Hi, Alabama Marriages Before 1825 includes over a dozen counties including Lauderdale. We have added many marriages to this database this week. Stop by and take a peek for your Alabama ancestors. Alabama Marriages Before 1825: http://www.imagin.net/~tracers/alabama_marriages_before_1825.htm As seen in Worldwide Top 100 Genealogy Sites: http://www.worldwide-top100.net/tops5/rankem.cgi?action=in&id=tracer Happy Searchin' Brenda

Hi, I have a page with many free items of interest to genealogists. Stop by and see what you can use. Freebies for Genealogists: http://www.imagin.net/~tracers/freebies.htm As seen in Worldwide Top 100 Genealogy Sites (over 600 links now!) http://www.worldwide-top100.net/tops5/rankem.cgi?action=in&id=tracer Also, visit Alabama Marriages Before 1825 which includes Bibb County marriages. http://www.imagin.net/~tracers/alabama_marriages_before_1825.htm Happy Searchin' Brenda

Replying To: Subject: Re: [TNMCNAIR] McNairy Roots: Springer, Huggins, Robertson Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:42:31 EDT From: RAY58919@aol.com i have been researching the huggins clan along with two cousins for the last several years. my great grandfather was john felix huggins. i have gotten info on jasper and tabitha,but have been unable to tie them to my huggins family. my g-grandfather is buried in coker cemetary in cooke county, tx as is a lot of other huggins. i am going there sometime this year to try and assimilate some of the names and maybe find out where this family started from. it was my understanding they came over from ireland during the potato famine, but i am not sure i would be glad to share any info i have, but the other names you mentioned don't mean anything to me. sandi in tampa: Sandi, (also McNairy, Hardin, Wayne Co., list in TN and Lauderdale Co., list in AL - please read as lines are from there also) My HUGGINS line is Thomas Huggins (1803) who married Nancy ENGLISH in Lauderdale Co., AL 25 Feb 1823. Nancy English was the daughter of Matthew & Dicey English. Thomas & Nancys' daughter Nancy Elizabeth Huggins married Henry Frederick (Erwin) Michael (1830TN), son of David (1793NC) & Catherine (1793NC) Michael. Henry Frederick and Nancy (Huggins) Michael son Henry Newton Michael (12 Jul 1859-18 Dec 1907) married 22 Jun 1879 Hardin Co., TN to Sarah Catherine Qualls (Feb 1855-1929). Nancy (Huggins) Michael, Henry and Sarah are all buried at Fielder Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN. Henry Newton and Sarah (Qualls) Michaels' son James Gilford Michael (16 Oct 1894-23 Dec 1966) married on 19 Oct 1913 in Hardin Co., TN to Nishie Lee Florence White (30 May 1895-27 Dec 1938) . Both buried at Whites Creek Cem., Hardin Co., TN. Nishie was the daughter of Hiram/Highram White (May 1860 Wayne Co., TN) and Mary Florence? Rainey (1854AL). Hiram and Mary married 13 Feb 1877 Wayne Co., TN. Hiram was the son of Mitchell/Michael White (1831 KY/TN) and Sariah S. White* (1834TN). I am at a dead end on parents of Mary Rainey! James Gilford and Nishie (White) Michaels' daughter Mary Catherine Michael (17 Aug 1914-24 Jan 1996) married George Lewis Cossey (29 Aug 1910- 8 Apr 1975). Both buried at Whites Creek Cem., Hardin Co., TN. George Lewis Cossey was the son of William Houston Cossey and Elizabeth Freshour. William was the son of John H. G. Cossey and LuVicey Austin. Elizabeth was the daughter of Samuel (Mack) David Freshour and Jossie Austin. LuVicey and Jossie both descend from the Austin, Qualls and Lamb families in Hardin Co., TN so more on them later to the Hardin Co., list alone. This is kinda like a roll call for me, and if anyone connects to or is researching any of the lines above or any lines that tie into those listed please contact me at genmaster@mindspring.com. Also please visit http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7578 to check out about 23,000 names out of my home database of 80,000 names. (It is a little out of date but my mothers death has slowed down my research, needing to take care of her affairs) By the way, The MICHAEL side of the family is on my fathers side of the family. Also, Henry Newton Michaels' brother Thomas Leander settled in McNairy Co., TN. My MOTHER purchased a house from the estate of Mansel Michael who was a grandson of Thomas Leander Michael in McNairy Co., Sept of 99 and she died in Dec 99. She purchased the house in her name and mine. Now I own the house that is only 20 miles from where my ancestors have been since 1830. I have been doing genealogy for 30 years and I wondered if that a way someone up above meant for me to continue my research? Debbie Cossey Wasserburger Huntsville, AL

Posted on: Lauderdale Co. Al Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Al/Lauderdale?read=89 Surname: Parrish, Terrell ------------------------- Researching Parrish and Terrell surname from Lauderdale County, Alabama.

