At 01:39 PM 9/8/2003 -0700, you wrote: >Kim, you came along at a good time; I am at a dead end. My great-great >grandfather, J.A. (Josiah Alexis) HOWARD was a Baptist minister in Alabama, >traveled in Texas, and came back to Alabama where he died in October, 1928. >His obituary in Selma stated he had served as pastor of Grove Hill, Felix, >and Pine Belt Baptist churches. Unfortunately there is no mention of Howard, Grove Hill, Felix, or Pine Belt in the index of the book. I did find a brief, but vague, mention of a "Pine Barren Association". No location was given. The Baptist book has 250 pages for the 1800's and nearly 400 pages for the 1900's. While many people are mentioned, the book seems to cover a lot of theological and political issues. Sorry I couldn't turn up anything for you. Kim in AL CLARKE, RUFFIN, PARNELL/PYRNELLE

Kim, Thanks for doing the lookups. Do you have any Cole listings? Bonnie

Kim, you came along at a good time; I am at a dead end. My great-great grandfather, J.A. (Josiah Alexis) HOWARD was a Baptist minister in Alabama, traveled in Texas, and came back to Alabama where he died in October, 1928. His obituary in Selma stated he had served as pastor of Grove Hill, Felix, and Pine Belt Baptist churches. Is there any mention of him in this book at any particular time? Pat Hansen -----Original Message----- From: Kim Blake [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ALPERRY] Churches in Alabama I have three church books from the library that have name indexes. I would be glad to do look-ups. Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie (1800-1998) by Wayne Flynt History of Methodism in Alabama and West Florida (1803-1959) by Marion Elias Lazenby The Presbyterian Church in Alabama (1811-1936) by John Williams Marshall Kim in AL ==== ALPERRY Mailing List ==== Do not send virus or worm warnings, poems, jokes or other non-related topics to this list. For more information, contact List Owner, Lloyd Heard, [email protected] ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I have three church books from the library that have name indexes. I would be glad to do look-ups. Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie (1800-1998) by Wayne Flynt History of Methodism in Alabama and West Florida (1803-1959) by Marion Elias Lazenby The Presbyterian Church in Alabama (1811-1936) by John Williams Marshall Kim in AL

I am looking for a copy of "Millstone Church and the Broad River Valley", by Rev. Jack McVeigh. If anyone has or knows of one for sale, please contact me. Thanks! Nancy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/857 Message Board Post: I collect postmarks and post office pictures. Does anyone have a picture of the old Sprott store when the post office was still operating? I know that the store is still standing, but I'd like to get a picture with the post office "stuff"--flag, sign,blue mail box. Thanks, Jimmy Emerson Stevenson AL

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tadlock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JU.2ADI/637.2.2 Message Board Post: Diana, I have been looking for the Tadlock cementary for 3 yrs. I do know the approximate location of one, not the one I need. Email me at my address above and we can decide if that is the one you are after. I am going there in 1 or 2 wks to look again. If anyone else in in close proximity to this, let me know, maybe we can look together.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McNEELY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/856 Message Board Post: Does anyone have information about the maiden name, husband or children of Ellender McNeely, born in GA 1788, married @ 1803 in GA to UNKNOWN McNeely, died (probably) Anderson County, TX between 1860 and 1870. So far we have identified the following children for Ellender and her McNeely husband: James, born 1804/GA; Joseph, born 1805/GA; Issac C., born 1808/Georgia; Robert P., born 1811/GA; T.G. (probably Thomas Grier), born 1820/Al; Cornelius P. born 1821/AL. The family left Georgia for Alabama between 1815 and 1820 -- probably settling immediately in Perry County, AL. Ellender's McNeely husband died (probably in Perry County, AL) between 1825 and 1830. Ellender stayed in Perry County, Alabama until the 1850s when she and all of her sons (except Cornelius??) moved to Texas. The sons moved from Alabama to Texas at different times, but from what we know, basically within the 1850-1860 decade: Joseph is in Texas (Henderson County) in 1850; T.G. is in Texas (with Ellender) by t! he late 1850s (Anderson County); James and Robert arrive at different times in the late 1850s in Texas (Smith County -- James having spent a few years in Pickens County, AL); and Issac C. arrives in the early 1860s (Henderson County) having spent a few years in Louisiana. If this family sounds familar to you, we would like to hear from you with any informaiton that you have.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/855.1.1 Message Board Post: Nina..I goofed! The initial SHOULD have been an "F" instead of an "E". I would appreciate any info you have on this family, ESPECIALLY F P's wife. I have NO information on her. Thanks in advance. Cathryn

