This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Head, Holt, McConnal Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VS.2ADE/732 Message Board Post: I am searching for the Pickens from Houston, later moving to Springtown, TX

Castles in Pickens Co., AL. I wish to correspond with anyone who has information on the Castles family of Pickens Co., AL. Please write Murphey Dare at daremm@aol.com Descendants of Hiram Castles 1 Hiram Castles b: 10/05/1812 Lancaster Dist, SC, Resided in Pickens, AL, 50 Years d: 4/24/1877 Pickens, AL .. +Susan Frances "Fannie" Townsend b: Abt. 1816 SC per 1850 Census; ALper 1860 census; TN per 1870 census: all census list Frances m: Abt. 1833 Pickens County, AL? d: 6/03/1893 at home, 4 miles SE Carrolton, Pickens Co., AL ........ 2 Martha* (Mattie) Jane Castles b: 7/03/1838 Pickens Co., AL Fa NC Mo NC; 1840 - 1860 Pickens with parents d: 8/13/1910 At Home near, Marshulaville, Noxubee Co., MS ............ +Hiram Richard Sr Dare b: 3/14/1838 Noxubee, Co., MS, Mechanic, Fa TN Mo TN m: 10/29/1872 At Martha's home, Pickens County, AL d: 11/06/1916 Noxubee, Co., MS; Co., k, 41st MS Infantry ........ 2 Elizabeth Castles b: Abt. 1840 Pickens CO, AL, per 1850 census; lv w/parents 1850 1860 ........ 2 Frances Castles b: Abt. 1842 Pickens CO, AL, 1850 Cenus; lv w/parents 1850 1860 d: 1876 Pickens CO, AL ........ 2 Marietta Castles b: 5/11/1844 Near Marvin Chapel, Pickens County, AL; w/parents 1850/60 d: 7/24/1924 Carrollton, AL ............ +John Thomas Shepherd b: 5/29/1836 Pickens CO, AL m: 11/29/1865 At Marietta's home, Pickens County, AL d: 5/23/1884 Pickens CO, AL, Confererate Veteran ........ 2 Benjamin F. Castles b: 1846 Pickens AL, per 1850 census;> Itta Bena, MS; w/parents 1850-60 d: 12/12/1895 Living next door to Hiram in 1870 Pickens census ............ +Luvenia Elizabeth "Jennie" Shepherd b: 1844 1848 per 1870c m: 2/04/1869 Pickens County, AL d: 5/29/1893 ........ 2 George?? W. Castles b: Abt. 1847 ............ +Sarah J. Harrison m: 9/21/1865 Noxubee, MS ........ 2 Mary?? F. Castles b: Abt. 1848 ............ +F. M. Childers m: 8/05/1863 Noxubee, MS ........ 2 Charlotte "Kitty" (Citty) Castles b: Abt. 1850 Pickens AL, per 1850 census; w/parents 1850-60 ........ 2 Rebecca?? Castles b: Abt. 1852 ............ +John W. Foreman m: 12/21/1867 Noxubee, MS ........ 2 Mary?? Louisa Castles b: Abt. 1853 ............ +William Stoyner m: 2/06/1868 Noxubee, MS ........ 2 Margaret Savannah Castles b: 11/11/1853 Near Marvin Chapel, Pickens, AL; lv/parents 1860 d: 11/26/1922 at her home nearMarvin Chapel, Carrollton, AL ............ +John Thomas Shepherd ........ *2nd Husband of Margaret Savannah Castles: ............ +James T. Phillips b: Pickens? CSA m: 10/19/1904 Pickens cty, AL d: 5/14/1928 Carrollton, AL ........ 2 Susan Lenorah Castles b: Abt. 1858 AL d: Aft. 11/26/1922 ............ +R. B. Bob Curry m: 11/21/1897 Pickens CO, AL