Posted on: Lauderdale Co. Al Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Al/Lauderdale?read=87 Surname: KING ------------------------- >From the book, History of Florence, Alabama with 1850 Census of Lauderdale County, Alabama by Jill K. Garrett, on page C-95, there is a GILFORD D. King Household # 272. In this household is: GILFORD D. King-age 60-born NC-farmer Selfa-age 56-NC Sousan Cox-age 11-Ala. Also, from the book, Lauderdale County, Alabama, 1860 Census and Civil War Records edited by Shirley Hollis Rice on page 169, there is a G.D. King Household # 480. In this household is: G.D. King-age 71-farmer-NC Zilpha-66-NC Susan Coke-31-Ala. All spellings here are as they appear in the above mentioned books. Does anyone know who the Sousan Cox-age 11-born Ala. is in the 1850 census with GILFORD D. King. Also, does anyone know who the Susan Coke-age 31-Ala. is in the 1860 census with G.D. King? I assume they are one and the same, but the ages differ quite a bit. Is the last name Cox or Coke and how is she connected to Gilford King? Thanks. Judy

Hello List, This is an advisory that a book of North Alabama Unionist Families will be ready for publishing by late summer. If you have a UNION family which you wish to have featured, please contact me. Joel Mize (elder brother of Clay Mize, Florence) - CW era researcher with 28,000 name database of North Alabama; I'll be visiting Florence area during May 14-16.

I just found that my G-G-G-grandparents deeded land to a Wesly Chapel Methodist Church for a "burying ground". Their names are Hiram and Eve Hipp Rhodes. Can anyone out there fill me in on any more details about the Rhodes family while in Alabama. Rick Rhodes Clifton, Texas

Hi Lauderdale County, I need someone to look up a reference for me next time you're at the Laud.Co. Courthouse if someone please would. When I was there on one of my trips to Florence, I looked up a record for someone and made several copies. Unfortunately I failed to write the Source on one of the copies so when I sent it out he had no idea where this paper came from. So, could someone when you can, no big rush, look up the Martha Harwell estate record and see what it's locatioin is in the Courthouse....book whatever page whatever...... THANKS SO MUCH! Nancy Lovelace Gooch p.s. I am coming to Florence this summer to SEARCH and I am so excited about coming up there. It has been awhile. I also hope to get up to Giles County, TN.

Hello List, This is an advisory that a book of North Alabama Unionist Families will be ready for publishing by late summer. If you have a UNION family which you wish to have featured, please contact me. Joel Mize - CW era researcher with 28,000 name database of North Alabama

Hello List I am posting the following in hope it may help someone. I imported it into my FTM file in 1998 ,genealogy on a different surname that was from one of my husbands lines. The following names are not our direct line ,but an allied family , to one of his other direct surnames .I only found them today when searching for a McBride in our line .When I typed in the search and it showed me 2 matching names and this is how I found this other MCBRIDE line in my files. Hope it will help someone . Jo McBride djm@etex.net Descendants of Sherwood McBride Generation No. 1 1. SHERWOOD1 MCBRIDE1 was born June 24, 18021, and died 18621. He married CATHERINE STEWART1. Child of SHERWOOD MCBRIDE and CATHERINE STEWART is: 2. i. JAMES2 MCBRIDE, b. January 10, 1827, Lauderdale County, Alabama. Generation No. 2 2. JAMES2 MCBRIDE (SHERWOOD1)1 was born January 10, 1827 in Lauderdale County, Alabama1. He married DELILA DEATON1 May 11, 18481, daughter of JOHN DEATON. Child of JAMES MCBRIDE and DELILA DEATON is: 3. i. THOMAS JEFF3 MCBRIDE, b. May 02, 1851, Hunt County, Texas; d. March 22, 1913, Van Zandt County, Texas. Generation No. 3 3. THOMAS JEFF3 MCBRIDE (JAMES2, SHERWOOD1)1 was born May 02, 1851 in Hunt County, Texas1, and died March 22, 1913 in Van Zandt County, Texas1. He married LEEANNA WILABAY1 August 22, 19111

