Hi all, It has been a while since I have posted on the list the persons for whom I am searching. Since there are new folks out there I am going to repost. I am looking for any information about David (Wm.) COSBY/COSBEY born in NC about 1744 he and his wife Hannah (surname unknown) were listed in Claiborne Co,TN 1850 census. I know that he and Hannah had at least 8 children. They were Samuel, Harm/Hiram, John, Mary Ann, Hanah, Shadrack, Wm. born abt 1810, Helda born about 1820. The other children were born before 1810. Wm was also in Claiborne Co,TN in 1850 along with his family. I suspect that the son Samuel was living in Lawrence Co,TN in 1850 with his family. I would greatly appreciate any help with this family. Thanks, Linda L. Brown

Early American Trails and Roads... Continued. See "Early American Trails and Roads: Part 1" for details. THE MOHAWK (IROQUOIS) TRAIL The Mohawk Trail of New York, also known as the Iroquois Trail, extended from Albany west to the eastern end of Lake Erie, where Buffalo is now located. This was the most northerly route through the Appalachian Mountains, leading from New York's Hudson Valley along the Mohawk River on to the Great Lakes. It was used heavily by New York's early emigrants and was much involved with the state's early history. Today's maps show the travel route as the New York Thruway (I-90) from Albany west. From about 1680 the French-Iroquois Country was a major stronghold. A wagon trail reached from Albany to Lake Erie after the French and Indian War and became a part of the route followed by Loyalists into Upper Canada, later to become Ontario. The Mohawk Turnpike opened as far as Utica by 1793. In the 1820s this route became that of the Erie Canal, and in 1845 it became the route of the New York Central Railroad. THE MORMON TRAIL The Mormon Trail stretched nearly 1,400 miles across prairies, sagebrush flats, and steep mountains. Each had its challenges for the early wagon trains and the later handcarts. The Mormon Trail originated in Nauvoo, Illinois, and extended westward to Utah where they established Salt Lake City. In 1845, to allay violence and night-riding, Brigham Young and the Twelve agreed to leave Illinois "as soon as grass grows and water runs." From Nauvoo, the Saints crossed Iowa. Their first real way-station was at Garden Grove, where 170 men cleared 715 acres in three weeks, for the purpose of providing shelter for those coming behind. In 1846, they crossed the Missouri River at Council Bluffs, setting up Winter Quarters on Indian lands, at what is now an Omaha suburb. While 3,483 Saints waited there for spring, more than 600 perished. As spring 1847 approached, approximately 10,000 Mormons were encamped along the trail in Iowa and at Winter Quarters. Brigham Young and the Council of the Twelve organized the Pioneer Company to go ahead to mark the trail and lay the cornerstone of the new Zion. The first group of Mormons passed through Echo Canyon, over Big Mountain and Little Mountain and down Emigration Canyon, coming into full view of the Great Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. During the period from 1846 to 1869, about 60,000 Mormon pioneers crossed the prairies. They came from existing American states and also from many European countries. THE NATCHEZ TRACE The Natchez Trace has a colorful history. By 1785, there were traders from the Ohio River Valley (called "Kaintucks") arriving in Natchez with flatboats and rafts filled with products and crops. But of course it wasn't possible to return upriver against the currents. Instead, they would walk or ride horses northward on the Trace to their homes. Often they were attacked and robbed of the riches so recently gained. The Trace gained the nickname "Devil's Backbone." You might be able to locate the book which relates to that name. It is by Jonathan Daniels, "The Devil's Backbone, the Story of the Natchez Trace." The U.S. never owned the public lands of Tennessee through which about 100 miles of the Trace ran. In Alabama, it went only 40 miles, touching only two counties. 300 miles of it lay in Mississippi. The coming of steamboat traffic spelled the end of the dominance of the Natchez Trace. Andrew Jackson made a lot of trips up and down the Trace. In 1813 when he walked it with his army, he acquired the name "Old Hickory" because his volunteers considered him as tough as the hickory trees around them. Another significant name connected to the Trace is that of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The question still lingers--was his death on the Trace suicide or murder? THE NATIONAL ROAD The National Road was originally called the Cumberland Road because it started in Cumberland, Maryland. By 1825, it was referred to as the National Road because of its federal funding. The enabling act for admission of Ohio to the Union in 1803 contained provisions for construction of a road linking the East and West. Congress then passed "An Act to Regulate the Laying Out and Making a Road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio." In 1811, contracts were signed for construction of the first ten miles west of Cumberland. The road reached Wheeling in 1818. It entered Columbus in 1833, and Congress made its last appropriation for the road in 1838. During the 1830s, Congress had begun to turn the road over to the states for administration and maintenance. Construction was suspended in the early 1840s because of lack of congressional appropriations. Indiana completed its intrastate segment in 1850. The road then continued on to Vandalia, Illinois, but it did not continue on to Jefferson City, Missouri, as had been planned, the idea being that the road was to go through state capitals as it moved westward. The old National Road became part of U.S. 40 in 1926. THE OREGON TRAIL The Oregon Trail extended from the Missouri River to the Willamette River. It was used by nearly 400,000 people. The trail's starting points were Independence, Westport, St. Joseph, and Ft. Leavenworth. Alternate routes included Sublette's Cutoff and the Lander Cutoff. After 1846, there was also a choice at The Dalles between rafting down the Columbia River or taking the new Barlow Road across the Cascades. Each part of the journey had its set of unique difficulties. During the first third of the journey, emigrants got used to the routine and work of travel. Approaching the steep ascent to the Continental Divide, water, fuel, grass for the livestock, fresh meat, and food staples became scarce. The final third was the most difficult