Hi Gary, So far as I am aware, the 1820 State Census for Lauderdale County, AL DOES NOT EXIST. If it did, it would be in the AL State Archives in Montgomery. Regards, Pat Gary Matthews wrote: > > Hi: > > I have been researching my family history for several months now, > relying primarily on the considerable resources of the Arkansas > History Commission. They do not, however, have microfilm(s) of > the 1820 Census of Lauderdale county. I was recently told that > this was a State, not Federal census. If so, where might I find > this data? In case anyone has a copy, I'm looking for the data > on a William MATTHEWS who was there in 1820 but not in 1830. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Gary Matthews > > ==== ALLAUDER Mailing List ==== > =========================Lauderdale County============================== > Pat M. Mahan > CC Lauderdale Co ALGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~allauder/index.htm > Troy McCarley > CC AlGenweb Unknown County Query Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~alunknow/index.html > McCarley Family Association > http://www.airnet.net/mccarley/index.html > McCarley Family Assoc. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/McCarley > Lauderdale County Alabama Mailing List- <ALLAUDER-L-request@rootsweb.com> > Slaton Family Mailing List-<SLATON-L-request@rootsweb.com> > > ============================== > Search more than 274 MILLION NAMES and find your ancestors at Ancestry.com! > Get started today at http://www.ancestry.com/rootswebtext.asp

Hi again: Does anyone know if there is a list of burials (or census) in Cemeteries around Waterloo that would have been in existence in the 1840's? Waterloo is in Twp. 1, Range 15W. TIA Gary Matthews

Hi: I have been researching my family history for several months now, relying primarily on the considerable resources of the Arkansas History Commission. They do not, however, have microfilm(s) of the 1820 Census of Lauderdale county. I was recently told that this was a State, not Federal census. If so, where might I find this data? In case anyone has a copy, I'm looking for the data on a William MATTHEWS who was there in 1820 but not in 1830. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Gary Matthews

--part1_c1c468e7.24f81423_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone on the list help this lady? I did not find him listed as being in the Florence City Cemetery in the 'Some Lauderdale County Alabama Cemetery Records' by Garrett & McClain (1970) In a message dated 8/26/99 7:57:40 PM, BARO CRAFT writes: << My ggrandfather is support to be buried in Florence Cemetery and the layout so forth was held in the Coffe High School in 1920. His name is John W Hall b 1863 or 1864 died in 1920. I would like to find out if there are other Hall buried there and a picture of the Coffee High School. There house was to be near by. There is a church name of First Methodist Church that he was to have been a Steward of is it still there? If so what is it address? I live in Ohio and I am not familiar with that area. We also have Florence Livery and Transfer as a business he ran. Would appreciate any information you would have if you make copies will be glad to pay you for cost, etc. Thank you Barbara Barocraft@aol.com >> --part1_c1c468e7.24f81423_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: BAROCRAFT@aol.com From: BAROCRAFT@aol.com Full-name: BARO CRAFT Message-ID: <522cee5f.24f72e74@aol.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:57:40 EDT Subject: Re: [ALLAUDER] Florence, AL cemetery To: BGoldwire@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 214 In a message dated 8/25/1999 5:30:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, BGoldwire@aol.com writes: << Coffee High School in >> My ggrandfather is support to be burried in Florence Cemtery and the layout so forth was held in the Coffe High School in 1920. His name is John W Hall b 1863 or 1864 died in 1920. I would like to finded out if there are other Hall burried there and a picture of the Coffe High School. There house was to be near by.There is a church name of First Methodist Church that he was to have been a Steward of is it still there? If so what is it addresss? I live in Ohio and I am not familar with that area.We also have Florence Livery and Transfer as a business he ran. Would appreat any infornation you would have if you make copies will be glad to pay you for cost ect. Thank you Barbara Barocraft@aol.com --part1_c1c468e7.24f81423_boundary--

Someone requested the address for a Lauderdale County genealogical society. Natchez Trace Genealogical Society P. O. 420 Florence, AL 35360

