Coker Cutchens, son of Henry Patrick Cutchens and Mary Ann C Wiggins and she was born 13 May 1886 and died 13 Nov 1915. Thomas and Minnie had 6 children, three died as infants. One of the children who survived to adulthood was my grandmother, Thelma Marea Cutchens. This is really a stumper for me. John Brown. This is as bad as another wall in another line I have...Mary Jones. Thanks for any help. Kathy _________________________________________________________________ Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

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I wonder if your Dad was living in Jackson County, Florida, at some time. Some of the story sounds like the stories they used to tell about the old Bellamy Bridge there. A good account of the story behind the ghost of Bellamy Bridge can be read at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~fljackso/EJCB.html Jeff Armstrong ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy and Farrell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 11:47 PM Subject: [ALHENRY] Haints > Thanks for all the input on the "haints" origin. Gives me a little more > insight into dad's terminalogy. Dad used to tell the story about an old > bridge that he had to cross to get home and it was said that a headless > woman would sometimes sit on the bridge and haint it. He said one night that > he to walk home alone right as it was getting dark and when he got to bridge > the haint was sitting there. He said he figured it was someone trying to > scare him because he didn't believe in such and continued to walk up on the > bridge, as he got closer to the haint..it was just gone-disappeared. Scared > him so bad he ran the whole 2 miles home and collasped on the front porch. > Never did walk on that bridge by himself again and NEVER at night. Believe > it or not. Now, my question will always be...did he think he really saw a > haint or was that just a haint story to scare the little kids? > > Thanks for helping me with my haints! > Kathy > > _________________________________________________________________ > Try MSN Messenger 6.0 with integrated webcam functionality! > http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_webcam >

Dictionary Thesaurus Home Premium: Sign up | Login ADVERTISEMENT | YOUR AD HERE Dictionary - Thesaurus Get the Top 10 Most Popular Sites for "haunt" 5 entries found for haunt. haunt ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hônt, hnt) v. haunt·ed, haunt·ing, haunts v. tr. To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being. To visit often; frequent: haunted the movie theaters. To come to mind continually; obsess: a riddle that haunted me all morning. To be continually present in; pervade: the melancholy that haunts the composer's music. v. intr. To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost. n. A place much frequented. also hant or ha'nt (hnt) or haint (hnt) Chiefly Southern U.S. A ghost or other supernatural being. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- [Middle English haunten, to frequent, from Old French hanter. See tkei- in Indo-European Roots.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- haunter n. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. [Buy it] haunt \Haunt\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). [root]36.] 1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. --Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift. 2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition. Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax. 3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.] That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. --Chaucer. Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. --Ascham. 4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. haunt \Haunt\, v. i. To persist in staying or visiting. I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. --Shak. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. haunt \Haunt\, n. 1. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts. Note: In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt. Note: Often used figuratively. The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure. --Keble. The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. --Tennyson. 2. The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.] The haunt you have got about the courts. --Arbuthnot. 3. Practice; skill. [Obs.] Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. --Chaucer. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. haunt n : a frequently visited place [syn: hangout, resort, repair, stamping ground] v 1: recur constantly and spontaneously to [syn: stalk] 2: haunt like a ghost; pursue; "She is haunted by her fear of illness" [syn: obsess, ghost] Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University SPONSORED LINKS University of Phoenix Campus. Over 100 Campus Locations Free College Money! Find information on more than 600,000 scholarships! Improve your fluency With Champs-Elysées Audiomagazines in French, German, Italian or Spanish! Bills piling up? Get out of Debt with Debtscape ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISE WITH US Perform a new search, or try your search for "haunt" at: Amazon.com - Shop for books, music and more AskJeeves.com - Get the top 10 most popular sites eLibrary - Search thousands of newspapers and magazines Google - Search the Web for relevant results Google Groups - Search Usenet messages back to 1981 Merriam-Webster - Search for definitions Overture - Search the Web Roget's Thesaurus - Search for synonyms and antonyms Get the FREE Dictionary.com Toolbar for your browser now! >From the makers of Dictionary.com Copyright © 2003, Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved. About Dictionary.com | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Link to Us | Help | Contact Us

