these sites explain who were the MELUNGEONS and more about the groups http://www.unkans.edu/heritage/cousin/melungeon.html http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/101997/forgins.html

I this from another list some of you may already have these if not hope this might help. laveta Bell Witch http://posiedon.tnstate.edu/bwitch/HOME.HTML http://www.prairieghosts.com/b-cave.html Creepy witch/poltergeist story ______________________________________________ CREEPY LINKS AND RESOURCES Death/Tod http://www.totentanz.de/index.htm Links here to everything dead--including obituaries, and a huge collection of cemeteries at: http://www.totentanz.de/cemetery.htm Cemeteries, Gravestones, Obituaries, etc. http://members.tripod.com/~wnyroots/index-cdir3.htm Report any suspicious activity in cemeteries this weekend (or any time) to local police. Someone's ancestors are buried in there and their grave deserves the same respect that you wish for your ancestors'. ~ Volunteer to help transcribe a local cemetery. We are losing much of the information available in cemeteries to the ravages of time and vandalism. We need to act now to preserve what is there. More cemetery links: Political Graveyard http://politicalgraveyard.com/ How to Transcribe Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/howto.html Guidelines for Cemetery Books from the Georgia Genealogical Society http://www.america.net/~ggs/ggscem.htm Connecticut Gravestone Network http://members.aol.com/ctgravenet/index.htm Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/ Graveyards of Chicago http://www.graveyards.com/ Those with an appetite for ghostly pictures will want to check out the link to Bachelor's Grove. Reputed to be one of the most haunted cemeteries in the Chicago area, there is a mysterious image of a woman in the photo at: http://www.graveyards.com/bachelors/6.htm

Hi! You are all cordially invited to join an all new type of genealogy organization. It's called the Arkansas Family History Association and it's headed up by Desmond Walls Allen, Cathy Barnes, Kathy Hudson, Euna Beavers, Rita Bryant, Lisa Shearin, Joe Goss, Ellen Bard and Gail Lies. Best of all there are NO membership dues! AFHA is a FREE association dedicated to helping all genealogists find answers to their questions. We offer limited FREE lookups along with advice from our panel of Arkansas research experts. A list of free sources will be online soon on our website. To subscribe to the list, send an email to: AFHA-L-Request@Rootsweb.com In the message only type the following: subscribe AFHA will be holding monthly seminars at the Central Arkansas Main Library sponsored by the Richard C. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. Our first lecture is scheduled for January 16 from 1:30pm-4:30. Our speaker will be Desmond Walls Allen whom many of you already know from the PBS Ancestor's series. Members may attend the lecture for $10 in advance, $12 at the door or $40 to attend all six lectures. For more information, either email me at converse@swbell.net or call 501-835-7502. We plan to offer many additional features and our website should be online shortly at http://www.rootsweb.com/~arfha We'd love for you to join us! Tracey Converse FREE Genealogy Forms Online!!! http://www.ancestrycorner.com We Specialize in ARKANSAS books! **************************************************** Listowner of: the GRS E-Zine, GenTips, GenChat, GenSwap Webmaster of the Central Arkansas Library System http://www.cals.lib.ar.us ******************************************************

If someone has the time to do a marriage lookup I would appreciate it very much. The bride would be Mrs. Polly Grant to ? Sitterely. The dates to check would be between 1890 and 1900. I think 1897 is the year but it is just a guess. I would also like to see if there is a divorce decree for James Grant and Allie Winton Grant. The year would be 1909. I will gladly pay all cost, copying, postage, and transportation. Thank you very much, yvonne ____________________________ reply to henson@rmi.net web page: http://www.rmi.net/~henson Names I am researching: BRENT(S), GRANT, EDMON(D)SON, HENSON, MCARTHUR ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.

I found these last nite searching for other site. You may already have these but if not they might help. SC GEN. RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET http://prioris.dcr.state.nc.us/iss/gr/SCSource.htm SC TROOPS http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/lineage/sc.htm WAKEFIELD MARRIAGE INDEX (96 DISTRICT ) http://www.cityscope.net/~daryl/wake-f.html INDEX PAGE FOR GEN. AND TN http://www.web.top100.by.net/genny1/genweb.html WORLD MAILING LISTS http://listserv.northwest.com/~haight/worldframe.htm CHEROKEE GENEALOGY LINKS http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/JJF/johncherokeez.html