Hello Gary, There is no 1800 [area was not part of U. S., although claimed by GA] or 1810 or 1820 census for Lauderdale Co AL. [The 1820 census records that do exist for AL are STATE rather than FEDERAL census.] Although you will find referrence to this general area in the Washington Co TN early land records, and in the petition against removal from Double Head's [Cherokee] lands. The latter is online and linked to from the Lauderdale web page. As a matter of fact, if you will look at an old map of TN, the southern boundary is the TN River, which includes quite a bit of northern AL. A portion of western Lauderdale Co called Colbert's Reserve [Chickasaw?] or simply The Reserve did not 'officially' open for settlement until ca 1832, after the Indian removal was 'complete'. Pat Gary Matthews wrote: > > Hi again: > > It's my understanding that Lauderdale Co., was formed in 1818 or > 1819. If so, where would the residents of the area have been > enumerated in the 1800 and 1810 censuses? > > Gary Matthews > > ==== ALLAUDER Mailing List ==== > ====================Welcome To Lauderdale County, Alabama================ > Pat M. Mahan > CC Lauderdale Co ALGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~allauder/index.htm > Troy McCarley > CC AlGenweb Unknown County Query Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~alunknow/index.html > McCarley Family Association > http://www.airnet.net/mccarley/index.html > McCarley Family Assoc. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/McCarley > Lauderdale County Alabama Mailing List- <ALLAUDER-L-request@rootsweb.com> > Slaton Family Mailing List-<SLATON-L-request@rootsweb.com> > > ============================== > Search more than 274 MILLION NAMES and find your ancestors at Ancestry.com! > Get started today at http://www.ancestry.com/rootswebtext.asp

Gary, I may have alot of TACKER information you are interested in. Is the Jacob TACKER you mentioned born in 1818 in Giles County, TN? Did he marry Mary Ann COBB? If so, he is the brother of my ggggrandmother. If you can accept GED files I will send you the information. My TACKER line goes like this: Lee Barnhill Cate (ME) Alice Paulk Barnhill Laura Louemma Hitchcock Paulk William Isaac Hitchcock Sarah Ann "Sally" Tacker Joshua Tacker Seaborn Tacker III Seaborn Tacker Jr. Seaborn Tacker Let me know if you think this might be your family. Lee Barnhill Cate Union City, TN -----Original Message----- From: Gary Matthews <intergra@cei.net> To: ALLAUDER-L@rootsweb.com <ALLAUDER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 8:38 PM Subject: [ALLAUDER] TACKER family > >Hi: > >I'm trying to find info on the TACKERs who were in Lauderdale >Co., in 1850 and earlier. I have a Daniel TACKER living in the >household of my g-g-g-grandfather Hardy MATTHEWS (spelled >"Mathus" on the 1850 census page and "Mathers" in the index). >There is also a Jacob TACKER living nearby in 1850. >Specifically, I'm trying to find out if Jacob had a daughter >(Fetney Jane, born ca. 1834) listed between the ages of 5 and 10 >listed in the 1840 Census. > >TIA >Gary Matthews > > >==== ALLAUDER Mailing List ==== >=========================Lauderdale County============================== >Pat M. Mahan >CC Lauderdale Co ALGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~allauder/index.htm >Troy McCarley >CC AlGenweb Unknown County Query Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~alunknow/index.html >McCarley Family Association > http://www.airnet.net/mccarley/index.html >McCarley Family Assoc. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/McCarley >Lauderdale County Alabama Mailing List- <ALLAUDER-L-request@rootsweb.com> >Slaton Family Mailing List-<SLATON-L-request@rootsweb.com> > >============================== >Share your family tree with loved ones through a FREE private website at >MyFamily.com! >Get started today at http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWText1 >

Hi again: It's my understanding that Lauderdale Co., was formed in 1818 or 1819. If so, where would the residents of the area have been enumerated in the 1800 and 1810 censuses? Gary Matthews