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HUFFMAN// BRANDON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADE/731 Message Board Post: I'M TRYING TO FIND ZUELA V. HUFFMAN BORN 30 JUL. 1892 IN PICKENS CO. HE IS BURIED IN PICKENS CO. HE DIED 5 MAY 1966..HE HAD 3 CHILREN// CHARLES DAVIS BORN 7 NOV. 1914// WILLIE LEE BORN 28 AUG. 1920//BEN CLAYTON BORN 27 NOV. 1928//////HE MARRIED ANNIE LOU BRANDON....DOES ANYONE OUT THERE HAVE ANY INFO ON THIS FAMILY?? PLEASE EMAIL ME WIMBS@JELM.NET

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/VS.2ADE/721.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Sandra, Good to hear from you. Last year I spent several hours visiting with Ms. Ida (Malone) a very sweet lady. she was terribly Frail then and I am surprised and delighted that She is still living. I plan to visit her and others in Pickens county in a couple of weeks. Ms. Ida, who was not related to Cousin Mary, was a very close Friend to Mary and took care of her in the last years of her life. Ms. Ida gave me a lot of Pictures of Mary's Brothers & Sisters but not the one of my G,GF Jason Harper. I do remember that Mary and I had to drive about a mile to the house where the Picture was. To describe the Picture it was a small snapshot of a man standing (Jason) who appeared to be very short (abt 5 Ft. 6") with very light skin and White hair. He had the appearances of a Albino White. Beside him was my G,GM Sarah Elizabeth (White) Harper. She appeared to be about 6 Ft. tall and quite heavy (over 200 Pounds) I am very interested in your Father and how it came to be that Cousin Mary was involved with "Raising him" What year was your Father born in? is your Parents still living? If they are I would love to visit with them on my return trip to Gordo If you like you can Email me direct at......... rharper2018@charter.net I can email you some Pictures that you may want for keepsakes Thanks again Ray Harper WW-2 Vet http://webpages.charter.net/rharper2018

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/VS.2ADE/721.1 Message Board Post: RAY;I KNEW MISS MARY HARPER WHEN I WAS A LITTLEGIRL.SHE LIVED IN THE ZION COMMUNITY. MY FATHER AND MOTHER USED TO VISIT WITH HER.THE LADY YOU VISITED THAT HAS THE PICTURE YOU TALK ABOUT STILL HAS IT..I SEE HER EVERY ONCE AND A WHILE..HER BROTHER JACK LIVED IN MISS MARY'S HOUSE BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY.I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIN MISS MARY AND MISS IDA WERE IF ANY.. BUT I DO KNOW MISS MARY HELPED RAISE MY FATHER BEN HUFFMAN..WILL TRY TO FIND OUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE.......SANDRA

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/VS.2ADE/147.448.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Check on Edwin Bridges. He keeps poping up in the Pickens Co. census. Also, I noticed that the person that heads the board of directors at the Alabama Department of Archives and History is a Dr. Edwin Bridges. http://www.archives.state.al.us/ Good Luck. Don

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/VS.2ADE/147.448.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Well, RATS!! Mine are definately BRIDGES. I was really thrilled there for a moment! At least now I know that Wm & John were not Bridges so that is a help in narrowing down my search. Thanks so much for your reply and good luck in your BRIDGERS research. Teresa

