----- Original Message ----- From: Johnny and Sabra Sudberry To: ALMARION-L@rootsweb.com Cc: Scott & Allison Saxman Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 8:16 PM Subject: Bankhead, Terrell's papers and NW site address Thought I would reply here since I am getting several emails about the same thing, and I have a blood clot in my arm that prevents me from typing too much right now. I am not finished with the Judge's papers, I have just started. Sorry, I may not have been clear on this. The address for the NW AL Territory site is http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/alterritory It contains the sites of Pickens, Marion, Lamar, Marion, Fayette, Walker and Winston Counties, and is maintained by Allison Saxman, who is also doing the Rootsweb Lamar Co. site. Update: Bo Morris and I went back to the Bankhead/Jarrett cemetery Friday (I should have waited till I was well, but oh, well, if you can't enjoy life a little, why be here?), and uncovered many stones, but could not read anything. I felt like a few had lettering but they were almost slick they were so old. Bo said that the tombstone for the person that was born in 1815 (died 0, 1860-all we could find-marker in pieces) was that of John Bankhead who is on the 1850 Marion Co. census. He was the brother of James Greer Bankhead, and the son of George Bankhead. We could not find but the last part of the name "head". James Greer Bankhead was the father of the well-known Sen. John Hollis Bankhead (born 1842-died 1920). Bo Morris lives in the home in Sulligent that Sen. Bankhead lived in before moving to Fayette then Jasper, AL. The house that James Greer Bankhead built in 1850 still stands across the road from Bo. Other tombs we could read were those of James Whitesides' (an Orderly Sgt. who went to the Seminole Indian War in 1836) children; William Bankhead, born and died in 1842; Catherine, daughter of Solomon and Alice (Hughes) Jones. Info on Hughes from Earlie Hughes, Beaverton, yesterday. Alice was the sister of his father. Bo also said a Mr. Hamilton, lives below Gattman, grandson of Judge Terrell came to see him about 4 years ago, and said he had a sister, age 6, buried there, but they could not find it. Maybe we will turn it up. Seems like there has been a lot of vandalism to this cemetery, unfortunately. The information we get from the Bankhead/Jarrett cemetery will be posted to the NW AL site, and the Lamar Co. site (http://www.rootsweb.com/~allamar2/index.htm . I have taken several photos, and hope they will be on that site also. We are not finished excavating. The markers are under 3 or 4 inches of topsoil and roots. If anyone wants to help us please contact me and I will coordinate a time to get together. Thanks for all the correspondence in regards to my letters. Sabra Sudberry Jasper, AL