part of the trail. The major fears of the pioneers following the trail were Indians, disease, and the weather. THE PENNSYLVANIA ROAD The Great Conestoga Road, completed in 1741, and the later Lancaster Pike (opened in 1794) went from Philadelphia to Lancaster. After the Lancaster Pike was completed, the Pennsylvania Legislature granted charters to extend it westward to Pittsburgh, following closely the route of the Forbes Road. Faced with the need to build a road to move troops during the French and Indian War, General Forbes' troops constructed a road from Harrisburg to Ft. Duquesne which he renamed Fort Pitt, after his commanding general. Today, we know it as Pittsburgh. Years later, the Pennsylvania Legislature granted charters that extended the Lancaster Pike on westward to Pittsburgh, subsidizing this "Pennsylvania Road" by subscribing to stock in some of the companies. Migration moved westward through Fort Pitt as settlers trekked from eastern Pennsylvania and New England west to new lands and opportunities. The river-canal system which opened in 1834 between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh reduced traffic on Pennsylvania's turnpike. Heavy freight traffic diverted to the canals although stagecoach lines continued to prosper. THE SANTA FE TRAIL This trail from Missouri to Santa Fe was the oldest and the first over which wagons were used in the westward expansion beyond the Mississippi River. It was primarily a commerical route, carrying a stream of merchants' wagons until it was replaced ty the coming of the railroad in 1880. In 1821 a mule pack train had left from Franklin, Missouri, to travel to Santa Fe on what is later known at the Mountain Route. The next year's expedition avoided the mountains, leaving the Arkansas River and heading across the arid plains for the Cimarron River; this route became known as the Cimarron cutoff. During the early years of commerce, much of the route was within Mexican territory. Not until 1848 when the Mexican War ended was the entire trail officially within American territory. THE UPPER ROAD The Upper Road branched off from the King's Highway at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and went southwest through Hillsboro, Salisbury, and Charlotte in North Carolina, then on to Spartanburg and Greenville in South Carolina. The road generally followed the old Occaneechee Path which went from Bermuda Hundred on the James River, and Old Fort Henry (now Petersburg) southwest to the Indian trading town of the Occaneechi which existed by 1675 on an island in the Roanoke River at about the location of today's Clarksville, Virginia, close to the present Virginia and North Carolina state line. From that location the trading trail went both north and south. The Trading Path divided at the Trading Ford of the Yadkin River, one branch turning toward Charlotte, the other through Salisbury to Island Ford on the Catawba, to the north of present Lake Norman. DeSoto and his cavaliers were perhaps the first white men to use portions of the great Occaneechi Path (1540). Some of the people associated with Fort Henry were Col. Abraham Wood, Thomas Batts, Robert Fallam, James Needham, Gabriel Arthur, and John Lederer. From 1700-1750, active trading was carried on by white emigrants with Indian villages. After 1740, the proprietary governor of the Granville District began to issue grants to Quakers and others from the tidewater counties of North Carolina and Virginia, attracting them into the northern half of North Carolina. By 1750, the Upper Road became an important wagon route for southbound migrations into that portion of North Carolina. During the Revolutionary War, the road was used extensively for troop movements in the South--relating to the battles at Guilford Courthouse, King's Mountain, and Cowpens. THE WILDERNESS ROAD The road through the Cumberland Gap was not officially named "the Wilderness Road" until 1796 when it was widened enough to allow Conestoga Wagons to travel on it. However, by the time Kentucky had become a state (1792), estimates are that 70,000 settlers had poured into the area through the Cumberland Gap, following this route. The Cumberland Gap was first called Cave Gap by the man who discovered it in 1750--Dr. Thomas Walker. Daniel Boone, whose name is always associated with the Gap, reached it in 1769, passing through it into the Blue Grass region, a hunting ground of Indian tribes. He returned in 1775 with about 30 woodsmen with rifles and axes to mark out a road through the Cumberland Gap, hired for the job by the Transylvania Company. Boone's men completed the blazing of this first trail through the Cumberland Mountains that same year, and established Boonesborough on the Kentucky River. The Wilderness Road connected to the Great Valley Road which came through the Shenandoah Valley from Pennsylvania. Some suggest the origin of the Wilderness Road was at Fort Chiswell (Ft. Chissel) on the Great Valley Road where roads converged from Philadelphia and Richmond. Others claimed the beginning of the road to be at Sapling Grove (today's Bristol, VA) which lay at the extreme southern end of the Great Valley Road since it was at that point that the road narrowed, forcing travelers to abandon their wagons. ZANE'S TRACE In 1796 Colonel Ebenezer Zane petitioned Congress to authorize him to build a road from Wheeling to Limestone (Maysville). Congress awarded him a contract to complete a path between Wheeling and Limestone by January 1, 1797. The contract required him to operate ferries across three rivers as soon as the path opened. His only compensation was to be three 640-acre tracts, one at each river crossing, to be surveyed at his own expense. Zane rounded up equipment and a crew of workmen; with axes, they cut trees and blazed a trail. At first, Zane's Trace was merely a narrow dark path through the forest, between a wall of ancient trees. Only horsemen could travel over it. For many years, it was not wide enough for wagons. In 1804 the Legislature appropriated about fifteen dollars a mile to make a new twenty-foot road over Zane's route. But by modern standards, it was still a poor road because they left tree stumps whenever they were under one foot high. The Trace was used by hundreds of flatboatmen returning on foot or horseback to Pittsburgh and upriver towns from downriver ports as far away as New Orleans. The road also became the mail route from Wheeling to Maysville, and eventually it went on to Lexington and Nashville. =============end===============