I received the following from Deb Haines the Marshall County, MS Coordinator: In case any of you are interested in this information: WWI Draft Applications Update Prior to the US's entry into WW1 (approx. 1917-1918) every male between the age of 18 and 40 was required to register for the draft. The information found on the card was provided by the individual himself. The registration cards vary in information depending on the individual draft board. But by and large the cards include: The full name of the person (this means first, full middle name, any additional middle names and last name); the current address of the man; his age; his birthdate (some include his place of birth); whether he is a US citizen or a naturalized citizen (some ask if his father was a naturalized citizen and his father's race); his race; his occupation; where he is employed (name of employer); address or location of employment; name and address of his next of kin; some cards ask if the man is married or single and how many people he supports. The card is signed by the draftee. On the back of the card his physical description is noted: Height is broken down by short, medium, tall although some cards give the actual height in feet and inches; Build by slim, medium, stout although some cards list actual weight along with the build; color of eyes and hair; any deformities or injuries are listed (such as one arm missing, blind in one eye, etc); the name and address of the draft board and the date. When these original cards were transferred to the East Pointe NARA branch the LDS spent about 3 years microfilming these cards. There are hundreds and hundreds of boxes and the LDS opened one box at a time and filmed them - in state order. However, within each state the cards were filed by draft board, not by county or by draftee. This makes the searching of the microfilm difficult to say the least. The good news is that the Friends of the National Archives took each box after it was filmed (and checked) and sorted all of these thousands and thousands of cards into - state and then COUNTY order and then in alphabetical order by surname and put then in new boxes. The Friends deserve all the kudos we can give them for this monstrous task. So ... rather than spending hours and hours searching the LDS microfilm you can order copies of the original cards from NARA. If you know the county your ancestor lived in between 1917-1918. And BTW - Ancestry.com lists WW1 Draft cards in their searchable data bases, however I know for a fact that there are 22 cards for the surname WHITE found in McIntosh Co, OK and Ancestry only gave me 4 of them so don't depend on that site. I was told yesterday that some reps from Ancestry had visited the archives a couple of weeks ago to talk about filming the cards, took one look at the hundreds and hundreds of boxes and simply left. For copies: Send a letter requesting copy(s) to: NARA Southeast Region 1557 St. Joseph Ave East Point, GA 30344 In your letter be sure to say you want copy(s) of the WWI Draft application Cards. Include the name of your ancestor and his race, the state and the county. If you want copies of ALL of the cards with a given surname, ask them the cost of the copies and send a SASE for them to let you know the copying cost. In your letter be sure and say you want a copy of the FRONT and BACK of the card. Be sure to send a SASE for the return of you copies. The cost for the copy is 50 cents - 25 cents for the back and 25 cents for the front. If you only want one copy send a buck and say the difference is to be given to the Friends of the Archives, because after all they did all this wonderful hard work for you <VBG> And feel free to pass this on to any of the lists you are on. Adele Visalia, CA

Hi: I'm trying to find info on the TACKERs who were in Lauderdale Co., in 1850 and earlier. I have a Daniel TACKER living in the household of my g-g-g-grandfather Hardy MATTHEWS (spelled "Mathus" on the 1850 census page and "Mathers" in the index). There is also a Jacob TACKER living nearby in 1850. Specifically, I'm trying to find out if Jacob had a daughter (Fetney Jane, born ca. 1834) listed between the ages of 5 and 10 listed in the 1840 Census. TIA Gary Matthews

Hello out there, I am new to the list. I was wondering if anyone was researching the Cole family of Lauderdale County, AL. I need a copy of the Lauderdale Co., AL census 1830 and 1840 showing Samuel COLE - he had at least 3 sons. William born ca 1828, Thomas born ca 1833, and Pleasant born 1836. Samuel married Nancy COTTRELL Jan. 2, 1824. Samuel was my gg grandfather and William was my g grandfather. I would appreciate it very much if someone could help me. Thanking you in advance, Cathy Wood

I just saw your posting on the Lauderdale County, AL rootsweb site and wonder if you might have information about my family. My ggggrandmother was Nancy McDonald, the daughter of Alexander McDonald and Elizabeth McNaught. Nancy was born in 1779 and died July 6, 1848. Her husband was Joshua Paulk. He was born in Union County, SC and migrated to Lauderdale County, AL. My line of descent goes as follows: Joshua Paulk & Nancy McDonald Jonathan Paulk & Elizabeth "Betsy" Darby James Callicott Paulk & Mary Leona Whitten William Lee Paulk & Laura Louemma "Emma" Hitchcock Alice Paulk and Oscar Barnhill (My parents) I will appreciate any information you can provide about Nancy McDonald. I would especially like to learn her birth place, burial place, and the names of her siblings. I look forward to hearing from you. Lee Barnhill Cate Union City, TN >Wish I could have found more information for you. That about covers my AL >bookshelf, other than those dealing exclusively with my McDonalds; mostly >compilied by my cousin, William Lindsey McDonald, who has always lived in >Florence and is the current historian for the city of Florence, knows 'where >the bodies are buried', figuretively & literally speaking. My father was b. >1907 in Florence and lived there until sometime in the early 1920s when the >family left for OK & AR. My grandparents came back in the early 1930s >remained. My 2 aunts and 1 uncle graduated from old Coffee High School in >the late 1930s. I lived in Florence & Tuscumbia for almost a year 1935-36 >but knew hardly anyone other than my family.

