The cemetery in Pratt City could be the Fraternal Cemetery. Burials in Fraternal Cemetery are included in Volume 2, "Cemeteries of Jefferson County". I'll be glad to look up names for you. Rebecca

I am researching the family of Virgil and Mary (Cofield) Mounce and I believe they may have been in Jefferson County in 1900. Is there anyone out there who has an index to the 1900 Jefferson County census and, if so, I would really appreciate knowing if Virgil and Mary were in Jefferson County in 1900. Thanks, Billy Hightower Farmersville, Texas

There is supposed to be a cemetery in Pratt City - a very old Masonic cemetery - that I would like to find out about. My husband said that he went as a child with his father and they did quite a bit of work cleaning up the cemetery - that it was in bad shape then and that it is not in the safest of neighborhoods. I have discovered that I may also have family buried there - I know of a couple of others who might be interested in cleaning up this cemetery and would like to find out for sure where it is - whose permission we would have to get to go and how many others might be interested in such a project any suggestions welcome doris mayer reece branchville alabama

Please take a look at my URL; http://www.icct.net/~emrice I will do lookups for anyone who had an ancestor with the AL 28th Inf Regt or any thing having to do with the CW in Al Thanks, E. D.

Here is the announcement for the schedule for a genealogy chat all are invited to attend. -----Original Message----- From: Jean Brandau <huntsville2@earthlink.net> To: ALABAMA-L@rootsweb.com <ALABAMA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 8:49 PM Subject: [Alabama] New Chat Schedule & other info--please save >Our chats have become VERY successful and it was suggested that we expand >them. I have now scheduled the following weekly chat times: >Mondays 9-11 pm (Central) >Thursdays 8-10 pm (Central) >Saturdays 3-5 pm (Central) > >FYI--Eastern Time is an hour later and Pacific is 2 hours earlier. I put an >afternoon time on Saturday to try to give the working people and people in >other countries a chance to join us. > >The chat can be found here: >http://huntsville.about.com/local/southeastus/huntsville/mpchat.htm >If you have never chatted before, please write me privately and I'll send >you instructions and arrange to meet you in the chatroom ahead of time and >walk you through it. > >If you have books or CD's and can do lookups--please email me privately at >least 24 hours before the scheduled chat and let me know what you have and >which chat you'll be attending. I'll announce to the list which resources >will be available on which nights. > >You have to attend the chat to get a lookup. PLEASE don't email me with >your lookup requests. Use this list for that. > >If you can't attend the chat, you'll find over 100 links to Alabama >Genealogy on my site: >http://huntsville.about.com/local/southeastus/huntsville/msubgenealogy1.htm > >I am currently working on a library of links for genealogy personal home >pages. If you have a website with some kind of Alabama roots and would like >me to consider listing your page, please email me your URL so I can take a >look. > >Sorry to those you who were at the chat last night--I didn't get the session >recorded ahead of time, so can't retrieve the info. If you left an email >address or other info and haven't heard back from people--please come to >another chat session and try again. > >For those interested in news from Huntsville and the North Alabama area, you >can email me or sign up for my newsletter Huntsville Highlights at: >http://huntsville.about.com/local/southeastus/huntsville/gi/pages/mmail.htm > >I hope to see you all at the chat! BTW, the chat room is open 24 hours a >day, so feel free to stop in and see if any other genealogists are in the >room or practice with a few people before the BIG events! > >Let me know if you have any questions. > >Jean Brandau >About.com guide to Huntsville AL >http://huntsville.about.com >email: huntsville.guide@about.com > > > > > >==== ALABAMA Mailing List ==== >Alabama help! http://www.rootsweb.com/~algenweb/index.html >Alabama Sites! http://www.stategensites.com/ >