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crowell, Hawkins, Boothe, Moseley, McKeethen/McKiethen, Tarkington Young, Johnson, Peterson, Foaud, Miller, Mask, Winfield, Parish Parrish, Spurlock, Flagg, Sykes, Randle, Ball, Williams, Blair, Jamison, Norris, White, Stinson, Dowling, Homer, Methune Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADE/730 Message Board Post: My name is Donna E Crowell-Greene. I live in Michigan. I am looking for any close or distant relatives, especially in the Alabama and North & South Carolina states, which might be ancestors of Priscilla and James/Jim Hawkins. Priscilla was from Alabama, and Jim was from North Carolina. Priscilla and Jim lived in the Aliceville, Pickens County, AL, area with their children: Mose Hawkins, who had Collier, will, Jimmie and Lutchin; Will Hawkins who had Cassie,Frank and Minnie; Wesley Hawkins, whose marital is unknown, and Vine/Vina Hawkins-Crowell, who married James (Jim) Edward Crowell, son of white John Crowell from Ireland, and his slave Emily "Crowell". James was born in Alabama, until John Crowell moved the families to West Point, Clay County, MS, in about 1852. I say families, because John was lawfully married to his white wife Judith Stinson-Crowell from Fauquier County, VA, and they had 8 children. It is shown on the 1870 census records that Emily had a 5 year-old daughter named Mima Crowell. Emily is said to have had another daughter, whose name is unknown, and that both daughters, because of the whiteness of their complexions and their red hair, passed for and married white. Emily's son James/Jim was classified as a slave until 1865, when slavery was allegedly abolished. James would have been about 20 in 1865. He was born 1845. James and Vina are listed on the census as having had 12 children: 9 boys and 3 girls. Some of the 12 names are: William (F)/Willile (F), Harrison, Tan, R.C., James Frank, Robert, twin boys Halbert and Albert, Johnnie; Fannie and Fannie Pinky/Fannie Pinkie. The 3rd girls name is unknown. James and Vina's son Willie married, but it is unknown who he married at this time. Marriage and census records are being checked. Willie Crowell and his wife had Cassie, Frank, and Minnie. Frank Crowell married a Louisiana or Louisa Hall, and theu had Frank Jr. and Dwight. John Crowell came to American during Ireland's "Great Potato Famine between 1846 and 1851. It is believed he brought family members with him named: Judah, Michael W, Mary, John. It appears that Emily was not John's only slave family that he kept. The census shows a Mary "Crowell" from South Carolina in the 1870 census of Lowndes County, West Point, MS, as being age 36 with no eligible male of comparable age living with her and children: Mathew Crowell age 8 born in Miss, Louisa Crowell age 6 born in Alabama, Oogie Crowell age 2 male born in Miss, and Alabama Crowell age 14 and domestic, female, born in Miss. All children were given the last name of Crowell. And Mary and Emily, both listed as being "black" and "mullatto", lived either in the house located next door to John Crowell of Ireland, or in the vicinity of his house. I noticed on the census records, where the column required a check mark if the "head of household" was married, divorced, single or widowed, it almost always said the "black or mulatto" female was widowed, and in a house full of children, born in different states. So this lets me know that these were most likely slave put with these adult women, and adopted by them and the master. Or, in Emily's case, with her son James Edward Crowell, my gr-gdfather Halbert Crowell, born Aug. 1880 and died 1973, personally knew his father's father John Crowell. James appears to be white in the photo I have, but is a mullatto. Anyone related to these individuals and willing to share information, please contact: Donna Crowell-Greene at degreene@ameritech.net, 248/357-1005 anytime. I need assistance in finding relatives to help organize a "Crowell FamilyReunion" in 2003. This is a tremendously large family that has drifted and gone in different directions. Please help locate it. James and Vina Crowell, alone, had 12 children, and they had children. I am 1 of 8 children to my father Halbert Crowell. So you see? This is a very large family Thank you for your help in advance.

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/VS.2ADE/717.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Frankie, That is what I figured but didn't know for sure Ray

