Has anyone used this book in their research? Tuskaloosa's Own: A Short History and Muster Roll of Confederate Units From Tuskaloosa County, AL by Beasey S. Hendrix I ask this because I looked up my ancestor and then got his service record from the state Archives...and the book shows different info. I had wondered if anyone else had that similar experience.

I have a great aunt Fannie TURPIN, who was said to have been born retarded circa 1875 and said to have been taken as a child to Partlow to live out her life. She was never a secret in the family, but no one now living knows anything but the information I gave above. I called Partlow, and asked how to go about getting information on her. The lady I talked to said they would not even tell me if she had been a patient until I proved that I was the surviving responsible party. Now we are talking about some one who has been dead for close to a hundred years! The woman I talked to wanted me to send everybody's birth certificates, death certificates, everything. When I mentioned there were no birth certificates when this person was born, she just repeated that I needed to send these things or they wouldn't talk to me. I asked again, I thought politely, if she could just tell me if they had ever had a patient by that name in the late 1800s before I went to all this trouble. No way! I had to prove I was the responsible party. Now, my question. Did I just get a dyspeptic receptionist on a bad morning? Or is this really the law in Alabama? I'd really like to know before I start hauling my files out to the Xerox machine. Thanks, Alice Campbell

You're welcome Emmit! Uriah Smith is to believe to be my 5th great grandfather......My descendants starts with his son Archibald Smith...... Do you have any connections to the Hughes below.....Pearl was born in Blount County Alabama .....thanks kim Descendants of PEARL HOLLINGSWORTH 1 PEARL HOLLINGSWORTH 1891 - .. +HARLAN HUGHES ......... 2 CHRISTINE HUGHES ............. +UNKNOWN HEPINSTALL ......... 2 IRENE HUGHES ............. +UNKNOWN TIDEWELL ......... 2 IMOGENE HUGHES ............. +UNKNOWN OWENS ......... 2 JACK HUGHES ----- Original Message ----- From: Emmitt Channell <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:01 PM Subject: [ALTUSCAL] Uriah Smith > Kim: > > Thanks for posting that information about Blockton. If this is Uriah > Smith, father of two daughters who married Jesse Hughes, then he is my > 3rd great grandfather. I have many Hughes, Sutton and Channell and > related relatives in the Tuscaloosa area. I am finding more almost daily > and I am glad to hear from any of them. > > Emmitt Channell > > > ==== ALTUSCAL Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > 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 > >

Kim: Thanks for posting that information about Blockton. If this is Uriah Smith, father of two daughters who married Jesse Hughes, then he is my 3rd great grandfather. I have many Hughes, Sutton and Channell and related relatives in the Tuscaloosa area. I am finding more almost daily and I am glad to hear from any of them. Emmitt Channell

Kim, Thanks for posting this. For all of us separated from the Tuscaloosa by hundreds or thousands of miles: http://www.tuscaloosanews.com still has the story posted in the recent news section. Hank -----Original Message----- From: KM [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ALTUSCAL] west blockton in the tuscaloosa news for March 10th an article about West Blocton.....very interesting history.....here is a small paragraph that was written about one of our ancestors on the Smith..... kim Blocton, the company town, began about where Main Street ends today and encompassed about 8 square miles. West Blocton sprang up on land owned and subdivided by Uriah Smith. Since it was west of Blocton, he called it West Blocton. The town existed from the mid-1880s and incorporated in 1901. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/17326newsarchivedstorypage.html www.tuscaloosanews.com ==== ALTUSCAL Mailing List ==== ============================== 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

in the tuscaloosa news for March 10th an article about West Blocton.....very interesting history.....here is a small paragraph that was written about one of our ancestors on the Smith..... kim Blocton, the company town, began about where Main Street ends today and encompassed about 8 square miles. West Blocton sprang up on land owned and subdivided by Uriah Smith. Since it was west of Blocton, he called it West Blocton. The town existed from the mid-1880s and incorporated in 1901. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/17326newsarchivedstorypage.html www.tuscaloosanews.com

Hi Mary, Yes, Evensen Cemtery is linked to the Waldrops . Willis Eavenson was with Green Berry Waldrop in the early 1830s in Harris County,Georgia. They both settled in DeSoto County, Mississippi Green Berry Waldrop is buried in Eavensen Cemetery. The Benjamin , Green Berry and Joseph R. Waldrop are the line I am researching. Eavensen Cemetery is in DeSoto/Tate County It lists the a whole page of names, so anyone that might be looking in the DeSoto/Tate area just might find their family listed. My line of Waldrops are related to the Thorntons, Scotts and Walker and others on that page. I have found my Waldrops on other lists while looking for another member of my family. I researched for my JRW for 8 years and one day I set him aside to help a friend whose family was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, never thinking to look for JRW there, after a month of helping the friend.....there he(JRW's family) was , his family,(Ezekiel Waldrop Green Berry's brother)they were living in Tuscaloosa , which led to finding my JRW in DeSoto County, Mississippi. My scanner is new and I have to add something for it to work. So, I tried to reply it and also forward it but it didn't work. I send in information to the Waldrop list with other's names, in hopes someone will find their family listed. I will have to go back and check but there was a Waldrop that left Tuscaloosa Alabama, Tuscaloosa County to join the fighting in the Civil Warbv. His group from Alabama all came down with measels and could't leave. When they did leave they had to join a Company from Tenn. So if any one was looking for him in Alabama , he was fighting with Tenn. I will look his name up today and post it. He was a Waldrop. Sandra I was just sharing many names in that area that might help someone. Sandra Mary wrote: >Hi Sandra, >Saw your post, but I'm confused. Is it suppose to be the link to names >of Waldrops.??? >Mary > >