The following was posted to another surname list I belong to. I found it to be interesting and thought it was worthy to pass along to this list. My apologies if this has been duplicated elsewhere...I am behind on reading all the genealogy lists I am on! ******************************************************************************** *************************************** (originally posted by Jim Young to the Bradshaw-L) I have found a very interesting website entitled "Early American Trails and Roads" and it can be found at: http://members.aol.com/RoadTrails/roadtrai.html It lists 16 trails representing the most significant routes in pioneer America. I'm sending the contents of the website to this list in case the website is disabled in the future. This way the information will be archived forever. Please visit the website for future updates. Happy Huntin' Jim Young List Moderator and RootsWeb Donor ========================== Early American Trails and Roads ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beverly Whitaker, your Genealogy Tutor, is located in Kansas City, Missouri. My e-mail address is: GenTutor@aol.com This page was last updated on February 10, 1998. Living here where major trails to the Far West began is what stirred my interest in this subject. My genealogical studies and research show me how important it is to try to determine the migration trails of our ancestors. So that's what led to this page! ~Introduction~ Expansion by Americans from the Atlantic to the Pacific took many years, often spanning generations. During the colonial years, travel was largely North-South. Following the Revolutionary War, citizens of the new nation began to forge westward and were often joined by newly arriving immigrants. Expansion occurred by different paths and a variety of transport means. Among the trails and roads of special interest to genealogists and historians are the sixteen described here in capsule form. These brief sketches are based on information contained in the author's set of "American Trails and Roads Reference Cards." Audiotapes have been prepared for a number of the trails and roads, along with one titled, "Leaving Home: Reasons for Migration." Recently, the author has made available a number of program kits which genealogical and historical societies are using to present programs at their meetings about some of the most significant migration routes in pioneer America. Here is a list of the trails for which I provide summary paragraphs on this web page: The Boston Post Road Braddock's Road The California Trail The Fall Line Road The Great Wagon Road The King's Highway The Mohawk (Iroquois) Trail The Mormon Trail The Natchez Trace The National Road The Oregon Trail The Pennsylvania Road The Santa Fe Trail The Upper Road The Wilderness Road Zane's Trace I welcome comments and suggestions for books and articles to read about early American migration routes, particularly the major ones. Or if you need information about one of the trails or roads (beyond what is shown on this page), send an e-mail inquiring about products on this subject. E-mail to Beverly Whitaker: GenTutor@aol.com ~How to Cite References~ If you include any of the information here in your own compiled genealogy or history sketches, you should cite as your reference: "American Trails and Roads Reference Cards, Kansas City, Missouri: Genealogy Tutor, Beverly Whitaker, 1995." THE BOSTON POST ROAD A crude riding trail was created in 1673 to carry mail from New York to Boston. It became known as the Boston Post Road. The first postrider's round trip, a journey of over 250 miles, took four weeks, following the Upper Northern Route. The Middle Route was a bit shorter, the Southern Route a bit longer. All went from Boston to New York City. The first stagecoach in service (1772) made the trip in just one week. During the Revolutionary War, the King's Highway (which included the Boston Post Road) became the mustering point for several of the Revolutionary War battles, including the final battle at Yorktown. The Post Roads were used for maneuvering soldiers and equipment. Stagecoach service and the mail took second place. Following the War, the Post Roads became important links between the states of the new nation and sections were improved. BRADDOCK'S ROAD The predecessor of this military road was called Nemaolin's Path, named for the Delaware Indian who assisted Colonel Thomas Cresap in blazing a path from Cumberland, Maryland to a trading post of the Ohio Company of Virginia at present-day Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Soon after Virginia's governor sent Major George Washington in that direction to expel the French from British territory. To accommodate his supply wagons, it was necessary to widen the trail, and that portion became known as Washington's Road. Washington went with Britain's Major General Edward Braddock during the French and Indian War. A company of 600 soldiers set out from Ft. Cumberland to widen Washington's old road through Maryland, past the ruins of Fort Necessity on into western Pennsylvania, moving toward the French stronghold at the Forks of the Ohio, site of present-day Pittsburgh. Braddock's road was the first road to cross overland through the Appalachian Mountains. He insisted that the road be 12 feet wide so that horse-drawn wagons could travel on it to haul the necessary supplies for his advancing army. As the years advanced, Braddock's Road became impassable. Pioneers who trekked into western Pennsylvania usually preferred to depend on packhorse trails, traveling in caravans. When construction began on the new Cumberland Road, it roughly followed this old road. The Cumberland Road and its extension West became known as the National Road and now U.S. Highway 40. CALIFORNIA TRAIL Following the discovery of gold in California, President James Polk's Message to Congress on December 5, 1848, set off a raging epidemic of gold fever. 