Subj: Susan Frances "Fannie" Townsend b: Abt. 1816 of AL Date: 07/12/2002 To: TOWNSEND-L@rootsweb.com BCC: daremm@aol.com Looking for parents and siblings of 1 Susan Frances "Fannie" Townsend b: Abt. 1816 SC per 1850 Census; AL per 1860 census; TN per 1870 census: all census list Frances d: 6/03/1893 at home, 4 miles SE Carrolton, Pickens Co., AL .. +Hiram Castles b: 10/05/1812 Lancaster Dist, SC, Resided in Pickens, AL, 50 Years m: Abt. 1833 Pickens County, AL? d: 4/24/1877 Pickens, AL ........ 2 Martha* (Mattie) Jane Castles b: 7/03/1838 Pickens Co., AL Fa NC Mo NC; 1840 - 1860 Pickens with parents d: 8/13/1910 At Home near, Marshulaville, Noxubee Co., MS ............ +Hiram Richard Sr Dare b: 3/14/1838 Noxubee, Co., MS, Mechanic, Fa TN Mo TN m: 10/29/1872 At Martha's home, Pickens County, AL d: 11/06/1916 Noxubee, Co., MS; Co., k, 41st MS Infantry ........ 2 Elizabeth Castles b: Abt. 1840 Pickens CO, AL, per 1850 census; lv w/parents 1850 1860 ........ 2 Frances Castles b: Abt. 1842 Pickens CO, AL, 1850 Cenus; lv w/parents 1850 1860 d: 1876 Pickens CO, AL ........ 2 Marietta Castles b: 5/11/1844 Near Marvin Chapel, Pickens County, AL; w/parents 1850/60 d: 7/24/1924 Carrollton, AL ............ +John Thomas Shepherd b: 5/29/1836 Pickens CO, AL m: 11/29/1865 At Marietta's home, Pickens County, AL d: 5/23/1884 Pickens CO, AL, Confererate Veteran ........ 2 Benjamin F. Castles b: 1846 Pickens AL, per 1850 census;> Itta Bena, MS; w/parents 1850-60 d: 12/12/1895 Living next door to Hiram in 1870 Pickens census ............ +Luvenia Elizabeth "Jennie" Shepherd b: 1844 1848 per 1870c m: 2/04/1869 Pickens County, AL d: 5/29/1893 ........ 2 George?? W. Castles b: Abt. 1847 ............ +Sarah J. Harrison m: 9/21/1865 Noxubee, MS ........ 2 Mary?? F. Castles b: Abt. 1848 ............ +F. M. Childers m: 8/05/1863 Noxubee, MS ........ 2 Charlotte "Kitty" (Citty) Castles b: Abt. 1850 Pickens AL, per 1850 census; w/parents 1850-60 ........ 2 Rebecca?? Castles b: Abt. 1852 ............ +John W. Foreman m: 12/21/1867 Noxubee, MS ........ 2 Mary?? Louisa Castles b: Abt. 1853 ............ +William Stoyner m: 2/06/1868 Noxubee, MS ........ 2 Margaret Savannah Castles b: 11/11/1853 Near Marvin Chapel, Pickens, AL; lv/parents 1860 d: 11/26/1922 at her home nearMarvin Chapel, Carrollton, AL ............ +John Thomas Shepherd ........ *2nd Husband of Margaret Savannah Castles: ............ +James T. Phillips b: Pickens? CSA m: 10/19/1904 Pickens cty, AL d: 5/14/1928 Carrollton, AL ........ 2 Susan Lenorah Castles b: Abt. 1858 AL d: Aft. 11/26/1922 ............ +R. B. Bob Curry m: 11/21/1897 Pickens CO, AL I would appreciate any information on Frances Townsend and her children, I have additional on some of her children. Murphey Dare daremm@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRANCH, ARENDALE (ARNOLD), GUNTER, PERRY, NIQUETTE, OLIVER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADE/729.1 Message Board Post: 1860 PICKENS COUNTY ALABAMA CARROLLTON 2 SOUTHERN DIVISION JUNE 26, 1860 74 166 David A. Jones 26 M Miller $200 Alabama Margaret C. Jones 26 F Housewife Alabama Betsey A. Jones 8 F Mississippi Robert C. Jones 5 M Mississippi Rubin Jones 2 Mississippi