--part1_68db91cf.24f5e424_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry I failed to post this to the list...I sometimes forget that others might be interested in the answers to queries on the list. --part1_68db91cf.24f5e424_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: BGoldwire@aol.com From: BGoldwire@aol.com Full-name: BGoldwire Message-ID: <810a1069.24f54df8@aol.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:47:36 EDT Subject: Re: [ALLAUDER] Florence, AL cemetery To: JJarr34452@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 54 In a message dated 8/24/99 9:30:44 PM, JJarr34452 writes: << Jordan Wesley was my g grandfather and his wife was Elizabeth Catherine. William was his son and Lulu was Williams wife. The other Elizabeth is related but I'm not sure where. Maybe with more info I can place her. David and infant ??? Please send as much info as possible. Also Jordan daughter, Etta Fulton Hargett Wilson is supposed to be buried there close by. Maybe some of the Hargett children also. Many thanks for your help and I'd appreciate any info you can send. Thanks, again Jean >> There is a section in the cemetery book titled 'Miscellaneous Obituaries' which showed the following: "FULTON, Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of David Fulton, died at Florence, Ala., age 65 (National Banner 19 Dec 1829) The following FULTON burials were listed in the Florence City Cemetery: William L., 13 Nov. 1872 - (no date) Lula A., 12 Dec. 1875 - 24 Sept. 1949 Inf. son of W. L. and L. A., born 5 May 1900, 14 days old. Elizabeth G., 9 Sept. 1847 - 30 April 1933. Jordan W., 6 Oct. 1846 - 5 April 1910 I found no listing for ETTA FULTON HARGETT WILSON. I found no HARGETTs listed at all. I know the Hargett family is an old family in the area; my aunt, Juanita McDonald married Hayden Hargett (both deceased and buried at Greenview). If I remember correctly, the Hargetts were from either Russellville or Rogersville...I always confuse those two places. There are several Wilsons but none by the name of Etta. Could she have used another name? The Wilsons listed are: Anna, Bertha, charles, Eliza, Emma, Ezra, Francis, Fred, Freeman, Gertrude, Harriett, Harvery, infant, James, John, Loudie, Louisa, Lydia, M. E., Marion, Matthew, Myrtle, Nannie, Prescilla, Rosie, Ruth, Samuel, Tom, W. H., William, Willie Tee. The old 'History of Florence, Alabama' by Jill Garrett (1968) has the following: Page 10: "After the organization of the county (1818), WILLIAM S. FULTON became the first judge of the Lauderdale County Court. Fulton was also the first postmaster and editor of the first newspaper, the Florence Gazette, and later Governor of the Territory of Arkansas" Page 13: From the Florence Gazette, Feb. 22, 1827 "Patrick Andrews announced that he was proprietor of the Florence Hotel, formerly run by DAVID FULTON. Ms. Garrett included the 1850 Census of Lauderdale Co. in this history and all those Census names were included in the index...no Fultons, no Hargetts and no Etta Wilson. I also checked the 'Old Land Records of Lauderdale County, Alabama' by Margaret M. Cowart (1996) and found no Fultons. I just received my copy of the new The Heritage of Lauderdale County, Alabama and upon checking found no submissions for either the FULTON, HARGETT or WILSON families. Wish I could have found more information for you. That about covers my AL bookshelf, other than those dealing exclusively with my McDonalds; mostly compilied by my cousin, William Lindsey McDonald, who has always lived in Florence and is the current historian for the city of Florence, knows 'where the bodies are buried', figuretively & literally speaking. My father was b. 1907 in Florence and lived there until sometime in the early 1920s when the family left for OK & AR. My grandparents came back in the early 1930s remained. My 2 aunts and 1 uncle graduated from old Coffee High School in the late 1930s. I lived in Florence & Tuscumbia for almost a year 1935-36 but knew hardly anyone other than my family. Let me know if I can be of any additional help. The Lauderdale County page should be a great source of help for you; both from other list members and from the wonderful lady that is the coordinator, Pat Mahan. Billie --part1_68db91cf.24f5e424_boundary--