Hi All, Does anyone have the 1860 census CD's for Blount, Macon, Montgomery or Walker counties? I'm looking for James WADE, my ggrandfather, who was b. ab 1857 AL. >From the census index I have the following possibilities: Blount Co. AL J. H. Wade P. 116 Township Eastern Subdivivison Macon Co. AL J. W. Wade P. 836 Township Auburn Montgomery Co. AL J. M. Wade P. 213 Township Montgomery Walker Co. AL James Wade P. 791 Township Western Div. Any help with finding James WADE, his parents, siblings, etc would be greatly appreciated. Eldon Wade ewade@cfl.rr.com

Here is an announcement I'm passing on: -----Original Message----- >Just a reminder that we'll have our weekly genealogy chat Monday night from >9:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. (Central time) at: >http://huntsville.about.com/local/southeastus/huntsville/mpchat.htm > >Everyone is welcome--so tell your friends or post on your Alabama (and >Tennesse, too!) genealogy list. We helped a few folks with some brick walls >last week......YOU could be the next one we help. > >If you have a resource book--marriage, cemetery, census, etc.--or any >CD's--Family TreeMaker, Census, marriages, etc.--and will be attending >tomorrow and willing to help with lookups, please email me so I can announce >them ahead of time. > >I'll still have the Maple Hill Cemetery book (Madison County) and the >Jackson County marriage books. > >Hope to see you Monday night! > >Jean Brandau >About.com guide to Huntsville AL >http://huntsville.about.com >email: huntsville.guide@about.com > > > >==== ALABAMA Mailing List ==== >** Use your subject line wisely! Place surnames, locations and dates there whenever possible! >

Dear Alabama Genealogical Enthusiast, We are pleased to announce the availability of the Historical Atlas of Alabama, Volume II: Cemetery Locations by County. The atlas may be purchased as a single volume covering all 67 counties, or on a county by county basis. If you choose to purchase individual counties, we will also include material from the Historical Atlas of Alabama, Volume I: Historical Locations by County. Individual counties will be comb-bound and customized for each order. The price structure is as follows: For County by County Material: $5.00 for the first county $3.00 for each additional county Entire Volume: $60.00 Note: If your interests exceed 19 counties, it would be more economical to purchase the $60.00 volume. All prices include shipping and handling. You may read more about our book on our web site: http://www.as.ua.edu/geography/cart_lab/. Our printable order form is available at: http://www.as.ua.edu/geography/cart_lab/order.htm. Regards, Craig Remington

Sarah Elizabeth Clemmons b. abt. 1814 Kentucky, d. 1865 Mt. Hope, Ala. m. Pleasant Washington McVay b. April 2, 1813 Lawrence County, Ala.? m. July 18, 1833 Lawrence County, Ala. d. Jan. 22, 1895 Mt Hope, Ala. Children: William Sterlin McVay b. Jan. 15, 1843 d. Nov. 18, 1908 Birmingham, Ala. Neomi McVay b. May 27, 1839 d. in Waco, Texas Other children died early (1844-46) & James McVay, no date. Would like any information on the parents of Sarah Elizabeth Clemmons and Pleasant Washington McVay. Elizabeth Quillen b. Nov. 4, 1817 in Tenn. d. Feb. 23, 1876 m. Hugh McWilliams b. Nov. 12, 1812 Tenn. Children: John Alexander McWilliams b. March 5, 1841 in Franklin County Ala. m. Lucinda Berneta Sockwell on April, 1867 She was b. Feb. 18, 1847 in Carroll County, Ga. d. Feb. 23, 1920 in Tuscumbia, Ala. Daughter-Mattie Ellanora McWilliams b. Nov. 20, 1874 in Tuscumbia, Ala. m. William Rufus McVay b. in Mt Hope, Ala. m. Sept. 22, 1892 d. March 26, 1910. Hugh McVay b. May 9, 1746 m. Mary Fain? Daughter--Arminda R. McVay m. Bill McCarthy(William D. McCarthy) Nov. 13, 1834 in Lawrence County, Ala. Would want any information on the parents of the above relatives. Thanks, Dorothy Durden