40,000 gold seekers came to California by sea. An almost equal number came overland on the California-Oregon Trail, making the 2000-mile journey by covered wagon, horseback, or on foot. Around 10,000 came by the Santa Fe Trail into southern California. The most frequently traveled overland route to the gold fields was the one that followed the Oregon Trail from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains, and from there down the California Trail to Sutter's Fort. St. Joseph, Independence, Council Bluffs, and other frontier towns were jumping-off points to start this main trail overland to California. The trail coincided with the Oregon Trail until it crossed the Rockies. Then, some went north of the Great Salt Lake, others south, before coming together at the Humboldt River. Gold-seekers heading for California included city people who were inexperienced with outdoor life. Many were without experience at handling mules or oxen; they couldn't fix wagons; they didn't know how to hunt. They didn't anticipate the dangers of the trail and relied too heavily on guidebooks which were frequently misleading. Those who failed to join companies with experienced outsdoorsmen ran great risk of being stranded or lost in the wilderness. Nevertheless, many preferred to travel on their own. Some rode horses or mules, used ox-drawn wagons, or walked. THE FALL LINE ROAD The Fall Line Road ran parallel to and between the King's Highway and the Upper Road. The road broke off from the King's Highway at the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia. By 1735, it carried traffic into the interior of Virginia and the Carolina and across into Georgia. The road followed the fall line, a geographical feature caused by erosion, a separation line stretching from Maryland all the way to Georgia, running between the river tidelands and inland elevations on the Atlantic coast--it defines an east and west division between the upper and lower elevations. Persons traveling from Pennsylvania to Maryland to the inland areas of Carolina before 1750 probably followed this road because it was an easier road to travel than the Piedmont road (called the Upper Road). The road was of particular importance to the Carolinas because it connected them to their neighbors. North Carolina's local laws called for building roads only "to the nearest landing," which created a haphazard system of major roadways which led only to water routes. The result had been that although the major towns in North Carolina soon had roads, they didn't lead to each other! The road saw heavy use during the Civil War and afterwards, and was gradually improved. THE GREAT WAGON ROAD including THE GREAT VALLEY ROAD Hordes of early German and Scotch-Irish settlers used what became known as the Great Wagon Road to move from Pennsylvania southward through the Shenandoah Valley through Virginia and the Carolinas to Georgia, a distance of about 800 miles. Beginning first as a buffalo trail, a great Indian Road (the Great Warrior Path) ran north and south through the Shenandoah Valley, extending from New York to the Carolinas. The mountain ranges to the West of the Valley are the Alleghenies, and the ones to the east constitute the Blue Ridge chain. The Second Treaty of Albany (1722) guaranteed use of the valley trail to the Indians. At Salisbury, North Carolina, the Great Warrior Path was joined by the Indian's "Great Trading Path." By the early 1740s, a road beginning in Philadelphia (sometimes referred to as the Lancaster Pike) connected the Pennsylvania communities of Lancaster, York, and Gettysburg. The road then continued on to Chambersburg and Greencastle and southward to Winchester. In 1744, the Indians agreed to relinquish the Valley route. Both German and Scotch-Irish immigrants had already been following the route into Virginia and on to South Carolina, and Georgia. After 1750 the Piedmont areas of North Carolina and Georgia attracted new settlers. From Winchester to Roanoke the Great Wagon Road and the Great Valley Road were the same road, but at Roanoke, the Wagon Road went through the Staunton Gap and on south to North Carolina and beyond whereas the Valley Pike continued southwest to the Long Island of the Holston, now Kingsport. The Boone Trail from the Shallow Ford of the Yadkin joined the road at the Long Island of the Holston. THE KING'S HIGHWAY >From Boston to Charleston on the King's Highway was about 1300 miles. It was possible to travel this road by wagon, averaging about 20-25 miles per day. A traveler making the entire journey would have taken at least two months. Conestoga freight wagons, drawn by four to six strudy horses, were especially designed for mud with iron-rimmed wheels nearly a foot wide. The road's origins are traced to the old Delaware Indian trail (across Jersey) which Peter Stuyvesant used to force out the Swedes in 1651. Then in 1673, in response to King Charles' wish that communication be established between his colonies, the first crude riding trail was created for mail service between Boston and New York. Named the "Boston Post Road," it eventually expanded into "the King's Highway." By 1750, a continuous road existed for stagecoach or wagon traffic from Boston to Charleston, linking all thirteen colonies, but the road was a difficult one to travel. During the Revolutionary War, the King's Highway as a link between the colonies helped them to coordinate their war efforts. However, the name was looked upon with such disfavor by American patriots that many began once again to use the name "Boston Post Road." ----------------See Part 2----------------------------