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/855.1 Message Board Post: Couldn't find him after 1900 census. Do you need anything else on his family? Nina

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/855 Message Board Post: Need any information on Pinkney Merrill or E P Merrill. Was listed on Perry County Census 1880. Believed to have been born approx. 1855. Any info appreciated. Thanks in advance, Cathryn in MS

Did your Fisher's stay in Perry Co.? My branch of the Barnett's stayed in Perry Co., at least for the most part. My mom and her sister and all their offspring (including me) no longer live there, but much of the family is still there, or in Hale Co. Please let me know what you find when you get a chance to check those other sources. I am pulling my hair out with this branch and running out of things to try to get this figured out. Melissa -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ALPERRY] Fishers of Perry This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/854 Message Board Post: Melissa. These Fishers are mine. John and Nancy did marry in Marengo Co. 1818. I have printed your note and will do some checking with a lady I know that has lots of info on Perry County folks. I know that two Fisher ladies married into the Barnett family and I think they were sisters of our John. We believe John may have come to Ala from Bedford Co. Tn. Nancy's father, John Hopkins died there in 1813 from wounds suffered in the war of 1812. Elizabeth Hopkins received land in Ala due to his being in service with Andrew Jackson. Where John and Nancy met is still a mystery. I have a copy of the church minutes that Nancy's Grandmother was a founding member of in Oconee Co. Ga in 1799. I will check it for Barnetts. Many times these folks moved in groups. Needed to when they were moving into indian teritorry. Ala was not a state at the time John and Nancy married. Please lets keep in touch. Betty Fisher Prim ==== ALPERRY Mailing List ==== Have a complaint about this list or another member? Contact me, Lloyd Heard, [email protected] ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/853.1 Message Board Post: You didn't mention what part of Perry County. I do have in my notes that the Mt. Zion Methodist Church was founded in 1822 northwest of Marion with graves as early as 1830. For Methodist information, try the book, Some Early Alabama Churches, by Mabel Ponder Wilson and also the book, History of Methodism in Alabama and West Florida, by Marion Lazenby. Both list many names. The History was compiled from notes of every annual conference. You can track the church assignments of ministers. Often, there are announcements of deaths of ministers and spouses. I found both of these books at my local libraries. The Huntingdon College library in Montgomery, Alabama has the archives for this part of the Methodist church. www.huntingdon.edu If you are in a part of the country where you can not access these books, I will do a look up for you when I get a chance.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/854 Message Board Post: Melissa. These Fishers are mine. John and Nancy did marry in Marengo Co. 1818. I have printed your note and will do some checking with a lady I know that has lots of info on Perry County folks. I know that two Fisher ladies married into the Barnett family and I think they were sisters of our John. We believe John may have come to Ala from Bedford Co. Tn. Nancy's father, John Hopkins died there in 1813 from wounds suffered in the war of 1812. Elizabeth Hopkins received land in Ala due to his being in service with Andrew Jackson. Where John and Nancy met is still a mystery. I have a copy of the church minutes that Nancy's Grandmother was a founding member of in Oconee Co. Ga in 1799. I will check it for Barnetts. Many times these folks moved in groups. Needed to when they were moving into indian teritorry. Ala was not a state at the time John and Nancy married. Please lets keep in touch. Betty Fisher Prim