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More information on Mississippi History - Enjoy, and feel free to delete if not interested, or pass on if you like. . . . Ginny Walker English Perry, Lamar, Forrest Cos, MSGenWeb Source: Enclyopedia of Mississippi History, Vol. II L-Z, Southern Historical Publishing Association, Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions ad Persons; Planned and edited by Dunbar Rowland, LL. D., Director Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Member American Historical Association, 1907. WAR WITH CREEKS, 1813-14 - MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY The sanguinary struggle known as the Creek War of 1813 and 1814, took place in what is now southern Alabama, but was then the eastern part of Mississippi Territory. It formed, as it were, a stirring side issue to the greater conflict then raging - the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States. Begun by the war party of the Creeks in the effort to crush and large and growing settlements of white pioneers along the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, it developed into a war, almost of extermination, against the Creeks themselves. The Creeks ranked first in military prowess and political sagacity among the tribes of Southern Indians forming the great Choctaw-Muscogee family. Their famous political Confederacy had its origin in remote times, embracing numerous subjugated tribes, as well as fugitive tribes that had applied to the Creek nation for protection. At the time of the war the region embraced by the Creek Confederacy extended from the Oconee River in Georgia to the Alabama River. Indeed, the western members of the Confederacy, the Alibamos, claimed to the banks of the Tombigbee. The country of the Upper Creeks lay along the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers, and that of the Lower Creeks along the Chattachoochee. Most of the Upper Creek towns (with which are included the Alibamos), were hostile to the Americans, while the Lower Creeks, strongly influenced by the government agent, Col. Hawkins, were for the most part friendly. Before it ended, the war was waged by the Creeks to maintain their homes, their hunting grounds, their burial places and the land of their ancestors, and the Indians fought with a desperation that "has hardly a precedent in Indian contests." For nearly ten months this powerful Confederacy was able to offer a successful resistance to trained American soldiers, and even jeopardized the very existence of the pioneer white settlements along the Mobile, Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. The Creeks appear to have had at this time about fifty towns and some 10,000 members, including the women and children. The white settlements embraced about 2,000 whites, and a nearly equal number of blacks, and were thinly scattered along the western banks of the Mobile and Tombigbee for more than seventy miles, while they extended nearly seventy-five miles upon the eastern borders of the Mobile and Alabama. It is difficult to conceive the almost complete isolat5ion of these white settlements; on their south were the Spaniards; on the east, separating them from Georgia; were the Creeks; on the west was the broad country of the Choctaws, between them and older white settlements at the Natchez and the Yazoo; and on the north were the Creeks and Chickasaws, dividing them from the settlements in the bend of the Tennessee river. Many causes had combined to draw the whites to this region at an early period, and the French, British and Spanish had all made treaties with the Indians which opened up the country. The policy of the United States when it came into control of the Mississippi Territory was sufficiently aggressive. March 28, 1797, Washington made a treaty with the Creeks by which t6he nation ceded lands for government trading posts, and Col. Benjamin Hawkins was shortly after appointed government agent among the Creeks. May 5, 1799, American troops from Natchez, under Lt. John McClary, marched across Mississippi and occupied St. Stephens. A few weeks later, these troops moved south and built Fort Stoddert at Wards Bluff, a few miles above the boundary line between the Spanish province of West Florida and the American territory of Mississippi; it was three miles below the junction of the Alabama and Tombigbee, and about 50 miles above Mobile. In 1802 a treaty was made with the Choctaws and a tract of land was ceded to the United States, which is said to have called forth this protest from "Mad Wolf," a Creek chief: "The people of Tombigbee have put over their cattle in the Fork of the Alibamo hunting grounds and have gone a great way on our lands. I want them put back. WE all know they are Americans." In 1805 some thirty Creek chiefs and warriors, then in Washington, through pressure brought o bear upon them there, had taken on themselves the right to cede the use of a horse path through the Creek country; and the same year the Choctaws, by the treaty of Mt. Dexter, ceded 5,000,000 acres of their land to the united States, which embraced the Creek claim west of the watershed. In 1811, the grant of a "horse path" became the much used Federal Road, which was cut from a point on the Chattahoochee river to Mims' Ferry on the Alabama, and the Creeks were much stirred up by the constant stream of white emigrants moving to the western settlements from the Atlantic seaboard. The white settlements tended to encroach more and more on the Alibamo hunting grounds. In the fall of 1811, or he spring of 1812, came from the North the persuasive and