Does anyone know anything about Hester? She is mentioned in a diary kept by my grandfather (and her cousin), William Elmer Patterson, around 1915-16. Descendants of Benjamin E. Patterson 1 Benjamin E. Patterson b: 6 Apr 1871 Fayette Co. AL; d: 8 Jun 1912 Fayette Co. AL; Burial: Alabama; Tuscaloosa Co.; Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery on Moman Road; Father: John Ledford Patterson; Mother: Lucy Lonia Jones .. +(1st) Ida Williamson; m: Fayette, AL .. +(2nd) Peninnah D. Smelly b: 6 Aug 1873 AL; d: 26 Aug 1907 Fayette Co. AL; m: 1 May 1892 Fayette Co. AL ....... 2 Hester Patterson b: Mar 1893 ....... 2 Belton Patterson b: Mar 1896 Alabama; Fayette Co.; d: Aft. Jan 1920 ........... +Lela ? b: Alabama ....... 2 Titus Patterson b: Jan 1899 Margaret Lindsey Smith mlsmith67@earthlink.net

On the 1930 federal census of Gadsden,Etawah,Al employment is listed "brade mill" for several persons. Is this a misspelled word or was there a braid factory there? Or what? Thank you,Jean

The Night Group of the Tuscaloosa Genealogy Society is pleased to announce that on February 6 Joan Kirchman Mitchell, Ph.D. will present the first of two programs on nonpopulation census schedules that will include the Agricultural & Manufacturing Schedules of the Federal Census. You are cordially invited to attend our meeting on Thursday, February 6th, at 7 PM at the Tuscaloosa Public Library in the Rotary Room. She is a former President and Vice President of The Night Group of Tuscaloosa Genealogy Society. Dr. Mitchell is a graduate of Radford College (VA) and holds graduate degrees from the University of Alabama. She taught at the collegiate level for 35 years and has been a family historian and genealogical lecturer for about 25 years. Dr. Mitchel is a former Director of Samford University's Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research. She lectures and conducts workshops nationally on family health history and genealogy. Please contact us if you have questions. Charlotte Tucker, Member, Night Group TGS.

I'm sorry. This is not a genealogy question even though I am into genealogy as it involves Tuscaloosa County very much. I have gotten into collecting milk bottles from the various dairies in Tuscaloosa County and the surrounding counties as a hobby. I have found that I know very little (actually nothing) about the histories of these dairies and I don't know where I might go for help. So I thought of you as I know there are some good historians on this site when it comes to Tuscaloosa and Tuscaloosa County. Does anyone on the list know anything about the history of the Colonial, Delview, Perry Pride and Southern dairies that were in Tuscaloosa at one time. I would like to know anything that anyone might be willing to share about them such as when were they in existance, where were they located, who owned them, when did they go out of business, etc. Also, I would like to know if there were more dairies in Tuscaloosa that bottled milk. Thanks in advance for your help as any light you might be able to shed on this subject would be greatly appreciated. Larry McCray email address: pmccray@mound.net John DeBardeleben wrote: > Here is the corrected link > http://www.interment.net/column/commentary/19990915.htm > > > > ==== ALTUSCAL Mailing List ==== > Tuscaloosa, Alabama AlGenWeb Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~altuscal > send comments to cgerdau@hotmail.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

The Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society is having a membership drive. If you're trying to do research from the Northeast Alabama area we invite you to join us. The dues are $15.00 a year. We mail out 4 magazines a year that pertain to the Northeast part of Alabama. We would like for you to send us a pedigree chart and if you would like to have a query in a future magazine please put it in with your application. We run pedigree charts and quires free to members. If we can be of help to any of our members that do not live in this area, we would like to hear from you. We are located in Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama. Please send me your name and snail mail address for one of our applications, looking forward to working with you. Gail Brown, Secretary Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society

Thanks everybody. I got a wonderful bunch of suggestions. Nothing has panned out yet, but I'm still working on some of them. The most amazing thing is that thru this bunch of suggestions I have been led to several things I've been looking for off and on for years - things I thought I'd never find. Serendipity strikes again. I guess one never finds what one is looking for, just what one needs to find at the moment. Thanks everybody! ps This one is cross posted too.

Have you tried the Library of Congress? They are on-line with a resource catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov Robin J.

