Hello! Are you researching Parkers and Austins of the Henry Co., AL area? Would love to talk with you if you are! Tonia Porter CATAULAVIC@aol.com wrote: > Good Afternoon, > > It was morning when I started now it's afternoon. > > Please reply to the list if you are going to talk about the Old Federal Road > that is something I am just getting into and would be very interested in any > replys. > > I just bought a book on it and haven't had a chance to read it. Figured a > lot of the families on both my husband Joe's side and my side came down the > Old Federal Road into Georgia and Alabama and possibily into Mississippi. > Working on Culpeppers, Parkers, Willis, Snelgrove, Snellgrove, Hand, Yance, > Sheppard, Austin, McCloud, Bagley, Goldsmith, Stowe, Harrell, Garrett, > McGlaun, McGlawn, McGlauhon, McGlohon, and other spellings. > > Oh yeah the name of the Book I bought was "The Federal Road through Georgia, > the Creek Nation, and Alabama, 1806 - 1836". by Henry DeLeon Southerland, Jr > and Jerry Elijah Brown. > I bought it thru Amazon.com along with the book "Reprint of Offical Register > of Land Lottery of Georgia, 1827.. And while I am talking about this book, I > found lots of wrong spelling of my McGlauhon clan while searching word for > word thru the book for misspellings, so just because you don't see it in the > index doesn't mean it isn't there just spelled wrong. My tip for the day. > > Thank You, > Vicki McGlaun Culpepper > McGlaughon Mail List Owner > Rootsweb Sponsor > > In a message dated 11/11/1999 6:16:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, > ALHENRY-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > << > Hello ya'll... > While visiting in Henry and Dale Counties a few weeks ago I had the > privilege of running up on Homer Jones (in a cemetery, of course) and we > touched on the topic of the Old Federal Road. I'm also on the Dobbs > County, NC list, where they've been bantering about migration patterns > of a group of surnames who originally came from there through SC then on > to Henry County - my Alexanders included. I was wondering if anybody > have any idea what role, if any, the Federal Road had in the migration > of Sumter District folks when they entered into lower Alabama. There is > a section of the road marked off on a friend's land map in Cottonton, AL > (between Columbus, GA and Eufaula, AL) and is also marked off at an > Creek Indian historical site just south of Columbus, a few miles before > Cottonton. Is seemed to the follow the Chattahoochee River (separating > GA and AL). Was it the main highway for this particular migration? > Write to the list, or send an e-mail to valmcginness@email.com. I'd > like to hear from you if you know anything about the old road. > > Val McGinness > Alexander Researcher > http://members.tripod.com/AlexanderFamily > > >>