Branchville Alabama is out US Hwy 411 between Moody and Odenville (has an Odenville zip code) information on cemeteries can be found at the Archives in Ashville (St Clair County) as St Clair has two courthouses. I also noticed the O'Shield name - I have these in my Data as allied line - research done by my late grandmother, Ethel Aramenta Dawson Liles. Descendants of Young Pickney O'Shields 1 Young Pickney O'Shields ........ 2 John Hugh O'Shields b: 12 August 1874 d: 14 June 1945 in FT PAYNE ............ +Lily Alta Mccurdy b: 13 August 1880 Jackson Co Alabama d: 18 July 1958 in Walnut Grove, Ft Payne, Dekalb, Alabama .................. 3 Roena Lillian O'Shields b: 18 May 1901 Dekalb Co, Alabama ...................... +Ed Graves .................. 3 Albert Gadberry O'Shields b: 07 August 1902 Dekalb Co, Alabama .................. 3 Granville Arthur O'Shields b: 17 February 1905 Dekalb Co, Alabama ...................... +Hettie Lou Rogers b: 24 October 1906 Dekalb Co, Alabama m: 30 June 1924 in Dekalb Co, Alabama .................. 3 Nellie Mae O'Sheilds b: 25 February 1906 Dekalb Co, Alabama ...................... +Richard Gladstone Hawkins b: 22 January 1904 Dekalb Co, Alabama m: 14 December 1930 in Dade Co, Georgia .................. 3 Not Named b: 25 September 1908 Dekalb Co, Alabama d: 06 October 1908 in Rainsville, Dekalb Co, Alabama .................. 3 Jessie Grace O'Shields b: 23 March 1910 Dekalb Co, Alabama .................. 3 Ivalene O'Shields I b: 14 May 1912 Dekalb Co, Alabama ...................... +Grady Henderson .................. 3 Elma Abner O'Shields b: 19 December 1914 d: 19 September 1916 in RAINSVILLE, A .................. 3 Ozella R O'Shields b: 14 February 1916 Dekalb Co, Alabama ...................... +Albert William Browder b: 24 October 1911 Dekalb Co, Alabama m: 05 January 1935 .................. 3 Opal L O'Shields b: 18 February 1919 Dekalb Co, Alabama d: 02 December 1923

My relatives would drive to Montgomery, Ala. stopping in Prattville to see my Great Grandfather, William Sterlin McVay (b. 1843) 2nd wife, Cattie O Smith, Cattie Merritt, and Catherin. She was born in 1847 in Autauga County, Ala. She married Sterlin on March 23, 1876 at Mrs. Merritt's residence. William Sterlin McVay was born in Mt Hope, Ala. I wish I knew how they met. My line, Durden-McVay-McWilliams. Maybe Merritt. After Sterlin died in 1908, Cattie moved back to Prattville and worked at a "Women's Rest Area". Her sister, Lille M. Smith. Does anyone know of Durden, McVay or McWilliams family? Dorothy Durden

Peggy Sue, There are a couple of places that cemetery rosters: http://members.aol.com/GenWebLisa/stclrcem.htm and ALGenWeb at:http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/alabama.html The Birmingham Public Library has genealogy info on their web page and they have 2 volumes on AL cemeteries for sale Check their pag. Good hunting! E. D.

Hi Peggy, I got this response when I asked a similar question. > Just this afternoon there have been some inquiries as to the cemetery book > that has been done by the University of Alabama Geography Dept. The book > is available for $60.00 or you can purchase a county for $5.00. It is only > a listiing of the cemeteries withi a county - does not give the persons > buried in each one. If that were true of the book, we would have 67 > volumes. > > You may contact the Geography Dept. at http://www.as.ua.edu/geography > > Volume I that they did is the Historical Atlas of Alabama, Historical > Locations by County. I highly recommend this book and I am sure that the > cemetery book will prove to be just as valuable. > > Sybil N. Phillips (I saw your query on both the Alabama and Jefferson County lists. Did you send it to the St. Clair County list?) Bill Allen (Sheer-Luck Holmes) A RootsWeb Sponsor Peggy Sue Gaddis wrote: > I do know that Branchville is in St. Clair Co., but I thought maybe some one may have a list of Cemetery's of the area. And if they have a list of cemetery's they may have lists of the people buried there. > I am hunting a Joe or a Joseph Gaddis born in 1898 and died around 1910. He also had a Grandfather of the same name I am still hunting. > > Thanks > > Peggy Sue O'Shields-Gaddis