Please join me in welcoming a new member to our list: peach@dtgnet.com Marie sends the following query: I ran across a family home page wich appeared to have most of my distant relatives. The address that comes up as the link how ever keeps telling me that the "Page is not found on server". This is the address: http://www.netins.net/showcase/pfeiffer/surnames/fam01110.htm. This aprticular net seems to be out of Iowa. The names I was searching for were Wingfield Cosby and Amanda Hudson. Anyone knowing who might have submited this or a better way to try to retreve it please contact me. Marie

COSBY, DONALD RAY - age 85, of Knoxville, died Wednesday, March 4, 1998, at Shannondale Health Care Center. Member of West Knoxville Baptist Church and Shriners Mahai Temple in Miami, Fla. Retired from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Survivors: daughter, Beth Colvin; grandchildren, Ashley Colvin Remeta and husband Richard, all of Knoxville, Cristy Colvin Onkotz and husband Randy of Mansfield, Texas; great-grandchildren, Richard Andrew Remeta III and Lindsay Anne Remeta, both of Knoxville. Mr. Cosby will be taken to Lithgow and Mark Bennett Funeral Chapel, Miami, Fla., for interment at Miami Memorial Park. The family will receive friends 2-4 p.m. Sunday at Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel.

>Hi Dawn! > >Could you please send the following obit at your convenience? Thanks in >advance! Wanda > >COSBY, Donald Ray; 85; Knoxville TN; Knoxville N-S; 1998-3-7; dmbischoff > Hello folks, I goofed and sent this to the list! Sorry about that! Wanda

Hi Dawn! Could you please send the following obit at your convenience? Thanks in advance! Wanda COSBY, Donald Ray; 85; Knoxville TN; Knoxville N-S; 1998-3-7; dmbischoff

Houston Chronicle Houston, TX February 19, 1998 MAURINE ``MO'' WILLIAMS COSBY, age 77, of Houston, died Feb. 16, 1998. A member of the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Maurine is survived by her husband, J.T. Cosby, Jr., of Houston; two daughters: Debra Gail Cosby and Elizabeth Cosby Deden, both of Houston; a sister, Mary Beth Lozo, of San Antonio; four grandchildren: Kennady Cosby, Robert Taft Deden, II, Michelle Elizabeth Deden, Kathryn Ann Deden, all of Houston; and a number of nieces and nephews. Graveside Services were held Wednesday 2:00 P.M., Nixon Cemetery, Nixon, Texas, with arrangements by Finch Funeral Chapel, Nixon, TX (830) 582-1521. A gathering of friends will be held in the chapel of the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Friday, Feb. 20th, 11:00 A.M. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association or the charity of donor's choice. 31941

Richmond Times Dispatch Richmond, VA March 4, 1998 COSBY Joseph Anthony Cosby of 2300 Hildreth St., Richmond, departed this life Sunday, March 1, 1998. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cosby Jr.; two sisters, Pamela J. and Venus I. Cosby; and a host of other relatives and friends. Remains rest at the Mimms Funeral Home, 1827 Hull St. Funeral services will be held Thursday, March 5, 11 a.m. at Cedar Street Baptist Church, 23rd and Cedar Sts. Rev. Benjamin W. Robertson, Pastor, officiating. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery. After 10 a.m. Thursday remains will rest in the above named church until hour of service. Relatives and friends attending funeral services assemble at the church Thursday, 10:30 a.m.