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JU.2ADI/94.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Betty, I have a John & Nancy Fisher living in Perry Co. AL. John Fisher bought 40.1 acres in the Brush Creek community (6E 21N section 1 aliquot NENW) in 1835. Then, I find them in the 1840 and 1850 census. I estimate that John was born in 1795 and Nancy in 1798. Both state they were born in GA. In the 1850 census there is a 34 year old female Fisher living with them, born in TN, and several males that were born in AL. I searched early marriages in GA, TN, and AL and the only marriage that fit these facts was John Fisher married Nancy Hopkins in Marengo Co. 30 Sept 1818. Of course, a 34 year old female in 1850 would have been born before this marriage, but I am not convinced that this was their daughter, could have been a relative of some sort, even John Fisher's younger sister. Also, in 1860 I find a T. W. (probably Thomas) Fisher living in the Brush creek community, very close to the location where John Fisher lived. I also find several Fisher marriages in early Perry Co., notable for me Thomas Barnett and Susanna Fisher, 12-Feb-1823 and James Barnett and Betsy Fisher, 24-Jun-1820. I am working on this line because of where the Fisher's lived. My ancestor, Levi Barnett lived in the Brush Creek Community. As close as I can figure his home was in the township described as 6E 21N section 1 aliquot NENW or NWNE. I suspect that Levi's mother's name was Frances and he had at least one brother, Stephen Thomas Barnett (born in GA. died during Civil War, buried at Old Salem) and possibly a sister, Delaney. Both parents were born in GA. I think that Levi's parents came to AL after 1821 and before 1835, and that his father died before 1850, but I cannot figure out who the parents were. It could be that the Fisher's and Barnett's were just neighbors that intermarried, or maybe there was more of a connection. That's what I'm trying to figure out in hopes that it leads me to the parents of Levi Barnett. Do you have any connections here?

Hi, I am new to this list. My name is Susan and I am researching my LEE ancestors. Other surnames are Bowles, Smith, Davis and Arrington, to name a few! My gr.grandfather was Pleasant Jackson Lee,(Jack, A.J.) He married Lula Bowles born Macon CO AL. They are on the 1920 Montgomery Census. Pleasant was listed as 58. Just recently, I found a Pleasant Lee, 9 yrs old, on the Tuscaloosa 1870 Census. Head of household, James Lee, 38, Caroline Lee, 44, and Belle Lee, 1. I found them all but Pleasant, on the 1880 Perry CO Census. James M. Lee, 48, Kathrine C. Lee, 53, and Dianna B. Lee, 11. Haven't been able to locate Pleasant between 1870 and 1920. Any help will be appreciated. Susan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomason Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/853 Message Board Post: My gggrandmother was Susan Hightower Givan the wife of Rev. Matthew DeWitt Thomason. Susan died in Perry Co., 3 Oct 1847 of typhoid, and her youngest son, Crawford McKindree Thomason died a few months later. Her husband Matthew had purchased land in Perry Co. in 1838: he was a Methodist minister who married numerous couples in the county. By the 1850 census, he was in Mobile. Does anyone know where in Perry Co. that Susan Thomason and her baby are buried? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Worrell, Dunkin, Johnson, Edwards, Young, Holifield, LeVert Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/106.107.106.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I didn't know that Steven Silas Tadlock was Mollie's father but I understand that her mother was Martha Taylor. Mollie's brother, Dalphus E. Tadlock was the husband of Viola (Vernon F.) Worrell daughter of Washinton Pitt "Mr. Teen" Worrell, my grandfather's younger brother. Marion C. Stone, who was son of Riley and Adeline Taylor was married to Etta Worrell, a sister of Viola's.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JU.2ADI/106.107.106.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Riley Columbus Stone is my great grandfather he was married to Mary (Mollie) Tadlock his second wife. she is my ggrandmother. I have been trying to find info on her parents Steven Silas Tadlock. I can't find anything on him. Please email me if you like about this.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/621.1 Message Board Post: Found information on the family if you are still interested. Nina