eloquent chief, Tecumseh, to the Creeks assembled at Tookabatcha. Tecumseh was making the grand circuit of the Indian tribes, and he made every effort to induce the Southern Indians to join his great confederacy, urging that "the Creeks could thus recover all the country that the whites had taken from them; and what the British would protect them in their rights." His efforts, followed by those of his prophet emissaries, aroused a war spirit among the Creeks before which the friendly Indians fled for safety. The great trade center of the Spaniards was at Pensacola; they looked with growing disfavor on these river settlements. The Indians were constantly coming and going among them, and the Spaniards took great pains to stir them to further discontent. After the War of 1812, the British exerted all their influence to provoke the Indians to hostilities. The great exciting cause of the Creek war is thus seen to be "the large and growing settlements of white pioneers along the Tombigbee and the Alabama rivers. Encroachments upon the Indian hunting grounds and rights were of necessity made. The great wagon road was an encroachment; the presence of so many white families with their cattle and hogs and horses was an encroachment. It needed not Tecumseh's stirring words to assure them that they must before long give up their Indian life, cultivate the ground, and accept the white man's civilization; or they must migrate; or they must break up this settlement of sturdy frontier families on their western borders. Their proposed attempt thus to do, encouraged by the Spaniards, by Tecumseh and the British, brought on the disastrous Creek War." (The Creek War, Halbert and Ball.) It is in evidence that the Creeks, in July 1813, endeavored to persuade the Choctaws at Pushmataha (in present Choctaw County, Alabama), to join them in a war against the whites, but were unsuccessful, as Tecumseh had been before them. The white were aware of the growing war spirit, and were further alarmed by occasional outrages perpetrated by the Indians against white settlers, such as the abduction of Mrs. Crawley from her home near the mouth of the Tennessee river and afterwards bravely rescued by "the daring backwoodsman," Tandy Walker, and brought to St. Stephens. Alarmed by the rising war cloud, the settlers on the Mobile and Tensaw and the Alabama and Tombigbee, hastily improvised a line of stockades or forts, which stretched across the neck of Clarke county from river to river. Altogether there were in the summer of 1813 some twenty of these so-called forts, including those erected at an earlier day such as Fort St. Stephens, Fort Stoddert, Fort Madison and the two forts and U. S. arsenal at Mount Vernon. Farther west, in what is now Wayne County, miss., were also Patton's Fort at Winchester and Roger's Fort, six miles above. Gen. Wilkinson and a force of United States troops had captured Mobile in April and a force of United States troops had captured Mobile in April 1813 and here was the fine old Fort Charlotte, built by the French and now manned by an American garrison; also the new Fort Bowyer, built by the Americans at the mouth of the Mobile Bay. As the alarm spread, plantations were deserted, and refugees filled the forts. Ill-fated Fort Mims was situated on the east side of the Alabama, a short distance below the "cut off," and about a quarter of a mile from the Tensaw boat Yard. According to the historian Pickett, there were in this fort or stockade in August 1813, 553 human beings, made up of white settlers, a few Spaniards, colored people, and half-breeds; of these 265 were soldiers, including 70 home militia commanded by Capt. Dixon Bailey, a detachment from Mount Vernon under Lieut. Osborn, and 175 Mississippi volunteers under Major Daniel Beasley. Major Beasley was in general command of the fort. General F. L. Claiborne, with a force of regulars, was in command at Fort Stoddert and Mount Vernon; Col. Joseph Carson was the military commander between the Tombigbee and Alabama; Col. James Caller, of Washington county, was the senior militia officer on the frontier; Gen. Wilkinson had been ordered to the Canadian border, and Gen. Flournoy succeeded him in general command of the Southwest at Mobile and New Orleans. In July 1813, news came that a force of hostile Creeks led by Peter McQueen had gone to Pensacola to obtain arms and ammunition from Governor Manique. On receipt of this information, Col. Caller, at St. Stephens, raised a force of about 180 militia, mounted and armed, and intercepted the Indians, or at least a portion of them, at Burnt Corn on July 27. The whites were poorly organized and disciplined, and though they surprised the Indians and gained an initial success, they were ultimately routed with loss and completely dispersed. The worst feature of this first battle was the loss of white prestige which followed, and it was at once followed by more serious depredations on the part of the Indians, including the terrible massacre at Fort Mims. It is only fair to say that neither Col. Hawkins, the government agent living among the Creeks, nor Gen. Flournoy, who was doubtless, influenced by the former, believed that the war party in the Creek nation would prevail. Hence we even find Flournoy writing Gen. Claiborne August 10, 1813, after the Fort Mims' affair, "You wish to penetrate into the Indian country, with a view of commencing the war, does not meet my approbation, and I again repeat, our operations must be confined to defensive measures." It is the belief of many candid historians such as Halbert, that strict adherence to the policy of Gen. Flournoy, would