Forwarding the latest update on the Rootsweb statistics for January. If you are not a Rootsweb sponsor and you can afford to do so, now would be a great time! Remember - contributing to Rootsweb is voluntary and not mandatory for participation in the mailing lists. >Resent-Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 19:41:49 -0800 (PST) >To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com, usgenweb-all-l@rootsweb.com, > rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com, listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >cc: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> >Newsgroups: alt.genealogy,soc.genealogy.computing,soc.genealogy.misc >Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> >Subject: RootsWeb in January -- 451,786,000,000 Bytes Served >Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 19:42:03 -0800 >From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> >Resent-From: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <listowners-announce@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/36 >X-Loop: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: listowners-announce-request@rootsweb.com > > >I guess this is a new first -- we're posting the January >statistics after, in principle, we could have computed the >February statistics. > >Oh well. It's been *extremely* busy around here, dealing >with the explosive growth and the many problems caused by >the El Nino storms. > >The executive summary is that we had about 33% growth during >just the month of January: > > o 27,751,946 Web files (20,835,802 in Dec) from 2,400 > Websites (2,240 in Dec). > - 8,308,561 were HTML pages (not images or cgi-bin) > (5,903,137 in Dec). > - 3,574,701 were cgi-bin database searches and such. > (2,911,509 in Dec). > - 15,784,790 were GIFs (14,529,204) or JPEGs (1,255,586) > (11,849,905 in Dec were GIFs (10,902,627) or JPEGs > (947,279). > > o 618,762 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb > Archives and the ROOTS-L Library (472,838 in Dec). > > o Thanks to a neat hack by Tim Pierce, we know we > shipped about 88,649,000 pieces of mail to the > 2,600+ (2,300 in Dec) mailing lists we host. > > o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles > to hosts on three continents (same as Dec). > > o Approximately 451,786,000,000 bytes in total > (321,408,000,000 in Dec). > >Besides adding hundreds of new Websites and mailing lists in >January, we also added new servers and a third and fourth T1 >connection to the Internet. (A T1 is about 50 times faster >than a standard modem.) These additions have significantly >increased our costs of operation, but they were essential if >we were to continue to properly support the Internet >genealogical community. > >As always, RootsWeb remains supported by user contributions. >Folks who would like to become a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor >(the cost is very modest) are invited to visit: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >*** You can become a Member easily using your credit card > and our new secure server. *** > >Now is a particularly good time for folks to join, because we >have had a huge increase in utilization since Christmas. Our >bandwidth rate has jumped from 321 to 451 gigabytes/month, and >we're having to do numerous upgrades to our servers to support >the load. Your membership can help our capacity keep up with >the demands of the Internet genealogical community. > >Thanks to everyone who participates in RootsWeb -- clearly folks >are continuing to exchanging a great deal of information! -B > > >-- >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ >P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com >

Richmond Times (Virginia) February 18, 1998 COSBY Mr. Ralph L. Cosby, age 98, of Chesapeake, Va., died Tuesday, February 17, 1998. He was the widower of Mary Boisseau Cosby and a retired employee of Exxon Inc. He is survived by one brother, Harold D. Cosby of Tappahannock; and a number of nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be held 12 Noon, Thursday, February 19, 1998, in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Burkeville. Visitation prior to services Thursday from 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at Jennings- McMillian Funeral Home, Crewe (804-645-7310). Memorial contributions may be made to Burkeville Baptist Church, Burkeville, Va. 23922.