This is from ANSAX List sited sources especially an 1843 WINNEMORE & REPS Cudjo's Wild Hunt Song. The ancient Germans believed in a Wild Hunt. Woden's Hunt. Where they would go in search of souls. Woden was pictured as the Devil in Medieval times with a band of demons riding around for wicked souls. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Magary" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 5:44 PM Subject: Re: Hants Haunting the OED2 as I often do, I found these in the online edition (guess at etymology is under haunt as verb): hant, ha'nt Obs. and local U.S. form of HAUNT n. --- haunt, n. Also 4-6 haunte, 6-7, 20 hant. [f. HAUNT v.] ... 5. local U.S. and Eng. A spirit supposed to haunt a place; a ghost. Also (occas.) in wider use. 1843 WINNEMORE & REPS Cudjo's Wild Hunt (song) 3 It am de hunt ob Cudjo dat nigger so bold. 1878 MRS. A. W. HUNT Hazard of Die I. vi. 131 Our Cordy is terrible for being afeard o' haunts. 1896 MRS. STOWE Oldtown Folks vi. 80 But this 'ere's a regular haunt,..they both on 'em said..they'd seen a figger of a man. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 2/1 This is the 'haunt' that troubles all our minds, and, especially, that comes forth..when the question is of peace by arrangement. 1933 M. EMMONS in B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore (1949) III. ii. 540 One never knows when the most sociable of cats may turn out to be a witch or a 'ha'nt'. 1934 B. A. BOTKIN in W. T. Couch Culture in South xxvi. 589 A Bible or a sharp object under the pillow will keep away both 'hants' and witches. 1935 Scribner's Mag. XCVII. 121/2 Old Joe's daid an' gone But his hant blows de hawn. 1943 W. C. HENDRICKS Bundle of Trouble 98 Then the wife told the hant who her husband is, and the hant begun at the start and told it all over agin. 1952 W. R. TITTERTON in Columba Aug. 102/1 We had a haunt in our flat. Father Vincent came home with us that day, and blessed the place, and the haunt was no more. 1965 'MALCOLM X' Autobiogr. i. 20 It was spooky, with ghosts and spirituals and 'ha'nts' seeming to be in the very atmosphere when finally we all came out of the church. --- haunt, v. Also 3-4 haunten, 4 hauntyn, hanten, 4-6 haunte, 4-7 hant(e, 5 hawntyn. [a. F. hante-r (12th c. in Littré), of uncertain origin: see Diez, Littré, Hatz.-Darm. >From the uncertainty of the derivation, it is not clear whether the earliest sense in F. and Eng. was to practise habitually (an action, etc.) or to frequent habitually (a place). The order here is therefore provisional.] ... 5. transf. and fig. Of unseen or immaterial visitants. a. Of diseases (obs.), memories, cares, feelings, thoughts: To visit frequently or habitually; to come up or present themselves as recurrent influences or impressions, esp. as causes of distraction or trouble; to pursue, molest. 1576 FLEMING Panopl. Epist. 228 One that is haunted with a fever or quivering ague. Ibid. 363 Heavinesse shall never haunt your heart, whiles your mind is marching with the Muses. 1594 SHAKES. Rich. III, I. ii. 122 Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleepe, To vndertake the death of all the world. 1615 J. STEPHENS Satyr. Ess. (ed. 2) 240 He is ever haunted with a blushing weakenesse. 1724 R. WELTON 18 Disc. 469 He hath no secret guilt that haunts and doggs him. 1838 LYTTON Alice 7 Regret of another kind still seems to haunt you. 1855 BAIN Senses & Int. III. i. §12 A painful recollection will haunt a person through life. b. esp. Of imaginary or spiritual beings, ghosts, etc.: To visit frequently and habitually with manifestations of their influence and presence, usually of a molesting kind. to be haunted: to be subject to the visits and molestation of disembodied spirits. 1590 SHAKES. Mids. N. III. i. 107 O monstrous. O strange. We are hanted; pray masters, flye masters, helpe. 1593 Rich. II, III. ii. 158 Some haunted by the Ghosts they haue depos'd. 1602 MARSTON Antonio's Rev. III. ii, Bug-beares and spirits haunted him. 1660 F. BROOKE tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 312 They were told..how there was a Chamber haunted with spirits, and strangely molested with horrible rumblings. a1679 LD. ORRERY Herod Gt. iii, My ghost shall haunt thee out in every place. 1722 SEWEL Hist. Quakers (1795) I. IV. 244 It was much talked of, that spirits haunted this dungeon, and walked there. 1847 LYTTON Lucretia 301 We need not that boy's Ghost amongst those who haunt us. 1871-4 J. THOMSON City Dreadf. Nt. VII. i, Phantoms haunt those shadowy streets. ********************************************************************* Reminder: For assistance write to Bill Schipper ([email protected])

