First of all, Delilah, thank for that tip to look in Eagle Creek cemetery....I'd never have known that about Tuskegee people being buried there. I don't think I have Freemans in my line, but allied names in my VA>GA>AL family would be Harper, Fitzpatrick, Allen, Harwell, Jones, Marquis. Secondly, Shirley, I'll put your John Clark(e) Tomlin on my list and let you know what I find in the cemeteries that Perry has transcribed. I also plan to list the cemeteries from his book on the list. Lastly, does anyone with knowledge of post CW Macon county think it's probable that my ancestors might have had unmarked graves? I have reason to think that they were poor after the Civil War (my grandpa remembers playing with trunkfuls of Confederate dollars as a boy). The one stone that is in Tuskegee City Cemetery, of my ggggm who died in 1873, is very modest, tho she was rich before the CW. Also wondering of there were any reasons (religious?) a person back then could choose to be in an unmarked grave. Any insights and theories appreciated...... Polly
You know something, Polly, all that worthless Confederate money your grandfather played with is probably worth quite a bit as a collector's item. One man I know held on to what his father passed on to him for a long time then he burned it and after he did found out he burned a small fortune. Shirley Tomlin Beaumont, Texas Polly <paburnell@comcast.net> wrote: First of all, Delilah, thank for that tip to look in Eagle Creek cemetery....I'd never have known that about Tuskegee people being buried there. I don't think I have Freemans in my line, but allied names in my VA>GA>AL family would be Harper, Fitzpatrick, Allen, Harwell, Jones, Marquis. Secondly, Shirley, I'll put your John Clark(e) Tomlin on my list and let you know what I find in the cemeteries that Perry has transcribed. I also plan to list the cemeteries from his book on the list. Lastly, does anyone with knowledge of post CW Macon county think it's probable that my ancestors might have had unmarked graves? I have reason to think that they were poor after the Civil War (my grandpa remembers playing with trunkfuls of Confederate dollars as a boy). The one stone that is in Tuskegee City Cemetery, of my ggggm who died in 1873, is very modest, tho she was rich before the CW. Also wondering of there were any reasons (religious?) a person back then could choose to be in an unmarked grave. Any insights and theories appreciated...... Polly ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237