>Waldrop listing Eavenson Cemetery > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > <cid:[email protected]> > > > >

I just optain a picture of the #5 Limestone mine - MUSWDA? Bessemer, Alabama.....1938 i only know 2 people in the picture....thought any of you cuzins might knew a relative that worked that mine about that year.....let me know if you want me email you a copy....dont know how clear it will come out.... kim

HI, CUZIN SHUTTLESWORTH! A descendant of LUCRETIA SHUTTLESWORTH & JAMES K. POLK HUBBARD contacted me......she ok'd putting how she is descendant.....Lucretia & James has another daugher named AMERICA ELIZABETH HUBBARD MARRIED TO EARLY REATHERAGE EILLIS....... below is what she has written......her email at the bottem.... Kim I know you have no idea who I am but you have put in a family that I have just found out that I am descended from. Here goes. My name is Johnnie Genelle Mitchell Windham Watts. b 12-27-1939 in Hill County Texas My mother is Leamone Rosetta Ellis Mitchell. b 10-21-1907 in Navarro County Texas, d 11-16-1969 in Ellis County Texas. My father is John William Mitchell. born 2-5-1900 in Hill County Texas d 9-20-1999 in Collin County Texas. They married 12-23-1922 in Navarro County Texas. My grandparents, mother's parents, are Early Reatherage Ellis. born 12-19-1869 in Alabama and America Elizabeth Hubbard. born 9-17-1872 in Alabama d. 8-1916 (near Hubbard) Hill County Texas or (near Dawson) Navarro County Texas. They married 9-11-1892 in Navarro County Texas My great grandparents were Lucretia Shuttlesworth and James K. Polk Hubbard If you are interested, I would love to correspond with you. We have just found out who Lucretia and James K. Polk are and we are excite to find that someone has this on the web. I am looking forward to hearing from you and where do you live. We live in Peoria, a small community near Hillsboro, Hill County Texas. Thanks again for what you have done. Your cuz, Johnnie Watts [email protected]

I'm trying to find information concerning my family that came to Tuscaloosa from VA/TN. I obtained a death certificate for my g-grandfather William Dean. He died in 1943. I tried to get one for my g-grandmother Frances Fugett Dean who died in 1965, but they were unable to locate one for her. I thought it was strange since she died more recently. My g-grandparents lived in Brookwood and are buried at West Brookwood cemetery. I am at a dead end. I cannot locate his parents(David A. Dean and Sarah Kilgore) or where he was born. What would be a next step for me? Thanks for the help, Leslie Dean

Looking for any information about my GGrandFather Leonard H. Bullock b. abt 1849 died 21 Aug 1908 in Tuscaloosa. Leonard also served with the 46th Al Infantry, Co H. and was wounded at Bakers Creek. If anyone also has a City Directory for 1908, would appreciate a look up there too. Thank You, Bob Parker

I've been reading with interest all about the graves at Bryce Hospital. Does anybody know about Partlow? Family records and legends say that my great aunt Fannie TURPIN was born retarded and was finally placed at Partlow after her father died and her mother could not take care of her. I've been meaning to write them to see if they have any records, but does anybody know if there was/is a graveyard there? Thanks, Alice Campbell

I don't remember any pt. names and we spent time in many different wards of the hospital - Wish I could help. Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 12:43 AM Subject: [ALTUSCAL] Re: ALTUSCAL-D Digest V02 #30 > Caroline, > My grandfather was there in the late 60's. His name was Thomas Wesley > Arnold. He died at Bryce, but was moved to Pisgah, AL for burial. Did you > know him? > > His daughter, Pauline, told me that her mother's father and sister were > buried in pauper's graves in Tuscaloosa. I believe his name was George Hall. > According to census records, she could have been Nancy, Charsley, Greeny, > Cricket, Susey, Jeals or Martha. I found a record of where Charlsey Hall > died in Tuscloosa Dec 3, 1919. Could be the correct daughter since it's an > unusual name. She would have been 39 years old.......Gail > > ______________________________