>Thank you Wanda! It is wonderful that you thought so much of the family in >Canada! > >Barbara > Barbara, I have kept a mental "note" of the fact that we have folks on the list researching in Canada as well as Australia. Anytime I discover an obit on ANY CAUSBY or COSBY anywhere I post it in case if might help someone. I hope people don't tire of me posting obits, but on my Farris list I have posted two obits that provided clues to someone's ancestors that they had been searching years for. You never know! Wanda Rabb (researching R*abb (NC/SC), P*enix (NC), B*radshaw (VA>NC), (G*antt (NC), N*ix, R*obertson, W*ilson, C*onner (Rutherford Co.,NC), L*aws(Yancey, Rutherford Co., NC), E*dwards,K*elley (Yancey Co.,NC), C*ausby, P*atton, M*orrison, S*parks(Burke/McDowell Co., NC) P*axton (Union Co., NC >Lancaster, SC), F*arris & M*orris (York Co., SC) L*ovelace, H*amrick, G*reen and Mc*Swain (Cleveland Co., NC), G*ranger, L*edford, B*lack(Cleveland or Rutherford Co., NC), T*owery (Cleveland or Lincoln Co., NC) Listmanager for CAUSBY-L, RABB-L, FARRIS-L, PAXTON-L, NIX-L, and LAWS-L Editor of online newsletter: WILSONS of Rutherford and Polk Counties, NC Homepage: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr Genealogy Main Page: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr/main.html

Thank you Wanda! It is wonderful that you thought so much of the family in Canada! Barbara

The Hamilton Spectator Hamilton, Ontario February 13, 1998 COSBY, William James (Bill) - Peacefully, at the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital, Grimsby, on Wednesday, February 11, 1998. Bill Cosby, in his 57th year. Beloved husband of Gail (nee Mulrooney). Loving father of Bill Jr. and his wife Trisha, Robert, and Sheri-Lynn and her fiance Tim Lewis. Cherished grandpa of Maddison, Coleman and Sage. Loving brother of Ivy Baillie and her husband Bill, Catherine Cosby, and Gaile Atkinson and her husband Mike and sister-in-law, Gert Cosby. Bill was a special uncle to Lori and Brent and will be sadly missed by all his nieces and nephews. Special cousin to Sharon Tansley and nephew of Mildred Trevithick. Bill is pre-deceased by his parents, Frank and Elsie Cosby and his brother, Lou. A retired Dofasco employee, Bill touched everybody's heart and will be missed by all. A Memorial Service in memory of Bill will be conducted on Monday, February 16, 1998 at 11 a.m. from the STONEHOUSE-WHITCOMB FUNERAL HOME, 11 Mountain Street, Grimsby, by Reverend Dale Messender. Cremation has taken place. Memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or West Lincoln Memorial Hospital C Ward would be appreciated by the family. A special thank you to all the wonderful nurses on C Ward and to Dr. Glenn Mullen and his staff and Bill's para-med nurse, Susan Munford.

The Hamilton Spectator Hamilton, Ontario February 7, 1998 COSBY, Lewis (Lou) - Suddenly, on Wednesday, February 4, 1998, at his home in Hemet, California, in his 72nd year. Beloved husband of Gertrude (Sutherland), loving father to Charles and his wife, Diane of Palmdale, California, Wendy of Chino, California, and Rick of Peterborough, Ontario. Cherished grandfather to Barbara, Dawn, Mike, Rickilyn, Amanda, Justin, Paula, Amy and great-grandfather to David. Loved brother to Ivy and husband, Bill, William and wife, Gail, all of Grimsby, Ontario, Catherine Cosby of Stoney Creek, Ontario, Gaile and husband, Michael of Hamilton, Ontario. Dear brother-in-law to Ted and Joyce, Art and his wife, and Pete Sutherland. Special cousin to Harold and June Farmer of Dundas, Ontario and Pearl and Eck of Arizona. Dear friend of Carl and Alice George of Hamilton, Ontario. Lew will be sadly missed by his family, and many nieces and nephews, and the many friends he has made along life's way. A private cremation to follow in Hemet, California. As an expression of sympathy, donations to the Salvation Army would be appreciated by the family.