Greetings! I am doing a copy/paste with this earlier message from in the hopes that any answers given will be resent to the whole group. I would very much like to see the responses as I have this question too. Till next time........ Carol =^..^= Subject: [ALLAUDER] Florence, AL cemetery Resent-Date: Tue, 24 Aug. 1999 11:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: ALLAUDER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 24 Aug. 1999 14:00:31 EDT From: JJarr34452@aol.com To: ALLAUDER-L@rootsweb.com Hi, listers Can you tell me if there is an index of those buried at the old cemetery there in Florence on the internet, or if you know how I can get this information. I need to know which FULTONS are buried there. I believe my g grandfather and his wife are there. Any help appreciated. Jean

Sorry list to publish this wholesale but .......... Greetings Debra or Edith. I sincerely hope one of you subscribes to this list. I desperately need to get with you one on one. Your address in the Heritage book was incomplete. Hint: James Samuel is my great great grandpa (pg. 178) -- Till next time........ Carol =^..^=

Hi, listers Can you tell me if there is an index of those buried at the old cemetery there in Florence on the internet, or if you know how I can get this information. I need to know which FULTONS are buried there. I believe my g grandfather and his wife are there. Any help appreciated. Jean

I have photocopies of these records also if anyone needs either of them. Nancy Percy Iben Gooch John Wiley Gooch Tommie Gooch Robert GOoch WIllie T. Gooch Charlie William Burl Gooch Bailess Coffee Gooch Howard Bland Gooch Cicero Valpaugh Gooch James GOoch John Henry Gooch

Hi, I just started transcribing the WWI records of Laud. Co. men....it's going to take quite a while I'm afraid. There are 4 boxes of the cards!! and they are packed full!! I just got through ALEXANDER today! I did photocopy all the LOVELACE, HAYES, LANIER, HANDLEY, and GOOCH records....if anyone wants a copy of any of these specific records, let me know. William Kimble LOVELACE/white THomas ALonzo LOVELACE/white William P. LOVELACE . (the middle name is there, I just haven't figured it out yet) help anyone? born Dec 1, 1872, RFD # 3, FLorence, Laud. CO. AL age 45, born: Dec 1, 1872 Negro Native born farmer, self employed wife: Lizzie Lovelace RFD 3 FLorence, AL signature: yes Ht: Tall build: Medium Eyes: Gray Hair: Black Any help with this middle name?? Another Lovelace boy 18 years old,white, Born march 4, 1900, father Will LOVELACE, cannot read his name......but, I'll get my magnifier and look more closely. Lenard Lovelace/white Reuben Harry or Harvey LOVELACE/ white Robert Augustus Lovelace/white Sam Lovelace/black Robert Lee Lovelace/white James Lee Lovelace /black James Ervin Lovelace/ white Jim Lovelalce /white Jessee Herbert Lovelace/white John Blackwell Lovelace/WHite Joe Lovelalce/white Andrew Lovelace/black Albert Lovelace/Negro George Melvin Lovelace/white Emmett McKinley Lovelace/negro Hade Lovelace/white George Mansfield Lovelace /negro More, later..... Nancy

Please reply to Gloria at gloria7@hotcom.net gloria7 wrote: > I have researched some of the BARNETT family from Lauderdale County, Alabama. I would like to share information with you. Gloria Barnett -- Troy McCarley Alabama Unknown CC AlGenweb Unknown County Query Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~alunknow/index.html McCarley Family Association http://www.airnet.net/mccarley/index.html McCarley Family Assoc. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/McCarley Lauderdale County Alabama Mailing List:<mailto:ALLAUDER-L-request@rootsweb.com> Slaton Family Mailing List:<mailto:SLATON-L-request@rootsweb.com> surnames: McCarley, Slaton,Chandler,White,Grisham,Snoddy

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