I'm sorry, I don't have information on the Cardiff Cemetery, but would be interested to know parents and siblings of Oscar Cook buried there, born September 29, 1877. Thanks, Karen Smith ALJEFFER-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > ALJEFFER-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 125 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [ALJEFFER] Highsmith Carroll and L [DReece1952@aol.com] > #2 [ALJEFFER] Cardiff, Alabama [Mulkin <mulkin@midwest.net>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from ALJEFFER-D, send a message to > > ALJEFFER-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [ALJEFFER] Highsmith Carroll and Liles families in Alabama > Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 16:27:41 EST > From: DReece1952@aol.com > To: ALJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > > Madison (Matt) Liles was son of William L Liles and Martha Ann Shows/Schaus. > Sarah (Sallie) was daughtre of Elizabeth Caroline (Caroline) Carroll and > Daniel Highsmith - possibly William Daniel Highsmith. Caroline married James > Jefferson Davis sometime after 1863. Matt and Sallie moved around and raised > their family all over south Alabama. Have not proved the connection but > there is a Daniel Highsmith buried in Confederate Cemetery in Atlanta Ga > > I have pictures of Matt and Sallie and of Caroline Carroll Highsmith Davis. > Matt and Sallie are buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery Alabama - I > think in the Shows/Schaus family plot > > 1 Madison Arnold Liles b: 02 September 1854 Butler Co, Alabama > d: 22 September 1904 in Coffee Co, Alabama > .. +Sarah Elizabeth Highsmith b: 11 March 1860 Meridian, Lauderdale > County, Mississippi m: 08 May 1879 Montgomery Co, Alabama d: 09 November > 1926 in Birmingham, Jefferson Co, Alabama at home of daughter, Alice Liles > Bearden > 2 [1] William Daniel Liles b: 19 January 1880 Montgomery, Montgomery > County, Alabama d: 24 May 1953 in Trussville, Jefferson Co, Alabama > .. +Gertrude (M Or V) Hawkins b: 18 August 1855 m: 28 June 1903 d: 20 > November 1910 > *2nd Wife of [1] William Daniel Liles: > .. +Birdie Lee Keith b: 21 October 1892 Argo, Jefferson Co, Alabama > m: 1911 d: 15 September 1990 > 2 Nellie Eugenia Liles b: 12 August 1882 Coffee County, Alabama > > d: 01 July 1957 in Birmingham, Jefferson Co, Alabama on a Monday morning at > 8:55am > .. +Albert Loveless b: 16 March 1888 m: 06 July 1919 27 St Church > Bham d: in Birmingham, Jefferson Co, Alabama > 2 Carrie Sophronia Liles b: 03 May 1886 Montgomery County, Alabama > > d: 16 January 1949 in Mobile, Alabama > .. +Daniel Cullum Robbins b: 04 August 1889 m: 19 June 1909 > Montgomery Alabama > 2 Bessie Lenoar Liles b: 03 April 1890 Defuniak Springs, Florida > d: 11 December 1913 in Columbus, Georgia in a hospital > .. +Mancy Louie Barbaree m: 23 September 1909 Montgomery Alabama > 2 Arthur Louis Liles b: 15 July 1892 The White House, Old Poor House > Road, Troy, Pike Co, Alabama d: 01 December 1976 in Birmingham, > Jefferson Co, Alabama > .. +Ethel Aramenta Dawson b: 13 January 1903 near Oxmoor Road Homewood > AL m: 05 March 1923 Birmingham, Jefferson Co, Alabama d: 21 February 1985 > in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama > 2 Festus Uriah Liles b: 21 June 1895 Troy, Pike Co, Alabama d: 18 > December 1958 in Birmingham, Jefferson Co, Alabama at 11:50pm > .. +Maude Ophelia Stubbs b: 25 October 1896 Macedonia, Montgomery > County, Alabama m: 20 March 1916 Montgomery Alabama d: 05 February 1982 in > Jefferson County, Alabama > 2 Alice Grace Liles b: 08 May 1898 The White House, Old Poor House > Road, Troy, Pike Co, Alabama d: 05 November 1975 in Birmingham, > Jefferson County, Alabama > .. +Edward Cross Bearden b: 27 October 1892 m: 21 July 1917 > Birmingham Jefferson Co Alabama d: 14 April 1974 in Birmingham, Jefferson Co, > Alabama > 2 [2] Highsmith Liles b: 22 January 1901 in the new house, Troy, Pike > County, Alabama d: 09 April 1966 in Saturday morning at 1:30am > .. +Elizabeth Unknown b: Maryland > *2nd Wife of [2] Highsmith Liles: > .. +Helen Kleeshynska m: 01 December 1935 Atlanta Georgia > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [ALJEFFER] Cardiff, Alabama > Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 20:38:40 -0600 > From: Mulkin <mulkin@midwest.net> > To: ALJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > > I'm working on the history of the town of Cardiff, in NW Jefferson County. > If anyone has any contacts or information, I'd be pleased to hear from you. > > There are several graves at the cemetery that I have not been able to > identify. I'm listing them here in hopes that someone will recognise a > family connection. Martha Mulkin > > ---------------------- > William Allen, born 1901, died 1902, son of W. & C. Allen > > Geigel Barnes, born Aug 2, 1901, died Feb 4, 1903. No parents listed on > stone, which is very elaborate with the following epitaph: > The little babe has gone to rest > To reign with God, forever blest > But could we see its smiling face > Or hear it's little tongue > How sweetly it sings the heavenly songs > > Frederick Caygill, born July 1, 1897 in Byesville, Ohio, died Sept 18, 1906 > in Nebo, Alabama > > Clara Chagnot, born July 7, 1898, died March 31, 1906, daughter of Marie > Chagnot > There is a marriage record in Jeff. Co. for Mrs Marie Barrical and Victor > Chagnot, March 29, 1895 > > Oscar E Cook, born Sept 29, 1877, died June 3, 1904 > Horace Cook, born Aug 2, 1903, died Aug 7, 1904, son of O. E. and I. E. Cook > > James Findlay, born Jan 12, 1838, died March 31, 1911 > Jane McConnachie Findlay, born c1841, died Feb. 23, 1903, age 62 years, > wife of James > This family in 1900 census, 4 living children, none at home > > Arthur Hewlett, born Feb 3, 1900, died Jan 2, 1902, son of J. F. and A. M. > Hewlett > There is a marriage record in Jeff. Co. for J. F. Hewlett and Agnes May > Parsons at Coaldale on Sept. 10, 1893 > > Robert A. Long, born Sept 20, 1899, died Aug 23, 1900, son of H. L. and > Maggie Long > > Laura Josie Patton, born 1902, died 1903 > > Anna Petras, born Oct 1, 1893, died March 1, 1894, daughter of M. & A. Petras > Mike Petras, born Jan 18, 1894,, died Sept 24, 1896, son of M. & A. Petras > (this is the way the dates read) on back of stone it says parents buried > in Brookside Cemetery > > Agnes Findley Ross, born Jan 1, 1849, died Sept 27, 1900, wife of A. J. Ross > This family is in 1900 census, Alexander and Agnes Ross, children, George, > Agnes J., Edna E. > > George Smith, born c1849, died Nov 14, 1892, age 43 years, born Wiltshire, > England > > Thomas Tweedie, born Ayshire Scotland, died Feb. 10, 1897 > > mulkin@midwest.net