Hello list members -- It has been a few weeks since I posted this and I have some new information so I am trying again. I want to first apologize for the length of this request. I am providing ALL the information that I have. If anyone has any suggestions or recognizes any of the names I would deeply appreciate any/all help in solving this puzzle. I am researching my husbands side of the family. His g-grandmother was suppose to be a Cherokee Indian. I have no proof of this or any evidence to suggest that this is true, only family stories. I do not know where she was born or who her parents were. The only evidence I have of her life is two marriage licenses one for 1890(Jackson County) and one for 1897(Conway County) and the 1900(Conway County), 1910(Yell County), 1920(Lonoke County) census records. She was born 1870 - 1873, maybe as late as 1875 died 1942. (I have been unable to locate a death certificate on her only an obituary no social security either.) She was married 3 times and had children by all three husbands. All her children are deceased. She lived all her life in AR as far as I can tell (according to the census records). She may have been born in OK, but it would have been before OK became a state. The names I have are as follows: Dora Adeline GRANT (1st marriage), M MALONE, (children) Pearl married a HAIL/HALE, Myrtle b ~1892 married W F PAINE/PAYNE (2nd marriage), Noah Strong EDMON(D)SON, (children) Houston Grantson married Mabel MCARTHUR, Charlie married Rose SENBILL (3rd marriage), Joseph Wesley CARLOCK, (children) Ruby several marriages, Hurbert married a FRY She had two brothers, JAMES and WAIN GRANT. I just found them listed in 1900 soundex for Welborn township, Conway county! As being enumerated with POLLY SITTERLEY, listed as mother and head of house. (NOTE: I found in vol5 of Cherokee by blood an application about the Sitterley name. The person is admitted and stated that the grandfather was born in North Carolina.) I have a marriage license for Jim (Jas) GRANT to MRS. ALLIE WINTON August 7, 1903, Conway County. He is listed as 21 years of Cardon Bottom in Yell county. She is listed as 25 same place. Where is/was Cardon Bottom? I also have on for Wain (Wayne) GRANT to MATTIE GRAMBLE February 14, 1903, Conway County. He is listed as 23 years of Atkins in Pope county. She is listed as 29 same place. James GRANT listed as head of household in the 1910 census for Wilson Township, Yell county. He is listed as 25 years old, divorced and married for 6 years. (The years were crossed out.) Also listed in this house was a Polly SITTERLEY. She was listed as his mother, 50 years old, widowed, mother of 6 children with 3 living. Also in the household was a Myrtle MALONE, niece, 18 years of age and single. In the margin of the census form was a notation Negro Ridge Pond. Does anyone know where this place was/is? On the same census 9 visits above is Dora Adeline GRANT, married to Joseph Wesley CARLOCK. However I do not believe Polly is Dora's mother IF the ages listed are even close! But there is also a notation on the margin of her census record, Lower Petit Jean River Road. Does anyone know where this place is/was? Are any of these people familiar to anyone? Does anyone recognize the SITTERLEY name? How about a cemetery somewhere with this name in it? ANY suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you to every one in advance for any help that I receive. Thank you for taking the time to read my post. yvonne ____________________________ reply to henson@rmi.net web page: http://www.rmi.net/~henson Names I am researching: BRENT(S), GRANT, EDMON(D)SON, HENSON, MCARTHUR ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.

Obituary of James Henry Hager James H. Hager was borned May 3, 1849, died February 15, 1900, at the age of 50 Years 9 months and 12 days. He obeyed the Gospel at the age of 17 years and has lived a faithful life in ever sense. He was married to Miss Nancy Franks in 1876, to them was borned eleven children, nine girls and two boys. Six of them died in childhood. The writer was at his bed side when he breathed his last farewell. “Brother Hager farewell, thou hast paid thy last debt and when we are called to Heaven we hope to meet.” J.C.C. Bunker ========== I am looking for the burial place of James Henry Hager. Dick D. Fox Lockhart, Texas dickdfox@lycosmail.com

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IRENE 50 years of KY OBIT SCAPBOOK http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/woodford/obits/irene/index.html CHRISTINES GENEALOGY http://ccharity.com/contributors/vaiden.htm FALLER http://www.cpcug.org/user/wderoche/faller.html KS INDEX http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/index.html DARK SIDE OF THE NET (US cemetery listings like you've never seen) http://www.darklinks.com/dcemetery.html YALE CEMETERY LISTINGS http://library.pittstate.edu/docs/PSU/yale.html

There will be an Everton's Genealogy Workshop held in Morrilton, AR on Saturday, October 30. Registration begins at 8AM, workshop begins at 9AM and goes until approximately 4PM. The cost of the workshop is $24. This will also include a subscription to the Everton's Genealogical Helper. We still have spaces to fill for the workshop. If you are interested in attending the workshop or would simply like to subscribe to the Genealogical Helper please contact the following this week. Conway County Genealogical Association Everton Workshop 20 Rocky Point Road Morrilton, AR 72110 501-354-4428 bbeavers@mev.net We appreciate any help in successfully meeting our quota of registrants. Euna

Cemeteries of Conway County, Vol. 1-Includes Bentley, Cedar Falls, Higgins, Martin and Petit Jean Townships (all of Conway County south of the Arkansas River)-73 pages, softbound---Cost: $10.00 plus $2.00 S&H. Cemeteries of Conway County, Vol. 2-Includes Welborn Township (Morrilton area through Blackwell)-203 pages, softbound---Cost: $15.00 plus $3.00 S&H. Cemeteries of Conway County, Vol. 4-Includes Austin, Bird, Catholic Point, Howard, Lick Mountain, Steele and Union Townships (Eastern side of Conway County)-250 pages, softbound---Cost: $20.00 plus $3.00 S&H. Each volume compiled by the Conway County Genealogical Association and includes all information found on the stones in the cemeteries plus other bits of information gathered from family members. One more volume to follow soon. Order from: Conway County Genealogical Association Cemetery Book Project 20 Rocky Point Road Morrilton, AR 72110 Email bbeavers@mev.net

