Greetings, Looking for information of this family (MEDLEY) found in the 1900 Pike Co. Census. Any clues or leads would be welcome! Thanks, Verna Bice jbice@brazosport.cc.tx.us +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Descendants of Baily R. Medley & Sarch C. Stuckey 1 Baily R. Medley b: Unknown d: Aft. 1897 in Grimes area of Pike Co., Ala. . +Sarah C. Stuckey b: April 1847 m: April 18, 1865 in Barbour Co., at the Stuckey's Home by J.H." Hansel?" Medley d: Aft. 1900 in Grimes area of Pike Co., Ala. .. 2 William J. Medley b: April 1875 ...... +Unknown ....... 3 Lula C. Medley b: November 1897 .. 2 Lila F. Medley b: December 1877 .. 2 Thad L. Medley b: November 1882 .. 2 Mary M. Medley b: March 1885 .. 2 Olivia Medley b: December 1897

I don't have any Whitehurst in my database, but what is your DUKE line? ___________________________________________________________ Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of. - Jacob M. Braude ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Combs" <jcombs@hot.rr.com> To: <ALPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 6:03 PM Subject: [AL-PIKE] Whitehurst/Renfro > Has anyone heard of a DALLAS DAVID WHITEHURST who was married to Sally Jane RENFRO probably mid 1800's. May have been in Wood Co., TX. They had a son, Hubert Monroe Whitehurst b. 1887. Dallas David had died by 1900. > Thank you, Jane > jcombs@hot.rr.com > http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/o/m/Jane-A-Combs/ > My Roots: Arthur, Baldwin, Burns, Butler, Clements, Combs, Crawford, Culver, Duke(s), Faris/Farris, French, Johnson, Jones, Kelly/Kelley, Lambert, Lane, Martin, Oliver, Reeves, Reynolds, Rhoten, Rosenberg, Schwar(t)z, Sorrow, Walker, Whitehurst > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >

Has anyone heard of a DALLAS DAVID WHITEHURST who was married to Sally Jane RENFRO probably mid 1800's. May have been in Wood Co., TX. They had a son, Hubert Monroe Whitehurst b. 1887. Dallas David had died by 1900. Thank you, Jane jcombs@hot.rr.com http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/o/m/Jane-A-Combs/ My Roots: Arthur, Baldwin, Burns, Butler, Clements, Combs, Crawford, Culver, Duke(s), Faris/Farris, French, Johnson, Jones, Kelly/Kelley, Lambert, Lane, Martin, Oliver, Reeves, Reynolds, Rhoten, Rosenberg, Schwar(t)z, Sorrow, Walker, Whitehurst

Am searching for Fay Shaw and her sister, Mary Alice who lived in Opelika, Lee Co., AL in the 1950's or children of Fay Shaw and Ralph Allen.

I can furnish information on William Jackson Gallaway who moved from Tallapoosa Co, Ala to Cass Co, Texas then to Naples, Texas. His father, William Gallaway is buried in Troup Co Ga. Delwin Moore delmo@sydcom.net

Please remove my name from the alpike-roll. Thank you.

Folks! The recent Spring 2001 issue of the FREE (with $15.00 annual subscription) quarterly magazine, Pea River Trails, published by the Pea River Historical and Genealogical Society of Enterprise, Alabama, has the first ever index of all the issues of the magazine dating from the first one in 1975 through the year 2000. The issue lists all the articles and family names in alphabetical order for that 25 year period. This momentous task of compiling this index was done by the new Society President, Mr. Louie Reynolds, and he deserves many attaboys for his efforts. The issue may be ordered for $5.00, including shipping and handling, but for just $15.00 one can have that issue PLUS 3 more issues this year shipping and handling included. Each issue is packed with genealogical and historical information by the new editor, Mrs. Lanell Hundley (lanell@alaweb.com), who works extremely hard to help us southeast Alabama researchers gather information on our Alabama kin. Also included in this Spring 2001 issue is the complete listing of the 1907 census of Confederate Soldiers living in Geneva County, Alabama which was edited by the well-known authourity on Alabama CW soldiers, Homer T. Jones. Included also is a marvelous article on The First School at Farmers Academy Community in Coffee County. It seems hard to believe that the annual membership is so cheap! I pay my membership 3 years at a time to lock in those ridiculously low prices. If some one wishes to be part of this wonderful Society the address to join is; Pea River Historical and Genealogical Society P.O. Box 310628 108 Main Street Enterprise, Al. 36331 An extremely satisfied member; Willie in California