Has anyone done any research on Jacob and Elizabeth Nabours who were in Jefferson County, AL in the 1830s/1840s? I'm trying to locate a list of their children if possible, and anything else about them. I'm trying to determine they might be the parents of my Classinda Nabours who married Joseph M. Alexander, as they are living next door to Elizabeth for the 1840 census. I think that Jacob must have died between 1830 and 1840. _IF_ Jacob and Elizabeth were the parents of Classinda, they may have come to AL from SC, as later censuses give her birthplace as SC. I have the following on Jacob and Elizabeth: ---- 1830 census Jefferson Co., AL, p. 164: Nabours, Jacob 2 m 10-15 1 m 40-50 1 f <5 1 f 5-10 2 f 15-20 1 f 30-40 ---- 1840 census, Jefferson Co., AL, p. 205, line 26: Nabours, Elizabeth 1 m 20-30 1 f 5-10 1 f 10-15 1 f 15-20 1 f 40-50 ---- (deed record info?) from _Alabama Records Vol. 18_ (Gandrud), p. 27 "p. 265. Jacob Nabors (x) and his wife Elizabeth Nabors (x) to John M. McMorrough. 15 Nov 1724." (Her 1724 must be a typo?!) I would appreciate hearing anything anyone might have on them. Thanks in advance for any help... Melanie mealex@spindle.net

I do know that Branchville is in St. Clair Co., but I thought maybe some one may have a list of Cemetery's of the area. And if they have a list of cemetery's they may have lists of the people buried there. I am hunting a Joe or a Joseph Gaddis born in 1898 and died around 1910. He also had a Grandfather of the same name I am still hunting. Thanks Peggy Sue O'Shields-Gaddis

Hello from New York: I'm reasearching my father who was born in Jefferson County. He was Allen Bozeman, born in 1912, his mothers name was Stella Bennett, also of Jefferson County, 1892, I'm not sure of my grandfathers name. Any help would be appreciated. Allen

This is my first time posting to this list. My Loring and Klein families both lived in and around Jefferson Co. I have information on the Lorings that I will be happy to share and would like to correspond with others on that line and these connecting lines Nebrig, Covey, Fulghum, Macke, Brown, Kilpatrick and Yester The Kleins are still a mystery. John Klein married Teresa Mader His parents are unknown. Their children are Annie Klein married Ed Woods John Klein married Mary Etta Bender or Pender Lena Klein married Walter McHale Katherine Klein married Joseph Loring William born abt 1878 but I know nothing else John Frank died at about age 26 Elizabeth died at 2 months of age Penny Loring Johnson ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

I am looking for information on Bush Cemetery. My aunt, who died as an infant, is buried there. I called the City of Irondale Library to see if they had any information on this cemetery, but they didn't. According to the maps I have, I think it's located off Montevallo Road, just north of Interstate 20. I would like to contact somebody who is in charge of cemetery, or somebody who takes care of it. Or, if anybody has info on this cemetery, or would be willing to look for info, please contact me. Thanks. Bryant Altizer Christiansburg, VA

I am new to the list, and I haven't seen too many messages on this list. I am researching the HOPKINS surname. My grandfather was Berry Bryant Hopkins. He lived much of his early years in Irondale. Both my mother and her sister were born there. I have been looking for information on my great grandfather for almost three years now. His name was L. E. Hopkins. The "E" possibly stood for Elmas. L.E. was married to Emma Ann Lackey. If anybody could help me out with any of this, I would surely appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Bryant Altizer Christiansburg, VA

Alabama African American Genealogy Would like you to make a Contribution. We are in need of a list of African American Churches for all Counties. If you can help please E-mail alabama_apoc@yahoo.com