Hi group, For those of you who are new to the list or net, I have thousands of early Alabama marriages online from over a dozen Alabama counties including Tuscaloosa. They are listed at: Alabama Marriages Before 1825: http://www.censusdiggins.com/alabama_marriages.html Happy Searchin' Brenda Webmaster CensusDiggins.com http://www.censusdiggins.com Home of FREE databases and GenStuff GiveAway. Alabama Census Finder - Links to free census online: http://www.censusfinder.com/alabama.htm

[This is cross-posted to several lists] I'm looking for a document/book/source mentioned in Lee Forney Crawford's book William Webb Crawford, Dean of Birmingham Bankers. In documenting the life of Judge Henry Young Webb, she used as a source "Webb's, William Peter, Memoir of Henry Y. Webb (From a copy)". None of the family members (hers or his) I have talked to have any knowledge of this item. Neither has the Birmingham Public Library. I need to try in Greene Co., where Wm. Peter Webb lived, or perhaps Tuscalooa, or Hale Co., where the Judge lived. I would appreciate hearing from anybody with any helpful ideas of locating this item. TIA, Alice

I found a family of Kay's living in Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama in the Western District on page 600 of the 1860 census. They were on line 43-42. They were: JOHN T. KAY, age 35, male, Farm Manager, born in Georgia. REBECCA KAY, age 27, female, born in South Carolina JAMES KAY, age 8, male, born in Georgia ______KAY, age 5, male, born in Alabama [ seemed strange to just be a blank MARY V. KAY, age 1, born in Alabama. Then I found a JOHN T. KAY, Civil War Soldiers records--Confederate side, infantry, 41st Regiment, Alabama Infantry. I would like to find someone who is a descendant of this family or might know something about them. I think that JOHN T. KAY could be my GGG Grandfather. My GG Grandmother was EMMA MALISSA KAY who was born on August 12, 1862 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. according to our Bible records. She had a brother named ELIJAH KAY who was born in 1861 in Alabama and they had a little sister named LUCY KAY who was born in Sept. of 1865 who was mentally retarded caused by a high fever. I know that there were two older sisters also at least if not others. EMMA KAY and her sister LUCY KAY were taken in by the family of JOSEPH EARLY LITTLE and raised after being orphaned. The Little's also lived in Alabama during the Civil War time. The Little's had 6 sons. One of the older sons, JOHN W. LITTLE married two of Emma Kay's sisters. One of them was named MARY KAY and he and Mary had a son named JOE LITTLE. He was also married to another Kay sister but no one seems to know what her name was. I think he was married to her before marrying Mary and this other sister died and he then married Mary Kay. All of the Little family moved to Mississippi, mostly to Chickasaw Co., Miss. and Mary Kay Little died there and John W. Little married two more times in his lifetime. The rest of the Little family moved to Milam County, Texas but John W. Little was the only one to stay in Mississippi. EMMA KAY married the youngest son of JOSEPH EARLY LITTLE and his wife SALINA DODSON LITTLE. His name was RICHARD NEWMAN LITTLE. Emma and Newman Little were my Great Great Grandparents. JOHN T. KAY and his family are the only Kay's that I can find in Tusculoosa Co., Ala. in 1860 and their youngest daughter was named Mary so I am thinking that maybe this could be the long lost parents of my Emma Malissa Kay. I found Elijah Kay, age 8 in the 1870 census in Bibb County, Ala. living with a family named Griffin or Griffith. He was the right age to be our Elijah Kay. I also found a little girl named Lucy Kay, the same age as our Lucy living with an ELIZABETH KAY who was a little older then REBECCA KAY was and this Elizabeth Kay was also born in South Carolina. This was in Perry Co., Ala. in the 1870 census. There was an older girl also living there named Martha Kay. I am wondering if this could be the other sister who married John W. Little? I could not find Emma in the 1870 census with the Little's or anywhere. This Elizabeth Kay who had Lucy and Martha was living right next door to the family of Joseph Early Little who eventually raised Emma and Lucy Kay. I don't know what the relationship was between Elizabeth Kay and the others in her household. This is all that I know about this Kay family except that my great uncle told me that he thought that his grandmother, Emma Kay Little, had told him that her family came from England or he said it could have been Ireland but he thought it was England. A lot of Kays did come from England so I think that is likely. Any help on this family would be much appreciated. Jane Little McEndree janemc@airmail.net

I now have over 100 personal WebPages to my Alabama genealogy site: http://huntsville.about.com/cs/genealogy1/index.htm You're invited to come to our Monday night chats for one hour starting at 9 pm Eastern; 8 pm Central http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm If you need instructions or would like a weekly reminder, just send me an email. Jean Brandau huntsville2@comcast.net

The Alabama Genealogical Society is pleased to announce Mr. Curt Witcher, is the speaker for the Society's Spring Seminar. Mr. Witcher is manager of the Historical Genealogy Department of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Witcher is also President of the National Genealogical Society. AGS Seminar: Saturday, May 3, 2003 "Eclectic Genealogical Sleuthing" Brock Forum, Dwight Beeson Hall Samford University, Birmingham TOPICS: "Fingerprinting Our Families: Using Ancestral Origins as a Genealogical Research Key" Topics covered in this lecture include how to build a historical context . . .paying attention to all sorts of patterns (naming, migration, etc.) and locating repositories for various ethnic groups. "Using Government Documents for Genealogical Research" State and local government documents are also covered. "An Ancestor's Death - A time for Reaping". This talk spotlights numerous "happenings" surrounding an individual's death that can generate records. "Pain in the Access: Getting More from the Internet for Your Genealogy". This presentation will demonstrate sites and strategies for getting more meaningful data from the web. For additional information, please contact Jyl Hardy, President, at jylhardy@bellsouth.net