Also check this one Dictionary of American Regional English. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Le Bateman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [ALHENRY] Haints The word Hants is a Old French word, with Germanic roots. Check the Oxford English Dictionary. Le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richards" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 6:39 PM Subject: [ALHENRY] Haints Here are a few sites you might want to visit to learn more about haints: ============================== True Haints Ain't No Haint. (Gonna' Run Me Off!). A collection of true stories of Appalachian ghosts and the unexplained. Home Is Where The Haint ... www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/2622/page1.htm - 6k - Cached - Similar pages ===================================== Amazon.com: Books: Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper ... Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper East Tennessee, Charles Edwin Price, Richard Blaustein. ... www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/ detail/-/0895870932?v=glance - 56k - Cached - Similar pages ===================================== “Haints & History” Sails into Plattsburgh State for Nov. 12 ... ... 02111104 “Haints & History” Monumental Sculpture Sails into Plattsburgh State. ... 1960s. "Haints & History" by Preston Jackson. ... www2.plattsburgh.edu/ocrd/focus/ news/2002/200211/02111104.html - 13k - Cached - Similar pages ===================================== Robert Morgan | Essays | Haints Visions, Haints and Fever Wit. When I was growing up on Green River in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in the late 1940s ... people.cornell.edu/pages/rrm4/essays/haints.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages ================================= Haints of the Hills North Carolina's Haunted Hundred Volume 3 Haints of the Hills. ... Haints of the Hills features 28 counties in North Carolina's mountainous west. ... www.blairpub.com/folklore/haintsofthehills.htm - 9k - Cached - Similar pages ================================ ==== ALHENRY Mailing List ==== NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, politicalannouncements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] ============================== 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 ==== ALHENRY Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the Henry Co., AL Mailing List, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] or if you are on the digest list to [email protected] ============================== 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

The word Hants is a Old French word, with Germanic roots. Check the Oxford English Dictionary. Le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richards" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 6:39 PM Subject: [ALHENRY] Haints Here are a few sites you might want to visit to learn more about haints: ============================== True Haints Ain't No Haint. (Gonna' Run Me Off!). A collection of true stories of Appalachian ghosts and the unexplained. Home Is Where The Haint ... www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/2622/page1.htm - 6k - Cached - Similar pages ===================================== Amazon.com: Books: Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper ... Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper East Tennessee, Charles Edwin Price, Richard Blaustein. ... www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/ detail/-/0895870932?v=glance - 56k - Cached - Similar pages ===================================== “Haints & History” Sails into Plattsburgh State for Nov. 12 ... ... 02111104 “Haints & History” Monumental Sculpture Sails into Plattsburgh State. ... 1960s. "Haints & History" by Preston Jackson. ... www2.plattsburgh.edu/ocrd/focus/ news/2002/200211/02111104.html - 13k - Cached - Similar pages ===================================== Robert Morgan | Essays | Haints Visions, Haints and Fever Wit. When I was growing up on Green River in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in the late 1940s ... people.cornell.edu/pages/rrm4/essays/haints.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages ================================= Haints of the Hills North Carolina's Haunted Hundred Volume 3 Haints of the Hills. ... Haints of the Hills features 28 counties in North Carolina's mountainous west. ... www.blairpub.com/folklore/haintsofthehills.htm - 9k - Cached - Similar pages ================================ ==== ALHENRY Mailing List ==== NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, politicalannouncements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] ============================== 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

Vivian, If I remember right, he lived between Headland and Newville. In that general area. At one point they lived in Houston County. I remember the name Cottonwood, but I think that was short-lived. My ggrandparents always lived out from Headland. Their homeplace is still there and a cousin lives there now. I think it sits on SH431 now. I know when we were growing up grandpa's place was on a 2 lane road and then some years later the state came in and put in 4 lanes. It put the highway way up in their front yard. Kathy Kathy, You're welcome. Where did he live when he was growing up. The exact location if you know. I was raised out from Abbeville, Al. and my husband was raised close to Capps, Al and Newville, Al. Then I can ask him about it. Vivian _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with MSN Messenger 6.0 -- download now! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_general

Hi List, It was suggested that I try this list. I'm trying to connect with the descendants of Charles Creque b 1838 NY d 1909 Meridianville Alabama and his wife Jane Blanton b 1842 Alabama , children Charles b 1873 Annie b 1875 Alice L. b 1878 Mary b 1880 Frank b 1883 John b 1885 David b 1886 Otis b 1890 Lillie b 1894 Charles is the oldest brother of my 3rd great-grandmother, would love to connect with family and share info. may God Bless, Deb [email protected]

Does anyone know who the parents of Mary OATES are. Mary married a James WAMMOCK in 16/Oct/1879. There are so many Mary's in the family. Samuel and Fannie had a daughter named Mary. Stephenson and Pharibia had a daughter named Mary but she ws called Polly. Jethro had a granddaughter named Mary M. Oates. I could go on. Thank you Le

Thanks for all the input on the "haints" origin. Gives me a little more insight into dad's terminalogy. Dad used to tell the story about an old bridge that he had to cross to get home and it was said that a headless woman would sometimes sit on the bridge and haint it. He said one night that he to walk home alone right as it was getting dark and when he got to bridge the haint was sitting there. He said he figured it was someone trying to scare him because he didn't believe in such and continued to walk up on the bridge, as he got closer to the haint..it was just gone-disappeared. Scared him so bad he ran the whole 2 miles home and collasped on the front porch. Never did walk on that bridge by himself again and NEVER at night. Believe it or not. Now, my question will always be...did he think he really saw a haint or was that just a haint story to scare the little kids? Thanks for helping me with my haints! Kathy _________________________________________________________________ Try MSN Messenger 6.0 with integrated webcam functionality! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_webcam