Hi Betty, I am descended from William Livingston & Ann Berry through Samuel B. (who I have as Samuel Burrell) and Rebecca Elizabeth Rast. A few of my dates are a little different from yours. Rebecca b. 4 Mar 1828, d. 4 Jan 1899. Samuel b. 15 Sept 1815 in SC, m. 3 Nov 1842, d. 24/25 Jun 1900 in Pike Co, AL. Samuel's and Rebecca's daughter, Georgia Anna Livingston was my GGGM. She b. 8 May 1873, m. 28 Dec 1898 in Pike Co to Henry Kegler Tolson, d. 9 Sept 1959 (buried @ Catalpa Cemetery across from Ebenezer Baptist Church). Henry b. 16 Jun 1857, d. 28 Nov 1908. You probably aren't from this line, but I have more information if you are interested. Do you know anything more on Joseph Rast, Martha Harris, or Ann Berry? Thanks Ashley Calhoun

I am looking for information on the following: Henry Woodie Hall (born) January 2, 1888 (died) October 20, 1918. Son of W.S. and M.H. Hall. Thomas W. Stanley - Confederate Solider, Comp B, 3rd Alabama RES CSA James Stanley - Confederate Solider, Comp A, 25th Alabama Infry, CSA W.S. Hall (b) around 1849 (died) July 30, 1912 - Wife Martha Stanley Hall (b) Sept 5, 1852 (died) Feb 7, 1902 Willie Florence Hall (b) August 22, 1887 (died) May 9, 1907 - Daughter of W.S. and M.S. Hall C.H. Price 1877-1949 - Wife - Eva H Thomas W. Stanley married Elizabeth? Price? Married July 20, 1848 Martha Hopkins Stanley born Sept 5, 1858 Bud Hall ANY INFORMATION ON THESE FAMILIES WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED! Thanks, Joyce Crews

I would like to do research in Pike County. Are there libraries and other places to do research? I am researching my family, Hughes, Hall and Stanley, from the areas of Troy, Union Springs, and Sacco. I am planning on taking some vacation time for research. If anyone could let me know where to up look old family records, I would greatly appreciate the information. Thanks, Joyce

Ron, The Clarissa Hooten who was married to Matthew T. Hall after his wife, Mary's, death was her younger sister, who had the same name as her mother. They soon moved to Hunt County, Texas. I have much information about this family, but I still have some questions about the life of the Hooten family during the 1860's in Alabama. Thanks for any information you may have. Glenda Ron Head wrote: > Glenda said: > > "I have been seeking the burial place of my great-great grandmother, > Clarissa Westbrook Hooten, for some time. She died between 1860 and > 1866 in the triangle between Pike, Montgomery, and Crenshaw counties. > I have just seen a record that indicates that her daughter, Mary A. > Hooten Hall, died in December, 1860, and was buried in Sanders > Cemetary..." > > Published Pike Co. marriages show that Mary E. HOOTEN married Mathew > T. HALL on 10 Oct. 1853. Is this the Mary who was buried in the > Sanders Cem. in December 1860? > > Another marriage in the same publication is that of M. T. HALL to > Clarissa M. HOOTEN, on 8 Oct1861 (not long after Mary's death). Is > this the same Mathew T. HALL who earlier married Mary HOOTEN? Is this > Clarissa the mother of the Mary mentioned in your query? Or did Mary > have a sister also named Clarissa? Or is there some other > relationship? > > Best regards, > > Ron Head (Montgomery, AL) > ronhead@knology.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Hartmann" <ghart7@bellsouth.net> > To: <ALPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 3:12 PM > Subject: [AL-PIKE] Sanders Cemetary > > > Hi to all, > > > > I have been seeking the burial place of my great-great grandmother, > > Clarissa Westbrook Hooten, for some time. She died between 1860 > and > > 1866 in the triangle between Pike, Montgomery, and Crenshaw > counties. I > > have just seen a record that indicates that her daughter, Mary A. > Hooten > > Hall, died in December, 1860, and was buried in Sanders Cemetary > > (Cemetary #91 -above Ansley, Alabama, off the road to Briar Hill). > I > > wonder if perhaps her mother is there also. Does anyone have any > > information about this cemetary? Are the burial records for this > > cemetary available? Thanks for any help. > > > > Glenda > > ghart7@bellsouth.net > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