have prevented the disasters at Burnt Corn and Fort Mims, and very possibly have prevented a serious war at all. Says Brewer: "The savages highly incensed at the attack on them at Burnt Corner, July 27, 1813, resolved to avenge themselves on the Tensaw and Tombigbee settlers." Thus one vengeance succeeded another. The following account of the events succeeding Burnt Corn is abridged from Hamilton's excellent chapter on the Creek War: "It was at noon on the 30th of August, while dancing was going on; and a Negro was about to be whipped for giving what was deemed a false alarm of Indians coming, that McQueen and Weatherford and their thousand savages dashed through the open gate of the palisade surrounding the house of Samuel Mims on the Tensaw. Major Beasley redeemed his carelessness by dying sword in hand, and the noble half-breed Dixon bravely led on the whites in defense of the women and children. But the odds were too great, and at least fire aided the butchery by the savages. Even Bailey was mortally wounded, and hardly two dozen escaped of the five hundred and fifty men, women, and children in that stockaded acre of ground. God's acre it was, for, when a relief corps came, it was only to find ashes, and mangled and burning dead. Neighboring Fort Pierce was abandoned during the battle and Lieutenant Montgomery led its people to Mobile; while, among other fugitives from Fort Mims, David Tate and some of his family escaped with the two Pierces on a flatboat down to Fort Stoddert." The tragedy enacted at Fort Mims aroused the whole country and steps were at once taken to invade the Creek country from the north, west and east, and with the purpose of annihilating the Creeks as a nation. Chiefly through the efforts of Capt. George S. Gaines and Col. McKee, the friendly cooperation of the Choctaws and Chickasaws was secured, and a battalion of about 150 Choctaw warriors, under Pushmataha, fought with Gen. Claiborne at the Holy Ground. Later in the war, another force of 43 warriors, commanded by Pushmataha, with Moshulitubbee as second in command, formed part of Maj. Blue's detachment, and materially aided in bringing the war to a close; indeed, the whole record of the Choctaw warriors throughout the war was an honorable one and showed the nation was truly loyal to the United States. Inflamed by the news from Fort Mims, Andrew Jackson and his brigade of mounted volunteers came down from Nashville, Tenn., and joined by Cherokees, and friendly Creeks, "captured Tallesehatche, founded Fort Strother, and on Nov. 9 (1813) won the battle of Talladega . . . From the east, too, the Georgians under Floyd defeated the Creeks at Autose, but had to retire from lack of provisions. General Claiborne fortunately construed the "defense of mobile" broadly, and in November 1813, from the west he also marched into enemy territory. Above the site of the Canoe fight (where Nov. 12, 1813 Sam Dale, Jeremiah Austill and James Smith engaged in their daring hand to hand conflict with nine Indians and slew them one by one), Fort Claiborne at Weatherford's Bluff was built as a base of supplies, and his square fort can still be traced on the bluff of the Alabama river. His objective was Econachaca, the Holy Ground, on a bluff of the Alabama in what is now Lowndes County. It had been built by Weatherford as a place of safety, where plunder was secured and white prisoners burned. Impregnable, the prophets said, but Claiborne stormed in on December 23, and drove into the water those savages who were not killed outright, for there was little quarter in this war. Weatherford himself fled, and with characteristic daring leaped his gray horse Arrow over into the river. The town was burned to the ground, after the army reserved some supplies and the plunder had been turned over to Pushmataha." This battle practically ended the participation of the Mississippi twelve months' volunteers in the Creek war, as their term of service hand ended, and Claiborne's army soon disbanded. It is not our purpose here to trace in detail the closing scenes of the war. Suffice it to say that the country of the creeks was overrun and devastated form three directions by forces from the north, east, and west. Though the Creeks fought with the courage of desperation, the struggle was too one sided and could not long endure. The great decisive battle was fought at the Horseshoe Bend of the Tallapoosa river March 27, 1814, between Jackson and his Cherokee allies, and some twelve hundred Creeks gathered here for a final stand. The battle was little more than a slaughter, and barely two hundred Creek warriors escaped alive, while the loss to the American troops was nominal. The final treaty of peace was not concluded, however, until August 9, 1814, between Jackson and the defeated Creeks. In this treaty they surrendered to the United States all their lands, except the part east of the Coosa River and of a line drawn southeastwardly from Fort Jackson (the old French Toulouse); the Creeks were forbidden all communication with British or Spanish posts; and the United States were given the right to establish military posts, roads and free navigation of waters within the territory guaranteed the Creeks. The war was fatal to the Creeks, and their formidable strength was forever broken. Source: Enclyopedia of Mississippi History, Vol. II L-Z, Southern Historical Publishing Association, Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions ad Persons; Planned and edited by Dunbar Rowland, LL. D., Director Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Member American Historical Association, 1907.