Jeff Thomson, Thanks for responding to my query. I would be interested in any military info on the Yerby men in the 41st AL Inf. CSA. If you reply, include your E-mail address so that I can correspond directly with you, not through the Rootsweb address. "In search of those who walked this way before me." Hildred Carlson

Hi, to everyone! Is any body working search of JIM (JAMES) GRIFFIN married to JODY BATES sometime before 1897....had a daughter named LETTIE LEWTISHIE GRIFFIN born abt. 1897.....married HUGH CALVIN CALLAHAN...... they lived around Kellerman, Brookwood, Vance area Tuscaloosa co.....may even lived around Bibb Co...... Thanks Kim

Subject: Architreats Program Thursday, Jan 16 at noon "Did the Civil War Create A New Southern Woman?" will be presented by George Rable at the Architreats: Food for Thought program on Thursday, Jan. 16th at 12:05 PM in the Ala. Dept. of Archives & History's Milo Howard Auditorium. Rable explores the effects of the war on families and the new roles held by women. Relying on the words of women themselves, this presentation focuses on women's expectations during the War of Northern Agression, as they reacted to wartime events and contemplated the changes in their own lives. Included are stories of women who remained on farms or plantations, volunteered in hospitals, or worked in factories and government offices. Rable compares these new challenges with how women dealt with the problems and sacrifices forced on their families by the war itself. George Rable is the Charles Summersell Professor of Southern History at the Univ. of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. in history from LSU. Rable's research is on the Civil War era and has written numerous books on the subject. The noontime program is one in a series of monthy third-Thursday free lectures at the Archives sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation. Bring a sack lunch: coffee and tea will be provided by the Friends of the Archives.

Dear List-Mates: Please join me and some other Alabama researchers for an all-state Alabama genealogy chat on Monday night: http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm 9 pm Eastern; 8 pm Central Everyone who is researching in Alabama is welcome to attend. If you've never been to a chat, this is the one for you! If you need detailed instructions, just send me an email and I'll send them to you. If you'd like to be reminded every week, let me know and I'll send you a reminder. Hope to see you Monday evening for a night of new discoveries and information sharing! Jean Brandau huntsville2@comcast.net

The Autauga Genealogical Society will meet in Prattville at the Prattville Library on Sunday, January 19, at 2:00 p.m. The program, "Using Vital Records in Family Research", will be presented by LARRY E. CAVER, JR. Larry has written several books and is very knowledgeable about genealogy research. The February meeting will be on Sunday, February 16. ROBERT S. DAVIS, JR., Director of the Family and Regional History Program at Wallace State Junior College in Hanceville, Alabama, will be our guest speaker. He has published more than 600 articles and 30 books and is a nationally recognized teacher of genealogy research. His most recent book, "Tracing Your Alabama Past", is a comprehensive reference book on Alabama research. He will not be able to sell this book at the meeting but it can be purchased through local book stores or the Univ. of Mississippi Press. He will have some of his other books for sale at the meeting. Copies of his most recent book will be available to preview and I'm sure he will be glad to autograph his new book if you have already purchased a copy. We are sorry that copies of any program materials cannot be mailed to those unable to attend our meetings. Visitors are always welcome. See you on the 19th. Caroline Horton, President Autauga Genealogical Society

I need the census info given on the 1840 Tuscaloosa Co. AL Census records for JAMES E. YERBY. Believe he lived in or near Northport, AL. Thanks, Hildred Carlson

Merry Christmas Everyone. I was thinking about my grandmother, Jessie Mae Shuttlesworth Carnes, when I came across this poem. My grandmother has been gone for 7 yrs now. And my husband lost his grandfather on Christmas Eve 1997. And my husband grandmothers birthday was on Christmas Eve. She died a couple weeks before Thanksgiving 1998. It seems like every holiday something has happened to a friend or a loved one that have touched our hearts in someway. I don't mean to affend anyone, but I came across this poem and thought I would share. I felt like the people I was thinking about was speaking to me thru this poem...... Kim Merry Christmas From Heaven I will hear the songs I still see the lights I still feel your love On cold wintery nights I still share your hopes And all of your cares I'll even remind you To pleas say your prayers. I just want to tell you You still make me proud You stand head and shoulders Above all the crowd Keep trying each moment To stay in His grace I came here before you To help set your place You don't have to be Perfect all of the time He forgives you the slip If you continue the climb To my family and friends Please be thankful today I'm still close beside you In a new special way I love you all dearly Now don't shed a tear Cause I'm spending my Christmas with Jesus this year Unplubished work. By john wm. Mooney, jr. In the book of personal creations.

tuscaloosa is on western side of state abt 50 miles from columbus ms interstate 20\59 run east & west hwy 82 ru thur it to west of birmingham BBarkes barkesms@webtv.net bbarkesms@hotmail.com clay co ms