Glenda said: "I have been seeking the burial place of my great-great grandmother, Clarissa Westbrook Hooten, for some time. She died between 1860 and 1866 in the triangle between Pike, Montgomery, and Crenshaw counties. I have just seen a record that indicates that her daughter, Mary A. Hooten Hall, died in December, 1860, and was buried in Sanders Cemetary..." Published Pike Co. marriages show that Mary E. HOOTEN married Mathew T. HALL on 10 Oct. 1853. Is this the Mary who was buried in the Sanders Cem. in December 1860? Another marriage in the same publication is that of M. T. HALL to Clarissa M. HOOTEN, on 8 Oct1861 (not long after Mary's death). Is this the same Mathew T. HALL who earlier married Mary HOOTEN? Is this Clarissa the mother of the Mary mentioned in your query? Or did Mary have a sister also named Clarissa? Or is there some other relationship? Best regards, Ron Head (Montgomery, AL) ronhead@knology.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Hartmann" <ghart7@bellsouth.net> To: <ALPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: [AL-PIKE] Sanders Cemetary > Hi to all, > > I have been seeking the burial place of my great-great grandmother, > Clarissa Westbrook Hooten, for some time. She died between 1860 and > 1866 in the triangle between Pike, Montgomery, and Crenshaw counties. I > have just seen a record that indicates that her daughter, Mary A. Hooten > Hall, died in December, 1860, and was buried in Sanders Cemetary > (Cemetary #91 -above Ansley, Alabama, off the road to Briar Hill). I > wonder if perhaps her mother is there also. Does anyone have any > information about this cemetary? Are the burial records for this > cemetary available? Thanks for any help. > > Glenda > ghart7@bellsouth.net

Hi to all, I have been seeking the burial place of my great-great grandmother, Clarissa Westbrook Hooten, for some time. She died between 1860 and 1866 in the triangle between Pike, Montgomery, and Crenshaw counties. I have just seen a record that indicates that her daughter, Mary A. Hooten Hall, died in December, 1860, and was buried in Sanders Cemetary (Cemetary #91 -above Ansley, Alabama, off the road to Briar Hill). I wonder if perhaps her mother is there also. Does anyone have any information about this cemetary? Are the burial records for this cemetary available? Thanks for any help. Glenda ghart7@bellsouth.net

Grasping for straws - what act of uncontrollable temper could have caused the perpetrator in Pike County to change his name and leave his mother's home in Troy and his home state never to return? More importantly, what records might exist in Pike County that would possibly reference such presumably violent acts that happened in the time frame of 1890 to 1900 or so? The perpetrator was a distant cousin of mine, and I would very much like to find out the nature of the unknown rash act that his descendants are assuming caused him to change his name and leave home. Any and all ideas or suggestions for research will be greatly appreciated (court criminal records, newspaper articles, etc. ???) Bill Bateman Midland, Texas

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I'm hoping there is just a dry period here but I haven't received any mail from this and several other groups in about a week. Is there a problem? -- Coming together is a beginning; staying together is progress; working together is success. Visit our home page at: http://www.ionet.net/~djsevert Or The Annex: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2746

Mary asked: "Can anyone enlighten me as to the general location of the following land description: t:9N r:24E s:28?" Township 9N, Range 24E, Section 28 is located in Barbour County, adjoining the NW limits of the town of Clio. Barbour Co. Road #3 cuts through the SW corner of that section. Best regards, Ron Head (Montgomery, AL) ronhead@knology.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary A. Thompson" <mathompson@neto.com> To: <ALPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 7:49 PM Subject: [AL-PIKE] Pike Co Location?? > Can anyone enlighten me as to the general location of the following land description: t:9N r:24E s:28? Would this be in Pike Co.? > Many thanks, > Mary McCall Thompson > Searching: McCall, Dewitt and Johnson in Pike Co., AL > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >

Can anyone enlighten me as to the general location of the following land description: t:9N r:24E s:28? Would this be in Pike Co.? Many thanks, Mary McCall Thompson Searching: McCall, Dewitt and Johnson in Pike Co., AL