Posted on: Lauderdale Co. Al Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Al/Lauderdale?read=83 Surname: ------------------------- This is a test message to be sure that the queries posted on the Lauderdale County, AL GenConnect Query page are going to the Lauderdale County, AL mail list. As administrator of the GenConnect boards for Lauderdale County, I receive copies of all postings, to all boards for Lauderdale County, but I have not seen at least four of those posted recently come in on the mail list. If you reply to a posting that came from the GenConnect board, please use 'reply all' to be sure that the person who posted will recieve an answer. Thanks, Pat

Posted on: Lauderdale Co. Al Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Al/Lauderdale?read=80 Surname: McCarley, Slaton, Chandler, White, Snoddy ------------------------- Haven't posted in a while, but still looking for information on Thomas McCarley that married Margaret Sturgeon. The Will of Thomas McCarley #1433 probated 1839, Lauderdale County Alabama list the following minor Children. Jasper N., Robert C., John T., Eliza J., and Thomas Samuel McCarley. Thomas Samuel and Robert C. where found in Prairie County, Arkansas, by 1870 (census), Thomas Samuel McCarley married Isabelle McKendree in 1859. Would like to find any one researching this line of McCarley's or that has any information. Thanks Troy

Is this HOUSE family related in any way to the HOUSE family of Julius House and Eliza H. Eard married in Lauderdale Co., on Aug 25, 1842. I am trying to find any relatives of them to trace back my family history. Thanks, Amanda Baltz >>>Looking for descendants of John L. HOUSE who was b. 21 July 1816, prob. in Laurens Co., SC, son of Dennis W. and Sarah THORNTON HOUSE. John L. married on 31 July 1843 in Lauderdale Co., AL to Mrs. Mariah MARTIN SLATE (or STATE), widow of John T. SLATE(STATE) to whom she had married 7 Sep 1837 in Lauderdale Co., AL. John L. and Mariah HOUSE show up on the 1850 Lauderdale Co., AL census with two children: Elizabeth age 4, and Abey, age 2. On 6 July 1854 a John S. HOUSE married Lidia BLACKBURN. Is this the same man as John L. HOUSE??? Ages on the 1860 Lauderdale Co., AL census don't indicate that it is, but the age could be wrong. 1860 Lauderdale lists John HOUSE 31 b. TN Lydia 28 AL James M. 4 AL Lizzie D. 2 AL John L. 2 AL On 1870 Lauderdale, it would appear that John S. HOUSE is dead because Lidia is listed as head of household: Lyddia HOUSE, 39, AL Lizzie, 13 AL John 11, AL Pugh 8 AL Henry 7 AL. Anyone have any clues about these families? Are we talking about two separate John HOUSE's here? Edgar Edgar D. Byler, III <edby3@netease.net> Editor, Wayne County Historian, Wayne County, Tennessee, USA Co-Coordinator Wayne County TN Web Page: http://www.netease.net/wayne County Co-ordinator ALHN Wayne Co., TN page http://www.netease.net/wayne Listkeeper: WALRAVEN-L@rootsweb.com BYLER-L@rootsweb.com LINVILLE-L@rootsweb.com LENOIR-L@rootsweb.com Personal Page: http://www.netease.net/members/edby3