Hi, DJ No, sorry. my grandmother name is ILA ESTELLA LEWIS MALONE m. JOHN MEADOW (MEDDER) MALONE (MELLOWN). I was told Betty Jean/jJane Mellown (Malone) locked herself up in a room some how the fire started......she lived for 5 days, i think. they couldnt get to her.....my grandmother's mother was MAMIE (MARY ETTA) HOWARD LEWIS m. EARLIE RANDOLPH LEWIS..... Your Velma sound familar, maybe seeing it on this site.... Kim ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 8:33 PM Subject: Re: Fw: [ALTUSCAL] Re: ALTUSCAL-D Digest V02 #29 > Kim, this sounds so like Velma Lodelia Dockery Guy. Is that who you're > writing about who died at Bryce's? Her youngest daughter Snow caught her > clothes on fire while standing by the washpot. > > DJ

Caroline, My grandfather was there in the late 60's. His name was Thomas Wesley Arnold. He died at Bryce, but was moved to Pisgah, AL for burial. Did you know him? His daughter, Pauline, told me that her mother's father and sister were buried in pauper's graves in Tuscaloosa. I believe his name was George Hall. According to census records, she could have been Nancy, Charsley, Greeny, Cricket, Susey, Jeals or Martha. I found a record of where Charlsey Hall died in Tuscloosa Dec 3, 1919. Could be the correct daughter since it's an unusual name. She would have been 39 years old.......Gail

Hi, Gail. You're welcome. No, there is no shame in being mental ill, From what i was told about my great grandmother being in Bryce, she felt so secure there, that she never wanted to leave, (to i was told that my great grandfather may have been mean to her, havent been confirm, my grandmother wrote about her father being a very good father, of course most of her and sister and brothers were scattered to different relatives, while mother was in Bryce. really became ill after having her last child, I would think she had that Post Partimum Depression (PPD) i think i said this right. and one of her son's was born kind of disfigured, and had a mine of child has he gotten older, but i was told he was pretty smart, i would guess, no thought he couldnt learn so, why bother teaching him, but my grandmother went to livingston college to become a teacher, and she had taught him a few things.....he too was in Bryce for being disfigured and mind of a child......I was told that my great grandmother had fallen when she was pregnant with him....that is how he became the way he was.... My grandmother spent time in Bryce, she lost a 5 year daughter in a fire. and never really over came it......she went in after her husband died in 1969 - early 1970's.....her daughter died in 1930's.... I am hoping to get my father and my aunt to go with me and help me to optain some medical records of my grandmother, brother and mother, to see what they were treated for..... kim ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 3:27 PM Subject: [ALTUSCAL] Re: ALTUSCAL-D Digest V02 #29 > Thanks KM, > > Thanks for posting the Bryce Hospital Graves. I believe I have two ancestors > buried at Bryce Hospital. They require a death certificate showing name of > deceased and showing they died at Bryce. I don't know one of the names, only > that she was a daughter of my ancestor. Then you have to make an appointment > and go there to view microfilm before obtaining information. I sincerely > hope they make all names available to the public. There is no shame in being > mentally ill. Most of these persons could be helped today with > medication......Gail > > > ==== ALTUSCAL Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > 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 >

Thanks KM, Thanks for posting the Bryce Hospital Graves. I believe I have two ancestors buried at Bryce Hospital. They require a death certificate showing name of deceased and showing they died at Bryce. I don't know one of the names, only that she was a daughter of my ancestor. Then you have to make an appointment and go there to view microfilm before obtaining information. I sincerely hope they make all names available to the public. There is no shame in being mentally ill. Most of these persons could be helped today with medication......Gail

Thanks for letting us know about the article. As a nursing student in the late 60's I spent 3 months at Bryce - it was a great experience for most of us as well as having great food, beautiful spring weather, etc. Often we would walk thru the back field to the cemetery; sometimes take a picnic lunch to eat there. This was, of course, before the road was built so most of the markers were still there. Even then it was in disrepair, mostly with grass, etc. Think I have a picture of it. So glad its being restored. Caroline in Prattville ----- Original Message ----- From: "KM" <>[email protected] To: <> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 6:35 AM Subject: [ALTUSCAL] BRYCE PATIENT'S GRAVES > Thought those o f you in other states looking for surnames, would be > interested in this article........click on the site below or go to > www.tuscaloosanews.com > go to the recent news ........ I have a great Uncle Buried at Bryce Grave > cite..... > > > > TUSCALOOSA | It may not be much, but dignity often comes in small ways. > > After decades of having their identities hidden from public view, the scores > of mentally ill people who have died at Bryce Hospital will soon have their > names added to the numbered, nameless markers erected over their graves. > > > http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/16991newsarchivedstorypage.ht ml >

Thought those o f you in other states looking for surnames, would be interested in this article........click on the site below or go to www.tuscaloosanews.com go to the recent news ........ I have a great Uncle Buried at Bryce Grave cite..... TUSCALOOSA | It may not be much, but dignity often comes in small ways. After decades of having their identities hidden from public view, the scores of mentally ill people who have died at Bryce Hospital will soon have their names added to the numbered, nameless markers erected over their graves. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/stories/16991newsarchivedstorypage.html