St. Petersburg Times St. Petersburg, FL October 9, 1997 COSBY, CHARLES, 71, of St. Petersburg, died Wednesday (Oct. 1, 1997) at Columbia St. Petersburg Medical Center. He was born in Sitka, Alaska. Survivors include two aunts, Kathryn Kester, Portsmouth, N.H., and Betty Gordon, Windsor, N.Y. National Cremation Society, St. Petersburg.

THE REGISTER-GUARD Eugene, Oregon 28 January, 1998 HERSCHEL COSBY FALL CREEK-The graveside funeral will be held Jan. 29 for Herschel Eugene, "Gene" Cosby of Fall Creek, who died Jan. 24 of heart failure. He was 74. Cosby was born May 10, 1923, in Rogersville, Mo., to Leonard and Pearl Cosby. After graduation from high school, he joined the Navy and served as a Motor Machinist's Mate, Firs Class. He married Willetta Greenhaw in Rocky, Okla., on June 14, 1944. Cosby worked 21 years at the Firestone tire and rubber factory in South Gate, Calif. He then farmed for 33 years. He was a member of the American Legion and volunteered as a leader for Future Farmers of America and 4-H. Survivors include his wife; his parents, Leonard and Inez Cosby of Marcola; a son, Larry, and a daughter, Cindy Patterson, both of Fall Creek; two brothers, Ellis of Fall Creek and Austin of Los Angeles; seven grandchildren; and 10 great grandchildren. Thursday's service will be at 1 p.m. at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Springfield. Major/Fred- ericksen Springfield Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Major/Fredericksen Springfield Funeral Home, 112 N A, Springfield OR 97479 541-746-9667

Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch January 29, 1998 COSBY Margaret Highfill Cosby, age 74, died on Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at her home following a lengthy illness. She was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Morris W. Cosby, President of M. W. Cosby Transfer & Storage. A past member of Overbrook Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Cosby served as President of The Berean Bible Class, choir member and as a longtime teacher in the Sunday schools. In more recent years her membership was moved to Ramsey Memorial United Methodist Church. Her work extended into Job's Daughters Bethel #2, where she served as Guardian for several years. She leaves behind three daughters, Car ole Marlene South, Catherine C. Harlow, Margaret C. Wooldridge, and their husbands, Mayo C. Harlow and Roger Wooldridge; seven grandchildren, Kimberly Perry, Brandon South, Ashley Basnight, Robyn Moorhead, Heather C. Barefoot, Bradley Carter, and Brooke Wooldridge; and two great-grandchildren, Bobby and Brett Moorhead; sisters, Mrs. Elsie Smith, Mrs. Lorena Akers, Mrs. Daisy Hall; one brother, Mr. John H. Highfill; and a long and devoted childhood friend, Mrs. Elsie B. Smith. Her remains rest at the Bliley Funeral Home's Chippenham Chapel, 6900 Hull St. Rd., where the family will receive friends from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, and where funeral services will be held 2 p.m. on Friday. Interment Forest Lawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the John's Foundation/ Hospice c/o Johnston-Willis Hospi tal, 1401 Johnston-Willis Dr., Richmond, Va. 23235.

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Anniston Star, Page 2D, Friday, January 16, 1998 Green CARTERSVILLE, Ga. Services for Peggy Lee Green, 51, of Cartersville will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at Usrey Brown Service Chapel, Talladega, with Revs. Harvey Bowlin and Phillip Jones officiating. Burial will be in Salem Presbyterian Cemetery in Talladega County. Mrs. Green died Wednesday at Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta. Survivors include her husband, Clyde W. Green of Cartersville; one daughter, Amanda Lee Green McKinney of Chesapeake, Ga.; one son, Wesley Dewayne Green of Cartersville; her parents, Lawrence and Margaret Cosby of Talladega; two sisters, Mary Jane Gaither and Patricia Ann Gaither, both of Talladega and two brothers, Hardy Dean Cosby and Lawrence Clay Cosby Jr., both of Tallaadega. Pallbearers will be James Goss, Howard David Gunter, Raymond Gunter, Harry Sims, Jason Faulkner and Brandy Dodds. Mrs. Green, a native of Talladega County, lived in Cartersville for the past 17 years. She attended the Church of God.