This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mc(C)lendon, Leath, Means, Smith, Price, Stovall, Danzey, Grimsley, Cunningham, Corbitt, Long, Thomas, Ward, Benson, Powell, Johnson, Finch, Rish, Irvin, Hayden, Henderson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YS.2ADI/2688.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Steve and Georgana, Both of you are discussing members of my extended family. Steve, we've corresponded before about this. Georgana, your surname is one that is very prominent in my family. We should get together about this the both of you. I wrote 2 articles in the newly printed volume 34 of The Heritage of Henry County, Alabama. See page 23 for the story of the Oakey Grove A.M.E.Church which is the 1st AME church in Haleburg. The historical society should put a plaque up on it as well. The families that attended Old Zion Baptist Church also attended Oakey Grove. The founders of Oakey Grove are my kin. Benjamin G. Smith's brother was William M Price who married Lucinda "Sindy" Henderson. Benjamin Smith is my great great grandfather. It is said that his surname was Price but that it was changed to Smith by a slaveowner. Could that slaveowner be the one you were talking about? Are there any slave papers from the Smith plantation? Benjamin G Smith bought a lot of land there in Henry County.: 20 March 1888 Deed to BENJAMIN SMITH from Thomas Robinson, March 20, 1888, Book V, page 116, Henry Co., AL. Real estate described as: NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 and the NE 1/4 of SE 1/4 and SE 1/4 of SE 1/4 a fraction of the east side of the SW 1/4 of SE 1/4 Sect 16, T5, R29 containing 125 acres more or less and bounded on the West by the Abbeville and Columbia Road. Cost $425 paid by Benjamin Smith. 14 December 1893 Deed to B. G. SMITH from R. W. Stanley & wife S. F. Stanley for $500. Date December 14, 1893 on deed. S 1/2 of NW 4th of SW 4th and the S 1/2 of NE of SW 4th in Section 16, T5, R29. In Book 3 p. 49 (Index has a different date of June 8, 1894 but this date is not on the deed!) Henry Co., AL 14, 26 November 1895 Deed to BEN G. SMITH from Grantor - land was auctioned off - 80 acres. Ben paid $271.10. Book 4, p. 159 Real Estate described as: E 1/2 of SE4 of Sec 15, in T5 of R29E containing 80 acres recorded in Book #9 page #98 in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Henry Co., and on 14th Day of November 1895 Now the other article in the book on page 219 I wrote about my Mc(C)lendon family (also Leath, Means, Smith, Price, Stovall, Danzey, Grimsley, Cunningham, Corbitt, Long, Thomas, Ward, Benson, Powell, Johnson, Finch, Rish, Irvin, Hayden, Henderson). I was in Haleburg in 1995-96 and met quite a few of the family members. Our cousin Faye Walker-Howell wrote an article also in the book on page 248 about the Peoples, Pittman, Callins and Hodges. The Hutchins surname comes in because (my great great grandfather) Benjamin McLendon's wife Sylvia Means had an older sister named Georgia Ann (or any variant spelling) Means who married Allen Hutchins who was the child of Emmanuel Roche-Hutchins and Rosie Unknown. The story goes that Emmanuel was from Johannesburg, Africa. Emmanuel had 7 Hutchins children. My great great aunt Georgia Ann Means Hutchins had 16 children. Georgana, what is your lineage of Hutchins? Let's trade lists. Sincerely Saundra Oliver Brown [email protected]