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/VS.2ADE/147.448.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Good to hear from you. If you're looking for Bridgers in Pickens Co. from NC there were only a handful. Robert and Silas were definitely from SC. There is a Edwin Bridges in the 1860 census from NC; Kedmin (Edmin/Edmund?) Bridgers in the 1850 census from NC. My people, William F. & John W. are Bridgers. Terrible name to have...gets messed up even now. I've even seen it spelled correctly in the census and misspelled Bridges in the index. Are you looking for Bridgers or Bridges? They are 2 totally different lines though they are often confused. There are some informative posts about the name in the Bridger surname folder @ ancestry.com. Let me which line you are looking for. If it's Bridgers lets work together.

Frances, 1960 census Southern Division, Carrolton, AL, Archives Film M653_20, Page 774, Enumerated June 28th by J. Songmire shows the family of David Jones as follows: David Jones, age 26, Miller, born in AL, Real estate value $200 Margaret, age 26, Keeping House, born in AL Betsey A., age 8 Robert C. age 5 Rubin, age 2 All the children were born in MS. Beverly Spring, TX 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/VS.2ADE/729 Message Board Post: Need census lookup Jones,David State:Al County Pickens Co location: Carrolton Year 1860 Page 774 thank you frances ==== ALPICKEN Mailing List ==== Rhonda Smith List manager alpicken-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== 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/VS.2ADE/717.1 Message Board Post: Corrs Beat is (was) located north of Gordo. I'm not sure if it's still called "Corrs Beat". I will try to find out more and let you know.

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/VS.2ADE/729 Message Board Post: Need census lookup Jones,David State:Al County Pickens Co location: Carrolton Year 1860 Page 774 thank you frances

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADE/599.1.1 Message Board Post: I am attempting to find out the father of my husband's great grandfather, Louis Humphery Bell(born 1861). He was a minister who was reportedly born in Choctaw County, MS and was a "love child" of a woman named Fletcher and a Bell man. They say he took his father's name. He did live in Pickens County at one time as an adult. He married Jessie (Jessica) Cook and they had three children, Eva, Bonnie Hayes (My husband's grandfather) and Ida (Died as a young child). Jessie died in Pickens County and is buried there someplace. He later moved back to Choctaw County MS and married Minnie Horton and had other children. If you see anything familiar that might link him with your Bells please let me know.

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/VS.2ADE/728 Message Board Post: Does anyone know where Thunderbird Hill is or was located? It's supposed to be near Coalfire. My Dad was born there in 1924.

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/VS.2ADE/147.448.1.1 Message Board Post: Don, I'm researching the Bridges family from Pickens Co, AL. I have Robert Bridges (1795 SC - 1888 Pickens Co) who married Nancy Randall (1795 SC - 1860 Pickens). They had 3 unknown daughters and 2 sons of which I only know one named Silas Bridges (1817 SC - aft 1870). There are several other Bridges living in and around Pickens Co, AL but I have been unable to connect them. On the 1840 census there are Robert Bridges, another Robert Bridges, Silas Bridges and Edward Bridges. Do you have any further info on these? i haven't seen the MS 1880 census you mentioned but according to the 1850 Pickens census, Catherine unk Teer was secondly married to William F. Bridges not J. W. Bridges. Elizabeth Teer is living in their hh age 14. Hope to hear from you. Teresa april0496@aol.com

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/VS.2ADE/147.448.1 Message Board Post: Do you have any information on Eleazar Teer? He was the first husband of Catherine ___ who later married my gg-grandfather J.W. Bridgers. Elizabeth Teer, Eleazar's daughter is in his household in the 1880 MS census.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bridgers/Bridges, Going Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADE/219.217 Message Board Post: I am searching for William F Bridgers in Pickens Co. Where did you find the Vote Records in 1849? I thought the County Court House burned in 1876 and destroyed all records. Any knowledge of Deed Records, Wills, Probate? Trail is cold prior to 1850 any help is greatly appreciated.