At 09:12 PM 06/16/2001 -0500, Valerie J. Adams wrote: >I am so happy to have this. I'll trade long messages. >My reason for trying to determine the path of this road is two fold. My >Williams, Wood, & Plant families were in Pike County by 1850. Another is >that another family came from the coast in Georgia - Counties North and >South of Savanah. Valerie, The Three Notch Road that I wrote of is the one that ran from Fort Mitchell, Russell County, Alabama to Fort Barrancas, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida. Since "three chops" was a popular method of marking early roads, there were others that were known by similar names. I think that if you will visit this site that you will find the answers to your questions. The discussion about the Federal Road is about halfway down the page. It contains a link that will provide much more information about the Federal Road. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oldfedrd/ Good hunting, "Sonny" Wm. Flake Joiner 311 East Church Street P. O. Box 406 Troy, AL 36081-0406 <wfjoiner@p-c-net.net> in Pike County, Alabama Daytime VOICE 334-566-9968 VOICE/FAX/DATA/MODEM 334-566-8250 "Progress was fine for a while; it just went on too long!" - Annette Shackelford Parks

At 06:08 PM 06/16/2001 -0500, Valerie J. Adams wrote: >I've seen queries about the "Three Notched Road" that crossed Alabama. Valerie, The Federal Road crossed Alabama from Georgia to Mississippi. The Three Notch Road was designed as a military road, connecting Fort Barrancas at Pensacola with the Federal Road at Fort Mitchell in Russell County, Alabama. The following may be more than you wanted to know about the Three Notch Road; however, since I have the information, it might as well be disseminated: The Three Notch Road The Three Notch Road that crosses Pike County was not just a local thoroughfare, but a part of a much larger network of early roads. Before the birth of our nation, there were many roads that followed Native American trails. One such road was the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road that ran from Philadelphia westward to Gettysburg and then southward through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia into the Carolinas, terminating at Augusta, Georgia. During the last 16 years of the Colonial Period, tens of thousands of our ancestors came south along this road. From this road many spurs developed linking the road to the West. One of these roads was Daniel BOONE's Wilderness Road. The Wilderness Road could be followed to Nashville or by taking "a right hand turn" into what was to become Kentucky. The importance of the French City of New Orleans prompted the development of the Natchez Trace that ran from Nashville to Natchez. Following the Louisiana Purchase, the Natchez Trace took on new importance as a mail route between Washington City and New Orleans. The Trace proved to be a slow and poor route for mail or travel. In a further attempt to speed up mail from Washington City to New Orleans, the Old Federal Road came into being. It ran from Augusta, the southern terminus of the Great Philadelphia Road, across Georgia to Montgomery, south to Old St. Stephens and west to Natchez. The Old Federal Road became the great highway from the East into South Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Mail, settlers, commercial goods, troops and military supplies made use of the road. Following the acquisition of Spanish West Florida, it became necessary to have an overland military road to connect Fort Barrancas at Pensacola to the rest of the nation. In 1824, a road was laid out, following in part old Native American Trails. The road ran from Pensacola, generally in a northeasterly direction, ending at Fort Mitchell, Alabama on the Old Federal Road. This road traversed Covington, Pike (and what is now Bullock), Barbour and Russell Counties in Alabama and was known as the Three Notch Road. In the terms of a military engineer, the road was a "ridge-runner"; it was laid out in such a manner that no bridges or ferries (except near Pensacola) were needed to traverse its entire 233-mile length. Never of much importance as a military road, it did serve as a route for our ancestors to come from the Carolinas and Georgia to Southeast Alabama and the panhandle of Florida. It seems that the route of the Three Notch Road from Gainer's Store (Henderson) at the southern boundary of Pike County to Deer Stand Hill (now the City of Troy) has never been questioned. Some researchers have consistently challenged the route from Deer Stand Hill to the northeast. This disturbs me; my family has lived on and or near the Old Three Notch Road since 1836 and it is part of my heritage. The Three Notch Road did not follow what is now the Butter and Egg Road nor did it go through Monticello. The Three Notch Road predated Monticello. From an Anthropological point of view, Indian Trails (which the Three Notch Road followed in part) normally followed high ground. From that of a Military Logistician and Engineer, a military road should be on terrain that is the easiest to traverse. It would also have followed high ground