Looking for descendants of John L. HOUSE who was b. 21 July 1816, prob. in Laurens Co., SC, son of Dennis W. and Sarah THORNTON HOUSE. John L. married on 31 July 1843 in Lauderdale Co., AL to Mrs. Mariah MARTIN SLATE (or STATE), widow of John T. SLATE(STATE) to whom she had married 7 Sep 1837 in Lauderdale Co., AL. John L. and Mariah HOUSE show up on the 1850 Lauderdale Co., AL census with two children: Elizabeth age 4, and Abey, age 2. On 6 July 1854 a John S. HOUSE married Lidia BLACKBURN. Is this the same man as John L. HOUSE??? Ages on the 1860 Lauderdale Co., AL census don't indicate that it is, but the age could be wrong. 1860 Lauderdale lists John HOUSE 31 b. TN Lydia 28 AL James M. 4 AL Lizzie D. 2 AL John L. 2 AL On 1870 Lauderdale, it would appear that John S. HOUSE is dead because Lidia is listed as head of household: Lyddia HOUSE, 39, AL Lizzie, 13 AL John 11, AL Pugh 8 AL Henry 7 AL. Anyone have any clues about these families? Are we talking about two separate John HOUSE's here? Edgar Edgar D. Byler, III <edby3@netease.net> Editor, Wayne County Historian, Wayne County, Tennessee, USA Co-Coordinator Wayne County TN Web Page: http://www.netease.net/wayne County Co-ordinator ALHN Wayne Co., TN page http://www.netease.net/wayne Listkeeper: WALRAVEN-L@rootsweb.com BYLER-L@rootsweb.com LINVILLE-L@rootsweb.com LENOIR-L@rootsweb.com Personal Page: http://www.netease.net/members/edby3

any info on howell j taylor born 1836 in Franklin Alabama; served in the civil war married to nancy send to txamigos3@aol.com

It is now completely finished!!!! I now have listed on my website about 1300 men who served in Regiment 16th Alabama C.S.A. It lists all Companies A-K and also some unknowns. If you find a relative or person you are researching on this list please e-mail me at Walleyland@aol.com..... So far all persons who have contacted me now have their name and e-mail address listed next to that soldier. Good luck searching for your Confederate Soldier, Amanda Baltz http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~abaltz

Anyone researching the Hayes family from around Florence AL. I am looking for some one of this family. Walter Hayes b about 1930. Has a sister Galdis about 1934. Their mother was killed in Florence 1936. Her name was Bell PRINCE married John HAYES. I would like to talk to these descendents. Bell was my grandfathers only sister. He spoke very highly of her. Denise PRINCE Wilson GA.

Becky, The information you sent does tie into my McVay line. Javan McVay is Pleasant McVay's father. I have Arminda McVay as married to William McCarthy(not Arsnida). My McVays were movers, My grandparents bought and sold land, bought homes, sold and moved after staying a while. Owned several saloons in Birmingham, Ala.while they were legal. They traveled to Texas, Colorado, and Louisiana. I also have the following McVay information: Hugh McVay, Jr. (Governor) b. May 09, 1746 m. Mary LaFain b. South Carolina. Children: 1. Sally Parthernia McVay m. James Sample 2. Rebecca McVay m. Bill Hollemann 2nd. Rev. George Martin 3. Mary L. McVay m. Bobby Williamson 4. Jane McVay m. Lewis Moore 5. Arminda McVay m. Bill McCarthy 6. Hugh Breckenridge McVay m. Martha Elizabeth Morrow. Thanks again, Dorothy Durden