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Looking for descendants of Nancy Carolyn Stroud b. 8/31/1873 Conway County, AR d.1913-1920? Nancy was the daughter of John Hicks Stroud and Nancy Jane Cunningham. She first married John Cagle Vaughan 9/9/1889. They had the following 4 children: 1. Willie Vaughan b. 1892 AR 2. Guy McKinley Vaughan b. 1893 TX d. 1980 Conway Co., AR 3. Earl Hicks Vaughan b. 1896 AR d. 1963 Dover, Pope Co., AR 4. Johnnie Dell Vaughan b. 1897 AR d. 1925 OK John Cagle Vaughan was murdered abt. 1899 in Conway Co., AR, and she remarried Robert Ramsey, a neighbor after 1900. Nancy and Robert had at least 3 children, possibly more: 1. Andrew J. (Jack?) Ramsey b. abt. 1902 Conway Co., AR 2. Ernie L. Ramsey b. 1/10/1904 Conway Co., ARd. 1894 in Ada, OK . She married William Duel Chism in 1921 3. Ben Ramsey b.5/24/1910 d. 1986 OK He married Cloe. Both Ernie and Ben had children and grandchildren living in AR, OK, and Texas. Any information on any of these families is appreciated. Or if you know of anyone who may, please forward them this request. Thanks. -- Lisa C. Shearin Conway County, AR Mailing List Admin Conway County, AR Web Page Admin http://www.rootsweb.com/~arconway/ Mailing List Admin for: WOMBLE; KARNES; KARNS; SHEARIN; & GROSS Arkansas Vaughan/Vaughn Web Page Admin http://users.ticnet.com/lisasgensite Help save Old Lake Graveyard, Dover, Pope Co., AR. Oldest known burial is 1830. Contact me for further information: lshearin@ticnet.com

Will we make the same mistakes our ancestors did? Have you written down important and trivial info for your grandchildren such as: 1. Favorite: color, book, music, movie, etc. 2. Schools you went to. 3. Your parents info: maiden names, birth/death days, sibling/parents. 4. Military, clubs, groups, occupation. 5. Hobbies, games, sports, travels 6. Favorite food, recipes 7. Where you met your spouse 8. Childhood memories 9. Faith 10. Hair color, the color of your eyes, height 11. Where you lived as a child. 12. Anything else you may think of, that you wish you knew about the ancestors you are searching. "....memories of Old Souls float gently like a whispered dream....."~laveta~

We would like to invite you to attend the Eureka Springs, AR. Historical Museum Genealogy Seminar Nov. 5 - 6. Vendors will be open to the public on Sat. Nov 6. Please make reservations early as seating is limited. For more information please visit: http://member.aol.com/genseminar/index.htm Kathy

Hello list members -- I have a small chink in my brick wall for my Grants and would like to ask several questions regarding the new information that I discovered yesterday. I found a James Grant as head of household in the 1910 census for Wilson Township, Yell county. He is listed as 25 years old, divorced and married for 6 years. (The years were crossed out.) Also listed in this house was a Polly Sittesley (Sittersley(?)). She was listed as his mother, 50 years old, widowed, mother of 6 children with 3 living. Also in the household was a Myrtle Malone, niece, 18 years of age and single. In the margin of the census form was a notation Negro Ridge Pond. Does anyone know where is place was/is? On the same census 9 visits above is the woman I am searching for Dora Adeline Grant, married to Joseph Wesley Carlock. I believe her to be the sister of James. However I do not believe Polly is Dora's mother IF the ages listed are even close! But there is also a notation on the margin of her census record, Lower Petit Jean River Road. Does anyone know where this place is/was? Are any of these people familiar to anyone? Does anyone recognize the Sittesley (Sittersley(?)) name? How about a cemetery somewhere with this name in it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read my post. yvonne ____________________________ reply to henson@rmi.net web page: http://www.rmi.net/~henson Names I am researching: BRENT(S), GRANT, EDMON(D)SON, HENSON, MCARTHUR ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.

HI, BENJAMIN F. COTHERN B. 1882 D. 1939 AND CASSIE (DUVALL) COTHERN B. 1888 D.1985 ARE BURIED IN SHILOH CEM. ABT. 6 MILES NO. OF ATHINS ON 105N.

Does anyone have access to the 1880 Conway Co. census or index? I am searching for *any* Conrad families that may have been in the area at that time. Supposedly, my gr-grandparents, Luvenia and Henry Clay Conrad, were living near Morrilton in 1880. They had a five children before 1890 and then moved on to Desha Co., AR. Thank you, Jo-Ann Stephens Bahai@netusa1.net