and not up and down the hills and valleys of the Chunnenuggee Ridge in northeastern Pike County. A lone copy of a 1902 map of Pike County, Alabama survives. It is on display at the Troy Public Library and shows that the Three Notch Road followed a route from Troy to Catalpa (Ebenezer), to Sandfield (Zebulon) and continued northeasterly to Blue's Old Stand in what is now Bullock County. At some time after the Pike County Court House was moved from Monticello to Deer Stand Hill (now Troy), Pike County Officials had mile posts placed on the main roads that radiated from the County Seat. These mileposts enabled travelers to determine their distance from the County Seat. The old "10 Mile Post" is still to be seen at the Hussey Cemetery, near Westminster Church on Alabama State Highway 223. The "15 Mile Post" is still in existence and is located just inside the fence of the Sandfield Cemetery at the Zebulon Baptist Church on Alabama State Highway 223. There are residents of the Ebenezer and Sandfield communities that remember the old-notched trees that once stood on the side of the road. That area of Pike County has been known as "Cross Roads Beat" since the earliest days of Pike County. This was the junction of two most important roads in Pike County the Three Notch Road and the Old Federal Post Road from Montgomery to Monticello and on to Fort Gaines, Georgia on the Chattahoochee River. The recorded history of the STANALAND family states that Hugh STANALAND (1794-1860/66) settled in Pike County, Alabama at the "15 Mile Post" on the Three Notch Road in about 1836. The history of the REEVES family states that John Hamilton REEVES (1811-1886) settled at the "14 Mile Post" on the Three Notch Road in about 1842. Both of these families lived in the Sandfield Community. The original 1831 plat of Monticello displays the layout of the Town, with the names of the various streets. There is no indication of a street or road named Three Notch. The minutes of the Pike County Court, at Monticello, consistently refer to the Three Notch Road as being at some distance from Monticello. An entry on 6 July 1829 stated in part: "Precinct No. 16 from Pike C H to the Three Notch Road to leave Monticello by the Street between George B. AUGUSTUS and Jesse COLEMAN, thence north to A MILES Mill, thence north to the three Notch Road to be a public highway of the 3rd grade, and Wiley UNDERWOOD overseer." An entry on 1 February 1830 stated in part: "Precienct no. 14 from Monticello to the 3 notch Road 3rd Grade, Laborn T. AUSTIN everseer." An entry on 6 February 1832 appointed James LOVE as the overseer of the road "From Monticello by Jesse T. REEVES' Mill to the Three Notch Road". At that time Jesse T. REEVES' mill was located in or near Section 18, Township 10 North, Range 23 East, St. Stephens Meridian, which is at least two miles north northeast of Monticello. In addition the Three Notch Road is mentioned in the "metes and bounds" description of the deed for the store property of Seaborn R. HICKMAN (corner of U. S. Highway 29 and the Needmore Road). Part of the old roadbed is still to be seen at the western end of the "Five Mile Curve", a few miles east of Union Hill Church on U. S. Highway 29. The Three Notch Road is also mentioned in deeds pertaining to the Westminster Presbyterian Church (Deed Book 30, Page 420) and the Sandfield Cemetery at the Zebulon Baptist Church (Deed Book 145, Page 889), both on Alabama State Highway 223 (Saco Road). According to the MORGAN family (of the Ebenezer Community) tradition, the large and ancient oak that presently (A. D. 2000) stands in front of Buren and Olene Griswold THOMPSON's house at the intersection of U. S. Highway 29 and Alabama State Highway 223 may be the "Turning Oak". It was at this point that the Three Notch Road left its southeasterly direction and turned toward the northeast. This turn enabled the traveler to follow the main spine of the Chunnenuggee Ridge, which ran through Ebenezer (Catalpa) and the Sandfield Community on its way to Blues Old Stand and to Fort Mitchell. In summary, the Three Notch Road enters Pike County from the south, following Alabama State Highway 21 from the Coffee County Line through Henderson (formerly Gainer's Store), Hephzibah, Allred, and into Troy (formerly Deer Stand Hill) where it then follows U. S. Highway 29 northeasterly, through Corcoran, and Dunn's Crossing, and then follows Alabama State Highway 223 (Saco Road) through the Hussey Settlement, past Westminster Church and the Hussey Cemetery, through Catalpa (Ebenezer, which was formerly Oates Cross Roads), through Sandfield (Zebulon) and then veers slightly eastward on Pike County Road 19 to Sellers' Cross Roads and to Blue's Old Stand in Bullock County. From Blue's Old Stand, the Three Notch Road crosses Bullock County and terminates at the Old Federal Road at Fort Mitchell in Russell County. Wm. Flake Joiner 311 East Church Street P. O. Box 406 Troy, AL 36081-0406 <wfjoiner@p-c-net.net> in Pike County, Alabama Daytime VOICE 334-566-9968 VOICE/FAX/DATA/MODEM 334-566-8250 "Progress was fine for a while; it just went on too long!" - Annette Shackelford Parks